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TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014 SHAWWAL 16, 1435 AH www.kuwaittimes.net HRW slams Rouhani blasts All quiet in Fired-up Tsonga revocation critics of Gaza as stuns Federer of critics’ nuclear policy 72-hour to win citizenship2 as ‘cowards’7 truce holds8 Toronto20 Masters Citizenship of prominent Max 46º Min 31º cleric, activists revoked High Tide 01:03 & 12:25 15 naturalized Constitutional court amendments become law Low Tide • 06:44 & 19:33 40 PAGES NO: 16252 150 FILS KUWAIT: The Cabinet revoked the citizenship of 10 people yesterday including opposition activists and an influential Egypt, Saudis seek united front young cleric who has openly criticized the government of bowing to pressure from Washington to clamp down on financial assistance to Syrian rebels. The Cabinet said the RIYADH: The leaders of the Arab world’s most populous decision was based on a provision in the nationality law state and its richest state met on Sunday to talk over that allows citizenship to be revoked of those who threat- joint efforts to counter Islamist militancy across the en Kuwait’s security, social order or economy. The Cabinet, Middle East, including the turmoil now shaking Iraq. on the other hand, approved a draft decree granting citi- President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi of Egypt and Saudi Arabia’s zenship to 15 people - children of military men who took King Abdullah are sworn enemies of the Muslim part in repelling the attack on a convoy of late Amir Sheikh Brotherhood. They see the recent success of militants in Jaber Al-Ahmed Al-Jaber Iraq as a threat to their stability and undermining securi- Al-Sabah in 1985. ty in the region. A few weeks earlier, the Sisi’s spokesman, Ehab Badawi, said the two leaders Cabinet stripped five critics agreed to work together to promote the “true and mod- of their citizenship in what erate values of Islam that reject extremism and terror- appears to be part of a ism”. “President Sisi and King Abdullah also reviewed the larger crackdown that casts development of the situation in Iraq in light of the a net on both suspected expanding of the circle of terrorism in the region,” financiers of extremist Badawi said, according to Egypt’s Middle East news groups and people calling agency. for political reform. Human “There is no doubt that the meeting between the Rights Watch over the leadership of the two countries is important in light of weekend criticized the the current circumstance of the Arab and Muslim Kuwaiti government’s deci- nation,” Saudi Foreign Minister Prince Saud Al-Faisal said, sion to strip citizens of their according to state news agency SPA. “(There are) exter- nationality, and called on Nabil Al-Awadhi nal wars, intervention from foreign powers, internal sedi- authorities to “drop this tion and disputes within the Arab nation at a time when malign policy”. “No government has the right to strip away it is in utmost need for solidarity and to stand together its people’s citizenship simply because it disapproves of as one man to repel the enmities,” he said. Prince Faisal them, their opinions, or their actions,” said Joe Stork, hoped their meeting “could help resolve the Arab deputy Middle East and North Africa director. “This is yet world’s problems” such as the difficulties facing another downward step in Kuwait’s assault on the right to “Palestinians and Syrians as well as the sedition in Iraq free speech.” and differences in Libya”. The official Kuwait News Agency reported the Cabinet’s The visit is Sisi’s first since his election to the presiden- latest decision, which said that the 10 had been naturalized cy this year. The pair met on King Abdullah’s plane in citizens but failed to meet requirements for the status. The Cairo in June, and Riyadh regards the former Egyptian JEDDAH: Saudi Arabia’s King Abdullah bin Abdul Aziz Al-Saud hands Egypt’s President Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi Cabinet statement did not list the names of the people army leader as one of its closest regional allies. (left) a royal certificate after decorating him with the King Abdul Aziz medal, the most prestigious medal in whose citizenship was revoked and did not specify which Continued on Page 15 the desert kingdom, during their meeting in this Red Sea port of Jeddah on Sunday. — AFP requirements for naturalization they had failed to meet. Continued on Page 15 Maliki replaced but refuses to go Power struggle on Baghdad streets

BAGHDAD: Iraq’s president named a turned against him. new prime minister to end Nouri Al- Maliki himself said nothing about the New flotilla Maliki’s eight year rule yesterday, but the decision to replace him, standing in veteran leader refused to go after grim-faced silence yesterday next to a deploying militias and special forces on member of his Dawa Party, who read out to challenge the streets, creating a dangerous politi- a statement on national television cal showdown in Baghdad. Washington, declaring Abadi’s nomination illegal. Gaza blockade which helped install Maliki following its Abadi “represents only himself”, the 2003 invasion that toppled Saddam Dawa member, Khalaf Abdul-Samad ISTANBUL: A Turkish pro-Palestinian group plans Hussein, congratulated Haidar Al-Abadi, said. Earlier, Maliki gave a midnight to send aid ships to Gaza to challenge the Israeli a former Maliki lieutenant who was address vowing to sue the president for blockade, it said yesterday, four years after Israeli named by President Fouad Masoum to failing to nominate him, in what looked commandos stormed its flotilla bound for the terri- replace him. like a desperate move by a beleaguered tory, killing 10 Turks. The plan may hinder efforts to But Maliki’s Dawa Party declared his leader making his last stand. Maliki’s FERGUSON, Missouri: A looter leaves a store on Sunday after a vigil for unarmed rebuild shattered diplomatic ties between Turkey and Israel, just as Ankara launched an “air corridor” replacement illegal, and Maliki’s son-in- son-in-law Hussein Al-Maliki told Reuters 18-year-old Michael Brown who was shot and killed by a police officer turned law said he would overturn it in court. his camp would fight the “illegal” deci- violent. — AP carrying wounded Palestinians to Turkey and aid to Gaza. The Humanitarian Relief Foundation (IHH) Washington delivered a stern warning sion: “We will not stay silent. The nomi- announced that activists from 12 countries had to Maliki not to “stir the waters” by nation is illegal and a breach of the con- decided to launch a convoy of boats to Gaza “in the using force to cling to power. A Shiite stitution. We will go to the federal court Riots in US city after shadow of the latest Israeli aggression. Islamist, Maliki is blamed by his erst- to object.” “The Freedom Flotilla Coalition affirmed that, as while allies in Washington and Tehran Washington made its support for the most governments are complicit, the responsibility for driving the alienated Sunni minority new leader clear. The White House said cop kills black teen falls on civil society to challenge the Israeli block- into a revolt that threatens to destroy Vice President Joe Biden relayed ade on Gaza,” it said in a statement after the group the country. Leaders of Iraq’s Sunni and President Barack Obama’s congratula- met in Istanbul at the weekend. An IHH spokes- FERGUSON, Missouri: A candlelight vig- times Saturday in a scuffle with an officer Kurdish communities have demanded tions to Abadi in a phone call. woman did not elaborate but said the group would he go, and many fellow Shiites have Continued on Page 15 il for a young unarmed black man who in Ferguson. hold a news conference today. Turkish Foreign was fatally shot by a suburban St Louis The investigation into what led to the Ministry officials had no immediate comment. police officer was followed by unrest as shooting was ongoing, but Ferguson Nine Turks were killed in May 2010 in interna- crowds looted and burned stores, van- Police Chief Tom Jackson told AP yester- tional waters when Israeli soldiers raided their ves- dalized vehicles and taunted officers day that the FBI was taking over the case sel, the Mavi Marmara, leading a flotilla to break who tried to block access to parts of the and that he welcomed the move. Streets Israel’s blockade of Gaza. A 10th Turkish activist city. Nearly three dozen people were upended on Sunday night were relatively died in May from wounds suffered in the attack. arrested after tensions erupted following quiet early yesterday, with some debris Turkey’s relationship with its former ally Israel had a candlelight vigil Sunday night for 18- littering the area but crowds largely dis- been tense since late 2008 over a previous Israeli year-old Michael Brown, who police said persed. military operation in Gaza. — Reuters was unarmed when he was shot multiple Continued on Page 15 Jazeera America logs first ’versary

NEW YORK: Al-Jazeera America marks its Al-Jazeera bought and closed Al Gore’s deadly factory fire in Bangladesh. The net- first anniversary on the air next week, and if Current TV network last year and set up the work had six first-place finishes in the you haven’t watched much, you’re not alone. US-focused AJAM to replace Al-Jazeera National Headliner Awards, which honors The news network has recorded some star- English in the US It is now available in nearly notable journalism. Two weeks ago, the tlingly low ratings and recently shown signs 60 million cable and satellite homes, just National Association of Black Journalists of retrenchment with layoffs and by cutting over half the US market. “The quality of the honored AJAM for “creative, compelling, some live newscasts. Al-Jazeera America has channel is very much what was promised,” character-driven storytelling.” also won awards for its work, seen some said Dave Marash, a former reporter for ABC’s Aside from award judges, not many peo- BAGHDAD: Iraqi parliament speaker Salim Al-Juburi recent audience growth and its chief execu- “Nightline” and Al-Jazeera English. “It is seri- ple have seen those stories. So far this year, (left) watches as Iraqi President Fuad Masoum (sec- tive insists a steady growth plan is on target. ous of purpose, by far the best news channel Al-Jazeera America has averaged 17,000 ond left) shakes hands with deputy parliamentary After several unsuccessful years trying to available to American viewers.” viewers in prime time, ticking up to 23,000 speaker Haidar Al-Abadi (right) after he was tasked get its English-language network carried Al-Jazeera America won Peabody Awards during the first week of fighting in Gaza. with forming the government during a brief ceremo- widely in the United States, the Qatar-based for documentaries on cholera in Haiti and a Continued on Page 15 ny yesterday, spurning incumbent Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Al-Maliki (inset). — AFP/AP TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014 LOCAL

KUWAIT: The deputy premiers sit near the prime minister’s vacant chair during yesterday’s cabinet meeting (right). In the second pictures, ministers are seen during the session. The cabinet approved a draft bill to strip 10 people of citizenship, and a decree granting citizenship to 15 people. —KUNA Photos HRW slams revocation of critics’ citizenship ‘Part of broader crackdown on people pressing for reform’

“No government has the right to strip away its people’s citizenship simply because it disapproves of them, their opinions, or their actions. This is yet another downward step in Kuwait’s assault on the right to free speech.” BEIRUT: Kuwaiti authorities have stripped five The other four whose citizenship was revoked nel or newspaper, why not follow procedures critics of their citizenship as part of a wider crack- are Abdullah Al-Barghash, a former leader in the against either of them? I think the authorities down on people seeking reform. The Kuwaiti opposition bloc in parliament, and three of his want to send a signal to instill fear into those government should immediately restore their cit- siblings - Sa’d, Nasr, and Nura Al-Barghash. On who express their rights of expression. They are izenship and end the practice, Human Rights national media outlets, the government justified using citizenship as a political tool, not a legal Watch wrote recently. the decision by accusing them of falsifying status.” The official Kuwait News Agency announced records when applying for citizenship, another Kuwait’s Law of Nationality, 15/1959, empow- that citizenship had been withdrawn from the provision under the nationality law. Human ers the government to revoke a person’s citizen- five people on June 21, 2014. A week earlier, Rights Watch has been unable to reach them for ship and deport them under certain circum- Kuwait’s Cabinet called for the relevant authori- comment. stances, including obtaining citizenship through ties to crack down on people carrying out “acts Al-Shammari fears that the authorities may fraud, being convicted of a crime related to hon- aiming to undermine the country’s security and also use the decree to seek a court order to or or dishonesty within 15 years of obtaining citi- stability, bringing harm to its institutions.” Ahmed deprive his four children of their Kuwaiti nation- zenship, being fired from a government job with- Jabr Al-Shammari, owner of media outlets and ality. in 10 years of getting citizenship for reasons one of the five, said that none of them have citi- He told Human Rights Watch that the Interior related to honor or dishonesty, if it is in the best zenship elsewhere, so the action has left them Ministry had ordered him to hand in all of his interest of the state or its external security, or if stateless. official identity documents, including his pass- there is evidence that the individual has promot- “No government has the right to strip away its port and ID card. “I went to bed a Kuwaiti and ed principles that undermine the wellbeing of people’s citizenship simply because it disap- the country. proves of them, their opinions, or their actions,” The Kuwaiti law’s provisions conflict directly said Joe Stork, deputy Middle East and North with the International Covenant on Civil and Africa director. “This is yet another downward Political Rights (ICCPR), whose article 12 states step in Kuwait’s assault on the right to free unequivocally that, “No one shall be arbitrarily speech.” deprived of the right to enter his own country.” This file photo shows traditional stamps vending machines at the Ministry Al-Shammari, 50, told Human Rights Watch on Kuwait has ratified the ICCPR and is bound under August 8 that he was deprived of his Kuwaiti citi- international law to fully implement the provi- of Commerce and Industry. —KUNA zenship under parliamentary decree 185 of 2014, sions of the treaty. which targeted him and the other four individu- The United Nations Human Rights Committee, als. He is the owner of the independent Al-Youm which provides the definitive interpretation of ‘Corruption’ forces television station and Alam Al-Youm newspaper. the ICCPR, has interpreted its article 12 to mean At the request of the information minister, courts that no state may ban or exile its citizens on the had ordered both media outlets to shut down basis of repressive domestic laws: new procedures at temporarily three times in May and June for defy- The reference to the concept of arbitrariness ing a prosecutor-ordered media blackout about in this context is intended to emphasize that it an investigation into an alleged plot by senior applies to all State action, legislative, administra- state departments officials to overthrow the government. tive, and judicial; it guarantees that even interfer- Al-Shammari told Human Rights Watch that ence provided for by law should be in accor- Duo charged with KD 30,000 embezzlement the parliamentary decree for revoking the five woke stateless,” he said. “I have no idea what legal dance with the provisions, aims and objectives of citizenships was based on the Kuwaiti Law of status I have now. I cannot travel, drive, move or the Covenant and should be, in any event, rea- By Nawara Fattahova stamp. But they had a stamp in their draw- Nationality, 15/1959 and that authorities officially go to the hospital. And my biggest fear is that my sonable in the particular circumstances. The ers which they temporarily placed on the informed him that his citizenship was revoked children may get kicked out of university.” Committee considers that there are few, if any, KUWAIT: Corruption at public institutions paper and made a copy of the document under article 13(5). The following day he received official letters circumstances in which deprivation of the right has increased, which led some institutions with the stamp. They then removed the The nationality law says: ‘It is permissible by a revoking the licenses of his media outlets, and to enter one’s own country could be reasonable. to change their procedures such as paying stamp to reuse it for another transaction. decree upon the request of the interior minister - advertising and marketing companies that he A State party must not, by stripping a person of with debit cards only and not accepting And they kept the finished paperwork face to revoke the Kuwaiti citizenship from Kuwaitis owns. He estimates that some 700 to 800 nationality or by expelling an individual to a third cash for fees. Ahmad, an employee in a down in their drawers,” explained Ahmad. who obtained their citizenship through the employees of these companies will lose their country, arbitrarily prevent this person from Citizen Service Center in the Capital gover- In the past, such crimes were committed application of provisions from articles 4, 5, 6, or 8 jobs. returning to his or her own country. norate, recalled a case of corruption in his by tea boys or cleaners in the ministries of this law, and in the following cases: ... Though generally citizenship revocations are “Kuwait is rapidly losing its reputation as one office. “By accident, I discovered that two and other public institutions. Many of them 5- If evidence is available from competent not open to judicial review, Al-Shammari is hop- of the most rights-respecting of the Gulf states female employees were embezzling money were caught as they removed the used authorities showing that he has promoted princi- ing to appeal based on a 2010 Supreme Court and this latest action by the authorities can only from the stamps used for the paperwork. In stamps from paperwork and resold it to ples that will undermine the social or economic review of a revocation decision. accelerate that process,” Stork said. “The govern- this way, they made about KD 30,000 in a new patrons. So it was then forbidden to system of the country, or belongs to a foreign “If I really was a threat to the security of ment should think again, restore the citizenship couple of months. I filed a case of embez- give an open stamp (out of the foil pack- political party. In this case the court may also Kuwait, why would I not be brought to court, giv- rights it has withdrawn, and drop this malign zlement at the general prosecution and I ing) to the employee to be used, and revoke the citizenship of those who obtained it en a charge, convicted and put in jail?” he said. “If policy.” hope they will be punished for their crime,” patrons could only buy the new packed from him by dependency. the issue is simply with the content on my chan- —Human Rights Watch he told Kuwait Times. stamps from the machine. The suspects were innovative in com- “Such crimes were not committed by mitting their crime. “Their victims were usu- Kuwaitis in the past, but unfortunately such ally elderly or disabled patrons coming to negative acts are spreading among Govt affirms commitment to finalize their paperwork. They offered their Kuwaitis. Some of them even make excuses services kindly to these patrons who had and claim that they are not embezzling or difficultly moving by taking the money and stealing, as they money of the government improving children culture pretending to go to the machine to buy the is for the Kuwaitis,” concluded Ahmad.

KUWAIT: Information Minister Sheikh Acting PM Salman Al-Sabah said that the state is keen on culture of children and teenagers, imple- leaves for menting recommendations of the political leadership foremost His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. Jeddah This came during the opening of Children KUWAIT: Acting Prime Minister and Cultural Festival Sunday by the National Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Khaled Al- Council for Culture, Arts and Letters Hamad Al-Sabah left for Jeddah yesterday (NCCAL), under the auspices of Sheikh to chair Kuwait’s delegation taking part in Salman Sabah in Abdulaziz Hussein Cultural the extraordinary meeting of the execu- Center in Mishref. tive committee of the Organization of Sheikh Salman, also Minister of State for Islamic Cooperation at the ministerial lev- Youth Affairs, pointed out that culture is el. The meeting will discuss the repercus- important to children “on which loyalty to sions of the Israeli aggression on the Gaza the homeland is built.” He added that the Strip. — KUNA Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah NCCAL prepares studies for evaluating care of children and teenagers nationwide, and developing such studies with the help of Kuwaiti travelers urged to professionals and academic specialists in cooperation with governmental institutions respect laws when abroad responsible for upbringing and guidance. He A scene from a performance during the festival. —KUNA lauded the opening play and the message it KUWAIT: The Foreign Ministry urged to local laws and systems applied by conveyed. Kuwaiti citizens travelling or residing these respective nations,” said a Ministry Mohammad Al-Asousi, Assistant abroad to adhere to the laws of the statement to KUNA. Secretary General of NCCAL, said in a press respected nations where they are The call is being made “to protect the statement that the festival stressed that the present. reputation of the State of Kuwait abroad, NCCAL continues to offer activities and festi- “The Foreign Ministry calls on citizens in order to avoid any legal accountability vals over the year. “The festival represents an intending to travel or who currently and to reflect the well-known civilized important period in the activities of the reside abroad - for tourism, treatment or image of the Kuwaiti citizen,” concluded NCCAL which supports provision of cultural other purposes - to adhere and commit the statement. —KUNA items for children in summer vacation in the fields of theater, music and different arts in addition to training workshops,” he said. Patients Helping Fund closes Bader Al-Duweeh, NCCAL’s Assistant Secretary General for Cultural Affairs, said branch upon Ministry’s request that the festival would run until August 21 and include different activities for children KUWAIT: Patients Helping Fund (PHF) interest of charities and beneficiaries alike, Dr and teenagers, which aim at exploiting announced yesterday that it closed its Mohammed Al-Sharhan, PHF Chairman, said leisure of children in summer vacation. The branch in Sabahiya area upon request from in a press statement. He added that the PHF festival included a theater performance enti- the Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor. The is coordinating with the Ministry of Social tled “Amina” which was written and pro- decision came in response to the ministry’s Affairs and Labor to open new branches after duced by Mohammad Al-Hmely. It was request and out of belief that the Ministry is completing procedures and required gov- played by a group of young artists. —KUNA Sheikh Salman (third from right) is seen among the audience. trying to regulate the charity work for the ernment approvals. — KUNA TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014 LOCAL

In Brief Boosting Moderation ‘Historical Achievement’ Random naturalization

By A. Saleh P Faisal Al-Kandari said that the amendment P Abdullah Al-Turaiji said that stripping Kuwaitis of to the Constitutional Court’s law, which their nationalities is a result of random naturaliza- P Yaqoub Al-Sane sent questions to Prime Minister Mwent into effect last Sunday, is a ‘historical tion operations that happened in the past. The His Highness Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah and achievement’ for the current parliament. The law M lawmaker reiterated his stance against a parliamentary pro- Mfour cabinet members, inquiring about government allows citizens to challenge existing laws directly posal to award citizenship to a minimum of 4,000 bedoons measures to confront extremist ideology in Kuwait. In his with the court, provided that the challenge papers (stateless) every year, saying in a statement yesterday that queries, Sane requested information about the government’s are signed by three certified attorneys, and that the naturalization must only cover candidates who meet the plan to boost moderate thinking among young people, appellant pays a KD 5,000 bond. Kandari also stated necessary requirements. Furthermore, Turaiji hinted that including awareness programs that reach out to students in that a law to grant full independence to the judiciary the government has in the past ‘sold’ citizenships or award- schools or through the media. is currently the parliament’s top priority. ed them to certain people to serve ‘political’ interests. Crime Report MP demands exposing

Man held for ‘trafficking’ companies offending Amir By A Saleh charges or for violating labor regulations. The regulations are inept”. Last June, Awadhi pro- lawmaker further demanded efforts to adopt posed an amendment that calls for increasing By Hanan Al-Saadoun KUWAIT: MP Kamel Al-Awadhi called the preventive laws “to stop employers from the maximum jail term for employers who fail Ministry of Social Affairs and Labor to reveal recruiting labor forces in numbers that exceed to provide jobs for workers recruited from KUWAIT: A man who insulted HH the Amir on the phone names of fake companies that were referred their companies’ actual requirements”. inside or outside Kuwait to five years, with an was arrested in Jahra. The man, a citizen, was found in an recently to the public prosecution on human Companies recruiting excessive workers increased fine ranging between KD 5,000 and abnormal condition and was handed to state security trafficking charges. Over 2,500 companies are often linked to human trafficking, and KD 10,000. Employers convicted human traf- detectives for further action. were referred to the public prosecution during Awadhi believes that the fact that this prob- ficking already face jail terms ranging Meanwhile, insulting graffiti that said “corrupt govern- the first half of 2014 on human trafficking lem continues to happen “proves that current between 15 years and life in prison. MP Kamel Al-Awadhi ment - fallen people” was sprayed on the wall of a power transformer in Saad Al-Abdullah. A police patrol was dis- patched and state security was informed about the matter. Starch reduction for diabetes treatment Kuwait has highest rate in Middle East

KUWAIT: Reducing the consumption of increased hunger and thirst and can result the body’s cardiovascular and metabolic starch can help in the treatment of in serious illnesses including blindness and systems. patients with diabetes, said Professor at death. Being overweight, physically inactive Kuwait Faculty of Medicine Dr Hussein There are three main types of diabetes: and eating the wrong foods all contribute Dashti yesterday. Type 1 and Type 2 Diabetes and Gestational to our risk of developing type 2 diabetes. Dashti co-wrote along with 25 Diabetes. Type 1 is the most severe and Drinking just one can of (non-diet) soda researchers and doctors an article on the occurs when the body fails to produce per day can raise our risk of developing latest studies, which revealed that reduc- insulin. (Type 1 Diabetes may also be called type 2 diabetes by 22%, researchers from ing starch-rich meals or avoiding that juvenile, insulin-dependent or early-onset Imperial College London reported in the The graffiti written in Arabic and reads “corrupt govern- group of food is an important element in diabetes). In the most common Type 2 journal Diabetologia. The scientists believe ment - fallen people”. — Photo by Hanan Al-Saadoun treating diabetes. Diabetes, the body does not produce that the impact of sugary soft drinks on The article was recently published by enough insulin for proper functioning (or diabetes risk may be a direct one, rather the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, else cells are resistant to the insulin). than simply an influence on body weight. Maids accused of theft he noted. Approximately 90 percent of all diabetes The risk of developing type 2 diabetes is A security source said a retired citizen told Bayan The reduction method was applied on cases globally are Type 2. Some people may also greater as we get older. Experts are not police that three of his domestic helpers (two Indian patients with diabetes way before the dis- be able to control their type 2 diabetes completely sure why, but say that as we and a Filipina) stole 3000 Euros and KD 323 from him covery of insulin, he said, adding that eat- symptoms by losing weight, following a age we tend to put on weight and become before disappearing. An investigation was opened. ing less starch would reduce the high lev- healthy diet, doing plenty of exercise, and less physically active. Those with a close rel- Dr Hussein Dashti els of blood glucose, while also preventing monitoring their blood glucose levels. ative who had/had type 2 diabetes, people cardiovascular diseases. However, type 2 diabetes is typically a pro- betes compared to those with a healthy of Middle Eastern, African, or South Asian Car burglary gressive disease - it gradually gets worse - body weight. People with a lot of visceral descent also have a higher risk of develop- In south Surra, a citizen told police that a smart phone and What is diabetes? and the patient will probably end up have fat, also known as central obesity, belly fat, ing the disease. KD 500 were stolen from his car. He said that a security Diabetes is a disease that causes a per- to take insulin, usually in tablet form. or abdominal obesity, are especially at risk. Kuwait has the highest rate of diabetes camera recorded the culprits’ car. Meanwhile, Nugra police son to have an unusually high blood glu- Overweight and obese people have a Being overweight/obese causes the body in the Middle East and the sixth highest received a complaint about the theft of a smart phone cose level and results in frequent urination, much higher risk of developing type 2 dia- to release chemicals that can destabilize rate in the world. from a shop. The owner said the thief escaped on foot with the phone. Separately, a citizen in Sabah Al-Salem told police that his smart phone was stolen while shopping at the co-op. He did not accuse anyone.

Hit-and-run Detectives in Nugra are inquiring about a person involved in a hit and run, as he hit an elderly Asian woman in the area and escaped.

Thieves leave bedoon man severely injured

KUWAIT: Sulaibiya detectives are looking for two bedoons who attacked a man and left him with severe injuries, then stole his phone and wallet and smashed his car. He was left with broken bones and a 10-cm deep wound.

Cabby mugged Militarymen donating blood. — KUNA Soldiers wait in line to donate blood. A roaming taxi driver was stabbed by two men, and his smart phone and KD 185 were stolen in Fahaheel. The driver, an Egyptian, was asked by the two to take them Kuwait Army launches blood donation campaign to Sabahiya, but as soon as they got in the car, they pulled a knife and asked him for money. When he resis- KUWAIT: The Kuwaiti Army has launched a blood donation istry Colonel Mansour Al-Khalil said in a statement that the ini- il servants, to take part in the campaign for national and ted, he was stabbed in the shoulder. campaign to make up for severe shortage in its blood bank dur- tiative comes in implementation of the directives of Deputy humane reasons. Coordination is underway by the ministry and ing the past month, the Ministry of Defense announced yester- Prime Minister and Minister of Defense Sheikh Khaled Al-Jarrah the bank to set donation days, equip assigned medics and pre- day. Director of Public Relations and Moral Guidance in the min- Al-Sabah who has urged the ministry’s personnel, including civ- pare vehicles to be used during the campaign. — KUNA Family feud A 26-year-old citizen told Sabahiya police that he along with his brothers was beaten by their cousins over old dis- Burgan Bank announces putes between the two sides. Police started their investiga- tions. Youth Draw Account Winner KUWAIT: Burgan Bank recently part in this draw are advised to transfer Black magic announced Ms. Fatma Naji Kathem their educational allowance to Burgan A citizen asked for police help to rescue her from a Mahmod as the first winner of the new Bank’s Youth account and enjoy their magic spell cast by her sister-in-law to keep her from Youth Account draw, that entitles young multiple chances of winning. marrying. Police questioned her brother, who told customers to double their student The bank’s Youth Account was them that she is suffering from psychological prob- allowances and win an additional KD 200 launched for young individuals, and will lems and receives medication for it. He also gave them every month after transferring their provide them a free prepaid card and an a certificate to back his claims. Police handed her to allowance to the “Youth” account. ATM card which entitles them to dis- him because he is her guardian. — Al-Rai With the introduction of the Youth counts at selected merchants. Account draw, customers transferring To find out more about Burgan Bank’s their student allowances to the bank will Youth Account as well as the latest pro- be automatically enrolled into a draw, motions, customers are required to visit whereby for every KD 20 in their Youth their nearest Burgan Bank branch or con- Account, customers will be given a tact the call center on 1804080. For more chance to win a cash prize of KD 200 information, customers can visit the Kuwait reaffirms support, every month. Customers wishing to take bank’s website on www.burgan.com. aid to Palestinians

CAIRO: Kuwait’s permanent delegate to League Secretary General Nabil Al-Arabi the Arab League Ahmad Al-Bakr yesterday who is visiting the country this week, on renewed the country’s backing to the Arab action over the coming period. Palestinians, providing humanitarian aid to Gaza and financial support to the KRCS Support Palestinian Authority. Separately, Kuwait Red Crescent Society The state of Kuwait, head of the current (KRCS) pledged to continue aid provision to Arab Summit, initiated an Arab League the traumatized people in Gaza Strip to Foreign Ministers meeting to discuss the help ease their suffering. Israeli aggression on Gaza, Al-Bakr told ‘The KRCS will always stand beside KUNA. The statement was made on the Palestinian people during their distress,’ sidelines of a Monday meeting for the Khaled Al-Zaid, head of KRCS mission for League’s permanent representatives. The the relief of the Palestinian people in Gaza, FMs meeting was held on July 14. told KUNA yesterday. Al-Bakr noted that at the behest of His The KRCS handed the second shipment Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad of relief aid to Palestine Red Crescent Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, food stuffs and medical Society (PRCS) through Rafah crossing yes- KUWAIT: A cell phone picture that shows a cockroach supplies worth USD 10 million were sent to terday. KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of Kuwait (CBK) sponsored Loyac’s summer program on a shelf inside a co-op society branch in Maidan the Palestinian people in Gaza through the This shipment included 10 tons of medi- for the second consecutive year. The program includes several activities for youth Hawally. There have been many complaints from con- Kuwait Red Crescent Society (KRCS). cine and medical supplies. ‘Kuwait will not and children alike. The picture shows Amani Al-Wara’a, Assistant Director General sumers about the hygiene level in the same store as In addition, Kuwait is having consulta- stop aiding the Palestinian people,’ Al-Zaid Department of advertisement and Public Relations (left), with Loyac Board member well. — Photo by Sherif Ismael tions with Arab countries and the Arab said. — KUNA Futooh Al-Dalali after handing the contribution cheque. WWinnersinners

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kuwait digest In my view The government and opposition accusations The extremism barriers

By Abdellatif Al-Duaij know, with regret, that there are many citizens who support government’s revoking of citizenship from their brothers, with The Arab Nation Ithe justification that these citizens manipulated the information that lead to granting them the nationality. The government seems By Labeed Abdal to be convincing, of course, especially that the revoking is done with claims of protecting security and maintaining the country’s stability. Yet, the government forgets, or rather ignores to explain to us why it resorted to revoking the nationalities now, after many years have elapsed since granting them. Then, and this is more impor- [email protected] tant, where is the charge and where is the conviction by the court against those whose nationalities were or will be revoked. Where is the charge, where is the case, where is the tool and where is the everal arts producers and innovators often face ruling. Were those whose nationalities are revoked convicted of a accusations - mostly from people with differing state security crime, or even a crime of violation of honesty and Sideologies - of offending religious figures and honor, or even a misdemeanor or traffic violation?! beliefs, or in some cases, even blasphemy. I believe The government does not have a real legal justification against that this is misuse of the law that reflects narrow- those whose nationalities were revoked, or those it intends to mindedness in interpreting every work of art with bad revoke from other than opposing them. We agree with the govern- intentions. ment, to be fair, because the opposition of some people is “sour” Most people behind such accusations often quote and others are dishonest, or at best they are not right, but all this alleged fatwas to bolster their claim that a certain does not justify targeting them in particular, and does not go all publication should not be allowed from a religious the way to revoking their nationalities or taking them away from Al-Anbaa perspective. The same thing happened most recently with a report about the banning of a cartoon series, as well as a previous incident pertaining with a historical

The government for- kuwait digest gets, or rather ignores My friend’s ten things Public morals and to explain to us why it tastes are determined by resorted to revoking the By Ahmad Al-Sarraf the society as a whole. nationalities now. y friend said that he believes, out of his read- rich with millions, so what will be the reaction of those ings and what he knew from a wise man, that around him if that leader acted stupidly? Will they Mthere are ten things in life that cannot be object or will they ignore it, as if nothing has happened? bought with money - good behavior, ethics, respect, If our friend crosses his legs or burps loudly, will series. This issue needs a serious stand to promote their children and grandchildren! calmness in dealing with similar issues in order to We are with preserving security and punishing those who insult strong personality, confidence, honesty, tact, good those around him express disgust towards his behavior sense and finally love! or will they act as if nothing happened? Maybe some of avoid spreading accusations based on subjective the regime and its symbols, but we at the same time are with interpretations. Public morals and tastes are deter- respecting constitutional rights of all people, whether they are pro I told him that he and his them will laugh clumsily and wise man are wrong, because burp like him! Are there those mined by the society as a whole, based on the soci- or against the government, or even if they are foreigners and ety’s ethics, traditions, joys and sorrows, as well as its expats. We are with complying with the laws and procedures at all time has changed, and many who care about the credibility accomplishments. For example, Aug 2 will never be times, and not by using the law or constitution according to need concepts in life have changed, of rich people like Bill Gates or The media has control treated as a day of joy in Kuwait, because that date is and based on personal mood, and against targeting those for rea- and what the famous wear Warren Buffett or Carlos Slim connected to the 1990 Iraqi invasion’s anniversary and sons without real connection with crimes that threaten the country has became fashion, even if or their tactfulness or correct in changing many long- the death of many Kuwaiti martyrs. or citizens security. they are rags, as we see in sense, especially if they are The fact is that we should not allow those with If we allow the government to open files, according to its mood, ripped jeans. The media has among their employees? standing concepts, and extremist ideologies to force their beliefs on the pub- of those who received the nationality during the ‘80s or even the control in changing many If we were sitting with an lic over every topic. Instead, the focus should be on ‘90s, then this means we are allowing it to review every naturalized long-standing concepts, and makes them either loved actress like Angelina Jolie, will spreading tolerance between civilizations, religions person, so it heaps patriotism and priority on those it wants, when- makes them either loved or we care about her lack of eat- ever it wants. We strongly criticized the opposition, because it was or forsaken and sectarian groups. This is not a call to abandoning forsaken through its directed ing etiquette? Of course no, or violating the law, but to avoid extremism or exag- and still basing its opposition - or actually accusation - on unproven messages for certain purposes rather we will be satisfied just claims and rumors and issue its judgment on others over corruption geration based on a narrow-minded view of things or through the flood of com- being with her! The majority of that eventually limits people’s freedoms and choices without tangible evidence or proven events. It is better here to mercials that created living patterns that differ so much people, if not all of them, will overlook such things, out adhere to logic and right methodology in facing the authority, which are normally based on natural moderate choic- from what we used to know. of respect or fear or to avoid hurting the feelings of oth- because the opposition remains rhetorical and screaming. It may be es. Repulsive actions committed by some people painful and may be influential, but no matter how far it gets, it can If some people sit with a very rich dictator who asks ers. So we find that love is the only thing that cannot be should not be allowed to set barriers to those who never be at the lever of government procedures. for things and gets it, imprisons and pardons, sentences bought. adopt a moderate approach and respect other opin- —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Qabas to death or crucifixion and makes whoever he wants —Translated by Kuwait Times from Al-Qabas ions based on Islam’s teachings of moderation.

in my view Academic Boycott of Israel ‘Oxymoron’

By Abdullah Erakat he announcement by more than one hundred inter- Palmor told The Media Line that the term “academic boy- national academics that they have joined the ranks cott” is an oxymoron and that the concept of a boycott is Tof those advocating a boycott of the state of Israel is diametrically opposed to everything academia stands for. being hailed as a victory by the “BDS” [boycott, divestment “Isn’t it all about the free exchange of ideas?” he asked. and sanctions] movement. Spurred-on by the horrific Palmor said the Israeli government plans on doing the images of the ongoing fighting in the Gaza Strip, news of opposite: “to enhance and promote academic coopera- the new action was a blow to Israel’s insistence that the tion, academic freedom and academic interaction, for the devastation resulted directly from the pre-meditated mutual benefit of Israelis, Palestinians, and all those who placement by Hamas of fighters and rocketeers in “safe” are committed to peace and freedom.” locations such as schools, mosques, hospitals and residen- “The whole concept of boycotts if conducted by states tial areas. is an act of war. It’s an act which counters any accepted The signatories to the statement, professors and librari- concept of academic seriousness pre-determining aca- ans representing major academic institutions in the demic activity based on political views which is the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom and Japan, antithesis of what academia is or should be,” according to “pledged not to collaborate on projects and events involv- former Israeli Ambassador to Canada Alan Baker, who ing Israeli academic institutions; not to teach at or to used to serve as the foreign ministry’s legal adviser. attend conferences and other events at such institutions; The academics who signed the letter say they have tak- and not to publish in academic journals based in Israel.” en their lead from the Palestinian Federation of Unions of The effort was organized by Prof. Jens Hanssen, an University Professors and Employees (PFUUPE), which is associate professor at the University of Toronto and includ- one of many Palestinian civil society organizations that ed colleagues at prestigious institutions including have called for the comprehensive implementation of Princeton University; Georgetown University; George boycotts, divestments and sanctions (BDS) of Israel. Washington University; University of California; Boston Professor Richard Falk of Princeton, a longtime critic of University; UCLA; University of Israel, told The Media Line that Texas at Austin; Duke University; “It also takes account of the University of London; Oxford degree to which the Israeli uni- University; University of Exeter; According to Hanssen, versities were mobilized and Harvard University. There around support for the IDF was no assertion made to indi- “The Israeli lobby may try onslaught during Protective cate support for the boycott by Edge,” he said. any of the institutions employ- and discredit us but it gets Israel claims that the war, ing the signatories. which has so far left more than The document calls on Israel more and more difficult the 1,800 Palestinians dead and to “end its siege of Gaza, its more than 9,000 wounded, was occupation and colonization of bigger our list of signato- initiated by Hamas by launch- all Arab lands occupied in June ing thousands of rockets into 1967, and dismantle the settle- ries becomes and the more Israel. The Israelis go farther, ments and the walls; to recog- arguing that had Hamas nize the fundamental rights of named chairs sign up.” accepted the first Egyptian-bro- the Arab-Palestinian citizens of kered cease-fire which Israel Israel and the stateless Negev accepted, the casualty toll Bedouins to full equality; and respect, protect and pro- would be 90% less than it is. mote the rights of Palestinian refugees to return to their Hanssen disagrees. “The Hamas rockets exist, and I homes and properties as stipulated in UN Resolution 194.” understand the Israelis’ discomfort, but discomfort is not According to Hanssen, “The Israeli lobby may try and death and destruction... They hardly constitute an objec- discredit us but it gets more and more difficult the bigger tive justification for Israel’s total war on the civilian popula- our list of signatories becomes and the more named chairs tion in Gaza,” Hanssen said. He added that the Palestinians’ sign up.” He told The Media Line that they have assembled right to their land is not inferior or less valid, by interna- “almost the entire top tier of Middle East Studies, almost tional law, or in historical perspective to Israel’s. two dozen named and endowed chairs, active and retired Falk says that the boycott is a “repudiation of violence” deans and provosts-very few of whom have a history of because it calls for nonviolent pressure on the govern- radical activism. We have broken the barrier of fear of ment of Israel to fulfill its obligations under international reprisals by university administrators and funding bodies law to the Palestinian people. Nothing more, nothing less.” with vested interests in Israel.” But Palmor thinks there was another way the scholars The Gaza war has provided a major impetus for the BDS could have gotten their message through. “If they had lev- movement’s recruitment efforts. George Giacaman, an eled some reasoned criticism and specific policy, it could associate professor of philosophy and cultural studies at have been accepted as a legitimate piece of political think- the West Bank’s Birzeit University, says the fighting has ing,” he suggested. “It could have become a legitimate part generated “lots of anger”-especially because the majority of political debate. But that’s not what we have here. We killed were civilians, women and children. “What has hap- have preposterous claims of which the underlying signifi- pened as a result of the onslaught of Gaza gave consider- cance is that Israel has no right to exist under any defini- able push to the BDS movement worldwide,” he told The tion or any circumstance. This is not just unrealistic but Media Line. extremely offensive and offensively extremist.” Spokesman for Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs Yigal —The Media Line Inmates flee as shells hit east Ukrainian jail

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TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014 Islamic State crucifies 2, beheads 23 Militants tighten control in tribal region

BAB AL-NEIRAB: Syrian civil defense workers rescue a man from under the rubble of a building following a reported barrel-bomb attack by Syrian government forces yesterday in the Bab Al-Neirab neighborhood of the northern Syrian city of Aleppo. — AFP

BEIRUT: Islamic State has crushed a pocket of resistance to its with us the other tribes will targeted after Al-Sheitaat. They are control in eastern Syria, crucifying two people and executing 23 the next target,” he said in the video, posted on YouTube on others in the past five days, a monitoring group said yesterday. Sunday. The insurgents, who are also making rapid advances in Iraq, are tightening their grip in Syria, of which they now controls roughly Winning respect a third, mostly rural areas in the north and east. The group, an Al- A Syrian human rights activist from Deir Al-Zor who fled for Qaeda offshoot, has fought the Syrian army, Kurdish militias and Turkey last year said rebels opposed to President Bashar Al- Sunni Muslim tribal forces. Assad had retreated to Al-Sheitaat tribal areas from which they The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, a Britain-based had been trying to mount resistance to Islamic State’s expan- monitoring organization, and residents in Syria’s east said that sion. He said, on condition of anonymity, that the resistance had fighters from the Al-Sheitaat tribe in eastern Deir Al-Zor had been crushed in the last few days. “The situation is very bad, but tried to resist Islamic State’s advance this month. In Al-Shaafa, a the people can’t repel them,” he said. He said that in tandem town on the banks of the Euphrates river, Islamic State behead- with their violent campaign, Islamic State was distributing gas, ed two men from the Al-Sheitaat clan on Sunday, the electricity, fuel and food to garner local support. Observatory said, and gave residents a 12-hour deadline on “It is a poor area. They are winning support this way. They Monday to hand over members of the tribe. won a lot of support this way. They are halting theft and punish- In other parts of Deir Al-Zor province, the militants crucified ing thieves. This is also giving them credibility.” More than two men for the crime of “dealing with apostates” in the city of 170,000 people have been killed in Syria’s civil war, which pits Mayadin, and two others for blasphemy in the nearby town of overwhelmingly Sunni Muslim rebels against Assad, a member al-Bulel, the Observatory said. Islamic State has made rapid gains of the Shiite-derived Alawite minority, backed by Shiite militias in Syria since it seized northern Iraq’s largest city, Mosul, on June from Iraq and Lebanon. 10, and declared an Islamic caliphate on territory it controls in The insurgency is split between competing factions, with Syria and Iraq. The Observatory said a further 19 men from the Islamic State emerging as the most powerful. In Raqqa, Islamic Al-Sheitaat tribe were executed on Thursday, 18 shot dead and State’s power base in Syria, its hold appears to be growing only one beheaded, on the outskirts of Deir Al-Zor city. It said the firmer even as Syrian government forces intensify air strikes on men worked at an oil installation. territory held by the group. One Syrian living in an area of Islamic “No one will now dare from the other tribes to move against State control near Raqqa said the number of its fighters in the Islamic State after the defeat of the Al-Sheitaat,” said Ahmad streets had grown dramatically in the last few weeks, particularly Ziyada Al-Qaissi, an Islamic State sympathizer contacted by since it captured the army’s 17th Division at the end of July. Skype from Mayadin. Tribal sources say the conflict between The group has carried out beheadings, levied a tax on non- Islamic State and the Al-Sheitaat tribe, who number about Muslims, and settled foreign fighters in confiscated homes, said 70,000, flared after Islamic State took over of two oil fields in July. the resident, who asked for anonymity due to security concerns. One of those, al-Omar, is the biggest oil and gas field in Deir al- But despite that, as in Deir Al-Zor, it has won a degree of respect Zor and has been a lucrative source of funds for rebel groups. among locals by curbing crime using their version law of and The head of the Al-Sheitaat tribe, Sheikh Rafaa Aakla Al-Raju, order. For youths without work, salaries offered by Islamic State called in a video message for other tribes to join the fight are one of the few sources of income. “The (Islamic) State has against Islamic State. “We appeal to the other tribes to stand by respect and standing and its voice is heard,” said the resident, us because it will be their turn next ... If (Islamic State) are done speaking by Skype. — Reuters Rouhani blasts critics as ‘political cowards’

