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KUWAIT: The first anniversary of the United Nation’s honor- Info Minister on ing of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al- Jaber Al-Sabah as a humanitarian leader and Kuwait as a 1st anniversary humanitarian center is celebrated today. The honoring came after the numerous contributions by Kuwait’s top leader towards humanitarian causes around the globe lead- of Amir honoring ing the UN to honor Sheikh Sabah at a ceremony held in the UN headquarters in New York on September 9th, 2014. KUWAIT: On 9 September Amongst the main reasons for the honoring was 2014, the Secretary-General Kuwait’s continuous contribution to aid the Syrian refugees of the United Nations, Ban with the Gulf state having held three donor conferences, Ki-moon bestowed upon His which collected around $3.8 billion to help Syrian refugees. Highness Sheikh Sabah Al- Kuwait donated around $1.3 billion to help the refugees. Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Delivering a speech at the ceremony last year, UN Amir of the State of Kuwait, Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said “For more than three the United Nations years, we have witnessed an unfolding humanitarian catas- Humanitarian Leadership trophe in the Middle East. First in Syria, now in Iraq, we Award in recognition of his have seen the terrible consequences of the conflict.” visionary efforts to spear- “But in response to this death and chaos, we have seen head fundraising for vital UN remarkable acts of human kindness and generosity. Kuwait operations to alleviate the has shown exemplary humanitarian leadership in support- Sheikh Salman suffering of victims of the ing these operations. Under the leadership of the Amir, Al-Hmoud Al-Sabah Syrian crises. In presenting Kuwait has hosted two pledging conferences - in 2013 and the Award, the UN Secretary 2014 - and it hosts the meetings of the Top Donors Group General, Ban Ki-Moon, commended HH the Amir for his “remarkable acts of human kindness and generosi- for Syria,” he said. ty” and paid homage to the “exemplary humanitarian “Every year, Kuwait holds a regional conference on part- leadership” demonstrated by the State of Kuwait. nerships for effective humanitarian action. Kuwait has also One year on from that historic moment, we wish increased its support for multilateral humanitarian action, to express our profound appreciation to HH the Amir exponentially since the start of the crisis in Syria. In the for continuing to lead the global efforts for humani- past two years, Kuwait has donated hundreds of millions of tarian relief to the victims of the crises not only in dollars for humanitarian operations - not only in the Syria but across the globe. KUWAIT: This file photo shows His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah with UN Secretary- Middle East, but in Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Somalia See Page 2 General Ban Ki-moon during a ceremony to honor His Highness as a Humanitarian Leader at the United and Sudan,” he said. Nation’s headquarters in New York on September 9, 2014. — KUNA See Page 2 MP asks about number of Iranians in Kuwait

By A Staff Reporter interior ministry and in other government and Hezbollah to carry out attacks against departments. Kuwait. In the meantime, liberal MP Rakan Al- KUWAIT: MP Abdullah Al-Turaiji yesterday con- He said that in mid-1980s, a series of bomb- Nasef called for restraint and urged religious tinued targeting Iranian interests in the country ings were carried out in Kuwait and a number movements to stop what he called fomenting sec- following the arrest of the Iran and Hezbollah- of Kuwaiti suspects took refuge at the Iranian tarian tension in the country. He said that the han- linked cell and the seizing of large amounts of embassy and were later transported out of dling of the bombing of the Shiite mosque and weapons. Kuwait in coffins. They later returned to Kuwait the busting of the Iran-linked cell raised sectarian Turaiji demanded the number of the Iranian following a pardon after the Liberation from tensions in the country. Nasef also criticized calls community in Kuwait and the types of their res- Iraq. He demanded the names of Kuwaiti sus- by a number of MPs to ratify the Gulf security pact idence permits in addition to the number of pects in those bombings whether they were and the formation of the Gulf confederation say- those registered on visa No 20 for domestic convicted or still at large. ing that the two issues contradict with the princi- helpers and the names of their sponsors. Turaiji demanded the names of Iranians nat- ples of the Kuwaiti constitution. The lawmaker also demanded in a question uralized for rendering great services to Kuwait In another development, MP Mohammad Tana BAALBEK: Syrian children walk amid the dust during a sandstorm yesterday at a to the interior minister the names of compa- and what were those services and the names of asked the Minister of Social Affairs and Labor Hind refugee camp on the outskirts of the eastern Lebanese city of Baalbek. — AFP nies and their owners which employ at least those who were granted Kuwaiti citizenship Al-Sabeeh for the number of visa traders who have three Iranian nationals and the number of while still holding Iranian nationality. The law- been busted by the ministry whether they were Iranians who entered the country illegally and maker also demanded the names of all those companies or individuals. He also demanded the Deadly sandstorm were arrested and deported since the begin- who were referred to the public prosecution minutes of investigation with them, the date of ning of 2011. and the way they had obtained their Kuwaiti referring them to the public prosecution and the Turaiji also demanded the number of Iranian citizenship. number of laborers involved. engulfs Mideast prisoners and if any of them is jailed for state MP Turaiji has been targeting the Iranian He asked if some of those suspected visa security cases and any of them sentenced to interests in the country with questions after the traders have been let go after subjecting them to BEIRUT: A dense sandstorm engulfing province and a person in Daraa,” said Rami death. The lawmaker also inquired about the prosecution last week pressed charges against investigation and the reason for not referring them parts of the Middle East left at least eight Abdel Rahman, head of the Syrian number of Iranian nationals employed in the 25 Kuwaitis and one Iranian of spying for Iran to the public prosecution. people dead and hundreds suffering from Observatory for Human Rights. respiratory problems yesterday, as officials Lebanon’s health ministry said two warned residents to stay indoors. Large women had died at hospitals in the eastern US warns of terror parts of Lebanon, Syria, Israel and Cyprus Bekaa Valley region because of the storm, were shrouded in a thick cloud of dust without specifying their nationality. “The threats in S Africa from the storm that began sweeping into number of cases of choking and shortness the region on Monday. of breath caused by the sandstorm has JOHANNESBURG: The United States embassy in Refugees from Syria now living in basic risen to 750,” the ministry said. Police dis- South Africa yesterday issued a rare “terrorist threat” conditions in Lebanon were badly affected. tributed face masks on city streets as warning to US interests in the country, and advised its In Syria itself, the storm meant government authorities warned people suffering from citizens to be on heightened alert against attack. warplanes and helicopters carried out few- health problems, the elderly, and pregnant The message released by the embassy in Pretoria er strikes, but at least six people died across women to stay indoors. The storm was felt said there was no information on the possible timing the country from respiratory failure, a mon- particularly in Lebanon’s dozens of informal or target in South Africa, which has escaped the mili- itor said. “There were four (killed) in Deir camps where hundreds of thousands of tant Islamist attacks seen in several other African coun- Ezzor, including a child and an elderly Syrian refugees live with limited shelter. tries. “Extremists may be targeting US interests in woman, as well as another child in Hama Continued on Page 13 South Africa, to possibly include US Government facili- ties and other facilities identifiable with US business interests,” the embassy statement said. “Remain aware and vigilant of your surroundings... SANAA: Houses destroyed by an airstrike are seen in Sanaa yesterday. — AP ‘Half of all US adults have Be vigilant and take appropriate steps to enhance your personal security.” A spokesman for the South African diabetes or pre-diabetes’ ministry of state security told AFP that the government 20 Indians killed in CHICAGO: New research suggests that Almost 40 percent have pre-dia- was aware of the US announcement, but that it had no half of all US adults have diabetes or betes, meaning elevated blood sugar immediate comment. The US embassy issued a general air strikes on Yemen pre-diabetes. The study of government levels that could lead to full-fledged security alert last week ahead of the September 11 attacks anniversary, but the warning yesterday health surveys echoes previous disease. Studies have shown lifestyle DUBAI: A Saudi-led alliance killed at least killed in similar attacks on Monday. It was appeared to signal a new level of concern. Security research and shows numbers changes can delay or prevent diabetes 20 Indian nationals in air strikes on fuel not immediately possible to independ- analyst Ryan Cummings said the US had last issued a increased substantially between 1988 in these people. smugglers at a Yemeni port yesterday, ently verify the figures. The alliance, made “terror threat” in South Africa in 2009. The embassy was and 2012 although they mostly leveled Whites had lower diabetes rates than fishermen said, and more foreign troops up mainly of Gulf Arab countries, has unable to confirm the date. “One would not immedi- off after 2008. Overall, 12 percent to 14 Hispanics, blacks and Asian-Americans. ately associate South Africa with Islamic extremism, were reported to be arriving to intensify increased air strikes on Sanaa and other percent of adults had diagnosed dia- The study is based on surveys involving which is the driver of international terrorism against US the campaign against Houthi forces. parts of the country since Friday, when a betes in 2012, the latest data available. in-home exams and questionnaires. It interests,” said Cummings, a Cape Town-based analyst The Houthi-run state news agency Houthi missile attack killed at least 60 Most of that is Type 2 diabetes, the was published in yesterday’s Journal of at Red 24, a risk management firm. Saba also said that 15 citizens were killed Saudi, Bahraini and United Arab Emirates kind linked with obesity and inactivity. the American Medical Association. — AP Continued on Page 13 in air strikes on Sanaa, and medical soldiers at a military camp east of Sanaa. sources said at least 15 civilians were Continued on Page 13 LOCAL WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 Kuwait marks anniversary of Amir’s UN honoring

KUWAIT: The first anniversary of the United tarian operations - not only in the Middle est of soft loans to numerous developing and people, as they are inherited generation after Nation’s honoring of His Highness the Amir East, but in Chad, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, least developed countries in 1988 “has generation from their forefathers,” adding Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah as Somalia and Sudan,” he said. become a precedent in international humani- that the Kuwaiti people kept offering aid for a humanitarian leader and Kuwait as a “Kuwait’s leadership and funding has tarian work, thereby initiating a quantum those in need even when they faced hard- humanitarian center is celebrated today. The saved live and has galvanized others to par- leap in the assistance methods of Kuwaiti ships in the past, in reference to the 1990-91 honoring came after the numerous contribu- ticipate in coordinated international action. diplomacy, which exemplified the genuine Iraqi invasion and occupation of Kuwait. tions by Kuwait’s top leader towards humani- At a time when so many of our appeals are understanding of humanitarian needs high- Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmadsaid that Kuwait tarian causes around the globe leading the underfunded, it is good to know we can lighting the humanitarian concept of such Fund for Arab Economic Development UN to honor Sheikh Sabah at a ceremony count on Kuwait’s generosity,” he added. loans and assistance.” (KFAED), which was established in 1961, was held in the UN headquarters in New York on “Your Excellency, we thank you and count on “Kuwaiti charitable associations and peo- an expression of sincere desire of Kuwait in September 9th, 2014. your continued support,” Ban concluded by ples’ fundraising committees have set an providing assistance to Arab states and Amongst the main reasons for the honor- expressing deep gratitude for these efforts. example in their continued support of many friendly countries through providing soft ing was Kuwait’s continuous contribution to humanitarian projects in Asia and Africa, by loans and technical assistance in support of aid the Syrian refugees with the Gulf state Annual contribution individual initiatives that have become - by their efforts to achieve their development. having held three donors conferences, which His Highness the Amir delivered a speech the blessing of Allah - a shining example of The gross amount of loans provided by collected around $3.8 billion to help Syrian during the ceremony he said “I am pleased benevolence characterizing the Kuwaiti peo- the fund during more than half a century refugees. Kuwait donated around $1.3 billion to announce before you of doubling our ple,” said the Kuwaiti leader. reached $17.6 billion benefitting 103 coun- to help the refugees. fixed annual voluntary contribution to the tries, representing 1.2 percent of Kuwait’s Delivering a speech at the ceremony last Central Emergency Response Fund (CERF) to 10 percent gross national income (GNI), exceeding the year, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-Moon said $1 million.” His Highness the Amir said in 2008 Kuwait 0.7 percent of GNI the UN has determined in “For more than three years, we have wit- His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad earmarked 10 percent of its total humanitari- 1970 as an indicator of the official develop- nessed an unfolding humanitarian catastro- highly appreciated the honoring as a “special an assistance to countries affected by natural ment assistance to be provided by developed phe in the Middle East. First in Syria, now in occasion” and said that Kuwait, since its inde- or man-made disasters to be channeled to UN countries. Kuwait, noted the Kuwaiti leader, Iraq, we have seen the terrible consequences pendence and gaining the UN membership, organizations and specialized agencies active hosted two donors’ conferences for the Syrian of the conflict.” has followed a steady approach in its foreign in the humanitarian field. people in 2013 and 2014 in which $3.6 billion “But in response to this death and chaos, policy, based essentially on humanitarian “This was followed by official decisions to was pledged.. we have seen remarkable acts of human kind- assistance to all needy countries “regardless double the fixed annual voluntary contribu- His Highness the Amir highlighted the ness and generosity. Kuwait has shown exem- of their geographic location, religious beliefs tions to a number of international agencies UN’s important role to confronting challenges plary humanitarian leadership in supporting or ethnic origins.” and organizations such as the Office of the facing social peace and political security these operations. Under the leadership of the This assistance is in “pursuance of its belief United Nations High Commissioner for around the world. “I also would like to renew Amir, Kuwait has hosted two pledging confer- and conviction of the importance of interna- Refugees (UNHCR), the International that the commitment of Kuwait - which has ences - in 2013 and 2014 - and it hosts the tional partnership, as well as the unification Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and the always been a firm and genuine supporter meetings of the Top Donors Group for Syria,” and activation of international efforts, aimed United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). This and an effective member of the United he said. at the maintenance and preservation of the has provided the humanitarian work of Nations - is still of the same conviction and “Every year, Kuwait holds a regional con- foundations of life - that is - the human spirit,” Kuwait with wider horizons and more com- shall remain so, out of its belief in the noble NEW YORK: This file photo shows His Highness the Amir ference on partnerships for effective humani- said His Highness Sheikh Sabah Al-Sabah, prehensive dimensions to promote direct message of the United Nations in the preser- Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah with UN Secretary- tarian action. Kuwait has also increased its noting that Kuwait has always been develop- cooperation in the various crises, with those vation of international peace and security, the General Ban Ki-moon during a ceremony to honor His support for multilateral humanitarian action, ing and modernizing the methods of provid- international bodies,” he said. dissemination of the principals of justice and Highness as a Humanitarian Leader at the United exponentially since the start of the crisis in ing assistance. He said an initiative HH The AmirSheikh Sabah underlined that equality and ensuring a life of dignity and Nation’s headquarters in New York on September 9, Syria. In the past two years, Kuwait has donat- announced by late Kuwaiti Amir Sheikh Jaber the acts of benevolence and philanthropy are welfare to the people of the world,” said His 2014. — KUNA ed hundreds of millions of dollars for humani- Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah to write off inter- “inherent values in the hearts of the Kuwaiti Highness the Amir. — KUNA

Amir recognized for fundraising efforts towards UN relief operations

n 9 September 2014, the Secretary-General Working in partnership with HH the Amir’s of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon Government, the International Islamic Charitable Obestowed upon His Highness Sheikh Sabah Organization, headed by Dr Abdullah Al-Matouq, Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah, Amir of the State of and the Kuwait Red Crescent Society, chaired by Dr Kuwait, the United Nations Humanitarian Leadership Hilal Al-Sayer, are making major contributions to Award in recognition of his visionary efforts to spear- facilitating the distribution of Kuwait’s humanitari- head fundraising for vital UN operations to alleviate an assistance. Dr Abdullah Al-Matouq, who is also the suffering of victims of the Syrian crises. In pre- the Special Humanitarian Envoy of the UN senting the Award, the UN Secretary General, Ban Ki- Secretary-General, is a highly respected figure in Moon, commended HH the Amir for his “remarkable international circles as be promotes HH the Amir’s acts of human kindness and generosity” and paid message of international solidarity with the victims homage to the “exemplary humanitarian leadership” of humanitarian crises around the world. These demonstrated by the State of Kuwait. One year on efforts further build Kuwait’s reputation as a global from that historic moment, we wish to express our humanitarian hub. profound appreciation to HH the Amir for continu- Kuwait’s program of overseas assistance has fre- ing to lead the global efforts for humanitarian relief quently been linked to longer-term development to the victims of the crises not only in Syria but strategies that will build the resilience of develop- across the globe. ing nations to potential shocks caused by conflicts, The personal dedication demonstrated by HH natural and man-made disasters. In the long term, the Amir to the cause of humanitarian relief for such investments will help developing countries to those affected by the conflict in Syria has been avoid the social and economic challenges that can inspirational. By presenting the Humanitarian lead to violence and the reversal of hard-won Leadership Award to HH the Amir, the United development gains. In November 2013, Kuwait Nations was determined to hosted the Third Africa-Arab KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Sabah recognize and express its pro- Summit, during which HH the meets Deputy Prime Minister and Finance Minister Anas Al-Saleh meets Health Minister Dr Ali Al-Obaidi. —KUNA found gratitude for the per- Amir directed the Kuwait and Head of the Financial Control Apparatus Abdulaziz Al-Dakheel. sonal leadership role that HH Fund to grant concessionary the Amir has performed in the loans to African countries international efforts to totaling $1 billion over the Amir, Crown Prince receive Head respond to this crisis. First, in next five years and directing his Government to announced other investments organize three international worth USE) 1 billion “over the of Financial Control Apparatus donor pledging conferences next few years, with emphasis for Syria (2013, 2014 and on infrastructure, through KUWAIT: His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al- Sharar attended the meeting. Saleh also present- Ahmad Al-Sabah. His Highness Sheikh Nawaf also 2015). Second, HH the Amir, cooperation and coordination Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah received at Bayan ed Dakheel to Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh received Minister of Health Dr Ali Saad Al-Obaidi. both by his example and with the World Bank and oth- direct intervention, has er international institutions.” Palace yesterday Deputy Prime Minister and Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah and His In other news, His Highness the Crown Prince worked to galvanize the glob- The leadership demon- Minister of Finance Anas Khaled Al-Saleh, who Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Al- is set to attend a ceremony today to name the al community to contribute Sheikh Salman Sabah Al-Salem strated by HH the Amir on the presented to His Highness the newly-appointed Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. United Nations headquarters in Kuwait after His funds for the victims of this Al-Hmoud Al-Sabah question of humanitarian Head of the Financial Control Apparatus Abdulaziz Meanwhile, His Highness the Amir and His Highness the Amir, on the occasion of the first devastating conflict. assistance for the victims of Dakheel Al-Dakheel. Acting Deputy Minister of Highness the Crown Prince separately received anniversary of naming His Highness the Amir as a The civil war in Syria has entered into its fifth these crises is very much in keeping with a policy of Amiri Diwan Affairs Advisor Mohammad Daifallah His Highness Sheikh Nasser Al-Mohammed Al- Humanitarian Leader by the UN. — KUNA year, still with no political solution in sight. The sta- the Kuwaiti Government to support humanitarian tistics are staggering: At least 250,000 people have efforts and promote peace and solidarity. During been killed and more than one million have been the award ceremony in New York last year, HH the Amir deserves Humanitarian injured. Inside Syria, more than 12.2 million people Amir noted that the humanitarian assistance pro- are in need of humanitarian assistance, including vided by Kuwait is in “pursuance of its belief and 5.6 million children. UN experts estimate that conviction of the importance of international part- national development in Syria has been set back by nership, as well as the unification and activation of Leader title: Speaker Ghanem four decades, with more than half the population international efforts, aimed at the maintenance and now living in extreme poverty. Meanwhile, almost preservation of the foundations of Life - that is the half the Syrian population has been displaced from human spirit.” By A Saleh and KUNA their homes, with around 4 million forced to seek Today, as we celebrate the international recog- refuge abroad. Communities in Jordan, Lebanon, nition of the work of HH the Amir as a humanitarian KUWAIT: Granting His Highness the Amir Sheikh Iraq, Turkey and Egypt are also coming under strain leader and his people, we must remain conscious Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah the title of a as they host refugees, with essential social services of the massive challenges facing the international ‘Humanitarian Leader’ comes to crown a long such as health, water and education being pushed community to deal with the scale of the humanitar- humanitarian experience in foreign policy, to the limit. The generous assistance provided by ian crisis. More than 100 million people worldwide Speaker of the National Assembly Marzouq Ali Kuwait has been directed at alleviating the impact need urgent humanitarian aid, while more than 60 Al-Ghanem said yesterday. of this crisis. million people have, been forcibly displaced from “As we witness the Syrian refugees crisis, and Since 2013, Kuwait under the patronage of HH their homes and communities. The world is facing the enormous flaw of refugees to European the Amir has hosted three international donors’ the greatest forced migration crisis since World War pledging conferences for Syria, raising around $7.5 II ended 70 years ago. In Syria, with eight months of countries, becoming an international issue billion. Of this, Kuwait has led the donations, with a the year behind us, the Syria Response Plan for affecting the entire world, we recall how His total of $1.3 billion across the three years ($300 mil- 2015 is still less than one third funded while in Iraq, Highness the Amir offered great care to the Marzouq Al-Ghanem Hamad Al-Harshani Sultan Al-Shemmari lion in 2013, $500 million in 2014, and $500 million the UN has been forced to curtail a number of Syrian crisis since outbreak of the crisis,” Ghanem he indicated. His Highness also warned against Highness the Amir’s diplomatic career that has in 2015). These conferences, which have been ongoing services in health, education and other said in press remarks on the occasion of the first widening the circle of the conflict to include fur- been characterized by foresight with a humani- attended each year by high level delegations of sectors, resulting in serious and adverse conse- anniversary of granting His Highness the Amir ther geographical locations that will be involved tarian dimension.” Government from across the world, have again quences for millions of affected people. There is no this title by the United Nations (UN), besides in the Syrian crisis and turning it into an interna- “His Highness the Amir has always been a shone a spotlight on Kuwait’s tradition of humani- doubt that people will continue to go hungry, chil- choosing Kuwait as a center for humanitarian tional cause, Ghanem said. leader of humanitarian work, which became tarian assistance and compassion for those in need dren will lose theft education and many innocent work. His Highness the Amir was concerned over “We congratulate His Highness the Amir for evident through the way he dealt with the and raised awareness of the desperate challenges civilians will die, without the concerted efforts of the sufferings of the Syrian people at a time the earning this title, wishing him everlasting health Syrian crisis” by hosting three donor confer- facing the Syrian people. the international community. We therefore tall on world was too busy offering them the proper and wellness to keep playing his leading role in ences for refugees, Harshani said. The compassion demonstrated by HH the Amir world leaders to learn from the example of HH the care they deserve, Ghanem affirmed. Kuwait has serving the vital humanitarian issues in our Also, MP Sultan Al-Shemmari said that the has not been confined to the victims of the conflict Amir and the people of Kuwait to provide the hosted three donors conferences for Syria, to region”, he concluded. unprecedented honoring of His Highness the in Syria. The State of Kuwait has made generous essential support to save hundreds and thousands alleviate the sufferings of the Syrian people as Amir highlights his role in providing “limitless donations, whether through the United Nations, of lives. they faced a tough war that has torn the country, Unprecedented honoring support to humanitarian work through several bilaterally or through non-Government organiza- The United Nations continues to honor HH the he added. His Highness the Amir warned of an tions, to a very wide range of humanitarian emer- Amir as a global Humanitarian Leader. In his mes- Meanwhile, Chairman of the parliament’s initiatives that aim at alleviating the suffering outburst of the Syrian refugees crisis in case this foreign affairs committee MP Hamad Al- of people around the world regardless of reli- gencies internationa11y. These include the recent sage on the occasion of the first anniversary, Ban Ki- problem is not politically treated from its roots, announcement of $200 million for the reconstruc- Moon, Secretary-General of the United Nations has Harshani said that the UN honoring “crowns His gion, race or gender.” tion of the Gaza Strip, to be administered by the said “at a time of escalating suffering in Syria and Kuwait Fund for Arab Economic Development; Yemen, protracted crises elsewhere in the region KRCS applauds Amir’s $200 million for vital projects in Iraq and a further and other challenges around the world, our collec- 100 million for relief in Yemen, to be disbursed tive responsibility to preserve human life and humanitarian role through Kuwaiti non-Government organizations. In uphold human dignity is greater than ever. I will line with HH the Amir’s direction that Kuwait’s sup- continue to count on His Highness the Amir of KUWAIT: Kuwait Red Crescent Society’s Amir proved his worthiness of this title port should be directed towards those in greatest Kuwait and other leaders to maintain support for (KRCS) Board Chairman Dr Hilal Al-Sayer through his humanitarian initiatives need, regardless of nationality and religion, the humanitarian causes, and I look forward to further praised the leading humanitarian role offered to relieve the suffering of peo- State of Kuwait has also contributed towards cooperation with Kuwait to promote peace, sus- of His Highness the Amir Sheikh Sabah ple worldwide from natural disasters, humanitarian relief efforts in Chad, the Philippines, tainable development and well-being for all the Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah at the diseases and wars,” he said. Somalia, the Sudan and elsewhere. After Japan was world’s people.” regional and international levels. Such humanitarian achievements struck by the devastating earthquake and tsunami Op-ed co-authored by: HE Sheikh Salman Sabah The first anniversary of granting His reflected the gracious and compassion- of 2011, Kuwait donated five million oil barrels Al-Salem Al-Hmoud Al-Sabah, Minister of Information Highness the Amir the title of ate image of Kuwait in the international (equivalent to around $500 million) to aid recovery and Minister of State for Youth Affairs and Dr ‘Humanitarian Leader’ and Kuwait a arenas, as Kuwait since its independ- efforts. Similarly, at the height of the Ebola crisis in Mubashar Riaz Sheikh, United Nations Resident ‘center for humanitarian work’ is “an ence, has been keen in offering assis- West Africa in 2014, Kuwait contributed $5 million Coordinator / United Nations Development event that brings great pride to our tance and relief to people and countries to fight the virus and treat patients. Programme Resident Representative. people and country,” Sayer said in press in need, disregarding their geographical One of two schools at His Highness the Amir’s village in Al- remarks yesterday. “His Highness the ethical or religious orientation, he said. Zaatari refugee camp in Jordan. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 LOCAL PM leaves on official visit to Vatican

KUWAIT: His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Other Kuwaiti top officials visiting the Vatican Jaber Al-Mubarak Al-Hamad Al-Sabah leaves were His Highness the late Father Amir, then today on an official visit to the Vatican, where he Crown Prince and Prime Minister of Kuwait, is expected to hold a historic meeting with Pope Sheikh Saad Al-Abdullah Al-Salem Al-Sabah in Francis. Sheikh Jaber’s meeting comes amid 1996, former Prime Minister His Highness Sheikh increasing tension in the Mideast region with Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah in 2009, Speaker the refugees issue taking center stage in global of the National Assembly Marzouq Al-Ghanem in political discussions. 2014, and head of the national committee for Kuwait was the first GCC nation to establish the missing and POWs the late Sheikh Salem ties with the Vatican in 1969. In 1990, the Vatican Sabah Al-Salem Al-Sabah in 1992. was amongst the first nations to call for the full Since 2000, the Vatican started to have a resi- withdrawal of Iraqi forces from Kuwait. In 1992, dent Nuncio in Kuwait who is also appointed as the Vatican opened its first embassy in Kuwait, Apostolic Delegate for the Gulf States and an act which furthermore boosted ties. Apostolic Nuncio to Yemen, Bahrain, and Qatar. In Since the early 1990s and throughout the 2013, the Vatican lauded His Highness the Amir’s new millennium, Kuwait and the Vatican humanitarian efforts around the global in which exchanged high-level visits aimed at bolstering His Highness Sheikh Sabah was honored for in ties. Amongst these high-profile visits was the 2014 by the UN. The strength of Kuwait-Vatican official visit by His Highness the Amir Sheikh relations was also evident in the Vatican condem- Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah to the nation of the terrorist attack which hit Imam Al- His Highness the Prime Minister Sheikh Jaber Vatican in 2010. Sadeq Mosque back in June of this year. — KUNA Al-Mubarak Al-Sabah KUWAIT: Oil Minister Ali Al-Omair and officials from Kuwait Institute for Scientific Research (KISR) release fish as part of a campaign to enrich fish reserves in local waters. — KUNA Gulf states set to outline Kuwait continues to develop fish resources: Minister social development plan

