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TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 RAJJAB 23, 1436 AH www.kuwaittimes.net Anti-vaxxers Cameron ‘Jon Stewart Rickie Fowler in face unveils new of ’ eyes delivers major jail, fines under cabinet after new plan after performance new child3 law election7 win Harvard14 stint to17 win Players King’s absence signals Saudi Min 26º discontent with policy Max 37º High Tide 06:15 & 17:15 Amir arrives in • Most Gulf rulers skip US summit Low Tide 12:15 40 PAGES NO: 16518 150 FILS

DUBAI: It is not just the Saudi king who will be skipping the Camp David summit of US and allied Arab leaders. Saudis, Kuwait Most Gulf heads of state won’t be there. The absences will put a damper on talks that are designed to reassure to shut Wafra key Arab allies, and almost certainly reflect dissatisfac- tion among leaders of the six-member Gulf Cooperation joint oilfield Council with Washington’s handling of Iran and what they expect to get out of the meeting. Among those KUWAIT: and Kuwait have decided to who will be at the summit is Kuwait’s Amir HH Sheikh shut the second oilfield in the neutral zone, effec- Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, who arrived at Andrews Air tively halting output in the area which produced Force Base yesterday. Also, Qatar’s Emir Sheikh Tamim 500,000 barrels of oil, an official said yesterday. “A bin Hamad Al-Thani departed yesterday to take part in decision has been taken today to shut operations the meeting. at Wafra oilfield... for two weeks for periodical Rulers of Saudi Arabia, the , maintenance,” head of the of Kuwait Bahrain and Oman never publicly announced they Gulf Oil Co (KGOC) Fadghoush Al-Ajmi told AFP. would attend the summit - so officially at least, there KGOC and Saudi Arabian Chevron jointly run the was no reversal of plans. However, White House Wafra field which produced 184,000 barrels yester- spokesman Josh Earnest told reporters in Washington day, Ajmi said. At one stage, the oilfield produced last Monday that Saudi King Salman had formally around 220,000 barrels per day (bpd), he said. accepted the invitation to meet with President Barack In October, Saudi Arabia halted production in Obama ahead of the summit. the offshore Khafji oilfield, also in the neutral zone, Late on Sunday, Saudi Foreign Minister Adel Al- which produced more than 300,000 bpd. An oil Jubeir announced that newly installed Salman will not industry source told AFP that the closure in Wafra is be attending. The ostensible reason was because the upcoming summit on Thursday coincides with a due to a row between the two Gulf neighbors, and humanitarian ceasefire in the conflict in Yemen, where a that periodical maintenance is a “diplomatic term” Saudi-led coalition is fighting Shiite rebels known as used as a cover. “The production may not resume Houthis. Crown Prince Mohammed bin Nayef, who is soon unless the two nations find a solution to their also interior minister, will lead the Saudi delegation and row” which began in 2009, the source told AFP, the king’s son, Deputy Crown Prince Mohammed bin requesting anonymity. WASHINGTON: HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah waves as he arrives at Andrews Air Salman, who is defense minister, will also attend. Continued on Page 13 Force Base yesterday. —KUNA Continued on Page 13 Dashti files to grill FM over Yemen Govt ‘has nothing to hide’ By B Izzak “sectarian” and Saadun Hammad dis- missed it as “born dead”, while others KUWAIT: In a surprising move, Shiite MP vowed to oppose it because it is “mean- Govt agrees to Abdulhameed Dashti yesterday filed to ingless”. grill Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al- Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs set up company Khaled Al-Sabah over Kuwait’s participa- Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al- tion in the Saudi-led air campaign Sabah said late yesterday interpellations to recruit maids against Yemen’s Shiite Houthi militias are the constitutional right of MPs as and a number of other issues. In a long as they serve national interest. “We By B Izzak lengthy grilling, Dashti, who was taken to are working in daylight and we will not court by the foreign ministry for insulting abandon our role in any circumstances... KUWAIT: The government has accepted a propos- Saudi Arabia and Bahrain, also accused especially during the critical and sensi- al to set up a company to recruit domestic helpers the foreign minister for pushing the tive circumstances in our region,” Sheikh and replace a large number of recruitment offices National Assembly to ratify the Gulf secu- Mohammad, also Acting Foreign Minister with the aim to cut expenses, member of the rity pact, saying the pact violates the and Defense Minister, told KUNA. “The KUWAIT: Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Al-Abdullah National Assembly’s financial and economic affairs constitution. is clear and the Al-Sabah and former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad attend a committee MP Ahmad Lari said. Lari said the min- There are just seven Shiite MPs in lawmaker should exercise his legislative two-day Gulf Leaders’ Summit yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat istries of interior, social affairs and labor and Kuwait’s 50-seat parliament, where sev- and supervision role in order to benefit health, besides the Kuwait Investment Authority eral MPs swiftly rejected Dashti’s move. the national interest. and union of cooperative societies have accepted Independent Mansoor Al-Dhafiri called it Continued on Page 13 Call for leadership the establishment of the company. Stakes of the proposed company will be distrib- uted to those agencies and citizens will be in turbulent world allowed to subscribe to a portion of the shares, the lawmaker said. He said the company aims at KUWAIT: Administrative skills and abili- teristic of the region, a matter that neces- improving the process of recruiting maids from ties of special nature are needed to try to sitates more adherence to national unity abroad at a reasonable and suitable cost and calculate what may happen in the near and GCC solidarity. He stressed that branches of the proposed company will be future in a tumultuous world, Minister of boosting national unity is of maximum opened at various cooperative societies. Lari said State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh priority so as to get ready for potential KIA has no objection to take a 10 percent stake in Mohammad Al-Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al- problems and work for the future the company, while the rest will be distributed to Sabah said yesterday. The historic events through an ambitious plan, making the region is going through prompt utmost use of the available financial and other partners and citizens. thinking, planning and serious work to human resources. The issue of the company had triggered a con- set a scientific basis for leadership in an Current events in the region highlight troversy in the Assembly after the health and unstable environment, Sheikh the dire need for conscious leaders hav- labor committee initially rejected the proposal. Mohammad told a Gulf Cooperation ing the abilities to handle emergencies, But several MPs voted to refer the proposal to the Council (GCC) event yesterday on behalf calculate potential future happenings financial and economic affairs committee, which of HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al- and design strategies and achieve goals. has not yet given a final opinion on the issue. Mubarak Al-Sabah. The gathering is dis- Since the world is in a state of everlasting Hundreds of maid offices operate in the country, cussing the issue of leading organiza- chaos, it is but natural that stability is but recruitment costs have skyrocketed in the past tions in a turbulent environment. absent all through, which makes it few years. KUWAIT: MP Abdulhameed Dashti (right) submits a grilling motion against Sheikh Mohammad noted that con- inevitable to focus on how to handle Continued on Page 13 Foreign Minister Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled Al-Sabah to acting speaker Adel Al- flicts and wars have come to be a charac- Continued on Page 13 Khorafi at the National Assembly yesterday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Houthis ‘down’ Moroccan jet Dad hands ‘lost’ SANAA: Yemeni rebels said yesterday try’s official MAP news agency report- early morning, jets, artillery, and rock- they shot down a fighter jet as Saudi- ed, citing the armed forces. “A second ets have been pounding Saada” from child to led coalition air strikes intensified a day plane which was flying in formation the Saudi side of the border, one resi- By Hanan Al-Saadoun ahead of a hoped-for five-day humani- was not able to see whether the pilot dent told AFP. The coalition has tarian truce. Morocco announced that ejected,” it added. A Saudi official said declared the entire rebel stronghold of KUWAIT: A citizen yesterday one of its warplanes taking part in the warplane was “certainly on Yemeni Saada province to be a military target dropped off a two-year-old boy operations against the rebels was territory and had a single pilot on after Houthi bombardment of Saudi at a police station, claiming he missing along with its pilot, and that a board.” Houthi rebel television said towns across the border caused sever- had found him in a park. Police search was underway. Coalition air tribesmen shot down a coalition air- al deaths. posted the child’s image on vari- strikes hit Iran-backed rebels in their craft in the Wadi Nushur area of Saada, Aid agencies say some 70,000 civil- ous media, prompting a woman northern stronghold of Saada and in and broadcast pictures of them cele- ians have fled the province bordering to come forward and give them the capital Sanaa, where they sparked brating around the wreckage of a Saudi Arabia, but that many more the name of the boy, which led powerful explosions at an arms depot plane bearing a Moroccan flag. remain trapped by the coalition air and police to discover that the man who left the child with WADI NUSHUR, Yemen: A video grab shows Yemeni at Mount Noqum that shook the city. It reported there were “more than artillery bombardment because of a them is actually his father. Police are on the lookout for tribesmen celebrating around the wreckage of a Contact was lost with the Moroccan 20 raids since the morning” by coali- lack of fuel for transport. the suspect, who was not answering phone calls. plane bearing a Moroccan flag yesterday. — AFP F-16 late afternoon Sunday, the coun- tion aircraft across Saada. “Since the Continued on Page 13 TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 LOCAL Crown Prince, Prime Minister receive officials

KUWAIT: His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah, with the attendance of and Labor Jamal Shehab. Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah the Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh HH the Prime Minister also received former Qatari received Minister of Finance, Acting Minister of Mohammad Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah, received at Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Energy and Industry Commerce and Industry Anas Al-Saleh at Seif Palace Seif Palace yesterday former Malaysian Prime Minister Abdullah Bin Mohammad Al-Attiyah, and Qatar’s yesterday. He also received Chief of the National Dr Mahathir Mohammad, and the Group Chief Ambassador to Kuwait Hamad Bin Ali Jaber Al-Henzab, Security Apparatus Sheikh Thamer Ali Sabah Al-Salem Executive of Business Services and Gulf Employment on the occasion of their participation in the ‘Leadership Al-Sabah, as well as Ahmad Abdulmohsen Al-Mulaifi. Majed Abduallah Al-Turkait, in addition to Kuwait’s for- in a Turbulent Environment’ conference held under the Meanwhile, HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al- mer Minister of Justice and Minister of Social Affairs auspices of HH Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak. —KUNA

His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah Amir congratulates doctor on US award KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- KUWAIT: His Highness the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al- His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al- Jaber Al-Sabah sent a cable to Dr Waddah Bader Al-Refai, chief Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah meets Minister of Finance, Acting Minister of Sabah meets former Malaysian Prime Minister Dr Mahathir Mohammad. of surgical oncology at MedStar Georgetown University Hospital Commerce and Industry Anas Al-Saleh. —KUNA photos and Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, con- gratulating him on getting an award from Georgetown University. In the cable, HH the Amir lauded Refai’s prestigious position in this regard, wishing him further success. HH the Deputy Amir and Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al- AFESD, Yemen signs KD 40 Jaber Al-Sabah and HH the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah sent similar cables to Al-Refai. —KUNA Kuwaiti authorities proceed million loan agreements with water projects: Official KUWAIT: The Ministry of Electricity and Water is proceeding with water ventures in tandem with broad development schemes, KUWAIT: The Arab Fund for Economic and The project also aims to facilitate the alleviate poverty, combat unemployment, required machines, equipment, and furni- with aim of satisfying needs of the country’s growing population, Social Development (AFESD) signed two delivery of basic services and goods to resi- and provide new job opportunities, said the ture, in addition to providing necessary con- a ministry official re-affirmed yesterday. Humoud Al-Roudhan, loan agreements worth KD 40 million with dents of countryside areas and villages, statement. The project would contribute to sultative services to prepare and implement Assistant Undersecretary, indicated in a statement at several ven- the government of Yemen to contribute to improve their social condition, contribute to the development of the Yemeni society studies, designs, and tenders documents, it tures being executed at present, such as construction of water financing development projects. combating poverty, and renovate a number through development projects designed for noted. The annual interest for the two loan pipelines from the North Zour station to the water gathering site. The first loan, worth KD 30 million, would of countryside and urban roads in Yemeni infrastructure and services of various sectors agreements is 2.5 percent, which is to be He also mentioned the water tanks in Sabah Al-Ahmad district, in finance countryside roads development governorates, in addition to providing job in the country such as education, water, san- paid over 25 years. The two agreements addition to pipelines stretching from Mina Abdulla to western Al- projects, the AFESD said in a statement. The opportunities through national contracting itation, agriculture, interior roads, and social were signed by Yemeni Minister of Planning Funaitees gathering complex. project is part of the fourth phase of a pro- companies and local communities. affairs, the AFESD said. and International Cooperation Dr Mohamed All water networks and pumping stations are connected to gram that aims to link remote countryside The second load, worth KD 10 million, The project also includes implementing Abdulwahed Al-Maitami and AFESD’s secure needed supplies of water to all residential regions. A plan areas and isolated villages with cities and would finance a public works project as part all civil, construction, and architecture Director General and Chairman of the board has been finalized to boost water transfer between Doha complex urban centers, the AFESD noted. of the fourth phase of a project that aims to works, as well as supplying and installing of Directors Abdulatif Al-Hamad. —KUNA and Al-Mutlaa tanks. —KUNA

KUWAIT: Visiting Yemeni Vice President and Prime Minister Khaled Bin Mahfoudh Bahah and his accompanying delegation met Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development (KFAED) Director-General Abdulwhab Al-Bader at his residence at Bayan Palace yesterday. He also visited the Yemeni Embassy in Kuwait and met with the Yemeni community. —KUNA Dive Team removes metal poles in Fintas

KUWAIT: The Kuwait Dive Team removed marine operations Waleed Al-Shatti said hazardous metal poles off the Fintas coast, yesterday. The continuing operation is fore- in the latest environment safeguarding cast to be accomplished in four phases, he activity by the team. The metallic pieces said, calling on ships and sea-goers to were taken away in cooperation with per- avoid the area until all the metal poles were sonnel from the Cabinet encroachments’ removed, for safety reasons. The team, committee, Fintas marine rescue center which is affiliated with the Environmental and Kuwait Municipality. Voluntary Foundation, has carried out The poles removed were part of an old many such operations in the past, remov- marine project, posing danger to ships ing hurdles, dumped materials and nets, passing in the area, head of the team’s posing danger to the marine life. —KUNA ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al-Ghanem is pictured upon arrival in yesterday. —KUNA Parliament speaker arrives in Pakistan on Asian tour Kuwait, Pakistan mull ISLAMABAD: National Assembly Speaker Marzouq Al- Ghanem, accompanied by a parliamentary delegation, arrived in Pakistan yesterday on a six-day Asian tour, which economic cooperation includes . The Kuwaiti parliamentary delega- tion was received by Pakistani parliamentary officials and KUWAIT: The Kuwait Chamber of strengthening commercial relations members of the Kuwaiti embassy in Islamabad. Commerce and Industry (KCCI) and Karachi between the two sides, calling for provid- The delegation is expected to meet with President of Chamber of Commerce and Industry dis- ing Kuwaiti investors with required infor- Pakistan Mamnoon Hussain, Speaker of the National cussed economic cooperation and means mation about investment environment and Assembly Sardar Ayaz Sadiq, Chairman of the Senate Raza of enhancing bilateral relations. fruitful projects in Pakistan. Rabbani and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, who will be pre- During his meeting with Karachi Nisf noted that the KCCI is ready for siding over a meeting to be held by the joint parliamentary Chamber of Commerce and Industry increasing its cooperation with Pakistan. friendship committee. Ghanem’s visit to Islamabad comes President Iftikhar Ahmed Vohra, Osama Al- Tareq Al-Mutawa, a KCCI member, said that at the invitation of the Pakistani parliament speaker. Nisf, a KCCI member, said that although Kuwaiti investors are interested in carrying The Kuwaiti delegation was seen off at Kuwait Pakistan’s Karachi is a key commercial hub out investment projects there, urging International Airport by Acting Parliament Speaker Adel Al- to Kuwait, trade exchange between the Pakistan to provide all facilities and privi- Jarallah Al-Kharafi, Minister of Oil and Minister of State for two sides is below the aspired levels. leges to attract foreign investors. National Assembly Affairs Dr Ali Al-Omair, the Pakistani and Pakistan enjoys huge opportunities of Vohra said meanwhile that his country South Korean ambassadors to Kuwait, National Assembly commerce and investment in all fields, has good relations with Kuwait, adding that Secretary General Allam Al-Kanderi, his assistant Sami Al- especially in the sectors of foodstuffs, Pakistan seeks to create an attractive Shaye’ and other secretariat officials. building materials and textiles, he said, urg- atmosphere for foreign investors. Economic The Parliament speaker is accompanied on his two- ing Kuwait’s private sector to take advan- indicators affirm that Pakistan is on the nation mission by MPs Mubarak Al-Haris, Dr Odah Al- tage of these opportunities. right track amid progress of heavy indus- Ruwaiee, Humoud Al-Hamdan, Rakan Al-Nisef, Kamel Al- He underlined the importance of tries, he said. —KUNA Awadhi, Faisal Al-Shaye’ and Ahmad Al-Kudhaibi. —KUNA TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 LOCAL Anti-vaxxers in Kuwait face jail, fines under new child rights law

By Meshaal Al-Enezi and Ahmad Jabr credited but anti-vaxxers contin- tion from all kind of abuse and workers whose rights are violated. ue to be suspicious of vaccines. It from discrimination, as well as The law also provides protec- KUWAIT: Parents who fail to have is not clear if the law will apply to Article 6 which pertains to a tion for children from inappropri- their children vaccinated in Kuwait both citizen and expatriate chil- child’s basic rights of custody, ate publications. On that regard, could face jail time and fines, dren as many expatriate children housing, food, healthcare, educa- the law stipulates a maximum according to a new child rights follow vaccination schedules from tion and a safe environment. one year jail term and/or maxi- law published in the 10 May 2015 their home countries. Meanwhile, the law stipulates mum KD 5,000 for anyone who issue of Kuwait Al Youm. The law, But the law does clarify that a jail terms and fines for people publishes, showcases or distrib- which was passed in the parlia- parent or legal guardian must convicted of selling unsafe food utes publications, multimedia or ment on March 24, 2015, stipu- subject their child to vaccination products to children, failure to electronic material in which the lates under Article 83 that parents in time as per the dates specified report a child’s birth and register child would be the primary tar- or legal guardians who fail to by the Ministry of Health at pub- the child’s information with the get, and which ‘address their ensure that children under their lic medical centers free of charge, relevant authorities, or anyone basic instincts,’ violate social val- care are vaccinated against infec- or at the hands of a licensed doc- who allows a child to drive an ues or encourage them to commit tious and common childhood dis- tor in the private sector. automobile. The law defines a deviant acts. eases are subject to a maximum Meanwhile, the law says that child as anyone aged 18 years or It also stipulates a two to three of a six month jail term and/or a child care centers must be noti- under, and guarantees their right years jail term and/or KD10,000 - maximum KD 1,000 fine. The gov- fied with a hand-written note of healthcare and mandatory KD 50,000 fine for people who ernment provides a schedule of about any cases that threaten a education. import, export, produce, prepare, essential vaccines online in both child’s health and wellbeing, while showcase, print, promote, possess and English. specialists at said centers have the Working mothers or broadcast pornographic mate- Most parents do vaccinate right to keep a child in a hospital In other sections of the new rial that involves children or are their children but a small commu- in case their health situation law, employers who employ at related to sexual exploitation of crimes, committing illegal acts or cates that punishments for crimes nity of families, known as anti- requires even against the child’s least 50 working mothers at one children. The same punishment immoral activities - even if the committed against children are vaxxers, argue that some vaccines parent or legal guardian’s wish. place are required to build a nurs- also applies to people who use actual crime never occurs. doubled in case the culprit was a can have damaging effects. A The law also stipulates a mini- ery or hire the services of a pri- the computer, internet, cartoons The law stipulates a maximum child’s parent, legal guardian, nan- fraudulent 1998 research paper mum jail term of one year and/or vate nursery to take care of the or similar means to prepare, save, of one year jail sentence and/or a ny or domestic worker assigned to by Andrew Wakeful claimed to KD 2,000 fine for those who fail to employees’ children. Employers process, showcase, print, publish maximum KD 2,000 fine against watch over the child. demonstrate a link between the allow their children access to who violate this article are sub- or promote pornographic activi- those who practice any form of Laws are deemed as in effect MMR vaccine and incidences of rights listed under Article 3 per- jected to a fine that varies ties that encourage children or violence, psychological abuse, upon publication in the official autism in children. The research taining to a child’s rights of life, between KD 200 and KD 500 exploit them in prostitution or neglect, cruelty or exploitation government gazette, Kuwait Al has since been completely dis- living in a cohesive family, protec- depending on the number of trafficking, or that exploit them in against a child. The law also indi- Youm. Crime Report Council approves changes in construction rules

By Meshaal Al-Enezi Society’s dissolution officials were only protecting their Kuwait Graduates Society’s interests” he underlined. KUWAIT: The Municipal Council yes- Chairman Abdul Aziz Al-Mulla criti- terday approved a proposal to adjust cized the Ministry of Social Affairs and Unions hail minister’s remarks some construction rules and regula- Labor’s decision to dissolve the Following up on Minister of Social tions in private residence areas. The Kuwait Transparency Society, noting Affairs and Labor Hind Al-Subaih’s council also approved a proposal to that the decision was ‘unacceptable’ statements in which she said the one- increase the total area citizens could and accusing the ministry of ‘restrict- vote system in unions’ elections vio- build on their houses’ roofs from 50 to ing NGOs.’ Moreover, Mulla slammed lates international agreements, 100 square meters. the excuse of ‘abusing lawmakers’ that Chairman of the Public Sector Union The council also accepted a pro- minister Hind Al-Subaih used to justify at the Kuwait Trade Union Federation, posal made by members Hassan the dissolution. Such an excuse Bader Al-Azmi hailed the minister’s Kamal and Abdullah Al-Kandari to implies that the National Assembly remarks and stressed that unions build special emergency medical serv- and Kuwaiti NGOs were opponents, totally reject interfering in their work. ice points in major shopping malls, he noted. “Lawmakers’ work is related “Ever since its establishment in 1964, KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber the ministries’ complex and universi- to the interests of the majority; that is unions have been dedicated to Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah chairs the cabinet’s meeting yes- ties. why the move was criticized by affect- defending laborers’ rights and social terday. — KUNA Man hurt in ed individuals and NGOs because the gains,” he said. collision Sports strategy to be part of development By Hanan Al-Saadoun plan: Cabinet KUWAIT: A Kuwaiti man sustained multiple injuries when his vehicle ran into a truck on the Seventh Ring Road. KUWAIT: Kuwait’s sports strategy will be included in the Sulaibkhat fire center dealt with the accident, while para- state’s development plan, the cabinet decided yesterday. medics transferred the driver to hospital. The Public Authority for Youth and Sport (PAYS) has been entrusted, in coordination with the Secretariat of the Supreme Council for Planning and Development (SCPD), with taking the necessary measures to comprise projects of the strategy in the national development plan, said Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah following the weekly cabi- net meeting. The decision followed the review of a report, and rec- ommendations by the Standing Committee on Youth Affairs, seeking to ensure that the strategy will achieve its targeted noble goals, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah added. The cabinet’s weekly meeting was held at Seif Palace and chaired by His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. Meanwhile, the cabinet approved and referred to HH KUWAIT: A picture from yesterday’s Municipal Council session. — Photo by Fouad Al-Shaikh the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah two draft decrees, the first on the executive rule of law 2/2013 on the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) veterinary quaran- tine system. The second is relevant to amending decree EQUATE receives regional 317/2014 on identifying the marine zones of the country. The cabinet also consented to a draft bill on combating cybercrimes, referring it to HH the Amir. It will be later excellence awards from ASSE referred to the National Assembly, the Cabinet Affairs Car burns at Qatar Street Minister said. Fire broke out in car on Qatar Street in Salmiya. South KUWAIT: EQUATE Petrochemical Kandari said, “HSE is an absolute the environment, ensuring occupa- Salmiya fire center responded and put out the fire. No Company, Kuwait’s first interna- priority for EQUATE as part of its tional safety, maintaining health, Sudanese President injuries were reported. tional joint-venture in this industry, strategic objectives at all levels. safeguarding industrial operations, At the start of the meeting, the cabinet was notified of a received four Gulf-level Excellence Preserving the environment along and creating community aware- message sent to HH the Amir from Sudanese President Awards in recognition of its pio- with the safety and wellbeing of ness about several issues. During Omar Al-Bashir inviting him to attend the presidential inau- neering role in Health, Safety and our human resources, the popula- 2014, EQUATE received the interna- guration ceremony next month. The ministers were also Environment (HSE) from the tion of Kuwait and the country as a tionally recognized ASSE informed of a message from UN Secretary General Ban Ki- American Society of Safety whole are key elements of our President’s Award.” moon and President of the organization’s General Engineers (ASSE) - Kuwait Chapter. efforts to ensure overall sustain- EQUATE’s HSE initiatives include Assembly Sam Kahamba Kutesa inviting HH the Amir to The recognition included the ability in Kuwait and beyond. Our Kuwait’s first and only seawater attend the UN Summit for the Adoption of the Post-2015 HSE Excellence Gold Award in overall collaboration with ASSE and cooling towers, Kuwait’s first CO2 Development Agenda New York, 25-27 December 2015. Manufacturing, HSE Management other relevant bodies is truly an recovery project, as well as the The meeting was apprised of a message from UNDP Initiative Excellence Award, embodiment of our slogan Middle East’s first plant water recy- Administrator Helen Clark to HH the Amir expressing grati- Corporate Social Responsibility ‘Partners in Success’.” cle project. In addition, EQUATE is tude for Kuwait’s hosting the Third International Excellence Award and Excellence in On his part, EQUATE the first Kuwaiti organization to Humanitarian Pledging Conference for Styria in March. Environment Award. This is the 6th Environment, Health and Safety receive the certification and HH the Premier informed the ministers about the recent year EQUATE has earned the HSE (EH&S) Leader Mohammad Al- accreditation of Responsible Care fraternal visit to Kuwait by Saudi Deputy Crown Prince, Excellence Gold Award in Shamary said, “As part of our sus- (RC), which is an international vol- Second Deputy Prime Minister, Minister of Defense and Manufacturing from ASSE. tainability efforts throughout the untary initiative of the global Chairman of the Council of Economic Affairs and EQUATE Senior Executive for years, EQUATE has launched several chemical industry to safely handle Development Prince Mohammad bin Salman bin Abdulaziz Business Development Tareq Al- initiatives addressing preserving products throughout all phases. and his accompanying delegation, Sheikh Mohammad Abdullah said. The visit embodied the deep-rooted bilater- al relations and keenness by leaders of the two countries on promoting ties for the good of their peoples, as part of Suicide the GCC frameworks. The death of a Bangladeshi man was ruled a suicide by The cabinet welcomed the current visit to Kuwait by the coroner. The man hanged himself under a staircase. Yemeni Vice President and Prime Minister Dr. Khaled Bin Meanwhile, just hours after her arrival in the country, an Mahfoudh Bahah. HH the Prime Minister briefed the meet- ing on the talks held during Bahah’s visit, namely develop- African woman attempted suicide by slashing her wrists. ments in Yemen and efforts on all levels to restore peace She was taken to a medical facility for treatment. and stability to the country.

Traffic statistics Heavy rains The weekly statistics of the traffic department revealed Minister of Public Works and Minister of Electricity and that 41,142 citations were issued, 2,230 vehicles and five Water Ahmad Al-Jassar briefed the cabinet on the effect of motorcycles were impounded along with 12 cars wanted the heavy rain that fell on the country on Saturday, causing over various cases. Seventy one people were detained, floods and damage in some areas. Jassar explained to the while 1,680 accidents took place causing four deaths and ministers the measures taken by the Ministry of Public 234 injuries Works to avoid potential risks because of the rain. The cabinet reviewed topics on the agenda of the Service centers National Assembly, and reports on the political develop- ments on the Arab and the international scenes. It congrat- The service centers’ directorate general announced that ulated the British Prime Minister David Cameron whose all centers will be closed on Saturday, May 16 on the occa- party, the Conservatives, worn majority at the House of sion of Israa and Miraj. Offices will resume work immedi- Commons in recently-held elections, hoping for stronger ately after the holiday. bilateral ties in all fields. —KUNA TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 LOCAL

In Brief Lebanese in Gulf Drainage system Info employees protest BEIRUT: Lebanese Information Minister Ramzi Jreij By Meshaal Al-Enezi By A Saleh called for avoiding stances or actions that could nega- tively impact Lebanese communities in Gulf countries. KUWAIT: Minister of Public Works and of KUWAIT: A number of the information ministry In a statement to reporters before heading to Doha to Electricity and Water Ahmad Al-Jassar yesterday employees demonstrated outside the ministry’s main partake in the 15th Doha Forum, Jreij explained that formed a special committee to investigate the fail- gate yesterday, demanding being paid overdue the large Lebanese communities in Gulf states are ure of the rain drainage system to absorb the allowances and incentives. Protestors urged greatly contributing to the national economy through recent heavy rain quickly enough. The committee Information Minister Sheikh Salman Al-Humoud Al- Sabah to immediately interfere and solve the problem. their remittances, which are estimated at $8 billion includes six members and will directly report to They vowed to ‘accelerate’ their protests if their the minister once the investigations are over. annually. —KUNA demands were not met. Photo of the day

KUWAIT: A close-up shot of a palm tree’s leaf taken in yesterday. —Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat Kuwait stresses partnership with TAALEB E-Square Red Cross, Red Crescent federation Relief aid plane arrives in Lebanon Program honors Zain

AMMAN/BEIRUT: Deputy Chairman expertise as well as meeting the The one-day meeting aims to hold KUWAIT: Zain, the leading telecommunications compa- of the Kuwait Red Crescent Society needs and alleviating the burden on debate and stimulate further thinking ny in Kuwait, was recognized by the TAALEB E-Square (KRCS) Anwar Al-Hasawi yesterday the refugees in the host countries, about how to keep humanitarian Program’s managing committee for the company’s long- stressed KRCS’s keenness to strength- Hasawi added. He stressed the impor- action effective for the future and dis- term efforts and support to this unique educational ini- en its partnership with the tance of these international meetings, cussed cooperation between the tiative since its inception. The recognition came during International Federation and its dealing with the humanitarian issues International Federation of Red Cross the honoring ceremony held at the Ministry of national assemblies to achieve the and Kuwait’s humanitarian role and its and the Red Crescent. Education’s theater. aspirations of the international relief relationship with the other countries. In other news, a Kuwaiti military The event witnessed the presence of Acting President movement to improve the humanitar- The National Societies of the Red aircraft carrying 11 tons of relief, sub- of Kuwait University Dr Hayat Al-Hajji, who presented the ian situation due to disasters. Cross and Red Crescent responded to mitted by the Kuwaiti Supreme honoring token to Zain’s Corporate Communications and Hasawi’s statement came on the all international appeals on natural dis- Committee for Relief of Syrian Relations Director Waleed Al-Khashti. Zain prides itself sidelines of the regional consultation asters for decades, and their volunteers Refugees, landed in Beirut on Sunday for being one of the main supporters of this national and meeting for the Middle East and around the world contributed to pro- evening. The shipment includes food educational initiative that previously received Kuwait e- North Africa, held in Amman. This vide all types of assistance to relieve products, milk, children’s sweets and Award’s first place prize. meeting also intended at exchange of people affected by disasters, he said. other relief items, said Abdullah Al- The TAALEB E-Square Program provides an ideal edu- Kamali, an official tasked with over- cational e-gate solution, where more than 500,000 stu- seeing the operation. He highlighted dents and parents are connected with more than 50,000 that the relief had been made avail- teachers from over 500 schools in Kuwait. The website springs from the company’s core belief that social respon- able thanks to the generous contribu- allows parents to communicate with their children’s sibility is a significant corporate element. The company tions of the Kuwaiti people, whose teachers and follow up on various student activities like believes that supporting initiatives such as this one pro- sole aim is to ease the burden on homework, weekly plans, exam dates, student behavior, vides young people with skills and tools necessary to help Syrian refugees in Lebanon and other as well as class-related materials and aids. them highlight and develop their skills, ultimately con- neighboring nations. Zain’s support to the TAALEB E-Square program tributing to the further progress of national economy. According to estimates the num- ber of these refugees in Lebanon has exceeded the one-million mark, with most of these concentrated in the north. Kuwait, on the government and person-to-person levels, has been the largest donor nation to Syrian refugees who fled a conflict KUWAIT: Packages are unloaded from a Kuwaiti relief aid plane that which started just over four years arrived in Lebanon Sunday. —KUNA ago. —KUNA Russian cinema nights show ‘The Brest Fortress’

KUWAIT: The Russian Embassy in to occupy the fortress later in the Soviet forces into isolated groups, Kuwait and the National Council for afternoon but faced a tough resist- which nevertheless engaged in fierce Culture, Art and Letters (NCCAL) ance from the Soviet forces. The Soviet fighting with the German forces up launched the Russian Cinema Nights, forces created many formations vis-a- until early July 1941. The Brest Fortress showing movies of the World War II vis 17,000 German troops with their was produced in 2010, won three with The Brest Fortress being the tanks. The Germans succeeded in the awards and received seven nomina- Kuwait sets up social monitoring apparatus highlight of Sunday evening. The first three days in separating the tions. —KUNA Russian embassy is showing a number KUWAIT: The Ministry of Social Affairs in the Gulf societies and setting the proper of Statistics (CAS), Ministry of Justice, of war drama movies commemorating and Labor is launching the ‘social watch’ solutions for them in coordination with Social Development Office, Ministry of the 70th anniversary of victory of project, a new apparatus that monitors specialized bodies and institutions in each Education, besides universities and other allies on the Nazis. positive and negative phenomena in the country, he added. It was included in the specialized bodies in order to conduct The Brest Fortress tells the story of Kuwaiti society, a ministry official said Ministry’s development plan, and would field studies and benefit from academic then- forces defending yesterday. be implemented in 2016-2017. expertise, he mentioned. the Belarus-based Fortress in 1941, Undersecretary Dr Mutar Ali Al-Mutairi The Ministry took the primary meas- All phenomena Kuwait society witness when they succeeded in repelling the announced that this project was suggest- ures to launch the project, while the com- will be monitored, like domestic violence, first strike of the Nazi forces. ed by the Executive Bureau of the Gulf puter department at the ministry will pro- violence among youth, besides others, as The movie, directed by Aleksandr Cooperation Council (GCC) Social Affairs vide very shortly the programs required by the projects targets all the society mem- Kott, shows how the German forces’ and Labor Ministers Council, proposing the Social Watch, like GPS and GIS systems, bers of locals and expats, he added. A field that the social watch body be set up in he said. There will be cooperation study will be conducted in two months, attack on the Soviet Union forces in KUWAIT: Russian ambassador Alexey Solomatin (left) welcomes the Brest Fortress in the morning of each GCC state. This project aims at moni- between Public Authority for Civil related to the impact of internet usage on June 22, 1941. The Germans planned guests at the event. —KUNA toring and studying the social phenomena Information (PACI), Central Administration the society members, he said. —KUNA TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 LOCAL

1. The sections of King Abdulaziz Road (no. 30) between the Sixth Ring Road and the Third Ring Road. 2. King Fahd Road (no. 40) between the Sixth Ring Road and the First Ring Road. Shoulders open for 3. King Faisal Road (no. 50) between the Sixth Ring Road and the Fourth Ring Road. 4. Ghazali Road (no. 60) between the Sixth Ring Road and the Fourth Ring Road. 5. Fifth Ring Road between King Abdulaziz Road and Andalus traffic lights. public at specific roads 6. Sixth Ring Road between King Abdulaziz Road and East Ardiya (Farwaniya Hospital junction). KUWAIT: Drivers will be able to use the left between the Sixth Ring Road and the Fourth shoulder at six different roads on certain times Ring Road in both directions; the Fifth Ring starting from today. Drivers can use the lane Road between King Abdulaziz Road and between 6:00 am and 10:00 pm at a speed of Andalus traffic lights in both directions and the 45 km/h on the following roads: The sections Sixth Ring Road between King Abdulaziz Road of King Abdulaziz Road (no. 30) between the and East Ardiya (Farwaniya Hospital junction) Sixth Ring Road and the Third Ring Road, King in both directions. Yellow blinking lights will Fahd Road (no. 40) between the Sixth Ring signify emergency lanes that can be used dur- Road and the First Ring Road, King Faisal Road ing the specified period. The right shoulder of (no. 50) between the Sixth Ring Road and the the specified roads will remain closed to pub- Fourth Ring Road and Ghazali Road (no. 60) lic, the Interior Ministry announced. First Ring Road

Third Second Ring Road Ring Road

Fourth Ring Road

Fifth Ring Road KUWAIT: Delegation members and Interior Ministry officials take a group photo at

King Abdulaziz Road the event. — Photos by Yasser Al-Zayyat

King Fahd Road

King Faisal Road

Ghazali Road GCC traffic officers tour Central By Nawara Fattahova and Sentence Execution Department, gave a presentation of the program of the rehab KUWAIT: A GCC traffic delegation toured the center since it was established in 1999. “We Sixth Ring Road rehabilitation center of the Central Prison in don’t consider a prisoner as a criminal, but Sulaibiya yesterday to exchange experiences see him as a sick person who needs help and benefit from the Kuwaiti experience in and treatment like other patients in hospi- Roads where using the left shoulder is allowed between 6:00 am and 10:00 pm at a speed of 45 km/h. rehabilitating drug addicts. Maj Gen Ibrahim tals. We don’t isolate drugs addicts. Our cen- Al-Essa, Director General of the Public ter is a social utility that functions like other Department of Correction Facilities, said that public institutions. Through this program the idea of the rehabilitation center was to we aim to eliminate drug addiction,” he VIVA holds Photography help drug addicts in get rid of their pointed out. addiction and ensure that they will return to But not all jailed drug addicts are regis- the community as good and productive per- tered in the rehabilitation program. training sessions sons. “Registering in this program is optional and “This activity couldn’t have been successful is currently only available for certain cate- KUWAIT: VIVA, Kuwait’s fastest-growing and presented with a signed certificate from pre- without continuous support from the officials gories including Kuwaiti nationals, , most developed telecom operator, announced senters to mark their successful completion of of the ministry of interior headed by the minis- sons of Kuwaiti mothers and husbands of through its social media outlets that it will the training sessions. ter and the undersecretary. We are also coop- Kuwaiti wives. The interest of prisoners is organize two workshops that will teach atten- In support of the company’s leading role in erating with various other institutions includ- high for registering in this program, espe- dees how to take and edit pictures. The 3-day providing services that contribute to the ing the ministries of health, justice, Awqaf and cially since the Amiri pardon for prisoners workshops titled ‘Basics of photography’ and development of the Kuwaiti community, VIVA Islamic affairs, social affairs and labor, Public does not apply to those who don’t partici- ‘Mastering Photoshop’ will be held from 10 to is committed to assisting and supporting Authority for Youth and Sports and Bashaer Al pate in this program. We hope that in the 12 May, 2015 and presented by expert photog- these participants while providing them with Khair Society. These institutions present sym- future we will be able to accept a larger raphers Ahmad Al-Harby and Abdulaziz Al- useful tips and trainings that help hone their posiums, lectures and other activities for the number of prisoners,” added Khbeizi. Duwaisan respectively. skills and talent. participating prisoners,” he said during a press After the conference, the GCC delegation Many amateur photographers applied and VIVA’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) conference. visited the center’s classes and the public were contacted. Only fifteen met the criteria activities can be reviewed on the company’s library, in addition to meeting officials work- and were selected by expert photographers website at https://www.viva.com.kw/csr. This Sick person ing in the center. The delegation will today Ahmad Al-Harby and Abdulaziz Al-Duwaisan offers a description of each CSR initiative that Lt Col Dr Bader Al-Khbeizi, head of the visit the women’s prison and attend semi- to participate in the training sessions. At the VIVA has supported, or taken on since its operations sector at the Correction Facilities nars by various institutions. end of the workshops, all attendees will be inception. TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 From the Arabic press

Al-Qabas Al-Anbaa What is the Article 11 secret?

By Nermin Al-Hooti By Abdellatif Al-Duaij

have 100 percent conviction that the rticle 11 of the Kuwait Constitution declares: Transparency Society deserves to be dissolved. “The State ensures aid for citizens in old age, And I have more conviction that it is not the Asickness, or inability to work. It also provides I them with services of social security, social aid, and right of the social affairs ministry to dissolve the medical care.” society or any other public society. Today’s column is about the dreadful medical care Nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) are pop- in Kuwait, and how I, unfortunately, experienced the ular social entities and the constitution guaran- same thing. teed the freedom of their formation and member- One early morning, I felt pain in my chest, so I ship. They are among the most important pillars went for a medical checkup. I went through all the of forming public opinion, and public opinion is MINISTRY OF health channels and procedures, until I reached the cornerstone of the democratic structure. Hussain Makki Jumaa Center for Specialized Surgery Without a well-informed and active public opin- INFORMATION of the Kuwait Cancer Control Center (KCCC). After an ion, it is not possible to control the authorities and examination, I was asked by the doctor to take a subject official policies to effective popular super- mammogram. I proceeded to the specialized area for vision. my x-ray, where a female receptionist took the We understand why the social affairs ministry request and my data. To my surprise, the appoint- dissolves “private” societies, because as claimed, ment is for twenty days later, by which time I may they violate the law and harm national interests, have already died from over-thinking and worrying. I asked the receptionist, “Is not the appointment way which seems that the government knows better too far?” to which she replied, “What can I do? We and it decides it, defines it and knows it under all Al-Jarida have too many patients, and the systems cannot circumstances. We understand that, but what we catch up with the number of patients.” do not understand is the ministry dares to form Standing on the grounds of Kuwait - the country certain boards to run the societies it dissolved! of prosperity, generosity, humanity, and aid for oth- This happens only in Kuwait, amid the nonsense ers - I wonder about what I am hearing. I ask the offi- of talking about the respect of constitution and cials: Where is the Kuwaiti citizen from this wealth? laws. Al-Qabas “The systems cannot catch up with the number of These societies are “private” and whenever the patients” means the issue is in the shortage of med- government appoints its boards, they become ical systems. The issue, the condition of health care in government entities and lose their private “status”. Families of Hezb fighters despair Kuwait, when analyzed and fragmented according to They totally contradict the goals of societies and what the constitutional articles say, hinges on the protection of the individual and the society, as well unions that were indicated in article 43 of the con- By Mohammad Al-Shaibani stitution. The constitution’s societies are private as the State’s assurance of providing them with secu- rity and safety. whose mission is to express popular views and he Arab media in general and the Lebanese in regime’s soldiers, revolutionary guard and Hezbollah Many laws were derived from these articles and supervise the performance of official bodies. The particular are still keeping a lid on past and cur- members, and many of them escaped out of fear of were not put in place haphazardly rather they were society whose board is formed by the social affairs Trent Hezbollah scandals, particularly its major the resistance heading to Alawite villages. based on an integrated study with what Kuwait has ministry is an official society that belongs to the defeats since its entry into until now. We hear The fighters’ families are demanding, through this of its many bounties for its people to live a dignified government, which will promote its policies some news here and there from a few courageous TV station, the government to pressure this party and life. After all this, they say we do not have enough instead of supervising and criticizing it. politicians and people, but others fear this party return their children before it’s too late, as all of them mammography systems! We have clear animosity towards people and could liquidate or punish them by arrest, torture and see the daily arrival of tens of coffins under the black- The Kuwaiti society, including expatriates, has the continued government attempts to scale down exile if they speak out. out by the Iranian and Lebanese media that belong right to proper medical care. popular activities, restrict initiatives and limit pop- The reason for this column is what the Lebanese to it. Now, Arabs in general and Gulf nationals in par- It is time that the State must care for the citizen, at ular capabilities. Meanwhile, the official establish- OTV reported about the trials that are going on there, ticular are talking about Syria without Bashar Al- all levels, to build his society on the correct basis, ments are set free, violate the laws and encroach and the gathering of families of Hezbollah fighters in Assad, or after Assad, and they are talking about enjoying the bounties of his country. The issue is not on people’s freedoms and violate what the consti- Syria, and their demands that their sons be returned training and arming the resistance, and that is why only limited to medical systems, but also to educa- tution banned to touch. The government’s and leave Syria to its affairs, and their criticism of the gave this latest cry that the end of the regime in Syria tional, health, and other things needed for the build- attempts to limit popular activities mean one party’s policy and its interference despite its loss in is the end of Hezbollah in Lebanon, and this is what ing of an integrated society. thing only, which is that the government has many battles and the death of many of its leaders, will happen to Daesh and all terrorist organizations in Therefore, in conclusion, to the institutions that works for cancer patients: I hope you find a solution something to hide, or seek to keep the people soldiers and volunteers all over the place, in addition our Arab world, rather in the world. The Syrians and to provide the medical systems, and you can start by from discovering it. Otherwise why is this animos- to those arrested by the resistance groups there. Arabs will be happy with the end of this bad entity The Baathist entity and Iran’s revolutionary guard very soon, then the building and construction stage reducing your parties and meetings. Donate the ity to people and why are the attempts to sup- in addition to Hezbollah were destroyed by the victo- will start with the efforts of Gulf countries that were money for your parties, seminars, and travel and press freedoms and reduce the roles of NGOs?! - ry of Islamic resistance in Jisr Al-Shughour and what and still are helping Arabs, Muslims and others every- share it in buying the systems. This will be better for Translated by Kuwait Times followed, as well as taking a large number of the where. — Translated by Kuwait Times your noble mission. — Translated by Kuwait Times

Crime Tourism agenda awaits Report Duo exchange minister’s return: Anjary KUWAIT: “Now that the tourism sector the joint steering committee. stabs in fight is back in the information ministry’s 2- A different mechanism should be jurisdiction after being under the min- followed to facilitate licenses issued by KUWAIT: Two young men stabbed each other in Saad Al- istry of commerce for a while, a big the interior ministry for various activi- Abdullah and were taken to Jahra Hospital. According to a agenda is awaiting the minister’s ties and economy-related events such security source, one of the men received two stab wounds return,” stressed the General Manager as concerts. in the back, while the other was stabbed in the hand. of Leaders Group Company for 3- Border exists, especially land Consultancy and Development ones, should be developed to facilitate (Leaders Group) Nabila Al-Anjari, passenger traffic. Surveys should be Citizen, police altercation expressing hope that this shift will made amongst passengers to help A citizen and three security men (two policemen revive the tourism sector that has been achieve such improvements. and a detective) exchanged accusations - the citizen neglected for long, so that Kuwait accused the security men of threatening to kill him, could be turned into a busy touristic Finance, Public Works ministries and TEC: while the security men said the citizen insulted them. destination on a regional as well as 1- Many existing touristic sites have Responding to a call, the security men went to Sabah Transplant Society international scale. been long neglected and Al-Salem, but the citizen came out and attacked them. Leader Group’s monthly need development such as Investigations are underway. report included a number of the nine islands we have, reelects board members minutes on the tourism while neighboring countries agenda that cannot be spend billions to build artifi- he Kuwait Transplant Society’s Dr Hani Haider - Member delayed, especially in view cial ones. This is considered Filipina accuses sponsor of attack Annual General Assembly unani- Dr Mohamed Jamal - Member of the falling oil prices and a waste of natural resources A Filipina claimed that she was attacked by her sponsor. mously adopted the financial and Abdallah Buftain - Member T Kuwait’s quest for new alter- and the information minis- A citizen saw her near Ali Sabah Al-Salem (formerly Umm administrative report for the fiscal year Dr Moussawi extended his gratitude Al-Haiman) fire center and took her to the police station, ending March 31st 2015 recently. It also and appreciation to the members of the native sources of income. ter should look into the best where a complaint was registered. The sponsor was sum- approved the budget for the upcoming General Assembly for their participation The most important ways to invest in those moned for questioning. 2015-2016 fiscal year. The assembly also in the activities of the association during points on the agenda islands and develop them renewed its confidence in the current the past year and wished them success include: into real tourism destina- board of directors without change. in their work and urged them to exert • Re-reading the long for- tions for both local and for- eign tourists. Molestation charges more effort to achieve the desired goals gotten national tourism strategy set in the period of Nabila Al-Anjari 2- A special budget A Lebanese woman accused an Iranian grocer of The Board’s composition is thus: of KSOT. He also thanked the Ministry of 2003-2005 without being should be allocated to molesting her 9-year-old son inside the store. Her son Dr Mustafa Al-Mousawi - President Social Affairs and Labor for their support put into practice so far, because it was develop touristic facilities after long told her the incident took place under threat. Dr Rana Al-Abdelrazaq- Vice-president and backing, highlighting the promi- Dr Hussein Hayati - General Secretary nent role they play in the structure of scientifically set and can be adopted as years of negligence that has always Adnan Safar - Treasurer the society and its activities. a ‘roadmap’ to start with, taking into forced both citizens and expats to Robberies consideration all the needed updates spend all their vacations abroad. A citizen told Maidan Hawally police that he was beaten to match the current situation in view 3- We should follow regional coun- in the parking lot of Shaab cooperative society. Two of the development of touristic facili- tries’ footsteps in supporting and subsi- unidentified persons attacked him from behind and took Ten citizens prosecuted for ties as well as the regional political and dizing festivals, allocating generous his cellphone and KD 250 before escaping. The citizen sub- security conditions. budgets for them and promoting them mitted a report of his injuries to various parts of his body. national labor ‘trafficking’ • Reactivating the joint steering using the latest methods. Meanwhile, in Messila, an Indian expat was mugged after committee before it is too late. This 4- Setting special receptions for GCC an unidentified person told him he was a policeman. The KUWAIT: In a first of its kind in Kuwait, izens confessed that they wanted to work, committee is a joint one comprising of visitors and meeting their demands in ‘policeman’, along with another person, then stole his wal- well-informed sources said that the public but the company owners did not provide members from both the public and pri- order to increase their annual numbers. let, which contained KD 745, before escaping. funds prosecutor recently detained ten citi- them with real job opportunities. Rather, vate sectors that are directly or indi- 5- Giving due care to cultural and zens on charges of abusing public funds they asked them not to show up to work in rectly involved with and responsible for historic sites and landmarks which are and trafficking of national labor by hiring exchange for KD 100 a month. —Al-Jarida tourism. Selected members should be directly subjected to the information Eighteen absconders caught in Ardhiya scores of citizens in their companies to get willing and capable of developing the minister’s authority, such as museums, tourism sector and strongly believe in landmarks and cultural centers. Carrying out a campaign in the area, Farwaniya a portion of the allowances paid by the its significance for developing the Training national staffs to work in police arrested 18 violators who worked in Ardiya state to citizens working in the private sec- • national economy. The committee must tourism, especially since those who cafes. Most of them are absconding domestic helpers, tor. while others are iqama law violators. The sources said that the Manpower be authorized as a general assembly. have already studied and received Public Authority, in collaboration with the • Coordination between relevant touristic training but abandoned the Manpower and Government Restructuring authorities. profession, leaving thousands of job Drunken man beats mother Program, had referred two private compa- The information minister will super- opportunities vacant. A drunken man beat his mother and broke her hand nies to the prosecution in this regard. vise some tourism activity-assisting • Promoting Kuwait as a touristic site when she refused to give him money. He then fled. The Moreover, the sources revealed that names bodies, but other bodies that strongly through special promotional cam- mother was taken to Adan Hospital. She later went to Adan of other companies had been submitted to affect the sector are subjected to other paigns targeting both citizens and resi- police station to report the incident. Detectives are seeking the prosecution in the past months in a bid ministers and this contradiction should dents as well as neighboring countries’ the suspect’s arrest. to fight citizen labor trafficking in the pri- be resolved in the Cabinet, especially nationals. vate sector, and that the prosecution aims since changing the jurisdiction would • Finally, it should be made clear to end it by the end of the year. overburden the information minister. that tourism is a business. that in addi- The sources explained that the suspect- Officer insulted because of ticket tion to media support, needs other ed companies list citizens on their payrolls Interior Ministry’s responsibilities: industry-boosting elements. A filed a complaint against a man who either to get a portion of the allowances 1- Visas: Though 36 countries’ sub- Note: Transferring the tourism sector insulted him because of a traffic citation in Maidan paid by the government to citizens or to jects have access to Kuwait, getting to the information ministry’s jurisdic- Hawally. The officer issued a ticket to the man because meet the national labor ratio condition his car was ‘making noises,’ which made him angry. instant visas on arrival, more facilities tion should be done as soon as possi- imposed by the Kuwait labor law to acquire The Manpower and Government —Al-Anbaa and Al-Rai over visa issuance should be studied by ble. government tenders and contracts. The cit- Restructuring Program’s building. TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015