TEHRAN: Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani delivered a broad- our rights and our national interests.” side yesterday at critics of his efforts to engage with the Rouhani began his presidency by restarting nuclear talks West and seek a nuclear deal, accusing them of political with the West, which had broken down under his predeces- cowardice and mischief. In a speech broadcast live, Rouhani sor Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, but the two sides have yet to attacked the hardline factions within Iran’s parliament who achieve a breakthrough. An interim deal implemented in have consistently opposed him since he took office a year January failed to yield a final accord by a July 20 deadline. ago after a surprise electoral victory. Talks with Britain, China, France Russia, the United States “Some of them chant slogans but they are political cow- and Germany have been extended until November 24. The ards. As soon as we negotiate they start shaking. Go to hell hold-up has re-opened potential problems for Rouhani from and find somewhere to stay warm,” he told his opponents. factions who say the limited sanctions relief received so far Rouhani, a moderate whose tenure has so far focused on has been outweighed by reciprocal curbs placed on Iran’s economic and foreign policy rather than social reform, said nuclear activities. Iran had to counter three phobias abroad; Iranophobia, Iran has always denied that it is pursuing an atomic Islamaphobia and Shiaphobia. But on the home front, the bomb. Sticking to his line that a deal is needed to improve country faces “Ententephobia” from those who continue to Iran’s economy as well as to ensure better energy produc- bridle at his overtures to the rest of the world, most notably tion, Rouhani insisted that there would be no turning back. over Iran’s long-disputed nuclear program. “We want to resolve the nuclear issue, which is an artificial Such hardliners are “50 years late” Rouhani said, warning crisis created by some,” he said, alluding to the West. “The that such trenchant opposition would result in more volatili- Islamic republic of Iran has never sought nuclear weapons ty for Iran, rather than “win-win relationships” after years in and will never do so.” The size and scale of the Islamic the diplomatic wilderness. “That world is over,” Rouhani said republic’s uranium enrichment program remains the of the longstanding chill Iran has faced. “Ententephobia is a biggest stumbling block in efforts to clinch a long-term mistake. We must change the image of the Islamic republic, agreement. The process of enriching uranium can produce which has been tarnished in recent years,” he told an audi- fuel for reactors, which Iran says it needs for domestic ener- ence of Iran’s foreign ambassadors currently visiting Tehran. gy purposes, but also the core of a nuclear bomb if purified “We want closer relations with the world but we will defend to higher levels. — AFP TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Israelis, Palestinians begin indirect talks

GAZA: Israeli and Palestinian negotiators hensive and lasting ceasefire agreement”. tary solution of taking temporary control of would last after a series of failed ceasefires. Since the previous ceasefire expired, resumed indirect talks mediated by Egypt Gaza hospital officials say the Palestinian Gaza to demilitarize it again,” he told Israel “God knows if it is permanent,” said Abu Palestinian rocket and mortar salvoes have yesterday on ending a month-old Gaza war, death toll has been mainly civilian since the Radio. Salama, a resident of Gaza’s Shejaia district, focused on Israeli towns and communities Egypt’s state news agency said, after a new July 8 launch of Israel’s military campaign to Another sticking points in the Cairo talks as he and his family headed home on a don- near the Gaza frontier in what seemed a 72-hour truce appeared to be holding. The quell Gaza rocket fire. Israel has lost 64 sol- has been Israel’s demand for guarantees key cart. “A truce, no truce, it is becoming like strategy of sapping morale without trigger- Israeli military said one rocket was launched diers and three civilians, while heavy losses that Hamas would not use any reconstruc- Tom and Jerry. We want a solution,” he said. ing another ground invasion of Gaza. at the Tel Aviv area, in Israel’s commercial among civilians and the destruction of thou- tion supplies sent to Gaza to build tunnels of Residents of those communities, who had heartland, before the ceasefire began at 2100 sands of homes in Gaza have drawn interna- the sort Palestinian fighters have used to Turkish ships been assured by the military they could GMT on Sunday and may have landed in the tional condemnation. Hamas spokesman infiltrate Israel. Hamas has demanded an The new three-day ceasefire won praise return home when last week’s truce began, sea. Gaza’s dominant Hamas group said it Sami Abu Zuhri said the new negotiations end to the economically stifling blockade of from United Nations Secretary General Ban have accused Israeli authorities of mislead- fired the missile. A senior Israeli government would be “the last chance” for an agreement. the enclave imposed by both Israel and Ki-moon, who hoped it might lead to a ing them. official had said on Sunday Israeli negotiators, Israeli representatives are not meeting face- Egypt, which also sees the Islamist move- durable ceasefire. Israeli air strikes and Israeli tanks and infantry left the enclave who had left Cairo on Friday hours before a to-face with the Palestinian delegation ment as a security threat. Israel has resisted shelling on Sunday killed nine Palestinians on Tuesday after the army said it had com- previous three-day ceasefire expired, would because it includes Hamas, which Israel easing access to Gaza, suspecting Hamas in Gaza, medics said, in a third day of pleted its main mission of destroying more return to Egypt to resume the talks only if the regards as a terrorist organization. could then restock with weapons from renewed fighting since the last truce ended. than 30 tunnels dug by militants for cross- new truce held. abroad. One air strike destroyed the home of Gaza border attacks. Four wounded Palestinians Hamas is demanding an end to Israeli and Long-term truce According to the United Nations, at least City’s mayor, Nezar Hijazi, across the street were flown into Ankara for medical treat- Egyptian blockades of the Gaza Strip and the Israeli Strategic Affairs Minister Yuval 425,000 displaced people in the Gaza Strip from the Reuters bureau where reporters ment yesterday, the first sign of Turkey’s opening of a seaport in the enclave - a proj- Steinitz said in a radio interview yesterday are in emergency shelters or staying with and cameramen took cover as the explosion promised plan to evacuate thousands from ect Israel says should be dealt with only in that disarming Gaza militants was crucial to host families. Nearly 12,000 homes have occurred. There were no casualties in the the Gaza Strip. A Turkish aid group said it any future talks on a permanent peace deal sustain a long-term truce and he hoped this been destroyed or severely damaged by attack because Israel telephoned warnings would send ships again to challenge the with the Palestinians. A month of war has could be done by diplomacy rather than Israeli attacks. In Gaza, shops began to open to residents in the house and neighboring Israeli blockade of Gaza, four years after killed 1,938 Palestinians and 67 Israelis while force. “I certainly hope that there will be a and traffic was normal as some displaced buildings. Israeli commandos stormed its flotilla devastating wide tracts of densely populated diplomatic solution. If there will not be a families returned to the homes they had The Israeli military said it targeted 11 bound for the Palestinian territory and killed Gaza, and Egypt’s Foreign Ministry has diplomatic solution, I am convinced that been forced to abandon during Israeli “terror squads” in Gaza, among them gun- 10 people in fighting with activists on urged both sides to work towards “a compre- sooner or later we will have to opt for a mili- attacks, expressing hopes that this truce men involved in or preparing to fire rockets. board. —Reuters

News Egypt ‘gagging dissent’ in brief

Saudi beheads man for Human Rights Watch chiefs stopped at airport killing wife with an axe RIYADH: Saudi authorities beheaded a national CAIRO: Human Rights Watch accused Egypt’s government ment,” Roth said in a statement issued by the group. the Brotherhood would cease to exist under his rule. yesterday after he was convicted of killing his of trying to silence all criticism, after two of its top staff “Instead of denying the messenger entry to Egypt, the Though the Brotherhood was initially singled out, Egypt wife with an axe in front of their daughter, the were held at Cairo airport for 12 hours and then denied Egyptian authorities should seriously consider our conclu- has gone on to target secular and liberal activists promi- interior ministry announced. Mahdi Al-Ghabari entry to the country for “security reasons,” the group said sions and recommendations and respond with construc- nent in the 2011 uprising that toppled Hosni Mubarak battered his wife Shaqraa Al-Bahri several times yesterday. Executive Director Kenneth Roth and Middle tive action.” Omar Shakir, author and principle researcher after 30 years. on her neck with an axe, killing her “in the pres- East and North Africa Director Sarah Leah Whitson had of the report, told Reuters Whitson had left the country Human Rights Watch closed its office in Cairo earlier ence of their little daughter who witnessed” the flown to Cairo to launch a report on the mass killings of and Roth would be leaving on a separate flight later in the this year but has continued to criticize the government. It crime, said the statement published by the offi- protesters by security forces one year ago, weeks after the morning. Airport authorities said that Roth and Whitson said in a joint statement with Amnesty International in cial SPA news agency. He was executed due to army removed elected Islamist President Mohamed Morsi had been turned back on instructions from unnamed June that Egypt was in the midst of “a human rights crisis the “hideousness” of the crime, said the state- from power. security officials. The officials said the two had informed as dire as in any period in the country’s modern history.” ment. The beheading in the southwestern city of Human Rights Watch is one of a number of international authorities while having their passports checked on arrival Shakir said he and his colleagues had looked forward Najran raised to 23 the number of executions so and Egyptian rights groups that have expressed alarm over that they were planning to participate in an event related to discussing the results of their investigation with far this year in the Gulf state, according to an AFP an increasingly broad crackdown on dissent by authorities to the one-year anniversary of the deaths of hundreds of Egyptian civil society. “It seems the authorities have decid- count based on official reports. Last year, the UN since then-army chief Abdel Fattah Al-Sisi seized power in Islamist protesters. Other government officials did not ed, though, that only one narrative can be heard in Egypt. High Commissioner for Human Rights July 2013. The lengthy report comes after a year-long immediately respond to Reuters requests for comment. Shutting us down cannot erase what happened one year denounced a “sharp increase in the use of capital investigation, including interviews with more than 200 wit- ago,” Shakir told Reuters after boarding a flight out of the punishment” in Saudi Arabia. In 2013, there were nesses to the killings in July and August of 2013. It details Human rights crisis country yesterday morning. “We will continue to demand 78 executions. Rape, murder, apostasy, armed the conduct of government security forces in confronting The Muslim Brotherhood, once Egypt’s oldest, best that those responsible for grave abuses be held account- robbery and drug trafficking are all punishable protesters demanding Morsi’s reinstatement. organized and most successful political movement, has able.” He said that the New York-based rights group had by death under Saudi Arabia’s strict version of It will be released today as scheduled. “We came to seen hundreds of its members killed and thousands already shared the key findings of the 188-page report Islamic sharia law. Egypt to release a serious report on a serious subject that detained since Morsi’s ouster. Sisi, who went on to win a with the Egyptian government but had received no official deserves serious attention from the Egyptian govern- presidential election in May, vowed during his campaign response. —Reuters Oman Air to avoid Iraq airspace amid airstrikes MUSCAT: Oman’s national carrier will no longer Radical threat unites Lebanese overfly Iraq in the wake of US strikes on jihadist positions there, it announced yesterday after several other companies had re-routed their and strange allies behind army flights. Oman Air said the decision concerned flights heading to Europe and Beirut. “This is a preventive measure due to the events taking place in the region,” the airline said in a state- Islamists attacked border town, triggering five-day battle ment on the official Omani news agency ONA. Oman Air recalled that it had since April re- BEIRUT: Beating back an incursion by said, referring to the Iraqi city on the Tigris for Arsal, a Sunni town that has already appeared to be taking sides with the routed flights over Ukraine and Syria due to the Islamists from Syria, Lebanon’s poorly River seized by the Islamic State in June. been a flashpoint for tensions unleashed Shiite group. As the fighting escalated, conflicts in both countries. The Federal Aviation armed military has paid a high price - 36 The Lebanese army’s role is twofold, con- by the Syria war. Though it has thousands one Sunni MP - a hawkish member of Administration in Washington banned all US of its soldiers have been killed or cap- fronting the new militant threat while also of hardened fighters and its arsenal is Hariri’s party - ratcheted up the sectarian civilian flights over Iraq just hours after tured. But it has gained in one important helping to shore up national unity at a more powerful than the army’s, including rhetoric by describing events in Arsal as American warplanes Friday carried out the first respect by winning support from time of regional upheaval and sectarian state-level rocket systems, Hezbollah said part of an “Iranian-Syrian plot to subdue air strikes on positions held by jihadists of the Lebanon’s fractious politicians. At odds strife. Though it remains hamstrung by the battle was the military’s to fight. the Sunnis”. Islamic State, who have occupied swathes of about so much, including just who their outdated weapons - its oldest tanks date The lawmaker, Mohamed Kabara, northern Iraq. A slew of airlines have also said enemies are, leaders from across to the 1950s - and ammunition shortages, Iranian-Syrian plot “warned of any decision that turns our they will no longer overfly Iraq, including Lebanon’s sectarian divide have shown the army has at least obtained the political The Lebanese are all too aware of the inclusive, national army ... into something British Airways, Lufthansa, Austrian Airlines, rare unity by agreeing they have a com- support needed to act at all. risks of sectarianism spreading into the resembling Maliki’s army”. He was refer- Swiss, Air France, Emirates, KLM Royal Dutch mon foe in the Islamic State - the radical “Agree on what you want to do and I army. Lebanon’s slide into the 1975-90 civ- ring to the Iraqi military which critics say Airlines, Virgin Atlantic, Kuwait Airways, and Islamist group that is dismembering Iraq has become a sectarian weapon in the Abu Dhabi’s Etihad Airways. and Syria. hands of Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki, a The concern among the Lebanese Shiite. Sectarian turbulence has spread Kosovo police arrest appears to be shared by their rival foreign from Arsal to other Sunni areas of patrons, determined to prevent a radical Lebanon as a result of the battle. Soldiers 40 Islamic extremists Sunni “caliphate” stretching from the Tigris have come under fire in the northern city PRISTINA: Kosovo police said yesterday they to the Mediterranean. With the Lebanese of Tripoli. On Wednesday, a bomb target- had arrested 40 ethnic Albanians suspected of army part of a regional battle against the ing an army patrol killed one person in the fighting alongside Islamic extremists in Iraq and Sunni radicals, statements of support have same city. Syria in the largest-ever operation against sus- come from an unlikely array of countries But influential voices such as Sunni pected radicals in the breakaway Balkan state. including Syria and Saudi Arabia, the cleric Sheikh Dai al-Islam Al-Shahaal have The operation by special police forces was car- United States and Iran. As Syria and Iraq helped to contain the fallout. He issued a ried out early on Monday at some 60 locations have fragmented with the stunning fatwa, or religious edict, forbidding fight- throughout Kosovo, including make-shift advance of Islamic State fighters - an off- ing with the army. The battle has coincid- mosques suspected of serving as recruiting sites. shoot of Al-Qaeda - protecting Lebanon ed with national army day. Banners pledg- Forty people “suspected of taking part in the war from renewed instability is a concern ing support for the army abound in the in Syria by supporting the terrorist organizations shared by all. In the case of Saudi Arabia, streets. One of Lebanon’s mobile opera- ISIS (Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant) and (Al- support came with a promise of an extra tors has launched a campaign allowing Qaeda affiliate) Al-Nusra” were arrested, police $1 billion for the Lebanese security forces. subscribers to donate to the army from said in a statement. “Explosive devices, weapons That put Riyadh - a sponsor of the their cell phones. In a Christian district of and ammunition were seized,” it added. The raid uprising against President Bashar Al-Assad Beirut, a church invited worshippers to followed a months-long investigation and efforts - on the same side as Syria, whose war- ARSAL: A picture shows a general view of the eastern Lebanese town of attend a nighttime vigil for the army. by the authorities to root out suspected Islamist planes were bombing the militants in the Arsal, on the border with Syria. —AFP networks in Kosovo. Kosovo is a Muslim-majority border zone as the Lebanese army The state vs terrorism country, although religion plays only a minor attacked on the other side. The militants’ Including reservists, the army currently part in public life and tends to take a very mod- incursion into the border town of Arsal on numbers about 65,000. It is the most trust- erate form. President Atifete Jahjaga welcomed Aug 2 heightened fears they could extend ed security force in Lebanon, enjoying the the arrests, insisting that Kosovo “will not be a their battleground into Lebanon, already support of far more Lebanese than more haven for extremism.” destabilized by the Syrian civil war that overtly sectarian internal security agencies. has inflamed sectarian tensions between Experts say Sunnis make up its largest sec- Sunnis and Shiites. The militants pulled tarian component, many of them from US sending arms out of the town on Wednesday, after sus- poor areas of northeast Lebanon. At least to Kurdish forces taining dozens of fatalities, according to eight of the 17 soldiers killed in Arsal were Lebanese security officials. They took 19 Sunni. A Shiite politician said concerns SYDNEY: The Obama administration has begun soldiers with them as hostages. about the potential for sectarian tensions directly providing weapons to Kurdish forces who in the army faded early into the Arsal oper- have started to make gains against Islamic militants in Political cover ation when it became clear that main- northern Iraq, senior US officials said yesterday. Lebanon’s most significant players have stream Sunni politicians, chief among them Previously, the US had insisted on only selling arms to rallied behind the army. They include for- Hariri, were fully on board. the Iraqi government in Baghdad, but the Kurdish mer prime minister Saad Al-Hariri, the “The matter is now one of the state, peshmerga fighters had been losing ground to Islamic most influential Sunni figure, and represented by the army, against terror- State militants in recent weeks. The officials wouldn’t Hezbollah, the heavily armed, Iranian- ism, and this has, to a great degree, say which US agency is providing the arms or what backed Shiite group that has been fight- reduced the tension,” said the politician, weapons are being sent, but one official said it isn’t the ing alongside Assad’s forces in Syria. Hariri, talking on condition of anonymity Pentagon. The CIA has historically done similar quiet bitterly at odds with Hezbollah for years, because he was discussing national securi- arming operations. The move to directly aid the Kurds returned to Lebanon on Friday for the first ty. The government, responding to the underscores the level of US concern about the Islamic time in three years, saying he planned to ARSAL: Lebanese troops stand guard in a street in the eastern Lebanese Arsal crisis, has asked France to accelerate State militants’ gains in the north, and reflects the per- discuss how the Saudi funds could be town of Arsal, on the border with Syria. —AFP the delivery of weapons being bought sistent administration view that the Iraqis must take used. “There are, of course, still many divi- with $3 billion of previously pledged aid the necessary steps to solve their own security prob- sions in Lebanon. But no one has a choice am ready. We just need political cover,” il war was accelerated by the disintegra- from Saudi Arabia. Announcing the extra lems. To bolster that effort, the administration is also other than to back the army,” said Nabil General Jean Kahwaji, the army’s Maronite tion of the army along sectarian lines. The $1 billion Saudi pledge, Hariri poured very close to approving plans for the Pentagon to arm Boumonsef, a columnist at the Lebanese Christian commander, told ministers at a Arsal operation risked sucking the army, scorn on Hezbollah, likening its role in the the Kurds, a senior official said. In recent days, the US daily An-Nahar. cabinet meeting during the crisis, accord- drawn from Lebanon’s patchwork of reli- Syria war to the militants’ incursion into military has been helping facilitate weapons deliveries “We know what it means if the army ing to a source who attended. Wary of sec- gious communities, into a sectarian fire Arsal. But he added: “There is a Lebanese from the Iraqis to the Kurds, providing logistic assis- breaks up and what will happen in the tarian tensions exacerbated by its role storm. With Hezbollah fighting the same consensus on supporting the army and tance and transportation to the north. whole country. We will become part of a fighting just over the border in Syria, militants on the other side of the border, a the internal security forces and all picture stretching from Mosul to Arsal,” he Hezbollah said it stayed out of the battle handful of Sunni critics said the army Lebanese institutions.”—Reuters

TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Australia to ink 25-year US Marine agreement

SYDNEY: Australia and the United States of his “pivot” towards Asia. Hagel said the deal emphasized can cooperate”.”We will address a number which rankled China. It also caused con- will sign a 25-year deal allowing 2,500 US “Approximately 2,500 US defense force Washington’s “rebalance” towards the of issues tomorrow. They will focus on cern for some Asian neighbors who saw it Marines and air force personnel to train personnel will come to primarily the Asia-Pacific, saying the United States was maritime security, special forces, missile as a statement by Washington that it Down Under, Defense Minister David Northern Territory to exercise on the vast, a Pacific power holding about 200 ships defence and Afghanistan,” he said. He intends to stand up for its interests in the Johnston said Monday, describing it as a open Commonwealth (government) mili- and more than 360,000 personnel in the said the situation in Ukraine would also region amid concern about Beijing’s “win-win situation”. The agreement will be tary exercise grounds that we have,” region. “We are not going anywhere,” be on the agenda, as well as the threat growing assertiveness. inked today when US Secretary of State Johnston told a joint press conference Hagel said. “Our partnerships are here, our from jihadist fighters of the Islamic State The United States currently has only a John Kerry and Defense Secretary Chuck with Hagel. “They will interoperate with treaty obligations are here and are impor- in Iraq, where Australia has offered to limited deployment in longstanding ally Hagel meet with their Australian counter- Australia. They will do things that they tant to us. “It’s pretty clear that the US is assist the US in humanitarian airdrops to Australia, including the Pine Gap Joint parts Julie Bishop and Johnston in want to, exercise activities that are impor- committed to this part of the world but those trapped by the violence. Defense Facility spy station near Alice Sydney. Trouble spots abroad including tant to them. We’ll assist them.” Johnston also this does not mean a retreat from any Bates Gill, chief executive of the US Springs. Regional security issues in Iraq and Ukraine will also be on the agen- said as many as 1,200 US Marines and air other part of the world. We have interests Studies Centre at the University of Southeast Asia and the Pacific will be dis- da for the Australia-US Ministerial force personnel were already rotating into all over the world,” he added. Sydney, said the talks would be an impor- cussed in the AUSMIN talks, along with Consultations (AUSMIN), which focus on Darwin during the current dry season in tant next step in what appeared to be “a Myanmar, where Kerry and Bishop have regional security and military coopera- Australia’s tropical north. More ways to cooperate growing degree of access and presence just attended the Association of tion. But the centerpiece will be the “These are the things that are benefit- Hagel said the talks today, which ana- for American assets both human and Southeast Asian Nations forum. The min- agreement allowing the Marine rotational ting Australia and the flipside of that coin lysts had said would likely pave the way material on Australian territory”. Gill said isters will also talk about Northeast Asia, deployment in the northern city of is that we have just a lot of space that’s for enhanced military cooperation progress had been slow but careful since comparing notes about their respective Darwin, which was first announced by US open for practice, exercises... so it’s a win- between the allies, would give officials an the announcement that Marines would relations with China, and the challenges President Barack Obama in 2011 as part win situation for both of us,” he said. opportunity to explore “better ways we rotate through Darwin, an agreement posed by North Korea. —AFP

News Inmates flee as shells in brief

German trial begins into hit east Ukrainian jail ‘serial Autobahn shooter’ WUERZBURG: A truck driver accused of a five- year indiscriminate shooting spree on German motorways to teach other road users a “lesson” NATO sees ‘high probability’ of Russian invasion went on trial yesterday. Prosecutors say the man, identified as Michael Harry K, was a “frustrated loner” and claim he fired more than 700 times at BRUSSELS: NATO said yesterday there was of an agreed international mission, words prison, killing one inmate and allowing with a relentless nationalist campaign in trucks and cars, leaving several people injured, a “high probability” that Russia could that could be read as an attempt to reas- more than a 100 criminals to escape. state-controlled media since annexing until his arrest in June 2013. The 58-year-old launch an invasion of Ukraine, where the sure the West and Kiev that Moscow is not UN agencies say more than 1,100 peo- Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula in March - could faces five counts of attempted murder, as well as government said its troops have been clos- planning an assault. ple have been killed including government invade to head off a humiliating rebel grievous bodily harm and other charges and ing in on Donetsk, the main city held by forces, rebels and civilians in the four defeat. But there have been signs in recent could face a lengthy prison term if found guilty pro-Russian rebels. Kiev said it was in the Cities ‘cut off’ months since rebels seized territory in the days that Moscow may be searching for by the district court in the Bavarian city of “final stages” of recapturing Donetsk, by far Ukrainian military spokesman Andriy east and the government launched its another way to get out of the conflict, with- Wuerzburg. The accused, who lives in western the biggest city under the control of the Lysenko told Reuters government forces crackdown. Kiev says 568 of its troops have out being drawn into a ground invasion. Germany, had wanted to teach other truck driv- pro-Russian rebels. The battle for the city had finally succeeded in cutting off the been killed in combat. Government forces When the Russian citizen leading the rebel- ers a “lesson” over their road behavior, local DPA could be a decisive turning point in a con- road between Donetsk and Luhansk, the have been advancing since June, pushing lion in Donetsk abruptly stepped down in news agency quoted senior prosecutor Boris flict which has caused the biggest con- other main rebel-held city, which is closer rebels into Donetsk and Luhansk, capitals favour of local man Zakharchenko last Raufeisen as saying at the trial’s opening. He frontation between Russia and the West to the Russian border. Kiev and its Western of two provinces that the fighters have week, many read that as a sign of potential claimed that the defendant was aware he could since the Cold War. allies say the route has been the principal declared independent “people’s republics”. de-escalation: Kiev has said it could con- cause “serious accidents with considerable con- An industrial metropolis with a pre-war means of supplying the rebels in Donetsk Fighting in recent weeks has focused on template negotiations with locals but sequences to the point of death of other road population of nearly 1 million, the main with weapons. “The forces of the anti-ter- the route linking the cities, near where would never talk to foreigners it calls inter- users”. The defense has rejected the attempted rebel-held redoubt rocked to the crash of rorist operation are preparing for the final Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 crashed in national terrorists. murder charge. He said during the investigation shells and gunfire over the weekend and Donetsk is facing an increasing shortage that he didn’t want to hurt anyone and only heavy guns boomed through the night into of food, water and fuel. Few people are on aimed at a truck’s load or freight hold. He also yesterday from the outskirts of the city. the streets, apart from groups of armed said he had acted after once nearly being Ukraine appears to be pressing ahead with separatist fighters. There is relatively little pushed off the road by a car transporter. its offensive, undeterred by the presence of traffic, with petrol in short supply. Those what NATO says are some 20,000 Russian who have not left for the countryside are troops massed on the nearby border for a staying indoors. Banks are closed and pen- SA to extradite British potential ground invasion. sions and social allowances are not being most wanted fugitive Kiev has said in recent days that it suc- paid. Shelling yesterday from the direction JOHANNESBURG: Convicted British drug-traf- ceeded in using diplomacy to prevent of the international airport and the suburb ficker and multiple fraudster Martin Evans is to Russia from launching a ground invasion to of Yasynuvata to the north knocked out a be extradited and sent back home more than protect the rebels under the guise of a string of power stations, the municipal three years after he skipped custody and went humanitarian mission. Moscow announced authority said. on the run, a South African magistrate ruled on Friday it was ending war games in the Lysenko, speaking to journalists, denied yesterday. The magistrate said the 52-year-old area. But NATO Secretary-General Anders government forces had targeted the high- Evans, named one of Britain’s “most wanted Fogh Rasmussen said there was still no sign security prison for especially dangerous fugitives” in 2012 by police, would be kept in Russia had withdrawn the troops it had prisoners on the city’s western outskirts, custody until South Africa’s justice minister massed at the frontier, which prompted where the city authorities said one inmate signed papers confirming the extradition warnings from the West last week that was killed by shelling and more than 100 order. Evans was convicted in Britain in 2006 President Vladimir Putin could be planning dangerous criminals escaped in an ensuing for conspiracy to supply cocaine and sen- to invade. Asked in a Reuters interview how riot. Though the Kiev government says it is tenced to 26 years in jail. He escaped custody high he rated the chances of Russian mili- tightening a cordon around the separatists in 2011 while out on a five-day license. The for- tary intervention, Rasmussen said: “There is in Donetsk, swathes of the east are still mer Young Businessman of the Year for Wales a high probability.” DONETSK: An inmate stands in a yard at a high-security facility after shelling under rebel control including Luhansk and swindled more than 100 investors, many newly “We see the Russians developing the in Donetsk, eastern Ukraine yesterday. —AP the towns of Horlivka to the north of retired pensioners, out of 900,000 pounds narrative and the pretext for such an opera- Donetsk and Makiyivka to its east. The key ($1.5 million) by promising huge returns from tion under the guise of a humanitarian stage of liberating Donetsk,” Lysenko told July, killing all 298 people on board. rail and road hub of Krasny Luch between a spurious ostrich-breeding business. Evans operation and we see a military buildup Reuters. “Our forces have completely cut Washington says the plane was almost cer- Donetsk and Luhansk is still outside gov- was nabbed this month by South African that could be used to conduct such illegal Donetsk off from Luhansk. We are working tainly shot down accidentally by rebels ernment control, military sources in Kiev police at a Johannesburg housing complex in a military operations in Ukraine,” he said. to liberate both cities but it’s better to liber- using an advanced Russian missile. said. joint operation with Interpol and British securi- NATO believes any Russian humanitarian ate Donetsk first - it is more important.” Moscow denies this. Fighting near the site Lysenko painted a picture of disarray in ty agencies. mission would be used as a pretext to save The leader of the rebels in Donetsk, forced the Netherlands to put off a mission the rebels’ ranks. “A mood of panic is grip- the rebels, who are fighting for control of Alexander Zakharchenko, a local man who to recover human remains and investigate ping the Russian mercenaries. Some are two provinces under the banner of “New took over the leadership from a Russian cit- the crash. The rebels in eastern Ukraine deserting, others are disoriented, disillu- Second British Foreign Russia”, a term Putin has used for southern izen last week, said the fighters were con- have been led mostly by Russian citizens sioned and don’t have a uniform strategy Office minister resigns and eastern Ukraine where Russian is spo- sidering mounting a counter attack against and field heavy weaponry Kiev and its allies for conducting further combat,” he said. ken. government forces in the next 2-3 days. say can only have come from Russia. Western countries have imposed sanctions LONDON: Britain’s Africa minister Mark Despite the presence of the Russian Lysenko said clashes took place in several Moscow denies aiding them. on Moscow, which, though initially mild, Simmonds resigned yesterday, a spokesman for troops at the frontier, Kiev has pressed on parts of eastern Ukraine over the past 24 were tightened substantially after the the prime minister’s Downing Street office said, with its advance, apparently calculating hours with six Ukrainian service members Tightening the ring downing of the Malaysian airliner. Moscow becoming the second Foreign Office minister to that Western pressure can deter Putin from killed and big losses to the rebel side. Rebel The past week saw increasingly urgent replied last week with a ban on imports of quit in a week. The spokesman insisted that invading. Yesterday, the Kremlin ruled out a losses could not be independently con- warnings from Kiev and Western countries all meat, poultry, dairy, fruit and vegetables Simmonds’ decision was unrelated to that of unilateral humanitarian operation. Putin’s firmed. Municipal authorities in Donetsk that Putin appeared to planning an inva- from the United States, European Union, Sayeeda Warsi, who quit last Tuesday in protest at spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Moscow said artillery shelling knocked out power sion. Western countries said Putin - who Canada, Australia and non-EU member the government’s failure to take a tougher line would only send humanitarian aid as part stations in the city and hit a high-security has whipped up the passions of Russians Norway.—Reuters against Israel over its assault on Gaza. He said Simmonds had agreed to leave “some weeks ago” but the announcement was delayed until the minister had chaired a United Nations Security S Korea, Catholicism’s ‘unlikely Asian pillar’ Council debate on the Democratic Republic of Congo on Thursday. In his resignation letter, SEOUL: When Pope Francis visits South Korea this ing Christians, including the Catholic Kim Dae- canonized 103 martyrs-promptly elevating South mass could be said in Korean rather than Latin. Simmonds said he was “exceptionally proud” of week, he will find a thriving Catholic community Jung. Two others, Roh Moo-Hyun and current Korea to number four in the list of countries with the government’s achievements but said he with a social and political influence that belies its President Park Geun-Hye, were both baptized the most canonized Catholic saints, after Italy, A champion of democracy wanted to spend more time with his family. He minority status in one of Christianity’s most mus- Catholics, but non-observant. When Catholicism Spain and France. The real growth in the Catholic But perhaps the most significant growth intends to step down next year as a member of cular Asian strongholds. The five-day visit begin- was first introduced to Korea in the 18th century, Church-and Christianity in general-coincided with motor was the active role the Catholic Church parliament for Boston and Skegness in ning Thursday will recognize the vicious persecu- played in the pro-democracy struggle of the Lincolnshire, eastern England, a seat he has held tion of early Korean Catholics, with the beatifica- 1970s and 80s. A number of Catholic leaders since 2001. He was appointed to the Foreign tion by Francis of 124 martyrs executed for their established themselves as human rights advo- Office in September 2012, and had responsibility faith in the 18th and 19th centuries. And the pope cates, standing up to the military regime of the for Africa, Britain’s overseas territories, the will also look to North Korea, where religion is time under the threat of arrest and lengthy Caribbean, as well as climate change and interna- subject to the tightest state control, when he imprisonment. “There’s no doubt that this helped tional energy. Warsi, Britain’s first Muslim cabinet offers a special mass for inter-Korean peace and enhance the image of the Church and helped member who also had responsibility for faith and reconciliation. attract new members,” said Don Baker, the direc- communities, resigned over what she said was For many first-time visitors to Seoul, a com- tor of the Centre for Korean Research at the Britain’s “morally indefensible” policy on Gaza. mon take-away memory is the surprising multi- University of British Columbia. “It made it appear tude of neon crosses glowing across the South to be a Korean church, one that was concerned Korean capital’s nightscape. The theory that pros- for Korean issues,” Baker said. Seoul’s Seleka ex-rebels refuse to perity and socio-economic development tend to Myeongdong Cathedral, where Pope Francis will join new CAR government breed secularism holds little water in a country conduct the reconciliation mass, was a focal point where modernity appears to have fuelled religios- for the pro-democracy movement and was used BANGUI: The armed Seleka coalition that last ity. Korean Christianity is particularly pro-active as a place of sanctuary by many dissidents seek- year seized power in the Central African and evangelical, sending more missionaries ing to avoid arrest. Republic for 10 months wants no part of a new abroad than any other country apart from the These days the focus is more on social issues, government, a spokesman for the former rebels United States. but there are progressive elements within the said yesterday. The announcement by the mainly In the last national census to include religious Church who still seek an active political role. Late Muslim ex-rebels in the troubled Christian affiliation, conducted in 2005, close to 30 percent last year, the Catholic Priests’ Association for majority nation came a day after transitional of South Koreans identified themselves as Justice (CPAJ) joined protests calling for President President Catherine Samba Panza appointed a Christian, compared to 23 percent who cited the Park to resign over a scandal involving national Muslim to lead a new broad-based government. once-dominant Buddhism. The majority are intelligence agents who meddled in the 2012 “We think the transitional president didn’t take Protestants, but Catholics are the fastest-growing SEOUL: Pedestrians walk past banners welcoming Pope Francis in central presidential election. The Protestant church has account of the views of the Seleka, which still controls the major part of the country,” Seleka group, with around 5.3 million adherents-just over Seoul yesterday. —AFP twice the membership, but has suffered in recent 10 percent of the population. years from rifts between its various denomina- spokesman Abou Mal Mal Hissene said. “The it was seen as subversive and barbaric by the rapid urbanization that followed the drive to tions, and scandals involving some of its wealthi- Seleka will not participate in the next govern- A minority with clout Confucian scholars, and its followers were brutally rebuild the country from the devastation of the est congregations. ment,” he said, adding that the fragmented coali- As a minority, they punch well above their persecuted. That period will provide a centerpiece 1950-53 Korean War. Ripped out of their tradition- “There’s been some disillusionment with some tion of former rebels only learned of the weight, with Catholics filling nearly 60, or 20 per- for Pope Francis’s visit when he beatifies 124 al social networks, the city newcomers looked for of the mega Protestant churches, particularly appointment of a new prime minister “by way of cent, of the 300 seats in the national parliament. Korean martyrs at a special open-air mass in cen- new communities and many found them in the those where pastors pass control to their children,” foreign media”. —AFP Of the six presidents elected in South Korea since tral Seoul on August 18. Church. Congregations swelled further in the said Bae Chul-Hyun, an expert on religious issues the first free election in 1987, three were practic- When Pope John Paul visited in 1984, he had wake of the Vatican II reforms which meant that at Seoul National University. —AFP TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014 INTERNATIONAL

Amnesty slams US over civilian deaths in Afghanistan

KABUL: The families of thousands of civilians killed Amnesty. “I have no power to ask the international by American forces in Afghanistan have been left forces why they did this. I can’t bring them to court.” without justice or compensation, Amnesty Amnesty said villagers filed complaints with the International said yesterday, in a damning indict- provincial governor, but international forces are ment of the US military as it withdraws. Amnesty immune from Afghan legal processes and no one said in a report it had gathered evidence of “a deeply ever contacted family members to investigate the flawed US military justice system that cements a cul- attack. ture of impunity” in dealing with Afghan civilian deaths and injuries caused by US-led NATO coalition Strained US-Afghan ties operations since 2001. Karzai, who will step down when his successor is President Hamid Karzai has often castigated US chosen after an ongoing dispute about election forces for civilian casualties. NATO’s International results, welcomed the report after inviting Amnesty Security Assistance Force (ISAF) says it takes all alle- representatives to the presidential palace onSunday. gations of civilian casualties seriously and investi- “I’m very happy that you have focused on something gates each alleged incident. The report said that is the main point of disagreement between Amnesty researchers interviewed 125 Afghans who Afghanistan and the US,” he said, according to a had first-hand information on 16 separate attacks palace statement. “I believe that civilian casualties that resulted in civilian casualties, as well as collating should never happen. Together with you, we should data from 97 reported incidents since 2007. stop them.” Amnesty emphasized in its report that An Amnesty spokesman said its data that thou- the “vast majority” of civilian deaths are caused by sands of civilians had been killed by US forces was the Taleban and other armed groups in Afghanistan, based on UN reports on civilian casualties, a Science which remains in the grip of a fierce Islamist insur- magazine investigation in 2011 and other sources, gency. but it gave no total death toll. “After any incident in Last week Afghan officials said a US air strike had which civilians have been killed by US forces, (the US killed four civilians in the western province of Herat, must) ensure... wherever there is sufficient admissi- in a misguided revenge attack after rockets were ble evidence, suspects are prosecuted,” said the fired at an airbase. Amnesty said its report concen- KABUL: Afghan relatives of civilian victims of the country’s conflict examine a report detailing those Amnesty report entitled “Left in the Dark”. It detailed trated on the US rather than other members of the killed by US forces in the country at a press conference in Kabul yesterday. — AFP a US bombing in 2012 when women were collecting NATO coalition since it was the largest national firewood in the mountains of Laghman province. force and was implicated in the majority of civilian gunning down 16 villagers in 2012. US-led foreign with the US and NATO. The deal with the US would Seven women and girls were killed and seven casualties. “Amnesty International is aware of only troop numbers in Afghanistan have declined from a continue to give so-called “immunity” to American more were injured. Ghulam Noor, who lost his 16- six cases over the last five years in which members peak of 150,000 in 2012 to just 44,300 now-of troops, who would be prosecuted under their own year-old daughter Bibi Halimi in the attack, brought of the military have been criminally prosecuted for whom 30,700 of American. All NATO combat sol- legal system. The ISAF press office in Kabul referred the bodies to the district centre after hearing NATO unlawfully killing Afghan civilians,” it said. diers will depart by the end of the year, though a enquiries about the report to the US Department of forces claimed that only insurgents had been killed. In the most high-profile killing, US army sergeant follow-up support mission of about 10,000 troops is Defense, which was not immediately available to “We had to show them that it was women,” Noor told Robert Bales was sentenced to life in prison after planned if the next president signs security deals comment. — AFP China rejects Washington’s South China Sea proposal

Beijing accuses US of deliberately stoking tensions

BEIJING: Beijing accused the US of news agency headlined its report on cate or escalate disputes”. The US has deliberately stoking tensions in the his comments: “China rebuffs US ‘freeze’ stepped up its rhetoric on the South South China Sea as it rejected proposal on South China Sea.” China Sea following a series of mar- Washington’s proposal for a freeze on It said Wang repeated China’s long- itime incidents between China and rival provocative actions in the region, the standing rejection of multilateral talks claimants, including Beijing’s position- foreign ministry said yesterday. The over the sea, saying that “relevant dis- ing of an oil rig in waters also claimed remarks by Foreign Minister Wang Yi putes should be addressed by coun- by Vietnam which sparked deadly riots came at an ASEAN Regional Forum tries directly concerned”. In a commen- in the Southeast Asian nation. (ARF) overshadowed by disputes over tary Monday, Xinhua described A senior US State Department offi- the strategically significant sea. Beijing Washington’s proposal as “counterpro- cial, declining to be named, said claims it almost in its entirety, putting it ductive”, adding: “It is simply an uncon- Monday that at the ARF long-running at odds with countries including the structive idea.”By stoking the flames, discussions on a code of conduct Philippines and Vietnam, and there Washington is further emboldening between nations in the sea had moved have been several tense encounters in countries like the Philippines and from “the abstraction of a long-term the area over recent months.US Vietnam to take a hardline stance process” towards an “early harvest of Secretary of State John Kerry appeared against China,” it said. “It is a painful ideas”, without giving details. But the at the forum to push for a multilateral reality that Uncle Sam has left too many official added that Washington would agreement to end all actions that risk places in chaos after it stepped in, as be carrying out surveillance in the area. further inflaming regional sensitivities. what people are witnessing now in “We will also be monitoring the actual But Wang said: “Some countries out- Iraq, Syria and Libya,” it added. “The situation around the rocks, reefs, and side the region are restless, and stir up South China Sea should not be the next shoals in the South China Sea... in order tensions... might their intention be to one.” to assess whether the claimants have create chaos in the region? “China and taken to heart the consensus... that de- ASEAN are totally able to safeguard Rhetoric escalatory steps are called for,” the offi- well the peace and stability of South At the ARF, Kerry on Saturday for- cial said. China’s claims in the sea, China Sea.” His comments, posted on mally put forward Washington’s pro- which lies on key shipping routes and is the foreign ministry’s website Monday, posal to cool maritime tensions based said to be rich in mineral and oil Philippine Marines raise the Philippine flag on the first day of their deployment on the dilapidated navy ship LT57 BRP were aimed squarely at the US, state- on claimant states agreeing to step deposits, also conflict with those of Sierra Madre at the disputed Second Thomas Shoal, locally known as Ayungin Shoal, off the South China Sea. — AP run media said. China’s official Xinhua back from actions that could “compli- Brunei, Malaysia and Taiwan. — AFP Floods kill 45 in east India