DOHA: Kuwait’s Minister of Social Affairs and Labor bloc’s youth to contribute to upgrading performance Demand exceeds supply: Dr Mutairi and State Minister of Planning and Development, Hind of the GCC economies, as well as encouraging them to Al-Subaih said that Gulf states plan to adopt a three- work for the private sector in a bid to vary sources of KUWAIT: Kuwait Institute for Scientific ries as well as raising pomfret fish, he year comprehensive strategy for social development. income and broaden base of production,” Khulaifi Research (KISR) held a conclusion cere- noted. Mutairi added that KISR is work- The plan consists of “future challenges and crucial added. He underlined the prior importance of the pri- mony yesterday for its campaign to ing on developing farms and measures points that require modification,” Subaih said after vate sector as a locomotive for economic growth and a enrich fish reserve in Kuwaiti waters. The to protect fish resources. attending a meeting of ministers from the six-nation source of value-added job opportunities. ceremony was held under the patronage In order to achieve these develop- Gulf Cooperation Council, which includes Kuwait, Topics to be addressed cover identifying the duties of His Highness the Crown Prince Sheikh ment measures, KISR is collecting data Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab of the ministerial committee, and reviewing relevant Nawaf Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah. on the fish stocks, the fishing tools and Emirates. The strategy, which will be ready in six resolutions by the GCC Supreme Council in addition to months from now, will also outline “several procedural the efforts by the member states to promote legisla- Minister of Oil and Minister of State techniques, the sizes and ages of fish and matters” and regulate the relationship between the tives regulating the labor market, he said. Coordination for National Assembly Affairs Ali Al- shrimp, and the dates of mating and GCC Executive Office and the social affairs ministerial among the member countries for cooperation with the Omair, who represented His Highness, hatching, and to offer advice to fisher- committee, she added. international organizations is a major topic on the stressed in his opening speech at the cer- men, he said. Moreover, he noted that A monthly review, which will identify the strategic DOHA: Kuwait’s Minister of Social Affairs and agenda. Khulaifi appreciated support by other GCC emony that Kuwait pays great attention the Institute has been working over the outlines and important matters in relation, is to be Labor and State Minister of Planning and countries to Qatar during the last meeting of the on protecting fish resources and support last four decades to improve care for fish conducted by a committee tasked with the affair, Development Hind Al-Subaih attends the International Labor Organization (ILO), which prompt- scientific research projects. KISR has and shrimp offspring through introduc- headed by Saudi Arabia and including Kuwait, Bahrain meeting. — KUNA ed world backing to the country. been exerting huge efforts since 1967 to ing the latest techniques of fish farming. and the UAE along with the General Secretariat and Meanwhile, GCC Secretary General Abdullatif bin the Executive Office. Speaking about the role of social all past recommendations in relation pinpointed Rashid Al-Zayani said that the Doha meeting is a basic develop fish farms and enrich the coun- According to statistics released by the affairs ministries in the Gulf on terrorism and funda- and their application followed up. step on the way to realize coordination and integration try’s stock, aiming to achieve food securi- Ministry of Planning, the number of local mentalism, she said that, “the strategy will outline the among the GCC states. Zayani’s statement was deliv- ty and protect marine life, said the minis- and imported fresh fish in Kuwaiti mar- priorities which should be addressed - whether about Second meeting ered by head of the Human Affairs and Environment at ter. kets was 290.14 tons in 2013, said technology, terrorism or fundamentalism - through The GCC ministers held their second meeting in the GCC Adel bin Khalifa Al-Zayan on behalf of the KISR Director General Dr Naji Al- Mutairi. The number of fish available did future calculations.” Doha yesterday, in which talks focused on labor and Secretary General. Mutairi noted meanwhile that the cam- not meet the market’s demand, thus Commenting on her meeting with fellow Gulf worker issues in member states. “The meeting comes He said that they are all looking forward to achiev- paign, which started last August, includ- leading to a raise in fish prices, he ministers, she said that it discussed crucial matters amid radical changes in the region, as the world is ing directives of the GCC leaders as well as following such as the empowerment of women and support going through back-to-back economic developments up implementation of resolutions taken by the ed releasing 120,000 black-finned explained. Meanwhile, the Director that have created challenges for the bloc’s economies,” seabream and black seabream fish General said that imported fish represent of the youth and the family. These matters are on Supreme Council for promoting workforce in the six- the top of the priorities of these states, she added, Qatar’s Minister of Labor and Social Affairs, Abdulla bin member bloc. Prior to the meeting, the GCC Ministers through 12 batches in different locations about 65 percent of the Kuwaiti market, mentioning that most Gulf states have already Saleh Al-Khulaifi told the opening session. of Social Affairs committee held its second meeting. to achieve biodiversity. The institute also compared to about 35 percent of local adopted laws on these issues. These matters are set “This second meeting for the GCC Ministers of The ministers discussed a host of topics to consolidate succeeded in raising shrimps in laborato- fish. — KUNA to receive further scrutiny, she also revealed, with Labor committee also seeks to open the door for the the GCC joint action in the social sphere. — KUNA WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 LOCAL New Sri Lankan Ambassador talks ties, domestic helpers’ issues

By Ben Garcia

KUWAIT: New Sri Lankan Ambassador to Kuwait Kandeepan Bala may have arrived August 19th, but he is already keen and excited addressing issues surrounding the Sri Lankan expatriate community here and eager to further strengthen bilateral ties with Kuwait in all fronts. In an exclusive interview with Kuwait Times, Ambassador Bala spoke about his plans, especially with regards to the Sri Lankan domestic helpers’ issues, as this sector represents 65 percent of Sri Lanka’s 150,000 population in the country.

Kuwait Times (KT): What are your main priorities the Kuwaiti authorities; we would like to deal with them Bala: Sri Lanka does not condone any act of violence as the new ambassador? in a less confrontational manner because it didn’t work that affects civilians. There are many disturbing images Kandeepan Bala: Kuwait is home to about 150,000 in the past, and I know it will not work effectively. With we are witnessing in the on-going turmoil in some parts Sri Lankans, both from the skilled and unskilled work- the support and cooperation of the Kuwaiti authorities, and some areas are threatened like Kuwait, but we have force. There had been lots of evolving issues involving I want to improve the situation of our workforce here. high hopes that it will not escalate to the point that it our labor workforce - from the standard salaries, their Also we would like to learn from others, we respect the will affect the lives of people in this region. Sri Lanka, labor rights, their welfares - but we are thankful to the ideas of other labor exporting countries like the who enjoys democracy, will not support any non-state Kuwaiti government for facilitating [the resolution of Philippines and India. They are experts in this regard factors to destabilize the legitimately-elected govern- these issues] and for giving us their best support. Aside and they had placed certain mechanisms for their ment. On that note, we are disturbed also on the IS from these, as the ambassador of Sri Lanka to Kuwait, I nationalities, so we are also engaging some talks with issue. We have witnessed the turn of events, and even was also tasked to explore other avenues and possibili- them to improve our system. On the issue of banning few Sri Lankans are said to be IS members and we are ties, such as increasing the economic trade between the Sri Lankan workers, it is not in the immediate plan of not happy about it, but we need more vigorous educa- Sri Lankan Ambassador to Kuwait Kandeepan Bala two countries, such as in the case of our biggest export, the government so far. tional campaigns to help stop the spread of IS ideology. tea products, specifically black tea from Sri Lanka, which This religious fanaticism should cause us concern. few students here. I understand that they are also will- is very famous in Kuwait and the rest of the Middle East KT: One of many issues some labor exporting ing to offer scholarships on other fields of study. countries. We also have gems and precious stones which countries here face is how to improve the repatria- KT: How is Sri Lanka-Kuwait bilateral ties? Reciprocally, we are also looking on the possibility of are also very famous in the Middle Eastern market. tion of runaway housemaids, what is your plan for Bala: We have excellent bilateral relations with the giving Kuwaitis slots in our educational institutions Tourism is also catching up very fast, especially after the them? State of Kuwait; we are active in NAM and Sri Lanka is back home, maybe in the field of engineering and biol- conclusion of the war with the Tamil Tiger rebels. There is Bala: On the average, we are receiving 5-7 runaway also a member of ACD. When we had trouble in Geneva ogy. a steady growth in this sector and we want to promote it housemaids per day so with that number, more or less internationally, Kuwait has been very supportive to our more. The Sri Lankan airline is here to help us with two we have 300 in the embassy shelter. The Kuwaiti gov- causes. Kuwait has been trying to get a non-permanent KT: What is your message to the Sri Lankan peo- to three flights to Sri Lanka per week and we are collabo- ernment shelter has a limited room for us and we are seat at the UN Council and we have taken a stand to ple and how do you want them to communicate with rating with the airline for tourism programs to be only allowed to maintain up to 100 runaways only - support them. On the other hand, we are running for an you? launched in the coming months. I have plans to create that’s our quota. There are issues with the Kuwaiti labor executive seat in the UNESCO, and so we also sought Bala: We have quite a vibrant community in Kuwait. other programs for the Sri Lankans in Kuwait too, of law versus the contract details signed by the workers the support of our Kuwaiti friend and they have We have seven organizations; four of them are very course, along with the support of our Kuwaiti partners. back in Sri Lanka, so conflicts in provisions I believe are responded positively: Kuwait is slowly but surely prominent within the community. These organizations relevant points that needs to be addressed. We are also becoming an international player. I heard that Kuwait have been organizing programs reflecting our tradi- KT: Domestic labor issues are a huge subject for allowing (in case they runaway) the transfer of domestic has great contribution in the humanitarian affairs and tions and culture. I am thankful to these organizations any Sri Lankan Ambassador. Do you have some spe- helpers to other employers for humanitarian reasons HH the Amir was named Humanitarian Leader. In 2012, because they are the conveyer of the embassy’s mes- cial programs or plans in mind for the domestic because they have issues domestically, and if they come former president Mahinda Rajapaksa visited Kuwait dur- sages to the community. Meanwhile, the embassy’s workers’ benefits? to work, they mean it, only that they have to be in a bet- ing ACD Summit and before him, Kumaratguggaalos door is open 24/7 for any needed assistance. We will Bala: The labor exporting countries, perhaps six ter working place at least. visited Kuwait and we have a number of periodic visits install 24/7 hotlines and drop boxes will be installed to countries in all including Sri Lanka, are really grappling We, as labor exporting countries are also keen on on ministerial levels on both sides. Those exchange vis- receive their concerns. For the members of the embassy to solve the issues in this sector. It has been a cycle of sharing information that can protect our workers, its have greatly improved our bilateral relations. And we staff and personnel, my message to them is to be more on-going issues of abuses and mistreatment. I have to maybe the information related to the sponsor, agency are exploring all other possible avenues to further alert and ready to be deployed at any given time espe- admit, mistreatment issues have been steadily improv- or work place or companies. We want to ensure the strengthen our bilateral ties. cially if the safety and security of our people are at ing in the recent past, but the challenge that we faced is safety of our workers. I must admit that I am new here, Economically, Kuwait dominates our trade imports stake. And to the Sri Lankan expatriate community, I am really on how to deploy the quality workers, which we so I am going to work hard on this matter. with the value of about $30 million, against $14 million here as your servant, paid by your taxes and I am ready are trying to focus on to address or solve some issues. It for Sri Lanka, so there are rooms for improvements. In to assist you at any given time. is not a one-way solution, but a two-way one. First, so KT: What is your assessment on the new domestic terms of investments, foreign direct investments from Ambassador Bala was in China as consul general, long as the labor workforce is well aware of their rights labor law which they said is going to be implement- private companies in Kuwait are yet to be explored when he was asked to take the mission as ambassador. and that they have the rightful information, they’ll be ed here soon? although Kuwait Fund has been with us for some time. I Previously, he had the nice memory of being the consul safe. Second, for our long-term solution, we want to Bala: Honestly, I have not got a chance to read that am looking forward to meeting the head of Kuwait general, and then as charge de affairs in Kuwait. Those diversify our labor workforce into the Middle East as yet. It will definitely affect all labor exporting coun- Chamber of Commerce to discuss some investment were his first taste of Kuwait he said. The ambassador including Kuwait. We want to send more skilled labor, tries’ decisions if implemented. opportunities. I am also looking forward to organizing already presented himself to the chief of protocol and instead of focusing solely on unskilled labor. In Bahrain, an investment forum in Kuwait along with an expert to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and is waiting for the we are very successful in deploying more professional KT: What is your stand on the regional or political coming from Sri Lanka. call to meet His Highness the Amir of Kuwait. workforce, like doctors, nurses, accountants and engi- issues here, such as the on-going Arab Spring and As for education, Sri Lankans are offered scholarships Nonetheless, he was already given permission to talk to neers. In the existing labor issues, we want to engage the Islamic State (IS)? in Kuwait University for Islamic Studies and we have a media.

KUWAIT: Shankh Lal Majhi, minister of state for health and family welfare from the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh speaks during a meeting with a group of expatriates from Uttar Pradesh. Visiting Indian minister interacts with expats

By Sajeev K Peter available 24/7 for reporting any grievances,” Minister Majhi said answering a question. KUWAIT: Shankh Lal Majhi, minister of state for health “Our health services have improved a lot. Our network and family welfare from the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh of ambulance service is so efficient in the country that interacted with a group of expatriates from Uttar Pradesh the service will reach the emergency site anywhere in the here on Monday. The minister, who arrived in Kuwait on a state within 20 minutes of the call to the police control 10-day private visit, briefly addressed a gathering during room,” the minister said. a dinner reception that was held at Safir International Hotel in Fintas. Direct flight The minister, while praising the expatriate community When asked if it is possible to launch a direct flight in Kuwait from Uttar Pradesh for their hard work and between Kuwait and Lucknow, the state capital, the min- dedication, suggested that the expats from Uttar Pradesh ister said the subject of civil aviation comes under the here must unite under a common umbrella and form an central government not under the state government. association or forum to collectively find solutions to their “However, our government will try to meet this demand problems. from the expat community by coordinating with the Minister Majhi said he has a very good impression of Indian embassy in Kuwait and the central government,” Kuwait on his maiden visit to the country. He praised the he said. Kuwaiti leadership and congratulated His Highness the Indian Ambassador Sunil Jain, who also attended the Amir Sheikh Sabah Al-Ahmad Al-Jaber Al-Sabah on being function as the guest of honor, praised the contribution honored as the humanitarian leader by the United being made by the Indian community in Kuwait. Nations. Regarding the Indian embassy’s consular services, the The minister in his brief address, said Uttar Pradesh, ambassador said the embassy is now able to issue pass- one of the most populous states in India, is making giant ports to Indians within 24 hours of application and strides in various sectors, be it infrastructure, healthcare process most of the visa- and affidavits-related works on or services under the young and dynamic leadership of the same day. Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav. The dinner reception, hosted by Kuwaiti national and Minister Majhi, the state minister of Medical, Health Director of Al-Wafeen Trading Co Saad Al-Rashidi, was and Family Welfare, represents Samajwadi Party from also attended by Indian Embassy Deputy Chief of Mission Katehari constituency of Uttar Pradesh in the legislative Subhashish Goldar and Javed Khan while Noorul Hassan assembly. coordinated the event. Later, the organizers announced “We have established a non-resident Indian (NRI) cell that they are looking at the possibilities of forming an dedicated to address NRI issues. Our helpline 1090 is association of expats from Uttar Pradesh in Kuwait. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 LOCAL MP Jeeran presents roadmap to ‘restructure’ Arab World

By A Saleh Egyptian drivers The Egyptian Manpower and Immigration KUWAIT: MP Dr Abdulrahman Al-Jeeran recently Ministry recently started receiving applications urged the Arab League to consider culturally, from Egyptians wishing to work in a Kuwaiti con- economically and militarily restructuring the struction company as drivers, said minister, Arab World in order to counter the ‘constructive Nahed Al-Ashry noting that the ministry would chaos’ he said the region is currently going take care of endorsing the contracts, prepare for through. “I have presented many scenarios of a the interviews and nominate those who pass new Arab World roadmap to the Arab League, them. Al-Ashry added that drivers aged 25-40 the Organization of Islamic Conference, The with a minimum of five years experience could Muslim World League, the Arab Parliament and apply for the job. She also said that monthly the even some centers for security and strategic salary would be KD 160-200 plus free accommo- studies, but all went in vain,” he explained, won- dation, transport, incentives, overtime payment dering what employees at those organizations and free flight tickets. were doing “while knowing for sure how desper- ate the Arab world needed such a restructuring.” Contamination allowances Minister of Electricity and Water Ahmad Al- Manpower authority head Jassar said that 12 accident cases were reported Minister of State for Planning and at Doha Eastern power plant over the past ten Development and Minister of Social Affairs and years adding that most of these accidents Labor, Hind Al-Subaih revealed that a new direc- MP Dr Abdulrahman Al-Jeeran involved gas leaks or limited fires. tor for the manpower authority would be Responding to a number of parliamentary appointed soon as three names have been ious GCC states. The study added that such inquiries filed by MP Adel Al-Khorafi concerning already nominated for the post and the names increases may lead to conflicts with natives and ministry staff who deserved danger allowances, submitted to CSC to choose from. negatively affect national identity. “One of the Jassar strongly denied that any buildings or main reasons for such a phenomenon is the building under constructions collapsed in explo- GCC demography sponsorship system as some sponsors take sions or any of the reported accidents. Jassar A study made by King Fahad Security advantage of laborers forcing some to criminally also stressed that it was up to the Civil Services College’s Research and Studies Center recently react,” the study warned urging GCC states to Commission (CSC) to determine who deserves said that the increase of expatriate labor num- cancel sponsorship or restrict it, review their citi- various incentives according to the job descrip- bers leads to an imbalanced demography in var- zenships and replace foreign expats with Arabs. tion provided by the ministry. 32 held for traffic violations, eight referred to deportation

By Hanan Al-Saadoun on foot and caught him in a room where 42 bottles of liquor were found. KUWAIT: The traffic department carried out several surprise raids in the sixth gover- Airport traffic norate and issued 48,995 citations in addi- Director of Airport Security Major tion to impounding 905 wanted cars. The General Faisal Al-Sanain said that there is a officials also arrested 32 persons for com- total coordination with the systems at mitting grave violations and sent eight Kuwait International Airport and those expats for deportation for driving without a belonging to the Interior ministry in addi- license. tion to the Civil Aviation Directorate and Customs Department to ease the proce- Bootlegger arrested dures for returning passengers. Maj Gen Farwaniya police sent an Asian man to Sanain said the number of passengers who Drugs Control General Department for went through the passport control during bootlegging. The arrest was made after a the month of August is 1,173,186. He said police patrol spotted the Indian with a the number of visas issued at the airport is small water bottle in his hand and when 14,672, while 63 deportation fingerprints they called him, he attempted to hide the were taken. He added that 41 forgers were An Asian man arrested yesterday for selling alcoholic bottle. When asked about its content, he arrested by passport officers, while 11 were drinks. tried to escape but the police chased him caught using passports that are not theirs. Medical teams prepared for hajj season

KUWAIT: Health Ministry’s Assistant Undersecretary for Public Health Affairs Dr Majida Al-Qattan said that medical teams have been formed to care for pilgrims during this year’s hajj sea- son. Speaking during the annual hajj gathering being held by Health Ministry media office yesterday, Qattan said that the ministry paid special attention to the elderly and those with chronic diseases. She said special bracelets were given to diabetic pilgrims, and issued a health card for every pilgrim to follow his case during the hajj season and afterwards. She asked pilgrims to comply with health instructions that were prepared by specialists. The gathering provides services in which efforts come together between the health, Awqaf and Interior ministries, Kuwait University and many private establish- ments to present all what helps the pilgrim to easily perform the hajj rituals, Qattan said.

Physical therapy Meanwhile, Assistant Undersecretary of Medical Services Department at the ministry Dr Jamal Al-Harbi revealed a plan for develop- ing physical therapy services to children, especially those with special needs. The plan will include setting up six sensory integration rooms at various health centers in the country. He made his remarks yesterday as the Health Ministry celebrated World Therapy Day under the slogan of ‘I am; therefore, I can.’ This year’s activities will involve conducting three examinations for fitness, strength and balance, he pointed out. World Physical Therapy Day is an opportu- nity for physical therapists from all over the world to raise awareness about the crucial contribution the pro- fession makes to keeping people well, mobile, and independent. — KUNA WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 From the Arabic press Crime Al-Anbaa Report Beirut and new Weapons, ammo Counter gum vendors

found in desert By Sami Al-Nisf KUWAIT: Four boxes of AK-47 ammunition and ‘Istiqlal’ machine guns were found by Jahra police in Rahaya desert. nfortunately, there is much resemblance between the 1975 Explosives and state security departments were informed Uand the 2015 Lebanon. It is as if four long decades have about the weapons and investigations are underway. failed to make anybody read history and learn lessons. The Terrorism 15-year-long Lebanese civil war did not start in April 1975 as every- one argues. In fact, the first spark leading to this war could have Domestic abuse been quickly controlled, and by attracting GCC ‘petrodollars’, it could have been turned into one of the richest countries in the A citizen accused her ex-husband of beating and world. However, following the Ain Rommanah incident, many insulting her following a dispute in their joint house in security breaches took place everywhere in what was known as Saad Al-Abdallah. The woman gave police a medical ‘the Lebanese incidents’ and major politicians forgot that the report and police are investigating. mightiest fires only start with one spark unless put off! At that time, PM Rashid Al-Solh refused deploying the army to Insult maintain security with the excuse that it was full of sectarianism and dominated by politics (in fact, very few world armies are not), A police captain filed a case of telephone misuse against a though it would have been more logical to ‘put out the fire first lieutenant who he works with and claimed that he insulted then question the fireman’s identity’. When that option failed, him. Jahra detectives are investigating the case. President Suleiman Frangieh formed a military cabinet including all sects in 1975 led by Nouroddin Al-Refa’e from Beirut to maintain Al-Anbaa security and disarm all militias. Prison fire However, Mufti Hassan Khalid, PM Rashid Karami and Kamal Jumblatt met at the mufti’s house and rejected the new cabinet, A prisoner was charged with damage to property as he which resigned only two days after its formation. On accepting its started a fire at his cell at the central prison. Policemen Al-Jarida resignation, Frangieh said: You came from the army which only lis- noticed the smoke coming out of the cell so they tens to reason and can care about your country. Then things grad- rushed to it and put it out. The prisoner’s offense was ually developed into a civil war that claimed the lives of hundreds added to his other charges. of thousands including the three leaders Khalid, Karami and Inevitable crisis unless... Jumblatt. The presence of young chewing gum vendors by vari- Swindler arrested ous crossroads and traffic lights helped burn Lebanon at that time. By Dr Ghanim Al-Najjar Those young people could be easily bought because they had An Egyptian man was arrested by Khaitan detectives for nothing to lose but the box of gum they were trying to sell. It was swindling three citizens and issuing bad checks worth KD even said then that ‘the beautiful, green, multicultural Lebanon uman trafficking and terrorism are interrelated tries. These figures represent 40 percent of the total 15,000, before disappearing. Detectives were able to locate was burnt by chewing gum vendors’! and ought to be deemed as a terrorist crime. number of children in those countries and are expected the Egyptian and he was taken to concerned authorities. H Nowadays, there are many infiltrators amongst protestors However, this is only part of the problem to rise to 50 percent within a few months, unless some- throughout Lebanon who want to destroy the state, undermine its because the refugee crisis has gone beyond all historic thing is done. prestige and assault army and security personnel without telling figures. If only one could vision himself on a boat lost in The historically unprecedented terrible human condi- Fake Maids anyone how such acts would solve the problems of corruption, the Mediterranean or slowly dying along with his kids tion refugees have been experiencing call for immediate garbage, unemployment and lack of electricity, nor how they Ahmadi police are looking for two Asian women who took inside a sheep truck traversing Europe, we might get action to stop wars, achieving political understanding, would boost development and attract more tourists and investors. KD 400 from a citizen in exchange for hiring two domestic close to understanding. Why do not GCC countries work finding safe havens for refugees and setting special edu- It seems that toppling regimes has become a goal in itself instead helpers. The citizen told Reqqa police that he was swindled harder on ending the sufferings of Arab and Muslim cational programs for those kids as soon as possible to of solving problems. It will definitely be followed by more political by the women who made him believe they can provide him refugees and why do not they work on receiving region- help them return to their home countries. But if current and sectarian polarization and much blood will be shed after the with two maids from their country. The women brought him al refugees because things have gone as far as endan- situations go on any further, there is a possibility that army and security troops have been neutralized, which is typically copies of the ‘maids’ passports and got them visas. He then gering everybody’s mere existence. those kids will get recruited by various terrorist groups what happened in 1975. Oh, how Arabs, including the Lebanese, paid KD 400 to the two who disappeared, but the ‘maids’ did To explain how and without getting into general easily, which has already started. Just imagine how seri- have memories weaker than fish and birds have! Nobody recalls not arrive. Ahmadi detectives are investigating. assumptions, let us read UNICEF’s most recent report ous security would become if even a small number of what happened four decades ago! and the frightening numbers it contains. The report those kids get hired by terrorists. It will surely mean a A few days ago, I wandered around Lebanese protestors in Al- shows that we currently have 13.7 million kids who have more complicated, insecure and more terrible future. Shohada and Riyadh Al-Solh squares and saw many bullies and Stabbed left school because of war in five Arab countries and are The current refugee tragedies onboard death boats new chewing gum vendors who held no gum boxes this time. homeless either in their own countries or living in and suffocation trucks are unprecedentedly scandalous Finally, the real purpose of what is currently going on in Lebanon is Five citizens beat and stabbed a Pakistani man and then robbed refugee camps. This figure includes 2.7 million kids from and their continuation has negative humane impacts, as to break the independence and Taef agreements, create a new him. The Pakistani was on his way home when he was stopped Syria, 3 million from Iraq, 2 million from Libya, 3.1 mil- well as marking the beginning of an unimaginable quotas system and economically destroy martyr Rafiq Al-Hariri’s by five persons who stabbed him and escaped after robbing lion from Sudan and 2.9 million from Yemen, in addition future of waste and destruction! dream of building the Solidaire project to develop Lebanon. him. An attempted murder was registered and Hawally detec- to those in war-stricken Somalia and other similar coun- —Translated by Kuwait Times tives were able to find and arrest the men. —Al-Rai —Translated by Kuwait Times Kuwait lacks professional hotel apartments: report

