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2013 RAMADAN 2, 1434 AH www.kuwaittimes.net ,THURSDAY, JULY 1١ Filipina brutally beaten up by Emsak: 03:12 Kuwait police Fajer: 03:23 Dohr: 11:53 Asr: 15:28 Maghreb: 18:50 3 Eshaa: 20:21 Kuwait offers Egypt $4 Max 48º Min 35º billion financial lifeline High Tide 02:33 & 12:57 Low Tide Egypt orders arrest of Brotherhood leaders 07:38 & 21:25 40 PAGES NO: 15866 150 FILS KUWAIT: Kuwait says it will offer Egypt an aid package worth $4 billion, becoming the latest Gulf state to send a financial lifeline to the new government in Cairo fol- lowing a coup there. Kuwait’s announcement yesterday follows a total of $8 billion in grants, loans and badly needed fuel offered from Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates. Both are strong critics of ousted President Mohammed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood. But Kuwait has closer ties with the Brotherhood, whose allies have a powerful political faction in the Gulf nation. The offi- cial Kuwait News Agency quotes the minister of cabinet affairs, Mohammad Al Sabah, as saying Egypt will receive a $2 billion loan, a $1 billion grant and $1 billion worth of oil and petroleum products. Meanwhile, Egypt’s prosecutor ordered the arrest yesterday of the leaders of ousted President Mohamed Morsi’s Muslim Brotherhood, charging them with incit- ing violence in a clash that saw troops shoot 55 Morsi supporters dead. A week after the army toppled Egypt’s first democratically elected leader, bloodshed has opened deep fissures in the Arab world’s most popu- lous country, with bitterness at levels unseen in its mod- ern history. Brotherhood spokesman Gehad El-Haddad said the announcement of charges against leader Mohamed Badie and several other senior figures was a bid by authorities to break up a vigil by thousands of Morsi supporters demanding his reinstatement. Continued on Page 15

Ramadan Kareem Lessons learned from Ramadan

KUWAIT: Kuwaitis gathered at Naif Palace in Kuwait City on the first day of Ramadan to see the Iftar cannon as it was fired to mark the end of the fast. — Photo by Joseph Shagra By Tahira Muhammad amadan is a blessed month in which Muslims abstain from food, drink and intimate relation- Qatar losing ground to Saudi diplomacy Rships from their spouses. However as Muslims there are multiple lessons that we can learn and DUBAI: Qatar, a key supporter of Islamists states,” said Kuwaiti political analyst Ayed benefit from that can help us not just during the who rose to power in Arab Spring coun- Al-Manna. Jonathan Eyal, head of interna- month of Ramadan; but throughout the entire year. tries, is losing ground in regional politics to tional relations at Britain’s Royal United The following lessons can be obtained only if we as Saudi Arabia which appears to have seized Services Institute, argued that Qatar’s Muslims take the time to reflect upon them while we the reins on key issues, notably Egypt and regional politics have failed. are fasting and praying to Allah. (1) Patience (2) Syria. The decline in Qatar’s regional diplo- “Qatar’s Middle Eastern diplomacy now Discipline (3) Avoiding being wasteful (4) Over macy comes as its powerful emir Sheikh lies in ruins: it failed to produce dividends excessiveness (5) Time management. Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani unexpectedly in Libya, backfired in Syria and has now Ramadan teaches us that patience is an inner abdicated in favor of his son Tamim last collapsed in Egypt,” local Emirati daily The jihad. During the daylight hours we have to avoid month. National quoted him on Tuesday as saying. conflicts and avoid getting angry. It can be difficult The wealthy Gulf state had transformed Realizing the damaging effects of their to avoid anger when you have to work during the itself into a key regional player but began policies, Manna noted, “the Qataris sought fasting hours and your employees or boss is getting to retreat as heavyweight Saudi Arabia re- to cut down on their commitments” which on your nerves. However as Muslims we have to look entered the political arena after lagging were already affected by the emir’s abdica- at the greater picture, which are the overall blessings behind in the immediate period following tion and the sidelining of the influential that you will accumulate at the end of that fasting the eruption of the Arab Spring uprisings prime minister Sheikh Hamad Bin Jabr Al- day. in December 2010. The ouster of Egypt’s Thani. Discipline is directly related to being patient. It Islamist president Mohamed Morsi last As a result, “Saudi Arabia, a historical takes a great amount of discipline to control your week by the army and the election by the regional US ally, regained its role” in coor- thoughts, actions and inner desires. Someone who Syrian opposition of Saudi-linked Ahmad dination with other oil-rich Gulf monar- may not be fasting may say something negative to Assi Jarba as new leader stripped Qatar of chies, said Manna. Saudi Arabia’s King you, that may cause you to want to react. It takes a strong influence in both countries. Abdullah was the first foreign head of great deal of discipline to not do so which will cause “Qatar had tried to take a leading role in state to congratulate Egypt’s interim presi- you to break your fast. MAKKAH: Worshippers walk down from the Cave of Hira on the top of Al-Nour the region but overstepped its limits by dent Adly Mansour, hours after he was Wastefulness and over excessive eating, I am sad Mountain in Makkah, Saudi Arabia. The Cave of Hira is where Muslims believe openly backing the Muslim Brotherhood named to replace Morsi. to say in many Muslim countries is a big problem. I Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) received his first revelations. — AP in Egypt, Syria, and other Arab Spring Continued on Page 15 see that during the Iftar time Muslims gather togeth- er to have elaborate feasts, with enough food that can feed a family of four for a whole week! The Monster star spotted Prophet Muhammad (saws) stated that: Nothing is worse than a person who fills his stomach. It should be enough for the son of Adam to have a few bites in the stellar ‘womb’ to satisfy his hunger. If he wishes more, it should be: One-third for his food, one-third for his liquids, and PARIS: Astronomers yesterday report- Observatory (ESO) one-third for his breath.” — Tirmidhi & Ibn Majah ed their best observation yet of a mas- The most massive and brightest During Iftar time we should follow this saying of sive star embryo growing within a dark stars in the galaxy form within cool and the Prophet. It isn’t necessary to fill our stomachs to cloud-the largest stellar “womb” ever dark cloud cores, hungrily feeding on the point that we are so full that we cannot perform spotted in our Milky Way galaxy. The material being dragged inwards by the the night prayers. This totally defeats the purpose of star, which could grow to 100 times the embryo star’s gravitational pull. This fasting in the day time. Lastly time management is mass of our Sun and up to a million specific star is located in the Spitzer also an important lesson that can be learned during times brighter, was spotted by the most Dark Cloud, whose core has a mass Ramadan. We are commanded to pray our daily powerful radio telescope on Earth-the about 500 times that of the Sun. “This prayers when they first come in and not delay. ALMA international astronomy facility object is expected to form a star that is Also it’s imperative to break the fast on time as located in Chile, according to a paper up to 100 times more massive than the well as get up on time for the early morning meal. published in the journal Astronomy Sun. Only about one in ten thousand of It’s not easy for those of us who live in a society that and Astrophysics. all stars in the Milky Way reach that doesn’t shut down during the month of Ramadan. Astronomers hope its discovery, at a kind of mass,” said study lead author However if you can manage your time around the distance of some 11,000 light years Nicolas Peretto of Cardiff University. daily prayers, getting up early in the morning and from Earth, will shed light on how these “The remarkable observations from the night prayers then you accomplished a huge exceptionally massive stars are formed, ALMA allowed us to get the first really goal during this month. shrouded as they are in dust and mys- in-depth look at what was going on tery. “Not only are these stars rare, but within this cloud. We wanted to see Question: What are some of the lessons that can their births are extremely rapid and how monster stars form and grow, and be learned during Ramadan? childhood short, so finding such a mas- we certainly achieved our aim. One of sive object so early in its evolution in the sources we have found is an our Galaxy is a spectacular result,” study absolute giant-the largest protostellar Courtesy TIES Center, a leading non-political NGO co-author Gary Fuller of the University core ever spotted in the Milky Way!” PARIS: A river boat sails past the Hotel Lambert, a 17th century mansion over- promoting relations between Westerners and of Manchester said in a statement According to the ESO, there are two looking the Seine river, which suffered ‘serious damage’ in a fire that broke out Muslims through dialogue, friendship and cultural issued by the European Southern Continued on Page 15 yesterday. The building has been unoccupied since it was bought in 2007 by a exchange. For more information. www.tiescenter.net brother of the Emir of Qatar. — AP (See Page 8) THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 LOCAL Jleeb shooting victims admit role in money laundering Bedoon’s body found in desert

KUWAIT: Farwaniya detectives man to the apartment first with the Fatal accident Hawally scam uncovered the mystery behind a briefcase containing the money. A pedestrian was killed in an Hawally police arrested two shooting case reported recently in When he was late to send a sig- accident reported in Shuwaikh people accused of fleecing KD Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh and found out nal, the officer headed to the apart- Tuesday afternoon. Police and para- 50,000 from multiple victims that the two victims were involved ment and found his accomplice medics headed to Canada Dry through scams. Investigations had in illegal activities right before the tied up while surrounded by a Street where the Asian man was hit been ongoing in several cases in incident took place. The two group of men and one of them was by a sedan while he was crossing which people reported being Egyptian nationals had claimed holding the briefcase. He shot one the road in front of the banks’ com- approached by two men who con- that a group of men had shot them of them in the foot, then followed pound. The man was pronounced vinced them to enter commercial in a botched theft. One of them the person with the briefcase dead at the scene and the Kuwaiti projects. The duo would then dis- was shot in the back, and he said before shooting him in the back driver was in police custody for fur- appear after receiving the money that he was injured while running and running away with the money. ther action. for fake contracts. The detectives away after the suspects attempted Police were able to arrest the two were able to locate the suspects to steal KD 12,000 he had brought Kuwaiti men and their Syrian Strange ticket inside an apartment they used. The to finalize a scrap metal purchase. accomplice, as well as three A man is mulling whether to pay two men, a Kuwaiti and an The second man who was hospital- Egyptians who were with the a fine for a parking ticket against Egyptian, admitted during ques- ized with a gunshot wound on his injured men at the time of the inci- his mentally impaired daughter tioning that they committed 20 foot said that he was passing by at dent. who doesn’t have a driving license, scam operations in which they col- the time and was shot when he or go to court and challenge the lected KD 50,000. They were jumped to help the victim. Suspected murder ruling which is preventing him Investigations revealed however Investigations are ongoing to from renewing his daughter’s pass- referred to the public prosecution that the first man was seeking to determine the cause of death of a port. The Kuwaiti man’s ordeal to face charges. carry out a money laundering oper- bedoon (stateless resident) whose started when he applied for docu- ation and the second man was his body was found recently in the ments to renew his daughter’s Camel rescued accomplice. desert north of the country. Police passport. He was told that the Firefighters rescued a camel According to a source with accompanied by crime scene inves- transaction is suspended pending which was trapped in quicksand in knowledge of the investigations, tigators headed to a location where payment of a traffic ticket issued the Erhaiya desert west of Kuwait one of the victims knows a police a man reported finding a dead body against his daughter. The man was City on Monday. A Kuwaiti man officer and offered him to buy $1 half buried in the sand. The man was baffled because not only his reported finding his camel almost million for KD 200,000 in a money identified after which police learned daughter’s mental disability makes completely sunk into quicksand for laundering operation. The Kuwaiti that he was reported missing at the her unqualified to drive, but also its head. A team of Jahra firefighters officer reportedly accepted and Sulaibiya police station. Preliminary that she was only 10 years old headed to the scene and was able agreed to meet the man in a Jleeb examination revealed that the body when the ticket was issued in 2009. to rescue the animal in an opera- Al-Shuyoukh apartment. The man was left at the location 48 hours When he informed the relevant tion that lasted for an hour and a arrived on time with two compan- before it was found. Meanwhile, the authorities about his situation, the half. The camel’s owner said that he ions, a Kuwaiti former officer in the case was ordered to be classified as man was told to go to the traffic had been looking for the animal for National Guard as well as a Syrian homicide after evidence of foul play court in Riggae and try to get the three days before finding Monday national. The officer sent the Syrian was found. violation overturned. afternoon. Candidates use YouTube to convey views

KUWAIT: Social networking website YouTube is to refer to YouTube footages to question them views and opinions of the political and cultural one of documentary references for the voters to on the change of their stands. elite in addition to forming a notion about pro- KUWAIT: Farwaniya governorate fire department carried a drill in a building under examine profiles and views and manifestos of YouTube includes a huge archive about posed issues. construction at the oil and engineering college of Sabah Al-Salem University in the nominees. Now it has been established that Kuwait’s elections and the political process in Mohammed Al-Otaibi, an eligible voter, said Shadadiya. Three fire centers, namely Ardiya, Jleeb Al-Shuyoukh and Farwaniya, some deceptive voters can no longer change general, constituting a main source of informa- due to to YouTube, candidates can no longer were directed to fight the assumed fire. Deputy fire director Khalid Al-Mikrad super- attitudes due to the records of this site. tion for the researchers in and outside the coun- change their views toward issues due to the vised the drill. The oil and engineering college is a vast structure built on 40,000 sq Dr Abdul Aziz Al-Dihani, a media professor of try.. capacity of retrieving taped rhetoric. m. The drill aimed at increasing efficiency of firemen in dealing with buildings under Kuwait University, said in an interview that Elaborating, Dr Al-Dihani added that a nomi- The youth joining of “political life with their construction due to the dangers of fire spreading due to wind and the nature of YouTube is one of the most successful electoral nee can easily transmit his (her) message via masterminding of modern technology and materials used in buildings.— Photos by Hanan Al-Saadoun means, noting that it is heavily used by a large YouTube, and the live message is much stronger social networking means has given these tools a number of hopefuls. than advertisement in newspapers or on bill- crucial role in addressing the electoral messages A voter, through the YouTube, can examine a boards. to the candidates who can also easily target the nominees’ manifestos and can examine his (her) Online audio-visual messages broadcast by youth and influence them,” said Al-Otaibi, a fran- recorded sayings for judgment, said Dr Al- nominees can reach the prospected voters in chised young citizen. Kuwaiti initiative to Dihani, likening the site to a huge library that seconds, he said, also noting that candidates Another voter, Ahmad Al-Atawi, said he mon- provides audio-visual information in most lan- have been also employing the other electronic itors electoral issues on YouTube and WhatsApp support Egypt families guages, tools and applications, namely Facebook and every day, affirming that many candidates have A number of nominees change their attitudes Twitter. YoutTube plays a role in educating the shown keenness on transmitting their mani- KUWAIT: Out of solidarity with Egypt, bank would be announced so that dona- and views toward some issues, prompting voters electorate on many issues, following up on festos via the social networking sites. — KUNA ‘Kuwait’s Initiative to Help the Egyptian tions could be sent directly. People’ was launched yesterday to sup- Meanwhile, high-ranking sources at port needy Egyptian families and pro- the Interior Ministry denied banning the vide them with their needs of food sup- issuance of visit visas for Egyptians and plies and medicine. stressed that all immigration depart- “Beloved Egypt and its people are cur- ments were still receiving visit visas rently going through a critical ordeal that applications as per standard conditions has affected living conditions of many that have always been used. The sources families, especially since Ramadan is added that as usual before the month of starting. Egypt and Egyptians gave many Ramadan, visit visas for all nationalities sacrifices in protecting the Arab world in were rationalized due to the growing various wars, and we Kuwaitis can never demand in this particular period of the forget when Egyptians opened their year. Notably, a number of citizens and hearts and homes for us during the inva- company owners have complained that sion and when their brave army defend- the ministry was rejecting all visit visas ed our country,” said a statement issued for Egyptians without explaining why. by the initiative urging Kuwaiti citizens They also urged the ministry to issue a to support the Egyptians through the clear official statement to explain the sit- Kuwait Red Crescent Society. The state- uation. “We do understand MoI’s motives ment added that once official agree- but we need more transparency to avoid ments were signed, contribution meth- embarrassing local companies and ods as well as the name of an Egyptian establishments,” they stressed.

Kuwaiti disabled want their voices heard in parliament KUWAIT: Former US President Franklin mittee of the disabled in the last parlia- Roosevelt’s disability did not hinder him ment because “it made us feel deeply KUWAIT: The Fire Department received a report about a car carrying two persons that fell into a construction ditch on Pepsi Cola Street. As fire- from heading America for four consecu- desperate because this committee was men arrived, they found one of the persons fallen in the ditch while the other was stuck in the car. They were successful in rescuing the two who tive terms, nor did it stop Egyptian intel- like a window for us through which we were in a critical condition and were rushed to hospital for treatment. —Photos by Hanan Al-Saadoun lectual Taha Hussein from becoming channel our demands.” Minister of Education although he lost He said the former candidates “traded his eye sight since he was four years old. our case and fail to tackle our demands.” In Kuwait, however, members of Al-Hajri said the government and par- Comparative figures of fourth Kuwait Disabled Sport Club excelled in liament needed to talk with special sporting activities specially in paralympic authorities to address root causes of the constituency electorate games and made many achievements. problems facing the disabled in order to Kuwaiti paralympic athletes won three transform Kuwait into “a country friendly KUWAIT: The total number of Kuwaiti citizens women), Dahiat Abdullah Al-Mubarak 1,999 women), and none was recorded in gold, silver and bronze medals in Atlanta to the disabled.” with suffrage for the July 2013 elections is (1,158 men and 841 women), New Jahra Shadadiyah and Sehaid Awazem. games in 1996, and had registered a He urged current candidates to focus 439,715, including 113,685 (51,560 males and 21,048 (9,000 men and 12,048 women), Overall number of franchised citizens for record in the javelin in the 2nd Gulf on the development of the country and 62,125 females) in the fourth constituency. Sulaibiyah and Government Residences 2,143 the fourth constituency in the polls of the dis- games that were held in Saudi Arabia. society, and paying a great attention to Number of franchised citizens in the dis- (242 men and 1,901 women), Saad Al- solved February National Assembly reached The disabled people play a major role the disabled. trict rose 5,290, 4.88 percent of the overall Abdullah 1,615 (1,016 men and 599 women), 103,280 (45,767 men and 57,513 women). in all domains in Kuwait. Kuwait athlete Saja Al-Azmi said the number of voters in the elections of the Jahra and Bar 18,201 (8, 560 men and 9,641 They were distributed as following: In A disabled candidate is running for disabled “need a genuine support from December 2012 dissolved parliament, with a women), none was registered in Shadadiyah Farwaniyah 4,741 (2,715 men and 2,026 the July 27 parliamentary elections as all authorities concerned in the country.” proportion of 48,525 men and 59,870 women. and Sehaid Al-Awazem. women), Ferdos 14,921 (7,102 men and 7,819 the disabled are demanding more sup- Al-Azmi urged future MPs to “be more Number of franchised citizens in the fourth Electorate of the December 2012 parlia- women), Omariyah 5,133 (2,520 men and port from the legislative authority so serious to supporting rights of the dis- constituency constitutes 25.85 per cent of ment elections amounted to 108,395 (48,525 2,026 women), Rabyah 5,513 (2,738 men and they can exercise their daily lives without abled in all spheres.” Kuwait’s total electorate, standing at 439,715, men and 59,870 women), Omariyah 5,038 2,775 women), Regea and Andalus 7,224 feeling discrimination with their fellow Al-Azmi, who won three medals in at a proportion of 11.72 percent males and (2,452 men and 2,586 women), Rabyah 5,516 (2,710 men and 4,514 women), Jeleeb Al- citizens. shot put and javelin events, said she 14.12 percent females. (2,586 men and 2,788 women), Regea and Shuyoukh 4,830 (2,592 men and 2,238 Chairman of board of Kuwait Disabled would vote for the disabled candidate Voters of the fourth constituency are dis- Andalos 7,514 (2,877 men and 4,637 women), women), Dahiat Sabah Nasser 6,660 (2, 489 Sport Club Shafi Al-Hajri said the dis- because he knew “our daily suffering and tributed among 18 areas as following: Jeleeb Al-Shuyoukh 4,843 (2,589 men and men and 4,171 women), a single voter in each abled people needed real support from difficulties facing us.” Farwaniyah 5176 (2,987 men and 2,189 2,254 women), Dahiat Sabah Al-Nasser 7,063 of Shadadiah and Sehaid Awazem, Rehab all segments of the society namely exec- Kuwait disabled table tennis players women), Ferdos 16,127 (7, 836 men and 8,291 (2,713 men and 4,350 women), Rehab 3,571 3,394 (1,337 men and 2,057 women), utive and legislative authorities. Awadh Al-Harbi and Mohammad bin females), Omariyah 5,126 (2,497 men and (1,411 males and 2,160 females), Odailiyah 21, Odailiyah 25, Ardiyah 11,439 (4,621 men and He hoped a disabled person would Jabal called for the establishment of spe- 2,629 women), Rabyah 5,562 (2,723 men and Ardiyah 11,895 (4,894 men and 7,001 6,818 women), Ishbilyah 471 (265 men and win a parliamentary seat to convey prob- cial clubs for the disabled in all of 2,839 women), Regea and Andalus 7,789 women), Ishbilyah 653 (348 men and 305 206 women), Dahiat Abdullah Al-Mubarak 887 lems of disabled people to the house. Kuwait’s six governorates. (3,051 men and 4,738 women), Jeleeb Al- women), Dahyat Abdullah Al-Mubarak 1,592 (554 males and 333 females). He said the law of the disabled No. Disabled athletes are facing difficul- Shuyoukh 4,972 (2,695 men and 2,277 (952 men and 667 women). In New Jahra the electorate reached 8/2010 “has not been fully nor correctly ties when exercising sport activities women), Dahiat Sabah Al-Nasser 7,130 (2,715 In New Jahra, the electorate reached 18,288 (7,518 men and 10,770 women), implemented,” because its implementa- because there were no clubs near their men and 4,415 women), Rehab 3,673 (1, 452 19,708 (8,273 men and 11,435 women), Sulaibiyah and Government Residences tion did not match needs of the disabled. homes, they agreed. The first committee men and 2,221 women), Odailiyah 21 males, Sulaibiyah and Government Residences 2,125 2,156 (238 men and 1,918 women), Saad Al- The club, said Al-Hajri, has been call- of the disabled was formed in the 2006 Ardiyah 12,347 (5,211 men and 7,136 (245 men and 1,880 women), Saad Al- Abdullah City 518 (333 males and 185 ing for giving the disabled their full parliament, mandated with debating and women). Abdullah 1,050 (647 men and 403 women), females), Jahra and Bar 17,078 (8,008 men rights. preparing all draft laws dealing with the In Ishbilyah 756 (396 men and 360 Jahra and Bar 17,414 (8,136 men and 9,278 and 9,070 women). —- KUNA He criticized the removal of the com- disabled. — KUNA THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 LOCAL Filipina brutally beaten up by Kuwaiti police officer Verbal tussle at Municipality By Ben Garcia grabbed my bag and told me I don’t have respect. I said I know how to respect but I KUWAIT: A Filipina fitness instructor was told him he wasn’t respecting me. He News brutally beaten up by a Kuwaiti police offi- released his grip on my bag but grabbed cer inside the Municipality Health my arm forcefully, pulled my hair and in brief Department after a verbal tussle with her dragged me down the stairs. The next thing Egyptian mandoub on July 7. Jenny was I knew I was already groggy, and did not rushed to Amiri Hospital with multiple know what was going on. I felt nothing but Wataniya Airways strategic investor head, hands and knee injuries after the inci- unbearable pain on my face and body,” she KUWAIT: Well-informed sources said that Wataniya dent and underwent surgery at Farwaniya recalled. Airways’ board of directors would meet with a orthopedic hospital on Monday. Her case Her two colleagues at that time heard strategic investor offering to buy shares after was registered at the Assistance to the commotion going on nearby. At first increasing the company’s capital next week. The Nationals Unit at the Philippine Embassy in they didn’t realise Jenny was under attack. sources added that Wataniya’s board of directors Faiha. The incident took place at the “I was stunned by the commotion on the postponed selecting a consultant to conduct a fea- Municipality premises in Sharq on Sunday staircase, so I rushed there to see Jenny sibility study until after the meeting. The sources when Jenny went with two of her col- lying in a pool of blood. I also saw her bag also said that in coordination with the Civil Aviation leagues (a female Romanian and a Filipina) nearby with blood. I was already in panic, Authority, Wataniya would offer its terminal for sale to fix their municipality cards. screaming and told them she’s my col- to pay off part of its debts. Wataniya’s board chair- After waiting for 30 minutes, one of her league. I saw a man carrying her to a room man Thamer Arab predicted that the carrier’s capi- colleague suggested to just give their civil nearby and I told them that I wanted to see tal would be increased by KD 15-25 million and that IDs to their mandoub so as to follow up the her, but they wouldn’t allow me go near the increase would be used to revive the company results. “I was the one talking with our man- her. I kept asking what happened and I saw doub because I can speak and understand the policeman going out and lighting a cig- after going through the current problems including Arabic,” Jenny recounted to Kuwait Times. arette and just telling mafi shei, mafi shei debts, losses and litigations. “But he was not happy about it. He told me (nothing...nothing),” the Romanian col- I am always creating problems. I said no, I KUWAIT: The Filipina fitness instructor who was brutally beaten up by a Kuwaiti league recalled. Khairan Resort reservation timing was just helping and transferring messages police officer. Married with three kids, Jenny said all KUWAIT: Khairan Resort to him on behalf of my colleagues.” After a hours. He came back with a policeman. The shouting at me and asked why I was creat- she wants is real justice to be served. Management announced small disagreement, the mandoub disap- policeman was obviously stationed inside ing trouble. I told the police I don’t create “Thank God I am still alive, but I really want organizing special pro- peared but returned to hurl Jenny’s civil ID the Municipality. “When the police saw us, any problem with anyone. I told him if you to hit back - I don’t deserve this. I am an grams and activities on to the ground while the other two civil IDs he called me specifically. I asked if I had listen to the mandoub, it is only right to lis- aerobics instructor and I used my body to the occasion of Ramadan. were handed back properly. done anything wrong. I was puzzled. He ten to me as well,” Jenny said. work and provide for my family. After this, I On that regard, Public “I was offended of course, but I didn’t shouted and again called me. Without any- “While I was narrating my side of the don’t know if I can still do my usual job,” she Relations and Media mind it. He called our boss and my boss thing on my mind, I went with them. We story, the police became even more furious. cried. Jenny’s mother, who is also working Manager at the Touristic spoke to me and my colleague,” she said. were on the first floor in front of the stairs He said I was disrespecting him, and told as a fitness instructor in Kuwait, appealed Enterprises Company, Calm followed and the mandoub disap- when we were arguing about something. me to go into a room nearby. When I was for help and for the perpetrators to be Sagr Al-Bader, announced peared again, this time for more than two When we reached there the officer was about to enter the room, the police brought to justice. that clients can make reservations for chalets at the Khairan Resort during the holy month at the TEC Information Center VIVA inaugurates branches in everyday from 9am to 3pm. The Information Center also provides information about activities and pro- grams held at TEC facilities as well as operation Grand Avenue, Farwaniya hours throughout the year. Banks to cut expat employees? KUWAIT: VIVA, Kuwait’s fastest- increase our customer base, while KUWAIT: A number of local banks are preparing to growing telecom operator, also ensuring that all our cus- inform non-Kuwaiti employees with more than 30 announced that it has added two tomers get the best service avail- years of service that their contracts will soon be ter- new branches to its network able, and are served swiftly, effi- minated as part of procedures to increase national across Kuwait. VIVA’s 17th new ciently and courteously.” employment in Kuwait’s banking sector, a local daily branch is located in Grand Avenue To find out more about VIVA’s reported yesterday quoting sources with knowledge and opened its doors on July 9, other branch locations and the lat- of the case. The sources spoke to Al-Qabas on the making it the second branch for est competitive promotions, prod- condition of anonymity because nothing has so far the company in the Avenues Mall; ucts and packages, visit the VIVA been made official regarding the proposed plans. while its 16th new branch located website www.viva.com.kw, or call They did not mention certain names, but said that in Farwaniya opened on July 7. VIVA’s 24 hour call center on 102. some banks have plans to replace long-standing for- The new branch openings VIVA is the newest, most eigners with experienced Kuwaiti employees in posi- come in line with company’s advanced mobile telecommunica- tion to be promoted to leading posts.The sources expansion strategy to serve a tions service provider in Kuwait. added that the banks prepare to send reports soon to wider audience across Kuwait in Launched in December 2008, VIVA the Central Bank of Kuwait on the issue in prepara- addition to providing excellence in makes things Possible for our cus- tion of the replacement plans “especially given customer service and unique and tomers by transforming communi- unconfirmed intentions to increase the minimum exclusive packages for its cus- cation, information and entertain- number of Kuwaiti manpower of a local bank’s work- tomers. ment experiences. The company force from 60 percent to 72 percent in the upcoming Commenting on the opening has rapidly established an unri- few years”. on VIVA’s latest branches, Eng. valled position in the market Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Badran, through our customer and VIVA’s CEO said: “We are proud to employee centric approach. VIVA’s include the new branch openings quest is to be the mobile brand of KUWAIT: Salman Bin Abdulaziz Al-Badran with VIVA’s executives . Kuwait, IAEA to VIVA’s achievements this year. It choice for Kuwait by being trans- erable share of the market by art, nationwide network and most advanced third generation is imperative for us to keep up parent, engaging, energetic and offering an innovative range of world-class service. VIVA offers (3G and HSDPA) network in Kuwait with the growing demand for fulfilling. best value products, services and Internet speed up to 42.2Mbps resulting in superior coverage, per- cooperation on VIVA’s products and services as we VIVA continues to take a consid- content propositions; a state of the due to the implementation of the formance and reliability. nuclear security

VIENNA: Kuwait and the International Atomic Energy Decrease in number of umrah pilgrims Agency (IAEA) agreed on cooperating in nuclear securi- ty, and on exchanging visits and expertise, said a By Nawara Fattahova umrah due to the renovations going on in in this period, and all those who canceled who didn’t go this year for umrah, said the Kuwaiti official here on Wednesday. Makkah. People may are anxious of the lim- their previous reservations were from the Saudi embassy is not issuing visas to expats Speaking to KUNA, Colonel Adel Al-Habib, head of KUWAIT: According to local travel agen- ited place and crowding. We even had army or police as they all should be present during Ramadan. “Those who would like to Kuwaiti Interior Ministry civil protection, said that talks cies, the number of umrah pilgrims have some travelers who had made reservations in Kuwait,” he pointed out. go for umrah have to arrange their visa in with the IAEA focused on enhancing cooperation decreased this year compared to the previ- since May cancel their fights,” he told Ahmad from Saleh Al-Ruweyih Travel advance before Ramadan due to the high between the two sides, and setting up an annual pro- ous year although there is availability of Kuwait Times. Agency noticed a decreased interest in demand for umrah during this month par- gram to exchange visits by officials from the IAEA and seats on all four airlines flying to Jeddah. Mazen from Villa Travel Agency tied the travelling for umrah, but said the situation ticularly, although it can be done at any Kuwait. According to them, the prices of the tickets drop of traveling for umrah with the elec- is not so bad. “It’s true that the number is time during the year. I don’t think any expat is also the same as last year, yet people are tions. “Holding the elections in Ramadan less than last year, yet people still travel. who got the visa will cancel his trip,” He noted that an IAEA delegation will be visiting not travelling. Travel agencies also said was the main reason for the decrease in The renovations are the main reason for stressed Mahmoud. Mustafa, another Kuwait next October as part of the cooperation deal. hotels have offered discounts on rooms to travelling for umrah in the local market. this drop in travelers. Some people also expat, said that the financial situation and On the IAEA’s “International Conference on Nuclear attract people to come for umrah. Many people are staying to be there for had fears of the MERS virus. On the other rising prices of all important goods and Security: Enhancing Global Efforts,” which concluded Hamad from Al-Awali travel agency voting and before it, and some are helping hand, I know many people who went earli- services made it difficult for those who are last week, Col. Al-Habib affirmed the important resolu- admitted that the number of travelers for their relatives who are candidates with er and were not afraid and came back safe,” not well off to travel. “If I had enough mon- tions of the conference which addressed issues con- umrah have decreased this year. “We have organizing events. Military and police staff he stated. ey, I would go for umrah and wouldn’t care nected to nuclear security and monitoring of Weapons noticed that there is no high demand for are on leave suspension so they can’t travel According to Mahmoud, an Arab expat about any other factor,” he noted. of Mass Destruction (WMD). He indicated that the conference would also serve as important input in preparation for the IAEA’s next Nuclear Security Plan, for 2014-2017. Col. Al-Habib affirmed that Kuwait was very keen on playing a role in nuclear security and preventing use of atomic weapons, adding that his country’s geographical location in the region made it paramount for Kuwait to consider a Middle East free of WMDs. The Kuwaiti official lauded the IAEA for its efforts in organizing the event, attended by more than 1,200 reg- istered participants, including some 35 ministers and other heads of delegations from 123 States, as well as 20 governmental and non-governmental organizations. The IAEA’s first comprehensive Action Plan to Protect against Nuclear Terrorism was approved in March 2002 by its Board of Governors and General Conference, and two further Nuclear Security Plans were approved in 2005 and 2009, respectively. Under the 2010-2013 Nuclear Security Plan, the IAEA contributes to efforts to achieve worldwide, effective security wherever nuclear or other radioac- KUWAIT: Under the patronage of Deputy fire director Khalid Al-Mikrad, an honoring ceremony was held for officers who passed a course held in cooperation with a firefight- tive material is in use, in storage, and/or in transport, ing college in UK for a number of its personnel. The courses were on residential building fires, airport fires, dangerous goods fires and industrial and oil fire Al-Mikrad and as well as the security of the associated facilities and Col Ghazi Al-Khaldi distributed diplomas to the graduates. activities. — KUNA Religious speech key element in boosting national unity

KUWAIT: Religious speech is a major element performance is efficient and is responsible in more light on forgiveness and unity rather their own interest to acheiving their objectives liamentary seat, said Abu Slaib. to strengthening national unity and encourag- his nature, noted Dr. Mohammad Al-Tabtabae, than segregation and hatred. and thus don’t object the use of the religious Sociology professor Fawaz Al-Enezi said ing citizens to further contribute to the devel- former dean of Faculty of Sharia at Kuwait Faisal Abu Slaib, a Political Sciences speech for that purpose,” he said. religious speech usually include pure religious opment of their country, Kuwait. University (KU). Professor at KU, said awarness of voters would “The religious speech has an emotional values that would serve the public interest, “so The religious speech will be playing a major Al-Tabtabae said the Holy Quran included determine how they digest the religious nature and affects people specially in Muslim these speech should encourage the participa- role especially that campaigning for the July numerous lessons and values which should be speech, and how they were capable of differ- communities ... it will be positive if it is used to tion” in elections.” 27 parliamentary elections would be in the followed by all Muslims in their daily lives. entiating between the genuine political boost national unity, but will have negative Al-Enezi said preachers and Imams have an holy month of Ramadan, with candidates Mosques too, he noted, play a major role to speech and slogans aimed at inciting sectarian consequences if it is used to cause division important role to play to strengthening the highlighting religious-related merits to boost- educate and guide people on the methods to discord. amongst people,” he said. national unity and respect of others’ opinions. ing national unity. boosting their unity and steadfastness, as well Abu Slaib said the speech of any candidate Bolstering national unity is a joint responsi- The religious speech should be coupled The Islamic sharia organizes the life of the as in having good manners in speech or dia- reflected the state of society. bility of the government, civil society groups with emphasis on many issues like youths, Muslim so the criteria of selecting a candidate logue. The religious speech used by candi- “Some (candidates) consider the public and media, he noted. Candidates in general health care, educational and housing services, should be based on whether the candidate’s dates in their campaigns, he said, should shed interest in their speeches while the other see use all means to make sure they win the par- he said. — KUNA LOCAL

THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013

Italian Spaghetti Sauce with Meatballs

Safir Hotel & Residences hosts Ghabqa

KUWAIT: Safir Hotel & dance were majority of guests From the traditional Ramadan tests where attendees won gift Residences Kuwait-Fintas wel- from the local media, corporate decor to the changes in restau- vouchers and valuable prizes comed the holy month of VIPs, and distinguished in-house rant timings to cater Sohour, from our sponsors Dar Al Athar, Ramadan by hosting an annual guests. Iftar and Ghabka, our guests will Athena Laser Medical Center, INGREDIENTS: Ghabqa on July 8. Marking the The event highlighted Safir be assured that Safir Fintas is Sama Dental Clinic, Mohammad Original recipe makes 6 servings start of the observance of the Fintas’ makeover from its daily one with them in the obser- Nasser Al Hajery & Sons and holy month of Ramadan, the normal set-up and day to day vance of Ramadan. Seba Med. The event closed with MEATBALLS event took place at the Hilal Al functions to reflect the authen- The guests were treated to an a sumptuous Ghabqa buffet 1 pound lean ground beef Fintas Hall which was trans- tic Ramadan atmosphere and evening of traditional Ramadan comprising of a large array of 1 cup fresh bread crumbs formed to mirror the traditional setting that guests will experi- hospitality in addition to vari- food, drinks and desserts which 1 tablespoon dried parsley Ramadan ambiance. In atten- ence and enjoy this season. eties of entertainment and con- everyone enjoyed. 1 tablespoon grated Parmesan cheese 1/4 teaspoon ground black pepper 1/8 teaspoon garlic powder 1 egg, beaten

SAUCE pomi pasta souce 3/4 cup chopped onion 5 cloves garlic, minced 1/4 cup olive oil 2 teaspoons salt 1 teaspoon white sugar 1 bay leaf 3/4 teaspoon dried basil Directions

1. In a large bowl, combine ground beef, bread crumbs, parsley, Parmesan, 1/4 tea- spoon black pepper, garlic powder and beaten egg. Mix well and form into 12 balls. Store, covered, in refrigerator until needed. 2. In a large saucepan over medium heat, saute onion and garlic in olive oil until onion is translucent. Stir in tomatoes, salt, sugar and bay leaf. Cover, reduce heat to low, and simmer 90 minutes. Stir in tomato paste, basil, 1/2 teaspoon pepper and meatballs and simmer 30 minutes more. Serve.

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THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 Zain broadcasts Ramadan TV commercial ‘Know Your Friends’

KUWAIT: Zain Group, a pioneer in mobile “Know Your Friends”, which is addressed to best ‘wonderful words’. The winning mes- telecommunications across eight markets in the company’s customers and partners as sage will then be inserted into the televi- the Middle East and North Africa, intro- well as to the wider regional satellite televi- sion commercial for future showings on duced its latest advertising campaign for sion audience. 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Servings: Makes 4 Servings and expanded internationally, all of whom The words of the song describe this best: Prep Time: are regarded as friends. “They did not love us because we are a Cooking Time: 0:0:30 Supporting the advertising campaign, wonderful world... we are a wonderful Zain has also announced a ‘The wonderful world because they loved us”. words of Zain” message to a friend competi- The lyrics of the song were written by tion whereby anyone can create a special Hiba Mishari Hamada, while the music was message to a friend on a specially created composed by Bashar al-Shatti and distrib- website www.friends.zain.com. uted by Badr Karam. 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kuwait digest kuwait digest Employ more Egypt and nationals Brotherhood By Dr Aseel Al-Awadhi

By Hamad Al-Sarie he same way we congratulated the Egyptian peo- ple on electing their first president after the revo- he complex relationship of Kuwaiti leaders with Tlution, we do today congratulate them for ousting expats is a deep one. In his mind, they are better that very same president who had deviated from the Tthan Kuwaiti citizens in doing secretarial work, revolution’s path and goals. We will not get into the cur- typing, office work and providing legal and technical rent controversy whether what happened was a military consultancy. Before invasion, Palestinian expats were coup or a public uprising; we should leave that to the controlling all administrative work in ministries and gov- Egyptians themselves - it is their own business. We will ernment organization without appearing on the scene. not even applaud the rule of the army because this is A majority of Kuwaitis were looking for “wasta” to the not what we’d wanted for our Egyptian brothers. Palestinian as he was the decision maker and not the However, the fact that over 33 million went out demon- one sitting behind the desk. strating and demanding Morsi’s ouster calls for a pause to review the moral lessons we can get. The first lesson we get from the Muslim Most leaders in government Brotherhood’s experience in Egypt is the necessity of separating religion and politics. Only one year in power offices give the secretary or got the Egyptians convinced of the danger of mixing them. So many people dreamt for long years of the slo- typist the freedom to act with gan ‘Islam is the Answer’ that has been promoted by the all decisions and administra- Muslim Brotherhood for over 80 years. A lot of Islamists voted with hopes to end sufferings and injustice and tive orders. After the expat replace them with freedom, justice and equality. Only a few months later, Egyptians realized how false, hollow wins their trust, many leaders and unreal those slogans were. People’s true religious and employees feel that the feelings were taken advantage of as a bridge to reach power, on top of which the ‘Muslim’ president was decision is in the hand of the plagued with arrogance and tyranny. Politics is more In my view than religious speeches excluding all opponents - it is a expat. Thereafter, he starts patriotic national agenda based on the concept of abusing this trust by employ- ‘Egypt is for all Egyptians’ and not for the Muslim Downfall of Brotherhood Brotherhood alone. ing his relatives or asks other The second lesson is that the relation between ‘politi- By Abdulrahman Al-Zuhayyan cal Islam’ and democracy is an illegitimate one because leaders to employ his expat political Islam’s concept of democracy is limited to the assive protests against for- leader of the Unified Democratic power and appointed Gen. Abdel ballot boxes that pave its way to power without any colleagues with them. mer President Muhammad Nationalist party, criticized along Fattah El-Sisi who ousted him out considerations for true democratic values such as pro- MMorsi of Egypt have erupt- with the violence carried out by of power. These moves are consid- tecting freedoms and respecting diversity. Thus, many After invasion, many from the Palestinian community ed across the country which radicals. He was assassinated out- ered by many analysts as being people were excluded and opponents were accused of left Kuwait, so the Kuwaitis thought that the problem is prompted the military to intervene side his home in the capital and excessive use of power. treason and non-believing, which led to a sectarian tur- over and that they will take those positions which is to preserve the country’s national this triggered unprecedented Moreover, Morsi sought quickly moil that was new to the Egyptian people and only close to the leaders and protect state secrets. But things security by unceremoniously protests against Ennahda and to wield power for the Brotherhood flourished with the spread of political Islam supporters. remained the same, and the majority of leaders in gov- removing Morsi from power and forced it to shuffle the government in local government by assigning What is more dangerous is mixing the presidential post ernment ministries have large number of expat employ- installing Adly Mansour, the top to meet the opposition’s demands. 17 provincial governors who were with a religious one to grant the president divine immu- ees who work in secretarial and administrative positions, judge of Egypt’s constitutional The Brotherhood, be it Islamists, affiliated with them. To solidify his nity. In fact, any political party is part of public concerns and Kuwaitis are isolated from these jobs for non-logical court, as interim leader. failed to realize the difference grip on power, he appointed a new and its decisions and agendas are mere politics that can reasons - like the Kuwaiti is lazy, nonproductive, has a Both the massive protests and between their stated objectives minister of culture and replaced be controversially criticized. On the other hand, linking a long tongue and reveals job secrets. the removal of the president, which and those of the masses - specifi- many news editors with individuals party’s political role with religion is immunizing politics The first, second, and third reasons are not true but were televised live by the world’s cally the youth - which are either from his group. with religion from A to Z to justify tyranny. The third lesson is that counting on exclusionary the last one is real from which the leader is afraid, media, are the most devastating pressing or viable to achieve. This Morsi’s gravest mistakes were powers that do not believe in individual freedom is because he passes all laws and decisions, and does not setbacks that could ever be imag- shows that both sides are living in that he didn’t fathom the idea that doomed to failure and thus supporting them to achieve want these to be exposed in front of Kuwaiti employees, ined to happen to the Muslim their own worlds and times, facili- he came to power through the democratic reform becomes irrelevant. It is very hard for fearing scandal and revealing his violations. Brotherhood across the Islamic tating between the ideas of past electoral process as a second Most leaders in government offices give the secre- anybody who grows up to total obedience to become world. Essam Al-Haddad, a senior and that of the modern present. choice for his party (Freedom and tary or typist the freedom to act with all decisions and free, respect freedom or accept diversity. The Muslim adviser to President Morsi, made a The youth in Turkey, Tunisia and Equality Party) and for the youth; administrative orders. After the expat wins their trust, Brotherhood is run by a mentality that creates a special many leaders and employees feel that the decision is in poignant reminder: “The message Egypt share two important reasons Egyptians were accordingly divided environment and resources from which it derives its cul- the hand of the expat. Thereafter, he starts abusing this will resonate throughout the to protest against the rule of the on his leadership. In the first round ture and behavior. So, if that environment is totalitarian, trust by employing his relatives or asks other leaders to Muslim world loud and clear: Brotherhood or its affiliates: firstly, of the election, secularists had the outcome will be the same and this can be traced in employ his expat colleagues with them. Democracy is not for Muslims.” In the unconventional imposition of more than 55 percent of the vote, knowing the number of those who rebelled against Replacing the expat employee is a basic demand, 1928, the Muslim Brotherhood was Islamic views on the population and in the second round (the such mentality. Nevertheless, Egypt will always remain and should be given priority. National Assembly secre- established and it was believed to without a referendum; secondly, runoff) he had 51.7 percent, which great! — Al-Jarida taries are mostly foreigners, including consultants, and be a highly organized political and putting conservative officials to was barely a majority of the votes. accordingly we should start from people’s houses, by social movement in terms of man- head political, economic, social and More importantly, he hasn’t come employing Kuwaitis instead of expats, especially old agement skills, and political and cultural institutions leading to to grasp the reality that the youth ones who have crossed the legal age for working. economic structures. However, on active domination of the entire were the ones who set the revolu- kuwait digest These expats have become the real leaders who run assuming power, the Brotherhood’s society. Both factors would auto- tion in motion. government departments without official job titles, professional expertise hasn’t mate- matically lead to a total autocratic On the economic level, the gov- Women and because many Kuwaiti leaders depend on them, and are rialized into tangible benefits for government with absolute power ernment hasn’t achieved anything keen to keep Kuwaitis far from these jobs. The Civil Egyptians on any level. On the con- and free will to manage society of significance but quite the oppo- Service Commission is the largest employer of expats, trary, it has proved to the entire regardless of peoples’ wishes. site. Living conditions have deterio- elections and cannot implement Kuwaitisation in the commission world that it was not suited to hold While Egyptians were still dis- rated and the economy has plum- because most leaders insist to have expats in those jobs. power and achieve the aspirations cussing the articles to include in meted to a serious level. With all By Shamlan Y Al-Essa The state through the Civil Service Commission of the masses, especially the new their newly-drafted constitution, that has happened in Egypt, Turkey egistrations for elections closed on Saturday with should announce the need for 3,000 jobs every three generation of youth that brought Morsi forced the committee to is monitoring the situation very 410 men and 8 women only, and despite the fact months for Kuwaiti employees. This total will reach them to power. write up a constitution and - with closely as it is the most affected by that women form the majority of voters by 30,000 12,000 annually. There are thousands waiting in line and R That sentiment was evident in little consensus - called for a refer- the turn of events in Egypt, if Kuwaitisation is implemented, we shall find most new votes, candidate platforms do not allude to women’s Turkey and Tunisia, and recently in endum on it; he then ended discus- because Turkey share the exact ele- real issues. Most candidates repeat the lies that the graduates get jobs in a period that does not exceed two Syria and Egypt. In Turkey the sions and excluded the interests of ments with respect to the political years. — Al-Anbaa woman is a man’s sister and has the same rights and youth that protested against Prime various groups. agenda, the role of the military in duties, and that she has the equal rights of residence as Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan In the new constitution, Morsi politics, and the demographic com- men, and that the state must provide full education and believe that he would change the granted himself more power by position of the society. healthcare services to the woman out of her being a citi- country’s secular identity into a putting his directives above the As for the rest of the Islamic kuwait digest purely Islamic one without consult- judicial review and canceled an world, they should realize that ing them. amendment that allowed the mili- there is a wide gap in the ideas of The authority of marriage The sad city In Tunisia, Ennahda Party (an tary to veto legislation pertinent to the past and the present. We are affiliate of the Muslim Brotherhood) security issues. Alongside that he living in the era of the youth, and divorce is still in the threatened to impose Islamic laws, removed Field Marshal Hussein with varying perspectives about of Kuwait which Chokri Belaid, the opposition Tantawi who assisted him to hold living life. man’s hand and a woman By Dr Salah Al-Utaiqi does not have this right and very country has a capital where government can only resort to court. headquarters, ministries and other vital places and In my view Elandmarks are located. A capital city usually zen. All these issues presented by the candidates are a reflects the country’s civilization, history, and natural constitutional right to the woman as a citizen, yet none beauty and becomes a source of pride for its residents. Egyptian revolution rejuvenates of the candidates - be them political Islam or liberal can- Planning for modern Kuwait City started in 1953 when didates - speak about the true issues that break the then Amir Sheikh Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah assigned By Dr Bader Al-Daihani an English general with experience in city planning to chains that restrict a woman, including for example put together a new housing structure to move the capi- olling boxes are not the only a presidential election for which ‘accomplishments’ towards tyranny Kuwait’s personal statutes which do not allow a woman tal’s residents to suburbs in a very organized manner. elements of legitimacy. There the Muslim Brotherhood ran by another constitutional declara- to marry by herself even if she is a widow or has reached The plan which was carried out through bold and suc- Pare many other elements despite previous promises not to tion to immunize his previous and 25 years of age, because the law stipulates that her cessful steps divided Kuwait into residential areas such such as constitutional principles do so. They broke their promises as following decisions, making them guardian must agree. as Shamiya, Shuwaikh and Faiha, as well as industrial that should be agreed upon by all they did in many other things like unquestionably final before any The authority of marriage and divorce is still in the and educational areas such as the Shuwaikh High nationals in order to legitimize all promising not to control the major- court as well as prevent the dissolu- man’s hand and a woman does not have this right and School and medical areas such as the Sabah Area. public authority activities. After the ity of the parliament. tion of the constituent assembly can only resort to court. Penal law 16/1960 still allows Unfortunately however, the plan was not coupled with disasters of Nazism and Fascism, The Muslim Brotherhood candi- and the Shura council! the man to beat his wife, because there is no crime if the steps to take care of Kuwait City itself, and the capital mankind realized that a democratic date Mohamed Morsi then beat his Hence, doubts of the president act was done for discipline by a person who is author- became with time a shell of its former self following regime is not only procedural or a opponent Ahmed Shafiq with a elect’s actions and decisions’ legiti- ized by law, and nothing is done in case this right is means to reach power as some slight margin, winning 51 percent macy started on grounds that bal- years of negligence. abused. extremists misunderstand. Hitler of the total votes, which indicates lot boxes were not enough to grant Kuwait’s capital city has many strange features, Discrimination against a woman in case of adultery? including dilapidated buildings lacking the basics of and Mussolini came to power that the revolutionists and those him legitimacy alone. through ballot boxes. So democrat- voting for Morsi had huge numbers They do not, either, give the If a man finds his wife committing adultery red handed, hygiene after being ignored by their owners and resi- or his daughter, sister or even his mother, and kills her dents. If you look behind them, you will find garbage ic regimes comprise of a number of and this has created a state of right to make solo decisions immediately, he will be jailed for three years or fined containers, cooking gas cylinders, filthy utensils dis- public principles that govern the severe political polarization that excluding everybody else or doing posed by nearby restaurants and remnants of vegeta- whole political process including called for more efforts on the presi- illegitimate things (most of his 3,000 Indian rupees. bles rotten from long exposure to sunlight. Disorganized authority, separation between dent’s side to bridge gaps. But what decisions were cancelled by court), Yet if the wife finds her husband with another backstreets too. Even new buildings built by the private powers, diversity, respecting differ- happened? which helped form a strong, vast woman and kills him, she will face death or life impris- sector lack coherent architectural structures and look ences, respecting minorities’ opin- What happened was the com- opposition bloc including various onment. The insult or catastrophe that hits the woman is like scattered islands that do not even have sufficient ions and admitting to the opposi- plete opposite as the Muslim political and revolutionary powers when she is kidnapped. If a man kidnaps and rapes a parking places. tion’s presence and rights. Brotherhood did not only break who disapproved of the president’s woman, the kidnapping charge will be dropped if the I am not going to compare Kuwait City with Hence, the powers of a demo- their promises, but as soon as Morsi undemocratic practices. kidnapper marries the kidnapped. European capitals which preserved their history by cratically elected president should was elected, he recalled the parlia- What made things worse was There is discrimination against women in nationality maintaining their beautiful old buildings, museums, be controlled and governed by cer- ment dissolved by the court to con- the president’s attempts to laws too, because nationality is a woman’s right from her churches, etc. Instead, I am going to compare it with tain clearly-defined constitutional vene simply because his group con- ‘Brotherize’ all state establishments father. Also among the strange laws that need to be nearby Gulf states which the moment you step into their rules as per all stable democracies’ trolled it. He also cancelled the sup- that should be independent from changed is the right to get a Kuwaiti passport must be airports you feel that you are in a country that realized constitutions. However, and as a plementary constitutional declara- the ruling party such as the judici- with the approval of the husband, as if the Kuwaiti result of national agreement on the tion by which he took the oath and ary and security forces. what is the right way to development. When you enter woman is less competent. The man also can keep his their cities, you find beautiful buildings with sufficient rules of the whole political process swore to respect. Furthermore, since the Muslim and governance, new constitutions In addition, he reneged on what Brotherhood did not have any eco- wife from performing haj by refusing to grant her the parking spaces behind them, and built in a very organ- passport. ized manner. Clean restaurants and streets. Harmonized should be set after revolutions, was agreed upon with various nomic view different from that of Finally, will the woman demand her right to enter the highways. Despite poor weather conditions, they were which should have been done in political powers at the Vermont Mubarak’s regime, the terrible judiciary, and do candidates from both genders have able to create something beautiful that motivate mil- Egypt right after the Jan 25 revolu- Hotel meeting. He also called for a economy and deterioration of citi- lions to visit their countries all year long. How can we fail tion that toppled a tyrannical referendum on a constitution zens’ living standards finally led to the courage to tackle women’s real issues? This requires to create something similar despite having all the huge regime. despite severe disagreements over rejuvenate the revolution on June women to cooperate and impose their conditions on capabilities and resources that we have?— Al-Qabas The revolution was followed by it. He then went on to continue his 30. (To be continued) —Al-Jarida candidates - “Oh, women of Kuwait... unite!” — Al-Watan THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013