NEW DELHI: Flooding in eastern India has killed 45 peo- ple and displaced more than 300,000 in the past week, a senior official said yesterday, adding that water levels were now gradually receding. Residents have been shel- tering in relief centers in Orissa since being evacuated from their homes when torrential monsoon rains flood- ed rivers in mainly northern districts of the state. “As of today, 300 to 400 villages are still marooned with a pop- ulation of about 310,000 (evacuated people) affected,” said Pravat Ranjan Mohapatra, state deputy relief com- missioner. Mohapatra said 45 lives have been lost since the flooding hit last week, with 3.3 million people in total affected. “The IMD (India Meteorological Department) is predicting good weather for the next few weeks. So we hope things will go back to normal in a day or two,” he told AFP by phone from the state capital Bhubaneswar. Photos and television footage have shown parents and children crammed into trucks as they flee flooded homes and villages. Some, clutching belongings, are seen wading through thigh-deep water to safety, while others are huddled under makeshift tents on roadsides. The hardest-hit regions have been around the Mahanadi and Baitarani rivers which started to burst their banks last Tuesday. Torrential rains claimed as many as 48 lives last October in Orissa, just a month after a killer storm slammed into the coast-leaving 18 dead and destroying large tracts of farmland. The strength of the annual June-September downpour is vital to hundreds of millions of Indian farmers and to economic growth. Asia’s third-largest economy gets 80 PURI: An Indian village youth makes his way through floodwa- percent of its annual rainfall during the monsoon sea- ters at Kakharubasta village near Kanas block in Puri district, son. — AFP some 55 kilometers from Bhubaneswar. — AFP India accuses Pakistan of firing along the border SRINAGAR: Indian police yesterday accused Pakistan of injur- India, which captured the commanding peaks in 1984, ing four people during firing along their border in Kashmir, sees the glacier as vital to monitor Pakistani positions below on the eve of Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s visit to the dis- and important for the defense of its part of Kashmir. Pakistani puted region. Police said overnight firing lasting several hours troops have tried but failed to seize control of the sliver of ter- in the RS Pura sector on the recognized border injured two ritory, where sub-zero temperatures and high altitude have Indian border guards and two civilians. “The Pakistani forces caused countless deaths. Modi is expected to inaugurate two opened fire on BSF posts which lasted two hours from 10 pm hydro power stations in nearby Leh and Kargil during the vis- last night,” Inspector General of Police in Jammu, Rajesh it, his second to the disputed region since sweeping to power Kumar said. in May. India and Pakistan often accuse each other of violat- Jammu is the most populous district in the Indian state of ing a border ceasefire which has largely held since 2003. Jammu and Kashmir. India’s paramilitary Border Security Despite the truce, firing along the disputed de facto border Force (BSF) patrols the internationally recognized border in called the Line of Control, that separates Kashmir into Indian Kashmir, which runs south of the disputed frontier in the and Pakistani sectors, has occurred sporadically since 2003. region. Kumar said Pakistani soldiers fired heavy weapons Both India and Pakistan claim the region in full and have and mortars and the Indian side responded. Modi is due to fought two of their three wars over its control.Since 1989 visit the Ladakh region, high in the mountains of Kashmir fighting between Indian forces and rebels seeking independ- today and address soldiers posted on the remote Siachen ence or merger of the territory with Pakistan has killed tens of Glacier, dubbed the world’s highest battlefield. thousands, mostly civilians. — AFP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014 Floods hit blast-ravaged Taiwan city

TAIPEI: Torrential rain yesterday forced the Taiwanese government official said. Around 360,000 people live southern Taiwan until Wednesday, raising fears of fur- Chemical as part of their investigation into the cause city of Kaohsiung to shut schools and offices as floods in the two districts, accounting for around 13 percent ther floods. of the accident. The incident has already brought overwhelmed its sewage system which was severely of the population of Taiwan’s second biggest city. “The One angry resident told Formosa TV that his home down economic minister Chang Chia-juch. damaged by gas explosions last month that killed 30 flooding over the past few days was caused by the had been flooded several times since last week. “This Kaohsiung’s deputy mayor and three other officials in people and injured 300. Residents rushed to pile up serious damage caused to the sewage systems by the has never happened before,” he said. The government the city government have also resigned, but have sandbags in the two districts where drainage systems gas explosions,” Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chu said. and local authorities dispute who bears responsibility been asked to stay on until the disaster relief opera- were affected by the blasts but many were marooned The July 31 explosions in underground industrial for failing to monitor the safety of the pipelines that tions have been completed. Kaohsiung lies adjacent to by the rising waters. At least 180 mm (seven inches) of pipelines that cross the city sparked massive fires, leav- exploded, as well as who should shoulder the massive a huge petrochemical complex housing dozens of rain fell yesterday morning following weekend down- ing trenches running down the middle of some streets reconstruction costs. The city blames Taiwanese com- plants, and many pipelines run under the densely- pours which dumped hundreds of millimeters of rain and throwing vehicles onto the roofs of buildings sev- pany LCY Chemical Corp. for the blasts, saying around packed city. The explosions were the second disaster on the southern city. eral stories high. Reconstruction work has ground to a 10 tons of propene may have leaked from pipelines to strike Taiwan in just over a week, after a TransAsia “We’ve deployed dozens of water pumps in the two virtual standstill due to the flooding and the Central operated by the firm in the hours before the first blast. Airways plane crashed with the loss of 48 lives on July districts hoping they would help drain the water,” a city Weather Bureau warned of more downpours across Prosecutors have twice raided the offices of LCY 23. — AFP China cracking down on Christian groups along North Korea border TUMEN: China is cracking down on Christian escape from North Korea and clandestinely charity groups near its border with North Korea, facilitating their journey to the South, usually missionaries and aid groups say, with hundreds through a third country. Statistics released by of members of the community forced to leave South Korea’s Ministry of Unification show the the country and some who remain describing number of North Korean refugees to defect to an atmosphere of fear. The sweep along the the South has slightly decreased to about 700 frontier is believed to be aimed at closing off in the first six months of the year, although it support to North Koreans who flee persecution would be too soon for the crackdown to take and poverty in their homeland and illegally full effect. In the last two years, about 1,500 enter China before going on to other nations, people have successfully made the journey usually ending up in South Korea. each year. The South says the number of such defec- “They have built more fencing, re-organized tions is showing signs of a slight slowdown this the border guards, increased punishments for year. Beijing has not charged anyone with any failed escapees and have increased cooperation crime, but two sources with direct knowledge with the Chinese authorities to disrupt net- say a Korean-American man who ran a voca- works helping those who manage to escape,” tional school in the border town of Tumen was said Sokeel Park of LiNK, an NGO that works being investigated by Chinese authorities. with North Korean defectors. Earlier this month, China said it was investigat- “Obviously, the screw is tightening all along ing a Canadian couple who ran a coffee shop in the border,” said a Christian activist in South Dandong city on suspicion of stealing state Korea, who did not want to be named due to secrets. As many as one third of the 3,000 South the sensitivity of the situation. “There has been Korean missionaries working in China, largely a concerted effort to break up the network of near the North Korean border, have been forced people who help North Koreans - on either side out, most by having their visas refused, said of the border.” Another source working in the Simon Suh, a Christian pastor who runs an region said: “I believe that the D-Day has come orphanage in Yanji, a city near Tumen. Many or is coming soon for individuals, businesses South Korean churches have been shut down, and schools who have set up fronts to do North he said, quoting information he had received Korea-related humanitarian and refugee works.” from several Christian groups in the region. “Peter (Hahn)’s school in Tumen and Kevin China’s help Garratt’s coffee shop were two organizations It was not immediately clear why China, that were really well known,” said Suh. “Both of North Korea’s main ally and economic benefac- them being cracked down on is a huge blow to tor, was cracking down on missionaries in the everyone, to every activist who is involved with region, but experts said it had cooperated with BEIJING: Chinese children play at the actual size replica eggs of a dinosaur displayed for souvenir photo shoot at a shopping mall in Beijing North Korea.” North Korea in the past along the border. yesterday. — AP The missionaries in the remote and moun- China’s Foreign Ministry did not respond to a tainous region are usually reserved, but during request for comment. While China can be suspi- a recent visit by a Reuters reporter, they seemed cious of Christian groups and President Xi Over 150 Chinese ‘economic especially fearful of speaking to outsiders and Jinping has launched a wide crackdown on appeared to be worried about being followed underground churches, foreign missionaries by security forces. South Korean and Western usually operate without too much harassment. missionary groups run schools, orphanages and Suh said a South Korean pastor who ran fugitives’ at large in the US cafes in the region and channel food and other another orphanage for children of North Korean aid into North Korea. But some of them have defectors had been detained and interrogated also been caught up in helping North Koreans for weeks before being forced to leave the who have fled their isolated country. country this month. Chinese staff employed by US is top destination for those fleeing China There was no firm evidence, however, that the pastor, who Suh asked Reuters not to name Hahn or the Garratts were involved in the so- due to the sensitivity of the issue, had gone into called underground railroad, helping people hiding after threats from authorities. —Reuters BEIJING: More than 150 economic fugitives, ments have expressed reluctance to hand over fugitive, who fled to Canada with his family in many of whom are corrupt officials or suspected Chinese suspects as they could face the death 1999 and claimed refugee status saying allega- of graft in China, are at large in the United States, penalty in China. “We face practical difficulties in tions that he ran a multibillion-dollar smuggling Chinese state media said yesterday, citing a sen- getting fugitives who fled to the United States operation in the southeastern Chinese city of Deadly typhoon Halong ior official from the public security ministry. The back to face trial due to the lack of an extradition Xiamen were politically motivated. His case trig- United States “has become the top destination treaty and the complex and lengthy procedures,” gered tensions between Beijing and Ottawa. leaves 10 dead in Japan for Chinese fugitives fleeing the law,” the China the China Daily cited Liao as saying. Canada eventually deported Lai in 2011, and he Daily newspaper said, citing Liao Jinrong, direc- was jailed for life the following year. tor general of the ministry’s International ‘Fox hunt’ Only two people have been brought home to Cooperation Bureau. Chinese President Xi China’s Public Security Ministry is trying to set China to stand trial in the past decade, the China Jinping has made fighting pervasive graft a cen- up an annual high-level meeting with US judicial Daily said, citing ministry figures. It’s difficult for tral theme and has warned, like others before authorities, including the Department of China to apprehend fugitives because US judicial him, that corruption threatens the Communist Homeland Security, the China Daily said, citing authorities “misunderstand the Chinese judicial Party’s survival. Wang Gang, a senior official at the International system and procedures,, the newspaper said, cit- Beijing has long grappled with the issue of so- Cooperation Bureau. Last month, China launched ing experts. “They always think Chinese judicial called “naked officials” - government workers what it called a “fox hunt” for corrupt officials, organs violate suspects’ human rights,” it quoted whose husbands, wives or children are all over- saying it will track down fugitives around the Wang as saying. In the first half of this year, 320 seas - who use foreign family connections to ille- world and punish them. “This is a new message suspects in corruption cases were “seized and gally shift assets out of China or to avoid investi- that the current administration is sending to the brought back to China,” state news agency gation. Some estimates put the number of public,” said Zhu Jiangnan, an assistant politics Xinhua said in July. Chinese officials and family members moving professor at the University of Hong Kong, who Since the mid-1990s, an estimated 16,000- assets offshore at more than 1 million in the past specializes in corruption in China. “In past years, 18,000 party officials, businessmen and other five years. the government didn’t say very explicitly they individuals have “disappeared” from China, But bringing these fugitives back to China will get corrupt officials back to China.” according to a People’s Bank of China report pre- isn’t easy. There is no extradition treaty between A case highlighting the problems of extradi- pared in 2008 - taking with them an estimated China and the United States, and foreign govern- tion is Lai Changxing, once China’s most-wanted 800 billion yuan ($130 billion). — Reuters Media keep to Beijing’s KUSHIMOTO: A big sea wave hitS against a concrete wall to a road in Kushimoto, western Japan. — AP TOKYO: At least 10 people died and dozens street signs partially submerged by the ris- script for quake reports were injured as Typhoon Halong hurtled ing waters. across the Japanese archipelago at the weekend, reports said yesterday, with heavy Runaway fireworks BEIJING: He was one of the first Chinese reporters ing that the “timely allocation of resources for dis- sanctioned themes, including the responsiveness of rain still lashing the country’s north. The Local officials yesterday scrambled to to reach the earthquake epicenter, but the rows of aster relief also reflects the philosophy of the new the central government and military,” said Nicholas storm moved over the Sea of Japan (East clean up in the aftermath of the storm. In hastily wrapped bodies at the roadside held no Chinese leadership, which puts people at the cen- Dynon, who researches Chinese media and propa- Sea) and lurched towards Russia’s far east Osaka, Halong forced the cancellation of a news value for the television cameraman. In a sin- tre of governance”. ganda at Macquarie University in Sydney. Other key coast yesterday, after sweeping across major fireworks event on Saturday after the gle frame, the 150-odd corpses left at the entrance Television reports repeatedly showed images of messages included the “swiftness and professional- Japan’s largest and most populous island of storm washed away 21 launching boats, to Longtoushan by relatives hoping relief workers rescue teams carrying survivors, medical staff tend- ism of rescue and recovery efforts”, he added. Honshu. The outer bands of the storm con- about half of them carrying unused could bury their dead-encapsulated the scale of ing to patients and police directing traffic and “These themes reinforce the key messages that tinued to lash northern Japan with heavy pyrotechnics, a spokesman for the show the disaster and the carnage it had wreaked on the bringing order to the disaster zone. “The state- authorities have reacted appropriately and that the rain as officials warned of landslides, floods said. He declined to elaborate but NHK community in southwestern Yunnan. But they did sponsored press has adhered largely to officially nation is united in its support.” —AFP and possible tornadoes in the area. The reported that the boats, which were later not fit into China’s officially preferred narrative, and Japan Meteorological Agency downgraded found stuck down river, were carrying thou- the cameraman pressed on. “People want to see the typhoon at 9:00 am yesterday as it was sands of fireworks. The Osaka city disaster heroism,” he told an AFP reporter. off the Russian coast. The National Police prevention bureau said four workers also Last week’s earthquake killed more than 600 Agency confirmed that the storm, as well as drifted away on the runaway boats, but people in China’s biggest natural disaster since heavy rain last week, killed at least two peo- they were later confirmed to be safe. On President Xi Jinping took over as head of the ruling ple and left two others missing. A total of 96 Sunday, violent winds destroyed more than Communist party almost two years ago. The coun- people were injured, public broadcaster 460 buildings in Tochigi prefecture, north of try’s state-run media took the opportunity to high- NHK reported. But the Nikkei newspaper Tokyo, injuring at least two people, NHK light the role played by top officials, and the effi- said that 10 deaths were linked to the storm said. Weather agency officials were investi- ciency of the response, as key themes. The cover- with two others missing. gating if those winds were actually generat- age stuck rigidly to the agenda, with hardly an Among the victims, the body of an ed by a tornado. On Saturday the weather errant word or image, in a reflection of the disci- Iranian man was found in Ibaraki, northeast agency had issued its highest warning- pline exerted under Xi, who has overseen a wide- of Tokyo, while two Japanese women died meaning a threat to life and the risk of mas- spread crackdown on independent freedom of in the country’s west, the Nikkei said. The sive damage-for Mie prefecture, some 300 expression - which was already subject to strict coastguard yesterday resumed searching kilometers west of Tokyo. The warning, constraints. for a man who went missing apparently which was lifted Sunday afternoon, said Xi had ordered “all out efforts” to help the vic- while surfing during the storm, off there could be “unprecedented” torrential tims, the official news agency Xinhua reported. Wakayama in western Japan. “Police and the rain that might trigger massive landslides Premier Li Keqiang went to the scene the following coastguard dispatched one rescue boat and and floods. Airline services largely returned day to “arrange efficient rescue and relief for vic- two helicopters but we have not found any to normal yesterday with just a handful of tims”, Xinhua added, walking for five kilometers to sign of him,” a police spokesman said. Over flights cancelled after more than 700 flights reach Longtoushan. The day after the earthquake, the weekend about half a million people were called off during the weekend, just as the People’s Daily, the Communist Party’s official were ordered to evacuate while another 1.2 Japan began its annual “Obon” summer hol- mouthpiece and China’s biggest-selling newspaper million were advised to leave their homes, iday. In July, Typhoon Neoguri killed several featured an image of paramilitary police rescuing the Fire and Disaster Management Agency people and left a trail of destruction in the wounded on its front page. LONGTOUSHAN: A woman stands beside a row of bodies lying in the street, including her 24- said. Television footage showed cars and southern Japan.— AFP For the next two days, it put pictures of Li at the year old son, after an earthquake a day earlier at Longtoushan, in China’s southwest Yunnan scene on page one. Xinhua cited an academic say- province. — AFP TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014 INTERNATIONAL Clearing WWII’s explosive legacy in the Pacific

PELELIU: The rusting hulks of tanks and field artillery are a common sight in the jungles of Australia, US appalled at Peleliu, but the fighting that scarred the Pacific island in WWII also left a more dangerous legacy- decapitated head photo unexploded bombs. A Japanese airfield made the 10-kilometre long island a prized asset dur- SYDNEY: A shocking image of what is they’re seeking not just a terrorist enclave ing the conflict, with the Americans determined believed to be the young son of an but effectively a terrorist state, a terrorist to seize it at any cost. The island-about an hour’s Australian man holding a decapitated nation,” he said. “And this does pose boat ride from the Palau capital Koror-under- head in Syria shows how barbaric the extraordinary problems... not just for the went months of aerial and naval bombardment Islamic State “terrorist army” is, Prime people of the Middle East but for the before US marines launched an amphibious inva- Minister Tony Abbott said yesterday. He wider world. “And we see more and more sion in September 1944 that was expected to made the comment while announcing evidence of just how barbaric this particu- take just three days. Australia will likely join airdrops of sup- lar entity is.” Instead, the assault dragged on for almost plies to Iraqi civilians besieged by jihadist US Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel three months and became one of the bloodiest IS militants on a barren mountain. The pic- was equally outraged, saying the militants encounters in the Allied “island hopping” cam- ture, taken in the northern Syrian city of were “a threat to the civilized world”. “I paign, claiming about 13,000 Japanese and 3,000 Raqa, was posted on the Twitter account think this was reflected in a local newspa- American lives. On the island today, reminders of of Khaled Sharrouf, an Australian who fled per I saw this morning and the picture on the war are everywhere-the wreckage of a to Syria last year and is now an IS fighter, the front page. It was pretty graphic evi- The Australian newspaper said. dence of the real threat that IS represents,” Japanese Zero fighter rests against a tree with It reportedly shows Sharrouf’s seven- he said in Sydney. Australia has an arrest vines growing out of the cockpit and a US land- year-old, Sydney-raised son dressed like warrant out for Sharrouf, who has also ing craft looms beside the road, a white star still any other young boy in blue checked been pictured posing with severed heads. faintly visible beneath layers of corrosion. PELELIU: Photo shows the “1,000 Man Cave” on the Palua island of Peleliu, where the Japanese dug trousers, a blue shirt and baseball cap, Officials have said up to 150 Australians Down the road from the main jetty is the systems of low-ceiling caves, crisscrossing into the many limestone ridges on the island. — AFP struggling to hold up the severed head of are fighting alongside militants overseas, “1,000-man cave”, a maze of tunnels that served tle, the Americans simply dumped enemy bod- said practically everyone in Palau knew someone a slain Syrian soldier by his hair. It was cap- mostly in Iraq and Syria. Sharrouf, who as an underground Japanese field hospital - one tioned with the words “That’s my boy”. served almost four years in prison after of 608 fortifications the defenders carved out of ies and ordnance into 30-metre deep sinkholes who had been killed by WWII ordnance, Another photo published by the newspa- pleading guilty over a 2005 conspiracy to the rugged limestone terrain in a bid to repel the that pit the jungle floor. Cleared Ground started although accidents had become rarer since the per shows Sharrouf dressed in camou- attack Sydney, fled the country using his Americans. Steve Ballinger, co-founder of British- the clean up in 2009 and since then has late 1970s, when the government outlawed flage fatigues posing with three young brother’s passport. registered charity Cleared Ground Demining, removed 32,000 items of live ordnance in dynamite fishing, which could set off nearby ord- boys whom it said are believed by security Australian Defense Minister David says 600 pieces of ordnance were removed from Peleliu. Fellow co-founder Cassandra McKeown nance. agencies to be his sons. All are holding Johnston said he was “revolted” by the that cave alone in order for it to be declared safe. said they did a survey of all houses on the island He said many Palauans mistakenly believed guns in front of the flag of the Islamic image, which he called “a shocking mis- Prior to it being cleared, tourists had visited when the work began and found 26 percent of the bombs were not dangerous because they State militants who have swept across Iraq representation of Islam”. “I’m very upset the cave virtually daily, unaware they were sight- properties were contaminated with live ord- had not detonated in 70 years, but their age and Syria, seizing swathes of territory. about this sort of thing completely color- seeing amid live land mines, hand grenades and nance. “They had them in the backyard, they actually increased the problem. “They are getting ing our view of Muslims,” he said, while mortars, not to mention human remains, which had live grenades in the school as part of a his- old, they are deteriorating,” he said. “Some of this ‘Act of a lunatic’ Lebanese Muslim Association president were repatriated to Japan. “It’s crazy really, the tory project,” she said. ordnance, once it gets exposed to air it can Abbott, speaking to ABC radio from Samier Dandan distanced the Australian scale of contamination,” Ballinger said, explaining “They were using them as doorstops, old undergo a chemical change that makes it more the Netherlands, said the pictures showed Muslim community from it. “I stand very that WWII-era ordnance had a 30 percent failure ladies were using them to hammer nuts on, not dangerous.” He said the presence of so many the barbaric nature of the Sunni extrem- far from that concept-this is an act of a realizing they were dangerous. This one lady had explosives also hindered development on Peleliu ists formerly known as the Islamic State of lunatic,” he told the ABC. Abbott, mean- rate and the live shells and mines in Peleliu were simply left in place until the clean up began. one right next to a barbecue.” Cleared Ground because it made creating infrastructure such as Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). “What we’ve got while, said Australia was ready to take part has trained a team of 25 Palauans to help dis- roads and pipelines a hazardous exercise. As a to appreciate is that Islamic State-as in American airdrops to civilians threat- Bombs in the backyard pose of the dangerous items and boasts a 100 result, only about 400 people live on the island, they’re now calling themselves-is not just ened in Iraq, and could also deploy two percent safety record, with no unplanned deto- even though it has world-class diving and abun- a terrorist group, it’s a terrorist army and aircraft for any airlift mission. — AFP There were also huge weapons stockpiles in the honeycomb of Japanese caves. After the bat- nations during its demining work. But Ballinger dant war relics for history buffs. — AFP TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014 ANALYSIS

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By Olga Petrova and Alissa de Carbonnel

oscow’s sweeping sanctions on European food have sent Russian restaurateurs, retail chains and food pro- Mducers scrambling for alternative supplies and bracing for Soviet-style shortages. The tit for tat trade restrictions - a response to US and EU sanctions imposed over Russia’s actions in Ukraine - have hurt farmers in the West for whom Russia is by far the biggest buyer of EU produce. But they will also hit con- sumers at home, isolating them from world trade to a degree unseen for more than two decades. Creamy French cheeses, Australian Ribeye steak and seafood risottos are heading off the menu at restaurants after the ban on imports of all fish, meat and dairy produce. “Prices will go up and certain food stuff will disappear,” said Alexei Paperny, whose Teens, mom navigate life after US reunion mid-priced Moscow cafe the Children of Paradise - named after a classic French film - was still packed on Friday evening. “We’ll By Laura Wides-Munoz back to the United States was too risky. “I Euphoria Fades path for her children will be far from easy. do our best to survive .... I can’t imagine how some restaurants just focused on working so one day I could The first few nights after Anita arrived, Jorge Rivera, a Miami immigration attor- and cafes can exist under the circumstances.” he mother arrived early at Miami bring them here,” she says. the girls and their mom cooked their meals ney, has agreed to take Anita’s case pro He described the year-long ban on products from the United The first smuggling attempt came four side by side with quiet precision, as if bono, but he’s warned the family there are States, the EU, Canada, Australia and Norway as “Russian sanc- International Airport, pacing the bag- years ago. The girls made it as far as they’d being doing it all their lives. Nicole no guarantees. A local Honduran nonprof- tions against Russians” - a frustration shared by many customers Tgage claim hall until, at last, she spot- at his cafe. “It would have been fairer if state officials gave up ted her. Denia Zelaya had last seen her eld- Guatemala, but then news spread of the and Anita convinced their mother to sleep it is helping Nicole. their Mercedes and began driving Russian-made Zhigulis est daughter nearly 10 years earlier. On an massacre by a Mexican drug cartel of with them in the small bedroom all five Immigration judges don’t necessarily (Ladas),” said a diner who gave his name as Yan, while sipping early morning in 2004, she kissed Anita’s dozens of Central American migrants. children now shared. After two weeks, recognize flight from gangs or sexual red wine. head as the girl slept, then slipped out of Zelaya pleaded with the smuggler to take Anita, craving privacy, commandeered the assault as a basis for granting asylum. Both her family’s house. “I didn’t tell her good- her daughters back home. A few months bedroom. Nicole and Elise wound up in a children - and by proxy, Emily - might be Sushi Deficit bye,” the mother recalls. “I knew if she later, gang violence struck their family backroom used for storage. Zelaya eligible for a specialized visa for youth who Wealthy with petrodollars while the country’s energy awoke, I couldn’t leave.” Anita was just 6, her again. According to Anita and Zelaya, Anita, returned to her own room with David. The were neglected or abused, but that would reserves drove a strong economy, Russians have enjoyed a rich younger sister, Nicole, not yet 3. But Zelaya then 13, was raped by a member of the three started taking turns cooking. require gathering a significant amount of choice of eateries since the 1991 Soviet collapse - and ate out had made a choice: To flee the violent Mara 18 gang. The gang continued to With few places to go and school not documentation from back home. “If she with the gusto of a generation that still remembered times gangs in her native Honduras and come to harass her after Emily was born 9 months yet in session, the euphoria of reunion doesn’t have anything from her country to when shop windows were bare and the streets were empty after the US to find work. The plan was to save later. Anita says she went to the police but began to fade. To save money, Zelaya ran prove she was harassed by the gangs, all sundown. Sushi is particularly popular, ubiquitous across the enough for a smuggler and then send for doesn’t believe they filed any official report. the air conditioner only at night, making you have is her word - and then it could country and even gracing the menu of Italian and French restau- her children when they were old enough to Zelaya was devastated. Having had the cramped concrete house at times easily be deemed insufficient,” Rivera says. rants. But it’s a fetish some might now have to do without. endure the journey. Anita at 15, she knew the difficult road her unbearable. Someone was always hungry. Anita is awaiting a date for her immi- Rosinter, one of Russia’s largest restaurant chains which runs This past April, Nicole, now 12, made it daughter faced and offered to help howev- And old resentments remained. Ever since gration hearing; Nicole’s is set for January. Sushi cafes nationwide, said more than 50 percent of the food it safely across the Texas border and on to er she could. But Anita refused to make the Elise and David were born, Anita had Zelaya also remains fearful that at any serves up is imported. It expects sanctions to exacerbate a busi- Miami. That inspired 16-year-old Anita to journey to the US again, terrified for herself accused Zelaya of replacing her and Nicole minute, at the doctor’s or the supermarket, ness downturn already happening as political instability pushes attempt the trip with her own child, 3-year- and her child. She rented rooms or stayed with the new American children. “I try to immigration officials might detain her. “If the economy into recession. “It is quite a difficult situation,” old Emily, the granddaughter Zelaya had with friends, at times working seven days a explain to the older ones that the younger they deport me, I will be back the next Rosinter spokeswoman Elena Mazur said. “(We) face a lot of never met. At the airport on July 18, Zelaya week as a cook. Then this spring, a cousin ones need protection because they are still day,” she vows. “I will not risk my little ones’ work, in terms of menu-engineering and pricing.” For one man- glanced at a picture of Anita on her cell- ager of a chain of Sushi stands the potential impact was more phone, worried she might not recognize direct. “We are all worried. We don’t want to lose our jobs,” he her. Then her eyes locked on a distant fig- said, asking not to be cited for fear of official retaliation over his ure, hauling a toddler on her hip. As the girl criticism. “There is no Russian salmon.” approached, Zelaya saw her mirror image: ‘We’ll Live Without Oysters’ Large hazel eyes, corkscrew curls and a ten- The effect of sanctions in the West is already tangible. tative smile. For a moment it seemed like European dairy firms have halted production of cheese and but- the distance would never close. Then ter destined for Russia and Norwegian salmon prices are expect- Zelaya pulled daughter and granddaughter ed to fall 10 percent this week. But experts say Russia’s con- into her small frame. Anita buried her face sumers may also take a financial hit: Fitch Ratings agency pre- into her mother’s hair. A lone cry burst from dicted “Imports from EU and the US will gradually be substituted her throat. by higher (priced) imports from other countries”. Most likely to feel the loss of foreign delights are Russia’s middle-class, who One of the Luckiest were at the heart of protests against President Vladimir Putin’s They are just one family - in some ways, return to the presidency. one of the luckiest. As thousands of Central “The measure is likely to further alienate the urban middle American children have come across the class,” said Alisa Lockwood, head of Europe & CIS analysis at His Southwest border these past months - flee- Country Risk. But she added: “Decision-makers at the Kremlin ing violence, searching for loved ones and have probably calculated that patriotic sentiment will outweigh looking to start anew in the US - this family the pain.” Polls already show most Russians back reprisals for found each other again. But now another Western sanctions over what it calls Russia’s support and arming journey has begun. There’s a complex legal of pro-Russian rebellion in eastern Ukraine - something Moscow system to navigate, new economic burdens denies. Some 76 percent of Russians polled by the independent and an unfamiliar home, along with the Levada Center just before the imposition of the trade sanctions delicate task of learning to become a family said they agreed with the government’s plans. One restaurant in again. In the background looms the knowl- Yekaterinburg has already come up with a special - albeit short - edge that their reunion in the US could be “Sanctioned Menu” of Russian-produced foods and other food temporary - more likely to end with depor- experts are echoing the patriotic fervour. “I am proud that we’ve tation orders than asylum. stopped being the boy who gets bullied. It’s about time,” restau- rateur Andrei Dellos told the Russian TV channel Dozhd. “There Zelaya herself lives here illegally. She won’t be oysters, but we’ll make do. We’ll live without oysters.” spent the last decade working in restau- rants and, more recently, busing tables at Boost for Local Producers an airport hotel. When she fled La Ceiba, While Russian farmers hope to turn Western exporters’ loss Honduras, after witnessing the gang-killing into their victory, others in the food industry are sceptical that of a nephew, Zelaya left Anita and Nicole local producers can fill the gap. Some note how long it has tak- first with her sister and then their great- In this July 24, 2014 photo, Denia Zelaya (back left) poses with her daughters Nicole Valerio Zelaya (back center), 12, en Russia’s farm industry to recover from chaotic years of pover- grandmother. But without their mother, the and Anita Medina Zelaya (back right), 16, at her home in Miami. In the front row, (from left) are Emily Medina, 3, ty after the collapse of the Soviet system - when livestock was children struggled. When their great-grand- Allison Manzares, 6, Elise Zelaya, 5, and David Zelaya, 4. —AP slaughtered en masse for lack of feed - and point out that it still mother died, the girls were shuttled lacks resources. “To produce so much milk, you first need to between relatives, frequently changing decided to make the trip north with her little,” Zelaya said one day. “We do too,” lives back in Honduras and, even less, my raise the cow. No matter how much you pray, a cow won’t take schools, often unable to go at all. Nicole two children and invited Nicole along. Anita cut in, only half in jest. daughters who just arrived.” On a rainy less than three years to grow into a heifer,” quipped Pavel says she got as far as the second grade. When Anita learned her sister had arrived In Honduras, Anita had hoped one day Monday afternoon, tired of being cooped Grudinin, the director of the Lenin State Farm and a Moscow Anita, who never made it past fifth, was safely, she agreed to try again with Emily, to open a beauty salon or a cafeteria. Now up in the house, the family headed to the region deputy. “Russia’s main problem is not that we are inun- hired out by a cousin to wash clothes old enough now to walk some of the way. she looks forward to school. “I liked science grocery store. Men stared as they walked dated with cheap imported food, but that we ourselves pro- because the money Zelaya sent never last- Initially, the two were detained in and reading, and I was OK at math,” she by, their gaze lingering on Anita and duce little.” —Reuters ed long. McAllen, Texas, and placed in a Department says. “I want to make up for all the years I Nicole. “So many children. All yours?” one “There were so many Christmases I of Homeland Security facility with other didn’t go. Then, I want to work and help my joked. “Come on, give me two of them.” couldn’t celebrate, because when I saw so apprehended minors. Soon they were mother.” But she worries about catching up Zelaya stiffened. She worries about All articles appearing on these many people hug each other I would just flown to a nonprofit shelter in New York with her peers, embarrassed that her life is Anita, who has shared her story with pages are the personal opinion of go cry and go to bed,” Anita recalls. “Maybe I and, after two more weeks, they were on a so different from theirs. Zelaya tries not to reporters, social workers and the lawyer. had some things I needed, but I didn’t have plane to Miami - and to Zelaya. On the ride burden her children with her own worries. After each encounter, the girl seems to the writers. Kuwait Times takes no a mother, and that is the most important, I home from the airport, as Elise offered Unemployed since getting laid off from the withdraw into herself. As the group responsibility for views expressed think.” Emily her toys and David peppered his hotel in December, she relies on help from crossed a puddle, little David offered a therein. Kuwait Times invites read- In Miami, Zelaya did her best to start a mother with questions about their “new” her boyfriend while she looks for new welcomed distraction. “Swing me, Mami,” ers to voice their opinions. Please new life, even as she decorated her bed- sister, Anita gazed out the window at the work. he clamored. “Us too,” chimed in Elise and room walls with pictures of her children. mostly Dominican neighborhood where And though she relishes the time with baby Emily. Zelaya, Anita and Nicole send submissions via email to: opin- She met someone, and had two American- Zelaya lives. The auto-mechanic shops, her children, Zelaya frets about the thou- clasped their hands and began to swing [email protected] or via snail born children, Elise, now 5, and David, 4. beauty salons and vendors selling mango sands of dollars she owes to her mother the little ones as they walked. The children mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. She spoke frequently by phone with Nicole slices weren’t so different from back home. and boyfriend for the smugglers. She now squealed, and soon Zelaya and the older The editor reserves the right to edit and Anita, but often the calls left Zelaya in But here the streets were paved and, her has four sets of school shoes to buy, and girls laughed too, attached in one familial tears. She dreamed of visiting them but mother assured her, gangs did not rule Nicole still needs vaccinations before chain - oblivious for a moment to the any submission as necessary. says she feared the gangs, and the journey them. school starts. She also knows that the legal falling rain. —AP NEWS TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014

Riots in US city after cop kills black teen Continued from Page 1 selves, only hurting our community, hurting our neigh- bors.” Later, hundreds of protesters gathered at a suburban County Police Chief Jon Belmar said that on Saturday, St Louis police station demanding murder charges an officer encountered Brown and another man outside against the officer. The largely peaceful protests were an apartment complex in Ferguson. One of the men monitored by about 50 police officers in riot gear. “It pushed the officer into his squad car and they struggled. breaks my heart,” Jackson told reporters yesterday. “Last Belmar said at least one shot was fired from the officer’s night was the worst night of my life.” Jackson said there gun inside the police car. Jackson said authorities were was plenty of physical evidence and eyewitness testimo- still sorting out what happened inside the police car. It ny in the case. “I really believe we can get to the truth of was not clear if Brown was the man who fought with the what happened here,” he said. officer. The struggle spilled out into the street, where Brown’s family has asked for an end to the street vio- Brown was shot multiple times. Belmar said the exact lence, according to a statement obtained by KTVI televi- number of shots wasn’t known and that all shell casings sion station. They have also hired lawyer Benjamin at the scene matched the officer’s gun. Police were Crump, who represented the family of Trayvon Martin, a investigating why the officer shot Brown, who police black Florida teenager who was also unarmed when he have confirmed was unarmed. was shot in 2012, Crump’s office said. Yesterday’s gather- Jackson said the second person has not been arrested ing appeared nonviolent, with protesters shouting “Stop or charged and it wasn’t clear if he was armed. He told the killer cops” and “No justice, no peace.” Four people KSDK-TV there’s no video footage of the shooting from were arrested, according to KSDK-TV. the apartment complex, or from any police cruiser dash- St Louis County police spokesman Brian Schellman board cameras or body-worn cameras that the depart- earlier said 32 people were arrested for various infrac- ment recently bought but hasn’t yet put to use. Jackson tions including assault, burglary and theft. Schellman said blood samples were taken from Brown and the offi- said two officers suffered minor injuries and that there cer who shot him. Toxicology tests can take weeks to were no reports of civilians hurt. Several businesses were complete. looted, including a check-cashing store, a boutique and Earlier Sunday, a few hundred protesters gathered a small grocery store. People took items from a sporting outside Ferguson Police headquarters. Some marched NEW YORK: This Aug 20, 2013 file photo shows Al-Jazeera America editorial newsroom staff preparing for goods store and a cellphone retailer, and carted rims into an adjacent police building chanting “Don’t shoot their first broadcast. — AP away from a tire store. Some climbed atop police cars as me” while holding their hands in the air. Officers stood at the officers with riot shields and batons stood stoic near- the top of a staircase, but didn’t use force; the crowd by, trying to restrict access to the most seriously affected eventually left. Brown’s mother, Lesley McSpadden, said Jazeera America logs first ’versary areas. she didn’t understand why police didn’t subdue her high Continued from Page 1 broken through with its message, saying people seem Deanel Trout, a 14-year resident of Ferguson, said he school graduate son with a club or stun gun, and that to be more aware of the swashbuckling news organiza- was convinced the troublemakers were largely from out- the officer involved should be fired and prosecuted. “I CNN has averaged 453,000 and Fox News Channel tion Vice. side Ferguson and that they had used Brown’s death and would like to see him go to jail with the death penalty,” 1.87 million in the same period, the Nielsen company There were rough times for selling hard news, too. the vigil as an opportunity to steal. “Most came here for a she said, fighting back tears. said. Ehab Al-Shihabi, AJAM’s chief executive, considers Fox and MSNBC are more known for their points of view The killing drew criticism from some civil rights lead- peaceful protest but it takes one bad apple to spoil the that comparison unfair. The other news networks have while CNN, which suffered through some of its worst bunch. ... I can understand the anger and unrest but I ers, who referred to the 2012 racially charged shooting been operating much longer, and are available in more ratings ever this spring, is beefing up its nonfiction, can’t understand the violence and looting,” Trout, 53, of 17-year-old Martin by a Florida neighborhood watch homes. Their audiences were small at the start, if they non-news programming. Marash believes buying said. Boon Chang, owner of Northland Chop Suey, was organizer who was acquitted of murder charges. “We’re even allowed Nielsen to measure them, he said. Current was a mistake because Al-Jazeera English was cleaning up glass yesterday morning after rioters outraged because yet again a young African-American AJAM’s first year should instead be judged on the having modest success streaming its channel online. smashed windows at his restaurant and stole sodas. “If man has been killed by law enforcement,” said John quality of its journalism and growth in distribution, he Because of cable deals, live streaming has stopped. they saw a brick anywhere, they grabbed it,” Chang said. Gaskin, who serves on both the St Louis County and said. “Americans are not yet aware of Al-Jazeera People have to search for AJAM on their channel line- On a vacant building next door, someone had used red- national boards of directors for the NAACP. America,” Shihabi said. “We are, on a gradual basis, con- ups and sometimes can’t even get a high-definition pic- orange paint to write: “The only good cop is a dead cop.” Three of the Ferguson Police Department’s 53 mem- tinuing our advertising, continuing our outreach. ture, he said. Al Shihabi said he recognizes online’s St Louis County Executive Charlie Dooley said there bers are black, Jackson said. About two-thirds of Awareness and perception will take time.” While the importance, but that Al-Jazeera is first a television net- were no reports of injuries as of about 11 pm But there Ferguson’s population of about 21,000 is black, accord- Israeli-Palestinian conflict gives the network a chance to work and TV is still a more lucrative business. were scattered reports of assaults into the very early ing to US Census figures. The race of the officer has not showcase strength in international reporting, Shihabi From the start, critics said the name Al-Jazeera - con- morning. Pat Washington, a spokeswoman for Dooley, been disclosed. He has been placed on paid administra- said it also covers stories in the US that its rivals don’t. juring memories of Bush administration criticism post- said tear gas had been used. Authorities would not tive leave. St Louis County Police Department is in The primetime newsmagazine “America Tonight” Sept 11 - is a handicap in the US Al-Jazeera is deter- immediately confirm media reports of gunfire. “The charge of the investigation, and Dooley said he will recently traveled to all 50 states for stories - reporting mined not to change it, not wanting to dilute its brand small group of people are creating a huge mess,” Mayor request an FBI investigation. The US Justice Department on gang violence in Alaska, a slow-moving project to worldwide. AJAM laid off a few dozen journalists in James Knowles said. “Contributing to the unrest that is said Attorney General Eric Holder instructed staff to sculpt the image of Crazy Horse on a South Dakota April, and Shihabi recently told the staff that a smaller going on is not going to help. ... We’re only hurting our- monitor developments. — Agencies mountain and a woman in Detroit who makes coats for round of layoffs is coming. Some two and a half hours of homeless people. Next month, director Alex Gibney live AJAM newscasts have been replaced by simulcasts delivers a new documentary on high school students’ of Al-Jazeera English programming, and staffers have Citizenship of prominent cleric, activists... lives. been told to be mindful of travel expenses. Some won- “I do think there’s a market for it,” said Jon Klein, a for- der if the Qatar parent company’s deep pockets indeed mer CNN US president whose new startup just Continued from Page 1 er of a pro-opposition television station and newspaper, have bottoms, and whether that reflects a lack of confi- launched an online channel for Sarah Palin. “But to Ahmad Jabr Al-Shemmari, and former Islamist opposition dence in the American network. “There is no rethinking launch a cable channel in America today is a scary Local media however said among those affected were MP Abdullah Al-Barghash along with his family members. here,” Shihabi said. “I just need you to be aware that I proposition because there is so much clutter in the mar- cleric Nabil Al-Awadhi, who is close to the Muslim The Cabinet had said the citizenships of Barghash and his also run a business. I had a budget for my launch, and I ketplace. It is as much a marketing proposition as a con- Brotherhood, and Saad Al-Ajami, a former journalist relatives were revoked because they had been granted on have a budget for the operation for years one and two tent proposition.” He’s not sure Al-Jazeera America has turned spokesman for the opposition Popular Action the basis of false information. OPEC member Kuwait has a and three.” — AP Movement. Awadhi confirmed on Twitter that he was native population of 1.25 million, a large number of them among those affected and wrote, “To God we belong, and through naturalization, and hosts 2.8 million foreigners. to God we will return” along with a video about how good Separately, National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al- Maliki replaced but refuses to go can come from hardship. Awadhi, who has nearly 4.5 mil- Ghanem yesterday stressed the importance of the amend- Continued from Page 1 whatsoever for anything that deviates from the legiti- lion followers on Twitter, is part of a collective of religious ments introduced to law 14/1973 on setting up the consti- mate constitution process that is in place and being Sunnis in the Gulf who raise funds for Syria. He has advo- tutional court, offering people the right to file a suit chal- “The prime minister-designate expressed his intent worked on now.” cated for supporting Sunni rebels and foreign jihadist lenging laws. Publishing the new law in the official gazette to form a broad-based, inclusive government capable Under Iraq’s post-Saddam governing system, fighters in Syria battling President Bashar Al-Assad’s quashes reports that the government will refer it back to of countering the threat of the Islamic State of Iraq and designed to avert conflict by giving all groups a stake, Shiite-backed forces. the parliament, Ghanem said, expressing appreciation of the Levant,” the White House said in a statement, using the speaker of parliament is a Sunni and the largely cer- Just last week, the US sanctioned three Kuwaitis it said the political leadership that approved the bill “which a previous name for the Sunni militant group that now emonial president a Kurd. Most authority is wielded by helped finance terrorist groups. Two of the men sanc- reflects the desirable cooperation between the authorities calls itself the Islamic State. the prime minister, a Shiite. Maliki’s opponents accuse tioned by the US Treasury Department for allegedly help- in line with the constitution”. The new political crisis comes just days after him of abusing the system by keeping key security ing finance Al-Qaeda and the Nusra Front in Syria and Iraq Ghanem also thanked the head and members of the posts in his own hands instead of sharing them with have close ties to Awadhi. Washington called on its Gulf Supreme Judicial Council and the judiciary authority for Washington launched its first military action in Iraq ally to do more to curb the financing of such groups, and their cooperation and understanding of the significance since pulling its troops out in 2011. U.S. warplanes have other groups, alienating Sunnis in particular by order- the Kuwaiti ambassador to the US responded last week by of the amendments. The new law constitutes a real chance bombed Sunni insurgents from the Islamic State, who ing the arrest of their political leaders. Islamic State saying that his country is committed to fighting terrorism. for citizens to express their views and make use of their have marched through northern and western Iraq since fighters were able to exploit that resentment to win In a recent interview on television, Awadhi said he was constitutional rights for challenging laws they consider June. Washington says it is taking limited action to pro- support from other Sunni armed groups. under mounting pressure from the Kuwaiti government to drawbacks, he said. Using the new law in a state of institu- tect a Kurdish autonomous region and prevent what Maliki’s Shiite State of Law bloc emerged as the stop collecting even humanitarian aid for Syria, but said tions is the best for all, and is likely to help achieve what is Obama called a potential “genocide” of religious biggest group in parliament in the April election, but that money is still finding its way through back channels. desired for the country, he added. The Assembly had minorities targeted by the militants. does not have enough seats to rule without support On July 21, Kuwait revoked the citizenship of the own- approved the new bill June 24. — Agencies The fighters made new gains against Kurdish forces from Sunnis, Kurds and other Shi’ite blocs, nearly all of despite three days of US air strikes, while Baghdad, which demand he go. He has nevertheless stayed on in long braced for the Sunni fighters to attack, was now a caretaker capacity while arguing that the constitution tensing for possible clashes between Maliki and rivals requires his bloc to be given the first opportunity to within the Shiite majority. President Masoum asked form a government. He has used courts before to keep Abadi to form a government that could win the sup- power: in the previous election in 2010, when State of port of all groups in a parliament elected in April. In Law was second, a court let him form a cabinet. remarks broadcast on television, Masoum, a Kurd, A US official insisted Washington had not been urged Abadi to “form a broader-based government” involved in the selection of Abadi, but said “everybody over the next month. is pretty relieved that they have chosen somebody and Abadi urged national unity against the “barbaric” that it was not Maliki”. Maliki also appears to have alien- Islamic State, which has driven tens of thousands from ated his supporters in Iran, the regional Shi’ite power, their homes as it swept aside Baghdad’s troops to con- which has sent military advisers to help organise the solidate a “caliphate” in Iraq and Syria. “We all have to battle against the Islamic State. Iraq’s most influential cooperate to stand against this terrorist campaign Shiite cleric, Ali Sistani, all but ordered Maliki to leave launched on Iraq and to stop all terrorist groups,” he power on Friday, declaring that politicians who cling to said in broadcast remarks after meeting Masoum. power were making a “grave mistake”. As police and elite armed units, many equipped and People in a Sunni neighbourhood of the city of trained by the United States, locked down the capital’s Baqouba gathered in the street and fired shots in the streets, Secretary of State John Kerry aimed a stark air to celebrate Maliki’s political defeat. Abadi, a Shiite warning at Maliki against fighting to hold on to power. politician considered close to Maliki, was born in “There should be no use of force, no introduction of Baghdad in 1952 and returned from British exile in troops or militias in this moment of democracy for Iraq,” 2003 when US-led forces toppled Saddam Hussein. “Up Kerry said. “The government formation process is criti- until recently, he’s been a Maliki surrogate. I have never cal in terms of sustaining stability and calm in Iraq and seen much daylight between the two of them,” said our hope is that Mr Maliki will not stir those waters. Kirk Sowell, the Amman-based publisher of the Inside “There will be little international support of any kind Iraqi Politics newsletter. — Agencies Egypt, Saudis seek united front Continued from Page 1 before Sisi performed umrah in the holy city of Makkah. State media from both countries said the talks included Saudi Arabia, along with Gulf Arab allies Kuwait and Egyptian efforts to broker a ceasefire in a month-long the United Arab Emirates, have provided some $20 bil- fighting between Israel and Palestinians in the Gaza Strip. lion in aid after Sisi ousted Islamist President Mohamed Both countries have been accused of dragging their feet Morsi last year following mass protests against his one in efforts to end Israeli attacks, giving the Jewish state year in office. King Abdullah has also called for a donor time to destroy Hamas, the affiliate of the Muslim conference for Egypt expected to take place either this Brotherhood that controls the Gaza Strip. Both have year or early next year to provide further support to the denied the charge. most populous country in the Arab World. Saudi and Egyptian media made no reference to fresh Egypt has suffered a string of attacks by militants financial aid by the wealthy OPEC powerhouse or to the angry over the army’s ouster of Morsi and the crackdown planned donor conference. But state news agency WAM on Islamists in the country. US-allied Saudi Arabia, the of the United Arab Emirates reported that UAE Foreign world’s largest oil exporter, is also worried by the advance Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Zayed flew to Saudi Arabia of the Islamic State, previously known as the Islamic State on Sunday night for talks with his Saudi counterpart at in Iraq and Syria (ISIL), while at the same time it is unhap- the airport in Jeddah. It gave no further details. King py with the policies of the Shiite-led government of Abdullah made a brief visit to Egypt in June while flying People take photos as a perigee moon, also known as a supermoon, rises above in Skopje, Macedonia on Nouri Al-Maliki it sees as being too close to arch-rival Iran. back home from Morocco in a move that underscored Sunday. The phenomenon occurs when the moon in its elliptical orbit is relatively close to Earth and seen Few details emerged from the late-night meeting at the strong support the monarch was showing for the from the Earth near the horizon, appears larger and brighter than other full moons. — AP King Abdullah’s Palace in the Red Sea port city of Jeddah new president. — Agencies TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014 SPORTS