KUWAIT: General Manager of Leaders Group adding that the majority of that amount was Company for Consultancy and Development invested in five and four-star hotels that usual- (the representative of UNWTO in Kuwait), ly have low occupancy rates with a maximum Nabila Al-Anjeri stressed that the Kuwaiti mar- of 50 percent at best. “Hotel apartments occu- ket lacks luxurious hotel apartments run by pancy rates were 46 percent in June and 34 international professional hotel companies. percent in July with higher demand of up to 90 “Hotel apartments are so limited in Kuwait and or 95 percent occupancy during winter”, Anjeri do not meet the demand, especially remarked. with the high season of tourism The report also stressed that per from Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) night cost of staying at hotel apart- countries into Kuwait, especially ments ranged between KD 25-60, Saudis, during Eids and holidays,” she which is cheap compared to the said, noting that due to kinship to cost of KD 85-110 per night at five- Kuwaiti families and sharing the star hotels, KD 50-70 at four-star same conservative traditions, Saudi hotels and KD 30-40 at three-star families prefer apartments where hotels. “This made some major com- they can get more privacy. panies invest in furnished apart- In this regard, the Leaders ments and they managed to Ahli United Bank receives prestigious Group’s monthly report for Nabila Al-Anjeri expand within a short period,” September 2015 explained that added the report. award from Commerzbank Kuwait annually receives 3 million GCC tourists Furthermore, the report underscored that as per exits traffic records, and that 1.95 million the hotels’ sector did not get any official sup- KUWAIT: For the fourth year in a row, Ahli GM Information Technology and Operations, Ms Al-Humaidhi added : “With our experi- of them had entered Kuwait this year up till port as the case worldwide in general, and in United Bank has received the prestigious said: “We are delighted to be awarded by enced personnel and our strong IT infrastruc- August. “This number is annually growing by GCC states in specific. “Relevant authorities do annual Award from Commerzbank for out- Commerzbank for the fourth year running. The ture and delivery channels, we are set to contin- 10 percent, and Saudis make up more than 80 not deal with hotels as a regulated industry, as standing performance in straight-through- award is based on Ahli United Bank’s state-of- ue providing a high quality service to all our percent of the visitors,” added Anjeri, pointing there are many buildings which get licensed processing (STP) of payments. This award rec- the-art in-house payments architecture and individual and institutional customers. out that the total number of hotel apartments and built as ordinary ones then get turned into ognizes the high level of operational efficien- reflects the Bank’s consistently with high SWIFT Commerzbank is a leading international com- was only 3,000. hotels without matching internationally cy at Ahli United Bank. standards, which facilitate automated process- mercial bank with branches and offices in more The report also shows that only KD 1 billion acknowledged hotel specifications and stan- Ms Jehad Al-Humaidhi, Ahli United Bank’s ing throughout the payment process. than 50 countries. was currently invested in the local hotel sector, dards,” the report concluded. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

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ROSZKE: People anxious to pass through desperation before the boy was located. “Police Hungary pushed and police shoved back as ten- in Hungary don’t help. Everybody else helps. Not sions mounted at Hungary’s southern border the police.” Poland, the largest of the eastern with Serbia yesterday. Occasional scuffles broke members, has so far agreed to accept 2,000 out and one man was slightly hurt in a stam- refugees and has been widely criticized for lack- pede. Some disheartened migrants, weary of ing solidarity with Germany, which has said it waiting for transport to a registration center, expects to take in 800,000 asylum-seekers this tried to go back to Serbia but police blocked year and is able to absorb half a million per year their way. for a few years. “We’ve been here for two days and the Hungarian government only brings one bus?” ‘Road to nowhere’ said a Syrian man, who gave only his first name, Poland’s defense minister and deputy prime Ali. “We’re asking to go back to Serbia and they minister, Tomasz Siemoniak, yesterday faulted are not giving us this right. We’re asking to go to other European nations for lacking a thought- Budapest and they are not giving us this right. out strategy to handle the crisis and for pushing Why? Why?” for EU states to accept quotas of refugees. Hungary has made frantic and confused He called that a “road to nowhere” which efforts to control the huge tide of migrants tran- would only encourage more people to come. He siting the country as they try to reach Germany, also said that Germany should not feel it has the leaving many trapped for days outside the bor- right to teach Poland about solidarity, given that der village of Roszke and furious at their treat- Poland was the birthplace of the Solidarity ment by Hungarian authorities. Yesterday, Prime movement, a mass movement that helped bring Minister Viktor Orban announced fresh efforts to down communism in the former Soviet bloc a complete a wall to keep the refugees out. quarter century ago. Despite the efforts of volunteers offering “I think that our position is filled with solidari- water and some clothes, there were few ameni- ty and with the vision that we will not solve the ties at the border. The area was strewn with problem with such summary, hasty decisions,” garbage and more people could be seen walking Siemoniak said. In Hungary, Orban was quoted along railroad tracks in Serbia on their way to in yesterday’s edition of the pro-government Hungary. Many of the travelers had slept out- Magyar Idok (Hungarian Times) daily newspaper doors in a field during a cold night. They had as saying that he was persuaded to deploy more hoped to be bused to a registration center, but workers to finish the fence along the border after very few buses appeared. an unannounced inspection of the barrier on As they grew more frustrated, some of the ROSZKE: Hungarian police officers stop a group of migrants near a temporary holding center for asylum seekers. — AP Monday. The 4-meter high fence along the 174- migrants tried twice to break free from a police fits and open asylum regulations. Almost none Faymann said countries opposed to taking in Austrian police spokesman, Patrick Maierhofer kilometer border with Serbia was supposed to line at a collection point near Roszke but were wish to remain in Hungary, which is seen as refugees under an EU-wide quota system should said. After a stand-off with Hungarian authorities be completed by Aug. 31, but is facing delays. pushed back. At Budapest’s Keleti train station, unwelcoming to asylum-seekers and which does suffer financial penalties. In Geneva, UN official last week that saw thousands of migrants Defense Minister Csaba Hende, who was over- migrants were being allowed to board trains not have the same economic opportunities as Peter Sutherland said it’s “not enough” for coun- trapped at Keleti and elsewhere, the travelers seeing the construction being done mostly by bound for Austria and Germany. In many cases, much richer Germany. tries like the United States and wealthy Persian were greatly relieved when Germany opened its soldiers, resigned Monday after Orban’s visit they were segregated from other passengers Gulf states to give money to help Syrian refugees doors to them over the weekend. Nada because of the slow progress. Several coils of and told they could only enter certain carriages. Refugee debate continues - they must take them in, too. Mahmod, a 30-year-old from Syria, delayed her razor-wire are stretched out along the whole The queue of people waiting to board a train to Around the EU, debate continued over what “Buying your way out of this is not satisfacto- departure from Hungary because she became border but it has been regularly breached by the West was backing up, with about 300 people each country should do. Hungary and other for- ry,” Sutherland said, adding that U.N. agencies separated from her 14-year-old son, Mohammad migrants, who usually crawl under it. The higher waiting for the next train yesterday afternoon. mer east bloc countries have resisted accepting are well short of their funding needs for meeting Diar. Her agony ended happily with a reunion, barrier is up only on some sections. Hungarian Almost all of those passing through Hungary refugees, but Germany has thrown its weight the crisis. Some 7,000 migrants arrived in Vienna and they boarded a train to the West. police said yesterday that they have detained are hoping to reach Germany or other Western behind a scheme to set a quota for each of the between early Monday and early yesterday and “We lost him in the forest. He went with more than 169,000 migrants this year, including European countries with generous welfare bene- 28 EU nations. Austrian Chancellor Werner “almost all of them continued on to Germany,” an another group,” she told The Associated Press in 2,706 on Monday. —AP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 INTERNATIONAL

Egypt’s ‘major operation’ in Sinai kills 29 militants

EGYPT: Egypt’s army said yesterday it tary overthrew Islamist president had launched a “major military opera- Mohamed Morsi in 2013. The govern- tion” against the Islamic State group in ment says hundreds of police and sol- the Sinai Peninsula, killing 29 jihadists diers have been killed, many of them and leaving two soldiers dead. The in attacks claimed by IS’s Sinai army said it launched the operation Province affiliate. The operation came on Monday morning to “eliminate ter- days after the Sinai Province released rorist elements” around the north a video documenting its attacks on Sinai towns of Rafah, Sheikh Zuweid the military in Sinai, including footage and El-Arish. of a wire-guided missile strike that It said in a statement that 29 destroyed a navy vessel. jihadists were killed along with an The group has claimed several officer and a soldier in the fighting. roadside bombings over the past two The army often reports large death weeks, which the military has not tolls among the insurgents but they commented on. Six peacekeepers, are impossible to verify and there has including four Americans, with a been little noticeable impact on the multinational force monitoring ability of IS to carry out deadly attacks Egypt’s peace treaty with Israel were VAN: Turkish soldiers stand in respect around the coffins of fallen comrades during a ceremony at the military airport. — AP on the security forces. wounded in two roadside bombings In a statement the Islamic State’s last week. Under a new law, reporting Egypt affiliate said it killed the two details of militant attacks that contra- Turkish forces cross into soldiers with a roadside bomb that dict official statements can result in targeted their vehicle as it left a mili- massive fines for journalists. The law tary base with a large convoy. Egypt also empowers courts to bar the jour- has been struggling to quell an insur- nalists from working in their profes- Iraq after deadly attacks gency in the peninsula since the mili- sion for up to a year. — AFP Deadliest rebel attack in years leaves 14 dead Gunmen in Iraq kidnap ANKARA: Turkish special forces crossed Earlier the official Anatolia news into northern Iraq to pursue Kurdish mili- agency reported more than 50 Turkish deputy justice minister tants yesterday, a senior official told AFP, jets were involved in the six hours of after the deadliest attacks by the rebels raids, killing “35 to 40 terrorists according on the security forces in years left dozens to preliminary findings”, it added. The BAGHDAD: Gunmen in Baghdad kid- unknown. Kidnappings for political rea- dead. Fourteen Turkish police were killed attacks had prompted Prime Minister napped an acting deputy justice minis- sons or money are a persistent problem yesterday in a new attack by Kurdistan Ahmet Davutoglu to vow to “wipe out” ter of Iraq on Tuesday and wounded his in Baghdad, with Shiite militias or their Workers’ Party (PKK) militants as violence PKK militants from the mountains of driver, officials said. A justice ministry affiliates seen as the main culprits. in the east of the country threatened to eastern Turkey. official identified the man seized as Baghdad turned to mostly Shiite vol- spiral out of control. That attack came Abdulkarim Fares, saying he is director unteer forces for support as the Islamic two days after 16 Turkish soldiers were ‘Plague of terror’ general for financial and administrative State group advanced towards the capi- killed in a twin roadside bomb attack in From late July, Turkey has staged air affairs at the ministry as well as an act- tal in June last year, and they have Daglica in the southeastern region of strikes and ground operations against Hakkari, according to the army, the dead- the PKK in its strongholds of southeast- ing deputy minister. played a key role in halting and then liest strike in the current phase of the ern Turkey and northern Iraq in a bid to A police colonel said black-clad kid- reversing the jihadists’ gains. But in conflict. In response, the Turkish air force inflict a mortal blow on its capacities. But nappers in several vehicles stopped his doing so, the government also further pounded targets of the PKK in northern the PKK has hit back, killing dozens of car in the Binook area in the northeast empowered Shiite militias, some with Iraq and special ground forces crossed Turkish police and soldiers in almost dai- IGDIR: Forensic officers investigate after a roadside bomb killed 14 of the city. He said the driver was chequered human rights records, and the border in a rare land incursion. ly attacks, with the bloodier attacks policemen. — AP wounded by gunfire when he tried to spurred the creation of new ones, allow- “Turkish security forces crossed the marking a new intensification of the con- intervene. His “protection (force) was ing them to act with near impunity Iraqi border as part of the hot pursuit of flict. Turkish television said. The violence has that the current situation increasingly released, and now he is the only one despite their officially falling under gov- PKK terrorists who were involved in the The 14 police were killed in the east- left in tatters a 2013 ceasefire aimed at resembles the worst days of the PKKs kidnapped”, interior ministry ernment command. most recent attacks,” a Turkish govern- ern region of Igdir in a bomb attack by allowing a final peace deal to end the insurgency in the 1990s when attacks on spokesman Brigadier General Saad IS has kidnapped thousands of peo- ment source told AFP. “This is a short- militants on a minibus taking them to PKK’s three-decade insurgency, which this scale were commonplace. “We did Maan told AFP, without saying how ple in Iraq and neighboring Syria, and term measure intended to prevent the the Dilucu border post with neighboring has claimed tens of thousands of lives. not and will not abandon the nation’s many guards he had. frequently targets Iraqi Shiites with terrorists’ escape,” added the official, Azerbaijan, Anatolia reported. A PKK The PKK initially took up arms in 1984 future to three or five terrorists,” Turkish The kidnapping came just four days bloody bombings in the capital. But a without specifying the timing of the spokesman in northern Iraq confirmed with the aim of establishing an inde- President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in incursion. The Dogan news agency said to AFP that the PKK had carried out the pendent state for Turkey’s Kurdish minor- defiant speech in Ankara. But he prom- after gunmen abducted 18 Turkish daytime raid to seize a senior govern- two units of the Turkish special forces, attack. Meanwhile, one policeman was ity, although lately the demands focused ised that “with God’s permission, Turkey, employees of a major construction firm ment official in a Shiite-majority area of supported by warplanes, were chasing killed in the Tunceli region of eastern on greater autonomy and rights. which has overcome plenty of crises, will in Sadr City, south of Binook. The identi- Baghdad would be a sharp departure two 20-strong groups of PKK militants. Turkey in an attack blamed on the PKK, Commentators have expressed alarm get over the plague of terror.” — AFP ty of the kidnappers in both cases is from its usual operations. — AFP US-Israel fight over Iran may sideline Palestinians

JERUSALEM: In recent months, many in the President Barack Obama has got his Iran declared during Israel’s election campaign Middle East had assumed - some in hope, deal ... he will likely also try, in the year and in March that he would not allow a others with concern - that once the Iranian four months until the presidential elections, Palestinian state to be established on his nuclear issue was resolved, the United to turn his attention to other urgent region- watch, though he has since backtracked States would make another push for peace al issues, such as Syria, and the talks or lack somewhat and said he is prepared to between Israel and the Palestinians. But the thereof between Israel and the Palestinian resume peace talks. opposite seems more likely. Authority,” Israeli commentator Avi The United States, for its part, is entering After a drawn-out confrontation with Issacharoff wrote in the Times of Israel in an election season in which Obama’s Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over July. The Palestinians have also said they Democratic Party can ill afford continued the Iranian nuclear deal, the White House have received vague assurances from the friction with Jewish Americans, a key base of seems to have little appetite for what would U.S. that they have not been forgotten. support. And one factor may override all almost certainly be a new round of tensions Several factors argue against another White others: The problems dividing Israel and the with the Israeli leader over the terms of House push to end Israel’s half-century-old Palestinians seem oddly resistant to negoti- Palestinian statehood. With the odds of suc- occupation of Palestinians. ation and mediation, at least under current circumstances. Obama and his secretary of state, John Kerry, experienced this firsthand when they sponsored an ambitious round of talks that consumed much of their atten- tion and collapsed in mid-2014 after nine months of quibbling and vexation. It might have come as no surprise. Intervention efforts by outside powers in the Middle East - whether attacks in Iraq or Afghanistan, Libya, Yemen or mediation efforts in Syria - have not fared well of late. But even compared to those quagmires, the century-old Israeli-Palestinian conflict may be truly a case apart. Two decades of on- again, off-again negotiations have strongly suggested the sides are genuinely unable to meet in the middle on a deal. The Palestinians seek all of the West Bank, east Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip - territories captured by Israel in the 1967 RAMALLAH: Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas, (center) joins in read- Mideast war - for an independent state. ing from the Quran prior to a meeting of the PLO executive committee in Many Israelis do seem to accept letting go the West Bank city. — AP of the Palestinians and allowing them have a state on most of the lands they seek. But cess slim and US elections approaching, First is Obama’s apparent eagerness to many also insist on continued control of President Barack Obama seems more inter- make amends after a period of startling acri- parts of the West Bank, citing security ested in repairing his tattered relationship mony symbolized by Netanyahu’s contro- grounds or religious attachment to the terri- with Israel, leaving the Palestinian issue to versial speech to Congress in March, when tory. The idea of both countries sharing his successor. he railed against the emerging nuclear deal. Jerusalem, and its sensitive holy sites, as a In recent comments, Obama has spoken Netanyahu has only stepped up his criticism joint capital is a challenge, to say the least. of boosting security cooperation and pro- since the deal was sealed in Vienna in July, And Israel has no intention of accepting the viding upgraded military hardware to make having his ambassador to Washington lob- principle of a “right of return” of refugees up for Israeli misgivings over the nuclear by against the agreement in meetings with who fled its territory in 1948 and their deal. Speaking to the Jewish newspaper American lawmakers. Even after Obama descendants, a combined designation that The Forward last week, he likened his differ- secured the needed support in Congress to numbers in the millions. Creative efforts to ences with Israel to a disagreement inside a uphold the deal last week, Netanyahu get around the impasse have bedeviled family and predicted relations would sur- vowed to continue fighting it. negotiators and mediators for some two vive the test. “I think it is important for decades. everybody to just take a breath for a Little patience Tellingly, opponents of Netanyahu can moment and recognize that people on The US-led deal gives Iran relief from increasingly be heard yearning for outside both sides of the debate love the United economic sanctions in exchange for curbs pressure to move their fellow Israelis. This States and also love Israel,” Obama said. He on its nuclear program. Netanyahu, with derives more from concern about the made no mention of the Palestinian issue. A widespread support among the Israeli pub- Palestinians than for them. The logic is that US State Department official told The lic, believes Iran will use its newfound funds unless Israel finds a way to truly partition, its Associated Press that the US is not planning to promote violence in the region and says Jewish majority will be doomed by march of any bold new diplomatic initiatives after the deal will not prevent Iran from ultimate- demography: Israel plus the West Bank and the Iran deal makes its way through ly gaining the ability to produce nuclear Gaza together have some 12 million people, Congress. He spoke on condition of bombs. Israeli media often depict Obama as equally divided between Jews and Arabs, anonymity because he was not authorized naive or even hostile to the country. with the Arab birthrate higher. It is ironic, to speak to the media. Netanyahu’s conservative government, many say, that Netanyahu’s nationalists are In Israel, there had been speculation that meanwhile, shows little patience for being the ones who are taking the Zionist project Obama might act otherwise. “Now that cajoled into concessions. Netanyahu himself down this path. — AP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 INTERNATIONAL Trump surge forces Bush’s campaign to change tone ‘He recognizes that this is a race he has to earn’

LACONI: Jeb Bush wanted to run for president as a joyful front-runner, above the fray of the pack. Instead, he heads into the fall campaign as a fighter with a foil: Donald Trump. There’s a new urgency in Bush’s tone as a candidate. It’s moved from frustration and annoy- ance with Trump’s constant needling to a willingness to confront the brash bil- lionaire and call him out for his antics. HAMPTON: Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Rodham Clinton addresses And though he still relies on the pol- supporters at the Quad-City Federation of Labor’s Salute to Labor Chicken Fry at icy-driven arguments that suit his Illiniwek Park. — AP wonkish style, the son and brother of former presidents is also acknowledg- ing what’s powered Trump’s rise: out- Citizens united struggle rage with the political class his family embodies. Such anger alone, he says, is personal for Clinton cannot prevail. “I believe that a conservative can WASHINGTON: Nobody knows Citizens United Clinton machine operates and the individuals win, campaigning with his arms wide quite like Hillary Rodham Clinton. The name of behind it.” It was no surprise, then, that as she open, with joy in his heart, speaking the conservative advocacy group, which five began her first White House run in 2007, Citizens about the hopes and aspirations of the years ago won a landmark Supreme Court case United made use of its Clinton archives. people, being on the side of the people governing campaign finance, has become the The group, working with President Clinton’s that right now don’t see their lives in preferred shorthand for talking about money in estranged adviser, Dick Morris, made a 90-minute the future being better than what they politics. That decision led to the creation of the antagonistic political documentary titled: “Hillary: have today,” Bush told a crowded hall in super PAC - groups that can accept contributions The Movie.” Its tagline: “If you thought you knew New Hampshire late last week. Bush’s of any size and will spend hundreds of millions to everything about Hillary Clinton, wait ‘til you see aides argue there was no “aha!” moment influence the outcome of the 2016 election. the movie.” Promoted as a documentary, the film for the former Florida governor that “I want to tell you, Citizens United was about is heavy on commentary from Morris and others triggered a shift in strategy. Instead, me,” the Democratic presidential front-runner who oppose the Clintons, including conservative they say, the threat posed by Trump - said last month in Iowa. “Think how that makes commentator Ann Coulter. People in the movie who has held steady atop polls nation- me feel. A lot of people don’t know that, but the repeatedly call her unfit to be president. ally and in the early voting states for the backstory is eye-opening.” The plan was to release the movie at the past six weeks - has awakened an After spending the first few months of her beginning of 2008, as Democratic primary voters instinctive sense of drive. “It’s some- FLORIDA: In this Aug 26, 2015, file photo, Eden Blackman, 13, from Mobile, Alabama takes a selfie with campaign bemoaning “secret, unaccountable began choosing between Clinton and the other thing about Jeb’s makeup,” said Republican presidential candidate, former Florida Gov Jeb Bush, after he spoke at the Pensacola Bay money” in politics, Clinton is coming out Tuesday leading contender, Sen. Barack Obama. But the spokesman Tim Miller. “He is an Center. — AP with proposals to roll back the effects of the court Federal Election Commission blocked Citizens extremely competitive person, in all decision, a plan that includes pushing Congress United’s plan to promote the movie in television aspects of life. He recognizes that this is Democratic front-runner Hillary Rodham tically blunt language, after a woman week, he also tried to short-circuit to clamp down on secret donors whose money advertisements, saying the commercials amount- a race he has to earn.” Clinton often mentions Bush by name, asked Bush during a campaign stop in Trump’s appeal by joining in bemoan- makes its way into elections. And a new cam- ed to an election-time message that would although she has taken to talking about the state’s northern lake community if ing the failures of those in power. paign video touches on the backstory, asserting require disclosure of the group’s donors to feder- Unwieldy GOP field Trump more often in recent weeks. In he’s afraid that contrasting himself with Referring to a Colorado veterans hospi- she wants to overturn the Citizens United ruling al regulators and a message disclaimer at the end Bush remains viewed by many in the doing so, she’s tried to link Bush to Trump will turn off voters. tal project that has ballooned in cost, because “she knows firsthand what it’s done to of each ad. The group sued. While the legal case party - as well among his opponents - as Trump’s policies on immigration - an Bush said, “no one accepts responsibili- our democracy.” Clinton’s relationship with was pending, Citizens United showed “Hillary: the most likely candidate to emerge issue on which the two men have vastly ‘I’m going to fight back’ ty,” his voice rising as he jabbed a finger Citizens United dates to her husband’s first cam- The Movie” in a few theaters and sold it on DVD, from the unwieldy GOP field to win the different ideas. And while Trump is an “I’m going to push back when he into the air punctuating his words. “Fix paign for president. two methods of distribution not regulated by the nomination. That’s due in large part to equal opportunity belittler, fighting says things that are ugly,” Bush replied. “I the damn thing. That’s what people FEC. Meanwhile, Obama won the nomination the more than $114 million Bush has back against anyone he deems “not sure as hell am going to, when he want.” Campaign to derail and went on to win the White House that raised for his campaign and allied super nice,” he, too, focuses more often than attacks me personally or disparages my While some supporters are sold on As a small, upstart group in 1992, Citizens November. Then the plot thickened. PAC - far and away the most of any 2016 not on Bush. “As far as Jeb is concerned,” family. Damn right, I’m going to fight Bush’s grittier approach, others are United published a paperback attacking Bill Just after Election Day, the Supreme Court White House effort - and the television Trump said, “I watched him this morning back.” But, he added to whoops and eager to see how it plays out in the Clinton. The book, “Slick Willie,” was part of a year- agreed to hear the Citizens United case. “The advertising that money buys. The super on television and it’s a little bit sad. Don’t cheers, “I’m not going to participate in months ahead. “There’s no worry, yet,” long campaign to derail his presidential candida- thing that they’re most famous for is something PAC is scheduled to begin $21.8 million forget, he was supposed to win. And he some reality TV show.” During the same said Republican Rep Adam Kinzinger cy, which included stoking stories about they never set out to do,” Fred Wertheimer, presi- in advertising in Iowa, New Hampshire just doesn’t have the energy.” He made trip, after Trump suggested Bush should of Illinois. “It might be a little different Whitewater, a controversy about the Clintons’ dent of Democracy 21, a Washington group that and South Carolina this month. “He’s still the comment on a day when he only speak English while in the US, the if we get too late into the fall and failed real estate development investments. advocates for stricter campaign finance rules, the front-runner, though others could pledged to remain a Republican. Bush bilingual candidate defiantly told facto- things haven’t changed.” Bush voiced “We’ve been working consistently since 1992 said of Citizens United. “They’re proud of the compete” said veteran GOP presidential displayed plenty of energy during his ry workers the GOP should campaign confidence they will. “Maybe we’re in on all things Clinton,” said David Bossie, longtime super PAC world that they never intended to cre- adviser Charlie Black, who isn’t aligned run through New Hampshire last week. with “brazos abiertos” - or open arms. the first quarter,” Bush said, making a president of Citizens United. “I have an institu- ate. Their lawsuit just became a vehicle for five with any 2016 candidate. He predicted More than 200 voters got a taste of the While Bush engaged with Trump in a football reference. “There’s a long tional knowledge of the Clintons and how the justices hostile to campaign finance laws.” — AP the ads will change public opinion. new approach, and some uncharacteris- contest of snarky Instagram videos last haul to go.” — AP Huckabee to join protests for anti-gay jailed clerk

LOUISVILLE: Presidential candi- date and former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee will join protesters at a rally outside the jail where a Kentucky clerk is locked in a cell over her refusal to issue marriage licenses to gay couples. Huckabee plans a private meet- ing with Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, who was jailed by a federal judge Thursday after defying sever- al court orders. Her lawyers spent Labor Day weekend filing appeals in an effort to force her release, but she remains there on a contempt charge. Huckabee, a former Baptist minister who often reaches out to religious conservatives, says Davis is simply exercising her religious freedom by denying the marriage IOWA: In this Tuesday, Aug 11, 2015, file photo, GOP presidential candidate licenses. Mike Huckabee speaks during a campaign stop at the Maquoketa Public Davis’ jailing offers the many Library. — AP Republican presidential candidates an opportunity to appeal to the an issue of religious freedom. Not Huckabee’s visit comes a day GOP’s evangelical Christian wing, all the Republican White House after Davis filed yet another appeal which opposes same-sex marriage hopefuls see it Huckabee’s way, in the hopes of being released. Her and casts Davis’ imprisonment as however. attorneys asked for an order to have Kentucky Gov Steve Beshear accommodate Davis’ “religious con- Kansas to weigh on death viction,” and not force her to grant licenses to gay couples. The same penalty in Jewish center request was denied last month by U.S. District Judge David Bunning, who jailed Davis. KANSAS CITY: A Kansas jury could which he represented himself. He On Monday, about 30 protesters decide whether a Missouri white frequently clashed with Johnson lined the sidewalk outside supremacist should be sentenced to County District Court Judge Thomas Bunning’s home in Fort Thomas, death in the killings of three people Kelly Ryan, who ordered Cross Kentucky, carrying signs that read outside two Jewish centers in April removed from the courtroom three “Free Kim Davis.” Fort Thomas 2014. Frazier Glenn Cross, 74, a former times. Cross took the stand in his Police Lt Casey Kilgore said the senior member of the Ku Klux Klan, own defense, admitting to jurors group gathered around 2 pm, and was found guilty in August of the mur- that he committed the killings. He the protest stretched on for several ders he told jurors he had committed. said he hated Jews, who he said hours. Davis, an apostolic Christian, He is seeking life in prison, but told the control the media, financial institu- says gay marriage is a sin. She also jury last week he was not afraid should tions and the movie industry, and says it would be a sin for her to they decide he should die. wanted to kill as many as he could. issue a marriage license to a same- Cross was found guilty of killing Cross talked to the media and public sex couple because the licenses are Reat Underwood, 14, and his grand- during the trial, made comments to issued under her authority. father, William Corporon, 69, outside jurors and complained that his Davis stopped issuing all mar- the Jewish Community Center of rights were being violated. riage licenses in June the day after Greater Kansas City, as well as Terri His son, Frazier Glenn Miller III, the US Supreme Court legalized LaManno, 53, outside a Jewish was among the several witnesses same-sex marriage nationwide. retirement home in Overland Park, whom Cross called last week. Miller Two gay couples and two straight Kansas. The jury also convicted told jurors he loved his father and couples sued her. Bunning ordered Cross of three counts of attempted was surprised by his crimes and the Davis to issue the licenses, and the murder for shooting at three other motives behind them. “I don’t agree Supreme Court upheld his ruling. people. Cross said he assumed with him at all,” Miller testified. But Davis still refused to do it. everyone he shot at was Jewish. Kansas restored the death penalty in Bunning ruled Thursday that Davis None of the dead were Jewish. 1994, but no one has been executed was in contempt of court and sent Cross, also known as Glenn Miller, in the state since 1965. Nine inmates her to jail. Her deputy clerks - suffers from emphysema and was are now on death row, according to except for her son, Nathan Davis - wheeled into and out of the court- the Kansas Department of then issued marriage licenses to room during a two-week trial in Corrections. — Reuters gay couples on Friday. — AP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 INTERNATIONAL South Sudan asks for ceasefire monitors