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MEDAN: Students sit in circles during a Quran recital class on the first day of Ramadan, at Ar-Raudlatul Hasanah Islamic boarding school in Medan, North Sumatra, Indonesia yesterday. During Ramadan Muslims refrain from eating, drinking, smoking and sex from dawn to dusk. — AP Muslims begin Ramadan, Islamists target sinners Asian hardliners vow to raid ‘sinful’ bars

JAKARTA: Muslims in much of Asia side Jakarta, was quoted as saying in a Islam’s holiest month brought no let- began celebrating the holy month of local newspaper. up in Afghanistan’s long-running con- Ramadan yesterday, with hardliners in He was leading a group of FPI mem- flict, with three civilians killed and two Indonesia vowing to raid “sinful” bars. bers who seized bottles of alcohol from others wounded in a Taleban roadside Tens of millions across the Muslim a shop at the weekend. Habib Salim bombing in the southern province of world fast from dawn to dusk and Alatas, the head of the FPI’s Jakarta Helmand, authorities said. strive to be more pious and charitable branch said that 50 members would be The interior ministry said that two during the month, which ends with the sent out to monitor nightspots in the dozen rebels had been killed in opera- Eid holiday. capital every evening. “We will send tions across the country over the past But Ramadan began in war-torn out groups of two to three wearing 24 hours. In the Catholic-majority Afghanistan with a bomb blast, and civilian clothes to spy on sinful activi- Philippines, there were was tight secu- there was tight security in parts of the ties like the drinking of alcohol taking rity at the start of Ramadan in southern southern Philippines after deadly place around Jakarta during the Muslim-populated areas after weekend clashes with Muslim rebels. In Ramadan holy month,” he said. clashes between troops and Islamic Indonesia, which has the world’s Authorities have also been making rebels left eight dead. Before Ramadan biggest Muslim population, hardliners a show of cracking down on the illegal began, authorities ordered a halt in use Ramadan as an excuse to attack sale of alcohol. At the weekend police military operations against a rebel nightspots and shops that openly sell in Jakarta used a steamroller to crush splinter group that is seeking to derail alcohol, the consumption of which is thousands of bottles of homemade peace negotiations between the coun- against Islamic law. There were fears alcohol that was being sold in places try’s largest Muslim guerrilla force and the situation could be worse this year without licenses, as well as destroying Manila. after a recent upsurge in attacks on pirated DVDs. For non-Muslims and In Malaysia people were looking religious minorities and non-main- others in Indonesia who drink alcohol, forward to breaking their fast at mar- stream Muslims. getting a beer during Ramadan can be kets in a country whose multiethnic Critics say hardliners such as the a challenge as some bars only want to make-up-it is Muslim-majority but has Islamic Defenders Front (FPI) have serve customers they know for fear of sizeable Chinese and Indian communi- been emboldened by the govern- being targeted by hardline spies. ties-is reflected in a vast and varied ment’s failure to crack down on them There was however a glimmer of selection of food. Bangladesh was set and to prevent such attacks. In the hope for the millions whose lives are for a few weeks of calm when days before Ramadan, there were disrupted by mosques blaring out Ramadan starts as the protests and already reports that the FPI-who led Islamic chanting at all hours during marches that are so common in the protests that forced pop star Lady Ramadan with loudspeakers. A body country normally die down during the Gaga to cancel a concert in Jakarta last that groups many of the country’s holy month. Ramadan begins when year-had started conducting raids. “We mosques urged them to limit the use the first crescent of a new moon is will take firm action against the circula- of speakers, with an official noting “a sighted. It has yet to start in some tion of alcohol, naked dancing and quiet atmosphere is very important so Asian countries with large Muslim pop- prostitution,” Habib Idrus Algadri, head that Muslims can perform their reli- ulations, including Pakistan and of an FPI group in Depok district out- gious duties solemnly”. The start of India.—AFP Bomb attack kills Pakistan President’s aide, 2 others

KARACHI: A bomb attack killed a senior aide to Pakistani scene indicate it “might” have been a suicide attack but said President Asif Ali Zardari yesterday and at least two other “it’s just an assumption so far”. Naveed said the bomb was so people in the country’s business capital Karachi, officials said. powerful it shattered the bullet-proof vehicle in which Sheikh The bomb exploded in a middle-class neighborhood in cen- had been travelling. Sheikh, his driver and a passer-by were tral Karachi, close to an office for Zardari’s Pakistan People’s killed, he added. Both Zardari and Prime Minister Nawaz Party (PPP), which rules southern Sindh province. Sharif, the leader of the PPP’s biggest rival, the Pakistan Zardari was at his official residence around 10 kilometers Muslim League-N party, strongly condemned the attack, away when the attack happened, officials said. “It was a bomb state media said. blast and at least three people were killed and 10 others were Ejaz Durrani, spokesman for Bilawal House, Zardari’s offi- wounded,” police official Tahir Naveed said. Another police cial residence in Karachi, said the president was in the city official, Usman Bajwa, said Bilal Sheikh, Zardari’s top personal but had no schedule to travel yesterday. Instead, Sheikh and security officer in Karachi, was among those killed. “I can con- his driver had gone to buy food for Ramadan, the holy firm that Bilal Sheikh has expired,” Bajwa said. Muslim fasting month, which begins today. Sheikh had sur- Bajwa told reporters that pieces of human flesh at the vived two previous attempts on his life, but had remained committed to the PPP cause, Durrani said. Sheikh had been in charge of security for Zardari’s wife, former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto when she returned to Karachi from exile on October 18, 2007. Bomb attacks targeting her homecoming killed around 140 people. Bhutto survived, but was assassinat- ed by a gun and suicide attack on December 27, 2007.—AFP THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Fire engulfs landmark Paris mansion 17th-century architectural jewel owned by Qatar royal family

PARIS: The Hotel Lambert mansion in Qatari royal family. Dozens of firefighters Firefighters said the blaze started on “significant part of Paris’s heritage”. from activists and neighbors. Supporters central Paris, a 17th-century architectural fought the blaze for about six hours after it the roof of the building, which was Around a dozen neighbors were evacuat- of the Qatari family’s plans said the man- jewel with a rich history, was damaged in broke out around 1:30 am at the Lambert, bought by Qatar’s royal family from the ed and one firefighter was slightly injured sion had been neglected and damaged a major fire yesterday amid controversial a ‘hotel particulier’ or private townhouse, Rothschild banking dynasty for some 60 during the blaze. Built in the 1640s at the over the centuries and was in desperate renovations after its purchase by the on Ile Saint-Louis overlooking the Seine. million euros ($85 million) in 2007. The eastern tip of Ile Saint-Louis, the mansion need of repairs. Some also suggested the fire “spread pretty fast because the build- was designed for a wealthy financier, criticism was rooted in opposition to see- ing is empty and in the midst of renova- Nicolas Lambert, by the architect Louis ing foreigners buy exclusive properties in tion”, fire service Lieutenant-Colonel Vau, who went on to oversee an expan- rarefied central Paris. The dispute was Pascal Le Testu said. “The operation was sion of the Chateau de Versailles for Louis finally resolved in January 2010 when an complicated because the structure is frag- XIV. agreement was signed with a heritage ile,” he said. The mansion is considered one of the association after weeks of delicate gov- Heritage experts had arrived at the finest examples of mid-17th-century ernment-supervised negotiations. mansion yesterday morning to check its French architecture, featuring the fres- Now the fire has raised fears that his- contents but were unable to go inside coes by Le Brun and works by other mas- toric parts of the building may never due to safety concerns. But Le Testu said ters of the day. It is part of a World recover. “It really is a catastrophe because the damage appeared to be extensive. Heritage site along the banks of the Seine. we fought for the frescos of the Gallery of “The roof was completely devastated and The mansion’s uses over the years have Hercules to be preserved in the renova- the structure is weakened because a stair- included being a hideaway for 18th-cen- tion project and now everything has case and pediment over the central por- tury philosopher Voltaire and his lover, gone up in smoke or been drowned,” said tion have partially collapsed,” he said. He and a political headquarters for Polish neighbor Sophie Pons. Qatar’s royal family said the building’s famed frescoes by exiles in the following century. Its acquisi- has become a major investor in France, Charles Le Brun in the “Gallery of tion by the Qatari royal family, which buying up prestige properties, investing Hercules” were also “severely damaged by enjoys strong diplomatic ties with France, in flagship companies such as energy smoke and water”. sparked a dispute as heritage activists giant Total and media group Vivendi, and Paris Mayor Bertrand Delanoe feared they would destroy a cultural gem. purchasing football club Paris Saint- expressed his “shock” and “sadness” over Plans for large-scale renovations, Germain. The French foreign ministry esti- PARIS: Firemen battle the blaze at the 17 century Hotel Lambert yester- the fire and promised in a statement that including the installation of a parking mates that Qatar has invested at least $15 day in Paris. —AFP the city would monitor renovation works area and vehicle lift, were initially blocked billion (12 billion euros) in France over the at the building, which he described as a by a French court following complaints last five years. —AFP

Israel puts Palestinian women ElBaradei - Egypt’s activists on trial for protests new vice president CAIRO: Liberal opposition leader countries from obtaining them. Rights groups condemn rare trial Mohamed ElBaradei, who was named as He was born on June 17, 1942, in Egypt’s new vice president for foreign Cairo, where his lawyer father headed the RAMALLAH: Two Palestinian women military zone” during a protest in the Halamish settlement took control restricts access to the village and affairs on Tuesday, is a respected former bar association, a position that some- activists went on trial in an Israeli mil- village of Nabi Saleh on June 28, an of a spring between the two com- declares it a “closed military zone”. head of UN nuclear watchdog the times put him at odds with the then itary court on Tuesday over their offence that rarely leads to prosecu- munities in 2009, which they say An Israeli military spokesman, International Atomic Energy Agency. Egyptian strongman Gamal Abdel Nasser. involvement in weekly demonstra- tion in court. It is even rarer for Israel deprived them of a source of irriga- Lieutenant Colonel Peter Lerner, ElBaradei’s appointment, which follows Following in his father’s footsteps, tions against a Jewish settlement in to prosecute Palestinian women. tion. The protests typically involve said the women had “participated the military overthrow of Islamist presi- ElBaradei earned his law degree at the the occupied West Bank. Rights “They have been denied the flag-waving and stone-throwing by in an unlawful disruption of the dent Mohamed Morsi last week, comes groups and activists say the prosecu- basic human right to peacefully the Palestinian side, which is met public order, ignored specific days after he was tipped to lead the cabi- instructions of law enforcement net but his nomination was rejected by officers and therefore were the ultra-conservative Salafist party Al- detained.” Nur. Lerner said the military had taken ElBaradei returned to Egypt in “necessary action to restore security” February 2010 after retiring as IAEA chief, after the violence resulting from the and forged close ties with the liberal pro- protest threatened the safety of democracy movement that spearheaded civilians on a nearby road. Sarit the overthrow of Hosni Mubarak’s 30- Michaeli of Israeli human rights year rule in February, 2011. The Tamarod group B’Tselem said the trial is campaign behind the protests that led to expected to last months and that it Morsi’s ouster and replacement by care- is part of Israeli policies which “make taker president Adly Mansour had it virtually impossible for already nominated ElBaradei to represent Palestinians to legally demonstrate”. the movement in transition negotiations The two defendants are free on bail with the military. while the trial continues but Tamimi In January 2012, his decision to quit has been ordered to stay at home the race for the presidency was seen in every Friday and Hamadeh may not Egypt as a slap in the face for post- enter Nabi Saleh on Fridays. Mubarak military rulers and one depriv- In the past week, Israel arrested ing liberals of a key champion. In late Egyptian liberal leader two other prominent activists in the June this year, he urged Morsi to resign Mohamed ElBaradei West Bank villages of Bil’in and Beit after one year in office for the sake of Ummar who organize protests as national unity, ahead of record opposi- University of Cairo in 1962. Two years lat- part of a strategy dubbed “popular tion-backed rallies calling on the Islamist er, he joined the diplomatic service and resistance” blessed by Palestinian leader to step down. “For Egypt’s sake, I was assigned to the missions in Geneva WEST BANK: Palestinian activist Nariman A-Tamimi (left) and Rana Hamadah sit for the verdict President Mahmoud Abbas. Israel call on President Mohamed Morsi to and New York, where he earned a doctor- during their trial at Israel’s Ofer military court near the West Bank city of Ramallah. The two has occupied the West Bank and resign and give us the opportunity to ate in international law and later taught. women were arrested on 28 June during a weekly rally in a West Bank village and charged with sown it widely with Jewish settle- begin a new phase based on the princi- He has written that his New York years entering a closed military zone. —AFP ments since capturing it in the 1967 ples of the revolution, which are freedom were among the most formative, helping Middle East war along with East and social justice,” ElBaradei said last to broaden his world view. As special tion of Nariman Tamimi and Rana protest over land illegally seized by by tear gas, rubber bullets and even Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip - land month. assistant to the foreign minister, ElBaradei Hamadeh has coincided with a rise in Israeli settlers, and the Israeli judici- live ammunition by the Israeli army. Palestinians want for a future state. Rather than join a political party, the served on the negotiating team at the Israeli arrests of Palestinian protest ary has used spurious legal tools to Two Palestinians have been shot Most countries consider the settle- 71-year-old Nobel Peace laureate created historic Camp David peace talks that led organizers in recent weeks. The deci- punish them,” Amnesty dead by soldiers since the protests ments illegal. a movement of his own to act as an to Egypt’s peace treaty and diplomatic sion to put the two women on trial International said in a statement. began, including Nariman’s brother Israel disputes this, citing histori- umbrella for a range of opposition relations with Israel. ElBaradei began his was unusual since charges against Villagers began organizing protests Rushdi in November. During the cal and Biblical links to the West groups-the National Association for UN career in 1980, and was sent to Iraq in them focus on their entry to a “closed every Friday after Israelis from the confrontations, the Israeli army Bank and Jerusalem. —Reuters Change. ElBaradei, who is untainted by the wake of the 1991 Gulf war to disman- the allegations of corruption that sur- tle Saddam’s nuclear program. In 1997, he rounded Mubarak’s regime, was however was chosen as head of the IAEA, a role PKK promotes hawk as peace process falters criticized by opposition groups for that gave him a global profile and led to spending too much time abroad and confrontations with Washington, first ISTANBUL: Kurdish rebels have named a veteran that began in May. Bayik, a long-time senior fig- confirmed. The decisions were taken at a six-day being out of touch with Egypt’s reality. over Iraq and later over Iran. senior militant as co-head of their political wing, ure in the PKK’s military wing, and Hozat were “general meeting” of the PKK umbrella group on His 12 years as the public face of the When Washington claimed Iraq was replacing a relative moderate and clouding the promoted over Karayilan at a meeting of its northern Iraq’s Qandil mountain. Some 162 dele- UN nuclear watchdog nonetheless buying uranium in Africa, ElBaradei dis- future of a peace process with the Turkish state executive council in northern Iraq at the start of gates from Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Iran took part. earned him respect at home, where he missed the evidence before the UN that has been disrupted by renewed violence. July. Ocalan, who launched peace talks with Pro-Kurdish politicians are pressing the gov- was awarded the country’s highest hon- Security Council as fake. The Washington The umbrella political group of the Kurdistan Ankara last year and called a ceasefire in March, ernment to make good on reforms pledged our, the Nile Shas, in 2006. Ahead of the Post reported that ElBaradei’s Vienna Workers Party (PKK) publicly reaffirmed yester- remains the overall head despite being impris- under the peace process to improve the rights of 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, he won telephone was bugged by the US Central day a commitment to ending the conflict, which oned on an island near Istanbul since 1999. Kurds, who comprise 20 percent of Turkey’s 76 admiration around the world and infuri- Intelligence Agency. In 2005, ElBaradei has killed 40,000 people in 29 years. But the The PKK council pledged in a statement to million population, and they launched a summer ated Washington by challenging claims and the IAEA won the Nobel peace prize ousting of Murat Karayilan as deputy to jailed pursue peace efforts “despite the negative of protests in June. A Kurdish youth was shot that Saddam Hussein was hiding a secret for their efforts “to prevent nuclear ener- PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan in favour of veteran stance of the government ... We call on everyone dead in a protest against the construction of a nuclear program. No nuclear weapons gy from being used for military purpos- hawk Cemil Bayik and female militant Bese to take part in the democratic struggle so that all military outpost in the mainly Kurdish southeast were later found by US-led forces. es and to ensure that nuclear energy Hozat as joint heads of the political wing coin- can live together fraternally on the basis of a of Turkey on June 28. Concerns about the ElBaradei is not a noted orator, but has for peaceful purposes is used in the cided with a faltering in the peace process in solution to the Kurdish problem and Turkey’s process rose further last week when PKK fighters earned a reputation for speaking his safest possible way”. ElBaradei, who is recent weeks. democratization”. The statement gave no reason attacked two military outposts in the southeast, mind. He has lambasted what he calls the married to kindergarten teacher Aida It has lost momentum in the face of renewed for Karayilan’s removal. Turkish media said breaking a three-month-old truce. But Turkish double standards of countries that have Elkashef, has a son, Mostafa and a PKK attacks and Turkish criticism of the pace of a Karayilan had been named head of the PKK mili- officials denied militant reports that a soldier nuclear weapons but prevent other daughter Laila. —AFP rebel withdrawal from Turkey into northern Iraq tary wing but this could not immediately be had been killed. —Reuters

Interim charter row reflects rocky road ahead for Egypt

CAIRO: Egypt’s interim charter hit a wave Salvation Front (NSF), Egypt’s main oppo- Others raised concerns about the elec- when at least 51 people, mostly Morsi campaign which organized the massive of opposition shortly after it was sition coalition, said it rejected the consti- tion timetable, seen as particularly ambi- loyalists, were killed outside the Cairo mil- protests that led to the Islamist presi- announced - from liberals as well as sup- tutional decree, while the liberal Free tious given the ongoing protests and itary headquarters, stoking the Islamists’ dent’s downfall. Tamarod spokesman porters of Islamist former president Egyptians Party called it “highly disap- security problems, the extensive powers anger towards the army. The Muslim Mahmud Badr said his movement would Mohamed Morsi, illustrating the treacher- pointing.” of the president and the unchecked privi- Brotherhood claimed police and troops make proposals for changes to the blue- ous political landscape following his Secular criticism has focused notably leges of the military, who intervened last “massacred” their supporters as they per- print, which they would present to ouster. The blueprint unveiled by army- on article one in the charter that upholds week to depose Egypt’s first democrati- formed dawn prayers, while the army Mansour later on Tuesday. appointed caretaker President Adly a stricter definition of Islamic Sharia law cally elected leader. said it came under attack by “terrorists.” Some observers remained optimistic, Mansour has been welcomed by some as as the main source of legislation, in what Gamal Eid, an Egyptian lawyer who After the incident, the Brotherhood however, that the charter marks a key a decisive step towards restoring civilian is widely seen as a concession to the works for a human rights NGO, said the rejected the interim charter outright, with step in Egypt’s democratic transition. rule in Egypt, amid heightened tensions Salafist Al-Nur party. The provision nar- text gave the army too much discretion senior official Essam Al-Erian saying “a Political analyst Emad Gad said the new between the army and Islamists in an rowing Islamic law to the principles of over prosecuting soldiers and civilians in constitutional decree by a man appoint- decree would help restore stability by increasingly bloody transition. Sunni thought first appeared in the con- military tribunals, a concern echoed by ed by putschists... brings the country boosting what he called the “new coop- The charter outlines the president’s troversial constitution that Morsi forced Heba Morayef from Human Rights back to square one.” eration” between anti-Islamist protesters powers, while laying out a timetable to through last year and which was sus- Watch. “This decree has broadened out Meanwhile anti-Morsi factions refus- and the military. “The civic power demon- revise the suspended constitution and pended following last week’s coup. the military justice system... At present ing to endorse the transition plan have strators of the June 30 revolution are try- hold fresh parliamentary and presidential Shaheeb Wageeh, spokesman for the the military has absolute jurisdiction complained in particular about not being ing to support the interim president. So elections, possibly by early next year. But Free Egyptians Party, said the Sharia when it comes to trying its own people,” consulted before it was announced, high- when they see the transitional period in a major blow to hopes that the non- clause was included to “appease a politi- she said. lighting the problem of consensus for the progressing, I believe they will decide to Islamist parties might rally behind cal party that has been trying to impose Army accountability has been thrown Egypt’s new leadership. They include the leave the streets and support the coun- Monday’s transition plan the National its vision on society,” referring to Al-Nur. sharply into focus since Monday morning NSF coalition and the grassroots Tamarod try’s new institutions.”—AFP THHURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Israel strengthens border with an eye on Hezbollah Hezbollah threatens new Golan front against Israel GOLAN HEIGHTS: Israel is bolstering its forces The rebels have detained peacekeepers on sever- rebels said on Tuesday - a disclosure that on the once-quiet frontier with Syria where it al different occasions before releasing them. appeared to point to an Israeli raid. Israel has not believes Lebanese Hezbollah militants are Japan and Croatia have withdrawn troops due to confirmed or denied involvement. preparing for the day when they could fight the violence as has Austria with the gap being The army has also deployed a high-tech sur- Israel. Syria’s civil war has brought an end to filled by soldiers from Fiji. veillance system along the Syria front, which decades of calm on the Golan Heights, a strip of Among the rebels fighting the Syrian army are immediately zeroes in on any suspicious move- land which Israel captured in the 1967 Middle jihadi and Qaeda-linked groups, which Israel says ments approaching Israeli-held territory. “It is crit- East war. Battles between rebels fighting against President Bashar Al-Assad’s forces in Syrian vil- lages nearby are being watched intensely by Israel’s military. Hezbollah, which is also backed by Iran, has sent thousands of its own fighters to combat NYALA: Sudanese men inspect the damage at a market in the city of Nyala, in the Syrian rebels, according to Israeli and Western Darfur region, which was burnt and looted as fighting continues in the region. ñ AFP estimates. Israel last fought Hezbollah in a 2006 Lebanon war and still closely monitors the Sudan Elite troops Lebanese border. Israel says Hezbollah has tens of thousands of rockets in its south Lebanon stronghold. The Jewish state is worried Hezbollah deployed in Nyala is making initial preparations for future con- frontation with it on a new front with Syria and is NYALA: Elite troops have been deployed in ians suspected of supporting rebels. The accruing valuable combat experience on the Sudan’s second-largest city after days of vio- ethnic minority rebels began their uprising Syrian battlefield. An Israeli source said the group lence among members of the security against the Arab-dominated Khartoum is gathering intelligence on Israel’s deployment forces, as residents begin the Muslim holy regime in 2003. on the strategic Golan plateau. “It is not at an month of Ramadan in fear of new clashes. Security problems have been com- alarming level now but we understand their An AFP correspondent was the first from a pounded by inter-tribal fighting, kidnap- intentions,” said the source, who asked not to be foreign news organization to arrive in Nyala, pings, carjackings and other crimes, many identified because of the sensitivity of the securi- the capital of South Darfur state, since the suspected to be the work of government- ty and political situation in the area. Hezbollah’s worst outbreak of urban warfare in Sudan’s linked militia and paramilitary groups. A leader, Hassan Nasrallah, threatened in May to far-west region in recent memory. Most curfew is in effect from midnight but turn the Golan into a new front against Israel. fighting in Darfur has occurred in poverty- masked gunmen on Tuesday night kid- “Since Nasrallah’s threat, more (Israeli) army com- stricken rural regions and smaller communi- napped a local businessman, Issa Adam, as panies have been sent up, more tanks,” an Israeli ties. he drove with his family, a relative said. military source at the Booster military outpost on ZEELIM: An Israeli soldier holds up a Skylark I (Rochev Shamayim) unmanned drone as part of a State officials blamed “differences” Adam operates a large shop in one of the the Golan. “Hezbollah has an intelligence pres- demonstration for Israel’s Defense Minister Moshe Yaalon (center) in an urban warfare army among members of the security forces for city’s main markets, selling sorghum and ence (in the Golan) that we know of.” training facility in southern Israel. The facility, that is designed as a mock Arab village, is used the battles which began inside Nyala on other essential commodities, the relative to train Israeli soldiers in close urban combat scenarios. - AP July 3. Fighting left a war crimes suspect said. Signs of the recent fighting are obvi- HOT SPOT wounded and killed two Sudanese World ous in the city. Booster is about 2 km from a disengagement are also a future threat to the Jewish state. “We ical for us to know who is sitting there - if it’s an Vision aid workers, among others. Behind the locked gates of the World line set after Israel and Syria fought on the Golan know they are busy now but once it ends they Islamist jihadi or a rebel who just wants to Travelling into the city about six kilome- Vision compound, numerous small holes in 1973 and Israeli tanks have just moved back will turn their guns on us,” said the military defend his family,” the military source said. In ters from the Nyala airport, the correspon- from bullets or shrapnel could be seen in into the position for the first time since then. source. “We have learnt our lessons from Sinai,” June, the Syrian army and Hezbollah captured dent said he counted about 12 gun-mount- the walls of a villa which served as the Daytime is peaceful on the rocky outcrop that the source said, referring to the Egyptian penin- the strategic Syrian town Qusair from rebel ed SUV vehicles belonging to the National group’s office, until a suspected rocket-pro- gives a turret-top view of Syrian villages below, sula where Islamist militants have launched forces. Israel watched closely and last month held Intelligence and Security Service (NISS) - the pelled grenade exploded last Thursday. It with birdsong echoing across sun-scorched attacks on Egyptian soldiers and across the bor- a military drill that simulated taking over a north- country’s most elite forces, which are sepa- left two staffers of the aid group dead and a fields. That changes at nightfall. “Every night der at Israel amid deepening turmoil in Egypt. ern Israeli town of Safed in preparation for possi- rate from the army. Up to 10 troops were third critically wounded. The two-storey there is fighting (in the villages across the fron- “We’re not waiting for an attack (from Syria). ble conflict. stationed with each gun car. “It is calm but courthouse, one of the city’s largest build- tier), explosions and shooting all through the We’re building the border fence, we have sent up Israeli military sources on the Israel-Lebanon we don’t trust this calm because everyone ings, is also bullet-scarred, as is Nyala’s best night. This is the hottest spot on the Golan tanks, more regiments, field intelligence ... and border said that despite its deep involvement in has weapons, and they are not under con- hotel, the Coral. About 20 riot policemen Heights,” Shilo said. “As far as we’re concerned, increased observations.” Syria, Hezbollah has not loosened its grip on the trol. They can use them at any time,” one with an armored vehicle protected the local any bullet that crosses over is intentional.” A UN border area in south Lebanon. “Hezbollah’s legiti- resident said, afraid to give his name. branch of the Central Bank, which was open observer force monitors the area of separation SURVEILLANCE macy in the Arab world is cracking over its Fighting in Nyala was sparked last week for business yesterday. Hardship faces Nyala between Syrian and Israeli forces, a narrow strip Israel is particularly worried that Hezbollah involvement in Syria,” said one source on the when security forces allegedly killed a noto- residents as they begin the Ramadan of land running 70 km from Mount Hermon on will get hold of advanced weapon systems or Lebanon border. “But on the other hand, if they rious local bandit who was also an officer in month of dawn-to-dusk fasting. They said the Lebanese border to the Yarmouk River fron- chemical arms in Syria. Israel has struck inside come under a lot of pressure they could chose to the paramilitary Central Reserve Police. the city has been without electricity for two tier with Jordan. The observers have been caught Syria at least three times in the past few months ignite the border.” Israeli commanders have Darfuri members of the Reserve formerly days. A taxi driver reported the price of in the middle of fighting between Syrian troops against what it believed to be anti-aircraft and noticed that Hezbollah had taken down some of belonged to the Janjaweed, a government- petrol at 50 Sudanese pounds ($7) a gallon and rebels. Stray shells and bullets have landed advanced ground missiles destined for the its flags, as well as those of Iran, that once hung backed militia which shocked the world (4.5 liters), or about four times the price in on the Israeli-controlled side of the Golan, and group. Foreign forces destroyed advanced proudly in the border villages, a sign it could be with atrocities against ethnic minority civil- the capital Khartoum. —Reuters Israeli troops have fired into Syria in response. Russian anti-ship missiles in Syria last week, worried about its image. — Reuters

S Sudan backs Risk of chemical plans to boost catastrophe if Assad press freedom goes: UK lawmakers JUBA: South Sudan’s parliament has passed two bills to LONDON: Syria’s huge array of chemical weapons could fall improve press freedom, an official said yesterday, a into the hands of militants if President Bashar Al-Assad was move reporters in the African country hope will toppled, with “catastrophic” consequences, according to a strengthen their rights in the face of regular harassment report by senior British lawmakers published yesterday. by the authorities. Journalists in South Sudan, which Britain’s foreign intelligence services had no doubt Syria seceded from Sudan in 2011, often complain of obstruc- owned “vast stockpiles” of such weapons, including mus- tion and arbitrary detention by the security forces, a tard gas, sarin, ricin and VX, the deadliest nerve agent, par- loose conglomeration of former militias from decades of liament’s Intelligence and Security Committee (ISC) said in civil war with Khartoum. Reporters said it remained to its report. be seen how the plans - under discussion for more than “There has to be a significant risk that some of the coun- five years - would be enforced by a government made try’s chemical weapons stockpile could fall into the hands up largely of former guerrilla commanders who are of those with links to terrorism, in Syria or elsewhere in the used to acting with impunity and dislike any scrutiny. region - if this happens, the consequences could be cata- The first of the two bills approved by the national strophic,” the committee said. The conflict in Syria has killed assembly grants every citizen the right to information 100,000 people, driven a 1.7 million more abroad as unless it poses a threat to national security or someone’s refugees and left swathes of urban Syria in ruins, although privacy, said Louis Baptist from the ministry of parlia- neither the violence nor economic collapse has truly shaken mentary affairs. The second bill, approved late on Assad’s power base. Monday, sets up an independent body overseeing press Nonetheless there was a risk of “a highly worrying prolif- coverage and dealing with any complaints, said Baptist, eration around the time of regime fall,” the head of Britain’s adding that both bills would be sent this week to Secret Intelligence Service told the committee. Both forces President Salva Kiir for his signature. loyal to Assad and rebels involved in the two-year uprising “The bills are very, very important to the develop- against the president have been accused of using chemical ment of journalism in South Sudan,” said Alfred Taban, weapons during fierce fighting. editor of the daily Juba Monitor who was detained in Syria is one of seven countries not to have joined a 1997 May for running a report accusing a deputy minister of convention banning chemical weapons. Last month, the killing a police officer. Taban said the new media body United States said Assad’s forces had used the nerve agent would deal with any future complaints, not the police as sarin on a small scale multiple times against opposition previously. Other journalists struck a more cautious fighters, an assessment with which the British government note. “It’s definitely a step forward but we have to said it agreed. On Tuesday, Russian’s UN envoy reported see...whether the security forces respect the new media that Russian scientific analysis had indicated that Syrian authority,” said one senior journalist who asked not to rebels had also used sarin in an attack on the city of Aleppo be identified. in March. The committee said the SIS had told them that Also, South Sudan’s court system is notoriously ineffi- “the most worrying point about our intelligence on Syria’s cient as few laws have been approved yet and judges attitude to chemical weapons is how low a threshold they still need to be trained. Last month, authorities in a cen- have for its use.” The report also said that Britain’s spy chiefs tral region of the country suspended a Catholic radio believed Al-Qaeda groups and individual militants who station for several days after it investigated the suspi- have gained expertise and experience in Syria posed the cious death of a prisoner. —Reuters biggest emerging threat to the West.— Reuters Sudan’s ex-intel boss amnestied

KHARTOUM: The former chief of Gosh was charged in June under revealed more than vague details Sudan’s powerful intelligence service, the criminal code and anti-terrorism about the conspiracy which analysts who faced a possible death sentence law for his alleged role in the conspir- said was linked to committed Islamist for his alleged role in a coup plot, was acy, another lawyer, Ali Al-Saeed, said officers. They had once firmly backed freed under an amnesty yesterday, his at the time. Lawyers were seeking to the regime but then accused the gov- lawyer said. Salah Gosh “was released have the charges thrown out before ernment of corruption and other because of the amnesty given by the case reached trial. Gosh headed problems which, they felt, marked a President Bashir to all those who par- Sudan’s national intelligence service turn away from Islamic values. ticipated in the coup,” Nabeel Adeeb for about a decade until Bashir Gosh himself is not part of the said. replaced him in 2009. During his Islamist camp. Bashir seized power in Gosh walked free on the first day of tenure Gosh boosted cooperation an Islamist-backed 1989 coup. His the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. with the American Central government is facing a variety of chal- He was the most high-profile figure Intelligence Agency. After leaving the lenges including a rebel offensive detained last November in connection security service he became presiden- which widened this year with a push with the alleged coup plot against the tial security adviser but was sacked in into a previously peaceful part of the 24-year regime of Omar Al-Bashir. early 2011. country in what analysts called a Gosh is also one of the last to obtain He had been pushing for dialogue humiliation for the authorities. amnesty, after soldiers and intelli- with the political opposition. In April Security has also deteriorated in far- gence officers were earlier pardoned. Bashir pardoned about 15 security west Darfur, while the economy con- A witness said Gosh was greeted with agents and military men who had tinues to struggle with high inflation jubilation when he reached his house. been jailed for their roles in the coup and a weak currency. In April Bashir “There is a crowd of people celebrat- plot. Analysts say the case reflects a announced an amnesty for all political ing by sacrificing sheep,” the witness political struggle within Bashir’s gov- prisoners, which saw some jailed said. “Many of his relatives are here.” ernment. Officials have never opposition activists freed. — AFP THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Czech prosecutors target organized crime network Corruption deep-seated in Czech public life PRAGUE: The police raids that brought accused of any organized-crime related to give any more details about who they by police or charged with any offence. said the code of ethics contract was in down the Czech Republic’s prime minister offences. But prosecutor Ivo Istvan told are investigating, citing concerns that any Prosecutors have not said what strand of line with the law. A spokesman for the last month were an off-shoot of another Czech television the three strands were information could tip their hand to their their investigation the two fall under, or forestry company declined to comment investigation into organized crime which being handled as one investigation suspects. Slachta, the senior policeman, why their homes were searched. Both to Reuters, beyond saying the firm was could expose a web of corruption that has because the same individual or individuals said at the same news conference that men, through their lawyers, declined to cooperating with police. Rittig is also spread through this European Union featured in more than one of the strands. the investigation was looking at the be interviewed by Reuters. “The reason- involved in a civil suit. There is no evi- member state. Prosecutors are not giving Czech newspapers, citing what they say alleged organized criminals’ “clientelistic ing in the search warrant is...they are sus- dence of whether this also figures in the details of their probe, but local media, cit- are leaked police documents, say prosecu- connections”, a term the police use to pected of crime, mainly in relation to pub- prosecutors’ investigation, but the suit ing what they say are leaked prosecution tors, while investigating the organized refer to a system of patronage. lic procurement at Prague city hall,” said may contain clues about Rittig’s business documents, say it focuses on individuals crime suspects, stumbled on evidence According to official reports, legal doc- Vit Siroky, a lawyer for Janousek. “I believe activities. known here as “godfathers” - fixers who which led them to bring the other uments from other cases, and Vaclav (my client did nothing wrong) but police In the civil case, Rittig had sued a non- act as the interface between the worlds of charges, not related to organized crime. Laska, a former police office who is now do not think so and suspect him of seri- governmental organization (NGO), called politics and business. Even after the eight people had been an anti-graft campaigner, the system ous crime. Anti-corruption Endowment, for defama- “These are people who use all kinds of charged - sending shockwaves through works like this: the “godfathers” collude They did not collect the evidence they tion over allegations it made that Rittig had unsavoury networks to get what they the Czech political establishment - the with officials to make sure that chosen believed they would in the house search- “probably” earned large sums of money by want,” said Jiri Pehe, a former advisor to ex- prosecutors running the investigation, firms are awarded government contracts. es. In my opinion, evidence gathered so taking a fee from the supply of public trans- Czech leader Vaclav Havel. “They are now based far from the capital in the provin- These are handed out at inflated prices. far does not justify initiation of a criminal port tickets in Prague. The NGO did not under investigation for the first time, final- cial city of Olomouc to ensure impartiali- The profits are shared out between the investigation.” Janousek is not known at establish definitively that he had siphoned ly, and this is a real breakthrough.” Czech ty, told reporters they were still working businessmen, the fixers and the politi- present to be the owner or director of any off cash. Rittig, through his lawyers, says he prosecutors have said they are conducting on their investigation and looking into cians. The cash is laundered out of the company that supplies goods and servic- has no contracts linking him to the public a single investigation made up of three other suspects. “We have been investigat- country via firms with complex ownership es to city hall. In an unrelated case, he is transport tickets, so the implication of the strands which they say are related - ing an organized criminal group,” Robert into tax havens, Laska, the former detec- awaiting trial for attempted murder after NGO’s allegation was that he was earning charges of bribery, the alleged abuse of Slachta, chief of the police’s anti-orga- tive, said. The Czech counter-intelligence his Porsche Cayenne sports utility vehicle the money improperly. power by officials, and an element related nized crime police unit, said at a briefing agency, BIS, said in its 2011 annual report crashed into a woman in a Prague street The judge last month threw out Rittig’s to organized crime. after the raids, adding that this portion of such a phenomenon undermined citizens’ last year. defamation suit. In his ruling, based on Last month police, some in balaclavas the broader investigation was still under- trust in public institutions and therefore His lawyer said Janousek did not see the NGO’s assertion that Rittig had “prob- and with automatic weapons, raided gov- way. “threatens the very democratic founda- the woman he hit, and denies the charge. ably” earned cash from the tickets, the ernment offices, banks and private homes. The investigation is the first time tions of the rule of law.” Rittig’s lawyer, Karolina Babakova, con- judge said there was a link between the They charged eight people, some with detectives have tried to shine a powerful firmed her client’s premises were businessman and the public transport bribery and some with abuse of power, light into the back-rooms of Czech public SEARCH WARRANTS searched and that he was a suspect in the operator. “A string of individual contracts including an aide to Prime Minister Petr life since this country of 10.5 million peo- During the same series of raids last broader investigation. She said he “cate- leading all the way to Ivo Rittig was Necas. Necas stepped down, saying that ple shook off Communism in its 1989 month that led to the arrests of the prime gorically excluded” any illegal activity. He proven,” the judge, Tomas Novosad, said. though he was unaware of any wrongdo- Velvet Revolution. A robust investigation minister’s aide and others, police now resides in Monaco, but Babakova He reiterated the comments he made ing, the affair was too much of a distrac- would help reassure foreign investors, searched, among other places, the homes said he would be willing to cooperate in court during a telephone interview tion. On Monday, prosecutors asked par- who want to put money in emerging and offices of two men: Roman Janousek with police. with Reuters. The lawyer for Rittig said her liament to lift Necas’s immunity so he can Europe because it offers higher returns and Ivo Rittig. Both are businessmen. client would appeal the judge’s decision be charged with allegedly offering posts than established economies, but are Lawyers for the two men, who deny their CIVIL CASE on the defamation claim because, she in state firms to three members of parlia- often put off by graft. They would also clients were involved in any unlawful Babakova said police working on the said, the link between her client and the ment. The former prime minister, who help the Czech public regain trust in the activity, say prosecutors are investigating broader investigation were looking into a transport operator was not proven. “It was won respect for tackling corruption when rule of law. them as part of the same broader probe contract under which Rittig’s firm sup- not, and it will be shown in further pro- in office, said he would fight the accusa- under which the eight people have been plied a code of ethics for a state forestry ceedings,” Babakova said. The public tions. SYSTEM OF GRAFT charged. firm. Police searched the forestry firm’s transport company did not respond to None of the people charged so far is Police and prosecutors have declined The two men have not been detained office as part of last month’s raids. She emailed questions. —Reuters Berlusconi ruling shakes stability of Italian govt Party up in arms over Supreme Court decision

ROME: Silvio Berlusconi’s party boycotted a public office for complicity in tax fraud at UNDEMOCRATIC PERSECUTION summit of Italy’s fragile coalition government Berlusconi’s Mediaset television empire. Berlusconi and his aides believe the court and blocked parliamentary activity yesterday in Although Berlusconi will probably escape jail decision, in sharp contrast to the usual snail’s protest against a Supreme Court decision to fast because of his age if the sentence is confirmed, pace of Italy’s legal system, is another example track a ruling that could ban him from public he could be thrown out of parliament in what of what he calls sustained and undemocratic office. Almost all activity in both chambers of would be a major shock to Letta’s fragile govern- persecution by leftist magistrates. The former parliament was suspended for a day because of ment. Letta said on Tuesday night the govern- premier said the decision was inspired by his the protest by Berlusconi’s People of Freedom ment would survive whatever happened but enemies in the Milan prosecutor’s office who (PDL) Party, one of the two main partners in some hawks in Berlusconi’s party are thought to have brought many cases against him, includ- ing his recent conviction for paying for sex with a Moroccan-born underage nightclub dancer PRAGUE: (First row, left to right) New Interior Minister Martin Pecina, New nicknamed “Ruby the Heartstealer” and abusing Czech Minister of Finance Jan Fischer, Czech President Milos Zeman and his office to try to cover it up. He was sentenced Czech Prime Minister Jiri Rusnok pose for photographers with other mem- to seven years jail in the “bunga bunga” case last bers of new Czech cabinet yesterday at Hradcany Castle. —AFP month but that sentence will not become defin- itive until two appeals are exhausted. Berlusconi has played a key role since Letta’s Czech president swears in government was formed in April in keeping his hawkish lieutenants on a tight leash, but the cabinet; showdown looms Supreme Court decision has caused anger and resentment in his party with demands for street PRAGUE: Czech President Milos Zeman swore in a political pressure in the ongoing investigations and protests and blocking of all parliamentary activ- cabinet led by a longtime ally yesterday but it faces to fully respect the independence of the police and ity. A substantial faction of Letta’s own centre- almost certain rejection by parties in parliament, state attorneys,” Zeman said at the swearing-in cere- left Democratic Party also opposes the govern- raising the spectre of prolonged political uncertainty mony. “I believe that you will be a guarantee that ment alliance with Berlusconi but President in the central European nation. That would increase affairs will not be swept under the carpet.” Giorgio Napolitano, the effective godfather of the risk of gridlock in policymaking which could Zeman was elected in the country’s first direct the coalition, is adamantly opposed to early hold up a 2014 budget plan and rattle investors, presidential election in January and says has a elections in the midst of Italy’s worst postwar who have long viewed the Czech Republic as a safe stronger mandate than predecessors chosen by recession. haven among emerging economies. Zeman, a leftist, parliament, allowing him to take bold action Ratings agency Standard & Poor’s cut Italy’s confirmed economist Jiri Rusnok as prime minister, against the deeply unpopular outgoing coalition. sovereign credit rating on Tuesday to just two hoping that he can pull the economy out of a reces- The three former ruling centre-right parties say they notches above junk because of concerns about sion now into its second year and lead the country command 101 seats in the 200-member lower and the economy, third largest in the euro zone, into an election due next year. demand they be given a chance to form a new gov- which has been dogged by extremely sluggish But the cabinet is likely to lose a vote of confi- ernment. growth for more than a decade. Napolitano, 88, dence, due within 30 days, as Rusnok’s appointment If Rusnok loses the confidence vote, Zeman who has greatly increased his loosely defined has infuriated both the three parties of the outgoing would need to appoint another prime minister. But powers since last year, stepped in to bang heads centre-right coalition and the leftist opposition, who there are no time limits and rival politicians fear Italian former premier Silvio Berlusconi together and force the formation of a coalition all view it as a power grab by Zeman. Rusnok said Zeman could drag out the process to keep his government following a long hiatus after incon- after the swearing-in that he would negotiate with favorites in power longer. The opposition Social Enrico Letta’s left-right coalition government. want to force an election as early as October if clusive elections in February. parties to try to win support for his government in Democrats, who lead opinion polls by a wide mar- The court decision has aggravated tension in he is condemned. Analysts say there are several factors that the confidence vote expected early next month. gin, are pushing for an early election before the the squabbling coalition which was already In an attempt to ensure PDL loyalty, Letta may force Berlusconi to resist the temptation to Rusnok, who served as finance minister in a Zeman- next general vote scheduled for May 2014. The cen- under fire for the slow pace of reforms desper- again promised in a television interview that he bring down the government even if the led cabinet a decade ago, replaces Petr Necas, who tre-right’s candidate for prime minister, house ately needed to boost recovery from the worst would abolish a hated housing tax which is the Supreme Court rules against him. One is that the resigned last month after a close aide was charged speaker Miroslava Nemcova, called the new govern- recession since World War Two. The Supreme PDL’s central demand, despite the difficulty of dueling coalition partners have still not with bribery and illegal spying on Necas’s wife, ment “toxic” and left the swearing-in ceremony ear- Court was forced yesterday to issue an unusual doing this while remaining within European reformed a dysfunctional electoral law which whom he is divorcing. ly to avoid a glass of wine with the new ministers. statement defending its decision to hear Union budget constraints. The Supreme Court could produce another impasse if an election is Prosecutors have asked parliament to lift the for- The cabinet includes several people who have Berlusconi’s final appeal on July 30 against a tax said it had been forced to call a special summer held in the autumn. The second is that if the PDL mer premier’s parliamentary immunity so he can be worked as advisers to Zeman and current and for- fraud conviction. The 76-year-old media mag- holiday sitting on July 30 because otherwise walks out of the government, Letta’s Democratic charged as well. Necas said he would fight the mer members of a pro-Zeman faction of the Social nate’s lawyers had not expected a ruling until part of the case against Berlusconi would have Party could form an anti-Berlusconi alliance with charges. Zeman said Rusnok’s government should Democratic party, which the current president led late in the year. expired under the statute of limitations on Aug the populist 5-Star Movement of former comic ensure prosecutors’ independence in the investiga- until 2001. The party leadership has asked them to The court will rule on whether to uphold a 1. Berlusconi’s legal team say the expiration Beppe Grillo, which would aggravate the billion- tion. “The government’s task will be to prevent any suspend their party membership. —Reuters four-year jail term and five-year ban on holding would not occur until late September. aire businessman’s problems. —Reuters Shooting survivors run for parliament OSLO: On a sunny day in Oslo, Vegard Groeslie ly more left-leaning than the rest of Labor. Usually, once them to reach positions of power,” she said. Wennesland, a survivor of the shooting at the Labor Party’s they get to parliament, they embrace the more main- youth camp on Utoeya island, gives out roses and discuss- stream views of the rest of the party. CRITICISM es politics with shoppers. The 29-year old is hoping to get But this generation is being let through even though Not everybody in the Labor Party is as enthusiastic as elected to parliament in September, along with 26 others there is an expectation that they will stay faithful for Gjul about the Utoeya generation coming up through AUF. who survived the attack by Anders Behring Breivik on July longer to different policies. “The July 22 generation is a Some in Labor believed that the AUF had taken advantage 22 2011. Wennesland barricaded himself with others in a very unique generation within the Labor Party: their of their experiences although that debate has now sub- red wooden cabin and hid under a bed while Breivik shot ideas have been tested in a way that no generation since sided. “There was a time when the AUF cynically used what dead 69 people hours after planting a car bomb outside World War Two in Norway has,” said Gunn Karin Gjul, a happened at Utoeya for their own political gain,” said a the prime minister’s office in central Oslo, killing eight. Labor parliamentarian. The main disagreement with the Labor parliamentarian who did not want to be named. “Someone tried to kill me for what I believed in. So I am wider labor party is on oil. AUF would like to permanent- “Since Utoeya, it has been harder to oppose AUF.” The offi- going to fight for it,” Wennesland says of his reasons for ly shield some parts of Norway’s continental shelf to pro- cial also said the AUF has had more members since the running for office for Labor. “It is taken for granted that we tect the environment but the rest of the party believes attacks, so they carry more influence inside the party, mak- can freely do politics. It should not be.” It is the first parlia- this is not necessary. The branches also differ on immigra- ing it harder to criticize although Gjul said the branch was mentary vote since the attacks took place but the number tion. AUF wants a more liberal policy compared to many in not as influential as some thought. of young candidates is not unusual. Norway, like the other the party. Breivik targeted the AUF camp because he want- Only a few of the hopefuls are expected to win office. Nordic countries, has a long tradition of involving young ed to stop immigration from Muslims into Norway and he In Norway a candidate’s ranking on a party list is crucial to people early on in politics. The current Prime Minister, saw AUF as a barrier to this. The survivors have won respect getting elected. Many of the Utoeya survivors running for Labor’s Jens Stoltenberg, became a parliamentarian aged from senior Labor politicians for staying true to their beliefs. parliament are quite low on the list, having lost primary 32 while his probable successor, the Conservatives’ Erna They could have questioned why Norway does not have battles for safe positions higher up. Only three of the 27 VIKERSUND: Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg and Norwegian Solberg, was elected aged 28. the death penalty, why Breivik did not have tougher prison survivors have rankings considered safe enough to get Labor Party’s Youth Organization (AUF) Leader Eskil Pedersen (right) attend However, the 27 survivors who have been picked from conditions or become bitter and aggressive, Gjul said. elected for sure. The others, like Wennesland, depend on the AUF (Workers’ Youth League) camp on Gulsrud camp at Vikersund in the AUF youth wing of the Labor Party to run are expected “Instead they reaffirmed their belief in democracy and the Labor getting a strong election result. Current polls sug- to be slightly different to previous generations. The attacks rule of law ... They have the ability and personalities, they gest the opposition Conservatives and their allies will win Modum. The AUF is Norway’s largest political youth organization and is affili- appear to have affirmed the ideas of AUF members’ confi- have a strong, passionate belief in democracy. “So it is the elections as voters are eager for change after eight ated with the Norwegian Labour Party. —AFP dence in standing up for their views, which are traditional- extremely important we take care of them and enable years of rule by Labor and its allies. —Reuters THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Colombia extradites drug boss to US

BOGOTA: The last of the major plane to New York. He arrived there late operated in eastern Colombia, allegedly Colombian drug lords - Daniel “El Loco” Tuesday, officials said. He is wanted by moving cocaine through Venezuela to Barrera - on Tuesday was extradited to authorities in New York and Florida for markets in the United States and Europe. the United States, where there had been allegedly smuggling 900 tons of cocaine His drug routes were said to extend into a $5 million reward for his capture, into the United States and Europe Panama, Central America, Mexico, Brazil, Colombian police said. His capture in between 1992 and 2012, often in part- Argentina and Uruguay. Venezuela last year marked the end of an nership with leftist FARC guerrillas. He was captured in 1990,but escaped era when Colombia was under the sway Colombia is the world’s largest producer from prison several months later. He of powerful and violent drug lords like of cocaine, having made 345 tons of the apparently moved in 2008 to Venezuela, the Medellin cartel’s notorious Pablo drug in 2011, according to UN estimates. where he had several properties worth Escobar, officials said. “This is the end of Leon said Barrera had brought millions of dollars. But feeling increasing- the last big capo of the 1980s,” General together members of the FARC, criminal ly cornered, he opened discussions with Jose Roberto Leon, the head of the bands that grew out of right-wing para- US authorities about his possible surren- Colombia police, said as he turned over military groups and international drug der. His arrest in the Venezuelan border Barrera, to US Drug Enforcement traffickers. “Here ends the first genera- state of Tachira in September was the Administration agents at an air base in tion of the big Colombian drug traffick- product of a multinational operation Bogota. ers,” he said. The government of involving Colombia, Venezuela, the Barrera, 43, who was deported to President Juan Manuel Santos is current- United States and the United Kingdom. Colombia after his capture, was shown ly in peace talks with the FARC, as the Colombia’s Supreme Court approved his BOGOTA: Colombian drug trafficker Daniel Barrera aka ‘El Loco’ is escorted by to reporters wearing handcuffs and a 8,000-member Revolutionary Armed extradition to the United States in an policemen before being deported to the United States at the Anti-narcotics bullet-proof vest before being put on a Forces of Colombia is known. Barrera April 4 ruling. — AFP Police Airport on Tuesday. — AFP Leaked Gitmo ‘baseball cards’ had little value Soldier charged with leaking 700-plus prisoners’ bios