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TEXAS: Flood waters rush in Johnson Creek just outside of Six Flags in Arlington, Texas. — AP Tornadoes, storms rip through US central states Severe weather across US: 2 die in Arkansas

ARKANSAS: Tornadoes and storms ripping through several The storm that the National Weather Service said likely pro- do ripped roofs off buildings and damaged trees near Denton, Lunder, 34, of Delmont. She was with her husband and four chil- central states in the US have killed two people and injured duced a tornado hit the east side of Van Zandt County and the about 40 miles northwest of Dallas, according to National dren in the basement when the storm hit. The town about 90 dozens, while a tropical storm affected the Carolinas in the city of Van on Sunday evening. Chuck Allen, the Van Zandt Weather Service meteorologist Tom Bradshaw. There were no miles southwest of Sioux Falls had no water, power or phones, Southeast, and wintry weather hit parts of Colorado in the County fire marshal and emergency management coordinator, immediate reports of injuries or fatalities. The area also experi- South Dakota Department of Public Safety spokeswoman Kristi Mountain West. Two people died from storms in southwestern said in an email that approximately 26 patients were transport- enced torrential rains that led to widespread flash flooding. Turman said. The 200-plus residents were asked to leave for safe- Arkansas, KSLA-TV reported, citing the Howard County Sheriff’s ed to hospitals after a triage area was established at a church. Authorities in Denton County said Sunday that two groups of ty reasons. On Sunday morning, Tropical Storm Ana made land- Office. Howard County Sheriff Brian McJunkins said the victims The extent of their injuries was not immediately clear. About 30 people had to be airlifted by helicopters to safety. Tornadoes fall near Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, and was downgraded to a lived in adjoining mobile homes and that two other people percent of the city suffered some kind of damage, he said. were also reported in central Iowa, where a roof was ripped off tropical depression by Sunday afternoon. The storm’s maximum were critically injured. In the small town of Van in northeast “Damages range from completely destroyed homes, damaged a high school, and in eastern South Dakota, where a twister sustained winds were at 35 mph (56 kph), and it was expected Texas, about two dozen people were injured and some homes homes, to trees and power lines down,” Allen wrote. damaged the small town of Delmont and injured at least nine to move over eastern North Carolina on Sunday night. Farther were destroyed after a severe storm struck, an emergency man- The storm was part of severe weather that stretched across people. north, a late-season snow fell in parts of the Rockies, western agement official said early Monday. North Texas on Sunday. Earlier in the day, another likely torna- “Our house is flat. There is nothing left,” said Stephanie Nebraska and western South Dakota.— AP 72 dead as Syria army Cameron unveils new cabinet

battles to LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron unveiled his new cabinet yesterday after an free loyalists unexpected election victory that gave his Conservative party a narrow majority in parlia- BEIRUT: At least 72 fighters were killed in ment for the first time in nearly 20 years. a single day as the Syrian army battled to Cameron named the mayor of London and relieve some 250 besieged regime loyal- potential leadership contender Boris Johnson, ists under rebel assault, a monitoring known for his bumbling image and mop-top group said yesterday. President Bashar al- hairstyle, to a senior political role but not a min- Assad had personally pledged to rescue isterial position. “As promised, he will devote his the trapped troops and civilians, who are attention to his final year as mayor of London,” said to include senior figures and have Cameron said. been holed up in a hospital complex Many ministers from the previous govern- since rebels captured the northwestern ment held on to their jobs including finance town of Jisr al-Shughur two weeks ago. minister George Osborne, another potential As the relief column fought its way to leader who was promoted to a post as within two kilometers of the complex on Cameron’s number two in government. Theresa Sunday morning, the rebels launched an May has been re-appointed as home secretary all-out assault, the Syrian Observatory for and several women were promoted to more jun- Human Rights said. At least 40 rebels and ior positions, after Cameron promised that a 32 government troops were killed in the third of his cabinet would be made up of heavy fighting that erupted inside the women. Cameron also held talks with complex and with the advancing column, Conservative backbenchers amid concern that Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman right-wingers in his party could play a disruptive said. The clashes continued into the early role for the government, particularly over hours of yesterday with the rebels retak- Britain’s EU membership. ing some ground from the advancing troops before being pushed back. Among ‘Sense of fairness’ the 250 people holed up inside the com- The British leader was expected to tell the plex are around 150 government troops, influential 1922 Committee of backbenchers including “high-ranking officers,” as well that his new five-year term would be about as their family members and some civil renewal, compared to a first term focused on servants, Abdel Rahman said. It is unclear “repair and recovery” to get the country out of a how much food and ammunition they painful recession. “It will be our task to renew a have left. The rebels assaulting the com- sense of fairness in our society-where those who LONDON: British Prime Minister David Cameron (center) poses for a group photo with newly-elected Conservative MPs at the Houses of plex include fighters of Al-Qaeda affiliate work hard and do the right thing are able to get Parliament in central London yesterday. — AFP Al-Nusra Front. They seized the rest of Jisr on,” Cameron was expected to tell the MPs, Al-Shughur on April 25, extending their British newspapers reported. The Conservatives Nick Clegg. The Labor party is split between cen- Sturgeon, who as Scotland’s first minister has promised to hold an EU membership ref- gains in Idlib province, where they have won 331 out of the 650 seats in the House of trists and leftists and was due to hold initial talks did not stand for parliament herself, has said erendum by the end of 2017 and to eliminate also captured the provincial capital and a Commons in Thursday’s election, which gave on finding a new leader ahead of a formal meet- that after SNP gains “it simply cannot be and Britain’s budget deficit of some £90 billion military base in recent weeks. More than Labor 232, the pro-independence Scottish ing on Wednesday of its national executive com- it will not be business as usual when it comes (125 billion euros, $139 billion) by 2018- 220,000 people have been killed in Syria National Party 56 and the Liberal Democrats just mittee. The SNP lawmakers meanwhile arrived to Westminster’s dealing with Scotland”. MPs 2019. Anti-austerity campaigners clashed since anti-government protests broke out eight. for their first day in parliament accompanied by will be formally sworn in next Monday and with police outside Downing Street on in March 2011 spiraling into civil war in With the exception of nationalists in the party’s leader Nicola Sturgeon, who has Queen Elizabeth II will deliver her traditional Saturday and are preparing a larger demon- the face of a bloody crackdown by securi- Scotland, the election left Britain’s opposition in called for sweeping new autonomous powers speech at the State Opening of parliament stration next month against impending ty forces. — AFP disarray, following Friday’s resignations of Labor for Scotland that would go much further than on May 27, which will outline the severe budget cuts to bring down the leader Ed Miliband and Liberal Democrat chief any past promises of devolution. Conservatives’ legislative proposals. Cameron deficit.— AFP TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 INTERNATIONAL

Tunisia battles against the odds to rescue migrants

ZARZIS: Scanning the horizon with the ship’s commander. Tunisian Red ies from the sea, rescue migrants when more migrants,” said Riadh Belhaj, who a deterrent. Many migrants work on the binoculars, Tunisian coastguard Crescent chief Tahar Cheniti said that we can and patrol our coastline,” Abichou heads the Red Crescent in Zarzis. “We black market, mostly in construction, to Braiek is on the lookout for the growing every other day a boat loaded with said. Often it is local fishermen who first can’t keep doing things beyond our scrape together enough money to pay number of migrants risking their lives migrants hoping for new lives in Europe spot the migrants’ rickety boats in trouble capacity because our means are limited, people traffickers. “I’d rather be jailed in crossing the Mediterranean to try to ends up instead in Tunisia. “This is the and who come to their rescue before call- just like the number of volunteers.” The than free in Nigeria,” said Mohamed reach Europe. With the modest means at start of the high season... with weather ing in the coastguard. “We see very upset- rescuers at times have no choice but to Eddy, 25, who queued for a plate of Tunisia’s disposal, it is no mean feat first conditions improving and the sea ting cases,” said Mohamed Belhiba whose rely on the generosity of local residents lentils cooked by a neighbor. After to detect and then come to the rescue of calmer,” he told Express FM radio. Already trawler saved 32 people in peril at sea at for food and clothing. Forced to impro- lengthy talks with a representative of the migrants who get into difficulties, despite on high alert along the border because the end of April. “We save people and vise, the Red Crescent has turned an International Organization for Migration, the improving weather conditions. of the chaos and security problems that take them to Zarzis. But this interrupts our unfinished building near the centre of Gary Yari, 16, who was rescued by fisher- “Lately, saving African migrants coming plague neighboring , Tunisian work and we take a lot of risks.” Zarzis into a makeshift shelter, where men as he tried to reach the Italian island from Libya has become a real problem,” authorities are now faced with respond- around 40 migrants from Mali and of Lampedusa from Libya, reluctantly Braiek told AFP on board a patrol vessel ing to a growing number of distress calls Situation not better ashore Nigeria kitted out with second-hand signed papers for his voluntary return to off Zarzis in southeast Tunisia. off their shores. The situation is not much better on blankets await their fate. “We try to con- Mali. On the telephone, his father’s “We’ve seen a lot of decomposing The country lacks the means, both in land, with the sole official centre for vince them that the solution is to go back advice was to stay in Tunisia and risk it bodies floating in the sea since the war in manpower and material resources, to deal migrants in Ben Guerdane closed for ren- home,” said Cheniti. “We can’t force again. “I still want to live in Europe. I Libya, and I think there’ll be more to with them properly. “But despite all that, ovation work. “We really wouldn’t know them... so they stay with us.” didn’t succeed this time but I can always come,” said Lieutenant Mosaad Abichou, we try to do what is needed: recover bod- how to cope if we had to put up any Even the deadly risks have not proved try again,” Yari said secretly. —AFP Hamas jails ‘spy’

GAZA: A military court in the Hamas-run crossing was seriously wounded on Monday Gaza Strip yesterday jailed a Palestinian con- morning by shots which were fired from the victed of “spying” for to 15 years, judi- Egyptian side of the border,” health ministry cial sources said. In March two other men spokesman Ashraf Al-Qudra said. The inci- were given the same sentence for the same dent took place as the driver was on his way offence. Under Palestinian law, those con- to the nearby border city of Rafah after leav- victed of collaboration with Israel, murder ing the terminal, which is used for transport- and drug trafficking face the death penalty. ing commercial goods between Gaza and Execution orders must be approved by the Israel and is very close to the Egyptian bor- Palestinian president before they can be car- der. The Hamas-run interior ministry con- ried out, but Hamas no longer recognizes demned the shooting, demanding that the the legitimacy of Mahmud Abbas whose authorities in Egypt hold “an urgent inquiry”. four-year term ended in 2009. The source of the fire was not immedi- The militant Islamist Hamas has carried ately clear, but Egypt has been fighting a out formal executions ordered by its courts dogged insurgency in Sinai that took hold and summary, sometimes public, killings of after the army overthrew Islamist president “collaborators” condemned by “revolution- Mohamed Morsi in 2013, with militants ary tribunals”. During last year’s summer war killing scores of police and soldiers. Egypt with Israel in Gaza, men wearing uniforms of has accused militants from Hamas, the de the armed wing of Hamas riddled with bul- facto power in Gaza, of using cross-border lets six alleged collaborators outside Gaza tunnels to infiltrate Sinai and help militants City’s main mosque as worshippers left after there launch attacks on the security forces. midday prayers. After a deadly attack in October killed 30 soldiers, ordered its troops to clear a Gunfire from Egypt buffer zone along the Gaza border and step In another development, a Palestinian up work to raze the network of cross-border truck driver in the southern Gaza Strip was tunnels. For years, the tunnels had provided seriously wounded yesterday by gunfire a lifeline for goods to reach Gaza, from Egypt, medics said. “A 27-year-old driv- which has been under a tight Israeli block- er who was working at the Kerem Shalom ade since 2006. —Agencies

GAZA: Palestinians ride their donkey-carts in the middle of rubble and destroyed buildings in the Eastern Gaza City Shujaiya neighborhood, which were destroyed during the 50-day war between Israel and Hamas militants in the summer of 2014. —AFP Libyan army shells Turkish cargo ship Libya accuses of sending arms to foes

BENGHAZI: Forces loyal to Libya’s internation- “We condemn strongly this contemptible sulate seeking an explanation,” the Turkish offi- ally recognized government said yesterday attack which targeted a civilian ship in interna- cial said. Internationally recognized Prime they shelled a Turkish ship off the Libyan coast tional waters and curse those who carried it Minister Abdullah Al-Thinni said in February his LEER: Malnourished children receive treatment at the Leer Hospital, South after it was warned not to approach, and one out,” the ministry said in a statement, adding government would stop dealing with Turkey . An international medical aid agency has evacuated staff from a town crew member was killed in what Turkey that Ankara had protested to the authorities in because it was sending weapons to a rival in South Sudan as fighting escalated once again in the country’s 16-month described as a “contemptible attack”. Libya is in Libya. The third officer on the Cook Islands- group in Tripoli so that “the Libyan people kill long civil war. —AFP a state of violent factional chaos with two rival chartered Tuna-1 vessel died and other crew each other”. governments backed by various armed groups members were wounded in the attacks, accord- Turkey denies taking sides in the conflict, vying for control of the oil-producing North ing to the Turkish statement. It did not specify saying it supports UN-led efforts to broker a 300,000 without ‘life-saving African state including its ports, four years after the assailants, but said the vessel was carrying peace. A Libyan warplane from forces loyal to rebels overthrew Muammar Gaddafi. plasterboard from to Tobruk and was 21 Thinni’s government bombed a Greek-operated The dry cargo ship was targeted about 10 km (13 miles) from its destination when it came oil tanker anchored off Libya’s coast in January, aid’ in S Sudan; UN pulls out miles from the coast on Sunday after it was told under fire. killing two crewmen, amid hostilities between not to break a ban on approaching the eastern Hejazi confirmed that one crew member factions vying for power. Attacks on foreign JUBA: Over 300,000 South Sudanese civilians are forces loyal to President Salva Kiir and rebel leader city of Derna, Libyan military spokesman was killed and said one other person was ships in waters near Libya may complicate without “life-saving aid” in the northern battle- Riek Machar was forcing thousands of civilians to Mohamed Hejazi said. The forces of Libya’s inter- wounded. A Libyan military source said the European Union efforts to stop traffickers send- ground state of Unity, the said yes- flee for their lives yet again. Leer, the birthplace of nationally recognized government have said vessel was on fire and being towed to Tobruk ing thousands of migrants to Europe in often terday, as it and aid agencies pulled out due to Machar, was ransacked by government forces in they will hit any ships approaching Derna to terminal. But a Turkish foreign ministry official unseaworthy vessels. Thousands have drowned heavy fighting. The violence is some of the worst January 2014. Gunmen looted the MSF hospital, stop supplies getting to Islamist militants based denied this, saying it was returning to Turkey. in the voyage and several EU nations have sent in the country’s 17-month-old civil war, as govern- murdering patients in their beds and razing the there. The Turkish foreign ministry said the ves- “Turkey approached the United Nations and naval vessels to the region to try to stem the ment forces push south from the state capital building to the ground. MSF has since rebuilt the sel was shelled as it approached the nearby the IMO (International Maritime Organization) migrant influx. But Libyan officials have warned Bentiu into an opposition zone around the town of hospital, the only referral facility in opposition Mediterranean port of Tobruk and then in connection with the matter. A note was giv- against any measure perceived as an attack on Leer, home to some of the country’s once lucrative areas. South Sudan’s civil war began in December attacked from the air as it tried to leave the area. en to Libya’s Ankara embassy and con- the country’s sovereignty. —Reuters oil fields. “Ongoing hostilities in Unity state have 2013 and has been characterized by ethnic mas- now obliged all non-governmental organizations sacres, rape and attacks on civilians and medical and UN agencies to evacuate staff from Leer and facilities. other locations,” UN aid chief in South Sudan Toby Peace talks in neighboring Ethiopia have so far Egypt’s minister quits over ‘lofty judges’ Lanzer said in a statement. failed to reach any lasting agreement, or even an “As a consequence, over 300,000 civilians who effective ceasefire. The violence, which has escalat- are in need of emergency relief, including food aid ed into an ethnic conflict involving multiple armed ‘Sons of cleaners could not become judges’ and medical services, do not currently have access groups, has killed tens of thousands of people in to such life-saving assistance.” On Friday the UN the world’s youngest nation, which gained inde- CAIRO: Egypt’s justice minister is fac- dreds of Islamists sentenced to death policeman fired birdshot in her direc- The trial will resume May 14, when said that up to 100,000 people had been uprooted pendence from Sudan in 2011. It has also left over ing calls for his resigned after he said over violent protests. Saber’s classist tion. Rights lawyers and witnesses the court will begin hearing prosecu- in the first week of May alone, following a marked half of the country’s 12 million people in need of the sons of cleaners could not remarks were not the first from the have also said the police hampered tion witnesses. Egyptian police con- spike in hostilities. Doctors Without Borders (MSF) aid, with 2.5 million people facing severe food become judges, insisting that the judiciary to cause controversy in a efforts to save el-Sabbagh’s life by sistently maintain they don’t use said Saturday it was forced to pull its foreign staff insecurity, according to the UN. “Renewed violence judiciary was too “lofty” for such peo- country where government figures preventing an ambulance from pass- birdshot against protesters despite out of Leer and halt all medical services amid fears in southern Unity comes at a time when stocks of ple. Judges are “lofty and have status”, show at least 26 percent of the popu- ing through the cordon. overwhelming evidence to the con- the rebel-held town was about to come under food are depleted, and precisely at the height of and must come from “a respectable lation lives below the poverty line. Defense lawyer Mohammed trary. In el-Sabbagh’s case, a senior “imminent attack” from government forces. the traditional planting season when civilians milieu”, Justice Minister Mahfouz Last year, 138 prosecution service Abdel-Aziz said Sunday’s hearing police officer insisted in a news con- The International Committee of the Red Cross could be planting their crops in order to reap a Saber said in a television interview on applicants were turned down lasted nearly six hours, during which ference shortly after her death that has also warned that escalating fighting between harvest later this year,” Lanzer added. —AFP Sunday. If a son of a cleaner were to because their fathers had not a video clip submitted by the prose- forensic tests showed she was shot work as a judge, “he would get obtained university degrees. The cution as evidence was shown. The by rounds not used by the police depressed and won’t continue”, Saber Egyptian constitution prohibits dis- video, according to Abdel-Aziz, force - implying the involvement of said. Critics took to Twitter to call for crimination based on class or gender. showed a masked policeman firing an unknown third party. him to be fired. “The son of a cleaner at el-Sabbagh from a short distance The killing has struck a nerve can’t work in the judiciary. But he can Policeman detained with a shotgun, then swapping the with many Egyptians, mostly die in Sinai defending you,” wrote one Meanwhile, an Egyptian judge on weapon for a tear gas launcher held because of the wide distribution on user, referring to a military campaign Sunday ordered the detention of a by a police recruit. Salahedeen social media of the images of El- against an Islamist insurgency in the policeman on trial for the January acknowledged to the judge that it Sabbagh after she was shot, being peninsula. Mohamed ElBaradei, a for- killing of an unarmed female protest- was him firing the rifle in the video, lifted off the ground by a colleague mer vice president, pointed out that er taking part in a peaceful demon- said Abdel-Aziz, who represents El- with blood running down her face. international rights charters guaran- stration in downtown Cairo. Yassin Sabbagh’s family and attended Her death also has stoked anger tee freedom of choice of employ- Hatem Salahedeen, a 24-year old Sunday’s hearing. The court was also over the perceived brutality of the ment. “When the sense of justice police lieutenant, is facing a shown a total of 120 photographs police and called into question the abandons a country, nothing is left,” manslaughter charge over the death chronicling what happened during validity of a law adopted in he tweeted. of Shaimaa el-Sabbagh, a 32-year- the brief demonstration on Jan. 24, December 2013 that bans all street ElBaradei briefly served as vice old mother of a small boy. The the eve of the fourth anniversary of protests without prior permits. Many president after the army overthrew policeman had been free on bail, but the uprising. of those who participated in the Islamist president Mohamed Morsi in Judge Mustafa Hassan Abdullah Some 40 members of a left-lean- January protest, in addition to at MISRATA: A member of the Libyan coastguards sits behind a machine gun as 2013, resigning in protest over the ordered his detention in the trial’s ing party gathered in downtown least one witness who testified to Mohammed Khalifa Al-Guwail (unseen), the acting prime minister of Libya’s ensuing deadly crackdown on Morsi’s opening hearing. Video clips widely Cairo that day with the intention of prosecutors on the day’s events, are supporters. The judiciary has come shared on social media show el- marching to nearby Tahrir Square, facing a separate trial for breaking disputed government, tours one of the coastguard’s vessels off the coast of under increasing criticism for its Sabbagh collapsing in a colleague’s epicenter of the uprising, to lay the law on street demonstrations. the eastern port city of Misrata. Al-Guwail urged European Union countries harsh verdicts against members of arms with her head, chest and back wreathes in memory of the protest- That trial opened this weekend and to help his administration tackle illegal immigration by sending boats for the political opposition, with hun- soaked in blood after a masked ers who fell during the 18-day revolt. will resume on May 23. —Agencies the coastguard. —AFP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015

Air smiles: Canadian woman gives birth on flight

TOKYO: A Canadian woman gave birth Narita Airport, just outside the The Air plane from Calgary spokesman said. The flight crew smiled not known how far into her pregnancy aboard a plane to after going Japanese capital, but by the time it tax- bound for Narita landed 30 minutes and waved at press as they got off the this woman was when she boarded the into labor over the Pacific Ocean, a ied to a halt, it had one more passen- ahead of schedule after being bumped plane. “Everyone was clapping their plane in Calgary. In March a Qatar spokesman for Air Canada said yester- ger than it had started with. “I couldn’t up the queue by air traffic controllers. hands,” a woman passenger told one Airways plane was forced to make an day, an event the baby’s father imagine. This happened completely The new mum was seen emerging from television program. “She’s such a cute emergency landing in Canada after a described as “completely unexpected”. unexpectedly,” the father, whose name the plane in a wheelchair, while her baby with big eyes.” “This is a happy woman unexpectedly went into labor, The 23-year-old woman delivered a was not revealed, told Japanese televi- partner carried his daughter in his thing,” a male passenger said. delivering a baby boy hours after take- baby girl mid-air with the help of a sion. “It turned out to be a beautiful arms. Mother and baby were taken to Air Canada allows women with a off. In January, a Jordanian woman doctor who volunteered after crew baby girl,” he added, showing a snap of hospital, where they remained normal pregnancy and no previous his- gave birth to a baby girl mid-flight over asked passengers for medical help. The the little bundle taken on his smart- overnight, but where both are said to tory of premature labour to travel up to the Atlantic while travelling to New plane was given priority to land at phone. be doing well, the Air Canada and including their 36th week. It was York from Amman. — AFP Prison guard sexually assaulted in Arizona

PHOENIX: A female guard was sexually and attempted murder,” Wilder said. assaulted by a male inmate at an Arizona Prosecutors in Yuma County, the Yuma prison last month in the second such attack County Sheriff’s Office and police in San on an employee in the last 18 months, cor- Luis, where the prison is located, were rections officials said. The April 13 attack at unaware of the attack when contacted by the state prison complex in Yuma was only the AP on Thursday. revealed by the state Department of Maricopa County Superior Court records Corrections late Friday after inquiries by The show Masters pleaded guilty to first-degree Associated Press. When asked why the murder in 2007 in a plea agreement that department didn’t acknowledge the attack came after prosecutors dropped the death earlier, corrections spokesman Andrew penalty. He was sentenced to life without Wilder said the agency was focused on the possibility of parole. Details of the Dec investigating the assault. 22, 2004, murder were not immediately “Our priority is to have a full and thor- available. Prison records show Masters, 31, ough investigation of the facts and make has repeatedly been disciplined and has a sure that is conducted to ensure that justice history of assaults. Online Corrections is served for the victim in the matter.” The Department disciplinary records show at assault follows the January 2014 rape of a least three previous assaults, including one female teacher at another prison that on a prison staff member, and an indecent brought intense criticism of the Arizona exposure incident. prison procedures for safeguarding correc- Emilio Ruiz, a board member for the state tions workers. The bare-bones details of that prison guard’s union who represents staff at attack were announced by the department the Yuma prison, declined to comment shortly after it occurred, and other inmate Saturday. Calls to the executive president of assaults on staff often are announced by the the Arizona Correctional Peace Officers department in press releases. The most Association were not immediately returned. recent attack occurred in an office while the The teacher who was raped last year is suing corrections officer was meeting with inmate corrections officials for failing to protect her. Fernandes Masters, Wilder said. She was alone in a classroom giving assess- WASHINGTON: Washington Metro passengers move towards buses outside the Foggy Bottom Metro Station in Washington yesterday to take “The inmate attacked the officer during a ment tests to inmates in a sex offender unit them to Rosslyn, Va, after DC Fire and EMS officers say a Metro third rail insulator was damaged, shutting down metro service between Foggy scheduled meeting in the housing unit at the Eyman prison in Florence when she Bottom and Rosslyn. — AP office and no weapons were involved,” was attacked. Wilder said. “The officer called for assistance, The state workplace safety agency staff in the housing unit immediately opened an investigation after details of the responded to the location and pulled the teacher’s assault were reported by the AP in New US office politics inmate away from the officer and secured June. In January, the agency levied fines of him.” The officer, who was not identified, was $14,000 for two violations of workplace- treated at the prison before being taken to a safety rules, but the Department of hospital for evaluation. She was later Corrections is appealing. Inmate Jacob Funding your boss’ political causes released, but Wilder did not provide addi- Harvey, who was less than a year into a 30- NEW YORK: It wasn’t long ago that politics, like to the US election regulator, the Federal Election pressure to donate to candidates they don’t sup- tional details of injuries, the assault or how year sentence for a brutal home-invasion religious orientation or sexual preference, was a Commission. An analysis of FEC filings of 122 of port or to lobby on issues they don’t agree with. the officer called for assistance. He also and rape, lingered after other inmates left taboo topic in the American workplace. Political the top company PACs shows employees raised “What I worry about is the inherently coercive wouldn’t say whether any security proce- the room on Jan 30, 2014, then repeatedly beliefs were considered a private affair - off lim- a median 25 percent more in the first quarter of nature of these workplace situations,” dures were violated or will be changed as a stabbed the teacher with a pen before rap- its to the boss. But today employers are increas- 2015 versus the same period four years ago. For Democratic FEC Commissioner Ellen Weintraub result of the incident. ing her, according to investigative reports ingly approaching workers to fundraise, lobby the PACs analyzed, the median amount of contri- said. “Let’s say an employer decides to throw cor- He said a criminal investigation by prison and the teacher. Harvey, now 21, has plead- and campaign in ways they never have before, butions collected was $130,842. porate resources behind a candidate and sets up officials is ongoing. “Pending the outcome ed not guilty to sexual assault, according to a Reuters analysis of FEC filings and a phone bank, asking employees to get on the of this investigation and due to the nature of and assault with a deadly weapon charges data compiled by the Business Industry Political Parking space incentives phone to get people to support candidate this violent attack, the department intends and awaits trial. His public defender, Paula Action Committee. The Washington trade group, To encourage this sort of donation, some Jones. It’s very hard to say no to your employer. to pursue criminal charges against inmate Cook, has repeatedly declined to comment which has offices across the street from the companies are attaching perks to the giving. BP, It puts the employee, especially the low-level Masters including sexual assault, kidnapping on the charges.—AP White House, helps firms such as Wal-Mart, for example, says employees who donate at least employee, in a very difficult position.” Weintraub Halliburton and Lockheed Martin mobilize 2.5 percent of their salary to the company PAC and FEC Chairwoman Ann Ravel, also a employees on policy issues important to the get choice parking spots in the company lot. At Democrat, said they were not allowed to com- companies. Wal-Mart, the company gives employees who ment on any cases before the commission that ’s Hollande arrives For years it was unions and trade associations donate to the company PAC a two-for-one match may be related to this issue. that were the politically powerful workplace to Wal-Mart’s in-house charity for store associates The top Republican on the FEC, Lee in on a historic visit players, operating political action committees in need. A BP spokesman said federal law permit- Goodman, did not echo his Democratic col- (PACs) that raised millions of dollars to support ted “recognition gifts” such as preferred parking. leagues’ concerns and noted in an email that the HAVANA: Francois Hollande arrived in “There are still a lot of measures in place that their preferred candidates. But since a 2010 US Wal-Mart said it only asks salaried employees to law prohibits employers from coercing employ- Havana late Sunday, the first French president block trade and business,” Hollande said. The Supreme Court decision that allowed for unlim- give, not hourly ones, and that workers are free ees to make political contributions. Supporters to visit Cuba in more than a century, cement- French president is due to meet with his ited political spending by corporations, the to stipulate whether their contributions go to of the employer-to-employee outreach say that ing Paris’s lead in the EU rapprochement with Cuban counterpart Raul Castro and his office number of companies engaged in this sort of Democratic or Republican candidates. it performs an important civic function by edu- the communist island. Hollande is also the has said he is available to meet with revolu- activity - be it nudging employees to write let- At companies that depend heavily on gov- cating workers and turning them into active first Western leader to visit Cuba since a sur- tionary icon Fidel Castro as well. However, ters, donate, campaign or vote - has risen 45 per- ernment contracts, the giving is especially high. political participants. BIPAC says its research prise announcement in December by Havana Havana has not confirmed that a meeting cent to 7,317, according to BIPAC’s internal For example, employees of Honeywell shows that many workers rate their employers as and Washington that the former Cold War between Hollande and Fidel Castro will take research, seen by Reuters. International, a major manufacturer of aircraft more credible information sources about politics foes would seek to normalize relations after place. The visit follows a meeting Sunday The new approach to workplace giving is electronics, gave more than $1 million in the first than political parties, labor unions or the news half a century of bad blood. Hollande arrived between Raul Castro and Pope Francis at the called “E2E,” or employer-to-employee outreach. quarter of 2015 - up 52 percent since the same media. “If it’s done right, there’s nothing illegal at Havana’s Jose Marti International Airport at Vatican, where the Cuban leader thanked the These PACs donate to both Democrats and period in 2011. Honeywell, along with Lockheed about it,” said Greg Casey, president of BIPAC. 22:50 (0250 GMT) and was greeted by Cuba’s pontiff for his role in brokering the historic Republicans, depending upon who supports Martin, BP and Halliburton, says its employee Some 89 percent of the candidates its PAC sup- Deputy Foreign Minister Rogelio Sierra. The dÈtente between Havana and Washington. policies and issues favorable to the business contributions are 100 percent voluntary and ports are Republicans. visit is aimed at boosting French and interests of the corporation. “When you compare legal and that no pressure is put on employees European Union interests in Cuba, which has Row over rights the amount of money the Wal-Marts and to become more politically active. “Honeywell’s Pfizer employees’ email blast undergone gradual economic and social The European Union suspended relations McDonald’s and their employees have, com- PAC supports those who support policies that The practice drew mixed reviews among a reforms under Castro. with Cuba in 2003 over a crackdown on jour- pared to even the largest American unions, it’s are good for our business and help to create dozen employees at five companies interviewed France is seeking to “be the first among nalists and activists, but it opened talks to peanuts and watermelons,” said Phil Smith, jobs in the ,” company spokesman by Reuters. “The legislators that would support European nations, and the first among restore ties in April 2014, aiming to persuade spokesman for the United Mine Workers of Rob Ferris said. the company are absolutely the ones I would Western nations, to be able to say to the Havana to improve its rights record. It was America. never support,” said one global director at Pfizer Cubans that we will be at their side if they under the French presidency of the EU in Employees at the nation’s top firms are con- Employees’ donations soaring who spoke on condition of anonymity. An email decide themselves to take needed steps 2008 that political dialogue was first resumed tributing more money than ever before to com- This sharp increase in political donations by sent to staff in April noted that Pfizer’s employ- toward opening up,” Hollande told reporters between Brussels and Havana. “France has pany PACs controlled by CEOs and senior man- employees is fueling concerns among some ees had sent more than 8,000 emails to politi- before leaving for Havana. The French presi- always been a leader in the European Union. agement, according to April 2015 quarterly campaign finance watchdogs, ahead of the cians about healthcare and patent legislation dent said the easing of a decades-long eco- The fact that the French president is coming fundraising and spending documents disclosed November 2016 elections, that workers may feel favorable to Pfizer.— Reuters nomic embargo by the United States will help shows France’s very important role in the dia- Cuba’s cash-strapped economy. “Cuba wants logue between Cuba and the European to move on to a new phase, a new period, a Union,” Eduardo Perera from the University of new time for this island that was victim of an Havana told AFP. Michelle Obama ‘knocked back’ by race perceptions embargo,” Hollande said on a stop in France, which has made its relations with Guadeloupe, referring to the US sanctions in Latin America and the Caribbean a foreign WASHINGTON: Michelle Obama says she had to those days, I had a lot of sleepless nights worrying Obama said. “So, yeah, I planted a garden, and place since 1962. policy priority, has along with the fight misperceptions due to her African-American about what people thought of me,” Michelle hula-hooped on the White House lawn with kids. I The French leader said removing the been a strong supporter of the normalization race during the 2008 White House campaign that Obama recalled. “I had to ignore all of the noise did some mom dancing on TV... And at the end of embargo was key to opening Cuba up to the of ties between Cuba and the 28-member saw her husband become the first black president and be true to myself-and the rest would work the day, by staying true to the me I’ve always rest of the world, adding that despite the European bloc. Europe’s rapprochement with of the United States. The first lady, who grew up in itself out,” she said, winning cheers from graduates. known, I found that this journey has been incredi- move toward thawing relations with Cuba began before the December announce- humble circumstances in Chicago and became a Aside from mastering details of administration pol- bly freeing.” Frustration, “can feel isolating. It can Washington, economic barriers remain. ment on Cuba-US relations. — AFP successful corporate lawyer, has rarely discussed icy, “I also worked to ensure that my efforts would make you feel like your life somehow doesn’t mat- race during her husband’s two terms in office. But a resonate with kids and families-and that meant ter. And as we’ve seen over the past few years, string of recent cases of alleged abuse of police doing things in a creative and unconventional way,” those feelings are real,” the first lady added.— AFP force against African Americans, and related unrest in Baltimore, made it hard to avoid. “As potentially the first African-American first lady, I was also the focus of another set of ques- tions and speculations, conversations sometimes rooted in the fears and misperceptions of others,” Obama said Saturday. “Was I too loud or too angry or too emasculating? Or was I too soft, too much of a mom, not enough of a career woman?” she asked in a frank commencement address at historically black Tuskegee University in Alabama. For the first magazine cover featuring Obama in 2008, The New Yorker parodied her as a radical and a terrorist. “It was a cartoon drawing of me with a huge afro and a machine gun,” she recalled. “Now, yeah, it was satire, but if I’m really being honest, it knocked me back a bit. It made me wonder just how are people seeing me.”

‘Sleepless nights’ In an almost half-hour address, she also recalled other racially insensitive comments, including HAVANA: French President Francois Hollande (center) confers with Rogelio Sierra when Fox News television said she was her “hus- (left), Cuba’s Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, upon Hollande’s arrival at Jose Marti band’s crony of color” and “Obama’s baby mama”- WASHINGTON: First lady Michelle Obama and Jill Biden visit with children as they make gifts for Airport in Havana. — AFP the latter US slang for an unwed mother. “Back in their mothers during their annual Mother’s Day Tea to honor military-connected mothers. —AP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015

A perfect storm brewing in Macedonia News In brief Violence adds new element to months of political crisis Iran buys 15 planes in KUMANOVO: Pero Ilievski Street looked yesterday like it boost to ageing fleet had been struck by a tsunami, cobblestones torn up and DUBAI: Iran has bought 15 second-hand civilian aircraft in walls crushed by armoured vehicles of a special anti-terror- the last three months, the transport minister said in pub- ist unit of the Macedonian police. Stunned ethnic Albanian lished remarks, bolstering an ageing fleet hit by US sanc- residents of this north Macedonian town stepped gingerly tions that restrict trade of aircraft and parts. ISNA news through shattered glass and roof tiles, crushed cars and agency on Sunday quoted Abbas Akhoondi as saying nine dirt smeared with blood - damage wrought by a weekend of the planes had been obtained in the past week, without operation that left 22 people dead and heralds a new specifying who had sold them or how they had been phase of uncertainty in a country deep in crisis. Details bought. “With the arrival of these new aircraft, the average about the raid remain hazy, but the conservative govern- age of the active planes in Iran has fallen from 20 years to ment of Nikola Gruevski faced immediate calls from NATO 19 years,” Akhoondi was quoted as saying. The report did and the European Union for a “transparent investigation” of not identify the type of aircraft purchased. A long-standing what happened. His credibility in the West has already ban on the sales of spare parts was eased under an interim been called into question by months of opposition allega- nuclear deal between Iran and world powers in late 2013, tions of illegal wire-tapping and widespread abuse of pow- but the US sanctions regime still restricts sales of aircraft. er. Iranian airlines have suffered several fatal crashes in recent The Albanian residents of Pero Ilievski Street in ethnical- years due to mechanical failures. Thirty-nine people were ly-mixed Kumanovo cried foul, saying they were pawns in a killed in August last year when a locally-built plane of bigger political battle and were being used to divert atten- Ukrainian design crashed after taking off from Tehran. tion from the government’s own woes. Gruevski’s main opponents in the Macedonian majority also demanded answers, speculating that the government was trying to Lost N Zealand woman raise the spectre of ethnic strife in order to hamper the survives on breast milk opposition drive to remove him. The tiny, impoverished ex- WELLINGTON: A woman told yesterday Yugoslav republic, where ethnic Albanians account for 30 how she survived lost in rugged wilderness by drink- percent of the two million-strong population, flirted with ing her own breast milk and burying herself in dirt. all-out civil war in 2001 when ethnic Albanian guerrillas Susan O’Brien was taking part in a grueling 20 kilome- fought with government security forces before NATO bro- ter run in forest south of Wellington on Sunday when kered a peace deal. she took a wrong turn and became disorientated. The Integration has been piecemeal, but Western diplomats 29-year-old said she was convinced she was going to say the greatest threat to stability currently lies less in eth- KUMANOVO: People walk through the rubble of damaged houses after fighting between Macedonian police and die during a night of rain and high winds, spending nic conflict than in a political stand-off between Gruevski an armed group in the town of Kumanovo yesterday. — AFP the time praying and thinking of her family. Dressed in and his Macedonian opponents. Like the Albanian minori- only light running gear, O’Brien said she scooped out a ty, they too are frustrated by the poverty, high unemploy- were hauled before judges in handcuffs and white jump- casualties have not been named. Opposition anger over hole to keep warm and fed herself with breast milk. “I ment, pervasive corruption and a stalled process of inte- suits. Macedonia’s wire-tapping scandal is set to climax on May just kept chucking dirt on top of me and every time I gration with the West. Foreign analysts have long warned The destruction on Pero Ilievski Street, in a region that 17 with a planned mass rally to demand Gruevski’s resigna- heard something I’d just scream ‘help’,” she told that one side or the other might try to stir ethnic tensions saw heavy fighting during the 2001 conflict, spoke to the tion. Zoran Zaev, leader of the main Macedonian opposi- reporters after a helicopter fitted with heat-detecting to gain leverage, despite a lack of enthusiasm in either ferocity of the violence. Yet not a single civilian was report- tion party, the Social Democrats, says he has a treasure- sensors found her late Monday morning. “One thing community for a return to fighting. “Several distinct prob- ed hurt in an operation that began without warning before trove of wire-taps, leaked to him by a whistleblower and that helped me, I’m breastfeeding my baby, so I had a lems are joining up into a perfect storm,” Balkan analyst dawn on Saturday and ended some 24 hours later. “I don’t exposing the extent of government control over judges, bit of my milk because I thought that would help me Marko Prelec wrote on his Facebook page, adding that an know what the purpose of this was,” said Ramadan Baftiu, journalists and the conduct of elections. keep going for energy.” already incendiary political situation had become “super- sitting on the toppled front wall of his two-storey home, He has been drip-feeding audiotapes to the media for charged by emotions that rise when blood is shed”. gutted by fire and strafed with bullets. Baftiu said he and months and protesters have already clashed once with seven other members of his family, including children, had police. The scandal has added to a wider political malaise 2 workers, 2 inmates Rally spent 12 hours in their basement, riding out the storm rooted in Macedonia’s failure to join the EU and NATO, its hurt at Nebraska jail Gruevski said police had wiped out “one of the most above them before escaping during a lull. “The house has bids blocked by a long-running dispute with neighboring TECUMSEH: Inmates at a prison in southeast Nebraska dangerous terrorist groups in the Balkans”, led by ethnic to be demolished,” he said. over the country’s name. Several Albanians in have taken control of at least part of the facility in an inci- Albanians from neighboring Kosovo and bent on attacking He and his neighbors said they had seen no gunmen in Kumanovo said they would join the Macedonian opposi- dent that left two staff members and two inmates injured, police stations, shopping malls and sports events. the area, an assertion that was impossible to verify in a cli- tion on May 17. “Yes, I’ll protest,” said 44-year-old Vullnet according to the state Department of Correctional Authorities said 14 “terrorists” were dead, dozens arrested mate of claim and counter-claim, intrigue and manipula- Januzi, a worker at the state water company. “You can’t Services. The incident started around 2:30 pm Sunday at and eight police officers killed. Ethnic Albanian detainees tion in Macedonia. Apart from the police dead, the other blame the Macedonian people for this.” — Reuters the Tecumseh State Correctional Institution when staff members attempted to break up a large gathering of inmates in front of a housing unit, James Foster, a spokesman for the Department of Correctional Services, Looming battle with said in a statement. Two staff members were assaulted and one inmate was shot, according to the statement. Other EU tops new UK incidents then took place in “multiple housing units,” result- ing in small fires and property damage, the statement said. Government agenda As of approximately 9:15 pm Sunday, the exterior of the facility was secured and all staff were accounted for, according to the statement, which gave no further details LONDON: Prime Minister David Cameron had barely toasted about the other incidents. Smoke rose from two housing his surprise election victory before attention turned to units and driveways to the prison were blocked, the Britain’s future in Europe and the onerous task of quelling Lincoln Journal-Star reported. rebellious eurosceptics within party ranks. In some of his first comments since winning Thursday’s election, Cameron said he had contacted European Union leaders to begin renegotia- tion of Britain’s terms of membership, before holding an in- Husband quizzed after out referendum. “I’ve already made some calls to European wife’s near-death fall leaders,” Cameron told Channel Four news. “The renegotiation LONDON: A British Army sergeant is suspected of first, then the referendum before the end of 2017.” attempting to murder his wife, who had recently given Cameron says he will campaign to stay in the EU, but only birth to their son, by tampering with her parachute, if he can secure reforms such as changes on migration and British press reported yesterday. Emile Cilliers, 35, was benefits and the repatriation of certain powers to London. The arrested last week and questioned at length by police centre-right leader will have to strike a delicate balance to while his 39-year-old wife Victoria recovered from a both appease partners and the anti-EU faction of his broken collarbone, broken leg and spinal injuries after Conservative party, who quickly put pressure on the prime miraculously surviving the 4,000 foot plunge. An expe- minister on the subject. On Sunday, influential MP Graham rienced parachutist, the alleged victim managed to Brady urged Cameron to allow eurosceptic ministers to cam- slow her fall from around 100 miles-per-hour to 30 paign for Britain to leave the EU if they wish, in order to avoid miles-per-hour despite her parachute and reserve the appearance of a “rancorous split”. “The more you try to canopy failing to open properly, with the latter partial- constrain people’s views, to limit debate, the more you create ly opening shortly before impact. A member of her tensions which needn’t necessarily be there,” Brady told BBC parachute club in Netheravon, southwest England, radio. where the incident occurred, told the Daily Mail that Cameron’s narrow majority of just 12 seats in parliament Cilliers had been fortunate to land in a freshly- means the eurosceptics’ influence is amplified as just seven ploughed field. Detective Inspector Paul Franklin said: need to rebel to stop a bill passing. The new situation has “This woman would have been dead if her chute raised comparisons with that of former prime minister John hadn’t partially opened, this meant her descent was Major, who was tormented by Tory rebels during negotiations slowed enough for her to survive the fall. to create the European Union with the Maastricht Treaty. British newspaper front pages yesterday indicated trouble ahead. The Daily Express’ headline was “Britain to get tough jails Russian MARABARA: Women return back to Mararaba after the city was recaptured by the Nigeria military from Boko for 16.5 years for drugs with EU: At last!” while i newspaper declared “Europe: the bat- Haram. — AFP tle begins”. Meanwhile in an editorial, The Times said a plan to DENPASAR: A Russian woman who smuggled drugs into share refugees arriving from outside the EU among the bloc’s Indonesia was sentenced to 16.5 years jail yesterday, 28 countries posed a “direct threat to British membership”. The escaping the death penalty just weeks after seven foreign Home Office said Britain was prepared to “oppose any EU After surviving Boko Haram, nationals were executed for trafficking narcotics. Commission proposals to introduce a non-voluntary quota” of Aleksandra Magnaeva, 26, was arrested in December after refugees. arriving in Bali on a flight from Hong Kong with 2.1 kilo- returnees now face hunger grams of crystal methamphetamine stashed in her bags. “If ‘ to hardliners’ uncaught, the defendant’s action could have endangered Cameron may try to capitalize on his current popularity Towns lack healthcare, banks, food thousands of Indonesian youths,” judge Wayan Sukanila and force through change before the summer. The premier is told the Denpasar District Court, adding the sentence was more lenient because she had shown remorse for her set to send finance minister George Osborne and foreign min- MICHIKA: Since Nigeria’s army farmland between towns stand bar- on this route. Mubi itself was a Boko ister Philip Hammond to Berlin and Brussels to negotiate a crimes. Under Indonesia law, the maximum penalty for began clearing large areas of the ren. Haram stronghold at one point. Life new deal, according to the Sunday Times. But it also reported drug trafficking is death. During questioning Magnaeva is bustling again but its banks are that up to 60 rebel MPs were preparing to demand new pow- country’s northeast from Boko In the town of Michika, which said her boyfriend-with whom she had been living in ers for the Commons to veto any EU law, a plan Cameron pre- Haram, some of the 1.5 million saw some of the fiercest fighting, still closed and in ruin. -had instructed her to pass the drugs to someone in viously called “impossible”. Like Major, Cameron has filled key internally displaced people have residents are too afraid and lack the Bali. The Russian said she had brought the drugs overland cabinet roles with eurosceptics in a bid to placate potential started returning home. But thou- equipment and manpower to farm, Landmine danger from mainland China to Hong Kong, and claimed it was her rebels, while alarming Brussels. Straight after victory on Friday, sands could now face severe food and at least for the moment they Rusting tanks with Arabic writ- first time smuggling drugs into Bali. Indonesia enforces Cameron announced that Hammond and Michael Fallon shortages as reconstruction lags will not be able to live off the land. ing, burnt cars and military equip- some of the stiffest penalties for drug trafficking in the would keep their jobs as foreign minister and defense minister behind. Along the main roads head- Meanwhile there is no sign of gov- ment litter the main roads in north- world, including life imprisonment and death. both of whom have said they would vote to leave the EU if ing north from Adamawa’s state ernment aid. “Most people coming ern Adamawa. Boko Haram writings powers were not brought home from Brussels. capital Yola, some trade has back are in hardship because there’s cover the beige outdoor walls of Cameron appointed the outspoken Michael Gove as justice resumed in the towns but ghostly no food. People are sick but there buildings, roofs are collapsed and minister to lead the abolition of Britain’s Human Rights Act-an pockets and haunting reminders of are no hospitals ... no vegetables, no gutted churches stand charred. election manifesto pledge aimed at stopping the European the insurgent takeover are evident. lemons, no bananas ... We’re not Some landmines are still dotted Court of Human Rights overruling British courts. Financial Some three months after the fight- ready to go back to farming. All our around Michika and the main farm- Times writer Philip Stephens warned Cameron’s positioning ing ended, the smell of rotting machinery was burned or taken,” a ing areas are far away from military could backfire. “By demanding a new settlement and setting a corpses still clings to the air by the Christian community leader, Sini T- checkpoints. “We have to stay, we 2017 deadline for an in-out referendum, the prime minister headquarters of the Church of the Kwagga, told Reuters. have nowhere to live, no money for has offered himself as a hostage both to his European part- Brethren near Mararaba. People will drive to Mubi, a city rent. We are afraid to farm ... about a ners and to the hardline eurosceptics in his own party,” Islamist militant group Boko about an hour’s drive south, to get week ago a bomb exploded when Stephens said. Experts warned legal barriers could make it Haram grabbed swathes of Nigeria’s goods but this vital route will be people went to clear the land. They tough for Cameron to secure major concessions, while a com- northeast last year, killing thousands blocked once the rainy season were hurt,” Rebecca Ishaya said. She bative reputation could work against him in Brussels. “In the came back two weeks ago with her past, Cameron has antagonized some of his European col- in an unprecedented land grab. It comes into full swing next month. leagues,” said Professor Sara Hobolt, a European politics and took over most of Borno state, the Many bridges were blown up by children but sent a few away again electoral behavior expert at the London School of Economics. birthplace of the group, and parts of Boko Haram, including the impor- because of the lack of schools. Boko “It’s not really the EU way of working.” Adamawa and Yobe while increasing tant link to Mubi, to try to stop the Haram militants liberally employed Limits to freedom of movement are staunchly opposed by incursions on neighboring countries. offensive by Nigerian troops. The landmines, often handmade in their Eastern European countries that have previous been Britain’s The army began pushing back when river is already starting to fill up bomb factories, to protect their allies. “’s strategic interest is to keep Britain in, but it Boko Haram was about 100 km from with early rains and men have to strongholds. The military said this does not mean we will agree to anything. Competition and Adamawa’s state capital. In the last push cars through the muddy strategy was slowing their offensive the internal market are sacrosanct. And so is freedom of few months, many people have waters while women sell mangoes into the Sambisa forest reserve, movement,” warned Poland’s Europe minister Rafal returned to Adamawa but health to passers-by. Madagali, the north- which is the militants’ last bastion Trzaskowski in the Financial Times on Sunday. But change clinics, banks and schools are still ernmost major town in the state and where hundreds of abducted could be possible in other areas, such as restricting European lacking, especially in the northern- and the last to be liberated in women and children have been migrants’ access to public services in Britain. —AFP most areas, and vast stretches of Adamawa in February, also depends found.—Reuters Russian national Aleksandra Magnaeva INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 Widow of slain US-Bangladeshi blogger blasts