JUBA: South Sudan’s army yesterday have been agreed since war began in and Portugal combined, with large areas attacked rebel positions for a fifth day in demonstrate that (the) Juba regime is not called for international monitors to December 2013. But IGAD monitors for accessible only by basic roads in the dry the battleground northeastern state of ready for peace.” Aguer said those reports observe a ceasefire, as it rejected repeated now lack the resources to monitor the rival season. Upper Nile as “lies” and said that the army were “just not true”, and in turn said the rebel claims of heavy battles in the war- forces, fractured into multiple militia units, “remains committed to the ceasefire”. But rebels had themselves attacked govern- torn country. Both sides have accused with the rebels themselves divided. ‘Not ready for peace’? rebel spokesman William Gatjiath Deng ment forces in the Upper Nile state capital each other of breaking the August 29 “We have asked for monitors from the The world’s youngest nation, South claimed helicopter gunships from neigh- Malakal after the ceasefire signing, but ceasefire aimed at ending a brutal 20- United States or the United Nations to fill Sudan descended into bloodshed in bouring Uganda-which sent in troops to that there had been no fighting in recent month civil war, and the United States has the gap, to observe the ceasefire to stop December 2013 when President Salva Kiir back government forces, but who under days. Over two million people have fled said it is preparing possible new UN sanc- these accusations,” army spokesman Philip accused rebel chief Riek Machar, his for- the peace deal, must withdraw by October their homes from a war marked by ethnic tions for two more individuals for their Aguer told AFP. The request for interna- mer deputy, of planning a coup. The vio- 10 — had pounded their positions. killings, gang rapes and forced recruit- role in the continued fighting. tional monitors had been made by the lence has left tens of thousands of people It was not possible to independently ment of child soldiers. Some 190,000 terri- Ceasefire monitors from the regional army chief Paul Malong, he added. The UN dead and the impoverished country split verify the reports. Deng, in a statement fied civilians are sheltering inside UN East Africa bloc IGAD, which led efforts to mission in South Sudan currently includes along ethnic lines. released late Monday, also claimed the bases. The country is also struggling to negotiate the peace deal, are meant to be over 12,500 military peacekeepers, but Aguer dismissed rebel claims late on army launched ground assaults on them, stamp out a cholera outbreak that has monitoring the ceasefire, the eighth to spread over a country the size of Spain Monday that government forces had claiming that the reported attacks “clearly killed at least 46 people. — AFP National security key reason behind At 35,000 feet, Pope crackdown on journalism globally shows unique side

‘It’s necessary to achieve a legitimate objective’ ABOARD THE PAPAL PLANE: At 35,000 how in a few short months, Francis had feet, you see a different side of Pope Francis. turned the papacy upside down and electri- BERLIN: The detention of three Vice News jour- It’s not just the proximity of traveling on the fied crowds in a way his grandfatherly but nalists in Turkey last month came with all-too- papal plane or tucking into the same stiff predecessor, Emeritus Pope Benedict familiar charges of terror-related crimes. Similar creamy lasagna and beef filet that is clearly XVI, had never managed to do in eight allegations were leveled against three Al- a papal favorite on the Alitalia charter that years. What she wanted to tell him was that Jazeera reporters convicted last year in Egypt of ferries him around the globe. It’s seeing as a mother. fabricating news to help the banned Muslim Francis relaxed, surrounded by a handful of And so when it came time to introduce Brotherhood. So, too, against Eskinder Nega, an his closest aides, embarking on a new her, she shook his hand and started reciting Ethiopian journalist found guilty of terrorism adventure or returning home from one, what she had rehearsed: That she was a charges in 2012 after publishing a critical piece exhausted. mother of three young children and ... He about the government. For starters, he has an almost sinister immediately cut me off. “What are their “We’re seeing this more and more, this abuse sense of humor. When a Spanish colleague names?” he asked. Flustered, she thanked of national security as an excuse to rein in bad asked the 78-year-old pope after a particu- him for asking and recited the names and news, basically,” said David Kaye, the UN’s spe- larly grueling three-nation trip how he man- ages of each of the children. “Ahh,” he said, cial investigator on freedom of speech. Kaye aged to have enough energy to get satisfied. “I always like to ask a mother about warned that the growing use of anti-terror legis- through the day, Francis chuckled: “He her children because she always smiles.” lation against journalists is making any kind of meant to ask, ‘What drug is he on?’” He can And so she learned, in that very first critical reporting impossible in some countries. be candid to a fault. When a German jour- encounter, that Francis also has something “On the one hand national security is a legiti- nalist asked why, in all his talk about the of a charmer in him, an easy way of engag- mate basis for restricting freedom of expres- rich and the poor, he had neglected to ever ing a complete stranger that was surpris- sion,” said Kaye, a professor of law at the mention the tax-paying middle class, ing, and yet completely normal. Francis University of California, Irvine. “But the state has Francis thanked him for the “correction,” said would go on later in his pontificate to insist to demonstrate that it’s necessary to do so to it was a “mistake” on his part, and promised on a more “normal” notion of the papacy. achieve a legitimate objective, and they often to address it after thinking it through. One that refused to greet the cardinals who abuse those rules for what I would say are ille- Francis also has a bit of street thug in had just elected him pope from the heights gitimate purposes.” him - remnants perhaps of an immigrant of a podium, but rather at their level. One upbringing in working-class Buenos Aires that resided not in the isolated Apostolic Worrying trends and ministry later in life in its slums. Asked Palace but in the communal Vatican hotel Kaye also cited Azerbaijan and Iran as exam- once by a French journalist about the where visiting priests stay. And one that ples where national security legislation has been attack by Islamic extremists on France’s was ultimately far more comfortable in the widely used against journalists. Figures com- TEHRAN: In this photo April 11, 2013 file photo, Jason Rezaian, an Iranian-American correspon- Charlie Hebdo satirical newspaper, Francis shanty towns where Jorge Mario Bergoglio piled by the Committee to Protect Journalists dent for the Washington Post, smiles as he attends a presidential campaign of President threw a pretend punch at a Vatican official perfected the church’s “preferential option show that the number of reporters jailed world- Hassan Rouhani. — AP and explained that if someone insults his for the poor” than the halls of power where wide steadily increased in recent years, from 81 mother - or his faith - he can expect to get Francis went through the motions that pro- detained. Based in Turkey but of Iraqi Kurdish it is more important than ever that both domes- in 2000 to 221 last year. They include also the socked in return. tocol demanded of such an improbable origin, Rasool has worked for a number of tic and international journalists are allowed to Washington Post reporter Jason Rezaian, who is Longtime AP Vatican correspondent head of state. “We have to be normal!” media organizations, including The Associated do their vital work without intimidation, report- being held in Iran on espionage charges. Nicole Winfield discovered an altogether Francis pleaded, when an Italian colleague Press and Al-Jazeera. ing on matters of global interest and concern,” “What we see in terms of worrying trends different side of Francis when she met him asked him what on Earth he was carrying in more than 70 well-known authors wrote in an that’s been picking up for a while is the use of for the first time during his first foreign trip. the black leather satchel that he brought Access to information open letter published Monday by the group overbroad anti-terror laws to prevent coverage She had rehearsed in her head the brief aboard the plane to Rio, given that popes The perceived threat posed by Al-Qaeda and PEN, which campaigns on behalf of imprisoned and detain journalists,” said Robert Mahoney, words she wanted to say when Francis past never carried anything - much less now the Islamic State group have also made writers. Mahoney said that while large, interna- deputy director of the New York-based CPJ. greeted each of the 75 or so journalists luggage. “It’s not the key to the atomic Western governments less willing to complain tional media organizations are usually able to Such tactics are particularly common in coun- who were traveling with him to Rio de bomb!” Francis quipped. Rather, it con- about other states cracking down on access to mobilize legal and diplomatic resources to get tries with autocratic leaders, said Mahoney. Janeiro for the Catholic Church’s 2013 tained his breviary prayer book, his agenda, information, said Kaye. “The situation with IS their correspondents released, local freelancers “They are nominally elected but they are behav- World Youth Day. a book on St Therese of Lisieux - and a very puts a lot of pressure on governments to main- are often more vulnerable. ing in a repressive way, using the cloak of fight- Like the rest of the world, she witnessed normal razor. — AP tain coalitions against terrorism,” including with Last week, a court in Azerbaijan sentenced an ing terrorism to silence critical voices.” In Egypt, authoritarian regimes. Emre Kizilkaya, a press investigative journalist to 71/2 years in prison for where the trial against three Al-Jazeera freedom advocate and local representative of financial crimes after she had reported on reporters has drawn international attention, the the Vienna-based International Press Institute, alleged corruption involving President Ilham government led by soldier-turned-president or IPI, said the number of journalists jailed in Aliyev and his family. Supporters say the charges Abdel-Fatah el-Sissi recently introduced new Turkey has traditionally fluctuated in tandem against Khadija Ismayilova, who contributed to laws making it a crime to publish “false news” on with the governments’ security policies. the US government-funded Radio Free terrorism. According to Mahoney, the laws can “Turkey’s anti-terror law and penal code are Europe/Radio Liberty, are part of a crackdown be used to punish those who publish legitimate widely regarded as draconian in many aspects,” on dissent in the oil-rich former Soviet republic. news stories with up to five years in prison for he said. “And some parts of these laws are The UN’s top human rights official, Zeid Raad al- “promoting terrorism.” vague, allowing hawkish prosecutors to easily Hussein, called Tuesday for Ismayilova’s release Western governments have some responsi- jail journalists by charging them as terrorists, and warned that her sentencing was “just the bility for this, said Kaye, the U.N. expert. Since when the political situation is ripe for such latest example of the crackdown on independ- the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, European countries measures. The IPI has repeatedly urged Turkey ent voices in the country.” Gulnara Akhundova, in particular have imposed strict new anti-terror to enact comprehensive reforms on these laws, who works for International Media Support, a legislation that often includes greater surveil- which fail to tell a terrorist apart from a journal- human rights group, said upcoming elections lance, bans on certain literature and limits on ist who only reports on that group.” Since the in Azerbaijan had made the government there free speech deemed as incitement to violence. arrest of the Vice News journalists, Turkish very sensitive to any perceived criticism. While “It’s no help when you have countries in the police have raided the offices of a media com- the United States, the European Union and West adopting laws that restrict free expres- pany and detained a Dutch journalist working human rights organizations have condemned sion,” said Kaye. “In Spain you can’t record the in the Kurdish region. Frederike Geerdink was the arrests of journalists in Azerbaijan, police anymore, for example.” previously detained in January but later acquit- Akhundova said only tough diplomacy would While two of the journalists working for Vice ted of charges of engaging in propaganda on really make a difference. “I don’t think any- News - both British citizens - were released days behalf of the Kurdish rebels. thing will ever really improve unless there is later and allowed to leave Turkey, their col- “We recognize that Turkey is facing a period real pressure from the West,” she said. “What league Mohammed Ismael Rasool remains In this file photo, Pope Francis jokes with Associated Press correspondent Nicole of heightened tension. However at such a time we need is real sanctions.” — AP Winfield on aboard the papal flight heading to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. — AP Belarus oppn leader held as he Germany says they have financial returns from exile firepower to cope with refugees MINSK: An opposition leader who ran against authoritari- an Belarussian President Alexander Lukashenko in 2010 BERLIN: Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble pledged elections was yesterday detained at the border of the ex- yesterday to use Germany’s financial firepower to help Soviet state upon returning from exile. Ales Mikhalevich welcome a record influx of refugees, as hundreds more was held at the country’s border with EU member asylum-seekers arrived overnight at the key southern Lithuania as he was trying to re-enter his homeland by train. “The border guards are looking into what they city of Munich. should do with me,” Mikhalevich told AFP by phone. His “There is no point speculating at this point what the detention comes after Lukashenko stunned Belarus last final total sum will be,” Schaeuble told parliament at the month by pardoning six jailed opposition leaders, includ- opening of a debate on next year’s budget. “Given our ing two former presidential candidates, in an apparent bid strong economy, we have good tax revenues, interest to assuage criticism ahead of October’s presidential poll. payments are still low, and that goes for the federal Mikhalevich had vowed to return to Belarus when its government, the regional states and the local authori- main political prisoners would be released. “I am about to ties, too. cross the border, I know that I will be arrested,” Mikhalevich “We have some leeway and with that we can and wrote on his Facebook page hours before being detained. must cope with and use for the biggest task at hand,” “But one day or another, I will be freed. “I want to live with he said. “Accomplishing this task is the absolute priori- my family. I want to live in Belarus,” he told AFP separately. ty,” added the finance minister. Germany is gearing up The 2010 election, which saw Lukashenko re-elected to a new term, was marred by a violent crackdown on the to welcome a record 800,000 asylum seekers this year, opposition that saw most of the president’s opponents four times as many in 2014. Police in the southern city jailed. Mikhalevich was arrested along with other opposi- of Munich said about 20,000 migrants arrived at the tion candidates. He spent some two months in a prison city’s main railway station over the weekend, and run by the KGB, the Belarussian security service, where he another 5,000 arrived on Monday. claims he was tortured. Between midnight and 08:30 am yesterday, “another He was released on condition he did not leave the 900 arrived,” said Thomas Baumann, police spokesman. country but he fled to the Czech Republic in March 2011. Chancellor Angela Merkel said Monday that the federal Mikhalevich faces up to 15 years in prison for allegedly government would contribute six billion euros ($6.7 bil- organising “mass riots” following the contested poll. lion) for new shelters, extra police and language train- Lukashenko, 61, who has been in power since 1994, is ing in 2016. Her deputy Sigmar Gabriel has also said widely expected to be reelected to a fifth term next that the country was capable of receiving about “half a month. His government routinely faces international criti- million (refugees) for several years”. “I have no doubt cism over its rights record, with Belarus remaining the only country in Europe to exercise the death penalty. — AFP ERFURT: Refugees transported by busses from Munich wait after their arrival in one of the exhibition halls of the about that, maybe more,” the leader of the centre-left Trade Fair Messe Erfurt. — AP Social Democrats said. — AFP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 INTERNATIONAL China denounces Colorful animal symbols lure Dalai Lama BEIJING: China yesterday stressed Communist party control over Myanmar as elections begin Tibet, with a senior official denouncing the Dalai Lama at a giant ceremony condemned by rights groups. Thousands of people gathered in front of the iconic Potala Palace in the regional capi- Wooing voters in first free election tal Lhasa for an event billed as marking 50 years since the found- ing of the administrative area of Tibet. Crowd members waved YANGON: Fighting peacocks, bamboo house in Yangon, as volunteers cut out concerned the elections could prove a Chinese flags while “cheering like they were ushering in a new hats and lions are just some of the color- stickers emblazoned with a roaring tiger wasted opportunity to educate a public year”, the official Xinhua news agency reported. China says its ful symbols Myanmar’s political parties head. The SNLD is hoping the symbol long-starved of electoral debate. grants Tibet autonomy, but Beijing tightly controls the region are using to woo voters in what is, for will mark it out in the cluttered electoral “In some places people won’t even while no ethnic Tibetan has ever held its top Communist post. many, their first free election. Decades landscape, which includes Aung San know the name of the candidate (when Many Tibetans complain of restrictions on Buddhist traditions of military rule have smothered debate Suu Kyi’s opposition grouping. Despite they vote) but this is also driving unhap- and economic discrimination. Beijing denies repression and says and left the public disconnected from relatively high levels of literacy in the 51- piness among more informed voters it has brought economic development. Top leaders of the the dozens of parties who want to rep- million-strong population, the run-up to who want to know about policy,” he Communist Party of China (CPC) said in a message to mark the resent them as the country makes its the vote has been notable for the said. For the country’s main opposition, anniversary: “Only by sticking to the CPC’s leadership and the chaotic transition to democracy. absence of any debate on hard policy or the National League for Democracy ethnic autonomy system, can Tibetans be their own masters,” So as campaigning officially begins detail. (NLD), symbols do not come more pow- Xinhua said. Yu Zhengsheng, one of China’s seven highest-rank- for the November 8 polls, politicians are Critical thinking could not flourish erful than its leader Suu Kyi, who spent ing Communist officials as a member of the Politburo Standing turning to pictures, buzzwords and per- under the toxic atmosphere of paranoia 15 years under house arrest for her Committee, who normally works in Beijing, vowed to continue a sonalities to mark themselves out. “A and repression encouraged by the for- political beliefs. “crack down on all kinds of separatist activities”, Xinhua added. picture means more than 100 words,” mer junta. “It’s a transitional election. Big Images of the democracy icon adorn China brands the Dalai Lama and his supporters as “separatists” said Sai Sam Phoon Seng, a campaign issues are at stake-democracy or not, everything from badges to fans at the seeking independence for the region, though the Tibetan spiritu- officer for the Shan Nationalities League reform or not. It’s not the type of elec- fundraising shop outside the party al leader says he advocates greater self-rule. for Democracy (SNLD). tion you’d expect to see deep policy dis- headquarters in northeast Yangon. But YANGON: In a photo taken on August 17, 2015 a volunteer prepares Yu told the crowd that “sabotage attempts” by the Dalai Lama The SNLD is one of around 90 par- cussion,” said Yangon-based Jorge with around double the number of election campaign materials including stickers at the Shan and his associates had been “foiled”, without giving details. After ties registered to take part in the land- Valladares from the International political parties registering for this elec- Nationalities League for Democracy (SNLD) headquarters. — AFP Yu’s speech more than 6,000 civilians, army and government staff mark election. Like political strategists Institute for Democracy and Electoral tion compared to the last, symbols are joined a parade “featuring singing, dancing and the release of all over the world, Sai Sam Phoon Seng Assistance. crowding for space on the campaign end up bamboozled. ment. “They’re entitled to use it and colorful balloons”, Xinhua said. Beijing established the Tibet knows the importance of brand-build- trail. While the SNLD, locally known as “At least half a dozen parties are some may want the link (to the NLD). Autonomous Region in 1965, 15 years after Chinese troops took ing for a party whose leader was jailed Sign and deliver the Tiger Head Party, is confident its dis- using the fighting peacock symbol,” said (But) that means a lot of confusion,” he control of the area. It covers only some of the areas in which eth- under junta rule and is now preparing But for some observers, the focus on tinctive logo would never be confused Khin Zaw Win of the Tampadipa added. The peacock symbol harks back nic Tibetans have historically lived, with the rest of the population to contest its first general election in 25 symbols at the expense of substantive with that of its main rival-the prowling Institute, a Yangon-based political think- to student protests of 1988 which gave divided between several Chinese provinces. “The so-called Tibet years. debate in this campaign risks leaving white tiger of the Shan Nationalities for tank, referring to the emblem adopted rise to the NLD, but the bird has also Autonomous Region only covers about half of Tibet,” the London- A symbol can catch “the eyes of the voters short-changed. Maung Zarni, a Democratic Party (SNDP) — others have by the NLD ahead of the 2012 by-elec- been adopted by rivals from the other based Free Tibet group said in a statement. It said the anniversary public”, he told AFP at a four-storey Myanmar analyst based in Britain, is expressed concerns that voters could tions which swept Suu Kyi into parlia- end of the political spectrum. — AFP celebrations were “imposed” on Tibetans by Beijing. “Tibet is locked down: independent media, human rights organizations and diplomats can’t travel there freely,” the group added. “If Tibet’s people have a good news story to tell, why doesn’t Beijing let them freely tell it.” — AFP

LAHORE: In this photograph taken on July 15, 2015, Pakistani politician and Islamic scholar Tahir-ul-Qadri gestures as he gives an interview. — AFP Pakistan’s Qadri: Preacher to politico and back again

LAHORE: A year after leading major street protests aimed at top- pling the Pakistani government, populist preacher Tahir-ul-Qadri says he has turned back to religion, but remains prepared to re- launch his “revolution” when the time is right. Weeks of sit-in protests by supporters of Qadri and opposition politician Imran Khan reached a climax in early September 2014 as protesters clashed with police and stormed the state broadcaster. For a few hours it looked as if Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s government might fall, but the crisis abated and eventually the protesters went home. Qadri, a mercurial figure who also brought Islamabad to a standstill with mass protests in early 2013, wanted Sharif to resign and demanded sweeping changes to the coun- try’s political and welfare system. The protests fizzled out and Qadri left Pakistan for medical treatment. Earlier this year he qui- etly returned, this time to lead not rumbustious street protests but a 10-day prayer vigil during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.

‘Exercise in discipline’ Thousands of his followers of all ages gathered in two vast compounds in the eastern city of Lahore to pray, fast, sleep and eat together. The 64-year-old began leading the annual vigil in Lahore three decades ago and it formed the basis of his Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT) political movement, founded in 1989. He describes the event as “an exercise to discipline the follow- ers for a revolution to run the country in the lines of the system introduced by the holy Prophet Mohammed 14 centuries ago”. But when AFP interviewed him at the event in Lahore, Qadri refused to answer questions about his 2013 and 2014 protests and what the future might hold for him politically. When the protests were going on, some-including members of Sharif’s rul- ing PML-N party-accused him of being a puppet, working on behalf of the powerful military to try to destabilize the elected civilian government in a bid to increase the generals’ influence. Qadri would not address the allegation directly but con- demned his critics in general terms. “There have always been opponents. There were opponents of the prophets. The oppo- nents always propagate negatively and I can’t come to their level to answer their propaganda,” he told AFP. His reticence now stands in stark contrast to the vehemence with which he lambast- ed the government last year in daily speeches to his followers outside parliament from the top of a shipping container that served as a podium.

Military rumors Despite his denials, the rumors of army backing linger around a man whose only spell as an lawmaker came during the rule of military strongman General Pervez Musharraf. “Qadri always wanted to get a top political office in the country with the sup- port of the powers who themselves stay behind the curtain,” said Tahir Ashrafi, another cleric and chairman of the Pakistan Ulema Council, a representative body of the country’s religious scholars. Senior political analyst Rasul Bakhsh Rais said Qadri’s ability to summon large, disruptive street crowds at short notice had made him an attractive ally for murky forces-even if he did not necessar- ily share their agenda. “He has his ambitions but he is used by the secret forces without him being known,” Rais told AFP. “He decides about his political movements himself but gets political and other allies when he starts it.” Last year’s protests may not have brought down Sharif’s government but they were seen by many observers as weakening it and boosting the military’s influ- ence, particularly in the policy areas it has traditionally dominat- ed-defense and foreign affairs. Qadri’s supporters still have confi- dence he will lead the country to a bright new future and say they are ready for the next round of their struggle, whenever it comes. “We still stand for our mission and will stand for it until the end. The revolution doesn’t come with one, two or five sit-ins,” said Shams-ur-Rehman Mehsud, 19, a follower from South Waziristan tribal district on the Afghan border. And while Qadri may be guard- ed in discussing what his future tactics might be, he is no less fer- vent than before when rousing his followers. “We won’t forgive the blood of martyrs of our struggle to bring revolution in this country,” he said in one of his Ramadan addresses. “Be ready and preparing for the next round of struggle when I will call you again.” — AFP

NEWS WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 Iran: Democracy not a ‘priority’ in Syria now