Klose retires from internationals Kasparov seeks top chess job Maradona slaps reporter BUENOS AIRES: Former Argentine great Diego Maradona GERMANY: Germany striker Miroslav Klose, who capped a record-breaking HELSINKI: Former world champion Garry Kasparov was hoping to oust the longtime head slapped a reporter on the face after attending an event with career with the national team by winning the World Cup last month, has of the World Chess Federation yesterday in a bitter contest on the sidelines of an interna- retired from international football. tional tournament in Norway. Kasparov, a vocal critic of Vladimir Putin, is challenging his family this weekend. Poland-born Klose, who scored twice in the tournament in Brazil to become Kirsan Ilyumzhinov, a wealthy businessman known to be supported by the Russian presi- The former Argentine great also called the journalist an the competition’s record goal scorer of all time with 16 goals, said on Monday idiot during the confrontation outside a theater in Buenos the time was right to end a 13-year career with the German national team. The dent. Ilyumzhinov, who once claimed to have visited an alien spaceship, has headed the forward is the second member of Germany’s World Cup winning team to quit governing body of chess, known by its French acronym FIDE, for 19 years. The chess feder- Aires. It wasn’t clear why Maradona was upset, though local after the tournament following captain Philipp Lahm last month. ation was expected to choose the winner in a closed vote Monday in the Norwegian Arctic media said the discussion appeared to be related to his for- “Winning the title in Brazil was a childhood dream come true,” the 36-year- city of Tromsoe, where more than 3,000 contestants are taking part in the 2014 Chess mer wife. old Lazio striker said in a statement released by the German football Olympiad. Kasparov, who at 22 in 1985 became the youngest chess world champion, has Video images showed the former player leaving his car Association. “I am happy and proud to have contributed to this big success for described Putin as an arrogant dictator and in a recent AP interview he accused and telling the reporter not to mess with him just before German football. For me there could be no better moment to com- Ilyumzhinov of “working with Russian oligarchs in the Kremlin.” slapping him with his right hand. The jour- plete the national team chapter.” Supporters of Ilyumzhinov have said Kasparov is too political for the job and that his Germany’s second most-capped player behind Lothar advocacy of human rights is insincere. nalist did not immediately react. Matthaeus made the first of his 137 international appearances Kasparov’s presence was very visible in Tromsoe, said Georgios Souleidis, an organizer Fans and reporters had surrounded in 2001 and went on to become the top German scorer of all of the Olympiad. “Kasparov held a big party on Saturday and his posters are very promi- Maradona’s car to talk to the former time with 71 international goals. He broke Gerd Mueller’s 40- nent in town. Ilyumzhinov has been much more reserved,” Souleidis said. star, who answered a few questions and year-old record of 68 goals in June. Still, he added, “applause in the main hall seems to suggest that Kasparov has much was about to leave when he became Germany’s only out-and-out striker in the World Cup less support than the current president.” upset. Maradona’s son and his ex- squad, Klose was initially benched in the tournament but In 2010, Ilyumzhinov defeated a similar challenge by another former world champion, earned back his starting spot and scored once against Ghana wife were with him inside the vehi- in the group stage and then again in their 7-1 semi-final Anatoly Karpov, in an election marked by allegations of fraud. Souleidis said that since cle. — AP demolition of hosts Brazil in the semi-final. —Reuters then some voting procedures have been made more transparent. —AP Blue Jays rally to tame Tigers

TORONTO: Jose Bautista’s single in the game sweep in a matchup of divisional from Joe Smith (4-1) into the Boston bullpen 19th inning drove home the winning run leaders. Kershaw (14-2) allowed a run and in left. De La Rosa (4-4) had eight strikeouts as the Toronto Blue Jays came back from a six hits with two walks and six strikeouts in and blanked the Angels until Trout’s homer five-run deficit to win the longest game in eight innings. on his 110th pitch. club history, beating the Detroit Tigers 6-5 Nevertheless, the left-handed ace low- on Sunday. ered his league-leading ERA to 1.78. Adrian MARINERS 4, WHITE SOX 2 Munenori Kawasaki singled off starter Gonzalez drove in two runs, and scored the Austin Jackson, acquired in a trade with Rick Porcello (13-7) to begin the 19th and go-ahead run in the fifth off Jimmy Nelson the Detroit Tigers before the deadline, advanced to third when second baseman (2-3). Kershaw also reached base three matched a career-high with four RBIs to lead Ian Kinsler couldn’t field an errant throw times and had an RBI single in the eighth. the Mariners to a victory over the White Sox. from Porcello on Jose Reyes’ sacrifice bunt. Logan Morrison began a two-out rally for Melky Cabrera was intentionally walked to RED SOX 3, ANGELS 1 the Mariners in the second inning off load the bases for Bautista, who ended it Yoenis Cespedes hit a three-run homer Chicago’s John Danks (9-8) with a hard line with a single to right over the drawn-in in the eighth inning and Rubby De La Rosa drive single off the wall in right field. Infield outfield, sending his teammates streaming pitched five-hit ball into the eighth as the singles by Chris Taylor and Jesus Sucre out of the dugout in celebration. Red Sox bounced back from a 19-inning loaded the bases for Jackson. A career .400 At 6 hours, 37 minutes, it was the loss with a victory over the Angels. hitter against Danks, Jackson doubled down longest game by time in Blue Jays history, The teams returned just 12 hours after the left field line to give the Mariners a 3-0 easily surpassing a 5:57 game against the the longest game in the majors this season, lead. He finished 3 for 4. Dominic Leone (5-2) Yankees on April 19, 2001. a 6 1/2-hour epic won 5-4 by the Angels on picked up the victory and Fernando Rodney It was the second 19-inning game in as Albert Pujols’ homer well after midnight. earned his 33rd save. many days. The Los Angeles Angels beat Mike Trout homered in the eighth for the Boston Red Sox 5-4 on Saturday night. the Angels (68-49), who still have the PHILLIES 7, METS 6 majors’ second-best record despite losing Ryan Howard had a game-ending single DODGERS 5, BREWERS 1 five of six. with two outs in the ninth inning after pinch- Clayton Kershaw won his 14th game to Cespedes broke open a scoreless game hitter Marlon Byrd had a tying hit as the tie for the National League lead as the with his first homer for the defending Phillies pulled out a victory over the Mets. Dodgers beat the Brewers to avoid a three- World Series champions, driving a pitch Chase Utley singled, tripled, homered and drove in three runs for the Phillies, who snapped a five-game skid against the Mets. TORONTO: Munenori Kawasaki No. 66 of the Toronto Blue Jays advances to third base from Lucas Duda and Travis d’Arnaud homered first base on a single by Jose Reyes No. 7 in the thirteenth inning during MLB game action for New York. Jenrry Mejia (5-5) got the loss against the Detroit†Tigers. — AFP then. after the game, revealed he had a her- nia problem. Ken Giles (1-0) pitched a score- the first two games of the series by a collec- PADRES 8, PIRATES 2 less ninth to cap four innings of scoreless tive 22-5 score, the Cardinals amassed a Tyson Ross recovered from a two-run relief by three Phillies relievers. season-high 17 hits - 14 of them singles. first to pitch six strong innings and Seth St. Louis right-hander Lance Lynn (12-8) Smith hit a bases-loaded triple, leading the REDS 7, MARLINS 2 gave up three runs and nine hits over 5 2-3 Padres to a victory over the Pirates. Devin Mesoraco hit his third grand slam of innings, only the second time in his last 12 Ross (11-10) allowed Gregory Polanco’s the season and drove in six runs as the Reds starts that he allowed more than two runs. two-run shot in the first then shut down the salvaged the finale of a three-game series Baltimore starter Kevin Gausman (6-4) Pirates. He yielded six hits and walked two. against the Marlins. allowed three runs and eight hits in five Charlie Morton retired the first 10 batters Brad Hand walked Todd Frazier with the innings. he faced before Yangervis Solarte walked bases loaded in the fifth to break a 2-all tie. with one out in the fourth and scored Mesoraco followed with his second homer of ROYALS 7, GIANTS 4 Yonder Alonso’s single. Morton (5-11) was the game and 20th of the season. Alex Gordon and Salvador Perez each lifted after the fifth, responsible for five The fifth-inning outburst gave Johnny homered and Danny Duffy pitched into the runs, five hits, a walk and five strikeouts. Cueto (14-6) some breathing room. In eight seventh inning as the Royals beat the innings, he allowed five hits - two homers - Giants to extend their winning streak to RANGERS 6, ASTROS 2 with two walks and nine strikeouts. seven games. Nick Martinez got his first win since May Hand (2-4) allowed five hits and seven Gordon hit a two-run shot off Tim 24 and Adrian Beltre and Choo Shin-soo Kuwait Extreme Team successfully completed the Titan Race. runs with three walks - all of them in the fifth Lincecum (9-8) in a four-run first. The both homered to lead the Rangers to a vic- - and two strikeouts. Giancarlo Stanton, the inning also included Billy Butler’s run-pro- tory over the Astros, ending a seven-game ‘Kuwait Extreme Team’ excel NL’s home run and RBI leader, lined his 29th ducing double and Perez scoring on a wild skid against their in-state rivals. Martinez (2- homer with two outs in the first for a 1-0 pitch. Duffy (7-10) limited the Giants to 8), who was pitching on five extra days’ rest, in toughest outdoor challenge Miami lead. three hits, over 6 2-3 innings but permitted allowed five hits and two runs over five KUWAIT: Ali Abdulwahab Al Mutawa they embark on, and The North Face alone four runs. Lincecum, a two-time Cy Young innings to end a seven-game losing streak. Commercial Co. (AAW) and The North Face, has been supporting Kuwait Extreme Team INDIANS 4, YANKEES 1 Award winner, was roughed up for six runs Keuchel (10-8) allowed six hits and tied a an American brand and one of the largest with top-of-the-line outdoor gear and Carlos Carrasco rejoined the Cleveland on seven hits and three walks in 3 1-3 season-high with five runs in six innings. outdoor apparel and gear retailers, apparel for over eight years now.” rotation in fine fashion by pitching five domi- innings. announced that their sponsored team, The The “Kuwait Extreme Team” has partici- nant innings as the Indians nearly tossed BRAVES 3, NATIONALS 1 Kuwait Extreme Team, completed the 9th pated in the Titan Race for the first time another shutout at Yankee Stadium, beating ROCKIES 5, DIAMONDBACKS 3 Alex Wood set a career high with 12 edition of the Titan Desert endurance race, alongside 470 other participants, and suc- New York. Corey Dickerson hit a tiebreaking homer strikeouts in 7 1-3 innings as Atlanta contin- an outdoor challenge that ranks as the cessfully completed the race in 58 hours. Jacoby Ellsbury homered with two outs in with two outs in the top of the 10th inning ued its recent success against Washington. longest and toughest mountain biking race Kuwaiti Iron Man and Titan Desert Race the ninth off Indians closer Cody Allen, end- as the Rockies avoided a seventh straight By winning two of three in the weekend in the world. The Kuwait Extreme Team, participant, Ahmad AlMajed said: “Crossing ing New York’s season-worst scoreless streak loss to the Diamondbacks. series, Atlanta cut Washington’s lead to 31/2 which was sponsored and supported by the Titan Desert finish line was a very spe- at 19 innings. Jason Kipnis got three hits and Dickerson, hitless in four previous at- games in the NL East. The Braves are 9-4 The North Face, comprised Ahmad cial moment for us. We had to go through a scored three runs as the Indians finished 4-3 bats, sent an 0-1 pitch from Oliver Perez (2- against the Nationals this season and 22-10 AlMajed, renowned for being Kuwait’s first lot of tough obstacles, and it was much against New York - only twice in the last 22 2) into the pool deck in right field for his over the last two years. Justin Upton home- ‘Iron Man’, as well as Ahmed AlHuzami, harder than previous years, to the extent years has Cleveland taken the season 14th home run of the season. red for the Braves, who had lost nine of sports enthusiast and founder of Pro-vision that 38% of the participants dropped out of matchup. The Rockies snapped a three-game skid their last 10. Ian Desmond’s fourth-inning Sports Management. The Kuwaiti duo suc- the race due to heat and exhaustion. With Carrasco (4-4) allowed just two singles, overall and won for just the second time in homer was the only run allowed by Wood. cessfully crossed a tedious Moroccan desert The North Face’s apparel and equipment, terrain of about 750 kilometers. the challenge was easier for us, and we walked none, struck out four and retired his 10 games. Ben Paulsen, called up Sunday to With the game tied 1-1, Emilio Bonifacio led AAW General Manager of the Outdoors thank AAW and The North Face for helping last 11 batters. Cleveland evened its record at replace the injured Carlos Gonzalez on the off the fifth with a bunt single and scored Division, Ali F. Al Mutawa said: “We are us achieve our goals.” 59-59 by taking advantage of a surprisingly roster, hit his first major league home run in the go-ahead run on Jason Heyward’s extremely proud of our young Kuwaiti ath- With a commitment to the Kuwaiti com- shaky Hiroki Kuroda (7-8). the second. Matt Belisle (3-6) got one out by infield hit off Gio Gonzalez (6-9). Wood (8-9), letes for participating in and completing munity, AAW both develops and supports working out of a bases-loaded jam in the who allowed five hits, set another career one of the toughest endurance races, and sports, health and athletic initiatives, TWINS 6, ATHLETICS 1 bottom of the ninth for the win. high by throwing 124 pitches. — AP we will continue to support them in all of including marathons, programs and other Kurt Suzuki hit a tiebreaking double and their athletic endeavors around the region.” challenges like the Al Roudan Tournament, Josh Willingham added two-run homer in the Al Mutawa added: “We have had an the Kuwait Charity Run, The Flying Start eighth inning as the Twins ended a 12 game MLB results/standings ongoing relationship with extreme sports Triathlon, and The North Face Challenge, a losing streak to Oakland by beating the in ensuring that Kuwaiti athletes are well- locally organized outdoor challenge for Athletics. prepared for any arduous challenges that outdoor enthusiasts across the country. Brian Dozier connected for his 20th homer Cleveland 4, NY Yankees 1; Toronto 6, Detroit 5 (19 Innings); Cincinnati 7, Miami 2; St. Louis in the first before Suzuki and Willingham 8, Baltimore 3; Philadelphia 7, NY Mets 6; San Diego 8, Pittsburgh 2; Kansas City 7, San each had a big hit against Luke Gregerson (2- Francisco 4; LA Dodgers 5, Milwaukee 1; Texas 6, Houston 2; Chicago Cubs 3, Tampa Bay 2 2) in the eighth. Phil Hughes (12-8) allowed (12 Innings); Boston 3, LA Angels 1; Minnesota 6, Oakland 1; Seattle 4, Chicago White Sox 2; four hits in seven innings for his second Colorado 5, Arizona 3 (10 Innings); Atlanta 3, Washington 1. straight victory. American League National League Eastern Division Eastern Division CUBS 3, RAYS 2 W L PCT GB Washington 63 53 .543 - Anthony Rizzo hit a game-ending RBI sin- Baltimore 67 50 .573 - Atlanta 60 57 .513 3.5 gle in the 12th inning as the Cubs beat the Toronto 63 56 .529 5 Miami 57 60 .487 6.5 Rays to avoid a three-game sweep. NY Yankees 61 56 .521 6 NY Mets 56 62 .475 8 The last-place Cubs struck out 17 times, Tampa Bay 57 60 .487 10 Philadelphia 53 65 .449 11 running their total to 44 for the weekend Boston 52 65 .444 15 Central Division series, but Rizzo and touted rookie Javier Central Division Milwaukee 65 53 .551 - Baez had two hits apiece to key a 13-hit Detroit 63 52 .548 - St. Louis 62 54 .534 2 attack. Carlos Villanueva (5-6) pitched a Kansas City 63 53 .543 0.5 Pittsburgh 62 55 .530 2.5 Cleveland 59 59 .500 5.5 scoreless inning to earn the victory. Cincinnati 60 58 .508 5 Chicago White Sox 56 63 .471 9 Chicago Cubs 50 66 .431 14 Minnesota 52 64 .448 11.5 CARDINALS 8, ORIOLES 3 Western Division Western Division Rookie Kolten Wong had four hits and Oakland 72 45 .615 - LA Dodgers 67 52 .563 - scored twice, Peter Bourjos homered as the LA Angels 68 49 .581 4 San Francisco 62 56 .525 4.5 Cardinals beat the Orioles to avoid a three- Seattle 62 55 .530 10 San Diego 54 62 .466 11.5 game sweep. Houston 49 69 .415 23.5 Arizona 51 67 .432 15.5 The North Face, supported The Kuwait Extreme Team during the Titan Race. After allowing nine home runs in losing Texas 46 71 .393 26 Colorado 46 71 .393 20 TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014 SPORTS

South Africa lead Zimbabwe Photo of the day as Du Plessis misses century

HARARE: Faf du Plessis and Quinton de Kock and De Kock were at the wicket. Although the missed out on centuries as South Africa pair took their time adapting to the pace of advanced to 334 for seven at tea on day three the pitch early on, scoring 11 runs in the first of the one-off Test against Zimbabwe yester- eight overs of the day, they gradually took the day. Du Plessis was out for 98 shortly before attack to the Zimbabwean bowlers. the lunch interval while De Kock was dis- The hosts responded to that pressure by missed for 81 during the afternoon session, offering up some loose deliveries, allowing which stunted South Africa’s progress as they South Africa a relatively profitable 77 runs built a lead over Zimbabwe’s first innings from the session. That compared favorably to score of 256 all out. their progress on Sunday, when they scored The Proteas added just 10 runs in a 16- 201 for four in 84 overs, and to the 56 they over period prior to tea, as JP Duminy and added in 30 overs during Monday after- Vernon Philander showed an unwillingness to noon’s session. The 119-run partnership counter Zimbabwe’s defensive tactics. between Du Plessis and De Kock was broken Philander was bowled by Sean Williams on when the right-hander was caught off the the stroke of tea, having scored 17 from 87 bowling of John Nyumbu to fall agonisingly deliveries, while Duminy was unbeaten on 28 short of three figures. Meanwhile De Kock from 95 deliveries.South Africa had showed was dismissed by Williams, who had figures greater intent in the morning when Du Plessis of 2 for 82. — AFP

SCOREBOARD

HARARE: Scoreboard at the close of play on the third day of the one-off Test between Zimbabwe and South Africa yesterday: Zimbabwe first innings 256 all out (B. 276 (du Plessis), 6-292 (de Kock), 7-334 Taylor 93, H. Masakadza 45, D. Steyn (Philander), 8-367 (Steyn), 9-395 (Piedt), 5-46, D. Piedt 4-90) 10-397 (Duminy).

South Africa first innings Bowling: Panyangara 30-12-39-0, Tiripano D. Elgar c Mutumbami b Tiripano 61 26-8-65-2, Nyumbu 49.3-7-157-5, Chatara A. Petersen c Mutumbami b Nyumbu 32 27-12-34-1, Williams 26-2-95-2. F. du Plessis c Chakabva b Numbu 98 H. Amla c Sibanda b Chatara 4 Zimbabwe second innings A. de Villiers c Sibanda b Nyumbu 7 H. Masakadza c de Villiers b Morkel 19 Competitors perform during Red Bull King of the Rock in Al Ahli Club at Manama , Bahrain. — www.redbull.com Q. de Kock c Sibanda b Williams 81 V. Sibanda not out 8 J. Duminy c Taylor b Nyumbu 55 D. Tiripano not out 1 V. Philander b Williams 17 Extras 0 D. Steyn c Tiripano b Nyumbu 19 Total (for 1 wkt, 13 overs, 54 mins) 28 McIlroy wins major title D. Piedt lbw b Tiripano 13 Fall of wickets: 1-25 (Masakadza). M. Morkel not out 2 Bowling: Steyn 4-1-8-0, Philander 3-0-10- Extras (3b, 4lb, 1nb) 8 0, Morkel 3-3-0-1, Piedt 3-0-10-0. LOUISVILLE: Pre-tournament favourite Rory Total (all out, 158.3 overs, 639 mins) 397 Still to bat: M. Vermeulen, B. Taylor, S. McIlroy recovered from a stumbling start to over- Fall of wickets: 1-57 (Petersen), 2-132 Williams, R. Chakabva, R. Mutumbami, T. come a series of challengers and clinch his fourth (Elgar), 3-146 (Amla), 4-157 (de Villiers), 5- Panyangara, T. Chatara, J. Nyumbu. major title by a shot at the PGA Championship on Sunday. A stroke in front of the chasing pack overnight, the Northern Irish world number one lost the lead but regained control after the turn, signing off with a three-under-par 68 at Valhalla Golf Club for a 16-under total of 268. Phil Mickelson, the 2005 winner, birdied 18 to finish alone in second with a closing 66, with Swede Henrik Stenson (66) and American Rickie Fowler (68) a stroke further back in third. “I didn’t think in my wildest dreams I’d have a summer like this,” British Open champion McIlroy told CBS Sports after being presented with the coveted Wanamaker Trophy, which he hoisted high in celebration. “I’ve just played the best golf of my life and just really gutted it out today. It was a little different from the previous major wins that I’ve had and I think I showed a lot of guts out there today to get this job done.” Trailing by three at one point, McIlroy got with- in a stroke of the lead with a spectacular eagle at the par-five 10th where he hit his second shot from 281 yards to seven feet, before effectively sealing the title with birdies at the 13th and 17th. In gath- ering gloom at Valhalla, where play was suspended for just under two hours earlier in the day due to HARARE: South Africa’s batsman JP Duminy plays a ball during the third day of a Test water-logged conditions, McIlroy parred the last to match against Zimbabwe at the Harare Sports Club. — AFP win his third consecutive title on the PGA Tour, and his second major this year. The 25-year-old, who LOUISVILLE: Rory McIlroy of Northern Ireland poses with the Wanamaker Trophy after his one-stroke won the 2012 PGA Championship at Kiawah by a victory during the final round of the 96th PGA Championship at Valhalla Golf Club. —AFP Ajmal reported for record eight shots, became the fourth youngest darkness in their bid to finish the 96th PGA Mickelson and Stenson. player to land four majors, with only Tom Morris Jr., Championship on Sunday. Play was halted just An up-and-down birdie at the seventh put Jack Nicklaus and Tiger Woods ahead of him. before noon as heavy rain swept across the par-71 Fowler one ahead again but the lead did not last suspect action Mickelson, who had been bidding for a sixth Valhalla layout, leaving rivers of water on several long as Stenson soon joined him, draining a 27- major title, recorded his first top-10 finish on the fairways and pools covering many greens. footer at the ninth. McIlroy, who had bogeyed the 2013-14 PGA Tour after a disappointing season. Roughly an inch of rain had saturated the course sixth after finding a bunker with his approach, COLOMBO: Pakistan off-spinner Saeed Ajmal, ered to be suspect and concluded that the “It was good for me to get back in the mix and by the time play resumed at 2:44 p.m. (1844 GMT), picked up his first shot of the day at the seventh, the world’s top-ranked bowler in one-day bowler’s action needed to be tested”, the to feel the pressure and get in the thick of it,” said and with dusk fast approaching a Monday finish hitting a delicate chip from beside a bunker to cricket, has been reported for a suspect International Cricket Council said in a state- the American left-hander. “I kind of ran out of seemed likely. One ahead going into the final four feet and sinking the putt. Out in one-over par action for the second time in his career, the ment. “Ajmal’s bowling action will now be steam there after 12, wasn’t able to get a couple of round, McIlroy ran up a three-putt bogey at the 36, McIlroy eagled the 10th, narrowly missed world governing body said yesterday. Match scrutinised further under the ICC process birdies coming in like I needed to.” With birdies par-three third to slip to 12 under, level with birdie putts at 11 and 12 before sinking a five-foot- officials at the just-ended first Test between relating to suspected illegal bowling actions abundant on a receptive, rain-softened layout, the Mickelson and Austrian Bernd Wiesberger. er at the 13th to join Mickelson and Fowler in a tie Sri Lanka and Pakistan in Galle “cited concerns reported in Tests, ODIs and T20s.” galleries were treated to a breathtaking display of Moments later it became a five-way tie at the for the lead at 15 under. Fowler dropped back with over a number of deliveries that were consid- As per ICC regulations, Ajmal will have to shot-making in the final round. top when Fowler birdied the fourth and Stenson a bogey at 14, and Mickelson dropped his only undergo tests of his action within 21 days, the fifth. Fowler seized the lead with a spectacular shot of the day at the 16th before McIlroy effec- but is allowed to play on until the results of RACE AGAINST DARKNESS chip-in for birdie from just off the right edge of the tively made the title safe when he rolled in a 10- the test are known, the statement added. However, the late starters faced a race against green at the fifth, but was caught soon after by foot birdie putt on the 17th green.— Reuters Ajmal claimed five wickets in Sri Lanka’s first innings. The hosts won the game by sev- en wickets on Sunday to take a 1-0 lead in the two-match series. The second Test starts on Lee bags LPGA Classic Thursday in Colombo. “This has come as a surprise to us,” Pakistan manager Moin Khan said in BELMONT: Mirim Lee won the Meijer LPGA holes and eagled the par-5 fifth - hitting a 3- Pettersen at 14 under with a 5-foot birdie putt at Colombo. “But there is no panic. We support Classic on Sunday for her first LPGA Tour victory, wood shot to 6 feet - to tie Park at 15 under. 15. Japan’s Haru Nomura was fourth at 10-under him and he will play in the next Test.” The first beating fellow South Korean player Inbee Park Lee birdied the par-5 11th to pull within a after a 68. Germany’s Sandra Gal, the first-round Test was umpired by Ian Gould of England with a birdie on the second hole of a playoff. shot of Park. After 10 consecutive pars, Park leader, was another stroke back after a 66. and Bruce Oxenford of Australia, while “I (was) nervous 100 percent,” Lee said. “First three-putted the par-3 14th for a bogey. It hap- Top-ranked Stacy Lewis had her best round of Zimbabwe’s Andy Pycroft was the match ref- time in playoff. Inbee Park is like a hero in Korea pened about the same time Pettersen was the week with a 66 to tie for 11th at 6 under. eree. The 36-year-old Ajmal has taken 174 and all the young girls want to be her now in punching a shot from the trees to eight feet at Thailand’s Thidapa Suwannapura matched the wickets in 34 Tests and 182 wickets in 110 Korea.” The long-hitting Lee drove into greenside 15 to set up a birdie and another tie. low round of the tournament with a 64, which ODIs since he made his international debut in bunker on the second extra hole - the short par- “It’s nice to get four solid rounds of competi- included five birdies and an eagle at the par-4 2008. As well as heading the ICC’s bowling 4 17th - and blasted out to 5 feet. After Park’s 15- tion in,” Pettersen said. “I’ve struggled this year, 10th. She tied for 18th at 4 under. rankings in 50-over cricket, Ajmal is also in foot birdie try lipped out, Lee holed her putt for but it is coming. Disappointed to be one short, The tournament was the first LPGA Tour the top 10 of Test and Twenty20 bowlers. the victory. but it was nice to be back in contention straight event in Michigan since 2000 when the He was previously reported in April 2009 They each parred the 18th to open the play- after a three-week break.” Lee, trailing most of Oldsmobile Classic in East Lansing ended its but was cleared to play after testing. After the off. Park’s approach shot hit the cup on the way the day by a shot or two, then joined Park and nine-year run. — AP tour of Sri Lanka, Pakistan will play a two-Test past and she missed a 15-foot birdie attempt. series and three ODIs against Australia in Lee two-putted from 35 feet. October and November in the United Arab Emirates. Ajmal is seen as the key to the Lee, a rookie on the LPGA Tour, closed with a hopes of former champions Pakistan in next 2-under 69 to match Park at 14-under 270. Park, GALLE: Pakistan cricketer Saeed Ajmal year’s World Cup in Australia and New a 10-time tour winner, finished with a 70. celebrates in this file photo. — AFP Zealand. —AFP Lee is projected to jump to 29th in the world rankings. Norway’s Suzann Pettersen was a stroke back after a 69. Park said the win will give Pakistan greats blast Test defeat Lee great confidence. “I think she was kind of, you know, thinking KARACHI: Former Pakistan players yester- destroy Pakistan’s batting. about whether she should come to the LPGA or day criticised the national team’s capitula- In contrast Sri Lanka notched up 533 for whether she should stay in KLPGA,” Park said. tion in the first Test against Sri Lanka, blam- nine declared in the first innings with “but I think this will definitely make her see she ing defensive batting on the final day for Kumar Sangakkara hitting a magnificent made a good decision.” With three holes to play, the seven-wicket defeat. 221, blunting Pakistani spinners Saeed Park, Pettersen and Lee were tied for the lead at A trademark second innings collapse Ajmal and Abdur Rehman. 14 under, but Pettersen had tree and sand trou- Sunday meant Pakistan were bowled out Latif said neither Rehman nor Ajmal had bles and made a bogey at 16 to fall a shot for a paltry 180 in Galle after the match lived up to expectations. “Considering behind. looked certain to end in a draw. Pakistan’s batting frailties, Ajmal and Park and Lee each missed birdie chances on Sri Lanka knocked off the 99-run target Rehman didn’t bowl well (to compensate) the 17th. On the 18th, Lee two-putted for par despite bad light and intermittent rain to and that was the cause of defeat,” said Latif, from 40 feet, and Park made a 6-foot par putt. take a 1-0 lead in the two-Test series. “It was adding the defeat did not augur well for Park said in the end the new blade putter she disappointing to see Pakistan lose a Test Misbah-ul-Haq’s captaincy. put in the bag this week let her down in the last which was heading for a draw and after “I can see Shahid Afridi as captain in the round. “I felt I hit a good putt, but it just didn’t go scoring 451,” former captain Rashid Latif 2015 World Cup if Pakistan lose the Test in,” she said of the final birdie attempt. “The put- told AFP. Younis Khan led the charge in the and one-day series in Sri Lanka,” said Latif. ter just wasn’t there. It was nice to shoot under first innings with a brilliant 177 but Sri The second Test starts in Colombo on par, but Mirim played well in the playoff holes.” Lankan spinner Rangana Herath exploited Thursday and is followed by a three-match Pettersen, who was playing in the group in the last-day pitch with figures of 6-48 to one-day series. —AFP BELMONT: Mirim Lee of South Korea imitates a ‘selfie’ after winning theMeijer LPGA Classic at front of Park for the day, birdied the first two Blythefield Country Club. — AFP TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014 SPORTS Farah gunning for record books at Euros

ZURICH: The incentive for Mo Farah when he hits whether the man who won back to back 5,000m He has five European outdoor medals (two from and find the extra 5cm he would need to match the comeback trail at the European Championships, and 10,000m crowns at the 2012 Olympic Games in relays) and could finish the 2014 championships Cuban Javier Sotomayor’s 21-year-old global mark. which open at the Letzigrund Stadium in Zurich on London and the 2013. with an overall record of seven or eight. Lemaitre’s The star turn in the women’s events is likely to be Tuesday, will be a place in the record books. World Championships in Moscow is back in compatriot Jimmy Vicaut will start favourite ahead Dafne Schippers, who broke the Dutch 100m and The 31-year-old British distance runner has shape following the illness that forced him to with- of him in the 100m and he could be pushed close 200m records at the Glasgow Diamond League already won four European outdoor medals in indi- draw from the Commonwealth Games in Glasgow. by another British sprinter, Adam Gemili, in the meeting last month. The 22-year-old from Utrecht, vidual events (two golds at 5,000m, one gold at Farah said at the time: “I need another few weeks 200m before he teams up with Vicaut in the 4 x who won World Championship bronze as a heptath- 10,000m and a silver at 5,000m) and no male athlete of training,” and he has since been photographed 100m relay. lete in 2013, is aiming to complete a championship has ever won five. Four men have gained six medals training flat out, paced by a bicycle rider, at high Since 1928 the Letzigrund Stadium has wit- sprint double that was achieved by the original - British duo Roger Black, Linford Christie, German altitude at Font Romeu in the French Pyrenees. nessed 25 world records. The prospect of a 26th will Flying Dutchwoman, Fanny Blankers-Koen, in great Harald Schmid and late Italian sprint legend That, and the fact that he announced last week depend on whether the French pole vaulter Renaud Brussels in 1950. The race of the championship on Pietro Mennea - but their tallies were all boosted by that he would be contesting the Great North Run Lavillenie can suddenly rediscover the form that the women’s programme, however, should be two or three relay medals. Half Marathon in the north-east of England on took him over a world record 6.16m in Donetsk, between former Ethiopians Abeba Aregawi (now So Farah could take his haul from individual September 7 suggests that he is ready to return to Ukraine, in February (his best thus far in the outdoor running for Sweden) and Sifan Hassan (a naturalised events to six if he finishes on the podium after the action in Zurich. The French sprinter Christophe season is 5.92m) - and whether the Ukrainian high Flying Dutchwoman) in the 1500m. The women’s 10,000m final on Wednesday (13 August) and the Lemaitre will also be chasing a place in the history jumper Bohdan Bondarenko, who has twice cleared marathon features triplets Leila, Liina and Lily Luik, 5,000m on Sunday (17 August). The big question is books. 2.40m this summer, can overcome a recent illness running for Estonia. — AFP Rodriguez set for Real bow in Super Cup tie

LONDON: World Cup sensation James Rodriguez is in line to make his Real Madrid debut when the European champions tackle Europa League winners Sevilla in today’s all- Spanish UEFA Super Cup in Cardiff. Madrid’s 4- 1 extra-time win over city rivals Atletico Madrid in Lisbon in May ended their 12-year wait for a 10th European Cup and they now look even stronger after a characteristically extravagant close-season recruitment drive. Rodriguez, Toni Kroos and Keylor Navas arrived at the Bernabeu after impressing at the World Cup and all are in line to feature at the Cardiff City Stadium. FRANCE: Lyon’s French forward Alexandre Lacazette (center) reacts after scoring next The first glimpse of 80-million-euro ($108 to Lyon’s French midfielder Jordan Ferri (left) and Lyon’s French midfielder Corentin million) playmaker Rodriguez in a Madrid shirt Tolisso (right) during the French League match against Stade Rennais. — AFP is keenly anticipated after he dazzled for Colombia in Brazil, scoring six goals to win the Golden Boot. Monaco lose home With the 23-year-old former Monaco play- maker joining Cristiano Ronaldo and Gareth Bale in the Spanish capital, Madrid now pos- Opener, Lyon win sess three of the four most expensive players of all-time. PARIS: Last season’s runners-up Monaco second yellow card. The principality club, The trio could grace a pitch together for the made a disappointing start to the new who under Russian billionaire Dmitry first time in Cardiff, but like Kroos, who arrived Ligue 1 campaign with a 2-1 defeat at Rybolovlev splashed out more than 100 from Bayern Munich after starring in Germany’s home to Lorient on Sunday with the million euros ($134 million) on transfers last World Cup triumph, Rodriguez is short of fit- absence of the sold James Rodriguez all year, finished last season nine points adrift ness and unlikely to start. too obvious. Lorient opened the scoring of Paris St Germain but still qualified auto- Along with Costa Rican goalkeeper Navas, through Vincent Aboubakar’s ninth minute matically for this term’s Champions League. the pair only returned to training last week and penalty and although Radamel Falcao hit Despite their bank balance and relative coach Carlo Ancelotti has admitted that his back with a spot kick of his own on 78 min- success in their first campaign back in the players are some way short of peak condition. utes, Valentin Lavigne grabbed the winner top flight, Monaco sold World Cup top scor- “We had to give holidays to some players three minutes from time. er Rodriguez to Real Madrid in the close until August 5,” said the Italian. “Therefore, we Monaco also had defender Ricardo season and fellow Colombian Falcao is con- haven’t had much time to prepare for the Carvalho sent off in the 67th minute for a stantly linked in the media with a move. game. We need to try our hardest in August to Portuguese Leonardo Jardim was prepare the players in the best way possible for appointed as Monaco coach in June after the new season.” The Super Cup is one of six MATCH the club replaced Italian Claudio Ranieri in trophies that Madrid could win this season, but ON TV a bid for a “new dynamic”. they are still searching for their first pre-season Olympique Lyonnais won 2-0 at home victory after two defeats and a draw on their to Stade Rennes in their season opener, tour of the United States. UEFA Super Cup midfielder Steed Malbranque putting them One player who seems certain to start is ahead in the 64th minute and Alexandre Welsh forward Bale, who was born and raised Real Madrid v Sevilla 21:45 Lacazette adding a penalty. Big-spending in Cardiff and went to school just four miles beIN SPORTS 1 HD champions PSG drew their first league (6.4 kilometres) from Tuesday’s match venue. beIN SPORTS 11 HD match of the new campaign on Friday beIN SPORTS 13 HD when they were held 2-2 at Stade de Reims ‘DREAM COME TRUE’ beIN SPORTS 1 HD FR with Zlatan Ibrahimovic scoring twice but Scorer of the decisive second goal in the missing a penalty. — Reuters Champions League final, the 25-year-old found the net twice in the US and is relishing the prospect of playing in front of his home crowd. “I knew the Super Cup would be played in Cardiff a good 18 months ago,” Bale told Spanish newspaper Marca. “When I came to Real Madrid it was always a dream of mine that if we could win the Champions League, we could play in Cardiff. Now that dream has come true.” Today’s opponents will carry special sig- nificance for Bale, for it was against Sevilla last October that he scored a brace in a 7-3 win that truly launched his Madrid career. Ancelotti’s side enjoyed less success in the return fixture, going down 2-1 in March in a game that fatally undermined their league title bid, so the reunion in the Welsh capital will also offer an opportunity for revenge. Sevilla beat Benfica on penalties in the Europa League final in Turin to win the compe- tition for the third time in nine seasons. They have lost influential Croatian playmak- er Ivan Rakitic to Barcelona, while Stephane Mbia-scorer of a decisive injury-time goal against Valencia in the Europa League semi- finals-has returned to parent club Queens Park Rangers. INDIANAPOLIS: Marc Marquez of Spain and Repsol Honda Team celebrates on the But Spanish forward Iago Aspas could make podium after his victory at the end of the MotoGP race during the MotoGp Red Bull his debut against Madrid, having joined from US Indianapolis Grand Prix. — AFP Liverpool on a season-long loan. Coach Unai Emery has dismissed suggestions that the Marquez stays unbeaten comparative lack of World Cup players in his squad will give Sevilla an advantage, but he has backed his team to pull off an upset. “How in 2014 with MotoGP win can we possibly be favourites against Real Madrid?” he said. INDIANAPOLIS: Spanish world champion On the sixth lap, Rossi and Andrea “They haven’t had much time to train and Marc Marquez became the first man in 17 Dovizioso appeared to have a little con- won’t be at their best level, but that doesn’t years to win 10 consecutive MotoGP races tact on a corner and, though they make them not favorites. “It is clear, though, when he rode to a comfortable victory at remained upright, both lost speed and that we have the capabilities and resources to SPAIN: New signing for Sevilla Pole, Gregory Krychowiak poses with a ball after the press con- Indianapolis on Sunday. Marquez took advantage to pass them enjoy a great final and win it.” — AFP ference. — AFP Not since Australian Mick Doohan won both and take the lead. Rossi temporarily 10 in a row in 1997 had a rider put togeth- dropped to third but surged back to er that long a streak. Marquez, riding a regain the lead. Repsol Honda, completed the 27 laps However, Marquez bided his time and (112.6km) in 42 minutes, 7.041 seconds, took the lead again on the 11th lap, this Scolari makes losing return 1.803 seconds ahead of compatriot Jorge time for good, gradually increasing his Lorenzo (Yamaha). margin to win at Indianapolis for the sec- RIO DE JANEIRO: Former Brazil coach Luiz Claudio Winck added the second with a the World Cup last month. Internacional, sec- Italian Valentino Rossi (Yamaha) was ond successive year. Felipe Scolari made a losing return to Gremio breakaway goal as Internacional extended ond in the table, moved within two points of 6.558 seconds back in third place, with American rider Nicky Hayden, who when they were beaten 2-0 at arch-rivals their unbeaten run against Gremio to nine leaders Cruzeiro, who drew 0-0 at Criciuma. Spaniard Dani Pedrosa (Honda) fourth in missed the race through injury, said Internacional on Sunday in his first game since matches. Scolari made his name as a coach Former Manchester City, Real Madrid and an action-packed race that featured sever- Marquez was dominating the circuit he was re-appointed by the club where he with Gremio when he won the Libertadores AC Milan forward Robinho also made an al crashes. Marquez, 21, also increased his because he did everything well. “He really made his name. Cup, Brazilian championship and Copa Brasil unhappy return to a former club as Santos lost lead in the 2014 standings, picking up 25 has no weak spots,” the 2006 world cham- Felipao (Big Phil) took charge of his first club with the Porto Alegre club between 1993 and 1-0 at home to Corinthians in his first game points to improve to a perfect 250 points pion told Fox Sports. game almost exactly a month after his Brazil 1996. He also had a brief spell in charge in back. Robinho was raised at Santos and left the for the season. “He’s won races from the back, he’s won team were humiliated 7-1 by Germany in their 1987. The volatile 65-year-old went on to lead club nine years ago for Europe, where he never Pedrosa is second on 161 points, with races where he wasn’t necessarily the World Cup semi-final. Brazil to their fifth World Cup title in 2002 and managed to live up to his early promise. seven-time world champion Rossi close fastest, he’s flag-to-flag, switched bikes, Chile midfielder Charles Aranguiz headed then took Portugal to the Euro 2004 final and Santos had midfielder Alison sent off for a behind on 157 points after 10 of 18 races. started from the grid and... the thing he Internacional in front from Fabricio’s cross in the World Cup semi-final two years later. second bookable offence at the end of the first Marquez started from pole but got away does more than I’ve probably seen any- the 62nd minute, just as Gremio appeared to He returned as Brazil coach but his reputa- half and Gil headed the winner from a corner slowly and quickly fell back to fourth place body is ride on the ragged edge so much be taking charge of the game at the Beira-Rio. tion was left in tatters by their performance at with seven minutes to play. — Reuters as Rossi took the lead. and not make many mistakes.” — Reuters TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014 SPORTS Liverpool looks to do better without Suarez LIVERPOOL: Back in the Champions League and scorer with 31 goals last season, was sold to There is also the fear among some pundits that games, and has adopted an attacking style that is back in the Premier League title conversation, Barcelona for $130 million, leaving a huge hole in Liverpool could go the way of Tottenham, which fun to watch and overwhelmed many opponents Liverpool has come a long way in a short time under Liverpool’s squad. brought in a slew of players on the back of selling last season. Brendan Rodgers. Rodgers has spent the proceeds of Suarez’s sale Gareth Bale to Real Madrid last summer but failed to He also has the backing of the fans and his club’s Yet, to satisfy the lofty expectations of one of on a string of signings - Adam Lallana, Dejan Lovren find the right mix and balance. Avoiding falling into hierarchy. “We will improve,” Rodgers said after the England’s two biggest clubs, it’s time for Liverpool to and Rickie Lambert have arrived from Southampton, that trap will be one of Rodgers’ biggest tasks. final game of last season. “We’ll be ready to fight make the next step. And that means winning tro- exciting winger Lazar Markovic joined from Benfica In a sense, Liverpool had it easy last season. There again. Now we’ve got the belief.” phies. After finishing eighth in 2012 and seventh in and holding midfielder Emre Can moved from Bayer was no European football to clog up the schedule Captain Steven Gerrard has retired from interna- 2013, Liverpool made a giant leap last season by Leverkusen. With Belgium striker Divock Origi join- and the team was eliminated early from the two cup tional football and can devote all his energy to pushing Manchester City all the way in the title race ing from Lille for 10 million pounds ($17 million) but competitions. The Reds could concentrate on their Liverpool, where he starred in the midfield quarter- and coming up just short, two points behind in sec- spending this season on loan at the French club, league challenge, playing just one game a week and back role last season. And attacking midfielders ond place. And it could have been so much better - Liverpool’s outlay is almost 100 million pounds getting away with having a lack of depth in their Philippe Coutinho and Raheem Sterling should only the team held a five-point lead with three matches ($170 million). squad. That won’t be the case this season. But in get better. There is much to be excited about among remaining, only to stumble with a first champi- Yet, Lambert will be the only new striker in the Rodgers, Liverpool has one of the brightest man- Liverpool fans - not least a return to the Champions onship since 1990 in reach. squad and, at 32, is hardly an adequate replacement agers in English football and he has done nothing League for the first time since the 2009-10 season - Going one better this season is the aim, but it will for Suarez. It means most of the attacking burden but impress since taking over in the summer of but losing Suarez, and failing to replace him with a be tough - especially with their best player no will be placed on Daniel Sturridge, now England’s 2012. He is tactically astute, changing formations to player close to his ilk, is likely to prevent them mak- longer around. Luis Suarez, the Premier League’s top No. 1 striker but prone to injuries. great effect from match to match as well as during ing that step up to title winners. — AP MAN United set to begin new era under Van Gaal