FORT MEADE, Maryland: Secret files on reports or Pentagon statements, Cassius Hall, an must show he knew the documents could fall Guantanamo detainees that a US soldier gave to analyst at the US Army Intelligence and Security into Al-Qaeda’s hands. Another witness testified WikiLeaks were simple biographical “baseball Command, told the court. Monday that months before the disclosures, the cards” that were of no use to America’s enemies, But under questioning by prosecutors, both soldier, now aged 25, spoke of trying to use a former prosecutor at the prison testified Ganiel and Hall acknowledged only some details knowledge from his extensive reading to help Tuesday. Defense lawyers for army private were accessible online in news reports. Manning save lives in the Iraq war. Bradley Manning, who has admitted to handing has already admitted giving WikiLeaks more Manning’s online chat log was presented WikiLeaks a trove of classified files, are trying to than 700,000 secret military intelligence files during testimony from Lauren McNamara, a counter the government’s claim that the soldier and diplomatic cables in the worst leak of classi- transgender woman who had online conversa- is guilty of espionage because he leaked docu- fied information in US history. But he is fighting tions with the soldier. ments that could threaten US national security. 21 other charges, including the most serious According to the log, Manning said: “What’s The defense team Tuesday focused on more count that he knew he was “aiding the enemy” even better with my current position is that I than 700 leaked files on inmates held at by unloading the files to the secret-spilling web- can apply what I learn to provide more informa- Guantanamo, known as “detainee assessment site. That charge carries a maximum penalty of tion to my officers and commanders, and hope- briefs,” including five that are cited in espionage life in prison. fully save lives.” charges against Manning. Manning’s defense team on Monday filed The log was part of the defense’s effort to The former chief prosecutor of terror suspects motions asking the military judge, Colonel paint a picture of Manning as a principled held at the US prison in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Denise Lind, to dismiss the “aiding the enemy” young man who leaked files because he cared Morris Davis, told the court that the briefs con- charge and several other counts on grounds about his country and the effect of its policies. tained basic biographical information about that the prosecution lacked evidence. The out- For the “aiding the enemy” charge, the judge detainees that could be obtained easily through come of the court martial, which is being held has ruled the government must prove Manning public sources. “It is just background informa- at Fort Meade in Maryland near Washington DC, had “general evil intent” and he “had to know he tion. We described them as ‘baseball cards’ it was will hinge in part on Manning’s state of mind was dealing, directly or indirectly, with an ene- just who the individual was, a ‘Who’s John before the massive leak, as the government my of the United States.” — AFP Smith?’-type description of the individual,” Morris said. The former prosecutor said while the leak may have caused “embarrassment” to Washington, he could not see how adversaries would gain any benefit from the papers. “If they (Al-Qaeda) are trying to gain some strategic, tac- tical advantage, the detainee assessment brief is not the place to get it,” said Morris, a retired colonel and now an outspoken critic of the Guantanamo trials. But prosecutors questioned Morris’s expertise in evaluating national security threats and have DORSET, Minnesota: In this photo made June 26, 2013, Bobby Tufts, the small town’s previously called a general to the stand who said 4-year-old mayor, poses for a photo before starting the Ronald McDonald fundrais- the leaked Guantanamo papers could damage ing walk. — AP US interests. The prosecution also argued that Manning Town in Minnesota has violated the country’s Espionage Act because the Guantanamo files allegedly were deemed to be highly secret or, in government parlance, 4-yr-old boy as mayor “closely held”. Two other defense witnesses, described as intelligence experts, said they DORSET, Minnesota: Supporters of the 34. “I think he’s doing a fine job.” Bobby’s reviewed battlefield reports and State mayor in the tiny tourist town of Dorset can job as mayor is to greet people as they Department cables leaked by Manning and stuff the ballot box all they want as he come to Dorset, located among the pines found that in most cases, information in the doc- seeks re-election. The mayor - a short guy - and lakes of northern Minnesota about 150 uments could be found in a Google search. is known for his fondness of ice cream and miles northwest of Minneapolis. Resorts Out of 125 diplomatic cables cited in the fishing. And he’s got the county’s top law and tourism are the main industry, and charges against Manning, some information enforcement official in his pocket. Say hello restaurants ranging from Mexican to Italian contained in all but two of the cables could be to Mayor Robert “Bobby” Tufts. He’s 4 years to family style line about two blocks on found online, said Charles Ganiel, who has old and not even in school yet. Bobby was either side of the highway that runs worked with classified documents as a govern- only 3 when he won election last year as through the middle of town. Bobby’s major ment employee and contractor. And out of mayor of Dorset (population 22 to 28, act as mayor so far has been to make ice roughly 100 military battlefield reports disclosed FORT MEADE, Maryland: In this June 28, 2013 file photo, Army Pfc Bradley Manning is escorted depending on whether the minister and his cream the top of the food pyramid. He has by Manning, details in more than 60 of the docu- out of a courthouse after another day of his court-martial, as he is charged with indirectly aid- family are in town). Dorset, which bills itself many favorite flavors. “Chocolate. And ments were easily found on the Internet in news ing the enemy by sending troves of classified material to WikiLeaks.— AP as the Restaurant Capital of the World, has vanilla. Strawberry. Cotton candy kind. And no formal city government. rainbow sherbet,” said the mayor. Every year the town draws a name dur- On a recent steamy summer morning, ing its Taste of Dorset Festival, and the win- Bobby skipped ahead as he led a group of Latam nations fume over NSA spying allegations ner gets to be mayor. Anyone can vote as about 20 children and adults on a walk on many times as they like - for $1 a vote - at the Heartland Trail to raise money for BRASILIA: Irate Latin American Globo newspaper said the NSA pro- Friday, to issue a strong statement tions, justice and foreign affairs min- any of the ballot boxes in stores around Ronald McDonald House Charities of the nations are demanding explana- grams went beyond military affairs and demand explanations from istries to investigate the alleged espi- town. Bobby is running for a second term, Red River Valley in Fargo, North Dakota. He tions from the United States about to what it termed “commercial Washington. “More than revelations, onage and establish whether the pri- and he gets to draw the winning name Aug wore his signature black fedora, adorned new allegations that it spied on secrets”, including oil and energy these are confirmations of what we vacy of Brazilian citizens had been 4, so it’s possible he could draw his own with fishing lures and a large button with both allies and foes in the region resources. thought was happening,” she said. violated. The Brazilian Senate’s for- name. Calls of “Mr Mayor” greet Bobby as his photo, and seemed endlessly energetic. with secret surveillance programs. A Regional leaders called for a Peruvian President Ollanta eign relations committee has asked leading Brazilian newspaper report- tough response to the alleged espi- Humala, who has emerged as a close US ambassador Thomas Shannon to he strolls around Dorset, handing out his “I think he’s a cute little bugger and I think ed on Tuesday that the US National onage that O Globo said included a US ally, said the reported spying was testify on the allegations. It is campaign card. One side shows Bobby, his a lot of people share the same, you know, Security Agency targeted most satellite monitoring stations based worrisome. “We are against these unclear whether Shannon, who is dark hair slicked down, wearing his tan fish- opinion as me, and it’s neat,” Hubbard Latin American countries with spy- in Brazil’s capital. “A shiver ran down kinds of espionage activities,” he said not obliged to testify, will do so. ing vest over a suit jacket. The other side County Sheriff Cory Aukes says. “You know, ing programs that monitored my back when I learned that they in a televised interview. “It would be Gilberto Carvalho, a top aide to shows Bobby sitting in a porch swing with how often do you see a little kid like that Internet traffic, especially in are spying on all of us,” Argentine good for (Peru’s) Congress to look President Dilma Rousseff, said a his girlfriend, Sophie. “I would love to be who’s - call ‘em camera-friendly or whatev- Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil and President Cristina Fernandez said in with concern at privacy issues relat- “very hard” response to the United your Mayor as much as I love Sophie,” the er, you know - he’s got a very good little Mexico. Citing documents leaked by a speech on Tuesday. She called on ed to personal information.” Brazil’s States was needed. “If we lower our card reads. “He’s been pretty good. Lotta PR personality, and he’s not afraid to show it. Edward Snowden, the fugitive for- the Mercosur bloc of South government said it set up a task heads, they will trample all over us for the town,” said his mother, Emma Tufts, So I think it’s great.” — AP mer US intelligence contractor, O American nations, due to meet on force of its defense, communica- tomorrow,” he said. —Reuters Snowden has not yet accepted Venezuela asylum: WikiLeaks

MOSCOW: The WikiLeaks anti-secrecy website committee chief said that “apparently this On Monday, Maduro called on Snowden to to Venezuela would be to fly via Havana. A because he had no valid transit papers after said Tuesday that fugitive US intelligence leak- (Venezuelan) option looked like the most reli- decide if he wanted to fly to Caracas. “We have spokeswoman for Russian national carrier his US travel passport had been revoked. er Edward Snowden had not yet formally able one to Snowden”. Putin’s spokesman received the asylum request letter,” Maduro Aeroflot, Irina Danenberg, said she was not Neither do countries such as Venezuela have accepted asylum in Venezuela as was claimed declined to comment, saying all questions told reporters in Caracas after he offered the aware if Snowden had been on the flight to consular sections in Sheremetyevo that could by a top Russian lawmaker in a Twitter posting should be directed to Pushkov. 30-year-old former National Security Agency Havana that left Moscow earlier Tuesday. “I issue Snowden with the required papers. that was later deleted. Pro-Kremlin lawmaker After removing his original post, Pushkov contractor asylum along with the leaders of have no clue,” she said. There were no direct Pushkov has been a vocal commentator of Alexei Pushkov sparked confusion when he said in a separate message that he had learnt Bolivia and Nicaragua. flights to Havana from Moscow yesterday. the Snowden affair, saying earlier that tweeted Tuesday that Snowden had agreed to of the most recent development around “He will have to decide when he flies, if he Venezuela’s foreign ministry has also made Venezuela was “possibly his last chance to an offer from Caracas. He deleted the posting Snowden from a news report on Russian state finally wants to fly here,” Maduro said. He clear that it has not made any contact with receive political asylum”. Meanwhile Brazil on after about 30 minutes. “Edward Snowden has television channel Vesti 24. He later rephrased called the offers from the three Latin American Snowden since Maduro’s invitation. Tuesday turned down an asylum request from not yet formally accepted asylum in his original message, saying Snowden had nations “collective humanitarian political asy- That makes it uncertain just how much cur- Snowden. “We will not grant asylum,” to the US Venezuela. The Russian lawmaker concerned agreed to asylum in Venezuela, according to a lum”. It remains unclear how the world’s most rency a verbal commitment from Maduro has fugitive, Foreign Minister Antonio Patriota said has deleted the tweet,” WikiLeaks said on its Vesti 24 report. “Venezuela finally received an famous refugee would be able to leave the with Russian authorities who are seeking clear after talks with his Uruguayan counterpart Luis Twitter account. answer from the CIA former agent,” a news transit zone of Sheremetyevo Airport, where documented evidence of Snowden having a Almagro in Brasilia. Pushkov does not officially speak for the report on the channel’s website said earlier he has been marooned without valid docu- legal future destination point. In apparent limbo in Moscow, Snowden has Russian government but has close Kremlin Tuesday. “The President of the Latin American ments since he arrived from Hong Kong on Snowden never boarded his plane out of applied for asylum in 27 countries as he tries connections and is believed to relay views country, Nicolas Maduro, received an official June 23. Moscow for Cuba on June 24 for unexplained to evade American justice for disclosing a vast similar to those of President Vladimir Putin. political asylum request from Edward There are no direct flights between reasons. Analysts said it was likely that he was program of US worldwide electronic surveil- The lower house of parliament’s foreign affairs Snowden,” said the channel. Moscow and Caracas. The quickest way to get simply not allowed to board by the Russians lance. — AFP THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 INTERNATIONAL

As glacier melts, secrets of lost military plane revealed

ANCHORAGE, Alaska: An Alaska glacier since then. “As the glacier melts and the well-preserved and includes “things we as many items and remains as possible. impossible at the time. The wreckage is exposing remains from a military air glacier moves, more material comes up believe to be tissue” - a contrast with They want the grinding glacier, as it was soon buried under snow and gone tragedy six decades later. Relics from an to the surface,” Dr Gregory Berg, the conditions in Southeast Asia or other hot moves over time, to reveal more relics from sight. When finally spotted last Air Force cargo plane that slammed into forensic anthropologist who leads the climates where the team travels to over what is expected to be a years-long year, the debris was 12 miles from the a mountain in November 1952, killing all team of specialists examining the cre- retrieve military remains long ago project, but they do not want it to carry crash site, having been shifted by the 52 servicemen on board, first emerged vasse-ridden ice field, told reporters at a decomposed. The remains will be sent to the items all the way into the terminus glacier. The ice has flowed another 275 last summer on Colony Glacier, about 50 news briefing last week. Among the per- a laboratory in Hawaii for analysis, lake, where they would likely be lost for- m downslope since last year, Berg said. miles east of Anchorage. That discovery, sonal items collected so far: A tiny fish- including possible DNA matches with ever. So far, only the lightest pieces have For Alaska-based military members by Alaska National Guard crews flying ing kit, a compass, a survival kit, a sur- surviving relatives, officials said. No posi- been pushed to the glacier’s surface, and supporting the JPAC effort, there is training missions out of Anchorage, put vival suit, a hockey puck, and a mini-box tive identifications have yet been only a small portion of the 154-foot air- another mission: removing the crash into motion a sophisticated recovery of Camel cigarettes. Those and other announced. It usually takes several craft has emerged. “We don’t have all 52 debris that is not useful to the investiga- program carried out by the Hawaii- items are being saved for a future months to complete laboratory work, guys lined up neatly, ready to be locat- tion. As of early July, local military per- based Joint POW/MIA Accounting memorial, said Doug Beckstead, a histo- said Lee Tucker, a JPAC spokesman who ed,” Berg said. sonnel had removed about 1,800 Command. rian at Anchorage’s Joint Base traveled to Alaska. Identifications are The wrecked cargo plane, a C-124 pounds of aircraft debris, said Lieutenant After last year’s initial work - when Elmendorf-Richardson. expected to be announced “in the near Globemaster II, slammed into Mount Colonel Adrian Crowley of the Alaskan nearly everything that rose to the glaci- Also collected were some human future,” Berg said. Gannett in midwinter, an accident Command. “That is the plan, to remove er’s surface was picked up - the JPAC remains, which Berg declined to Berg and his team must tread careful- blamed on bad weather. Although offi- as much of the debris as possible from team came back this summer to collect describe in detail. But he said the materi- ly, skirting deadly crevasses and deep cials knew the site of the crash, remote- the site, to be good environmental stew- additional relics pushed out of the ice al, encapsulated for decades in ice, is water-filled holes while trying to collect ness and winter weather made recovery ards,” he said. — Reuters Asiana crash pilots relied on automatic equipment Investigators say flight attendants ejected from plane

SAN FRANCISCO: The pilots aboard the Asiana they have a monitoring function,” she said. “One ing attention to the computer rather than pay- Airlines Boeing 777 that crashed in San Francisco of the critical things that needs to be monitored ing attention to the fundamentals.” relied on automatic equipment - an auto-throt- on an approach to landing is speed. So we need Hersman did not comment on whether any- tle system - to maintain airspeed and did not to understand what was going on in the cockpit one in addition to the two flight attendants was realize the plane was flying too slowly until it and also what was going on with the aircraft.” ejected from the plane, though the two teenage was just 60 m above the ground, the head of the The world’s largest pilots union rebuked the Chinese students who died were found outside US National Transportation Safety Board said on NTSB for its handling of the crash investigation, the aircraft. One of them may have been run Tuesday. In her third detailed briefing on saying the agency had released too much infor- over by an emergency vehicle, San Francisco fire Saturday’s crash that killed two Chinese passen- mation too quickly, which could lead to wrong department officials have said, but the local gers and injured more than 180 other people, conclusions and compromise safety. Releasing coroner has not yet released autopsy results NTSB Chairwoman Deborah Hersman also said data from the flight’s black boxes without full showing the cause of death. two flight attendants were ejected from the investigative information for context “has fueled Asiana Airlines Chief Executive Yoon Young- plane after its tail hit a seawall in front of the runway and was torn off. Both were found injured but alive on the side of the runway. SANFORD, Florida: George Zimmerman enters the courtroom for his trial in Seminole Hersman said many questions remained circuit court yesterday. — AP about the incident. The South Korean airline’s flight crew members were not tested for drugs Judge will allow jury to or alcohol after the crash, a requirement for pilots of US-based carriers involved in accidents, see animated reenactment she said. The accounts given to investigators by the pilots, as relayed by Hersman, confirmed SANFORD, Florida: A Florida judge Hollywood action movies. He said he based information from the plane’s flight data recorder blocked as evidence a computer generated his depiction on police reports, witness that showed the plane was traveling 25 percent re-enactment of George Zimmerman’s statements and drawings, crime scene and below its target airspeed as it came in for land- shooting of unarmed black teenager investigative information, testimony in ing. While she has declined to speculate on the Trayvon Martin, but she will allow the jury depositions, medical examiner reports and cause of the crash, much of the information to see it in closing arguments of the mur- 911 emergency audio. One of the scenes in released by the NTSB suggests pilot error as a der trial. The ruling yesterday was a partial the animation shows Martin approaching main focus of the investigation. victory for each side. While Zimmerman’s Zimmerman and throwing the first punch, The pilot in charge of landing the plane on lawyers wanted the video presented as offi- which is based on Zimmerman’s statement Saturday was in training on the 777 and was cial evidence, at least the jury gets to see it to police. roughly halfway through the process, while seat- in court. Seminole County Court Judge Nelson also ruled yesterday to block a ed next to him was a co-pilot on his first flight as Debra Nelson also dealt the defense a set- defense witness, Richard Connor, from tes- an instructor. Both were experienced pilots, back by blocking the jury from hearing tes- tifying about hidden text messages although they had not flown together before, timony purportedly showing Martin dis- retrieved from Martin’s cell phone. The Hersman said. “At about 500 feet, he realized cussing his experience as a fighter in text defense argued that the messages demon- that they were low,” Hersman told reporters, messages and other data on his cellphone. strated Martin was an experienced fighter, referring to the instructor pilot’s account of the Nelson issued the two rulings at the but prosecutors said they were irrelevant failed last-second attempts to avoid Saturday’s start of what defense lawyers said could be and that anyone could have sent the texts disaster. “Between 500 and 200 feet (150 and 60 the final day of evidence in the trial, which that wound up in the memory of the m), they had a lateral deviation and they were was in its third week of testimony. The case phone. Zimmerman remained free for more low. They were trying to correct at that point.” could go to the jury by this weekend, than six weeks after killing Martin because Referring to the instructor pilot, she said it although it was still unclear whether police initially declined to arrest him, was not until 200 feet that “he recognized the Zimmerman, who said he shot Martin in accepting his claim he shot and killed the auto-throttles were not maintaining speed” and self-defense, would testify in his own 17-year-old in self-defense. tried to abort the landing. Hersman had previ- SAN FRANCISCO: In this July 6, 2013 photo, passengers from Asiana Airlines flight 214, many defense. Nelson asked Zimmerman in court A special prosecutor brought the charge ously said that the plane had been at an altitude with their luggage, are seen on the tarmac just moments after the plane crashed at the San whether he was aware he had the right to of second-degree murder against of 200 feet 16 seconds before crashing. Three of Francisco International Airport. — AP remain silent. “Yes, your honor,” he respond- Zimmerman after protests and cries of the four pilots on board were in the cabin during ed. Prosecutors had opposed letting injustice in Sanford, the small Florida city the landing, although only two could see the rampant speculation” about the cause of the doo arrived in San Francisco on Tuesday to meet Zimmerman’s lawyers use the animated where the incident occurred, and several runway, Hersman said, citing the interviews by crash, the Air Line Pilots Association with US investigators, Asiana staff and survivors reconstruction in the guise of unbiased evi- major US cities. Zimmerman, a former investigators with the crew. Hersman said an International said in a statement. Hersman of the crash. Hersman also confirmed witness dence. “The state’s objection to the admis- neighborhood watch volunteer, faces up to examination of the wreckage showed that the rejected the criticism. “We work for the traveling accounts that at least one emergency escape sibility in evidence to the computer anima- life in prison if convicted of second-degree auto-throttle was “armed,” but it was not clear if public,” she said. “We feel it is important to show chute had deployed inside the aircraft, trapping tion is sustained,” Nelson said just before murder, although either side can request it had been properly engaged or had somehow our work.” a flight attendant. testimony resumed. “The computer anima- that the jury also consider the lesser failed before the plane slowed to a near-stall and Aviation consultant Hans Weber, the presi- The pilot who was sitting in the cabin worked tion will not be introduced into evidence, offense of manslaughter, with a maximum hit the ground. “We need to understand a little dent of TECOP International, Inc., said the acci- to free her, Hersman said. “I saw a leg sticking but it may be used by the defense as a penalty of 30 years. better” how the auto-throttle is used, she said. dent may revive a long-running debate over out between the slide and the wall. It kept mov- demonstrative exhibit.” After issuing her evidentiary rulings “They had set speed at 137 knots (158 mph), whether pilots’ increasing reliance on automated ing,” passenger Eugene Rah said in an interview Jurors may see a “demonstrative exhibit” before the jury was called into court, Judge and he assumed that the auto-throttles were flight systems has taken a toll on their “hand-fly- on Monday. He said he and a man he believed in closing statements but not during delib- Nelson said she would ask Zimmerman lat- maintaining speed,” Hersman said of the instruc- ing” skills. Maintaining proper airspeed and alti- was a crew member struggled to free her, erations, as they can with all admitted evi- er in the day about whether he would take tor pilot. She noted that the pilots were respon- tude is “the most basic responsibility of the pilot, adding: “He was asking me if I had anything dence. Daniel Schumaker, a specialist in the witness stand. “You have the right to sible for maintaining airspeed. “We have a flying like breathing in and out,” Weber said. But it sharp, but these days nobody can be on board reconstructing graphic crime scenes and testify if you want to, and that’s a decision pilot and two other pilots in the cockpit and could be the case, he added, that “pilots are pay- with anything sharp.” — Reuters accidents who created the re-enactment, that you will have to make,” she told testified that he employed the same tech- Zimmerman. “I mean the final decision is nology used in the production of yours.” — Reuters Railway blames firemen in Canada train disaster LAC-MEGANTIC, Canada: Police ligence was “under consideration.” accused firefighters of releasing the small community, Burkhardt told said Tuesday they were looking at Meanwhile the head of the US train’s brakes when it was stopped Canada’s public broadcaster CBC. Biden calls for end to criminal negligence as the cause of rail company at the center of the in Nantes, around 13 km west of The MMA chief had been expected worst train disaster in recent disaster blamed firefighters for the Lac-Megantic, for a crew in Lac-Megantic later Tuesday, but ‘outright’ theft by China Canadian history, while the US firm derailment, as investigators changeover. Those firefighters had now said he would visit in the com- involved denied any responsibility. combed through smoldering debris been called to douse a small fire in ing days, adding: “I hope I’m not WASHINGTON: US Vice President Joe saying that greater respect for one’s own The death toll rose from 13 to 15 for evidence. “We are very hopeful one of the train’s five locomotives. going to get shot.” Biden urged China yesterday to end its people provides “a source of national and with the discovery of two more we will find more bodies,” said Burkhardt told the daily La Furious residents told AFP that a “outright” theft through hacking and to international stability”. “I believe that bodies after the explosion and Forget. Residents of the small Presse that Nantes firefighters visit from Burkhardt was already too improve human rights as the world’s two China, presumptuous of me, will be inferno produced by the derailment Quebec town of Lac-Megantic, part “showed up and put out the fire late. “Is he scared?” one 53-year-old largest economies waded into some of stronger and more stable and more inno- of a train carrying oil near Montreal. of which was flattened by the blast with a fire extinguisher. To do that man asked. He must “at least apolo- their thorniest disputes. Biden opened vative if it represents and respects the Around 40 people are still missing. and subsequent inferno, began they also shut down the first loco- gize to us - that would calm things two days of annual talks with China in international human rights norms. But Quebec police are looking for “evi- returning to their homes. The explo- motive’s engines. This is what led to down a bit,” said another resident. which the Pacific powers are expected to there are differences we have,” Biden said. dence that might allow the filing of sion unleashed a wall of fire that the disaster.” He explained that the Investigators from Canada’s address a gamut of issues including mutu- State Councilor Yang Jiechi, a top fig- criminal charges,” said police inspec- tore through homes and businesses train’s brakes were powered by the Transportation Safety Board said al complaints of market access. While ure behind China’s foreign policy, told the tor Michel Forget. He did not specify in Lac-Megantic, located east of locomotive and would have disen- they will focus on the train’s brakes, many experts expect the session to be a talks that Beijing was ready to discuss against whom. Standing 200 m Montreal near the US border. The gaged when it was shut down, as well as MMA’s policies for secur- talking shop without major decisions, human rights but “on the basis of equality from the scene of the disaster, he chairman of the Montreal, Maine & causing the driverless train to start ing stopped trains. They will also Biden did not shy away from divisive rows and mutual respect.” Tibet activists have said the hypothesis of criminal neg- Atlantic Railway, Edward Burkhardt, rolling downhill towards Lac- look at possible inadequacies of the including charges of cyber-espionage. urged the United States to raise China’s Megantic. By the time the company tanker cars for transporting flamma- “We both will benefit from an open, treatment of the community. More than was informed of the shutdown, the ble materials, and what caused the secure, reliable Internet. Outright cyber- 110 Tibetans have set themselves alight train - en route from the US state of original locomotive fire in Nantes. enabling theft that US companies are since 2009 to protest Chinese rule and North Dakota to a refinery in “It’s very important to know exactly experiencing now must be viewed as out overseas groups say that Chinese forces Canada’s eastern New Brunswick who did what - who was there, of bounds and needs to stop,” Biden said. opened fire Saturday on Tibetans marking province - had already reached the what did they do,” TSB lead investi- A recent US study said that corporate the birthday of the Dalai Lama, their town, he said. MMA trains will no gator Donald Ross told reporters, America was losing hundreds of billions of exiled spiritual leader. longer be left unattended, he adding it was too soon to assign dollars a year through a vast, organized But both US and Chinese officials hacking campaign to steal US trade, gov- sought to keep an upbeat tone, voicing vowed, noting that the company blame. ernment and military secrets. China has hope that the two nations can keep build- had launched an internal investiga- He did say the train began hit back that it is also the victim of hack- ing trust following a friendly, informal sum- tion. Nantes Fire Chief Patrick rolling moments after firefighters ing, charges that gained momentum mit last month between US President Lambert however dismissed and a company official left the train when US intelligence leaker Edward Barack Obama and his new Chinese coun- Burkhardt’s accusations, saying the unattended on the tracks in Nantes, Snowden said that US spies had broken terpart Xi Jinping. Biden warned that 12 firefighters who responded to after extinguishing the locomotive into the billion-plus nation’s Internet rout- “strong voices on both sides of the Pacific” the locomotive engine fire followed fire. “The train started to roll without ing network. Biden brought up China’s see ties between the United States and a all of the proper procedures. The fire anybody on board,” Ross said. A tense territorial disputes with its neigh- rising China “in terms of mistrust and suspi- leveled more than four blocks, small area of downtown Lac- bors, saying that both Pacific powers “ben- cion.” “I’ve heard the US-China relationship including 30 buildings, and forced Megantic remained closed off efit from freedom of navigation and unin- described as everything from the next Cold about 2,000 of the town’s 6,000 resi- Tuesday as the clean-up began, hibited lawful commerce”. He also raised War to the new G-2 and, the truth is, nei- LAC-MEGANTIC, Canada: This July 7, 2013 handout image shows dents to flee. Many of those people with officials fearing that mopping concerns about human rights in China, ther are accurate,” Biden said. —AFP the aftermath of a train that derailed and exploded into a wall of began returning home Tuesday. “I up machinery could spark a fire in flames. — AFP know there is a lot of anger” in the the sewers. — AFP THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 INTERNATIONAL Pak army adamant on fighting the other Taleban

KALAM, Pakistan: In the past few years, talk to them?” said Abdul Rehman, an campaigning for May’s federal and run by central writ - and the provincial unless they lay down arms and accept Pakistan’s Swat valley has been occupied elder in the village of Kalam, a former provincial elections. While Sharif won the government cannot control the process. Pakistan’s laws. “There is no room for by Islamic insurgents, undergone a bruis- tourist hotspot high in the Swat valley federal elections, Khan’s party emerged FATA is used as a base by the Pakistani doubts when it comes to dealing with ing counter-offensive by the army and and ringed by snow-capped peaks of the victorious in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, the Taleban, members of the Afghan Taleban rebellion against the state,” he said in an then flooded by waters that washed Hindu Khush. The village is famous for province that includes Swat Valley and and groups linked to Al-Qaeda. Sharif’s April 3 speech. away acres of fruit orchards and steeply repelling Taleban attacks. “We forced remains a hotbed of Pakistani Taleban federal government can only do so Locals in Swat said there was good rea- terraced fields. In October last year, the them away, first on our own, then with activity. The information minister in much. Pakistan’s military largely has a son to mistrust the militants. A previous valley which lies about 25 km north of the help of the army,” Rehman told Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, formerly the free hand regarding internal security, and peace deal gave the Pakistani Taleban the the capital Islamabad was again in the Reuters during a visit organised by a UN Northwest Frontier Province, told Reuters influences foreign policy, especially rela- breathing space it needed to take power global spotlight when Islamic gunmen organisation funding flood relief work in that the provincial government had tions with neighbours. in the valley and then extend influence shot schoolgirl Malala Yousafzai. Now, as his village, which is set among pine called a meeting of other political parties It is the army, its intelligence agencies into neighbouring districts just 6 km from villagers try to piece together shattered forests and walnut orchards. and stakeholders to prepare for peace and the Taleban itself who will decide Islamabad in 29. That summer, worried by lives, the military is coming under pres- The debate over whether to open talks. whether to talk or fight. The Pakistani the creeping proximity of Taleban territo- sure to talk peace with the Taleban, a peace talks with the Pakistani Taleban has “The United States has opened up a Taleban has shown interest in talks, but ry to Islamabad, the army launched a full ruthless Pakistani offshoot of the Islamic taken centrestage in the country as US Taleban office in Qatar and is holding has stepped up attacks after a series of air and ground assault and government radical movement of the same name in troops withdraw from Afghanistan after a negotiations with them, and we are drone strikes on its leaders and also forces regained control in a month. But neighbouring Afghanistan. 12-year war against the Afghan Taleban. being told to continue to fight and die,” because it doubts the ability of the civil- the operation displaced 2 million people, Civilian Pakistani leaders elected in Pakistan’s military leaders are at pains to Khan said last month during a visit to ian leadership to convince the military to and later, many returned to nothing but May want to open a dialogue with the distinguish between the Afghan Taleban, Peshawar, the province’s violence-blight- allow negotiations. “If we felt that the PTI dead livestock and flattened orchards. homegrown militants set on overthrow- to which Pakistan maintains ties and ed capital. “For the last nine years we government or the Nawaz Sharif govern- Floods that ripped through Swat the next ing the nuclear-armed state. They say the which they argue can be seen as fighting have relied on the army to bring peace, ment were in a position to take a serious year made things worse, destroying local people are fed up with the violence against occupation, and its local imitators but instead the situation got worse,” he step towards peace talks and can oppose many of the tightly packed terraces and that any talks will be legitimised by who they see as domestic terrorists. The said. “It’s now time for politicians to the intelligence agencies, then we can where corn and wheat grow along steep US efforts to promote peace with the Pakistani Taleban pledges allegiance to resolve the issue.” Khan’s party, the seriously think about peace talks,” the mountainsides. Acute malnutrition Afghan Taleban. But the powerful mili- Mullah Mohammad Omar, the reclusive Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), says the group’s then spokesman Ehsanullah among children has jumped by more tary, which has spent years chasing the leader of the Afghan Taleban but Omar is violence in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa is a Ehsan said in a video released in June. than a third. Saifullah Khan Mahsud, an Pakistan Taleban into ever-more remote careful not to be seen to attack the reaction to US drone strikes and pro- So far, the military has shown no incli- expert on the situation in FATA, says the hideouts, is in no mood to negotiate with Pakistani state. The Pakistani Taleban’s Washington policies by the army, and nation to relax an offensive many officers army believes it has the Pakistani Taleban militants who have killed thousands of suddenly sacked its spokesman on that talks are the only answer. feel they can win. “We have to take the on the back foot and is biding time for a soldiers and who they say cannot be Tuesday amid signs of strained ties But there is no easy solution. Most of fight to them,” said a regional commander fatal blow in border areas like North trusted. Some villagers back that stand. between the groups. the militants seek refuge in the neigh- flying a helicopter over Khyber Waziristan, where the militants and other “(The Taleban) doesn’t accept the gov- Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif and his bouring Federally Administered Tribal Pakhtunkhwa. Just before the elections, global groups are holed up. “At the end of ernment’s writ, they are not faithful to the prominent rival Imran Khan both offered Areas (FATA) - districts strung along army chief Gen Ashfaq Kayani made it the day it is the military stance that is constitution, how can a political party to talk to the Pakistani militants while Pakistan’s border with Afghanistan and clear he would not talk to the militants going to prevail,” he said. — Reuters Koreas end talks without deal, schedule new meet Seoul wants guarantees against new Kaesong closure PAJU, South Korea: South Korea said talks with months of cross-border friction and threats of which had previously remained largely resilient North Korea on reopening a jointly-run industrial war by Pyongyang after its February nuclear test to turbulence in relations - had the air of a ghost estate ended without agreement yesterday, but attracted tougher UN sanctions, further squeez- town, according to pool reports from Kaesong. the two sides agreed to meet again next week. ing its struggling economy. Kaesong shut down Factories and convenience stores were shuttered The South’s chief delegate Suh Ho said talks on three months ago as relations between the frosty and dark, traffic signals were off and North restarting the Kaesong industrial complex’s neighbours hit crisis point. But at a rare weekend Korean workers plucked overgrown weeds from mothballed factories would continue on July 15, meeting the North and South agreed in principle the sidewalk outside the 15-storey building after about four hours of meetings that started to reopen Kaesong, the last remaining symbol of where the talks were held. yesterday morning. “We both agreed that the cross-border reconciliation. Earlier yesterday, a Some South Korean factory owners, who visit- complex should be maintained and further vehicle convoy of about 13 South Korean dele- ed their plants on the sidelines of the talks, developed,” Suh told reporters at the site just gates, support staff and factory owners crossed described equipment that had rusted in the damp summer heat, and warned that the shut- down meant some business would be lost for good. “Officials are holding talks about reviving Kaesong, but businessmen like us feel that we can’t reopen factories unless the North promises that the current situation won’t be repeated,” said one who asked not be named. TOKYO: This file picture taken on April 7, 2013 shows Japanese Prince Hisahito “Without such a promise, what kind of buyers accompanied by his parents Prince Akishino and Princess Kiko as they arrive at will give us orders?” Another said he told a North Ochanomizu University Elementary School for his entrance ceremony. — AFP Korean official that business would likely be half the pre-shutdown levels. “I told him the North was the one that closed the complex anyway so Hisahito, 6: Future they needed to apologise,” the South Korean businessman said. Kaesong, which was built in 24, sits about 1 of Japan monarchy km inside North Korea. The South Korean-funded TOKYO: As an expectant Britain gets royal hazily understood outside a tight inner circle site, built as part of a diplomatic bid to improve baby fever and readies to welcome a future of advisers. Absent are the boozy exploits of cross-border relations, was an important source monarch - male or female - the young boy Prince Harry, the charming common touch of hard currency for the impoverished North. In who carries the destiny of Japan’s ancient of Prince William, or the crusading environ- April Pyongyang withdrew its 53, workers from imperial family lives a life much less exam- mentalism of Prince Charles. Theirs is a life of the 123 Seoul-owned factories at the complex, ined. Six-year-old Prince Hisahito is the only regime and regimen; where their rare public citing military tensions and what it called the boy in four decades born into the world’s appearances are carefully choreographed South’s hostility. Seoul withdrew managers from oldest monarchy, and will be entrusted with and recorded only by approved media, who most of the operations in early May. keeping alive a genealogical line traditional- dutifully snap the smiles of staged photo The South now wants firm safeguards from ists say can be traced back to a prehistoric opportunities and then put the cameras the North against shutting Kaesong down unilat- goddess. Unlike the House of Windsor, away. One such moment in Hisahito’s life erally, to keep the estate insulated from changes which lives life in the full tabloid glare and was his fifth birthday when he went through in relations. This would be a bitter pill for the KAESONG: South Korea’s working-level chief delegate Suh Ho (right) shakes hands with his whose members provide endless fodder for rites that involved the donning of traditional North to swallow as it means it would accept North Korean counterpart Pak Chul-su after talks at the Kaesong industrial complex in North gossip and speculation, the details of the flowing kimono trousers and having a sym- responsibility for the April closure. Korea yesterday. — AFP lives of Japan’s imperial family are scarcely bolic haircut. The ritual, to mark a birthday The South also wants compensation for losses discussed. considered important in Japan, along with inside North Korea. “The North argued that it at Paju over the heavily fortified demilitarised stemming from the suspension, a demand that Commentators say the young prince ages three and seven, saw him standing on should be resumed as soon as machinery check- border zone that underscores the ever-present the North is unlikely to accept. At the end last leads a happy life, but one in which he is a “Go” checkboard, wearing the trousers for ups are finished, while we pointed out that the tension between two nations, which remain Sunday of gruelling 15-hour talks, the two sides already being prepared for his future role as the first time in his life. An aide, in the same situation could be repeated even after the technically at war. Their 195-53 conflict ended in said in a joint statement that they had agreed to emperor at the head of a staid and revered clothes of the Heian period (794-1185), reopening if there is no firm guarantee on pre- a ceasefire rather than a peace treaty. The vehi- let South Korean firms restart their plants at the institution, far removed from the common combed his hair and then cut a few strands, venting a recurrence (of the shutdown). So it was cles were outfitted with bright red flags, follow- complex when conditions are ripe. The state- folk. “I don’t think Prince Hisahito plays com- before Hisahito jumped from the raised decided that this issue would be discussed at the ing border rules aimed at preventing an acciden- ment was seen as a crucial step in winding down puter games” like other boys his age, said gameboard. The tradition is one of many next meeting,” he added. The talks follow tal shooting. The once-buzzing industrial zone - the months of high tension. — AFP Shinji Yamashita, a former official of the that stretch back through the annals of Imperial Household Agency and now a jour- Japan’s never-colonised history, where the nalist specialising in royal matters. “But he emperor was treated as a god whose pres- seems to be leading an unconstrained child- ence legitimised the authority of powerful Rudd vows referendum to recognise Aboriginals hood,” said Yamashita. political clans and warlords. Japan’s emperor is the nominal head of United States-led forces, who occupied SYDNEY: Australian Prime Minister Kevin land rights movement began 50 years ago state and sits at the apex of the indigenous Japan after its defeat in World War II, Rudd yesterday used the 50th anniversary with the signing of two bark petitions Shinto religion, an animistic belief system stripped the role of its semi-divine status, of the indigenous land rights movement to protesting against a government plan to found only in Japan. Although wealthy, the but the hushed reverence remains to the pledge a referendum on recognising the confiscate a massive block of land to mine lives of the royal family inside ornate and present day, with no mainstream media country’s Aborigines in the constitution if for bauxite. The petitions asserted that the spacious Tokyo palaces are heavily restricted reporting anything but the authorised ver- Labor is re-elected. His predecessor Julia Yolngu people owned the land, and and full of rituals, many of which are only sion of imperial lives. —AFP Gillard shelved a plan to hold a vote this became the first traditional native title doc- parliamentary term, citing low public sup- uments recognised by the Australian parlia- port, but Rudd made clear that the recogni- ment. tion of Aboriginal people as the country’s While they failed to win their case in the Delhi gang-rape verdict first inhabitants was a priority. “I therefore, courts, the petitions set in motion the push as prime minister, want to see this matter for the eventual recognition of Aboriginals due in juvenile’s case brought to the people of Australia by refer- as full citizens in 1967, and the statutory endum within two years of the election of acknowledgement of land rights in 1976. NEW DELHI: A New Delhi court is set to adult suspects continues but is expected the next parliament,” he said, with national “These bark petitions present a bridge hand down the first verdict today on one to wrap up in the next few months, with polls scheduled for later this year. between two ancient and noble traditions,” of five suspects on trial over the fatal gang- the men facing a possible death sentence Rudd said he wanted to work with the said Rudd. “Eight hundred years ago we rape of a student on a moving bus, which if convicted of rape and murder. The fifth conservative Tony Abbott-led opposition to had (the) Magna Carta; 800 years later, the sparked an outcry in India. A juveniles’ adult, alleged ringleader Ram Singh, died draft an appropriate question, urging him Yirrkala bark petitions. These bark petitions court in the capital has finished hearing in jail in an apparent suicide. to “get his act together”. are Magna Carta for the indigenous peo- the case of a teenager, aged 17 at the time If found guilty, the juvenile can be sent “I want us to agree on the question to ples of this land. Both (are) an assertion of of the crime, who faces a maximum sen- to a correctional facility for a maximum be put to the Australian people,” he told rights against the crown and both there- tence of three years in a correctional facili- three-year term, which includes the time reporters. “No more delays, no more excus- fore profound symbols of justice for all peo- ty if found guilty. The sentence is likely to he has already spent in custody while wait- es, no more buck-passing. It’s time the ples everywhere.” cause further outrage in a country ing for the verdict. nation got on with this business. That is my The 1215 Magna Carta was one of the attempting to turn a rising tide of violence Anant Kumar Asthana, a Delhi-based commitment to you.” Abbott accused Rudd founding documents of the British legal against women and which has passed a lawyer who defends juveniles, explained of politicising the issue. “I think this could system, setting out a charter of liberties for new law toughening sentences for adults that “the idea behind the provision is that be a defining, unifying moment for our the King’s subjects and requiring that he convicted of sex crimes. three years is sufficient time to reform a country and I want this to go ahead,” he and all future sovereigns abide by a rule of The victim’s family led calls for the child”. “The institutionalisation of a child is said. “I don’t want to politicise this, I really law. Aborigines are the most disadvan- teenager to be tried as an adult, alongside a last resort, and the idea is to do it for a don’t. I’m surprised that Mr Rudd is trying taged Australians, with indigenous children five men initially arrested over the savage minimum amount of time... since institu- to do that.” twice as likely to die before their fifth birth- crime on Dec 16, which led to weeks of tionalisation can often impact a child neg- Any change to Australia’s constitution day as other children and Aboriginal men protests in the capital and elsewhere. “We atively,” Asthana told AFP. Criminal charges must be approved by a national referen- estimated to die 11.5 years earlier than oth- An undated handout photo received from the want to be reassured by the government against staff at a number of juvenile dum in which all citizens vote. Such ballots er males. They are believed to have num- Australian House of Representatives yesterday shows that my rights to justice are protected. In homes last year have highlighted what typically have low levels of success. Rudd bered around one million at the time of one of two bark petitions protesting against a govern- this case the accused is hiding behind activists describe as a pervasive culture of was speaking ahead of an event in the British settlement in 1788, but there are ment plan to confiscate a massive block of land to mine legal loopholes in the system,” the father of violence that begins with carers abusing remote Aboriginal community of Yirrkala in now just 470,000 out of a total population for bauxite 50 years ago in the remote Aboriginal com- the 23-year-old victim told The Hindu wards and ends with older children the country’s north, where the indigenous of 23 million in Australia. —AFP munity of Yirrkala. — AFP newspaper earlier this year. The trial of four assaulting younger children. —AFP THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 ANALYSIS14

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By Alka Pradhan, Kent Eiler, Katherine Hawkins

t least 106 of the 166 prisoners at Guantanamo Bay detention center are reported to be on hunger strike, Awith 45 currently being force-fed. A recently pub- lished report by the Constitution Project’s Task Force on Detainee Treatment, to which we contributed, found that the practice of forced feeding at Guantanamo was “a form of abuse and must end.” A member of the task force, Dr Gerald Thomson, described the process: “You are forced physically to eat, by being strapped into a specially made chair and having restraints put on your arms, your legs, your body and your head so that you cannot move. (You have) a tube inserted into your throat that extends into your stomach, and you’re Religious liberty in America: An enduring promise trying to resist that with the only muscles that are free - in your throat.” Detainees have said that it is intensely painful. By Holly Hollman and Hoda Elshishtawy cratic debate. One way of appreciating the rich tradition of Despite many successes, difficulties remain. Even events When the restraint chairs were first introduced to religious liberty is to understand how religious communities designed to promote understanding may be disrupted. The Guantanamo in December 2005, the force-feeding process mericans face many challenges that threaten to under- enjoy religious freedom and why they feel called to protect recent forum in Tennessee was an effort to foster dialogue was reportedly especially punitive. Several detainees said mine their obligation to protect religious pluralism it. At a conference earlier this year on the meaning of reli- after a local county commissioner’s ill-conceived attempt at that guards kept them in a restraint chair for hours after Aand the rights of fellow citizens. Earlier this month in gious liberty, we shared the stage to discuss the meaning of humor on social media suggested Muslims should be greet- the tube feeding ended - sometimes for as long as six Tennessee, for example, a program on public discourse religious freedom and our common ground. ed while holding a shotgun. hours. The military says that the restraint chairs prevent designed to answer questions about Islam was continuously As General Counsel for a Baptist organization dedicated But, in the same state, civil rights groups and interfaith assaults on US personnel, but a detainee whose condition disrupted by protesters and hecklers, some of whom claimed to protecting religious liberty, Holly’s perspective is shaped allies have successfully banded together to pave the way for has deteriorated such that force-feeding is medically nec- that Islam is evil. by the historical experience of Baptists, a congregation- a local mosque in Murfreesboro to expand, overcoming the essary to sustain life is unlikely to have the physical ability Yet we should not diminish what has been called “the based Christian denomination that suffered persecution objections of an anti-religious freedom campaign and result- to commit assault. most successful experiment in religious liberty the world has because of the union of civil and religious authorities in ing in a victory for religious liberty. America’s successful At least two detainees were force-fed in the chair twice ever known” - the United States of America. Whatever chal- Europe and in the American colonies. That experience transformation into the most religiously diverse nation on a day for close to four years. By 2009, the process was less lenges we face, the two of us, from a Baptist organization fuelled disestablishment efforts that influenced the earth has largely rested on the promise of the First prolonged and brutal, but the restraint chair was still used and a Muslim organization respectively, agree that protect- Founders and led to the First Amendment’s guarantee that Amendment. for every feeding regardless of a detainee’s compliance, ing religious liberty is paramount. Protection of religious lib- “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of Unlike other aspects of our democratic society, protec- according to an independent physician who visited erty requires careful attention to upholding the principles religion or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” tion of religious liberty is not subject to the will of the major- Guantanamo and examined detainees. She found that the enshrined in the First Amendment of the US Constitution, Central to Baptist understanding of religious liberty is the ity. The religious liberties each citizen enjoys are subject only force-feeding procedure caused physical pain and psycho- which guard the right to practice one’s faith without govern- conviction that this freedom must be protected for all to a duty to protect the same rights for others, even (and logical harm that in one case became full-blown post-trau- ment interference. because a threat to any faith is a threat to all faiths. Today, perhaps especially) where there are deep theological differ- matic stress disorder. In many respects, religious liberty serves as a baseline for this enduring vision forms the basis of a shared commitment ences and disagreement. As it turns out, we don’t have to Another detainee, Tariq Ba Awdah, has told lawyers that democratic participation. Religious liberty - and consensus across many faith groups in America, each dependent on it look very far to find common ground: we need only consult he has been force-fed for six years, and he is still on a on its importance - creates the conditions for people of all for survival. Hoda, as Legislative and Policy Analyst for MPAC, our constitution, which guarantees religious liberty for all. hunger strike. Doctors have a duty to preserve life, but they religions (or no religion) to influence lawmakers on various is acutely aware of the importance of protecting religious Religious liberty is what we all have in common. As we face also have a duty to respect patients’ autonomy and not to policy concerns. A mutual commitment to the right of reli- liberty in an increasingly religiously diverse nation. new challenges, we must hold fast to that truth. subordinate their medical judgment to prison authorities. gious liberty for all allows people of faith or of none to share Despite the protection of religious liberty by law, there As the World Medical Association’s Declaration of Malta their opinions, agree or disagree and attempt to persuade are many challenges associated with being part of a minority Holly Hollman is General Counsel of the Baptist Joint states: “Fostering trust between physicians and hunger others about various matters related to the public welfare. faith, both in terms of promoting understanding of Muslim Committee for Religious Liberty. Hoda Elshishtawy is strikers is often the key to achieving a resolution that both In this sense, religious liberty is fundamental not merely beliefs and practices as well as in seeking acceptance as part Legislative and Policy Analyst for the Muslim Public Affairs respects the rights of the hunger strikers and minimizes for its own sake, but also because it facilitates robust demo- of the wider religious and political fabric of the country. Council. — CGNews harm to them.” Therefore, doctors should be assessing the hunger striker to determine whether he is mentally competent, whether he is suicidal, and whether he is being pressured Central Europe feeling marginal by other detainees into fasting. Clinicians need to be able to counsel patients about the risk of permanent injury or Oana Popescu many recent attempts by the region to estab- trade and even the military between Europe count more in EU negotiations on budget and death, and about measures that can be taken to mitigate lish itself more firmly within Europe and make and Asia. US troops and the missile shield were crisis management measures. those risks. Above all, as required by their medical ethics, or a good while after the fall of the Berlin its own claims with one single voice-hoping it located in Eastern Europe. The region has been Although a favored place for business, doctors need to be able to act in their individual patient’s Wall, Central-Eastern Europe (CEE) has felt will thus be heard by an EU core which is often struggling to gain access to alternative oil and Poland has few national champions: PKN best interest and exercise their independent clinical Fsafe and sound in the bosom of ‘mother reluctant to truly listen. The summit has restat- gas transit routes (Nabucco, Nordstream, Orlen, the state-owned fuel group, the largest judgment. Europe’-a Paradise regained through EU and ed the shared commitment to the EU, to unity, Southstream, etc.). company in Central Europe, the petrochemical The International Committee of the Red Cross, the NATO accession after the long years of per- solidarity and joint problem solving; its contin- Strategic partnerships have been built Lotos, or the state-owned bank PKO BP; World Medical Association and the American Medical Assn. ceived banishment behind the Iron Curtain. ued interest in integrating the EU neighbor- between main powers of the region Poland, Hungary has MOL; the Czech Republic has the all oppose force-feeding of prisoners as a violation of med- Safety, freedom and the perspective of a better hood; and concern for austerity measures to Romania and Turkey on the one hand and then energy giants CEZ, RWE Transgas and the car- ical ethics. Pentagon officials are no doubt sincere in want- tomorrow were essential newly-found bless- translate into rising living standards for the Central Asian energy ‘giants’ on the other hand maker Skoda-finally an exception to an almost ing to keep detainees alive. But they also view hunger ings which provided a good basis for the eco- population. to facilitate cooperation to this end-the inter- all-energy-focus market. strikes as a means of “asymmetrical warfare,” as the nomic growth, political and social develop- Much of this only declaratively meets with connection between Europe and Central Asia The other exception is to some extent (by Guantanamo commander told task force staff when they ment which ensued. the same interest at overall EU level. The becoming key to any future development. far not enough, given its size) Romania, where, visited the prison in February 2012. That belief probably If the peoples of CEE proved more resilient Western part of the continent is marred by dis- Perhaps more importantly, as imports from apart from the national energy company influenced the response to the current hunger strikes. On in the face of far tougher austerity measures putes between the UK with its hand on the Asia are rising, as is the Eastern continent as a Petrom (now belonging to Austrian OMV how- April 13, the military placed nearly every captive on lock- than in Western Europe, that is partly because, door knob, Germany accused of dictating poli- whole, the land bridge status of the region and ever), other successes are the car-maker Dacia- down in single cells. very much used to hardships during commu- cies to its sole selfish benefit, France in internal its maritime connection capacity have become Renault, with high sales on its low-cost con- Since then, there have been at least two suicide nism, they were less ‘spoiled’ and used to the disarray and frustration over external loss of extremely important to both Europe and Asia. cept on emerging as well as developed mar- attempts. Fortunately, neither succeeded, but a Muslim good life, but also because they still valued oth- influence, a more unaffected Scandinavian China has been seeking entry gates through kets, IT companies like SIVECO, with interna- adviser to the prison recently told reporters that he expect- er things more: political liberties, freedom of Peninsula and a South almost in shambles. Poland and Hungary. tional expansion and the rail operator ed “more than one death” to result from the current hunger travel, appurtenance to a family of values, Little trace left of unity and solidarity. Such India has been trying to enter the competi- GFR/GRAMPET, the only one which has strate- strike. Putting detainees in lockdown and force-feeding democracy, security, economic opportunity internal crisis does not make for a very active tion too. Kazakhstan, Azerbaijan and even gic outreach in infrastructure (connecting the them in restraints can postpone deaths, but it cannot pre- (worth the temporary sacrifice). and efficient policy or for traction in the EU Japan or Malaysia have been interested in con- Northern Sea to the Black Sea and Adriatic), vent them indefinitely. Prolonged force-feeding carries its In many ways, the original idea of a united neighborhood. Enlargement had entered a necting to a region which was as ‘emerging’ as branded as the key development solution of own medical risks, and Guantanamo detainees have killed Europe is more alive here than elsewhere on slow phase anyway, now doubled by a fear of themselves, although at a different scale. The the entire region. themselves even in the highest security sections of the the continent, since countries of the Eastern ‘strategic overstretch’ while problems at home courtship has not been all moonlight and ros- In fact, talking about railways, ongoing pri- prison. There have been seven suicides. bloc remember too well the high price they remain and unsolved issues tend to put stress es though. From the point of view of security, vatizations across the region (in Romania, In 2010, 86 prisoners at Guantanamo - including several paid for privileges others had enjoyed for much on the entire Union (as problems in new mem- the region has felt threatened by powerful Bulgaria, Croatia etc) of national operators currently being force-fed - were cleared for transfer by an longer. Recently though, Central-Eastern ber states do, in corruption, rule of law etc). interests which clashed in good part with its have surprisingly met with reduced interest interagency task force convened by the Obama administra- Europe has been feeling the earth slipping Under the circumstances, it is no wonder that own and added to pressure from Russia, itself from the largest and strongest global compa- tion. But transfers have been mostly halted in recent years, beneath its feet, as it has been losing precisely perhaps the main attraction of the summit was using its economic might to buy out its past nies such as Deutsche Bahn or others, demon- with Congress and the White House blaming each other. these cherished boons. the first meeting of Serb and Kosovar presi- sphere of influence, from metallurgy in strating that the region as a whole is simply The transfers must restart as soon as possible. As the presi- Instead, it has found itself sandwiched dents, after their recent historic deal. Romania (ALRO, Mechel etc) to energy in not interesting enough yet, while the political dent said in a speech on May 23, force-feeding detainees between an increasingly aggressive Russia, an Concerned with multiple failures and short- Hungary (MOL) and Croatia’s Plinacro. linkage with Central Asia is not yet fully made. who have been held without charge for more than a EU in crisis and growing disunity, a more stand- comings in the Eastern Partnership, countries Underdeveloped infrastructure, perception This seems to be in fact the main problem decade is unacceptable: “Is that who we are? Is that some- offish and disengaged United States and now a of the region are sensibly becoming more and of the region as a mere set of transit routes, the region is now facing: shunned by a core EU thing our founders foresaw? Is that the America we want to more and more unstable and unpredictable more involved in stabilizing the Balkans, as the lack of more substantive regional cooperation, which had so far given it a hand to help it leave our children?” Unfortunately, the detainees at vicinity (Turkey in turmoil, Ukraine in confusion, last thing they look to is an expansion of the privatization of state resources to the benefit catch up, Central-Eastern Europe is still strug- Guantanamo no longer place much hope in Obama’s the Eastern Partnership unsuccessful in its orig- geography of trouble. One side effect is that of power elites, corruption and the interest of gling to define its attractiveness and strategic promise to close the prison. —MCT inal ambitions, the Caucasus in fragile and fear- prospects are increasingly good for Kosovo, multinationals to keep their costs down have advantages, to advance negotiations of its ful balance etc). since the EU as a whole will want to get one all brought additional challenges to the actual interests in Brussels and Berlin, but also with Gone is the feeling of safety; going-going- problem off its back if at all possible and as economic development of Central-Eastern potential “economic predators” like Russia or All articles appearing on these almost gone the political freedoms, as Romania soon as possible, to be able to worry about the Europe home-grown capital and economic China. Countries of the region are increasingly pages are the personal opinion of and Bulgaria find themselves shunned by rest. prowess. Moreover, as the crisis set in, they coming together to do this-the recent Globsec Schengen countries and accused of sending Therefore Slovakia, a non-recognizer, has found that Western banks were externalizing conference in Bratislava was mainly a Polish the writers. Kuwait Times takes no waves of migrant workers and Roma to a more hosted this first high-level meeting between profits (to the home countries) and internaliz- show destined to promote Polish candidacies responsibility for views expressed prosperous but also more xenophobic, racist the two presidents, while the Romanian presi- ing losses, while the states themselves were to high office in international organizations therein. Kuwait Times invites read- and economically nationalistic West. That also dent (another non-recognizer) has praised the required to undergo painful restructuring and like NATO or the UN, but also V4 cooperation doesn’t contribute to the feeling of belonging wisdom of 20 member states in so doing. austerity (with the exception of success stories (especially economic, in articulating Brussels ers to voice their opinions. Please either. Democracy is still fledgling in many Along with the dwindling safety, economic Poland and Estonia). positions and in defense); Wroclaw Global send submissions via email to: opin- places, most of all in Hungary, while the prom- insecurity (in close connection with the seat of As a result, now that labor is not so cheap Forum, in Poland, just a few days ago dis- [email protected] or via snail ise of economic growth and rising standards of the region at the EU decision-making table and here anymore and infrastructure still lags cussed the way European politicians may have mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. living seem to have been temporary illusions of its political clout) has been the focus of debate. behind after 20 years, the region sees itself at a destroyed democracy; the Summit of Heads of an age when they were the beneficiaries of Before it gained enough economic strength new disadvantage: few are the indigenous State in Bratislava has shown off the region’s The editor reserves the right to edit European solidarity. of its own, the region was first seen as a market strategic companies that can aid economic support for Kosovo-Serbia reconciliation any submission as necessary. The recent summit in Bratislava of Central- by the rest of the EU, and then it placed its bets growth and project influence outside borders, efforts and Vilnius summit-worthy indeed, but European heads of state marks only one of as a strategic corridor of transit for energy, to make the voice of the respective states also for lack of better options. —Stratfor NEWS THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013