TEHRAN: Iran’s President Hassan can go home,” said Rouhani, insist- Rouhani said yesterday that ing that starting with a “wrong first democracy was currently not a pri- step” would mean failure. ority in Syria when people in the “Then we can talk about Syria’s Islamic republic’s key ally are being future, opposition groups, democ- killed. “Is it a priority to discuss racy and elections,” he said. democracy in Syria today?” Rouhani Rouhani stressed that Iran was asked at a news conference with ready to “sit down at any negotiat- visiting Austrian President Heinz ing table anywhere in the world” to Fischer. “Is it a priority to talk about help stop the violence and estab- the opposition and (government) lish peace in Syria. supporters, or reforming the Syrian More than 240,000 people constitution?” have been killed in the conflict, Iran provides financial and mili- which began with anti-govern- tary support to Syria and has mili- ment protests in March 2011 but tary advisers on the ground there. TEHRAN: Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (right) in a spiralled into a complex civil war In August, Iranian Foreign Minister meeting with Austrian President Heinz Fischer (center) and Iran’ after a government crackdown. Mohammad Javad Zarif submitted Since 2013, Sunni jihadists includ- President Hassan Rouhani in Tehran yesterday. — AFP a peace plan to President Bashar al- ing Al-Qaeda affiliate Al-Nusra LONDON: This is an April 20, 2006 file photo of Queen Elizabeth II sitting in the Assad aimed at ending the four- and hundreds of thousands killed”. he added. Front and the Islamic State group Regency Room at Buckingham Palace in London looking at some of the cards year war. Rouhani said yesterday What mattered to Tehran was sav- “The first step is to stop the have seized large swathes of land which have been sent to her for her 80th birthday. — AP Syria was in “complete instability” ing the “lives of the Syrian people” bloodshed, to establish relative in Syria and Iraq, Iran’s other with “millions of people displaced and “the return home of refugees”, security in Syria and the refugees Shiite ally. — AFP Queen Elizabeth II becomes Deadly sandstorm engulfs Mideast longest reigning UK monarch Continued from Page 1 suffering respiratory problems after running out of dents were told to limit their time outdoors. LONDON: She has lived longer than any of invisible visible public woman in the world,” oxygen tanks, the Observatory said. Health officials warned that the concentration her predecessors, seen a dozen prime minis- he said. In the Bekaa, a woman wrapped her headscarf Syria’s health minister urged citizens to “avoid of dust particles in the air was many times above ters come and go, and presided over six Her public speeches are dignified, modest over her mouth as she walked by a makeshift tent prolonged exposure to the outdoors”, and said normal levels. Several flights were diverted from decades of British history - from war with and often dry. “We are reminded here of our in one camp. Education Minister Elias Bou Saab hundreds of people had been treated for asthma the coastal airport of Larnaca as visibility dropped Germany to the death of Princess Diana and past, of the continuity of our national story ordered private schools across the country to close and other respiratory problems. The dust cut visi- to 500 metres (yards), although flights began arriv- terror attacks on London. and the virtues of resilience, ingenuity and on Wednesday, calling on “school officials to bility for regime aircraft, which carried out relative- ing again as scheduled later. Cyprus was also suf- Now Queen Elizabeth II is set to become tolerance which created it,” she said during respect this decision and to protect students from ly few strikes during the storm, the Observatory fering from a heatwave, with inland temperatures the longest reigning monarch in British histo- the Diamond Jubilee in 2012, which marked any danger”, a ministry statement said. said. hitting 41 degrees Celsius (106 degrees ry. Today, she beats the record set by her 60 years of her reign. “I have been privileged Mouin Hamzeh, secretary general of Lebanon’s “The sandstorm has paralysed regime airplanes, Fahrenheit). great-great-grandmother Queen Victoria - 63 to witness some of that history and, with the governmental National Council for Scientific there were only a few strikes in Damascus Its interior ministry said dozens of Syrian years and 7 months - more than a century support of my family, rededicate myself to the Research, said satellite images “clearly show that province,” said Abdel Rahman. A thick haze hung refugees who had been rescued from a fishing ago. Only four other British kings and queens service of our great country and its people the sandstorm came from northern Iraq in the over Jerusalem and much of Israel and the boat off the coast on Sunday had been moved have reigned 50 years or more. now and in the years to come.” direction of central and northern Lebanon, north Palestinian Territories, with officials warning the from a makeshift camp to a better-equipped facili- “You have to be a certain age to remem- Palace officials say there will be no fanfare and east Syria, and southern Turkey”. “It usually vulnerable to stay indoors. ty because of the extreme weather. The effects of ber a time when she wasn’t the queen,” said today, when Elizabeth officially becomes happens twice or even three times a year in The view from the Mount of Olives-normally a the storm also reached Cairo, where the skyline royal historian and commentator Hugo Britain’s longest reigning monarch. Officials Lebanon but during spring, March and April, and sweeping panorama of Jerusalem’s Old City and was obscured by a thick haze. Wahid Saudi, a top Vickers. The only monarch most living Britons say the queen wanted the occasion to be a the unusual thing today is the density of the the Al-Aqsa mosque compound with its golden official at Egypt’s weather authority, said the dust have ever known, Elizabeth has been the con- low-key affair, and that the day will be “busi- storm,” he said. Dome of the Rock-was completely obscured by the had blown in from the eastern Mediterranean stant heart of British life since she came to the ness as usual.” Elizabeth is expected to be In the Syrian city of Mayadeen in Deir Ezzor, sev- dust. The thick cloud also enveloped parts of the region and was expected to clear after several throne as a young woman aged 25. staying in her Scottish home, Balmoral Castle, eral hospitals were no longer receiving patients eastern Mediterranean island of Cyprus, where resi- hours. — AFP Much has changed since then. When she and will take a steam train journey from married Prince Philip in 1947, Britain was still Edinburgh with Prince Philip to open the new in the grips of post-World War II austerity - the Borders Railway. Born April 21, 1926 in US warns of terror threats in S Africa couple’s wedding cake had to be made from London, the queen was christened Elizabeth ingredients sent as wedding presents from Alexandra Mary of York and was known as Continued from Page 1 warning speaks specifically to South Africa Media reports have suggested that abroad. In 1953, when she was crowned in young Lilibet to her family. It seemed at the means the perceived threat is specifically within Lewthwaite, who is still on the run, trained Westminster Abbey, television was a novelty time unlikely that she would become queen - “We haven’t had an extensive history of our borders.” female suicide bombers for Islamic State and and British colonies were still dotted around that is until Edward VIII, her uncle, unexpect- transnational terrorists targeting US interests, British terror suspect Samantha Lewthwaite- oversaw terror attacks in Kenya, Somalia and the world. By the 1990s, the empire had all edly abdicated in order to marry American (but) there has been evidence that South Africa dubbed the “White Widow because her husband Nigeria. Kenya’s foreign minister accused her of but vanished. divorcee Wallis Simpson. Elizabeth’s father serves as some form of a gateway or potential was among the 2005 London suicide bombers- directing the 2013 assault on Nairobi’s Elizabeth is the last generation of British reluctantly became King George VI, and she logistics and financial hub. “The fact that this lived in South Africa for years on a fake passport. Westgate mall. — AFP royals to be educated at home, and the first was the heir when he died in 1952. monarch from the country to have sent an Even before that, as early as her 21st birth- 20 Indians killed in air strikes on Yemen email (1976) or a tweet (2014). She has day, Elizabeth had dedicated her life to Britain worked with 12 British prime ministers - from and the Commonwealth. “There is a motto Continued from Page 1 foreign troops reported by al Jazeera might be the report but it was corroborated by the source Winston Churchill to David Cameron, who which has been borne by many of my ances- exaggerated. close to the Qatari military. In Riyadh, a news was not even born at the time of her corona- tors - a noble motto, ‘I serve’,” she said. They were part of a force preparing to assault Al-Jazeera on Monday said that 1,000 Qatari sol- agency run by Yemen’s exiled government said that tion - and continues to carry out public Elizabeth’s marriage to Philip has endured for the capital, which the Iranian-allied Houthis seized diers had crossed the Al-Wadia border crossing 10,000 loyalist troops were also preparing to take engagements and travel at age 89. almost 70 years, longer than that of any other last September. from Saudi Arabia. “A second contingent of Qatari part in an advance on Sanaa. While Elizabeth is instantly recognizable British monarch and outlasting the unions of Friday’s attack was the deadliest yet for Gulf sol- soldiers has entered the al-Wadia border crossing,” The Yemeni government of President Abd- and held in endearing regard by her sub- three of her four children. In 1992, notoriously diers in the war and may herald a turning point as an Al Jazeera correspondent in southern Saudi Rabbu Mansour Hadi fled to Riyadh in March as jects, her personality and views remain an branded the “annus horribilis,” Prince Charles Saudi-allied countries appear to be committing to a Arabia was quoted as saying. Houthi forces closed in on their last redoubt in enigma to most. As constitutional monarch separated from Princess Diana, and Prince ground war they had so far avoided. Aden, triggering the Saudi-led intervention and she must keep mum on political affairs, and Andrew separated from his wife Sarah In western Yemen, local residents and fishermen BOMBING, AIR POWER fighting which has killed more than 4,500 people, only rarely does she let her thoughts be Ferguson. said planes from the Saudi-led alliance struck two A source close to the Qatari military confirmed many of them civilians. known. Days ahead of the Scottish inde- Princess Anne was divorced in the same boats at Al-Khokha, a small port near Hodeidah the report. “The operation in Sanaa will use exten- Loyalist Yemeni forces and Gulf soldiers took pendence referendum in 2014, she year. Diana’s death in 1997, which prompted used by Indians to smuggle badly needed fuel sup- sive bombing, air power, to support the ground back Aden and most of Yemen’s south in July but remarked that she hoped voters would think Elizabeth to abandon royal protocol to pub- plies into the country, killing 20 of them. Officials offensive,” the source said. battle lines have barely moved since as the allied “very carefully about the future.” licly mourn her troublesome ex-daughter-in- were not immediately available to comment on the Qatari and coalition officials did not immediately forces face stiff resistance in the Houthis’ northern Some argue that reticence and neutrality law, marked one of the only low points in the report. respond to requests for comment. Egyptian officials redoubts. form part of her appeal. “She is above politics queen’s reign. Today, there is little doubt Qatari-owned Al-Jazeera TV reported that the told Reuters that an unspecified number of The Saudi-led alliance sees the campaign as a and when you have a change of government about her popularity: In 2012, a million peo- number of forces deployed by the alliance had risen Egyptian troops would arrive in Yemen on Tuesday fight against creeping Iranian influence but the that’s quite reassuring to know,” Vickers said. ple braved the rain and sang “God Save the to 10,000. A Yemeni military official denied any for- and Saudi-owned Arabiya newspaper quoted Houthis deny being beholden to Tehran and say the Stephen Daldry, director of the royal-themed Queen” as they marched to the gates of eign reinforcements had arrived on Tuesday and a sources as saying that 6,000 Sudanese troops would exiled government in Riyadh and the coalition are play “The Audience,” recently captured the Buckingham Palace to celebrate the Diamond source close to the exiled Yemeni government, now soon join the fight inside Yemen. US puppets. They say they deposed a corrupt gov- queen’s paradox: “You know, she is the most Jubilee. —AP based in Riyadh, said he believed the number of The Sudanese government did not comment on ernment. — Reuters WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 ANALYSIS

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By Rene Slama and Ian Timberlake

he Yemen war is entering a new and potentially deci- sive phase as Gulf nations build up ground forces to Tbattle rebels in the country’s north and rebel-held capital, analysts say. After five months of air strikes by a Saudi-led coalition and ground combat between Iran- backed rebels and coalition-supported fighters, Yemen “is bracing for a new and more deadly phase of violence in the north”, said April Longley Alley of the International Crisis Group. “Both sides are gearing up for a major conflict in the north and especially in Sanaa.” Overnight and yesterday, coalition warplanes pounded rebel positions in Sanaa amid the build-up. The Houthi rebels, who have long complained of mar- Volunteers rally as UK readies refugee plan ginalization, swept down from their northern mountainous stronghold last year to seize Sanaa unopposed. They By Dario Thuburn Cameron on Monday said Britain will take Vulnerable Persons Relocation Scheme, a doors at a moment of crisis should not advanced on second city Aden in March, forcing President up to 20,000 Syrian refugees directly from special program set up in January last be left to pick up the pieces when fund- Abedrabbo Mansour Hadi to flee to Saudi Arabia. Riyadh housands of Britons are mobilizing to UN refugee camps along the border over year and intended to bring up to 1,000 ing runs out and the world’s attention then organized an Arab coalition aimed at restoring Hadi’s aid migrants camped in Calais and the next five years-a dramatic turnaround people. has moved on,” it said in a statement. internationally backed government. Months of air strikes Toffering their homes to Syrian from past policy. Avaaz campaign director Campaigners have blamed bureau- Mohammed, a Syrian living in Bradford, failed to dislodge the Houthis, however. refugees but local councils have warned Sam Barratt said Cameron was “finally cratic delays and financial concerns as was one of the lucky few to have been Then, in July, the rebels were hit by major setbacks after about the costs of resettling new arrivals. responding to the massive public outcry”. the government only pays for the first 12 brought to Britain last year under the the coalition, according to military sources, sent in armor, At a collection point in London for “The offer to take 20,000 Syrians is wel- months of the refugees’ stay, with cash- special government scheme. troops and Yemeni fighters trained in Saudi Arabia. Anti- “Calaid”, a group set up just a month ago come but Britain needs to take that desper- strapped councils left to fund the rest. He is now campaigning for his new rebel forces have since retaken Aden and four other south- and one of many crowdfunded initiatives, ate group now, not over five years and play Several local councils have now come home to take in more of his compatriots. ern provinces. The coalition appears determined to recover volunteers formed a human chain to carry a strong part in resolving the refugee crisis forward with offers to host dozens of “I find that the English people are happy yet more territory, especially since Friday’s killing of dozens donations including shoes, blankets and in Europe,” he said. refugees and Scottish First Minister to receive more Syrian refugees,” said of coalition troops in a Tochka missile strike on their Safer tinned food. “We can give people their dig- The government says it has accepted Nicola Sturgeon has said that Scotland Mohammed, who is working on the base in Marib province east of Sanaa, Alley said. nity back,” the group’s 39-year-old founder nearly 5,000 Syrian asylum requests since will accept 1,000 people “as a starting campaign by the Avaaz group and James Fisher told AFP, explaining that he the conflict there began in 2011, as well as point”. Citizens UK. ‘Turning point’ attack had initially planned a single carload of being the second biggest aid donor in the But the Local Government Association The 20-year-old, who came with his The death of 45 soldiers from the United Arab Emirates, supplies for the migrant camp in Calais. Syrian crisis after the United States. on Monday said it wanted a commitment mother and two brothers, is learning 10 from Saudi Arabia and five from Bahrain was by far the The group has now raised more than from government to provide “full fund- English and preparing for exams normal- greatest loss suffered by the coalition-and highlighted the £132,000 (180,000 euros, $200,000) online ‘Happy to receive more’ ing” for the refugees until they are grant- ly taken by 16-year-olds in Britain. “It’s extent of its involvement on the ground. Marib has become and has collected tons of supplies-so many But only 216 Syrians were brought to ed asylum or return to their country. not about 100 or 200, 1,000 or 2,000, the a strategic location for reinforcements from Saudi Arabia, that it has to rent a warehouse in Calais to Britain by July this year under the “Local communities that open their number is unlimited,” he said. —AFP Qatar and the Gulf, according to media reports and Yemeni allow for more even distribution. Amplified military sources. The missile attack shocked the Gulf states, by online petitions and social media cam- but the coalition vowed to press on. Riyadh formed the paigns, the groundswell of compassion has Arab alliance in response to fears that the Houthis would grown after the images of Syrian toddler take over all of Yemen and move it into the orbit of Sunni Aylan Kurdi’s body washed up on a Turkish Saudi Arabia’s Shiite regional rival Iran. beach were widely published on social and The Tochka attack was “a turning point”, said Andreas traditional media. Krieg, a consultant to the Qatari armed forces and a lecturer “Over the last few days, it’s just gone at King’s College in London. He said the coalition “will pre- absolutely crazy,” Ruth Forecast, a 63-year- pare a greater deployment of ground troops” to support old music teacher and coordinator of the local forces trained and equipped over the past six months. Malvern Welcomes Syrian Refugees group “There will be a push from the north and the south in western England, told AFP. towards Sanaa.” A Qatari official on Tuesday confirmed “There have been so many people in our Doha had dispatched 1,000 troops “ready to fight”, saying area who really want to help,” said Forecast, they were currently on the border with Saudi Arabia. who has been campaigning her local coun- Roughly 1,000 Saudi soldiers have already arrived in cil for months to take in refugees under an Marib, Yemeni military sources said. Krieg estimates “there existing relocation scheme. are slightly more than 5,000 coalition troops in total on the ground”, but the exact figure is unknown “because of the ‘Short-term reaction’ range of special forces deployed”. An appeal for volunteers by the cam- paign groups Avaaz and Citizens UK has Grim days ahead? garnered more than 5,000 signatories, Although the Houthis claimed the Tochka attack, Krieg including many Britons who are offering said such a complex ballistic missile system was under the their spare rooms to house Syrian refugees. control of rebel-allied troops loyal to former president Ali A petition to parliament for Britain to Abdullah Saleh. “The coalition has to accept that they have accept more asylum seekers has reached not been successful in identifying and eliminating all mis- more than 400,000 signatures-four times sile sites,” despite saying earlier in the campaign that most the number for the issue to be considered of the missile threat to neighboring countries had been for a debate in parliament. removed. So far, the coalition offensive on the ground has Over 2,000 Britons have also offered to succeeded because local forces are operating on friendly house refugees in their homes in a data- territory, Krieg said. “Sanaa and the northern provinces will base set up by Zoe Fritz, a doctor whose be highly hostile to these forces. So it is difficult to predict relatives were among the children who PIRAEUS: A refugee child cries as she sits on an overcrowded bus transporting refugees and migrants to the metro what turn the operation takes from here,” he said. Alley sees came to Britain in a mass evacuation from and train stations, after they disembarked from a government-chartered ferry (reflected in the window) in the port grim days ahead. Nazi Germany. Prime Minister David of Piraeus in the Athens area, yesterday. —AFP “A battle in north Yemen promises to be a prolonged, bloody affair that will worsen the already desperate humanitarian situation,” she said. According to the United Chaos, boredom await refugees at German centre Nations, 80 percent of impoverished Yemen’s people need aid. “A complete victory over the Houthis in the north will be difficult if not impossible,” Alley said, calling for a com- By Frank Zeller Veron angrily. “Many people here are thinking about name as Aladdin was nonetheless pleased to be there. promise to bring the insurgents into the political system. leaving Germany, to go to Sweden or Denmark or “Thank you Germany!” he said, voicing gratitude to the She said that in August the Houthis offered “significant hey have fled the hell of war for the safety of Holland. We will stay on the streets if we have to.” country that expects to take in 800,000 refugees this political concessions” including a willingness to work under Germany, only to be plunged into a bureaucratic year, by far the most of any EU member. Still, the inter- UN Security Council resolution 2216 calling for their with- Tnightmare at a desperately crowded and over- Dangerous journey minable wait is straining nerves. Several weeks ago, drawal from territory they have seized. stretched refugee centre. Chaotic scenes await those After the perilous journey he has gone through, police used pepper spray to suppress a disturbance at The coalition insists that 2216 should be the basis of a who make it to Berlin’s registration office for new Veron is certainly not afraid to sleep rough. “The Syrian the centre. While they wait, some sleep on flattened solution. Mathieu Guidere, an Arab geopolitics expert at arrivals, two kilometers (just over a mile) west of the army wanted me to kill my own people,” he said. He cardboard boxes on the pavement outside, while others France’s University of Toulouse, sees no immediate chance chancellery of Angela Merkel, who has opened German refused. A former personnel manager for an industrial use donated bedding, the area strewn with empty milk of a negotiated settlement. “A political solution will only be borders to a wave of refugees. company with a degree in English literature, he had to cartons and pizza boxes. A sign in German, English and put in place in the case of a military victory by one side or Hundreds who have come from as far as Syria, Iraq sell his laptop, his old mobile phone and his mother’s Arabic advertises free meals provided in tents by a local the other,” he said. —AFP and Somalia wait here for days, sometimes over a week, gold to finance his 40-day trip to Europe that cost about hospital. they say, for a bed and a chance to register their asylum 3,000 euros ($3,300). Another sign warns newcomers not to pay for some- requests. Frustration is rife as people queue in a maze of The journey took him from Syria to Turkey and then where to sleep.”Accommodation is free! If someone asks crowd-control barriers outside the drab office tower, on to the Greek island of Kos on board an eight-metre you to pay money for that, don’t do it. It’s illegal!” All articles appearing on these while families with children doze on blankets in the (26 foot) boat crammed with 38 people. Their first Where the state falls short, volunteers step in, with a pages are the personal opinion of dusty and rubbish-strewn courtyard. attempt had to be abandoned after the vessel started large-scale efforts organized online or through charities “When I was in Syria, my goal was to be here,” said a taking on water. During his long journey - on foot, by and schools. Women hand out apples, peaches and the writers. Kuwait Times takes no 30-year-old refugee from Damascus who only gave his boat and train, and in smugglers’ taxis and minivans - he bananas, gratefully snatched by dozens of eager hands. responsibility for views expressed name as “Veron”, fearing for the safety of his relatives. He was cheated by traffickers and pelted with rocks by the Others deliver water, baby food and wet-wipes to therein. Kuwait Times invites read- said he had already waited for four days, returning each Hungarian police. refugees with infants. ers to voice their opinions. Please evening to sleep at a tent camp on the edge of the city. After passing through Vienna and Munich, he finally As she handed out sweets to children, volunteer “I know they’re doing their best, but it’s not enough. made it to Berlin, carrying only his backpack, his smart Smaila Kovacevic, 54, remembered how she fled the send submissions via email to: opin- There must be a better way to organize this.” phone and some cash sewn into his clothes. Bosnian war in 1993. “It’s only a little bit, but it means a [email protected] or via snail Many gazed up at a digital noticeboard, hoping their lot to me, it comes from the heart,” she said of the 20 mail to PO Box 1301 Safat, Kuwait. number would come up so they could meet one of the ‘From the heart’ euros worth of goodies she has bought with her meager The editor reserves the right to edit over-worked and frazzled officials inside. “The people And now he is waiting, along with hundreds of oth- hotel maid’s salary. “When I see these people, I see any submission as necessary. have been amazing. But there aren’t enough apartments ers. “Any place to sleep that’s warm, not in a tent!” plead- myself back then,” she said with tears in her eyes. “When in Berlin, and the hostels often don’t want refugees,” said ed a 31-year-old Syrian furniture maker who gave his I watch TV, I remember. I haven’t forgotten.” —AFP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 SPORTS

Webb out of World Cup Typo almost deprived Rooney vows to be always with serious foot injury spinner of his contract available for England duty LONDON: Wales suffered a second major setback ahead of the Rugby World Cup when scrumhalf KARACHI: Pakistan cricket selectors yesterday included LONDON: Captain Wayne Rooney has promised to always make himself available for Rhys Webb was ruled out of the tournament yesterday with a serious foot injury. Webb suffered young spinning allrounder Imad Wasim in the central contract England as the striker stands on the verge of becoming the country’s all-time leading goal- the injury in a warm-up match against Italy on the weekend and the Welsh Rugby Union (WRU) list, confessing a typo almost deprived him of a handsome scorer. With England having already secured qualification for Euro 2016 in France, it will be released a statement saying he would be unable to play in the World Cup, starting Sept. 18. monthly salary and win bonus. The 26-year-old, who famously Rooney’s seventh major international tournament for his country and the 29-year-old “Wales scrum half Rhys Webb has sustained a significant midfoot injury ruling him out of the hit a six in the final over to help Pakistan win the second Manchester United captain has no plans to stop there. He equalled the forthcoming Rugby World Cup,” the WRU said. “Rhys will undergo further Twenty20 against Sri Lanka in Colombo last month, was sur- goalscoring record of Bobby Charlton against San Marino on Saturday examination and assessments on both his foot and knee before further prisingly omitted from the list of 28 players awarded contracts when he netted his 49th goal for England and is hoping to make the details can be announced.” Wales fullback Leigh Halfpenny, whose superb on Saturday. record his own at the Wembley against Switzerland yesterday. goalkicking has been a key part of their success in recent years, was also Pakistan’s chief selector Haroon Rasheed said Wasim’s Rooney, who scored his first international goal against ruled out of the tournament on Monday with a knee injury suffered in the name was erroneously missed out. “Owing to a typographic Macedonia 12 years ago, insists his appetite to represent England same practice match. The WRU said scrumhalf Mike Phillips and wing Eli oversight, Wasim’s name was omitted from the list of centrally remains as strong as ever and he is confident he can continue to Walker had been added to the squad as replacements. “It is extremely dis- contracted players. He was in the selection committee’s list in lead England till the 2018 World Cup in Russia. “I won’t be one to say appointing for both Leigh and Rhys,” Wales head coach Warren Gatland category ‘D’. But while submitting the names for approval, his I’m not available for selection. I’m sure it’ll probably be the manager’s said. “They have worked exceptionally hard to establish themselves on the name was erroneously omitted from the list. The error stands choice more than mine. It’s a huge honour to play for England,” world stage and to prepare for the tournament and we wish them all the corrected now.” Rooney told reporters. “I feel I’m capable of going to Russia. After best with their recovery.” Walker made his international debut against Pakistan Cricket Board (PCB) said Wasim’s name is that, it may be a realistic time to see how I feel and if I feel it’s not Ireland last month while Phillips will head to his third Rugby World approved. “Wasim has been added to the list of 27 who have right for England or myself, I’ll have a decision to make. “Or the Cup. Wales are drawn in the toughest of the four groups along- been offered central contract for the year 2015-16, following manager would have a decision to make. If I feel I can carry side England and Australia. They open their World Cup cam- PCB chairman Shaharyar Khan’s approval on chief selector on, I’ll try. But if the manager says he doesn’t feel I’m in his paign against Uruguay in Cardiff on Sept. 20. —Reuters Haroon Rashid’s request,” PCB said in a statement. —AFP plans for the next tournament.” —Reuters Mets down Nationals, Yankees roll