MANCHESTER: Fom the gloom and constant disap- pointments of David Moyes’ tenure to hope and antici- pation under new manager Louis van Gaal, the mood at Manchester United has shifted dramatically heading into the new Premier League season. Order appears to have been restored at Old Trafford after United’s most tumultuous year in a generation, when Moyes turned the club from English champions into something of a laughing stock in the space of 10 months. And it’s all down to the appointment of Van Gaal, the kind of charismatic, authoritarian coach United should really have gone for in the summer of 2013 to usher in the post-Alex Ferguson era. It’s barely been a month since he took over after his World Cup duties Arsenal’s French manager Arsene Wenger (right) gives instructions in this file photo. with the Netherlands and it’s always hasty to make judgments based on preseason results, but things are After trophy drought ends, already looking up for England’s biggest team. United is yet to lose under Van Gaal, beating Arsenal sets sights on EPL Liverpool and Real Madrid on the way to winning a preseason tournament in the United States, and looks to have warmed to the tactics and change of forma- LONDON: For nine torturous years the playmaker Mesut Ozil. Having sustained tion (to a 3-5-2) of the Dutchman. Players like Wayne absence of a trophy eluded Arsene top-four finishes while funding the move Rooney and Juan Mata look energized. “He’s a tough Wenger. That burden was lifted when to the Emirates Stadium in 2006, Arsenal is manager but he’s been great since he came in,” Rooney Wenger celebrated in May after clinching in financially sound position and sure it said. “He’s given us all a different way of looking at the FA Cup. can now retain top talent rather than it football, which we haven’t had before.” It was a joyful moment, but still tinged being picked off by rivals. “We are less vul- It’s a huge contrast to life under Moyes, who never with what-ifs. Arsenal spent longer than nerable now, that is for sure,” Wenger said. garnered the respect of the squad due to his lack of ANN ARBOR: Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney (left) talks with Jonny Evans in this file any side at the top of the Premier League “In the last two years we bought Ozil and top-level experience as a manager. photo. — AP but still ended up in its familiar fourth Sanchez - five years ago we would have Van Gaal has coached - and won league titles - in are likely to be more incomings before the transfer Evans, Phil Jones and Chris Smalling aren’t in the same place after struggling against its title rivals. lost Ozil and Sanchez.” Spain, Germany and the Netherlands and has the grav- window shuts on Aug. 31. It will be a strange season class as Ferdinand and Vidic - but the same was said of A Champions League spot for a 17th suc- Striker Robin van Persie, and midfielders itas to take on the rebuilding job at United that proved for United, which failed to qualify for any European Van Gaal’s Dutch team at the World Cup and it reached cessive year was a minimum achievement - Samir Nasri and Cesc Fabregas were too much for his predecessor. Already, aging defensive competition for the first time since 1990 after finishing the semifinals, only missing out on a place in the final how Manchester United would take such among the players to exit the Emirates trio Nemanja Vidic, Rio Ferdinand and Patrice Evra have in seventh place last season - 22 points behind Premier on penalties. Even if United fails to bridge the gap to predictable consistency now - but still prematurely after being sold at their peak. been moved on and Van Gaal has signaled that some League winner Manchester City. title favorites City and Chelsea, fans at Old Trafford still Arsenal is without a Premier League title Although captain Thomas Vermaelen was fringe players will be jettisoned. That could include the But United will have noted how Liverpool benefit- are likely to see that kind of attractive, expansive, since 2004. allowed to join Barcelona for $25 million likes of Nani, Anderson and Javier Hernendez, as well ed last season from no European involvement to finish attacking football that had become commonplace “The only thing we need to improve is last week, frugality no longer appears to as Marouane Fellaini, who has flopped since joining second, and it would be foolish to write off the team’s before Moyes’ troubled reign. our away record against the so-called big- be Wenger’s philosophy. “We have more from Everton for 27.5 million pounds (then $43 million) chances of regaining the title. Van Gaal’s likely front With Ryan Giggs retired from playing and now in ger teams,” said Aaron Ramsey, whose money available to buy today than we had last summer. line of Rooney, Robin van Persie and Juan Mata is one the dugout as Van Gaal’s assistant, this will be the first The only signings have been left back Luke Shaw intelligence and influence in midfield was five years ago,” Wenger said. “We can com- of the strongest in the league and Herrera brings ener- season without a member of the famous “Class of 92” and Spanish central midfielder Ander Herrera for a gy to the midfield that was lacking last season. in the squad. It’s certainly a new era for United - and in a defining dynamic of last season. “If we pete better. For years we have lost top combined 50 million pounds ($84 million) but there Defensively, United appears vulnerable - Jonny Van Gaal, it has a proven winner to kick it off. — AP had managed to nick the odd point or win players without the ability to replace them in those games it would have been a lot because of financial management.” closer last season, and maybe even we The Premier League’s longest-serving would have won.” manager, Wenger would hope for no more Everton dreaming For once, though, Wenger has been lay- humiliations like the 6-0 drubbing by ing the foundations for Arsenal to stay the Chelsea last season in his 1,000th match of big after course in the title race by investing in the charge. Lukaku signing squad - and early. The images of Wenger At least this season began brightly. playing footvolley on the beach in Rio de Another trophy was added to the sparse LIVERPOOL: After reining in its spending in Janeiro and commentating for French TV Emirates trophy cabinet - the Community recent years, Everton splashed out a club- at the World Cup were mistakenly per- Shield - by overwhelming Premier League record fee of 28 million pounds ($47 million) ceived as overlooking his Arsenal duties. champion Manchester City 3-0 at Wembley on Romelu Lukaku to signal its intention to But Wenger was wrapping up early Stadium on Sunday. compete with the top teams in the Premier deals for once, spending $50 million on The emerging English core to the squad League once again this season. bringing Chile forward Alexis Sanchez was on display: Chambers, who was Everton manager Roberto Martinez hailed from Barcelona and a similar amount to assured on his debut in central defense, the arrival of the Belgium striker from Chelsea bolster the defense with Mathieu Debuchy winger Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain and mid- as a “very significant day in the history of our from Newcastle and Calum Chambers from fielder Jack Wilshere. Now they have to club . a footballing statement of what we Southampton. It comes a year after the show they have what it takes to win want to do.” Martinez’s squad has barely $65 million-plus club-record signing of English football’s ultimate prize.— AP changed - his two major signings, Lukaku and midfielder Gareth Barry, were both there on loan last season - but there’s still a sense of optimism swirling around Goodison Park Mourinho can’t afford ahead of the new campaign. And there should be, with Martinez prov- another trophyless season ing a breath of fresh air in his first year as David Moyes’ replacement and guiding the LONDON: Perhaps only Jose Mourinho shrewd ability to work the transfer market team to a fifth-place finish last season. The could survive as Chelsea manager following to comply with UEFA’s Financial Fair Play haul of 72 points was a record for the club in a trophyless season. Surely another year of regulations. the Premier League era and just as impressive failure would stretch the patience of owner At the same time, two well-paid mem- was the style and attractiveness of the foot- Roman Abramovich again. bers of the old guard have been allowed to ball Everton produced. —AP When his six years in exile from Stamford leave in their 30s: left back Ashley Cole to Bridge ended last year, Mourinho could rea- Roma and record-scorer Frank Lampard to sonably claim that time was required to New York City FC, via a loan spell at Pardew looks to rebuild the squad he inherited from the Manchester City. years of chaotic management. Cole was replaced with another addition alleviate doubters MINNEAPOLIS: Manchester City midfielder David Silva (21) kicks a shot on goal in this file Still, finishing just four points behind from Atletico, Filipe Luis, while goalkeeper photo. — AP Manchester City in the title race showed Thibaut Courtois has been recalled from a at Newcastle that Chelsea was far from being a spent three-year loan at the Spanish capital club force. Unexpected setbacks against lower- to challenge Petr Cech for the No. 1 jersey. NEWCASTLE: After finally getting access to First England, next Europe ranking sides denied Mourinho a third Drogba wasn’t the only crowd-pleasing Newcastle’s transfer kitty, Alan Pardew must hope the Premier League success to add to the 2005 signing of a trio of exciting attackers in the offseason and 2006 titles, with an envied 78-match helps him win over the growing band of doubters at for ambitious Man City unbeaten league run at Stamford Bridge St. James’ Park. ending. Pardew faced the wrath of Newcastle’s passionate MANCHESTER: Manchester City reclaimed its position the first team since 2008. The club appears to have A more clinical strike force was neces- supporters last season during an insipid second half of as the top team in English football by winning the learned its lessons from 2012, when it relaxed after the Premier League campaign that exposed the lack of sary. Diego Costa signed from Spanish Premier League and the League Cup last season. Next ending a 44-year wait for an English league title and depth in his squad and the lack of ambition in the in the firing line for the club’s ambitious Abu Dhabi failed to make the kind of signings that could have led champion Atletico Madrid - the Spaniard’s boardroom. Not a single player arrived on a perma- inability to score at the World Cup over- owners: Conquering Europe. to a period of prolonged domestic dominance. nent deal in either transfer window - even after the In its three years in the Champions League, City This time around, bound by a transfer spending cap looked by Mourinho - and 36-year-old sale of star midfielder Yohan Cabaye in January - while twice has failed to get out of the group stage and last of 60 million euros ($80 million) for breaching UEFA Didier Drogba re-joined two years after the team went out early in both cup competitions year was eliminated by Barcelona in the last 16. Financial Fair Play regulations, they have bought wisely clinching the Champions League for with the management’s focus entirely on staying in That’s a poor return for one of the world’s wealthi- and strengthened areas where they were short last Chelsea. “Didier’s still the same. He’s been a the Premier League. It ended up placing 10th. est clubs and for a team crammed with talent in every season - namely in defense and central midfield. nightmare to play against in training,” Unsurprisingly, frustration among fans grew but department. “We won the league two times in three Willy Caballero arrived from Malaga and is pushing Chelsea captain John Terry said. “He’s still Chelsea’s manager Jose Mourinho they will be delighted to see Pardew spend around 30 years and finished second. We won the FA Cup, first-choice goalkeeper Joe Hart, while Bacary Sagna physically strong, sharp and hungry as well.” million pounds ($50 million) this summer, notably on (League) Cup - we have won everything in England,” gives Pellegrini a strong option as an alternative right Spain striker Fernando Torres has survived addition to the squad as former Arsenal Ajax captain Siem de Jong - a real coup for Newcastle - City playmaker Samir Nasri said. “Now we have to see back to fans’ favorite Pablo Zabaleta after joining from at Chelsea despite more than three years or captain Cesc Fabregas was convinced to and strikers Remy Cabella and Emmanuel Riviere. the bigger picture and try to do something in the Arsenal as a free agent. On Monday, France center back inconsistency and contributing just five join Chelsea from Barcelona. “The club are The arrival of Cabella and Riviere, from Montpellier Champions League. Eliaquim Mangala - a long-term target - joined from FC league goals last season. But Romelu evolving. One day we’ll all be gone,” Terry and Monaco respectively, adds two more names to “With the players we have, that is what we need to Porto for a reported 32 million pounds ($54 million), Lukaku was allowed to make his loan to said. “It’s time for these players to continue the legion of French players at Newcastle and should do. Everyone has to be ambitious.” Winning the easily the club’s most expensive acquisition of the off- Everton permanent despite confirming his to keep winning trophies for this club and help make up for the loss of Loic Remy, who returned Premier League, it appears, is the minimum require- season. Fernando, a 12-million pound ($20 million) goal scoring prowess with 15 in the last keep the fans and owner happy.” And to Queens Park Rangers after a loan spell. ment at Etihad Stadium nowadays. But neither of City’s recruit also from Porto, will provide depth to central league campaign. Mourinho, who called his team “little horses” “It’s taken us a while to build and we have had to recent championship successes have come easy. In midfield as will Frank Lampard, who will spend the first It would have been hard to turn down and complained about the lack of “killer” lose one or two great players along the way, Cabaye in 2012, City scored twice in injury time to win its final half of the season on loan from MLS side New York City the $47 million on offer from Everton for the striker last season, seems satisfied for now. particular,” Pardew said. “But we always knew that match and beat great rival Manchester United to the - one of the clubs jointly owned by City - after his once this summer came, we could make a bigger step, Belgium striker who could never convince “We got exactly what we need and what we title on goal difference. And last year, City won its last departure from Chelsea. maybe, and hopefully that’s reflected in performanc- Mourinho of his worth on the pitch. With want,” Mourinho said preparing for his sec- five matches to overhaul Liverpool in a title race that The new recruits may lack the name recognition of es.” Time will tell if Pardew sticks to his word and con- again went down to the last weekend. City never has those from recent years but they join an already-strong $66 million also banked from offloading ond season of a four-year contract. “The tinues to keep his calm on the touchline after getting done things the easy way and it seems that’s not about squad and Pellegrini’s biggest success arguably is out-of-favor David Luiz to Paris Saint- squad is one which I like very much and I a lengthy ban last season for head-butting Hull mid- to change even in the era of the Sheikh Mansour keeping hold of key midfielder Yaya Toure, who hinted Germain, Chelsea has demonstrated a look forward to starting the season.” — AP fielder David Meyler. — AP regime, when more than $1 billion has been spent on he could leave City at the end of last season.—AP McIlroy wins United set to major title begin new era under Van Gaal

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TORONTO: (Left to right) Roger Federer of Switzerland and Jo-Wilfried Tsonga of France pose for photos after their finals matchduring Rogers Cup at Rexall Centre at York University. — AFP Tsonga caps week of upsets Federer denied 80th career title

TORONTO: Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga had one more surprise work. “I’m waiting for this since couple of months now. I was look- “I wish I could have played a bit better in the finals today. break chance the entire match. in his bag of upsets, beating second seeded Roger Federer 7-5 7- ing for my best level, today I had it and it’s great.” “There were things I could have done better, but, overall it was a Federer did not allow Tsonga many break opportunities him- 6 (3) to cap a scintillating march to the Rogers Cup title on Certainly there was no disputing that Tsonga’s win was well- positive week. “I go away from this feeling good about my self but the one he did, in the first set, was all the Frenchman Sunday. After knocking off world number one Novak Djokovic in deserved, the 13th seeded Frenchman’s hit list including players chances next week and also at the US Open.” needed converting the chance to clinch the set and a 1-0 lead. the third round, taking out twice champion and eighth seed who had won seven of the last 10 Canadian titles (Djokovic 2012, In 16 career meetings Tsonga had beaten the Swiss maestro Play remained tight in the second with no break points, the Andy Murray in the quarters and seventh seed Grigor Dimitrov in 2011, 2007; Murray 2010, 2009 and Federer 2004, 2006). just five times but three came on the Canadian hard courts. set going to a tie-break won by Tsonga, who took four straight the semis, Tsonga denied 17-time grand slam winner Federer a It marked the first time since 2002 that a player had beaten With Federer appearing in his fifth Canadian final and Tsonga points after the breaker had been deadlocked at 3-3 landmark 80th career title. the four top seeds to win a Masters series event. “He beat great having advanced to at least the semi-finals in three of his four “What is achieved is achieved and I will just continue on this “I played well all this week, I beat many good guys,” said players along the way and backed it up with another great final,” trips to Canada, both men had a cool look of confidence as they way, continue to work hard,” said Tsonga, when asked about his Tsonga. “It’s a big achievement because I worked really hard to said Federer, who turned 33 on Friday and had been hoping to walked onto a blazing hot centre court. US Open chances. “This win gives me a lot of hope for the rest of come back from my knee injury last year. celebrate his birthday by lifting the trophy. “No excuses. I think In a week of superb performances, Tsonga may have saved his the year, of course. “But I will continue to do my work like I did last “Unfortunately there is no secret...behind this there is a lot of he played really solid and well when he had to. best for last, the second seeded Swiss unable to manage a single couple of months and I hope I will continue to win.” — Reuters

Radwanska eases past Lochte rules the pool Venus to win Rogers Cup IRVINE: Ryan Lochte held off a fast-finishing and haven’t done the work I’ve wanted to. But MONTREAL: Agnieszka Radwanska tamed Venus Williams 6-4 6-2 to win the Michael Phelps to win the 200 meters individ- there are two years left until (the Rio Olympics).” Rogers Cup in Montreal on Sunday, the third seeded Pole setting herself up as a ual medley at the US National Championships Meanwhile, Phelps overcame the first hur- player to watch at the US Open. in Irvine, California on Sunday. dle to a potential return to Olympic competi- The first win of the season for Radwanska, it provided a timely jolt of confidence Trailing by almost a second and a half at tion in 2016 when he was named along with going into Flushing Meadows and the year’s final grand slam with 11 of her 14 one point, Phelps displayed his famous finish- exciting teenagers Katie Ledecky and Missy career titles having come on hard courts. “One of my biggest title,” said Radwanska, ing kick and nearly made up the deficit in the Franklin on the US team for the Pan Pacific who has registered a long line of firsts for tennis in her country, including Poland’s final 50 meters to bring the crowd to its feet. Championships on Sunday. first grand slam finalist and first Pole to win a WTA Tour title. “As you can see in the Lochte, the world record holder in the Phelps’ qualification for the Aug. 21-24 draw had pretty all top players. So very, very special title for me. event, touched first in a time of 1:56.50, just championships on Australia’s Gold Coast has “I think she (Williams) played great tennis whole week, playing and beating a lot ahead of Phelps in 1:56.55. “We both hate to also earned the winner of 18 Olympic gold of good players on the way to the final. lose but we enjoy racing each other,” Phelps medals a ticket to next year’s world champi- “I think I even happier to beat Venus when she’s really on fire.” Williams, a twice told reporters. “Hopefully we can push each onships in Kazan, Russia. US Open champion, will also be buoyed by her performance in Montreal with a other and see what happens.” His fellow Olympic champions Allison projected return late yesterday to the world rankings top 20 for the first time since For Phelps, the result was a positive sign Schmitt, Natalie Coughlin and Katie Hoff, how- March 2013. that his comeback from retirement is on the ever, failed to make the team for the Pan Pacific The tournament also pushed Williams past the $30 million in career earnings, right track. In the most significant meet since championships in Australia. joining an elite club that includes her sister Serena and Maria Sharapova. Phelps launched his comeback in May, the 18- The trio failed to make the top three in any “I totally wanted to be in the top 20 like earlier this year,” said Williams. “I’ve been times Olympic champion finished seventh in of their individual events at the US National having goals. It’s always a goal in mind for myself and hopefully most tennis players. the 100m freestyle on Wednesday and second Championships in Irvine, California and were “I would love to hit the top 16 and just keep going forward after that. Obviously, in the 100m butterfly on Friday. not included in the 60-strong squad that also if I can continue this level of tennis, it will be something that can happen for me.” The meet is also serving as a qualifier for the earned selection for next year’s world champi- After a grinding and emotional three-set win over top ranked sister Serena in Pan Pac Championships in Australia later this onships. Saturday’s semi-finals, the 34-year-old American appeared to have little left against month. Phelps was slow out of the blocks and Phelps, who came out of retirement in May an energetic and focused opponent almost 10 years her junior. ceded control to Lochte, who was on world after quitting the sport following the 2012 “It’s been a really long week, I played like six matches in a row,” said Williams. record pace over the first 50. But Phelps turned London Olympics with 22 medals in total, was “Against her you really have to be patient. “I just fell a little short today. I wanted to on the afterburners down the stretch of his fin- using the national championships to deter- give more but I just didn’t have it. ishing freestyle, bringing back memories of mine whether he would push through to Rio. “I really would like to think under circumstances where I could give everything I previous dramatic wins during his storied He qualified for the 100 metres butterfly and have, that the results could have been a little different. career. 200m individual medley at the championships. “She just was a little too good today.” Radwanska took control early on a sunny Five-time Olympic gold medalist Lochte Ledecky, who qualified in the 200m, 400m and centre court, breaking Williams twice to race in front 4-1. earned his first medal of the meet. The face of 800m freestyle, set a world record in the 400m Williams would break back but the world number five would not buckle and US men’s swimming after Phelps retired, Lochte in Irvine, her third record swim inside six weeks. easily took the opening set. She opened the second set with another deflating has been working on a comeback of his own. She broke the 800m and 1500m freestyle break to quickly put the pressure on Williams and then broke the dejected He was competing in his second meet since records at a meeting in Texas in June. American again to go up 5-2 before holding serve and finishing off the match with tearing his MCL earlier in the year. Franklin, who won four gold at the London an emphatic ace. “This year has been up and down but I’m Olympics, qualified for four individual events in “I was playing much better every match,” said Radwanska. “I didn’t start that well MONTREAL: Agnieszka Radwanska of Poland kisses the trophy after defeat- glad I got a win, it feels good,” Lochte said. “I the 100m and 200m freestyle and 100m and from my first match. I think every match was much better. That’s why I think I sitting ing Venus Williams of the USA during the women’s finals match at Uniprix haven’t been in the water because of my knee, 200m backstroke. — Reuters right here now.” — Reuters Stadium. — AFP Turkish markets turn lower on Erdogan win

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SINGAPORE: A man flies his fish shape kite near to the Marina Bay Sands hotel resorts (background) in Singapore yesterday. Singapore’s trade-sensitive economy grew 3.5 percent in the first half and was on track for 2.5-3.5 percent expansion this year. — AFP Tata-SIA unveils new airline ‘Vistara’ Carrier eyes October launch, bullish on future

NEW DELHI: India’s newest airline IndiGo, India’s largest passenger carrier, solidated group net profit climbed to announced yesterday flights could begin is the sole airline among the four biggest 53.98 billion rupees ($882.3 million) in as early as October, saying it was “bullish” currently operating to consistently report the three months to June from 17.26 bil- about the future even as a rival carrier profits. Kingfisher, another full-service air- lion rupees for the same quarter of the reported a big loss. line owned by liquor tycoon Vijay Mallya, previous year. The figure easily outdis- The new airline, to be called Vistara-a was grounded by huge losses in 2012. tanced analysts’ forecasts of around 35.3 Sanskrit word meaning “limitless But Vistara’s new chief executive pro- billion rupees. But Tata Motors, which expanse”-is 49 percent-owned by jected a strong future for the new carrier also makes the ultra-cheap Nano hatch- Singapore Airlines, while the Mumbai- thanks to India’s fast-growing middle class. back, reported net profit at its Indian based Tata conglomerate controls 51 per- operations slid, hit by a continued sharp cent. Bullish future slowdown in India’s economic growth The airline will offer both business and “The Indian aviation sector is on the that hit its key commercial vehicle busi- economy class, new chief executive Phee cusp of change,” he said, saying the com- ness. Teik Yeoh told reporters in New Delhi, and pany was “very bullish about the future” “A continuing weak operating and hoped to start flying passengers “some- thanks to low air-travel penetration in the economic environment in the stand- time in October”, subject to approval by country of 1.25 billion. Air trips per person alone business... was more than offset India’s Directorate General of Civil Aviation each year in India stand at just 0.07, far by strong demand for new products, (DGCA). behind developed countries such as the growth in volumes,” Tata Motors said in The previous Congress government United States with 2.49 air trips annually. a statement. Tata Motors’ domestic per- began allowing foreign airlines to buy up Vistara will take delivery of its first formance has declined as it has lost to 49 percent stakes in Indian carriers in plane, an Airbus A320-200, in September, market share to rivals Maruti Suzuki 2012. India’s air passenger market has and will have five aircraft by December. It India and Hyundai Motor. Tata Motors, expanded at breakneck speed but many plans to increase its fleet to 20 by the end part of the Tata tea-to-steel conglomer- NEW DELHI: TATA SIA Airlines limited (top officials from left), Directors on Board Swee Wah Mak, companies are laden with debts and beset of its fifth year in business. The Tata Group, ate, is now hugely reliant on revenues Mukund Rajan, Chairman Prasad Menon and CEO Teik Yeoh, pose for the media at a press confer- by cut-throat fare wars, high fuel costs and which launched India’s first civilian airline- from Jaguar Land Rover (JLR), which it ence to unveil the name and logo of the new airline’ Vistara’ in New Delhi yesterday. — AP shoddy infrastructure. later nationalized-announced its partner- bought for $2.3 billion from Ford in India’s second-biggest carrier by pas- ship with Singapore Airlines 11 months 2008 at the height of the global finan- sengers, Jet Airways, reported yesterday it ago. cial crisis. lost 2.2 billion rupees ($36 million) in the Tata also holds a stake in an Indian low- The purchase, seen by auto analysts Dubai extends gains three months to June 30. The figure was cost carrier which started flying in June, at the time as a risky gamble, has paid down from the 3.55 billion-rupee loss Jet operated by Asia’s biggest budget airline off dramatically with the iconic luxury MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS reported in the same quarter a year ago AirAsia. Tata said it believed there would brand driving Tata Motors’ profits. after it cut financing costs, but the per- be no conflict in holding stakes in two Consolidated revenue soared 38.2 per- DUBAI: Dubai’s stock index rose for a third session in a “In Abu Dhabi the percentage moves are always formance underscored entrenched prob- Indian airlines. “AirAsia is a low-cost carrier, cent to 646.83 billion rupees in the row yesterday to lead Gulf market gains, while lower, but it’s the same pattern - on both markets lems facing the sector. Vistara is a full-service carrier-they’re in dif- three months to June from a year earli- Industries Qatar shrugged off a fifth straight decline in we’re heading into potential resistance zones,” said The Centre for Asia Pacific Aviation con- ferent spaces,” said Tata Group spokesman er, the company said. Tata Motors’ quarterly profit as investors bet the firm’s performance Powers. “Will the buyers be aggressive enough to sultancy estimates the industry will lose Mukund Rajan. shares finished up 3.3 percent at 447.40 would improve in the second half of 2014. Dubai rose plough through those resistances? It looks like it will $1.3-1.4 billion in the financial year to rupees ahead of the results’ release on 1.7 percent to six-day closing high of 4,820 points as take some time.” March 2015 after losing $1.7 billion in Profit triples investors’ expectations of good earnings 196 million shares changed hands, nearly double Dubai has support and resistance levels around 2013-14. India’s biggest automaker said con- figures. — AFP Sunday’s 13-month low of 100 million. 4,414 and 4,935 points, Powers said, while for Abu But that volume was still modest compared to lev- Dhabi these marks are at 4,817 and 5,055. els that prevailed earlier this year, and it was not clear Industries Qatar that any sustained rise of the market was starting. In Doha, Industries Qatar recovered from an early- Kuwait’s money supply rises 0.9% in June: CBK Construction firm Arabtec, for example, gained 3.9 session drop to end 0.8 percent higher at 171.50 riyals, percent, but there was no fresh news on the company rebounding from near technical support on the June KUWAIT: Kuwait’s Money Supply (M2) eign currencies fell by 0.6 percent to KD lion, while such deposits in foreign curren- and retail investors simply appeared to be trading the low of 164 riyals despite reporting a 38 percent drop surged to KD 34,305.3 million, up 0.9 per- 3,044.1 million. Local banks’ claims on the cies swelled by 1.2 percent to KD 2,990.4 stock short-term once again. in second-quarter net profit. The conglomerate made cent month-on-month, announced yester- CBK, represented in bonds, remained million. The balance of utilized cash credit “What’s happening now locally doesn’t mean too 1.25 billion riyals ($343 million) in the three months to day the Central Bank of Kuwait. In its unchanged at KD 1,950 million in June, it facilities to residents went up by 1.6 per- much because the market is just chopping around,” June 30, well short of analysts’ forecasts in what was a monthly bulletin, the CBK’s Economic added. cent month-on-month to KD 30,236.9 mil- said Bruce Powers, technical strategist and president fifth straight quarterly profit decline. Research Department stated that the local Local banks’ net foreign assets surged by lion, while average interest rates on one- at WideVision in Dubai. This slump is mainly due to state-owned Qatar banks combined assets also rose in June by 6.6 percent to KD 7,493.1 million, while year treasury bonds stood at 1.0 percent, “Whether we continue to consolidate or rally is the Petroleum raising natural gas feedstock prices by 0.9 percent to KD 54,905. 5 million. time deposits with the CBK nosedived by the CBK figures added. Kuwait’s financing big question. I think there’s a higher probability that more than 50 percent year-on-year, as well as a series The CBK’s data also showed that the pri- 14.7 percent to KD 2,903.1 million in June, of imports dropped June by about 16.4 we will rally. Earnings haven’t had too much of an of planned and unplanned plant shutdowns, said vate sector’s deposits in the Kuwaiti dinar the CBK figures indicated. percent, reaching KD 783.8 million, while impact.” Neighboring Abu Dhabi also rose, climbing Allen Sandeep, director of research at Naeem at local banks dropped by 0.2 percent to Meanwhile, non-resident deposits in the the average exchange rate of the US dollar 1.1 percent to 4,998 points. Holdings in Cairo. — Reuters KD 2,936.9 million, while deposits in for- dinar rose by 5.8 percent to KD 740.2 mil- dropped 0.3 percent to 281.96 fils. — KUNA BUSINESS TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014 Balfour Beatty rejects News second Carillion in brief merger proposal

LONDON: British infrastructure company Balfour Beatty Kuwait’s Americana has rejected a second merger proposal from rival Carillion, Q2 net profit rises saying it would pose significant risks to its business. Lossmaking Balfour Beatty said yesterday there was no DUBAI: Kuwait Food Co, which sells food products strategic logic to a combination other than to enhance under the Americana brand name, reported an 8.7 the combined group’s earnings, and the risks were signifi- percent increase in second-quarter net profit yes- terday. The company made a profit of KD12.80 mil- cant. Balfour has construction, engineering and facilities lion ($45.2 million) compared to 11.78 million management services in over 80 countries. A tie-up dinars in the corresponding period of 2013, it said would expand Carillion’s international business and add in a statement on Kuwait’s bourse. Total operating breadth to its construction activities. revenue rose 5.9 percent to KD238.70 million. Carillion’s approach, made public on July 24, followed a Americana, 67 percent owned by the Kharafi fami- difficult 18 months for Balfour, which has issued a series of ly, one of the largest merchant families in the Gulf profit warnings and lost its chief executive in May. Balfour Arab state, may be sold after the Kharafis hired broke off the talks a week after they emerged because investment bank Rothschild to explore a sale, Carillion insisted that Balfour cancel the planned sale of its sources told Reuters in April. Founded in 1964 in US unit Parsons Brinckerhoff and keep it in the merged Kuwait, Americana is a publicly traded group of company. Carillion’s revised proposal included a final divi- companies based in the Middle East and North dend payment for Balfour shareholders and the covering Africa, with interests in restaurants and packaged of “appropriate costs” for bidders in the Parsons food. The company is a franchise operator in the Brinckerhoff sale. Carillion also wants until Aug 28 to region of restaurants including KFC and Pizza Hut, make a formal bid. owned by Yum Brands. —Reuters “In our board’s judgment, it wasn’t a credible proposal that was going to fix all the risks for Balfour Beatty share- JALALABAD: Afghan confectionery workers make traditional sweets and other foods at a factory on the Tamdeen Investment posts holders,” Balfour Executive Chairman Steve Marshall told outskirts of Jalalabad in Nangarhar province. Afghanistan’s economy has improved significantly since KD 7.7m profits in 6 months reporters. the fall of the Taleban regime in 2001 largely because of the infusion of international assistance. —AFP “For example, if bidders (for Parsons Brinckerhoff) were KUWAIT: Tamdeen Investment Company (TAMINV) not prepared to carry on and if the merger then didn’t go has realized KD 7.7 million in profits during the first through, Balfour Beatty is basically left with a failed merg- six months of 2014, 26.3 fils earnings-per-share, com- er transaction and damage to Parsons Brinckerhoff,” he Turkish markets turn pared to profits worth KD 5 million and EPS 16.8 fils said. Carillion said it would consider its position and make in the same period last year, the company said yes- a statement in due course. terday. In a statement posted on the website of the Kuwait Stock Exchange (KSE), Tamdeen said that The companies have not disclosed financial terms of lower on Erdogan win shareholders’ equity during the six months till June Carillion’s proposal. They have a combined market capital- 30, 2014 hit KD 132.9 million, compared to KD 106.8 ization of 3 billion pounds ($5 billion). Whitman Howard million the same period in 2013. The company added analyst Stephen Rawlinson called Balfour’s decision to go Investors weigh economic risks that the total assets in the first six months of the year it alone a “brave move”, and that Carillion’s management reached KD 213.9 million. Liabilities hit KD 73.5 mil- could have brought “great benefit” to Balfour. He has a ISTANBUL: Turkish markets turned ening versus the euro on that hori- come which his opponents fear will lion, compared to KD 31.7 million the same period “sell” rating on Balfour shares and a “buy” on Carillion. lower yesterday following Tayyip zon.” The lira eased to 2.1555 against herald an increasingly authoritarian last year. TAMINV was founded in 1997 and enlisted Balfour shares were up 2.7 percent at 243.8 pence by at KSE in 2006. —KUNA 1027 GMT. Erdogan’s presidential election victo- the dollar by 0932 GMT, still firmer rule. “We will have to see how policy ry, as investors weighed the econom- than 2.1601 late on Friday but weak- evolved and we’ve yet to see how an RBS preparing to sell Profit drops ic risks associated with a likely further ening from a peak of 2.1351 in early Erdogan presidency compares to an global arm of Coutts Balfour announced the plan to sell Parsons concentration of power in the former trade reached as investors responded Erdogan premiership. A year ago Brinckerhoff in May. It acquired the business in 2009 for premier’s hands. With the market to the emphatic nature of Erdogan’s Turkey was in the fragile five, but over ZURICH/SINGAPORE: Royal Bank of Scotland is 636 million pounds but has said it failed to deliver signifi- focus on a lack of clarity regarding election win. The main Istanbul share the last 12 months there has been selling the international arm of its private bank in cant benefits. Besides its construction operations, Turkey’s future monetary policy and index fell 1.06 percent to 78,359.54 rebalancing,” said Julian Mayo, co- a deal that could be valued around $1 billion, Carillion maintains British railways, roads and military the make-up of its economic man- points, lagging the main emerging chief investment officer at sources said yesterday, as the British government bases, partly under public-private partnership contracts. agement team, Istanbul shares market benchmark which rose 1 per- Charlemagne Capital, who are over- leans on it to focus more on domestic lending. It has won a string of contracts in the past 18 months lagged the emerging benchmark and cent. The benchmark 2-year govern- weight on Turkey. The move means Coutts, founded in the 18th cen- tury and best known as banker to the Queen of worth 10 billion pounds. the lira shed initial gains. ment bond yield was unchanged at England, will be split into two businesses - one Carillion’s shares have fallen 2.9 percent so far this year “The presidency has until now 9.36 percent, after falling to as low as Exposed to risk based in Britain and the other in Zurich from while Balfour’s are down 18 percent - including a 6 per- been a largely ceremonial position, 9.19 percent earlier. Erdogan had been insisting on where it runs operations in Hong Kong, cent fall since it revealed the merger talks. Reporting but it seems that Erdogan will seek to “There was a temporary relief rally lower interest rates before the elec- Singapore, Abu Dhabi and Dubai that manage results two days early yesterday, Balfour Beatty said it concentrate more power in the role. If in the market this morning as uncer- tion. He has repeatedly accused an nearly $36 billion in client assets. RBS, which is set made a net loss in the six months to June 27, while this happens, his victory could lead to tainties were left behind,” said Pinar “interest rate lobby” of speculators of to disclose the plans to staff yesterday, has underlying pretax profit fell 53 percent to 22 million a more belligerent and unpredictable Uslu, a strategist at ING. “Geopolitical pushing for higher rates and seeking attracted a variety of offers from a range of bid- pounds. It was hit by a slump in its mechanical and elec- policymaking environment,” said risks are putting pressure on emerg- to undermine the Turkish economy. ders including unnamed Asian and North trical engineering division, which it already flagged in William Jackson, Capital Economics ing markets including Turkey. In the The central bank has already cut its American parties for Coutts International, two July, and said it was performing in line with its most emerging markets economist. “In short term we will (also) monitor main one-week repo rate by 175 sources with knowledge of the operation said. recent trading update. The sale could be net RBS between $720 million time, a deterioration in the pre- ...domestic political developments points since May, moves which some and $1.1 billion, based on a multiple of 2 to 3 per- Its shares are still trading at a premium to Carillion’s on dictability of policymaking and, more and inflation.” economists see as hard to justify giv- a share price-to-earnings basis, partly on expectations of cent of assets under management, said a third generally, institutional standards in en persistently high inflation. an eventual return to profit and the earnings potential of person with knowledge of the matter. A spokes- Turkey would deter investors and Checks and balances “The pressure on the central bank its private finance initiative deals with the state. “If Balfour woman for RBS declined to comment on the In the longer term there are con- to ease monetary policy will persist. news. RBS is 81-percent owned by the state fol- is prepared to walk away from the merger, where there make it more difficult to attract capi- lowing a 45 billion-pound ($75.52 billion) rescue are potential cost savings, they do really have to demon- tal inflows.” As prime minister, cerns about the possible erosion of Erdogan had been quite vocal Erdogan oversaw a decade of growth balances in the system under a some- regarding the necessity to cut interest operation post-financial crisis and is under pres- strate the value in the business,” said Howard Seymour, sure from lawmakers to focus on lending to UK an analyst at Numis Securities. —Reuters and stability after a long period of times impulsive leader who has made rates and he will continue to be so,” economic chaos and political drift. clear that, unlike his predecessors, he said Thu Lan Nguyen, a currency households and businesses and help support the country’s economic recovery. It has under- His Deputy Prime Minister Ali will exercise the full powers granted strategist at Commerzbank. gone a major restructuring in order to pay back Growth strong in Babacan, who doubled as economics to the presidency under current laws. “The likely continuation of the taxpayers’ funds and eventually return to private minister, helped to ensure the suc- Ratings agency Fitch said political risk rate-cut cycle will put pressure on the ownership, and appeared a step closer to doing UK, slips in Japan cess of the AK party’s 12-year rule. would weigh on its credit ratings lira, particularly when monetary poli- both after it posted a surprise 1 billion pound But Babacan’s future role is through its potential to discourage cy in the US is normalized.” Turkey is quarterly profit recently. —Reuters Leading economies are showing a steady growth trend over- PARIS: highly susceptible to changes in all, although Britain is doing particularly well and Japan and unclear, and pressure from Erdogan capital inflows and reduce policy pre- Germany are showing signs of losing pace, the OECD said yesterday. on the central bank to keep cutting dictability. global liquidity conditions because of The euro-zone as a whole, and France, are on a stable growth path, interest rates - despite high inflation Political tension was likely to its large current account deficit. Dollar unchanged the latest OECD data showed, contrasting with several recent indica- and expectations that US monetary remain high as Erdogan seeks to “I went underweight mainly against dinar tors suggesting that France is lagging in the 18-member single-cur- policy will soon tighten - seems extend the powers of the presidency because of feeling that risk aversion rency zone. The Organization for Economic Cooperation and unlikely to ease. “In the coming and his pressure for rate cuts could was rising in general and Turkey is KUWAIT: Exchange rate of the US greenback vis-a- vis the Kuwaiti dinar was unchanged yesterday, trad- Development, grouping 34 advanced democracies, said that its weeks, Turkish financial markets are undermine the central bank’s “tenu- very sensitive to that. It’s very sensi- index of leading indicators for “the United States and Canada also ing at KD 0.283 per dollar while the EU currency trad- likely to welcome the Erdogan win as ous credibility”, Fitch said in a state- tive to US Federal Reserve policy and ed at KD 0.379, said the daily bulletin of the Central continue to point to stable growth momentum.” a sign of continuity,” said analyst Amy ment yesterday. that uncertainty is rising,” said This was also the case for Britain, a member of the European Bank of Kuwait. The bank’s bulletin said that the Erdogan’s victory in Sunday’s vote Maarten-Jan Bakkum, investment Union but not of the euro-zone, “where growth momentum remains Yuan Zhuang at Nordea Research. pound sterling settled at KD 0.475, while the Swiss above-trend rates,” the OECD’s monthly index showed. There were “...However, political uncertainty is takes him a big step closer to the strategist for ING Investment franc settled at KD 0.312 and the Japanese yen stood signs of a blip in Japanese growth, but this “probably reflects one-off high within the coming three months, executive presidency he has long Management’s emerging market at KD 0.003. —KUNA factors,” the OECD said. —AFP which supports our view of lira weak- coveted for Turkey. But it is an out- funds. —Reuters EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. UAE Exchange Centre WLL Syrian Pound 2.905 Sierra Leone 0.000062 0.000068 Nepalese Rupees 3.870 Singapore Dollar 0.223434 0.229434 South African Rand 0.020586 0.029086 ASIAN COUNTRIES Malaysian Ringgit 89.290 COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001892 0.002472 Japanese Yen 2.781 Australian Dollar 244.24 241.24 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 46.430 Taiwan 0.009342 0.009522 Indian Rupees 4.647 Canadian Dollar 262.90 263.90 Thai Bhat 9.820 Pakistani Rupees 2.872 Thai Baht 0.008557 0.009107 Swiss Franc 318.63 316.63 Turkish Lira 130.325 Srilankan Rupees 2.179 Euro 384.03 385.03 Nepali Rupees 2.892 Arab US Dollar 283.55 286.55 Bahraini Dinar 0.747257 0.755257 Singapore Dollar 228.050 Sterling Pound 479.45 482.45 Bahrain Exchange Company Hongkong Dollar 36.660 Egyptian Pound 0.038750 0.041850 Japanese Yen 2.83 2.85 Bangladesh Taka 3.659 Iranian Riyal 0.000079 0.000080 Bangladesh Taka 3.658 3.928 Philippine Peso 6.465 COUNTRY SELL CASH SELLDRAFT Iraqi Dinar 0.000180 0.000240 Indian Rupee 4.642 4.942 Thai Baht 8.873 Europe Jordanian Dinar 0.397357 0.404857 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.179 2.614 Irani Riyal transfer 0.271 Belgian Franc 0.007387 0.008387 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.0000000 1.0000000 Irani Riyal cash 0.273 Nepali Rupee 2.902 3.437 British Pound 0.469516 0.478516 Lebanese Pound 0.000137 0.000237 Pakistani Rupee 2.878 2.790 Czech Korune 0.005646 0.017646 Moroccan Dirhams 0.022358 0.046358 GCC COUNTRIES UAE Dirhams 77.21 77.73 Danish Krone 0.047009 0.052009 Nigerian Naira 0.001142 0.001777 Saudi Riyal 75.804 Bahraini Dinar 754.69 756.76 Euro 0.375333 0.383333 Omani Riyal 0.732021 0.737701 Qatari Riyal 78.106 Egyptian Pound 39.64 40.24 Norwegian Krone 0.041444 0.046644 Qatar Riyal 0.077339 0.078552 Omani Riyal 738.440 Jordanian Dinar 403.56 408.21 Romanian Leu 0.085456 0.085456 Saudi Riyal 0.075137 0.075837 Bahraini Dinar 755.020 Omani Riyal 737.41 744.71 Slovakia 0.008159 0.018159 Syrian Pound 0.001763 0.001983 UAE Dirham 77.415 Qatari Riyal 78.30 78.85 Swedish Krona 0.037141 0.042141 Tunisian Dinar 0.162722 0.170722 Saudi Riyal 75.74 76.14 Swiss Franc 0.307204 0.317404 Turkish Lira 0.134102 0.141102 ARAB COUNTRIES Turkish Lira 0.134102 0.141102 UAE Dirhams 0.076382 0.077531 Egyptian Pound - Cash 43.400 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Yemeni Riyal 0.001281 0.001361 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 39.656 Australasia Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.327 Australian Dollar 0.255013 0.266513 Tunisian Dinar 166.560 Rate for Transfer Selling Rate New Zealand Dollar 0.233799 0.243299 Jordanian Dinar 401.430 Al Mulla Exchange US Dollar 283.900 America Lebanese Lira/for 1000 1.907 Canadian Dollar 261.720 Canadian Dollar 0.253292 0.261792 Syrian Lira 2.026 US Dollars 0.280550 0.284600 Currency Transfer Rate (Per 1000) Morocco Dirham 34.359 Sterling Pound 478.675 Euro 381.540 US Dollars Mint 0.280550 0.284600 US Dollar 283.500 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Swiss Frank 313.990 Euro 380.850 Asia US Dollar Transfer 284.150 Bahrain Dinar 755.635 Pound Sterlng 477.450 Euro 381.900 UAE Dirhams 77.275 Bangladesh Taka 0.003305 0.003905 Canadian Dollar 260.350 Sterling Pound 478.220 Qatari Riyals 78.860 Chinese Yuan 0.044665 0.048165 Indian Rupee 4.642 Canadian dollar 259.970 Saudi Riyals 75.975 Hong Kong Dollar 0.034566 0.037316 Egyptian Pound 39.645 Turkish lira 133.090 Jordanian Dinar 401.000 Indian Rupee 0.004519 0.004920 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.177 Swiss Franc 315.020 Egyptian Pound 39.651 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000021 0.000027 Bangladesh Taka 3.657 Australian Dollar 264.830 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.181 Japanese Yen 0.002697 0.002877 Philippines Peso 6.470 Kenyan Shilling 0.003222 0.003222 US Dollar Buying 282.950 Indian Rupees 4.642 Pakistan Rupee 2.869 Korean Won 0.000263 0.000278 Pakistani Rupees 2.874 Bahraini Dinar 755.100 Malaysian Ringgit 0.085699 0.091699 GOLD Bangladesh Taka 3.659 UAE Dirham 77.250 20 Gram 245.000 Philippines Pesso 6.442 Nepalese Rupee 0.002945 0.003115 Saudi Riyal 75.750 10 Gram 124.000 Cyprus pound 697.315 Pakistan Rupee 0.002775 0.003055 5 Gram 64.000 Japanese Yen 3.770 Philippine Peso 0.006489 0.006769 *Rates are subject to change TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014 BUSINESS Markaz posts net profit of 6fils EPS for H1 2014