KUWAIT: Kuwaitis buy fruits and vegetables at a market in downtown Kuwait City, on the first day of the Muslim fasting month ofRamadan. Tens of millions across the Muslim world fast from dawn to dusk and strive to be more pious and charitable during the month, which ends with the Eid holiday. — Photo by Yasser Al-Zayyat

Monster star spotted in the stellar ‘womb’ Egyptian Christians face Continued from Page 1 the filamentary network of dust and gas and show that a huge amount of gas is flowing into a central compact backlash for Morsi ouster theories on the formation of massive stars, which region,” said team member Ana Duarte Cabral from the have at least ten times the mass of our Sun. Laboratoire d’Astrophysique in Bordeaux, France. CAIRO: With a mob of Muslim extremists activist from Minya, a southern province inside, according to witnesses and The first theory suggests that parental dark clouds The find was made possible by the high sensitivity of on his tail, the Christian businessman and with a large Christian community. activists briefed on the day’s events. But fragment, creating several small cores that collapse and the Atacama Large Millimetre/submillimetre Array, his nephew climbed up on the roof and It was a risky gamble for a minority the mob, outnumbering police, refused form stars. The other sees the entire cloud collapse located 5,000 meters above sea level, deep in Chile’s ran for their lives, jumping from building that has long felt vulnerable, with its to let the men inside leave - so the police inwards, with material racing into its centre to feed the Atacama Desert. ALMA has 66 antennas exploring the to building in their southern Egyptian most concentrated communities often told the families they would only take village. Finally they ran out of rooftops. living in the same rural areas where the the women and children, she said. star or stars growing there. The new results support the universe via radio waves emitted by galaxies, stars and Forced back onto the street, they were most vehement and vocal Islamists hold Naseem and several other men initial- second theory, said the statement. “The ALMA observa- other bodies not captured by optical and infrared tele- overwhelmed by several dozen men. The sway. During Morsi’s year in office, some ly put on women’s clothes to escape tions reveal the spectacular details of the motions of scopes, which only receive light. — AFP attackers hacked them with axes and of his hard-line allies increasingly spoke detection by the mob waiting close by beat them with clubs and tree limbs, of Christians as enemies of Islam and for the police to leave so it could set killing Emile Naseem, 41. warned them to remember they are a upon the men, said El-Ameer, the The nephew survived with wounds to minority. When the wave of protests nephew, The police still refused to take Kuwait offers Egypt $4 billion financial... his shoulders and head and recounted against Morsi began on June 30, the men, fearing the mob outside would the chase to The Associated Press. The Brotherhood media depicted it as domi- see through the ruse and attack the Continued from Page 1 led protests against Morsi. mob’s rampage through the village of nated by Christians - and to hard-liners, it armored police car that came to evacu- They also support a stalled $4.8 billion loan deal with Nagaa Hassan, burning dozens of smacked of Christians rising up against a ate the Christians, said El-Ameer and This week’s unrest has alarmed Western donors and the International Monetary Fund, which would require Christian houses and stabbing to death Muslim ruler. The worst anti-Christian activists. Israel, which has a 1979 peace treaty with Egypt. Egypt to make politically painful reforms to subsidies for three other Christians as well, came two backlash since Morsi’s July 3 ouster was Martha Zekry, Naseem’s wife, Washington, treading a careful line, has neither wel- food and fuel that support its 84 million people but drain days after the military ousted Islamist the attack in Nagaa Hassan, a dusty vil- begged the police to take her husband, comed Morsi’s removal nor denounced it as a “coup”, its finances. Beblawi accepted that it would be a chal- President Mohammed Morsi from power. lage on the west bank of the Nile River, pleading with them that he would not which under US law would require it to halt aid including lenge to find a cabinet line-up with universal support. “I It was no coincidence the attackers not far from the most majestic ancient survive if left behind. The officer in the $1.3 billion it gives the army each year. don’t believe that anything can have unanimous focused on Naseem and his family: He Egyptian archaeological sites in the city charge said he would come back for was the village’s most prominent cam- of Luxor. Naseem. He never did. Once the police The Brotherhood’s downfall has however been warm- approval,” he said. Beblawi has indicated he would be paigner calling for Morsi’s removal. The body of a Muslim villager was dis- pulled away with the women and chil- ly welcomed by three of the rich Arab monarchies of the open to offering cabinet posts to Islamists, including Some Christians are paying the price for covered at dawn on July 5. The cry went dren, the attackers stormed the build- Gulf, who showered Cairo with aid to prop up the collaps- Brotherhood figures. The Brotherhood says it will have their activism against Morsi and his out around the village that Christians ing. Naseem tore off the women’s ing Egyptian economy. Kuwait promised Egypt $4 billion nothing whatsoever to do with a government of what it Islamist allies in a backlash over his killed him. A mob of several hundred, led clothes and fled to the rooftops with his in cash, loans and fuel yesterday, a day after Saudi Arabia calls a “fascist coup”. ouster last week. by men wearing the hallmark long nephew, Al-Ameer said. Naseem’s pledged $5 billion and the United Arab Emirates offered The promised $12 billion in aid from the Gulf states Since then, there has been a string of beards of ultraconservative Salafis as well cousins, Romani and Muhareb Nosehi, $3 billion. The Brotherhood leaders were charged with will go a long way to easing a deep economic crisis that attacks on Christians in provinces that as more extreme movements, went on a and a neighbor Rasem Tadros, never inciting violence in Monday’s shootings, which began has driven Egypt’s finances to the brink during two and a are strongholds of hard-liners. In the rampage, according to witnesses and made it out of the building, stabbed Sinai Peninsula, where militant groups security officials speaking to the AP. and beaten to death on the spot. before dawn, when the Brotherhood says its followers half years of instability since autocrat Hosni Mubarak was run rampant, militants gunned down a They smashed the windows and Naseem’s friends and family say he were peacefully praying. The army says terrorists pro- swept from power. The funds also reduce the incentive priest in a drive-by shooting as he doors of Christian homes, ransacked was targeted because of his activism voked the shooting by attacking its troops. for Egypt to make the reforms the IMF says are needed to walked in a public market. Egypt’s Christian-owned stores and set them against Morsi. In the months before Haddad said the Brotherhood leaders had not been stabilize public finances, draw investment and rekindle Christian minority, about 10 percent of ablaze - damaging about 30 homes and Morsi’s ouster, he was energetically col- arrested and some were still attending the protest vigil at economic growth. In other steps on their “road map”, the the population, long shunned politics for stores in all. Muslim residents who tried lecting signatures in the village for Rabaa Adawiya mosque. The charges against them were authorities have announced a temporary constitution, fear of reprisals, relying on their church to stop them were brushed aside, some- Tamarod, or “Rebel,” the youth-led activist “nothing more than an attempt by the police state to dis- plans to amend it, and a timetable for elections begin- to make their case to those in power. times threatened with violence as well. campaign that collected signatures mantle the Rabaa protest”. “What can we do? In a police ning in about six months. That changed in the revolutionary fervor At least a dozen Christian families took nationwide on a petition demanding when autocrat Hosni Mubarak was top- refuge in the local Church of St. John The Morsi’s removal. It organized the June 30 state when the police force are criminals, the judiciary are Those moves already demonstrated the difficulty pled in 2011, as Christians started to Baptist, the church’s priest, Father protests that brought out millions. traitors, and the investigators are the fabricators, what achieving political consensus, even among Morsi’s oppo- demand a say in the country’s direction. Vassilios, told the AP. The crowd targeted can one do?” nents. The secularist NSF initially rejected the interim But they took it to a new level during in particular Naseem, besieging the “Emile was the de facto Tamarod leader In addition to Badie, prosecutors ordered the arrest of constitution, as did Islamists and others, although yester- Morsi’s year in office and the empower- apartment building of his cousins where in the village and that did not escape the others including his deputy, Mahmoud Ezzat, and out- day the NSF withdrew its rejection and issued a new, ment of his Islamist allies. The new Coptic he and his wife hid. Their three children notice of the militants,” said Naseem’s spoken party leaders Essam El-Erian and Mohamed El- milder criticism. Yesterday, the authorities also named a Christian pope, Tawadros II, enthroned in had been taken earlier to a relative’s best friend and fellow activist Emile Nazeer. “He, like other activists, received Beltagi. Khairat El-Shater, another senior leader, was held chief prosecutor, replacing Morsi’s appointee who was November, openly criticized the presi- home for their safety. The mob set fires in threatening text messages for weeks last week. The prosecutor also ordered 206 Brotherhood pushed out last week by a court that briefly reimposed dent. He told Christians they were free to the building, while the families with actively participate in politics and that women and children fled to the upper before he was killed.” “Almost everyone in activists arrested after Monday’s violence to be detained his Mubarak-era predecessor. the church will not discourage them. floors. Nagaa Hassan loved my uncle. He spoke for a further 15 days on accusations of involvement in the With the Brotherhood sidelined, the authorities are “The Christians have emerged from Security forces pulled up to the build- a lot about politics and people listened killings. It released 464 others who had been detained, courting the second largest Islamist group, the ultra- under the robes of the clergy and will ing, backing an armored personnel carri- to what he had to say,” said el-Ameer, on bail of about $300 each. orthodox Nour Party, to demonstrate that Islamists will never go back,” said Ezzat Ibrahim, an er up to the entrance to evacuate those Naseem’s nephew. — AP Egyptians have hoped the start of Ramadan, the not be repressed as they were under decades of military- Muslim fasting month, would cool passions, but it has led rule. Nour officially withdrew from politics in response been overshadowed by rancor. Thousands of to Monday’s violence but has said it does not object to Qatar losing ground to Saudi diplomacy Brotherhood supporters braved brutal summer heat to Beblawi’s appointment and will assist his government. maintain their outdoor protest vigil despite the fast, clus- Nour spokesman Nader Bakkar said yesterday the Continued from Page 1 political Islam that emerged strongly in the wake of the Arab tering in tents to protect themselves from sun during group would not accept posts in the new cabinet but Spring. daylight hours when Islam forbids eating food or drink- would offer “consent and advice to help the cabinet pass And on Tuesday, the kingdom pledged $5 billion in assistance Qatar sides with political parties linked to the Muslim ing water. through the transition period as soon as possible and to Egypt. The United Arab Emirates, which has cracked down on Brotherhood, whose experience was cut short despite the strong the Muslim Brotherhood in the past few months, offered Egypt media support they enjoyed from the influential Doha-based Al- Some milled about, others staged small marches. A list with minimum damages”. “We are waiting to help. We are an aid package of $3 billion. Jazeera news channel. Meanwhile, Saudi Arabia promotes Salafist was posted at the camp bearing the names of the more ready to advise but for the time being we still take the “Saudi Arabia wants to ensure stability in Arab Spring coun- groups that focus less on politics and more on implementing than 650 people arrested following Monday’s “massacre”. decision not to participate in the political process until tries, regardless of its ideological interests,” said analyst Abdel Aziz Shariah Islamic law on daily life matters such as forcing women to Despite the violence that followed Morsi’s removal, the the judiciary committee gives its report about what hap- Al-Sagr, head of the Gulf Research Centre. “It had supported the wear a veil and prohibiting the mixing between sexes. Saudi King interim authorities are proceeding with the army’s “road pened (on Monday).” Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt but reconsidered this support after Abdullah has reiterated his country’s stance against using Islam map” to restore civilian rule. On Tuesday they named 76- Bloodshed has abated since Monday’s incident, the the Brotherhood failed to run the country wisely,” he argued. But for political purposes. year-old economist Hazem El-Beblawi as acting prime deadliest since Mubarak’s fall, apart from a 2012 soccer the Saudi researcher downplayed the rivalry between Saudi “Islam rejects divisions in the name of one party or another,” minister. stadium riot. However, there are fears that the political Arabia and Qatar, both of which have been looking to expand he said in a statement marking the start Wednesday of the Beblawi said he would start selecting ministers and violence could lead to a breakdown in security, espe- their influence during the Arab Spring uprisings and prevent any Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The kingdom will never accept” potential revolt against their own autocratic regimes. the presence of political parties, that “only lead to conflict and would begin by meeting liberal politicians Mohamed cially in the lawless Sinai Peninsula region bordering “The Saudi-Qatari harmony still exists and there is no battle failure.” But regardless of the political agendas of Saudi Arabia or ElBaradei and Ziad Bahaa El-Din. ElBaradei, a former UN Israel. Two people were killed and six wounded for influence between the two countries,” said Sager. And as Qatar, the people who rose up during the Arab Spring revolts will diplomat, has been named vice president. Bahaa El-Din, a overnight when Islamist militants attacked a Sinai proof, “Riyadh was the first to be informed of the political change have the final word on their own political futures, argued former former head of Egypt’s investment authority, has been checkpoint. On Tuesday, Israeli troops found the in Qatar, six months before it took place. And it welcomed it.” But Bahraini cabinet minister Ali Fakhro. “It is the Arab people, not touted for senior posts. Both are prominent figures in the remains of a rocket they believe was fired across the the two countries, whose relations have been historically tense or Qatar nor Saudi Arabia, who will determine the political future of National Salvation Front, the main secularist group that border from Egypt. — Agencies at least marked by mistrust, support two different approaches of the region.” — AFP THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 SPORTS

Idowu rules himself out Italy match-fixing charges United’s Zaha on Asia tour ROME: Italian Serie A clubs Lazio and Genoa, lower league side Lecce and LONDON: Former triple jump world champion Phillips Idowu will miss eight players have been referred to a disciplinary tribunal over allegations LONDON: England winger Wilfried Zaha will play a part in Manchester next month’s world championships in Moscow after announcing yester- of match-fixing in the 2010/11 season, the Italian football federation United’s pre-season tour of the Far East and Australia, new manager David (FIGC) said yesterday. Moyes said yesterday. day that he was taking an indefinite break from athletics. The 34-year- Lazio midfielder Stefano Mauri was among the eight players who were The Ivory Coast-born 20-year-old, the final signing by Moyes’ predeces- old Briton has competed only once since last year’s London Olympics, accused of “sporting fraud” by FIGC after it examined reports by investiga- sor Alex Ferguson before his retirement, joined the Premier League champi- where he made an early exit after crashing out in qualifying. tors in the town of Cremona. The hearing is due to take place on July 24. ons this week for his first training session. “After some careful consideration I have decided that for the foresee- The matches under investigation are Lazio’s final two games of the United have in the past loaned out promising youngsters to other sides able future I will be taking a step back from athletics,” the 2008 Beijing 2010-11 season when they beat Genoa 4-2 at home and Lecce by the to gain experience and there has been speculation that Zaha, who has yet Olympic silver medallist said in a statement. same score away. The three clubs were reported for “objective liability” and to play in the Premier League, might return for a spell at previous club “I feel this is the right time for me to make this could face points deductions next season. The other players reported Crystal Palace. were Mario Cassano and Carlo Gervasoni, who were playing for Piacenza decision and it’s not a choice I’ve made lightly.” Palace boss Ian Holloway has effectively ruled that out at the time, Alessandro Zamperini, who was with lower league Fidene, and Moyes indicated the once-capped youngster was part British Athletics performance director Neil Omar Milanetto, who was at Genoa, and Lecce’s Massimiliano Benassi, Black wished Idowu all the best. of his plans. Stefano Ferrario and Antonio Rosati. “He will travel with us on the tour,” he told talkSPORT “It’s a big, brave decision for Phil and whilst Mauri and Milanetto were both detained for one week last year by radio before United’s departure to Thailand for a tour that we’re sad to see him hang up his spikes for prosecutors investigating the case. Cassano and Zamperini are already serving five-year bans imposed last year over different cases. starts in Bangkok on Saturday. “He has only been with us now, he’s had a fantastic career,” he said. for two days but I will take him away, see how he “Winning medals across all major champi- During investigations last year, Cremona prosecutor Roberto Di Martino said there was an “absolute superabundance” of evidence about goes and have a look. This club has a great onships, including gold at world, European the Lecce-Lazio match. He said gamblers had appeared to win some two record of putting young players in the and Commonwealth is a brilliant million euros ($2.5 million) on the game and paid 600,000 euros to bribe team. Hopefully Wilfried can be one of record.”—Reuters the players.—Reuters them.”—Reuters Rangers pound Orioles

BALTIMORE: Adrian Beltre went 4 for 4 with two homers and a season-high five RBIs to help the surging Texas Rangers beat the Baltimore Orioles 8-4 Tuesday night. Beltre hit a solo shot in the second inning and a three-run drive in the fifth, both off Zach Britton (2-3). Beltre has six home runs in his last six games and is batting .488 (21 for 43) during an 11-game hitting streak that began on June 28. Texas has won 14 of 19 to move a season- high 16 games over .500 (53-37) - tied for the second-best record in franchise history after 90 games. The Rangers have won four in a row on the road. Manny Machado homered for the Orioles, who have lost six of eight. Baltimore is 3-12 in its last 15 regular-season games against Texas. MIAMI: Julio Teheran No. 49 of the Atlanta Braves bunts during a game against the Martin Perez (3-1) allowed four runs, two earned, Miami Marlins at Marlins Park. —AFP and six hits in six-plus innings for the Rangers. The left-hander is 3-0 with a 1.44 ERA in four Braves see off Marlins starts since being recalled from Triple-A Round Rock on June 22. MIAMI: Justin Upton homered, doubled four in a row and five of six. Houston twice and scored three runs to help the dropped its ninth in the last 11 and leads WHITE SOX 11, TIGERS 4 Atlanta Braves earn their 27th comeback the majors with 58 losses. In Detroit, Alex Rios equaled an American BALTIMORE: Ian Kinsler No. 5 of the Texas Rangers advances, as third basemen Manny Machado victory with a 6-4 win over the Miami Wainwright (12-5) improved to 13-1 in League record with six hits in a nine-inning Marlins on Tuesday night. The Braves, who 15 career starts against Houston. His 1.56 No. 13 of the Baltimore Orioles lies in the dirt after missing a hit by right fielder Nelson Cruz No. game and Adam Dunn hit a go-ahead, two-run 17 of the Texas Rangers (not pictured) in the fifth inning. —AFP lead the NL in come-from-behind wins, ERA against the Astros is the lowest for any homer off Justin Verlander in the eighth to lift overcame deficits of 3-1 and 4-3. opponent. Wainwright allowed five hits, Chicago over Detroit. Center fielder Lorenzo Cain contributed four four hits. Nick Swisher and Michael Brantley had Pitchers for the two teams combined to struck out nine and walked one. Dayan Vicideo’s second homer of the game nifty catches, defensive replacement Elliot RBI singles in the fourth when the Indians put retire 30 consecutive batters Monday, The Cardinals, who jumped out to a 7-0 helped the White Sox score seven runs in the Johnson ranged a long way for a grounder and together a walk and three straight singles off when Atlanta won 7-1 in 14 innings. But lead, battered Bud Norris (6-8) for seven eighth, and they added three more in the ninth Kansas City backed Shields (4-6) with a pair of starter Josh Johnson (1-4), who gave up two the second game of the series was a runs and 11 hits in five innings. to surpass a season high for scoring. double plays. runs in seven innings. Asdrubal Cabrera added a slugfest, with Upton leading the way. Miguel Cabrera hit his 29th homer to give CC Sabathia (9-7) gave up seven hits in his sacrifice fly in the eighth. Toronto was 1 for 12 He doubled home a run in the third, METS 10, GIANTS 6 him a major league-high 92 RBIs and a .363 bat- second complete game. Once again, the Yankees with runners in scoring position. doubled and scored to make it 4-all in the In san Francisco, Marlon Byrd’s two-out ting average. He broke the franchise mark for had trouble scoring. They’ve managed exactly fifth, then hit his 16th home run - but first grand slam capped a five-run eighth inning homers before the All-Star game, surpassing the one run in each of their last three games - not RAYS 4, TWINS 1 since June 12 - leading off the seventh and the Mets beat the Giants for their third total Cecil Fielder had at the break in 1990 dur- since 2005 had they scored one run or fewer in In St. Petersburg, Chris Archer pitched six against reliever Ryan Webb. In Monday’s consecutive win. ing his 51-homer season three straight, STATS said. strong innings, and Matt Joyce and Kelly marathon, Upton hit a two-run double to A day after needing 16 innings to top Verlander (9-6) gave up a season-high 12 hits, The hitting slump left the Yankees with a Johnson drove in two runs apiece to help surg- put Atlanta ahead in the final inning. the Giants in a game that ended at 12:42 five runs and struck out three to match a season three-game home losing streak for the first time ing Tampa Bay extend its winning streak to a Julio Teheran (7-4) allowed one earned a.m., the Mets squandered leads of 3-2 and low in seven-plus innings. since they dropped four in a row in late July season-best six games with a victory over sput- run in 7 1-3 innings. All-Star closer Craig 5-3 but held off the slumping World Series Jose Quintana (4-2) gave up three runs and 2012. Greg Holland worked the ninth for his tering Minnesota. Kimbrel pitched a perfect ninth for his 24th champions by scoring five times against six hits over eight innings, winning for the first 22nd save, and second in two nights. Archer (3-3) limited the Twins to an unearned save in 27 chances, and Atlanta improved their bullpen. time since May 21. The last-place White Sox, who run and three hits to outpitch fellow rookie Kyle to 12-2 at Marlins Park since it opened in Omar Quintanilla had three hits for the had lost four straight, finished with a season- INDIANS 3, BLUE JAYS 0 Gibson (1-2), who was done in by one bad 2012. Henderson Alvarez (0-1) allowed five Mets while Byrd and David Wright added high 23 hits and a season high in runs. In Cleveland, Ubaldo Jimenez and three inning in his third career start for Minnesota. runs, four earned, in six innings for Miami. two apiece. Wright drew a two-out walk relievers combined on an eight-hit shutout as The Twins have lost nine of 10. The Rays before Byrd’s home run off San Francisco RED SOX 11, MARINERS 8 Cleveland defeated Toronto. matched their longest winning streak of the year DODGERS 6, DIAMONDBACKS 1 reliever Jake Dunning. The Giants fell a sea- In Seattle, Jackie Bradley Jr. hit a tiebreaking Jimenez (7-4) dodged constant trouble in six and are 8-1 during a stretch of 14 consecutive In Phoenix, Ricky Nolasco gave up four son-high nine games under .500. San homer and Shane Victorino slugged the last of innings, allowing five hits with two walks and games against the struggling Twins, White Sox hits over seven innings in his Dodgers Francisco also has the worst record in the Boston’s five long balls as the Red Sox snapped a four strikeouts. Cody Allen, Joe Smith and Chris and Astros leading up to the All-Star break. debut as surging Los Angeles beat the majors (17-34) since May 13. Scott Rice (4- three-game skid with a win over Seattle. Perez blanked the Blue Jays the rest of the way. Alex Torres, Jake McGee and Fernando Diamondbacks for its 14th victory in 17 5) retired one batter for the win. Jose Boston rallied from an early 5-1 deficit, using Perez allowed two hits in the ninth but earned Rodney each pitched a scoreless inning for the games. Mijares (0-2) was the loser. two-run homers from Dustin Pedroia and Mike his 10th save as the Indians completed their AL- Rays, with Rodney finishing a combined five-hit- Nolasco (6-8), acquired Saturday in a Napoli along with Bradley’s solo shot to come leading 11th shutout. Cleveland managed only ter for his 21st save.—AP trade with the Miami Marlins, also doubled PADRES 2, ROCKIES 1 back against the Mariners. Pedroia and Napoli and singled, driving in a run and scoring In San Diego, Eric Stults pitched a four- homered in the third inning and Bradley gave another. Adrian Gonzalez drove in three hitter, Alexi Amarista drove in two runs and Boston the lead in the fifth against Blake Beavan MLB results/standings runs for Los Angeles but Hanley Ramirez the Padres snapped their 10-game losing (0-2). went 0 for 4, snapping his 19-game hitting streak with a win over the Rockies. Bradley was recalled from Triple-A Pawtucket Kansas City 3, NY Yankees 1; Philadelphia 4, Washington 2; Oakland 2, Pittsburgh 1; Texas 8, Baltimore 4; streak. Ian Kennedy (3-5), facing the Stults (7-7) struck out five and walked earlier in the day. Victorino’s drive was part of a Dodgers for the first time since serving a three in the complete game, supporting his Cleveland 3, Toronto 0; Chicago White Sox 11, Detroit 4; Atlanta 6, Miami 4; Tampa Bay 4, Minnesota 1; three-run eighth. Seattle was just as potent ear- Chicago Cubs 7, LA Angels 2; Milwaukee 2, Cincinnati 0; St. Louis 9, Houston 5; LA Dodgers 6, Arizona 1; 10-game suspension for his role in a bench- cause with two hits. He took a no-hitter ly, with Kendrys Morales going deep twice, but Boston 11, Seattle 8; San Diego 2, Colorado 1; NY Mets 10, San Francisco 6. clearing brawl a month ago in Los Angeles, into the fifth inning, when Josh Rutledge couldn’t solve the Red Sox bullpen. Alfredo American League National League allowed six runs, five earned, and nine hits legged out an infield hit on a grounder to Aceves, Craig Breslow and Andrew Bailey kept Eastern Division Eastern Division in 5 2-3 innings. He hit Ramirez with a pitch shortstop. He lost his shutout in the ninth the Mariners scoreless for 4 2-3 innings after W L PCT GB Atlanta 52 38 .578 - in the first inning. The Dodgers pulled with- when he gave up a one-out double to Wilin starter Allen Webster was tagged for seven Boston 55 37 .598 - Washington 46 44 .511 6 in 21/2 games of the NL West-leading Rosario and a two-out RBI single to pinch- earned runs in 2 1-3 innings. Tampa Bay 51 40 .560 3.5 Diamondbacks. hitter Nolan Arenado. Philadelphia 45 46 .495 7.5 Seattle got a run off Junichi Tazawa in the Baltimore 49 42 .538 5.5 NY Mets 39 48 .448 11.5 Jhoulys Chacin (8-4) allowed one run on NY Yankees 48 42 .533 6 eighth, but Koji Uehara pitched the ninth for his Miami 32 57 .360 19.5 PHILLIES 4, NATIONALS 2 five hits over six innings, striking out four Toronto 43 46 .483 10.5 sixth save. Breslow (3-2) got the victory after Central Division In Philadelphia, Cole Hamels threw eight and walking two. The loss snapped Chacin’s Central Division throwing 2 1-3 innings. St. Louis 54 34 .614 - sharp innings and Michael Young hit a two- five-game winning streak. He had not lost Detroit 49 40 .551 - David Ortiz had four hits - including a solo Pittsburgh 53 36 .596 1.5 run double as Philadelphia beat since May 16. Cleveland 47 43 .522 2.5 homer in the second off struggling Seattle Kansas City 43 44 .494 5 Cincinnati 50 40 .556 5 Washington for its third straight win. starter Hisashi Iwakuma - to give him 1,688 hits Chicago Cubs 40 48 .455 14 Hamels (4-11) allowed one run and six INTERLEAGUE Minnesota 37 50 .425 11 as a designated hitter, tying Harold Baines for Chicago White Sox 35 52 .402 13 Milwaukee 37 52 .416 17.5 hits to win consecutive starts for the first CUBS 7, ANGELS 2 the career record. Ortiz also doubled twice. Western Division Western Division time this season. The Phillies have won six In Chicago, Alfonso Soriano hit two of Oakland 54 37 .593 - Arizona 47 43 .522 - of their past eight games. Jayson Werth hit the Cubs’ season high five home runs and ROYALS 3, YANKEES 1 Texas 53 37 .589 0.5 LA Dodgers 44 45 .494 2.5 a solo homer for Washington. The defend- Travis Wood earned his first win in nearly In New York, James Shields wiggled out of LA Angels 43 46 .483 10 Colorado 43 48 .473 4.5 ing NL East champs have lost two straight six weeks in a victory over Los Angeles. early trouble and got home run help from Billy Seattle 40 50 .444 13.5 San Diego 41 50 .451 6.5 and are only 11/2 games ahead of third- Anthony Rizzo, Starlin Castro and Butler and David Lough as Kansas City sent New Houston 32 58 .356 21.5 San Francisco 40 49 .449 6.5 place Philadelphia. Making his third career Darwin Barney also homered for Chicago. York to its third straight loss. start, Taylor Jordan (0-2) gave up four runs - Wood (6-6) gave up four hits over 6 2-3 three earned - and eight hits in 5 2-3 innings and retired 14 straight from the innings for the Nats. second inning into the sixth for his first vic- tory since May 30. Castle Stuart offers Open practice to Els, Mickelson BREWERS 2, REDS 0 Rizzo and Soriano hit back-to-back In Milwaukee, Wily Peralta tossed a home runs in the first inning, Castro hit a INVERNESS: The last two players Stuart before winning golf’s oldest rounds on the Moray Firth coast- viding ideal preparation for Els and three-hitter for his first career shutout and solo homer to center in the third and to lift the claret jug prepared for major in 2011 at a wet and wild line. Some of the world’s top golfers Clarke. The remarks of McDowell, Logan Schafer hit his first homer, a two-run Barney hit a three-run homer in the sixth. the British Open by honing their Royal St. George’s, and Ernie Els may, therefore, eventually regret who isn’t playing this week, have shot that lifted Milwaukee to a victory over All came off Joe Blanton (2-11), who leads links game at the Scottish Open. captured the title last year at turning down the opportunity to been rebuffed by his fellow players. Cincinnati. Peralta (6-9), whose start was the majors in losses. Darren Clarke played at Castle Lytham only days after playing four play in the Scottish Highlands this “I don’t want to get into an argu- pushed back from Sunday to give his week before making the short drive ment with Graeme,” said Paul aching left hamstring a couple extra days ATHLETICS 2, PIRATES 1 south to Muirfield for the British Lawrie, the 1999 Open champion of rest, struck out six and walked four for In Pittsburgh, Dan Straily pitched two- Open. “There’s a little bit of history and McDowell’s Ryder Cup team- his first complete game. It also was the hit ball into the seventh inning, Brandon there,” Els said yesterday, “so maybe mate last year, “but I think everyone Brewers’ first shutout and complete game Moss hit a two-run homer and the Athletics guys should follow that lead. It was gobsmacked at his comments.” of the season. Tony Cingrani (3-1), was beat the Pirates. might take you to an Open Padraig Harrington, who won the almost as effective as Peralta, allowing only Straily (6-2) struck out seven and walked Championship claret jug.” British Open in 2007 and ‘08 after two singles and Schafer’s home run, strik- three in 6 1-3 innings for his second Els and four-time major winner playing the Irish PGA on links at ing out 10 and walking two in seven straight strong outing. Grant Balfour Phil Mickelson are the only players Wicklow’s European Club, also dis- innings. Schafer was a last-minute replace- worked the ninth to remain perfect in 24 from the world’s top 25 who will be agreed with McDowell and was ment for Norichika Aoki. save chances this season. The A’s have won competing, backing up Graeme eager to highlight the benefits of 10 of 13. Gerrit Cole (4-2) lost his second McDowell’s recent assertion that a Castle Stuart. CARDINALS 9, ASTROS 5 consecutive decision despite working sev- tournament that has had some “It’s not going to be drudgery In St. Louis, Adam Wainwright earned en innings for the first time in his four-week illustrious winners down the years this week or a tough slog, yet you his 12th win to tie for the NL lead, pitching major league career. Cole allowed five hits, has “lost its prestige.” will be asked to hit plenty of good seven scoreless innings, and Matt Holliday struck out four and walked two. “Castle Stuart probably hasn’t shots out there,” Harrington said hit his team-high 13th homer to lead the After the start was delayed 1 hour, 42 been a strong enough course the Tuesday. “It’s ideal preparation for Cardinals to a win over the Astros. minutes, Pedro Alvarez hit his 23rd home past couple of years,” the 2010 US an Open Championship - you want Matt Carpenter had three hits and drove run but Pittsburgh matched a season high Open champion said, perhaps to be playing links golf, links condi- in three runs for St. Louis, which has won with its fourth straight loss.—AP Darren Clarke ignoring the course’s record of pro- tions.—AP THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 SPORTS

Lakers mull over backup options following Howard’s exit LOS ANGELES: Still reeling after Dwight Howard’s deci- sion to leave Los Angeles for Houston last week, the Lakers were hastily installing backup plans on the eve of the National Basketball Association’s free-agent sign- ing period. Long handicapped in their bid to recruit new players because of a hefty payroll, the 16-times NBA champions have lined up former Clippers cen- ter Chris Kaman on a one-year deal to help fill the gap left by Howard’s departure. Given the addition of Kaman will soak up virtually all of the Lakers’ “mini” mid-level salary exception, speculation has heightened that former defensive player of the year Metta World Peace will likely released by the franchise. “Personally I’d keep Metta and make a run with the unit we have and just add a few pieces #keepthepeace #lak- ersstilldeciding,” tweeted Lakers All-Star Kobe Bryant, a five-time NBA champion. “No game 7 win without Metta! This is a tough day for laker nation.” Bryant was refer- ring to the Lakers’ victory over the Boston Celtics in the con- cluding Game Seven of the 2010 NBA Finals when World Peace, then named Ron Artest, contributed 20 points in a superb all-round performance. While World Peace was ini- tially a significant factor after joining the Lakers in July 2009 on a lucrative five-year con- tract, his defensive abilities have waned and he blew hot and cold last season before his team lost in the first round of the playoffs. Though he flourished at first under new coach Mike D’Antoni’s system, he failed to shine in the latter part of the season after returning from knee surgery, averaging only six points on 25 percent shoot- ing in three playoff games. Should World Peace be cut during the one-week window to amnesty players, starting on Wednesday, the Lakers would save around $11 million in lux- ury taxes. However, they would also be left without any small for- wards, though the versatile Bryant has occasionally played that position. With seven-time All-Star center Howard opting to join the Rockets despite a substan- tial paycut, the Lakers will field a likely starting lineup next season hinging around Kaman, Bryant, Pau Gasol, vet- eran point guard Steve Nash and Steve Blake. The inspirational Bryant, who averaged 27.3 points and six assists per game last sea- son, is expected to make a belated return to the lineup as he continues to recover from surgery on a torn Achilles’ ten- don. Bottom line, the Lakers will have to make the best of a bad situation next season before they can enjoy a financial windfall heading into their 2014-15 campaign, when they will have an estimated $50 mil- lion to spend due to increased salary-cap room. At present, the Lakers have nine players under contract for a total of $81.6 million, includ- ing Metta World Peace, but only the 39-year-old Nash will be under contract after next season. By that time, players such as LeBron James, Carmelo Anthony, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh and Zach Randolph could all be free agents. Meanwhile, the Houston Rockets have been fined $150,000 for prematurely com- menting about new acquisi- tion Dwight Howard, the NBA confirmed to Reuters on Tuesday. The league has a moratori- um on teams discussing per- sonnel business until players officially sign late yesterday. Howard made waves across the league by verbally com- mitting to the Rockets on Friday rather than returning to the Los Angeles Lakers. Amidst the excitement, both the Rockets general man- ager Daryl Morey and coach Kevin McHale publicly com- mented on securing Howard to draw the penalty. Howard is set to officially sign a four-year, $88 million contract to join the Houston franchise.—Reuters THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 SPORTS

All Blacks deadline looms Photo of the day for new coach McKenzie

MELBOURNE: Ewen McKenzie won plau- like every other player in Australia we’re dits for transforming the Queensland Reds going to have to prove ourselves,” Genia from cellar-dwellars into Super Rugby told reporters in Brisbane yesterday. champions within two years, but has only What to do with playmaker O’Connor, six weeks to revive a demoralised Australia and his friend and accomplice Kurtley ahead of their first Rugby Championship Beale, is one of the hairiest decisions clash with New Zealand. McKenzie will face. The Wallabies that crashed to an insipid Proven match-winners but also repeat 41-16 defeat in Saturday’s series-decider offenders in breaching team discipline, against the British and Irish Lions headed Deans decided the pair’s value on the park back to their franchises this week to see out would offset their transgressions, a belief the final round of the Super Rugby season, that appears increasingly naive amid and some will be nervous about their reports of disharmony in the ranks. prospects of another test cap under O’Connor’s stocks have plummeted in McKenzie. recent days, with Super Rugby strugglers The former test prop has been handed a Melbourne Rebels dumping the brash 23- broom by the Australian Rugby Union and year-old, who was regarded a disruptive will be expected to shake up a squad riven influence at the club. by discipline problems that were allowed Only the Western Force, the club he to fester under his predecessor Robbie walked away from in acrimonious circum- Deans. stances two years ago, have professed an How much McKenzie can actually do interest though administrators and players ahead of the Aug. 17 test in Sydney is alike have said they expect him to toe the another question. At Tuesday’s coronation, party line should he move back to Perth. McKenzie himself said he had a “thousand O’Connor’s former Rebels team mate things to do” before the All Blacks clash. Beale has returned to Sydney, ostensibly to Naming a staff of assistants will be high on continue his rehabilitation from alcohol- the agenda, but McKenzie will also be side- related problems that saw him punch his tracked by Super Rugby duties as the Reds captain Gareth Delve earlier this year. meet the New South Wales Waratahs this McKenzie said reputations would count for weekend before they embark on their third nothing in selecting his side, and could successive post-season campaign. stand to cut the pair loose, with Cooper A forthright ambassador for Queensland slotting in at flyhalf and Berrick Barnes a rugby, McKenzie is unlikely to want to risk replacement for Beale at fullback. that legacy and his attention could be Rugby league convert Israel Folau also Peter Besenyei flies during the AirPower13 in Zeltweg, Austria. —www.redbullcontentpool.com diverted for nearly a month if the Reds offers a ready replacement in the back make a run to the final. three for O’Connor’s attacking drive. The consequence is likely to be a very Improving the Wallabies’ pack to at least Red-tinged team to take the park against match the All Blacks at set pieces might be Martin grabs Tour stage the All Blacks, who only lost three times in McKenzie’s stiffest task, as seen by the col- 18 tests to Deans’ Wallabies, with most pun- lapse of Australia’s scrum against the Lions dits betting on a hasty rehabilitation of the in the third test. exiled Quade Cooper. McKenzie, who won 51 caps for FRANCE: German rider Tony Martin That Deans could leave the mercurial Australia as a tighthead prop in the 1980s won the the 11th stage of the Tour flyhalf out of his 31-man squad for the and 1990s, will at least appreciate the job de France and second-placed Chris Lions series bordered on criminal for many at hand but the Wallabies have no match Froome finished way ahead of his rugby pundits Down Under, who felt exon- for the likes of Tony Woodcock, Keven main rivals to significantly strength- erated when James O’Connor struggled in Mealamu and Owen Franks, who would be en his overall lead yesterday. the number 10 shirt throughout the series. likely to form the All Blacks’ front row. As the two-time world time trial McKenzie was first among the critics, Following Eddie Jones and John champion, Martin did not disap- having enjoyed top service from Cooper at Connolly, New Zealand’s Deans became the point over the 33-kilometer (20.5- the Reds, and is considered certain to try to third coach to be ousted in the wake of a mile) route in Normandy from reinstate the 25-year-old’s successful Super scrum meltdown and McKenzie’s ability to Avranches to the medieval walled Rugby partnership with scrumhalf Will restore morale to his pack may be key to town of Mont-Saint-Michel. Genia at the test level. avoiding another humiliation in Sydney.— Froome was quicker over the “You can’t hide the fact that Ewen’s Reuters first two time splits but slowed always been a big fan of Quade’s but just down in the last section and rolled in 12 seconds slower than Martin, who won in just over 36 minutes. “My biggest race today was with the other GC riders,” Froome said. “I’ve extended my lead today so I’m very happy with that. Hats off to Tony Martin for winning that stage, it just goes to show what class he has.” Froome was the only rider to get within a minute of Martin, with Belgian Thomas De Gendt 1:01 behind in third. FRANCE: Stage winner Germany’s Tony Martin celebrates on the podium after winning the 33 km individ- While Martin is not a Tour chal- ual time-trial and eleventh stage of the 100th edition of the Tour de France cycling race. —AFP lenger, others who are supposed to be slipped further behind. crash,” Martin said. “(Today) the feel- Alejandro Valverde and two-time ing was good. I was just focused on former champion Alberto Contador the race. It was more or less like were two minutes or more slower every time trial.” than Froome, while 2010 champ Martin won the penultimate Andy Schleck and 2011 champ stage of the 2011 Tour, a time trail, Cadel Evans all lost massive time. and finished second to Bradley Valverde is still in second place Wiggins in the time trial at the overall but 3:25 adrift. Contador Olympic Games last year in London. improved to fourth but is 3:54 Yesterday’s ride started in BRISBANE: Ewen McKenzie (right) talks with Australian Rugby Union CEO Bill Pulver behind. “I’m happy with my shape,” Avranches, whose website dates the (left) following a press conference to announce his appointment as the Wallaby Froome said. “I think I’ve shown in town’s origins to Celts in the 9th coach. —AFP the mountains that I can hold my century B.C. It ended at the breath- own, and time trial also. I’m very taking island citadel of Mont-Saint- happy with that.” Michel, a World Heritage site Johnson wipes slate Contador looked stern-faced and because of the Gothic-style tense when he prepared to start - Benedictine abbey erected clean for title defence and with good reason. The Spaniard between the 11th and 16th cen- finished in 15th place, 2:15 behind turies. It is 80 meters tall and DEERE RUN: As much as Zach Johnson start to this season. Martin; Evans was 2:30 slower, and upward of three million visitors take loves everything about the John Deere “My golf game was not where it needed Schleck finished 4:44 behind Martin. in the panoramic view from its ram- Classic, he readily admits that past success to be early on in the year,” said the Iowa “No one’s won the Tour de parts every year. But there was little will count for nothing when he launches native, who missed the cut three times in France yet and no one’s lost it. We time for Martin to take in the sights his title defence in today’s opening round his first seven events. “That was just a have to get to Paris yet,” Contador with the peloton averaging 54 kph at the TPC Deere Run. process to kind of get where I am now. “I said. “It’s true that Chris Froome is in (34 mph) in humid, muggy condi- Johnson triumphed last year with a was off fundamentally more than I care to impressive form and is a great tions. The team of Mark Cavendish, birdie on the second hole of a sudden- admit, especially with my driver, and if I climber, but there are still many winner of the fifth stage, believes death playoff to edge out fellow American can’t drive the ball in the fairway, then it’s stages left.” Even though Evans is Troy Matteson, and he has posted sub-70 going to be difficult for me. And now my someone threw urine at the British 6:54 behind Froome in 14th place, scores in his last 16 competitive rounds on driver is probably one of the best clubs in rider. “Yes, that’s true I think. I was he has not given up. the par-71 layout. my bag again. behind him. I didn’t see it, but I “Fortunately I have had some success “I like the direction it’s going,” Johnson “I couldn’t get the best out of think it’s true,” the team press officer here, but I am trying to put 2012 behind said of his overall game. “I’ve just got to be myself,” the Australian said. “I think Alessandro Tegner said. me,” the 37-year-old told reporters yester- patient. My putting has been very up and we will get a few chances, and in Tegner said the liquid smelled day. “It’s not like just because I won, I’ve got down so any given week you’ve got to putt the last four days (of the race) we like urine and it was “all over him,” a three-shot lead going into Thursday so I well to climb the board and hopefully this will give everything.” and said Cavendish talked about Martin, meanwhile, was lucky to frankly have to put it behind me, and that’s is one those weeks.” the incident after the time trial. even still be in the race after losing going to be my approach. Johnson faces a strong field in the final “That’s really disappointing to consciousness on his team bus after “I love the golf course. It’s in great shape, PGA Tour event before the year’s third hear,” Froome said. “To do some- his heavy crash on stage 1. It was so as usual, and I just like coming back and major, the British Open, gets underway at thing disrespectful like that is really seeing faces and friends and family that I Muirfield in Scotland in nine days’ time. bad that his left lung was bruised sad and ruins the whole atmos- love. It feels like my backyard in a lot of Also competing this week are former and layers of skin were shredded off respects.” major champions Louis Oosthuizen, his back, preventing him from phere.” Thursday’s 12th stage is one FRANCE: Christopher Froome of Britain, wearing the overall leader’s Johnson has not triumphed on the PGA Keegan Bradley, Lucas Glover and Yang sleeping properly for several nights. of two consecutive flat days for yellow jersey, strains in the last meters of the eleventh stage of the Tour since he clinched his ninth career title Yong-eun, and American world number 11 “It’s pretty much OK. There are sprinters, taking the riders on a 218- Tour de France cycling race. —AP at the TPC Deere Run 12 months ago, but Steve Stricker, who won the John Deere still some deeper wounds that are kilometer (135.5-mile) route from imposing, ancient chateaux, and mountain stage and Sunday’s was delighted to be producing much Classic for three years in a row from left to heal but it’s not that painful Fougeres to Tours in the Loire valley, vineyards. The climbers will already daunting ascent up Mont improved form since making an erratic 2009.—Reuters anymore like directly after the a picturesque region peppered with be earmarking Saturday’s medium Ventoux.—AP World gymnastics body expels top Olympic official

LAUSANNE: The top rhythmic gymnastics offi- cial duties until December 31, 2014,” the gov- world championships starting Aug. 28 in Kiev, examination was not done anonymously.” cial from the London Olympics has been erning body said in a judgment announced late Ukraine. FIG launched its investigation in January. A expelled from the sport’s governing body for Tuesday. Another official, Pancracia Sirvent Mut of disciplinary panel originally found “no proof of what it called “irregularities” during coaching The six technical panel members are Caroline Spain, was formally warned. The case also impli- active corruption from the judges themselves” courses for judges late last year. The Hunt of the United States, Mariya Guigova of cated 56 judges who attended coaching cours- and gave them “the benefit of the doubt.” International Gymnastics Federation has Bulgaria, Noha Abou Shabana of Egypt, Daniela es held in Bucharest, Romania; Moscow, Russia; FIG President Bruno Grandi appealed those stripped technical delegate Maria Szyszkowska Delle Chiaie of Italy, Shihoko Sekita of Japan and Alicante, Spain, last November and verdicts, believing that evidence of wrongdo- of Poland of her membership, and excluded her and Natalyia Kuzmina of Russia. They can December. Last month, FIG said they were ing had been shown to justify prolonging the “from any form of participation in all FIG events appeal the sanctions within 21 days. FIG said “implicated in irregularities” at those courses, probe. Qualifications gained on the disputed and activities.” “(The disciplinary commission) the six can continue to train judges, but are including having “the same scores and same courses have been revoked, and FIG has has further decided to suspend the members of barred from overseeing examinations or judges percentages” and that “arbitrary and unjustified pledged to repeat the tests in Germany before the former Technical Committee from their offi- “at any competition” - including at the rhythmic bonus were given to participants and that choosing officials for the world champi- THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 SPORTS19 Pellegrini aims to bring style and trophies to City