WASHINGTON: Yoenis Cespedes homered and doubled twice and Davies (1-0) pitched seven innings, allowing one run and four J.P. Arencibia homered for the Rays, who have lost four of five while eighth inning with a chest contusion. David Wright hit a go-ahead single in the seventh inning as the New hits in his second start. He struck out four. Davies retired 11 straight trying to stay in the AL wild-card race. Al Alburquerque (4-1) picked He was going to undergo an X-ray. Arenado was injured diving York Mets downed the Washington Nationals 8-5 to end their five- batters after giving up a leadoff single to Dee Gordon. up the win and Bruce Rondon got two outs for his fourth save. into the stands attempting to catch a pop fly in the sixth inning. San game winning streak Monday in the opener of a key NL East series. The Brewers pounded out 15 hits, including seven extra-base Tampa Bay loaded the bases with a single and two walks in the Diego has lost four straight and six of its last seven in falling eight Michael Conforto and Wilmer Flores also homered for New York, hits. Marlins manager Dan Jennings was ejected in the seventh by ninth, and the final out needed a review to confirm that second games under .500 (65-73). Ian Kennedy (8-13) pitched five innings which increased its division lead to five games over the Nats with 25 home plate umpire Marvin Hudson for arguing balls and strikes. It baseman Ian Kinsler stayed on the bag for a game-ending force and was charged with six runs four earned - seven hits and a walk. remaining. The teams play twice more in this set. was the third ejection of the season for Jennings. Justin Nicolino (3- play. Brandon Gomes (2-5) took the loss. He struck out nine. Dario Alvarez (1-0), pitching in the majors for the first time this 3) allowed five runs and nine hits in 4 1-3 innings for the Marlins. season, faced only one batter - Bryce Harper - and struck him out to ATHLETICS 10, ASTROS 9 DIAMONDBACKS 6, GIANTS 1 get his first major league win. Five Mets relievers combined for 5 2-3 REDS 3, PIRATES 1 Pinch-hitter Coco Crisp hit a go-ahead two-run double in the Patrick Corbin threw six scoreless innings, Phil Gosselin and A.J. scoreless innings, with Jeurys Familia closing for his 37th save. Anthony DeSclafani pitched effectively into the eighth inning as sixth after Oakland chased Mike Fiers as the Athletics beat division- Pollock homered as Arizona ended a four-game losing streak. Wilson Ramos hit a grand slam for Washington. Nationals ace Cincinnati took advantage of porous Pittsburgh defense to knock leading Houston to end a five-game losing streak. Corbin (5-3), who missed all last season following Tommy John Max Scherzer allowed five runs over six innings. Blake Treinen (2-3) off the wild card leader in the opening of a three-game series. Fiers (2-1) allowed consecutive walks to start the inning before surgery, scattered six hits, struck out five with no walks and had an took over in the seventh as Washington used four relievers during a DeSclafani (8-10) didn’t allow a Pittsburgh baserunner past sec- giving way to Josh Fields, who gave up Billy Butler’s single to load RBI single. three-run burst by the Mets. ond base until the eighth. He didn’t walk a batter in 7 1-3 innings, the bases for Crisp. Fiers pitched on eight days’ rest in his second Gosselin’s three-run shot was his second home run since being allowing seven hits with six strikeouts. start since tossing a no-hitter against the Los Angeles Dodgers on activated from the 60-day disabled list (fractured left thumb) eight YANKEES 8, ORIOLES 6 The Pirates broke up the shutout in the eighth on Jaff Decker’s Aug. 21 while throwing 134 pitches. days earlier. Rookie Greg Bird hit a tiebreaking, three-run homer off Brian leadoff pinch-hit double and Neil Walker’s one-out single to right. Pinch-hitter Jonathan Villar hit a home run halfway up the sec- Mike Leake (9-8) allowed six runs and 11 hits in 5 2-3 innings to Matusz in the seventh inning as New York rallied past reeling fall to 0-3 in his five starts since being acquired from Cincinnati. San Baltimore. Francisco has lost eight of 10. Alex Rodriguez and John Ryan Murphy also homered for the Yankees (77-59), who overcame a 4-1 deficit and improved to 18 RANGERS 3, MARINERS 0 games over .500 for the first time since 2012. With his 29th home Adrian Beltre lined a two-run, bases-loaded single in the sixth run this season, A-Rod got his 3,054th career hit and passed Rod inning as Texas ended Seattle’s season-best five-game winning Carew for sole possession of 22nd place. streak. The Rangers’ go-ahead rally began with Delino DeShields Jonathan Schoop and Manny Machado homered for the Orioles drawing a one-out walk from Roenis Elias (4-8). Shin-Soo Choo (65-72), who have lost 15 of 18 since and faded from AL wild-card followed with a single to center, and Elias then hit Prince Fielder contention. Justin Wilson (5-0) got the win. Andrew Miller pitched with a pitch, loading the bases. Beltre worked a full count, then the ninth for his 32nd save in 33 chances, allowing Chris Davis’ two- punched a fastball to right, scoring DeShields and Choo. out single, his 101st RBI. Jorge Rondon (0-1) took the loss. Yovani Gallardo (12-9) picked up the victory, working 5 1-3 innings. He allowed five hits, struck out four and walked two. The RED SOX 11, BLUE JAYS 4 Rangers added a run in the seventh on consecutive wild pitches Jackie Bradley Jr. had four hits with a two-run home run and four by Rob Rasmussen, allowing Rougned Odor to advance to third RBIs, Rick Porcello pitched into the eighth inning as Boston out- then home. Shawn Tolleson finished the ninth to pick up his 30th slugged AL East-leading Toronto. save in 32 opportunities and cap the Mariners’ 10th shutout. The Blue Jays lost for just the fourth time in 16 games. They had their lead atop the East sliced to a half game over the New York BRAVES 7, PHILLIES 2 Yankees, who beat Baltimore 8-6. Atlanta ended its 12-game losing streak behind the hitting of Bradley added two singles and a double, and Travis Shaw hit a Hector Olivera and the pitching of Williams Perez. The smallest two-run homer for Boston, which posted its fourth straight win and crowd in the 12-year history of Citizens Bank Park - 15,125 - saw eighth in 11 games. Josh Donaldson and Justin Smoak each hit solo the Braves stop their worst skid since 1988. homers for Toronto. Donaldson’s was his 37th. Atlanta also had lost 13 straight on the road since defeating Porcello (7-12) had his third consecutive strong start since com- the Phillies on Aug. 2. Olivera homered, doubled and drove in ing off the disabled list following a right triceps strain. He allowed four runs. Freddie Freeman homered and Jace Peterson and four runs - three earned - and eight hits over 7 1-3 innings. Mark Andrelton Simmons each got three hits for the Braves. Buehrle (14-7) allowed five runs in 3 1-3 innings. Perez (5-6) threw seven strong innings. The rookie had been 0- 6 with a 9.50 ERA over his last seven games. Perez earned his first CUBS 9, CARDINALS 0 victory since June 20, giving up two runs and six hits while strik- Dexter Fowler had a leadoff home run and two-run double in ing out seven. Aaron Harang (5-15) leads the majors in losses. He the first two innings and Dan Haren worked seven innings for is 1-12 with a 6.33 ERA over his last 17 starts. Brian Bogusevic Chicago in a win over St. Louis. homered for the Phillies, who have lost four straight and 11 of 14. The NL Central-leading Cardinals maintained a 5 1/2-game lead over Pittsburgh, which lost 3-1 to Cincinnati. The Cubs are 7 1/2 TWINS 6, ROYALS 2 games back. Addison Russell’s three-run homer capped a five-run Tommy Milone pitched seven effective innings and Eduardo third that made it 8-0. The Cubs have won four in a row and got an Escobar reached base four times and drove in three runs for 11-game trip off to a rocking start. Haren (9-9) had five strikeouts Minnesota. and two walks. He contributed a single and sacrifice fly in Chicago’s The Royals have been outscored 31-9 in dropping four second victory in eight games in St. Louis this season. straight, matching their longest losing streak of the season. Lance Lynn (11-9) surrendered six runs in 2 1-3 innings on nine Milone (8-4) held the Royals to six hits and two runs, while strik- days rest after getting extra time to recover from a sprained ankle in ing out four and walking one. Escobar contributed an RBI-single his last start. in a three-run sixth and drove in two runs with a two-out single in the seventh off Joba Chamberlain, who was making his Royals’ INDIANS 3, WHITE SOX 2 debut. Ryan Raburn hit a pair of solo home runs and Trevor Bauer WASHINGTON: New York Mets’ David Wright (left) reacts as he scores with Washington Nationals catch- Yordano Ventura (10-8), who was 4-0 with a 1.13 ERA in his five pitched two-hit ball for seven innings as Cleveland beat the White er Wilson Ramos nearby during the seventh inning of a baseball game. —AP previous starts, yielded four runs, eight hits, five walks and two Sox, ending Chicago’s four-game winning streak. wild pitches in 5 1-3 innings, striking out eight. Raburn has eight multihomer games in his career, four of them Reliever Jumbo Diaz walked Andrew McCutchen before getting ond deck of the stands in left leading off the seventh for the Astros against the White Sox. He connected both times against Chris Sale Jung Ho Kang to hit into an inning-ending 3-6-1 double play. then Carlos Correa added a three-run drive, but the Astros missed a DODGERS 7, ANGELS 5 (12-8) and is 10 for 33 with four home runs lifetime versus the lefty Aroldis Chapman pitched the ninth for his 29th save and second chance to move a season-high-tying 14 games over .500. Scott Van Slyke had four hits and drove in four runs, and Zack ace. Sale (12-8) struck out eight in seven innings. He has fanned 247 in two days as the Reds won back-to-back games for the first time Felix Doubront (3-1) worked six-plus innings to win consecutive Greinke pitched six innings of seven-hit ball for the Dodgers. this year, nearing the single-season team record of 269 set by Ed since Aug. 12-13. Chapman hit Sean Rodriguez with a pitch but starts. Sean Doolittle, the fourth reliever, tossed a 1-2-3 ninth for his Pinch-hitter Justin Ruggiano had a two-run double as the Walsh in 1908. Bauer (11-11) shrugged off a lack of command early picked him off first base, a call that was confirmed after a replay first save in an injuryshortened year. Dodgers opened the Freeway Series with their seventh straight to allow two runs on two hits in seven innings. He walked five and review. victory over their Orange County rivals. struck out six. Cody Allen pitched the ninth for his 29th save. ROCKIES 6, PADRES 4 Although Greinke (16-3) saw his majors-best ERA rise to 1.68 TIGERS 5, RAYS 4 Kyle Kendrick pitched five innings and hit his first major league after giving up homers to C.J. Cron and Kole Calhoun, the right- BREWERS 9, MARLINS 1 Rajai Davis homered twice in a game for the second time in his home run for Colorado. Kendrick (5-12) allowed three runs, seven hander still earned his 11th win in 13 starts. Hernan Perez had three hits and three RBIs and Zach Davies career as Detroit beat Tampa Bay. With the temperature rising hits and two walks as the Rockies won for the first time in seven The Dodgers have won 12 of 14 overall. Albert Pujols had earned his first major league win as Milwaukee beat Miami. Khris through the low 90s as the game progressed on a humid day, there games at Petco Park. John Axford, the seventh Rockies pitcher, three hits for the Angels, who had won four of five. Mike Trout Davis homered and drove in two and Jonathan Lucroy had two were five homers, all to left field. James McCann homered for the worked the ninth for his 20th save in 25 chances. went 0 for 5 with three strikeouts, extending the AL MVP’s slump doubles and knocked in a run for the Brewers, who have won seven Tigers, connecting off former college batterymate Drew Smyly. Rockies third baseman Nolan Arenado, who is tied with team- to 18 for 69. The clubs combined to use 14 relievers in their rivalry of eight. Detroit won for just the fourth time in 17 games. Evan Longoria and mate Carlos Gonzalez for the NL lead in homers with 36, left in the series opener. —AP

MLB results/standings

NY Yankees 8, Baltimore 6; NY Mets 8, Washington 5; Detroit 5, Tampa Bay 4; Cincinnati 3, Pittsburgh 1; Milwaukee 9, Miami 1; Boston 11, Toronto 4; Cleveland 3, Chicago White Sox 2; Chicago Cubs 9, St. Louis 0; Oakland 10, Houston 9; Arizona 6, San Francisco 1; Colorado 6, San Diego 4; Texas 3, Seattle 0; Atlanta 7, Philadelphia 2; Minnesota 6, Kansas City 2; LA Dodgers 7, LA Angels 5. American League National League Eastern Division Eastern Division W L PCT GB NY Mets 76 61 .555 - Toronto 78 59 .569 - Washington 71 66 .518 5 NY Yankees 77 59 .566 0.5 Miami 57 81 .413 19.5 Tampa Bay 67 70 .489 11 Atlanta 55 83 .399 21.5 Baltimore 65 72 .474 13 Philadelphia 53 85 .384 23.5 Boston 65 72 .474 13

Central Division Central Division Kansas City 82 55 .599 - St. Louis 87 50 .635 - Minnesota 71 66 .518 11 Pittsburgh 81 55 .596 5.5 Cleveland 67 69 .493 14.5 Chicago Cubs 79 57 .581 7.5 Chicago White Sox 65 71 .478 16.5 Milwaukee 61 76 .445 26 Detroit 63 74 .460 19 Cincinnati 57 79 .419 29.5

Western Division Western Division Houston 75 63 .543 - LA Dodgers 79 58 .577 - Texas 72 64 .529 2 San Francisco 71 67 .514 8.5 LA Angels 69 68 .504 5.5 Arizona 66 72 .478 13.5 Seattle 66 72 .478 9 San Diego 65 73 .471 14.5 ST.LOUIS: Chicago Cubs shortstop baseman Addison Russell dives but is unable to reach a single hit by St. Louis Cardinals’ Oakland 59 79 .428 16 Colorado 57 80 .416 22 Pete Kozma during the fifth inning. —AP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 SPORTS

Hall Gets First Red Bull Air Race Win, Upsetting Bonhomme in Dramatic Final

lying brilliantly on a difficult windswept track set up at the Red Bull Ring high in the Austrian Alps, FMatt Hall upset Red Bull Air Race World Championship leader Paul Bonhomme. Local hero Hannes Arch was knocked out in the opening round after hitting a pylon. Australia’s Matt Hall won the Red Bull Air Race World Championship race in the Austrian Alps with an emphatic victory on Sunday, beating Britain’s Paul Bonhomme into second place in a dramatic final. American Kirby Chambliss got his first podium since the race in New York City in 2010 with third. Getting the first victory of his career, Hall was flawless in the final on a windy afternoon. His time of 56.851 seconds was the fastest of the day and was just enough to beat Bonhomme (56.908 seconds) in the high- speed, low-altitude race to collect 12 championship points. Hall’s victory by 0.057 second was the narrowest in the his- tory of the Red Bull Air Race, breaking the previous record of 0.071 second in Rovinj. Hall’s heart-stopping win in front of this weekend’s 20,000 spectators gives him 50 world championship points and narrowed Bonhomme’s lead in the world’s fastest motorsport series to just five points after six races, setting the stage for a thrilling conclusion to the season with two stops left in the United States. It was the first Australian vic- tory at the Austria Grand Prix circuit since Alan Jones won it in 1977 and 1979 while Jack Brabham won it in 1963. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 SPORTS

“It feels awesome,” said Hall, who has been on the podi- um in five of six races this year and has come tantalizingly close to his first victory several times with three second- place finishes. “It’s good to get that first win and get that off my back. It’s been a hard day, a very hard day,” he added, referring to the choppy winds that caused a num- ber of upsets in the opening round of 14. Hall even had a pylon hit in the first round but still advanced against Juan Velarde of Spain. “I went for the win in the Final Four, had a clean flight and a good flight.” Racing just meters above the ground at speeds of up to 370 km/h, the 14 pilots from 11 nations faced extraordi- nary challenges on the spectacular Spielberg track, set up on the infield of the Formula One race track. Not only did they have to contend with trees and undulating mountain slopes along with considerable turbulence and gusty winds, they also had to deal with a difficult 61-meter change in elevation that makes the Spielberg stop so chal- lenging for the pilots. Despite getting knocked out in the opening round, Austria’s Hannes Arch, who is third overall with 30 points, still holds the track record time of 55.545 seconds set last year in Qualifying in cooling temperatures in October. The battle for fourth place overall also remained tense after Spielberg ahead of the final two stops in the United States, in Fort Worth, Texas on Sept. 26-27 and Las Vegas on Oct. 17-18. In the Red Bull Air Race, which is the official world championship of the Federation Aeronautique Internationale (FAI), the world’s top pilots endure forces of up to 10G as they navigate as precisely as possible through a low-level slalom track marked by 25-metre high air-filled pylons. Results Spielberg: 1. Matt Hall (AUS), 2. Paul Bonhomme (GBR), 3. Kirby Chambliss (USA), 4. Martin Sonka (CZE), 5. Pete McLeod (CAN), 6. Matthias Dolderer (GER), 7. Michael Goulian (USA), 8. Peter Besenyei (HUN), 9. Nicolas Ivanoff (FRA), 10. YoshihideMuroya (JPN), 11. Juan Velarde (ESP), 12. Hannes Arch (AUT), 13. Nigel Lamb (GBR), 14. FranÁois Le Vot (FRA). World Championship standings: 1. Bonhomme 55 points, 2. Hall 50, 3. Arch 30, 4. Sonka 23, 5. McLeod 18, 6. Lamb 17, 7. Dolderer 15, 8. Muroya 11, 9. Ivanoff 11, 10. Goulian 10, 11. Chambliss 9, 12. Besenyei 8, 13. Velarde, 14. Le Vot. WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 SPORTS Jason will have his Day at number one: Thomson

MELBOURNE: Jason Day’s bid for the world Championship and The Barclays. But he number one ranking stalled at the shuddered to a halt with a third-round Deutsche Bank Championship but it should 73 at TPC Boston and said he was only be a matter of time before the “cooked” after signing off with a 69 on Australian scales the mountain, according Monday. to five-times British Open champion Peter After winning the Masters and the U.S. Thomson. Open, Spieth has also struggled since his Victory at Deutsche Bank would have runner-up finish behind Day at the PGA handed Day the top ranking but the Championship and missed the cut at the fatigued 27-year-old hit the wall at TPC Deutsche Bank. Boston and finished in a tie for 12th, nine McIlroy is also no stranger to sudden strokes behind American winner Rickie lapses in form and after winning his second Fowler. Day is still top of the FedExCup major at the 2012 PGA Championship, standings after winning the opening toiled through a tough 2013 before roaring Barclays tournament but will stay world back with another two major wins last year. number three. Thomson felt the merry-go-round at the American Jordan Spieth takes back top top could continue for some time and spot from Rory McIlroy but only fleetingly, didn’t feel confident that any of the pack with the Northern Irishman to be restored could sustain a dynasty like 14-times major to number one heading into the BMW champion Woods, who spent a record 281 Championship in two weeks’ time due to consecutive weeks at number one. the vagaries of the rolling two-year rank- He also felt Day was at peril of a form ings system. dip after the emotion of his breakthrough Australian Thomson, who won his five win at the PGA Championship following a Open crowns from 1954-1965, felt Day was number of near-misses at the majors. primed to take the number one spot but “I think there’ll be a variety of (major) holding onto it against the likes of fellow winners from here,” Thomson said. “I should 20-somethings McIlroy and Spieth would think now that (Day’s) won one of the be a challenge. majors, he might go backwards a bit for a “He’ll have his turn at being number one while.” and then probably someone else will take The club of youngsters at the top of the over for a while,” the 86-year-old World Golf golfing world might have room for another, Hall of Famer told Reuters by telephone. Thomson added. He was impressed with “There’s a category of people in the top 26-year-old Fowler’s performance at the echelon. He’s one of them. “We had a soli- Deutsche Bank Championship. tary fellow when (Tiger) Woods was going Fowler’s one-stroke win after out- at his best. It’s a group we’re looking at duelling Swede Henrik Stenson lifted him NEW YORK: Kevin Anderson of South Africa, returns a shot to Andy Murray of Britain, during the fourth round of the US Open now. “They seem to be very friendly to each to world number five and third on the tennis tournament. —AP other. They all have similar styles.” FedExCup standings. “I like his style and Day rode a hot streak in the leadup to his attitude, I think he’s very good,” the Deutsche Bank Championship, piling Thomson said. “He’s going to be getting Murray ousted by Anderson, up wins at the Canadian Open, PGA his share.” —Reuters Federer advances at US Open

NEW YORK: Andy Murray crashed out of the US defeated US left-hander Donald Young 6-4, 1-6, 6- Kohlschreiber in the third round in 2013, but Open in the fourth round Monday, his earliest 3, 6-4. Federer ended that streak on match point to close Grand Slam exit in five years, while 17-time major The Swiss dropped his first set of the tourna- out the victory in two hours and 39 minutes. winner Roger Federer advanced to the quarter- ment but reached an eighth quarter-final in his “John has one of the best serves in the game,” finals. past nine Grand Slams, denying 68th-ranked Federer said. “You have just got to hang around South African 15th seed Kevin Anderson Young his first Slam quarter-final. and win your service games.” stunned British third seed Murray 7-6 (7/5), 6-3, 6- With New York City FC and former England Federer also inflicted the first shutout tie-break 7 (2/7), 7-6 (7/0) to end his run of 18 consecutive midfielder Frank Lampard watching from the loss upon Isner. “I served very well, picked up his major quarter-finals since the 2010 US Open. player’s box, Murray fell behind two sets and a second serves,” Federer said. “You’ve got to get a “That’s something that is disappointing to lose break, roared back, but ultimately could not win little lucky.” because of that. That’s many years’ work that’s the tension-packed encounter at Louis Armstrong Wawrinka, 30, was upset by Young in a fifth-set gone into building that sort of consistency. To Stadium. tie-breaker at the 2011 US Open, but took the first lose that is tough,” said Murray. Murray, the 2012 champion, had 49 winners set on a backhand return winner in the third “Also to lose a match like that, that was over and 20 unforced errors, but did not make a fore- game. four hours, tough after a couple of tough matches hand winner until the last game of the second set. Young, 26, won the second set as the Swiss earlier in the tournament as well, it’s a hard one to Anderson blasted 81 winners to 57 unforced struggled with the forehand, Wawrinka smashing lose, for sure.” errors. his racquet to the cement at one stage in frustra- Anderson reached his first Grand Slam quar- Swiss second seed Federer, seeking his sixth tion. ter-final after seven prior fourth-round defeats. “It US Open title, dispatched US 13th seed John Isner “Sometimes you don’t control yourself. You was the match of my life,” Anderson said. “This is a 7-6 (7/0), 7-6 (8/6), 7-5 to reach a quarter-final need to put the pressure out,” Wawrinka said. “I great accomplishment for me.” Anderson, who against French 12th seed Richard Gasquet, who played really well after.” “The set was so quick. I won his third career title two weeks ago at ousted Czech sixth seed Tomas Berdych 2-6, 6-3, wasn’t there mentally. Calmed down a little bit. I Winston-Salem, is the first South African in New 6-4, 6-1. began to be more aggressive, started moving my York’s last-eight since Wayne Ferreira in 1992. “Of course Roger will be the favorite of the feet better.” “I’m just so excited to be through,” said match but I will have nothing to lose,” said In a matchup of 29-year-old past US Open Anderson. “Beating a guy like Andy, I really feel Gasquet, who is 2-14 lifetime against the Swiss semi-finalists, Gasquet overcame a poor start to like I’ve taken a step forward. It’s amazing. I feel star. reach his second US Open quarter-final. He like it’s a great accomplishment.” Federer, trying to become at 34 the oldest US reached the 2013 US Open semi-finals. “I started Anderson, 1-5 in prior matches against Murray, Open champion since Ken Rosewall in 1970, really bad. I was not confident on the court,” fired 25 aces in ending an 0-15 career hoodoo stretched his US Open win streak over Americans Gasquet said. “The second set was better. I played against top-10 opponents to book a last-eight to 12 since losing to Andre Agassi in 2001. more aggressive. The fourth set was incredible. date with Swiss fifth seed Stan Wawrinka. Isner had held in 110 consecutive US Open It’s a great victory for me to be in the quarter- Reigning French Open champion Wawrinka service games since broken by Germany’s Philipp finals.” —AFP NORTON: Jason Day, of Australia, tees off on the 14th hole during the third round of the Deutsche Bank Championship golf tournament. —AP Fowler edges Stenson for title Serena and Venus braced

MASSACHUSETTS: American Rickie Fowler the job done for Fowler this time. But he took advantage of a late Henrik Stenson dou- got some help from Stenson, who mis- for US Open blockbuster ble-bogey to clinch a one-stroke victory at clubbed with a seven-iron at the 16th and the Deutsche Bank Championship in came up short. The double-bogey handed Massachusetts on Monday. Fowler the lead for good. NEW YORK: Serena Williams’ historic Serena’s current 32-match Grand his quarter-final against Feliciano hard time playing a brother. I’m hap- A closing three-under-par 68 at TPC “I obviously pulled the wrong club out at bid to complete a calendar Grand Slam win streak includes a Lopez. py I don’t have a tennis brother.” As Boston was enough for Fowler, who began 16,” Stenson said. “I was trying to get the most Slam faces its biggest emotional test Wimbledon title run to complete a “It’s strange. They grew up togeth- for Serena versus Venus, Federer said: the day one stroke behind Stenson. Fowler out of a seven-iron into the wind. “I’m a little late yesterday when she tackles sister “Serena Slam” and make her the old- er playing tennis. Of course they love “I’ve seen this before. Yeah, Serena’s finished at 15-under 269, while Swede disappointed, but all in all the game is head- Venus for a place in the US Open est major champion at age 33. each other, but then very have to be the favorite. That’s probably what I’m Stenson (70) claimed second on 14-under ed in the right direction.” Fowler, who jumped semi-finals. The build-up to Tuesday’s professional and go out on the court seeing. I hope for a good match.” after finding a hazard with his tee shot at the from ninth to fifth in the world rankings, In the 27th episode of a family encounter has been no different with and play each other so many times in Adding to the intrigue of par-three 16th. would like to be part of the conversation of rivalry which had its first public airing player after player-man or woman- the finals of Grand Slams. “They both Tuesday’s occasion is the fact that it’s Stenson, who also finished second last the best player in the world. at the 1998 Australian Open, world probed to exhaustion on their were No. 1s of the world but I don’t exactly 14 years to the day after the week at The Barclays, missed a 14-foot birdie “I’m a sneaky fourth,” Fowler said, referring number one Serena tackles 23rd- sisters met in their first Grand Slam putt at the final hole, leaving Fowler the luxu- to fellow American Jordan Spieth, Northern ranked Venus boasting the upper final at Arthur Ashe Stadium. ry of two-putting from 10 feet for the win. Irishman Rory McIlroy and Australian Jason hand. Not surprisngly, Williams v “I didn’t have my best stuff early, made a Day. Serena, two years younger than Williams XXVII has overshadowed couple mistakes and Henrik distanced him- Spieth, despite missing the cut, regained Venus at 33, leads the head-to-head the day’s other women’s quarter- self a bit,” Fowler said after his third global win the world number one ranking, one week record at 15-11 with an 8-5 edge in final between unseeded duo, of the year, adding to victories at the Players after being displaced by McIlroy. Grand Slam meetings. They have split Kristina Mladenovic and Roberta Championship and Scottish Open. The 26- “Those three have been playing some four US Open meetings, including Vinci. year-old began his round in wild fashion, pretty insane golf with what Jordan did earli- Venus winning the 2001 final and Djokovic, meanwhile, will be play- when he hooked his tee shot into a hazard, er this year, with Rory playing really well for a Serena taking a 2002 rematch. ing his 26th consecutive Grand Slam but he saved par and then eagled the par-five couple of years and made his number one But this time around, the stakes quarter-final as he continues his second, only to bogey the next two holes. status for a while, and what Jason has been are higher as Serena is just three wins push towards a 10th major and third Unlike his late-round birdie binges at doing with some big wins of late,” Fowler said. shy of completing the first calendar of the year after the Australian Open the Players Championship and Scottish “I’m just trying to sneak in as maybe the Grand Slam of all four majors since and Wimbledon. Open, a steady bogey-free back nine got fourth member.” —Reuters Steffi Graf in 1988. Late yesterday will represent his If she wins Saturday, it will be her ninth successive US Open quarter- 22nd Slam singles title, matching final slot while 33-year-old Lopez is Graf’s Open Era record and just two playing in his first at the 14th shy of Margaret Court’s all-time mark. attempt. Lopez, the 18th seed, said “The only player in the draw I Djokovic will hold the cards, having don’t want to play, not only because won all of the pair’s five meetings. she’s my sister, but for me she’s the The left-hander has only ever tak- best player,” Serena said of Venus. en one set off Djokovic and that was “She has beaten me so many in their first meeting at the 2007 times. She’s a player that knows how Australian Open. Lopez knocked out to win, knows how to beat me and Fabio Fognini, the conqueror of 14- knows my weaknesses better than time major winner Rafael Nadal in anyone.” the last round. The two met as recently as July at Nadal’s shock exit was followed Wimbledon, where Serena claimed by an even more seismic event on one of many routine wins in the rival- Monday when third seed Andy ry, which often fails to live up to the Murray was dumped out by Kevin hype. NEW YORK: Serena Williams, of the United States returns a shot Anderson in what was the 2012 Venus wants to add to a trophy in this file photo. —AP champion’s earliest Slam exit in five collection that includes the 2000 and years. Late yesterday’s other men’s 2001 US Opens and five Wimbledon thoughts on the match-up. know if I’ll be able to play my brother. quarter-final will see defending titles, the most recent in 2008. “I admire what they’re doing for It’s not possible. I would not be able champion Marin Cilic, the ninth- “I would love to. But it’s easier said so many years to play against each to handle on the court.” seeded Croatian, face France’s 19th than done,” Venus said. “Even though other on such a big stage,” said men’s Roger Federer, hoping to add to seed Jo-Wilfried Tsonga. Cilic has a 4- you’re playing your sister you have to world number one Novak Djokovic, his men’s record of 17 Grand Slam 1 career lead over Tsonga in main NORTON: Rickie Fowler holds the trophy after winning the Deutsche Bank be prepared and focus. The prepara- who follows the sisters onto Arthur titles on Sunday, felt the same, tour matches, winning the pair’s last Championship golf tournament. —AP tion doesn’t change.” Ashe Stadium on Tuesday night for adding, “I agree with Novak. I’d have a three without dropping a set. —AFP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 SPORTS FIFA to discuss Mourinho’s battle with Chelsea doctor

MANCHESTER: FIFA’s medical commission “impulsive and naive”. FIFA’s top medical “I would like to see the message go Mourinho has to apologise. I think you get oritise the player, because apart from any- will this week discuss Jose Mourinho’s battle experts have already backed Carneiro and round the world-and I think you will see FIFA the message out there if you have the pair of thing else if the player sues he is not suing with Chelsea club doctor Eva Carneiro amid FIFA’s medical commission is expected to on Friday saying the same-they did nothing them back out there on the bench. “We the manager he is suing the doctor and the growing pressure for a settlement by the issue a statement backing the Chelsea doc- wrong because their duty was to the player don’t need to start making people eat hum- physio.” O’Rourke said there were signs that English Premier League Champions. tor after a meeting on Friday. as a patient, their duty was to the referee,” ble pie or anything. It is a recognition that Chelsea wanted to “mend” its relationship Mourinho has refused to back down from “You would expect me to support the O’Rourke said. they did nothing wrong.” with the doctor. “Some situations are not criticism of Carneiro and head physio Jon team doctor,” said medical commission “Their job in the club is to look after the O’Rourke said the referee had to call on a mendable. This one may not be. Fearn after they went on the pitch to treat chairman Michel D’Hooghe, a longstanding players, and not to run the team and not to doctor after Hazard signalled his injury. She “You should take something from it that Eden Hazard in the 2-2 home draw with FIFA executive member, when he be tactically aware.” O’Rourke said clubs have said that in rugby union, referees have been Chelsea have said nothing and that Eva Swansea last month. announced it would be discussed. to be even more wary of injuries after the sued for not bringing on medical assistance. Carneiro has said nothing-there may well be They have since been excluded from the Mary O’Rourke, one of Britain’s top med- Petr Cech case at Chelsea and Tottenham The lawyer said Mourinho’s comments a will to see if this situation can be mended.” team bench by Mourinho and have consult- ical lawyers who has been involved in land- goalkeeper Hugo Lloris’s recent concussion. had were “heat of the moment” after a game O’Rourke, who has written widely about ed lawyers. Carneiro and Fearn’s medical mark cases on football injuries, said FIFA But the leading barrister said there were that Chelsea should have won and had “not football injury cases, said it was disappoint- intervention-called on by Hazard and the would back the 41-year-old Carneiro. “It is an signs that a settlement is being discussed been thought through”. ing that the Football Association and referee-reduced Chelsea to nine players as important point of principle,” she said on the without the need for court proceedings by “As much as one understands the pas- Premier League have not spoken about the goalkeeper Thibaut Courtois had already sidelines of the Soccerex convention in Carneiro or an apology by Mourinho. sion of the manager or a coach, or their case. But she said it could be a sign that both been sent off. An angry Mourinho called it Manchester. “I don’t think you need to say that needs, you have to at the end of the day pri- are in contact with Chelsea. — AFP