DHAKA: On a recent evening in a Midwestern US city, a was promoting when he was killed is titled “The Virus of in . Roy, 43, wrote eight books and moderat- attacked me online for that post,” she recalled. “I was a middle-aged woman with bandaged arms and a missing Faith.” “We are walking a fine line here,” said Wazed, an ed a blog called Mukto-Mona (Free Thinker). To some, he tech manager in Atlanta at the time, a single mom. I was thumb entered a crowded restaurant. Nearby, children informal consultant for the ruling party, the Awami was a provocative atheist, but his blog also reflected a intimidated and didn’t respond. The next day, someone colored with crayons. Waiters rushed by. The maimed League. “We don’t want to be seen as atheists. It doesn’t strong belief in the value of civil debate, said his step- named is defending me.” They dated long dis- woman, Rafida Ahmed, scanned the room nervously. change our core beliefs. We believe in secularism,” he daughter, Trisha Ahmed, 18. “My dad was building a com- tance for years, and he reluctantly moved from The Atlanta financial executive has been hiding since said. “But given that our opposition party plays that reli- munity of secularists who thought rationally,” she said. to Atlanta in 2006: Ahmed would not leave the United Islamic militants wielding machetes attacked her on Feb gion card against us relentlessly, we can’t come out “He wanted to start a conversation and see where it States until her daughter completed high school. Roy 26 in her native Bangladesh. During the assault, her hus- strongly for him. It’s about perception, not about reality.” would go.” held a doctorate in biomedical research, but found it easi- band - the Bangladeshi-American secular activist and A spokesman at the Bangladesh Embassy in Roy was a young child during the formative years that er to get a lucrative job and a US visa as a software archi- blogger Avijit Roy - was hacked to death. Washington said he did not know why no one from his followed Bangladesh’s 1971 war of independence from tect, his wife said. After Trisha Ahmed was in college, the Ahmed sustained four head wounds, and her left government had yet to contact Ahmed, who, like her late Pakistan. The war had roots in colonialism and religion. couple, by then married and US citizens, decided to visit thumb was sliced off. On May 3, the Indian-born head of husband, is a dual Bangladeshi-US citizen. “We are Although Pakistan and Bangladesh shared neither a bor- Dhaka. The two departed in mid-February. “We knew that Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent claimed responsibil- shocked at the killing of Avijit Roy and have taken all der nor common language, they had been joined as one anything can happen in a country like that, and we took ity for a string attacks in Bangladesh and Pakistan, includ- measures to find the culprits responsible for this heinous in 1947, as the British departed the subcontinent. The precautions,” Ahmed said. “There was only one threat ing Roy’s. The murder of Roy, an atheist who published a act,” said spokesman Shamim Ahmad. “Bangladesh is demarcation was largely based on one factor: most who against him but we didn’t take it seriously. Otherwise, we popular and provocative blog, marks an escalation by committed to fighting and ending extremism in all its lived in Pakistan and Bangladesh were Muslim. wouldn’t have gone.” Islamist militants for control of Bangladesh. Religious fun- forms.” The US Federal Bureau of Investigation deployed Bangladesh was founded as a secular country, but US damentalists are competing daily with secular govern- agents to Dhaka and is working with Bangladesh authori- and Bangladesh officials said the Islamic fundamentalist Final days ment officials for power in the majority-Muslim country, ties, an FBI spokeswoman said. Agents met most recently influence began to increase in the 1990s as wealthy Roy was a star attraction at the book fair. On a tranquil one of the world’s largest and poorest democracies. with Ahmed in the United States on Friday, Ahmed said. Arabs began building hundreds of religious schools. The morning before his murder, he outlined a book he In her first extensive interview since the attack, Wazed said Roy’s death came during a three-month same officials say militant influence also increased as planned to write with Ahmed, and took her on a rickshaw Ahmed criticized the Bangladeshi government for not period when 160 people died in bus bombings in Dhaka, waves of Bangladeshis who had moved to the Arabian tour of his childhood neighborhood. He exchanged responding more aggressively to her husband’s slaying. and shortly before explosions near the prime minister’s Gulf as laborers returned home with stricter Muslim Facebook messages with his stepdaughter, sharing in her “This was well planned, choreographed - a global act of motorcade. Wazed blamed political opponents who, he views. Roy’s activism began around 2000, after he moved excitement at attending a US college lecture by the femi- terrorism,” she said. “But what almost bothers me more is said, seek to destabilize his mother’s government. “To us, to Singapore for graduate school. He moderated a Yahoo nist Gloria Steinem. “We were really, really happy,” said that no one from the Bangladesh government has Avijit Roy is no different than the 160 others that have email group and the blog followed, said Bangladeshi- Ahmed, who had edited her husband’s books in Atlanta, reached out to me. It’s as if I don’t exist, and they are been killed,” he said. “We want to bring all the killers to British activist Rayan Rashid. “It was a pioneering group, but had not seen his influence first-hand in Bangladesh. afraid of the extremists. Is Bangladesh going to be the justice. I understand why (his wife) is upset. My mother quite popular, long before Facebook and Twitter,” said “He had finally gotten to show me - in Bangladesh - how next Pakistan or Afghanistan?” has been targeted by these same fundamentalists.” Rashid. “He was patient, witty, elegant and mature in and why his work was so important.” Violence against dealing with dissidents. His goal was to win them over.” secularists continues. On March 30, a Roy supporter, ‘Walking a fine line’ Free thinker Washiqur Rahman, was hacked to death hacked in Dhaka In an interview, Sajeeb Wazed, the son of Bangladesh Well known in his native Bangladesh, Roy was largely A threat by religious extremists. After Roy’s murder, a Dhaka man Prime Minister , said his mother offered pri- anonymous in his suburban Atlanta neighborhood, In 2002, while in Singapore, Roy noticed a blog post who had posted online threats was detained but not vate condolences to Roy’s father. But the political situa- where the couple lived since 2006. By day, he worked as a from a US woman who wrote of religion, “I don’t under- charged. Dhaka police have said they believe the Roy and tion in Bangladesh is too volatile for her to comment Verizon software engineer. At night, he was a prolific stand how people can believe in fairy tales.” It was Rafida Rahman murders were committed by the militant group publicly, he said. Roy was an avowed atheist; the book he writer, emerging as a leading critic of religious extremism Ahmed, who would become his wife. “A lot of people Ansarullah Bangla Team. — Reuters

Nepal earthquake leaves century-old library in ruins

KATHMANDU: Janaki Karmacharya sits on a plastic chair under the tarpaulin that now serves as her office and despairs at the wreckage of her once magnificent library in the heart of Kathmandu. Until last month’s earthquake, the Kaiser Library buzzed with Nepali students, intellectuals and tourists attracted by its collection of rare books, maps and ancient manuscripts-all housed in an opulent former palace. Now wooden bookcases lie smashed on the floor of the 120- year-old building, which was gifted to the nation by the Rana dynasty that ruled for more than a century before los- ing power in 1951. The library was closed on April 25 when the quake struck, and Karmacharya said it was two days before she plucked up the courage to go and see the destruction. “I was speechless for a while... it was hard to believe the extent of the damage,” the 58-year-old chief librarian said as she surveyed the impact of the 7.8-magnitude quake, which killed more than 7,800 people. “I cried when I got came back home, I couldn’t help myself. The books are like my children, and I love them very much. “Thank God it was a Saturday and there were no readers inside.” Karmacharya estimates that the quake damaged around a third of the 28,000 books in the Kaiser Library. They were the collection of Kaiser Shumsher, a scion of the Rana family who travelled to England in 1908 and fell in love with the grand houses and their private libraries. When he returned to Nepal he decided to build his own in his palace in central Kathmandu. Inside the building, antique statues lie in pieces on the floor and stuffed animal KASHMIR: Locals and policemen gather as they rescue injured passengers from the damaged bus near the village Maroti, in Udhampur district of Jammu and Kashmir yester- heads and portraits of Nepal’s former rulers in full military day. — AFP dress hang precariously on severely cracked walls. In one room are the fragments of a suit of armour smashed to pieces in the quake; in another, a stuffed Bengal tiger and a huge bearskin rug, the head and paws still attached. Books in 23 killed as overloaded the English section-many of which Shumsher brought back from his visit to England-include John Buchan’s adventure classics and such titles as “The Big Game of Asia”.

‘A huge loss’ bus veers off highway But the library is more than an eccentric throwback to a bygone era in Nepal, a feudal Hindu kingdom until just seven years ago when the monarchy was abolished following a Maoist revolution. It also houses rare South Asian manu- Indian bus drivers on strike over road-rage death scripts on Buddhism, Tantrism and astrology, some so old they are written on palm-leaves. They include a 1,100-year- SRINAGAR: An overloaded bus swerved off a deadliest roads, with more than 200,000 fatal- According to local reports, 42-year-old demands, then we will call off our strike and old copy of the Susrutasamhita, an ancient Sanskrit text on highway and plunged down a gorge in ities annually, according to the World Health Ashok Kumar grazed the man’s motorbike start operating as usual. No problem,” Chand medicine, which is listed in UNESCO’s Memory of the World Indian-administered Kashmir yesterday, Organization. with his bus in an accident in , added. The Delhi government has offered International Register. “The damage in the Kaiser library is a killing 23 people on board, police said. The prompting the deadly attack watched by 500,000 rupees ($7,820) as compensation to huge loss to us as it was not only a home for books but an accident happened when the driver lost con- Bus drivers on strike passengers and passersby. Police are also Kumar’s family and the city’s transport minis- archive of invaluable historic scripts of archaeological impor- trol near the mountainous village of Marotthi, In another development, bus drivers in the investigating whether the motorcyclist, ter has sought a report into the incident. tance,” said Labha Dev Awasthi, joint secretary at Nepal’s edu- around 250 kilometers south of the main city Indian capital went on strike yesterday leav- who has been arrested, used a fire extin- Scores of commuters, including office work- cation ministry. “We are concerned about the security of the of Srinagar. “We have pulled out 23 bodies so ing thousands of commuters stranded follow- guisher kept inside the bus to beat the driv- ers and schoolchildren, were seen stuck at books, paintings and other antique items that were kept in far and evacuated around 30 other injured ing the beating to death of one of their col- er, according to the Press Trust of bus stops or converging on foot to metro sta- the library.” passengers, some of whom are critically leagues in a weekend road-rage incident. news agency. “We want the Delhi govern- tions. More than four million commuters Awasthi said the ministry was urgently seeking some- injured,” Danish Rana, a local inspector gener- Drivers of state-run buses stopped work in ment to compensate the victim’s family ... depend on a vast network of red and green where safe to store the valuable contents of the building, al of police said. “The bus was apparently the capital of 16 million to demand strength- And our on duty staff should be guaranteed state-run buses daily to reach different cor- which is so badly damaged that staff have been advised not overloaded,” added Rana, while warning the ened security for staff and more compensa- proper security,” Delhi Transport ners of the sprawling city. Incidents of road to enter. With frequent aftershocks still rocking Nepal’s capital death toll could rise further. Some of the tion for the colleague allegedly killed by an Corporation general secretary Tara Chand rage are common on Delhi’s traffic-clogged and the monsoon rains just weeks away, that task now injured passengers were airlifted by helicop- enraged motorcyclist with his helmet on told CNN-IBN news channel. roads although such deadly attacks are appears urgent. An official notice pinned to the door states ter to hospital. India has some of the world’s Sunday. “If the government agrees to our rare.— Agencies that the structure is unsafe, and many of the old beams and pillars are broken. “There are lots of cracks and aftershocks happen every day so this building isn’t safe anymore,” said Karmacharya, who now meets with her staff every day under India Tamil Party leader a tarpaulin in the library’s tree-filled garden near the former royal palace. cleared of corruption “It will be a really big challenge for us to manage the library and move the books somewhere else. But we are con- BANGALORE: The head of India’s largest Tamil fans know her simply as “Amma” (Mother) and cerned about the safety of these books.” The government party was cleared of corruption yesterday, a ver- ministers have been known to prostrate them- said the building would also be restored eventually, although dict that sparked wild celebrations by support- selves before her. Jubilant supporters cheered, it may be resurrected as an art gallery rather than a library. ers and paved the way for the return of one of handed out sweets and set off fire crackers out- For freelance journalist and 26-year-old Kathmandu resident the country’s most powerful politicians. Former side the court, where security had been Ayush Niroula, who used to read there as a student, that film star Jayalalithaa Jayaram was forced to strengthened ahead of the decision, and in would be a shame. “There are not a lot of libraries here in stand down as chief minister of prosperous Chennai, the capital of Tamil Nadu. Kathmandu and on top of that it’s a really beautiful place to Tamil Nadu state after being found guilty last read,” he said. “They can transfer the books somewhere else, September of amassing illegal wealth while in ‘Political vendetta’ but it has a vibe of its own.”— AFP office. The former film star was sentenced to four Hundreds of supporters held up photos of years in jail and fined one billion rupees ($16 mil- Jayalalithaa and danced in the streets chanting lion) in a case that ran for nearly two decades. “Amma Amma” outside her house in Chennai, But High Court judge C R Kumaraswamy formerly known as Madras. “It was a political declared her “appeal upheld” yesterday at a vendetta by the opposition to discredit hearing in the southern city of Bangalore which Jayalalithaa but we have got justice from the lasted only seconds. Jayalalithaa hailed the deci- law,” a leader of her AIADMK party, William Rabi sion as a victory for justice, claiming the case Bernard said. “She will take over as chief minister against her had always been politically motivat- of the state in less than a fortnight.” The corrup- ed. “I have not made any mistakes. And despite tion claims against Jayalalithaa were first the charges against me, the court verdict has brought by a rival politician in the state in 1996. made me as shiny as gold,” the leader said in a She was charged one year later when police statement, adding the “prayers of Tamil Nadu seized assets including 28 kilos of gold, 750 pairs people” have been answered. of shoes and more than 10,000 saris in a raid on Although Jayalalithaa had been forced to her home.Prosecutors said her assets, which quit as chief minister of the southern state, her reportedly included two 1,000-acre estates in return is now seen as a formality as she contin- the lush tropical state she ran, were vastly dis- CHENNAI: All India Anna Dravida Munnetra Kazhagam (AIADMK) party cadres celebrate ued to control her party while on bail awaiting proportionate to her earnings during her first after party chief Jayalalithaa Jayaram was cleared of corruption charges by Karnataka KATHMANDU: Books lie on the floor of the Kaiser the outcome of the appeal. The 67-year-old term as chief minister, which ran from 1991 to High Court in the disproportionate assets case, outside her residence in Chennai yester- Library in Kathmandu. — AFP enjoys huge popularity in Tamil Nadu where 1996. —AFP day. — AFP INTERNATIONAL TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 Indonesia struggles as Rohingya migrants arrive

LHOKSUKON: They washed up on shore, the migrants were piled into a local Monday, the Indonesian navy claims, Indonesia’s far west coast “sad, tired and sports centre, many too weak to do any- leaving behind roughly 400 migrants on distressed” after a treacherous high-seas thing but lie head to toe on the floor and a damaged boat with limited water. journey: hundreds of Rohingya migrants try to sleep. Tegas, a local government from Myanmar and Bangladesh, with chil- official who like many Indonesians goes by Most persecuted minorities dren in tow, in search of a better life. They only one name, said the migrants arrived The navy was supplying the boat with were never supposed to wind up in “psychologically distressed” and “sad, tired” water and food but a spokesman said Indonesia’s Aceh region, said one Muslim and distressed”. They now face a bleak situ- there were currently no plans to allow it Rohingya aboard the wooden boat which ation in Lhoksukon. “The centre is to berth. Rohingya are considered by the arrived at the weekend. The 573 people cramped and poorly ventilated. Toilets are UN to be one of the world’s most perse- had boarded in with the promise few and smelly,” Tegas said. “The migrants cuted minorities. Buddhist-majority of reaching before traffickers sleep on a blue canvas tarp we lay on the Myanmar views its population of rough- abandoned them off the coast with little ground, without pillows and blankets. We ly 1.3 million Rohingya as illegal fuel. really need more supplies and to move Bangladeshi immigrants, and they have Local authorities in Lhoksukon, the cap- them to a better accommodation.” been targeted in outbreaks of sectarian ital of North Aceh, also were unprepared But where the authorities are violence there in recent years, prompt- for the sudden arrivals, in one of four boats stretched, locals are lending a helping ing many to flee. Thousands have of Rohingya migrants rescued off the hand. Many opened their doors when braved the dangerous sea crossing from coasts of Indonesia and Malaysia since the migrants arrived, providing them Myanmar to southern Thailand and Sunday. Caught off guard, the authorities with food, clothing and respite after the beyond in the hope of reaching mainly scrambled to find food and shelter for long journey. Others around the sports Muslim Malaysia. But many often fall hundreds of exhausted people, some so hall are now helping out with whatever prey to people-traffickers in Thailand. dehydrated they needed intravenous drips they have, bringing food and water and Boatloads of Rohingya have arrived LHOKSUKON: A group of rescued migrants from Myanmar and Bangladesh is and treatment at local health clinics. “We trying to strike up conversations despite off Aceh in the past, typically after temporarily housed at a government sports auditorium in Lhoksukon in Aceh actually don’t have money in our budget the language barrier. “It’s just the becoming lost or running out of fuel. But province yesterday after Indonesian rescuers found their boat stranded in for this,” Mohd Yani, a local official of the Acehnese way of trying to cheer them amid the misery, some of the newly waters off north Aceh province. — AFP North Aceh Social Welfare Office said. up,” Tegas said. Their situation may be arrived Rohingya are trying to follow a grim but for another group of fellow normal routine, visiting the local Muslim counterparts and pitied the per- limbo, waiting for an expected visit An emergency Rohingya migrants further east, land still mosque to pray while their children secution they faced in the name of reli- from the International Organization for But he added: “We will think about it remains out of reach. The captain of that play together nearby. Tegas said the gion. “We treat them like our brothers Migration to assess what needs to be later. This is an emergency.” Brought to boat fled after it was intercepted early devout Acehnese welcomed their and sisters,” he said. But they remain in done now.—AFP

The Rohingya: A stateless people trafficked across Southeast Asia

BANGKOK: Nearly 2,000 boat people from of thousands trapped in squalid camps- Myanmar and Bangladesh, many thought mainly Rohingya-catalysed the latest exo- to be Rohingya, have been rescued off the dus. The Rohingya have long been treated coasts of Indonesia and Malaysia since as “foreigners” by Myanmar’s Buddhist Sunday. Scores more have been found majority. Myanmar has a multitude of eth- dazed and malnourished across southern nic groups, many of whom have conducted Thailand this month. They are all believed sporadic armed rebellions since independ- to have been abandoned by people-traf- ence from Britain in 1948.But the Rohingya fickers fearing a crackdown on their lucra- are not officially recognized, partly owing tive trade. The following is a fact box on the to a 1982 law stipulating that minorities Rohingya. Who are they? The Rohingya are must prove they lived in Myanmar prior to a stateless Muslim ethnic group viewed by 1823 - before the first Anglo-Burmese war- the United Nations as one of the world’s to obtain . Many Rohingya say most persecuted minorities. Using a dialect their people were in Myanmar long before similar to that spoken in Chittagong in then, but while there have been sugges- southeast Bangladesh, the Sunni Muslims tions from the authorities that are met with hostility by many in majority could be granted to those with a long- Buddhist Myanmar who view them as ille- standing link to the country, proving a gal immigrants and refer to them as Myanmar heritage will be difficult. “Bengali”. More than a 1.3 million Rohingya live in How many have left? Myanmar, according to the government. The UN refugee agency says well over Most live in impoverished western Rakhine 120,000 have fled since the 2012 violence- state, but are denied citizenship. There are an exodus that is gathering pace. The also around 300,000 Rohingya living in agency estimates 25,000 people from Bangladesh’s southern coastal district bor- Myanmar and Bangladesh have taken to dering Myanmar, the vast majority of boats headed south in the first three whom have fled Myanmar in recent months of this year alone. An estimated decades. But Bangladesh recognizes only a 53,000 left in 2014, braving the sea crossing small portion as refugees and regularly to southern Thailand with many headed for This undated picture shows North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un (center) during a visit to the Anbyon fish farm under Korean People’s Army (KPA) turns back those trying to cross the border. Malaysia and beyond. Hundreds die at sea unit 580 at an undisclosed location in North Korea. — AFP Rights groups say many of the unregistered every year. Of those who survive, many fall Rohingya in Bangladesh lack access to into the hands of people traffickers in basic healthcare and are on the verge of Thailand which has become a hub for the S Korea tells North to halt starvation, leaving them as easy targets for trade in people often with government, human traffickers. police and navy officials’ involvement in the multi-million dollar trade. Dozens of shal- Why are they fleeing? low graves believed to belong to Rohingya ‘worrisome’ missile project Fierce communal violence between and Bangladeshi migrants have been Buddhists and Muslim Rohingya in Rakhine unearthed in southern Thailand since early in 2012, which left some 200 dead and tens May. — AFP Seoul vows ‘merciless’ response to any provocation

SEOUL: South Korea yesterday urged North ment of the SLBM that threatens the security of said. According to the South Korean military, Prince Harry looking Korea to halt its “worrisome” development of a the Korean peninsula and northeast Asia,” min- the North followed up the SLBM launch by test submarine-launched ballistic missile, as one istry spokesman Kim Min-Seok told reporters. A firing three anti-ship cruise missiles Saturday, Seoul official warned Pyongyang could have a fully developed SLBM capability would take the on the back of threats to target South Korean for love, wants kids functional SLBM capability within two years. North Korean nuclear threat to a new level, naval boats Pyongyang accuses of violating The North’s state media announced Saturday allowing deployment far beyond the Korean their disputed maritime border. WELLINGTON: Britain’s Prince Harry said us sane and keep us ticking along,” he said. that a new SLBM had been tested under the peninsula and the potential to retaliate in the In a security meeting with ruling Saenuri yesterday he wants to have children and “Surely in the future, from our point of view, personal supervision of North Korean leader event of a nuclear attack. The main strategic party officials in Seoul, Defense Minister Han would like a partner to “share the pressure” if we want to make a big contribution and Kim Jong-Un, who described it as an “eye-open- threat from such a weapon is the difficulty in Min-Koo said the South’s military would not sit of royal duties, but is still waiting for the be taken seriously, we need to work along- ing success” that provided his military with a tracking a submerged, armed submarine, Kim idly by in the face of North Korean aggression. right woman. The fifth in line to the throne side other people.” “world-level strategic weapon”. The exact said. “We will mercilessly retaliate to break their made the comments in New Zealand where nature of the test has yet to be independently South Korea’s initial assessment after the cycle of provocation,” Han was quoted as saying he is relaxing after calling time on a decade- Team Ginger Ninja confirmed, with some experts suggesting it test-which was believed to have taken place by the Yonhap news agency. “Retaliation long military career, saying he felt “at a cross- Visiting remote Stewart Island, New was an ejection test-with the missile only trav- Friday-was that the North is still in the “early against provocation is an order from the peo- roads”. He said the birth of brother William’s Zealand’s southernmost settlement, Harry elling a few hundred meters-rather than a full phase” of development. However a defense ple,” Han said. Pyongyang has issued three second child Princess Charlotte last week told schoolchildren about his love of flying flight test. official speaking on condition of anonymity lat- warnings over the past week that it will fire on had increased his desire for a family of his and why he always has to follow protocol However, South Korea’s defense ministry er said the North could have a fully functioning sight at South Korean navy patrol boats it says own. “Of course, I would love to have kids when talking about his grandmother, Queen said the test was “very serious and worrisome” submarine armed with ballistic missiles in “two are routinely entering its territorial waters in right now, but there’s a process that one has Elizabeth II. In an informal question-and- and could undermine regional stability. “We to three years.” “And field deployment could the Yellow Sea. Seoul has denied any incur- to go through,” he told Britain’s Sky News. answer session with the 24 pupils of urge the North to immediately stop develop- take place within four or five years,” the official sions.—AFP “Tours like this are great fun, hopefully I’m Halfmoon Bay School, he fielded queries doing alright by myself. It would be great to ranging from whether he has a crown (no) have someone else next to me to share the to his favorite food (spaghetti bolognese). pressure. But, you know, time will come and The prince, a favorite target for paparazzi, Blogger, 16, exposes limits whatever happens, happens I guess.” was also asked to name the best thing about The 30-year-old, who split from girlfriend flying a helicopter, and revealed it was the Cressida Bonas last year, railed against being chance to get away from everyone. “You on free speech in Singapore labeled “the party prince”. “I never wanted have a moving office... there’s only two of that,” he said, adding that he was looking for you in the office and no one else can bother SINGAPORE: A government crackdown on a tipping point.” He has refused to self-censor but legal action both against domestic and interna- a role where he could “give something back” you,” he said. teen video blogger and independent news and negotiates with government representatives, tional critics, but Yee’s case stands out: A floppy- when he officially leaves the military next One child wanted to know what he opinion website has focused attention on free who have had a lighter touch recently with his haired, wryly humorous teenager targeted by month. The prince, who has won praise in called the Queen: “I call her granny,” he speech limits, and perhaps the next election, in plays. Singapore’s government has long aggres- prosecutors for a strongly-worded video, sent to New Zealand for his down-to-earth manner, replied. “But I refer to her as the Queen this cosmopolitan but famously strict city-state. sively protected its image and authority with prison and shackled in court.—AP admitted both he and William wanted to because I’m in the army and she’s my boss.” Five days after the death in March of work alongside “normal people” and earn a The school visit came after he spent Sunday Singapore’s founding father, 16-year-old Amos living. night at Stewart Island’s pub, the South Sea Yee posted his latest American-accented blog “Both of us feel we need to have a wage Hotel, where he took part in a trivia compe- to YouTube, titled “Lee Kuan Yew Is Finally as well, to work with normal people to keep tition. —AFP Dead!” He shared it with the popular and provocative site The Real Singapore, one of sev- eral online alternatives to government-con- trolled TV broadcasts and newspapers.

Religious or racial feelings After it went viral locally, with over a million views so far, Yee was arrested and charged with transmitting an obscene image and deliberate- ly “wounding the religious or racial feelings of any person.” He refused bail conditions that amounted to a gag order and has been jailed for over two weeks, awaiting a court’s judg- ment today. He has pleaded not guilty and faces up to three years in prison. The govern- ment’s Media Development Authority shut down TRS, as it is known, earlier this month - though officials say it was for unrelated rea- sons. “These are the things that will split the whole society,” said Alvin Tan, who as artistic HALFMOON BAY: Britain’s Prince Harry (left) greets well wishers during a visit to director of the respected theater company The SINGAPORE: A man covers his mouth with a fifty dollar bill to represent the loss of free speech Halfmoon Bay school on Stewart Island as part of his first visit to New Zealand yes- Necessary Stage has tangled with censors for at the Speakers Corner in Singapore to protest a new government policy that requires news terday. —AFP over three decades. “I think we’re waiting for a websites to obtain licenses. — AP NEWS TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015

Dashti files to grill FM over Yemen Continued from Page 1 views to the Kuwaiti government on the basis of which it decided to take part in the Yemen war. We will not panic as long as we are working under the The lawmaker also blamed the foreign minister for con- framework of the constitution and law,” he said. Sheikh veying views to the government that made it accept and Mohammad said Sheikh Sabah Al-Khaled will deal with the sign the joint security pact of the Gulf Cooperation Council grilling in line with constitutional and legal frameworks. (GCC) states. He said that a large number of the pact’s arti- Acting Assembly speaker Adel Al-Khorafi however said cles clearly violate many provisions of the Kuwaiti constitu- the Assembly office received the grilling, which was listed on tion, especially with regards to articles allowing other GCC the Assembly’s agenda for the May 19 session. In that ses- members to interfere in internal affairs. sion, MPs will decide whether to allow the grilling to be The lawmaker claimed that although the Assembly has debated or refer it to the Assembly’s legal committee or the not ratified the pact, it became effective and the govern- constitutional court to decide whether the grilling is consti- ment has started implementing it on the basis of an article tutional. But if the assembly decides it is acceptable, it will in the pact that states that it becomes effective 30 days after set a date for a full debate, highly expected to be in early signing it. Dashti accused the foreign ministry of failing to June. Under Kuwait’s constitution, the grilling may lead to a protect and safeguard Kuwaitis and their interests inside and no-confidence vote if 10 MPs sign the motion, otherwise it outside of the country. For example, many Gulf television will end in just recommendations. stations insulted Kuwait and its people and the ministry did In his grilling, Dashti blamed the foreign ministry for mak- nothing, he claimed. ing Kuwait take part in the Saudi-led war on Yemen’s Houthi The lawmaker also said that the foreign ministry has militia, saying the action violated the constitution. He said referred several Kuwaiti personalities to trial for allegedly that under the constitution, Kuwait is barred from declaring insulting Gulf countries after those countries complained Smoke billows following an air strike by Saudi-led coalition yesterday in Sanaa. The raid targeted an arms an offensive war and must inform the Assembly before to the ministry. Dashti himself was referred on two counts depot in the Mount Noqum area on the eastern outskirts of the capital, triggering several blasts. — AFP declaring a defensive war, which did not happen. Dashti for insulting Bahrain and Saudi Arabia and he has already claimed that it was the foreign ministry that conveyed its appeared in court with relation to the Bahrain case. Call for leadership in turbulent world Govt agrees to set up company to recruit... Continued from Page 1 cial crisis on his country, which then rejected reform plans offered by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) Continued from Page 1 The law was passed in 1966 by a coalition of Islamist matters amid turbulent conditions, former Malaysian and the World Bank, fearing they could bring about and tribal conservative MPs. It stipulates strict sex segre- prime minister Mahathir Mohamad told the main ses- bankruptcy. Instead, the government conducted a Meanwhile, the constitutional court yesterday accept- gation at schools and universities. The university began sion of the conference. restructuring of the economy through achieving a bal- ed a petition submitted by lawyer Hussein Al-Asfour dis- implementing the law in 2001 amid criticism and rejection puting that a 20-year old law segregating male and female from liberal politicians and academics, who said imple- He stressed the significance of addressing problems ance between the rich Chinese and the poor Malays in a students at universities breaches the constitution. The mentation is impractical and the law illogical. of individuals to tackle the society’s troubles, noting true partnership for reform, he said. The two-day GCC court, whose rulings are final, set June 8 for the first hear- The court however rejected a petition by MP Nabeel Al- that the method was a major factor in overcoming eco- event is attended by several prominent economists and ing on the highly controversial issue. The petition claimed Fadhl to amend an article in the to allow nomic obstacles and realizing development in Malaysia. leaders from Kuwait, the GCC and many other countries that the law involves gender discrimination and requires granting citizenship to non-Muslims. Fadhl had said the Mahathir referred to the impact of the 1997 Asian finan- to share their expertise. — KUNA massive additional expenses to ensure separation of 1959 granted non-Muslims citi- between male and female students at classrooms. It also zenship like others. Conservative MPs however managed claimed that due to extra requirements, the construction to amend the law in mid-1980s to ban granting citizenship King’s absence signals Saudi discontent... of the new university at Shaddadiya is running way to non-Muslims. Fadhl demanded that the amendment be behind schedule. declared against the constitution. Continued from Page 1 fairly strong message from everyone,” the source added. “The Americans are only concerned with the nuclear “You don’t usually send two of the most senior peo- issue of Iran. They are not concerned with Iranian inter- Houthis ‘down’ Moroccan jet ple you have to deliver a snub,” said Anthony vention in our part of the world,” said Jamal Khashoggi, Continued from Page 1 has offered to start from 11:00 pm today to enable aid deliver- Cordesman, of the Center for Strategic and International an analyst and head of the Al-Arab News Channel, who ies. It would be the first pause in air raids since the coalition Studies in Washington. But by “downgrading” the dele- is linked to the royal family. “We are living under a very difficult and unprecedented campaign began on March 26. Saudi Arabia has stressed the gation, the kingdom was “attempting to put pressure The decision to send Mohammed bin Nayef and humanitarian situation,” said another Saada resident. “We offer is conditional on the rebels reciprocating and not on the US... It’s a sign that Saudi Arabia would like to see Mohammed bin Salman may simply be aimed at accel- want to leave Saada but can’t due to the financial situation exploiting the ceasefire for military advantage. “We hope the a clearer US strategic commitment to the defence of the erating a move towards a new generation, added and the shortage of fuel. The Houthis are also trying to stop truce would last longer, and become permanent. And we Gulf, and clearer signs about how the US intends to deal Khashoggi. “Saudi Arabia understands America is civilians from fleeing.” hope all sides respect it,” Red Cross spokesman Adnan Hizam with Iran.” important and wants to continue working with it, espe- Human Rights Watch urged all parties in the conflict to said, lamenting a “catastrophic” humanitarian situation. Obama had planned to meet Salman one-on-one a cially at this time. We are undergoing a major recon- allow fuel to reach the population “whether or not a proposed Coalition aircraft flew a record number of sorties - more day before the gathering of leaders at the presidential struction effort in the region that requires American ceasefire takes effect”. “The rising civilian casualties from the than 130 from Friday to Saturday - after declaring the rebels retreat but the White House did not take the Saudi support,” he said. fighting could become dwarfed by the harm caused to civil- had crossed a “red line” in last week’s deadly mortar and rock- king’s decision to skip the summit as a sign of any sub- Some diplomats in the region believe the absence ians by the coalition blockade on fuel, if it continues,” said et bombardments of Saudi Arabia. The UN says 1,400 people stantial disagreement with the United States. The king, from Camp David of King Salman and close ally King HRW’s Joe Stork. A ship chartered by the UN’s World Food have died in the conflict since late March. Yesterday, a who took power in January after his brother King Hamad of Bahrain may backfire. A Saudi decision in Programme docked Saturday in the western port of Hodeida, Pakistani and a Saudi were killed when the Saudi border Abdullah died, has not traveled abroad since his ascen- 2013 to vacate a seat on the United Nations Security bringing fuel the organization said would help provide “a new region came under renewed bombardment from Yemen, offi- sion to the throne. Council that it had spent years seeking, followed by a humanitarian lifeline for civilians impacted by the conflict”. cial media reported. Civil defence spokesman Ali Al-Shahrani, The tiny island kingdom of Bahrain said separately leak of angry comments about Washington by then spy Ahead of the proposed ceasefire, seven consecutive air quoted by the Saudi Press Agency, said “military missiles” hit a that its delegation would be headed by the country’s chief Prince Bandar bin Sultan, failed to change US poli- strikes hit rebel positions in the southern province of Shabwa, school and residential neighborhood in Najran city, “resulting residents said. Fighting intensified in Yemen’s third city Taez, in the death of a Pakistani resident”. crown prince, Salman bin Hamad Al-Khalifa. Bahrain, cy. “Of course it (Salman’s non-appearance) is a snub. where a Red Crescent official said rebel mortar fire on residen- SPA said the latest barrage came from inside Yemen. whose leadership has close ties to the Saudis, is an But I don’t think Obama is going to put up with this. He tial areas killed six civilians, including three women and a Shahrani said it also wounded a Saudi child and three civilians important military ally of the US. It is the longstanding wants the nuclear deal. It is the number one priority,” child. Residents also reported three hours of continuous air “of different ”. Later yesterday, a residential area of host to the Navy’s 5th Fleet, which is responsible for said a Western diplomat based in the region. raids on the city. In second city Aden, at least 19 people were Jazan district adjacent to Najran also came under attack, SPA operations around the Arabian Peninsula and northern The sultan of Oman, Qaboos bin Said, is among killed and 93 were wounded, including women and children, said. Civil defence Major Yahya Al-Qahtan was quoted as say- Indian Ocean, and is Washington’s main naval counter- those staying away. The sultanate will be represented in fighting Sunday between rebels and supporters of exiled ing one citizen was killed and four people, including three for- balance to Iran. instead by the deputy prime minister, Sayyid Fahd bin President Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi, a medical official said. eigners, were wounded by missile fire on a border village in At the summit, leaders of Gulf nations will be looking Mahmoud Al-Said, and other officials, the country’s offi- The latest violence comes ahead of a five-day truce Riyadh Harth municipality. — Agencies for assurances that they have Obama’s support at a time cial news agency announced. The sultan’s absence when the region feels under siege from Islamic extrem- comes as little surprise. The long-serving monarch, ists and by Iran’s rising influence. The Gulf states worry whose country maintains cordial relations with Iran and Saudis, Kuwait to shut Wafra joint oilfield the nuclear pact taking shape with the US, Iran and oth- has served as a go-between for Tehran and Washington, er nations may embolden Tehran to act more aggres- returned home in March after spending several months Continued from Page 1 that this has been taken by the two countries,” a Saudi sively in the region. “The conspiracy theorists of old in being treated for an undisclosed illness. industry source said. “The purpose is to sit down and have been proven right. The US creates threats for us Health issues will also keep the president of the According to industry sources, Kuwaiti authorities start resolving both issues at Wafra and Khafji.” Another and then offers us more weapons systems. That does United Arab Emirates, Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al- were unhappy with Saudi Arabia renewing an agree- source in Saudi Arabia said: “It doesn’t look like there is a not bode well for us,” said Sami Al-Faraj, a Kuwaiti securi- Nahayan, from attending. He suffered a stroke in ment with Saudi Arabian Chevron in 2009 for 30 years deal reached on Wafra as Chevron can’t operate there or ty adviser to the six-nation GCC. January last year and has not been seen publicly since. without consulting them. As a result, Kuwait stopped get material or people in, so they are likely to shut it.” Abdulkhaleq Abdullah, a professor of political sci- The influential Abu Dhabi crown prince, Sheikh issuing or renewing visas for Chevron employees. The The production cuts come amid a worldwide supply ence at Emirates University, said Gulf leaders were stay- Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan, will lead the Emirati Wafra field is the largest onshore field and is in the glut that has driven down crude prices. OPEC kingpin ing away from the Camp David gathering to signal their delegation. The president’s half-brother, he held talks 5,000-sq-km neutral zone which the Gulf neighbors Saudi Arabia has spare production capacity of more than displeasure over the nuclear talks. “I don’t think they with Obama at the White House last month. exploit jointly under a nearly 50-year-old treaty. The 2.0 million bpd, but Kuwait has little spare capacity to have a deep respect, a deep trust for Obama and his Abdullah, the Emirati professor, said the Gulf ties crude is exported through Al-Zour port, just inside make up for lost neutral zone output. The 500,000 bpd promises. There is a fundamental difference between with the United States remain strong, but they have Kuwait, meaning that both companies’ staff need papers production from Wafra and Khafji was shared equally his vision of post-nuclear-deal Iran and their vision,” he been strained during Obama’s tenure. He said Obama is from the state. between the two sides. The neutral zone is the only said. “They think Iran is a destabilizing force and will seen within the region as impersonal compared to his But the row goes back further to 2007, when a land place in Saudi Arabia and Kuwait where foreign oil firms remain so, probably even more, if the sanctions are lift- predecessors. He also noted that recent comments to dispute between Kuwait and Saudi Arabia led to a delay have equity in fields, which are otherwise owned and ed. ... They’re just not seeing things eye to eye.” The New York Times in which Obama warned that dis- in Kuwait’s plans to build an oil refinery. Chevron has operated by state oil companies. It survived the nation- “The Saudis aren’t happy about the deal (proposed satisfaction at home was perhaps a bigger threat than had a lease on some of the land on Kuwait’s side which alization of the Saudi oil industry in the 1970s. Since with Iran) but they still want to be at the table,” a Iran came across as unnecessary “lecturing”. “You just was earmarked for the new refinery. “I think (the mainte- then, Saudi reserves of 264 billion barrels, about a fifth of Western diplomatic source said, agreeing that Riyadh pre-empted the whole meeting with this kind of state- nance shutdown news) is just to show and tell people the world’s proven oil reserves, have been off limits to had sent a powerful delegation. “Washington will get a ment,” he said. — Agencies there is nothing wrong so they came out with a decision international oil companies. — Agencies TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 ANALYSIS

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By Aude Genet

urundian President Pierre Nkurunziza’s insistence on running for a third term has already sparked Bdeadly protests at home and now threatens to destabilise an already volatile region. Analysts warn that without an urgent solution, the current street protests in Burundi could escalate into a regional crisis that spreads far beyond the small central African country, including fears it might draw in neighbouring Rwanda, and create far more refugees than the 50,000 who have already fled. Beyond the demonstrations in Bujumbura, the bigger concern is that the current crisis could jeopardise the Arusha Agreement, which brought peace to Burundi after years of civil war. The deal included an ethnic pow- er-sharing formula that helped end fighting that raged Battered Labour struggles for new direction from 1993 to 2006 between the mostly Tutsi army and predominately Hutu rebel groups. “The return to violence would not only end the peace By Robin Millard while crucial middle-class English voters swung even fur- party. “I found myself losing confidence in the party due to progressively restored since the Arusha agreement, it ther behind the Conservatives. Meanwhile in Labour’s their negative business policies and the general anti- would also have destabilising consequences in the ritain’s Labour opposition is facing a battle for its post-industrial English heartlands, support haemorrhaged enterprise concepts they were considering if they were to region and mark a failure in peace building,” the future direction after a bruising general election to the populist UK Independence Party. be elected,” he said. International Crisis Group said in a report issued before Bdefeat, with surviving lawmakers gathering for the Only Liz Kendall, the party’s spokeswoman on care and the protests began. “The country’s relapse into violence first time yesterday to assess the damage. Rival factions Call for Aspirational Approach elderly, has declared her candidacy for the leadership. She would be a pitiful outcome for the guarantors of the are already jockeying for control of the centre-left party as Labour moderates savaged Miliband’s approach over and probable rivals Chuka Umunna, the business Arusha agreement and could fuel regional crisis.” Labour starts picking a new leader to replace Ed Miliband, the weekend, saying he had a narrative for what Labour spokesman, and education spokesman Tristram Hunt have who quit Friday following their election flop. As jubilant would do to the rich and for the poor, but nothing for the all advocated a more aspirational approach. Health Rebels and Ethnic Conflict Conservative Prime Minister David Cameron named his majority in between. Former prime minister Tony Blair, spokesman Andy Burnham and home affairs spokes- At least 19 people have been killed and scores new government, Labour leadership contenders were who led Labour to three straight general election victories woman Yvette Cooper are also thought likely contenders. wounded since late April when the ruling CNDD-FDD - a thrashing out why key voters deserted them. in 1997, 2001 and 2005, urged the party to reclaim the Bookmakers have Umunna as the 2/1 favourite, followed Hutu-dominated party - nominated Nkurunziza for re- Interim leader Harriet Harman told BBC radio the party centre ground he successfully occupied. “Labour has to be by Burnham at 5/2, Cooper at 5/1, Kendall at 7/1 and Hunt election. The United Nations has warned that 400,000 needed to study the facts of its defeat. “The truth is there’s for ambition and aspiration as well as compassion and at 8/1. people could be affected in a worst-case scenario should not a snap answer. We have to do some serious thinking,” care,” he wrote in The Observer newspaper. “‘Hard-working Meanwhile there was still no trace of the much-mocked upcoming elections turn violent. Leaders of the five- she said, as she began appointing a new frontbench team. families’ don’t just want us to celebrate their hard work; “EdStone”, a 2.6-m high monument with generic-sounding nation East African Community - made up of Kenya, Tony Travers, professor of politics at the London School of they want to know that by hard work and effort they can Labour election pledges carved in stone. Unveiled by Rwanda, Tanzania and as well as Burundi - are to Economics university, told AFP that Labour “wasn’t able to do well, rise up, achieve.” Miliband in a car park on May 3, the monolith was des- hold an emergency meeting to discuss the crisis on sell an alternative vision” to the electorate. “The big ques- Alistair Darling, Labour’s former finance minister, told tined for the 10 Downing Street garden if Labour won Wednesday in Tanzania. tion for the left in Britain is what do they have to do... to BBC radio: “We were not convincing. We did not have an office but has now vanished, despite a media hunt. Democratic Republic of Congo President Joseph be credible and come up with an alternative proposition?” economic policy.” Business magnate Alan Sugar, who was Harman said: “I don’t know where it is and I don’t know Kabila and ’s Deputy President Cyril Labour needs to work out where to go after suffering made Labour prime minister Gordon Brown’s “enterprise what’s going to happen to it either and it actually doesn’t Ramaphosa are also due to attend. Burundi’s 13-year civil catastrophic losses in Scotland to leftwing nationalists, tsar” in 2009, announced yesterday he was quitting the matter.” —AFP war between ethnic Tutsis and Hutus ended in 2006, but the region still struggles with the same tensions and the knock-on effects of each other’s crises. Eastern DR Congo has been ravaged by decades of conflict, with the lawless ‘Jon Stewart of Egypt’ eyes next project region allowing the growth of rebel groups that reflect regional ethnic and political government and opposition as he did. “There’s a huge vacuum in the ture in the vein of “The Daily Show”. opments that will eventually bring lasting forces. By Philip Marcelo Middle East for original content,” Youssef The YouTube clips developed a follow- change to the region. “If it’s defeated, I Tanzania, which has hosted vast numbers of refugees said. “This vacuum, right now, is being filled ing and eventually were picked up by an don’t think I will be defeated for very long,” from multiple rounds of conflict, is also worried. More assem Youssef, the man dubbed the with extremists, with military propaganda, Egyptian television network, where it Youssef told the Boston audience. “It was importantly, neighbouring Rwanda, where a Tutsi-led “Jon Stewart of Egypt”, is eyeing new or filled with apathy.” became one of the nation’s most popular stupid for us to think we’d have a revolu- government has been in power since the 1994 genocide, Bprojects after teaching students at Youssef, who is also encouraging dona- shows ever. Youssef also gained interna- tion in 18 days. It will take time. Revolution in which 800,000 mainly Tutsis were slaughtered by Harvard University’s prestigious Kennedy tions toward an independent documentary tional fame, being named one of Time isn’t an event. It’s a process.” Then, as now, extremist Hutu killers, has signalled its concern. School of Government how satire can dis- rupt the social and political order. It’s a about his show, is a prime example of what Magazine’s 100 most influential people in he believes young people, who comprise timing and the right message can do. As he 2013 and developing a kinship with the significant majorities in many Arab coun- Regional Crisis Summit topic the 41-year-old heart surgeon- told the Boston audience, he was well on his real Jon Stewart. “The Daily Show” host tries, hold the key. “They are asking ques- “If your citizens tell you we don’t want you to lead us, turned-satirist knows well. Youssef rocket- way toward his lifelong dream to be a heart appeared on Youssef’s show and Youssef, in tions that were not asked before. They are how do you say ‘I am staying whether you want me or ed to fame after the 2011 Arab Spring rev- surgeon in America when a wave of revolu- turn, has done guest spots as a “senior challenging religious authorities, political not’?” Rwandan President Paul Kagame said last week. olution as host of a wildly popular tions toppled authoritarian regimes across Middle East correspondent” for the authorities and military authorities,” Youssef Kagame, whose repression of opposition at home infuri- Egyptian political satire show. “El the Arab World in 2011. Dissatisfied by main- Comedy Central show, from which Stewart says. “It has started. The ways that the ates key allies like the United States, is widely believed to Bernameg” - Arabic for “The Program” - was stream news coverage at the time, Youssef is stepping down in August. establishment used to keep those young be wanting to change the constitution to seek a third canceled in June 2014 amid mounting and his team started uploading short videos Reflecting on the Arab Spring, Youssef people down for many decades are not term - but to do so by organising a referendum that crit- pressure by the military-led government to skewering Egyptian media, politics and cul- believes the uprisings set in motion devel- working anymore.” —AP ics say is already a done deal. crack down on dissenting voices. Youssef Burundi has rejected Rwandan allegations that some and his family, concerned for their safety, of the violence is linked to Rwandan ethnic Hutu rebels left the country months later. of the Democratic Front for the Liberation of Rwanda At a recent appearance at a downtown (FDLR) — a group has previously sent troops into Boston law firm, Youssef said he hasn’t DR Congo to target. The Imbonerakure, the militant ruled out an eventual return to television. youth wing of Nkurunziza’s CNDD-FDD rebel group He’s had plenty of offers, he says, but none turned ruling party, is accused of possible links to the caught his interest. “The offers would be FDLR. like, ‘Forget politics. Why don’t you do a “While we respect Burundi’s sovereignty in addressing game show?’” Youssef says. “That we could- internal matters, Rwanda considers the safety of inno- n’t do. We can’t risk sacrificing the brand.” cent population as a regional and international responsi- He admits to holding out some hope for a bility,” Rwanda’s Foreign Minister Louise Mushikiwabo US gig. “Maybe I’ll stay in the States. Maybe said last week. Mushikiwabo said Rwanda “takes serious- I’ll have an offer,” Youssef says. “But I don’t ly” the reports of FDLR involvement. “Rwanda cannot know what the American public would feel allow an escalation of a crisis on its borders,” said about an Arab with thick accent talking Christian Thibon, a Burundi expert at France’s University about American politics.” of Pau. While his tone was mostly casual and Analysts say Burundi’s crisis bolsters regional leaders’ breezy, he firmly pushed back when an justification for strong rule - especially in Kigali’s eyes. audience member suggested he had given Nkurunziza’s actions “justify the continuation of their own up on his country. “It’s very easy to say I’m authoritarian management and their prominent role as quitting, but if you put yourself in my guarantors of law and order in the region”, said regional shoes, I would like to see how you react,” specialist Andre Guichaoua. If violence escalates, then Youssef said. “Every time I would speak in Rwanda “may be tempted to impose a settlement on the public, they would arrest someone at FDLR throughout the region,” said a regional analyst, on home. Continuing to speak was being self- condition of anonymity. —AFP ish.” During his show’s three-year run, Youssef was frequently at odds with authorities. Following the 2011 revolution, he was briefly arrested after being accused of insulting then-President Mohamed All articles appearing on these Morsi. pages are the personal opinion of Vacuum the writers. Kuwait Times takes no After a military regime ousted Morsi, responsibility for views expressed Youssef says, he was even accused of being therein. Kuwait Times invites read- recruited to spy for foreign powers. As the pressure mounted, his show was suspend- ers to voice their opinions. Please ed and then canceled. For now, Youssef send submissions via email to: opin- says, he is focused on giving young Arab [email protected] or via snail talents the same shot he had at stardom. His latest venture is “Tube Star Network”, a mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. Dubai-based project that helps aspiring The editor reserves the right to edit Arab talents develop their own Internet any submission as necessary. programs. Hopefully, he says, some will make the same leap to broadcast television Bassem Youssef participates in a discussion of satire and free speech on May 1, 2015, in Boston. —AP TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 SPORTS