MANCHESTER: Manchester City’s new the club last month on a three-year football and is hoping to instill this window shopping is made easier by have done for me by playing well on manager Manuel Pellegrini promised a deal after the sacking of Mancini. philosophy in his new team. being at the world’s richest club. “We the pitch and winning as many match- more attacking brand of soccer and “I have played against Manchester “Fans of Manchester City will see a need a very good squad, a strong es and as many trophies as possible,” pointed to his experience of outfoxing United twice in the Champions League different way how they play (com- squad with two players in each posi- he told a news conference yesterday. local rivals Manchester United as he with Villarreal, in both years... we pared to) other years,” he said. “I’m tion.” “My first aim is to play well for my pledged yesterday to win trophies. passed to the last 16 and Manchester sure we are going to play an attractive He has arrived in England at a time club Manchester City and if I do have At his first news conference since United didn’t (in one of them), so I game. We will always try to play in the of huge change at the leading clubs, good performances I’m sure that I will taking over from Italian Roberto have experience playing against opposite side (of the pitch), trying to with David Moyes taking over from catch the attention of the national Mancini, Pellegrini said he aimed to Manchester United.” be an attacking team.” the retired Alex Ferguson at manager.” improve City’s poor Champions The former Real Madrid and Malaga Manchester United and Jose Mourinho Fernandinho, who has five interna- League record but reclaiming the boss led Villarreal to four 0-0 draws having signed up for a second stint at tional caps, was not in Luiz Felipe Premier League title they won in 2012 against United in the group stages of Chelsea. The changes do not make his Scolari’s Brazil squad for last month’s or FA Cup they lifted in 2011 was as Europe’s elite club competition in job any easier, Pellegrini said. Confederations Cup which the hosts important. 2005/06 and 2008/09 with his side “It will be the same. I’m sure David won with a 3-0 victory over Spain in Expectations are high at trophy- going on to the semi-finals and last Moyes will do very well, Jose the final. hungry City, where runners-up places eight respectively. Mourinho knows everything about the He is known in England for scoring in the Premier League and FA Cup He also took competition debu- Premier League,” he said. “It will be as in Shakhtar’s 2-1 win at home to were deemed to be unacceptable last tants Malaga to the Champions every year a very competitive Premier Chelsea in the Champions League season, and chief executive Ferran League quarter-finals last season and, League, with five or six teams who will group stage last season. Soriano has said the target is five tro- while Pellegrini said he did not value try to win.” Fernandinho started his career with phies in the next five years. one competition higher than the oth- Meanwhile, Brazil midfielder Atletico Paranaense in his homeland “Just five?” joked Pellegrini. “We’ll er, he was clear City would improve Fernandinho is hoping to catch the before becoming one of a host of tal- try to work and we’ll do our best here their performances in Europe next eye of his national team manager ented Brazilians to head for Shakhtar and see how many trophies we can term. Manuel Pellegrini before next year’s World Cup on home with whom he spent the last eight sea- win.” “We don’t have priority for one soil by shining for his new club sons and won the 2009 UEFA Cup. He City finished 11 points behind competition or the other,” he said. “I Pellegrini has bolstered his squad Manchester City. expects a few differences now he is champions United last season, also know we have to improve in the with Brazil midfielder Fernandinho The pacy 28-year-old joined the playing in England. suffering a second successive future what Manchester City have and Spain winger Jesus Navas but also Premier League club from Ukrainian “The main challenge for me is the Champions League group-stage exit, done in the last years in the wants a replacement for Argentina side Shakhtar Donetsk last month for different style of play compared with with Pellegrini confident he can Champions League but also, for me, striker Carlos Tevez who wanted to what British media have widely report- my last team and also the amount of improve matters. it’s as important, the same as (the leave the club and has joined ed to be about 30 million pounds games you play throughout the sea- “I know the most important thing... Premier League) championship or FA Juventus. ($44.49 million) and is keen to prove son,” said Fernandinho, sitting next to is for Manchester City to beat Cup.” “We have two strikers at the he is worth every penny. his new manager Manuel Pellegrini Manchester United. If I’m here it’s Pellegrini, known as ‘The Engineer’, moment and we need another one “It was very important for me (to be but, unlike the Chilean, speaking because I’m sure we will do it,” said has a reputation for building teams but I’m not talking about any different City’s top close season target) and I through an interpreter. “It’s much the 59-year-old Chilean, who joined who play attractive, possession-based names,” said Pellegrini, whose transfer want to repay the club for what they more than I was used to.”—Reuters US thrash Belize 6-1 Costa Rica beat Cuba 3-0 PORTLAND: Chris Wondolowski scored a first-half hat trick as the United States opened its CONCACAF Gold Cup campaign on Tuesday with a 6-1 victory over Belize, which was making its debut in the tournament. Landon Donovan added a goal and two assists, becoming the first player with at least 50 career goals and 50 assists for the national team. Costa Rica defeated Cuba 3-0 in an earlier match at the same venue. Wondolowski is the third PORTLAND: Michael Barrantes No. 11 of Costa Rica passes the ball against American to score three goals in Alianni Urgelles No. 14 of Cuba during the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup. —AFP a Gold Cup match, joining Donovan and Brian McBride. The United States has won four Dortmund ready Gold Cups since the tourna- ment’s inception in 1991. Mexico has won the past two. to rival Bayern The 12-team tournament BERLIN: With three new additions to their mistakes we made in the Bundesliga last includes national teams from squad, Champions League finalists Borussia year. “The new season begins for us on North and Central America and Dortmund have insisted European champi- August 10 and we’re going on the attack the Caribbean and is played ons Bayern Munich will not have it all their again.” every two years. own way this season. Dortmund secured Dortmund’s Germany star Mario Goetze The US men were coming off their third new signing on Tuesday when has joined Bayern, using a release clause in a 6-0 rout of Guatemala in a midfielder Henrikh Mkhitaryan joined from his contract which allowed him to leave for friendly warmup match on Shakhtar Donestk, having also recruited 37 million euros ($47.5 million), and coach Friday, when Donovan scored Saint-Etienne forward Pierre-Emerick Jurgen Klopp admits he will be hard to twice to extend his American Aubameyang and defender Sokratis replace, with Mkhitaryan set to step in. Papastathopoulos from Werder Bremen. “Our target has to be to improve,” said record to 51 international goals. Borussia host Bayern in the pre-season the 46-year-old, as Dortmund conceded That was Donovan’s first German Super Cup on July 27 in a repeat of more than twice as many goals as Bayern match following a five-month the Champions League, which the last season. “Of course we’ll miss Mario break from the national team, Bavarians won 2-1 at Wembley. Goetze, no team on the planet wouldn’t, after he was left out of the PORTLAND: Kyle Beckerman No. 14 of the United States takes the ball from Harrison Roches No. 10 Having won the 2010-11 and 2011-12 but we still conceded a lot of goals last sea- squads for the June World Cup of Belize during the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup. —AFP German titles, Dortmund were left empty son, even with Mario in the side. qualifying matches. tournament. less match with a left-foot goal some opportunities and we handed last season as Bayern became the “That’s one area where we can definitely Wondolowski, who scored Donovan created scoring from the top of the box that were able to score,” Costa Rica first German team to win the treble of improve.” Klopp has said he is relishing his first international goal chances for Stuart Holden in the beat diving Cuban goalkeeper coach Jorge Luis Pinto said. Champions League, league and cup, break- having ex-Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola, against Guatemala, struck early 58th and Michael Orozco in the Odelin Molina in the 51st The four Group C teams will ing or equalling 25 Bundesliga records in who won 14 titles in four years at the against Belize when he knocked 72nd - taking his carrer tally to minute. next play Saturday in Salt Lake the process. Spanish giants, as his opposite number on 51 assists for the national team - He added another goal in the City, with the US facing Cuba They finished the German league sea- the Bayern bench. in a rebound from goalkeeper son 25 points clear of nearest rivals “The way he had his team playing in Shane Orio in the 12th minute. finished off the scoring with a 77th minute after Jairo Arrieta’s followed by Belize against Costa Dortmund but Borussia’s midfield star Barcelona was simply fantastic and he’s a He scored again in the 36th penalty in the 76th. scored in the 71st, extending Rica. The winners and runners- Marco Reus has insisted they will not have real role model,” said Klopp. “Now he’s at a and 40th minutes, either side of In the earlier match, Michael Cuba’s winless streak to 12 up from each group, and the things their own way when the new season new club and the first impression is that Ian Gaynair’s header past US Barrantes scored a pair of sec- straight Gold Cup matches. two top third-place finishers, starts on August 9. everything fits. “In the past if you wanted goalkeeper Nick Rimando that ond-half goals for Costa Rica. “The way we managed the advance to the knockout “The 25-point difference won’t happen to become a great coach you went abroad. gave Belize its first goal in the Barrantes broke open a score- ball, we were able to create round.—AP again,” Reus told German magazine Kicker. “Now someone like Guardiola has come to “We’ve had a lot of time to reflect on the Germany.”—AFP PSG sporting director quits

PARIS: Paris Saint-Germain’s turbulent biggest names in football to the Parc des helped by the lack of a sporting director. close-season took another twist yesterday Princes and the departure of the pair will do Former AC and Inter Milan coach with the club announcing that sporting little to reassure the likes of Zlatan Leonardo was named as sporting director director Leonardo had resigned. Ibrahimovic and Thiago Silva, both cap- at the Paris club in July 2011 after they were “The club management regrets this deci- tured from AC Milan a year ago, that their taken over by wealthy investors from the sion, but respects it,” a club statement said, long-term future lies in the French capital. Gulf state of Qatar. adding that the resignation would take Ancelotti and Leonardo were crucial in But now with a new power joining the effect from September 2. convincing Italian-based players to cross French top flight in the form of Monaco, “The club would like to take the opportu- the Alps, by using their extensive contacts backed by billionaire Russian owner Dmitry nity to thank him for the remarkable work in Serie A. Rybolovlev, PSG’s status as the heavy hitters he put in to build in Paris a team that is now Italian Ancelotti had spent eight years of French football is under threat, not to in the forefront of European football and coaching AC Milan following spells at mention their quest to establish themselves wishes him every future success in his bril- Parma and Juventus, as well as remaining in permanently amongst Europe’s elite. BOGOTA: The goalkeeper of Paraguayan Olimpia, Uruguayan Martin Silva, tries liant career.” Italy throughout his entire playing career, Thiago Silva is purported to be a target for to stop a ball during their 2013 Copa Libertadores semifinal second leg football Leonardo last week was banned for the while Leonardo had a 13-year relationship Spanish giants Barcelona while rumours match against Colombia’s Independiente Santa Fe. —AFP entire new season for pushing a referee with the Rossoneri as a player, scout, official persist that Ibrahimovic may feel his work is after PSG’s 1-1 draw against Valenciennes and finally a year as coach. done in Paris and be looking for a new chal- Olimpia in Libertadores Cup final on May 5. The Brazilian was originally Their contacts helped the French club lenge. Losing two of the bedrocks of last BOGOTA: Paraguay’s Olimpia advanced to work and Medina was on hand to score banned for nine months, but after he raid Italy for the likes of goalkeeper season’s success, on top of the coach and the final of the Libertadores Cup on despite goalkeeper Martin Silva’s last-ditch appealed against the decision, French foot- Salvatore Sirigu, defensive midfielder Marco sporting director, could land a savage blow Tuesday, losing the second leg of their effort to prevent the ball from crossing his ball authorities increased the sanction to 13 Verratti, attacking midfielder Javier Pastore to PSG’s chances of building on last season semi-final 1-0 to Independiente Santa Fe line. Olimpia, who won their third and last months. It means more instability and tur- and forward Ezequiel Lavezzi as well as the and taking a leap forward in Europe’s pre- but going through 2-1 on aggregate. title in South America’s elite club tourna- moil in a difficult off-season for the big- two big-money star names from Milan. mier club competition, which must now Striker Wilder Medina scored the only ment in 2002, were on the defensive for spending French champions who have With both now gone and Frenchman surely be their aim. goal at El Campin stadium in the 75th most of the match, going through thanks to already seen coach Carlo Ancelotti leave for Laurent Blanc the new coach almost by The quarter-finals was a good achieve- minute but the Colombian side’s poor fin- their 2-0 first leg win in Asuncion last week. Real Madrid. default as PSG allegedly failed to secure the ment last year but the Qatari owners have ishing denied them the chance to reach Santa Fe came closest to levelling the tie The Leonardo-Ancelotti partnership was services of a host of preferred top names, not invested hundreds of millions to be their first final. Santa Fe midfielder Omar when Cristian Martinez Borja’s shot hit the instrumental in attracting some of the the feeling of instability is palpable, not known as a top eight European side.—AFP Perez’s free kick came back off the wood- post six minutes from time.—Reuters Martin grabs US thrash Belize 11th 6-1 in CONCACAF Tour18 stage Gold19 Cup THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 Pellegrini aims to bring style and trophies to City Page 19

NOTTINGHAM: Australia’s Peter Siddle (centre right) celebrates after taking the wicket of England’s Kevin Pietersen (centre left) for 14 caught by Brad Haddin (bottom centre left) on the first day of the opening Ashes series cricket match. — AP Siddle stars as Aussies skittle England

NOTTINGHAM: Australia paceman Peter Siddle wide, but he atoned in the ninth over. A livid Trott made a move to smash the stumps tormented England’s batsmen at Trent Bridge yes- With the ball swinging around in the overcast with his bat and just stopped himself in time. terday, capturing 5-50 to help dismiss the hosts for conditions, Alastair Cook (13) was living dangerous- England made a partial recovery as Bairstow and SCOREBOARD 215 on the first day of the opening Ashes Test. ly until Pattinson tempted him to drive away from Bell put on 54 before Bell was out for 25 when he Siddle ripped out England’s top order, claiming his body and nick the ball to wicketkeeper Brad edged Siddle to Shane Watson at third slip. NOTTINGHAM: Scoreboard at close of England’s first innings on the first day of the first Ashes Test the key wickets of Jonathan Trott and Kevin Haddin. Trott, however, belied his reputation for Siddle claimed his fifth wicket when Matt Prior against Australia at Trent Bridge yesterday: Pietersen before James Pattinson took 3-69 and caution with an aggressive innings. He got off the tried to drive another wide delivery through point England 1st Innings (Prior), 7-213 (Broad), 8-213 (Bairstow), 9-213 Mitchell Starc 2-54 to mop up the tail in the mark with a stylishly cover driven four and hit suc- and was caught by Phillip Hughes. A. Cook c Haddin b Pattinson 13 (Finn), 10-215 (Swann) evening session and put Australia in charge. cessive boundaries off Siddle. He then stroked Stuart Broad began the evening session with a J. Root b Siddle 30 Bowling: Pattinson 17-2-69-3 (1nb, 2w); Starc Trott was England’s top-scorer with 48, from 80 Agar’s first ball in test cricket - a full toss - through counterattacking 24 from 30 balls before he holed J. Trott b Siddle 48 17-5-54-2; Siddle 14-4-50-5 (1nb, 5w); Agar 7-1- balls with nine fours, while Jonny Bairstow made 37 the covers for four. out to Pattinson and was caught and bowled - K. Pietersen c Clarke b Siddle 14 24-0; Watson 4-2-7-0 (1w) from 51 balls. Australia took England’s last four Siddle was innocuous and expensive in his first although only after umpire Aleem Dar checked I. Bell c Watson b Siddle 25 Australia: Shane Watson, Chris Rogers, Ed wickets for just 2 runs in the space of 14 balls. four overs, but his first delivery from the Radcliffe Pattinson hadn’t bowled a no-ball as the bowler’s J. Bairstow b Starc 37 Cowan, Michael Clarke (capt), Australia’s selectors sprang a surprise before the Road End brilliantly yorked Joe Root for 30 to drag foot skidded over the crease as he released the ball. M. Prior c Hughes b Siddle 1 Phil Hughes, Steven Smith, Brad Haddin (wkt), toss by giving a debut to 19-year-old Ashton Agar - Australia back into the contest. With the first ball of the next over, the 58th, S. Broad c and b Pattinson 24 Peter Siddle, James Pattinson, Mitchell Starc, a left-arm finger spinner who has played only 10 Pietersen edged Pattinson down the leg side in Bairstow’s off stump was sent cartwheeling by G. Swann c Hughes b Pattinson 1 Ashton Agar first-class matches, but it was Siddle who stole the the 23rd over, but although Haddin’s diving Mitchell Starc, who had Steven Finn caught S. Finn c Haddin b Starc 0 show. England, which preferred Steven Finn to Tim attempt at a catch failed, the batsman perished in behind off his next ball, a decision the batsman J. Anderson not out 1 Toss: England Bresnan and Graham Onions, won the toss and opt- the second over after lunch when he edged Siddle unsuccessfully referred. James Anderson sur- Extras (b6, lb5, w8, nb2) 21 Umpires: Aleem Dar (PAK), Kumar Dharmasena ed to bat on a slow track with a rapid outfield, a to Clarke at second slip for 14. vived the hat-trick ball and a referral for lbw on Total (all out, 59 overs, 286 mins) 215 (SRI) decision that looks to have backfired. The prize wicket of Trott came when he chased the final ball of the over, but the innings was Fall of wickets: 1-27 (Cook), 2-78 (Root), 3-102 TV umpire: Marais Erasmus (RSA) Match referee: James Pattinson made a jittery start, bowling a wide delivery from Siddle in the 36th over and wrapped up when Graeme Swann wafted (Pietersen), 4-124 (Trott), 5-178 (Bell), 6-180 Ranjan Madugalle (SRI) — AFP the first ball of the series so high it was called for a dragged the ball onto his stumps. Pattinson to Hughes at cover. — AP

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them in Tri-nations final PORT-OF-SPAIN: Scoreboard after India’s one-day interna- tional in the Celkon Mobile Cup against Sri Lanka at the PORT OF SPAIN: India overcame Sri Lanka and could consider himself unfortunate to be Queen’s Park Oval: Dhoni could be the almost continuous threat of inclement adjudged LBW. India Innings weather on Tuesday at Queen’s Park Oval to There was no doubt though about his oth- Rohit Sharma not out 48 advance to the final of the Tri-Nation Series er victims, Mahela Jayawardene slicing a catch Dhawan c Jayawardene b Mathews 15 back for final two days later against the same opponents. to third man and Lahiru Thirimanne driving Kohli lbw b Herath 31 In yet another match in Trinidad severely unerringly to Virat Kohli at cover. Karthik b Herath 12 PORT OF SPAIN: India and Sri Lanka meet yet again, this time in the final of the Tri-Nation affected by rain, the World Cup and India’s captain, who earlier in the day Raina not out 4 Champions Trophy holders battled to 119 for appeared thoroughly flustered by the chal- Extras: (1b, 3lb, 3w, 2nb) 9 Series at Queen’s Park Oval today, amid increasing speculation that Mahendra Singh Dhoni three off 29 overs before a torrential down- lenging conditions, never allowed the Sri Total: (for 3 wickets) 119 will be back to the lead the World Cup and Champions Trophy holders. pour just before midday seemed set to force Lankans a way out of their dire straits, employ- Overs: 29. Dhoni sustained a right hamstring strain while batting against the West Indies in his the match into a reserve day. ing his support bowlers effectively. Fall of wickets: 1-27, 2-75, 3-111. team’s first match of the tournament on June 30 at Sabina Park in Kingston and an However the conditions improved signifi- Left-arm spinner Ravindra Jadeja account- Did not bat: Murali Vijay, Ravindra Jadeja, Ravichandran announcement was made the following day that he was ruled out of the rest of the com- cantly in late afternoon, and with the Sri ed for skipper Angelo Mathews and topscorer Ashwin, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ishant Sharma, Umesh petition with uncapped batsman Ambati Rayudu being flown in as his replacement. Yadav. Lankans set a revised target of 178 off 26 overs Dinesh Chandimal (26) to ensure there was to However India’s most successful captain ever has remained with the squad, and while under the Duckworth-Lewis system, be no miraculous revival. Bowling: Shaminda Eranga 6-0-27-0 (1w), Dilhara there has as yet been no official word from the touring party, his presence on the field in Bhuvneshwar Kumar produced an outstanding “To bounce back the way we’ve done and Lokuhettige 8-0-40 spell of seaming bowling, taking four for eight top the table after losing the first two matches -0 (2nb, 1w), Angelo Mathews 5-1-5-1, Lasith Malinga 3-1- pre-match warm-ups and in full team uniform during and after the final preliminary fixture off his allotted six overs and ensuring that Sri really shows a lot of character,” said a delighted 7-0, Rangana Herath 6-0-32-2, Jeevan Mendis 1-0-4-0 (1w). against the Sri Lankans on Tuesday increase the likelihood that he will be back as at the Lanka were routed for 96 in reply. Kohli in the aftermath of victory. helm for the final. India’s 81-run margin of victory was also “It was all about playing smart cricket when Sri Lanka Innings Stand-in captain Virat Kohli hinted as much at the toss ahead of the comprehensive vic- (target revised to 178 off 26 overs) sizeable enough to ensure that while they fin- we were batting to ensure we didn’t lose wick- tory over Angelo Mathews’ side when he expressed hope that Dhoni had been recovering ished level on nine points with both Sri Lanka ets slogging. It worked out well for us with the Tharanga c Raina b Kumar 6 Jayawardene c Vijay b Kumar 11 well enough to be able to play if they had gotten through to the final. and the West Indies, their net run-rate was help of the Duckworth-Lewis (method).” Sangakkara lbw b Kumar 0 Should he be passed fit, it is expected that Murali Vijay will make way for the man superior to the Caribbean side’s, so knocking Rohit Sharma’s patient, unbeaten 48 at the Chandimal st Karthik b Jadeja 26 increasingly regarded as the finest international captain in the contemporary game. Dwayne Bravo’s team out of the competition top of the order when India were put in was Thirimanne c Kohli b Kumar 0 With or without Dhoni though, India are bracing for a much tougher Sri Lankan chal- and giving the hosts an unwanted two extra vital to holding the innings together on a Angelo c wk Karthik b Jadeja 10 days to prepare for the five-match One-Day bright but increasingly humid morning. lenge than what transpired on Tuesday when fast-medium bowler Bhuvneshwar Kumar Mendis b Ashwin 13 produced the outstanding figures of four for eight and engineered the demolition of the International Series with Pakistan, beginning He lost the attacking Shikhar Dhawan in Dilhara c wk Karthik b Ishant 6 on Sunday in Guyana. Mathews’ first over while Herath once again Herath c Vijay b Ishant 4 1996 World Cup winners for just 96. Kumar exploited the helpful conditions proved his worth with the ball, the left-arm Eranga not out 2 Sri Lanka had all but qualified for the final ahead of that encounter and their perform- masterfully, extracting pace and bounce off a spinner trapping the struggling Kohli leg- Malinga c Jadeja b Yadav 7 ance with the bat on the way to an 81-run defeat on the Duckworth/Lewis Scoring Method greenish pitch and moving the ball both ways. before on the back foot and then bowling Extras: (6lb, 5w) 11 reflected a noticeable lack of intensity that is not expected to be repeated in the final. “I feel proud to put in a performance like Dinesh Karthik. Total: (all out) 96 They have their own injury concerns with a question mark lingering over the availabili- this for my country, especially in a match of By the fall of that third wicket it became Overs: 24.4. ty of fast-medium bowler Nuwan Kulasekara, who injured a finger on his left hand while such importance,” he said, reflecting on his inevitable that a rain interruption was only a Fall of wickets: 1-14, 2-14, 3-27, 4-31, 5-56, 6-63, 7-78, 8-84, attempting to take a return catch of Chris Gayle in the match against the West Indies that match-winning effort, the best by an Indian in matter of minutes away. 9-87, 10-96. One-Day Internationals at Queen’s Park Oval. Sharma and Suresh Raina ensured there Bowling: Bhuvneshwar Kumar 6-1-8-4, Umesh Yadav 4.4-0- concluded on Monday. Given the almost inevitable intervention of inclement weather at “I really enjoyed bowling here, just as it was were no further casualties before the showers 28-1 (w3), the start of the rainy season in the Caribbean, the toss is again expected to be a key factor in England, so I just tried to bowl in good areas descended and waited with their teammates Ishant Sharma 4-0-17-2, Ravindra Jadeja 5-0-17-2 (w1), on Thursday morning while both teams will be tailoring their tactics in keeping with the consistently.” He accounted for Upul Tharanga in hope that they would have the chance later Ravichandran Ashwin 5-0-20-1 (w1). unsettled conditions in the air and the green, seamer-friendly pitch that should make for and Kumar Sangakkara off successive deliver- in the day to pull off the victory needed to get Rain halted play with India on 119-3 off 29 overs; Sri an intriguing duel. — AFP ies in his second over, although Sangakkara to the final. — AFP Lanka’s target adjusted to 178 off 26 overs. 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QINGDAO, China: A container ship berths in Qingdao port in east China’s Shandong province yesterday. China’s trade surplus fell 14 percent in June as imports and exports both dropped unexpectedly, data showed yesterday, suggesting a fur- ther slowdown in the Asian economic giant as Beijing warned of ‘grave challenges’. — AFP China warns of ‘grim’ trade outlook Weak trade data add to economic growth fears

BEIJING: China warned yesterday of a “grim” government in revealing just how much of a ronment remains weak and rising labour costs second half, but neither will they improve a lot,” Complaints about the strength of the yuan outlook for trade after a surprise fall in June growth slowdown it is willing to tolerate,” and a stronger yuan currency were discourag- said Ye Lianghua, vice head of trading company and the possibility of job losses up the ante for exports, raising fresh concerns about the extent Zhiwei Zhang, China chief economist at ing exporters, customs said. “China faces rela- Ningbo Cixi Export Import Co Ltd, in China’s Premier Li, who said on Tuesday he was aware of the slowdown in the world’s second-largest Nomura in Hong Kong, said in a client note. The tively stern challenges in trade currently,” cus- prosperous eastern Zhejiang province. “Now is of the risks to the economy. “Macro-economic economy and increasing the pressure on the fall in exports was the first since January 2012. toms spokesman Zheng Yuesheng told a news definitely better than 2008 and last year. But control should be based on present conditions government to act. China’s reform-minded new Imports fell 0.7 percent versus expectations for briefing. “Exports in the third quarter look grim.” please, no more yuan appreciation.” and with an eye to the future to ensure the leaders, including Premier Li Keqiang, have an 8 percent rise, while China had a trade sur- Exports to the United States, China’s biggest Others noted rising labour costs, which economic growth rate and employment levels shown a tolerance for slower growth, while plus of $27.1 billion, the customs administra- export market, fell 5.4 percent in June, while could lead to layoffs. That would be a worry for do not slide below lower limits and consumer pressing ahead with efforts to revamp the tion said, in line with the $27.0 billion expected. exports to the European Union dropped 8.3 the government, which fears social instability if prices do not surpass the upper limit,” he was economy for the longer term, but any contin- The Australian dollar fell about a third of a cent percent. HSBC Global Research said in a note there is large-scale unemployment. “We still quoted by the official Xinhua news agency as ued slide in economic performance could test after the data, reflecting worries about Chinese that the external headwinds buffeting China have difficulties in finding skilled workers,” said saying during a visit to southern Guangxi their resolve. The customs data showed that demand for Australia’s commodities, such as will likely intensify, adding to the risks facing You Zhongguang, vice manager of Ningbo Province. “We must put more effort into struc- exports fell 3.1 percent in June against forecasts iron ore and coal. The MSCI Asia-Pacific ex- the economy. “Beijing will likely fine-tune policy Xingwei Plastic Products Co., one of China’s tural adjustment, reforms and promote eco- for a rise of 4 percent, casting a shadow over Japan index also pulled back before recovering to avert a hard landing,” it said in a note. biggest exporters of cutters and knives. “The nomic transformation and upgrading.” Tim second-quarter GDP figures due on Monday to stand up 0.77 percent in late Asian trade. Most economists have cut their forecasts for average wage is around 4,000 yuan ($650) (per Condon, economist at ING Bank in Singapore, that are already expected to show growth The June export figures followed a govern- 2013 growth, but expect the government to month) now. Our wages have climbed 10 per- said 2013 economic growth of 7.5 percent was slowed down to 7.5 percent as weak demand ment crackdown on the use of fake invoicing achieve its target of 7.5 percent. Exporters, cent so far this year. Our business is relatively consistent with zero growth in exports. “So dented factory output and the pace of invest- that had exaggerated exports earlier this year, meanwhile, said that they are feeling some good, but the situation is not good for all com- yes, my sense is that the target can still be ment. and may now reflect the true trade picture, cus- pain, but are muddling through. “Business is panies. Many workers have left factories met,” he said. “But the risks are tilting to the “Next week will be a testing time for the toms officials said. However the external envi- still difficult. Things will not worsen a lot in the because the export market is weak.” downside.” — Reuters AirAsia X rises in market debut Egypt rises after Gulf billions

KUALA LUMPUR: Shares in AirAsia X rose 1.60 percent on their market debut in Malaysia yesterday as the firm’s chief executive MIDEAST MARKETS REPORT promised a spending spree on new planes to boost frequency and target more routes. The carrier was trading at 1.27 Malaysian DUBAI: Egypt’s bourse rose yesterday after Gulf coun- percent in the previous session on optimism over a ringgit after morning Kuala Lumpur trade, up from an initial valu- tries pledged billions of dollars in aid but gains were swift plan for parliamentary and presidential elec- ation of 1.25 ringgit and far outstripping the wider market, which capped in muted trade due to the onset of the tions. The positive sentiment was also reflected in the was up just 0.17 percent. “I think it looks like we priced it right,” Ramadan fasting month. Thin trading volumes Egyptian pound, which strengthened at a central chief executive Azran Osman-Rani said at a news conference. plagued regional markets with activity in Saudi bank sale of foreign exchange yesterday for the third He added that the Malaysia-based carrier would use cash from Arabia and Kuwait falling to its lowest this year. After time since the military removed Mursi. The pound last month’s $308.6 million initial public offering to increase its Tuesday’s close, Saudi Arabia announced $5 billion in was also steady on the black market. fleet and seek out new destinations. “Planes, planes, planes. aid for Egypt, including central bank deposits, energy In Kuwait, retail investors sold shares to book gains Bigger network, more destinations, more frequencies,” Azran said. products and cash, while the United Arab Emirates from an early-year rally but volumes slumped. The The carrier, founded by aviation tycoon Tony Fernandes, has said offered $3 billion in grants and loans. “The market did index shed 0.7 percent to cut 2013 gains to 32.6 per- the funds would largely go to tripling its fuel-efficient Airbus fleet not react as expected; the money from the UAE and cent. It hit a 53-month high on May 28 and has been from the current 10 aircraft and repay bank loans. Saudi Arabia was a surprise, but it’s the first day of in a correction phase since. “Some stocks are still in AirAsia X will take delivery of 23 Airbus A330-300 planes over Ramadan and people are slowly digesting the news,” the profit-taking venue; the bulk of the decline is a the next four years with a further order for 10 A350-900s as it said Mohamed Radwan, director of international sales few retail investors trying to avoid any pitfalls in aggressively expands routes to meet demand in Asia-Pacific. The at Pharos Securities. Ramadan,” said Fouad Darwish, head of brokerage at Aid had been expected, but the packages are large Global Investment House. “There’s no fundamental International Air Transport Association said the region is the KUALA LUMPUR: AirAsia X Chief Executive Officer Azran enough to buy Egypt at least several months’ time to reason for the market to slide; Q2 earnings expecta- world’s fastest growing market, with passenger traffic more than Osman-Rani (second right) applauds as Chairman Tan Sri try to fix its state finances and restore enough politi- tions are bullish.” Retail investors tend to sell ahead of doubling since 1998, despite fuel costs surging 55 percent in the Rafidah Aziz (second left) hits the traditional Malay gong cal stability to resume attracting private capital. holidays and are expected to continue squaring posi- past seven years. The airline, launched in 2007, reported a net to mark the launch of its initial public offering (IPO) yes- Beyond the size of the packages, the announcements tions till the end of Ramadan, where markets close for profit of 33.8 million ringgit ($10.8 million) for the year ended Dec terday. Directors Kamarudin Meranun is at left and Fam signal that the Gulf countries feel they have a strong the Eid break. 31, 2012. Lee Ee is at right. — AP Charting an ambitious growth path, AirAsia X plans to political interest in keeping Egypt afloat. Meanwhile, Elsewhere, Dubai’s measure climbed 1 percent increase services to existing destinations and carve out lucrative follow suit. “At this stage, AirAsia X has proven its critics wrong,” the appointment of Hazem El-Beblawi as interim with three stocks - Dubai Financial Market, Dubai new routes in Australia, Japan and China. Analysts said the suc- Shukor said. The key challenge AirAsia X would face was keeping prime minister before elections was positive because Islamic Bank and Dubai Investments accounting for cessful listing of the long-haul arm of AirAsia - Asia’s largest budg- a lid on fuel costs, which account for about 49 percent of operat- it showed authorities are pressing ahead with a transi- more than half of all trading on the bourse. Abu et airline by fleet size - showed that a low-cost long-haul business ing costs, he said. “The main challenge obviously is to rein in tion back to civilian rule, despite the turmoil since the Dhabi’s benchmark added 0.6 percent. Abu Dhabi model was viable. Total demand for the institutional tranche of costs. Jet fuel price has started to increase due to uncertainties in military ousted president Mohamed Mursi last week. Commercial Bank accounted for half of all trades after the public offering was more than 10 times the base shares avail- the Middle East,” Shukor added. Beblawi has a long record in economic management - an early-session bulk trade. The stock ended yester- able, the company said. AirAsia X’s successful IPO comes as at a time when several he served briefly as finance minister - and personal day flat. Traders are hopeful activity may pick up in “Investors may want to pay close attention to this stock companies in the region have withdrawn from such a move. In contacts in the Gulf. Radwan said the steps towards the UAE after companies report second-quarter earn- because it is one of a handful of airlines in the world that has June alone, four companies in Hong Kong either dropped IPO forming a government would gradually be factored ings later this month. In Saudi Arabia, the region’s been innovative and committed to opening new markets,” said plans or cut their sizes. Ooi Chin Hock, a brokerage dealer with into share prices. largest market was little moved and volumes Shukor Yusof, a Singapore-based aviation analyst with Standard & Malaysia’s M&A Securities, said AirAsia X’s “strong management Cairo’s benchmark index gained 0.7 percent, trim- slumped to its lowest since Aug 2011. In Kuwait, the Poor’s. He told AFP that AirAsia X’s listing would encourage other and credible growth plans” was attracting investors at a time ming 2013 losses to 2.5 percent, following a rise of 3.3 index retreated 0.7 percent to 7,870 points. — Reuters regional carriers, such as fast-growing Indonesia-based Lion Air to when regional markets are choppy. — AFP THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 BUSINESS Starwood expands presence in Turkey

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For work meetings, training later this year. living area, a master bedroom, a kitchen and a refreshments and light snacks all day, evening into a high-tech office as well as an entertain- courses and presentations, the hotel’s three “We are delighted to be working with Faik cocktail bar, as well as a private whirlpool. drinks and hors d’oeuvres, alongside spectacular ment centre. Featuring the brand’s signature Tactic meeting rooms are equipped with the lat- Celik Holdings, the owners of the Sheraton and The Sheraton Shine Spa offers a traditional city views from the 14th storey vantage. Guests loft-like style aesthetic and buzzing scene, Aloft est generation of audio-visual hardware, provid- Aloft Bursa, our first Starwood hotels in this Turkish hammam and three private VIP ham- staying in the Sheraton Club rooms will enjoy Bursa offers vibrant public spaces where savvy ing the perfect creative space for groups of up to important city in Turkey,” said Michael Wale, mams using natural thermal water from the complimentary in-room wireless internet access, travellers and locals can mix and mingle in a 15 people. President, Starwood Hotels & Resorts, Europe, famous local hot springs, as well as six spa treat- as well as in the Club Lounge. A terrace with Africa and Middle East. “Bursa is an emerging ments rooms, evoking a lively yet relaxing spa breath-taking views, ideal for exclusive recep- metropolitan centre of industry, culture, sport experience. The expansive indoor pool area fea- tions and cocktails is connected to the club. The and leisure and we believe this combination of tures impressive two-storey mosaic steles adjacent Executive Board Room provides an our differentiated lifestyle brands with a new designed by local craftsmen while the tranquil inspiring space for meetings with views of the city destination will make a compelling offer to relaxation space offers private views over the city. Sheraton Bursa offers more than 2,800 global travellers.” “The opening of Sheraton blue waters. The outdoor pool is nestled in a square metres of extensive indoor and outdoor Bursa Hotel and Aloft Bursa marks a milestone in tranquil garden area which makes for an elegant meeting and event facilities, including a large this fast-growing city’s development”, said Baran setting for weddings up to 600 guests. The ballroom and pre-function area, five conference Celik, CEO Faik Celik Holding. “We believe that hotel’s fitness facility features the brand’s revolu- rooms and a fully-equipped business centre. Starwood’s strong global brands will attract international and national travellers as well as local guests.” Sheraton Bursa Hotel and Aloft Bursa are situ- ated in an emerging business and upscale resi- dential area adjacent to the Bursa New Cultural Green Park and upcoming football stadium. Located on the south-east shore of Sea of Marmara, approximately 235 km from Istanbul, Bursa is a rapidly emerging city in Turkey with a young population attracted by opportunities in its textile and automotive industries, as well as the tourism and sports sectors. The city was the first capital of the Ottoman Empire, playing an important role in silk manufacturing, and is today the ‘greenest’ city in Turkey with easy access to Mount Uludag, the country’s prime ski- ing resort.

Sheraton Bursa Hotel Designed to appeal to both business and leisure travellers, Sheraton Bursa offers a vibrant, open atmosphere. Distinct hexagonal elements inspired by the Ottoman Empire are integrated into the design of the spacious lobby where guests can enjoy complimentary wireless inter- EXCHANGE RATES

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CHUKHA, Bhutan: Home to meditating funded by its grants and loans, the king- Buddhist cultural identity and protecting among its youthful population of and soaring demand led it to run out of monks and Himalayan nomads, the dom is now aiming to reach capacity of the environment are key parts of the 736,000. The construction phase is more Indian rupee supplies last year. Many sleepy kingdom of Bhutan has set its 10,000 megawatts by 2020 through the GNH philosophy, which aims to balance labour-intensive, but only 10 to 15 per- think the flurry in hydropower develop- sights on becoming an unlikely energy building of 10 new plants. In contrast, the financial advancement of the nation cent of these jobs are going to the ment, and subsequent demand for cost- powerhouse thanks to its abundant politically deadlocked and once war- with spiritual well-being. The existing Bhutanese by Rinzin’s calculation, as ly imported equipment and machinery, winding rivers. Hydropower plants have wracked Nepal has just 700 megawatts hydropower schemes are all “run of the most of the building work is carried out exacerbated the crisis. While he believes already harnessed the country’s water of installed capacity, despite being river” sorts that depend on natural water and overseen by Indians. “It’s money in in hydropower’s long-term benefits for flows to light up nearly every Bhutanese among the top potential hydropower supplies rather than large reservoirs, and money out,” said Tenzing Lamsang, Bhutan, Lamsang says the financial and home, generating electricity that is sent producers in the world according to the designed to cause less disruption to their editor of The Bhutanese newspaper. environmental concerns show that it to remote villages by cables strung World Bank. “India we see as a market surroundings. “Your own companies are not making should not be relied upon to the cost of through rugged mountain terrain. It is a that cannot be satisfied,” Rinzin said of But three reservoir dams have been the money that they should.” other industries. “The danger here is that rapid transformation for the long isolat- the demand for Bhutan’s natural proposed among the upcoming projects The kingdom, which is holding its we put all our eggs in one basket. If the ed nation, where less than a quarter of resource, which is driving economic to ensure plentiful water in the rain-free second parliamentary elections after basket does fall or something happens households had electricity in 1999 - the growth estimated by the Asian and freezing winter months, when pow- shifting to democracy in 2008, is already to the basket, then we’re in for a lot of same year Bhutan became the last coun- Development Bank at 8.6 percent this er output currently drops by about hugely dependent on India for imports trouble.” —AFP try to introduce television. year. three-quarters. Rinzin says Bhutan’s But the kingdom now has much While hydropower is hailed as the steep and sparsely-populated valleys will greater ambitions for renewable country’s ticket to self-sufficiency after suffer much less impact than areas hydropower - already its biggest export - years of depending on donors, there are affected by big Indian or Chinese reser- which it hopes will provide more than reservations about the speed and scale voirs - the number of households dis- half of its gross domestic product by the of its development while other sectors of placed is in the hundreds rather than end of the decade. “It is the white gold the economy lag behind. One of the first thousands. But Samir Mehta, South Asia for Bhutan today,” said Chhewang Rinzin, new plants being built, the program director at US-based watchdog managing director of state-owned Druk Punatsangchhu I project, is projected to International Rivers, expressed concern Green Power Corporation, which runs cost about two billion dollars - more at a lack of transparency around the pro- the country’s hydropower sector. than Bhutan’s total gross domestic prod- posals and their impact. “The level of Bhutan’s first megaproject, opened in uct. And there are nine more projects to public engagement is not known,” he the southwestern Chukha district in the complete. “While no one disputes that said. He warned that hydropower plants 1980s, is now one of four major plants harnessing hydropower energy is the also face serious threats from climate which between them have almost 1,500 way to go, there is concern that Bhutan change, given Bhutan’s susceptibility to megawatt capacity - at peak output is trying to do too much, too soon,” said floods from lakes formed high in the roughly equivalent to a large nuclear an April editorial in the national Kuensel mountains by melting glaciers. power station, and only five percent of newspaper, titled “Drowning in In the capital Thimphu, people have Bhutan’s hydropower potential. hydropower”. other concerns on their mind about Already going far beyond domestic At the Chukha plant, colourful murals hydropower’s rise, sometimes described needs in summer months, when mon- depicting the Buddha’s life-cycle con- as “jobless growth”. Despite its domi- soon rains fill up the rivers, most of the trast with the whirring machinery but nance in Bhutan, Druk Green has a staff CHUKHA, Bhutan: In this photograph taken on May 29, 2013, a dragon electric power is sold to India, Bhutan’s hint at the country’s unique develop- of only 1,800, expected to rise to no adorns a gate leading into the power mains of an electricity yard at the giant energy-hungry neighbour. In coop- ment model of pursuing “Gross National more than 6,000, in a country where eration with the Indian government, and Happiness” (GNH). Retaining Bhutan’s unemployment is a growing worry Chukha hydropower station in southeastern Bhutan. —AFP For cost-crunching retailers, Bangladesh reigns supreme Other Asian garment hubs still more expensive

TIRUPUR, India: With knitwear exports of over $2 makes clothing for Zara, H&M and other brands, last year, said he holds marathon haggling ses- billion a year, India’s garment manufacturing hub said it was in talks with H&M about taking over an sions with foreign customers demanding dis- Tirupur has earned the nickname “Dollar City”, but as yet unspecified amount of Bangladesh-sourced counts as little as one cent per unit. At least one its allure for price-conscious global retailers production. H&M declined to comment. But as US retailer asked about moving production from obsessed by discounts of as little as one US cent large factory owners across the region discov- Bangladesh, he said, but they have yet to place pales before Bangladesh. Indian and Southeast ered, translating talks into orders is difficult as, orders. Thirukkumaran would not name the Asian apparel manufacturers had hoped the compared to Bangladesh, they are considered too brand, citing client confidentiality. “There are pos- orders would come flooding in, after the deadly expensive. “Garments produced in Bangladesh itive signals from buyers, but they are still scepti- collapse of a Bangladesh garment factory com- have a very competitive price, around two-to- cal about price,” he added. plex this year galvanised global brands such as three times lower than in Vietnam,” said Hguyen Monthly minimum salaries for garment sector Hennes & Mauritz AB (H&M) to consider relocat- Huu Toan, deputy director of SaiGon 2 Garment workers in Bangladesh average around $38, far ing production. JSC, a Vietnam factory whose clients include below the $100 average for Indian factory work- But several industry organisations and facto- ries contacted by Reuters in Vietnam, Cambodia, Indonesia, Sri Lanka and India - Asia’s top apparel WELLINGTON, New Zealand: Taipei Economic and Cultural Office Representative makers outside China - said international retailers Elliott Charng (left) and New Zealand’s Director of the Commerce and Industry were not beating a path to their door just yet. Office Stephen Payton sign a free trade agreement yesterday. —AP When it comes to price, Bangladesh is king. “The reason Bangladesh went from zero to hero in the garment sector is because there is no country New Zealand, Taiwan with such low labour and other costs,” said Arvind Singhal, chairman of India-based retail consultan- cy Technopak Advisors. “No buyer is in a hurry to sign free trade deal move from Bangladesh because Western retailers are stressed about passing any retail price increas- WELLINGTON: New Zealand yesterday China,” Payton said. “So yes, they are com- es to customers,” he said. “Currently, there is no signed a free trade agreement with Taiwan fortable with what we are doing.” substitute for Bangladesh, where manufacturers even risk operating from rickety structures to cap in a deliberately low-key ceremony Payton said the gradual removal of tar- costs.” designed to demonstrate the South Pacific iffs from the beef, fruit and other products Wal-Mart Stores Inc has stood by its nation’s fealty to its formal relations with it exports to Taiwan would result in savings Bangladesh production, saying the South Asian mainland China. The location of the sign- of 40 million New Zealand dollars ($31 mil- nation remains an important sourcing market. ing ceremony at a university and the lion) in the first year and NZ$75 million H&M also said its quest for alternative manufac- turers was not at the expense of Bangladesh. “We absence of senior officials from either side after 12 years when all the tariffs expired. are not reducing our purchases from Bangladesh. underscored New Zealand’s interest in Taiwan will also win some small economic We aspire to have long-term relations with our maintaining its increasingly important ties gains when New Zealand tariffs on suppliers,” H&M spokeswoman Elin Hallerby said. with Beijing. Five years ago, New Zealand machine tools, steel plates and bicycles are “We are always looking at new production capaci- became the first developed nation to sign removed under the deal. Elliott Charng, ty to support our continuous expansion.” The latest data from Bangladesh highlights its a free trade deal with China, which has who signed the agreement for the Taipei enduring appeal: garment exports in June rose 26 since become its largest export market. Economic and Cultural Office in New percent year-on-year to $2.2 billion. More than DHAKA: In this photograph taken on March 18, 2009, Bangladeshi garment workers In contrast to New Zealand, the deal Zealand, said the deal was a “win-win”. “I four million people, mostly women, work in sew T-shirts at a factory. —AFP was widely trumpeted in Taiwan, which is don’t want to talk about the political issue Bangladesh’s clothing sector, making it the sec- British fashion retailers New Look and TopShop. ers. After the Rana Plaza collapse, the cabinet eager to break out of its China-imposed here,” Charng said in response to a ques- ond-largest global apparel exporter behind The cost disadvantage also impacts Sri Lanka’s approved changes to the labour laws that pave China. The world’s biggest fashion retailers, $4 billion-a-year garment industry, and factory the way for garment workers to create trade diplomatic isolation. It was Taiwan’s first tion. “I don’t know anything about China’s Inditex SA and H&M, as well as Wal-Mart, Gap Inc owners there say any shift in production from unions without the approval of factory owners. free trade agreement with a developed involvement.” and JC Penney Company Inc are a few of the Bangladesh will be transient. “We are much better The cabinet also formed a wage board to consid- country and, from its point of view, a victo- In Taipei, Taiwan’s Foreign Minister brands manufacturing there. The $21 billion-a- than any other country in the region, but it is a er pay increases. But industry experts say ry that was more political than economic. David Lin shrugged off questions about year industry has been built on low wages, gov- temporary advantage,” said Tuly Cooray, the sec- Bangladesh has too much to lose by alienating Television crews were on hand to beam the choice of venue, saying that Victoria ernment subsidies and tax concessions from retary-general of industry group Joint Apparel global retailers, which means that for now, the Western countries. But the collapse of the Rana Association Forum. “At the end of the day, the low costs are here to stay. “No other destination the signing ceremony live to Taiwan. University of Wellington was an “ideal site” Plaza factory complex outside Dhaka in April price is going to matter.” has what we have and that is skilled and cheap Taiwan and China split amid civil war in for the ceremony because the university raised concerns about safety loopholes. The disas- The economic slowdown in Europe and the labour,” said Mohammad Mujibur Rahman, a 1949, and the Chinese government goes assisted in the feasibility study of the deal ter, one of the world’s worst industrial accidents, United States has made retailers all the more keen Bangladeshi academic leading factory inspec- out of its way to pressure other countries to when talks began in 2011. The agreement killed 1,132 people. to seek out the lowest-cost manufacturing cen- tions. “Foreign buyers realize this and nobody is in give short shrift to Taiwanese attempts to “will enhance interests on both sides,” Lin The collapse prompted global brands to con- tres to keep their store prices down. N a hurry to move out ... there might be a small sider tapping regional alternatives. Indonesian Thirukkumaran, owner of Tirupur-based apparel trickle outside, but nothing significant that will expand the democratic island’s interna- said. “The deal was signed under the WTO textile firm Sri Rejeki Isman PT (Sritex) , which maker Estee which racked up $8.3 million in sales hurt us.” —Reuters tional profile. framework, and it had nothing to do with But it also seeks to assist the Taiwanese mainland China.” government of President Ma Ying-jeou in Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman solidifying the island’s economy as a way of Hua Chunying said China has no objec- promoting the interests of Ma’s China- tions to trade and other types of Bangladesh to drop cases friendly Nationalist Party among an exchanges between Taiwan and foreign increasingly disaffected Taiwanese elec- countries as long as they stop short of “offi- torate. China-Taiwan relations have been cial relations”. “The current China-New against labour leaders considerably less fractious since the elec- Zealand relationship is in good shape. New tion of Ma in 2008. Like most Western Zealand’s adherence to the one-China poli- DHAKA: The Bangladesh govern- views of the cases”. ries where more than three million have dropped the cases much earlier. nations, New Zealand doesn’t recognize cy and proper handling of relevant issues is ment ordered criminal cases be Kalpona was facing five cases and workers make clothing for top retail- “The cases were filed in 2010 when dropped against top union leaders Babul six. The official did not cite any ers such as Wal-Mart, H&M for a basic we were waging protests to raise Taiwan as an independent country. To conducive to the sound development of yesterday, a ministry official said, a reason, but leading Bengali daily monthly wages of $40. Although the worker salaries. They were lodged to complete the deal, New Zealand used the the China-New Zealand relationship,” Hua move hailed by labour activists who Prothom Alo quoted home minister GSP program does not cover the gar- harass us,” Akter told AFP, adding sev- wording and status from the World Trade told reporters at a regularly scheduled say they are routinely harassed and Muhiuddin Khan as saying the aim ment industry, the move was an eral labour leaders including herself Organization, which describes Taiwan as a briefing. threatened. A home ministry official was to “win back” duty-free access embarrassment for the Bangladeshi were detained at that time. “separate customs territory”. Taiwan has previously signed trade told AFP that the cases of inciting the US had accorded some of government which is desperate to “My colleague Babul Akter was violence during wage-hike protests Bangladesh’s products. The US sus- convince foreign firms that it is seri- severely beaten at Ashulia police sta- The New Zealander who signed the deals with its diplomatic allies, which are in 2010 against Kalpona Akter and pended the Generalized System of ous about improving safety. tion and threatened to be killed in a deal was Stephen Payton, director of the mostly small, impoverished countries in Babul Akter, the leaders of Preferences (GSP) in late June over Bangladesh initially reacted with staged encounter,” she said, referring Commerce and Industry Office which Africa and Latin America. “It’s a small step Bangladesh Center for Worker Bangladesh’s failure to protect the fury to the announcement by to the industrial area where most of comes under the banner of the Wellington but has opened a window for Taiwan to Solidarity (BCWS), will be withdrawn. fundamental rights of workers, a President Barack Obama but later Bangladesh’s top factories are located. Employers’ Chamber of Commerce. That raise its economic and diplomatic profiles “The home minister has already decision hastened by the death of announced a series of moves to Another BCWS leader was murdered directed police and the district 1,129 people in the collapse of a gar- amend labour laws in an effort to in 2012 but there has been no meant he wasn’t technically a government globally,” said Wu Fu-cheng, an economist administration to withdraw the cas- ment factory complex in April. ensure trade union rights and work- progress in the case. Union leaders official, although he had been seconded with the Taiwan Institute for Economic es,” said Kamaluddin Ahmed, a senior The disaster outside Dhaka high- place safety. BCWS executive director have pointed the finger at a top secu- into the role from his government job. “We Research. Taiwan is also negotiating free home ministry official, explaining lighted appalling working conditions Kalpona Akter welcomed the deci- rity agency for the murder - allega- have a no surprises relationship with trade deals with India and Singapore. —AP that “the government took generous in Bangladesh’s 4,500 garment facto- sion, but said the government could tions that officials have denied. —AFP THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 BUSINESS Turkish bank sells dollars to boost lira Bond rate rises ANKARA: The Turkish central bank had begun its intervention by selling rowing rates. sion. This was a major slowdown from On May 16, the central bank had cut sold $650 million yesterday, market $2.25 billion on Monday. Capital Economics economist Neil 2010 and 2011 when Turkish growth its main interest rate by half a percent- sources said, in a test of wills with the On the government debt market, Shearing expressed doubts in London jumped ahead by 8.9 percent and 8.8 age point to 4.5 percent to boost the market to hold up the lira but Turkey’s Turkey’s 10-year borrowing rate surged on Tuesday that the central bank’s percent respectively. Emerging Turkey slowing economy. Turkey is exposed to borrowing rate rose sharply. The cen- to 9.09 percent yesterday - the highest efforts would work. He noted that the is currently the world’s 17th-biggest the rise of borrowing rates for emerg- tral bank has been selling dollars since for more than a year. It stood at 8.9 per- lira had fallen by about 10.0 percent economy and sets its sights high to ing economies, largely because of sig- Monday when it announced urgent cent late on Tuesday and was already since the beginning of May, and that rank among the top 10 within a nals from the US Federal Reserve bank and “strong” action to defend the cur- at 9.0 percent on Monday. The central inflation in June was 8.3 percent com- decade. But analysts say the economy that it will soon begin to wind down its rency and contain overheated bank bank said it would pursue the new pared with the bank’s year-end target is likely to take a hit from the recent special injections of money into the US lending. In afternoon trading on measures for as long as the lira was of 5.0 percent. The bank’s “firepower is unrest as well as external financing financial system. “We think growth in Wednesday, the lira was being quoted under pressure. But market analysts limited”, he said putting its foreign cur- conditions. Last month, the ruling Turkey is likely to be weaker and more at 1.9480 to the dollar from 1.9498 on were immediately sceptical that this rency reserves available for buying the Justice and Development Party (AKP) volatile than most seem to expect,” Tuesday. The bank had announced its policy would work for long. lira at about $45 billion. Shearing was shaken by nationwide demonstra- Capital Economics said in a research measures on Monday as soon as the A key factor is the outlook that the argued that “the lira is likely to fall fur- tions, which Prime Minister Recep note. About 14 years ago, Turkey was lira fell to a record low level of 1.9740. US Federal Reserve central bank will ther over the next year or so” and inter- Tayyip Erdogan blamed various groups, crippled by a financial crisis and had to Yesterday the central bank sold $650 begin winding down its easy money est rates were likely to rise. including what he called an “interest restructure its economy in return for million in five auctions - $50 million, measures. This has caused investors to The Turkish economy grew by 2.2 rate lobby”. This was a reference to help from the International Monetary $150 million, $150 million, $150 million pull money out of bond markets in percent in 2012, short of the govern- pressure for interest rates to rise to Fund. It has just finished repaying and another $150 million. The bank emerging economies, pushing up bor- ment forecast of 3.2 percent expan- support the currency. those loans. — AFP