Skating is all the rage in Kenya

NAIROBI: A flock of speedskaters flashed across A group of skaters whooshed past him and a parking lot past children learning to roller rounded a corner, their arms swaying, their skate and hundreds of other people who had skates clicking on the tarmac. They glided past gathered to skate or just to watch the action on some jacaranda trees and picked up speed on a a recent Sunday in downtown Nairobi. A craze straightway. Tall buildings loomed overhead. for roller skating has hit Kenya, fueled by its In each corner of the parking lot, entrepre- growing middle class and a love for speed. neurs rent skates and give lessons. Entry-level in- Lameck Wafula has seen this phenomenon up line skates can cost $76 new, while renting close. For 27 years, he has taught choir in the skates is less than $3 for an hour. sunken parking lot that covers a whole city block Anthony Karanja began with rentals before on Aga Khan Walk, using the spot because he buying his own and training for competition. didn’t have to pay rent and he enjoys the open After just one year, he is now the second-ranked air. A decade ago, he noticed that a few skaters speedskater in Kenya. began appearing on the lot. Then the sport real- He and Isaac Mburu, Kenya’s top-ranked ly took off in 2010 when Nairobi County, which speedskater, make money off competitions and owns the lot, allowed skaters to use it on endorsements. In a good year, a skater can earn Sundays and holidays, providing a safer alterna- $3,000. Sponsors, which include a restaurant tive to the streets. chain, telecom companies and politicians, are Wafula’s daughter became a skater, and he drawn to the sport’s youth appeal and to the also got involved. Today, he’s the secretary-gen- crowds that big races draw. “Every organization eral of the Kenyan Federation of Roller Skating, is now asking to use our skaters to market their which was created in 1997 with four members products,” Wafula said. Karanja and Mburu will and now oversees 60 skating clubs. More than be competing for spots in the 2015 Roller Speed 100 schools feature roller skating at gym. A Skating World Championships, to be held this speedskating tournament in June drew more November in Taiwan. than 400 participants from all over Kenya with When they return, however, they may have hundreds more watching. A music video by to find a new place to practice; the sunken park- Kenyan hip-hop artist Octopizzo features skat- ing lot is slated to be converted into a multi-sto- ing. Even the police department sponsors a skat- ry parking lot at the end of the year. ing team. As Kenya’s middle class has grown, Anthony Kamunyu, acting president of providing more income and leisure opportuni- Kenya’s skating federation, said he is in contact ties, so has its participation in skating and other with county officials on possible new skating sports like golf, according to Daniel Ngari, direc- locales. He dreams of a speedskating track with tor of Kenya’s Social Services Department. smooth surfaces and banked corners, the kind The African Development Bank estimates of track Kenya’s international competitors train that Africa’s middle class rose to 313 million peo- on. There is talk of paving the area around Nyayo WEMBLEY: England’s Raheem Sterling (left) and teammate John Stones attend a practice session in this file photo. — AP ple in 2010 from 151 million in 1990. In Kenya, National Stadium to make a track. more people can afford cars, with the number of Meanwhile, young skaters like Leleti registered vehicles doubling from 2001 to 2009. Baikwinga will use the sunken parking lot for as Hodgson sees future Kenyan youth now spend $616 million annually long as they can to develop their skills. on entertainment and outings. And that The 10-year-old saw skaters one day and includes roller skating. “This sport has grown so became entranced by their speed. Her father, a fast,” George Obulinji, chairman of the Nairobi human resources specialist, bought her skates branch of the skating federation, exclaimed as and lessons, and she loves the sport. “When I go centurion in Sterling he visited the parking lot on a recent Sunday. fast it’s just a wonderful feeling,” she said, smiling “We couldn’t have expected it.” broadly. — AP WATFORD: England manager Roy Hodgson has been ing San Marino 6-0 in Serrvalle on Saturday and strengths,” Rooney said. “I’m sure he’s a quality keeper impressed by Raheem Sterling’s start to life with Hodgson confirmed on Monday they will be based in if he’s playing for Switzerland.” Manchester City and believes the 20-year-old forward Chantilly, near Paris during the tournament in France. England require a point against Switzerland to can go on to win 100 international caps. Having equalled Bobby Charlton’s England scoring secure top spot in Group E ahead of October’s final Sterling endured a difficult end to last season and record of 49 goals against San Marino, skipper Wayne qualifiers against Estonia and Lithuania. was roundly criticised for publicly rejecting a contract Rooney can claim the record outright if he finds the Rooney’s United team-mate Michael Carrick has offer from Liverpool, before leaving for City in a £49 net at Wembley. been ruled out with a calf injury, so Swansea City’s million ($74.9 million, 67 million euros) deal. He has The unheralded Aldo Simoncini was the man who Jonjo Shelvey could continue in a midfield holding been a central figure in City’s impressive start to the conceded goal number 49, but it is the thought of pit- role after catching the eye against San Marino. Premier League season, scoring his first goal against ting his wits against Europe’s leading shot-stoppers In a previous job, Hodgson led Switzerland to the Watford on his last appearance, and Hodgson is eager next June that is exercising Rooney’s mind at present. World Cup finals in 1994 the first time they had for him to take that form into late yesterday’s game “It gives you more to think about because they’re top reached the tournament since 1966 — and the coun- with Switzerland, having been rested against San goalkeepers,” said the 29-year-old Manchester United try he once called home is hoping he might do them Marino on Saturday. captain. “We do a lot of homework and study on them, another favor. Switzerland’s qualification hopes were “He’s ready to go tomorrow (Tuesday) and we’re as a striker looking at the defenders to exploit their in serious jeopardy after they fell 2-0 down at home to hoping he brings his City form with him,” Hodgson weaknesses. “I’ll watch videos of (Italy’s Gianluigi) Slovenia on Saturday, but a stirring late fightback told reporters at England’s team hotel in Watford on Buffon one v one, to see which angles he puts his yielded a remarkable 3-2 victory that means they can the eve of the Euro 2016 qualifier with Switzerland. body in so you know where to finish, but it’s also secure at least a play-off place by winning at Wembley. “It’s a big year for him. He’ll have a lot of big years: about your instinct on the pitch.” “We had a bit of luck, but we deserved to win,” said France in 2016, Russia in 2018, 2020 all over Europe His homework had not yet extended to coach Vladimir Petkovic, after his side prevailed cour- (the Euro finals are taking place all over Europe), and Switzerland’s Yann Sommer, however, with a question tesy of three goals in 14 minutes from Valentin Stocker 2022... “It’s a big year and something to look forward from a Swiss journalist about the Borussia and substitute Josip Drmic, whose brace included a NAIROBI: In this photo taken on Sunday, Sept. 6, 2015, Kenyan women skaters to, but at his age he has plenty more to look forward Moenchengladbach number one prompting an 94th-minute winner. “We said that, as a team, we burst into action at the start of a 1000-meter race in downtown Nairobi , to. I’m sure that, one day, he’ll be looking forward to uncomfortable pause. “We’re doing the video (analy- wanted to stay together and be positive. I’m really Kenya. A craze for roller skating has hit Kenya, fueled by its growing middle sitting here alongside me with over 100 caps.” sis) tonight (Monday) on their team, so I’ll watch proud of the team. It’s not every day you manage to class and a love for speed. — AP England secured their place at Euro 2016 by crush- tonight and tomorrow before the game and see his do something like this.” — AFP Serbia defeats Iceland

BERLIN: Serbia advanced to the knockout the field. He only missed one of four free in previous matches, we needed time to Zoran Dragic had 13 points, six stage of the European basketball champi- throws. The World Cup silver medalists adjust to their game.” Logi Gunnarsson led rebounds and five assists. Dragic’s 3-point- onship by beating Iceland 93-64 yester- also dominated inside. “We were very winless Iceland with a game-high 18 er made it 75-70 with less than two min- day. All 12 Serbian players got on the concentrated because you must not points. Serbia improved to 3-0 in the utes remaining. Robin Smeulders, who fin- score sheet against the speedy but under- underestimate such a team as Iceland,” tough Group B. In Group C in Zagreb, ished with 14 points, then made a jumper, sized newcomers. Nemanja Nedovic had Raduljica said. “It’s a very atypical team, Croatia, Slovenia beat the Netherlands 81- before Dragic followed with a lay-up. 12 points for Serbia, center Miroslav they all shoot 3s. It was tougher playing 74 for its second win in three games. The Charlon Kloof made two free throws, Raduljica added 13, Nikola Kalinic had 12 them than the result shows.” Dutch are 1-2. Klemen Prepelic led before Prepelic took over. Kloof led all scor- and Ognjen Kuzmic, another center, had Nedovic said Iceland is tricky to play Slovenia with 16 points, including four ers with 24, but also had a costly turnover 11 points on 100 percent shooting from against. “Sometimes it was tougher than consecutive free throws down the stretch. that led to Prepelic’s final free throws. —AP

LAS VEGAS: Davor Stefanek, of Serbia (in blue) wrestles Tarek Aziz Benaissa of Algeria, during their Greco-Roman 66 kg bronze medal wrestling match. —AP Russia and Germany win wrestling championships

LAS VEGAS: Russia’s Roman Vlasov and The US team, which typically struggles in German Frank Staebler won titles Monday in the Greco-Roman discipline, got off to a torrid the opening session of the wrestling world start. They won their first five matches, but championships in Las Vegas. only Bisek qualified for a medal match. Staebler defeated Korea’s Ryu Han-Soo at Bisek went 3-1 in the opening session, los- 66 kilograms (145 pounds), and Vlasov beat ing 9-0 to Madsen before beating Bulgaria’s Denmark’s Mark Madsen at 75 kilograms (165 Yavor Yanakiev 1-0 for a spot in the third-place pounds). Top-ranked Armenian Artur match. Bisek then beat Iran’s Saied Mourad Aleksanyan beat Iran’s Ghasem Rezaei 3-0 in Abdvali 2-0 for his second world bronze in as 98 kilograms (215 pounds) to win the world many years. Bryce Saddoris, who wasn’t title. American Andy Bisek won his bronze ranked in the top 20 at 66 kg, won his first two medal match after earning the U.S. a spot in matches before Staebler beat him in the quar- the Rio Olympics with a top-six finish at 75 kg. terfinals. Saddoris took a 4-0 lead in his Staebler beat top-ranked Serbian Davor repechage match, but he got hit in the head Stefanek before defeating Ryu 4-1. Vlasov, and eventually fell 5-4. who won worlds in 2011 and the London The worlds continue Tuesday with Greco- Olympics in 2012, beat a pair of world champi- Roman titles - and spots in Rio - on the line at ons to reach the finals, where he decisively 59 kg (130 pounds), 71 kg (156 pounds), 80 kg ZAGREB: Slovenia’s Zoran Dragic (center) is challenged by Netherlands’ Arvin Slagter (center right) and Netherlands’ Charlon Kloof (center left) defeated Madsen 6-0. (176 pounds) and 130 kg (286 pounds). — AP during the EuroBasket European Basketball Championships Group C match. —AP Serena and Russia and Venus braced Germany win for US Open wrestling 18blockbuster 19championships WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

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SHAH ALAM: Saudi Arabia’s players walk off the field after flares are thrown onto the pitch during their Group A FIFA World Cup18 20 qualifying soccer match against Malaysia. — AP Flare-throwing fans halt Saudi qualifier

SHAH ALAM: Flare-throwing fans halted Malaysia’s World Cup reports said two Saudi supporters were attacked. Police said year’s mass protests and previous outbreaks of booing at Afghanistan 6-0, and Australia’s record goal-scorer Tim Cahill qualifier with Saudi Arabia yesterday as anger boiled over fol- 11 people had been arrested on charges of rioting. World Cup qualifiers earlier this year. also hit a brace in a 3-0 away victory over Tajikistan. lowing last week’s record 10-0 defeat to UAE, which has left The ugly scenes heap further woe on soccer in Malaysia, But the game ended in disappointment for Hong Kong Thailand scored two late goals to force a 2-2 draw with Iraq the team in crisis. which despite hosting the Asian Football Confederation head- when 2022 World Cup hosts Qatar won 3-2 despite a late in Bangkok, and 2002 World Cup semi-finalists South Korea Militant “Ultras Malaya” fans who had earlier threatened to quarters, has been plagued by fan violence and match-fixing. fight-back when the hosts scored in the 87th and 88th min- beat Lebanon 3-0 in Beirut. disrupt the game hurled flares billowing orange smoke They overshadowed a busy round of fixtures in which utes. Group C rivals China also pulled off the neat trick of win- Earlier in the day, Guam bounced back from last week’s 6-0 towards the pitch in the final minutes, as the hosts trailed 2-1. Japan and Australia both coasted to victories and the Pacific ning an away fixture on home soil, after their tie with Maldives defeat to Iran in Tehran when they held Oman 0-0 at home to Players and officials were escorted to the dressing rooms island of Guam doggedly maintained their unbeaten home was relocated to Shenyang a move which angered Hong remain in the mix at the halfway stage of qualifying. and Saudi supporters were also seen leaving Shah Alam record. Kong. Guam, with a population of about 165,000, have now won Stadium before the match was finally abandoned. Hong Kong fans courted controversy when they again A Yu Dabao double and a header from Chelsea-linked two and drawn one of their home games to remain, against all “The game is suspended. The game isn’t going to contin- booed their own national anthem, which the semi- defender Zhang Linpeng gave China a routine 3-0 win. FIFA expectations, firmly in the mix at the halfway stage. ue,” Malaysia’s interim coach Ong Kim Swee told AFP. About a autonomous territory shares with China, despite a sharp warn- had agreed to move the game because of poor pitch condi- Asia’s second round of 2018 World Cup qualifiers doubles dozen flares trailing orange smoke-as well as loud fireworks ing from FIFA. tions in Male. as a route to the 2019 Asian Cup in the United Arab Emirates, were let off by home fans in the 88th minute. Unconfirmed The latest show of defiance towards Beijing follows last Elsewhere Shinji Kagawa netted twice as Japan outclassed which is expanding from 16 to 24 teams. — AFP

Germany, Portugal Qataris invest in English soccer close in on Euro 2016 through oldest team

BERLIN: Germany and Portugal closed in on Scotland, which plays Poland at home then MANCHESTER: Qatari money is coming to English European Championship qualification on Gibraltar away. football for the first time - at the unlikeliest of clubs. Monday, while Northern Ireland missed the The recipient is not a globally-recognized power but chance to book its place at next year’s tour- GROUP F a tiny team playing seven divisions below the nament in France. Northern Ireland needed an injury-time Premier League. What Sheffield FC lacks in glamor it Thomas Mueller scored twice and set up goal from Kyle Lafferty to draw 1-1 at home makes up for in status. From the powerhouses of the other for Germany to defeat Scotland 3- against Hungary after going down to 10 Barcelona and Manchester United to amateur outfits 2 in Glasgow and move within touching dis- men. A win would have ensured automatic worldwide, every football team emanates from this tance of automatic qualification. qualification, but the draw leaves the team club in northern England’s steel city. When Sheffield The world champions are assured of at still top of the group. FC started playing 1857, there was no other team in least a playoff place but one point from Hungary looked like closing to within a the world. Now, eager to be associated with the pio- their remaining two games - Ireland away or point of the leaders when Richard Guzmics neers of football, 100,000 pounds ($153,000) is head- Georgia at home - will secure their place in volleyed in from close range in the 74th ed to Sheffield FC from the country hosting the France. minute after goalkeeper Michael McGovern Middle East’s first World Cup, The Associated Press Portugal also needs just one more point spilled a free kick. Chris Baird was then sent has learned. The enduring controversy surrounding after Miguel Veloso scored in injury time to off for Northern Ireland, but Hungary could- the awarding of the 2022 tournament means the snatch a 1-0 win at Albania. The top two fin- n’t hold out and stayed four points back in investment from the World Cup organizers could be ishers from the nine groups qualify auto- third. “It wasn’t vintage,” Northern Ireland interpreted as Sheffield FC being used by a country matically for Euro 2016. The best third-place manager Michael O’Neill said, “but it was in need of a positive promotional platform. team also qualifies automatically, and the pure theater.” Romania drew 0-0 at home to But Sheffield FC said it only turned to Qatar after feeling snubbed after making direct approaches to eight remaining third-place teams go to a last-place Greece and remained second, a the English Football Association and Premier League playoff to contest the last four qualifying point behind Northern Ireland. Also, Finland in the search for cash to fund a return to the site of its places. beat Faeroe Islands 1-0 original home. Applications for grants have to go Here is a look at Monday’s Euro 2016 through the Football Foundation. qualifying matches: GROUP I “This is not about Qatar muscling in,” Sheffield FC Both Portugal and Albania hit the wood- chairman Richard Tims told the AP. “This is about hav- GROUP D work before Veloso headed in substitute ing a catalyst that makes everyone sit up and take Mueller scored twice in the first half Ricardo Quaresma’s pass for the visitors’ note ... a partnership between the new kids on the either side of Mats Hummels’ own goal, and 92nd-minute winner. block and the world’s first football club protecting then set up Ilkay Gundogan for the winner It ensured that Portugal made it six wins the heritage of football.” after James McArthur had pulled Scotland from six road games in qualifying and Qatar lacks the deep football heritage of England level again. brought a measure of revenge for the side’s and it is trying to rapidly develop players for the Mueller now has five goals in three shock defeat to Albania in Aveiro in the World Cup and raise interest in the game among its Bundesliga games for Bayern Munich and opening round. tiny population. Hassan Al Thawadi, secretary general three goals in two qualifiers for Germany Elsewhere, Denmark was stymied at of Qatar’s World Cup supreme committee, has links since the season began. “I feel good,” Armenia for a second 0-0 draw in four days, to Sheffield after studying law at the city’s main uni- Mueller said. complicating the Danes’ chances to secure a versity in the 1990s. “Over the past few years since Also, Poland routed Gibraltar 8-1 to stay berth for the 2016 tournament with a top- the (Sheffield FC) chairman first contacted us we on course for a top-two finish, while John two finish. Portugal increased its group lead have been working together to look for suitable ways Walters’ 69th-minute goal was enough for to 15 points. Denmark has 12 while Albania in which we could lend our support,” Al Thawadi said. Ireland to boost its hopes of a playoff with a has 11, but both Portugal and Albania have “Our modest contribution is part of a first step on an 1-0 win over Georgia in Dublin. Ireland, a game in hand. Armenia moved onto two important journey for the club of gaining wider sup- which next plays Germany at home then points with the draw with Denmark. Serbia ALBANIA: Portugal’s Joao Mario (center) fights for the ball with Albania’s Ermir Lenjani (left) port for the (stadium) project.”—AP Poland away, has a five-point lead over is in last place with one point. — AP and Berat Gjimshiti during the Euro 2016 qualifying match. — AP Expectations of Saudi oil shake-up stir uncertainty Page 22

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JIANGSU: A cargo ship berths at the port in Lianyungang, in eastern China’s Jiangsu province yesterday. China’s imports and exports slumped again in August, authorities said yesterday, the latest setback for the world’s number-one trader in goods, as European businesses urged authorities to accelerate reforms to avoid stagnation in the giant economy. — AFP Europe stocks join global rally on Shanghai gains China August imports fall 13.8%

LONDON: European stocks surged higher yes- rebounded, closing up 2.92 percent. “Concerns climbed 1.46 percent and the tech-rich Nasdaq growth recovery hopes.” In other Asian trading, month received a £5.6-billion takeover terday, buoyed by upwardly revised eurozone about a slowdown are still there, but now the Composite Index advanced 1.76 percent. Hong Kong recovered from a big morning loss approach from Swiss rival Zurich Insurance. economic growth data, joining a rally of US market thinks the Chinese government will The bounce in Shanghai deals that boosted to end up 3.28 percent, Sydney added 1.69 per- RSA’s share price rose as much 1.09 percent and most Asian markets. The 19-nation euro- provide more support,” John Plassard, senior global markets showed investors took mixed cent, while Singapore, Taipei and Wellington before settling back to close up 0.20 percent at zone grew by 0.4 percent in the second quar- equity sales trader at Mirabaud Securities in Chinese trade data in stride. In Beijing, the cus- also enjoyed gains. However, Japan’s Nikkei 504.50 pence. In Paris, shares in private French ter, official data showed, revising upward a first Geneva, told Bloomberg News. toms bureau said exports fell 5.5 percent year- closed 2.43 percent lower, losing all gains television channel TF1 were zapped by poor estimate of 0.3 percent that triggered worries London’s benchmark FTSE 100 index gained on-year while imports plunged 13.8 percent, made so far this year. viewing figures and a relaxation of restrictions the Greek financial crisis had destabilised 1.18 percent to close at 6,146.10 points, while stoking worries about the nation’s economic on advertising on its state-held competitors. growth in Europe. Frankfurt’s DAX 30 climbed 1.61 percent to slowdown. French TV shares zapped TF1 shares slumped 7.4 percent to 12.96 “Eurozone growth in the first and second 10,271.36 and the Paris CAC 40 rose 1.07 per- The export data however was better than In European company news yesterday, euros after French Finance Minister Michel quarter was better than initially thought,” said cent to 4.598.26. forecast and the import figure was affected by British insurer and takeover target Royal & Sun Sapin added his voice to mounting calls to analyst Craig Erlam at trading firm Oanda. plunging commodity prices. “Equities (are) on Alliance agreed to sell its Latin American oper- study changing restrictions on prime-time “Expectations were for the numbers to remain China boost the front foot again... thanks to mixed China ations to Colombian investment group advertising on public television channels. unchanged so this is likely to be helping to lift US equities also jumped yesterdayday fol- data being taken positively,” said analyst Mike Inversiones Suramericana. In foreign exchange trading, the euro edged sentiment in Europe.” lowing global relief at the strong gains in the van Dulken at traders Accendo Markets. RSA said in a statement it would sell its busi- up to $1.1177 in London from $1.1170 late in The more upbeat European data come as volatile Chinese stock market. Around mid-day “While exports were weak for a second con- ness in Latin America to Suramericana for £403 New York on Monday. On the London Bullion concerns grow about the slowdown in power- in New York, the Dow Jones Industrial Average secutive month, they were not as weak as million (553 million euros, $618 million) in Market, gold advanced to $1,124 per ounce house China, but yesterday Chinese stocks gained 1.64 percent, the broad-based S&P 500 expected-which plays in favour of global cash. The London-listed insurance firm had last from $1,122.67. — AFP Egypt drops after corruption case, Dubai property rises

DUBAI: Egypt’s stock market fell sharply yes- Oil shipper Bahri jumped 3.6 percent as the and retail development in Dubai spread across terday after the country’s agriculture minister benchmark tanker rate from the Gulf to Japan 3 million square feet; it provided no financial was arrested on suspicion of corruption, while continued to rebound, rising 63 percent after information, however. Gulf bourses rose, supported by firmer oil hitting a six-year low on Aug 26. Abu Dhabi’s bourse added 0.6 percent prices and positive news. Qatar was the second best performer the thanks to telecommunications firm Etisalat, The Cairo index dropped 3.4 percent in a region, rising 1.0 percent in a broad rally after which surged 3.8 percent. Analysts say the broad sell-off on strong volume. the country’s finance minister said his cabinet company, which will from Sept.15 allow for- Agriculture Minister Salah El Din Mahmoud would not scale back economic development eign and institutional investors to hold up to Helal resigned on Monday and was arrested projects or cut state subsidies for fuel and food 20 percent of its shares, may become part of shortly after leaving the cabinet building. The in response to low oil and gas prices. emerging market indexes and attract foreign prosecutor general’s office said it was investi- The comments by minister Ali Sherif al- fund inflows. gating ministry officials including Helal on sus- Emadi, who said state finances were healthy picion of taking bribes in exchange for granti- and required no adjustments, set Doha apart YESTERDAY’S HIGHLIGHTS ng land licences. from other wealthy Gulf Arab oil exporting SAUDI ARABIA Shares in Orascom Telecom, Media and states; the other five members of the Gulf The index rose 1.3 percent to 7,578 points. Technology tumbled 5.8 percent after its chair- Cooperation Council have begun to curb DUBAI man and chief executive Naguib Sawiris said spending or review costly consumer subsidies The index edged up 0.5 percent to 3,575 on Monday that he had not invested any of because of the plunge of energy prices since points. the $500 million he pledged to his country in last year. ABU DHABI March because of the slow pace of reforms Dubai’s index edged up 0.5 percent, sup- The index climbed 0.6 percent to 4,414 points. promised by the government. ported by property-related stocks as compa- QATAR Sawiris blamed bureaucracy and middle- nies in the sector announced new projects and The index added 1.0 percent to 11,430 points. level officials in Egypt for what he called “stag- contracts at the Cityscape conference and EGYPT nation”. Orascom Construction , another firm exhibition, an annual industry event. The index dropped 3.4 percent to 6,924 points. controlled by the Sawiris family, tumbled 8.2 Engineering and construction firm Drake KUWAIT percent. and Scull jumped 2.0 percent after announc- The index inched up 0.1 percent to 5,717 ing yesterday it had won 96.1 million dirhams points. TUNIS: A handout image released by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) yesterday Gulf ($26.2 million) in contracts in Abu Dhabi and OMAN shows International Monetary Fund chief, Christine Lagarde (C), walking to a meeting with Gulf markets, on the other hand, rose in line Kuwait. The index climbed 0.2 percent to 5,783 points. Governor of the Central Bank of Tunisia, Chedly Ayariat (R), and Finance Minister Slim with oil prices. The main Saudi stock index Conglomerate Dubai Investments climbed BAHRAIN Chaker, in the Tunisian capital Tunis. Lagarde urged Tunisia, whose vital tourism sector has added 1.3 percent and most stocks in Riyadh 0.9 percent after presenting its Mirdif Hills The index slipped 0.08 percent to 1,293 points. been hard hit this year by deadly Islamist violence, to press ahead with the “vast number” were positive. project, a mixed-use residential, commercial — Reuters of pending economic reforms. — AFP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 B U S I N E S S

Qatar may rise after FM says won’t cut spending DUBAI: Qatar’s stock market may rise Finance Minister Ali Sherif al-Emadi, who projects. In Egypt, Sawiris, one of coun- ruption shortly after leaving the cabinet Kuwait. Conglomerate Dubai yesterday after the country’s finance said state finances were healthy and try’s wealthiest businessmen, said on building. The prosecutor general’s office Investments announced details of its minister said his cabinet would not scale required no adjustments, set Doha apart Monday that he had not invested any of said it was investigating ministry offi- Mirdif Hills project, a mixed-use resi- back economic development projects or from other wealthy Gulf Arab oil export- the $500 million he pledged to his coun- cials including Helal on suspicion of tak- dential, commercial and retail develop- cut state subsidies for fuel and food in ing states; the other five members of the try in March because of the slow pace of ing bribes in exchange for granting land ment in Dubai spread across 3 million response to low oil and gas prices. Gulf Cooperation Council have begun to reforms promised by the government. licences. square feet; it provided no financial Steady Brent crude prices may help curb spending or review costly con- The chairman and chief executive of In Dubai, first announcements from information, however. On global mar- other Gulf bourses consolidate, but sumer subsidies because of the plunge Orascom Telecom, Media and the Cityscape property show have kets, Asian stocks have edged up yes- Egypt may pull back further after busi- of energy prices since last year. Technology blamed bureaucracy and started trickling in, which could boost terday after a six-day losing streak, but ness tycoon Naguib Sawiris criticised the Earlier this week, Saudi Arabia’s mar- middle-level officials in Egypt for what some real estate and related stocks. gains were capped as a slump in Cairo government for slow economic ket reacted positively to comments by he called “stagnation”. Meanwhile, Engineering and construction firm China’s imports raised fears of a more reforms, while the country’s agriculture its own finance minister who said that Agriculture Minister Salah El Din Drake and Scull said yesterday it had severe slowdown there. Chinese stock minister was arrested on suspicion of while cuts would be made, they would Mahmoud Helal resigned on Monday won 96.1 million dirhams ($26.2 mil- indexes have dropped more than 2 corruption. The comments by Qatar’s not affect the most important economic and was arrested on suspicion of cor- lion) in contracts in Abu Dhabi and percent. — Reuters