Pep rules out City move Lee gets Malaysia call First Emirati test try scorer MUNICH: Bayern Munich coach Pep Guardiola yesterday shot down : Double Olympic silver medallist Lee KUALA LUMPUR: Hassan Al Noobi became the first Emirati to score a try in a rug- swirling rumors of a possible move to Manchester City next season, say- Chong Wei will take part at the world championships later by test when he crossed in the 57th minute of the United ing he would see out his contract at the German champions. this year after Badminton Association of Malaysia contro- Arab Emirates’ 53-22 win over Thailand in Kuala Lumpur “Boys, I have said it 200 million times that I have one more year on my versially selected him yesterday at the expense of better- on Sunday. The victory in the Asian Rugby contract here,” the Spaniard told reporters ahead of tomorrow’s ranked shuttler Chong Wei Feng. Champions League semi-final, return leg against Lee’s world ranking has fallen to 46th after an eight- Championship Division 2 clash was a landmark result Barcelona in Munich. “Next season I will be here and month ban for doping at last year’s championships, leaving for the UAE. It was only their third test win in their brief that’s all there is to it,” said Guardiola, who won the him as the third-ranked Malaysian behind Chong (31st) rugby history, first against anyone other than domestic double last season and the league title in and Zulfadli Zulkiffli (41), who were due the country’s two Kazakhstan and maiden success away from home. the current campaign. slots at the tournament. Fullback Al Noobi, who also plays sevens, booted four Lee, 32, failed in a bid to get a wildcard for the Aug. 10- But he has not enjoyed the European success conversions in the eight-try victory for the side filled 16 event in Jakarta but BAM officials selected him anyway with expatriates which sets them up ahead of matches he was hired to achieve back in 2013 and a 3-0 after an impressive return to action on Sunday in victory Champions League first leg defeat at Barcelona over South Korea at the Sudirman Cup in China. “We against Malaysia and later this week. “I am could spell the end of their run this season. A 1-0 strongly believe that he has a better chance to do well at very excited, first that we won the match and sec- loss to Augsburg in the league on Saturday further the world championships,” BAM president Tengku Tan Sri ond because I scored my first try,” Al Noobi told the fanned speculation about the Spaniard’s stay in Mahaleel Tengku Ariff told reporters after an emergency UAE daily The National after their first win in three Munich after what was the fourth straight loss meeting. “Just look at the way he played in the Sudirman years. for Bayern in all competitions, something that Cup. He was exceptional.” Zulfadli, 22, was given the “I got all the support of the guys. I am really proud had not happened since 1991. Several media change to join Lee, the winner of 55 titles, in Jakarta. Tengku Mahaleel said the 27-year-old Chong’s age had to score, and proud to be playing for the national team. had reported on Sunday of a pre-agreement I am really happy.” —Reuters with City.—Reuters counted against him.—Reuters Yankees down Orioles, Royals tame Tigers

NEW YORK: Michael Pineda struck out a innings. It was 5-all in the eighth when Turner career-high 16 batters in seven dominant connected off Scott Oberg (1-1) for his fifth innings as the New York Yankees downed the homer. Pedro Baez (1-0) pitched 1 1-3 innings Baltimore Orioles 6-2. for the win. Pineda (5-0) matched David Cone and David Wells for the second-most strikeouts in RED SOX 6, BLUE JAYS 3 a game by a Yankees pitcher. Ron Guidry Mike Napoli hit a three-run homer and fanned 18 in 1978. Pablo Sandoval added a two-run shot as The 16 strikeouts were the most by the Boston beat Toronto 6-3 to avoid a three- Orioles against one pitcher in a nine-inning game sweep. game, according to STATS. Baltimore struck Clay Buchholz (2-4) allowed three runs in 6 out against 18 times overall, a club record for 1-3 innings for his first victory in six starts. The a nine-inning game. last-place Red Sox won for just the second Bud Norris (1-4) took the loss. The Orioles time in nine games. dropped five of six during their week in New Carl Willis joined the Red Sox for his first York against the Yankees and Mets. game as their new pitching coach. He replaced Juan Nieves, who was fired Thursday. ROYALS 2, TIGERS 1 Junichi Tazawa pitched 1 2-3 innings and Koji Greg Holland worked out of a bases- Uehara finished for his sixth save. R.A. Dickey loaded, nobody-out jam in the bottom of the (1-4) lost for the third time in four starts. 10th inning as Kansas City held on to beat Detroit 2-1 in a game that was delayed 103 BREWERS 3, CUBS 2 minutes by rain. Martin Maldonado singled over the Cubs’ Omar Infante’s sacrifice fly in the top of the drawn-in outfield with one out in the 11th 10th put the Royals ahead, but Holland inning, lifting Milwaukee past Chicago. After a allowed a single and two walks to start the 7-18 start, the Brewers went 4-3 in Craig bottom half. Hernan Perez - batting because Counsell’s first week as manager since taking Miguel Cabrera had been removed for a over for the fired Ron Roenicke. pinch-runner the previous inning - bounced Chicago went to a five-man infield and into a 5-2-3 double play, but another walk to brought in their remaining two outfielders Victor Martinez loaded the bases again. with the bases loaded. Maldonado, who Holland then struck out Yoenis Cespedes homered earlier, hit a deep fly off Jason Motte for his sixth save in six chances. Jason Frasor (1-1). Michael Blazek (3-0) pitched a perfect (1-0) got the win, working out of a bases- top of the 11th. loaded jam of his own in the ninth after the rain delay in the middle of the inning. Angel WHITE SOX 4, REDS 3 Nesbitt (0-1) took the loss. Gordon Beckham hit a game-winning sin- gle against Aroldis Chapman in the ninth as NATIONALS 5, BRAVES 4 Chicago beat Cincinnati. Chapman (1-1) got Streaking slugger Bryce Harper doubled, the first two outs of the inning, then gave up singled and drove in another run - but didn’t back-to-back singles to Avisal Garcia and homer - as Washington beat Atlanta 5-4 for a Alexei Ramirez. They advanced to second and DETROIT: Kansas City Royals second baseman Omar Infante rushes the bunt by Detroit Tigers’ Anthony Gose and throws behind his back three-game sweep. third on a wild pitch, then on a 2-2 pitch to first baseman Eric Hosmer in an unsuccessful attempt during the third inning of a baseball game. —AP Harper had hit six home runs in his previ- Beckham singled to center to end the game, his career. Fernando Rodney pitched the ninth Johnny Monell delivered a two-run double for two hits and struck out six in six innings. ous three games. He doubled home a run, giv- breaking the tie. and earned his ninth save 10 chances. the Mets, who have won nine of 10 series Neftali Feliz earned his fifth save. ing him 13 RBIs in four games, and also scored It was Chapman’s first earned run of the Oakland starter Jesse Chavez (1-3) didn’t give against Philadelphia since 2012. Jeurys once. Wilson Ramos hit a tiebreaking double season in 12 2-3 innings. White Sox closer up a hit in the first three innings before run- Familia pitched a scoreless ninth for his NL- ANGELS 3, ASTROS 1 off Cody Martin (1-2) to cap a two-run rally in David Robertson (3-0) couldn’t hold a 3-1 lead ning into trouble. leading 13th save in as many opportunities. Garrett Richards took a no-hitter into the the eighth inning, sending the Nationals to in the ninth. He gave up back-to-back singles seventh inning as Los Angeles scored all its their 10th win in 12 games. Ramos and Ryan to start the inning to Devin Mesoraco and GIANTS 3, MARLINS 2 INDIANS 8, TWINS 2 runs in the fifth en route to a victory that Zimmerman each had a double, single and Bryan Pena. After a pass ball by Geovany Soto Matt Duffy singled in Gregor Blanco with Danny Salazar retired 21 straight batters secured a four-game split with AL West-lead- two RBIs. Sammy Solis (1-0) pitched one to advance the runners to second and third two outs in the ninth inning to cap a two-run after giving up a home run to start the game ing Houston. inning for his first major league win and Drew Zack Cozart doubled down the left-field line rally off closer Steve Cishek and lift San as Cleveland defeated Minnesota. Salazar Richards (3-1) walked his first batter of the Storen closed for his ninth save. to tie the game. Francisco over Miami. matched his career high with 11 strikeouts, day, then retired 15 in a row. The right-hander The Giants had been quiet offensively including six in a row. He was removed after walked his first two in the seventh before DODGERS 9, ROCKIES 5 MARINERS 4, ATHLETICS 3 most of the game until breaking out against throwing 102 pitches in seven innings. striking out Colby Rasmus, but Jason Castro After the snow was cleared from Coors Felix Hernandez became the fourth- Cishek (1-2), who had not allowed an earned Brian Dozier’s leadoff homer was the only lined a clean single to left field to break up Field, the Los Angeles Dodgers used Justin youngest player to reach 2,000 career strike- run in 13 previous appearances against the hit Salazar (4-1) allowed. The right-hander the no-hit bid. Turner’s tiebreaking homer in the eighth outs while giving up two runs over seven defending World Series champs. struck out the side in the fifth and sixth. Fernando Salas retired pinch-hitter Evan inning to send the Colorado Rockies to their innings to lead Seattle to a win against Cishek struck out Justin Maxwell to open Lonnie Chisenhall hit a three-run homer off Gattis with the bases loaded to end the sev- ninth straight loss, 9-5. Oakland. the ninth before getting into trouble. Andrew Trevor May (2-3). Carlos Santana drove in enth. Huston Street got his 10th save in 12 The series finale began on time after the Hernandez, at 29 years, 32 days old, is Susac singled and Blanco doubled. Joaquin three runs, Jason Kipnis had three hits and attempts, following back-to-back blown saves first two games were affected by the wet behind only Bert Blyleven, Sam McDowell and Arias pinch-ran for Susac and stayed at third two RBIs, and David Murphy went 4 for 4 for Wednesday and Thursday. weather that has socked Colorado for a week. Walter Johnson, who were all 28 when they when pinch-hitter Buster Posey was intention- the Indians. Richards struck out 10 and walked four to The gametime temperature was 41 degrees reached 2,000 strikeouts. ally walked to load the bases. Zach McAllister and Cody Allen finished win his third straight decision. Scott Feldman and it dropped to 39 degrees in the ninth. The right-hander started Sunday’s game After pinch-hitter Angel Pagan struck out, the two-hitter. Cleveland pitchers combined (2-4) allowed three runs and six hits in seven Turner’s two-run homer highlighted a four- against the Oakland Athletics with 1,995 Cishek walked Nori Aoki to force in the tying for 16 strikeouts. Minnesota had its four-game innings. run burst in the eighth. Adrian Gonzalez hit strikeouts. In the fifth inning, Hernandez fell run. Duffy, hitless in his previous four at-bats, winning streak snapped and lost for the sec- two doubles and drove in four runs as the behind leadoff batter Sam Fuld 3-1 before followed with the first game-ending hit of his ond time in 11 games. DIAMONDBACKS 2, PADRES 1 Dodgers beat Colorado for the eighth straight striking him out looking at a fastball for No. career. Santiago Casilla (4-0) retired two bat- Aaron Hill and AJ Pollock homered to back time dating to last season. Dodgers ace 2,000. Hernandez (6-0) added one more ters for the win, helping the Giants split the RANGERS 2, RAYS 1 five pitchers who carried Arizona to a tight Clayton Kershaw failed in his fourth bid for his strikeout on his final batter, getting Eric four-game series. Adrian Beltre homered and drove in two victory over San Diego. Daniel Hudson, mak- 100th regular-season win. The reigning NL Sogard swinging to end the seventh inning. runs, and Wandy Rodriguez gave Texas a ing his first major league start since June MVP and Cy Young Award winner gave up five Marcus Semien hit two solo home runs off PIRATES 4, REDS 3 record-setting pitching performance against 2012, was limited to 56 pitches in 3 1-3 score- runs on eight hits and four walks in 5 2-3 Hernandez for the first multi-homer game of Jung Ho Kang went 2 for 4 with a home Tampa Bay. less innings. He’s been used out of the run and two RBIs and Pittsburgh beat St. Beltre’s tiebreaking single off Kevin Jepsen bullpen since returning late last season from Louis. The Cardinals dropped two of three in (0-2) came in the eighth inning following a two Tommy John surgeries. Pittsburgh, their first series loss of the season. couple of walks. Keone Kela (3-1) got the win JC Ramirez (1-0), just called up from Triple- With the game tied 3-3, Kang hit a go- after Rodriguez established a franchise mark A, pitched out of two bases-loaded jams to ahead RBI single in the seventh inning. Kang for consecutive batters retired. The 36-year- earn his first career win. He allowed a run and hit his second home run of the season in the old lefty set down the first 15 Rays before Tim four hits in 2 2-3 innings. Oliver Perez, Evan first inning, a shot to left field off a 0-2 fastball Beckham led off the Tampa Bay sixth with a Marshall and Addison Reed combined for left over the middle of the plate from St. Louis line-drive single. Following the 19 straight hit- three innings of scoreless relief. Reed earned left-hander Tyler Lyons. Kang’s home run gave ters Rodriguez retired in his previous start at his second save of the season. Hill and Pollock Pittsburgh a 1-0 lead. Houston, he broke the team record of 31 in a homered off Andrew Cashner (1-6), who went Jared Hughes (1-1) got the final out of the row set by Ken Hill in 1996. Rodriguez gave up seven innings.—AP seventh for the victory. Kang struck again for the Pirates in the seventh after pinch-hitter Steve Lombardozzi walked and advanced to second on a sac bunt. Kang singled to left off MLB results/standings Mitch Harris to give Pittsburgh a 4-3 lead. Harris (1-1) gave up a run on a hit and NY Yankees 6, Baltimore 2; Boston 6, Toronto 3; Cleveland 8, Minnesota 2; Texas 2, Tampa Bay 1; Washington 5, walked two in the seventh. Mark Melancon Atlanta 4; NY Mets 7, Philadelphia 4; Pittsburgh 4, St. Louis 3; Milwaukee 3, Chicago Cubs 2 (11 Innings); Chicago White Sox 4, Cincinnati 3; LA Angels 3, Houston 1; San Francisco 3, Miami 2; Seattle 4, Oakland 3; LA Dodgers 9, earned his seventh save with a scoreless Colorado 5; Arizona 2, San Diego 1; Kansas City 2, Detroit 1 (10 Innings). ninth. American League National League METS 7, PHILLIES 4 Eastern Division Eastern Division W L PCT GB Bartolo Colon became the first pitcher in NY Mets 20 11 .645 - NY Yankees 20 12 .625 - Washington 17 15 .531 3.5 the majors with six wins, and Curtis Tampa Bay 17 15 .531 3 Miami 15 17 .469 5.5 Granderson hit a two-run homer to lead New Toronto 16 16 .500 4 Atlanta 14 17 .452 6 York over Philadelphia. Boston 14 17 .452 5.5 Philadelphia 11 21 .344 9.5 Colon (6-1) won again despite giving up a Baltimore 13 16 .448 5.5 Central Division Central Division homer to opposing pitcher Chad Billingsley St. Louis 22 9 .710 - Kansas City 20 11 .645 - Chicago Cubs 15 15 .500 6.5 (0-2). The right-hander, who turns 42 this Detroit 19 13 .594 1.5 month, allowed four runs with six strikeouts Minnesota 18 14 .563 2.5 Cincinnati 15 16 .484 7 and no walks in six-plus innings. Chicago White Sox 12 16 .429 6.5 Pittsburgh 15 16 .484 7 Colon extended his streak without a walk Cleveland 11 19 .367 8.5 Milwaukee 11 21 .344 11.5 to 40 1-3 innings, pulling closer to the fran- Western Division Western Division LA Dodgers 20 10 .667 - chise record of 47 set by Bret Saberhagen in Houston 20 12 .625 - LA Angels 15 17 .469 5 San Diego 17 16 .515 4.5 1994. The 2005 AL Cy Young Award winner Seattle 14 17 .452 5.5 San Francisco 16 16 .500 5 has 40 strikeouts and one walk this season. NEW YORK: Yankees’ Didi Gregorius hits an RBI single during the fourth inning of the base- Texas 13 18 .419 6.5 Arizona 14 16 .467 6 Daniel Murphy had three hits and pinch-hitter ball game against the Baltimore Orioles at Yankee Stadium. —AP Oakland 12 21 .364 8.5 Colorado 11 17 .393 8 TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 SPORTS

ANAHEIM: Anaheim Ducksí center Ryan Kesler (17) battles to get around Calgary Flamesí center Matt Stajan (18) during the third period in Game 5 of a second- round series in the NHL hockey playoffs. —AP

Perry puts Ducks past Flames

ANAHEIM: Corey Perry scored from a goalmouth Stanley Cup finals. enth goal. Frederik Andersen made 17 saves and second of the opening period, and Rick Nash and past Henrik Lundqvist less than 3 minutes apart scramble 2:26 into overtime as the Anaheim The Pacific Division champion Ducks are in Ryan Kesler scored a power-play goal in the sec- Dan Boyle added goals in the third as the New to make it a one-goal game with nearly half a Ducks advanced to the Western Conference finals their first conference finals since 2007, the year of ond period for the Ducks, who have won eight of York Rangers held on to edge the Washington period to go. with a 3-2 victory over the Calgary Flames on their only NHL championship. Perry limped off their nine playoff games this spring. Capitals 4-3 and force a Game 7 in the second- But Lundqvist was solid the rest of the way, Sunday in Game 5 of their second-round series. the ice in the second period with an apparent leg Jiri Hudler and Johnny Gaudreau scored early round playoff series. stopping Washington’s last four shots - including Matt Beleskey got the tying power-play goal injury, but returned moments later. He wrapped goals for the Flames in the final game of their first New York led 2-0, then 4-1 with less than 12 Alex Ovechkin on a 1-on-1 - to finish with 42 early in the third period for the Ducks, who will up the night with his NHL-leading 15th point of playoff trip since 2009. In Sunday’s other playoff, 1/2 minutes left in regulation. But Washington’s saves. Game 7 is tomorrow at Madison Square face the Chicago Blackhawks for a spot in the the postseason, cashing in a rebound for his sev- Chris Kreider scored in the first minute and final Evgeny Kuznetsov and Joel Ward put the puck Garden.—AP Gatlin eager for showdown with Bolt in August at worlds

NEW YORK: Justin Gatlin ruled the track especially with Bolt returning to form. It’s last season in a very Usain Bolt-like fash- a lightning-quick track Bolt knows inti- ion: 18 wins in 18 races. Impressive and mately well after breaking the record all, but comes with a tiny caveat: Bolt inside the Bird’s Nest during the 2008 never lined up in the lane next to Gatlin Beijing Olympics. In Germany a year later, last summer. The Jamaican world-record Bolt toppled the world mark again, low- holder took time off to heal nagging ering the record to where it currently injuries since there were no major meets. stands at 9.58 seconds. Now bring on the planet’s fastest sprint- “You have to have the mindset to say, er, though their first 100-meter show- ‘I want to run 9.5 or 9.6’ and go achieve it. down may not take place until August at You can’t say, ‘I want to get the gold just the world championships in Beijing. by beating the guy next to me,’” The wait is fine with Gatlin - builds explained Gatlin, whose fastest time is intrigue. It also gives the 33-year-old 9.77, which he set last September. American more time to get up to speed To get even leaner in the offseason, in the 200 as well, because he’s going Gatlin cut down on carbs, including pas- after both of Bolt’s world titles. ta and bread. This after dropping cheese- In new shoes, too, after returning to burgers and chocolate from his diet the Nike, the company that dropped him year before. after his doping offense in 2006 led to a Simply the price to catch up to Bolt. four-year ban. And while Gatlin would welcome facing “Usain’s obviously the gold standard,” Bolt before world championships, he said Gatlin, who kicks off the defense of doesn’t envision a scenario where that his 100-meter Diamond League crown in will happen. Doha, Qatar, on Friday. “I can’t sit here “When it comes to being the man, and and belittle him and say, ‘Hey man, he’s if you feel like you’re not 100 percent not the guy.’ Because he is the guy. He’s ready, you’re not going to race anybody broken a lot of records people thought who’s going to be a threat,” said Gatlin, were unbreakable.” who was on the U.S. 400 relay team that Gatlin’s certainly not intimidated by beat Bolt and his Jamaican buddies at Bolt, who’s captured gold in the 100 and the World Relays in the Bahamas on May SPAIN: Winner German’s Nico Rosberg and second placed Britain’s Lewis Hamilton pose for a photo with members of their team at the end of 200 at the last two Olympics. After all, it 2. “You’re going to race them on your the Spanish Formula One Grand Prix. —AP was Gatlin who handed Bolt a rare loss at terms. That’s a wise business decision.” a meet in Rome two years ago, when he Recently, Bolt called out Gatlin’s out-leaned Bolt at the finish. American teammate Tyson Gay by saying “I’m aware of the talent that Bolt Gay’s reduced ban for cooperating with Rosberg’s win in Spain brings to the track and I’ll be more cau- investigators was “the stupidest thing tious than I have fear,” said Gatlin, who I’ve ever heard,” in an interview with took gold at the 2004 Athens Games and Runner’s World magazine published in bronze eight years later in London. “I The Times of London newspaper. puts heat on Hamilton know what it takes, focus-wise, to be Gay received a backdated one-year able to say, ‘I know what I need to do to suspension last year after testing positive be on top.’” for a steroid at nationals in 2013. He was BARCELONA: If last year is anything to go by, Nico This time, Ferrari have entered the mix-while last pared to Ferrari. So that’s an important indication for Gatlin won’t run the 100 at the US given the reduced penalty because he Rosberg’s Spanish Grand Prix victory could be the start year’s runners-up Red Bull have already declared the the rest of the season.” championships next month in Eugene, provided evidence to the U.S. Anti- of a run of success for the German that puts the heat season a write-off-with Sebastian Vettel winning in Rosberg has won in Monaco for the last two sea- Oregon. No reason to - being the reign- Doping Agency that led to an eight-year back on Mercedes team mate Lewis Hamilton. Before Malaysia to deny Mercedes a clean sweep. But while sons and will be hard to deny a hat-trick, despite ing 100-meter champion of the Diamond ban for his former coach, Jon Sunday’s race, the fifth of 19 this season, double world Ferrari have clearly closed the gap, Spain showed Hamilton being at the peak of his powers. Last year, champion Hamilton had racked up four pole positions Mercedes again at their most dominant with the the Briton left Spain as a winner and did not clamber League, he has an automatic bye into the Drummond. in a row and won three times to build up a 27 point German manufacturers’ third one-two finish in five to the top step of the podium again until his home event at worlds. That allows him to dab- Although Gatlin had his own run-in lead in the Formula One standings. The Briton now races. “It’s much more than we’ve seen recently, much British Grand Prix in July. Despite that, he went on to ble in the 200, which he won at the 2005 with doping, Bolt didn’t admonish him. heads home to Monaco knowing that, if the tide has more than Bahrain, much more than , win 11 races to Rosberg’s five and take the title. “We world championships. Gatlin served his time after testing posi- not exactly turned, his momentum has at least been Malaysia, so it’s really a big step in the right direction had such an amazing year, kind of record-breaking as “I’d like to go out there and experi- tive for excessive testosterone in 2006. checked. for us,” said Rosberg after taking the chequered flag 17 a team,” Hamilton said on Sunday. ence what it’s like to double again,” said “I think, in a weird way, Bolt respects Those who wrote off Rosberg after the opening seconds clear of Hamilton. “For us it was hard to imagine trying to do that Gatlin, a former University of Tennessee that I’ve been gone for four years and races, declaring him no match for his team mate and “It just shows that we have an awesome team at again or trying to beat it and that’s our goal this year standout who trains in Florida. “I haven’t was able to work hard. I’m just trying to possibly psychologically scarred by last year’s bruising the moment, everybody’s doing a fantastic job... again and I think we’re definitely on the right route to doing doubled in a long time. “But that’s going run,” Gatlin said. “I’m coming here to run campaign, may have to reconsider. we won the development race this weekend, com- that.” —Reuters to be a lot of running.” Fast running, too. to the best of my abilities. “For that, he While Hamilton will want to show that Barcelona After all, Gatlin thinks the world hasn’t spoken out against me. I respect was no more than a blip, in a race that was no thriller, record in the 100 could fall in Beijing, him for that.”—AP Rosberg has demonstrated he still has what it takes. Preview By his own admission, the German had a ‘perfect race’ on Sunday but he added that he had done noth- ing different to previous races. David dominance under “It’s great to close up seven points to Lewis, great to go to Monaco next, I really like that track, and that’s it. Early days,” he told reporters. threat from El Weleily Mercedes motorsport head Toto Wolff said both men were mentally very resilient and predicted anoth- KINGSTON UPON HULL: , the ever, has reasons for feeling good about this er close battle between them. multiple record-breaker who has been world week’s venue, a North Sea port with regular “As much as we would like to find a dynamic that is number one for 106 months, faces a renewed ferries to and from her adopted home city of pro or against the drivers, they come out very strong challenge to her dominance when she begins Amsterdam. even after a bad weekend or a defeat,” he said. the defence of her British Open title. David is It was in Hull last year that she won an “You saw it last year-Nico went on a run and the seeded to meet in the final absorbing showdown with , balance swung to him. I think you are going to see the in Hull and the improving Egyptian has the English woman who had beaten her in same this season; two drivers who are matching each shown signs of being able to match the the previous British Open final and had not other and trying to out-perform each other,” added Malaysian great. long succeeded her as world champion. the Austrian. “For the team it’s a good situation El Weleily beat David two months ago in “There are two tournaments you want to because it lifts the performance of the whole team Chicago and, three months previously she pick to do well, the British Open and the and it is the best case.” had four match points against David in Cairo World Open, and it’s nice to have had time off before losing the most exciting world final of to train before this,” said David, referring to FERRARI THREAT them all. her two-month break after the Chicago loss. Last year, Rosberg took Hamilton down to the Although the 31-year-old David has “I’ve also had tournaments in the earlier wire-the rivalry admittedly fuelled by the now-ended appeared out of reach during most of the last part of the year, so I’ve been able to analyse experiment of awarding double points for the final eight years, El Weleily has whittled down her and refine what I did. In particular, David race-thanks to a run of form in Europe. lead in the rankings to fewer than 600 points. watched a video of how she survived those After five races in 2014, Hamilton had won four That’s a narrowing of the gap by 850 since extraordinary four match points in Cairo. and Rosberg one but the German was much closer in the start of the year and, at the age of 26, she David admitted it been “tough” to lose to El the standings thanks to his team mate’s retirement in is still moving towards her peak. David, how- Weleily in Chicago. —AFP Usain Bolt (left) and Gatlin (right) in action in this file photo. the Australian opener. TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 SPORTS Pietersen triple ton boosts hopes of recall

LONDON: Kevin Pietersen sent a message the Test arena against New Zealand and to new England chief Andrew Strauss as , who both face England over the the exiled batsman blasted a career-best coming months. score of 326 not out yesterday to boost his Pietersen’s slender hopes of a recall hopes of an international recall. remain with Strauss, who was appointed Pietersen surpassed his previous first- the England and Wales Cricket Board’s class best of 254 in a mammoth innings for (ECB) new director of cricket over the week- Surrey on day two of their County end at the same time Peter Moores was dis- Championship Division Two match against missed as coach. Leicestershire at The Oval. Strauss, who captained Pietersen during The 34-year-old’s new record total came their time in the England team and had a in just 373 balls as he smashed 34 fours and difficult relationship with the batsman, will 14 sixes to all corners of the south London hold his first press conference on Tuesday, venue. before announcing the Test squad to face His mastery of the Leicestershire attack New Zealand at Lord’s next week. was so complete that, by the close of play, Pietersen has been cast adrift from no other Surrey player scored more than 36 England’s plans since he was sacked from in their first innings total of 528 for nine. all apparent future plans in the aftermath It was a perfectly timed statement of of their 2013-14 Ashes whitewash defeat. intent from Pietersen just 24 hours before But incoming ECB chairman Colin Strauss’s first public address as England’s Graves provided renewed hope that new director of cricket. Pietersen could yet return when he hinted The South Africa-born star had notched in March that runs for Surrey could provide his first Championship double century the pathway he needs and he responded since July 2012 earlier in the day and then by agreeing a new contract with the coun- passed his previous first-class best of 254 ty. not out for Nottinghamshire against Pietersen sought to diminish the signifi- Middlesex in August 2002. cance of yesterday’s innings, before taking Pietersen wasn’t finished there and he the field on 35 not out overnight, when he continued to demolish Leicestershire’s told one of his Twitter followers he did not bowling before reaching his triple hundred expect it to have a decisive bearing on his in typically flamboyant fashion with a England return. At the suggestion it could sweep for six. be “the most important innings of your life”, But, despite his welcome return to form, Pietersen posted: “Ha! Seriously? Not sure Pietersen will know that routing a team my career can be decided on one innings from English cricket’s second tier is still a far on a Mon in London...we get judged on cry from dominating in similar fashion in Ashes series’.”—AFP

FLORIDA: Rickie Fowler holds The Players Championship trophy. Fowler won in a sudden death playoff against Kevin Kisner. —AP Fowler wins The Players

FLORIDA: The latest survey was unanimous, not give him new life, failed to repeat the putt from Fowler and Ian Poulter shared first place at 24 per- anonymous. Rickie Fowler can deliver the goods. about the same range in the playoff. All three play- cent. Fowler has never faced this level of criticism. Facing a five-shot deficit with six holes to play, ers made par on the final hole, which eliminated He is a favorite among fans and most players for his Fowler produced the greatest finish in the 34-year Garcia. Fowler and Kisner, who closed with a 69 considerate behavior. history of the TPC Sawgrass. In a three-man playoff and lost for the second time in a month in a playoff, He tried to play it down, though he said on on three of the most visually intimidating holes in headed back to the 17th hole for the third time. more than one occasion this week that it would golf, he never backed down. The great shots kept coming. Kisner barely cleared motivate him. Fowler was five shots behind Garcia And when he faced that nervous shot over the the mound and the ball settled 12 feet away. when he “hit the button.” It was more like hitting water to an island for the third time Sunday, he was Fowler answered by taking on the right side of the warp speed. A 9-iron to 12 feet for birdie on the as good as ever. No, there was nothing overrated green and sticking it just inside 5 feet. Kisner finally par-3 13th. A 15-foot birdie on the 15th. The bold about this kid. missed. It was the second time in a month that shot over the edge of the water to tap-in range for Criticized in an anonymous survey by some of Kisner, winless in 102 starts, lost in a playoff despite eagle. The wedge over the corner of the island to 6 his peers for not being able to win, Fowler making clutch putts. “Golf is a hard and cruel feet for birdie. And then he blasted a tee shot 331 answered with a captivating victory at The Players game,” Kisner said. “But hats off. I mean, shoot, yards and made a 15-foot birdie on the 18th hole Championship. At a tournament that dresses up these guys are good, I’m telling you. Don’t give up to be the first player to reach 12-under 276. like a major, Fowler looked the part in beating the on anybody.” The Stadium Course has rarely lacked for strongest field in golf with an array of shots that Fowler never seemed to miss over the final two greater theater over the last three decades. This won’t be forgotten. As for that survey? hours, and he calmly clutched his fist to celebrate topped them all. Over the final hour, six players had “I laughed at the poll,” he said. “But yeah, if there his first PGA Tour victory in three years. “I’ve been hopes of winning the richest prize in golf. Four of was any question, I think this right here answers waiting a long time for this,” Fowler said. “Back in them were tied for the lead. Ben Martin raced into anything you need to know.” It was hard work. the winner’s circle.” Garcia, who had a two-shot the picture with three straight birdies, but he He took six shots on the par-3 17th hole, which lead heading to the back nine, closed with a 68. He pushed his tee shot into the woods on the 18th, is not unusual for a Sunday except that Fowler had a 20-foot birdie putt to win in regulation that pitched out and missed his par putt for a 70 that played it three times. And even with the record-set- missed badly to the right. And he faced a crowd knocked him out of the playoff. Bill Haas twice had ting finish at the Stadium Course - birdie-eagle- that was increasingly hostile to the Spaniard, per- a chance to tie for the lead, and he failed to make birdie-birdie on the last four holes for a 5-under 67 haps remembering the tiff he had with Tiger birdie on the 18th to join the playoff. - Fowler still had to face Sergio Garcia and Kevin Woods two years ago. His caddie was asking for The finish by Garcia and Kisner would have Kisner, who produced big shots of their own. security when he made the turn. In the three-hole been talked about for years. On this day, thanks to For the first time, The Players went to a three- playoff, a small group of fans yelled, “USA!” as he Fowler, it was nearly an afterthought. So were the hole aggregate playoff starting on the par-5 16th, took the putter back. two biggest names in golf. The action was that where earlier Fowler hit a 3-wood into the breeze It marred what was other sheer brilliance, a good. to 30 inches for an eagle that made this moment most unforgettable final hour in a tournament that Tiger Woods had a 72 and tied for 69th, his possible. They all made pars on the 16th. Kisner has a history of them. For Fowler, the timing could- worst position ever in The Players Championship. rolled in a breaking 10-foot birdie putt on the n’t have been better. Rory McIlroy, who started the final round four shots island-green 17th to keep pace with Fowler, who One of the questions in SI Golf’s annual player behind, didn’t get going until it was too late. He hit his tee shot to 6 feet and converted the birdie. survey - players do not give their names - was to closed with a 70 and tied for eighth, four shots Garcia, who in regulation made a 45-foot birdie to pick the most overrated player on the PGA Tour. behind. —AP Matthews wins Giro stage

NEWPORT: In this Sept. 26, 1983 aerial file photo, the Australian 12-meter yacht ITALY: Australia’s Michael Matthews burst from dramatic fall by Italy’s Domenico Pozzovivo. climb. A lone survivor of that escape, ’s Australia II, bottom (KA6), holds the lead over the US entry in the fifth leg of the pack to win a bunch sprint to claim yester- The AG2R rider fell face-first on a fast downhill Pavel Kochetkov, crossed the final summit alone the America’s Cup at Newport. —AP day’s third stage of the Giro d’Italia and consoli- section 38km from the finish. Race doctor and set off on a breakneck downhill charge. date his lead atop the overall standings. Giovanni Tredici allayed the worst fears of But he was caught by three counter-attackers Newport history and beauty Matthews picked up a 10-second time bonus observers who had noted a pool of blood with 10km to race and even this was helpless as for the stage win to stretch his overall lead, which beneath the stricken rider’s head, saying the peloton took advantage of the last seven flat propel sailors in global race he took possession of on Sunday after he fin- Pozzovivo’s life was not in danger. kilometres to reel them in 3km from the line. Pink ished seventh on stage two. The race got off to a lively start as Giro favorite jersey Matthews, the 24-year-old Australian, was NEWPORT: Newport is riding a wave of excite- event drew tourists from around the world. By Here the Orica rider edged Italy’s Fabio Felline Alberto Contador and his Tinkoff team kept close in a comfortable position the whole race, and ment harkening to its heyday as an internation- that time, many wealthy American families into second, with Belgian Philippe Gilbert third, tabs on a breakaway group of 25 who led by over had just enough gas in the tank to pip the field al sailing mecca as it hosts this year’s only North were spending their summers at mansions they after the hilly 136km ride which was marked by a a minute on the pink jersey group on the last after a long, drawn out race for the line.—AFP American stopover on the Volvo Ocean Race. had built on the city’s cliffs overlooking the The sailors from the six teams arrived this Atlantic Ocean. Tourists still flock to the 70- week in the Rhode Island city. The teams room Vanderbilt mansion known as The departed Oct. 11 from Alicante, Spain, on the Breakers, which has been open to the public 45,000-mile (72,400-kilometer) race that will since the 1940s. conclude in June in Gothenburg, . President Dwight Eisenhower vacationed in Newport’s race village will stay open through Newport, staying for weeks at a time. President May 17, when the sailors begin racing toward John F. Kennedy stayed frequently at , . A seventh team was forced to Hammersmith Farm, the estate owned by the suspend racing after its boat smashed into an family of his wife, Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy. Indian Ocean reef in November. A sailor since boyhood, Kennedy enjoyed out- Newport used its rich sailing history to help ings on the Honey Fitz, the 92-foot (28-meter) beat out Baltimore, Maryland, a much bigger presidential yacht that could carry 40 guests. city that has hosted once before, for the chance The city hosted the America’s Cup for 50 to host - and to bring in millions of dollars from years, maintaining its position as an interna- visitors. The area’s last major sailing event - tional sailing mecca. When the New York Yacht America’s Cup World Series in 2012 - drew Club lost to the Royal Perth Yacht Club in 1983, 65,000 people and generated about $50 mil- the cup was moved to the Australian port of lion. Fremantle. The winning team chooses the host Volvo Ocean Race CEO Knut Frostad said city. “It was a big loss for both the yacht club Newport was chosen because of its history, and and the city of Newport,” said Stuart Streuli, a also because its residents and visitors are pas- yacht club spokesman. “It was a tremendous sionate about sailing. “The sailors love it,” financial engine and it gave Newport some- Frostad said. “They love coming to places thing that made it unique.” A nonprofit sailing where people love what they’re doing and are center was established in the wake of the loss following the sport.” to bring sailing back to the city. But Newport Founded in 1639, Newport has always relied did not host another large-scale professional on the sea for commerce, transportation and sailing event until 2012, when it was the final defense. Recreational sailing came later, in stop in the America’s Cup World Series, a string 1844, when the New York Yacht Club first of regattas leading up to the America’s cruised to Newport and fell in love with the Cup.“The America’s Cup World Series gave us a city’s deep waters and dependable winds. The lot of confidence,” said Brad Read, executive club soon created an outpost in Newport. Bert director of the sailing center, Sail Newport. Lippincott, reference librarian for the Newport The state invested millions in upgrades to Historical Society, said this was the “birth of Fort Adams State Park so Newport could host American yachting.” “You’ve got one of the large sailing events once again. With the Volvo most beautiful coastlines in the world,” stopover, Newport has a new jewel in its sailing Lippincott said. “There’s nothing like it.” The crown. “As a sailor and a fan, it’s tremendous,” yacht club chose Newport in 1930 to host the Streuli said. “I think most people in Newport ITALY: Overall leader Michael Matthews celebrates as he crosses the finish line to win the third stage of the Giro díItalia, Tour of Italy America’s Cup match race. The international think it’s long overdue.” —AP cycling race. —AP TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 SPORTS Aberdeen dominance shows Celtic’s strength

GLASGOW: Celtic manager Ronny Deila season, Aberdeen boss Derek McInnes says his side’s dominance over nearest warned Celtic they would return from challengers Aberdeen this season their summer break ready to push the underlines how strong the Hoops have Glasgow giants again next season. been during their Scottish Premiership “We will be ready for them next year. campaign. We’ll be waiting for them and ready to The Glasgow giants, who were go again,” McInnes said. “I’ve every con- crowned champions for the fourth suc- fidence in the players that we have. cessive season last weekend, claimed a They have brought a real level of per- clean sweep of victories over the Dons formance and professionalism through with a 1-0 win at Pittodrie on Sunday. the whole season. Scott Brown scored the only goal of “I can’t fault the players as they the game in the second half to earn his worked extremely hard to get the right side a victory that takes them a massive result for us today, but we’ve missed 14 points clear at the top of the table. good opportunities to get on the score “I think it was a tight game and they sheet. put us under pressure in the last part of “The goal that we lost was a good the game but we had the biggest goal from their point of view but a real chances. We defended well inside the blow to us at the time as the first goal is box but we should have scored more so important. “It was a pleasing per- goals,” Deila, who has led Celtic to a formance for me but the result wasn’t Scottish Premiership and League Cup what we wanted. “It’s been a long sea- double in his first season in charge, said. son for us and they deserve a rest now. “We should have been more clinical We will change things for the next cou- near the end, but I’m happy to win ple of weeks and freshen the team up. today. It was a tough game but again “We will hopefully come back after the we got the three points. We have a very summer recharged and ready and bet- good attitude and togetherness and I ter.” —AFP love to see the boys winning. “Aberdeen were good and really wanted to win today so it was good of us to get through it with three points. Matches on TV GERMANY: Barcelona’s Neymar from (right), Luis Suarez from Uruguay (left) and Dani Alves interact, during a training session at the “They have had a good season but we Allianz Arena. Bayern Munich will play against Barcelona in a second leg semifinal Champions League soccer match today. —AP have also had a very good spell now (Local Timings) after Christmas. Four victories against Aberdeen during a season is a strong UEFA Champions League achievement. “Our target is to get stronger. That’s Bayern Munich V Barcelona 21:45 Bayern need miracle what we want.” Despite falling to four beIN SPORTS 1 HD defeats out of four to the Hoops this to deny Barcelona Gebrselassie announces MUNICH: Pep Guardiola has promised embat- play 77 minutes with ten-men after reserve goal- fight. “I saw it (the defeat against Augsburg). tled Bayern Munich will put up a fight in today’s keeper Pepe Reina was sent off. They lost, but they played 70 minutes with 10 retirement second time Champions League semi-final, second-leg, in Having also lost 2-0 at Leverkusen the previ- men. We will suffer a lot in Munich,” said the their near-impossible bid to deny Barcelona an ous week before their drubbing in Barcelona, it Barca boss. MANCHESTER: Ethiopian legend one,” Gebrselassie told the BBC after eighth final appearance. is the first time Bayern have failed to score in “They are a unique opponent, who know Haile Gebrselassie on Sunday competing in Manchester, a race he Bayern are chasing a miracle at the Allianz three consecutive games for 15 years. what it is like to turn around important matches announced his retirement from com- had won five times previously. Arena after their humbling 3-0 first-leg defeat at But Bayern coach Guardiola, a former already this season. “We will never think that it is petitive running following a career Gebrselassie won the first of his the Camp Nou last Wednesday when Lionel Barcelona boss, insists his side must keep their done, nor even that it looks very good for us. We spanning 25 years after finishing 16th four consecutive world titles in the Messi capped a dazzling display with two goals. dreams alive. “I am realistic, that is the only way need to defend as far away from our goal as pos- in the Great Manchester Run. “I will 10,000m in 1993. He won an indoor No team has ever over-turned a three-goal you can win,” said the Spaniard, who has warned sible.” retire as a competitive runner, not as a 1,500m title in 1999 and set a 5,000m deficit in a European semi-final. “We all know it’s his side they risk being routed unless they con- One ray of hope, as Bayern goalkeeper runner, I will never stop running and world record that same year. going to be a mammoth task, but we’re not tain Barcelona’s star-studded attack. Manuel Neuer put it, is the fact Guardiola’s side will continue to be a running ambas- He set the 10,000m world record going to give up,” said Bayern forward Thomas “The dream is still there and we have 90 min- emphatically turned their 3-1 quarter-final, first- sador,” Gebrselassie said on his Twitter three times, winning gold over the Mueller. utes. It won’t be easy, but I am a fighter.” In con- leg defeat at Porto into a 6-1 rout in Munich with account. It is the second time that the distance at the 1996 Atlanta and 2000 Bayern believe they can claim a historic win trast, Barca are in fine form having scored 19 five goals in the opening 45 minutes. 42-year-old has announced his inten- Sydney Olympics. He also won the with Germany captain Bastian Schweinsteiger goals in their last four games.They are poised to But in-form Barca are a different proposition tion to retire. In 2010 he said he was Berlin marathon four times. suggesting: “Sometimes unbelievable things win the Spanish league title after beating David after Messi dazzled in the first leg with two goals quitting after dropping out of the Gebrselassie failed to qualify for the happen in football and we hope we’re going to Moyes’s Real Sociedad 2-0 on Saturday which and an assist for Neymar’s 94th-minute goal. Marathon with a knee 2012 London Olympics, but the fol- catch one of those days”. But their confidence left them four points ahead of rivals Real Madrid. “We have to give our all. We have showed has been dented by losing their last four games Brazil star Neymar has now scored in each of many times how well we can perform in injury, but returned to racing months lowing year he won the Great Scottish since winning the German league for the 25th his last six matches to take his tally for the sea- Munich,” said Bayern’s top-scorer Robert later. “I’m very happy to stop here. I Run in Glasgow and a third consecu- time a fortnight ago and the losing streak is their son to 35, while Barca have now not conceded Lewandowski, who will again play with a protec- knew this was going to be the last tive Vienna City half marathon. —AFP longest since 1991. for seven straight games. tive mask after fracturing his nose and cheek- In Saturday’s latest defeat, Bayern crashed 1-0 But Barca coach Luis Enrique refuses to bone nearly two weeks ago. “It’s not yet over and at home to neighbours Augsburg and had to believe Bayern will bow out of Europe without a we’ll fight to the end.”—AFP Ramsey keen to lead QPR revival mission

MANCHESTER: Queens Park Rangers caretaker manager Chris Ramsey agreed with outspoken captain Joey Barton’s assessment there were “bad eggs” at the club after they were relegated from the Premier League. But he insisted he wanted to lead the Hoops back to the top flight, adding QPR’s Malaysian businessman owner Tony Fernandes could pre- vent the London club from collapsing into financial oblivion. QPR were humiliated 6-0 at Manchester City to be demoted to the Championship although the more worrying aspect of their position is a potential £58 million ($90 million, 80 million euros) fine hanging over them from the Football League under Financial Fair Play regulations. Before the visit to the Etihad Stadium, Barton criticised some of his team mates, saying there were some “bad eggs” in the dressing room. “I think if you go to any club there are going to be ‘bad eggs’ and those sort of people,” said Ramsey. “What Joey probably eluded to is there are people who could have helped us who haven’t helped us. “I don’t want to explain that-we can over a coffee after this, if you want!,” he told reporters.”But I think the owners will save us from going over the edge,” Ramsey added. “I don’t really understand the bits and bobs of what’s gone on before I came but I think we Queens Park Rangers manager Chris Ramsey have very good owners and board members who will try and put something in place to and I am at the helm to help them in their long- me but for the club,” he said. “It is important not make sure QPR don’t end up like other clubs term plans.” City manager Manuel Pellegrini saw to change the philosophy of football. “At the who have slipped down the divisions and end- a Sergio Aguero hat-trick supplemented by moment, we didn’t win a title and don’t have a ed up in the financial mire.” goals from Aleksandar Kolarov, James Milner cup this year but I have more conviction about Ramsey was appointed manager until the and David Silva as his deposed champions my way of football. end of the season in February after former boss stayed second behind title-winners Chelsea. “Last year, we won the Premier League with a Harry Redknapp resigned for reasons of ill- But he reacted angrily to questions about lot of goals but I didn’t talk about my philoso- health, with QPR already in trouble. reports from the Middle East that City had lined phy because I think it is more important to have Whether he returns as manager of the club in up Bayern Munich manager Pep Guardiola to conviction in your philosophy when you don’t the Championship remains to be seen, although replace after the end of this season. win.” the 53-year-old was keen to take up the post on “I didn’t hear or read any reports and nobody Aguero’s hat-trick took his top-flight tally for a permanent basis. told me about them,” he said. But with City now the season to 25 goals and all but assured of “I don’t know what happens now although mathematically assured of a place in next sea- him winning the Premier League’s Golden Boot the club will probably make an announcement son’s Champions League, the Chilean manager award. “I said even before he scored these three at the end of the season,” he said. “It’s always dif- is determined for his club to end the campaign goals that he works hard every day in training SYDNEY: In this Monday, Sept. 25, 2000 file photo, Ethiopia’s Haile Gebrselassie ficult when you’re sat here having lost 6-0 and I in style before he holds talks about his future and continues to improve,” said Pellegrini. “He is celebrates his gold medal in the men’s 10,000 meter run at the Summer don’t know what’s going to happen. “I’m hop- with the club’s Abu Dhabi-based owners. only 26 and must be a very important player in Olympics. —AP ing they make a positive decision towards me “It is important to end the season well not for the future of this club.”—AFP Kenya exit Olympics despite four-goal win

JOHANNESBURG: Kenya exited the 2016 Botswana play Zambia in the second qualifier. Michael Olunga, who missed the goals to survive and they managed only after only four minutes through Isaie Songa. Olympic Games football qualifying competi- round of the under-23 competition later this first-leg as he was doing exams, claimed a three. equalised in the final minute via tion at the weekend despite scoring four month and the winners tackle the Ivory second-leg hat-trick and John Ndirangu also Rwanda set up a showdown with Abbas Mohammed. The match was moved goals against Botswana in . Coast. scored for Kenya. Uganda after drawing 1-1 against Somalia to Djibouti because of insecurity in Somali A 4-1 win at Nyayo Stadium levelled the Elimination was another blow for a But the crucial goal in Nairobi came mid- in the steaming heat of Horn of Africa state capital Mogadishu. Ghana were the other first-round tie at 4-4 on aggregate, but the Kenyan Olympic team coached by Scot way through the opening half when Karabo Djibouti. first-round winners, defeating Liberia 7-1 visitors squeezed through on away goals Bobby Williamson after being outplayed by Phiri levelled for Botswana. His equaliser left Leading 2-0 after the first leg in Kigali, overall to secure a date with Congo having won the first leg 3-0 two weeks ago. Egypt in a recent 2015 All-Africa Games the east Africans needing at least four more the Rwandans snatched a second-leg lead Brazzaville. —AFP TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 SPORTS Inter defeat 9-man Lazio