NEW DELHI: In this photograph taken on Feb 25, 2012, a visitor browses through books of Indian online book retailer Flipkart on a screen at the New Delhi World Book Fair. — AFP Flipkart raises $200m

MUMBAI: India’s top e-commerce compa- said it was the largest single investment ny Flipkart said Wednesday it has raised in an Indian e-commerce firm. The com- $200 million from private investors in pany is battling fierce competition from what it called the biggest one-time rivals that include online retail giant investment in an Indian online retail firm. Amazon, which launched an India-dedi- The money was injected by Flipkart’s cated shopping site last month. Flipkart existing investors, South African technol- was started by two former Amazon ogy group Naspers and private equity employees. Since 2007 Flipkart has funds Tiger Global and Accel Partners, the expanded beyond books and DVDs to Bangalore-based firm said in a statement. footwear, electronics and home appli- The funds will be used to build and ances, to gain 9.6 million registered users strengthen the firm technology capabili- and become one of the country’s biggest ties and improve its supply chain. entrepreneurial success stories. “This investment validates the belief Flipkart earned revenues of five billion that our investors have not only in our rupees ($83 million) for the fiscal year to capabilities as a market leader - but also March 2012. It has not give any earnings in the potential of e-commerce in India,” data for the past financial year. India has said Sachin Bansal, co-founder and chief just over 50 million active Internet users executive of Flipkart. Flipkart and Jubin of whom around 40 percent have made Mehta of Yourstory.in, an online site purchases online, according to industry which tracks startups and entrepreneurs, figures. — AFP QNB Q2 profit surges, eyes Asia for growth

DOHA: Acquisitive Gulf Arab lender, bank said it had all the necessary regula- Qatar National Bank (QNB), posted 24- tory approvals to open a representative percent higher second-quarter net profit office in China. It said in May it will start yesterday that beat analysts’ estimates operations in India in the third quarter. by 7 percent and said it was opening an Its acquisitions have been focused so far office in China. QNB, which completed on the Middle East and North Africa, and the purchase of a majority stake in it said last December it was looking at a Societe Generale’s Egyptian arm NSGB majority stake in a top 10 Turkish bank. for $2 billion in March, posted a net prof- With bank stakes in Indonesia, Jordan it of 2.6 billion riyals ($714 million) for and Tunisia, QNB wants its international the three months to June 30 including business to contribute about 40 percent NSGB. First-half net profit was 4.7 billion of profit and 45 percent of total assets by riyals, up 15.1 percent year-on-year, it 2017, Chief Financial Officer Ramzi Mari said. Total assets rose 30.4 percent from said in December, up from about 17 per- June 2012 to 431 billion riyals, the high- cent and 30 percent before the NSGB est ever achieved by the bank, its state- deal. ment said, as result of a strong growth On Tuesday, the bank appointed Ali Al- rate in loans and advances. Loans and Kuwari as acting chief executive after a advances rose 26.3 percent to 296 billion government reshuffle saw his predeces- riyals, and the ratio of non-performing sor, Ali Al-Emadi, named as finance minis- loans to gross loans was 1.5 percent. ter. Kuwari previously led the bank’s cor- Half-owned by sovereign wealth fund, porate, retail and international banking Qatar Investment Authority, and with a businesses. Emadi was made chairman of market value of about $26 billion, the QNB’s board this week.— Reuters OPEC to lose market share to shale oil

LONDON: OPEC’s share of the world market 1.14 million bpd, more than demand, led by will shrink in 2014 as rising supply of US shale further growth in the United States. The US oil gives the exporter group little comfort shale boom has already curbed imports from from the fastest growth in world demand in OPEC members such as Nigeria and Algeria. four years. In a monthly report, the OPEC expects U.S. oil output to rise by 560,000 Organization of the Petroleum Exporting bpd next year - the biggest rise among non- Countries forecast demand for its oil in 2014 OPEC countries - to 11.33 million bpd. “The would average 29.61 million barrels per day outlook in 2014 is supported by anticipated (bpd), down 250,000 bpd from 2013 and healthy onshore tight oil developments, aided 770,000 bpd less than it produced in June. by rising investment,” OPEC’s report said. “In “This would imply a further build in global 2013, oil drilling activities continue to crude inventories, which currently stand at improve.” After initially downplaying shale, high levels,” OPEC said in reference to the mar- OPEC is looking more closely at its impact. At ket outlook for next year. The report is a fur- its last meeting, on May 31 in Vienna, the ther illustration that technology for extracting group’s oil ministers spent some time dis- oil and gas from shale is reducing depend- cussing the issue and set up a committee to ence on OPEC. Rising output will make it hard- study it. OPEC’s report is the second of this er for the 12-member group to keep its own month’s trio of oil supply and demand fore- output at high rates without risking a drop in casts to emerge. The US Energy Information prices below $100 a barrel, its preferred level. Administration, as usual more bullish on OPEC also forecast a recovery in demand next demand than OPEC, in a report on Tuesday year as economic growth gathers pace. World raised its 2014 demand growth estimate by oil use will expand by 1.04 million bpd in 50,000 bpd to 1.24 million bpd. The 2014, the strongest growth since 2010, it said. International Energy Agency, adviser to 28 But non-OPEC supply, the source of two in industrialised countries, issues its report every three barrels, is expected to increase by today.— Reuters THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 BUSINESS Italy debt costs rise as downgrade pressures govt MILAN: Italy’s one-year borrowing costs S&P cut Italy’s sovereign credit rating to BBB “Berlusconi’s legal woes could yet lead to failed to take account of recent government rose slightly for the first time in four months rose to their highest since March yesterday from BBB+, two notches above junk, citing early elections in Italy,” Nicholas Spiro, head measures to lift growth. “The decision in May, but fell for a 21st consecutive month after Standard & Poor’s cut its credit rating, a concerns about the economy, which has of Spiro Sovereign Strategy, said in a note. appears based on a mechanic extrapolation from a year earlier, figures published on warning to the faltering coalition govern- been stuck in recession since mid-2011. “The downgrade underscores the severity of of past data,” Saccomanni told a meeting of Wednesday showed. ment as it seeks to revive the economy. But Yields on outstanding Italian bonds Italy’s recession ... and the bleak prospects Italy’s banking lobby. ECB board member The euro zone’s third-largest economy the downgrade had a mild impact on edged higher after the downgrade, which for growth-enhancing structural reforms Christian Noyer said yesterday the down- has been one of the slowest-growing in the Wednesday’s auction, at which the Treasury also hit Spanish debt. Italy’s challenge is under the unstable and conflict-ridden Letta grade for Italy illustrates a broader, European world for more than a decade, shackled by a paid a yield of 1.078 percent to sell Ä7 bil- linked to the effectiveness of the right-left government.” S&P said further downgrades problem. “This highlights the need to accel- lack of competitiveness, a weak political sys- lion ($8.95 billion) of one-year bills, up from coalition government led by Prime Minister were possible if the government fails to erate the implementation of structural tem and public debt topping 130 percent of 0.96 percent at a similar sale one month Enrico Letta, which is struggling to over- keep a tight rein on the deficit and does not reforms in the whole euro zone,” he said. The gross domestic product. Yesterday, Rome ago. come its internal divisions. A coalition meet- undertake badly-needed labour market and Bank of Italy warned that the country cannot also issued Ä2.5 billion of bills maturing on Yields are still far lower than a peak of ing yesterday fell through when the People other liberalisations. Those particular afford to lose investor confidence. Dec 19, 2013, at an interest rate of 0.599 per- more than 6 percent reached in late 2011, at of Freedom party pulled out after Tuesday’s reforms are not even on the government’s Letta has pledged to ease the severe aus- cent. These assets, dubbed ‘flexible bills’, are the height of the euro zone debt crisis, and announcement that its founder, Silvio agenda at the moment. Letta tried to turn terity policies pursued by predecessor Mario issued by the Treasury from time to time to demand remained fairly strong with a bid- Berlusconi, faces a final ruling on a tax fraud the ratings cut in his favour late on Tuesday, Monti’s technocrat government. But so far cover seasonal liquidity needs. Italy will to-cover ratio of 1.56, up from 1.49 at mid- conviction on July 30 - much earlier than using it to put pressure on his allies. “It’s he has only been able to postpone payment return to the primary market tody to sell up June sale. “The auctions went well, demand expected. The party has also proposed sus- proof that the situation is still complex and of a housing tax, introduce some tax breaks to Ä6.5 billion in three- and 30-year bonds was good. The yields did not come in much pending work in parliament in light of the Italy remains under special observation,” for companies that hire unemployed youth, and floating rate notes in a triple sale. Rome, higher than what we were expecting yester- looming verdict. If Berlusconi’s conviction is Letta said. and relaunch some public works projects. which has frontloaded its funding, has day before the downgrade,” said Unicredit upheld, he will be banned from public Economy Minister Fabrizio Saccomanni Meanwhile, economic data show that Italy is already raised more than 63 percent of its economist Chiara Cremonesi. On Tuesday, office for five years. yesterday criticised the ratings cut, saying it not pulling out of its slump. Industrial output overall borrowing needs for 2013. —Reuters Europe tempers power of agency to shut banks EU outlines blueprint for tackle stricken banks BRUSSELS: The European Commission proposed ‘banking union’, a scheme designed to underpin “That’s only possible nationally and whoever wants on Wednesday creating an agency to salvage or confidence in the euro zone and end the previous- more must join the German government in sup- shut failed banks, but the absence of an immediate ly chaotic handling of cross-border bank collapses porting an amendment to the treaty,” he told jour- backstop fund to pay for a clean-up means it may such as Dexia. The original commitment, made at nalists earlier this week. struggle to do its job. Working in tandem with the the height of the currency bloc’s crisis, was to pre- Yesterday’s announcement in Brussels also European Central Bank as supervisor, the new vent heavily indebted countries from having to received a cool response in Berlin, where a govern- authority is supposed to wind down or revamp contain problems at their banks alone, such as ment spokesman said it would give the European banks in trouble. It is the second pillar of a ‘banking those that nearly bankrupted Ireland. Commission powers beyond that foreseen under union’ meant to galvanise the euro zone’s response But last year’s pledge by the European Central basic EU law. The proposal envisages that the to the crisis. If agreed by European Union states, the Bank to take whatever steps needed to back the Commission would have the final trigger in wind- agency will be set up in 2015 and will eventually single currency has calmed investor nerves, taking ing down a bank. Some EU officials hope Berlin will LONDON: A woman posts a letter in a Royal Mail postbox yesterday. Britain’s have the means to impose losses on creditors of a the pressure off countries to follow through. The soften its stance after the elections, but Asmussen government announced plans to privatise more than half of Royal Mail, the stricken bank, according to the blueprint. state-run postal delivery service, following a major restructuring in recent But the new authority will be handicapped by years triggered by a surge in email use. —AFP the fact that it will have to wait years before it has a fund to pay for the costs of any bank wind-up it UK to list Royal Mail, woos orders. In practice, this means it could be very diffi- cult to demand any such closure. Officials say the plan foresees tapping banks to build a war chest of workers with free shares Ä55 billion to Ä70 billion ($70 billion to $90 billion) LONDON: Britain will list a majority stake in the no longer includes the Post Office services and but that is expected to take a decade, leaving the Royal Mail postal service on the stock market in retail business, more than doubled profit in the agency largely dependent on national schemes in the next nine months, promising free shares for year ended March 31, helped by parcel demand. the meantime. “The idea is to break this link workers fiercely opposed to the country’s The listing, which will take place in the com- between a banking crisis and sovereign,” said biggest privatisation in around 20 years. Analysts pany’s current financial year, will include a retail Michel Barnier, the commissioner in charge of expect the initial public offering (IPO) to value offering for the public, for which Royal Mail financial regulation, emphasising, however, the Royal Mail, which traces its roots to a service workers will also receive priority treatment. need for good bank management rather than a founded by King Henry VIII in 1516, at £2-3 bil- Banks Goldman Sachs and UBS have been pan-European backstop. “In the first few years, of lion ($3-$4.5 billion), so selling a majority stake appointed as lead advisers for the IPO. Cable course, the funding will be more modest,” he said, could raise over £1 billion to help the country’s said the government would retain flexibility on adding that the fund should be able to borrow. stretched finances. the size of stake to be sold, pending market con- But analysts were critical. “The key problem is In a bid to weaken support for trade unions, ditions and demand. Britain’s Conservative- that without the ultimate access to fiscal resources, which have helped to scupper past attempts to Liberal coalition government, which paved the it will be very difficult to agree to shut down a sell off the business, the government said it way for privatisation last year by freeing Royal bank,” said Guntram Wolff of Bruegel, a Brussels would give away 10 percent of shares in Royal Mail of its hefty pension liabilities, has been criti- think tank. Under the plan, the EU’s executive will Mail to its 150,000 UK postal workers, with the cised by the main opposition Labour party for not call for an explicit backstop role for the euro condition that they must be held for three years. pushing to sell off the firm at a time when its zone’s rescue fund, the European Stability The company’s management has long argued profits are rising. Mechanism (ESM). The lack of funds at the outset or that access to external capital is vital as it invests The privatisation push follows similar recourse to the ESM undermines a central goal of BRUSSELS: EU commissioner for Internal Market and Services Michel Barnier ges- in shifting its business away from falling letter attempts by the Conservatives in 1994 and by banking union - to sever the ‘doom loop’ that forms tures as he gives a press conference yesterday on the ìSingle Resolution Mechanismî volumes and toward a growing parcels industry Labour in 2009, both of which were scuppered as banks buy ever more government bonds from for banking union at the EU Headquarters. —AFP fuelled by internet shopping. by union threats and party rebellions, with the home states. But unions have threatened strike action, latter attempt also succumbing to rocky finan- Any suggestion of putting such a safety net in proposal yesterday will likely dismay the ECB. did not expect that, noting that countries such as arguing privatisation could jeopardise Royal cial markets. In a consultative ballot sent to place faced stiff resistance from Germany, which Speaking on Tuesday ahead of the announcement, the Netherlands, Finland, Slovakia and Estonia Mail’s commitment to provide a universal, six- 112,000 Royal Mail workers in June, the feared that it could be left on the hook for prob- Joerg Asmussen, a member of the six-member shared its doubts. EU Commission officials were so days-a-week service and lead to a decline in Communication Workers Union said that, from a lems uncovered in Spain’s banks or elsewhere, Executive Board that forms the nucleus of the ECB’s concerned about their proposals becoming public working conditions for staff. Business Secretary 74 percent turnout, 96 percent opposed plans to when the ECB starts policing the sector next year. policymaking, underscored the need for a that they printed them using a type of ‘invisible ink’ Vince Cable sought to sooth such concerns, say- sell the firm. It urged the government to consid- Furthermore, the ‘resolution board’ that decides “European backstop” for the resolution agency. In technology to blank out the text if scanned. ing the universal service would be protected by er other ways to access capital or risk strike on bank wind-downs will be forbidden from reality, the agency’s freedom to act may be limited, As it is proposed, the new board would have regulator Ofcom as well as parliament, and that action. imposing decisions on countries, such as demand- forcing the European Commission to continue to authority over all 6,000 banks in the euro zone. If a privatisation would not trigger a change in The retail element of the IPO plan is rare for ing the closure of a bank, if that would result in a use state-aid rules to enforce order when govern- bank were to run into trouble, the ECB would inform employment conditions. “It cannot be right for Britain, and only usually considered for well bill for that nation’s taxpayer. “If in a resolution ments prop up weak banks. Those rules change this executive board, which could then vote on Royal Mail to come cap in hand to ministers known companies. In October last year insurer plan, national public money is ... necessary, the from August, placing the burden on shareholders whether to close or salvage the bank. The board each time it wants to invest and innovate. The Direct Line sold around 15 percent of its 787 government of the country has to give the go and junior debtholders in any such restructuring. would have representatives from the European public will always want government to invest in million pound IPO to retail investors who on ahead,” said Barnier. The scaling down of the plan is partly in response Central Bank, the European Commission, the home schools and hospitals ahead of Royal Mail,” he average bought 5,000-6,000 pounds worth of Scepticism that the agency could work was to Berlin’s reluctance to surrender autonomy to a country of the bank under review and from states said. shares. A YouGov poll commissioned for a Think echoed by Sven Giegold, an influential German new agency. Germany has been particular sensi- where it has branches. The final execution would State postal services have been privatised Tank paper released yesterday exploring the member of the European Parliament. “Behind all tive as Chancellor Angela Merkel faces national rest with the European Commission. The across much of western Europe. Last month, merits of privatising Royal Mail showed that just this is an unholy alliance between Germany, which elections in September. Wolfgang Schaeuble, Commission hopes that this group, which will vary Belgium’s bpost received strong interest in its 53 percent of the British public are aware of the is scared about talk of common liability (for banks) Germany’s finance minister, had long argued that a according to the bank, will plan for any emergency, stock market debut, which was priced towards sale plans, with 67 percent of people opposed before elections, and France, scared of giving up change to the European Union’s treaty was needed leaving little to decide at short notice should a the top end of expectations. Royal Mail, which to it. —Reuters sovereignty.” The reform is presented as a pillar of before the agency could get executive clout. lender face collapse. —Reuters Investment tops agenda as Thailand to sell rice from stocks, price cut seen BANGKOK: Thailand plans to start selling rice except to cut prices, if it really wants to offload Nigerian prez visits China from government stockpiles next week, the rice,” said Rakesh Sodhia of Fortuna offloading up to 1.5 million tonnes a month International Ltd in Bangkok. The government for the rest of the year, but traders said it has estimated it suffered losses of 136 billion BEIJING: Nigerian President Goodluck Jonathan would have to slash prices and accept big baht ($4.33 billion) from the scheme in met his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping in Beijing losses in order to move the grain. World prices 2011/12 but even that was based on getting yesterday on a visit focused on boosting trade have fallen due to expected bumper crops prices for remaining stocks that now seem between Asia’s powerhouse economy and and high stockpiles and Thai sales would put wildly unrealistic. Africa’s biggest oil producer. Jonathan was even more pressure on the market. Global “Prices will drop as supply is rising every- accompanied by 19 of his top government offi- production could rise 1.9 percent to a record where. India, Thailand and Vietnam are about cials on the trip, as he attempts to tie up a series 479.2 million tonnes of milled rice in the next to harvest their 2013/14 crop in the second of deals on Chinese investment in major 2013/14 crop, the United State Department of half of this year but demand is steady,” said Nigerian infrastructure projects. “(China) has a Agriculture (USDA) said. Thai officials estimate Sompong Kitireanglarp, president of Thai very robust economy and that is why when I was stocks at 17 million or 18 million tonnes, or exporter Ponglarp Co Ltd. Niwatthamrong coming, I came with quite an amount of cabinet almost double the export volumes of a nor- was appointed in a cabinet reshuffle at the ministers and very senior government func- mal year. end of June, when his predecessor lost his job tionaries,” he told Xi as the pair met at Beijing’s “It’s a good time to start selling stocks, as over losses that had piled up under the inter- ornate Great Hall of the People. we see rising demand for several grades of vention program and his failure to be open Chinese companies are involved in a massive rice,” Commerce Minister Niwatthamrong about costs and how much rice was sold. The road-building project in Nigeria worth $1.7 bil- Bunsongphaisan told reporters. He said the new minister is to visit several countries that lion. Talks between Jonathan and Xi are also government aimed to sell up to 1 million have pacts with Thailand on rice sales, to dis- expected to cover some $1.3 billion worth of tonnes of milled rice per month and another cuss new deals. “The countries I plan to visit Chinese loans and other funding for Nigerian 500,000 tonnes of paddy. It also planned to are Indonesia, Iran, the Philippines, Malaysia, infrastructure projects. Beijing is also showing sell an unspecified amount on the Agricultural China and Singapore,” he said. increasing interest in Nigeria’s oil industry, and is Futures Exchange of Thailand (AFET). Last Indonesia, a big buyer that is trying to expected to increase its demand from the cur- year, the Thai government said it had sold 7.3 become self-sufficient, said it could import up rent 20,000 to 200,000 barrels per day by 2015. million tonnes to foreign governments for to 600,000 tonnes of rice this year depending “Both China and Nigeria are now working hard delivery over several months into this year, on local output, stocks and prices. Jakarta nor- to accelerate our respective development,” Xi but the purported buyers denied the deals mally buys from Vietnam, whose rice is cheap- said, at the welcome ceremony held indoors due BEIJING: Chinese President Xi Jinping (right) shakes hands with Nigerian President and activity at ports did not suggest such er. The Philippines, which aims to be self-suffi- to heavy rain in the Chinese capital. Goodluck Jonathan after the two countries’ ministers signed several agreements dur- large-scale loading. cient in rice by the end of 2013, said it had no Following the meeting between Xi and ing a signing ceremony at the Great Hall of the People yesterday. —AFP Traders said the Thai government would plan to buy more through the National Food Jonathan, five agreements were signed between have to accept huge losses if it wanted to Authority. “Thailand has approached the NFA the two countries, including a lending agree- properties, and economic and technical cooper- and markets for its goods. It has had mixed suc- release stocks to get fresh funding for its inter- for a government-to-government deal. But for ment between China’s Import-Export Bank and ation. China Development Bank and Nigeria’s cess in Nigeria, particularly concerning oil, vention program, which helped win the votes this year the NFA has no plans of buying more the Nigerian Ministry of Finance for the expan- First Bank also signed a framework agreement in where Western firms such as Shell and of millions of farmers and carry it to power in after our deal with Vietnam,” a spokesman told sion of four airport terminals. Agreements were support of Nigerian economic development. ExxonMobil continue to dominate. Oil accounts 2011. “Bidding prices are expected to be really Reuters. “And we’re not sure if we need to also signed on visa regulations, legal issues China has invested heavily in African nations in for some 80 percent of government revenue in low and the government has no choice, import rice for next year.” —Reuters involving the import and export of cultural recent years in its search for natural resources Nigeria. —AFP THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 BUSINESS

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After his accessories continue their run over other on word-of- mouth promoters who share launch into space, Kirobo will disembark categories their delight with products and experi- at the ISS and wait for the arrival of ● Watch consumption has sharply ences Commander Koichi Wakata in decelerated as retailers de-stock and as ● Consumers expect every interaction November or December. In the Kibo Chinese luxury consumers slow their pur- in stores, online, and on mobile devices to Japanese experiment module, the com- chasing be premium, differentiated, and targeted mander and Kirobo will then take part in ● Cosmetics are slowing down in to their tastes and preferences the first conversation experiment held mature markets, while still delivering ● Marketing must maintain a persist- between a person and a robot in space. growth in emerging markets ent drumbeat of innovation in media and Toyota was responsible for voice and messaging to keep consumers connected face recognition functions that are cru- WHERE to what’s new cial to the experiments. Toyota plans to ● High consumer confidence among use what it learns from the project to the affluent, increased store openings in 2. Flawless retail management improve the company’s partner robots American cities, and intensive investment ● Physical and digital storefronts are and interactive conversation technolo- in linking physical and digital shopping accelerating their arms race for offering gy. However, before he was allowed to are all fueling United States sales growth more compelling engagement to wow fly Kirobo had to prove he had the right enough to withstand the intense force out by Toyota Motor Corporation, designated ground crew robot are ● The impact of 12 per cent sales the luxury shopper stuff by passing a range of tests. These of a rocket launch. Kirobo is one of two RCAST and Robo Garage. The Japan equipped for question and answer con- growth across Central and South America ● The era of the disengaged, formal included a parabolic flight test to exam- humanoid verbal-communication Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA) versations. They can also nod and have (notably Brazil and Mexico) will result in shopping experience is ending. Shoppers ine behaviour in ‘zero G’ conditions, and robots developed under the Kibo Robot has also provided extensive assistance. face recognition as well as emotion overall growth of 5 to 7 per cent in the now expect inviting and personalized a vibration test, to ensure he was tough Project, a joint research project carried Both Kirobo and Mirata which is the recognition capabilities. Americas service to welcome them into the store ● In Asia, growth in China is stabilizing ● As store networks grow into new to an expected seven per cent, while markets and tap new segments, the bar is South East Asia will experience 20 per raised for ensuring the right products are Rift Valley Railways injects $20m cent growth driven by a wave of new in the right stores in the right quantities store openings, and increasing strength and relevance of second-tier markets 3. People excellence into 73 km of new railway line ● Japan returns to a strong growth ● Brands are investing more in top story of 5 per cent as the country’s mone- management talent from strategy to Rift Valley Railways (RVR), the operator of the Kenya- ments of $9.5 billion in five core industries, including from SMEs under a partnership program with commu- tary policy depreciates the yen and push- finance to supply chain to back office Uganda railway, has completed the building of 73 km energy, transportation, agrifoods, mining and cement. nities living along the railway line. Commenting on the es local consumption operations of new railway track between Mombasa and Nairobi Construction of the new railway line included the faster cargo delivery, Steve Felder, managing director of ● Europe remains a challenge for the ● The store employee serves as brands’ costing $20 million (1.7 billion Kenyan shillings) to laying of 10,000 sleepers (railway ties) to retain track Maersk shipping agency, noted, “As a shipping line we industry; as tourism slows, as tourists direct face to shoppers, with brands improve the reliability and speed of cargo delivery by geometry and improve safety. The upgrade is part of a very much welcome this development as we are con- spend less per visit, and as Europeans, expending significant resources on train- rail from Mombasa. Completion of the railway mod- larger track modernization program that will see the vinced that it will effectively improve the safe and reli- especially in southern Europe, curtail ing and development of people on the ernisation project has reduced cargo delivery time rebuilding of over 360 km of the most affected sections able transport of our customer’s cargo and create more spending-Bain expects flat-to-2 per cent front lines between Mombasa and Nairobi by six hours through of the railroad in both Kenya and Uganda. “The com- demand for rail transport between Mombasa and growth ● Luxury players are more and more rebuilding the most badly rundown sections, which pletion of this project under our continuing track Nairobi.” ● Middle East is growing at a steady putting the customer first in their strate- were responsible for 60 percent of blockage time on upgrade program has considerably improved the relia- Ondego said RVR is on course with significant pace, with Dubai continuing as the center gies the rail line. bility and efficiency of our operations. We are now investments to introduce innovations in operations of gravity and the only city attracting for- “We are entering a new phase in the “RVR’s US$ 20 million investment in building this operating larger-capacity trains and, as a result, have and modernize infrastructure both in Kenya and eign luxury consumers (e.g. Russians, evolution of the luxury market, more new stretch of railroad is a significant milestone as this improved our loading capacity and reduced travel Uganda in order to ensure a dependable and well- Indians, Africans) markets, more segments, and more diver- railway line had been ailing for lack of investment for hours,” Ondego added. functioning railway that can spur growth and regional “We are seeing a more even distribu- sity of tastes all combine to create more over a decade prior to the concession,” said RVR The 10-month reconstruction project awarded con- economic integration throughout East Africa. He said tion of global growth,” said Claudia variables to solve for when pursuing the Executive Vice Chairman Brown Ondego. RVR is a plat- tracts worth KES 454 million (more than $5.3 million) to improved reliability has been one of the immediate D’Arpizio, a Bain partner in Milan and lead right strategy for growth.” concluded form company of Citadel Capital, the leading private Kenyan contractors and suppliers and paid KES 29 mil- benefits and the number of incidents declined a full 20 author of the study. “In turn, brands are D’Arpizio. equity firm in Africa and the Middle East with invest- lion (over $0.34 million) in wages to workers recruited percent last month. THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 technology The price of scrutiny: Gov’t pays to snoop

WASHINGTON: How much are your review each request and hand over year. Most companies agree not to vant material any more than private conversations worth to the data. Likewise, Verizon said its team charge in emergency cases like providers have the bandwidth to government? Turns out, it can be a of 70 employees works around the tracking an abducted child. They bury them in records,” Gidari said. lot, depending on the technology. clock, seven days a week to handle aren’t allowed to charge for phone “In reality, there is a pretty good In the era of intense government the quarter-million requests it gets logs that reveal who called a line equilibrium and balance, with the surveillance and secret court orders, each year. and how long they talked - such as exception of phone records,” which a murky multimillion-dollar market To discourage gratuitous the documents the Justice are free. Not everyone agrees. has emerged. Paid for by US tax dol- requests and to prevent losing Department obtained about In 2009, then-New York criminal lars, but with little public scrutiny, money, industry turned to a section phones at The Associated Press dur- prosecutor John Prather sued sever- surveillance fees charged in secret of federal law that allows compa- ing a leaks investigation - because al major telecommunications carri- by technology and phone compa- nies to be reimbursed for the cost of that information is easily generated ers in federal court in Northern nies can vary wildly. “searching for, assembling, repro- from automated billing systems. California in 2009, including AT&T, AT&T, for example, imposes a ducing and otherwise providing” Still, the fees can add up quickly. Verizon and Sprint, for overcharging $325 “activation fee” for each wire- communications content or records The average wiretap is estimated to federal and state police agencies. In tap and $10 a day to maintain it. on behalf of the government. The cost $50,000, a figure that includes his complaint, Prather said phone Smaller carriers Cricket and US costs must be “reasonably neces- reimbursements as well as other companies have the technical abili- Cellular charge only about $250 per sary” and “mutually agreed” upon operational costs. One narcotics ty to turn on a switch, duplicate call wiretap. But snoop on a Verizon cus- with the government. case in New York in 2011 cost the information and pass it along to law tomer? That costs the government From there, phone companies government $2.9 million alone. enforcement with little effort. $775 for the first month and $500 developed detailed fee schedules The system is not a true market- Instead, Prather says his staff, while each month after that, according to and began billing law enforcement based solution, said Al Gidari, a he was working as a city prosecutor, industry disclosures made last year much as they do customers. In its partner at the law firm Perkins Coie would receive convoluted bills with to Rep. Edward Markey, D-Mass. letter to Markey, AT&T estimated who represents technology and extraneous fees. The case is pend- Meanwhile, email records like that it collected $24 million in gov- telecommunications companies on ing. those amassed by the National ernment reimbursements between privacy and security issues. If the FBI “They were monstrously more Security Agency through a program 2007 and 2011. or NSA needs data, those agencies than what the telecoms could ever revealed by former NSA systems Verizon, which had the highest would pay whatever it takes. But hope to charge for similar services analyst Edward Snowden probably fees but says it doesn’t charge in Gidari said it’s likely that phone and in an open, competitive market, and were collected for free or very every case, reported a similar technology companies under- the costs charged to the govern- This photo released by NASA shows a view of Mars that was stitched together by cheaply. Facebook says it doesn’t amount, collecting between $3 mil- charge because they don’t want to ments by telecoms did not repre- images taken by NASA’s Viking Orbiter spacecraft. charge the government for access. lion and $5 million a year during the risk being accused of making a false sent reasonable prices as defined in And while Microsoft, Yahoo and same period. claim against the government, the code of federal regulations,” the Panel: Next Mars rover Google won’t say how much they Companies also began to auto- which carries stiff penalties. lawsuit said. charge, the American Civil Liberties mate their systems to make it easier. Online companies in particular The phone companies have Union found that email records can The ACLU’s Soghoian found in 2009 tend to undercharge because they asked the judge to dismiss the case. should gather rocks, soil be turned over for as little as $25. that Sprint had created a website don’t have established accounting Prather’s lawsuit claims whistle- LOS ANGELES: Explore an intriguing spot To save money, engineers will dust off Industry says it doesn’t profit allowing law enforcement to track systems, and hiring staff to track blower status. If he wins, he stands on Mars. Hunt for ancient signs of Martian Curiosity’s blueprints and reuse spare parts from the hundreds of thousands of the location data of its wireless cus- costs is more expensive than not to collect a percentage - estimated life. Bag a bunch of rocks and leave them where possible. There are also plans to government eavesdropping tomers for only $30 a month to charging the government at all, he anywhere from 12 percent to 25 on the surface for a future mission to possi- recycle the landing technology that deliv- requests it receives each year, and accommodate the approximately 8 said. “Government doesn’t have the percent - of the money recovered bly return. That’s what the next rover to ered the car-size rover to the surface. civil liberties groups want business- million requests it received in one manpower to wade through irrele- from the companies. —AP Mars should strive for, a NASA-appointed The future rover would build on discov- es to charge. They worry that gov- team said Tuesday. eries of past Mars missions. Spirit and ernment surveillance will become The scientists released a 154-page Opportunity, launched in 2004, uncovered too cheap as companies automate report outlining ambitious science goals plenty of geologic evidence of past water. their responses. And if companies for a red planet mission that NASA wants to Curiosity found a habitable environment gave away customer records for launch in 2020. where microbes could thrive and recently free, wouldn’t that encourage While the plan marked the first concrete began a long road trip toward a mountain. uncalled-for surveillance? step toward returning a piece of Mars to Scientists want Curiosity’s successor to But privacy advocates also want Earth, NASA said it’s unclear how - or when carry high-tech instruments that can peer companies to be upfront about - the cache would be retrieved. at rocks on a microscopic level in search of what they charge and alert cus- “We’re not signing up to a timetable or a chemical clues that might have been left tomers after an investigation has commitment for a follow-on mission,” said behind by microbes, if they existed. Since concluded that their communica- NASA sciences chief John Grunsfeld, the Martian surface is a harsh environment tions were monitored. adding that it’s up to future planners to with no signs of water, the panel said it did- “What we don’t want is surveil- decide the next steps. n’t make sense to look for current life. lance to become a profit center,” NASA has the ultimate say on what the That would be a “foolish investment,” said Christopher Soghoian, the future rover will accomplish within its $1.5 said Brown University planetary geologist ACLU’s principal technologist. But billion budget, excluding the cost of the John Mustard, who headed the NASA- “it’s always better to charge $1. It launch vehicle. appointed team. creates friction, and it creates trans- One thing is for certain: The rover will be The only time NASA tackled the life parency” because it generates a modeled after Curiosity, which captivated question head-on was during the Viking paper trail that can be tracked. the world last summer with its daring land- missions of 1976. The twin spacecraft’s Regardless of price, the surveil- ing in Gale Crater near the Martian equator. rudimentary experiments failed to turn up lance business is growing. The US Despite the successful touchdown, the signs of life. Many Mars researchers believe government long has enjoyed $2.5 billion mission ran over budget and that question can be best answered by access to phone networks and high- faced technical problems during develop- examining Martian rocks and dirt under a speed Internet traffic under the US ment. microscope on Earth. —AP Communications Assistance for Law Enforcement Act to catch suspected criminals and terrorists. More recently, the FBI has pushed tech- WASHINGTON: This Jan. 22, 2009 file photo shows the Microsoft sign outside the headquarters campus in Austronauts leave space nology companies like Google and Redmond. —AP Skype to guarantee access to real- time communications on their serv- station for outside chores ices. And, as shown by recent dis- CAPE CANAVERAL: Two astronauts left to Earth. Other cargo ships, including closures about the NSA’s surveil- the International Space Station on those flown by Russia, Europe and Japan, lance practices, the U.S. intelligence Tuesday for a day of maintenance tasks, incinerate in the atmosphere after they community has an intense interest including installing a power cable need- leave the station. in analyzing data and content that ed for a new Russian laboratory due to Cassidy, who was making his fifth flow through American technology be installed this year. spacewalk, installed a power and data companies to gather foreign intelli- Veteran NASA astronaut Christopher cable from the station’s Unity connecting gence. Cassidy and rookie partner Luca node to the Russian part of the The FBI said it could not say how Parmitano, the first Italian to make a International Space Station, completing much it spends on industry reim- spacewalk, left the station’s Quest airlock one of the main goals of the outing. bursements because payments are shortly after 8 am EDT (1200 GMT) as the The cable is part of a system that will made through a variety of pro- orbital outpost sailed about 260 miles be needed for a new Russian multi-pur- grams, field offices and case funds. (418 km) over the Arabian Sea. pose laboratory called Nauka that is due In an emailed statement, the “Have fun out there,” crewmate Karen to launch later this year. agency said when charges are ques- Nyberg radioed from inside the station, a The new module will replace Russia’s tionable, it requests an explanation $100 billion research complex owned by Pirs airlock, as well as serve as a research and tries to work with the carrier to the United States, Russia, Japan and 11 laboratory and berthing port. Russian understand its cost structure. European nations, including Italy. cosmonauts will install the rest of the Technology companies have Cassidy’s first task was to replace a cable on a future spacewalk. been a focus of law enforcement failed backup component of the station’s Before heading back inside the sta- and the intelligence community Ku-band communications system. tion’s airlock around 2 p.m. EDT/1800 since 1994, when Congress allotted Parmitano, meanwhile, maneuvered him- GMT, Cassidy and Parmitano retrieved a $500 million to reimburse phone self to the right side of the station’s solar failed camera, put a cover on the shuttle’s companies to retrofit their equip- power truss to pick up a pair of science no-longer-needed docking port and ment to accommodate wiretaps on experiments that will be returned to began reconfiguring cables that could be the new digital networks. Earth aboard a future Space Exploration used to control the station’s electrical sys- But as the number of law Technologies’ cargo ship. tem in case of a partial power outage. enforcement requests for data grew The privately owned California-based They also repositioned some equipment and carriers upgraded their technol- company, also known as SpaceX, is one delivered aboard a Dragon capsule in ogy, the cost of accommodating of two U.S. firms hired by NASA to fly car- March. The gear - two grapple bars - may government surveillance requests go to the station since the retirement of be needed by future spacewalkers increased. AT&T, for example, said it CALIFORNIA: This March 15, 2013, file photo shows Google bicycles at the Google campus in Mountain the space shuttles in 2011. removing station radiator panels. The devotes roughly 100 employees to View. —AP SpaceX’s Dragon cargo capsules, astronauts plan to resume work on the which also are being developed to fly jumper cables during a follow-up space- astronauts, are the only ones that return walk on July 16. —Reuters Japan officials use public Microsoft reports hackings linked to report by Google researcher settings on Google Groups BOSTON: Microsoft Corp said hackers have had released software to fix it. Officials attacked some computers by exploiting a with Microsoft declined to comment when TOKYO: Japan’s bureaucrats used tions, including hospital records, on the set-up page allows anyone siders. We have taken corrective bug in Windows first disclosed two months asked if they believed Ormandy’s disclo- the wrong privacy settings for was publicly available. to see messages, although this steps,” an environment ministry ago by a Google Inc researcher, who came sure of the vulnerability had led to the Google Groups online discussions, The Yomiuri, the world’s can be limited by a drop-down spokesman told AFP. under fire at the time for publicizing the attacks. Ormandy also drew attention allowing anyone to see internal biggest-selling newspaper, also menu. The memos were not “top flaw without going to the software compa- because he lashed out in a blog posting at memos including on negotiating admitted its journalists had been A spokesman for the environ- secret”, but were not for public ny first. long-time Google rival Microsoft, saying positions for an international using the wrong settings on ment ministry admitted officials release, the spokesman admitted. Microsoft provided few details about that its security division was difficult to treaty, the government said yes- Google Groups, and may have have used the service to share Officials from at least six govern- the attacks. In an advisory on Tuesday, it work with. He advised other researchers to terday. revealed draft stories and inter- information, including planned ment ministries and agencies said hackers had launched “targeted use pseudonyms and anonymous email Environment ministry man- view transcripts to anyone who talking points for negotiations on used the wrong settings on attacks,” a term generally used by security when communicating with the software darins were among those who wanted to see them. an international mercury trade Google Groups, allowing out- experts to refer to cyber attacks on corpo- maker. “It leaves a slightly bad taste in the used the default settings on Google Groups allows users to treaty. siders to see internal exchanges, rate or government targets, with espionage mouth to see somebody who is a Google Google Groups, which allow pub- establish or join discussions on The Japanese delegation also national broadcaster NHK said. and sabotage as the motive. security researcher have a pop at lic access to discussion threads, any subject, which can be uploaded its exchanges with their The Yomiuri also reported that Google security engineer Tavis Microsoft,” said Graham Cluley, an inde- instead of limiting them to mem- accessed either by email or Swiss and Norwegian counter- hospitals and schools had Ormandy’s disclosure in May was contro- pendent security researcher. bers only. through the web. parts. The treaty is expected to be uploaded patients’ and students’ versial because he posted technical infor- Ormandy could not be reached. A The mass-selling Yomiuri The user who sets up the signed in the autumn. records. At least one political par- mation on the Web that described the bug Google spokesman declined comment, Shimbun said it found more than group can determine who can “It was problematic that the ty also used the service, revealing in the Windows operating system, which saying that Ormandy’s Windows project 6,000 cases where information join the group and who can view processes around ongoing nego- a list of its supporters, the Yomiuri some experts said could help malicious was personal and not related to his work from public or private organisa- and post messages. The default tiations could be seen by out- said. —AFP hackers launch attacks, before Microsoft for the company. —Reuters THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 HEALTH & SCIENCE Noise and the city: Hong Kong’s struggle for quiet

HONG KONG: With its pounding construction Fogarty, 28, says construction work near his dents are exposed at home to traffic noise over sites and constant roar of traffic, Hong Kong is a home is “a form of torture”. the government’s 70-decibel guideline, also the cacophony of noise with experts and residents “The building shakes and you feel it through World Health Organization’s recommended limit. calling on authorities to keep a lid on the din for your chest when you’re sitting on the sofa,” he Alternatives to noisy machinery like percus- the sake of public health. In a densely-packed told AFP - but it’s the drivers leaning on their car sive pile drivers-which lay foundations for new city with a shortage of housing, older buildings horns outside his flat which he hates the most, buildings-are also difficult to find, says the EPD’s are frequently torn down and replaced as devel- seemingly undeterred by regulations. In 2011 the Principal Environmental Protection Officer opers snap up prime real estate. On the roads the government included the effects of noise for the Maurice Yeung. “We are finding sites to construct battle between buses, trams and cars is won by first time in its regular Thematic Household residential buildings because we are facing a the piercing drone of continuous car horns. For Survey Report, which showed that 36 percent of shortage of flats. We understand that people will banker Kenny Chen, 35, the last 15 months have people had suffered noise disturbance at home. find it noisy and we try to control it with the been a nightmare as the area around his apart- Seven percent said they were “disturbed a lot or restricted hours,” Yeung told AFP-although some ment block in the upmarket central Mid-Levels nearly all the time”. The effects on mental health residents complain that works are done outside neighborhood has surrendered to juddering con- can be detrimental, says Assistant Professor those hours, which is possible with a special per- struction sites. Arthur Mak of the department of psychiatry at mit. Yeung added that the government was deal- “To lay the foundations they have to pound the Chinese University of Hong Kong. “For people ing with problems “inherited” by the rapid expan- steel into the ground which happens twice a day with anxiety and depression noise can exacer- sion of Hong Kong in the last three decades-the - the noise and the vibrations are really affecting bate their condition,” he told AFP. population has gone from 5.7 million in 1990 to us,” he told AFP, saying that as one construction Patients who live in public housing have even over 7 million today. Public policy think tank Civic project finished, another two began. “My wife gone as far as asking him for a medical recom- Exchange, which recently submitted a critique of had twins a month ago - she was on maternity mendation for them to move elsewhere. noise policy to lawmakers, says the authorities leave at home but because of all the noise she Relocation can take up to two years. “I have done could do more. “If you are not providing a good became very anxious and possibly the babies did that lots of times, where the level of noise is con- environment, whether it’s for citizens or business, HONG KONG: In this picture taken on July 9, 2013 a worker uses a pneumat- too. She ended up giving birth two and a half tributing adversely to mental condition,” he said. the competitiveness of Hong Kong will decrease,” months early.” His neighbor Debra Rull, a 60-year- “The people asking for it are desperate.” Hong said CEO Yan-yan Yip, calling for more research ic drill on the pavement as pedestrians walk past.—AFP old homemaker from Hong Kong who has lived Kong police received more than 45,000 noise into advanced technologies and the strict imple- in the city for 50 years, says the noise has got complaints in 2012, while the Environmental mentation of current noise restrictions, as well as markedly worse in the last decade. Protection Department receives around 5,000 public education. “I think there are ways that we African American blood “The construction and roadworks are getting noise complaints a year. The EPD figure has can get both development and quality of life,” quite something to put up with - it’s continuous. I decreased slightly over the past decade, a reduc- she says. “We are talking about green growth - cancer patients ‘worse’ think the government is concentrating too much tion it attributes to the steps it has taken. It green and development, instead of green or on urban renewal.” Hong Kong may boast some admits, though, that more than a million resi- development.”—AFP NEW YORK: Despite receiving similar cancer, Ferrajoli and her colleagues exam- of the world’s most expensive apartments, but cancer treatment as other patients, ined medical records from MD Anderson rapid growth in the past 30 years means resi- African Americans with a common form and from Duke University Medical Center dents live cheek by jowl even on the outskirts of of leukemia didn’t live as long in a new in Durham, North Carolina. Over a five- the city beside busy main roads. While air pollu- study that was aimed at understanding year period, between 1997 and 2011, tion continues to be a major concern in the city, the racial disparity in cancer outcomes. more than 1,600 patients were treated for noise is also affecting lifestyles. “Noise is a major “We don’t have an answer” to explain it, chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL), the environmental problem - it’s an important aspect said Dr Alessandra Ferrajoli, the study’s second most common form of leukemia. of our quality of life that is being compromised,” senior author and an associate professor About four out of every 100,000 peo- Professor TW Wong, a research professor special- of medicine at MD Anderson Cancer ple in the US are diagnosed with CLL each izing in public health at the Chinese University of Center in Houston. year. Of those in Ferrajoli’s study, 84 were Hong Kong, told AFP. Though all patients received equal African American and 1,571 were not. Her “We need to do more to protect the residen- medical treatment, the black patients group found evidence that African tial population.” Wong was part of a research tended to have chromosome mutations American patients received the same team on a government commissioned report last and other characteristics that are known quality of treatment as the other patients. year that found noise was “the most often com- to be linked with a worse prognosis. It’s However, 56 percent of the African plained (about) issue of the living environment”. likely “not related to the treatment,” American patients had a complete Traffic, renovations, neighbors, construction and Ferrajoli speculated, “it’s probably a differ- response to treatment while 58 percent demolition were the worst bugbears, with sleep ent biology.” Previous studies have found of patients in the other group also went disturbance and general annoyance the biggest that African Americans are more likely to into remission, the researchers report in health effects. “Annoyance is a valid measure of die from cancer than whites (see Reuters the journal Cancer. mental health,” Wong told AFP. “A large propor- Health story of February 5, 2013 here:). “We noted that when we treated tion of people are sleep disturbed. There should For instance, researchers reported last (African Americans), they will respond in a be a lowering of the acceptable levels of noise.” year that blacks have a greater chance of similar way to the rest of the population, The government has brought in measures dying after a kidney cancer diagnosis, but their responses don’t last. They had including resurfacing roads, restricting hours for despite having better odds of developing worse outcomes,” Ferrajoli told Reuters construction work, promoting the use of quieter a more easy-to-treat form of the cancer. Health. Over years of follow up, the machinery and creating better-insulated homes, Other research has shown that black researchers found that 21 percent of the but many residents still suffer. IT worker Alan HONG KONG: A woman blocks her ears as she walks past roadworks in Hong Kong. women are more likely to die from breast African American patients and nine per- cancer than white women. cent of the other patients died. The reasons for these disparities are In addition, African American patients Obama claims broccoli is his favorite food not certain, but experts have often point- typically went 36 months without a recur- ed to delays in diagnosis or treatment rence of the cancer, while the other WASHINGTON: President Barack Obama likes his way across the country: Burgers in a pounds of broccoli to the White House in resulting from difficulty accessing care or patients made it 61 months. Ferrajoli said burgers, hot dogs and such, but when it came Washington suburb with Russian Prime Minister protest, and the vegetable was farmed out to differences in socioeconomic status, there must be some differences in the time to answer a kid journalist’s question about Dmitry Medvedev; ribs in Asheville, North homeless shelters. Ferrajoli said. cancer between African American and his favorite food, broccoli was the first word that Carolina; hot dogs at a basketball game in Obama was clearly enjoying the spirit of the To look at what other differences other patients to explain why they don’t sprang from his lips. This revelation came on Dayton, Ohio; and a tasty pastry called a kringle anti-obesity event, called the “Kids’ State Dinner,” might exist among patients with blood fare as well.—Reuters Tuesday at a White House event that recognized in Wisconsin. Obama’s disclosure puts him stark- which recognized winning recipes like “picky children who won a healthy recipe contest, as ly at odds with the culinary tastes of George eater pita pizza pockets” and “sweet potato part of first lady Michelle Obama’s anti-obesity H.W. Bush, who as president famously declared turkey sliders.” “Food can be fun. It can be Medicare plan on Alzheimer’s campaign. Having fun with the children, Obama his dislike for broccoli. healthy,” Obama said. “You are setting up habits agreed to take two questions from the journal- “And I haven’t liked it since I was a little kid that are going to be great your entire life.” He test dismays advocates ists among them. The first asked what was and my mother made me eat it. And I’m presi- joked that he’s not much of a cook. “(In) my fami- Obama’s favorite food. Broccoli was the presi- dent of the United States, and I’m not going to ly, when they cooked vegetables, they were all CHICAGO: Alzheimer’s experts plan to as critical for the company because most peo- dential reply, according to a White House aide. eat any more broccoli!” Bush said in 1990. boiled.” Since then, he said, he has learned that protest proposed Medicare guidelines that ple begin showing signs of dementia at This from a politician who has literally eaten Steamed broccoli growers shipped thousands of healthy food can also taste good.—Reuters would deny coverage of an Eli Lilly diagnostic around age 65, the age when Medicare cover- test for the disease unless patients are taking age kicks in. “Restricting coverage could hin- part one of several clinical trials in which the der a timely and accurate diagnosis,” said Dr Australia’s Barrier Reef slips into ‘poor’ health $3,000 test is being used. Eli Lilly and Co and Daniel Skovronsky, president and chief execu- the Alzheimer’s Association have objected to tive of Avid Radiopharmaceuticals Inc, a Lilly SYDNEY: Australia hailed “solid” progress on water extreme events”. Despite reductions in nitrogen at-risk in 2014 without significant action on ram- the draft guidelines, issued last week by the subsidiary. “It may stifle future innovation.” quality at the Great Barrier Reef yesterday but (seven percent), pesticides (15 percent), sediment pant coastal and resources development seen as a US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services, In addition to Lilly, the draft guidance admitted that overall conditions were now “poor” (six percent) and pollutants key to outbreaks of threat to its survival. Butler unveiled lofty targets the agency that runs Medicare. Both plan to could affect imaging agents being developed as it battles UNESCO threats to downgrade its her- devastating crown-of-thorns starfish (13 percent), for improving water quality over the next five pressure CMS to change the guidelines, say- by General Electric Co’s GE Healthcare, and itage status. Environment Minister Mark Butler the report said the reef was in strife. years, aiming for at least a 50 percent reduction on ing they deny some patients the chance to Piramal Imaging, a unit of India’s Piramal released a report card showing that the reef’s Major flooding in 2010-2011 followed by pow- 2009 levels of nitrogen pollutants linked to crown- get an accurate diagnosis. The final rule goes Enterprises, which acquired Bayer AG’s agent health had slumped since 2009 due to cyclones erful cyclone Yasi had badly damaged the world’s of-thorns starfish outbreaks, 20 percent for sedi- into effect in October. last year. Both have compounds under review and floods, despite progress on reducing agricul- largest coral reef, degrading water quality and ment runoff and 60 percent for pesticides. CMS said it made the decision because at the FDA and the European Medicines tural runoff. “Extreme weather events significantly depleting overall cover by 15 percent. “Full recov- “In spite of solid improvement, data tells us that there was not enough evidence that the test - Agency. All three are radioactive tracers impacted the overall condition of the marine envi- ery will take decades,” the report said. A major lon- poor water quality is continuing to have a detri- a radioactive drug used with PET imaging - designed to light up deposits of an ronment which declined from moderate to poor gitudinal study of the reef’s health, published last mental effect on reef health,” Butler said. “To secure improves patient care. At the same time, it Alzheimer’s-related protein called beta amy- overall,’ the report said. year, revealed that coral cover had more than the resilience of the Great Barrier Reef it is critical conceded there was evidence the tests could loid when used in conjunction with brain It said key reef ecosystems were showing halved due to storms, predatory starfish outbreaks that we build on the momentum of the previous rule out Alzheimer’s in difficult-to-diagnose scans known as positron emission tomogra- “declining trends in condition due to continuing and bleaching linked to climate change over the reef plan with a focus on improving water quality cases and help identify good candidates for phy, or PET. Scientists believe these poor water quality, cumulative impacts of climate past 27 years. UNESCO has threatened to down- and land management practices through ambi- clinical trials into more effective treatments or Alzheimer’s-linked plaques start developing change and increasing frequency and intensity of grade the reef’s world heritage status to declare it tious but achievable targets.”—AFP prevention strategies. Patient advocates and at least a decade before symptoms occur, and the company say the decision might slow the spotting changes in the brain early offers the development of future diagnostic tests for best chance to intervene with new drugs that Alzheimer’s and deny patients with symp- might prevent or delay the disease. toms the chance to find out whether they Instead of agreeing to routinely pay for have Alzheimer’s or some other disease that the $3,000 test, CMS proposed “Coverage causes symptoms of dementia. with Evidence Development,” a designation Several experts say there is still much to that suggests there are still gaps in the evi- learn about what a positive scan might mean, dence over the benefits of the test. That and believe CMS’ decision to at least cover allows CMS to gather more data by paying for scans used in clinical trials may help in the scans in patients taking part in trials. CMS search for treatments for the fatal, brain-wast- could use the data to render a decision on ing disease that affects 5 million Americans wider coverage. and 38 million people worldwide. “Essentially, they acknowledge that there is the possibility that coverage is important, Hindering timely diagnosis but they don’t understand it quite yet,” said The US Food and Drug Administration has Maria Carrillo, vice president of medical and already approved Lilly’s compound, known as scientific Relations at the Alzheimer’s AUSTRALIA: File photos released by the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority show bleached section of Australia’s Great Amyvid. But Medicare reimbursement is seen Association.—Reuters Barrier Reef, which scientists have warned could be killed by global warming within decades.—AFP photos Air pollution boosts lung, heart risks