KUWAIT: Kuwait Financial Centre “Markaz” increase by more than 10% compared to the announced achieving a net profit attributa- AUM as of December 31, 2013. ble to shareholders of KD 3.03 million (EPS 6 Diraar Y Alghanim, Markaz Chairman, fils per share) for the first half ending 30th said: “The performance of GCC stock markets June 2014, as compared with a net profit of affected Markaz results for the second quar- ter of 2014, where S&P GCC recorded a decline of 7.4 per cent in the month of June. Our diversification policy mitigated the volatility of the markets during the first half of 2014 and Markaz funds continued to out- perform its respective indices. Meanwhile, Markaz’s Assets Under Management (AUM) grew by over 10% in the first half; the growth was contributed from most of our invest- ment products’ range, and was a result of the solid and consistent performance of our Funds.” During the first half of 2014, Markaz was awarded Euromoney’s “Best Investment Bank in Kuwait” prize for the second consec- Diraar Y Alghanim, Chairman, utive year. Euromoney’s 2014 Award for Kuwait Financial Centre Excellence recognized Markaz based on demonstrated breadth of capabilities and 3.59 million (EPS 7 fils per share) during the excellence in execution of client mandates same period in 2013. Markaz’s total assets across debt market transactions, equity under management (AUM) reached KD 1,080 transactions, mergers and acquisitions, and million as of June 30th, 2014, with an advisory work. Al-Tijaria sets up real estate development Co in Bahrain The Zaltbommel fruits and vegetables market shows red peppers in boxes. Russia’s embargo against food from the European Union will affect 10 percent of the EU’s food exports and may cause a crisis of glut in Europe, industry experts said yesterday. —AFP ithin Al-Tijaria Real Estate Company’s of Bahrain. It will also work on managing and strategy of diversifying its investments developing private properties like residential Wand expanding geographically, complexes, residential, investment, commer- EU seeks to limit impact of Abdulfatah M R Marafie - cial and industrial land spaces. Chairman and Managing Director, In addition to selling and buying announced about the establish- properties, pointing to the ment of Al-Tijaria Real Estate importance of this accomplish- Russia food imports ban Development Company in the ment that aims to support the Kingdom of Bahrain - Manama. company’s revenues. This new company is 100 percent This step supports the com- owned by Al-Tijaria, The pany’s interest in maintaining its Europeans find new markets in Asia, Mideast Commercial Real Estate Company unique position as one of the in Kuwait. leading companies in develop- BRUSSELS: European Union regulators yesterday the EU’s executive Commission, told reporters. “We found new markets in Asia and helped to fill the Marafie added that the new ing real estate industry in The began analyzing product-by-product the impact are looking at every product individually. We hope gap left by an outbreak of pig disease in the company will be Al-Tijaria’s Real State of Kuwait as well as of a Russian ban on EU food imports announced that by Thursday of this week, we will be in a posi- United States. Estate arm in the management, expanding it geographically in in retaliation for Western sanctions over Moscow’s tion to have a clearer picture of the potential “We will have to make an increased effort on development and maintenance Abdulfatah the Gulf region in line with the actions in Ukraine. But they said it was too soon impact so that we can discuss it with the member other markets in the Asia region, in the Middle of our projects in the Kingdom M R H Marafie strategy adopted. to decide how much, if any, of a 400 million euro states.” Agricultural experts from the European East and in North Africa,” Austrian Agriculture ($535 million) EU compensation fund might be Union’s 28 member states will meet in Brussels on Minister Andrae Rupprechter told broadcaster paid out to help farmers. Thursday to plan a coordinated strategy. ORF last week, but he said there could also be a European Agriculture Commissioner Dacian case for compensating the hardest hit. Ciolos interrupted the traditional European Tit for tat “European leaders brought about tougher Commission August break to return to Brussels at Last month, the European Union agreed its sanctions on Russia, which we respect, but we the weekend, together with other senior staff, toughest sanctions yet against Moscow in also have to respect the consequences and not and on Monday they set up a task force. The aim response to Russia’s annexation of Crimea and leave in the lurch those who are bearing the bur- is to work out alternative markets and to analyze support for separatist rebels. Moscow initially said den,” he said. the fallout from Russia’s one-year ban, announced it would not stoop to a tit-for-tat response, but In France, Europe’s biggest agricultural nation, last week, on imports of meat, fish, dairy, fruit and last week it took aim at Western food imports, a farmers have voiced concern about the risk of a vegetables from the United States, the EU, move many analysts say could hurt Russian con- glut of unsold produce from Eastern Europe Canada, Australia and Norway. sumers more than it affects Western exporters. flooding the Western European market. While the With some member states piling on the pres- Ciolos has said he is confident the EU farm sec- Commission has said it reserves the right to sure for redress, they could also agree to award tor can quickly find new markets for exports to respond to Russia’s ban, Ciolos has said any compensation from a special fund signed into law Russia worth around 11 billion euros, roughly 10 response must be proportionate. Taking Russia to at the end of 2013, as part of agricultural reforms. percent of all EU agricultural sales outside the the World Trade Organization over the food ban To date, the fund has never been used. bloc. A separate Russian ban on EU pork could be unwise, Brussels-based lawyers said, “We still feel it’s a little bit soon to discuss the announced earlier this year has had relatively lit- arguing the EU concern was to de-escalate the cost implications,” Roger Waite, a spokesman for tle impact, the Commission says, as farmers have crisis. —Reuters

UK employers expect Euro may give ground scant upturn in against the pound wages: Survey NEW DELHI: Managing Director of Hyundai Motor India Bs Seo poses for a before BoE report photograph with the newly-launched Elite i20 car during an event in New LONDON: British employers expect wage growth to Delhi yesterday. The launch of the new model marks the global premier of the remain weak, according to a survey of personnel man- second-generation i20 model in India. —AFP agers yesterday that contrasted with other reports that LONDON: European Central Bank head Chart positions salaries are set to rise at a faster pace. Mario Draghi’s words last week and what Chartists might also conclude the The report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel Bank of England chief Mark Carney is likely upside for the euro against sterling is limit- EU fights to aid peach market and Development (CIPD) showed private sector median to leave unsaid on Wednesday may com- ed. The pair may struggle to rise through wage settlements in the year to June 2015 are expected to bine to push the euro lower against ster- the 55-day moving average, currently 79.88 bruised by Russian sanctions be 2 percent. They were 2.5 percent in 2013. Economists ling in the coming days. pence, and the base of the daily ichimoku polled by Reuters expect inflation to average just below “The fundamentals for a weaker cloud, now 80.05 pence, both just above the Bank of England’s 2 percent target until midway exchange rate are today much better than Monday’s opening price of 79.86 pence. BRUSSELS: The European Union moved yesterday discussion, “the announcement of import restric- through next year, meaning wage settlements would to prop up the hard-hit peach market, badly tions by Russia risks to further aggravate the mar- they were two or three months ago,” Draghi And if chartists conclude the euro can- barely rise in real terms, according to the CIPD’s findings. said on Thursday, referring to the external not rise versus sterling, then it is likely to bruised by poor weather and an import ban by ket situation and has accelerated the need for A survey last month from the Institute of Directors Russia. The price of peaches and nectarines has action,” an EU statement added. Other than value of the euro. fall as traders test to see if there is room on showed two-thirds of company bosses intended to hike “ECB interest rates will remain at the the downside in the exchange rate. plummeted in European stores this year, mostly Greece, the main producers of peaches in the EU staff pay at least in line with inflation over the next 12 due to a crop that matured far earlier than usual are Italy, Spain and France. To fight the falling current level for an extended period of Positioning, or rather the perceived lack months. Still, the CIPD survey showed recruitment inten- time,” he said after the ECB’s latest policy of it in the euro/sterling exchange rate, amid lower demand for the summer fruit due to prices that are squeezing producers, the EU will tions were high across Britain. “This is great news for job inclement weather. allow farming cooperatives to withdraw 10 per- meeting. That current level is a record low might also suggest there is room for the seekers, but we urgently need to see jobs growth accom- refinancing rate of 0.15 percent and the pound to appreciate against the single cur- “Following the recent decline in prices on the cent of their peach and nectarine supply from the panied by productivity growth for workers to feel the ben- peach and nectarine markets, urgent action is market, an increase from the normally allowed 5 minus 0.1 percent rate on bank overnight rency. Admittedly, positioning seems still to efits of the recovery too,” said Mark Beatson, chief econo- needed to prop up the market and I intend to act percent. deposits. be skewed towards being short euros mist at the CIPD. immediately,” EU Agricultural Commissioner The EU said it would also release funds for the Carney, due to present the BoE’s quar- against the dollar, judging by data from the Output per hour worked, one measure of labor pro- Dacian Ciolos said in a statement. promotion of peaches, which have suffered from terly inflation report on Wednesday is Commodity Futures Trading Commission ductivity, is still around 4 percent weaker than its pre- “I will be proposing today that the European an increased taste for other fruits, such as apricots. expected to emphasise that UK benchmark (CFTC) released on Friday. That showed Commission take immediate, retroactive measures The formal decision to adopt the measures will recession level. The survey also showed only 2 percent of rates will increase gradually without saying euro shorts versus the dollar totalled aimed at reducing supply and promoting be taken in the next few weeks, but will be imple- employers increased their starting salaries significantly in when. 128,747 contracts, the largest net euro demand,” he added. mented retroactively to Monday if confirmed, the the past 12 months - in stark contrast to Friday’s report He doesn’t have to. The direction of UK short position against the greenback for The sale of peaches has been affected further EU said. EU member states produce 2.5 million from the Recruitment and Employers Confederation, rates is not in question, only the timing - a two years. by the ban by Russia of key farming imports from tons of peaches every year and 1.2 million tons of which pointed to surging starting salaries. stark contrast to the ECB’s stance. The clear Yet the same data showed that traders the EU, with countries such as Greece subject to a nectarines. The Russian embargo announced last The CIPD said some business surveys were not picking implication is that the pound, which rose had cut back their long sterling position major reduction in demand of their peach pro- week came in retaliation against US and European up the large number of employers that are not carrying more than 5 percent versus the euro versus the dollar to a net long of 12,121 duce. sanctions over Russia’s alleged role in separatist out pay reviews, or are implementing pay freezes. Only 38 between the beginning of the year and contracts, down from 24,910 the previous “We are monitoring markets closely and I will violence in the eastern Ukraine. percent of employers had carried out a pay review since July 23 but has since given back some of week. That suggests the short euro versus not hesitate to do likewise to assist other sectors The year-long embargo bars imports of meats, the start of 2014, a figure the CIPD said was “surprisingly those gains, is set to recapture some of the the pound exposure is much less crowded dependent on exports to Russia, should it be nec- fruits and vegetables, fish, and dairy products from low” since most pay settlements take place during the first lost ground. The euro may have room to than euro versus the dollar. Apparently, slip back to at least 78.71 pence, July’s low room may be left to buy sterling anew essary,” Ciolos said. the EU, the United States, Australia, Canada and half of the year. —Reuters And although the steps were already under Norway. —Reuters versus sterling. against the euro. —Reuters Russia’s stocks jump after avoiding delisting

MOSCOW: The shares of Russia’s two biggest banks excluded from the index was weighing on the broader concerns that the two banks were now prohibited from half of the year-more than the entire figure for 2013. soared yesterday after avoiding being dropped from a top Russian market last week, and that the news will there- issuing new shares on the US and European markets. The overhanging threat of Western sanctions has effec- emerging markets index as part of the West’s response to fore provide some relief to the market,” VTB Group’s MSCI said in had decided not to raise the weight of the tively frozen investment in Russian projects and seen the Kremlin’s stance in Ukraine. The New York-based MSCI investment house said in a research note that stressed it two stocks in its Russia index should the banks ignore industrial output shrinking in both May and June. The index provider decided on Friday to keep offering the may have a conflict of interest in the matter. the restrictions and proceed with a share issue in order IMF has repeatedly cut its 2014 growth outlook for shares of Sberbank and VTB to clients as long as the two The MSCI Russia index is global traders’ preferred to raise more capital. Russia and now believes it will reach just 0.2 percent. Russian state-held giants did not issue any more stock. way to access a balanced package of paper that reflects “Both Sberbank and VTB Bank have officially The Moscow exchange climbed in value between late VTB’s shares gained nearly four percent and those of the price of the main Moscow-issued stocks. announced that they do not intend to issue new shares early March and June when most traders thought the Sberbank rose more than three percent in the opening The ordinary and preferred shares of Sberbank in the near future,” MSCI said. West would mete out only token punishment for minutes of trading on Moscow’s main exchange. The make up about 12 percent of the MSCI Russia index It added that it would take up the matter again Russia’s March seizure of Ukraine’s Crimea peninsula Moscow stock market followed the banks’ lead higher while those of VTB are weighed at just under three per- should VTB and Sberbank announce plans to issue new and subsequent efforts to fight Kiev’s new pro- and was up nearly two percent while the ruble gained cent. MSCI was under pressure to drop the two finance stock. Traders said that a delisting threatened to accel- European stand. one percent against the euro and also edged up against houses as part of a sanctions package unleashed erate the pace of investors’ capital outflows from But it shed nearly a fifth of its value as the crisis the dollar. against Russia’s financial and defence and high tech- Russia. turned more bloody and the threat of sanctions Russian investors said they now expected the other nologies sectors over the Kremlin’s perceived backing mounted in the past two months. Moscow’s main exchanges in Europe to follow New York’s lead and of insurgents in eastern Ukraine. ‘Improve the mood’ Promsvyazbank economist Oleg Shagov said the MSCI keep the two stocks. “We believe that the risk of two of The index provider said it reached its decision after Russia’s central bank said net capital outflows had decision “should help change the mood of investors for the heavyweight members of the MSCI Russia being “consultation with the investment community” over reached about $75 billion (55 billion euros) in the first the better”. —AFP BUSINESS TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014 Asian markets rebound as Iraq fears wane

HONG KONG: Asian markets rose yesterday fol- last week as investors snapped up the Japanese in the country’s north. IG Ltd in a note. The conclusions from the Palm oil producer Astra Agro Lestari lowing widespread falls last week, after Wall currency, seen as a safe haven in times of uncer- But US markets shrugged off the escalation of weekend “are that conflicts are cooling”, he rose 1.05 percent to 26,500 rupiah, while Street shrugged off fears over instability in Iraq tainty and turmoil. Pakistan’s Karachi Stock violence, ending the week in the black with a ral- said. But risks remain. Over the weekend Hero Supermarket fell 1.85 percent to and Ukraine. Tokyo rebounded 2.38 percent, Exchange (KSE) 100 index fell over 1300 points ly Friday. The Dow Jones Industrial Average rose Ukraine’s army shelled the main rebel bas- 2,650 rupiah. closing up 352.15 points at 15,130.52 and mak- with over 5 percent decrease in trading yester- 0.37 percent over the week, or 60.56 points to tion of Donetsk, as Russia called for a Kuala Lumpur gained 0.51 percent, or ing up much of the 2.98 percent dip it suffered day due to political uncertainty prevailing in the end at 16,553.93. The tech-rich Nasdaq humanitarian ceasefire which the West 9.45 points, to close at 1,849.32. Malaysia Friday after US President Barack Obama’s country. According to economic analysts, the fall Composite Index added 0.42 percent, or 18.26 warned could be a pretext by Moscow to Airline System rose 8.33 percent to 0.26 announcement that he had authorized air strikes is a result to political tensions and uncertainty as points to 4,370.90. send in troops. ringgit and Tenaga Nasional added 0.67 in Iraq. the days come near for the opposition party In the week ahead, investors will be percent to 12.06 ringgit. Hong Kong closed up 1.29 percent, or 314.61 Pakistan Tehrek-i-Insaf (PTI) to hold an ‘Conflicts cooling’ watching economic health indicators from Manila closed 1.11 percent higher, or points, at 24,646.02 while Shanghai gained 1.38 ‘Independence March’ in capital Islamabad on Analysts said Asian market players were still China. The world’s second largest economy 76.32 points, at 6,956.66. Top-traded JG percent, or 30.22 points, to 2,224.65. Other August 14. keeping a close eye on the global geopolitical is due to release its latest industrial output, Summit Holdings Inc. gained 2.31 percent regional markets saw more modest gains. Last week ended on a sour note for most situation, but investors were beginning to feel retail sales and fixed-asset investment fig- to 53.20 pesos while Philippine Long Sydney rose 0.40 percent, or 21.7 points, to Asian markets as worried investors took fright both the Ukraine and Iraq conflicts were de- ures tomorrow. Distance Telephone Co. rose 2.67 percent 5,457.0 while Seoul was up 0.41 percent, or 8.27 from a ramping up of instability in Iraq, where escalating. “On an interim-term view, geopolitics US retail sales and industrial production to 3,080 pesos. points, closing at 2,039.37. The dollar also rallied the US has been launching air strikes against remain at the forefront of investors’ decision- for July will also be released later this week. Mumbai rose 0.75 percent, or 190.10 against the yen and euro after the unit plunged extremist militants besieging ethnic minorities making,” wrote Evan Lucas at Melbourne-based In forex trade the dollar strengthened to points, to end at 25,519.24. Aurobindo 102.13 yen in Tokyo afternoon trade, Pharma gained 6.94 percent to 771.55 against 102.06 yen in New York late Friday rupees, while Mahindra & Mahindra rose and 101.81 yen in Asia. 6.45 percent to 1,308.40 rupees. The euro was quoted at $1.3401 and Singapore rose 0.53 percent, or 17.56 136.87 yen, slipping from $1.3416 and points, to 3,306.45. 136.93 yen in New York. Real estate developer Capitaland Oil prices were mixed. US benchmark gained 0.30 percent to Sg$3.36 while West Texas Intermediate for September United Overseas Bank fell 0.26 percent to delivery rose 15 cents to $97.80 while Brent Sg$22.63. Wellington fell 0.11 percent, or crude for September fell six cents to 5.57 points to 5,049.63. $104.96. Gold slumped to 1,307.68 an Air New Zealand was down 0.26 per- ounce by 1050 GMT compared to its three- cent at NZ$1.935 while Spark was off 0.35 week high of $1,322.92 an ounce on percent at NZ$2.81. Friday. Taipei rose 0.96 percent, or 86.95 points, to 9,172.91. Hon Hai Precision In other markets: Industry added 1.46 percent to Tw$104.0 Jakarta rose 1.18 percent, or 59.48 while Cathay Financial Holding was 1.24 points, to close at 5,113.24. percent higher at Tw$48.9. — AFP

KARACHI: A Pakistani stockbroker monitors the latest share prices on a computer screen during a trading session at the Karachi Stock Exchange (KSE) in Karachi yes- terday. Pakistan’s stock market yesterday saw the largest ever fall in a single day trading over fears of political debacle after a populist cleric called for a march on Islamabad to overthrow the government. — AFP Gold dips on firmer equities; Middle East, Ukraine tensions eyed

SINGAPORE: Gold slipped further from a Ukrainian city of Donetsk on Sunday as three-week high yesterday as investors government forces tightened the noose eyed firmer equity markets and outflows around the rebel-held redoubt and called from the world’s top bullion fund, but on pro-Russian separatists to surrender. held above $1,300 an ounce on concern In the Middle East, the United States con- over the Middle East and Ukraine. Spot ducted a third day of air strikes on gold fell 0.2 percent to $1,307.09 an Sunday in Iraq against the Islamic State ounce by 0652 GMT, after hitting a three- insurgent group. Israel and the week high of $1,322.60 on Friday. US gold Palestinians held their fire early on slipped about $3 to $1,308.50. Monday at the start of a new 72-hour “The only supporting factor for gold ceasefire proposed by Egypt. right now is the geopolitical situation. Despite the risk-aversion sentiment, Though we have seen some easing in speculators cut their bullish bets on gold tensions over the weekend, the underly- futures and options in the week to Aug. 5, ing problems have still not been according to Friday data from the resolved,” said Ronald Leung, chief dealer Commodity Futures Trading Commission. at Lee Cheong Gold Dealers in Hong Holdings in SPDR Gold Trust, the Kong. world’s largest gold-backed exchange- “Economic data and physical markets traded fund, fell 1.79 tons to 795.86 tons are not supportive of prices. Gold will on Friday. Physical buying in top con- range between $1,280 and $1,325 as long sumers China and India has also been as geopolitical tensions remain.” sluggish, while strong economic data in Asian stocks rose on Monday follow- the United States has stoked fears of a ing Wall Street’s rally as Moscow said it tightening in monetary policy. had finished military exercises in south- “The potential for geopolitical ten- ern Russia, which the United States had sions to ease may leave gold vulnerable criticized. However, tensions remained to the downside as the price premium high over the weekend. Artillery shells built since mid-June may fade,” HSBC ana- slammed into the outskirts of the lysts said in a note. — Reuters Chemical maker Synthomer hikes dividend, shares rise LONDON: Chemical maker Synthomer Plc in Asia. raised its interim dividend by 25 percent and Underlying pretax profit fell to 45 million said it would periodically consider returning pounds ($75.5 million) for the six months excess cash to shareholders, sending its ended June 30 as increased competition shares up as much as 9 percent. The compa- among glove makers in Asia hurt margins, ny, which supplies speciality emulsion poly- while underlying revenue fell about 9 per- mers used in construction, textiles, paper cent to 510 million pounds, the company and latex gloves, said it planned to move its said. The company also reiterated that regular dividend policy to 2.5 times earnings underlying pretax profit for the year would cover effective this year. be similar to last year’s. Synthomer, formerly known as Yule Catto “Synthomer has been one of the worst & Co, raised its interim dividend to 3 pence performers year-to-date, underperforming per share from 2.4 pence per share a year the sector,” Morgan Stanley analyst Paul earlier. “It’s been obvious for some time that Walsh wrote in a note. “However, the the cash flow of the business would warrant prospect of an end to the downgrade cycle a bigger dividend,” Chief Financial Officer and an improved dividend policy atop fur- David Blackwood told Reuters. ther cash return potential, we expect upside Blackwood said the company would con- support to shares today.” Shares in the sider paying a special dividend when appro- Harlow, UK-based company had fallen 18 priate to keep Synthomer’s leverage ratio percent since January to Friday’s close. from falling below one. The updated divi- The stock was up 7.8 percent at 224.3 dend policy prompted investors to look pence, making it one of the top percentage beyond a largely expected 7 percent fall in gainers on the London Stock Exchange at first-half profit due to increased competition 1059 GMT. — Reuters

TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014 BUSINESS Ali Alghanim & Sons Automotive announces 82% surge in Rolls-Royce sales in H1 2014

KUWAIT: Ali Alghanim & Sons Automotive, industry leading technology, is it the ulti- the sole dealer of Rolls-Royce Motor Cars in mate entrepreneur’s business tool and Kuwait, has announced that sales of the an ideal vehicle for those seeking an ultra-luxury marque have soared 82 per- oasis of calm in a hectic world - as such, cent in the first half of 2014 -placing it it is expected to be a popular choice for amongst the best performing markets in the Kuwaiti clientele. the region this year. The subtle re-design of the popular Clearly demonstrating customers’ Ghost family sees understated exterior desire and appreciation for super luxury changes coupled with the latest in cars as well as the strength of the Rolls- industry-leading technology from Rolls- Royce brand in Kuwait, the company’s Royce. The result is the ultimate expres- half year results illustrate the scale of its sion of modern dynamism and luxury, a ambition to achieve record year-on-year dramatic yet graceful vehicle that is sales and increase its market share. effortless thanks to cutting-edge tech- Commenting on the impressive nology. Changes to the Ghost Series II growth figures, Yousef Al-Qatami, begin in the front, where re-sculpted General Manager, Ali Alghanim & Sons LED headlights encircled by daytime Automotive, said: “Our sales figures for running lights lend the vehicle a more the first half of 2014 have been incredi- striking aesthetic. A tapered ‘wake ble thanks to the team’s unwavering channel’ on the bonnet, emanating dedication to cater for our customers’ from the Spirit of Ecstasy, evokes the discerning tastes and meet their exact- sight of a jet’s vapor trail or wake of a ing requirements. As representatives of fast luxury yacht and hints at the car’s the best motor cars in the world, we will not rest on our laurels - we will continue to provide a pinnacle ownership experi- ence and focus on customer satisfaction, defining ultra-luxury and excellence in every aspect.” The company’s impressive growth recorded for the first six months of the year is due in part to the exceptional popularity of the Rolls-Royce Wraith. The most powerful and dynamic Rolls-Royce in history, the Wraith displays hallmark Rolls-Royce attributes of luxury, refine- ment and hand-craftsmanship, while also offering discerning drivers a unique character defined by power, style, drama and a hint of noir. dynamism. Subtle re-sculpting of Unveiled to local audiences last Ghost’s bumpers creates a stronger month at an exclusive Ramadan event stance and a sense of extra width and hosted by Ali Alghanim & Sons height, whilst the contemporary design front brakes. In addition, the famous Within the interior, the Ghost Series II nectivity available today. Ghost Series Automotive, the Ghost Series II is the is further enhanced with the addition of waft line has been re-designed on delivers on its outward appearance, II’s onboard technology ensures it is an most recent addition to the Ghost family. chrome inserts to the front air intakes, Ghost Series II to lean further forwards with the ultimate contemporary combi- oasis of calm in a busy, connected Engineered with Rolls-Royce’s latest which now feed more air cooling to the emphasizing the car’s effortless vigor. nation of luxury, technology and con- world. NBK partners with PayPal to Ooredoo Kuwait launches new ensure secure online shopping

KUWAIT: National Bank of Kuwait (NBK) ient and safe. We are proud of this partner- prepaid 4G smartphone offer has partnered with PayPal, a leading global ship with NBK, and are thrilled for the online payment service provider, to ensure opportunity to introduce more users into all NBK Credit Cardholders have access to the world of online shopping.” 30 GB of free LTE internet for 12 months secure online shopping. NBK adopts state-of-the-art banking NBK Credit Card holders can easily cre- technologies and standards with the objec- ate a PayPal account through NBK online tive of providing the utmost convenience KUWAIT: Ooredoo in Kuwait launched yesterday Banking website and immedi- and safety to customers. NBK a new prepaid smartphone offer, giving its cus- ately start using PayPal to shop Online Banking services cover tomers complete connectivity with free monthly safely and conveniently transfers between the various LTE Internet. With this new offer, customers will through millions of websites accounts, credit cards pay- get 4GB free LTE Internet, KD2credit and a new worldwide that accept pay- ments and requests of account SIM for free the first month. In addition to this ments through PayPal. “NBK statements in addition to they also get up to 30GB LTE Internet for free always strives to develop serv- opening new accounts, free every month for a whole year when they ices to reward customers by money transfer anywhere in recharge their prepaid lines. This offer comes building on the long-time rela- the world and much more. with a brand new full-featured smartphone, tionships with world leading NBK Online Banking cus- starting from a one-time payment of KD45. partners. We are truly excited tomers can now shop online by signing our first bank part- more safely and securely while nership in Kuwait with PayPal using their PayPal accounts to enable our customers to Ahmed Al-Khader instead of their credit cards. shop safely and conveniently When shopping online with online,” said Ahmed Al-Khader, PayPal, merchants have no This offer is perfect for all users who would NBK Deputy General Manager, access to any of your sensitive like to stay connected all year long with a high Consumer Banking Group. financial data like bank quality Internet and without strict usage restric- “PayPal account creation account or credit card details. tions. Most importantly, it will allow them to through NBK online banking This new service will provide benefit from an abundant share of Internet that will provide our customers NBK’s customers with an added suits all their connectivity needs, while being in with both protection and secu- layer of protection and ensure total control of their bills. rity. This service offers addi- the privacy of their credentials tional protection layer for and information, further elimi- The customer will get up to 30GB free LTE online shoppers by eliminating nating credit card fraud internet upon recharging every month: l Recharge for KD5 to get 4GB LTE internet the risk of credit card frauds,” threats. of smartphone. It also offers the world’s with the offer: added Al-Khader. Laurent Wakim PayPal was founded in 1998 for free l Recharge for KD10 to get 10GB LTE internet favorite 8MP iSight camera and HD video fea- Smartphones, one-time payment, SIM, free Laurent Wakim, the and currently has over 148 mil- ture, and is designed to be extremely energy credit, 1st month free Internet. Regional Director of PayPal in the Middle lion active accounts in 26 currencies and for free l Recharge for KD20to get 30GB LTE internet efficient, so customers can spend their day Huawei G526 LTE KD45, Free KD2 4GB East and North Africa commented “We are across 193 markets, processing more than 9 enjoying browsing and talking without worry- Samsung Galaxy Ace, KD60, Free KD2 4GB committed to enabling consumers in the million payments daily. PayPal is the faster, for free Among the phones included in this offer is ing about battery life. Nokia Lumia 625, KD58 ,Free KD 2 4GB region and powering the people economy safer way to pay and get paid. The service To ensure that the smartphone handsets iPhone 5c KD155, Free, KD2, 4 GB. is a top priority for us. With PayPal, you are gives people simpler ways to send money the highly-acclaimed iPhone 5C, which offers faster LTE wireless than any other single model on offer are suitable for all budgets, Ooredoo The offer is available in any Ooredoo getting access to millions of merchants in without sharing financial information, and is offering the following handset options branch,staring August 3, 2014. Kuwait, the region and around the world with the flexibility to pay using their that accept PayPal payments, ensuring that account balances, bank accounts or credit your shopping experience is fast, conven- cards. Dubai Chamber intensifies preparations With offers on 2014 models for Africa Global Business Forum 2014 Honda Alghanim makes DUBAI: The Dubai Chamber of Commerce and Industry has intensified the momentum of its preparations for the 2nd Africa Global Business Forum (AGBF grade for Back-to-School 2014) being held on October 1 and 2 at Atlantis The Palm. Under the patronage of Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al-Maktoum, UAE Vice- President and Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai, the forum is organized by Dubai KUWAIT: Just in time for the back-to- Taillights, ODMD Touch Screen and i- Chamber under the theme New Realities - New Connections. It will host an exclu- school season, Honda Alghanim is MID, Lane Watch System, Bilingual sive audience of 500 top government ministers, officials and corporate decision- proud to offer its customers a special Navigation System, Power Leather Seats makers, heads of prestigious companies, directors of private banks, wealth man- promotion on select 2014 models. This and Smart Entry and Smart Start. agement companies and sovereign funds, Emirati and global business leaders and comes as a great, money-saving oppor- The promotion also includes the leading officials of investment promotion agencies in Africa. tunity for customers to own their next family-friendly Odyssey and Pilot. 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Judge rejects $324.5m settlement of tech wage case

SAN FRANCISCO: A federal judge has decided a an average of $3,750 had she approved the $324.5 lion settlement, attorneys for the workers argued Not all Silicon Valley executives were so submis- $324.5 million settlement isn’t enough to cover the million settlement. That amount “falls below the the conspiracy wouldn’t have been easy to prove to sive. Koh’s ruling cited an instance when Jobs tried damages done to more than 60,000 high-tech range of reasonableness,” she wrote. a jury. The degree of difficulty raised the risk of the to cajole now-defunct device maker Palm Inc. to workers in a class-action lawsuit alleging Google The settlement would have been paid by Apple, employees receiving little or nothing if the case join the no-poaching cartel. In an attempt to force and Apple conspired with other technology com- Google Inc., Intel Corp. and Adobe Systems Inc. The were to go to trial, the lawyers said. If the settle- the issue, Jobs threatened to sue Palm for patent panies to block their top employees from getting lawsuit alleges they and three other companies - ment had been approved, the workers’ attorneys’ infringement unless it agreed not to recruit Apple’s better job offers. Intuit Inc., Pixar Animation and Lucasfilm - secretly would have received $82 million in fees and employees. The ruling Friday by US District Judge Lucy Koh agreed not to recruit each other’s workers at vari- expenses. Palm’s then-CEO Edward Colligan warned Jobs scotches a settlement reached in April, prolonging ous junctures from 2005 through 2009. To illustrate why she believes the workers have a that his no-poaching demand was “likely illegal” in a 3-year-old case that paints a mean-spirited pic- Apple and Google declined to comment on strong case, Koh referred to depositions and emails an email recounted in Koh’s ruling. “We can’t dictate ture of late Apple Inc. founder Steve Jobs and other Koh’s ruling. Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy said the detailing some of the machinations that led to the where someone will work, nor should we try,” prominent Silicon Valley executives. company was disappointed by the decision, but no-poaching agreements. She depicted Jobs, who Colligan wrote. “I can’t deny people who elect to Koh estimated that the workers deserve at least hadn’t yet decided its next step. Adobe didn’t died in October 2011 after prolonged battle with pursue their livelihood at Palm the right to do so $380 million, based on the evidence indicating immediately respond to requests for comment. cancer, as the ringleader of the scheme. The ruling simply because they now work for Apple, and I their earning power was undermined by the collu- Kelly Dermody, a San Francisco attorney for the also chastised Google and Adobe for following wouldn’t want you to do that to current Palm sion among their employers. Attorneys represent- workers, also didn’t immediately respond to Jobs’ wishes “out of fear and deference to him.” employees.” ing the workers originally were seeking $3 billion in requests for comment. A $20 million settlement of Koh pointed to evidence showing that Google Palm never joined the no-poaching club and damages before settling for about 10 percent of the claims against Intuit, Pixar Animation and scrapped plans for an engineering center in Paris neither did Facebook Inc., despite Google’s that amount in a deal reached in April. If $3 billion Lucasfilm was approved in June. Koh indicated that staffed by former Apple employees after Jobs stren- attempts persuade its rival to join in, according in damages had been awarded in a trial, it could the workers at Google, Apple, Intel and Adobe had uously objected. In another instance cited by Koh, to evidence obtained in the lawsuit. have been tripled to $9 billion under US antitrust built a strong case against their employers. “There Google’s then-CEO Eric Schmidt fired a recruiter The US Justice Department opened an investi- law. is ample evidence of an overarching conspiracy,” who had contacted an Apple engineer in 2007, rais- gation into Silicon Valley’s no-poaching pacts in A $9 billion award would have paid the affected she concluded in her 32-page ruling. ing Jobs’ ire. When Schmidt emailed the news that 2009, resulting in a 2010 settlement requiring the workers an average of more than $140,000. Koh the recruiter had been fired, Jobs forwarded the participating companies to stop the practice. estimated that after subtracting lawyers’ fees and Agreement note to Apple’s personnel department with a smi- The companies didn’t acknowledge any wrong- other payments, the workers would have received In their arguments for approving the $324.5 mil- ley face above it, Koh noted. doing. — AP

Russian accused of hacking is arraigned

SEATTLE: A Russian lawmaker’s son and installing malware to capture credit accused of hacking computers at hun- card numbers. Most of the companies dreds of US businesses and stealing affected between October 2009 and credit card information pleaded not February 2011 were small businesses like guilty to 29 charges. pizza parlors. US District Judge John L. Weinberg In a statement issued after Friday’s ordered Roman Seleznev, of Vladivostok, hearing, U.S. Attorney Jenny Durkan said Russia, held without bail until a hearing distance is not an effective strategy for Aug. 16 to consider his custody status. avoiding prosecution.”Cyber-criminals His trial has been set to begin Oct. 6. should take heed: Distance will not pro- A 2011 grand jury indictment alleges tect you from the reach of justice. We will Seleznev stole more than 200,000 credit investigate, we will locate, and we will card numbers and sold more than bring foreign hackers to stand trial,” 140,000 of them, generating more than Durkan said. The 29 charges against $2 million in profits. Some of the victims Seleznev comprise five counts of bank are in Seattle, where the investigation fraud, eight counts of intentionally caus- was centered and an indictment was ing damage to a protected computer, filed. Seleznev was arrested last month eight counts of obtaining information at an airport in the Maldives and flown from a protected computer without to the U.S. territory of Guam, where authorization, one count of possession another federal judge sent him to of 15 or more stolen credit card numbers Seattle to face the charges. The Russian with intent to defraud, two counts of Foreign Ministry has accused the US trafficking in those stolen numbers, and This handout picture released by Japan’s electronics giant Toshiba yesterday shows a wristband style wearable fitness trackers “Weram 1100” government of kidnapping Seleznev. five counts of aggravated identify theft. which can run for two weeks without recharging. The Weram 1100 has function of accelerometer which enables it to estimate physical activities At the hearing Friday, he spoke The charges carry a variety of poten- such as steps taken, distance traveled and calories burned and it also measure sleep states, patterns and hour of sleep per day. — AFP through an interpreter, mostly answer- tial penalties, with some counts punish- ing “yes” or “no” to the judge’s questions. able by up to 10 years in prison and a When asked if he understood the $250,000 fine. Seleznev also is charged charges against him, Seleznev said, “I in a 2012 indictment filed in Nevada that understand all of it, but all of it is accuses him of participating in a racket- Gaza teen’s war tweets make untrue.” eer-influenced corrupt organization, Court documents say the scheme conspiracy and possessing stolen credit involved hacking into computers that card number. He is one of 55 defendants her a social media sensation run point-of-sale terminals in businesses in that case. — AP Teen tweeter has 166,000 followers