MILAN: Lazio missed the chance to move Palacio and Hernanes leveled, curling the back into second place in as it lost free kick around the wall and into the bot- 2-1 at home to on Sunday after tom left corner. playing most of the second half with nine Hernanes, who spent three and a half men. years at Lazio, was booed by his former Hernanes scored both Inter goals fans after celebrating with his trademark against his former club, netting the winner backflip. six minutes from time. Lazio continued to threaten even with Antonio Candreva had given Lazio the 10 men but had another player sent off lead but Mauricio was sent off in the 24th when Hernanes sent Icardi through on goal minute and goalkeeper Federico Marchetti and Marchetti brought down the was also dismissed shortly after the hour. Argentine. Substitute Etrit Berisha’s first act was to His replacement Berisha dove to his left save Mauro Icardi’s penalty. to keep out Icardi penalty and Lazio contin- “I think the first goal should have been ued to attack but were caught out on the disallowed,” Lazio director of sport Igli Tare counter by a Palacio flick to send Hernanes said. “I also have huge doubts about their bursting down the center of the pitch and second goal and the penalty. I don’t think it clear through on goal to score the winner. was right to put such a young referee in Second spot offers direct entry into the charge of such an important match.” Champions League, while third carries a Lazio remained a point behind Roma. berth in the last playoff round. With three The two capital clubs meet in the penulti- rounds remaining, Napoli’s best chance of mate match of the season, before Lazio admission might be winning the Europa plays Napoli in its final game. League. It drew 1-1 at Dnipro “There is certainly disappointment, as Dnipropetrovsk in the first leg of its semifi- this was a fundamental weekend and we nal and Rafa Benitez rested a number of could have taken advantage of slip-ups players ahead of Thursday’s return match. from our opponents,” Lazio coach Stefano Napoli goalkeeper Mariano Andujar gift- Pioli said. “The team gave everything, even ed Parma the lead in the ninth minute if they made a few mistakes. The future is when he flapped at a corner, allowing still in our hands and we will fight right Raffaele Palladino to turn into an empty net until the end.” from close range. Earlier, Napoli cut the gap to Lazio to Napoli leveled in the 28th after Marek three points with a 2-2 draw at already-rel- Hamsik slotted the ball through to Manolo egated Parma. Fiorentina kept up its pur- Gabbiadini. Antonio Mirante got a hand to suit of a European spot by beating Empoli the angled drive, but not enough to stop it FRANCE: Marseille’s Ghanaian forward Andre Ayew (right) challenges for the ball with Monaco’s Italian defender Andrea Raggi during a 3-2 to move back above Sampdoria, which rolling into the bottom left corner. League One soccer match. —AP crushed Udinese 4-1 earlier. Inter was two Parma swiftly restored its lead as a well- points behind sixth-place Samp. worked free kick allowed Cristobal Jorquera At the other end of the table, 10-man to fire in a screamer from 25 yards for his Marseille rallies to defeat Atalanta clung on to win 3-2 at Palermo to first Serie A goal in more than three years. boost its chances of avoiding the drop and Mirante denied Napoli several times ensure Cesena, beaten 3-2 by Sassuolo, was before and after Dries Mertens netted the relegated. equalizer in the 72nd with a solo effort. In Monaco in French League Elsewhere, Chievo Verona drew 2-2 the Tuscan derby, Fiorentina was looking to against Hellas Verona in a local derby bounce back after losing 3-0 at Sevilla in match. Lazio was looking for a win to move the Europa League and with four defeats in PARIS: Late goals from Andre Ayew and Romain two points. Marseille’s hopes of finishing in the after 25 minutes. above Roma, which had lost 2-1 at AC its past five Serie A matches. Alessandrini guided Marseille to a 2-1 win over top three nearly ended with another poor defen- Jeremy Clement then volleyed home to dou- Milan on Saturday and seemed to be on Josip Ilicic took his tally to five goals in Monaco in the French league Sunday and main- sive display at the Stade Velodrome, where it ble the hosts’ lead five minutes before halftime course for victory when Candreva fired it in three league matches with a double, while tained its chances of qualifying for next season’s conceded 14 goals in its last six games. with his first goal for Saint-Etienne. front following another assist from Felipe Mohamed Salah was also on target for Champions League. Marseille fans unveiled a huge display of their Nice saw its attempts to get back in the game Anderson, who had raced into the penalty Fiorentina. Riccardo Saponara, who also Marseille pushed for an equalizer for 78 min- traditional white and blue colors with the word denied by ‘keeper Stephane Ruffier, who area before cutting back from the byline. missed several opportunities, netted for utes after Portuguese midfielder Joao Moutinho “Conquer” painted in black letters, but it was stopped a fine shot from Alassane Plea moments The match turned when Mauricio was Empoli as did substitute Levan Mchedlidze, gave Monaco the lead inside the first minute Monaco who made the best start. before Mevlut Erding scored his eighth goal of sent off for a clumsy challenge on Rodrigo a minute after coming off the bench. —AP and was finally rewarded when Ayew headed Moutinho took advantage of a poor clear- the season. home from Alessandrini’s cross from the right. ance from Mario Lemina inside the first minute Max Gradel and Kevin Monnet-Paquet added Marseille continued to attack relentlessly in to slam the ball into the near post with a 20- luster to the win on the break in the final 10 min- the final 10 minutes and Alessandrini snatched meter shot past Steve Mandanda. utes. Nice has yet to secure its future in the top the winner three minutes from time on a quick Marseille had most of the possession after- flight, sitting in 15th place just five points above counterattack after being set up by Dimitri ward but Monaco was the most dangerous team the relegation zone. “Of course we are worried, Payet. “We needed to win. Even when we were on the break, with Anthony Martial coming close we made a complete mess of this game,” said down 1-0 we continued to believe in ourselves,” in the 25th minute with a shot from inside the Nice midfielder Eric Bautheac. Ayew said after netting his ninth goal this sea- box that forced Mandanda to a good save after Anthony Mounier scored in injury time to son. “The most important thing was not to con- Alessandrini gave the ball away. give Montpellier a 1-0 win against 10-man Lens, cede a second goal. We missed many chances Bernardo Silva missed the chance to make it keeping alive his team’s hopes of qualifying for and lacked a cutting edge for a long period, but 2-0 at the stroke of halftime, hitting the post the Europa League. to our credit we kept the faith until the end.” after Yannick Ferreira Carrasco burst into the Montpellier trails sixth-place Bordeaux by With two matches remaining this season in area and released the ball for Martial, whose three points. A sixth-place finish will be enough the French league, Alessandrini’s goal guaran- deflected attempt ended in the Portuguese mid- to advance to Europe’s second-tier competition teed a mouthwatering three-way final battle fielder’s path. if league leader Paris Saint-Germain also wins between Monaco, Marseille and Saint-Etienne Earlier, Saint-Etienne remained in the final the League Cup later this month. In a match of for the final Champions League spot. sprint for Champions League qualification with a few chances for both sides, Montpellier strug- With Paris Saint-Germain on the brink of 5-0 thrashing of Nice. A week after Saint-Etienne gled to find a cutting edge even after Loick clinching a third consecutive title, six points coach Christophe Galtier criticized his players, Landre was sent off in the 64th minute for a sec- clear of Lyon at the top of the standings, the the team produced its biggest win this season. ond booking. But a calm Mounier snatched his main focus will be on the battle for third place Saint-Etienne captain Loic Perrin, who missed eighth goal this season with an angled shot past over the next two weeks. last week’s 1-0 defeat to Bastia, celebrated his Valentin Belon after turning a defender. Last- Third-place Monaco remains favorite to clinch 250th match in the first division with the open- place Lens was demoted to the second division it, leading both Saint-Etienne and Marseille by ing goal when he headed home from a corner last weekend. —AP Torres gives Atletico draw

BARCELONA: Fernando Torres Champions League berth. 3-0 advantage in their Europa two rounds are in doubt after the scored with 10 minutes left to give Kevin Gameiro worked a one- League semifinal. Spanish federation announced it Atletico Madrid a 2-2 draw at two passing combination with Malaga also broke a seven- was suspending all matches from Levante in the Spanish league on Iago Aspas to put Sevilla ahead in game winless run by winning 2-1 next Saturday in protest at a pro- Sunday, while Villarreal sealed a the eighth, but Santi Mina leveled at Almeria, moving the Andalusian posed law regulating the sale of Europa League berth for next sea- in the 58th from the penalty spot club into seventh. Javi Guerra broadcasting rights. Barcelona son. Atletico’s draw kept the soon- after Alejandro Arribas fouled scored in the 69th minute to needs only one win in its last two ITALY: Inter Milan’s Anderson Hernanes (left) jumps as he celebrates after scoring to-be-dethroned champions in Charles. secure the victory that left Almeria matches to dethrone Atletico after during a Serie A soccer match against Lazio. —AP third place, four points above Sevilla coach Unai Emery one point above the drop zone. it beat Real Sociedad 2-0 on Valencia with two rounds remain- missed the match due to the death Barcelona could clinch the Saturday and second-place Real ing. of his father. Sevilla will visit league title next weekend with a Madrid drew 2-2 with Valencia to David Barral opened the scor- Fiorentina on Thursday holding a win at Atletico. However, the final fall four points adrift.—AP Al Nassr win Saudi title ing for Levante in the 32nd, only for Siqueira to level three minutes RIYADH: Al Nassr retained the Saudi Al Nassr then held out to claim the three later. Kalu Uche put the hosts back Professional League title on Sunday after points and their eighth domestic title with ahead in the 63rd. dispatching an ill-disciplined Al Hilal 1-0 in a game to spare after second-placed Al Ahli Atletico struggled in attack, but Riyadh with the hosts reduced to eight were held to a 2-2 draw at home to Al Torres substituted striker Mario men by the final whistle. Taawon. Al Hilal, record 12-times Saudi Mandzukic with 30 minutes to play Mohammad Al-Sahlawi scored the win- champions and third in the standings, were and headed in Jorge “Koke” ning goal in the 19th minute for the visitors out of title contention and their frustrations Resurreccion’s corner for the from what looked an offside position after boiled over in the second half with Saud equalizer. being put clear by Pole Adrian Kariri, Mohammed Jahfali and Salem Al “Torres went on and gave us Mierzejewski’s neat chest down. Dawsari all seeing red. —Reuters power, speed and fresh legs,” Atletico coach Diego Simeone said. “When the rival is tired, he Malaysia triumph over India performs better. That’s how we had planned it. (Mario) Mandzukic DONGGUAN: Lee Chong Wei’s return tougher against Srikanth until a six-point to start and Fernando for the sec- from a doping ban gathered pace yester- burst put him ahead in game one. ond half. Fortunately, he scored day as he overcame K. Srikanth to inspire Srikanth, 21, came back firing but he the goal that got us closer to the Malaysia’s narrow 3-2 win over India at was denied by elastic defence from Lee, result we wanted.” Villarreal for- the Sudirman Cup. including some tremendous work for 18- ward Joel Campbell nodded in The former world number one was 16 before he took the opener in 18 min- what proved to be the 26th- put through his paces by Srikanth, cur- utes. minute winner to down Elche 1-0 at home, ending an 11-game win- rently ranked fourth, before he won the Lee was never behind in the second less streak and locking up a sixth- men’s singles 21-16, 21-15 in 40 minutes. game, although he was under pressure place finish for “the Yellow It turned out to be vital as the two when Srikanth reached 11-13 with a siz- Submarine.” nations were locked at 2-2 before Chan zling backhand winner played with his “I’m extremely grateful and Peng Soon and Goh Liu Ying’s decisive back to the net. proud of this team,” said Villarreal mixed doubles win over N. Sikki Reddy But Lee won the next three points and coach Marcelino Garcia. “Two years and Arun Vishnu. when he leapt to hammer a towering ago we were in the second divi- In other results at the biennial mixed- smash winner for 18-13, it was clear the sion and now we are going back to teams tournament in southern China, 32-year-old was on his way to victory. Europe.” Germany upset Thailand 3-2, Taiwan beat Later Chan and Goh were again the Elche was unlucky to not sal- Russia 4-1 and Indonesia were 3-2 win- heroes for Malaysia as, a day after also vage at least a point after Pedro ners over England. winning the decisive rubber match Mosquera sent two strikes off the Lee, the two-time Olympic silver against South Korea, they won 21-14, 21- woodwork. Elche remained in 13th medallist, is playing his first event since 18 to seal the tie. place and safe from the relegation receiving a backdated, eight-month ban Nine-time champions China are fight, in front of 14th-place Levante, which still has work to do strong favourites on home soil and for accidentally ingesting a banned anti- to guarantee it stays up. inflammatory. After Sunday’s strong per- include Chen Long and Lin Dan, the cur- Elsewhere, Sevilla stumbled to a formance against South Korea’s Lee rent world number one and two who 1-1 draw at Celta Vigo as it tries to Dong-Keun, the Malaysian star found it have both denied Lee major titles. —AFP catch Valencia and earn a SPAIN: Atletico Madrid’s Uruguayan defender Jose Maria Gimenez (left) vies with Levante’s Nigerian for- ward Kalu Uche during the Spanish League football match. —AFP Yankees down Fowler wins Orioles, Royals The Players tame Tigers

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ITALY: Grigor Dimitrov of returns a shot to Jerzy Janowicz of Poland during the ATP Rome Open tennis tournament. — AFP Simon, Dimitrov and Keys advance

ROME: Gilles Simon of France took advan- unforced errors as the Frenchman (48-24). improved to 26-5 this year; Anastasia titles at Munich and Madrid in the space of ing with altitude to no altitude there,” the tage of a few key double-faults by Jack With the temperature at the Foro Italico Pavlyuchenkova of Russia beat Sam Stosur seven days last week, with a decision on his Spaniard said. Sock and rallied for a 4-6, 7-6 (2), 6-3 win soaring above 25 degrees Celsius (nearly 80 of Australia 6-4, 7-5; and Zarina Diyas of participation and second-round start against “I’ll try to have a good week in Rome - and yesterday in the opening round of the Fahrenheit), fitness was key on the red clay Kazakhstan eliminated Tsvetana Pironkova Jeremy Chardy of France due on Tuesday. by a good week, that does not mean only to Italian Open. courts. Tenth-seeded Grigor Dimitrov also of Bulgaria 7-5, 6-1. The Italian Open is the The third-ranked Scot could not have win. That means to do things good through Sock was up a break in the second set played cleanly in a 6-3, 7-6 (4) win over Jerzy last big warm-up tournament for the French asked for a better French Open preparation the different days. Doing things well every until his usual commanding serve deserted Janowicz of Poland. Dimitrov had only 11 Open, which starts May 24. and might not want to risk either injury or single day, that’s a good week.” Nadal called him. The 12th-seeded Simon quickly leveled unforced errors to Janowicz’s 31. A semifinal- Meanwhile, Andy Murray was due in fatigue with Roland Garros starting in 13 the event “a very complicated tournament, the set and then jumped out to a 4-0 lead in ist last year, Dimitrov improved to 9-3 on Rome late yesterday to ponder his participa- days. we have the top players there. But I also the tiebreaker with the help of two double- clay this year. Also, Philipp Kohlschreiber of tion in the Italian Open after winning a It’s a different story completely for Nadal, know if I manage to play the level I did (in the faults by Sock. Germany beat Donald Young of the United breakthrough Masters 1000 title at the who desperately needs matches and confi- Madrid semi-finals) yesterday I can be com- Simon, who has won 12 ATP titles in his States 6-4, 6-1. weekend in Madrid. dence after going down in front of his home petitive against every single player”. career, broke late in the third and closed it In women’s play, 15th-seeded Madison Murray’s comprehensive 6-3, 6-2 defeat of public to Murray in a Madrid final which did The 14-time Grand Slam champion is set out at love in the final game. Sock, a 22-year- Keys defeated Madison Brengle 6-2, 6-4. A Spanish ace Rafael Nadal knocked the king not even extend to 90 minutes. to play in an 11th straight edition at the Foro old American ranked a career-high 33rd this semifinalist at the Australian Open, Keys of clay down to seventh on the ATP list, his Nadal insisted he feels his tennis is on the Italico and has played the final nine times in week, appeared to lose energy as the match served seven aces to Brengle’s one. lowest position in a decade. right path despite not having won a spring 10 visits. The seven-time champion failed to wore on and couldn’t deal with Simon’s con- Also, Swiss player Timea Bacsinszky upset Murray and his team are due to discuss clay title. “I’m already thinking in Rome, it’s reach a final only in 2008 when he lost in the sistency - committing twice as many 11th-seeded Karolina Pliskova 6-4, 6-0 and his options after winning his first two clay an important change. You change from play- second round. — Agencies James hits jumper Nadal slides at buzzer, lifts Cavs down rankings

CHICAGO: LeBron James hit a jump shot and nine rebounds. J.R. Smith came on LONDON: Rafa Nadal’s slide down the ATP rankings means if he wins a from the corner at the final buzzer to strong down the stretch, scoring all but record-extending 10th French Open title early next month it would go give the Cleveland Cavaliers an 86-84 vic- two of his 13 in the fourth quarter. down as one of the greatest achievements of his illustrious career. The tory over the Chicago Bulls on Sunday, Rose scored 31 points and Jimmy Spaniard dropped three places to seventh yesterday as a consequence of leveling the Eastern Conference semifinal Butler added 19 for Chicago, which was his 6-3 6-2 drubbing at the hands of Britain’s Andy Murray in the final of the Madrid Masters the previous day. series at 2-2. James finished with 25 playing without Pau Gasol. He sat out And with another 600 points to defend at this week Rome Masters, the points to help the Cavaliers win in anoth- with a strained left hamstring, and his 28-year-old could fall to his lowest ranking for 10 years by the time play er wild finish, returning the favor after status for Game 5 is in question. begins at Roland Garros on May 24. Not since April 2005, just before his Chicago took Game 3 on Derrick Rose’s In Sunday’s other playoff, DeAndre maiden French title, has Nadal been lower than seventh. The Spaniard banked 3-pointer at the buzzer. Jordan scored 26 points, surviving insisted after losing to Murray that he was beginning to feel the “old sensa- This time, James got whistled for an Houston’s intentional-foul fest in the first tions” again after struggling to find his best form in the wake of the wrist offensive foul when he elbowed Mike half as the Los Angeles Clippers took a 3- injury and appendicitis issues that undermined him last year. But the fear Dunleavy Jr. That led to a tying layup for 1 series lead to put the Rockets on the factor that once inhibited opponents on the red clay appears to have dis- Rose with 9.4 seconds left. brink of elimination in the Western appeared. In Monte Carlo, he was soundly beaten by world number one “I was supposed to take the ball out,” Conference semifinals. Novak Djokovic. He then lost to Italy’s unpredictable Fabio Fognini in James said. “I told Coach there was no Jordan made 14 of 34 free throws, Barcelona and in Madrid, after appearing to be getting back on track with way I’m taking the ball out unless I could attempting an NBA playoff-record 28 in wins against Grigor Dimitrov and Tomas Berdych, he was stopped in his shoot it over the backboard and go in. So the first half, and had 17 rebounds. Blake tracks by Murray. I told him, ‘Have somebody else take the Griffin added 21 points, J.J. Redick had 18 Murray had never beaten Nadal on clay and was thrashed in last year’s ball out.’ The play that was drawn up, I points and Chris Paul finished with 15 French Open semi-final, but on Sunday he won with nonchalant ease. scratched it. I just told Coach, ‘Just give points and 12 assists in the Clippers’ sec- “I will just stay with the good things that happened this week, and there me the ball. We’re either going to go into ond straight blowout win in the best-of-7 are a lot of them, more good than bad. I will try to recover the good feel- overtime or I’m going to win it for us.’” series. ings in Rome,” Nadal said. James , playing the final quarter on a They can advance to the conference “Whatever will happen will be. It’s something that we have to realise, all sprained left ankle, ended it with the finals for the first time in franchise history of us, that what’s happening during these last years, it’s very complicated jumper from the corner over Jimmy with a victory in Game 5 today in to be 10 or one years without leaving the top four.” Barring an early loss in Butler. Game 5 is today in Cleveland. Houston. James Harden scored 21 points Rome, Nadal should manage to stay in the top eight but the possibility of a James committed eight turnovers and and Trevor Ariza added 18 for the quarter-final meeting with Murray, Djokovic or world number two Roger struggled again from the field, hitting 10 Rockets. Dwight Howard was held to sev- Federer looms. of 30 shots. He is 18 of 55 the past two en points and six rebounds after being in Unlike Wimbledon, where ATP rankings can be adjusted to reflect per- games. But he also had 14 rebounds and foul trouble most of a game that grinded formances on grass, the French Open sticks stringently to the rankings. eight assists. to a halt early on when Houston started CHICAGO: Cleveland Cavaliers forward Tristan Thompson (left) And while that does not look good for Nadal, it will also worry the Kyrie Irving, playing with a sore foot, forcing Jordan to the line. Howard fouled blocks a shot by Chicago Bulls guard Derrick Rose during the sec- likes of Djokovic and Murray, who could find themselves coming face-to- was 2 of 12 and had 12 points and two out with 9:52 remaining and left the ond half of Game 4 in a second-round NBA basketball playoff face with the greatest claycourt player of all time a little earlier than assists. Timofey Mozgov had 15 points court. — AP series. — AP expected. — Reuters Kuwait inflation edges up to 3.3% in March

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BRUSSELS: French Finance Minister Michel Sapin (second left) speaks with Greek Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis (left) during a round table meeting of the eurogroup finance ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels yesterday. — AP Greek referendum could help: Germany Athens makes IMF payment due today

BRUSSELS: EU paymaster Germany said yes- ist Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras to in the talks but saying more time and effort lier there had been little or no progress on sector. It is also at odds with creditors on the terday it could make sense for Greece to hold climb down from election promises that are are needed to bridge the remaining gaps. substance in the negotiations. Any release of size of the primary budget surplus, which a referendum on painful economic reforms making a cash-for-reform deal hard to Sources familiar with ECB thinking said there frozen bailout funds depended on represen- excludes debt repayments, and on longer- under negotiation with its creditors, chang- achieve. “If the Greek government thinks it was still too little progress on core issues and tatives of the three creditors certifying imple- term financing. ing tack as Berlin’s own lawmakers bridle at must hold a referendum, then let it hold a too much uncertainty for the bank to allow mentation of the reforms, not just promises. Varoufakis was sidelined from the con- further aid for Athens. Euro-zone govern- referendum,” Schaeuble said on arrival at a the Greek government to sell more short- A senior EU official said there has been no duct of the talks after he alienated fellow ments have previously opposed such a vote, meeting of euro zone finance ministers. term Treasury bills to ease its funding crunch. breakthrough on the central sticking points ministers with outspoken interviews and saying there is no time and it could destabi- “That might even be a helpful measure for of pension and labor market reforms and economics lectures, climaxing with a clash lize financial markets and trigger a run on the Greek people to decide whether it is UNREALISTIC budget targets for this year and next. Euro- last month at a Eurogroup meeting in Riga. struggling Greek banks. ready to accept what is necessary, or Hinting at growing difficulties in persuad- zone officials believe Greece has scraped Tsipras shook up the negotiating team and When former Prime Minister George whether it wants something different.” There ing conservative German lawmakers to go together enough money, notably by com- made some concessions on restarting priva- Papandreou surprised EU partners by pro- was no immediate reaction from Greece, but on funding Greece, Schaeuble said it was mandeering cash reserves of local authorities tizations and harmonizing value-added tax. posing a referendum in 2011 at the height of finance ministry officials said Athens had unrealistic to think any parliament in Europe and pension funds, to meet its payment obli- But he has so far balked at crossing the “red the euro-zone debt crisis, he was summoned made a crucial payment of 750 million euros would agree without the backing of the IMF. gations until the end of May. lines” of what he calls his popular mandate. to emergency talks with leaders of France to the International Monetary Fund a day Greece’s leftist-led government has They say the real deadline for a deal is Two-year Greek bond yields edged up to and Germany and told bluntly to drop the before it falls due today, easing market fears accused the global lender of setting tougher end-May to enable parliamentary approval in around 21.5 percent yesterday as nervous idea. of a default. targets than the European creditors on pen- some euro zone countries, notably Germany, investors weighed the risk of a default. But with Greece fast running out of cash The ministers spent less than an hour sion and labor reforms and a primary fiscal in time to release the remaining 7.2 billion Italian, Spanish and Portuguese bond yields and desperate for a deal to avert a default hearing a progress report on the slow-mov- surplus. The three institutions have denied euros in bailout funds before the program also ticked up. and possible exit from the euro-zone, ing negotiations with representatives of the any internal differences. expires at the end of June. Elected in January A Reuters poll of traders, taken before the German Finance Minister Wolfgang IMF, European Commission and European Finance Minister Yanis Varoufakis held pri- on promises to end austerity and scrap the IMF repayment, found that the chance of Schaeuble said securing public backing for Central Bank. vate talks with Schaeuble before the international bailout, the government is Greece leaving the euro-zone was less than the necessary sacrifices might be useful. EU officials said the ministers would issue Eurogroup session but neither side com- refusing to agree to pension cuts, raise the one in four, down from a 40 percent possibili- A referendum could make it easier for left- a short statement acknowledging progress mented on the meeting. Schaeuble said ear- retirement age, or ease layoffs in the private ty they assigned two weeks ago. — Reuters

Yemen concerns weigh on Saudi, Dubai falls Indian banker named first BRICS bank head MIDEAST STOCK MARKETS NEW DELHI: Indian private banker K V He also spent several years working at DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s stock market fell yester- dropped 3.2 percent. after posting a 9 percent year-on-year increase Kamath was named yesterday as the first the Asian Development Bank in south- day after reports that Riyadh had sent a The biggest gainer of the day was invest- in first-quarter profit. Analysts had expected head of a new development bank being east Asia and is currently non-executive ground “strike force” including tanks towards ment firm Kingdom Holding, which surged 6.2 that cheaper fuel would help the company set up by the so-called emerging BRICS chairman of both ICICI and Indian soft- its border with Yemen, while Dubai came percent to a seven-week high of 21.55 riyals. boost its profit by almost by a third. Builder nations, officials said. The BRICS-Brazil, ware giant Infosys. BRICS nations had under pressure from several disappointing The firm’s assets include a stake in a develop- Arabtec, whose earnings are expected later Russia, India, China and South Africa- agreed that the bank would be headed first-quarter earnings reports. In the after- ment company which is building the world’s this week, tumbled 4.8 percent. Most other announced last year that they were form- by an Indian for the first five years. The tallest tower in the city of Jeddah, and whose stocks also fell, although Emaar Malls was flat, noon, the Saudi-owned Al-Arabiya Hadath TV ing the development bank to be head- bank will provide $50 billion for infra- channel broadcast pictures of a column of chief executive told Reuters on Sunday that buoyed by expectations that it will secure a quartered in Shanghai. structure projects and have $100 billion tanks loaded onto military trucks and residential apartments at the tower would place in MSCI’s emerging markets index fol- The move was seen as a major chal- in an emergency reserve fund, with each described it as “the arrival of reinforcements likely go on sale later this year. lowing the index compiler’s semi-annual lenge to the Washington-based country contributing $10 billion, BRICS from the strike force to the border”. review this week. International Monetary Fund and World leaders said last year when the bank was The Saudi-led air campaign against Houthi UAE, EGYPT MSCI bets also supported Abu Dhabi’s Bank, which some powers see as biased announced. rebels in Yemen has been a small but signifi- Dubai’s index was the biggest loser in the bourse, which edged up 0.3 percent. First Gulf towards Western policy positions. The IMF, set up along with the World cant source of concern for Saudi retail region after some local companies posted Bank, whose weighting in the MSCI index may “Kamath has been appointed as the Bank during the Bretton Woods confer- investors, and any escalation into a ground weaker-than-expected first-quarter profits. increase, rose 1.7 percent and Union National president of BRICS bank for a term of five ence in 1944, has faced criticism for campaign would be seen as negative by the The emirate’s benchmark fell 1.8 percent and Bank, which may secure a place in the bench- years,” an Indian finance ministry imposing onerous conditions and for not market, at least initially. The main Saudi stock developer Union Properties tumbled its daily mark for the first time, added 0.8 percent. spokesman told AFP. Finance secretary giving wider representation to develop- index, which had earlier in the day traded 10 percent limit to 1.21 dirhams after saying its Other Gulf bourses moved very little. nearly flat, responded to the strike force first-quarter profit had fallen to 28.1 million Egypt’s market rose in early trade but gave up Rajiv Mehrishi confirmed Kamath’s ing nations on its controlling commit- reports by falling 1.3 percent. dirhams ($7.7 million) from 179.8 million all of its gains and closed flat after the reports appointment and said the New tees. Experts say that much remains Oil prices were another negative factor. dirhams a year earlier. of a potential escalation in Yemen. Cairo is a Development Bank would probably be unclear about the scope of a BRICS bank, Brent crude slipped below $65 per barrel as The stock broke technical support around member of the anti-Houthi coalition. operational within a year, the Press Trust including how much risk it would take. signs that US shale oil production was recover- 1.28 dirhams, where it had peaked in late Commercial International Bank, the country’s of India news agency reported. BRICS nations account for nearly $16 tril- ing after a recent price rally renewed concern December and January; its next major chart biggest listed lender, was one of just a few Kamath, 67, is a veteran private lion in GDP and 40 percent of the world’s about a global supply glut. Petrochemicals support is around the February peaks of 1.12 gainers, edging up 0.4 percent ahead of its banker who is credited with turning the population. China has separately per- giant Saudi Basic Industries, whose profits dirhams. first-quarter results, which are expected ICICI Bank into one of India’s largest pri- suaded 56 other countries to join its own tend to rise and fall in line with oil prices, Low-cost carrier Air Arabia fell 1.9 percent tomorrow. — Reuters vate lenders during his 13 years as man- initiative, the Asian Infrastructure aging director and CEO. Investment Bank. — AFP TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 BUSINESS

Kuwait inflation edges up to 3.3% in March

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KUWAIT: Inflation in the consumer price index (CPI) climbed which should subsequently help keep the overall inflation to an almost three-year high of 3.3 per cent in March. Price rate in check. pressures came largely from housing rents and health servic- Inflation in housing services rose from 5.0 per cent y/y in es. Housing inflation is forecast to ease later in 2015, ensur- December to 6.3 per cent y/y in March, its highest reading in ing general inflation remains in check. Declining global food almost six years.(Chart 3).Inflation in this segment is updated prices and the stronger dinar should help offset pressures only once every three months, with the last update having elsewhere, with overall inflation likely to average close to 3.5 been in December. Housing inflation has maintained its per cent in 2015. upward trajectory since 2013 on the back of stronger Core inflation rose from 3.3 per cent year-on-year (y/y) in demand levels, but we expect it to ease later in 2015. February to 3.7 per cent y/y March. Core inflation has been Clothing & footwear costs fell slightly in March; inflation in gradually trending higher since the end of 2013, primarily furnishings & household maintenance edged higher. due to rising inflationary pressures from the housing compo- Clothing & footwear prices fell by a mere 0.3 per cent y/y in nent. But it is also worth noting that higher inflation rates in March. Inflation in this segment has been on a downward the maintenance, domestic & household service and educa- trend for almost a year now, perhaps due to the high base as tion components, have also been driving the core inflation well as a stronger dinar (as most of the items in this segment rate up. are imported). Inflation in furnishings & household mainte- Inflation in the food price index saw a slight uptick in nance rose from 3.7 per cent y/y in February to 4.0 per cent March, rising from 1.4 per cent y/y in February to 1.7 per cent y/y in March. y/y; global food prices contracted by 17.5 per cent y/y.The Inflation in the ‘other goods and services’ component ongoing decline in international food prices could be attrib- eased slightly in March. Inflation in this component, which uted to lower transport costs, as a result of lower oil prices. includes prices of personal care products and jewelry and With international food inflation expected to maintain its certain business charges, eased from 2.7 per cent y/y in weakness, local food inflation is forecast to remain soft, February to 2.6 per cent y/y in March. Oil below $65 on China overtakes US as signs of US shale oil revival world’s top crude buyer LONDON: Oil slipped below $65 a barrel yesterday as signs that US shale oil production was recovering after a recent price rally renewed concerns of a growing global supply glut. SINGAPORE: China overtook the United said Philip Andrews-Speed, head of energy A 60 percent drop in global oil prices from over 10 million bpd 10 years ago to China’s latest move to bolster its economy offset some of States as the world’s top importer of crude security research at the National University between June 2014 and January due to a around 7 million bpd currently, just as the losses as it raised hopes that the world’s top energy con- oil for the first time in April, and its purchas- of Singapore. supply glut encouraged China to build China’s imports have risen seven-fold. sumer would help absorb supplies. Brent crude for June was es are expected to remain strong despite a “China becomes not only more impor- stocks, changing both trade flows and oil The Saudi-led decision by the down 44 cents at $64.95 a barrel by 0915 GMT after drop- slowing economy, with far-reaching conse- tant to Middle Eastern states, but the politics. Organization of the Petroleum Exporting ping 1.6 percent last week. June US light crude was down 35 quences for global oil and commodities Middle East becomes progressively more Within a decade, oil producers around Countries (OPEC) in November 2014 not to cents to $59.04 a barrel after rising for eight straight weeks, markets. important to China relative to other coun- the world have had to fundamentally cut production despite the slide in oil the longest winning stretch since early 2013. The soaring imports came as a surprise tries that are importing less oil,” he added. adjust their trade routes as US imports fell prices has been largely motivated by an Analysts talk of a growing disconnect between the as growth in the world’s second-largest effort to defend market share against out- futures market, which has gained more than 40 percent economy was sputtering and its oil side competitors like Russia or US shale since its January low, and a growing physical supply glut. demand was expected to ease. However, Oman plans placement for producers. “The market is pretty much ahead of itself as the overall out- low oil prices and China’s series of interest look is still bearish,” said Commerzbank analyst Eugen rate cuts - including one over the weekend debut 200m rial sukuk Global impact Weinberg. In a sign that the market is responding to the - in a bid to stoke growth are factors boost- Saudi oil minister Ali Al-Naimi was on a recent price gains, US drillers added rigs to the Permian ing demand. China’s crude oil imports hit a MUSCAT: Oman plans to sell its first sov- investors with a minimum subscription high profile visit to China and other Asian basin for the first time this year after weeks of idling rigs. record of almost 7.4 million barrels a day ereign Islamic bond, an issue of 200 mil- amount of 500,000 rials,” Amry said. countries in April when he announced near Overall, the number of active oil rigs declined for the 22nd (bpd) last month, putting it ahead of the lion rials ($520 million) of sukuk, through Abdullah al-Salmi, executive presi- record Saudi oil production and said he week in a row, but the rate of decline has slowed in recent United States’ estimated imports of 7.2 mil- a private placement and will launch sub- dent of the Capital Market Authority, was “very positive” about continued strong weeks. Analysts at Morgan Stanley said growing supplies in lion bpd for April, Reuters data show. scriptions soon, an Omani official was told Times of Oman that the sukuk demand from China. China’s nascent role as the physical market, signs of increasing activity in U.S. shale While China may drop back to second quoted as saying yesterday. would have a face value of 1 rial and the the world’s top crude buyer is also impact- oil production and potential for higher OPEC output are place in some months ahead, it is clearly Tahir Salim Al-Amry, director-general broad investor community would be ing trading. weighing on the outlook. headed towards overtaking the United of treasury and accounts at the Ministry able to buy them once they were listed The crude market has been traditionally “We have growing concerns about crude fundamentals in States as the world’s top crude importer on of Finance and head of the committee on the Muscat Securities Market. dominated on the buy-side by Western oil the second half of 2015 and 2016,” the bank said in a note to a permanent basis. arranging the issue, told the Times of The officials did not give other details majors such as ExxonMobil, Royal Dutch clients. Brent’s four-week advance to hit 2015 highs halted Oman that it had received in-principle of the sukuk issue such as its tenor and Shell, Chevron or BP or merchants like Vitol late last week as excess European and African crude supply Consumer regulatory approval and was now in structure. Sovereign sukuk issuance and Mercuria. Now, Chinese traders are dragged prices down, with a rally technically exhausted. China is already the world’s biggest advanced stages of structuring and doc- would boost Oman’s fledgling Islamic increasingly active. Investors will be looking at tomorrow’s monthly report energy consumer, with oil by far the largest umentation. banking industry, giving it a badly need- Companies like Unipec or China Oil, the from the International Energy Agency to see if falling oil traded energy market. Overtaking the Bank Muscat, the bank’s Islamic bank- ed liquidity tool as well as a pricing respective trading arms of Chinese national prices have boosted global demand for oil, Weinberg said. United States means China is the top user ing window Meethaq, and Standard benchmark. Two -compliant oil companies Sinopec and PetroChina, China cut interest rates for the third time in six months on of almost all commodities, including coal, Chartered have been appointed to banks, Al Izz Islamic Bank and Bank have entered oil markets on an unprece- Sunday to stoke its sputtering economy, which is headed for iron ore and most metals, with far-reaching advise the government on the issue, Nizwa, obtained licenses in 2013, and dented scale. its worst year in a quarter of century. Data on Friday showed implications for markets which continue to Times of Oman quoted officials as say- there are half a dozen Islamic windows With prices still relatively low, China’s China ahead of the United States as the world’s top oil shift from West to East. “Being the world’s ing. “The sovereign sukuk issue will be of conventional banks. The Islamic banks demand is expected to rise. “They will defi- importer in April, as the Asian economy seized on lower biggest crude importer should give China through a private placement process and windows account for about 5 per- nitely continue to buy more crude to fill up crude prices to stock up. In Libya, oil production remained more buying power. China’s engagement in and marketed primarily to Islamic finan- cent of the country’s total banking new storage capacity, both strategic and volatile after a protest closed the Nafoura oilfield, cutting out- the Middle East will continue to change, cial institutions, and sophisticated assets. —Reuters commercial,” said Seng Yick Tee, director of put at Libya’s Arabian Gulf Oil Co (AGOCO) by some 35,000 and it will no longer be the minority player,” SIA Energy in Beijing. —Reuters barrels per day. —Reuters EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. GOLD Saudi Riyals 81.420 US Dollars Mint 0.299200 0.303400 20 gram 240.320 Jordanian Dinar 426.690 10 gram 122.860 Asia ASIAN COUNTRIES Egyptian Pound 39.543 5 gram 62.110 Bangladesh Taka 0.003548 0.004148 Japanese Yen 2.525 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.253 Chinese Yuan 0.047384 0.050884 Indian Rupees 4.758 Indian Rupees 4.760 Hong Kong Dollar 0.036962 0.039712 Pakistani Rupees 2.974 UAE Exchange Centre WLL Pakistani Rupees 2.971 Srilankan Rupees 2.248 Bangladesh Taka 3.881 Indian Rupee 0.004549 0.004950 Pesso 6.795 Nepali Rupees 2.966 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000019 0.000025 Cyprus pound 742.035 Singapore Dollar 227.500 COUNTRY SELL DRAFT SELL CASH Japanese Yen 0.002439 0.002619 Japanese Yen 3.510 Hongkong Dollar 39.056 Australian Dollar 228.07 Kenyan Shilling 0.003165 0.003165 Canadian Dollar 253.40 Syrian Pound 2.600 Bangladesh Taka 3.890 Korean Won 0.000267 0.000282 Swiss Franc 328.85 Nepalese Rupees 3.020 Philippine Peso 6.790 Malaysian Ringgit 0.080622 0.086622 Euro 340.52 Malaysian Ringgit 85.640 Thai Baht 9.033 Nepalese Rupee 0.003037 0.003207 US Dollar 303.00 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 49.090 Pakistan Rupee 0.002776 0.003056 Sterling Pound 469.64 Thai Bhat 10.130 Philippine Peso 0.006703 0.006983 GCC COUNTRIES Japanese Yen 2.56 Turkish Lira 113.245 Saudi Riyal 80.790 0.000067 0.000073 Bangladesh Taka 3.890 Singapore Dollar 0.223292 0.229292 Qatari Riyal 83.221 Indian Rupee 4.733 Omani Riyal 787.110 Bahrain Exchange Company South African Rand 0.019258 0.027758 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.249 Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001879 0.002459 Bahraini Dinar 804.570 Nepali Rupee 2.965 Taiwan 0.009731 0.009911 UAE Dirham 82.484 Pakistani Rupee 2.974 COUNTRY SELL CASH SELLDRAFT Thai Baht 0.008754 0.0009304 UAE Dirhams 82.37 Europe ARAB COUNTRIES Bahraini Dinar 804.24 Belgian Franc 0.007899 0.008899 Arab Egyptian Pound - Cash 41.710 Egyptian Pound 39.60 British Pound 0.459748 0.468748 Bahraini Dinar 0.796720 0.804720 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 39.611 Jordanian Dinar 430.45 Czech Korune 0.004258 0.016258 Egyptian Pound 0.038736 0.041836 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.414 Omani Riyal 785.82 Danish Krone 0.041108 0.046108 Iranian Riyal 0.000084 0.000085 Tunisian Dinar 158.040 Qatari Riyal 83.40 Euro 0.331630 0.339630 Jordanian Dinar 427.440 Saudi Riyal 80.72 Norwegian Krone 0.036179 0.041379 Iraqi Dinar 0.000186 0.000246 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 2.032 Romanian Leu 0.075798 0.075798 Jordanian Dinar 0.423076 0.430576 Syrian Lira 2.159 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Slovakia 0.009025 0.019025 1.000000 1.000000 Morocco Dirham 31.542 Swedish Krona 0.032470 0.037470 Lebanese Pound 0.000150 0.000250 Swiss Franc 0.317413 0.327613 Moroccan Dirhams 0.021754 0.045754 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Turkish Lira 0.111932 0.118932 Nigerian Naira 0.001249 0.001884 US Dollar Transfer 302.800 US Dollar 302.300 Omani Riyal 0.780481 0.786161 Euro 338.830 Canadian Dollar 251.085 Australasia Qatar Riyal 0.082460 0.083673 Sterling Pound 468.130 Sterling Pound 458.075 Australian Dollar 0.230296 0.241796 Saudi Riyal 0.080110 0.080810 Canadian dollar 250.450 Euro 339.550 New Zealand Dollar 0.216950 0.226450 Syrian Pound 0.001283 0.001503 Turkish lira 112.230 Swiss Frank 278.480 Tunisian Dinar 0.155691 0.163691 Swiss Franc 325.590 Bahrain Dinar 800.790 America Turkish Lira 0.111932 0.118932 Australian Dollar 240.120 UAE Dirhams 82.610 Canadian Dollar 0.244052 0.252552 UAE Dirhams 0.081460 0.082609 US Dollar Buying 301.600 Qatari Riyals 83.850 US Dollars 0.298700 0.303400 Yemeni Riyal 0.001368 0.001448 TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 BUSINESS Europe, to seek new trade pact

BRUSSELS: The European Union and open up markets in services and allow busi- Mexico will launch negotiations towards a nesses to bid for public tenders in each new free-trade agreement later this year, as others’ countries. Europe seeks to tie its economy closer to The European Union is Mexico’s second- North America following a deal with largest trading partner after the United Canada and efforts to sign an accord with States, while Mexico is a top destination for the United States. EU exports after the United States and Building on a pact with Mexico from China. 2000, the European Union hopes to create A more comprehensive deal with the a transatlantic free-trade zone and help set European Union would allow Mexico to the global rules of commerce before China join Latin America’s Pacific economies of does. Mexico is jumping ahead of Brazil, , and that now have whose talks towards a similar deal with the modern trade pacts with both the European Union have stalled. European Union and the United States. “We are ready to commit to a highly It also deepens a divide between those ambitious deal,” EU Trade Commissioner nations and , Brazil and Cecilia Malmstrom told a forum in Brussels on the Atlantic coast, which alongside Mexican Economy Minister have been more reluctant to drop barriers Ildefonso Guajardo. “I will ask for a mandate to trade. “With Colombia, Chile and Peru, to launch negotiations this fall,” she said. EU we are sending a signal of fresh air that we officials are expected to discuss the timing are the countries of free traders. We are of talks in more detail at an EU-Latin responsible for more than half of Latin American summit in Brussels on June 12, America’s exports to the world,” Economy where Mexican President Enrique Pena Minister Guajardo said. Nieto is expected. The European Union and the South A deal, which would take several years, American trade bloc Mercosur have been would upgrade the EU-Mexican accord that unable to agree a deal, with Brazil unwilling was signed when the global economy was to move forward without its close ally far less integrated and online commerce Argentina. was in its infancy. It is part of a new genera- Mexico is also part of an Asia Pacific free tion of deals that go beyond tariffs. trade agreement, the Trans-Pacific As with the EU’s pact with Canada and Partnership, part of a broader US strategy its plans for a deal with the United States, a to link its economy to fast-growing markets BRUSSELS: Mexican Secretary of Economy Ildefonso Guajardo Villarreal (right) and European Commissioner for Trade Cecilia new accord with Mexico would further in the Pacific. —Reuters Malmstrom hold a press conference after their meeting at the European Commission building in Brussels yesterday. —AFP BoE holds interest rate at record low Borrowing costs likely to stay on hold in 2015

LONDON: The Bank of England yesterday kept 0.6 percent in the final quarter of 2014. retain the view that while deflation remains pos- its key interest rate at a record low 0.50 percent sible in the near term, consumer price inflation in the first monetary policy decision since the More austerity will start trending up from the third quarter,” Conservatives won Britain’s general election. The election was also an endorsement of noted IHG Global Insight economist Howard The meeting was held on Thursday and Cameron’s austerity policies and will likely see a Archer. Friday but the outcome by the independent BoE continuation of cuts to public spending as he Minutes from the MPC gathering will be pub- was delayed due to last week’s vote that was seeks to reduce a budget deficit of nearly £90 lished in May 20, when markets will gain greater won by Prime Minister David Cameron’s billion. “Since the first estimate of Q1 GDP has insight into policymakers’ thinking. Conservative party. cast some doubt over the recovery’s health, the BRUSSELS: European Central Bank President Mario Draghi arrives yesterday Borrowing costs are now likely to stay on MPC is likely to have voted unanimously again at Investors back stability for a Eurogroup meeting at the European Council in Brussels. —AFP hold for the rest of the year, economists said, this month’s meeting to keep interest rates on Cameron swept back to power last week after owing to slowing economic growth and the hold,” said Samuel Tombs, analyst at Capital an unexpected election victory handed his prospect of more austerity from Cameron, who Economics research group. Conservative party a narrow majority in parlia- KAMCO Real Estate Yield Fund clinched an unexpected victory in the May 7 “And while we think that the recovery is ment for the first time in almost two decades. vote. secure, the tough fiscal squeeze that is now all The Conservatives capitalized on their stew- begins monthly subscription “The BoE’s Monetary Policy Committee but certain to hit the economy and the subdued ardship of the economy, which has staged a sol- (MPC)... voted to maintain Bank Rate at 0.50 per- outlook for inflation should ensure that mone- id recovery since 2010 despite the first-quarter KUWAIT: KAMCO, a leading investment tunities in well-performing funds.” cent,” the British central bank said in a brief tary policy is tightened only gradually from next slowdown. However, the Liberal Democrats were company with one of the largest AUMs in Ezzeddine added, “KREYF provides statement. The nine-member panel also agreed year.” ravaged at the ballot box, hurt by the compro- the region, and winner of the prestigious Kuwaiti citizens and expats prospects in the to maintain its quantitative easing economic At the same time, Britain is battling the risk of mises they had to make in five years as junior Kuwait Asset Manager of the Year Award real estate sector backed by the expertise stimulus at £375 billion ($580 billion, 520 billion deflation, due partly to the recent sharp slump coalition partners in Cameron’s administration. 2015, announced the start of the monthly of the fund managers in local and regional euros). in world oil prices. The 12-month Consumer The result has been well received by the mar- subscription of the KAMCO Real Estate real estate markets. 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KREYF is an open- investment opportunities that have secure BEIJING: More than two hours ended real estate investment fund that fol- and growing returns which reflects posi- before China cut its interest rates lows a cautious and return-yielding tively on the funds’ investors. The fund is on Sunday afternoon, the finan- approach, and is denominated in USD with characterized by its prudent investments, cially sensitive information was a variable capital ranging between $18 mil- and one that aims to generate steady cash making its rounds among users lion and $550 million. flows during the investment period, of China’s popular social messag- Mounir Samir Ezzeddine, Senior Vice through the distribution of quarterly cash ing app WeChat. President, Alternative Investment dividends. The WeChat message, seen by Department at KAMCO said, “Opening KAMCO has appointed Burgan Bank and Reuters at 2:41 p.m., was bang on doors for monthly subscription in the Fund Gulf Bank as the distribution agents for the the money; it said China would is seen as an important step taken by KAM- Fund to expand the pool of potential cut interest rates by 25 basis CO due to our belief in offering our investors for KREYF, and to offer optimal points and raise the ceiling for investors across the local market the methods to facilitate subscription process- deposit rates to 1.5 times the chance to enhance their investment oppor- es for those who are interested. benchmark. The information was attrib- uted to the People’s Bank of French prosecutor seeks end China (PBOC), and the WeChat message, which redirected read- to Airbus insider trading trial ers to an anonymous web page, did not carry the central bank PARIS: A French public prosecutor yes- people who have already been investi- logo or any official government terday recommended that insider trading gated and cleared by the AMF cannot go stamp. When the real announce- charges against current and former man- on to face a criminal trial. agers of Airbus Group be dropped after The decision was seen as a setback for ment was released shortly after 5 they successfully challenged the process prosecutors and reflected a broader tug p.m. local time, it matched word on human rights grounds. of war between the administration and for word. The recommendation, if endorsed by French judiciary over the so-called ‘dou- In China, information often a judge who has the final say, would halt ble jeopardy’ rule. Scrapping the trial leaks ahead of official announce- a trial of seven current and former man- would wrap up more than eight years of ments, and as the world’s second- agers and two former industrial share- administrative and legal wrangling biggest economy, that can swing holders accused of illegally selling shares caused by delays to the A380, the world’s financial markets at home and in 2006 in what was then known as EADS, largest airliner. The judge in charge of the abroad. as the group faced mounting costs on trial was expected to make a quick deci- Song Qinghui, a prominent the A380 and A350 aircraft projects. “My sion, possibly later. financial news commentator in view is that the charges should be The trial had been expected to throw China, said he had seen the leak dropped for all those concerned,” said the spotlight on internal strategy dis- “exploding” in WeChat circles as TOKYO: A man is reflected on an electronic stock board of a securities firm in Tokyo yesterday. public prosecutor Eliane Houlette. putes and confidential financial discus- early as Sunday morning. Asian stocks rose yesterday after China’s central bank cut interest rates in the latest move by The trial opened last year but was sus- sions behind the launch of another jet, “There are so many such leaks policymakers to reinvigorate the country’s stumbling economy. —AP pended after a first day of deliberations the A350. In the firing line were the seven in China. Although offenders can to allow the defendants to argue before a current and former managers, and also be sentenced to the stiffest possi- were jailed for up to six years in month, news that China will more short-term,” said Zhou Hao, an higher court that the case infringed their two corporate defendants France’s ble punishment, no one investi- 2012 when they were found to than triple the number of state economist at ANZ Bank in basic rights because they had already Lagardere and German car firm Daimler. gates the leaks,” Song said. have orchestrated leaks of mar- firms allowed to trade commodi- Shanghai. been cleared of identical charges by Both companies were core sharehold- The central bank and TenCent ket-moving economic figures. ty derivatives was leaked when Ironically, the effect of such France’s AMF stock market regulator. ers in EADS and reduced their stakes in Holdings, which owns and runs While monthly releases of eco- pictures of part of the official doc- leaks can be blunted by the fact The result of that human rights action April 2006, weeks before the announce- WeChat, were not immediately came in March when France’s ment of A380 production delays that hit nomic data are no longer leaked ument announcing the change that mainland financial markets are available for comment. China has as they were in 2008, sometimes were posted on the Internet. riddled with rumor. Another Constitutional Court backed their argu- its share price. tried to deter such leaks. An ment and ordered a criminal court to halt Both companies and all the individual days in advance, screenshots of “From a fairness point of view, WeChat message that went around employee at a Chinese asset the trial in its current form. It urged the defendants have denied any wrongdo- official documents with policy policies need to be kept a secret on Sunday had falsely said the management firm and a government to change the law so that ing. —Reuters announcements still find their because there is definitely a PBOC would cut rates by 50 basis researcher at the central bank way online in advance. Just this first-mover’s advantage in the points later that day. —Reuters BUSINESS TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 Markets fall as hopes low for Greece deal

BRUSSELS: Hopes for a deal between Greece for third time in six months lower, though outperformance by Britain’s yields also edged up, extending the still leaning towards December. and its European creditors at a key meeting China’s interest rate cut kept shares world- FTSE after Friday’s post-election jump kept sharp rise seen over the last couple of The yield on the benchmark 10-year yesterday are slim, weighing on the region’s wide near record highs yesterday, though the FTSEurofirst 300 about level. The euro weeks. note was at 2.177 percent, compared to stock markets as the country struggles to euro-zone bourses, bonds and the euro were bore the brunt of the angst, falling half a per- its US close of 2.150 percent on Friday. make upcoming debt repayments. Ahead of a pegged back by a lack of progress in resolving cent to $1.1157, well below the two-month BULLS IN THE CHINA SHOP The dollar rose about 0.1 percent against meeting with his counterparts in the 19-coun- Greece’s financing woes. China’s third rate cut peak of $1.1392 struck last week. A 3-percent surge in Chinese stocks the yen to 119.92. In addition to Greece’s try euro-zone, Greek Finance Minister Yanis in six months on Sunday saw Asian markets “I get the feeling in the market that there following the rate cut had helped MSCI’s ongoing debt woes, the euro was under Varoufakis said Greece and its creditors have a get the week off to a solid start, but Europe are increasingly more people who are posi- broadest index of Asia-Pacific shares out- pressure after German Chancellor Angela “moral and political responsibility” to swiftly was cautious as euro zone finance ministers tioning for a Grexit,” Credit Agricole’s side Japan climb 0.4 percent, with Merkel’s conservatives were badly beat- reach a deal. Athens will not, however, budge prepared to meet in Brussels to try to find a European head of FX strategy, Adam Myers, Japan’s Nikkei also up 1.3 percent. en in a regional election. from its key negotiating positions, he said. way to keep Greece afloat. said. There had been an element of follow The dollar’s widespread strength also Stock markets fell in the euro-zone, with Athens has to repay 750 million euro to the “More and more people seem to be taking through from the 1 percent gain on Wall meant the pound fell about 0.3 percent Athens’ index falling the most, down 2.8 per- International Monetary Fund today. France’s a pessimistic view. That wasn’t there even a Street on Friday after a bounce back in to $1.5407, after it notched up a 10-week cent. Despite three months of talks, Greece Finance Minister Michel Sapin said yesterday’s month ago.” Two-year Greek yields edged up jobs US numbers had lifted sentiment. high of $1.5523 on Friday. Among com- and its creditors have failed to agree on fur- meeting would be not be “decisive”, though 35 basis points to 20.86 percent and Greek That data had also given the dollar modities, oil got off to a lackluster start, ther reforms and savings Athens needs to he had no doubt a deal would come eventual- stocks, which rallied sharply last week, were renewed energy. It was 0.3 percent high- with Brent flat at $65.39 a barrel after qualify for a 7.2 billion euro ($8 billion) loan ly. down 2.3 percent. er against other top currencies and up posting its first weekly loss in a month on installment. Without the cash, Greece could The jitters however meant most of the euro The nervousness also weighed on Italian for a third straight session in European Friday as the market fretted again about go bankrupt within weeks. China cuts rates zone’s stock markets and its bonds started and Spanish yields while German 10-year trading. The payrolls figures kept alive global oversupply. Gold continued to the possibility of the Federal Reserve track sideways at 1,185 an ounce while raising US interest rates for the first time copper saw only minor lift from China’s in almost a decade as soon as rate cut. China is the biggest buyer of September, although futures markets are the metal. — Agencies TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 BUSINESS Why VAT might be a good thing for Kuwait