PARIS: Long-term exposure to particu- records of the health and lifestyle of cubic meter per year. The UN’s World drove the risk of lung cancer up by 18 35 studies in 12 countries. late air pollution boosts the risk of lung 2,095 people who died from lung can- Health Organization (WHO) has guide- percent. And every increase of 10 It looked at PM2.5, PM10 and four air cancer, even at concentrations below cer during an average 13-year monitor- lines recommending that annual expo- micrograms per cubic meter of PM10 pollutants: carbon monoxide, sulphur the legal maximum, said a European ing period. The team sourced environ- sure be limited to 20 micrograms per boosted risk by 22 percent, including dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and ozone. study published yesterday. A separate mental data around the individuals’ cubic meter for PM10 and 10 micro- for adenocarcinoma, a type of lung can- They found that even a brief spike in report said short-term surge in these home addresses, then calculated their grams per cubic meter for PM2.5 cer associated with non-smokers. exposure-the kind that happens when a particles or other gas pollutants in the exposure to levels of particulate matter- Unexpectedly, the new study found a In an independent comment, Jon city calls a smog alert-caused the risk of air also increases the risk of heart fail- the gritty residual pollution from fossil- cancer risk at every level, and con- Ayres, a professor of environmental and hospitalization or death from heart fail- ure. European epidemiologists said fuel-burning power stations, cars and firmed that the higher the level, the respiratory medicine at the Institute of ure to rise by two or three percentage they had found an unmistakable link factories. Particulate matter falls into greater the risk. Occupational and Environmental points. The only exception was ozone, a between lung cancer and localized air two categories: PM2.5, meaning parti- The results took account of smoking, Medicine in Birmingham, central well-known respiratory irritant at the pollution by particulate matter. cles measuring no more than 2.5 diet and occupation-which can skew England, praised the design and scope ground level. Modeling the situation for The evidence comes from 17 high- micrometers, 30 times smaller than a the risk picture. “We found no threshold of the study. “There is now no doubt the United States, the study suggests quality investigations carried out human hair, and the slightly coarser below which there was no risk,” said Ole that fine particles are a cause of lung that if the average PM2.5 were reduced among 312,000 people in nine variant, PM10. Raaschou-Nielsen from the Danish cancer,” he told the Science Media by 3.9 micrograms per cubic meter, European countries, according to the Current EU air quality standards limit Cancer Society Research Centre in Centre in London. nearly 8,000 heart-failure hospitaliza- paper in The Lancet Oncology. These PM10 exposure to a yearly average of Copenhagen. “The more the worse, the In a separate study in The Lancet, sci- tions would be averted each year and earlier studies, which had already been 40 micrograms per cubic meter, and less the better.” Every increase of five entists at the University of Edinburgh in the country would save a third of a bil- published, were based on reliable PM2.5 exposure to 25 micrograms per micrograms per cubic meter of PM2.5 Scotland carried out a meta-analysis of lion dollars annually.—AFP THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 HEALTH & SCIENCE Testing sensors as safety net for seniors at home

WASHINGTON: It could mean no motion sensors on the front door, a developed for video games, to meas- “When we started this team, I said the high-tech approach has to be “less more having to check up on Mom or favorite chair, even the refrigerator, ure subtle changes in walking. (Yes, it we are not going to make anybody about, ‘We’re watching you, Grandma,’ Dad every morning: Motion sensors and then send an alert to a family can distinguish visitors.) wear anything or push any buttons, but ‘Hey, Grandma, how come you on the wall and a monitor under the member if there’s too little activity The researchers installed the sensor because my mother refused and I didn’t make coffee this morning?’” he mattress one day might automatically over a certain period of time. Other package in apartments at the universi- don’t think she’s any different than a said. Sensor prices are another hurdle, alert you to early signs of trouble well gadgets can make pill bottles buzz ty-affiliated TigerPlace community and lot of other people in this world,” Rantz although Makowka said they’re drop- before an elderly loved one gets sick when it’s time for a dose and text a in a Cedar Falls, Iowa, senior complex. said. Monitoring raises important pri- ping. Various kinds already on the or suffers a fall. Research is growing caregiver if it’s not taken, or promise On-site nurses received automatic vacy questions, about just what is market can run from about $70 to sev- with high-tech gadgets that promise to switch off a stove burner that’s left emails about significant changes in tracked and who has access to it, cau- eral hundred, plus monthly service new safety nets for seniors deter- on too long. residents’ activity. One study found tioned Jeff Makowka of AARP. To work, plans.—AP mined to live on their own for as long Researchers at the University of that after a year, residents who agreed as possible. Missouri aim to go further: Their to be monitored were functioning bet- “It’s insurance in case something experiments show that certain auto- ter than an unmonitored control should happen,” is how Bob Harrison, matic monitoring can spot changes - group, presumably because nurses 85, describes the unobtrusive moni- such as restlessness in bed or a drop in intervened sooner at signs of trouble, tors being tested in his apartment at daytime activity - that occur 10 days to Rantz said. the TigerPlace retirement community two weeks before a fall or a trip to the The bigger question is whether in Columbia, Mo. doctor or hospital. simply alerting a loved one, not a Living at home - specialists call it “We were blown away that we nurse, might also help. Now, with a aging in place - is what most people could actually detect this,” said nursing new grant from the National Institutes want for their later years. Americans professor Marilyn Rantz, an aging-in- of Health, Rantz will begin expanding 40 and older are just as worried about place specialist who is leading the the research to see how this monitor- losing their independence as they are research. She compares it to “a vital ing works in different senior housing - about losing their memory, according sign of my physical function.” and this time, participants can decide to a recent survey by the Associated Why would the gadgets work? That if they’d like a family member or friend Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs monitor under the mattress can meas- to get those alerts, in addition to a Research. ure pulse and respiratory patterns to nurse. Common-sense interventions like see if heart failure is worsening before Rantz says embedding sensors in grab bars in bathrooms and taping someone realizes he or she is becom- the home is important because too down rugs to prevent tripping can ing short of breath. More nighttime many older adults forget or don’t want make homes safer as seniors deal with bathroom trips can indicate a brewing to wear those older emergency-call chronic illnesses. Technology is the urinary tract infection. A change in buttons - including Rantz’s own moth- next frontier, and a far cry from those gait, such as starting to take shorter or er, who lay helpless on her floor for emergency-call buttons seniors some- slower steps, can signal increased risk eight hours after tripping and badly times wear to summon help. for a fall. Basic motion sensors can’t breaking a shoulder. Rantz said her COLUMBIA: Photo provided by the University of Missouri, Bob Harrison Already, some companies are offer- detect that. So Rantz’s team adapted mother never fully recovered, and six writes in his TigerPlace apartment as different sensors mounted near the ing monitoring packages that place the Microsoft Kinect 3-D camera, months later died. ceiling record activity patterns.—AP WHAT’S ON THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 What to do in Kuwait this summer?

Visit the Sadu House The Scientific Center, Kuwait Fantasy Cinema. The place is fully region and the middle East. The rink con- SEND US YOUR Al-Sadu Society is dedicated to pre- The Scientific Center is designed to equipped with a police station of its own sists of two main rinks - the first is an serving, documenting and promoting the reflect the Islamic arts and culture. It and ambulance service, shops where Olympic rink that is bigger and can INSTAGRAM PICS rich and diverse textile heritage of the has three main fascinating attractions: souvenirs and other merchandise can be accommodate around 1600 viewers and Kuwaiti Bedouin, from the nomadic weav- Aquarium, Discovery Place and IMAX purchased, and a parking lot that can also provides shoe-changing rooms, a hat’s more fun than clicking a beauti- ing of the desert to the urban weaving of Cinema. The Aquarium presents an accommodate around 3000 vehicles. skating equipment store and a first-aid ful picture? Sharing it with others! Let the town. Sadu is a traditional Bedouin ecosystem of desert, sea, and coastal Address: Al-Madina Al-Tarfihiya, Al - facility. The second is a smaller rink other people see the way you see art that involves weaving geometric edge. Visitors of the Aquarium explore Doha accommodating nearly 600 visitors. Both W designs on dyed and colored wool that is the lives of beings and animals in their Opening Hours: Sundays - Fridays: 5 arenas have a cafeteria serving light Kuwait - through your lens. Friday Times will spun by hand to create magnificent car- environments. When entering the pm to 1 am (Summers) and 3 pm to 11 snacks and drinks. The rink occasionally feature snapshots of Kuwait through Instagram pets, rugs, and Bedouin tent screens. Discovery Place, visitors gain scientific pm (Winters) It is important to note that organizes different music festivals, kids’ feeds. If you want to share your Instagram pho- Inside the Sadu House, visitors have the experience through educational Mondays are allocated only for women shows and award ceremonies. The rink tos, email us at opportunity to see Bedouin women games. Highly specialized trainers are and men are not allowed on Mondays. offers viewers a great chance to get a [email protected] weaving. Sadu House is located near the assigned to guide visitors through Contact No.: 24879455 glimpse of an Olympic-sized rink. National Museum. It is considered to be hand-on playful training. On entering Address: Al - Soor Street, First Ring the center of Bedouin art aiming at pre- the IMAX Cinema, one can watch 3D Take the kids to Al-Shaab Road, Shamiya, near Discovery Mall senting Kuwait’s roots and protecting movies played on the giant screen. Leisure Park Opening Hours: 8:30 am to 10 pm hief of the Ajman tribe Sultan Bin Hethleen Bedouin crafts from eradication. Visitors can enjoy watching education- Al-Sha’ab Leisure Park is located on Contact No.: 22411151 / 22411152 announced welcoming Ramadan greeters on Address: Arabian Gulf Street, Next to al and documentary presentations and the southern coast of Kuwait City. It Cthe sixth day of the holy month, which falls the National Museum of Kuwait, Kuwait get engaged into a highly imaginative combines more than 70 special rides Sail to Failaka Island next Monday at his dewaniya in Al-Agailah after the City experience. on the level of the Middle East. It also Failaka Island is one of the most gor- Taraweeh prayer. On this occasion, Bin Hethleen Opening Hours: Saturdays to Address: The Scientific Center, Gulf provides integrated services, including geous and famous historical islands in Thursdays: Mornings from 08 am to 1 pm. Road restaurants, a mall, and rides and Kuwait. It combines the ancient and con- extends best wishes to HH the Amir Sheikh Sabah Evenings from 4 pm to 8 pm. Contact: 1848888 games that meet the interests of all temporary history of Kuwait. The island is Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah, HH the Crown Prince Sheikh Contact: 22432395 E-mail: [email protected] age groups. The park also offers indoor rich in cultural and historical landmarks Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah and to citizens and resi- E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.tsck.org.kw games as well as outdoor sports like from different ages from the end of the dents in Kuwait. Website: www.alsadu.org.kw bungee jumping, pony rides and ice- third millennium till the modern age. The Visit Dar Al-Funoon gallery skating. Families can also access facili- island presents the aftermath of the Iraqi View Boushahri Gallery Dar Al-Funoon, which was estab- ties such as the movies and the deli- invasion and the Gulf War. The trauma of The Boushahri Art Gallery was estab- lished in 1993, focuses on contempo- cious meals at the restaurants. At Al- the war has been preserved on the Announcements lished in 1982 by Jawad Boushahri, the rary Arab art as well as Arabic calligra- Sha’ab Leisure Park, all these facilities island; However, the island still makes for are maintained according to interna- a great visit containing ancient relics and tional standards. remains of past civilizations. The island Indian Embassy Address: Baghdad Street, Block 11, makes a perfect spot and provides facili- sets up helpline Salmiya ties for fishing, boating, swimming, sail- he Indian Embassy in Kuwait has set Opening Hours: All days from 5 pm ing and water sports. There are regular up helpline in order to assist Indian to 1 am (Summer) and 10 am - 12 boat rides and ferries going to and fro expatriates in registering any com- Midnight on weekends. the island. T Contact: 25613777 Address: North of the Persian Gulf, plaint regarding the government’s ongoing E-mail: [email protected] 20km off the coast of Kuwait City campaign to stamp out illegal residents Website: www.shaabpark.com Cruise Details: The KPTC (Kuwait from the country. The embassy said in Public Transport Company) provides fer- press release yesterday that it amended its Kuwait National Museum ries to and from Failaka Island every day previous statement and stated if there is The Kuwait National Museum hosts a from Ras-Salmiya near Scientific Center. any complaint, the same could be con- range of items such as fossils, bones, Contact KPTC Marine services at veyed at the following (as amended): Islamic artifacts, and pottery tools that 22328814. Operations Department, Ministry of reflect the culture, history and heritage of Interior, Kuwait. Fax: 22435580, Tel: the Kuwaiti society and the Islamic world. Aqua Park 24768146/25200334. It said the embassy The relics on display presents Kuwait’s Aqua park is one of the first water parks has been in regular contact with local ancient past, the development of the and the biggest of its kind in the whole of authorities regarding the ongoing check- Islamic nations and the impact of the dis- the gulf region. It covers over 60,000 cube ing of expatriates. The embassy has also covery of oil. Part of the Dar-Al-Athar-Al- meters of land and is conveniently located conveyed to them the concerns, fears and Islamiyah collection is also on display, and beside the Kuwait towers. It offers enter- apprehensions of the community in this a replica of the Muhallab II that graces the tainment for the whole family in the form regard. The authorities in Kuwait have con- Chairman of the Boushahri group who is phy. Exhibitions are held monthly entrance has also recently been restored of pools of different kinds, water slides, veyed that strict instructions have been also an acclaimed Kuwaiti sculptor. It is from October to May, and a special as a reminder of Kuwait’s seafaring past. water games, a diving club, sandy beaches issued to ensure that there is no harass- one of the oldest private art galleries in silk exhibition of arts and crafts is There is also a modern Planetarium, built and volleyball courts. It also offers chang- ment or improper treatment of expatriates the Middle East. This long established held in December. Between temporary by Carl Zeiss which is a pleasant educa- ing rooms for gents and ladies separately, gallery showcases contemporary regional exhibitions, items from the private tional experience for both adults and chil- prayer rooms, and sprinklers for cool show- by those undertaking checking. “The work. In order to create an awareness collection are on display, which can dren. The three major attractions in the ers. Aqua Park is the perfect spot to “chill- embassy would like to request Indian expa- toward art in Kuwait as a community be bought. The gallery is located museum are the heritage museum, the out” on a hot summer day. triates to ensure that they abide by all service, the Boushahri Art Gallery edu- between the Sheraton Hotel and the planetarium and the wooden ship. Address: Arabian Gulf Street, Kuwait local laws, rules and regulations regarding cates, supports and sponsors local and Arabian Gulf Street. The area itself is Address: Behind Sadu House, Arabian City, near Kuwait Towers residency, traffic and other matters,” the international artists, displaying their interesting thanks to its old Kuwaiti- Gulf Street Opening Hours: Summers: April to release read. It would be prudent to always paintings, potteries, ceramic portraitures, style houses and a large courtyard Contact No.: 22451195 October: Saturdays to Fridays 10am to 10 carry the Civil ID and other relevant docu- designs, photographers, sculptures and which includes a number of excellent Opening Hours: 8:30am to 12:30pm pm ments such as driving license, etc. In case much more. To encourage the Art lovers restaurants. and 4:30pm to 8:30pm (Summers); and 8 Contact No.: 22431960 / 22431961 / an Indian expatriate encounters any and educate society, Boushahri Art Address: Behbehani compound, am to 4 pm (Winters). The Museum is 22431963 improper treatment during checking, it Gallery offers many courses, seminars and Salhiya, House No. 28, Al-Watiah, closed on Sundays, Friday mornings and Website: www.aquaparkkuwait.com may be conveyed immediately with full lectures about Art. Kuwait City Saturday afternoons. details and contact particulars to the Address: Salmiya, Baghdad St., Opening Hours: Sundays to Green Island embassy at the following phone number Building Number: 36, in front of Al- Thursdays: 10 am to 1 pm Evenings: 4 Green Island is definitely a place to visit 67623639. These contact details are exclu- Laheeb Mosque pm to 8 pm Stop to view AL M. Gallery in a desert country like Kuwait. The artificial sively for the above-mentioned purpose Opening Hours: 10 am to 1 pm and 5 Contact: 22433138 AL M. Gallery is a contemporary fine art island is covered with greens, shrubs and only. pm to 9 pm. The museum is closed on E-mail: [email protected] gallery located in the heart of Kuwait City seedlings of all colors making it quite Friday and Thursday afternoons. Website: www.daralfunoon-kw.com in Salhia Complex. Gallery organizes exhi- unbelievable that the island is part of a Contact: 25621119/99770607 bitions of Kuwaiti, Middle Eastern and desert. The island also offers various enter- Issue of online visa Website: Bayt - Lothan by Indian embassy www.boushahrigroup.com/client/Photoan Bayt Lothan is dedicated to the pro- oreigners requiring visas for India need dArt.aspx motion of arts and crafts and is host to apply it online from 16th June 2013. to various exhibitions and displays FApplicants may log on to the Public Take a break at Al-Khiran Resort throughout the year. It covers an area portal at www.indianvisaonline.gov.in. The Al-Khiran resort is a relaxing “get- of 4,000 square meters on the Arabian After successful online submission, the hard away” from the mayhem of stressful city Gulf Street and caters to all tastes and copy, so generated, has to be signed by the life. The resort provides a soothing tran- themes, including sculpture, ceramic applicant and submitted with supporting quil environment that includes beautiful arts, jewelry and photography, as well documents in accordance with the type of green lawns, wide, well-defined roads, as contemporary art and calligraphy. visa along with the applicable fee in cash at ample parking spaces, and clean well- Watch out in the local press for details any of the two outsource centres at Sharq maintained beaches. It has many chalets of current and forthcoming exhibi- or Fahaheel. It is essential that applicants that are beautifully furnished and air-con- tions or seminars. There is also a small fill in their personal details as exactly avail- ditioned. The resort also offers a variety of coffee shop for basic refreshments able in their passports. Mismatch of any of other facilities such as football and bas- and for theatre lovers they also hold the personal details would lead to non- ketball courts, luxurious restaurants, drama classes throughout the year. acceptance of the application. Fees once yacht clubs, an amusement park for chil- Address: Gulf Street, beside Marina dren, electronic computer arcade and the Mall, in front of Corniche Hotel paid are non-refundable. All children would ‘Duza’ ballroom. The resort also provides Contact: 25755866 / 25727388 have to obtain separate visa on their variety in food as it includes a fast-food E-Mail: [email protected] respective passports. counter, and a counter that offers Opening Hours: Sundays to seafood, Italian and oriental food. Thursdays: 9 am to 1 pm; Evenings: 5 8th Expo Pakistan Address: Gulf Street, Al-Khiran district pm to 9 pm to commence in September Contact: 23951122 Website: International artists. tainment services which includes an he 8th Expo Pakistan will be held E-mail: [email protected] http://www.baytlothan.org Address: Salhia Complex, Gate 4, amphitheatre that can seat up to 700 per- from September 26 to 29 in Karachi. Website: www.khiranresort.com Mezzanine 2, Place 16. sons and hosts various concerts and the- THeld annually, Expo Pakistan is the Visit Ghadir Gallery, Kuwait Opening Hours: Sundays to Thursdays atre shows occasionally, swimming pools, biggest trade fair in the country showcas- Stop at the Tareq Rajab Museum The Al-Ghadir Gallery Kuwait is ded- 10 am to 3 pm and Evenings: 5 pm to 9 exotic restaurants, small waterfalls, and a ing the largest collection of Pakistan’s The Tareq Rajab Museum houses an icated to promote the Kuwaiti forma- pm kids’ castle. It also offers a tram that goes export merchandise and services. anthology of over thirty thousand items tive artist and writer Thuraya Al- Contact No.: 22996447 around the island periodically and several Foreign Exhibitors also use the event to collected over the last fifty years, of which Baqsami and successfully accom- E-mail: [email protected] walkways.. The island is also conveniently launch their products. Expo Pakistan 2012 approximately ten thousand are on per- plished 120 national and international Website: www.al-m-gallery.com located across the Kuwaiti waterfront span- was visited by delegates from 52 countries manent display. Tareq Sayed Rajab was solo art exhibitions, literary and poetry ning 21 km of the coastline enabling a and generated a business of over $ 518 the first Kuwaiti to be sent abroad to readings and musical events. It also Go to Kuwait Zoo magnificent view of the sea. It hosts million. A 16 member delegation from study art and archaeology and his collec- participates in charity activities world- Since its establishment years ago, the around 50,000 varieties of shrubs, trees, tion includes Islamic arts, ceramic, gold wide. The gallery offers varieties of art Kuwait Zoo is an entertaining place to visit and plants that envelop the entire island. Kuwait including reputable companies like and silver jewelry, English manuscripts, including paintings, frames, hand- and a ‘fun’ place to be with family. It Address: Arabian Gulf Street, Dasman, Al-Yasra Foods also took part in the last metal and glass works, old English cos- crafts, art materials and antiques. includes many species of animals and a Kuwait City exhibition. tumes, and musical instruments. His per- Address: Block 6, Street 5, Villa 40, train that goes around the entire zoo. The Opening Hours: 8 am to 11 pm everyday Expo Pakistan 2013 is being held under sonal collection includes over thirty thou- Mishref, Kuwait zoo also offers camel and horse rides. The Contact No.: 22526153 the auspices of the Trade Development sand Islamic treasures that were gathered Contact: 22435101, 22426240 zoo suffered extensive damages during Authority Pakistan. Details about the event over the years. The Museum is divided E-mail: the 1990 Iraqi Invasion. Nevertheless, Messila Water Village can be viewed www.expopakisan.gov.pk. into two parts: in Area A, calligraphy, [email protected] most of the maintenance work has been The Messila Water Village is perfect Further information and details of sponsor- manuscripts, ceramics, metalwork, glass, Website: finished, and the zoo reopened after the entertainment for the family on a hot sum- ship can be obtained from the office of jade, wood and stone carvings are exhib- www.ghadirgallerykuwait.com modification and renovation work was mer day. It contains huge aquatic games, Commercial Secretary, Pakistan Embassy, ited. Area B contains objects such as cos- completed. Part of these renovations in small and large swimming pools for adults Jabriya (25356594) during office hours. tumes, textiles, jewellery and musical Tour the Entertainment City early 1993 included the addition of new and children respectively, fountains and instruments produced in the Islamic The Entertainment City is located 20 animals. water slides. It contains water games like world. km from Kuwait City and provides com- Address: Airport Road, Omariya, off Ahmedoh Volcano, Noor Tower, Haneen Address: Jabriya, near the intersection plete entertainment for all members of the fifth ring road, (Route 55), Farwaniya Tower and Maraheb Tower. The park is well of the Fifth Ring Motorway and the the family. The city is divided into three Opening Hours: Mondays to maintained with changing rooms, towels, Write to us Abdulaziz Bin Abdilrahman al-Saud theme parks: The Arab world, the Saturdays: 8 am to 12pm and Evenings: lockers, first aid services, snack stalls and a Expressway (Fahaheel Expressway); Street International World and the Future World. 4pm to 8pm car park. Send to What’s On 5; Block12; House 16 The park offers more than 40 different E-mail: [email protected] Address: Souk Al- Dhakly, Arabian Gulf Opening Hours: Weekdays from 9 rides, lots of games to play, and stage Website: Street, Messila upcoming events, birthdays or am to 12 pm; Evenings: From 4 pm show unique to the Middle East. The www.raisaquaculture.net/drupal-5.7 Contact No.: 25652525 / 25651515 to 7 pm; Fridays: From 9 am to 12 major attractions to look out for in the Opening Hours: Everyday 10 am to 10 celebrations by email: pm. park include the City of Dreams, the City Skate at the Ice Skating Rink pm, however only women are allowed on [email protected] Contact: 25317358/25354916 of Sinbad and Ali Baba, the City of The Ice Skating Rink in Kuwait is a Saturdays, Mondays and Thursdays. Fax: 24835619 / 20 Website: www.trmkt.com Thunder and Hurricanes, the African boat, major landmark and a great sport facility Families are allowed on Sundays, Tuesdays, Grand Pix, Arabian Carousel and the and is the first of its kind in the Gulf Wednesdays and Fridays. WHAT’S ON THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013

GUST offers undergraduates, Embassy graduates full Masters, Information PhD scholarship EMBASSY OF AUSTRALIA he Gulf University for Science The Australian Embassy Kuwait does not and Technology (GUST) have a visa or immigration department. All TInternational Office has processing of visas and immigration matters announced to GUST’s Kuwaiti under- in conducted by The Australian Consulate-General graduate and graduate students the in Dubai. Email: [email protected] (VFS) opportunity to apply fora Master’s [email protected] (Visa Office); Tel: scholarships in Teaching of English to +971 4 355 1958 (VFS) - +971 4 508 7200 (Visa Speakers of other Languages (TESOL) Office); Fax: +971 4 355 0708 (Visa Office). In Kuwait ora Masters/PhD scholarships in a rec- applications can be lodged at the Australian Visa ommended business administration Application Centre 4B 1st Floor, Al-Banwan field at one of the international univer- Building Al-Qibla Area, Ali Al-Salem Street, opposite sities recommended by the GUST Scholarship Committee and accredited the Central Bank of Kuwait, Kuwait City, Kuwait. by the Ministry of Higher Education Working hours and days: 09:30 - 17:30; Sunday - (MOHE) and the Association to Thursday. Or visit their website www.vfs-au-gcc- Advance Collegiate Schools (AACSB). com for more information. Kuwait citizens can The purpose is to provide quality grad- apply for tourist visas on-line at uate education leading to a www.immi.gov.au/e visa/e676.htm. Masters/PhD degree for students with n n n n n n n proven academic track records and who have the desire to make a positive EMBASSY OF CANADA impact on GUST and the community as requirements and qualification criteria he Embassy of Canada in Kuwait a whole. have been put in placein order to deter- does not have a visa or immi- gration department. All pro- “This is an excellent opportunity for mine an applicant’s eligibility, such as T our graduates who would like to pursue having to have graduated with a mini- cessing of visa and immigration matters their education,” said Rounwah mum cumulative GPA of 3.5.Upon suc- including enquiries is conducted by the AdlyBseiso, International Program cessful completion of the scholarship, Canadian Embassy in Abu Dhabi. Coordinator at the Academic Affairs students are expected to return to Individuals who are interested in working, Department at GUST: “we are always try- GUST to teach in their chosen field. studying, visiting or immigrating to Canada ing to pinpoint opportunities for our GUST strives to provide its students should contact the Canadian Embassy in students and alumni to enhance their and graduates alike with the tools they Abu Dhabi, website: www.UAE.gc.ca or educational experience and prepare need to succeed within its walls and www.goingtocanada.gc.ca, E-mail: abdbi- them academically and socially for their outside. “We believe in our students and [email protected]. The careers and futures.” their accomplishments, and that is why Embassy of Canada is located at Villa 24, Al- Enjoy the taste of true espresso at The scholarships will include pay- we are excited about this new opportu- Mutawakei St, Block 4 in Daaiyah. Please Vergnano Cafe at Olympia Complex ment of the academic tuition, basic nity for them to showcase their talent visit our website at www.Kuwait.gc.ca. The medical insurance for the duration of and abilities to the world,” stated Bseiso. Embassy of Canada is open from 07:30 to he superior quality of the blends espresso to everyday life at home. the study periods, a monthly support For interested applicants, please 15:30 Sunday through Thursday. The recep- comes from the meticulous selec- Espresso is now available in Kuwait, for educational supplies andmaterial as submit your application by December tion is open from 07:30 to 12:30. Consular Ttion of the best raw materials avail- through Al-Sanabel Al-Thahabiya Est. Tel: well as a round-trip ticket to the institu- 31, 2013 from GUST’s International services for Canadian citizens are provided able, and from an extraordinary produc- 22413795/98. Espresso Vergnano can be tion. Financial support may be adjusted Office in room W1-102. You can find the from 09:00 until 12:00, Sunday through tion process. Cafe Vergnano is the first to ordered through www.taw9eel.com for married students. application online at Wednesday. introduce an innovation that brings all the Espresso Vergnano capsules are compati- Due to the competitive nature of https://www.gust.edu.kw/event/gust_g n n n n n n n passion and pleasure of the perfect ble with other espresso machines. these scholarships, certain rules, raduate_scholarships EMBASSY OF GREECE The Embassy of Greece in Kuwait has the TIES Ramadan pleasure to announce that visa applica- Al-Hajri represents Kuwait in tions must be submitted to Schengen Visa Qur’an Application Centre (VFS office) located at 12th Dubai Summer Surprises program floor, Al-Naser Tower, Fahad Al-Salem Street, Al- competition Qibla area, Kuwait City, (Parking at Souk Watia). For abaa Al Hajri, an Australian ships that will hopefully last a life time. information please call 22281046 from 08:30 to thman bin Affan - Prophet Muhammadís College of Kuwait (ACK) student We also received unparalleled oppor- 17:00 (Sunday to Thursday). Working hours: companion - narrated that Prophet in the Marketing Management tunities to interact with industry pro- Submission from 08:30 to 15:30. Passport collec- Muhammad (peace be upon him) said, ‘The R U Degree program, was chosen out of 20 fessionals who in turn provided us tion from 16:00 to 17:00. For visa applications best among you are those who learn the Qur’an nominees from local universities to with advice on how to proceed with please visit the following website then teach it.’ (As-Silsila Al-Saheeha 3/168) represent Kuwait in the coveted desti- www.mfa.gr/kuwait. According to Abdullah bin Amr, Prophet our careers and move forward. All in nation-marketing internship of Dubai all being part of DSS 2013 has been an Muhammad said: ‘It will be said to the companion n n n n n n n of the Qur’an: Recite and ascend as you recited in Summer Surprises (DSS). amazing educational and eye-open- the world, for verily, your rank is determined by The award - winning marketing ing experience that I will take away EMBASSY OF INDIA the last verse you recite.’ (Sunan At-Tirmidhi 2914). internship took place in June, welcom- with me as I progress in my own During the holy month of Ramadan, the Inspired by these sayings of Prophet ing its largest ever group of winners career.” office timings of the Indian Passport and Muhammad (PBUH), TIES Center is glad to inform from 14 markets in 2013. The represen- Dr Jihad Yasin, Head of school of Visa Service Centres of BLS International all those interested that it will host a Qur’an mem- tatives worked closely with the mar- Business at ACK, said: “We are proud of Visa Services Co., Kuwait, situated at (i) Emad orization competition for Western new Muslims keting team responsible for successful- Rabaa, who was chosen to represent Commercial Centre, Basement Floor, Ahmed Al including men, women and children. Competitors ly staging DSS, attended workshops Kuwait as one of fourteen of the should memorize the following surahs (chapters): and met leading players responsible brightest young minds across the Jaber Street, Sharq, Kuwait, and (ii) Mujamma Al-Fatihah (The Opening, 1), Al-Ikhlaas (The purity for building the” Destination Dubai” Middle East and North Africa (MENA). Unood, 4th floor, Office No. 25-26 Makka Street, or sincerity, 112), Al-Falaq (The Daybreak, 113) and brand. The interns’ itinerary included Her participation in this event has Fahaheel, Kuwait, will be from 8am to 3pm from An-Naas (Mankind, 114). trips to entities that have helped build Al-Hajri stated: “Being chosen to brought energy and passion among Saturday to Thursday (i.e. six days a week). The first prize will be K.D. 60, second prize is Dubai’s world class tourism reputation represent ACK and Kuwait in this her follow students. Rabaa has Tokens for submission of applications will be K.D. 50 and third prize is K.D. 40. All those interest- such as Emirates, MBC Group, Road year’s DSS apprenticeship program inspired our students to think differ- issued till 2pm only. Delivery of Passports and ed in participating are required to register before and Transport Authority, Dubai provided me with a once in a life time ently and to believe in themselves.” Visas will be from 11am onwards till 3pm. the 15th of Ramadan. The competition will be Festivals and Retail Establishment opportunity. The program gave me ACK is honored by Al-Hajri’s Embassy of India, Kuwait, will maintain its usual held on the 20th of Ramadan and the prizes will (DFRE). They also visited the city’s icon- the chance to meet the brightest stu- achievement and would like to take be awarded on the 27th of Ramadan. working hours. ic landmarks such as Burj Khalifa, Burj dents from 13 different markets in the this opportunity to congratulate and For more information, please call 25231015/6 MENA region, working, learning and or e-mail: [email protected] or log onto: Al Arab, Dubai Metro, Ski Dubai, Dubai wish her a successful educational and n n n n n n n Desert Safari and more. networking together to form friend- future professional career. www.tiescenter.net EMBASSY OF SOUTH AFRICA During the holy month of Ramadan, the South African Embassy will be open to the public, Sunday through Thursday from 09:00 am to 14:00 pm. Please note that the Consular Section operation hours will be from 09:30 am to 12:00 pm, Sunday through Thursday. n n n n n n n EMBASSY OF US Parents of Kuwaiti citizen children may drop off their sons’ and daughters’ visa applications - completely free of an inter- view or a trip inside the Embassy. The chil- dren must be under 14 years of age, and addition- al requirements do apply, but the service means parents will no longer have to schedule individual appointments for their children, nor come inside the Embassy (unless they are applying for them- selves). The service is only available for children holding Kuwaiti passports. To take advantage, par- ents must drop off the following documents: Child Visa Drop-off cover sheet, available on the Embassy website (http://kuwait.usembassy.gov/child_visas.htm) - Child’s passport; The Child’s previous passport, if it contains a valid US visa; 5x5cm photo of child with eyes open (if uploaded into DS-160, photos must be a .jpg between 600x600 and 1200x1200 pixels, less than 240kb, and cannot be digitally altered); A completed DS-160 form; Visa Fee Receipt from Burgan Bank; A copy of the valid visa of at least one parent. If one parent will not travel, provide a Build-A-Bear Workshop(r) ties up with visa copy for the traveling parent, and a passport copy from the non-traveling parent with a letter stating no objection to the child’s travel. - For chil- KRCS to raise funds for Autism dren of students (F2): a copy of the child’s I-20. Children born in the US (with very few excep- tions) are US citizens and would not be eligible for uild-A-Bear Workshop(r), the brand where chil- partnerships with local charities, we always aim to delighted to be able to contribute towards fund rais- a visa. Parents may drop off the application packet dren make their very own stuffed toys, has operate as a socially responsible entity that ing and support through our partners and Guests. at Window 2 at the Embassy from 1:00 to 3:00 PM, Bannounced that it will mark the Holy Month of engages with society and gives as well as receives,” The holy month of Ramadan is a particularly fitting Monday to Wednesday, excluding holidays. More Ramadan by raising funds for Autism in partnership said Paul Marks, Build-A-Bear Workshop General time for this drive as it encourages charity, reflec- information is available on the U.S. Embassy web- with charitable organisations in the local community. Manager. tion, kindness and community-mindedness,” he said. site: kuwait.usembassy.gov/child_visas.html This GCC-wide initiative has seen Build-A-Bear A percentage of proceeds from sales, and in par- Build-A-Bear Workshop(r) is the world’s only glob- n n n n n n n Workshop(r) tie up with the Kuwait Red Crescent ticular Champ Bear, will be donated to Charitable al company that offers an interactive make-your- Society to generate donations through the sales of Organisations involved with autism research, and own stuffed animal retail-entertainment experience. EMBASSY OF VENEZUELA its Champ Bear. care and intervention for those with autism In fifteen years of operation, it has focused on creat- Working hours of the Embassy of “The Build-A-Bear Workshop(r) creed is to make a throughout the Holy Month of Ramadan. ing unique and memorable experiences for children Venezuela during the holy month of difference in all the communities in where we oper- “Autism is a very important issue that is as rele- and adults alike, while also engaging with communi- Ramadan 09.00 till 13.30. ate. Through the kindness of our Guests, and our vant in the GCC as it is worldwide, and we are ties through charitable works and social initiatives. TV PROGRAMS THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013

23:30 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 08:15 Phil Spencer - Secret Agent 08:40 Real Emergency Calls 10:30 Super Rugby Highlights 00:30 The Daily Show 09:05 Bargain Hunt 09:05 Who On Earth... 11:30 Inside The PGA Tour 01:00 The Colbert Report 09:50 Antiques Roadshow 09:30 On The Case With Paula Zahn 12:00 PGA European Tour Weekly 01:30 Seinfeld 10:40 Extreme Makeover: Home 10:20 Solved 12:30 Live PGA European Tour 14:35 Border Security 02:00 Seinfeld Edition 11:10 Disappeared 20:30 NRL Full Time 15:05 Auction Hunters 02:30 Friends 11:20 MasterChef Australia 12:00 Life Or Death: Medical 21:00 British & Irish Lions Tour of 15:30 Auction Kings 11:45 New Scandinavian Cooking Mysteries 16:00 License To Drill With Claus Meyer 12:50 Street Patrol 16:55 One Man Army 12:10 Come Dine With Me 13:40 Forensic Detectives 17:50 Mythbusters 13:00 Planet Cake 14:30 On The Case With Paula Zahn 00:00 Trans World Sport 18:45 Sons Of Guns 13:25 New Scandinavian Cooking 15:20 Real Emergency Calls 01:00 Super Rugby 19:40 Deconstruction 05:15 Brandy & Mr Whiskers With Claus Meyer 15:45 Who On Earth... 03:00 World Match Racing Tour 20:05 How It’s Made 05:35 Brandy & Mr Whiskers 13:55 Bargain Hunt 16:10 Disappeared 04:00 World Pool Masters 20:35 Auction Hunters 06:00 Mickey Mouse Clubhouse 14:40 Cash In The Attic 17:00 Solved 06:00 Golfing World 21:00 Flip Men 06:30 Doc McStuffins 15:25 Antiques Roadshow 17:50 Forensic Detectives 08:00 Total Rugby 21:30 Sons Of Guns 06:45 A.N.T Farm 16:15 Extreme Makeover: Home 18:40 On The Case With Paula Zahn 08:30 World Match Racing Tour 22:25 Nothing Personal 07:10 A.N.T Farm Edition 19:30 Dr G: Medical Examiner 09:30 Trans World Sport 23:20 Hellriders 07:35 Jessie 17:00 Phil Spencer - Secret Agent 20:20 Nightmare Next Door 10:30 World Pool Masters 00:15 Sons Of Guns 07:55 Jessie 17:55 The Good Cook 21:10 Couples Who Kill 12:30 UK Open Darts 01:10 Nothing Personal 08:20 Shake It Up 18:25 Hairy Bikers’ Bake-ation 22:00 Couples Who Kill 16:30 British & Irish Lions Tour 08:45 Shake It Up 19:20 New Scandinavian Cooking 22:50 Deadly Women 09:05 Austin And Ally With Claus Meyer 09:30 Austin And Ally 19:45 Come Dine With Me 09:55 Good Luck Charlie 20:35 Extreme Makeover: Home 10:15 Good Luck Charlie 14:20 The Gadget Show Edition 00:00 NHL 10:40 A.N.T. Farm 13:00 Marchlands 14:45 Tech Toys 360 21:20 Antiques Roadshow 02:00 Porsche GT 3 Cup 11:05 A.N.T. Farm 14:00 The Syndicate 15:10 Bigger, Better, Faster, Stronger 22:15 Bargain Hunt 03:00 Ping Pong World 11:25 Jessie 15:00 William At 30 16:00 Storm Chasers 23:00 Phil Spencer - Secret Agent 04:00 US Bass Fishing 11:50 Jessie 16:00 When Kate Met William: A Tale 16:55 Superships 23:55 Cash In The Attic 05:00 NHL 12:15 Austin And Ally Of 17:45 Thunder Races 00:40 Come Dine With Me 07:00 WWE Smackdown 12:35 Austin And Ally 17:00 60 Minute Makeover 18:35 Through The Wormhole 01:30 MasterChef Australia 09:00 Ping Pong World 13:00 Shake It Up 18:00 Emmerdale 19:30 Bigger, Better, Faster, Stronger 01:55 New Scandinavian Cooking 10:00 US Bass Fishing 13:25 Shake It Up 19:00 Coronation Street 20:20 Oddities 11:00 NHL 13:45 A.N.T Farm 20:00 Coach Trip 21:10 The Gadget Show 13:00 WWE Vintage Collection 14:10 A.N.T Farm 20:30 Come Dine With Me Ireland 21:35 Tech Toys 360 14:00 WWE Bottom Line 14:35 Good Luck Charlie 21:00 Foyle’s War 22:00 Bigger, Better, Faster, Stronger 15:00 Porsche GT 3 Cup 15:00 Good Luck Charlie 23:00 Case Histories 22:25 Bigger, Better, Faster, Stronger 16:00 Mobil 1 The Grid 15:25 Jessie 03:00 Unique Sweets 00:00 The Jeremy Kyle Show USA 22:50 Oddities 16:30 Motor Sports 2013 15:50 Jessie 03:25 Food Wars 01:00 60 Minute Makeover 23:15 Oddities 17:30 Mass Participation 16:10 Shake It Up 03:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 23:40 The Gadget Show 19:00 WWE NXT 16:35 A.N.T Farm 04:15 Unique Eats 00:05 Tech Toys 360 20:00 UFC The Ultimate Fighter 17:00 Austin And Ally 04:40 Chopped 00:30 Weird Connections 21:00 UFC Prelims 17:20 That’s So Raven 05:30 Iron Chef America 01:00 Meteorite Men 03:00 Big Miracle-PG 17:45 Suite Life On Deck 06:10 Food Network Challenge 01:50 Meteorite Men 05:00 Another Harvest Moon-PG15 18:10 Good Luck Charlie 07:00 Unwrapped 07:00 Alvin And The Chipmunks: 18:30 Shake It Up 07:25 Unwrapped Chipwrecked-PG 18:55 Austin And Ally 07:50 Andy Bates Street Feasts 09:00 I Don’t Know How She Does 00:00 World’s Greatest Motorcycle 19:20 Jessie 08:15 Unique Sweets It-PG15 Rides 14:00 C.S.I. Miami 19:40 A.N.T Farm 08:40 Red, Hot And Yummy 11:00 The Wild Girl-PG15 01:00 Off Limits 15:00 Drop Dead Diva 20:05 A.N.T Farm 09:05 Barefoot Contessa - Back To 12:30 The Amazing Spider-Man 02:00 Departures 16:00 Emmerdale 20:30 Shake It Up Basics 15:00 Green Lantern-PG15 03:00 Globe Trekker 16:30 Coronation Street 20:50 Suite Life On Deck 09:30 Amazing Wedding Cakes 17:00I Don’t Know How She Does It 04:00 Inside Luxury Travel - Varun 17:00 The Ellen DeGeneres Show 21:15 Austin And Ally 10:20 Extra Virgin 19:00 People Like Us-PG15 Sharma 18:00 C.S.I. Miami 21:40 That’s So Raven 10:45 Kid In A Candy Store 21:00 The Iron Lady-PG15 05:00 Bizarre Foods America 19:00 Switched At Birth 22:00 Jessie 11:10 Charly’s Cake Angels 23:00 This Means War-PG15 06:00 Eden Eats 20:00 Fairly Legal 22:25 A.N.T Farm 11:40 Unique Sweets 01:00 The Iron Lady-PG15 07:00 Globe Trekker 12:00 The Next Iron Chef 21:00 Suits 22:50 Good Luck Charlie 08:00 Departures 12:50 Red, Hot And Yummy 22:00 The Hollow Crown 23:10 Wizards Of Waverly Place 09:00 Off Limits 13:15 Barefoot Contessa 23:00 Awake 23:35 Wizards Of Waverly Place 10:00 World’s Greatest Motorcycle 13:40 Barefoot Contessa 00:00 Drop Dead Diva 00:00 Hannah Montana Rides 14:05 Tyler’s Ultimate 09:00 StreetDance 2-PG15 01:00 Switched At Birth 00:20 Hannah Montana 11:00 Hotel Impossible ANOTHER HARVEST MOON ON OSN MOVIES HD 02:00 The Hollow Crown 00:45 Brandy & Mr Whiskers 14:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 11:00 The Darkest Hour-PG15 01:05 Brandy & Mr Whiskers 14:55 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 13:00 Adventures Of Sharkboy And 01:30 Emperor’s New School 15:20 Guy’s Big Bite Lavagirl-PG 01:50 Emperor’s New School 15:45 Chopped 15:00 Love Will Keep Us Together- 02:15 Replacements 16:35 Barefoot Contessa - Back To PG15 ‘Lone Ranger’ Takeaway: 03:00 Friends 02:35 Replacements Basics 17:00 The Wishing Well-PG15 03:30 The Simpsons 17:00 Red, Hot And Yummy 19:00 How I Spent My Summer 04:00 Seinfeld 17:25 Reza’s African Kitchen Vacation-PG15 Disney, Forget Original franchises 04:30 The Tonight Show With Jay 17:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 21:00 My Week With Marilyn-PG15 Leno 18:15 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 23:00 The Raven-18 oes Disney really need the grief that comes with 06:00 Hope & Faith 18:40 Guy’s Big Bite 01:00 The Wishing Well-PG15 trying to launch an original franchise? Not really. 14:30 Style Star 06:30 Arrested Development 19:05 Charly’s Cake Angels With Star Wars, Marvel and Pixar primed to crank 07:00 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 15:00 Kourtney & Kim Take New D 19:30 Amazing Wedding Cakes out barn-burners for years, Mouse House execs have to 08:00 Seinfeld York 20:20 Chopped 16:00 Kourtney & Kim Take New be wondering whether it’s worth even attempting 09:30 Modern Family 21:10 Chopped 04:00 The Makeover-PG15 10:00 Parks And Recreation York 22:00 Staten Island Cakes another “Lone Ranger” in the near future. As of now, 17:00 What Would Ryan Lochte Do? 06:00 Puss In Boots-PG 10:30 Arrested Development 22:50 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 08:00 Flicka 3-FAM there’s nothing in Disney’s pipeline aiming to be another 11:00 The Tonight Show With Jay 17:30 What Would Ryan Lochte Do? 23:15 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 18:00 E! News 09:45 Tim Richmond: To The Limit “Pirates.” Playing that game is difficult, expensive and Leno 23:40 Food Wars 10:45 Carnage-PG15 risky, as Disney found this weekend when its $225 mil- 12:00 Hope & Faith 19:00 THS 00:05 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 20:00 Kourtney And Kim Take Miami 12:15 Phil Spector-PG15 lion western went boots up, taking in less than $50 mil- 12:30 Seinfeld 00:30 Diners, Drive-Ins & Dives 14:00 Perfect Plan-PG15 13:00 Seinfeld 21:00 Married To Jonas 00:55 Unique Eats lion over five days. Foreign box office won’t make up 21:30 Fashion Police 16:00 Flicka 3-FAM 13:30 Arrested Development 01:20 Unique Eats 18:00 New Year’s Eve-PG15 that budget. 14:00 The Simpsons 22:30 E! News 01:45 Staten Island Cakes Given their comparable budgets and limited foreign 23:30 Chelsea Lately 20:00 Carnage-PG15 14:30 Parks And Recreation 22:00 Meeting Evil-18 prospects, a loss along the lines of to the $200 million 15:00 Modern Family 00:00 Opening Act 00:55 Style Star 00:00 The Man Inside-PG15 writedown the studio took last summer in the wake of 15:30 The Daily Show 01:45 Tim Richmond: To The Limit 16:00 The Colbert Report 01:25 THS the “John Carter” bomb is likely. And 2011’s “Mars Needs 16:30 Hope & Faith 00:30 Dr G: Medical Examiner Moms” debacle - a $150 million original that topped out 17:00 Late Night With Jimmy Fallon 01:20 A Haunting at $21 million domestically - is still fresh in the minds of 18:00 New Girl 02:10 I Was Murdered studio brass. With nearly half a billion at the worldwide 18:30 Family Tools 02:35 I Was Murdered 04:00 Mission To Mars-PG15 box office, this spring’s “Oz the Great and Powerful” was 19:00 Hot In Cleveland 03:00 Blood Relatives 03:15 Cooked 06:00 The Da Vinci Code-PG15 original-ish ... and hardly a flop. But whether it was suc- 19:30 Parks And Recreation 03:45 Cash In The Attic 03:45 I Almost Got Away With It 08:30 Ip Man 2-PG15 20:00 The Tonight Show With Jay 04:30 Bargain Hunt 04:30 Dr G: Medical Examiner 10:30 Rise Of The Planet Of The cessful enough - given its $215 million budget - remains Leno 05:15 Daily Cooks Challenge 05:20 A Haunting Apes-PG15 to be seen, as the studio still hasn’t given a green light to 21:00 The Daily Show 05:45 How Not To Decorate 06:10 Nightmare Next Door 12:30 True Justice: Vengeance Is another “Oz” movie. 21:30 The Colbert Report 06:30 Cooked 07:00 Life Or Death: Medical Mine-PG15 At the same time the studio has struggled with its 22:00 Malibu Country Mysteries 07:00 Tareq Taylor’s Nordic Cookery 14:15 Ip Man 2-PG15 originals, it has been scoring big with its partners. 22:30 The Neighbors 07:25 Planet Cake 07:50 Street Patrol 16:00 Deadly Hope-PG15 Marvel’s “Iron Man 3” is easily the year’s biggest earner 23:00 The Office 07:50 Baking Made Easy 08:15 Street Patrol 18:00 True Justice: Vengeance Is Mine-PG15 with more than $1.2 billion and Pixar’s “Monsters tainment partner Lindsay Conner told TheWrap. “Disney 20:00 Sultanes Del Sur-PG15 University” has brought in more than $400 million in less has a long history of coming up with original ideas and 22:00 Three Kings-18 than three weeks. Last year, it was “The Avengers” and characters he said, and they will in the future,” he said. “Brave” that drove the biggest profits. And starting in “And remember, because they’re a theme park company, 2015, there will be a “Stars Wars” movie each summer for when they connect, the benefits go beyond the big several years. “The Disney brand is still gold,” said screen, the small screen and even digital.” He also pointed 08:00 Police Academy 3: Back In BoxOffice.com editor-in-chief Phil Contrino, “but it has out that where the next franchise is coming from isn’t Training-PG15 changed. They’re all about Marvel, Pixar and ‘Star Wars’ always so clear, and that studios have to take what seems 10:00 3 Holiday Tails-PG now, and that’s fine.” He said he doesn’t see the reliance like a flyer sometimes. No one thought that “Pirates of the 12:00 Mr. Destiny-PG on partnerships as a step back for Disney. “The reason Caribbean,” would turn into a franchise that has brought 14:00 Police Academy 4: Citizens On those companies all came to Disney is because of their in more than $3.7 billion at the global box office. Patrol-PG15 reputation and the track record they have for handling “Pirates” made it reasonable to think “The Lone 16:00 3 Holiday Tails-PG 18:00 Turner & Hooch-PG15 these big projects,” Contrino said. There are several Ranger” - with Berry Bruckheimer, Gore Verbinski and 20:00 The Angel’s Share-PG15 upcoming Disney Animation projects that could break Johnny Depp reteaming - might work. But the spectacu- 22:00 Under New Management out, but on the live-action front, there’s nothing that lar flameout of “The Lone Ranger” makes it reasonable to 00:00 Bowfinger-PG15 shouts franchise. That shouldn’t, and won’t, keep Disney think that Disney may retrench to its more sure-fire fare 02:00 The Angel’s Share-PG15 from trying, according to Manatt, Phelps & Phillips enter- for a while. — Reuters

09:00 Oscar-PG15 11:00 The Flowers Of War-PG15 13:30 The Preacher’s Wife-PG15 Hedges to play Renner’s 15:45 Oscar-PG15 17:45 The Key Man-PG15 19:15 The Company Men-PG15 21:00 Troy-18 son in ‘Kill the Messenger’ 23:45 Phenomenon-PG 01:45 Beneath Hill 60-PG15 fter playing one of the young scouts in Wes Anderson’s “Moonrise Kingdom,” Lucas Hedges Ahas been cast as Jeremy Renner and Rosemarie DeWitt’s son in Focus Features’ thriller “Kill the 01:00 AFL Premiership Highlights Messenger.” “Messenger” tells the true story of Pulitzer 02:00 PGA Tour Highlights Prize-winning journalist Gary Webb (Renner), whose 03:00 PGA Tour Highlights reporting exposed the CIA’s involvement in helping 04:00 Trans World Sport Nicaragua’s Contra rebels import cocaine into California 05:00 NRL Premiership during the 1980s. Webb was found shot to death in 2004 07:00 British & Irish Lions Tour of in what the coroner determined to be a suicide, but foul Australia play has long been suspected. 09:00 Rugby League State of Origin 11:00 NRL Full Time Hedges will play Ian Webb, who looks up to his truth- 11:30 AFL Premiership Highlights seeking father and stands by him when Gary needs him 12:30 ICC Cricket 360 the most. Paz Vega will co-star in the film, while Michael 13:00 Live Cricket Test Match K. Williams is in negotiations to play “Freeway” Rick Ross, “Dan in Real Life.” Focus produced that movie and also 21:00 Futbol Mundial though his “Boardwalk Empire” schedule may prevent distributed “Moonrise Kingdom,” so Hedges is no 21:30 Inside The PGA Tour him from taking on the brief-yet-key role. stranger to the company. Michael Cuesta (“Homeland”) is directing from a script The rising young actor, who recently appeared along- by Peter Landesman, who adapted Nick Schou’s book. side Colin Firth and Emily Blunt in “Arthur Newman,” will Scott Stuber is producing through his Bluegrass Films soon be seen in Jason Reitman’s “Labor Day” and Terry 00:00 Cricket Test Match banner along with The Combine’s Renner and Don Gilliam’s “The Zero Theorem.” He also played a young 07:00 Trans World Sport Handfield, as well as Naomi Despres. Landesman will Ewan McGregor in Noah Baumbach’s HBO pilot “The 08:00 PGA Tour Highlights executive produce the film, which starts production in Corrections,” which is not going forward at the cable net- 09:00 PGA European Tour the coming weeks in Atlanta. Hedges is the son of direc- work. Hedges is repped by Abrams Artists Agency and Highlights tor Peter Hedges, who cast Lucas in the 2007 dramedy Anonymous Content. — Reuters THE DARKEST HOUR OSN CINEMA 10:00 Futbol Mundial Classifieds

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Aries (March 21-April 19) Libra (September 23-October 22)

Career moves may depend upon your cutting through some of the fluff and This is a great time to be with others and to work together: teamwork. really taking care of business—getting down to your most practical. Ridding yourself of excess Your keen business sense is never sharper than when you are working with or for others— or unneeded stuff may be a key move now. If you have to make decisions for other people a group, corporation, etc. You can find support from all sides when it comes to most any today, you could really shine in this day. Your advice and guidance may be blunt and to the sort of activity. Playing sports professionally may be a leap but you work with your team- point just now but it is truthful and a great deal of help for all who seek your help. You are able mates as though you are all working together to win a big game. You may go the extra to cut through the red tape and get at what is beneath and behind most any difficulty. This mile today to make sure your team wins the game or becomes approved or achieves what- evening there is a feeling of being at peace and stable on the emotional level. Stability and per- ever is set before them. You may be moved to appreciate and discover the beauty in your manence satisfy a deep emotional need. An addition to your aquarium or the purchase of a life and in those around you. Be wise in shopping this afternoon; think about how long it new pet may be in order this evening. takes to work and pay off the bill before you buy.