GAZA: As bombs explode in Gaza, Palestinian Baker often records these and posts video said she’s surprised at the popularity she has teenager Farah Baker grabs her smartphone or clips to provide followers with a quick personal garnered. laptop before ducking for cover to tap out glimpse of the war. “I did not expect it. I was writing for a small tweets that capture the drama of the tumult and A tweet from Aug. 1 included a link to a video circle of people, and the number has become fear around her. of a darkened street punctuated by the sounds too many,” she said. The 16-year-old’s prolific posts on Twitter of repeated explosions. In another tweet Baker Baker dreams of becoming a lawyer, hoping have made her a social media sensation through tells of hiding from the shelling in one of the to use that profession as a means to advocate for the month-old conflict. Once a little known high rooms of her home. “I am trying to tell the world crowded and impoverished Gaza, a coastal terri- school athlete, Baker’s following on the Web site about what I feel and what is happening where I tory wedged between Israel and Egypt. It isn’t has jumped from a mere 800 to a whopping live,” Baker told Reuters at her Gaza home, always easy to overcome her fears to tweet, but 166,000. adding that she has been “trying to make other she feels compelled to go on. Living near Gaza City’s Shifa Hospital, where people feel as if they are experiencing it, too”. “I see this is the only way I can help Gaza, her father is a surgeon, provides Baker with a live Baker, whose Twitter profile photo shows a showing what is happening here. Sometimes I feed of blaring ambulance sirens in addition to blue-eyed frightened looking young woman tweet while am crying or too scared but I tell blasts from Israeli air strikes and shelling attacks. calling herself “Guess what”, or @Farah_Gazan, myself, I should not stop,” Baker said. — Reuters Bad behavior on social media can cost recruits

STATE COLLEGE: At St. Paul’s Episcopal but Hand and other coaches say it’s usually distinctly remember a player last year who School in Mobile, Alabama, the high school fairly easy to differentiate between a cringe- signed, was a big-time kid, had an interest in that produced Crimson Tide quarterbacks AJ inducing post and one that raises a serious us, and his Twitter handle was something that SEATTLE: File picture shows Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos holds up the new Amazon Fire McCarron and Jake Coker, there’s a new pre- red flag on a prospect. I can’t repeat in here. I just kind of said, what Phone at a launch event in Seattle. — AP season ritual for football players: the social “There’s a difference though when you’re are we doing here? This is about as obvious as media talk. talking about information that may be it gets about what kind of thing we’re dealing It’s about more than minding their man- degrading to women, referencing drug use, with here, so we backed out altogether.” Oracle sues Oregon over ners. Coach Steve Mask warns players not to and anything that has to do with cyberbully- Hand said he tries to educate high school post about injuries, which can scare away ing and stuff like that. There’s certain things coaches who might be behind the curve in health insurance exchange recruiters. Committing on Twitter to a school you don’t want to be part of your program,” online communication. And he often tries to is also discouraged - one recent former player Hand said. educate players he’s recruiting about how to SALEM: Oracle Corp. has sued the state of deliver.” tweeted commitments to four different Hand, who is one of the most active and avoid social media missteps. Oregon in a fight over the state’s health insur- Lawyers at the state Department of Justice schools without informing any coaches. engaging college coaches you’ll find on “If you talk to a guy and he doesn’t adjust ance exchange, saying government officials were reviewing the lawsuit, spokeswoman “He came across as being not reliable,” Twitter, is not alone in cutting off a recruit are using the technology company’s software Kristina Edmunson said. “We will continue to things, that’s another red flag for you,” he said. Mask said. “He gets a little joy out of the atten- because of the player’s use of social media. “If they’re not going to take coaching on this, despite $23 million in disputed bills. pursue all legal options,” she said. Oracle tion, but it’s not worth it.” “It’s happened this year and this recruiting Oracle’s breach-of-contract lawsuit against declined to comment. what are they going to do on third-and-short This season, Mask is taking his players’ class,” Duke coach David Cutcliffe said. “It’s just Cover Oregon was filed Friday in federal court The lawsuit lays out Oracle’s side of the when you need them to make a block and insane what some of them think’s OK. When I in Portland. It alleges that state officials Cover Oregon fiasco in the most detailed online personas so seriously that he’s assign- they kind of do their own deal?” repeatedly promised to pay the company but terms yet. ing an assistant to monitor their accounts. As know it’s them and I read it and I see some of Bruce Rollinson, who is starting his 26th have not done so. The company says the project became a college programs increasingly use Twitter, the things out there, if I’m on the road, I’ll call season as coach of southern California power- The lawsuit seeks payment of the disput- victim of bureaucratic infighting between Instagram and other social media accounts to a coach - let his high school coach know we’re house Mater Dei High School, said he added ed $23 million plus interest, along with other two state agencies responsible for both the evaluate a player’s character, one wrong com- no longer interested. And I’ll call back to the social media talk to his routine about (Duke director of football relations) Kent unspecified damages. Cover Oregon website and a separate effort ment can cost a scholarship offer. three years ago, borrowing some of the dos That was the case recently at Penn State for McLoud or the people in the office and say I Oregon’s health-insurance enrollment to modernize a complex state computer sys- and don’ts USC gives its athletes. offensive line coach Herb Hand, who took to want him dropped off the database. No more website was never launched to the general tem. “Don’t harass anybody,” Rollinson said, public. State officials have blamed Oracle, It says state officials were unable to define Twitter recently to vent his frustration with a mail. Nothing.” focusing mostly on the don’ts. “Don’t bring up but the company says the state’s bad man- requirements for the Cover Oregon system, recruit gone bad online. “Dropped another NCAA rules regarding contact between agement is responsible. an essential early step, and even went on a prospect this AM due to his social media pres- recruits and football coaches have become race, religion, sexual orientation and physical Gov. John Kitzhaber has called for the 60-day “retreat” to develop them but ence ... Actually glad I got to see the ‘real’ per- more restrictive in recent years. Coaches can’t conditions.” South Carolina freshman defen- state to sue Oracle and recover some of the “returned empty-handed.” State officials con- son before we offered him,” Hand tweeted. At text recruits and opportunities to meet face- sive back Chris Lammons said he got the mes- $134 million it has already paid to the tinued making requests for changes in the Penn State media day last week, Hand said his to-face have decreased. As social media has sage in high school and cleaned up his Twitter Redwood City, California, company. crucial final weeks before the website was wife scolded him for the tone of the tweet. become more ubiquitous, it has helped act, despite what his friends were doing. In June, Oregon issued legal demands for supposed to launch in October 2013, the law- coaches fill the information gap in recruiting. “In the transition from being a little kid to a documents that could become evidence in a suit alleges. Cruel, maybe, but fair Arkansas coach Bret Bielema said social man, that’s the thing you have to do, because possible lawsuit against Oracle under the Then-executive director Rocky King was “You want to recruit guys with strong char- media is now part of his standard checklist for when you’re growing up, you probably want state’s False Claims Act. “The governor is more concerned about the website’s look acter,” he said. “Somebody messaged me, recruits. to get a big time job somewhere and they aware of the lawsuit and isn’t surprised by it,” than its function, the lawsuit alleges. It quotes ‘Sometimes kids are worried more about “He’s got to have a GPA that I can relate to, look back at your Twitter account and they Melissa Navas, a spokeswoman for Kitzhaber, from an email he sent in late September: “If being a character than having character.’” an ACT or SAT score or a pre-ACT score, and see the things you’re putting out,” Lammons said in a statement. “The state fully expected the road is going to be bumpy, let me at least said. — AP to end up in litigation over Oracle’s failure to be driving a good looking car.” — AP Yes, teens do tweet the darndest things, the third box is for social media,” Bielema. “I TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE

$2m anti-pot campaign warns of becoming ‘lab rat’

DENVER: A campaign to discourage Colorado out Denver with campaign messaging, including absolute’; we say, ‘This study exists. Some people ship or get them in trouble. But Sukle said the mes- youths from using marijuana titled “Don’t Be a Lab one calling for volunteers for a lab experiment. dispute that. Make up your own mind,’” said Mike sage that stuck was one that addressed the teens’ Rat” will use human-sized rat cages and television “Volunteers needed,” one of the messages will read. Sukle, who created the campaign. “At some point, sense of self, and what bothered them was being and movie-theater ads, with the goal of telling teens “Must have a developing brain. Must smoke weed. they have to make up their mind. The days of ‘Just told about research suggesting marijuana could there’s uncertainty surrounding the effects of pot. Must not be concerned about schizophrenia.” Say No,’ that was a fairly failed effort.” affect their brain development. The campaign launching Monday moves away One of the television and theater commercials Sukle has previously worked on anti-meth cam- Mason Tvert, a marijuana activist who helped from trying to scare teens like some anti-meth com- will show teens lighting up in a smoke-filled car, paigns designed to shock teenagers to try to pre- lead the legalization effort in Colorado, is skeptical mercials, The Denver Post reports with text on the screen referencing a Duke vent them from using the drugs. But with accept- of the ad campaign and said that it’s designed to (http://goo.gl/QGTPpQ ). The $2 million campaign University study that argues teenage pot use results ance of marijuana use increasing, the challenge for scare like past anti-drug efforts. was commissioned by the governor’s office and in lasting drops in IQ. the campaign was bigger. “What it comes down to is are the ads intended uses money from legal settlements with various Teens will also be directed to a website, “This was a tricky one,” Sukle said. He said his to scare them or are the ads intended to inform pharmaceutical companies. DontBeALabRat.com, to read studies on the possi- team pitched possible messages to teens, such as them?” he said. “These ads are intended to scare A handful of rat cages will be displayed through- ble consequences of pot use. “We don’t say, ‘It’s telling them marijuana could cost them a scholar- them.” — AP

Race on for Ebola drug PARIS: As the deadliest Ebola outbreak in an animal virus-based vaccine in pre-clinical history tightens its grip on west Africa, phar- testing, and the Thomas Jefferson maceutical companies have refocused their University in Pennsylvania is working on a quest for a treatment or vaccine. While sev- candidate drug based on an established eral experimental drugs exist, few have rabies vaccine. moved beyond the stage of animal tests and negotiations are under way to try and TREATMENTS fast-track drugs for the haemorrhagic fever ZMapp, a cocktail of three antibodies that kills up to 90 percent of people it manufactured by Mapp Biopharmaceutical, infects. has been given to two American missionar- These are some of the candidate drugs. ies and more recently a Spanish priest, all infected with Ebola while working with VACCINES patients in west Africa. A vaccine being developed by British The Americans were said to have pharma company GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) improved, but authorities say it is too early may enter clinical trials to test for safety and to tell whether this can be ascribed to the efficacy next month, World Health experimental drug, which has cured Ebola Organisation vaccines head Jean-Marie in mice and primates in tests. Okwo-Bele has told French radio. US regulators last week loosened restric- He said results may be out by the end of tions on another experimental drug, TKM- the year, and “since this is an emergency, we Ebola from Canada-based Tekmira, which can put emergency procedures in place... so may allow it to be tried on infected patients. that we can have a vaccine available by In tests on monkeys the drug, being 2015.” developed under a $140-million (105-mil- The GSK vaccine, being developed with lion-euro) contract with the US Department backing from the US National Institute for of Defense, provided 100 percent protec- Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), is tion against an otherwise lethal dose of made of an engineered virus, or vector, con- Ebola. taining two non-infectious Ebola genes. Other antiviral candidates include favipi- The vector enters individual cells of a ravir, which started out as a flu treatment, patient and stimulate them to create a pro- and BCX4430 — a broad-spectrum drug tein against which the body will mount a whose developers believe it may work MONROVIA: Workers have their temperature taken before entering the Freeport area, an important commercial port facility, Monrovia, Liberia, defensive immune response. against an array of viruses. yesterday. Experts say fear and misunderstanding of Ebola have led many to ignore medical advice, fueling the disease’s spread. — AP NIAID director Anthony Fauci told AFP a Herve Raoul, director of the high-securi- vaccine “could be available for nursing staff ty Inserm laboratory in Lyon, said finding an by 2015”. effective antiviral drug was of the highest West Africa feels knock-on The NIAID is also supporting the devel- priority. opment of another vaccine which its maker, A drug that can limit proliferation of the Johnson & Johnson subsidiary Crucell, said virus within a patient would allow their effects of battle against Ebola “has been shown to completely protect immune system to recover and make anti- monkeys against the virus with a single bodies to fight the infection. dose”. A Phase I clinical trial with 32 volun- This would reduce the number of peo- teers started in 2006, and showed the drug ple falling severely ill, and create conditions Nigeria confirms new Ebola case in Lagos to be safe at certain doses. A followup study conducive to improving sanitation, which is FREETOWN: West Africa is counting the cost of in the worst cases, unstoppable bleeding. latest confirmed case was a female nurse who is planned for late 2015 or early 2016. essential for halting the spread of a virus measures to contain the deadly Ebola epidemic, An emergency helpline set up by Liberia’s came into contact with a Liberian-American American firm Profectus Biosciences has easily killed by soap and water. — AFP as unprecedented restrictions cause food short- Ebola taskforce to provide information on the man, Patrick Sawyer, who died of Ebola in a ages, transport snarls and soaring prices, spark- virus had received 1,800 calls by Friday. “Aside Lagos hospital on July 25. In addition to ing fears people could die of hunger. from lots of confusion, aside from sick persons, Sawyer, another nurse who had contact with “We are trying to cope,” said Joseph Kelfalah, aside from the fact that we also want to create him died last week, while seven other people the mayor of Kenema, in an eastern district of awareness, this call centre is there to create calm have been confirmed to have the virus in the Sierra Leone that is under strict quarantine but to also disseminate information and to gath- city, he added. along with nearby Kailahun, but he added that er information that can be shared with the “The 10th case actually was one of the nurs- food prices were “escalating”. national task force,” said Barkue Tubman, a es who also had primary contact with the index Tribal authorities are imposing huge fines for spokesman for the centre in Monrovia. case. When he (Sawyer) got ill, we then brought failure to report cases of Ebola, which has The virus is spread by close contact with an her into isolation,” the minister told a news con- claimed nearly 1,000 lives in west Africa in the infected person through bodily fluids such as ference in Abuja. worst outbreak in four decades. sweat, blood and tissue. In Sierra Leone, 10 “We just tested her over the weekend. So, Under the country’s “Operation Octopus”, motorcycle taxi drivers have been infected after that’s what made it 10. So, between Friday and some 1,500 soldiers and police have been unknowingly carrying Ebola patients, according today we had one additional case. That brings it deployed to enforce the quarantines, turning to the president of the National Bike Riders to 10 and the 10 includes the index case.” people away at checkpoints and accompanying Association, David Sesay. Chukwu said the nurse was currently undergo- health workers searching for people who may The two-wheeled taxis, which put rider and ing treatment while her husband was under sur- have contracted the virus. passenger in close contact, are an indispensable veillance. “Only essential officials and food items are form of transport in remote areas of west Africa. Nigeria has reported 13 confirmed, probable being allowed in after intensive searches,” Efforts to halt the epidemic have been stymied or suspected cases of Ebola, whose incubation deputy police chief Karrow Kamara told AFP. by ignorance, distrust of Westerners and false period ranges from two to 21 days. It suspend- Sierra Leone, Liberia and Guinea are the rumours. Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan ed flights into the country by the Gambian countries hardest hit by the epidemic, which the has warned against spreading false information national airline on Sunday, saying the compa- UN World Health Organization has called an “which can lead to mass hysteria, panic and mis- ny’s efforts to screen for the virus were “unsatis- international health emergency. Liberia has direction”. factory”. BERLIN: Thomas Grosse (L) helps quarantine office leader Thomas Klotzkowski to put been particularly affected by food shortages Meanwhile, Spain said a Spanish priest on protective clothing during a demonstration of the proceedings at the quarantine since declaring its state of emergency on Suspected cases infected with Ebola will be treated with an office of Berlin’s Charite hospital yesterday. The quarantine ward is prepared to Wednesday. It, too, has deployed soldiers to A Romanian man was placed in quarantine in experimental drug already used on two repatri- receive persons sick with tropical diseases, like people infected with the deadly restrict movement, notably from the worst- a Bucharest hospital specialising in infectious ated Americans. Ebola virus for example. — AFP affected northern provinces to the capital diseases on suspicion of having contracted The drug, called ZMapp, arrived at Madrid’s Monrovia. Ebola in Nigeria. La Paz-Carlos III hospital, where the 75-year-old The 51-year-old patient, who returned from missionary was being treated in isolation, the ‘People will die of hunger’ Nigeria on July 25, exhibited symptoms of the health ministry said in a statement on Saturday. WHO meets on Sando Johnson, a senator in the province of virus-but they could also indicate malaria or The Roman Catholic priest, Miguel Pajares, Bomi, northwest of Monrovia, said the restric- typhoid fever, a hospital source said on Sunday. was one of three people who tested positive for tions were “severe” and warned people would A “suspected case” was also reported in Ebola at the Saint Joseph Hospital in Monrovia Ebola drug use die of starvation if they are not relaxed. Senegal, where a 27-year-old man with Ebola- where he worked. “My country has been completely quaran- like symptoms was placed in isolation in a hospi- Giving the traditional Angelus prayer in St tined because soldiers don’t allow anyone to get tal in the north of the country. The man later Peter’s Square at the Vatican Sunday, Pope GENEVA: As the world scrambles to stem demands that it be made available in out of the area and they don’t allow anyone to tested negative for the virus, a health official Francis called for prayers “for the victims of the the rapid spread of the killer Ebola virus, Africa, where Guinea, Liberia and Sierra go there,” he told AFP by telephone. said. Ebola virus and for those who are fighting to the World Health Organization is hosting a Leone are the hardest hit nations. “A bag of rice that sold for 1,300 LD ($14, 11 Nigeria yesterday confirmed a new case of stop it”. meeting yesterday to discuss the ethics of “Is it ethical to use unregistered medi- euros) is now selling for 1,800 LD. The poor peo- Ebola in the financial capital Lagos, bringing the The World Health Organization said Saturday using experimental drugs. cines to treat people, and if so, what criteria ple will die of hunger, for God’s sake.” Health total number of people in the country with the that clinical trials of vaccines against Ebola The talks come as countries ravaged by should they meet, and what conditions, workers have been tasked with raising aware- virus to 10. should begin soon and will likely be ready for the tropical disease in west Africa are and who should be treated?” said WHO ness about the disease which causes fever and, Health minister Onyebuchi Chukwu said the widespread use by early next year. — AFP gripped by panic, with drastic measures assistant director-general Marie-Paule brought in to contain the epidemic causing Kieny, who will host Monday’s meeting. transport chaos, price hikes and food short- “What is the ethical thing to do?” Fitness experts cut to the core ages, stoking fears people could die of hunger. Ivory Coast bans flights to target the center of power There is currently no available cure or While impoverished Guinea, Liberia and NEW YORK: Whether it is running, swim- “A lot of times people get stuck in one or vaccine for Ebola, one of the deadliest Sierra Leone account for the bulk of the ming, weight lifting or aerobics, fitness two routines and get good at them,” he said. viruses known to man, and with the death cases, the latest outbreak has spread fur- experts say the center of all exercise routines “You’ve got to make things more challenging toll fast approaching 1,000, the WHO has ther afield, with Nigeria, Africa’s most popu- is the core - the abdominal, back and mus- to keep progressing.” declared the latest outbreak a global public lous country, counting two deaths. cles around the pelvis - which is the seat of Taylor said everything is linked to the health emergency. Numerous countries have imposed a stability, strength and power. core. “If you jump it’s transferred to the core. But the use of experimental drugs has raft of emergency measures, including Adding in exercise routines to strengthen If you want to bea better recreational run- opened up an intense ethical debate, and flight bans or screening of passengers. the core can help the runner go faster, the ning, strengthening the core will help medical experts from around the world are In the latest such move, the Ivory Coast basketball player jump higher and the every- because your anchor is better,” he explained. set today to join WHO-hosted discussions announced Monday it was banning all day exerciser more easily do routine tasks The body’s girdle is how New York City- to draft guidelines for using non-autho- flights from the three hardest-hit nations. from loading the car to cleaning the tub. based personal trainer JR Allen describes the rised medicines in emergencies such as Ebola causes fever and, in the worst cas- “The core is everything except for arms, core. Celebrity trainee Allen, whose clients Ebola. es, unstoppable bleeding, and can be fatal legs and head,” said Daniel Taylor, co-author include singer Mary J. Blige, said even the Two Americans and a Spanish priest in up to 90 percent of cases, according to with Greg Brittenham of the new book breath is involved in core work. infected with the virus while working with the WHO. “Conditioning to the Core.” “It’s not about sucking in the stomach but the sick in Africa are being treated with an The virus spreads by close contact with It is the mainstay of the body, according about tightening,” said Allen, owner of 2 Day untested drug called ZMapp, which has an infected person through bodily fluids to Taylor, who is the head strength and con- Be Fit. “If you watch a boxer before a punch, BUNBURY: This recent handout video grab photo reportedly shown promising results. such as sweat, blood and tissue. ditioning coach at Siena College in upstate he’ll make a whistling sound. That’s to received from Australia’s Channel Nine from footage But the drug, made by private US com- The latest outbreak-which the WHO says New York. engage the transverse abdominals (the front broadcast on Sunday shows David Farnell, 56, and his pany Mapp Pharmaceuticals, is still in an is by far the worst since the virus was dis- “People need to get away from saying ‘I’m and side muscles of the abdominal wall).” wife Wendy (L), holding their daughter in Bunbury, extremely early phase of development and covered four decades ago-has killed going to do abs today’ and take a larger Allen, a former body builder takes a per- south of Perth in the state of Western Australia. had only been tested previously on mon- around 55-60 percent of those infected. view,” said Taylor, whose book contains more sonal approach to training. “One of my Farnell and his wife, the Australian couple at the cen- keys. The WHO said Saturday that clinical tri- than 300 exercises, ranging from planks, favorite things to do is agility drills,” he said. tre of a Thai surrogate scandal, denied they deliber- It is also in extremely short supply, and als of vaccines against Ebola should begin squats and lunges to medicine ball and ket- “Squat jumps, alternating lunges with jumps ately abandoned their baby son in Thailand (brother the use of the medication on Western aid soon and will likely be ready for wide- tlebell throws presented in progressive rou- and power skips: those types of dynamic to the one pictured) because he had Down’s syndrome workers has sparked controversy and spread use by early next year. — AFP tines. movements target your core.” — Reuters and said they would fight to get him back. — AFP TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014 HEALTH & SCIENCE

Many Kenyan men flee to avoid forced circumcisions

NAIROBI: The circumcision season among Kenya’s Bukusu ethnic group Adult male members of the Turkana community living in the Bukusu- Turkana will fight back if the trend continues, Mkai warned. brings a festive atmosphere: music, food and free-flowing beer. For the dominated town of Moi’s Bridge are the majority of the victims of the “All of us should respect each other’s customs. If you force someone to uncircumcised men from other tribes in the area, however, it is not time to forced circumcisions, according to local administrator Moses Okumu. A adopt your custom it may harm him,” he said. “We are known, we fight with party, it’s time to flee. group of Turkana men wielding swords, bows and clubs held protests last the (rival tribe) Pokot. We fight every day. We have killed. We are not afraid At least 12 men from other tribes have been forcibly circumcised since week over the spate of forced procedures. of death.” the start of the circumcisions in August, according to police and local Michael Ngilimo said a family member was forcibly cut by a group mov- No one has been arrested for the involuntary circumcisions, said Okumu, authorities. Others have sought refuge in police stations to avoid the knife’s ing house to house in search of uncircumcised men. “They pounced on my the local government official. He warned that those who continue with the cut. uncle and circumcised him and left him there bleeding without treatment. I practice will be charged. Traditionally the Turkana, a Nilotic tribe whose cul- The Bukusu ethnic group prefers traditional circumcisions using simple spent a sleepless nights as my uncle was bleeding,” he said. “I woke up very tural practices and way of life has not been diluted by modern influences, tools and no anesthesia. But tradition can be disastrous. A 13-year-old boy early to go and look for medicine.” do not engage in circumcision as a rite of passage into adulthood. But lost his private part this month after it was chopped off by a circumciser, To avoid becoming victims, many other Turkana men in the area sleep in members of the Bukusu community say since the Turkana are living among according to local press reports quoting his parents. the corn fields and others seek refuge in the police station, he said. The them they should adopt their most celebrated custom. — AP

Sewage challenge for Gaza fishermen after Israel offensive

GAZA CITY: After two hours waist-deep in the sea, Sameer being released into the sea where Hissi fishes. Four young al-Hissi says his paltry haul of tiny fish is not the only con- boys playing on the beach on July 16 were killed when sequence he and Gaza’s fishermen are suffering from Israeli forces shelled the area. Israel’s offensive. Monzer Shoblak from the Coastal Municipalities Water Ashore, he lifts up his t-shirt to show red-brown blotch- utility said the amount of waste pumped into the sea had es across his chest and stomach, the result, he says, of remained about the same as before the war, around 25,000 spending his mornings in a sea heavily tainted with smelly cubic metres, but because of the electricity and damage to sewage since Israeli strikes knocked out the power station a treatment station, everything is now untreated. supplying electricity to treatment plants. The amount “collected from the city and pumped to the Following the plants’ closure, levels of raw sewage waste water treatment plant has not increased... it has released into the sea are higher, meaning smaller catches become just raw sewage,” he said. and the risk of illness. “Sewage in the sea today is affecting Back on the same Mediterranean beach, Hissi near the people and the fish they eat,” said the wiry 52-year-old, sat Shati refugee camp, Yasir al-Sultan only ventures 200 in the shade of an umbrella with the basket carrying the 14 metres offshore in his small boat, standing and paddling tiny fish he caught. himself out before casting his nets. Before the conflict erupted on July 8 he fished from his A fisherman for 30 years, he too has been struggling boat in Gaza port, going up to three nautical miles out to with conditions since the war started, and blames the ris- sea in accordance with the limit imposed by the Israelis. ing levels of sewage in the water and the rubbish floating Now he spends two hours every morning wading through in the seas for his declining catches. the surf on the beach casting a small net to bring back “For the most part, the environment here is polluted, it’s food for his family. But he says that there are fewer and dirty,” he said. “We fish here because it’s a little further from fewer fish to be caught off the beach because the raised the pipelines”. Pointing to the port behind him, where the level of untreated sewage is driving them further out to rooms where the fishermen kept their nets and equipment sea. “If their environment is dangerous, the fish leave,” he were blackened from Israeli shelling, Sultan said the said. “Like people”. The waste is also making people ill, sewage in the water has even put Gazans off spending LAS VEGAS: A supermoon rises behind the light on top of the Luxor Hotel and Casino on Sunday in Las Vegas, more seriously than himself, he said, talking of children time at the port. Nevada. In the second supermoon or perigee moon as it is also known of the summer, the moon appears 30 per- who had become sick after swimming in the sea. The head “The port was supposed to be a touristic place, but cent brighter and 14 percent bigger than normal. — AFP of Gazan fishermen’s syndicate agreed the problem had because of the sewage, no one comes because they don’t got worse since water treatment plants had stopped work- like the smell.” But Sultan was more concerned with seeing ing. an end to the fighting as soon as possible. “Of course, we know the problem of pollution in the sea “We want an end solution-the Israelis are shelling us Lunar show illuminates world’s skies is worse than before the war,” Nizar Ayish said. “Currently every day,” he said. From early morning on Monday, as a there is no treatment of the water because of the war”. new truce began, fishermen headed out to sea in dozens eople around the world this weekend looked up closer to our planet. It can even be seen during the day- of small launches after staying at home during the conflict at the sky to view a lunar phenomenon: the time.A supermoon will happen three times this year, ‘End solution’ for fear of Israeli shelling. But most went no further than Psupermoon. Known to scientists as a perigee with Sunday night’s sky show the second. The first one Complicating the problem is the fact that it is too dan- a couple of hundred metres offshore as in the distance, moon, Earth’s neighbor appears at its largest and occurred on July 12 and the third will take place on gerous for members of his body, which he said has 4,000 a Israeli naval vessel could be seen patrolling several brightest compared to other full moons when it orbits Sept. 9. — AP members, to inspect exactly how much sewage is currently kilometres further out. — AFP WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014 ASSE holds technical meet Greetings May your special day... sorrounded wid happiness, filled wid laughter, wrapped wid preasure, bright- ined wid fun, blessed with love, remem- bered wid joy, and enriched wid hopes, Happy birthday MIss Nelia Tingwasan greetings coming from your friends.(Dinalits and company)

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All photos submitted for What’s On should be minimum 200dpi. merican Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), Kuwait OHSAS 18001:2007. With more than 20 years of rich pro- Chapter as a part of continuous efforts in its pro- fessional experience, he described the topic in detail Articles must be in plain text and Afessional journey, organized its 191st technical with real time examples incorporated in power point should include name and phone meet and first in the term 2014-15, on 2nd August 2014 slides. at Best Western Hotel, Kuwait titled “Incident/Accident The technical session was very much interactive and numbers. Articles and photos that Analysis, Corrective and preventive Action” it was followed by Question & Answer session. More fail to meet these requirements will Abhishek Acharya, Actg Head of Technical Events than 50 ASSE Kuwait chapter members participated not be published. committee of ASSE Kuwait Chapter welcomed the partic- from various sectors. ipants. He introduced the speaker of the session Raj As a token of appreciation Executive Committee of Kumar Yadav. ASSE Kuwait Chapter honored the speaker by a memen- Please send them to Mohd. Riaz Shareef, President , ASSE , Kuwait Chapter to which was presented by Mr. Mohd. Riaz Shareef. [email protected] briefed about the significance of the technical meet and The meet concluded with vote of thanks by Mr. the importance of conducting these meets monthly for Mohd. Riaz Shareef and was followed by High Tea spon- the benefit of all. He also encouraged the participants to sored by ASSE - Kuwait Chapter. take active part in the meet. We thanks all the ASSE members for making this The speaker for this technical meet, Raj Kumar Yadav meet a success and encourage them take advantage of is a Registered ISO/TS Auditor (ISO/TS 16949:2009) with Technical Meet to enhance their professional knowl- Pravasi Bhartiya Divas IATF and Lead Auditor for various ISO standards and edge. he Government of India has decided to hold the next Pravasi Bhartiya Divas New recruitments at Millennium Hotel & Convention Centre Kuwait T(PBD-2015) at Mahatma Mandir, Gandhinagar, Gujarat in January 2015. illennium Hotel & Convention Centre Room Division Manager then joined the pre- opening phase. 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Since 2015 marks the Kuwait scheduled to open later this year. & ensure needed requirements for a smooth has more than 20 years of experience in this ing of Safir Hotel & residence Fintas while Beena boasts an extensive experience of domain. He started his career as a senior working at Marina Hotel. hundredth anniversary of the return of the more than 25 years in the Hospitality Engineer Support at Network Limited Dani Saleh, Millennium Hotels & Resorts greatest “Pravasi”of all, Mahatma Gandhi from Industry. She worked at different hotels in Company, India, where he worked for 6 years. Area General Manager- Kuwait said, “these South Africa, it is desired that PBD-2015 would her home country India. She started her Then he moved to Kuwait to join Al-Kharafi recruitments reflect our major interest in be celebrated in a grand way. career at the Taj Hotels Group in India as an National Company as Technical support, after- enhancing the quality of our staff with lead- Assistant Housekeeper for many years where ward he moved to New Horizon Computer ing & promising professionals capable of The detailed programe of PBD-2015 is she showed great passion & deep interest in training Institute, Kuwait where he received achieving rewarding results, notably at the being prepared and will be uploaded on the her job. Admired by her supervisors, Beena many awards including best technical support crucial pre- opening stage, rich in different Embassy’s Website in due course. was promoted to Executive Housekeeper in Supervisor. In a later stage, Thomas joined the challenges and pressure. Both the newly charge of 2 properties within the Group. 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After the flag hoisting, Ambassador will read 5:30pm Groups 9:30pm 2D” and “Fly Me to the Moon 3D” out the message of Hon’ble President of India, fol- Fly Me to the Moon 3D 7:30pm Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D Saturday: lowed by a short cultural function/singing of patriot- 10:30am, 5:30pm, 8:30pm ** 9:30am Showtime Available for Groups - For English, headsets are available upon ic songs. Wednesday: Great White Shark 3D 11:30am Mysteries of the Unseen World 3D request. 3. All Indian nationals are most cordially invited to ** 9:30am Showtime Available for Groups Mysteries of the Unseen World 3D 10:30am, 8:30pm - Film schedule is subject to changes without attend the function. Refreshment/tea/juice etc. will Great White Shark 3D 12:30pm, 6:30pm Island of Lemurs: Madagascar 3D notice. For information call 1 848 888 be served. 10:30am, 8:30pm Fly Me to the Moon 3D 7:30pm 11:30am, 2:30pm, or visit www.tsck.org.kw TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014 WHAT’S ON

‘We build our lands with our hands campaign’ oordinator of the “We build our lands with our hands campaign,” by the Egyptian community in Kuwait, with its premises in Suez governorate to support the national Egyptian economy said that Egypt’s Prime Minister Engineer Ibrahim Mehleb agreed to support the “Gratitude” conference for Arab countries to be held in Kuwait next October. The delegation that met Engr Mehleb included Hussam Al- CImam, Abdelmonem Al-Seesee, Major General Ashraf Nadeem, Dr Amor Al-Fiqi, Director Mohammad Al-Simahi, Mirvat Khaleefa and Mirvat Hassan.

Kuwait Scientific Club launches summer courses KUWAIT: The Kuwait Scientific Club launched the second summer 2014 courses, as it prepared many of its scientific workshops, equipped with modern educational and research tools to meet requirements of the experimental scientific research. The course began from August 4 until August 23rd. TV PROGRAMS TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014

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The 69-year-old 10:50 Little Dorrit 00:30 The Daily Show With Jon 23:45 Broken City-18 05:00 Bobby Fischer Against The 10:00 Trans World Sports 06:00 Jessie Australian director helped launch Gibson to stardom World-PG15 11:00 Rugby Union Currie Cup 06:25 Good Luck Charlie three decades ago in the trilogy featuring stark desert 07:00 The Gospel-PG15 13:00 WWE Experience 08:20 Win, Lose Or Draw landscapes, intense car chases and a bleach blonde 09:00 The Field-PG15 14:00 WWE Raw 08:45 Dog With A Blog Tina Turner. Miller had originally hoped to bring 09:05 Dog With A Blog 11:00 Bobby Fischer Against The 17:00 Indycar Highlights Gibson back for a fourth film in the role of Max World-PG15 18:00 AFL Premiership Highlights 09:30 Good Luck Charlie 09:55 Good Luck Charlie Rockatansky. But a series of delays led to recasting, 13:00 The Intouchables-PG15 19:00 WWE Vintage with Tom Hardy, 36, stepping into the road warrior’s 15:00 Resistance-PG15 20:00 WWE Raw 10:15 Suite Life On Deck 10:40 Suite Life On Deck black boots. 17:00 The Field-PG15 23:00 Rugby Union Currie Cup “I have a great affection for Mel. I was really heart- 19:00 Wish You Were Here-PG15 11:05 That’s So Raven broken to see him go into that,” Miller said in a recent 21:00 Blackfish-PG15 11:25 That’s So Raven 23:00 The Squid & The Whale-R 11:50 A.N.T. Farm interview. “But it’s a new time. I hope Mel gets to act in 12:15 A.N.T. Farm more movies because I think he’s a wonderful actor. 00:30 England v Sri Lanka ODI 12:35 Good Luck Charlie But I think he’s an amazingly good director.” Miller Highlights 13:00 Good Luck Charlie describes “Mad Max: Fury Road” as an extended chase 01:30 ICC Cricket 360 13:25 Jessie taking place over three days. 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The other 12:30 ICC Cricket 360 17:00 I Didn’t Do It 17:00 After Earth-PG15 one is in the form of a kind of unedited novel. So by 13:00 Natwest T20 Blast Highlights 17:20 Jessie 19:00 Quartet-PG15 the time we got there, we realized we’ve got a couple 17:00 ICC Cricket 360 17:45 Sabrina: Secrets Of A 21:00 Drinking Buddies-PG15 more Mad Max stories to tell, and that ... required us to 17:30 Caribbean Premier Leaue Teenage Witch 23:00 Passion-18 18:10 Liv And Maddie cast someone who was younger.” Highlights Miller showed footage from “Mad Max: Fury Road” 18:30 Caribbean Premier Leaue 18:30 Mako Mermaids 18:55 Mako Mermaids at the recent Comic-Con International in San Diego. Highlights He’s still finishing work on the movie, his return to live 19:30 Caribbean Premier Leaue 19:20 Violetta 20:05 Liv And Maddie action after directing the animated “Happy Feet” in 01:00 Happily N’Ever After: Snow Highlights 20:30 Jessie 2006 and 2011’s sequel. “Roman Polanski had a saying, White 20:30 ICC Cricket 360 20:50 Dog With A Blog 02:45 Marvel’s Ultimate Avengers II 21:00 MCC v ROW XI Highlights which is that there’s only one perfect place for the 21:15 Mako Mermaids 04:30 Barbie In The 12 Dancing 22:00 IPL Highlights camera at any given time. And I learned that on the 21:40 Austin & Ally Princesses 23:00 IPL Highlights animations,” Miller said. “You can move the camera 22:00 Good Luck Charlie 06:00 Gnomeo & Juliet wherever you like. But to tell the story - it was interest- 22:25 A.N.T. Farm 08:00 Barbie As The Island Princess ing how much you could influence the story by simply 22:50 Shake It Up 10:00 Dragon Hunters shooting from another perspective.” 23:10 Wolfblood 11:30 Santa’s Magic Crystal There is, of course, a heightened sense of danger 23:35 Wolfblood 13:00 Barbie As The Island Princess when you’re moving said camera through a high- 14:30 Ben 10: Race Against Time 00:00 Storage Wars speed motorcycle and dune buggy chase in the harsh 16:00 The Ugly Duckling And Me 00:30 Pawn Stars Australian outback - not circling cute dancing pen- 18:00 Dragon Hunters 01:00 Pawn Stars guins via computer software. “Particularly a film like 20:00 Eleanor’s Secret 01:30 Pawn Stars this where we wanted to shoot like real, old-school,” 22:00 Ben 10: Race Against Time 02:00 Pawn Stars UK Miller said. “Every car you see smashed is a real car. 02:30 Pawn Stars UK 00:10 Breaking Amish: Brave New Every stuntman you see is a real person, and in many 03:00 Storage Wars World... cases the cast. ... It’s like being in the middle of a real- 03:30 Storage Wars 01:00 Mob Wives 04:00 Pawn Stars life video game getting that footage. One, two inches 01:50 Hoarding: Buried Alive too far one way or the other or a miscue and you’ve 04:30 Pawn Stars 02:40 I Didn’t Know I Was Pregnant got disaster on your hands. It was both exhilarating 00:00 That’s What She Said-18 05:00 Ice Road Truckers 03:05 Mob Wives 02:00 Steel Magnolias-PG15 06:00 Storage Wars: New York 03:55 Long Island Medium and very wearying.” There were only minor injuries dur- 04:00 Planet 51-PG 06:30 Counting Cars 04:20 Say Yes To The Dress ing the shoot, Miller said. “Mad Max: Fury Road” will roll 06:00 4 Wedding Planners-PG15 07:00 Pawn Stars 04:45 Say Yes To The Dress into theatres next May. — AP CHINESE ZODIAC ON OSN MOVIES HD ACTION 08:00 Cloudy With A Chance Of 07:30 Pawn Stars 05:10 Toddlers & Tiaras

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CROSSWORD 634 STAR TRACK

Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22) Your instincts at this time move toward getting as much accomplished as Emotional considerations may block or oppose how you proceed with a possible today. This could mean progress in the workplace as well as project or plan just now. Listen carefully to what higher-ups are saying. You could have trou- progress in accomplishing your personal goals. All of this should go rather smoothly. Your ble with authorities, due to a tendency to push your own ambitions. Your career is central to keyword is responsibility-the ability to respond. You are able to recognize yourself in others everything you do. Being farsighted and traditional, you enjoy success and the successful. and in relationships-rather than alone-a mirror or clear pool. You can be peaceful, calm and Left to your own devices this afternoon, you will operate communication equipment that undisturbed. You are a genius at encouraging others in order to get them to do things-a involves computers and electronics. You also may discover new ways of working with tradi- born strategist. You may be able to enjoy and value your own life situation today or feel tional materials. As you deal with others today, you may have to pull out some magic hat especially kind towards a friend or loved one this evening. Someone will praise you on your that will give you endurance. You are most believable as you deal with others. Your ideas tastes or belongings. Some form of exercise is in order before bed. will receive quite a lot of attention.