By Sean Wheeler and Eduard Gracia more than one year, however, the ques- rate perspective, therefore, VAT may have ing for almost any form of taxation, par- transition period Individually, each tion may not be whether taxes are desir- only a minimal effect on Kuwait’s appeal ticularly in a region where taxation itself one of these elements would pose sig- report was recently issued high- able or not, but rather how best to raise for business investments. is so rare. Matters are compounded nificant challenges. However, the lighting the potential implemen- those taxes in a way that has the least This cursory assessment of VAT, how- because VAT poses a substantially com- biggest challenge of all is probably Atation of Value Added Tax (VAT) impact on economic activity. This is ever, must be balanced with its impact plex administrative burden on both the the fact that the above elements need across the region, in part as a conse- where the possibility of implementing on the wider community. While VAT may tax authority and the businesses subject to happen simultaneously because, in quence of changes in the oil price. While VAT becomes interesting. not at first glance have as strong an to it. In a broad sense, three key elements a very real sense, they are all different the topic of VAT has been discussed regu- In essence, VAT represents a tax on impact on businesses as other taxation need to be put in place: facets of the same task. The advantage larly in the recent past, the timing of this consumption, as it is charged on every approaches, we still expect to see busi- 1. A robust framework for governmental that Kuwait has is that it can draw report is particularly noteworthy. In product that is sold (just like a sales tax), nesses influenced, as local consumer oversight, clear regulation and penal- inspiration from how other countries January of this year, Kuwait announced but allows businesses to reclaim part of spending may be reduced and salary ties dealt with this transition, for example its first fiscal year budget deficit in 15 their tax expense2 so that final con- expectations increased. As with all forms 2. An IT platform capable of capturing in Europe. years1. The drop in oil prices has created sumers end up supporting the tax bur- of taxation, VAT will decrease the pur- the detailed VAT statements submit- Whether VAT or any other tax is ulti- new challenges for many industries oper- den. Imports into the country are also chasing power of consumers, possibly ted by the companies in the country, mately introduced in Kuwait will of ating in the country, morphing discus- subject to VAT, whereas exports are leading to an increase in salaries both for processing them and also cross-vali- course depend on multiple considera- sions of VAT from a question of “Why?” to exempt (so local producers do not find public and private sector employees. The dating them tions ranging from future oil revenue a question of “What if?” themselves disadvantaged). VAT is by public’s reaction to VAT will not be a light 3. An effective, comprehensive commu- forecasts to general public sentiment. A natural reaction that we have heard some businesses considered more favor- issue and should not be overlooked in nication plan to ensure every compa- However, if the from many parties is that implementing able than corporate taxes, as it does not evaluating its pros and cons ny is aware of how to comply with the decides to roll out some form of taxation, VAT would erase a key selling point for penalize their profits and, unlike ordinary In addition to this very real challenge, new tax requirements, knows when VAT should certainly be considered as Kuwait -that it is “tax-free”. In the context sales taxes, it does not penalize their pur- Kuwait will need to introduce VAT in an they will start to be enforced and one approach to leverage taxation to of a budget deficit that might exist for chases and investments. From a corpo- effective manner - a daunting undertak- what the legal dispositions are for the generate public funds. US factory job gains slow despite corporate vows Economists say ‘reshoring’ adds few US jobs

DETROIT: Nike Inc’s announcement But the company had problems with its plan to buy an estimated Mexican counterparts. “Mexican that it could create up to 10,000 man- with its Chinese suppliers, from $250 billion in US made goods from workers are cheaper than Chinese,” ufacturing jobs in the United States delays at the US West Coast ports to 2013 to 2023. he said. “So why not go near-shore will spark further debate on whether contaminants in the plastics used to In the auto industry, which rather than far-shore?” the country is starting to see an make them. accounts for about 750,000 US fac- In Nike’s case, the company industrial renaissance after many In April, as part of Wal-Mart’s tory jobs, vehicle makers and their linked its promise to create US jobs years of job losses. reshoring effort, Tailor Made opened parts suppliers are shifting some to relief from tariffs on imported Evidence from government and a new production line in its home production out of Asia, in part to shoes. Those levies average around private data suggests it is too early town of Elroy, Wisconsin. The com- reduce the risks posed by delays at 25 percent to 35 percent, depend- for US workers, or politicians, to cele- pany has invested $600,000 in the U.S. ports or natural disasters such ing on the materials used and the brate. Any boost in US manufactur- new line, adding up to 10 jobs to its as the 2011 tsunami in Japan. type of shoe, according to the ing appears so far to be, at best, mod- work force of 65 to start with. More But Mexico is landing many of Footwear Distributors and Retailers est and fragile. new jobs are expected if production those jobs, says Sean McAlinden, of America. ATHENS: Former employees of the national Greek broadcaster ERT enter the The athletic shoemaker Nike on expands. Many of the company’s chief economist for the Center for US firms paid about $400 million broadcaster’s headquarters in an Athens northern suburb yesterday, Friday joined Wal-Mart Stores Inc, other kitchen products are still Automotive Research in Ann Arbor, in tariffs in 2014 for shoes imported demanding their jobs back immediately. The Greek parliament voted on Apple Inc, General Electric Co and made in China. “We would love to Michigan. US auto industry manu- from countries that would be includ- April 28, 2015 to reestablish the public broadcaster ERT, abruptly closed in Ford Motor Co among US businesses move all of our production back facturing employment will grow to ed in a Trans-Pacific trade pact, 2013 as part of austerity measures. —AFP promising to invest in manufacturing here if we could.” Retzer said. “But we about 760,000 workers and then notably , according to the jobs in the United States. There were work in an ultra-competitive envi- stay at that plateau until the next trade group. The proposed Trans- 12.3 million US manufacturing jobs in ronment where a penny or two on a cyclical downturn, he said. Pacific Partnership would reduce tar- April, up 1.5 percent from a year earli- product can make all the difference.” Average pay for US auto workers iffs. Nike manufactured 43 percent of Why US homebuyers er but well below 1990, when there Michelle Gloeckler, executive vice has stagnated or fallen in recent its Nike brand shoes in Vietnam in were almost 18 million jobs, the gov- president for US manufacturing at years, McAlinden said. However, US the 2014 fiscal year, according to its ernment reported Friday. Wal-Mart, said the retailer is on track workers get paid far more than their disclosures. —Reuters face a tough spring How best to expand manufactur- ing employment will be a prominent WASHINGTON: Eager to buy your first home news for some homebuyers, who will get bet- question in the 2016 election cycle, this spring? Already own, but want to trade ter houses for lower monthly payments. especially in Midwestern states such up? Be warned: there’ll be plenty of competi- How long rates will remain this low, how- as Ohio and Michigan. But econo- tion. Bidding wars have broken out in hot real- ever, is a source of much speculation. The mists and analysts say that excite- estate markets like Denver and Los Angeles, Federal Reserve has opened the door to begin ment over “reshoring,” or shifting jobs where there aren’t enough houses to meet raising its key short-term interest rate from back to the United States from over- demand. The lack of supply is a key reason near zero sometime this year. That would like- seas, is overdone. home sales nationwide have yet to return to ly lead to higher mortgage rates. “Instead of hundreds of jobs at a healthy levels following the housing collapse “The reason we see so much competition is time, manufacturers are hiring five or in 2008. people have an incentive to get in there 10 people at a time,” said Diane “Inventory is still fairly low in a lot of mar- before that interest rate goes up,” Olsen said. Swonk, chief economist at Mesirow kets across the country,” said Skylar Olsen, sen- Even with low rates, rising home prices and Financial in Chicago. ior economist at real estate data firm Zillow. stagnant wages have made it tougher for Other measures of manufacturing “Buyers are not going to have the easiest time many people to save for a down payment. activity suggest that US companies out there.” Many buyers are choosing adjustable-rate are relying on more imported parts Further tilting the market in favor of sellers mortgages, which accounted for 16 percent of for goods they produce. The share of are low mortgage rates, which have ratcheted all home purchase loans so far this year, US intermediate goods imported up pressure on buyers to wrap up deals before according to the Mortgage Bankers from Asia, Latin America and Eastern borrowing becomes more expensive. Association. Popular before the housing bust, Europe grew from about 2 percent in Then there’s the matter of price. While the ARMs have interest rates that are initially low- the late 1990s to almost 5 percent in overall rise in home prices has slowed this er than a traditional 30-year, fixed-rate loan, 2011, only dipping briefly during the year, fierce competition in many cities and but the rate can jump after a few years. recession, according to an analysis markets will make the cost of buying much published in November by University harder this spring. Prices are peaking or com- FEWER CASH OFFERS of Munich economist Dalia Marin. ing close in roughly half the country. Seven When housing prices bottomed in 2012, states set highs in March, including Colorado, institutional investors such as The Blackstone MEXICO GAINS New York, Tennessee and Texas, according to Group started buying troubled properties in There are cases that counter the real estate data provider CoreLogic. ways that fueled their recovery. As prices rose trends seen in the broader measures Homebuyers this spring will need to pay by roughly 20 percent over the next three of job creation. Tailor Made Products attention to six major factors: years, these investors backed away. Now they Inc, which makes kitchen utensils, account for 3.4 percent of single-family home shifted production of spatulas, slot- SUPPLY IS TIGHT sales, down from a peak of 8.7 percent in early ted spoons and other utensils to There just aren’t enough homes for sale in 2013, according to the housing data firm China about a decade ago. It was many parts of the country, and properties are RealtyTrac. “The reason investors aren’t in the “highly likely” the company would NEW YORK: Specialist Fabian Caceras (left) works with trader Thomas Cicciari on the floor of the moving fast. In March, one measure showed it market is prices are so high,” said Glenn have gone out of business otherwise, New York Stock Exchange yesterday. Stock indexes were little changed in early trading yester- Kelman, CEO of Redfin. “The smart money has said chief financial officer Mike would take fewer than five months to sell all day as investors monitored developments in Greece’s latest bid for financial support. —AP the homes on the US market. Normally, it left the building.” Retzer. should take six. That means traditional buyers - with a Among the toughest markets for buyers: mortgage and a desire to live in the homes - San Jose, San Francisco and Los Angeles, as won’t have to compete with as many all-cash Chile’s finance minister out in sweeping reshuffle well as Seattle, Denver, Dallas-Fort Worth, offers from investors who want to rent or flip. Texas, Nashville and Boston, according to All-cash purchases have hit a four-year low, SANTIAGO: Economist Rodrigo Valdes was named first time since Chile returned to democracy in 1990 2010. Outgoing finance minister Alberto Arenas Zillow. accounting for 26 percent of single-family as Chile’s finance minister yesterday, in a sweeping that the finance minister has been dismissed mid- had a strained relationship with the business com- Homes in those areas are selling an aver- home and condo sales at the start of this year, Cabinet reshuffle by President Michelle Bachelet term. The shake-up comes after center-left munity following unpopular reforms and an “inabili- age of 48 days faster than properties in mar- according to RealtyTrac. that saw her core group of closest ministers all Bachelet’s approval ratings fell sharply, dragged ty to communicate with the market”, said Tiago kets where buyers have the edge. “The same Metropolitan areas around Boston, San replaced. down by a series of financial scandals, as well as a Severo, Latin America economist at Goldman Sachs. day the house gets listed, it’s not unusual to Jose, California, Albuquerque, New Mexico, Although a partial reshuffle was expected a year slowing economy and disillusion with her reform Economists welcomed the appointment of get four, five or six offers,” said Brian Callahan, and Jackson, Mississippi, are markets where into Bachelet’s second term, it is unusual for so drive. Bachelet took office for a second term in Valdes, who is currently chairman of state bank an agent for real estate brokerage Redfin in there’s the least competition from institutional many to be replaced at the same time and is the March 2014 after first serving as president in 2006- Banco del Estado. He has a doctorate in economics Madison, Wisconsin, where homes take fewer investors. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and than four months to sell, on average. In some cases, investors who bought a few was formerly a deputy director of the International Homebuyers are likely to find more listings years ago are looking to sell the properties to Monetary Fund. and pay less than asking price in Philadelphia, traditional buyers, Kelman said. Still, bidding He has also previously worked at the finance Chicago, Cleveland, Detroit and Miami-Fort wars between investors and traditional buyers ministry, as coordinator of economic policy in the Lauderdale, Florida. are strong possibilities in places like Memphis, early 2000’s. “The figure of Rodrigo Valdes is cer- Markets with a bigger inventory of homes Charlotte, North Carolina, Atlanta and tainly going to be most likely perceived as a mar- tend to have weaker job growth and more Jacksonville, Florida. Those are markets where ket-friendly new minister, who could perhaps instill construction. In cities with tighter inventory, institutional investors bought up the most sin- a renewed sense of confidence in the outlook for job growth tends to be stronger. gle-family homes between January and the economy,” said Severo. March, according to RealtyTrac. Any change in the direction the ministry takes A PREMIUM ON LOW-PRICED HOMES would more likely be one of tone rather than sig- There’s heavy demand for houses at the FEWER FORECLOSED HOMES nificant adjustments to Bachelet’s ambitious tax- lower-end of the market, and that means peo- After the housing boom, a widespread and-spend reform agenda, economists said. ple hunting for those homes are seeing prices surge of foreclosures helped push down The other key change was Interior Minister rise faster. Homes valued at $135,000 or less prices. A rash of short sales, when an owner Rodrigo Penailillo, one of her closest allies, who climbed 9 percent in price for the 12 months sells their home for less than what they owe was replaced by current defense minister Jorge ending in February, according to data from on their mortgage, also contributed to the Burgos, a political veteran. CoreLogic. drop. Penailillo had been tainted by media reports of “This is the hottest home price apprecia- Fire sales still happen, but not as many as connections with one of the companies at the cen- tion prior to the spring selling season in nine before. The reason? The number of homes in ter of a campaign finance scandal and was widely years,” said Anand Nallathambi, president and some stage of foreclosure is down 12 percent expected to go. Bachelet also replaced another CEO of CoreLogic. By comparison, homes that from a year ago, and bank-owned homes are two key advisors - spokesman Alvaro Elizalde and priced for $226,800 or more rose 5 percent. down 34 percent, according to RealtyTrac. Chief of Staff Ximena Rincon, who moves to the “Distressed sales are dropping precipitous- Labor Ministry. In total there were six new LOW MORTGAGE RATES ly,” said Daren Blomquist, vice president at appointees to the cabinet, with three changes of Long-term mortgage rates remain near his- RealtyTrac. Buyers will be hard pressed to find role. toric lows. The latest national average for a 30- such bargains in Salt Lake City, Albuquerque, “Today it is time to give the government a new year fixed-rate mortgage was 3.80 percent, New Mexico, and Austin-Round Rock, Texas, SANTIAGO: Chilean new Minister of Finance Rodrigo Valdes speaks with the press, after the presentation of the new Cabinet at La Moneda presidential palace in lease of life and this new phase which is as compared with an average of 4.21 percent a where foreclosures accounted for 4 percent or demanding as it is inspiring requires renovated year earlier. Those cheaper rates are good less of all home sales through February.—AP Santiago yesterday. —AFP energy and new faces,” said Bachelet. —Reuters TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 BUSINESS Aafaq Islamic Finance wins three honors Global Banking & Finance Review Awards 2015

ABU DHABI: Aafaq Islamic Finance, a lead- our plans and activities.” ing UAE-based Sharia compliant financial Global Banking and Finance Review is institution, bagged three major honors at one of the world’s leading online portals the 2015 Annual Awards held recently by covering banking, finance, business, trad- leading online portal Global Banking & ing, investing, technology and more. Its Finance Review in Toronto, Canada. experienced contributors provide high- The Global Banking and Finance Review quality and in-depth insights in a clear and Awards honors banking and financial insti- concise manner. tutions around the world for their innova- Aafaq Islamic Finance provides unique tive banking and investment strategies, and comprehensive Sharia-compliant achievements, and progressive and inspira- financial services and products across the tional impact on industry. It covers more than 20 categories ranging from Islamic Finance, Insurance and Foreign Exchange to Investment Management, Real Estate and Asset and Wealth Management. For this year’s edition, aafaq won for ‘Fastest Growing Islamic Finance Company UAE 2015,’ ‘Best Customer Service Provider to Government & Non-Government Sector Middle East 2015’ and ‘Best Financial Statements Presentation UAE 2014’. The institution’s outstanding performance reflects its success in providing compre- hensive Islamic financial services that meet market requirements and comply with global standards. On this occasion, Dr Mahmoud Abdalaal, CEO of “aafaq Islamic Finance”, said: “aafaq Islamic Finance commends the Air Arabia reports net profit hard work and dedication of its team for helping us emerge as one of the leading institutions in the 2015 Global Banking Dr Mahmoud Abdalaal of AED 85 million in 1Q2015 and Finance Review Awards. The diversity of categories we won in reflects our UAE and the region. It has received a num- exceptional ability to excel in various ber of recognitions from distinguished Turnover reaches AED 886m, 1.8m passengers flew with Air Arabia in Q1 aspects of banking and finance while sat- award-giving bodies including the Middle isfying the needs and expectations of East Excellence Awards Institute, Islamic SHARJAH: Air Arabia (PJSC), the first and largest of strong performance across our operations, oil price continue to pose additional pressure on both our clients and our partners and Business & Finance, Malta Institute of low cost carrier operator in the Middle East and with Air Arabia maintaining its steady, long-term the aviation industry, we remain focused on upholding Sharia quality values. As usual, Management, Global Banking & Finance North Africa, yesterday announced its financial growth trajectory,” said Sheikh Abdullah Bin expanding operations and entering new mar- we dedicate this latest achievement to our Review, and International Finance results for the first quarter of 2015 as the airline’s Mohammed Al-Thani, Chairman of Air Arabia. kets. We are confident that our appealing prod- customers who are always at the core of Magazine. route and hub expansion strategy continued to “The increase in profits coupled with continuous uct offering and our focus on making air travel deliver strong financials and healthy passenger growth in seat factors and ever expanding route accessible to millions of customers across the number growth. strategy is a reflection of Air Arabia’s sustainable region will continue to drive our growth in 2015”. For the three months ending March 31, 2015, business model”. Air Arabia added a total of eight new routes Air Arabia reported a net profit of AED 85 mil- Air Arabia reached two major milestones in in the first three months of 2015 from the carrier lion, an increase of 13 per cent on the correspon- its route and hub expansion strategy in the first four operating hubs: Urumqi (China), Gizan ding 2014 figure of AED 75 million. During the quarter of 2015. In January, the airline (Saudi), Multan (Pakistan) and Isfahan (Iran) from same period, the airline’s turnover reached AED announced the opening of its fifth global fixed- Sharjah; Doha (Qatar) and Kathmandu (Nepal) 886 million, an increase of 7 per cent compared based operation, located at Amman Queen Alia from Ras Al-Khaimah; Naples (Italy) and to AED 827 million in the first quarter of last year. International Airport in Jordan, reinforcing its Montpelier (France) from Casablanca. 1.8 million passengers flew with Air Arabia market leading position within the Levant Another industry milestone was achieved by between January and March 2015, which is region. Air Arabia in March with the launch of the first 10per cent higher than the number of 1.6 mil- Later in the quarter, Air Arabia became the loyalty program from a regional low-cost carrier. lion for the corresponding period of last year. first low-cost airline from the Middle East and Airewards offers the same simple, transparent The airline’s average seat load factor - or passen- Africa to enter the Chinese market when it and value-packed experience that customers gers carried as a percentage of available seats - began regular non-stop services to Urumqi, the associate with Air Arabia, with points based on during the first three months of 2015 stood at an largest city in Western China. money spent rather than distance flown, and impressive 81 per cent. Al-Thani continued: “While the regional politi- able to be earned on any product or service pur- “We are delighted to record another quarter cal uncertainty combined with the fluctuating chased from the airline. Inflation to rebound in 2015, global policy to tighten

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By Camille Accad March than in mid-2014, at around oil prices begins to fade around due to weakness in global demand, 6.5 per cent YoY. Similarly, price July, the negative effect of energy the price of Brent oil is not expected KUWAIT: Global inflation has been growth in the Gulf stagnated around prices on annual headline inflation to exceed $75 in 2015. Finally, a rise Mercedes-Benz keeps on a downward trend since July, 2.6 per cent YoY. At the global level, will begin to diminish. Additionally, in disposable income, due to rela- mainly due to the decline in the inflation dipped significantly, from a barrel of oil is projected to tively lower oil prices, may support customers fully charged price of oil which is trading at 3.5 per cent YoY in mid-2014 to 2.0 become moderately more expen- a recovery in demand and hence roughly half its mid-2014 value. The per cent in the first quarter of this sive in the next few months as a fuel small increases in core inflation. KUWAIT: Highlighting the importance of battery that charges all electrical equip- main factor behind the dip in ener- year. However, prices have not been result of softening supply levels. In In 2015, headline inflation will gy prices was the surge in global oil falling across all types of goods. 2015, the largest US exploration increase again, mostly in the second a well-conditioned battery for maximum ment in a car,” said Michael Ruehle, CEO, supply, which has been on an Core inflation, which excludes oil and production companies such as part of the year, but will remain low- safety and performance this summer, AR Abdul Rahman Albisher& Zaid Alkazemi upward trend for nearly two years, er than in early 2014. Albisher and Z Alkazemi Co, the author- Co. “At Mercedes-Benz we do all we can finally reaching a record high of 94.9 In response to easing prices, cen- ized general distributor for Mercedes- to ensure our customers experience the million barrels per day in the last tral banks around the world have Benz in Kuwait - is offering customers a smoothest drive, maximum enjoyment, quarter of 2014 - according to the loosened policy, except in the US, complimentary battery health check convenience and peace of mind at all International Energy Agency (IEA). through rate cuts and, in the case of from now until 7 June 2015. times. We hope this small, but essential The large increase in US crude pro- the euro-zone, an asset-purchasing Mercedes-Benz customers can take service check is enjoyed by our many cus- duction as a result of the shale program. The expected rise in infla- advantage of the special offer at one of tomers in Kuwait over the next month.” boom, combined with sluggish tion in the latter half of the year will the three Mercedes-Benz authorized Complimentary battery check and dis- global demand, explains a large part have an impact on policy world- service centres of Albisher & Alkazemi Co counted parts are available for the full of the supply glut. wide, forcing many central banks to conveniently located in Shuwaikh, Al-Rai range of Mercedes-Benz SUVs, sedans, Inflation has fallen the most in reverse policy. The Federal Reserve and Ahmadi. The authorized service cen- coupes, cabriolets and roadsters. All serv- developed economies. Prices in the will consider raising interest rates ters are equipped with latest tools and ices are carried out using only Genuine G3, which consists of the US, the sooner than expected, possibly as diagnostic equipment and a team of Mercedes-Benz Parts in line with manu- euro-zone and Japan, softened from early as September, which will qualified technicians to ensure that vehi- facturer guidelines ensuring that only 1.6 per cent YoY in July last year to prompt other central banks, particu- cles are serviced for optimum perform- parts scheduled for replacement are 0.2 per cent in March. As of March, larly in emerging markets, to hike ance, safety and comfort. A 30 per cent changed, with written confirmation of rates in order to curb investment the US and euro zone were in defla- discount on replacement batteries and work done provided to customers for tion. Emerging Asian prices also outflows. Additionally, given the all related parts further highlights the peace of mind. decelerated, to a lesser extent, from recent improvement in consump- 3.2 per cent YoY in July 2014 to 2.0 tion in the euro-zone, a surge in special service and savings Mercedes- All service centres are open from Sat- per cent in March, led mostly by and food products, has remained EOG and Devon Energy have inflation in the bloc, although Benz customers enjoy, long after they Wed 07:30 am to 06:00 pm & on Taiwan, Thailand, Korea and relatively stable. In theory, the already announced large cuts in unlikely at this stage, may force the leave the showroom. Thursdays from 07:30 am to 12:00 pm. Malaysia. Except for Indonesia and decline in oil prices should put CAPEX as they adjust to an environ- European Central Bank (ECB) to “A car battery is essential to the life of Customers can browse through the latest Hong Kong, all major Asian downside pressure on the price of ment of lower prices. The slowdown reduce the pace of asset-purchasing, any vehicle. Whether you’re listening to collection of lifestyle items and car acces- economies witnessed a slowdown other goods as production costs fall, in activity is already clear: rig counts or even end it altogether. The rise in the radio, using the satellite navigation sories and enjoy complimentary Wi-Fi in prices. Outside Asia, emerging while the decrease in headline infla- have fallen considerably and the inflation will create a setting of system or charging your phone, it’s the while waiting to get cars checked. markets were less affected by the tion should fuel deflationary expec- growth in US inventory has stabi- tighter monetary policy, however it decline in oil prices. In fact, when tations. So far, this has not hap- lized lately. At the global level, oil will be a longer cycle than usual, grouped together, inflation in Brazil, pened. supply fell for in the first quarter of allowing for the gradual recovery of Mexico, South Africa, Nigeria and Instead, inflation will bottom out 2015, to 94.6 million barrels per day global demand in an environment Al-Tijari announces winners Turkey was roughly the same in this year. As last year’s high base in according to IEA figures. However, of a strengthening US dollar. of the Al-Najma Account Burgan Bank announces winners of Yawmi account KUWAIT: Commercial Bank of Kuwait try and another 4 mega prizes during held the Al-Najma Account draw yes- the year worth KD 100,000 each on KUWAIT: Burgan Bank announced yesterday the 500 and above, the account holder will be quali- owned subsidiaries, which include Jordan Kuwait terday. The draw was held under the different occasions: The National Day, names of the lucky winners of its Yawmi account fied for both the quarterly and daily draws. Bank, Gulf Bank Algeria, Burgan Bank - Turkey, supervision of the Ministry of Eid Al-Fitr, Eid Al-Adha and on the draw, each taking home a prize of KD 5,000. Burgan Bank encourages everyone to open a Bank of Baghdad, Tunis International Bank, in Commerce & Industry represented by 19th of June which is the date of the The lucky winners for the daily draws took Yawmi account and/or increase their deposit to which Burgan Bank owns a majority stake. Burgan Abdulaziz Ashkanani. bank’s establishment. home a cash-prize of KD 5,000 each, and they are: maximize their chances to becoming a winner. Bank Group has one of the largest regional The winner for the Base Account is With a minimum balance of KD 1. Fayhaa Aliyan The more customers deposit, the higher the branch networks with more than 231 branches Hamad Adnan Al-Adwani. The winners 500, customers will be eligible for the 2. Suha Mohd Abdul-raoof chances they receive of winning. across Kuwait, Turkey, Jordan, Algeria, , Tunis, 3. Alnadi Hasan Ibrahim For more information on opening a Yawmi Lebanon and Palestine. of the Al-Najma daily draw are: daily draw provided that the money is 4. Hasnah Falah Sakhoy account or about the new quarterly draw, cus- The Bank has continuously improved its per- Faleh Hassan Al-Qenaei — KD in the account one week prior to the 5. Amal Eid Al-dhaferi tomers are urged to visit their nearest Burgan formance over the years through an expanded 7000, Hartman Susan Ronald— KD daily draw or 2 months prior to the To further add to the anticipation of Yawmi Bank branch and receive all the details, or simply revenue structure, diversified funding sources, 7000, Huda Abdulrahman Al-Jaber— mega draw. In addition, for each KD25 account customers, Burgan Bank now offers a call the bank’s Call Center at 1804080 where cus- and a strong capital base. The adoption of state- KD 7000, Fatma Abdulwahab a customer can get one chance for Quarterly Draw with more chances to win higher tomer service representatives will be delighted to of-the-art services and technology has posi- Abdulraheem — KD 7000, Salem winning instead of KD 50. rewards, entitling one lucky customer to win KD assist with any questions on the Yawmi account tioned it as a trendsetter in the domestic market Khalil Al-Ramzi— KD 7000. Commercial Bank of Kuwait takes 125,000 every three months. The Yawmi Account or any of the bank’s products and services. and within the MENA region. Burgan Bank’s The Commercial Bank of Kuwait this opportunity to congratulate all now offers Daily and quarterly Draws, the Established in 1977, Burgan Bank is the brand has been created on a foundation of real announces the biggest daily draw in lucky winners and also extends appre- Quarterly Draw requires customers to maintain a youngest commercial Bank and second largest by values - of trust, commitment, excellence and Kuwait with the launch of the new ciation to the Ministry of Commerce minimum amount of KD 500 in their account for 2 assets in Kuwait, with a significant focus on the progression, to remind us of the high standards Najma account. Customers of the and Industry for their effective supervi- months prior to draw date. Additionally, every KD corporate and financial institutions sectors, as to which we aspire. ‘People come first’ is the foun- bank can now enjoy a KD 7,000 daily sion of the draws which were conduct- 10 in the account, will entitle customers to one well as having a growing retail, and private bank dation on which its products and services are prize which is the highest in the coun- ed in an orderly and organized manner. chance of winning. If the account balance is KD customer base. Burgan Bank has five majority developed. TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 technology

CIOs believe IT functions are aligned with aims of broader business

DUBAI: Over 60% of Gulf-based CIOs now This concept was a prominent feature of the data analytics are the main areas in which become increasingly common as 3rdPlatform believe their IT functions are well aligned with accompanying survey, with IDC questioning lines of business either procure solutions or uptake rises across the region, with almost the aims of the broader business. However, an more than 200 of the region’s most promi- heavily influence the final decision, while our 50% of CIOs now either aware that shadow IT interesting shift is underway in the procure- nent IT executives on their relationships with survey also showed that they are most likely exists in their organizations or believing that ment of transformative 3rdPlatform technolo- line-of-business leaders across their organiza- to procure solutions based in public clouds, as it does. gies including cloud, mobile, social media, tions. Their answers suggest that an evolution these technologies require little or no IT “Shadow IT creates major compliance and and big data analytics, with line-of-business is taking place in the roles played by IT and involvement.” security challenges for the CIO. In order to heads increasingly becoming involved in the other departments, as the boundaries that The majority of the CIOs surveyed per- avoid these issues, it is critical for IT depart- final decision. This is according to the findings traditionally separate them begin to blur. ceive their most critical challenges to be ments to align closely with the lines of busi- from IDC’s latest annual CIO Summit Survey. “While IT departments typically remain in around IT governance, risk and compliance ness,” says Kumar. “As such, it is becoming This year, the summit focused on the invest- charge of procuring 3rdPlatform technolo- (GRC), which has become increasingly com- increasingly important for CIOs and their IT ment priorities of IT leaders in the Gulf and gies, line-of-business leaders are playing an plicated due to the recent proliferation of teams to develop an in-depth understanding sought their views on the challenges they increasingly active role in the process, with devices, applications and regulations. Adding of other departments’ operations, as this face in relation to 3rd Platform adoption. CFOs and CMOs in particular becoming key to the complexity of GRC is the prevalence of approach facilitates more practical and holis- The 2015 edition of the consulting compa- influencers,” says Megha Kumar, senior shadow IT, when businesses seek out their tic procurement strategies that both bridge ny’s flagship Middle East CIO Summit ran research manager for software at IDC Middle own technology solutions without involving the needs of business and IT and enhance under the theme “When IT Meets Business”. East, Africa and Turkey. “Social media and big the IT department. This phenomenon has the functionality of the overall organization.” Megha Kumar

Facebook not an information bubble

WASHINGTON: Social media networks most significant factor in filtering the like Facebook are not putting users in an news from an ideological perspective, ideological information bubble, despite and that “individual choice” played a fears to the contrary, a new research larger role in limiting exposure to differ- report said last week. ent viewpoints. The study published in the journal The study found that Facebook users Science, based on an analysis of 10 mil- were exposed to so-called “cross-cutting lion Facebook users and seven million content”-that liberals got information web links, found many of the shared sto- with a conservative tilt, and vice-versa. ries allowed people to get viewpoints “How much cross-cutting content different from their own. individuals encounter depends on who The findings appeared to minimize their friends are and what information concerns in some quarters that social those friends share,” the authors wrote. networks are leading to political polar- “If individuals acquired information ization by grouping people along ideo- from random others, approximately 45 logical lines and not exposing them to percent of the hard content liberals opposing views. would be exposed to would be cross cut- The research, which was led by data ting, compared to 40 percent for conser- scientists from Facebook and the vatives,” the study said. University of Michigan, contained “Despite the slightly higher volume of numerous caveats about identifying the conservatively aligned articles shared, lib- ideological bent of users and political erals tend to be connected to fewer leanings inherent in news stories, but friends who share information from the nonetheless suggested that fears of a other side.” Facebook information bubble were Facebook said the latest research sup- overblown. ports the conclusion of a 2012 study and Facebook has been under special adds better figures on how shared stories scrutiny because it uses algorithms that cut across political and ideological lines. aim to deliver relevant stories to each The research, Facebook noted, found user based on their interests. In a state- that on average 23 percent of people’s ment, Facebook said the study highlights friends claim an opposing political ideol- that its users are getting a variety of ogy and that among the news content viewpoints. shared 29.5 percent cuts across ideologi- “We found that most people have cal lines friends who claim an opposing political “When it comes to what people see in ideology, and that the content in peo- News Feed, 28.9 percent of the hard news ple’s News Feeds reflect those diverse encountered cuts across ideological lines, CALIFORNIA: File photo shows a row of Google self-driving Lexus cars at a Google event outside the Computer History Museum in Mountain views,” the social network said. on average 24.9 percent of the hard news View, Calif. Of the nearly 50 self-driving cars rolling around California roads and highways, four have gotten into accidents since September, “News Feed surfaces content that is content that people actually clicked on 2014. That’s when the state officially began permitting these cars of the future, which use sensors and computing power to maneuver around slightly more aligned with an individual’s cuts across ideological lines,” Facebook traffic. — AP own ideology, however the friends you said. choose and the content you click on are The research comes amid reports that more important factors than News Feed Facebook is working with news organiza- ranking in terms of how much content tion to host their content on its own Self-driving cars getting you encounter that cuts across ideologi- servers in order to deliver more relevant cal line.” and timely information to readers. A recent Pew Research Center report Individual choice is key found some 30 percent of Americans get dinged in California In the study, the researchers said the at least some of their news from algorithms did not appear to be the Facebook. — AFP LOS ANGELES: Four of the nearly 50 self-driving developers acknowledge is imperfect. permission - and May 2014. cars now rolling around California have gotten John Simpson, a longtime critic of Google as In a written statement, Google said that since into accidents since September, when the state privacy project director of the nonprofit September, cars driving on streets near its head- began issuing permits for companies to test them Consumer Watchdog, pointed out that the com- quarters in Mountain View had “a handful of minor on public roads. pany’s ultimate goal is a car without a steering fender-benders, light damage, no injuries, so far Two accidents happened while the cars were in wheel or pedals. That would mean a person has caused by human error and inattention.” control; in the other two, the person who still must no power to intervene if a car lost control, making be behind the wheel was driving, a person familiar it “even more important that the details of any Minor accidents with the accident reports told The Associated accidents be made public - so people know what Google said that while safety is paramount Press. the heck’s going on.” some accidents can be expected, given that its Three involved Lexus SUVs that Google Inc. cars have gone “the equivalent of over 15 years of outfitted with sensors and computing power in its Safety typical human driving,” or approximately 140,000 aggressive effort to develop “autonomous driving,” A chief selling point for self-driving cars is safe- miles. a goal the tech giant shares with traditional ty. Their cameras, radar and laser sensors give The national rate for reported “property-dam- automakers. The parts supplier Delphi Automotive them a far more detailed understanding of their age-only crashes” is about 0.3 per 100,000 miles had the other accident with one of its two test surroundings than humans have. Their reaction driven, according to data from the National vehicles. times also should be faster. Cars could be pro- Highway Traffic Safety Administration. Google and Delphi said their cars were not at grammed to adjust if they sense a crash coming - In that context, Google’s three in about 140,000 fault in any accidents, which the companies said move a few feet, tighten the seat belts, honk the miles may seem high. As the company pointed were minor. horn or flash the lights in hope of alerting a dis- out, however, perhaps 5 million minor accidents Since September, any accident must be report- tracted driver. are not reported to authorities each year, so it is ed to the state Department of Motor Vehicles. The A higher priority so far is teaching them to hard to gauge how typical Google’s experience is. agency said there have been four, but would not avoid causing a serious accident that could set Three other states have passed laws welcom- comment about fault or anything else, citing public and political acceptance of the technology ing self-driving cars onto their roads. Regulators California law that collision reports are confiden- back years, said Raj Rajkumar, a pioneer of the in Nevada, Michigan and Florida said they were tial. technology with Carnegie Mellon University. not aware of any accidents. As self-driving cars The person familiar with the accident reports In the October accident involving Delphi, the proliferate, others issues will arise that human LAS VEGAS: File picture taken on January 9, 2014 shows an attendee wears an Oculus said the cars were in self-driving mode in two of front of its 2014 Audi SQ5 was moderately dam- drivers have dealt with for decades, notably who’s Rift HD virtual reality head-mounted display as he plays EVE: Valkyrie, a multiplayer the four accidents, all of which involved speeds of aged when, as it waited to make a left turn, anoth- liable for an accident. Each test car is required to virtual reality dogfighting shooter game, at the Intel booth at the 2014 International less than 10 mph. The person spoke on condition er car broadsided it, according to an accident have $5 million insurance. CES, in Las Vegas, Nevada. Oculus, the virtual reality firm acquired by Facebook last of anonymity because they were not authorized report the company shared with AP. The car was Interest in accidents will remain high, especially year, said May 6, 2015 it would begin shipping its Oculus Rift headset to consumers to discuss the reports publicly. not in self-driving mode, Delphi spokeswoman if the self-driving car is at fault, said Bryant Walker early next year after years of development. — AFP Five other companies have testing permits. In Kristen Kinley said. Smith, a law professor at the University of South response to questions from the AP, all said they Google, which has 23 Lexus SUVs, would not Carolina who has written extensively on the tech- had no accidents. In all, 48 cars are licensed to test discuss its three accidents in detail. The accidents nology. Oculus virtual reality on public roads. are not Google’s first: In a briefing with reporters a “For a lot of reasons,” Smith said, “more might The fact that neither the companies nor the year ago, the leader of Google’s self-driving car be expected of these test vehicles and of the com- state have revealed the accidents troubles some program acknowledged three others between panies that are deploying them and the drivers headsets to ship in 2016 who say the public should have information to when the company first sent cars onto public that are supervising them than we might expect SAN FRANCISCO: Oculus, the virtual extremely passionate gamers, develop- monitor the rollout of technology that its own roads several years ago - without the state’s official of a 17-year-old driver in a 10-year-old car.” — AP reality firm acquired by Facebook last ers, and engineers to reimagine what year, said it would begin shipping its gaming can be.” Oculus Rift headset to consumers early The statement said more details are next year after years of development. forthcoming on hardware, software, and China’s smartphone market contracts “Today, we’re incredibly excited to other technical specifications. “Virtual announce that the Oculus Rift will be reality is going to transform gaming, film, SINGAPORE: China’s smartphone market Apple was the top vendor in China during totalled 9.6 million units, down 53 percent shipping to consumers in Q1 2016, with entertainment, communication, and contracted in the first quarter for the first the quarter, selling 14.5 million units, up from last year, with the firm’s market share pre-orders later this year,” the company much more,” the statement said. time in six years with Apple becoming the more than 62 percent from last year. It had a shrinking to 9.7 percent from 19.9 percent as said in a statement. Facebook last year bought the compa- top vendor, researchers said yesterday. 14.7 percent market share. consumer preferences changed. The headset, designed for immersive ny for some $2 billion. Facebook co- International Data Corporation (IDC) said Apple’s rise from fourth place in the first “Smartphones are becoming increasingly gaming and other applications, has built founder and chief Mark Zuckerberg said figures from its mobile phone tracker show quarter of 2014 was driven by strong con- saturated in China,” said Kitty Fok, managing a strong following among developers earlier this year that the acquisition of that 98.8 million smartphones were sold in sumer preference for the bigger screen of director at IDC China. and has won praise from analysts for lim- Oculus was a long-term bet that making China in January-March, down 4.3 percent the iPhone 6 and the iPhone 6 Plus, IDC “China is oftentimes thought of as an iting the motion sickness which affects the social network’s offerings more from the same period last year. added. emerging market but the reality is that the users of virtual reality (VR) gear. immersive would pay off in the future. “This is the first time in six years that the The US phone maker was followed by vast majority of phones sold in China today “The Rift delivers on the dream of con- He suggested that the virtual reality China smartphone market declined year-on- Chinese brand Xiaomi with a 13.7 market are smartphones, similar to other mature sumer VR with compelling content, a full technology could be applied to various year as the market continues to mature,” IDC share. Another Chinese firm Huawei was in markets like the US, UK, Australia and ecosystem, and a fully-integrated hard- offerings of the world’s biggest social said in a statement. third place with 11.4 percent. Japan,” Fok said. “Just like these markets, ware/software tech stack designed network. “People will build a model of a Compared with the previous quarter, the South Korean technology giant Samsung, convincing existing users as well as feature specifically for virtual reality,” the state- place far away and you will just go see it; market shrank 8.0 percent “on the back of a which held the top spot in the first quarter of phone users to upgrade to new smart- ment said. it is just like teleporting,” Zuckerberg large inventory buildup at the end of last 2014, fell to fourth place. phones will now be the key to future “It’s a system designed by a team of said. — AFP year”, it said. Sales of Samsung smartphones in China growth in the China market.” — AFP HEALTH & SCIENCE TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 Experts denounce WHO’s slow Ebola response

GENEVA: A UN-sponsored report yesterday African states of Guinea, Liberia and Sierra Leone, mission would be brought under control only when The report said there were “serious gaps in the denounced the World Health Organization’s slow out of over 26,000 cases. surveillance, community mobilisation and the deliv- early months of the outbreak in terms of engaging response to the Ebola outbreak and said the agency “There were serious gaps in the early months of ery of appropriate health care to affected communi- with the local communities.” still did not have the capacity to tackle a similar cri- the outbreak in terms of engaging with the local ties were all put in place simultaneously.” Although traditional cultural practices, including sis. communities,” the report said. WHO chief Margaret Chan had at the end of funeral and burial , contributed to virus “It is still unclear to the panel why early warnings “There is a strong, if not complete, consensus January acknowledged blistering criticism of the UN transmission, “culturally sensitive messages and approximately from May through to July 2014 did that WHO does not have a robust emergency opera- health agency’s Ebola response, saying the crisis had community engagement were not prioritised,” it not result in an effective and adequate response,” an tions capacity or culture.” It added that “at present, “delivered some horrific shocks and surprises.” said. interim report by experts said. WHO does not have the operational capacity or cul- “Ebola is a tragedy that has taught the world, “Essentially, bleak public messaging emphasised WHO only declared a global public health emer- ture to deliver a full emergency public health including WHO, many lessons also about how to that no treatment was available and reduced com- gency on August 8 — almost five months after the response.” prevent similar events in the future,” she said, munities’ willingness to engage,” it added. The outbreak had taken hold in west Africa. The epidem- The experts said that it took WHO “until August adding: “Never again should the world be caught by experts’ panel is headed by Barbara Stocking, who ic has left more than 11,000 dead, mainly in the west or September 2014 to recognise that Ebola trans- surprise, unprepared.” formerly headed Oxfam. — AFP New Medicaid program helping Iowa’s sickest

IOWA: The first year and a half of Iowa’s authors and assistant director and associ- Medical Health Home implementation ate research scientist at the Public Policy appears to have been moderately success- Center. ful - by improving patient health and satis- “We had anticipated there may be faction, reducing emergency department more,” she added. “But this way of doing visits, and saving the Medicaid program business is relatively new and takes time to millions of dollars - according to a series of effectively and efficiently do it.” Momany reports out this week by the Public Policy added that more than 40 providers are Center at the University of Iowa. now participating and the state is provid- However, the group added that it was ing “best practices” and more guidance “not able to absolutely conclude that the than it initially had. program is the only cause of any changes However, for those patients who did observed.” enroll, there was general satisfaction when Medical Health Homes, created under it came to access to care and being able to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care communicate with a doctor. Act, were designed to provide comprehen- Less than 20 percent of Medical Health sive, coordinated care for Medicaid Home enrollees reported unmet needs for patients with multiple chronic health con- routine or preventive care, according to the ditions, including hypertension, heart dis- reports. ease, diabetes, asthma, substance abuse or There also was a decline in unmet need mental health problems. for care in the follow-up period compared These patients are much sicker than the with before July 2012, with the studies not- general population and typically need ing significant declines in regard to after- more care - almost 80 percent of enrollees hours help, urgent care, specialist care and reported three or more chronic physical prescription medications. health conditions. Momany added that participants sur- PHILADELPHIA: Patient Carole Linderman has her blood drawn for a liquid biopsy at Jefferson University Hospital in Philadelphiaon April 28, About 60 percent of Medical Health veyed pointed out that the program has 2015. The test detected Carole Linderman’s breast cancer recurrence months before it normally would have been found. — AP Home enrollees reported their physical improved their quality of life and made a health as fair or poor, which is much higher difference in their ability to function day to than adults in the Iowa Social Security pro- day. New blood tests, liquid biopsies, gram (46 percent) and the traditional Health experts repeatedly have said that Medicaid state plan (22 percent). receiving better primary and preventive In addition, about 41 percent of care will reduce emergency department may transform cancer care enrolled patients reported fair or poor visits and hospital readmissions. And the mental health, compared with 32 percent reports found that emergency department of adults enrolled in Social Security and 24 rates for those enrolled in the Medical Tests are catching on ‘faster than anticipated’ percent of traditional Medicaid enrollees, Health Home program remained steady or according to the report. decreased while non-participants NEW YORK: A new type of blood test is starting to Who gets tested now periodically to monitor care, but more tests means More than 5,800 Medicaid members remained steady or increased. transform cancer treatment, sparing some patients The tests are mostly used when a tissue biopsy more cost. were enrolled in the state program from Readmission rates also were positively the surgical and needle biopsies long needed to can’t easily be done, when the cancer’s original site They may save other costs, though. A traditional July 2012 to December 2013 along with 29 impacted - 41 percent of Medical Health guide their care. isn’t known, or when drugs have stopped working lung biopsy is thousands of dollars. Money could be medical providers. The report pointed to a Home participants went to the emergency The tests, called liquid biopsies, capture cancer and doctors are unsure what to try next, said Dr. saved by skipping cancer drugs that ultimately don’t lack of understanding among patients and room within six months of a visit compared cells or DNA that tumors shed into the blood, Scott Kopetz, a colon cancer specialist at MD work; many cost $10,000 to $15,000 a month. problems with medical staff being able to with 48 percent of participants before July instead of taking tissue from the tumor itself. A lot Anderson. The tests are catching on “faster than I With cell-free DNA tests, even doctors in rural identify potential candidates as some of 2012. is still unknown about the value of these tests, but anticipated,” he said. areas can offer precision medicine because they can the reasons Medical Health Home enroll- All of that translates to savings. The many doctors think they are a big advance that At Philadelphia’s Thomas Jefferson University, Dr. ship a blood sample to a lab. “We think that’s the ment was slow. report found that about $132 was saved could make personalized medicine possible for far Massimo Cristofanilli has used them on about 120 future,” said Dr. Charles Baum, a former Pfizer cancer Providers also said increased costs made during the first month of a person’s enroll- more people. breast cancer patients, including two dozen like drug chief who now heads Mirati Therapeutics, a it difficult to implement Medical Health ment in the program, with the rate increas- They give the first noninvasive way to repeated- Linderman with a high risk of recurrence. San Diego biotech company developing gene-tar- Homes, including hiring additional staff to ing nearly $11 for each additional month ly sample a cancer so doctors can profile its genes, A tissue biopsy typically samples one section of a geting drugs coordinate care, updating technology and they are enrolled. That brought total sav- target drugs to mutations, tell quickly whether tumor, and tumors can vary widely, with different educating staff, according to the report. ings to more than $9 million at the end of treatment is working, and adjust it as the cancer genes and hormones active in different parts, he Do they work? December 2013. evolves. said. Also, cancer that has spread often differs from Many studies suggest that liquid biopsy results largely mirror those from tissue ones, and some- Best practices “They’re great results so far,” Momany Two years ago, these tests were rarely used the original site, and tumors change rapidly in except in research. Now, several are sold, more response to treatment. times find more mutations. A study Kopetz present- These smaller numbers were surprising, said. “Patients were satisfied and providers than a dozen are in development, and some doc- With a tissue biopsy, “our treatments lag behind ed in April at an American Association for Cancer said Elizabeth Momany, one of the studies’ are becoming more satisfied.” — AP tors are using them in routine care. Gurpaul Bedi and they’re still based on limited information,” Research meeting found the blood tests detected had one for colon cancer that spread to his lungs. Cristofanilli said. With a liquid biopsy, “the power of cancer mutations in the vast majority of 105 colorec- About 10 percent of patients with metastatic colon this test has been to really find out how the disease tal cancer patients. For 37 percent of them, doctors cancer at the University of Texas MD Anderson changes, even in a short period of time.” thought a drug could target a mutation that was Cancer Center now get liquid biopsies. found. “I think it’s wonderful,” said Bedi, who lives in How they work Still, no big studies show that liquid biopsies give Atlanta and goes to Houston for his care. “A lung Early versions looked for whole tumor cells in better care or extend lives. Without that proof, how biopsy, many doctors told me, is not easy.” blood. Newer ones look for free-floating cancer much they will be used by doctors and covered by In Philadelphia, a liquid biopsy detected Carole DNA, enabling gene profiling to see what mutations insurers remains to be seen. Linderman’s breast cancer recurrence months drive the cancer. Kopetz and Cristofanilli use one before it normally would have been found. from Guardant Health Inc. of Redwood City, The future “Had this test not been available, we may not California, that has been sold in the U.S. since June A San Diego company, Trovagene, is working on have known I had cancer on my spine until symp- 2014 and in parts of Europe and Asia. an even faster, easier liquid biopsy - a test to detect toms showed up,” which may have been too late for Many companies are working on similar tests tumor DNA in urine. One scenario: a patient collects good treatment, she said. including Sequenom, a San Diego biotech that a urine sample every day for a week after starting a The huge potential for these tests is clear. The already sells one for prenatal screening, using fetal new drug and ships them to a lab. problem: There are no big, definitive studies to DNA in maternal blood. Many companies tried pre- “In as little as three to five days, you can observe show they help patients, how accurate they are, natal screening with fetal cells but it didn’t work, dramatic changes” that suggest a response to treat- which type is best or who should get them and said chief science officer Dirk van den Boom. “Cell- ment, said Trovagene’s chief executive, Antonius when. Still, patients do better when drugs are free DNA really was the breakthrough” that enabled Schuh. matched to their tumors, and liquid biopsies may wide use, and the same could happen with these Work on this test is still very early. Ultimately, liq- give a practical way to do that more often. cancer tests, he said. uid biopsies might offer a way to screen for cancer “I’m really excited about all of this,” said Dr. besides the mammograms, colonoscopies and other Razelle Kurzrock, a University of California, San The cost methods used now. That raises even more ques- NEW YORK: In this Friday, May 1, 2015 photo, radiologic technologist David Messier Diego cancer specialist. “I spent most of my life giv- Whether liquid biopsies will be cost-effective is tions, including when to call something “cancer” and triages a patient at Albany Med EmUrgentCare in Coxsackie, N.Y. New York is using ing drugs that were useless to people” because unknown. Guardant’s test costs $5,400; some insur- whether it needs treatment if there are only abnor- $8 billion in projected federal savings to overhaul its Medicaid program with more there was no good way to tell who would benefit ers cover it for certain types of patients. Gene profil- mal cells in the blood. “Why does there have to be a outpatient clinics, fewer hospital beds and primary care where low-income patients or quickly tell when one wasn’t working, she said. ing from a tissue biopsy costs about the same. The tumor? The tumor is the symptom. The disease is the can see doctors and psychologists in the same visit. — AP “This is so much better.” promise of liquid biopsies is that they can be done DNA,” Schuh said. — AP Colombia suspending use of anti-coca herbicide