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

You prefer diplomacy but could find yourself in the midst of a difficult Public relations, public speaking or sales is an option today. Even if you are situation this day. There could be some hard feelings, especially from a young person, if not changing jobs, you may find yourself in one or more of these categories. you become too aggressive. You could have difficulty getting outer recognition for your The word here is accomplishment. If there is a job, you can do it. You are a hard worker—you efforts or accomplishments. This does not mean they are worthless; it does mean you pour yourself into any task with absolute determination. You would make a good teacher of should throw your efforts into work or ventures you really love doing. Take a little trip, or others in matters of organization, practical competence, etc. You have a great desire and drive get outside today. You may want to break that routine and try something new or different to be thorough and responsible down to the smallest detail. Music is likely to play a more right now. You may discover insights into day-to-day problems that will be of great value important role for you than usual and perhaps there is also an urge to spend money on adding later. You have a lot of energy for improving your surroundings or life situations. You are to your music collection or tickets to a concert. Close relationships begin to take on more emo- very motivated to improve your life. tional depth, power and importance.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21)

Problems that come to your attention are easily worked through today as You enjoy mental effort and discipline, and work long and hard at whatever the usual complications are not present. You have something to say and people you want to accomplish. You could find yourself lecturing or teaching. Being are listening; careful, keep to the subject matter. You make your way through ideas and con- successful in life is easy—you have a built-in sense of how to approach and unravel even the cepts; and your ability to express them to others is successful. Any lecture or conference meet- most difficult problems. You have an instinct for justice and the law and today you have the ACROSS DOWN ings will go smoothly. A play, a musical, a sitcom or any number of creative entertainment proj- opportunity to approach a problem from just the right angle. You may become involved in a lit- 1. A theocratic republic in the Middle East in 1. (Islam) The man who leads prayers in a ects are the things that excite your creative mind this afternoon. There are sudden insights into tle counseling or guiding others toward a more positive outcome for their situations. Let your- self dream this evening—do not ignore this opportunity to let your imagination loose. An western Asia. mosque. some of the most sensitive and vulnerable areas of your inner self and psychology. The estab- lishment of a new habit pattern is beginning to set in and you are pleased with the results. You unexpected social invitation has you reviewing your wardrobe contents. You might also want 5. In accordance with nature. 2. Not widely known. to think about replacing a billfold. 12. Fermented alcoholic beverage similar to 3. A genus of Platalea. lend a helping hand to a mother tonight. but heavier than beer. 4. Tag the base runner to get him out. 15. Type genus of the Majidae. 5. Grandson of Amaterasu and first ruler of 16. Reproduce someone's behavior or looks. Japan. 17. Either of two folds of skin that can be Cancer (June 21-July 22) Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 6. Genus of widely distributed agarics that CAPRICORN moved to cover or open the eye. have white spores and are poisonous with few 18. An Arabic speaking person who lives in At home with different cultures, peoples and lands, you will enjoy working with High technology plays a bigger part in your life. If you do not already have a exceptions. computer, you may think about owning one now. Perhaps this means you have Arabia or North Africa. and in different culture groups today. You may be able to give some good advice and 7. Small dull-colored moth with chewing counsel regarding some of their personal issues. This may mean you help, guide or instruct in matters a lot of experience on computers in the workplace. Advertisement, newsletters, personal com- 19. Indian religious leader who founded mouthparts. munication and any other information media are where you work best. A financial obligation Sikhism (1469-1538). of protocol. Communication, computers and electronics are the areas in which you enjoy your work 8. A reptile genus of Iguanidae. and excel. This afternoon will give you plenty of opportunities to work in these areas. Your ability to will not go away, but deal with your responsibilities and they will feel less of a burden. Be care- 20. An anti-inflammatory drug that does not 9. Marked by smartness in dress and manners. discriminate real breakthroughs and to spot new trends makes you able to work at the very fringe of ful while shopping this afternoon—you may tend to purchase an overpriced item simply contain steroids. 10. A highly unstable radioactive element (the technology. Electronics, computers, communications and in fact, all electrical things are interesting to because of the convenience. You could have real difficulties when it comes to matters of self- 22. Japanese ornamental tree with fragrant heaviest of the halogen series). you. You may discover new ways of working with traditional materials. discipline. Stability and permanence satisfy a deep emotional need. This evening you may white or pink blossoms and small yellow 11. Round flat seed of the lentil plant. decide to create a new recipe. fruits. 12. (botany) Of or relating to the axil. 24. New World chats. 13. Being three more than fifty. 26. (of tempo) Leisurely n. 14. Tropical starchy tuberous root. Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 28. (British) A person without employment 21. Coming next after the sixth and just who makes money by various dubious A new study has your interest this morning and you may be thinking of tak- before the eighth in position. This could be a frustrating day regarding practical or job-related activi- schemes. ing it on for a new research project. A library will be helpful. You are able to cut through the red ties. Your ideas however, will save the day. Think through to the outcome and make your 23. Softened by the addition of cushions or tape and get at what is beneath and behind any delays or problems in the work arena today. 29. A soft silvery metallic element of the alkali presentation in writing. You are persistent but with a light sense of humor; higher-ups will padding. You may meet a new friend through the work environment. Unusual and unique qualities earth group. come back to your work again and again. New methods or new ways of thinking will take 25. An accountant certified by the state. catch your attention. This individual may affect you in a profound way on several levels. There 31. A Hindu goddess who releases from sin or time to take hold. Concerned with a friend or friends, you will find yourself aiding or coun- 27. The time during which someone's life con- are opportunities to express yourself in many ways. You tend to be creative and original in your disease. seling and helping others. Your presence in a group has a very decided effect. You will make tinues. work and career, managing to bring new ideas and spontaneity to bear. You are not afraid to 32. Genus of herbs of Eurasia and the a positive difference in many people’s lives, especially the young. Question and answer peri- get into the stickiest of situations and you always come up with the heart of the matter for all to Americas. 30. Make a more or less disguised reference od takes patience, but you can do it. Tonight is for you, anything your heart desires. Music is understand. 36. A resin used in adhesives and paints. to. hard to resist this evening. 38. An edge tool used to cut and shape wood. 33. Any of the openings to the nasal cavities 40. A lawman concerned with narcotics viola- that allow air to flow through the cavities to the pharynx. tions. Virgo (August 23-September 22) 41. United States physicist who invented the 34. Of or containing iridium. Pisces (February 19-March 20) 35. The right to enter. bubble chamber to study subatomic particles This is a good workday and may prove to be rather profitable. Working with (born in 1926). 37. Valuable fiber plant of East Indies now A creative project works to your advantage—you feel more inspired. You widespread in cultivation. have the gift of working well with others and you help them to sense and feel the unity of life. others is successful and you may be sought after as just the person for a particular job. Your 42. Lacking a centromere. inner resources and emotions are accented. Expect a sense of support from those around you. 39. A Chadic language spoken in northern Your love of the spiritual and the eternal is clear to all who meet you. You love to solve the 45. Of a dull grayish brown to brownish gray problems of the world, at least in words and images; when you talk, all are enchanted. You Perhaps you feel this is really you—how you feel and are. It is natural for you to put your practi- color. Nigeria. could have your own radio show or write as a reporter for a popular newspaper. You do not cal and managerial abilities to work. You can make a career out of your keen organizational 48. Censure severely or angrily. 43. A deep opening in the earth's surface. mind working through a puzzle or problem to find the best outcome. In-depth discussions skills and clear insight into how things work. Supervision and taking charge are your trade- 49. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian 44. A state in southeastern United States. find you at your mental best this afternoon. The way you express yourself and your writing has marks. There is a feeling of stability and permanence that satisfies a deep emotional need this mythology. 46. A public promotion of some product or begun to take on a special style, which counts for a lot now. This evening, family and friends evening. Music or a neighborhood entertainment is likely to play a more important role for you 51. English theoretical physicist who applied service. bring good cheer. this evening. relativity theory to quantum mechanics and 47. Fictional character created by Charles predicted the existence of antimatter and the Dickens. positron (1902-1984). 50. An independent group of closely related Word Search Yesterday’s Solution 53. A female person who has the same par- Chadic languages spoken in the area between ents as another person. the Biu-Mandara and East Chadic languages. 54. Mar or spoil the appearance of. 52. Colloquial British abbreviation. 57. Adopted in order to deceive. 55. An outstanding Spanish cellist noted for 60. A soft silver-white ductile metallic element his interpretation of Bach's cello suites (1876- (liquid at normal temperatures). 1973). 61. The capital and largest city of Yemen. 56. Half the width of an em. 63. Tropical American bird resembling a blue 58. In a murderous frenzy as if possessed by a jay and having greenish and bluish plumage. demon. 65. A pale rose-colored variety of the ruby 59. Prokaryotic bacteria and blue-green algae spinel. and various primitive pathogens. 68. A group of African language in the Niger- 62. Jordan's port. Congo group spoken from the Ivory Coast 64. The inner and thicker of the two bones of east to Nigeria. the human leg between the knee and ankle. 70. A gum resin from the conium hemlock 66. In bed. tree. 67. Relating to or characteristic of or occurring 73. A loose sleeveless outer garment made on land. from aba cloth. 69. Channel into a new direction. 74. Relating to or characteristic of Arabs. 71. A flat-bottomed volcanic crater that was 77. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a formed by an explosion. skewer usually with vegetables. 72. (usually followed by `to') Having the nec- 78. (in Scotland or Ireland) A mountain or tall essary means or skill or know-how or authori- hill. ty to do something. 79. A republic in West Africa. 75. A dissolute man in fashionable society. 81. The basic unit of money in Iran. 76. An independent agency of the United 82. A condition (mostly in boys) characterized by behavioral and learning disorders. States government responsible for collecting 83. Of or relating to or characteristic of Sparta and coordinating intelligence and counterin- or its people. telligence activities abroad in the national 84. A river in north central Switzerland that interest. runs northeast into the Rhine. 80. An associate degree in nursing. Yesterday’s Solution

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Lohan told to expand rehab stay indsay Lohan has been Ladvised to spend another 30 days in rehab. The 27-year-old actress has been urged to extend her stay at the Cliffside facility in Malibu beyond July 31 - which is when she com- pletes her 90 days of court-ordered rehabilitation - because doctors want to make sure she makes a full recovery from her substance abuse issues. However, Wedding crasher the troubled star has told pals she won’t be staying a minute longer than she has to. A source told RadarOnline.com: “Lindsay Steven Tyler has been doing so well at Cliffside. She is respond- ing very, very well to treatment. “The treatment teven Tyler accidentally crashed a he explained how he felt the band needed team wants Lindsay to stay for at least another 30 wedding in New York. The Aerosmith to do it to pay back to a country which has days, because she didn’t do her entire 90 days at Sfrontman and former ‘American Idol’ always embraced his music. He told the Cliffside. Someone with her addiction and psychi- judge walked into the wedding reception Huffington Post: “We felt in our hearts that atric issues needs extensive treatment and 90 days of Jeffrey Roseman in Washington D.C. last there was something we could do and that just isn’t enough. “She is in a really good place right weekend, but rather than sneaking out we should do at that time. Aerosmith’s now, but her doctors want that to continue.” ‘The again, he was more than happy to wish the huge in Japan and we have been since the Canyons’ star - who has battled alcohol and drug happy couple well and pose for photos. first day we got there. “I think we took our abuse in the past - was forced to spend three Clooney and Keibler split! Property broker Jeffrey, who married fear and packed it away. It was time to get months in rehab as part of a deal she struck to Shirley Ramos, told the New York Post them happy, even for a moment. It was avoid jail after lying to police officers about driving newspaper: “He could not have been more kind of like the USO [United Service in a car accident last year. The actress is said to be eorge Clooney and Stacy Keibler reminded Stacy that they were friends gracious and accommodating. “We were Organisations, bringing what we’ve got responding well to the 12-step programme and has split over the phone. The ‘Argo’ before they dated and wants to be friends convinced that were it not for his ornery over to them. “This concert was a no-brain- been telling friends she “wants to get back to her Gactor and the former WWE wrestler after.” The couple had grown apart over bodyguard, we could have had Steven Tyler er. ‘Are we going to get hurt?’ Of course we true self”. The actress is determined to kick her made a joint decision to part ways due to the last three months, with George in party with us all night.” Steven’s compas- went over there with antibiotics and what- addiction and is planning on moving in with her conflicting work schedules after over two Europe working on a movie and Stacy in sionate side doesn’t end there, as ever they say to take, but I don’t think the mother, Dina, when she is released from the years of dating, but rather than end their Los Angeles working on her new TV show Aerosmith played a benefit concert in radiation was that bad. It was more about clinic in a bid to clean up her act. Dina said: relationship face-to-face they did it during ‘Supermarket Superstar’. As George was Japan after their nuclear crisis in 2011, and making them happy.” “She will definitely start back at home a call. A source told TMZ: “Both sides real- due to stay in Berlin, Germany, until with all of us.” ized there is no way to have a relationship December, and Stacy didn’t want to spend when you don’t see each other.” During the next five months seeing the Renner to make $18mn the conversation George, 52, repeatedly Hollywood heartthrob sporadically. It has told Stacy, 33, he wanted to remain friends also been claimed the blonde beauty was because that’s how their relationship start- keen to start a family and have a baby, profit from property sale ed. The source added: “He was very something George wasn’t prepared to respectful; adult about the situation ... he commit to. eremy Renner has put his Beverly Hills mansion on the market for $25 million. JThe ‘Bourne Legacy’ actor is looking to make a profit from one of his real estate deals by putting his Holmby Hills estate - which he purchased with business partners Longoria’s in 2010 for $7 million - with a sale currently pending for $18 million more than his orig- inal buying price. The lavish 6-bedroom, boyfriend 11-bathroom modern build in Holmby Hills was on the market for six months before an interested buyer came along, Trulia.com is $4 million in debt reporting. It seems Jeremy knows his stuff when it comes to real estate, managing to va Longoria’s new more than triple the property’s worth by boyfriend is allegedly hiring top architect Philip Vertoch to reno- ter, since the ultra modern home is located E$4 million in debt. vate the home over the last three years, kit- on two acres of gardens and boasts a high Ernesto Arguello - who met ting it out with designs by Kristoffer tech security system to banish intruders. the ‘Desperate Housewives’ Winters. Nicknamed The Reserve, the spa- Meanwhile, the 42-year-old actor lives in a actress through a reality cious build spans 10,000 square-feet and more modest apartment in Los Angeles show she produced - features five fireplaces, a home theatre, pri- with his ex-girlfriend Sonni Pacheco, a reportedly declared him- vate spa and pool. It is likely Jeremy’s Canadian model, and their four-month-old self bankrupt last year, prospective buyer could be a fellow A-lis- daughter Ava Berlin. claiming that he had a sev- en-figure deficit and had only $5 in cash available. According to a Chapter 7 Cole’s dog has cancer bankruptcy filing obtained by National Enquirer maga- heryl Cole’s childhood dog will undergo zine, the entrepreneur said radiotherapy to be treated for cancer. The his liabilities totaled $4.1 C30-year-old singer is devastated that her million, while his assets elderly Jack Russell mutt Kiera - who is 98 years added up to just $1,555. old in human years - has fallen seriously ill with The alarming revelation cancer and will need to endure an intense session has led to friends close to of radiation, while spending up to three weeks the 38-year-old beauty, under medical supervision. Posting a picture of who is reportedly worth her beloved pet pooch on Instagram yesterday $35 million, raising con- Cheryl wrote: “I have had her since she was two cerns about her budding months old and I was 16. “Tomorrow she has romance. A source said: radiotherapy and will be in doggy hospital for two “Eva needs to slow down to three weeks.” The ‘Call My Name’ hitmaker - who and really discover what owns four adorable dogs - is heartbroken at the Ernesto is all about. “We do know one thing, though - Eva will probably be picking up thought of losing her furry friend and has begged the cheque for a while.” Eva recently went public with her romance with Ernesto, 34, her fans to send “happy vibes” and pray for little who she met through ‘Ready for Love’, which she produced for US TV channel NBC last Kiera. She said: “Will you help me send her happy year. The matchmaking reality show attempted to find potential love connections for vibes and pray for her with me please? “She’s my three eligible bachelors, including Ernesto. The actress - who divorced ex-husband, oldest baby and it’s breaking my heart.” The Amber Heard: basketball player Tony Parker, in January 2011 - revealed that she and the Miami- brunette beauty previously claimed her pet based businessman became friends on set and a romance soon blossomed. She said: Chihuahua Buster is gay and has a thing for other “I think that’s why our relationship is so special - we truly started as friends.” male dogs. She said: “I have two Chihuahuas, The island is Buster and Coco, and I have two Jack Russells. my private life mber Heard’s is refusing to talk about her rela- tionship with Johnny Depp. The 27-year-old Cox’s new boyfriend raves Aactress is keen to keep details of her romance with the ‘Pirates of the Caribbean’ star secret and out of the public domain. When asked about details of her and Johnny’s trips to the 50-year-old actor’s private island in the Bahamas, Amber told Bullett magazine: she is ‘phenomenal’ “The island ... is my private life.” Johnny reportedly named a beach on his private island after his girlfriend Amber - who he has dated since splitting from his ourteney Cox’s new boyfriend says she is “phenome- with whom she has nine-year-old daughter Coco - in 2010. partner Vanessa Paradis after 14 years in June 2012. nal”. Actor Brian Van Holt - who plays the star’s ex-hus- The former ‘Friends’ actress and Brian were spotted enjoying Amber has two films coming up, American thriller Cband in her hit sitcom ‘Cougar Town’ - was full of com- dinner with Coco at West Hollywood’s Chin Lin eatery earlier ‘Paranoia’ and action film ‘Machete Kills’, wants to turn pliments for his girlfriend, who he has reportedly been see- this year, and a witness said they “acted like boyfriend and the focus back to her acting career and thinks she has ing for six months, when quizzed about their budding rela- girlfriend”. It seems Courteney’s young daughter approves more to offer than just a pretty face and a stunning tionship. He gushed to Us Weekly magazine: “Courteney’s of her new relationship, also, as she is said to have been figure. She added: “I have something more to offer amazing; Courteney’s phenomenal.” The 43-year-old actor “extremely comfortable” with Brian. A source said: “She than the superficial stuff. When my agents go has starred alongside Courtney, 49, in the TV series for four treated him like a dad or an uncle.” David, 41, previously through the initial filtering process, I’ve asked years and it’s thought their on-set friendship has developed accused Courteney of having an “emotional affair” with her them to always put scripts that don’t have into a more romantic relationship over the last year, follow- co-star following their separation in 2010. However, the the first descriptor of the character as ing her divorce from actor husband David Arquette in May. actor has since moved on and is now dating TV presenter beautiful, sexy, or hot at the top Courteney first separated from her ‘Scream’ co-star David - Christina McLarty. of the pile.” lifestyle THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 FASHION Bollywood’s Khan denies gender test rumors ollywood superstar Shah Rukh before such suspicions arose in the Khan has announced the arrival of media. Bhis new baby boy born to a surro- Mumbai officials said last week they gate mother, and denied rumors of an had received confirmation from a city illegal pre-natal gender test. In a state- hospital that a baby boy was born on ment released late Tuesday, Khan said he May 27 to the Khans. Rumors surfaced in and his wife Gauri had kept quiet on the matter owing to their “emotional strife” after the child, named AbRam, was born several months premature. “Just to put the record straight there was no sex determination for our child,” said Khan, 47, adding that the baby was born

June that the Khans were expecting a US musicians Ben Harper and Charlie Mussel white perform on the stage of the Niceís Jazz Festival on July 9, 2013 in Nice, southeastern France. — AFP boy, raising speculation they had carried out a sex test. Such a test is illegal in India, to try to prevent parents aborting female foetuses. Weinstein, Warner Bros spar over On seeing the reports, the Indian Radiological and Imaging Association wrote to health officials demanding an investigation. Khan, one of Bollywood’s biggest crowd-pullers, already has two teenage children, a girl and a boy. The star of “Dilwale Dulhania Le Jayenge” (“The Braveheart will get the Bride”) and ‘The Butler’ “My Name Is Khan” confirmed his new child was born by surrogacy, an arrange- ment in which a woman carries the child ith the drama of a summer block- tarily subscribe to, agreeing to be bound by its of another couple. buster, the dustup over the rights to a rules to prevent public confusion over similarly “The entire process is bound by strict film title has turned into a public bat- titled films. The registry, a division of the confidentiality. We would appeal to all, W tle between Harvey Weinstein and Warner Bros Motion Picture Association of America, medi- to allow us to cherish this private Disputed is the claim to the title “The Butler,” ates any disputes, which are usually resolved moment as a family,” Khan said. Back in which the Weinstein Co has promoted as the quietly with some horse trading. Warner Bros 2011 fellow Bollywood megastar Aamir name of an upcoming drama about a White re-registered the title in recent years, but has Khan and his wife also had a baby boy House butler. An arbitrator last week ruled no known plans to use it. using a surrogate mother. Shah Rukh Indian Bollywood film actor Shah Warner Bros has the right to “The Butler,” having Weinstein is appealing the decision and has Khan topped the first Forbes India Rukh Khan and his wife Gauri Khan released a so-named silent short in 1916. enlisted attorney David Boies to represent the Celebrity 100 list earlier this year with pose on the red carpet at the pre- Weinstein, appalled that his potential Oscar company in the matter. He claims possible annual estimated earnings of $37.7 mil- miere of the Hindi film ‘Jab Tak Hai bait could be derailed by such an old, inconse- alternatives like “White House Butler” and “Lee lion. — AFP Jaan’ in Mumbai. — AFP/AP photos quential film, took to “CBS This Morning” on Daniels’ Butler” are already registered. “I hope Tuesday to claim Warner Bros. has an “ulterior we get a good result,” said Weinstein. “If not, motive” in refusing to allow use of the title. In we’ll go to court with a restraining order and an interview later with The Associated Press, he David will file saying this is anti-competition.” File photo shows Harvey Weinstein, film pro- claimed that Warner Bros. is using the “Butler” Warner Bros issued a statement Tuesday claim- ducer and co-chairman of The Weinstein dispute to attempt to extort his share of the ing Weinstein was using the matter to publicize K-pop star Rain Company, is shown in New York. — AP three-part series “The Hobbit,” of which he his film “by disseminating deliberate misinfor- owns a percentage having developed the “Lord mation.” The studio claims the Weinstein Co “is a controversy,” said Weinstein. “I’d rather have of the Rings” trilogy while running Miramax. following an oft-trodden path of creating ‘well- the title than the controversy. We have to take “They mentioned that if I gave up ‘The Hobbit,’ publicized controversies’ in order to promote our trailers down. We have to take our posters finishes military service they could make the title problem go away,” their films by disseminating deliberate misin- down. We’ve already taken our website down. Weinstein said. formation about the true nature of this dispute. And if we don’t do it, it’s $25,000 a day.” In The film, directed by Lee Daniels and star- “The Weinsteins are sophisticated experts in recent days, Deadline.com has posted angry outh Korean pop icon Rain was offi- ring Forrest Whitaker, is to be released Aug 16. this arena and three neutral arbitrators have back-and-forth letters between Bois and cially released from mandatory mili- It’s based on the life of White House butler penalized them for blatantly disregarding Warner Bros attorney John Spiegel. Spiegel has Stary service yesterday, with hun- Eugene Allen, whose service extended through MPAA rules. It goes without saying that Warner cited previous Weinstein or Miramax titles that dreds of fans shedding tears of joy over decades of US presidents. Weinstein acknowl- Bros has no issue with Lee Daniels’ film (never disregarded the procedures of the title registry, the star’s comeback. About 700 devotees edged that when he bought the project at the has) and fully supports the artistic goals of the and had to then pay, for films like “Scream,” “Il from South Korea and abroad exploded script stage from Sony, “We thought that they filmmakers. The Weinsteins’ suggestions to the Postino” and 2007’s “Control,” for which into ecstatic cheers as the 31-year-old K- had cleared it (the title).” He said bargaining contrary are deeply offensive and untrue.” Weinstein paid $100,000 to use the title. pop star emerged from the defence min- between the heads of distribution for Warner Weinstein has taken advantage of such spats “What are they doing, trying to teach me a istry building in Seoul, where he had Bros and the Weinstein Co. was moving before for the generated publicity. Last year, lesson?” says Weinstein. “These big corpora- gone to receive his discharge papers. smoothly “and then all of a sudden it changed.” he launched a public attack against the MPAA tions just think they can bully the little guy.” “There’s never been a DVD of it,” he said of the over its initial R rating (due to harsh language) Some banner-carrying fans, weary from Certainly, when Weinstein is claiming the plight 1916 short. “It’s never been on television. What for the anti-bullying documentary “Bully.” After camping out overnight in drizzling rain, of the underdog, there’s a degree of are they protecting?” the film was initially released unrated, it was Hollywood-style bluster. On “CBS This Morning,” broke into tears as the star walked out A certain number of Hollywood titles are edited slightly and the MPAA changed the rat- wearing a military uniform. MPAA chairman Chris Dodd urged cooler heads protected by the Title Registration Bureau, of ing to PG-13. to prevail, telling both sides: “Sit down and “Thank you all for coming to welcome which the Weinstein Co and Warner Bros volun- “People are always saying you’re maximizing work it out. This is silly.” — AP me. I’ll do my best. I love you all,” Yonhap news agency quoted the singer as say- ing, as he gave fans a military salute. Rain, whose real name is Jung Ji-Hoon, is one of the biggest names in the world of Jay Z s Magna Carta :Promo K-pop, which commands a huge follow- ing in South Korea, across much of Asia and beyond. In January, he was confined writ large, but critics hold ba to barracks for a week after he was caught sneaking out for to meet a love South Korean pop icon Rain gives a military apper Jay Z is taking promo to the next lev- stars, praising the record for being “shimmering, interest while on official duty. He was salute after his discharge from mandatory el, selling a million copies of his latest heavy and at times sonically stunning.” dating a Kim Tae-Hee, a TV drama star military service outside the Defence Ministry Ralbum to Samsung for smartphone distri- But New York Times’ critic Jon Pareles was less with a massive following in Japan. in Seoul yesterday. —AFP bution and going on a six-hour Twitterthon with welcoming, criticizing the rapper’s extensive use fans. The American musician holds the title for of designer names and luxury goods in his lyrics. South Korean men are obligated to anyone refusing to serve-for moral or most No. 1 albums on the Billboard 200 chart for He does give Jay Z credit, however, for songs that serve about two years in the country’s religious reasons-faces an automatic jail a solo artist and “Magna Carta ... Holy Grail,” has a “aren’t cocky or neatly resolved.” Entertainment armed forces. Military service is taken term. Celebrities are frequently caught good shot of being his 13th record to shoot to Weekly’s Kyle Anderson gave the album a ‘D’ rat- extremely seriously in South Korea, attempting to evade military service for No. 1. ing and called it “lazy, smug and fundamentally which remains technically at war with fear they might be forgotten by their fans But not all critics were impressed with the empty.” Anderson was also highly critical about North Korea because their 1950-53 con- while in uniform. “Gangnam Style” star music and at least one ravaged the Samsung the Samsung deal. flict ended with a ceasefire rather than a Psy was forced to serve twice after it deal. “Magna Carta,” out on wide release this “The way it has been presented as a capital-I peace treaty. Apart from those with phys- emerged he had furthered his showbiz week, sees Jay Z teaming up with old colleagues Important piece of art about ‘duality’ (Jay’s word, ical disabilities, exemptions are rare and interests during his first stint. — AFP such as producers Timbaland and Pharrell not mine), delivered to us via the power of corpo- Williams, Justin Timberlake on “Holy Grail,” rate marketing and Samsung-sponsored data- Beyonce on “Part II (On the Run)” and newcomer Jay Z mining, I find absolutely putrid,” Anderson said. Grammy-winning artist Frank Ocean on “Oceans.” Brooklyn in the early 1990s. When asked by a fan While Billboard will not count the million copies GQ names Insane Clown Posse Jay Z, 43, spent six hours on Twitter Monday, if “Magna Carta” showcased a new era in hip-hop, sold to Samsung and offered free to users, the answering questions from fan about the album, he replied “only time will tell, let’s hope it starts a magazine’s chart analyst, Keith Caulfield, wrote his first since becoming a father to Blue Ivy, his dialogue.” Family is the underlying theme in on Monday that industry projections suggest the ‘worst rappers of all time’ child with wife Beyonce. He said his favorite track “Magna Carta.” But Jay Z also raps about the frus- album may sell between 350,000 and 400,000 ou can take a break from the spot- on the album was “Oceans,” which is also the old- trations of fame, and praises the finer things in copies in its first week. light, Kanye and Jay-Z-GQ posted a est song on the album, having been recorded life, on tracks such as “Picasso” and “Tom Ford,” That number would put “Magna Carta” behind Ylist of the 25 worst rappers of all two years ago. On the track, Jay Z raps about the named after the luxury-brand fashion designer. Justin Timberlake’s “The 20/20 Experience” which time on Tuesday. On his list, writer Rob struggles of his race and his rise to the top. So far, the album has earned a middling score sold 968,000 copies in its first week in March, but Tannenbaum named the Insane Clown The American rapper, whose real name is of 58 out of 100 on review aggregator ahead of the second-best album debut this year, Posse as the biggest offenders to the rap Shawn Carter, is known as an innovator in rap Metacritic.com. Los Angeles Times reviewer Daft Punk’s “Random Access Memories,” which game. But there were folks not in circus and hip-hop who started out on the streets of Randall Roberts gave the album three out of four sold 339,000 copies in May. — Reuters face paint that made his slideshow too. Just barely making the list at No. 25 is Tom Green, who apparently dabbled in a Canada-only release of his rap record The top 10 songs “Prepare for Impact” in 2005. Consider yourself lucky, United States - the album has a song titled, “Don’t Mess With A Man and albums on the iTunes Store (After He Takes A Big Poo Poo).” Other notables to the countdown Top Songs: Version), Anna Kendrick include the not-all-that-funny Joaquin 1. “Blurred Lines (feat. T.I. & Pharrell),” Robin Thicke 10. “Come & Get It,” Selena Gomez Phoenix rapping hoax for the mocku- Insane Clown Posse 2. “We Can’t Stop,” Miley Cyrus Top Albums: mentary “I’m Still Here” at No. 22, and the 3. “Radioactive,” Imagine Dragons 1. “Magna Carta Holy Grail,” Jay-Z 4. “Get Lucky (feat. Pharrell Williams),” Daft Punk 2. “Born Sinner,” J Cole squeaky-clean rhymes of “Fresh Prince of the macaroni with the cheese.” Here is the top - err, bottom - 5: 5. “Treasure,” Bruno Mars 3. “The Gifted,” Wale Bel Air” Will Smith at 20. Madonna has 6. “Can’t Hold Us (feat. Ray Dalton),” Ryan Lewis, 4. “Night Visions,” Imagine Dragons tried to rap (and we’ve tried to forget 5. Kevin Federline (Yes, that guy) Macklemore 5. “Yeezus,” Kanye West about the efforts), making the list at No. 4. Vanilla Ice (A given) 7. “Cruise (Remix) (feat. Nelly),” Florida Georgia 6. “Pitch Perfect,” Various Artists 15. Puff Daddy - one of the only actual 3. Chet Haze (aka Hank’s son Chester) Line 7. “Random Access Memories,” Daft Punk rappers on the list - came in at No. 6. No 2. Spencer Pratt (Yes, that guy) 8. “Same Love (feat. Mary Lambert)”, Macklemore 8. “The Heist,” Macklemore & Ryan Lewis mention by Tannenbaum of the now- 1. Insane Clown Posse (Don’t even & Ryan Lewis 9. “Here’s to the Good Times,” Florida Georgia Line Diddy’s famous groan-inducing line, “I’m start, Juggalos) —Reuters 9. “Cups (Pitch Pefect’s “When I’m Gone” - Pop 10. “Glorious Ruins (Live),” Hillsong Live — AP LENIN

lifestyle THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 TRAVEL Syria’s glorious archaeological treasures destroyed as war rages By Ellen Creager

few years ago, I traveled through Syria as a tourist. AOne of the most striking spots was remote Palmyra, with its pristine Roman ruins. Now, nobody really knows what has happened to it. Last reports were of tanks parked amid the ancient columns while reckless fighters looted the site. It’s sickening and sad. But that is not all. The 23- month-old civil war has destroyed families and Syrian society, killing an estimated 70,000 people, according to the United Nations. It has also destroyed precious her- itage sites and the nation’s fledg- ling tourist industry. Just as in Iraq, Lebanon and Sarajevo before it, cruel realities of war in Syria push to the back of the priority list the need for his- toric preservation, even if that preservation is woven into the nation’s soul. Everything precious blasts apart, is violated and dam- aged. The things that make a civi- lization whole and beautiful van- ish amid the bloodshed. Can it be rebuilt? Civilizations try. But some things, you can never get back.

The remote ruins of Palmyra rise like a mirage out of the semi- desert near an oasis in central Syria. Beyond the ruins on a hill beyond is a 17th-Century Islamic citadel. — MCT Many Americans claim roots in Syria, one of the world’s oldest nations. It has got to hurt to see the heartbreaking devastation of so many landmarks that used to be the pride of Syrians I met there. Krak des Chevaliers, the best-preserved Crusader castle in the world, has been shot up. I remember having a pleasant luncheon in its cafe, whose owner had relatives in Michigan. I bought a scarf there, made of blue silk, which I still wear. Bosra, a glorious ancient Roman city near Syria’s border with Jordan, reportedly also has tank damage. I remember it as a magnetic spot of blue-black stone where I sat on the steps of the Roman amphitheatre in the after- noon sun. Aleppo’s famous and lively souk (market) was set afire and burned down. Its glorious 12th- century Aleppo Central (Umayyad) Mosque was defaced and damaged. It makes you feel like crying. Ma’loula, the Aramaic village that sits high amid hills, reportedly is still intact. Will it stay that way? It’s uncertain. I will nev- er forget the sight of the pale blue buildings and women in long habits, serenely walking the streets. Now, there are reports of car bombings in the nation’s capital of Damascus, 2,300 years old. I remember walking the bazaar with its scent of rich spices. I walked on the Street called Straight. I remember riding past the American Embassy. War now creeps beyond its edges. As happened in Iraq, criminals have moved into Syria to system- atically loot archaeological treas- ures and smuggle them over the Lebanese and Turkish borders to the black market, warns the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization. These artifacts date from the time of the Sumerians, Romans, Parthians, early Christians and early Islam, and are not even remotely replaceable. So, it’s bad. The terrified people and their beautiful land green and lush in the north, sandy in the east, Mediterranean splendor in the west, its road to Damascus are hunkered down as war rages. But you have to keep hoping. One day, perhaps, Syria will live without a dictator, whose gigantic and threatening image was plas- tered all over its buildings when I visited. The citizens will be safe and free. Tourist sites will reopen. And some archaeological treas- ures successfully hidden from the bad people can be brought back into the light. But we won’t know until the fighting stops and the healing begins. —MCT lifestyle THURSDAY, JULY 11, 2013 FEATURES

Indiana prof: Film shows FDR in concealed wheelchair

professor at an Indiana college says who did not found their camera views The wheelchair is not clearly visible because he has found film footage showing blocked by Secret Service agents, according the view of the president is screened by a APresident Franklin Delano Roosevelt to the FDR Presidential Museum and line of sailors, but Roosevelt’s distinctive being pushed in his wheelchair, depicting a Library’s website. white hat can be seen gliding past the men secret that was hidden from the public until “This raw film clip may be the first at a lower level. Roosevelt, at 6-foot-2, was after his death. Ray Begovich, a journalism motion picture images of the president in likely taller than most of the soldiers. professor at Franklin College south of his wheelchair, and it was never meant to be Although Roosevelt’s disability was virtu- Indianapolis, said Tuesday he found the shown to the world,” Begovich said. Bob ally a state secret during his presidency, eight-second clip (http://bit.ly/12YW5Bp ) Clark, supervisory archivist at the Roosevelt which spanned the Great Depression and while conducting unrelated research in the library in New York, said he wasn’t aware of most of World War II, it has become an inspi- National Archives in College Park, Md. The any other similar film. A spokeswoman for ration to advocates who successfully National Archives and the FDR Presidential the National Archives concurred. “With pushed for a statue of him in his wheelchair Museum and Library couldn’t say for certain respect to whether or not this is the earliest to be added to the Roosevelt Memorial in if other such footage exists but both said it or only existing footage of FDR in a wheel- Washington. “To me, the importance of this is at least rare. chair, we cannot state that this is definitively clip as historic media imagery is that it Roosevelt contracted polio in 1921 at the case, although such footage is certainly reminds all of us that this president fought age 39 and was unable to walk without leg rare,” Laura Diachenko said in an email. the Great Depression and World War II from braces or assistance. During his four terms The film shows Roosevelt visiting the a wheelchair. I think it’s a tragedy that we as president, Roosevelt often used a wheel- USS Baltimore at Pearl Harbor in July 1944. haven’t had many candidates for national chair in private, but not for public appear- Eight seconds of the clip show Roosevelt This image from an eight-second film clip provided by the National Archives office who use a wheelchair or guide dog or ances. News photographers cooperated in exiting a doorway on the ship and being shows President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, third from right, being pushed in a sign language,” Begovich said in a state- concealing Roosevelt’s disability, and those escorted down what is apparently a ramp. wheelchair aboard the USS. — AP ment. — AP Winehouse exhibition opens in London

Clothes and accessories worn by late British singer Amy Winehouse are displayed.

Festival and concert passes worn by late British singer A woman looks at a poster sized print of the cover of Rolling Stone magazine featuring a picture of British singer Amy Winehouse Amy Winehouse displayed at the “Amy Winehouse A Family Portrait” exhibition at the Jewish Museum in North are displayed. London on July 2, 2013. — AFP photos n exhibition about the life of Amy nets, childhood books and her audition essay anything, just wanted to be true to her her- the 19th century and came to London by acci- side to the troubled Back To Black singer who Winehouse has opened in London, fea- to the Sylvia Young stage school. A suitcase of itage,’ he said. The exhibition is being held at dent, having meant to go to the United States. fought a public battle with drink and drugs Aturing clothes, records and dozens of family photographs she was looking through in the Jewish MuseumA Grammy awarded to The museum’s chief executive, Abigail Morris, before her early death. ‘Everyone thinks they photographs belonging to the star. Amy the days before she died in her Camden Town Winehouse posthumously in 2012 The exhibi- said the idea for the exhibition came about know who Amy Winehouse is, and they’ve seen Winehouse: A Family Portrait runs until home in 2011 also feature at the show. Many of tion includes photographs of her grandmother after the family offered one of her dresses for its the pictures, but actually she is somebody’s lit- September at the Jewish Museum in Camden the items have captions written by Alex. who influenced her sense of style and exhibits permanent display. ‘They just came with a dress tle sister. ‘I think this exhibition is saying this is Town, less than a mile away from where she ‘This is a snapshot of a girl who was, to her that show the family’s ‘Jewish-London roots’. and thought this would be a lovely place for it the story of somebody who was very loved as died aged 27. Put together with the help of her deepest core, simply a little Jewish kid from It traces those roots back to the singer’s and it grew organically from that,’ she said. Ms opposed to someone who was very famous.’ brother Alex, the exhibits include fridge mag- north London with a big talent who, more than great-great-grandparents who left Belarus in Morris said she hoped it would show another — www.skynews.com 5 free things in Helena, Mont, from art to trails ontana’s capital is perfectly positioned as a halfway point the summit of Mount Helena. The 5,400-foot (1,646-meter) peak between Glacier and Yellowstone national parks, but visi- gives visitors a bird’s-eye view of the city laid out below. Mtors often decide to extend their stopovers once they get a feel for the city’s burgeoning art scene and its accessible Do the bray hiking, biking and skiing trails. Helena is a city built on gold. It Hundreds of otherworldly sculptures are hidden amid the ruins was founded in 1864 when four miners who had been searching and overgrown fields of the Archie Bray Foundation for the unsuccessfully for the precious metal decided this spot on the Ceramic Arts just outside of the city. A self-guided walking tour of eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains would be their “last its 26 acres (10.5 hectares) shows the renowned center isn’t just chance.” They struck gold, and Last Chance Gulch became the about making homemade vases. Each corner turned reveals main street of the city that by the late 1800s boasted more mil- another surreal offering from its former residents, from stunning lionaires per capita than any other in the world. That history of archways to a towering brick pyramid to abstract sculptures a visi- tor will just have to figure out for herself. The Bray was created in 1951 by brick marker Archie Bray to stimulate creative work in ceramics. It offers very competitive artist residencies, and a visitor who hangs out long enough outside the studios may get an invita- tion to check out the works in progress. Photograph shows the crowd at the annual Symphony This 2009 photograph shows a musician on stage at the Cross-country ski (or hike) the continental divide Under the Stars concert on the Carroll College lawn. annual Symphony Under the Stars concert on the The MacDonald Pass cross-country ski area offers more than 10 Carroll College lawn in Helena, Mont. —AP photos miles (17 kilometers) of trails in the backcountry of the Continental Divide just 15 miles (24 kilometers) west of town. In other seasons, hikers can wander the trails around the pass and link up with the Continental Divide Trail that stretches from Mexico to Canada, but on winter weekends, residents flock to the pass, with practiced skiers gracefully dodging families out for their first try on the clas- sic ski tracks. Come early or on a weekday, and a visitor will find peaceful silence skiing among the ponderosa and lodge pole pine trees. There is something for everyone on these interconnected trails, from the relatively flat 3-mile (4.8-kilometer) Old Cabin loop Photo shows sculptures scattered across the 26-acre to the more harrowing Meadows Loop with its steep, sharp turns. grounds of the Archie Bray Foundation for the Ceramic Most of the trails are groomed by the Last Chance Nordic Ski Club, Arts. and they ask that visitors either leave their pets behind or take them to the other side of U.S. Highway 12 for a romp in the snow wealth can still be seen in the ornate homes of the Mansion on the pass. District, the state Capitol and the gothic Cathedral of St. Helena, but you don’t have to be a millionaire to enjoy what this city has Listen to free outdoor concerts to offer. Residents stake out their spots early for the annual Symphony MacDonald Pass, which offers more than 10 miles of Photo shows a jogger runs along a trail on Mount Here are five free things to do in Helena. Under the Stars on the Carroll College lawn with blankets weighed down by canned goods that will later be donated to the Helena trails in the backcountry of the Continental Divide just Helena. Hike or bike the Helena ridge trail Food Share. By the time the 75-piece Helena Symphony strikes up 15 miles west of Helena, Mont. A free shuttle wends its way up Grizzly Gulch south of town its first overture, some 12,000 people are sipping wine, sampling Center. For a schedule, please see neighbors stop to chat, dogs romp and kids dart around the grown- and drops hikers and bicyclists off at the trailhead of this from the food trucks or rolling with their children down the steep http://downtownhelena.com/events/events-calendar . ups’ legs chasing each other. Lining the street on either side are ven- National Recreation Trail. After an initial ascent up a set of switch- grassy slope of the lawn. The free concert is being held this year on dors that include Hmong and Hutterite farmers selling their locally backs, it’s a pleasant 6-mile (9.6-kilometer) stroll or ride through July 20, when the sun doesn’t set until after 9 pm. The music is Walk the farmer’s market grown produce and meat, along with local artisans selling every- the Helena National Forest along the well-marked trail back to capped with a fireworks show. Other free summertime concerts Buskers on violin and guitar provide the soundtrack for the place thing from bath soap to birdhouses. Special treats include the giant town. The trail provides stunning views of forested mountains downtown include Alive at 5 every Wednesday evening and Out to to see and be seen in Helena on Saturday mornings. It’s a slow-mov- bags of kettle corn and Flathead cherries that come later in the sum- and the Prickly Pear Valley, but the payoff comes at the end at Lunch every Thursday at 11:30 am in the Great Northern Town ing procession down the three blocks of the farmer’s market as mer - but you’ll have to open your wallet to sample those. — AP Bollywood’s Khan denies gender test rumors

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A Lebanese man prays at a mosque in Beirut, Lebanon, yesterday. Many devout Muslims in the Middle East have started observing the dawn-to-dusk fast for the month of Ramadan even as the region is rocked by Egypt’s turmoil and the relentless civil war in Syria. For most Sunnis and Shiites, Ramadan started yesterday while others are expected to begin observing the holy month today differences based on various sightings of the new moon. — AP German baroque water park makes splash on UNESCO list

ith its Hercules statue towering a jewel of the era of absolutism, a grandiose sites on June 23, alongside the Sicilian vol- my daughter,” said the 43-year-old father above a massive water cascade, demonstration of man’s control over nature, cano Mount Etna and Japan’s majestic from Salzgitter, 130 kilometers (80 miles) Wromantic gardens and castle, and a marvel of aquatic engineering which Mount Fuji-a decision long awaited by the away. The UNESCO listing “is the crowning Germany’s Bergpark Wilhelmshoehe has goes on show every Wednesday and Sunday city, which had an immediate impact. recognition” of the park’s merit, said a long been a marvel of baroque landscape from May to October. When the spectacle “We have received far more enquiries, euphoric Bertram Hilgen, the mayor of design. As of last month, it’s also a UNESCO kicks off, 750,000 liters (200,000 gallons) of and more people want to spend the night Kassel. The city is covered in posters cele- world heritage site. Locals are ecstatic that water tumble down the 350-metre (1,100 here to go and discover the Bergpark,” said brating the site’s new status, which Kassel Europe’s largest hillside park, with its fairy- feet) long Grand Cascade, run through a Sonja Tobor at the tourist information office hopes will put it firmly on the world map of tale waterfalls, secluded ponds and hidden complex system of channels, rapids and of Kassel, the city that also hosts the famous man-made wonders. bridges, has made it onto the list of the waterfalls and finally empty into a lake that Documenta art show. The Bergpark, which The park is already popular with foreign world’s must-see cultural attractions and are is overlooked by a castle. stretches across 550 hectares (1,350 acres), tourists, particularly from Asia, and booked readying for a tourist rush in the summer At its centre rises the geyser-like, 50- was started in 1689 and is the combined 800,000 visitors in 2012, a particularly good holidays. metre high Grand Fountain that, when it creative effort of Carl and his heirs, who year when the city last hosted its The emblem of the nearby city of Kassel was built, was the tallest in the world. added the lower park and built the Documenta art fair, held every five years. in central Hesse state, the leafy wonderland “Unlike Versailles, this fountain doesn’t use Wilhelmshoehe Castle in the 18th century. Hilgen predicted annual attendance will rise started life more than 300 years ago at the any machine, the jet is created naturally by The aquatic theatre has been beloved by by 10 percent thanks to the UNESCO acco- whim of Landgrave Carl at a time when local the water pressure,” enthuses Kassel’s parks generations of German visitors, such as Mike lade. “Respect for the park has grown, the princes were outdoing each other in build- and museums director Bernd Kuester. The Schroeter, who recently came with his child. people’s perception has changed” said ing ever more extravagant castles and parks. UN cultural body added Bergpark “This show is engraved in my memory, Kuester, adding with a smile that “it has The Bergpark Wilhelmshoehe is considered Wilhelmshoehe to its list of World Heritage and I really wanted to come back to show become a kind of holy place”. — AFP

A picture taken on June 6, 2013 shows people looking at the trick fountain and the Hercules statue at the mountain park Bergpark Wilhelmshoehe in Kassel, western Germany. — AFP

A sculpture stands in front of tombstones at a small Jewish Cemetery in Vienna, Tombstones at a small Jewish Cemetery. Austria yesterday. — AP photos Ancient Jewish tombstones found in Vienna

ienna’s Jewish community says a historically important trove of hun- Vdreds of ancient Jewish tomb- stones have been recently unearthed, including some dating back to the 16th century. Senior Jewish community offi- cial Raimund Fastenbauer said yesterday that the headstones have “high historical value.” He describes their significance as comparable to that of the ancient Jewish cemetery in Prague, the oldest known graveyard of its kind and one of the Czech capital’s most visited tourist sites. He says the gravestones were buried by the few Jews remaining in Vienna in An Indian Muslim woman prays at Jama Masjid on 1943 to hide them from the Nazis and the eve of Ramadan in New Delhi yesterday. Islam’s were recently found during renovation Tombstones holy month of Ramadan is calculated on the sight- of the small cemetery where they origi- discovered ing of the new moon and Muslims all over the nally stood. Vienna city officials they at a small world are supposed to fast from dawn to dusk dur- expect excavations to yield up to 800 Jewish ing the month. — AFP headstones. — AP Cemetery.