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

Power and money are compelling aphrodisiacs now. Secrets, taboos and You shine when it comes to practical matters or those involving work and mysteries appeal to a deep instinctive yearning. Learning about people is an exciting career. You have an easy way with superiors or those in authority and can always manage to adventure. Most people sense an interest in their welfare when they meet you. You would get the most out of any skill or ability you have. There are family income and family security do well in the professional realm as a guide for employee relations or in some other similar issues on your mind today. This is a great time to reflect and understand your own situation, realm. Your instinctive orientation at this time is toward getting down to finding the perfect just how you feel about yourself and the ways you are achieving your goals. The feelings of path to making your dreams come true. If you put as much energy into your business rela- your loved ones may be very clear now. Budget issues can receive progress through the tionships as you do your personal relationships, all sorts of communications are possible. help of your loved one this evening. Positive results are bound to happen! Your loved ones You may enjoy getting away from the routine tonight and allowing someone else to wait are more than willing to help you-you endear loved ones to you with encouraging words. on you. A social activity is likely this evening.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) There are plenty of interruptions today but you don’t let it stop you from You will find yourself taking charge, organizing and perhaps managing an completing your tasks. There seems to be an unspoken limit on the time important business transaction today. This puts you in a boss type of posi- available for you to accomplish a particular task, but if you took your time, you would be tion and you love being the boss. You can be a real moving force in the lives of others just able to relax a bit more and have fewer digestive problems when it came time for the noon now. You are a natural group leader or trainer-your vitality and drive are communicated to ACROSS DOWN break. You may have always competed with yourself to outdistance, outtalk, outsell, etc. all those you contact-especially young people. Your enthusiasm is so strong that it can 1. Any tiny hole admitting passage of a liquid 1. An informal term for a father. Relax. It is time to give yourself credit for being successful and accomplishing your work sometimes be a little too much; easy does it. You put a lot of effort into those around you (fluid or gas). 2. A translucent mineral consisting of hydrat- within a reasonable time. Appreciation for your roots takes on a greater importance. There and also work to improve your surroundings and home environment. You may feel like 5. The polite declining of an invitation. is a greater feeling of support, which you will find has many rewards. The time you have experimenting with a new recipe this evening, teaching young people a recipe or just sim- ed silica of variable color. ply having a little different evening with new smells and flavors; enjoy. 12. The cry made by sheep. 3. A summary that repeats the substance of a with your family is positive and upbeat and they enjoy being with you. 15. Someone who copies the words or longer discussion. behavior of another. 4. A period marked by distinctive character 16. Having no fixed course. or reckoned from a fixed point or event. Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 17. A federal agency established to coordi- 5. The entire amount of income before any Cancer (June 21-July 22) nate programs aimed at reducing pollution Positive self-esteem is a necessity now. You seem more interested in the emo- deductions are made. Organizing files and completing unfinished business are musts this morning. tional communication between business friends and love partners. It is very and protecting the environment. 6. Worn away as by water or ice or wind. 18. Large burrowing rodent of South and The morning is also a great time to be with others and to work together on a team project. important for you to know how you come across to others. Too much work at home will 7. Shockingly repellent. You have a lot of ideas that are important for group discussions today. Your management drain the energy you need for your professional life. Too much work in the professional life Central America. 8. Full of zest or vigor. and directional abilities are in high focus. You create new solutions or inventions. There are 19. (law) A person called into court to defend will drain the energy you need for your family life. Pace yourself and do not be afraid to say 9. A colorless volatile highly inflammable liq- sharp and penetrating insights into your own inner workings-what is hidden or going on no when you feel you are reaching your limits. This is also a rewarding day in that you could a title. uid used as an inhalation anesthetic. behind the scenes. A fun activity with a friend after the workday is over is an activity you come to an understanding with a difficult co-worker. This evening is a good time to think 20. A river in north central Switzerland that 10. Neckwear consisting of a long narrow look forward to all day long. This is a good day for imagination and creativity when it comes and study. You have a real appreciation for the creative writer. You may find yourself enjoy- runs northeast into the Rhine. piece of material worn (mostly by men) to ideas and thinking. With this ability to put thoughts into words, you will probably capti- ing a long conversation with a special friend tonight. 21. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike vate and bewitch anyone who cares to listen. part of an organism. under a collar and tied in knot at the front. 23. The iridescent internal layer of a mollusk 11. Used of locations. 12. An area of sand sloping down to the shell. Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 25. A genus of Stromateidae. water of a sea or lake. Leo (July 23-August 22) 13. South American armadillo with three Your instinctive orientation at this time is toward getting down to basics. You 27. The German state. A personal project that may be left over from the weekend may find its bands of bony plates. will quickly eliminate the nonessentials and realize many accomplishments in the work- 29. A metric unit of weight equal to one way into your busy work schedule. Perhaps if phone calls are needed you will be successful place. This afternoon is a good time for surrounding yourself with friends and young peo- thousandth of a kilogram. 14. A river in north central Switzerland that in tending to those during your noon break. You help a young co-worker to learn how to ple. Big heart, big love-you are seldom petty. Given to grand gestures and dramatic scenes, 31. A mountain peak in the Andes in runs northeast into the Rhine. use a new tool this afternoon. It feels good to be helpful and you are helping yourself when you love independence and greatness in all forms and are very regal. Someone may need Argentina (20,997 feet high). 22. 40th President of the United States (1911- you train this person properly. After work a short trip with a friend eventually becomes a some financial help today-you may be doing this person a big favor by demonstrating how ). surprise with a party atmosphere for you to enjoy. This is a time to enjoy and appreciate 32. (computer science) A coding system that to improve the person’s finances instead of giving him or her funds. You can be generous to 24. The capital and largest city of Ghana with your ties to others. You seek and promote harmony between all you know. Tonight you take incorporates extra parity bits in order to a fault. This evening, your attention may again be on young people and perhaps, animals. the opportunity to check out people that you would enjoy dating. Your friends and relatives detect errors. a deep-water port. There is fun on four feet. 35. The occurrence of a change for the worse. 26. Speaking a Slavic language. are all appreciative of you. Happy birthday! 37. The food served and eaten at one time. 28. The fatty flesh of eel. 40. A Hindu prince or king in India. 30. A percussion instrument consisting of a 42. An anti-TNF compound (trade name pair of hollow pieces of wood or bone (usual- Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) Arava) that is given orally. ly held between the thumb and fingers) that 44. Harsh or corrosive in tone. are made to click together (as by Spanish It is good that people value your ideas and talents. You may do well to You or your company may be involved in lectures or conventions, etc. 45. A coenzyme derived from the B vitamin dancers) in rhythm with the dance. encourage others to do their own work and not depend on you so much. Connections with people on a grand scale-for example, at a distance or en nicotinic acid. You will be clever at finding just the right words for this occasion. This is a time for new masse-play a bigger part in your life now. Education, law, advertising, travel, philosophy 33. A spirit believed by Muslims to inhabit accomplishments, during which insights and breakthroughs in organization and determi- 46. The compass point that is one point east the earth and influence mankind by appear- and/or religion may also play a part in this adventure. Whatever the case, today is a day of (clockwise) of due north. nation are in order. There is a need for change in some areas of your life or work, and when preparation for something big to come. This afternoon you may find yourself enjoying the ing in the form of humans or animals. new ideas and methods become clear you will find yourself ready, willing and able to company of friends. Perhaps you will enjoy a dinner at a good restaurant or sign up for a 47. The residue that remains when some- 34. A member of an agricultural people of implement these changes. Outer circumstances and the flow of events make it easy for you thing is burned. continuing education class to learn some form of art expression. If you are not taking a southern India. to make decisions, see the road ahead and move forward. Things seem to fall into place class, you could be teaching. You are multitalented and do not mind teaching others when 49. A nucleic acid that transmits genetic 36. A woman of refinement. and progress is easy now. You enjoy relaxing with friends this evening. you are asked. You like busy days and this one fits the bill. information from DNA to the cytoplasm. 38. (Akkadian) God of wisdom. 50. A fraudulent business scheme. 39. Jordan's port. 52. (Philippine) A dish of marinated vegeta- 41. Cricket frogs. bles and meat or fish. 43. A unit of length of thread or yarn. Word Search Yesterday Solution 56. God of love and erotic desire. 48. Something of sentimental value. 58. (Old Testament) The eldest son of Isaac who would have inherited the Covenant that 51. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake God made with Abraham and that Abraham Chad. passed on to Isaac. 53. State clearly. 59. The largest continent with 60% of the 54. A mouth or mouthlike opening. earth's population. 55. Any of a group of Indic languages spoken 60. The basic monetary unit in many coun- in Kashmir and eastern Afghanistan and tries. northern Pakistan. 62. A magnetic tape recorder for recording 57. An official prosecutor for a judicial district. (and playing back) TV programs. 61. A small Asian country high in the 63. A small cake leavened with yeast. Himalayas between India and Tibet. 66. Leave or strike out, as of vowels. 64. Title for a civil or military leader (especial- 69. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake ly in Turkey). Chad. 65. Being or befitting or characteristic of an 73. Title for a civil or military leader (especial- infant. ly in Turkey). 67. In the Roman calendar. 77. The month following February and pre- 68. A small narrow pointed missile that is ceding April. thrown or shot. 78. A bachelor's degree in theology. 70. Type genus of the Amiidae. 79. A cut of pork ribs with much of the meat 71. Any of numerous local fertility and nature trimmed off. deities worshipped by ancient Semitic peo- 80. A plant hormone promoting elongation ples. of stems and roots. 72. An Arabic speaking person who lives in 81. Grass mowed and cured for use as fodder. Arabia or North Africa. 82. A public place in ancient Greece or Rome 74. Of southern Europe. devoted to the training of wrestlers and oth- 75. A health resort near a spring or at the sea- er athletes. side. 83. A white linen liturgical vestment with 76. A loose sleeveless outer garment made sleeves. from aba cloth. Yesterday’s Solution

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Spandau Ballet plan world tour

pandau Ballet are planning a world tour next year. The 80s pop stars - fronted by Tony Hadley - are set to hit the road in support of their new LP which they are cur- Srently recording, their full album for 25 years. Gary Kemp told The Sun: “Everything is back on track. We want to go back on tour. We didn’t patch things up for money but because we had a deep history with each other.” The band - which includes brothers Gary and Martin Kemp, Steve Norman, Tony Hadley and John Keeble - reunited in 2009 after a bitter split for a run of shows and could make £20 million collectively from their proposed 2015 tour. The five band members - who between them produced hits like ‘Gold’ and ‘True’ - split up in 1990 and had not spoken for 20 years after disagreements over royalties. The band have been busy releasing a movie about their musical life titled ‘Soul Boys of The Western World’ which will be available in October.

Janet Jackson to release new album this year?

anet Jackson is expected to release a new album later this year. The ‘All For You’ singer has reportedly been working on an upcoming project and it is Jsaid she will pay tribute to her late brother Michael, with plans to cover one of his tracks for the record. A source told The Sun on Sunday newspaper: “The label are really pushing Janet and have made her a priority act for the year, which means a big budget.”It’s the first album she’s released since Michael died in 2009 so she felt it was fitting to include a nod to him. “If it sells well she will look at doing a world tour in 2015.” Meanwhile, songwriter Jamie McGrone has hinted at his involvement in the “project” - which would be her first album since ‘Discipline’ in 2008. He took to Instagram and revealed his “team” would be work- ing on the record, but refused to go into any more detail on what exactly they would be working on. He wrote: “Guess whose team is Martin wants to going to New York to work on the new Janet Jackson project.” write for Rihanna

hris Martin wants to write songs for Rihanna. The Coldplay frontman person- ally approached the ‘Rude Boy’ hitmaker to ask if he can submit some tracks Cfor her next album because he is such a big fan of her. He told Fresh 102.7 New York radio station: “I don’t even think she asked. I just said, ‘Please can I try something?’” Despite his impressive back catalogue, the singer/songwriter - who previously collaborated with Rihanna on the Coldplay track ‘Princess of China’ - is still worried his songs won’t make the final cut. He said: “She has so many amazing people writing for her. It’s like trying to win ‘American Idol’, getting a song on Rihanna’s album.” Chris - who split from his wife, Gwyneth Paltrow, earlier this year - confirmed him and Rihanna have been working in the studio together. The 37-year- old musician - whose hits with Coldplay include ‘The Scientist’ and ‘Fix You’ - said: “I love being in the studio with Rihanna. It wasn’t necessarily with ... I was working for her.” Chris also revealed he wants the 26-year-old pop superstar to appear on Coldplay’s next album. When asked if she would be making an appearance, Chris said: “I hope so, yeah. I have a really nice song which ... maybe, I hope so.”

Nathan Followill breaks ribs

athan Followill has been hospitalized after a road accident. The Kings of Leon drummer suffered broken ribs when the group’s tour bus Nwas forced to make an emergency stop when a pedestrian jumped in front of the vehicle. The ‘Sex on Fire’ rockers announced the news on their Facebook page, writing: “The band was en route to their hotel after their show in Boston when a pedestrian jumped in front of their tour bus, caus- ing the bus to stop short, injuring Nathan Followill. “Nathan is being treated for broken ribs, but is doing well.” Following the news, Nathan was inundat- ed with messages of support from fans and has promised to be back “better than ever”. He tweeted: “Thank you for all of the get well soons. I’m a little banged up but will be back better than ever. (sic)” As a result of the 35-year- old musician’s injury, the group were forced to postpone a show in New York last night (10.08.14). Fans have been offered refunds. Guitarist Jared Followill - Nathan’s brother - admitted he felt “so sad” about the accident, especially because the band are enjoying the tour so much. He tweeted: “So sad this a.m.. Bus accident last night. Nathan has broken ribs. This was the most fun tour in a while. We’ll be back ASAP. #GetWellNate (sic)”

Theroux kept his tattoos on show in ‘The Leftovers’ Cyrus gets a new pet piglet

ustin Theroux kept his tattoos on show in ‘The Leftovers’ because he didn’t want lengthy make-up sessions. The 43-year-old iley Cyrus has got a new pet piglet named Bubba Sue. The actor shocked fans by displaying a number of inkings in his many shirtless appearances on the program and admitted he ‘Wrecking Ball’ hitmaker, who is well-known for her love of dogs, Jwas happy to have them worked into his character, police chief Kevin Garvey, rather than undergo a long and boring cover- Mtook to Instagram to reveal the latest member of the Cyrus house- up process every day. He said: “Those are my tattoos, correct. I’ve been concealing them for years. “But it was really more a hold to the world. Miley, 21, said: “newest member to the fam #bubbasue.” question of, ‘Hey, you’re doing a TV show-do you really want to get to the makeup chair four hours before everybody else at In one of the pictures of herself and Bubba Sue, Miley is seen giving her five in the morning and go to the trouble of removing them all with make-up?’ “Let’s just say that this guy has some tattoos newest pet a smooch while wearing a Bob Marley T-shirt and some and leave it at that. Which actually worked out, because the kid playing my son is has tattoos, too, so thematically, it kind of sparkling eyeshadow. Another snap shows Miley flashing a huge smile as works.”Justin - who is engaged to Jennifer Aniston - is enjoying watching the show unfold because he made a decision early she holds her cute new pet to her chest, with the former ‘Hannah Montana’ on not to find out what would happen to his character throughout the season and as a result he understands fans are still left star taking the photo with one hand and holding Bubba Sue in the other. with unanswered questions more than halfway through the series. Asked if he understands why fans are asking what is going The final photo shows the ‘Party In The USA’ star - with her famous blonde on, he told Vulture: “I get that. It’s exactly the same question that I had when I would get scripts. “I was getting scripts one at a hair pulled into a little knot and wearing a stylish denim jacket - sat down time and at the beginning of the season [showrunner] Damon [Lindelof] asked me, ‘Do you want to know the super-arc of cradling her new pet in a soft white towel. The maternal side Miley displays your character?’ You know, there’s the arc of each episode and then there’s the super-arc of the season. “And I think smartly, I in the photos represents a marked diversion from her typically outlandish said, ‘No, I’d probably rather find out in real time, in my own way.’ “That paid dividends in that, as we filmed it, I was able to watch behavior, which last week included letting a fan grope her for $900. The the show [unfold] in sort of the same way everyone else is now watching it. “ singer encouraged lucky fan David to put his hands over her breasts and pretend to kiss her during a photo opportunity after a gig in New York.

Kelly Cutrone: Kanye is nothing in fashion merica’s Next Top Model’ judge Kelly Cutrone claims Kanye West and his wife Kim Kardashian West “have no influence in the fashion world whatsoever”. Kelly has scoffed at Kanye’s past claims when he stated he was as important to fashion as Steve Jobs, the late founder of Apple, was to technology and insists he is a ‘A nobody in the industry despite having his DW Kanye West line. Speaking to the New York Daily News newspaper’s Confidenti@l column, she said: “I don’t think there’s one person who really works in the fashion industry who gives a flying f**k about Kanye West.” Speaking about Kim, she added: “The truth of the matter is that Kim Kardashian is not doing anything fresh in fashion, either. “She’s not getting into the nitty-gritty, super avant-garde players. She’s not even wearing [Vivienne] Westwood yet.” Kelly also doesn’t think the clothes that the ‘Stronger’ hitmaker and Kim wear have any influence on the public’s style because most people cannot afford to buy designer labels. Kelly explained: “I think they have no influence in the fashion world whatsoever. I mean, most people who watch [Keeping Up with the Kardashians] can’t afford Givenchy. I don’t mean to be mean. “Are [counterfeiters] on Canal St. benefiting from it? Probably, but that’s not the fashion world.” However, the fashion publicist does accept the famous couple do have an impact on popular culture. Kelly, 48, said: “Have Kim and Kanye had an impact on pop culture? Absolutely. “Do I think that [Vogue editor-at-large] Hamish Bowles wakes up in the morning, calls [former Vogue editor-at-large] Andre Leon Talley and says, ‘Did you see those pants that Kanye was rocking on ‘SNL’?’ No.” LIFESTYLE37 TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014 Gossip

Weezer’s Rivers Cuomo admits band mistakes eezer frontman Rivers Cuomo admits he feels terrible for taking the group in the wrong musical direction in the past. The 44-year-old singer pours his heart out Won the group’s upcoming single ‘Back To The Shack’, on which he admits he hasn’t always made the right decisions on behalf of the ‘Buddy Holly’ hitmakers and at times he went too far. He said: “Lyrically I’m talking about how I feel bad about some of the musical experiments I took Weezer on and how I want to make a classic alt-rock record. “Sometimes I’ve gone over the edge. Right now it feels like we want to go back and bal- ance it out with some more classic elements of geek rock. “There’s definitely still some experimentation but it sounds like experiments that only Weezer could do.” Rivers also used his feelings to help inspire him to pen Weezer’s upcoming ninth album, ‘Everything Will Be Alright In The End’, which partly focuses on the group’s relationship with father-fig- ures. He added to NME magazine: “My father was in the army, stationed in Germany, when I was growing up, so I didn’t see him much. That gave me a lot to write about, and I explored the father figure theme in other ways, too. There’s a song called ‘Eulogy For A Rock Band’ about Weezer’s musical forefathers. ‘The British Are Coming’ is about the American colonies’ relations with their imperial father, the British Empire. And ‘Foolish Father’ could be me singing about my father or me singing about my daughter.”

Charlie Simpson: McBusted plan to make album

harlie Simpson has revealed McBusted are planning to release an album. The super-group is comprised of CMcFly and Charlie’s former Busted bandmates Matt Willis and James Bourne and although they initially formed for a tour, the solo star has let slip they’ve been writing songs together for a proposed LP. When quizzed about McBusted’s long-term future, he told BANG Showbiz: “I know they’re writing new songs at the moment with a view to putting a record out. “They’ve got some great writers in that band, Danny Jones is a great songwriter and so is Tom Fletcher from McFly as well. I think they can definitely do some stuff and it will be interesting to see how they progress. I think they can definitely do more together.” Charlie - who has just released his second solo album ‘Long Road Home’ - isn’t sure how long the group intend to stay together but he knows they’re determined to release a record. He added: “From what I understand I don’t think it’s a full-time thing for them ... I’m not sure what their long- term plan is but I do know their short-term aim is release an album.” The 29-year-old songwriter can see Busted and McFly’s influence on the current crop of pop/rock bands such as The Vamps and 5 Seconds of Summer and is James doubtful over Blur’s future pleased to see groups who write their own songs being successful. Charlie - who is getting ready to perform at The lex James doesn’t know if Blur will collaborate together in the future. The ‘Song 2’ hitmak- Roundhouse in London on October 14 - said: “I think it’s ers - comprising bassist Alex, guitarist Graham Coxon, drummer Dave Rowntree and interesting in the charts at the moment. For me it’s just Asinger Damon Albarn - reformed in 2009 and have performed together a number of times good to see pop bands playing guitars and writing their since then, but the musician doesn’t know what the future holds as they are so busy with other own songs. Regardless of whether or not I like a band’s projects. He shared: “To tell you anything other than ‘I don’t know’ would be completely mislead- music I’ll always have more respect for a band that writes ing. “Getting back with the guys has been emotional each time because fundamentally we all their own songs and plays their own instruments, do you really get on and there were never any major problems between us. I love them all like brothers. know what I mean? “I think that it’s good that there’s a gen- But our lives have moved on. We’re all busy. That’s the great thing, we all found new things to do. eration of bands coming through that are playing music So to do it as and when works for us.” The group went on hiatus in 2003, reforming 2009, and and writing songs.” though Alex never expected or planned for the break, he thinks it was “important. Alex told Britain’s HELLO! magazine: “We came to a natural hiatus; I didn’t choose for it to happen, but spiri- Cheryl Fernandez-Versini tually it was important that it did and I certainly don’t spend my days moping around wishing I could have that time back.” wants Paolo Nutiniduet

heryl Fernandez-Versini wants to duet with Paolo Nutini. The ‘Crazy, Stupid, Love’ hitmaker has urged the 27-year-old Azalea to perform with Csinger to contact her as she’s keen to team up with him in the near future for an acoustic track. Speaking to The Sun newspaper, she said: “He needs to get in touch. He’s really cool and I’d love to do Rita Ora in MTV VMAs something stripped back and acoustic.” However, the 31-year-old beauty may need to wait a little while longer as Paolo has a busy schedule ahead of him this year. He said previously: “The next few ggy Azalea and Rita Ora are to duet at the upcoming MTV Video Music Awards. Iggy will months are more shows, more festivals, gigging throughout the make her VMAs debut on August 24 at The Forum in Inglewood, California, and will be summer up until September... we just keep gigging. “We’re pretty Ijoined on stage by Rita for a rendition of their new single ‘Black Widow’. Australian rap- much at a gig every second day ... if we even get that amount of per Iggy is set for a big night at the VMAs as she has been nominated for seven awards and time!” Meanwhile, Cheryl is set to release her fourth LP ‘Only Human’ she has a nomination for the highly coveted in November and she recently admitted she wanted to include a Video of the Year prize for her ‘Clueless’-inspired mixture of genres on the collection to put a “fun” spin on it. She said video for ‘Fancy’. She is also in the race for the previously: “The album is the most versatile album I’ve done so far. Best Pop Video prize and the trophy for Best “There’s a lot of flavours on there. I wanted to go back to the pop Collaboration among others, and she has two route and do a lot of pop, there’s a bit of RnB on there, a bit of 90s chances to take home the Best Female Video Radcliffe ‘hated’ watching dance vibes, I mean it’s just fun, you know it’s hopeful, it’s up-lifting.” award as her promos for both ‘Fancy’ and She added: “I just want people to enjoy themselves for an hour... I’m ‘Problem’ - her track with Ariana Grande - are Harry Potter and the not saving lives, I’m making pop music you know.” included in the shortlist. Iggy - who was recent- ly announced as the host of MTV fashion series House of Style - and Rita will also be providing Half-Blood Prince commentary on the stars’ red carpet style on the night for MTV. Other confirmed performers aniel Radcliffe “hated” watching his performance in for the ceremony - which will air on MTV UK on ‘Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince’. Radcliffe, 25, August 25 at 9pm - include Usher, Maroon 5, Dhas amassed a huge personal fortune on the back of Ariana, 5 Seconds of Summer and BeyoncÈ. the Potter film franchise - which is centred on the books of J.K. BeyoncÈ has the most nominations at this Rowling - but says his performance in the sixth edition was year’s VMAs with her potentially being able to “complacent” and “very one-note”. The actor told the Mail on go home with eight prizes including Video of Sunday newspaper: “I never liked watching myself on film but the Year for ‘Drunk In Love’ her collaboration I do make myself sit through it. “I think it comes from not actu- with husband Jay Z. ally realizing I didn’t have to go to my own premieres and watch the film - that’s something I’ve only just realized you don’t have to do. I always went along and sat with everyone else watching the movie. “And that’s why it’s hard to watch a film like ‘Harry Potter And The Half-Blood Prince’, because I’m just not very good in it. I hate it. My acting is very one-note and I can see I got complacent and what I was trying to do just didn’t come across.” Radcliffe added his best performance in the Potter franchise came in the fifth movie, ‘Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix’, which was released in 2007 and also stars Emma Watson and Rupert Grint.

Katie Price: The movie atie Price has been in talks to have her life story made into a film. The three-times married former glamour model - who gave birth to her fifth child last week - is reportedly in talks with US publishers Simon and Schuster to adapt her autobiographies Kfor the big screen and insiders think her ups and downs, which have included current spouse Kieran Hayler cheating on her with two friends, will make for fascinating viewing. A source said: “Katie’s been through a hell of a lot in her thirty six years, but she was clever to document it all down in her books.”They’re always great sellers and now they can form the basis for a film of herlife. “The publishers think there will be a great appetite to watch a dramatization of Katie’s crazy life and they’re so keen to get her on board, they’re talking about a hefty pay cheque to go with it.” And though Katie - who has children Harvey, 12, Junior, nine, and Princess, seven, from previous relationships, and 11-month-old Jett and her new baby daughter with Kieran - doesn’t plan to star in the movie, she thinks former ‘Baywatch’ beauty Carmen Electra would be the perfect choice. The source added to the Daily Mirror newspaper: “Katie has always admired Carmen Electra and thinks they’re very similar in many ways.”They met several years ago on a photoshoot and Katie’s always remembered her- she thinks she’d be perfect for the role and would bring a lot of necessary drama needed to the production.” Katie has previously admitted she wants to see her life story on screen - but more “drama” happens to her every time she thinks about it. She has said: “I can’t wait to make a film. Every year I say I’ll do it when I think things aregoing normal - then another drama comes along. “I might as well do it in a few years’ time because there’s bound to be more dramas.” lifestyle TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014 MUSIC&MOVIES

MickeyUS actor Mickey Rourke standsRourke in front of journalists as he putsshows on a T-shirt with the portrait ofoff Russia’s President Putin Vladimir Putin in central t-shirt Moscow. in Moscow

ollywood star Mickey Rourke became the Black Sea Crimea Peninsula in February to appearing on a stage adorned with the flag of the latest actor to offer his praise to oversee its annexation to Russia. The brand was pro-Russian separatists in Ukraine. Seagal, who HRussian President Vladimir Putin when developed by young designers Anna has promoted martial arts in Russia alongside he sported a T-shirt emblazoned with the Yefremova and Ivan Yershov as part of a project Putin, said earlier this year that he considers the leader’s face at a publicity event yesterday. “I to glorify Russia’s latest “victories”, such as the president a brother. French star Gerard like this guy,” said the 61-year-old star of “Iron Winter Olympics in Sochi and the seizure of Depardieu befriended Putin and took Russian Man 2” and “Nine And A Half Weeks”, pointing Crimea, the organizers said. citizenship earlier this year after criticizing new to his new grey t-shirt featuring Putin in a navy Other t-shirt designs show Putin wearing tax laws in France. cap and surrounded by flowers. “I am going to sunglasses or a winter hat with military insignia. Russia and the United States are in the midst wear it everywhere,” said Rourke after stripping The t-shirts are packaged in stylish cardboard US actor Mickey of their worst standoff since the Cold War, with off his own clothes and putting on the Putin tubes that say “It’s all good!” Despite relations Rourke looks at a Washington accusing Putin of illegally annex- shirt in GUM, Russia’s oldest department store between Putin and the West deteriorating in T-shirt with the ing Crimea and continuing to arm pro-Russian across from the Kremlin, where a new brand recent months over the crisis in Ukraine, the portrait of Russia’s separatists in eastern Ukraine. But at home launched its Putin line yesterday. strongman leader has maintained some admir- President Vladimir Putin is enjoying spectacular support, with 87 “The most polite of men,” is the slogan of the ers in the film world. Putin in central percent of Russians approving of his policies collection-a play on the “polite men” nickname On Saturday, Hollywood tough guy and Moscow yesterday. last week, the highest rating since Moscow given to Russian troops when they appeared on musician Steven Seagal played a gig in Crimea, — AFP photos fought a brief war with Georgia in 2008. — AFP History man Al Stewart digs Rockers, country rockers gather deep for musical ‘time passages’ to fete Skynyrd s Al Stewart tells it, every singer Versailles” linking the French Revolution starts off writing love songs - but a with modern-day France. ynyrd Skynyrd is getting the trib- A“disastrous” affair made his efforts ute treatment. An all-star cast of so downbeat one reviewer suggested he ‘Create a story out of it’ Lperformers will salute the semi- give it a miss. So Scottish born Stewart, “Roads to Moscow” recounts how the nal Southern rock band during the who later had global hits in the mid- Red Army was initially pushed back taping of “One More for the Fans! 1970s with his “Year of the Cat” and “Time across Ukraine and Russia to the outskirts Celebrating the Songs & Music of Passages” albums, decided to look else- of Moscow, where the German offensive Lynyrd Skynyrd.” The Nov 12 concert where for inspiration. He is folk-music’s foundered. As winter takes its toll on the will feature performances from Gregg history man. “The only thing I’d done, attackers, the tide turns and the Soviets Allman, Alabama, Charlie Daniels, religiously since I was at school, was to battle their way to Berlin. But the song’s Peter Frampton, John Hiatt, Jamey read history. I used to just devour the hero is briefly captured and on his return Johnson, Cheap Trick and more. The stuff,” Stewart told Reuters backstage at to Russia, as happened in reality to many Fox Theatre event in Atlanta features a Fairport’s Cropredy Convention festival in thousands of ex-prisoners of war, is band put together by Grammy Award- rural Oxfordshire over the past weekend. arrested by the NKVD secret police and winning bandleader Don Was. The What followed, in 1974, was “Past, sent to a Siberian prison camp with no concert will be taped and released at a Present and Future”, an album largely of hope of freedom. These are not stories later date. songs telling stories from history. It out- loosely based on history: Stewart’s Tickets go on sale Aug. 18 through sold his previous four albums combined, research is painstaking. “For “Roads to Ticketmaster. Skynyrd has some histo- he said. “I thought there’s probably room Moscow” I read between 40 and 50 ry with the Fox. The band recorded its in the world for one historical folk rock books. I read the memoirs of the generals 1976 live album, “One More From the singer and no one else wanted the job,” on both sides. You have to read books by Road,” there as part of a campaign to he said. people who were actually there.” save the historic building. — AP Since then, he says, he has written For the hero’s imprisonment in the about 100 such songs. “One of the great gulag, Stewart was inspired by Alexander things about it is that you never run out Solzhenistyn’s prison camp novel “One Day of material.” The penultimate song of in the Life of Ivan Denisovich”. “You assem- Age is not a cage: Stewart’s set in front of some 20,000 fans ble all this information and you try to create at Cropredy was from “Past, Present and a story out of it. I do confess that in a couple Future”. of historical songs, I was asleep at the wheel 90-year-old musicians go strong The haunting “Roads to Moscow” tells and got a couple of things wrong.” At the story, from a Soviet soldier’s perspec- Cropredy, Stewart was accompanied by tive, of Nazi Germany’s ultimately unsuc- two virtuoso guitarists - his regular side- here’s an upcoming concert at Baruch music - which was evident once they tightened their earlier years, Finkel said: “Big difference. I’ll cessful invasion of the Soviet Union. man, Californian Dave Nachmanoff for the College, but it has nothing to do with stu- their lips and played their instruments. Yaged, tell you the difference.” “We get paid now,” Yaged Other Stewart compositions with a con- first half of the set, before they were joined Tdents. The performers are in their 90s, and who was heavily influenced by Benny Goodman, chimed in. temporary resonance include “Fields of by Briton Tim Renwick. Stewart, 68, has no one is even older than the Manhattan school will perform with a five-piece band during the “90 “Our least interest is to get paid. But to get on France” about a World War One flyer who plans to retire. “How many jobs in the world founded in 1919. Pianist and composer Irving and Going Strong” concert. During rehearsals, he we get such a thrill,” Finkel added. “In fact, we do never returns, and “Trains” about French can you do where you play to two or three Fields, who turned 99 last week, will perform a was playing a clarinet he remembers buying in things better now than we did before. To me socialist leader Jean Jaures who was thousand people and they stand up and show Monday night dubbed “90 and Going 1935 for $125, which he earned from shining every show is an opening night.” Fields, who per- assassinated on the eve of war. The applaud at the end of it? It doesn’t happen Strong” at the college along with Emmy-winning shoes. He charged customers a nickel. Finkel, too, forms regularly at Nino’s Tuscany in New York City, Cropredy set included “Palace of in banking.” — Reuters entertainer Fyvush Finkel and clarinetist Sol recalls his first paying gig at a Jewish theater in echoed Finkel’s sentiment. Yaged, both 91. The concert celebrates their pas- Brooklyn when he was 9. “A dollar a night. I was “I’ve lived longer. I’ve seen more of life,” he said. sion and commitment to music and live perform- the hero of the family,” said the actor, singer and “I take chances now on things I couldn’t do, and it ance despite their age. comedian, who will open the show Monday. works.” Fields is working on a documentary about “I call myself 99 years young. Age is just a num- Finkel earned an Emmy Award in 1994 for his his career and has penned a song honoring the ber,” Fields said in an interview. “Music keeps me role in the CBS drama series “Picket Fences.” He Statue of Liberty called “Here’s to the Lady,” which younger. ... I play 10 notes, I’m 40 years younger. I has appeared in various films and television he will perform Monday. He says he doesn’t plan play a whole concerto, I’m like Benjamin Button!” shows, including “Boston Public.” They want audi- to slow down in his career. “I’m only 99, and well, I The trio’s concert will be their second in a month ences to not be fooled by their age - they say they hope I live to be 109,” Fields said. “I want to at least at the 175-seat Engelman Recital Hall in the feel stronger than ever in their 90s. When asked get to 100. I am so fulfilled when I play your Baruch Performing Arts Center. Tickets cost $35. how different performing today is compared to favorite song.” — AP “It was so successful. It was jam-packed,” Fields said of their first show. The performers have played music since their teenage years and enjoyed success by writing songs and appearing on television, in films and onstage. Fields, who recorded many albums, has writ- ten songs recorded by Sarah Vaughan and Dinah Shore. He also composed “Miami Beach Rhumba,” which was used in Woody Allen’s “Deconstructing Harry.” During a rehearsal Friday afternoon, the Lifetime’s Aaliyah biopic finds men were chatting away, sipping coffee and eat- ing bagels. They have known one another for its Elliott and Timbaland years and say their passion for music remains strong. “What key are we in?” Yaged, holding his ou can’t have a movie about Aaliyah er and younger version of Aaliyah’s brother clarinet, says to Fields. “I said D! I’ll give you my without her musical mentors. A net- Rashad, respectively. hearing aid. I have an extra one,” he replies as Ywork representative told TheWrap The working title for the television Finkel laughs. that Lifetime’s Aaliyah biopic has cast movie is “Aaliyah: Princess of R&B” and is Later, while performing together, Fields speeds Chattrisse Dolabaille and Izaak Smith as based on the bestselling book “Aaliyah: up on piano. “I’m not ready for your tempo yet!” producer-rappers Missy Elliott and More Than a Woman” by former Time music Yaged yells. “I love you, but you drive me nuts,” Timbaland, respectively. Dolabaille is a editor Christopher Farley. The film will be Fields replies. Despite some tense moments, newcomer to Hollywood. She’s a Canadian produced by Aaliyah Productions, Inc., with there was a sense of love - for one another and for Clarinetist Sol Yaged, 91, rehearses at the Baruch Performing Arts Center. actress, singer and dancer. Watch her video Wendy Williams, Howard Braunstein (“The resume below. Izaak Smith, on the other Informant!”) and Debra Martin Chase hand, was a contender on “So You Think (“Sparkle”) executive producing. Bradley You Can Dance Canada.” He has appeared Walsh (“Turn the Beat Around”) is directing, in “Percy Jackson & the Olympians: The working from a script by Michael Elliot Lightning Thief” and “Mirror Mirror” as a (“Brown Sugar”). It is filming this summer dancer. He also played Cal Rice on popular for a fall premiere. The proposed television Canadian series, “Tower Prep,” and Danny movie about the singer, who died in a on digital series “Totally Amp’d.” plane crash in 2001 at age 22, had been Aaliyah worked with Timbaland and mired in controversy with Aaliyah fans and Missy Elliott on her second album, “One In her family expressing disapproval of the A Million,” which sold 3.7 million copies in project. There was even a fan petition seek- the United States and more than eight mil- ing to shut the production down. Fans lion copies worldwide. In addition to believed that Disney Channel star Zendaya Dolabaille and Smith, the production has Coleman wasn’t the right choice to play cast Rachael Crawford and Sterling Jarvis as Aaliyah. She would later leave the project. Aaliyah’s parents Diane and Michael Also, Aaliyah’s family expressed to TheWrap Haughton; Lyriq Bent as her uncle and that it was against the movie because they president of her label, Barry Hankerson; felt it was more suited to the big screen. Composer Irving Fields, 99, clarinetist Sol Yaged, 91, and comedian Clarinetist Sol Yaged, 91, comedian Fyvush Finkel, 91 and composer Anthony Grant as Damon Dash; and A.J. Blackfilm.com was the first to break these Fyvush Finkel, 91, left to right, rehearse at the Baruch Performing Arts Irving Fields, 99, left to right, pose for photos after a rehearsal. Saudin and Jesse Sukunda will play the old- castings. — Reuters Center, in New York, Friday, Aug 8, 2014. —AP photos lifestyle TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014 AWARDS

Shailene Woodley, from left, Nat Wolff and Ansel Elgort accept the award for choice movie: drama for ‘The Fault In Our Stars’ at the Teen Choice Awards at the Shrine Auditorium on Sunday, Aug. 10, 2014, in Los Angeles. — AP/AFP photos Woodley, Elgort among Teen Choice Awards winners hailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort of “The Fault in Our Stars” rode a victorious Swave at the Teen Choice Awards. The actors were honored with several prizes at Sunday’s fan-favorite extravaganza, including choice drama movie actor and breakout movie star for Elgort and choice drama and action movie actress for “Divergent” star Woodley. The pair was also awarded the surf- board-shaped trophy for choice movie lip-lock for their “Fault in Our Stars” smooch. “I don’t surf or anything, so I guess I’m gonna put this on my wall,” said Elgort of the unique prize. The Teen Choice Awards fea- tured A-listers including Taylor Swift, Jennifer Lopez and Kim Kardashian, whose E! series won choice TV reality show. Selena Gomez, who won the ultimate choice award, was emotional when she won the top honor. “I have to be honest, especially this month, I cannot thank you guys enough, amidst all this stuff that we deal with personally, you remind me of what’s important, and that’s giv- ing and loving and caring about each other,” the 22-year-old said. Ariana Grande accepts the award for choice Ariana Grande, who won choice female female artist. artist and song for “Problem,” posed for selfies with fans on the red carpet, as did Swift, who sported a cropped green top and skirt. Demi Lovato kicked off the awards show with a per- formance and a win. After belting out her tune “Really Don’t Care,” the singer-actress surfed away with awards for choice summer song and choice female summer music star. Lovato Shailene Woodley accepts the award for Ansel Elgort accepts the award for choice Kevin Hart accepts the award for choice used her acceptance speech to pump up the choice movie actress: action/adventure for movie actor: drama for ‘The Fault in Our movie actor: comedy for ‘Ride Along’. crowd of mostly roaring teenagers. ‘Divergent’. Stars’.

Lucy Hale accepts the award for choice TV actress for ‘Pretty Little Liars’.

Donald Sutherland accepts the award for choice movie villain for ‘The Hunger Games: Catching Fire’.

Colton Haynes, second from left, and the musical group Fifth Harmony present the award for choice webstar: female and male at the Teen Choice Awards. “I want you guys to know that instead of casual ceremony in a tuxedo. “My wife - I across town to the Shrine Auditorium adja- just getting up here and saying a speech, have been married for 42 years - my wife cent to the University of Southern California every single one of you deserves to have a asked me to tell you that she agreed with campus. Zendaya and Kevin Hart were happy and incredible life, so be the best you you.” Other winners on hand to claim their among the other stars who showed up to can be in everything because your dreams trophies included “Pretty Little Liars” star accept awards at the boisterous ceremony, can come true if you work hard for them,” Lucy Hale as choice drama TV show actress, which featured performances from singer beamed Lovato. Teen Choice Awards co- “The Hunger Games” co-star Josh Hutcherson Becky G, the English group Rixton and MAG- hosts Tyler Posey of “Teen Wolf” and Sarah as choice sci-fi/fantasy movie actor and IC!, the reggae-pop band who have the No. 1 Hyland of “Modern Family” said 165 million Bethany Mota and Tyler Oakley as choice song in the country with “Rude.” votes were cast online for the 16th annual female and male Web stars. “You’re all amaz- “I wish there was a TelePrompTer for these awards, which honor movies, television, ing,” said Mota, echoing the motivational (acceptance) speeches,” said “The Giver” music, comedy, sports, fashion and Web stars acceptance speeches from this year’s batch actress Odeya Rush, who won the breakout in such silly categories as choice hottie, smile of winners. “You all have the potential to be star award. Jason Derulo closed out the show and villain, which went to “The Hunger what you wanna be.” with a performance of his song “Talk Dirty,” Games” heavy Donald Sutherland. A recent water main break flooded the which featured the choice male summer Josh Hutcherson accepts the award for “You named me the most villainous?” Teen Choice Awards’ original venue at UCLA’s music star winner dancing on top of a police choice movie actor: sci-fi/fantasy for ‘The Ian Harding poses in the press room at the asked Sutherland, who showed up to the Pauley Pavilion. The show was hastily moved car onstage. — AP Hunger Games: Catching Fire’. Teen Choice Awards. Mickey Rourke shows off Putin t-shirt in Moscow38 TUESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2014

A selection of Shaun the Sheep figures, decorated by artists and celebrities, are displayed in Parliament Square, central London, England. Sixty of the sheep figures are set to be placed around London and Bristol in March 2015, as part of the ‘Shaun in the City’ art trail project. The figures will then be auctioned in aid of children’s hospital charities in the autumn of 2015. — AFP Police try taming wild Times Square characters ew York City police are launching a public education campaign to keep Times Square’s Nroving band of costumed characters in line Man fined for after a series of high-profile incidents. The depart- ment said Saturday it’s partnering with the Times Square Alliance, a business and tourism group, to mimicking ghost remind the people inside the costumes that they cannot charge for photographs. man has been fined for mim- engine or how long the black and They’re also letting tourists know that taking a icking a ghost in a cemetery. white puss had been in there. Steven photograph with a character is free and tipping is AThe 24-year-old guy had upset added: “They say cats have nine lives, optional. The campaign comes two weeks after visitors to Kingston Cemetery in Lucky has definitely used one of police say a man dressed as Spider-Man slugged a Portsmouth, southern England, by them. “I have no idea how he didn’t police officer who told him to stop harassing a playing football and making spooky get hurt or fall out of the car.” It tourist for a bigger tip. The department is handing noises. Anthony Stallard was arrested seems that the loveable feline’s out fliers with the reminder in red boxes superim- for his strange sound effects and moniker is especially appropriate as posed on black-and-white photograph of Times charged with using threatening or he has now been adopted by a Square’s versions of Mickey Mouse and Elmo. abusive words or behavior likely to neighbor’s cat, which Lucky is now The fliers instruct people to talk to a police officer cause distress. Prosecutor Tim suckling milk from while they contin- or call 911 if a character gets out of hand. Police Concannon told Hampshire’s ue to search for his original owner. Commissioner William Bratton has referred to the Southern Daily Echo: “He was throw- characters’ wild behavior as Times Square’s “Elmo ing himself backwards, waving his Woman refused issues.” In the last two years, a man dressed as

Bizarre News News Bizarre arms about and going ‘woooooooh’. passport for changing her Cookie Monster was charged with shoving a 2-year- “I’m assuming he was pretending to name to Skywalker old, a person attired in Super Mario’s overalls was be a ghost.” The fake phantom, ‘Star Wars’ fan has had her accused of groping a woman and an Elmo figure Anthony, has been fined £35 and passport application rejected. made to pay court costs of £20 as ALaura Skywalker Matthews pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after unleash- A Times Square visitor poses for photos with an iconic costumed character. well as a £20 victim surcharge. He has from the United Kingdom - who offi- ing an anti-Semitic tirade. also had his 12 month suspended cially changed her name by deed City Council is considering requiring licenses and sentence - which he received for an poll in 2008 - needed to renew her background checks for costumed performers but assault he committed last August - passport for a trip to Amsterdam but copyright issues have held up final approval, since extended by three months. she was refused the travel document most of the costume wearers are not authorized by because her signature of L Skywalker the characters’ owners. Mayor Bill de Blasio Spider causes house fire infringed copyright. Miss Matthews endorsed the licensing plan, saying the characters man has set fire to his house told the Daily Mirror newspaper: “It’s had “gone too far.” Even those dressed as super- while trying to kill a spider. The absolutely ridiculous. They told me heroes, he said, have to “play by the rules or you Aincident occurred in Bridgend, the issue was with my signature won’t be working here any longer.”— AP South Wales, when a guy found the because L Skywalker is trademark. “I spider on his windowsill and have the same signature on my driv- attempted to kill it by spraying the ing licence, bank cards and every- eight-legged creature with an thing else.”How can everybody else aerosol can and setting it alight. be happy with that signature, apart However, it was the unsavoury arach- from the passport office?” Laura nid which got the last laugh as the missed her summer holiday and has flames rapidly spread and the man now been forced to change the sig- was forced to call the fire service. nature on her passport. Thankfully no-one was injured and the inferno was extinguished with a Student creates single water jet. South Wales Fire & body-switching machine Rescue Service has now issued a student has created a gadget warning urging people not to use lit that allows a person to effec- aerosols when attempting to rid Atively swap bodies with some- their houses of unwanted creepy one else. Yifei Chai designed the crawlies. This is not the first time machine as part of his studies at someone has used an aerosol to kill a Imperial College, London, United Spiderman take a picture with a tourist in Times spider resulting in terrible conse- Kingdom, by combining virtual reality Square yesterday. A Times Square visitor poses for photos with an iconic costumed character. quences. Only last month, a man in goggles and a machine that sends Seattle tried a similar method of electronic shocks to force muscles to extermination leading to $60,000 mimic the movement set by the con- worth of damage. troller. Chai told the Daily Telegraph newspaper: “On the first level, the Kitten survives project explores what it means to con- car engine journey trol and be controlled. “Furthermore, nine-week-old kitten has sur- because users are able to step into the vived a four mile journey in a bodies of another person, they can Acar engine. The adorable kitten experience, first hand, real social inter- - which has been appropriately actions, and have the opportunity to A person People dressed named Lucky - was discovered by behave under another persona with- dressed as as Catwoman, Steven Goldstraw when he heard a out physical restrictions. Resulting in Elmo shakes right, and strange noise coming from the car as the first, one of a kind, real life identi- hands with a Spiderman, he was driving home from a park. ty exploration tool.” The system still pedestrian in left, take a pic- The 55-year-old guy said: “It looked has its limitations but there is talk Times Square ture with a absolutely petrified.” It is unknown that it could be used in “immersive on Monday, tourist in Times how Lucky managed to get into the gaming”. —Bang Showbiz July 28, 2014 in Square New York. —AP yesterday.