BOGOTA: Colombia’s President Juan Manuel could have a side effect of somewhat easing published research last year that found higher Santos announced Saturday he is halting use of ongoing peace talks with the country’s main rates of skin problems and miscarriages in dis- a herbicide that has been a key part of US- rebel group, the Revolutionary Armed Forces of tricts targeted by herbicides. It was based on a financed efforts to wipe out crops, say- Colombia, which has demanded an end to the study of medical records from 2003 to 2007. ing the country will seek other ways to destroy spraying as part of any deal. Monsanto and other manufacturers of coca plants. Santos said he was taking the move The two sides already had agreed that aerial glyphosate-based products strongly rejected following a Health Ministry recommendation eradication would be used only as a last resort. the WHO ruling. They cited a 2012 ruling by the based on a World Health Organization decision The presence of the rebels was a principal rea- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that the to classify glyphosate as a carcinogen. son for introducing airborne coca fumigation in herbicide was safe. Speaking at an event in the capital, Bogota, Colombia because guerrilla fighters long pro- US and Colombian government officials Santos said that defense and health officials tected coca crops, making manual eradication have argued that cocaine does more health should agree on a transition period, during dangerous. The other two main cocaine-pro- damage than aerial spraying. Defense Minister which “spraying of glyphosate has to be ducing countries, Peru and , have avoid- Juan Carlos Pinzon recently expressed concern replaced with other mechanisms, for example, ed use of chemical herbicides, using manual about calls for a ban on spraying. “Common intensifying manual eradication” of coca plants. eradication instead. The International Agency sense should prevail,” he said. “What cannot The US ambassador to Colombia, Kevin for Research on Cancer, a French-based research happen is that in the absence of a more Whitaker, said a decision on whether to use the arm of the World Health Organization in March detailed analysis, we lose tools that one way or chemical is a decision for Colombia and the US reclassified the herbicide as a carcinogen. It cit- another frankly contribute to reducing drug government respects it. ed evidence that the herbicide produces cancer trafficking.” More than 4 million acres of land in in lab animals and more limited findings that it Colombia already has scaled back use of aer- Colombia have been sprayed with the popular causes non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in humans. ial herbicides in favor of more labor-intensive EL TARRA: In this June 4, 2008 file photo, a police plane sprays herbicides over coca fields in El Tarra, in weed killer over the past two decades to kill the manual eradication efforts, partly in response to the Catatumbo river area, near Colombia’s northeastern border with Venezuela. Colombia’s President plants whose leaves produce cocaine. The Skin problems, miscarriages criticism by farmers. Colombian officials say aer- spraying program is partly carried out by US Daniel Mejia, a Bogota-based economist ial spraying last year covered 55,000 hectares Juan Manuel Santos said May 9, 2015 that he’s halting use of a herbicide that’s a key part of US-financed contractors. who is chairman of an expert panel advising the (136,000 acres), down from a 2006 peak of efforts to wipe out cocaine crops, saying he’s taking the move following a Health Ministry recommenda- The decision to end fumigation program Colombian government on its drug strategy, 172,000 hectares (425,000 acres).—AP tion based on a World Health Organization decision to classify glyphosate as a carcinogen. — AP HEALTH & SCIENCE TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015

Health summit with Philips to boost healthcare innovation

DOHA: World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), healthcare providers in Qatar that focuses on nerships with key healthcare providers are crucial in strategy as a leading healthcare innovator across the a global initiative of Qatar Foundation for Education, improving all aspects of the patient and staff experi- identifying the best ideas that are most relevant to GCC. We believe that global initiatives like WISH Science and Community Development (QF), has ence. Philips has a unique approach to rapid innova- the local community. By engaging with innovative evoke discussions and disseminate best practices partnered with Royal Philips, a diversified health and tion that uses empathy-mapping and co-creation to healthcare experts like Philips, we can learn faster, that will not only change but fuel the transformation well-being company, to improve the lives of people ensure that the practical and emotional needs of share insights more widely and improve patient out- of healthcare in the region. Our partnership with through meaningful innovation. patients and staff are at the heart of the health serv- comes more dramatically - ultimately improving WISH is a good example of our deep commitment As part of WISH’s continued efforts to inspire and ice and facility design. Commenting on the associa- people’s lives both locally and globally.” to working with the state of Qatar to improve the diffuse healthcare innovation and best practice, the tion, Egbert Schillings, CEO of WISH, said: “As a proud Through its partnership with WISH, Royal Philips lives of its residents through the development of a partnership supports the vision and mission of initiative of QF, WISH is committed to disseminating has demonstrated its commitment to supporting world-class health system.” Qatar Foundation to drive innovation and serve to healthcare innovation and best practice through our Qatar’s National Vision 2030 of a prosperous, stable, The WISH - Philips partnership will focus on creat- underscore Qatar’s pioneering role as an emerging community of like-minded leaders and policymak- educated, sustainable and healthy population. ing and disseminating innovative solutions to drive centre for healthcare innovation. ers, for the benefit of the Qatari population. Reinier Schlatmann, General Manager at Philips clinical performance and enhance the patient expe- Philips recently delivered two projects to leading “Our on-going research programmes and part- Gulf Region, said: “Qatar is a key pillar to our regional rience whilst delivering economic value. Global carbon dioxide levels reach new monthly record

MIAMI: In another ominous sign of human- “NOAA data show that the average growth caused climate change, US government scien- rate of carbon dioxide concentration in the tists said last week that global carbon dioxide atmosphere from 2012 to 2014 was 2.25 ppm concentrations have reached a new monthly per year, the highest ever recorded over three record of 400 parts per million. consecutive years,” the agency said. Carbon dioxide is a potent greenhouse gas, Carbon dioxide is a natural part of Earth’s and is a harmful by-product of burning fossil atmosphere but the burning of fossil fuels sends fuels such as oil and coal. “For the first time since excess amounts into the air and creates an even we began tracking carbon dioxide in the global tougher heat-trapping blanket. atmosphere, the monthly global average con- NOAA collects its data on global carbon diox- centration of this greenhouse gas surpassed 400 ide concentration on air samples taken from 40 parts per million in March 2015,” said the sites around the world, including some remote National Oceanic and Atmospheric islands. Administration (NOAA). “We choose to sample at these sites because Scientists announced that C02 had passed the the atmosphere itself serves to average out gas 400 ppm level for the first time in the Arctic in concentrations that are being affected by human 2012, and at Mauna Loa in Hawaii in 2013. “It and natural forces. At these remote sites we get a was only a matter of time that we would average better global average,” said Ed Dlugokencky, the 400 parts per million globally,” said Pieter Tans, NOAA scientist who manages the global net- lead scientist of NOAA’s Global Greenhouse Gas work. ST AUGUSTINE: In this Wednesday, Feb. 4, 2015 photo, beach erosion is seen at a home on Vilano Beach in St. Augustine, Fla. Reference Network. “Reaching 400 parts per mil- When the milestone of 400 ppm was first Homes built on strands of white sand in Vilano Beach now teeter precariously as high tidewaters cover their front steps. — AP lion as a global average is a significant mile- observed in 2012, many scientists said it should stone.” Tans said C02 has risen more than 120 be considered a wake-up call that more renew- parts per million since pre-industrial times. “Half able energies need to be used to cut back on Sea rise threatens Florida of that rise has occurred since 1980,” he said. cheap but polluting fuels. But even though some countries have Hard to reverse pledged to reduce emissions, the trend has coast, but no statewide plan In March, the International Energy Agency proven hard to reverse. “Elimination of about 80 reported that the growth of global emissions percent of fossil fuel emissions would essentially from fossil fuel burning had stalled in 2014 and stop the rise in carbon dioxide in the atmos- America’s oldest city is slowly drowning was level with emissions in 2013. phere, but concentrations of carbon dioxide But experts warn that stabilizing the rate of would not start decreasing until even further ST AUGUSTINE: St Augustine’s centuries-old Spanish fortress sits feet Communities like St. Augustine can do only so much alone. Cities emissions will not ward off climate change, since reductions are made and then it would only do from the encroaching Atlantic, whose waters already flood the city’s lack the technology, money and manpower to keep back the seas by greenhouse gases linger in the atmosphere for so slowly,” said James Butler, director of NOAA’s narrow streets about 10 times a year - a problem worsening as sea lev- themselves. years and trap heat around the Earth. Global Monitoring Division. — AFP els rise. The city relies on tourism, but visitors might someday have to In a brief interview with the AP in March, Scott wouldn’t address wear waders at high tide. whether the state had a long-range plan. He cited his support for “If you want to benefit from the fact we’ve been here for 450 years, Everglades restoration and some flood-control projects as progress you have the responsibility to look forward to the next 450,” said Bill but said cities and counties should contact environmental and water Hamilton, whose family has lived in the city since the 1950s. “Is St. agencies to find answers - though Scott and a Republican-led legisla- Augustine even going to be here? We owe it to the people coming ture have slashed billions from those agencies. Spokespeople for the after us to leave the city in good shape.” water districts and other agencies disputed that cuts have affected St. Augustine is one of many chronically flooded communities their abilities to plan. along Florida’s coast, and officials in these diverse places share a con- In a statement, Scott said the state will continue investing in cern: They’re afraid their buildings and economies will be further inun- Florida’s environment. Florida’s Department of Environmental dated by rising seas in just a couple of decades. The effects are a daily Protection is in charge of protecting the state environment and water reality in much of Florida. Drinking water wells are fouled by seawater. but has taken no official position on sea level rise, according to docu- Higher tides and storm surges make for more frequent road flooding ments. from Jacksonville to Key West, and they’re overburdening aging flood- In St. Augustine, flooding has long been problematic, but residents control systems. say it’s worsened over the past 20 years. St. Augustine’s civil engineer But the state has yet to offer a clear plan or coordination to address says the low-lying village will probably need a pumping system to what local officials across Florida’s coast see as a slow-moving emer- keep water out - but the state has been unhelpful. gency. Republican Gov. Rick Scott is skeptical of man-made climate “There’s no guidance. ... Everything I’ve found to help I’ve gotten by change and has put aside the task of preparing for sea level rise, an searching the Internet,” engineer Reuben Franklin said. Associated Press review of thousands of emails and documents per- Water quality is one of the biggest concerns. It’s especially bad in taining to the state’s preparations for rising seas found. South Florida - Hallandale Beach has abandoned six of eight drinking Despite warnings from water experts and climate scientists, skepti- water wells because of saltwater intrusion. cism over sea level projections and climate change science has ham- pered planning efforts at all levels of government, the records showed. Unsuccessful Florida’s environmental agencies under Scott have been downsized, While South Florida water officials have led the charge in address- making them less effective at coordinating sea level rise planning in ing concerns in their area, their attempt to organize a statewide group the state, documents showed. was unsuccessful, documents show. Scott’s administration has organ- MIAMI: Brian Haus, professor in the department of ocean sciences at the University of Miami ized just a few conference calls to coordinate local efforts, records Rosenstiel School of Marine and Atmospheric Sciences, in Miami, Florida looks on as a storm rages Long-range plan show. Meanwhile, government officials have been adamant that inside the world’s largest indoor hurricane simulator, known as SUSTAIN (short for SUrge- The issue presents a public works challenge that could cost billions employees and scientists not “assign cause” in public statements about STructure-Atmosphere Interaction) on April 30, 2015. The world’s largest hurricane simulator is here and nationwide. Insurance giant Swiss Re has estimated that the global warming, government emails show. Scott administration offi- now complete and experts hope it will improve forecasters’ ability to predict how strong a storm economy in southeast Florida could sustain $33 billion in damage cials are moving forward on a five-year plan that will provide basic from climate-related damage in 2030. guidance to cities dealing with sea level rise.—AP will get, which has been a key weak spot for science until now. — AFP WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 NBK Capital lecture for senior finance class at AUK

BK Capital recently conducted a lecture for program for 2015, enabling the students to further tation of this partnership but is also an ongoing community, but also giving back to society in differ- the senior finance class at the American develop their Financial and professional skills and educational process for our students to learn more ent ways to benefit the community through innova- NUniversity of Kuwait (AUK) in cooperation preparing them for the future ahead them. from experts in the field on how to connect theory tive and synergic initiatives.” He added, “AUK is a sig- with the University “REACH” club. Professionals from On this occasion, AUK President, Professor Nizar to practice or research, a learning process that nificant cultural landmark in Kuwait where we different divisions at NBK Capital presented informa- Hamzeh commented, makes AUK’s education distinctive”. decided to contribute with our experience to help tive slides talking about MENA Equities, Investment “Partnership with the private sector is rooted in In his turn, Chief Executive Officer of NBK Capital students get an understanding on how to apply Banking and Brokerage. This initiative falls under our university’s strategy. The lecture by NBK Capital Faisal Al-Hamad commented, “We believe in the their academic learnings in the real world of finance NBK Capital’s Corporate Social Responsibility “CSR” to our senior students is not only a clear implemen- importance of not only being part of the business and investment.” Tetley Tea launches Enjoy exciting summer escape exciting new blends at Marina Hotel Kuwait etley, the 2nd biggest tea brand and consistent taste, through its profes- globally and Great Britain’s favorite sionally trained taste experts. Accordingly, Ttea, announced yesterday the launch each blend offers a unique flavor, catering of its all new products across Kuwait. The to the different tastes and preferences company offers tea lovers four new and available across the market. Tetley presents Tetley Golden black tea, everyday luxury from Tetley. Tetley Golden is a high quality tea blend with Ceylon and other orthodox teas that offers a smooth rounded taste and a bright golden brew. The result is an aromatic black tea with a lovely rounded flavor that leaves a fresh after taste. For Tetley Black Tea with Mint, its experts mixed the ever popular Tetley Strong Black Tea with natural mint flavor, creating a convenient and delicious prod- uct for the many tea drinkers in Kuwait who like to add mint to their tea. Blend of Black & Green tea is a winning combination - offering all the benefits of green tea with the rich taste and aroma of Tetley’s black tea, allowing tea lovers to enjoy the best of both worlds. Tetley Decaf is also one of Tetley’s great new products and is quite unique as the blend has been decaffeinated to 0.2%. To achieve this blend, Tetley has carefully sourced decaffeinated tea leaves from around the world to create this unique color and taste. This allows health con- scious customers to enjoy the perfect cup of tea at any time, without worrying about caffeine effects. Tetley is the only major brand to offer 100% Rainforest Alliance Certified TM blends in the GCC. Tetley Tea’s Strong and Golden blends are both 100% certified, not only giving users a unique and incom- parable taste, but doing so by contribut- arina Hotel Kuwait today tional cuisine, guest can go for first-rate ing to changing the lives of millions to the announced its much awaited dining at the hotel’s two celebrated better. This occurs through the Rain forest summer package and special restaurants: ‘The Six Palms’ and the alliance organization that has helped, to M vacation getaway to experience summer ‘Atlantis.’ For mouth-watering delicacies, date, conserve the water, soil and biodi- fun at its best. Guests are offered absolute indulge in international, Mediterranean different blends; Black tea with Mint, Black versity of more than 50 million hectares of pampering and leisure with a resort-feel and Middle Eastern dishes from a scrump- Decaf, Black mixed with Green and the all forest and farmland in 70 countries and ambience through its facilities away from tious array of menu choices in a tranquil new rebranded; Tetley Golden. improved the lives of more than 2 million the city’s busy routine. setting. Additionally guests availing the Tetley Tea has a rich heritage that dates workers and their families. You can find The all-inclusive Marina Hotel package summer package can take advantage of back to England in 1837 and has been the out more about the Rainforest Alliance by guarantees real joy under the sun with its the 20% discount on buffet lunch and din- pioneer of the tea industry for over a cen- visiting their website www.rainforest- secluded private beach and three pools: ner at the Atlantis Restaurant. tury. This international tea company focus- alliance.org lap pool, kids’ pool and family pool with With a walking distance to the Marina es on driving a superior and unique cus- Wake up to a cup of Tetley Tea and get the Marina Waves pool bar. Guests can Mall and Marina Crescent, one can enjoy a tomer experience, ensuring a distinctive ready to squeeze more out of your day! relax in their rooms, all overlooking the complete holiday with easy access to their beautiful Arabian Sea. The package pro- favorite shopping destinations. vides free access to the hotel’s many facili- Make sure you book your room at the ties: the Coral Reef Health Club & Spa, the award winning Marina Hotel Kuwait for a court, beach and pool area. unique getaway experience and excellent Well known for its delicious interna- standard of quality service. Premier Sport Academy Coaching Course presentation ceremony

undreds of happy children and parents attended the Premier Sport Academy Coaching Course Presentation Ceremony Hheld in Bayan. Stephen Reynolds, Group Marketing Director of The Sultan Center, event sponsors, made the presentations.

Soorya Festival on May 29

oorya Kuwait Chapter in association Dheergha Chathuram (The Rectangle), with UAE Exchange will stage ‘Soorya presented against the backdrop of a reality SIndia Festival 2015’, at 7 pm on May 29 show setting in a television studio, probes (Friday) at the Indian Community School into the rise and fall of a playback singer, Auditorium Senior, Salmiya. Indian who finally realizes the great truth that Ambassador Sunil Jain will inaugurate the there were presentations still in the paths festival. Soorya Festival aims to promote abandoned by him. As usual, the entry will International integration through culture. be strictly through invitations. This time Soorya is coming up with a real Soorya India, led by versatile intellect time, multi-media drama ‘Dheergha Soorya Krishnamurthy, is present in over 36 Chathuram’ (the Rectangle), written and countries and 60 centers in India. It has directed by the legend Soorya been propagating Indian art and culture Krishnamoorthy. Soorya has staged quite a outside the country for the last 17 years number of noteworthy theatre productions with the active support of its chief patron and bagged many national and internation- Dr B.R. Shetty, Managing Director, NMC al accolades. Group of companies. UK Graphic Design Capstone Exhibition 2015 he Art and Graphic Design announce its 2015 Capstone Exhibition. Department of the American The opening reception for the exhibition TUniversity of Kuwait is pleased to will be held in both the auditorium and multi-purpose room of the University on Saturday May 16 from 5-7 pm. Thereafter, the exhibition will be open to the public Greetings 18-19 May from 10 am to 6 pm. The AUK Graphic Design Capstone represents an opportunity for senior students to fully incorporate their design strengths and learning into a focused, extended process of research and visual expres- sion. The projects are diverse, reflecting individual student investigations into their topic of choice. The diversity of projects and resolutions are wide-rang- ing, from social activism campaigns to corporate identity rebranding and entre- preneurship. AUK’s Graphic Design Capstone is program-driven; all profes- sors in Art and Graphic Design serve as appy birthday to our lovely sis- mentors to Capstone students. ter Nice. May God guide and Professors Marcella Kulchitsky and Rita Hprotect you as you continue to Merheb Khair have guided students be a blessing our family Amen. through the process of Capstone from ideation to exhibition. WHAT’S ON TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015

Gulf Bank’s booth at ‘The Concert’ A performance from the ‘The Concert’ Gulf Bank platinum sponsor of ‘The Concert’

ulf Bank has successfully concluded aging young people to develop their tal- its platinum sponsorship of ‘The ents and encourage them to pursue their GConcert’, a musical event held at passion. Gulf Bank is committed to being a Jumeirah Hotel on 8 May 2015, and was key player in Kuwait’s social fabric and con- organized by a group of Kuwaiti university tinues to support such activities through- students. out the year, reiterating the bank’s commit- During the concert, the orchestra gave ment to the wider community. an outstanding performance and also To find out more about Gulf Bank’s activ- played Gulf Bank’s corporate song as part ities, promotions and offers, customers can of the overall entertaining evening. visit one of Gulf Bank’s 58 branches; con- Gulf Bank’s support towards university tact the Customer Contact Center on students and youth is an important part of 1805805, or log on to the Bank’s bilingual the bank’s broad commitment to encour- website at www.e-gulfbank.com. Jumeirah Messilah Beach Hotel & Spa honoured at prestigious ceremonies

umeirah Messilah Beach Hotel & benchmark in quality, innovation and hardworking colleagues,” said Hakan Spa, Kuwait’s idyllic resort, is cele- service for facilities around the world. Petek, General Manager, Jumeirah Jbrating success at two industry The award was voted for by spa Messilah Beach Hotel and Spa. “Despite award ceremonies. guests and presented to Talise Spa for being a relatively new hotel in Kuwait, For the second consecutive year, service excellence and setting the we have consistently carried the shin- the hotel was recognised by the World ing standards and unmatched levels of Travel Awards as the “Leading Business excellence that the Jumeirah brand is Hotel in Kuwait.” Talise Spa won its first known for all over the world. “Best Luxury Resort Spa in Kuwait” Combined with our deep knowledge award from the 2015 World Luxury Spa and familiarity with this market, this Awards. has enabled us to deliver a truly unique The World Travel Awards are voted and enthralling customer experience for by travel and tourism professionals like no other anywhere in Kuwait. We worldwide in recognition of commit- would like to thank the organisers of ment to excellence over the last these awards, as well as our guests and twelve months. The gala awards cere- industry peers who voted for us. We mony was held in Dubai and the can assure you of our unrelenting dedi- award was received by Hakan Petek, cation and commitment in constantly General Manager. benchmark as an industry leader. raising the bar of service excellence Established as the world’s leading “We are truly honoured and proud and providing an unparalleled level of awards initiative for luxury spas, The to receive these two awards in recogni- customer satisfaction for many more World Luxury Spa Awards sets the tion of the tireless efforts of the hotel’s years to come.”

Agility empowers students at INJAZ Kuwait innovation camp

gility, a leading global logistics Enezy, Ahmed Al Methen and supports. By partnering with INJAZ, provider, recently partnered Abdulmohsen Al Mojil from Agility. we help empower youth in Kuwait Awith INJAZ Kuwait to conduct Organized by INJAZ, the workshop with skills that can give them an edge an Innovation Camp (I-Camp), a one- comprised of a skills training session in their future career.” day workshop, for local high school aimed at teaching students critical Agility has been supporting INJAZ students. INJAZ-Kuwait (INJAZ) is a thinking and problem-solving skills since 2005 and has helped mentor non-profit (NPO), non-governmental by matching them with mentors from close to 200 students through various organization (NGO) driven by Agility. education programs organized by Kuwait’s private sector. Through This was followed by a group exer- INJAZ. strategic partnerships, including cise where teams of students had to Rana Al-Nibari, CEO of INJAZ- qualified and dedicated volunteers, propose a business solution in a 3- Kuwait said: “INJAZ Kuwait is proud to INJAZ delivers educational programs minute presentation to a common promote its programs which provide a on entrepreneurial and leadership challenge posed by Agility. A judging platform for corporate volunteers in skills aimed at inspiring and educat- panel that included Siham Nuseibeh mentoring our youth to become the ing future generations. and Shadi Abdou El Sayed Khalifa future generation of leaders in our Seven Agility executives volun- from Agility, reviewed the solutions, community. INJAZ Kuwait is a strong teered their time to empower 56 and awarded points based on criteria believer of its programs that are based grade 12 students from the Saad Al that included the presentation, busi- on three pillars: Entrepreneurship, Abdullah High School with essential ness plan, team work, and innovation. Work Readiness and Financial literacy, skills needed to make sound business Siham Nuseibeh, Corporate Social which allow our youth to be men- decisions in the future. Responsibility Manager for Agility tored by experienced individuals who The volunteers included Musaed said: “The areas of youth and educa- are committed to guide students to Al Hawli, Abdullateef Al Ateeqi, Tarek tion are part of the umbrella of com- have a positive economic impact in Al Awadi, Hamad Al Sahlee, Adel Al munity projects that Agility actively their community.”

ASSE Kuwait conducts technical IDAK holds dental symposium meet on ‘Hazard Communication’ merican Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), Ravi B..Tammanur. Ravi B..Tammanur, CSP, CIH, an he first IDAK (Indian dentists Alliance in Kuwait) scien- Kuwait Chapter is a premier voluntary, non-prof- industrial hygienist from Kuwait National Petroleum tific symposium was held on the May 1 at The Regency Guided Tour: Arab Ait making Health, Safety and Environmental Company having more than 20 years of professional TKuwait. Over 300 dentists of different nationalities reg- organization, which strives to provide professional experience and the founder member of ASSE Kuwait istered for the event. The speakers for the event, Dr Gopi Organization HQ guidance, training, consultancy and resources to the family. Krishna, Dr Neel Bhatavaderkar, Dr Vinod Krishnan and Dr industrial and social sectors in the region. Ravi explained about Identify chemicals used in David Tauro, shared with the audience their knowledge in our one of the most beautiful examples of As a part of continuous efforts in its workplace, Hazards of chemicals used, different aspects of clinical dentistry with emphasis on recent modern Islamic architecture in the world. professional journey, ASSE-KC organized Labeling, Use of MSDS, Use of PPE, advances. Master craftsmen and artists from all over the 198th Technical Meet and 8thfor the Exposure Monitoring/Medical Surveillance The guests of honor for the event were Dr Yusuf Al Duwairy T the Arab world were commissioned to decorate year 2014-15; on “Hazard with an excellent presentation and related — Assistant Undersecretary, Dental Affairs MOH Kuwait, Dr and furnish the building. From the cool tranquility Communication” at Kohinoor Banquets videos. Sabiha Al Mutawa-Director of Dental Administration MOH of the Moroccan water wall to the intricate wood- hall, Fahaheel, Kuwait on 29th April 2015. There was a question & answer session Kuwait, Dr Jawad Behbehani-Dean Faculty of Dentistry Kuwait The Technical Meet kick-started with where the audience raised their concerns University and Dr Deepak Nallaswamy-Director of Academic work of the majestic Egyptian mashrabiya, the building is a celebration of cultural heritage. We the welcome address by Dinesh Datta, about HSE performance and got clarified Saveetha University India. Dr Deepak Nallaswamy gave a brief Chapter Treasurer & Acting Secretary by the speakers. will meet directly at the Arab Organization overview about the changing trends in dental education In and briefed the day’s agenda. Mohammad Riaz Shareef, President of Headquarters. Saturday: May 30, 2015 at 10am - India. The event concluded with vote of thanks by the chair- Ritesh Gupta, Head of Technical ASSE Kuwait thanked the speaker and all man of IDAK scientific committee Dr Unnikrishnan followed by Seats are limited. Events Committee welcomed the par- the attendees for their participation. The dinner at the Maha ball room. ticipants and introduced the speaker program concluded with the dinner. TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 TV PROGRAMS

18:00 Barefoot Contessa 19:20 Monster Fish 18:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 20:10 Predator Fails 19:00 Chopped 21:00 Unlikely Animal Friends 20:00 Guy’s Grocery Games 21:50 Dr. K’s Exotic Animal ER 22:40 Python Hunters 21:00 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 00:00 Stolen 00:20 Fast N’ Loud 21:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 23:30 Hooked 01:10 Gold Rush 02:00 2 Guns 22:00 Man Fire Food 04:00 Shadow Conspiracy 02:00 Gold Divers 22:30 Man Fire Food 02:50 Alaska: The Last Frontier 06:00 Brave 23:00 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 08:00 R.I.P.D. (Season 4 Specials) 23:30 Chopped 03:40 Storage Hunters 10:00 Stolen 12:00 Breakout 04:05 Backroad Bounty 00:30 The Daily Show With Jon 05:00 How It’s Made 14:00 Brave Stewart 16:00 Crimson Tide 05:30 How Do They Do It? 01:00 Last Week Tonight With John 06:00 Alaska: The Last Frontier 18:00 Stolen Oliver 20:00 R.I.P.D. 06:50 Fantomworks 01:35 Veep 07:40 Fast N’ Loud 21:45 The Mortal Instruments: City 00:35 The Jonathan Ross Show 02:00 Silicon Valley Of Bones 08:30 Storage Hunters 01:30 Paul O’Grady: For The Love 02:30 Togetherness 08:55 Backroad Bounty Of Dogs 03:00 Cristela 09:45 How It’s Made 02:00 Emmerdale 03:30 Parks And Recreation 10:10 How Do They Do It? 02:25 Emmerdale 04:30 The Tonight Show Starring 10:35 Gold Rush 02:55 Coronation Street Jimmy Fallon 11:25 Gold Divers 03:25 The Doctor Blake Mysteries 06:00 Men At Work 00:00 2 Guns-18 12:15 Alaska: The Last Frontier 04:20 The Doctor Blake Mysteries 06:30 Two And A Half Men 02:00 Shadow Conspiracy-PG15 (Season 4 Specials) 05:15 The Chase: Celebrity 07:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 04:00 Brave-PG15 13:05 Storage Hunters Specials 09:00 Cristela 06:00 R.I.P.D.-PG15 13:30 Backroad Bounty 06:10 The Jonathan Ross Show 09:30 About A Boy 08:00 Stolen-PG15 14:20 Alaska: The Last Frontier 07:05 Paul O’Grady: For The Love 10:30 Two And A Half Men 10:00 Breakout-PG15 15:10 Fantomworks Of Dogs 11:00 The Tonight Show Starring 12:00 Brave-PG15 16:00 Fast N’ Loud 07:30 The Doctor Blake Mysteries Jimmy Fallon 14:00 Crimson Tide-PG15 16:50 How It’s Made 08:25 The Doctor Blake Mysteries 12:00 Men At Work 16:00 Stolen-PG15 17:15 How Do They Do It? 09:15 Eggheads 14:00 Parks And Recreation 18:00 R.I.P.D.-PG15 17:40 The Island With Bear Grylls 09:45 Eggheads 14:30 About A Boy 19:45 The Mortal Instruments: City 18:30 Bear Grylls: Breaking Point 10:15 Cook Me The Money 15:30 The Daily Show With Jon Of Bones-PG15 19:20 So You Think You’d Survive? 11:10 Emmerdale Stewart 22:00 Blade-18 20:10 Backroad Bounty 11:35 Emmerdale 16:00 The Nightly Show With Larry 21:00 Bear Grylls: Breaking Point 12:00 Coronation Street Wilmore 21:50 So You Think You’d Survive? 12:30 The Chase: Celebrity 16:30 Men At Work 22:40 Marooned With Ed Stafford Specials 17:00 Late Night With Seth Meyers 23:30 Fast N’ Loud: Demolition 13:25 Cook Me The Money 18:00 Hot In Cleveland Theater 14:20 Paul O’Grady: For The Love 18:30 Parks And Recreation 00:00 HairBrained Of Dogs 19:00 The Simpsons 02:00 Schuks! Your Country Needs 14:45 The Jonathan Ross Show 19:30 Marry Me You 15:30 Eggheads 20:00 The Tonight Show Starring 04:00 Imogene 16:00 Eggheads Jimmy Fallon 06:00 Cuban Fury 16:30 Home Fires 21:00 The Daily Show With Jon 08:00 Article 99 17:25 Raised By Wolves Stewart 10:00 HairBrained 00:00 The Grace Helbig Show 17:55 Raised By Wolves 21:30 The Nightly Show With Larry 12:00 Imogene 00:30 The Soup 18:20 The Chase: Celebrity Wilmore 14:00 Breathless 00:55 Extreme Close-Up Specials 22:00 The League 16:00 Article 99 01:25 Keeping Up With The 19:00 Coronation Street 22:30 Louie 18:00 LOL Kardashians 19:30 Eggheads 23:00 Louie 20:00 High Fidelity 02:20 E! News 20:00 Eggheads 23:30 Late Night With Seth Meyers 22:00 The Parole Officer 03:15 Escape Club 20:30 Home Fires 04:10 E!ES 21:25 Raised By Wolves 05:05 E!ES 21:55 Raised By Wolves 06:00 Keeping Up With The 22:20 Coronation Street Kardashians 22:50 Emmerdale 00:00 Parenthood 01:00 Seven Days In Utopia-PG15 06:55 Keeping Up With The 23:15 Emmerdale 01:00 Helix 03:00 Disconnect-PG15 Kardashians 23:45 Cook Me The Money 02:00 Game Of Thrones 05:00 Mirror Mirror-PG15 07:50 Style Star 03:00 The Strain 07:00 Heaven’s Door-PG 08:20 E! News 04:00 Revenge 08:45 The Past-PG15 09:15 Giuliana & Bill 05:00 Red Band Society 11:00 Mirror Mirror-PG15 10:15 Giuliana & Bill 06:00 Parenthood 13:00 Magic Journey To Africa- 11:10 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills 07:00 The Fosters PG15 11:35 #RichKids Of Beverly Hills 00:00 Untamed Americas 08:00 Graceland 14:30 Won’t Back Down-PG15 12:05 E! News 01:00 Banged Up Abroad 09:00 Red Band Society 16:30 The Past-PG15 13:05 Extreme Close-Up 02:00 Mystery Files 10:00 Revenge 19:00 Inside Llewyn Davis-PG15 13:35 E!ES 02:30 Mystery Files 11:00 The Fosters 21:00 Zulu-PG15 14:30 Style Star 03:00 Nazi Underworld 12:00 Emmerdale 23:00 Devil’s Knot-PG15 15:00 Keeping Up With The 04:00 Family Guns 12:30 Coronation Street Kardashians 05:00 Hitler The Junkie 13:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 16:00 Keeping Up With The 06:00 Helicopter Wars 14:00 Graceland 15:00 Parenthood Kardashians 07:00 Wild Colombia 16:00 Emmerdale 17:00 Giuliana & Bill 08:00 Untamed Americas 18:00 Christina Milian Turned Up 16:30 Coronation Street 09:00 Banged Up Abroad 01:45 Love Is All You Need 18:30 Christina Milian Turned Up 17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 04:00 Tar 19:00 The E! True Hollywood Story 10:00 Mystery Files 18:00 Graceland 10:30 Mystery Files 05:30 Searching For Sugar Man 20:00 Fashion Bloggers 19:00 Criminal Minds 07:00 Heart Of The Country 20:30 Fashion Bloggers 11:00 Evolutions 20:00 Bones 12:00 Somewhere In China 09:00 Grand Piano 21:00 House Of DVF 21:00 The Voice 10:30 Close Encounters Of The 13:00 Knights Of Mayhem 22:00 E! News 23:00 The Strain Third Kind: Directors Cut 23:00 Keeping Up With The 14:00 America The Wild 13:00 Salinger 2 GUNS ON OSN MOVIES ACTION HD Kardashians 15:00 Inside 15:15 Swing Kids 16:00 Remote Survival 17:15 Grand Piano Morning 17:00 Masterchef: The 15:35 Little People, Big World 09:30 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 17:00 Air Crash Investigation 19:00 Kon-Tiki 13:30 MSNBC First Look Professionals 16:00 Toddlers & Tiaras 10:00 Sofia The First 18:00 Great Migrations 21:00 The Boxer 14:00 Live NBC Today Show 18:00 Private Practice 16:50 Say Yes To The Dress 10:25 Henry Hugglemonster 19:00 Inside 23:00 Metro Manila 17:57 MSNBC Hardball W/ Chris 19:00 The Block 17:15 Something Borrowed, 10:55 Calimero 20:00 Remote Survival 00:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show Matthews 20:00 Desperate Housewives Something New 11:10 Jake And The Neverland 00:30 Guy’s Big Bite 21:00 Air Crash Investigation 01:00 Good Morning America 18:38 MSNBC The Rachel 21:00 According To Jim 17:40 19 Kids And Counting Pirates 01:00 Ching’s Restaurant 22:00 Great Migrations 03:00 The Newsroom Maddow Show 21:30 According To Jim 18:05 Extreme Couponing 11:35 Limon And Oli Redemption 19:19 MSNBC The Last Word W/ 22:00 Greek 18:30 What Not To Wear 11:45 Loopdidoo 23:00 Evolutions 04:00 True Blood 02:00 Mystery Diners 01:00 Anna Nicole-PG15 Lawrence O’Donnell 23:00 The Simpsons 19:20 Little People, Big World: 12:00 Handy Manny 05:00 Good Morning America 02:30 Mystery Diners 03:00 Admission-PG15 20:00 Live MSNBC Live With 23:30 The Simpsons Battle For The Farm 12:15 Sofia The First 03:00 Guy’s Big Bite 07:00 Emmerdale 05:00 Labor Day-PG15 Thomas Roberts 20:10 The Next Great Baker 12:45 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 03:30 Guy’s Big Bite 07:30 Coronation Street 07:00 Last Vegas-PG15 22:00 Live MSNBC The Cycle 21:00 My 600lb Life 13:10 Sheriff Callie’s Wild West 04:00 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 08:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 09:00 The Secret Life Of Walter 23:00 Live MSNBC Now With Alex 21:50 Body Bizarre 13:35 Zou 04:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 09:00 Switched At Birth Mitty-PG15 Wagner 22:40 Long Island Medium 13:50 Jake And The Never Land 05:00 Chopped 00:20 Night Stalkers 23:05 Last Chance Salon Pirates 01:10 Mystery Of The Wolf 10:00 Emmerdale 11:00 Call Me Crazy: A Five Film 06:00 Guy’s Grocery Games 13:00 Philomena-PG15 23:55 My 600lb Life 14:15 Doc McStuffins 07:00 Roadtrip With G. Garvin 02:00 Animal Fight Club 10:30 Coronation Street 14:45 Henry Hugglemonster 02:50 Dangerous Encounters 15:00 Getaway-PG15 07:30 Roadtrip With G. Garvin 11:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 00:00 NRL Premiership 15:10 Sofia The First 03:45 Monster Fish 16:45 The Secret Life Of Walter THE HISTORY CHANNEL HD 08:00 Chopped 12:00 How To Get Away With 07:00 Golfing World 15:35 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 04:40 Predator Battleground Mitty-PG15 00:00 Pawn Stars 09:00 Barefoot Contessa 08:00 Top 14 Highlights 16:00 Cars Toons 05:35 Animal Fight Club Murder 18:45 Captain America: The Winter 00:30 Pawn Stars 09:30 Amazing Wedding Cakes 08:30 Super Rugby Highlights 16:05 Lilo & Stitch 06:30 Dangerous Encounters 13:00 Crisis Soldier-PG15 01:00 Pawn Stars 10:30 The Pioneer Woman 12:00 Golfing World 03:00 Dr G: Medical Examiner 16:30 Adventures Of The 07:25 Monster Fish 14:00 Live Good Morning America 21:00 Stone Markers-PG15 01:30 Pawn Stars 11:00 The Pioneer Woman 13:00 HSBC Sevens World Series 03:45 Couples Who Kill Gummi Bears 08:20 Predator Fails 16:00 Switched At Birth 23:00 Seven Psychopaths-18 02:00 Pawn Stars South Africa 11:30 Roadtrip With G. Garvin 19:00 NRL Full Time 04:30 Swamp Murders 17:00 Chip n Dale Rescue 09:15 Unlikely Animal Friends 02:30 Pawn Stars South Africa 12:00 Chopped 17:00 How To Get Away With 19:30 Top 14 Highlights 05:20 Nightmare Next Door Rangers 10:10 Dr. K’s Exotic Animal ER 03:00 American Pickers 13:00 Guy’s Big Bite Murder 20:00 Super Rugby Highlights 06:10 True Crime With 17:25 Ducktales 11:05 Python Hunters 04:00 Ice Road Truckers 13:30 Guy’s Big Bite 18:00 Crisis 23:00 Golfing World 05:00 Counting Cars Aphrodite Jones 18:00 Art Attack 14:00 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 12:00 Hooked 07:00 Nightmare Next Door 18:30 Sofia The First 12:55 Amazonia’s Giant Jaws 19:00 Switched At Birth 05:30 Counting Cars 14:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 20:00 How To Get Away With 01:00 The Ugly Duckling And Me 06:00 American Restoration 07:50 Fatal Encounters 18:55 Cars Toons 15:00 Man Fire Food 13:50 Dangerous Encounters 08:40 I Almost Got Away With It 19:00 The Adventures Of Disney 14:45 Monster Fish Murder 02:45 Little Gobie 06:30 American Restoration 15:30 Man Fire Food 07:00 Counting Cars 09:30 I Was Murdered Fairies 15:40 Predator Fails 21:00 Crisis 04:30 Eleanor’s Secret 03:00 Live WWE Raw 16:00 Chopped 06:00 Krazzy Planet 07:30 Counting Cars 09:55 Stalked: Someone’s 19:30 Jake And The Never Land 17:00 The Pioneer Woman 16:35 Unlikely Animal Friends 22:00 The Newsroom 07:00 NRL Premiership Watching Pirates 17:30 Dr. K’s Exotic Animal ER 08:00 True Story Of Puss’n Boots 08:00 Down East Dickering 17:30 The Pioneer Woman 23:00 True Blood 09:00 Golfing World 10:20 Forensic Detectives 19:45 Doc McStuffins 18:25 Python Hunters 10:00 Return To Nim’s Island 09:00 American Daredevils 11:30 Top 14 Highlights 09:30 American Daredevils 11:10 On The Case With Paula 20:00 Adventures Of The 11:30 Ploddy Police Car 14:30 Super Rugby Highlights 13:00 Little Gobie 10:00 American Pickers Zahn Gummi Bears 15:00 WWE Raw 11:00 Pawn Stars 12:00 Blood Relatives 20:30 Sofia The First 14:30 Back To The Sea 23:00 NRL Full Time 16:00 The 7th Dwarf 11:30 Pawn Stars 12:50 True Crime With 20:55 Cars Toons 18:00 Return To Nim’s Island 12:00 Storage Wars Aphrodite Jones 21:00 Chip n Dale Rescue 20:00 Home Alone 3 12:30 Storage Wars 13:40 Who On Earth Did I Rangers 21:45 Back To The Sea 13:00 Counting Cars Marry? 21:30 Ducktales 23:30 The 7th Dwarf 13:30 Counting Cars 14:05 Who On Earth Did I 22:00 Lilo & Stitch 00:00 Indian Premier League H/L : 14:00 Shipping Wars Marry? 22:25 Art Attack SH v KXIP 14:30 Shipping Wars 14:30 On The Case With Paula 22:55 Limon And Oli 01:00 ICC Cricket 360 15:00 American Pickers Zahn 23:05 Zou 16:30 Indian Premier League H/L : 16:00 American Restoration 15:20 I Was Murdered 23:20 Mouk SH v KXIP 16:30 American Restoration 15:45 Stalked: Someone’s 23:35 Jungle Junction 02:00 Streetdance: All Stars-PG15 17:30 Live Indian Premier League : 17:00 Storage Wars Watching 23:50 Art Attack 04:00 Rage-PG15 DD v CSK 17:30 Storage Wars 16:10 Fatal Encounters 00:15 Julius Jr. 06:00 Marvel’s Ultimate Avengers 18:00 Pawn Stars 17:00 Blood Relatives 00:30 Calimero II-PG 18:30 Pawn Stars 17:50 I Almost Got Away With It 00:45 Henry Hugglemonster 08:00 Badges Of Fury-PG15 19:00 Pawn Stars 18:40 Forensic Detectives 01:00 Zou 10:00 The Croods-PG 19:30 Pawn Stars 19:30 True Crime With 01:15 Jungle Junction 12:00 Rage-PG15 20:00 Pawn Stars South Africa Aphrodite Jones 14:00 Foodfight!-PG 20:30 Pawn Stars South Africa 20:20 The Will 16:00 Badges Of Fury-PG15 02:30 The Four 21:00 Storage Wars 21:10 Who On Earth Did I 18:00 Safe-PG15 04:00 The Limits Of Control 21:30 Storage Wars Marry? 20:00 Delivery Man-PG15 06:00 Nuclear Family 22:00 Storage Wars 21:35 Who On Earth Did I 22:00 Kick-Ass 2-18 07:45 Picture Claire 22:30 Storage Wars Marry? 09:15 In Hell 23:00 Shipping Wars 22:00 Extreme Forensics 06:00 Kid vs Kat 10:45 Pirates Of The Caribbean: At 23:30 Shipping Wars 22:50 Deadly Women 06:10 Zeke & Luther World’s End 23:40 Couples Who Kill 06:35 Kickin’ It 13:30 That’s What I Am 00:30 Blood Relatives 07:00 Phineas And Ferb 15:15 In The Dark 01:20 LA: City Of Demons 07:25 Lab Rats 16:45 The Station Agent 02:10 Extreme Forensics 07:50 Supa Strikas 00:00 Live MSNBC The Ed Show 18:15 In Hell 08:15 The 7D 01:00 Live MSNBC Politicsnation 20:00 Brave 08:40 Kirby Buckets 02:00 Live NBC Nightly News 21:45 Love Potion No.9 09:05 Ultimate Spider-Man 02:30 ABC World News With David 23:30 Last Orders 00:45 My Big Fat Fabulous Life 09:30 Kickin’ It Muir 01:10 My Big Fat Fabulous Life 09:55 Phineas And Ferb 03:00 Live MSNBC All In With Chris 01:35 Long Island Medium 10:20 Boyster Hayes 02:00 Last Chance Salon 10:45 Zeke & Luther 04:00 Live MSNBC The Rachel 02:50 Say Yes To The Dress 03:00 Art Attack 03:25 Julius Jr. 11:10 Lab Rats Maddow Show 03:15 Something Borrowed, 11:35 Phineas And Ferb 05:00 Live MSNBC The Last Word 03:35 Calimero 00:00 Lost Something New 12:00 Pair Of Kings W/ Lawrence O’Donnell 03:50 Henry Hugglemonster 01:00 Masterchef: The 03:40 What Not To Wear 12:30 Supa Strikas 06:00 NBC Nightly News 04:00 Zou Professionals 04:30 Cake Boss 12:55 Kickin’ It 06:30 ABC World News With David 04:15 Mouk 02:00 Army Wives 05:00 Little People, Big World 13:20 Phineas And Ferb Muir 04:25 Jungle Junction 03:00 Army Wives 05:30 Extreme Couponing 13:40 Mighty Med 06:57 NBC Nightly News 04:35 Art Attack 04:00 Grey’s Anatomy 06:00 19 Kids And Counting 14:05 Zeke & Luther 07:18 ABC World News With David 05:00 Julius Jr. 05:00 The Simpsons 06:25 The Next Great Baker 14:30 Kickin’ It Muir 05:10 Calimero 05:30 The Simpsons 07:40 Something Borrowed, 14:55 Ultimate Spider-Man: Web 07:39 Live ABC Nightline 05:25 Henry Hugglemonster 06:00 The Bridge Something New Warriors 08:06 MSNBC The Rachel 05:35 Zou 07:00 Cougar Town 08:05 19 Kids And Counting 15:20 Boyster Maddow Show 05:50 Mouk 07:30 Cougar Town 08:30 19 Kids And Counting 15:45 Phineas And Ferb 09:00 MSNBC The Last Word W/ 06:00 Jungle Junction 08:00 Lost 08:55 Little People, Big World: 16:10 Pair Of Kings Lawrence O’Donnell 06:10 Art Attack 09:00 Masterchef: The Battle For The Farm 16:35 Supa Strikas 10:00 Live ABC World News Now 06:35 Julius Jr. Professionals 09:45 Cake Boss 17:00 Kirby Buckets 10:30 Live ABC World News Now 06:45 Calimero 10:00 The Simpsons 10:10 Little People, Big World 17:30 Mighty Med 11:00 Live NBC Early Today 07:00 Jungle Junction 10:30 The Simpsons 10:35 Extreme Couponing 18:00 Kickin’ It 11:30 Live ABC America This 07:15 Zou 11:00 Army Wives 11:00 Toddlers & Tiaras 18:25 Lab Rats Morning 07:30 Calimero 12:00 Army Wives 11:50 Cake Boss 18:50 Supa Strikas 12:00 Live ABC America This 07:45 Loopdidoo 13:00 Grey’s Anatomy 12:15 The Next Great Baker 19:15 Phineas And Ferb Morning 08:00 Limon And Oli 14:00 Cougar Town 13:30 Oprah: Where Are They 19:40 Phineas And Ferb 12:30 Live ABC America This 08:10 Jake And The Never Land 14:30 Cougar Town Now? 20:05 The 7D Morning Pirates 15:00 The Bridge 14:20 Oprah’s Next Chapter 20:30 Ultimate Spider-Man: Web 13:00 Live ABC America This 15:10 Cake Boss 08:35 Doc McStuffins SEVEN PSYCHOPATHS ON OSN MOVIES HD 16:00 Lost 09:05 Art Attack Warriors Classifieds

TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015

Kuwait KNCC PROGRAMME FROM THURSDAY TO WEDNESDAY (07/05/2015 TO 13/05/2015)

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You could be known as the best team player at work. You tend to be good at This is a real time to buckle down and consolidate your career. Your organization- working for and with others without any focus on yourself. You may find yourself thinking long al abilities and sense of responsibility will be what guides you and proves successful. Your career and hard to find the right words today . . . Good synonyms are hard to think of spontaneously. It is could assume a much more determined path, a firm foundation. Circumstances may appear to important to you that you have clear communication with others. There is a harmony between work against you and bring some very sensitive issues to your attention. Changes you want to your emotions and rational action. Your strong personal magnetism and effervescent personality make may be challenged by someone close to you, or by events. Think things through before may gain you attention from the opposite sex. Make sure this attraction is not in the workplace, making any quick decisions at this time-there is time. Your inner resources and emotions are however. As a friendly person, you inspire anyone who comes near you today. Tonight your strong. Expect a sense of support and goodwill from those around you. You have lots of restless loved one inspires you and may even give you ideas for poems or songs. energy that can be channeled constructively with a small amount of focus.

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

You may seem agreeable today, but something has your mind whirling within. In It seems you are on an uphill swing financially, and you may discover ways to order to know the truth of a matter, you could be trying to understand a person or situation at this invest that can be quite profitable. However, take care not to fall for some catchy moneymaking time. You may be investigating and psychoanalyzing in your free time. You have a keen interest in gimmick-check and recheck. There are some unbelievable deals out there. You can block yourself metaphysics and intuitive insight and you use all you know when you need to do any detective from progress with the attitude of wanting and needing, versus the experience of accomplish- work. You are usually on target with your findings. Secrets, taboos and mysteries appeal to a deep ment. Your intuition is high-listen before you leap. You may be friendly and find many people instinctive yearning. You are probably involved in some form of detective or legal work as you feel attracted to you; you will be able to have the last say. This is a wonderful time to be with loved a love of order and law. You must busy your mind with other things this afternoon. Your timing is ones-the energies that surround you tonight are affectionate. Dreams open the door to your sub- perfect-those around you find you most enjoyable. conscious. Keep a notepad, pen and small flashlight handy and record your dreams.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) You enjoy working hard to achieve the finer things in life. Financial gains are possi- Don’t be afraid to project your image-make those dreams real. Ideas of group ble today and if you look and plan, you will see the trends for your future finances. cooperation and communication could further your career. Some sort of competition between Now is the time to plot your course. This afternoon you could schedule in a massage, hairdo, new ACROSS ern Guatemala. the company you work for and another company will light up your imagination. You have ideas clothes, whatever it takes to make you feel pampered-now is the time. Take some time to express 1. According to the Old Testament he was a DOWN that will help put your company at the head of the market. You excel at professions that allow to others how important they are to you. Your sensitivity is strong and you may listen to someone pagan king of Israel and husband of Jezebel 1. Type genus of the Anatidae. you to be in contact with many different people and to travel to new and exciting locations. You else’s problems today. You are very serene with a tendency to daydream-people may need to call will be in a position to communicate to your co-workers and people apart from work this after- (9th century BC). 2. A chordophone that has a triangular frame your name several times before you respond. There are opportunities to be with the family in a noon. You will prosper by pursuing your ideals and most deep-seated dreams of how life could fun setting this evening. Perhaps some outdoor cooking is in order. 5. An Italian liqueur made with elderberries and consisting of a sounding board and a pillar and be. Take your intuition seriously, particularly if you suspect some type of underhanded activity. flavored with licorice. a curved neck. 12. Anterior pituitary hormone that stimulates 3. A river in northern England that flows south- the function of the thyroid gland. east through West Yorkshire. 15. Horny plate covering and protecting part of 4. A war measure that isolates some area of Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) the dorsal surface of the digits. importance to the enemy. 16. Large brightly crested bird of Africa. 5. Characterized by dignity and propriety. You have clear vision and can easily see the steps needed to make good decisions. You are ambitious, self-confident, honorable and generous in money matters. Your 17. A flat wing-shaped process or winglike part 6. A soft yellow malleable ductile (trivalent and You are happy when in control and you enjoy managing anything practical. You will excel in professional life goes along pretty well until you find out about someone that is furthering his or her group activities now and it is easy for you to get your ideas across to others. Not too emotional, education in order to increase a bank account. You may desire the same-you certainly involve your- of an organism. univalent) metallic element. you are objective, businesslike and reliable. You may not trust those in authority for now and you self in a lot of talk around improving your work status. An on-going list helps you remember your 18. A unit of weight used in some Spanish 7. A form of address for a married woman. may want to be aware of your response to superiors. Someone understands how you feel and is priorities. You could feel great support from those around you, and you could be feeling quite natu- speaking countries. 8. The basic unit of money in Thailand. sympathetic. You seem able to manipulate most every idea or situation and bring it around to ral and healthy. Being fond of pleasant surroundings, you strive to create a harmonious environ- 19. A broken piece of a brittle artifact. 9. Fiddler crabs. good use. Your mind is ever on communication and how you present yourself and how the result ment around your home all the time. This is a favorable time to spend with loved ones and family. of your communication influences others. The focus is on you this evening. There is a need for security and a sense of roots. 20. A room or establishment where alcoholic 10. (of roads) Made of logs laid down crosswise. drinks are served over a counter. 11. Wild sheep of northern Africa. 21. A detailed description of design criteria for a 12. A sock with a separation for the big toe. piece of work. 13. Speaking a Slavic language. Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 22. Being nine more than ninety. 14. Swift timid long-eared mammal larger than There may be many things to gain your attention this morning and they are all Obtaining and exchanging information takes on greater importance just now. 24. (linguistics) Relating to the dative case. a rabbit having a divided upper lip and long good. Your career direction gets encouragement and life’s problems find easy solutions. You are There could be an investment matter at risk or a new customer may ask for your help. Any type of 26. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken hind legs. pioneering when it comes to self-analysis and self-care. You can see new ways to make use of scenario that calls for your attention and strong focus in making good business decisions will be in southeastern Asia. 23. A white metallic element that burns with a your position. An unconventional approach to working for or with others may require a special successful today as you become more involved. You may be most pleased with the positive results. 30. A small bottle that contains a drug (espe- brilliant light. work situation for you. Someone needs help in translating some instructions and you might con- You are able to bring a group together with words or ideas that transport others. Your power of imagination is successful as you meet with others in a sales meeting or make a presentation. These cially a sealed sterile container for injection by 25. Of or relating to or caused by a toxin or poi- sider helping. Explaining with pictures as well as demonstrating the steps that are needed can be quite helpful and you may be asked to help again. It certainly is a change of pace. You have no good vibrations continue after the workday is over-you encourage others to use their creative needle). son. trouble putting your feelings into words for yourself or as you help others. mind. You are in a festive mood this evening and you thoroughly enjoy socializing. 33. Located in or toward the back or rear. 27. Muslim name for God. 34. A Christian holiday celebrating the birth of 28. Be iridescent. Christ. 29. A port in western Israel on the 38. United States tennis player (born in Mediterranean. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) Czechoslovakia) who won several singles 31. Swiss writer (born in Germany) whose nov- championships. els and poems express his interests in Eastern Continued success on the career level may point to your adjusting some of your Work, achievement and ambition are foremost on your mind. This is a perfect time current plans this day-go with the flow. You will make career gains by your ability to sense quality to be assertive and to move forward in your career decisions. You have all the drive and energy you 39. Of or relating to the stomach and intestines. spiritual values (1877-1962). and choose accordingly. After work you may want to shed some of the tension that has accumu- need for successful results. It should be easy to channel your objective. You will find the path is 40. Bearing numerous leaves. 32. Located inward. lated this workday by doing something totally different from your usual activities. You are kind- open and clear. This is a time when you may enjoy some support or recognition from those around 41. Widely distributed lichens usually having a 35. The 3 goddesses of fate or destiny. hearted and usually inspired by emotional situations. You and a friend may decide to volunteer at you. You may feel that you are in touch with others and the lines of communication are open. You grayish or yellow pendulous freely branched 36. Absolve or pardon. a soup kitchen-serving the homeless. This evening you will have your say when it comes to a may find your friends asking for help this afternoon and you may need to reorganize a few of your neighborhood community meeting or gathering of friends. You might compliment each other on own plans. However, all of this should go rather smoothly. It pleases you to be included or to lend a thallus. 37. withdraw from an organization or commun- the good communications between neighbors. The group of you can make a positive difference. helping hand. You may find yourself in a romantic mood tonight. 42. Resist or confront with resistance. ion. 44. (computer science) A kind of computer 43. (prefix) Within. architecture that has a large number of instruc- 47. Harsh or corrosive in tone. tions hard coded into the cpu chip. 50. North American republic containing 50 WORD SEARCH PUZZLE Yesterday’s Solution 45. The compass point midway between south states - 48 conterminous states in North and southeast. America plus Alaska in northwest North 46. Doglike nocturnal mammal of Africa and America and the Hawaiian Islands in the Pacific southern Asia that feeds chiefly on carrion. Ocean. 48. Fish eggs or egg-filled ovary. 52. A public promotion of some product or 49. Queen of the Olympian gods in ancient service. Greek mythology. 53. A genus of the cactus family with scarlet 51. Standard time in the 6th time zone west of flowers. Greenwich, reckoned at the 90th meridian. 54. A mark left by the healing of injured tissue. 55. A student in medical school. 56. Either extremity of something that has 57. Willing to be taught or led or supervised or length. directed. 59. Small magnifying glass (usually set in an 58. American filmmaker and comic actor (1935- eyepiece) used by jewelers and horologists. ). 60. Single thickness of usually some homoge- 61. A Mid-Atlantic state. neous substance. 63. An informal term for a father. 62. An ancient port city in southwestern Spain. 64. The boarding that surrounds an ice hockey 65. The clock time given by a clock carried on rink. board a spacecraft. 71. A branch of the Tai languages. 66. Small slender gull having narrow wings and 72. Of or relating to a creed. a forked tail. 75. (informal) Roused to anger. 67. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann. 76. An organization of countries formed in 1961 68. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a to agree on a common policy for the sale of mosque. petroleum. 69. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake 77. A public toilet in a military area. Chad. 78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made 70. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mythol- from aba cloth. ogy. 79. A three-tone Chadic language. 73. (used especially of commodities) In the nat- 80. A festival featuring African-American cul- ural unprocessed condition. ture. 74. The 7th letter of the Greek alphabet. 81. A member of a Mayan people of southwest- Yesterday’s Solution

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anet Jackson is rumored to be releasing a new LP this their release sched. They say yes. From the store... (sic)”Neither summer. The ‘Love Will Never Do’ singer recently moved Janet - the sister of Michael Jackson - or her label representa- Jrecord labels to Atlantic Records and according to a list of tives have confirmed the release date of the untitled LP or release dates sent out by the label, Janet, 48, is expected to addressed the rumors. However, sources including Gigwise drop new music on 10 July. Janet’s fan forum on website and Stereogum have asked major music retailers who have Stereogum, says pre-orders will be available by 7 July. The confirmed she is on their future releases list. This will be the forum Janet.Club.com posted a photo of an album box with R&B singer’s 11th studio LP and her first since 2008’s “reserve your copy today” written on it, in what looks like a ‘Discipline’, which was released on Island Records. record store. The Twitter post accompanying the photo read: “ @harmonicait ...Call the FYE in BKLYN and ask if Janet is in

James Corden: No one Gibson’s personal problems can replace Zayn in 1D stopped Mad Max return ames Corden thinks Zayn Malik is irreplaceable in One Direction. The ‘The Late Late Show...’ host el Gibson wasn’t cast in ‘Mad Max: Fury Road’ Australian dollar. Our budget ballooned. It was very hard to Jthinks 1D are right to continue as a four-piece in because of the “turbulence in his life”. The Hollywood get all the planets aligned and, by then, Warner Bros. was very the wake of Zayn’s departure from the boy band as it Mstar was due to reprise his role as Max Rockatansky keen to get on to ‘Happy Feet’. To do the animation, that took wouldn’t be right to add a new fifth member. But for a fourth time in the action movie in 2006 but his drunk-dri- three-and-a-half years.” Although Miller decided to go with Corden firmly believes the pop group have a “rich” ving arrest - during which he told one of the arresting police Hardy, the filmmaker insists there were no hard feelings from future together as a foursome. Talking on the red car- officers that “Jews are responsible for all the wars in the world” Gibson about losing the role that made him a star when he pet at the British Television Academy Awards at - that July and subsequent three-year probation order appeared in the original 1979 film. Miller said: “Tom sought London’s Theatre Royal, the 36-year-old TV personality derailed the project. Shooting wouldn’t commence on the out Mel and they had dinner together and they had a kind of said: “No one can replace Zayn, it’s about the four of movie until 2011 by which time Gibson, now 59, was consid- handover. Tom wears a kind of cloth bracelet made from para- them and they have a very rich and brilliant future ered to be too old to play Max again and the part went to Tom chute cord and he gave one to Mel. So it was a sign (of pass- ahead of them.” The former ‘Gavin & Stacey’ star is going Hardy. Director George Miller - who was originally due to ing the torch) ... I also had dinner with Mel. It was in the thick to be the first person to interview all of One Direction - helm the project after completing big screen animation of the more recent problems. Like a lot of people, I feel he is Harry Styles, Louis Tomlinson, Liam Payne and Niall ‘Happy Feet’ - said: “Then Mel hit the turbulence in his life and an adorable guy. But, with all that stuff coming out, it was Horan - since Zayn left in March. When asked if he was time was ‘getting on’ by the time we regrouped. We got to hard to watch. “Deep down, he is a really good man. The stuff nervous about the interview on his US talk show, he 2010.” Miller, 70, had originally been due to work with Gibson he does - like charity work, anonymously!” ‘Mad Max: Fury said: “I’m not nervous, I saw them on Friday ... And I’m on the sequel in 2001 but it was shelved following the finan- Road’ is released in cinemas worldwide on 14 May. seeing them tomorrow, we’re filming a skit so it’s all cial implications of the September 11 terrorist attacks against good.” On whether he was looking forward to speaking the US. Miller told the Postmedia Network: “He was to do the with the ‘Steal My Girl’ hitmakers, he told ITN: “It’s going movie in 2001 ... What happened was that 9/11 happened. to be great. I consider them friends, so I just hope we The American dollar collapsed 25 percent against the make a fun hour of TV.” Corden jetted in from US espe- cially for the BAFTAs on Sunday and flew back this morning. Talking to the BBC, he said: “I’m on the aero- plane longer than I am in London.” One Direction will be on ‘The Late Late Show with James Corden’ on 14 May. Hailee Steinfeld Lawrence ‘nervous’ about singing on-screen ending the Hollywood ailee Steinfeld was excited and nervous about singing in ‘Pitch gender pay gap Perfect 2’. The 18-year-old actress, who plays a member of the ennifer Lawrence is set to end Hollywood’s gender pay Hacapela group the Barden Bellas in the new comedy, admits gap, by banking twice what her co-star Chris Pratt will she has a new appreciation for people who get on stage and perform. Jearn from ‘Passengers’. The 24-year-old actress has signed She said: “I was equally excited as I was nervous. Singing has always a “watertight” $20 million deal for her role in the upcoming been something that I love, but I’ve never taken it any further than film, putting her in an exclusive group of Hollywood high the shower. You don’t realize how hard it is.” The actress also earners, alongside the likes of Leonardo DiCaprio, Bradley embraced the opportunity to show off her dance moves. She said: “I Cooper and Robert Downey Jr. - all of whom can command wouldn’t consider myself a big dancer by any means, but it’s some- enormous fees for their projects, according to The Hollywood thing I like to do, so I just jumped right in. it was very cool to feel like Reporter. This news comes after Jennifer, along with Amy one [a dancer] for a minute.” Hailee was a huge fan of the first film and Adams, found herself at the forefront of a bitter row over instantly formed a close bond with her cast-mates. The Oscar-nomi- Hollywood’s gender pay gap after an email from the Sony nated star told People magazine: “As a fan I felt like I knew all of the hack revealed the two women were paid less than their male girls already. The fact that I’m in the second one is so cool. co-stars Bradley, Christian Bale and Jeremy Renner for “Sometimes when you are on set all day long with some people, the ‘American Hustle’. Email exchanges between studio execs last thing you want to do is see them over the weekend. But it never showed that Jennifer and Amy - who both received Oscar felt like that with us. We had movie nights and viewing parties for ‘The nods for their performances - received seven percent shares of Bachelor’. It was awesome.” the film’s profits while the director and the three male leads received nine percent. It’s not just Jennifer’s career that’s going from strength to strength, as it was recently reported that she’s “happier than ever” with boyfriend Chris Martin as well. She started dating the 38-year-old Coldplay frontman last year, and the two have reportedly been spending lots of Kanye enlists Diddy for album “quality time” together since the Oscar winner recently wrapped up filming her upcoming film, ‘Joy,’ in Boston. A source close to the couple said: “Both have full plates and they iddy is producing Kanye West’s next how he sees the album going. But we’re defi- like it that way. They see each other when they can, yet each album. The 45-year-old rapper has nitely working together, producing a lot of continues to do their own thing. They respect each other Dconfirmed he is working on ‘SWISH’, records together and having a lot of fun.” Last immeasurably.” but admitted he is unsure of his final involve- week, Kanye - who has 22-month-old daugh- ment in the project. When asked about his ter North with wife Kim Kardashian West - role on the record, he said: “I don’t know yet. announced he was changing the name of his I’m definitely producing on his album, but I forthcoming seventh studio album from ‘So don’t know how it’s going to end up.” Help Me God’ to ‘SWISH’, but admitted his Regardless of his role, the ‘Coming Home’ hit- indecisive nature might mean it changes maker - who recently welcomed Kanye into again before the LP is released. He wrote on his producer supergroup The Hitmen - insists Twitter: “I’m changing my album name to he’s “having a lot of fun” in the studio with the SWISH.”I might change it again but that’s the 37-year-old musician, who released his latest name now.” single ‘All Day’ in March. Speaking to Billboard, he continued: “It’s up to Kanye and

The Rock to star in Alpha Squad Seven

wayne ‘The Rock’ Johnson has clinched a deal to star in ‘Alpha Squad Seven’. The Hollywood Reporter has revealed the 43-year-old actor is to be the main star in the Dsci-fi comedy, which his own production couple helped develop. DreamWorks won a bidding battle with Paramount to make a deal for the new film and were responsible for the title. As well as starring, Johnson will also take on co-producing duties as a part of his own company 7 Bucks Productions, alongside FlynnPictureCo, which is headed up by Beau Flynn. Flynn, and Johnson have previously worked together on a sci-fi flick, ‘Journey 2: The Mysterious Island’, and other films including, ‘Hercules’ and ‘San Andreas’. As for writing, leg- endary comic writers Jeremiah Friedman and Nick Palmer took on the job and also pitched the film to several big time companies, including Columbia and Universal, before securing the deal. There has been no mention of who else will star in the film and no details have been given regarding the plot. Meanwhile, Johnson is busy shooting action film ‘Central Intelligence’ and will provide his voice to Disney animation, ‘Moana’ which will be released in 2017. lifestyle TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015

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A butterfly collection displayed on a wall of the home of Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda, in Isla Negra, Chile. Masks adorning a wall in the home of Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda. — AP photos Sailing on land aboard Neruda’s ship-like homes in Chile

razilian tourist Cristiane Stekel stood next to left-leaning politician and friend of socialist by Mexican artist Diego Rivera, which includes Chilean poet Pablo Neruda’s bed and looked President Salvador Allende, who was ousted and Neruda’s silhouette in her curls, hangs from a wall. Bout the window at rough ocean waves. The died during the 1973 military coup. Portuguese cups made of multi-colored glass, bed is positioned so that the sun rises at its head which Neruda said gave water a better taste, sit on and sets at its foot. The Nobel Prize-winning poet Legal wrangling his dining table. His 1971 Nobel prize in literature is was fascinated by the ocean but preferred to Neruda, 69 and suffering from prostate cancer, behind glass in the home library. Neruda’s “La remain a “sailor on land,” incorporating details like was traumatized by the persecution of his friends Sebastiana” home in Valparaiso is perched atop a the perfectly placed bed in his favorite home in the and planned to go into exile. However, he died hill so steep that visitors arrive via staircases. He coastal town of Isla Negra, about 70 miles (110 kilo- under suspicious circumstances 12 days after the built the house looking for “a quiet place to write” meters) west of Santiago. coup. So controversial was Neruda’s death that in with ocean views in every direction, including from “There’s no way not to be inspired and produce great poems with this wonderful view,” said Stekel, 35, a lawyer and fan of Neruda’s poetry. “I knew of his work but now I can understand his history bet- ter because it seems like he’s still alive in this house.” More than 40 years after his death, Neruda’s love poems and adventurous life continue to inspire, drawing about 400,000 annual visitors from around the world to his three homes. Neruda wrote The facade of ‘La Sebastiana,’ the late poet Pablo Neruda’s home in Valparaiso, Chile. from all three places, which provide a window into his inspirations and eccentricities. At Isla Negra, built on a rocky cliff over the Pacific Ocean, tourists can “navigate on land,” as Neruda would say, taking a journey through a vast collection of ship figureheads, antique maps, com- passes and shells of all sizes. His two other nautical- themed homes, in the port city of Valparaiso and the capital, Santiago, have low ceilings, porthole windows and are packed with keepsakes. From Polynesian statues and African masks to pipes and butterflies, Neruda’s collectibles give visi- tors a glimpse of the love affairs, travels, raucous parties and childlike wonder of one of the 20th century’s most prolific poets. Isla Negra’s main entrance has shells on the floor that were hand- picked by Neruda from the beach. He joked with friends that the shells were left there to provide a nice foot massage for visitors. The stained glass windows were chosen by the poet so he could see A man points to a mural of Pablo Neruda at the Venezia Bar that the Nobel Prize-winning the ocean in different colors. poet frequented, near his home. Shed tears In “The House in the Sand,” a book dedicated to Isla Negra, Neruda writes about a “muse” in the liv- A person sits next to a bust of Nobel Prize-winning poet Pablo Neruda overlooking the ocean, out- ing room: Maria Celeste, an oak figurehead from a side the poet’s museum-home. boat that sailed the Seine River in Paris. The poet claimed the muse shed tears during winter. The house halls are lined with bottled ship 2013 his body was exhumed from burial at Isla the windows of his tiled green, white and blue models and sand from Brazilian beaches, a gift Negra. Tests have shown no signs that he was poi- bathroom. from the writer Jorge Amado. Outside is Neruda’s soned, but legal wrangling has kept the body from Inside the house is his first typewriter, a portrait biggest toy: a train engine that the poet hauled being reburied. “Neruda remains current. He has of American poet Walt Whitman, whom Neruda using oxen and Jeeps. “In my house I have collect- the strength of his poetry, the political connotation considered his literary father, and “The Cloud,” his ed toys large and small, without which I could not and the fact that he died after the military coup favorite chair for contemplating the sea. The Pacific live,” Neruda wrote in his memoirs. “The child who made him a legend,” said Fernando Saez, executive Ocean was “so big, unruly and blue that it didn’t fit does not play is not a child, but the man who does director of the Neruda Foundation, which oversees anywhere,” Neruda wrote. “That’s why they left it in not play has lost forever the much-needed child the houses. front of my window.”— AP who used to live inside him.” Neruda chose the location of his Santiago home Neruda was born Neftali Reyes Basoalto in 1904 because the surrounding green foliage evoked his in Parral, a city in south-central Chile. He changed childhood in Chile’s south. He named it “La his name to conceal his writing from his disapprov- Chascona,” or disheveled in the Quechua language, ing father, a railway worker. Although best-known a reference to the curly hair of Matilde Urrutia, a A girl looks through a stained-glass window in the main bedroom of Pablo Neruda’s for his love poems, Neruda was also a diplomat, a lover who became his third wife. A portrait of her home.

Standing next to the grave of Chilean poet Pablo Neruda and his wife, Matilde A tourist stands next to a ship model in Pablo Neruda’s home. A view of the Chilean port city of Valparaiso. Urrutia, a girl looks out at the Pacific Ocean, at the couple’s home. Iglesias receives honorary degree from Berklee

ulio Iglesias and three other prominent Bridgewater also received honorary doctorates. Lynn, David Bowie, Willie Nelson and Placido music industry figures have received hon- Bridgewater gave the commencement address. Domingo. — AP Jorary degrees from Boston’s Berklee College Berklee says Iglesias and the others were recog- of Music at its commencement. Iglesias, who has nized for their achievements and influences in recorded more than 80 albums in his career, was music and for their enduring contributions to awarded an honorary doctorate of music on American and international culture. On Friday Julio Iglesias, left, reacts after receiv- Saturday. night, the college held a private concert honor- ing an honorary doctor of music Sony Music Entertainment CEO Doug Morris, ing them with music associated with their degree from Berklee College of Music drummer Harvey Mason and Grammy Award- careers. Past Berklee honorees include Duke president Roger Brown, right, during winning jazz singer and producer Dee Dee Ellington, Aretha Franklin, Steven Tyler, Loretta commencement ceremonies. — AP lifestyle TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015

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Cannes’s coveted Bumper year for France and Palme d’Or turns 60 Italy at the or filmmakers the world over, winning the Cannes Film Festival Palme d’Or at Cannes is a unique sign of rance and Italy are leading the charge for the Palme for his Italian-language “The Great Beauty”-features an all- Tribute to Bergman in official poster international recognition for a movie. This F d’Or trophy at the Cannes Film Festival opening this star UK and US cast: Michael Caine, Jane Fonda, Rachel The 68th Cannes film festival unfurled its official poster year the trophy-now a palm frond of gold on a week, energized by a new generation of French Weisz, Harvey Keitel and Paul Dano. “The Tale of Tales,” by featuring Ingrid Bergman yesterday, in a tribute to the lozenge-shaped crystal base-turns 60. The first F female directors and an unexpected embrace of English Matteo Garrone (who won the Grand Prize in 2008 for Hollywood actress on what would have been her 100th Palme d’Or was awarded in 1955 to “Marty,” an by Italian filmmakers. The two countries are the strongest “Gomorra”), stars Salma Hayek and Vincent Cassel in a fan- birthday this year. Bergman, one of the leading ladies of American film starring Ernest Borgnine and direct- contingents in the official line-up of movies selected, tasy collection of three fables. Hollywood’s Golden Age with films such as “Casablanca”, ed by Delbert Mann. It has since been handed out underlining a European tilt at this year’s festival. Only Nanni Moretti, a Cannes darling who won the “Notorious” and “Spellbound”, was president of the festi- 54 times, including five years in which it was France has five films in the Palme race, while Italy has Palme in 2001 for “The Son’s Room,” sticks mostly to Italian val’s jury in 1973. The poster, based on a photograph by shared between two movies in competition. Only three-a remarkable show of strength in a field that counts with his semi-autobiographical “My Mother”-but even David Seymour, “captures the actress ... in all her beauty, one female director, New Zealand’s Jane Campion, just 19 movies from around the world. “French cinema then, US-Italian actor John Turturro adds some of the her face lit up by a calm serenity that seems to herald a has won it, in 1993 for “The Piano.” this year is utterly impressive. We could have put in seven international lingua franca to the mix. Regardless, the promising future”, festival organizers said in a statement. films,” Thierry Fremaux, the festival’s director and chief Italian press has stressed how unusual it is to have so With final preparations underway before actors, Replaced a certificate selector, said last month when he presented the list. many Italian movies at Cannes-some years have seen directors and producers descend on the French Riviera The Cannes Film Festival started in 1946, but in none-and have dubbed the directors “the three muske- town, organizers hung a giant version of the poster out- its early years delivered just a certificate with Unusually strong presence teers.” side the Festival Palace yesterday. The festival, which runs “Grand Prix of the International Film Festival” on it, As the host country of the Cannes Film Festival, France along with a work by contemporary artists that customarily gets a couple of berths in the official list, but changed each time. In 1954, the festival organizers five slots is very unusual. Just one of the directors is a called on jewelry houses to come up with a trophy Cannes veteran: Jacques Audiard, who won the festival’s that referenced the palm leaf on Cannes’s munici- runner-up Grand Prize six years ago for “The Prophet.” He pal coat of arms. A jewelry creator named is back with “Dheepan,” a movie about a Sri Lankan Lucienne Lazon won the tender with her design. refugee struggling to live on the fringes of Paris society. But the look-with the palm’s stem morphing into a Newcomers Stephane Brize and Guillaume Nicloux will be heart, on a terracotta base-had its critics, and in presenting, respectively, “The Measure of a Man,” about a 1963 it was discarded. Between 1964 and 1974 the supermarket security guard asked to spy on his col- festival went back to awarding certificates, before leagues, and “Valley of Love,” a drama starring Gerard reverting to a golden palm trophy once more. Depardieu and Isabelle Huppert and set in California’s After some makeovers-during which the terra- Death Valley. cotta pedestal became pyramidal, then crystal-the Two female directors-both of whom are actresses who trophy was modernized in 1977 into its current have moved behind the camera-are also in competition. incarnation under a design by Caroline Scheufele, Maiwenn, who picked up Cannes’s Jury Prize in 2011 for co-president of the Swiss jewelry company “Polisse,” had her latest movie about a passionate but Chopard. In return for an exclusivity deal, Chopard complicated relationship, “Mon Roi,” selected. Valerie provides the 20,000-euro ($23,000) Palme d’Or tro- Donzelli will be presenting her “Marguerite & Julien,” phy each year for free. The frond, with 19 hand- about a 17th-century incestuous couple. Additionally, crafted leaves, weighs 118 grams of 18-carat gold. Cannes’s opening film on Wednesday-part of the official It rests on a one-kilogram beveled bloc of crystal in selection, though not in competition for the trophy-will the shape of a diamond. Workers set up the official poster of the 68th Cannes’ film festival yesterday on the Festivals’ palace facade in Cannes, be “Standing Tall” by female French filmmaker Since 2013, the Swiss jeweler has guaranteed southeastern France. — AFP Emmanuelle Bercot. The surge of a new generation of the ethical origins of the golden component of the female directors in France was an overdue rebalancing, Sorrentino, Garrone and Moretti have issued a joint May 13-24, will be presided by American writer and direc- prize, ensuring that both the workers-in coopera- said Jean-Michel Frodon, a cinema historian and critic. statement expressing their pride, and saying they hoped tor brothers Joel and Ethan Coen. Bergman’s daughter, tives in Chile’s Atacama desert-and the environ- “Cannes has in the past been attacked over the number of their Cannes showing will stimulate other Italian directors actress and director Isabella Rossellini, will head the “Un ment are well treated in its construction. The crys- women in its selections, and apparently the organisers “seeking less obvious and conventional paths.” Certain Regard” jury, which allows for an alternative tal comes from Germany. It takes seven workers wanted to correct things,” he said. Yet for all the buzz and hopes, some in Italy’s cinema forum for films competing for the festival’s coveted Palme and jewelers 40 hours to complete the trophy. industry say subsidy cutbacks are hollowing out national d’Or prize. —AFP English invasion production. “Over the past 35 years, Italy has become a A ‘spare’ Palme d’Or The Italian contingent, by contrast, is represented only country of television,” lamented Gian Luca Farinelli, head But what happens if two movies win the Palme by male directors. But, in line with a broader Cannes of the Cineteca di Bolgone film archive. “This country has d’Or in a shared first prize? In anticipation of that trend, two of the three Italian films were made in English. forgotten what cinema has given it, how it became an eventuality-and also in case of any accidents-a “Youth”, by Paolo Sorrentino-who won an Oscar last year instrument of education for generations of Italians.” spare Palme d’Or without a date marked on it is kept in reserve. Right up to the award ceremony, the Palme is kept safe in the jeweler’s vaults, and delivered at the last minute to the festival’s organ- izers amid great secrecy and security. Since 2000, ‘Avengers’ sequel tops charts, mini-Palme trophies recognizing the best male and female actors in Cannes’s films are also provid- ed. ‘Hot Pursuit’ Just six directors have won Cannes’s top prize crushes twice: Francis Ford Coppola, in 1974 for “The Conversation” and in 1979 for “Apocalypse Now;” he “Age of Ultron” is not over. The Avengers sequel topped Such a behemoth Shoei Imamura in 1983 for “The Ballad of the domestic box office for the second weekend in a row Still, “Hot Pursuit” could surprise yet, especially when it reaches Narayama” and 1997 for “The Eel;” Bille August in Twith an estimated $77.2 million according to Rentrak esti- the small screen. “Furious 7” and “Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2” rounded 1988 for “Pelle the Conquerer” and in 1992 for “The mates Sunday. The film has earned a staggering $312.9 million in out the top five with $5.3 million and $5.2 million, respectively. Best Intentions;” Emir Kusturica in 1985 for “When just 10 days in theaters, tying with “The Dark Knight” to become Ultimately, it’s still an “Avengers” world, at least until “Mad Max: Father Was Away on Business” and in 1995 for the second-fastest film to do so. While a wild success by any meas- Fury Road” and “Pitch Perfect 2” open next weekend. “‘Ultron’ is just “Underground;” Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne in ure, the film is still lagging behind the record-setting precedent of so big. It’s such a behemoth. It’s hard for a newcomer to get atten- 1999 for “Rosetta” and in 2005 for “The Child;” and 2012’s “The Avengers,” which made $103.1 million in its second tion,” Dergarabedian said. Michael Haneke in 2009 for “The White Ribbon” weekend in theatres and had a domestic total of $373 million at Estimated ticket sales for Friday through Sunday at US and and 2012 for “Love.”— AFP the same point in the cycle. Canadian theaters, according to Rentrak. Where available, the lat- Mike Tyson “Avengers: Age of Ultron” also added $68.3 million internation- est international numbers for Friday through Sunday are also ally, bringing its worldwide total to $875.3 million. The Disney and included. Marvel sequel opens in China on May 12 with midnight screen- 1. ”Avengers: Age of Ultron,” $77.2 million Mike Tyson confirms ings. The midnight sellouts have even prompted Chinese IMAX 2. ”Hot Pursuit,” $13.3 million screens to add 3 am showings to their schedule. “Hot Pursuit,” 3. ”The Age of Adaline,” $5.6 million meanwhile, failed to make a significant mark in its debut week- 4. ”Furious 7,” $5.3 million role in Kung Fu end, earning a less-than-impressive $13.3 million. The Reese 5. ”Paul Blart: Mall Cop 2,” $5.2 million Witherspoon and Sofia Vergara buddy comedy, which cost a 6. ”Ex Machina,” $3.5 million. reported $35 million to produce, was projected to earn at least 7. ”Home,” $3 million Biopic ‘Ip Man 3’ $18 million out of the gates. “Critics were very tough on ‘Hot 8. ”Woman In Gold,” $1.7 million. ormer heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson has Pursuit,’ “said Rentrak’s Senior Media Analyst Paul Dergarabedian. 9. ”Cinderella,” $1.6 million been confirmed as joining the cast of “Ip Man 3.” The film 10. ”Unfriended,” $1.4 million — AP Fis the final installment of a biopic of martial arts ace and Ideal spot one time mentor of Bruce Lee, Ip Man. After the previous Considering the power of female audiences at the box office, episodes focused on Ip’s early life, “Ip Man 3” focuses on the and the frequency of female-driven films to over-perform, the lag- master-student relationship between Ip (aka Yip) and Bruce ging enthusiasm around “Hot Pursuit” is puzzling. “It was a formula Lee. Martial arts ace, Donnie Yen reprises his role as Ip in the for whatever reason didn’t resonate with the critics, and I think film to be directed by Wilson Yip. that had an impact on its box office,” Dergarabedian said. Warner Tyson is set to have a significant role in Ip Man 3, playing a Bros EVP of Distribution Jeff Goldstein noted that the film attract- property developer and street fighter. He is expected going to ed an older and primarily female audience, which is one that have several intense fight scenes with Yen. The film which has doesn’t necessarily rush out on opening weekend to check out a a budget of $36 million is produced by Hong Kong-based film. Audiences were 62 percent female and 82 percent over the Pegasus Motion Pictures. It is executive-produced by Shi age of 25. Jianxiang, founder and CEO of Shanghai Kuailu Investment The Mother’s Day holiday might help catapult the “Hot Pursuit” Group. Ip Man 3 is tentatively scheduled for release in 3D in to a stronger Sunday, Goldstein said. The weekend between the first quarter of 2016. Pegasus, which is also handling inter- “Ultron’s” opening and next week’s debut of “Mad Max: Fury Road” Mia Hamiyeh, from left, Amal Clooney and George national sales, will open the film for business this week in and “Pitch Perfect 2” on paper seemed like the ideal spot to place a Clooney arrive at the world premiere of ‘Tomorrowland’ at Cannes. An offer to Tyson to appear in the film was made earli- mid-budget comedy. But it’s also possible that other titles further AMC Downtown Disney in Anaheim, Calif. — AP er this year at the Oscars ceremony in Los Angeles. into their runs might have divided attentions, including the third- This photo provided by Disney/Marvel shows, Chris Evans, Confirmation of his casting was announced this week at an place film, “The Age of Adaline,” and “Ex Machina,” which snagged left, as Captain America/Steve Rogers, and Chris event in Shanghai. Tyson has had previous acting roles in films the sixth spot as it continues to expand. “It’s a very competitive Hemsworth as Thor, in the new film, ‘Avengers: Age Of George Clooney teams including “The Hangover II,” “Scary Movie 5,” and the upcoming marketplace out there,” Dergarabedian said. “There are a lot of Ultron.’ — AP up with Disney for “Meet The Blacks.”— Reuters cool options out there right now for entertainment in theaters.” futuristic ‘Tomorrowland’ Baltimore rally eorge Clooney teams up with Disney for the expected Prince turns from recluse to healer in summer box office hit “Tomorrowland”, a futuristic rince, the famously withdrawn and eccentric pop super- elegant dance moves at nearly 57 years old, told the crowd to A renewed activist Gadventure which the Hollywood actor says he was star, refashioned himself Sunday as a community healer seek “peace” as much as “piece”-a slice of the economic output The activism marks a revival of sorts for Prince, who, since drawn to because of its hopeful message. Clooney, known for Pas he led a peace concert in Baltimore. Two weeks after of their community. “I want to stay tonight in a hotel that is his superstardom in the 1980s, has made headlines not only for his roles in “Ocean’s Eleven” and “Syriana”, plays the jaded for- sometimes violent protests erupted over the death of African- owned by one of you,” he told the crowd of thousands, many his music but for his idiosyncrasies such as changing his name mer boy-genius Frank, who joins teenage science-fan Casey American Freddie Gray, who sustained injuries in Baltimore wearing gray, at Prince’s urging, in tribute to Freddie Gray. to an unpronounceable symbol amid a dispute with his record (Britt Robertson) on a mission to unearth the secrets of a place police custody, Prince threw what he called a “Rally 4 Peace” at a label. Even the tickets for the show-on sale a whole three days somewhere in time and space called “Tomorrowland”. downtown arena in which he debuted live a song dedicated to in advance-showed a different approach for Prince who in The movie, which also stars British actor Hugh Laurie, is the scarred US city. recent years has grown fond of announcing concerts at the last directed by Brad Bird, known for Academy Award-winning ani- For the song, “Baltimore,” Prince brought to the stage minute. But even if he has preferred the seclusion of his Paisley mated feature films “Ratatouille” and “The Incredibles”. “I know Marilyn Mosby-the young prosecutor who pleasantly surprised Park estate in Minnesota, Prince has never, from the start of his that Brad is an optimist and he wanted to write a film that said many demonstrators by swiftly bringing charges against six career, played it safe. that every time we turn on the news as we do and see how police officers over Gray’s death. “Are we gonna see another In an allusion to his early risk-taking, Prince performed the bleak it is, that it doesn’t have to end that way; there’s a future bloody day? / We’re tired of crying and people dying / Let’s take title track of “Controversy,” his sexually and politically forthright out there if you get involved, and I like the idea of it,” Clooney all the guns away,” Prince sang in “Baltimore,” which he released 1981 album, with the opening lines: “I can’t believe all the said at the film’s premiere on Saturday. online before the concert. The song, whose gentle guitar riffs things the people say / Am I black or white? / Am I gay or “I loved the idea of the story ... I liked the ending, I like the reflect more hope than anger, also refers to Michael Brown, an straight?” Prince foreshadowed his new activism at the Grammy way they talked about those subject matters.” Clooney walked African-American teenager whose shooting death by police Awards in February, where he used a brief appearance to back the blue carpet for the film’s premiere at Disneyland in sparked protests in Ferguson, Missouri. the Ferguson-inspired slogan, “Black lives matter.”—AFP Anaheim, near Los Angeles, alongside his wife Amal and cast “Does anyone hear us pray? / For Michael Brown or Freddie members Robertson and Raffey Cassidy. Gray? / Peace is more than the absence of war,” Prince sings, “People know (Clooney) for his humanitarian work and before leading the chant, “If there ain’t no justice, then there that he is willing to step out and take an unpopular stand if he ain’t no peace.” Prince drove home his message of empower- believes it is right,” Bird said. “And that is good for this charac- ment in one of his signature songs, “Purple Rain,” as he told the ter because the character Frank is an idealist and it is about crowd in an extended interlude, “The system is broken, so it’s Longtime fan Nikki Harris of Baltimore shows off her struggling with idealism too.” “Tomorrowland” will be released going to take the young people to fix it.” Prince, sprightly with embroidered Prince jacket. on May 22. — Reuters lifestyle TUESDAY, MAY 12, 2015 Features Chinese turn Paris suburb into Europe’s biggest fashion market

he rows of upmarket sedans look out of place parked in Duesseldorf in Germany. “Aubervilliers has become one of the ple from the region of Wenzhou, a town in southeast China He owns dozens of shops in the town but made a bigger the working-class Paris suburb but this is Aubervilliers, most important places for business and exchange with China where emigration is a deep-rooted tradition. name in 2011 when he bought a large share in the northern TEurope’s made-in-China clothing capital where traders in all of Europe,” said the town’s mayor, Pascal Beaudet. “So we There was a snowball effect after the first Chinese whole- French port of Le Havre, the country’s hub for ocean-borne recently opened the continent’s biggest garment centre. A needed to organize accordingly and that’s what we did.” salers starting setting up in Aubervilliers around 2000, said trade with Asia. vast range of clothing is on offer in this town on the northern left-wing Mayor Beaudet. With the city today counting about Wang and seven fellow investors of Chinese origin are edge of the French capital where generations of Chinese have ‘A new reality’ 1,200 Chinese traders-not including laborers and other behind the new Fashion Center, now Europe’s biggest whole- settled-and some made fortunes. Canny shoppers can pick up “For those who work in the garment industry, Aubervilliers employees like Min-Aubervilliers has become the main com- sale textile market with 310 shops in 55,000 square meters in a smart ready-to-wear suit for 40 euros ($46) in a central store is indispensable,” said Gaetan Le Gorre, 37, keeping one eye on mercial junction between France and China. the heart of Aubervilliers. The Center aims to draw buyers or a pack of cheap socks in the supermarket, while a stall- workers loading his van with a cargo of jeans bought from a “There is a new generation of businessmen who have from across Europe and make the textile import-export trade holder on the street offers sneakers. local wholesaler. Le Gorre, from the Brittany region in north- arrived, who are French of Chinese origin and who speak more efficient by consolidating business in one location, said “Here, you can find anything at almost any price,” said Min, west France, sells clothes in street markets and comes “at least French,” Baudet said. “And so I know, in terms of hiring, that Wang who sees the project as beneficial for the French econo- a laborer who came from China six years ago, as he pushed a once a week” to stock up in what he calls “ready-to-wear there are non-Chinese who work in the stores. “It’s a new reali- my. cart laden with boxes and bags for delivery to a wholesaler. Chinatown”. “I pick clothes out, I barter. Here you have every- ty and of course it’s interesting for the city and its residents,” The Fashion Center will create “about 2,000 jobs... and not “People come from all over Europe,” he said, himself dressed in thing at hand, but you need to know your way around.” he said. only for Chinese people,” said Victor Hu, 47, one of Wang’s fashionable jeans and black down jacket. “This is internation- Hundreds of wholesalers offer an endless choice of textiles, partners who traded in the uniform of the French Foreign al.”Behind Min, customers and porters squeeze between dou- colors and patterns in this vast district between the Paris belt- ‘The king of Aubervilliers’ Legion for a suit and tie after a spell in the service entitled him ble-parked vans as they head in and out of shops with flash- way and the national sports stadium, Stade de France-where The pioneers had actually arrived in France years earlier, to French citizenship. “We have made a small path,” Wang ing signs and, at times, whimsical names like: “Glam Couture”, France won the 1998 football World Cup. “Behind every shop, said Richard Beraha, a specialist on the Chinese community in smiled. “The new generation will build a highway.” — AFP “Bisou’s Project,” “La Bottine Souriante” (“The Smiling Bootee”) there’s a whole team,” said Pascal, a young Frenchman of the Paris region. At first they had no papers but found work, and “Miss Baby Hot Bottom”. Chinese origin who did not give his last name and recently acquired legal status and gradually earned enough to go into When the new Fashion Center-expected to generate more took over his parents’ store. “We turn to French fashion design- the wholesale business. One of them, Hsueh Sheng Wang, has jobs-officially opened at the end of March, it became the ers to satisfy a Western clientele.” In the maze of alleys and built a clothing empire and amassed such a fortune in his late largest market of its kind in Europe, overtaking a similar one at dead ends, almost all of the family businesses are run by peo- 40s that he has become known as “the king of Aubervilliers”. Indiana teen takes great-grandmother, 93, to junior prom n Indiana teenager who took his 93-year-old great-grandmother to his junior prom says he Ahad a great time, even though her early bed- time nearly cut the night short. Drew Holm says his classmates thought it “was pretty cool” that he asked Kathryn Keith to last Friday’s Crothersville High School junior prom. Holm picked Keith up in her Cadillac for the dance in Seymour, about 60 miles south of Indianapolis. Keith, who wore a blue dress, told the Seymour Tribune she’s proud that he asked her. The pair hit the dance floor for only one song, sharing a slow dance. Their night ended by 9 pm because Keith has an early bedtime. Holm then took his girlfriend to an after- prom event at a bowling alley. — AP

Chinese dissident artist Ai Weiwei’s artwork Zodiac Heads stands at the National Museum of Wildlife Art near Jackson, Wyoming. This photo provided by Inter-State Studio & Publishing Co Shows Drew Holm and his Zodiac Heads on display at great-grandmother Kathryn Keith in their National Museum of Wildlife Art prom picture. — AP

his year is the Year of the Sheep in Chinese astrology, but all 12 ani- Tmals of the traditional Chinese zodiac are now represented at the Mexican director National Museum of Wildlife Art in Jackson Hole. On Saturday, an artwork Cuaron called Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads to head formally opens to the public at the museum. Chinese artist Ai Weiwei (AYE’- Venice jury way-way) designed the bronze heads of the zodiac animals. he Venice film festival says it has select- The heads weigh 400 pounds each. ed Oscar-winning director Alfonso They arrived at the museum yesterday TCuaron to head the jury that will select on board two tractor-trailers. A large this year’s winner of the festival’s coveted crane hoisted the heads into place Golden Lion award. The Mexican director alongside a sculpture trail. The Zodiac returns to Venice where “Gravity” made its Heads have been displayed in several premiere as the opening film in the festival cities but never before in a natural set- two years ago, before going on to win Oscars ting. The distant Gros Ventre (grow-VAH- in the best director and best film editing cat- NT’) Range will be the backdrop for the egories. Zodiac Heads until the exhibit closes The Venice Biennale called Cuaron, 53, Oct 11. — AP “one of the most celebrated directors of his generation,” and praised his ground-breaking techniques in the 2006 film “Children of Men,” which premiered in Venice and was nominat- ed for three Oscars. “Gravity” received 10 Oscar nominations, and took in more than 700 million dollars (euros) at the box office. The Biennale Venice film festival runs Sept. 2 Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei to 12. — AP poses with a bronze figure of a dog, one of the 12 animals of the Alfonso Cuaron Chinese zodiac.—AP photos Myanmar Bridal Fair

Myanmar models display wedding dresses created by local designers dur- ing a bridal fair at a Yangon, Myanmar. — AP photos Zodiac Heads on display at National Museum of Wildlife Art

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Ballerinas perform during a ‘Giselle’ dress rehearsal before the first official show in Johannesburg, as the St Petersburg BalletTheater kicks off the South African leg of the global season. — AFP US museum returns looted statue to Cambodia

n American museum has returned a 10th-century Buddhist monks chanted blessings and scattered flow- Last year Cambodia received three ancient statues show for 20 years at New York’s Metropolitan Museum of sandstone statue of the Hindu monkey god ers over the statue upon its arrival at Phnom Penh looted from the kingdom more than 40 years ago, includ- Art. The statues are considered pieces of extraordinary AHanuman to Cambodia, decades after it was looted International Airport, according to an AFP photographer. ing one-Duryodhana-retrieved after a long legal battle in value to the Cambodian people and part of their cultural from a jungle temple during the kingdom’s civil war. The “We welcome back the statue of Hanuman from the the US. The statues, part of a nine-strong ensemble, heritage. — AFP meter-high statue was stolen in the 1970s from the Koh Cleveland Museum of Art in the US,” Chan Tani, depict warriors Duryodhana and Bhima locked in combat- Ker temple site near the famed Angkor Wat complex. The Cambodian Secretary of State for the Cabinet Office, told as well as a bystander called Balarama. In June 2013 two artwork, which had been in the possession of the reporters. The museum agreed to return the artwork after other 10th-century Khmer-era statues known as the Cleveland Museum of Art since 1982, was received by negotiations, but Chan Tani did not say how the museum “Kneeling Attendants” were returned. They were also loot- Cambodian officials late Sunday, an official said. originally came into possession of the artefact. ed in the 1970s from the Koh Ker temple site and were on

These photos show a 100-year-old dancer and choreographer Eileen Kramer performing with other cast members during a full dress rehearsal of her latest work, The Early Ones, at a theatre in north Sydney. — AFP photos Aged 100, Australian dancer still hears call of the stage tarring in music videos at the age of 100, Eileen Kramer is her bed most mornings. “But I do get up and do plies and things. his death. Afterwards, she returned to performing, but at the age probably the oldest working dancer and choreographer in Some of the foot exercises in classical ballet are very, very good for of 99, after the death of another partner, decided to come home SAustralia, if not the world-and the centenarian revels in her strengthening your feet. And I need it now because I can only see to Australia. “I began to think of kookaburras. The smell of gum age. “I don’t mind. I’m 100!” she laughs from the Sydney rehearsal of with one eye so my balance is affected.” With her bright lipstick and trees,” she said. “It’s natural to come back to your own country. a music video in which she is performing. “I’m liberated. I don’t a near-fluorescent orange dress she made herself, Kramer recounts Although previously little known in her native land, her return has have to be 35 all the time.” Conversation with Kramer moves swift- touring Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and India with the sparked a new chapter in her career, with the dancer collaborating ly-from how she used to eavesdrop on philosopher Jean-Paul Bodenwieser troupe before setting up on her own. “I was always on three music videos. “It’s her commitment to creativity. It’s so Sartre in a Paris cafe, to modeling for famous artists, to Louis interested in India and when we toured there I got a taste for India, inspiring to see,” explains singer Sarah Belkner, 31, on why she Armstrong teaching her to do the twist. She puts her life’s unusual I suppose,” she says, explaining how she took up residence in the chose Kramer to dance in her new music video. trajectory down to seeing, at the age of 24, a performance by country’s top hotels as their dancer or artist. To mark turning 100, in March she performed The Early Ones, a Sydney’s Bodenwieser Ballet, run by Viennese immigrant Madame “In Pakistan, somebody told me I could paint. Next thing I dance piece she crowd funded and choreographed herself, with Gertrud Bodenwieser, who had fled to Australia via Colombia after found myself in a pavilion... painting scenes of Paris. That wouldn’t Australians donating more than Aus$26,000 (US$) to help her ful- escaping the Nazis. happen now. But I was on the spot and I did it. I had two assis- fill her dream. The dancer herself cannot conceive of being any- Kramer tried out for the troupe and was accepted to classes. tants. So I set to work and did it.” In Europe she earned money as thing other than an artist. “I couldn’t do anything else,” she said. “I She recalls that after her first session she felt “free”-and within three an artist’s model, something she had done in Sydney for don’t feel like my life has been difficult. I paint. I write. So if I could- years was a member of the company. Although named the Australian painter Norman Lindsay, often for France’s noted cubist n’t dance, I would be standing before an easel painting.” She stays Bodenwieser Ballet, it is credited with being Australia’s first truly Andre Lhote and his school. “He came into the classroom the first in touch with modern life using a mobile phone and has used influential modern dance company, and despite her lack of classi- day and said, ‘Ah, a genius, a beautiful model’. And when he Facebook, and asked about the secret to her longevity, she jokes: cal training, Kramer found she had talent. “It wasn’t wild, untram- showed me the painting, it was all cubes,” she laughed. She recalls “I don’t smoke, I don’t drink and I don’t chase women. “People do meled movement; there was a definite technique to do. It just suit- an occasion in France’s Dieppe when she was waiting to travel to say, ‘Oh I wish I could do what you’ve done’. And I just say, ‘Well, do ed me.” Kramer credits the languid movements learned at America as her partner Baruch Shadmi played roulette in the casi- it’. — AFP Bodenwieser and her own love of expressive gestures with no. “So I went into the ballroom to amuse myself and Louis enabling her to continue her dancing career for so long. Other con- Armstrong and his group were there,” she said. “And I was the only temporaries have suffered more physical problems, she said. “The person in the ballroom and I was trying to do the twist. I didn’t get other members of the Bodenwieser Ballet mostly have something it. So he showed me.” wrong with their bones. I haven’t got anything wrong because I didn’t do all that... hitting the ground when you come down. So I ‘I began to think of kookaburras’ think that’s why I haven’t got false hips or knees.” Kramer says she Kramer moved to New York with filmmaker Shadmi, but gave still works on her ballet exercises, admittedly from the comfort of up dancing when he had a stroke, caring for him for 18 years until