Egypt slashes affordable Expectations of Saudi oil homes project with Arabtec CAIRO: Egypt’s Housing Ministry has scaled pled Egypt’s first freely-elected President, shake-up stir uncertainty back the size of a housebuilding project with Islamist Mohamed Mursi, after mass protests United Arab Emirates-based Arabtec to against his rule. Sisi went on to become elect- 100,000 homes from the originally agreed one ed president and has announced a series of Riyadh grappling with slumping crude prices million, a local newspaper reported yesterday. mega projects, from housing to an expanded Arabtec, Dubai’s largest listed construction Suez Canal to roadworks, in an effort to DUBAI/RIYADH: A shake-up of a sweeping restructure could be chequebook diplomacy, its shift in he has been able to devote to firm, announced more than a year ago that it rebuild an economy battered by political tur- Saudi Arabia’s oil leadership by imminent. “There will be changes oil market policy in November was restructuring Saudi Arabia’s energy had agreed in principle with the Egyptian gov- moil since a 2011 uprising. King Salman has introduced a new (at the oil ministry), but no one equally surprising - and arguably sector. One clue as to what may ernment to build one million homes in the Companies still face paralysing bureaucra- element of unpredictability to its knows when or what will happen more important. eventually happen was given by al- country, but has denied a report that it would cy despite government promises to start a energy policymaking at a moment next. It could be tomorrow, next The kingdom led other OPEC Arabiya, a news channel with close only develop the first phase of 100,000 units. new chapter for investors. Some top business- when Riyadh is grappling with week or a month from now,” said a producers in November against ties to Salman’s branch of the ruling The UAE company declined to comment on men have complained about the slow pace of slumping crude prices and its war Saudi insider. cutting output levels, a move that Al Saud family, which reported on Tuesday’s report. reforms in the Arab world’s most populous in neighbouring Yemen. State oil “The decisions are being taken abandoned decades of work to April 30, that Aramco would be “Negotiations with the company are cur- nation. The Egyptian housing project, said to giant Aramco has been without a by a small circle of people and a protect oil prices in favour of a restructured and split from the Oil rently taking place over the building of be worth $40 billion, was part of vital econom- permanent chief executive since few advisers.” The key person in that strategy geared towards maintain- Ministry. 100,000 units within five years,” Al Masry Al ic and political support from oil-producing April, when Khalid al-Falih was small circle is Prince Mohammed ing market share against rival pro- Some Saudi energy sources have Youm newspaper quoted Egyptian Housing Gulf Arab states including the United Arab made health minister, and the old bin Salman, the young deputy ducers such as Russia and U.S. shale speculated about merging the oil Minister Moustafa Madbouly as saying in an Emirates, which has provided billions of dollars Supreme Petroleum Council, where crown prince who without having drillers. ministry with the electricity, water interview. “There is no place for talks about of aid to Cairo since Mursi was ousted in mid- energy policy was historically any previous oil experience has Brent prices have more than and renewable power entities, to assigning the million unit project that was 2013. Egypt and its Gulf Arab allies see Mursi’s made, was abolished in January. emerged since his father’s acces- halved since then, partly due to create a new energy ministry. Some announced 18 months ago.” Madbouly did not Muslim Brotherhood movement as an existen- While the world’s top crude sion to power as the most powerful that policy shift, to around $48 a have even raised the possibility of a give a reason for downsizing the project. In tial threat to the region and the West, allega- exporter has always prized stability figure in Saudi economic and ener- barrel down from peaks of around limited privatisation of Aramco. 2013, then army chief Abdel Fattah al-Sisi top- tions it denies. — Reuters and consistency in crafting oil poli- gy policy. $115 in June 2014. This has tested cy, the changes, alongside a shift in The prince heads both an eco- Saudi Arabia’s ability to corral its NEW ENERGY GODFATHER? market strategy that contributed to nomic development supercommit- fellow OPEC members and added Inevitably, given his role as god- the world price slump, have left tee and a new council overseeing fiscal pressure as Riyadh cements father of Saudi Arabia’s energy sec- analysts and traders guessing as to Aramco, making him the first royal its leadership change and faces tor from his youth as an Aramco King Salman’s long-term vision. ever to directly supervise the state regional turmoil. office boy in the 1940s to his lead- The main tenets of Saudi oil poli- oil giant, the world’s biggest energy “With the advent of US shale, ership of the company in the 1980s cy - maintaining the ability to sta- company. The sense of unpre- Saudi Arabia has entered unchar- and as minister since 1995, such bilise markets via an expensive dictability has only been sharpened tered territory where it is still learn- speculation also takes in Naimi’s spare-capacity cushion and a reluc- by the wider geopolitical and mar- ing about a new source of supply. own future. tance to interfere in the market for ket climate. “It’s anybody’s guess This necessitates a new approach It will be impossible to find a political reasons - are still set in what will happen next,” said a for managing their investment and like-for-like replacement for Naimi, stone, say market insiders. Western diplomat in Riyadh. output policies,” said Bassam who turns 80 this month and has But the uncertainty has led to Fattouh, director of the Oxford enjoyed unmatched scope to inter- speculation over the fate of both MARKET CHANGES Institute for Energy Studies. pret and implement policy thanks veteran Oil Minister Ali al-Naimi While Riyadh’s launch of In his other role, as defence min- to his experience and the respect in and the wider composition of the airstrikes in Yemen on March 26 ister, Prince Mohammed has been which he is held internationally. kingdom’s energy and minerals sec- stunned observers of a country the public face of the war in Yemen, However, some had seen Falih, tors, with rumours abounding that more noted for its use of backroom which may have cut into the time the former Aramco chief executive, as being his most likely successor, following Naimi’s route from Aramco into the ministry. Whether his move to the health ministry makes that more or less likely is unclear, as is the fact he has been PARIS: A photo taken on May 16, 2013 in Paris shows Deputy General Manager of left in place as Aramco chairman. “Hello Bank !” Francois Villeroy de Galhau before the presentation of “Hello Bank by Senior Aramco vice-president BNP Paribas”. Villeroy de Galhau has been proposed by the Elysee palace for being Amin al-Nasser was named acting next governor of the Bank of France yesterday. — AFP chief executive on May 1, but there has been no further word as to whether he will remain in the job. Oman’s ORPIC to use debt to Others still bet on the deputy oil minister, Prince Abdulaziz, another finance $5.2bn plastics plant of Salman’s sons, being promoted SOHAR: State-owned Oman Oil Refineries and large cash reserves of other Gulf states. thanks to his years of experience. Petroleum Industries Co (ORPIC) will borrow Hilal al-Hinai, ORPIC’s general manager of But that would fly in the face of the money to finance 70 percent of its $5.2 billion corporate support, told Reuters that the com- Al Saud’s preference for keeping plastics production complex, its chief financial pany expects to sign a financing deal with local the oil ministry in the hands of officer said yesterday. The complex, the Liwa and international lenders in October. technocrats and steering it clear of Plastics Project, is being built in the northern Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp is advising princely politicking. port city of Sohar and aims to further diversify the firm on the transaction. The ORPIC officials How far this unpredictability the sultanate’s economy away from hydrocar- did not elaborate on the nature of debt financ- affects the market is unclear, said bons. It is due to be completed in 2018. ing or the tenures they are seeking. The Samuel Ciszuk, senior adviser at the ORPIC has contacted 35 banks - both remaining 30 percent of the funding will come Swedish Energy Agency, pointing domestic and international - and eight export from equity from the company, according to a to the fact that the new oil strategy credit agencies to fund the project, CFO Nazar presentation at the news conference. Hit by appeared to enjoy consensus at the al-Lawati told a news conference. It comes as lower oil revenues, the government swung to a top levels of the Al Saud. Omani firms are increasingly tapping interna- deficit of 1.92 billion rials ($4.98 billion) in the However, “the uncertainty ele- tional debt markets, partly because the govern- first half of 2015, from a 250-million-rial surplus WASHINGTON: File picture taken January 31, 2014 shows a woman walking into a Chipotle restaurant in ment ... could grow if the changes ment - traditionally a major source of financing a year earlier. This has affected liquidity in the Washington, DC. Chipotle, the burrito chain whose rocketing growth has fast food giants like McDonald’s are perceived to be detrimental to for infrastructure projects - has been hit hard local banking system as government deposits reeling, is not slowing down: it plans to hire 4,000 new staff across the US in one go today. — AFP the market,” he added. — Reuters by a plunge in oil prices and does not have the have declined. — Reuters EXCHANGE RATES

Al-Muzaini Exchange Co. GOLD Saudi Riyals 81.550 US Dollars Mint 0.299400 0.303400 20 gram 226.690 Jordanian Dinar 427.095 10 gram 116.040 Asia ASIAN COUNTRIES Egyptian Pound 38.597 5 gram 58.700 Bangladesh Taka 0.003400 0.004000 Japanese Yen 2.520 Sri Lankan Rupees 2.210 Chinese Yuan 0.046257 0.049757 Indian Rupees 4.575 Indian Rupees 4.540 Hong Kong Dollar 0.036994 0.039744 Pakistani Rupees 2.907 Pakistani Rupees 2.903 Indian upee 0.004386 0.004776 Srilankan Rupees 2.249 UAE Exchange Centre WLL Bangladesh Taka 3.888 Indonesian Rupiah 0.000018 0.000024 Nepali Rupees 2.867 Philippines Pesso 6.453 Japanese Yen 0.002466 0.002646 Singapore Dollar 14.940 CURRENCIES TELEX TRANSFER PER 1000 Cyprus pound 577.310 Japanese Yen 3.540 Kenyan Shilling 0.003149 0.003149 Hongkong Dollar 39.077 Australian Dollar 194.25 Syrian Pound 2.600 Korean Won 0.000245 0.000260 Bangladesh Taka 3.892 Canadian Dollar 231.93 Nepalese Rupees 3.835 Malaysian Ringgit 0.068843 0.074843 Philippine Peso 6.482 Swiss Franc 316.26 Malaysian Ringgit 70.610 Nepalese Rupee 0.002963 0.003133 Thai Baht 8.489 Euro 340.89 US Dollar 303.20 Chinese Yuan Renminbi 47.925 Pakistan Rupee 0.002778 0.003058 Sterling Pound 463.05 Thai Bhat 9.340 Philippine Peso 0.006315 0.006595 GCC COUNTRIES Japanese Yen 2.58 Turkish Lira 100.205 Sierra Leone 0.000067 0.000073 Saudi Riyal 80.080 Bangladesh Taka 3.892 Singapore Dollar 0.210836 0.216836 Qatari Riyal 83.235 Indian Rupee 4.543 South African Rand 0.016320 0.024820 Omani Riyal 787.030 Sri Lankan Rupee 2.210 Bahrain Exchange Company Sri Lankan Rupee 0.001978 0.002558 Bahraini Dinar 804.700 Nepali Rupee 2.839 Taiwan 0.009683 0.009863 UAE Dirham 82.498 Pakistani Rupee 2.907 CURRENCY BUY SELL Thai Baht 0.008155 0.008705 UAE Dirhams 0.08250 Europe ARAB COUNTRIES Bahraini Dinar 0.8058 Belgian Franc 0.007905 0.008905 Arab Egyptian Pound - Cash 40.475 Egyptian Pound 0.03861 British Pound 0.454101 0.463101 Bahraini Dinar 0.796295 0.804295 Egyptian Pound - Transfer 38.704 Jordanian Dinar 0.4312 Czech Korune 0.004517 0.016517 Egyptian Pound 0.037856 0.040686 Yemen Riyal/for 1000 1.414 Omani Riyal 0.7873 Danish Krone 0.041291 0.046291 Iranian Riyal 0.000084 0.000085 Tunisian Dinar 156.270 Qatari Riyal 0.08360 Euro 0.333123 0.341123 Iraqi Dinar 0.000198 0.000258 Jordanian Dinar 427.480 Saudi Riyal 0.08087 Norwegian Krone 0.032730 0.037930 Jordanian Dinar 0.423359 0.430859 Lebanese Lira/for 1000 2.033 Romanian Leu 0.086918 0.086918 Kuwaiti Dinar 1.000000 1.000000 Syrian Lira 2.159 Slovakia 0.009034 0.019034 Lebanese Pound 0.000152 0.000252 Morocco Dirham 31.712 Dollarco Exchange Co. Ltd Swedish Krona 0.032007 0.037007 Moroccan Dirhams 0.020505 0.044505 Swiss Franc 0.305810 0.316010 Nigerian Naira 0.001250 0.001885 EUROPEAN & AMERICAN COUNTRIES Rate for Transfer Selling Rate Turkish Lira 0.102831 0.109831 Omani Riyal 0.780491 0.786171 US Dollar Transfer 302.850 US Dollar 302.800 Qatar Riyal 0.082515 0.083728 Euro 342.830 Canadian Dollar 230.165 Australasia Saudi Riyal 0.080163 0.080863 Sterling Pound 465.030 Sterling Pound 465.575 Australian Dollar 0.201796 0.213296 Syrian Pound 0.001284 0.001504 Canadian dollar 229.520 Euro 341.110 New Zealand Dollar 0.184902 0.194402 Tunisian Dinar 0.151227 0.159227 Turkish lira 103.570 Swiss Frank 295.245 Turkish Lira 0.102831 0.109831 Swiss Franc 316.460 Bahrain Dinar 804.460 America UAE Dirhams 0.081515 0.082664 Australian dollar 214.110 UAE Dirhams 82.820 Canadian Dollar 0.223410 0.231910 Yemeni Riyal 0.001369 0.001449 US Dollar Buying 301.650 Qatari Riyals 90.805 US Dollars 0.298900 0.303400 WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 BUSINESS

Rolls-Royce aims to widen appeal with new convertible

LONDON: Luxury British carmaker Rolls- June, in contrast to the record 4,063 modern approach to car ownership. BMW in 1998, said it had already received tion and a government crackdown on Royce Motors launched a new convert- models the brand delivered last year as it “It’s a driver’s car and we believe that we several hundred orders for the car but did conspicuous consumption. ible model yesterday, aiming to increase saw the fruits of a strategy to broaden its are reaching out to customers that may not give details on the selling price. Despite challenges, Rolls-Royce is its appeal to women and younger drivers appeal. have perceived a level of opulence and It hopes the new model will help to confident the new model, which it said amid declining sales in China. Rolls-Royce has spent several years formality with previous Rolls-Royces,” he overcome a decline in popularity of exist- was the quietest convertible in the BMW-owned Rolls-Royce has, like trying to branch out from its core market said. “It is about connecting to younger ing ones, which include the two-door world, will appeal to Chinese buyers and most carmakers, been hit by a slowdown of older men who traditionally buy aspirations.” Yesterday, the firm also coupe Wraith, after Rolls-Royce sales draw in customers from outside its core in the world’s largest car market, with 200,000 pound-plus ($305,080) cars to be broke with tradition by launching the tumbled 10.3 percent to 2,035 cars in the base of men, currently about 70 percent global sales volumes down 10 percent in driven by a chauffeur. vehicle during an online event, rather year to July. High-end brands have suf- of buyers. the first seven months of the year. Director of Design Giles Taylor told than at the formal setting of the fered in recent months due to the slow- “I think the sensuality of the car will Chinese sales could end the year Reuters the “Dawn” convertible would Frankfurt Motor Show, where the model down in China, the world’s second- attract probably more women than with down as much as 15 percent, the board help to bring new customers to the will be showcased next week. largest economy, which has also seen its the Wraith which hopefully stands us in member responsible for the brand said in 111-year old brand who have a more Rolls-Royce, bought by Germany’s stock market plunge, a currency devalua- good stead,” Taylor said. —Reuters Lufthansa hits back, striking pilots threaten more action 24-hour short-haul strike planned for today

FRANKFURT/BERLIN: Germany’s Wrong way tions under its Eurowings brand. commitment to look at ways to Lufthansa hit back at striking pilots “We are determined ... The pilots Lufthansa added yesterday that it reduce costs to a level comparable yesterday, taking the long-running are going about this the wrong would in future discuss only pay and with easyJet . But they have also dispute to the courts and saying it way,” a Lufthansa spokeswoman contract issues with the union, effec- demanded that the company stops would no longer hire new pilots said earlier. tively shutting VC out of strategy moving jobs out of Germany as it under generous German labour Relations between management issues. seeks to expand low-cost operations. contracts. and VC soured last week after the The strikes have cost Lufthansa Fellow union UFO, which repre- Pilots’ union Vereinigung Cockpit breakdown of talks aimed at resolv- about 100 million euros ($112 mil- sents cabin crew, also waded into (VC) staged a strike on long-haul ing a dispute that initially centred lion) so far this year. the debate last week, saying the routes yesterday and has called on retirement benefits but has since Pilots have offered concessions, row had already cost jobs and that another walkout for today, on short- escalated to encompass Lufthansa’s including a proposed increase in the strikes would not bring a resolu- haul flights - and it warned there plans to expand low-cost opera- average retirement age to 60 and a tion. —Reuters could be more pain to come. NEW YORK: A Wall Street sign is framed by a giant American flag hanging on “We cannot rule out further the facade of the New York Stock Exchange, yesterday. US stocks are opening strikes this week,” union spokesman solidly higher as traders come back from the Labor Day holiday. —AP Markus Wahl said at Frankfurt air- port yesterday. “Strikes are possible in the following weeks as well.” M&S slows foreign expansion The pilots’ 13th strike inside 18 months forced the main Lufthansa amid China, Russia turmoil brand to cancel 84 of about 170 long-haul flights planned for BRUSSELS: British retailer Marks & Spencer five stores in secondary cities in the Tuesday and around 1,000 flights - is slowing its overseas expansion drive amid greater Shanghai area to focus on flagship two-thirds of its schedule - today, economic turbulence in priority markets stores in the largest cities and online, including another 52 long-haul China and Russia, its international boss told while growing its food business in Hong flights. Reuters. Battling tough markets at home, Kong. It drew a defiant response from M&S Chief Executive Marc Bolland set tar- Bousquet-Chavanne, speaking at M&S’s Germany’s largest airline, which gets in 2014 to open 250 new stores over- new store in Brussels a 5,000 square asked a court to rule on whether seas in three years. The aim was to increase metres format, with edited clothing and the current walkout is justified by international sales by a quarter and push food ranges, it hopes to export interna- filing for a temporary injunction. profit up by 40 percent, with China, Russia, tionally-said M&S still planned to open a The carrier also said it would not India, the Middle East and Western Europe flagship store in Beijing in its 2015-16 take on any new pilots under cur- the focus. financial year but gave no commitments rent German collective labour Patrick Bousquet-Chavanne, M&S’s exec- beyond that. Guangzhou and Dalian agreements, meaning that its core utive director of marketing & international, remain on the firm’s radar, however. Lufthansa, Germanwings and car- told Reuters the firm remained committed “We’re looking at places which are very go divisions will shrink as staff to both Russia and China but signalled those much ‘tier 1’... where you have an upper leave and are not replaced. overseas targets were now unobtainable, middle class consumer base ... where we The airline, which is trying to prompting a re-think of the pace of expan- will do well even in the context of a slow- cut costs to better compete with sion over the short term. down in the economy,” he said. budget rivals, is also suing the “The world has shifted, is a different place union over a strike at Lufthansa ... The Syrian situation was very different Opportunities Cargo in April 2014, questioning from what it is today ... Putin had not invad- He thinks the Chinese slowdown will, the legality of the walkout because FRANKFURT: A passenger walks to a check-in counter of German airline Lufthansa at the air- ed Ukraine and China was growing at close however, create some opportunities for there was a valid pay deal in place port in Frankfurt, yesterday. The ‘Vereinigung Cockpit’ union, representing Lufthansa pilots has to 9 percent,” the Frenchman said in an inter- M&S in terms of access to prime retail at the time. called for a strike, the latest in a string of walkouts. —AP view. “It’s reasonable in that context that you space “because some of those who have would expect a different outlook on the been over extended might have to next three years for the company.” retrench over the next couple of years.” M&S, a 131-year-old stalwart of Britain’s Bousquet-Chavanne, a former EstÈe Milan scrubs up after years shopping streets, has a chequered history Lauder executive and a veteran of the abroad. After a humiliating retreat from con- international branded consumer goods tinental Europe in 2001, it returned to Paris industry with over 25 years experience, with great fanfare in 2011 and has been said China was one of the most talked as Italy’s ugly sister rolling out its clothing, homeware and about issues in M&S’s boardroom. upmarket food to mainland Europe and That is despite the firm only having 10 MILAN: Long the ugly sister to Florence, Venice and beyond. stores in the Shanghai region, 20 in Hong Rome, Italy’s business capital Milan is enjoying a ren- Its “bricks & clicks” strategy is focused on Kong and an online presence, meaning aissance, its once drab skyline coming to life and a flagship stores in major cities, along with the country represents a small percentage new creative vibrancy emerging. small food outlets and standalone lingerie of its overall international estate of more Host of the 2015 Expo, Milan has taken advantage and beauty concepts, backed by local web- than 500 mainly franchised stores. of the World Fair to rejuvenate its image, attracting sites. “I think it’s going to be a slow growth But results so far have been under- towards full profitability (in China) and new investment in a makeover that officials hope whelming, with international operating creating a consumer base that is sustain- might mark the start of a broader revival for the profit dropping 25 percent to 92 million able,” Bousquet-Chavanne said. whole country. pounds ($141 million) in the year ended He wants to replicate M&S’s success in The sleek headquarters of Italian bank Unicredit, March 2015, compared with a UK rise of 8 India, where it has a 49-store joint venture the centrepiece of one of several new developments percent to 670 million pounds. with Reliance Retail, by hooking-up with a that dot the northern city, is a state-of-the-art local Chinese partner. reminder of Milan’s status as a financial hub. Pace of expansion “I’ve not put a deadline to it because And while the gothic Duomo cathedral and China’s faltering economy means the finding the right partner is not a simple Galleria shopping arcade recall past glories, modern pace of expansion there could be slower thing. The context of China today makes it ventures-such as the “Vertical Forest” apartment than hoped, with M&S keen to avoid the probably a slightly more challenging con- blocks whose balconies bloom with trees and plants- mistakes of other British retailers, such as versation,” he said. point to a newfound confidence. Tesco, which grew too quickly in the Bousquet-Chavanne is also taking a Milan has absorbed more than half of all invest- world’s most populous nation. more prudent stance towards Russia, ment in business real estate in Italy in the first half of “The sectors in which we trade are not where M&S has 37 stores run by franchise this year, while tourism has grown faster over the past luxury, so we haven’t seen the same dra- partner Fiba, given the economic slow- six years than in Italy’s other big cities. matic slowdown as some might have. But down there. “We had potentially a slightly “The majority of what I heard about Milan was we have seen some softness in the num- more aggressive plan that we have parked that it’s industrial, not a beautiful city, but the Duomo bers,” Bousquet-Chavanne said. for the time being,” he said, noting five and the Galleria are really grand,” said visitor Cameron “We’re going to have to be much clear- planned store openings had been frozen. Dibb, 24, an American film student who lives in er in terms of when you look at the roll- But he is confident M&S will ultimately Surrey, England. SANTIAGO: Dairy farmers sit on the front of a tractor adorned with a banner that out or roadmap about where to open succeed in Russia. “We’ll come out of this “And when you go further outside the centre the says, “Just Prices for Milk for everyone” in the Santiago de Compostela mall during a stores.” M&S has already re-jigged its China situation with an even stronger position architecture is still impressive,” he added. Despite demonstration in defense of the dairy sector on Monday. —AFP strategy. In March it said it would close for M&S,” he said. —Reuters appearances, Milan is not immune from Italy’s bureaucracy, corruption and weak economic growth. Unadjusted gross domestic product per capita in target of more than 20 million. Some businesses in From swamp to oasis the Lombardy region around Milan fell 1.4 percent the city centre are nonetheless unhappy, saying their “(The city) is seen around the world as the sym- Gold edges up after between 2008 and 2013 and the once powerful trade has been cannibalised by Expo, which lies on bol of a serious, active and productive Italy,” said industrial hinterland has been battered by competi- the outskirts, and by some 184 new bars, restaurants veteran fashion designer Giorgio Armani, who has 4-day losing streak tion from China. and ice cream shops which have opened over the last opened a four-storey exhibition space for his But other areas suffered far worse after the 18 months. designs, to coincide with Expo. LONDON: Gold firmed yesterday as a retreat in are staying on the sidelines and waiting for price European debt crisis and Milan seems to have “Expo has taken people out of town and they Demand for office space has picked up in the the dollar index helped the metal snap a four- direction,” Capital Economics analyst Simona regained its drive, unlike scandal-plagued Rome. opened loads of bars so the slice of the cake for each past year and prime rents now appear to have bot- day losing streak, but remained close to 2-1/2 Gambarini said. “That will occur when the Fed “Rome is very dirty and badly looked after, it hardly business has got smaller and smaller,” said 40 year-old tomed out after tumbling since 2011, according to week lows as uncertainty over a looming US decides on the 17th whether it is hiking rates or seems like a capital city. Milan would have been a bet- bar owner Gianni Pugliese. property consultants Knight Frank. interest rate hike persisted. Spot gold was up 0.1 not.” “We as a research house are 50:50 on ter capital,” said Vicente Perez, 52, a tourist from But many are celebrating the overall rise in The promise of Expo-related visitors and inter- percent at $1,120.20 an ounce at 1100 GMT, whether it will do so. We were expecting a rate Madrid. tourism, which began well before Expo, with the national attention galvanised long-awaited while US gold futures for December delivery hike in September, but after the latest numbers, number of overnight visitors increasing 34 percent improvements to the city, notably the trendy but were down $1.90 an ounce at $1,119.50. Spot we’re not as sure as before.” A leisure tourism city between 2009 and 2014, based on data from scruffy canal area where a new waterside prome- prices hit their lowest since mid-August at Next to the Duomo, the glass-vaulted Galleria has Euromonitor International, versus a 21 percent rise for nade opened in May. $1,116.20 an ounce last week as hotly anticipat- Silver up been cleaned up in a project co-funded by luxury Rome. Simone Bracaglia, 30, a human resources con- ed US payrolls data gave little direction on the Shares rose in Europe and Asia while the dol- firms Prada and Versace and publisher Feltrinelli in The global financial crisis cost the city business sultant who runs a bar on the main inlet, says tak- timing of the Federal Reserve’s first interest rate lar lost ground against a currency basket after the sort of public-private partnership that Italy is tourists, said Maurizio Naro, president of hoteliers ings have risen at least 20 percent since the hike in nearly a decade. trade data from China and Germany highlighted increasingly relying on to safeguard its crumbling association APAM, and it has had to adapt to a new “Darsena” - or dock - reopened. Expectations for rising rates, which would lift the divergent outlooks of the two heavyweight heritage. type of visitor. “It used to be a swamp ... now it’s an oasis”, the opportunity cost of holding non-yielding economies. Gold has failed to find a strong safe- The Galleria restoration was finished in time for “Milan has turned into a leisure tourism city in the Bracaglia said. The boom in business “is definitely bullion while boosting the dollar, have knocked haven bid despite the recent weakness in stocks the Expo, a six-month showcase for products and last 10 years exactly to face up to the sharp slump in not down to our skills but the sheer number of the metal 5 percent lower this year and remain due to worries over the Chinese economy, show- technology from around the world that Prime business tourism,” he said. people, thanks to this blessed Darsena.” gold’s biggest driver, analysts said. Trade is ing that the metal is struggling to find direction Minister Matteo Renzi has shown off to an array of The corporate side might also finally be stirring. A revival is also underway on the south-eastern expected to be rangebound ahead of the Fed’s outside US monetary policy. Silver was up 0.7 global leaders. Milan soaked up 59 percent of all investments in busi- periphery, where the Rem Koolhaas-designed next policy meeting on Sept. 16 and 17. percent at $14.65 an ounce, while platinum was Cost overruns, delays and graft overshad- ness real estate in Italy in the first half of this year, Prada Foundation complex, housing modern art, “The markets are split on whether they up 1.2 percent at $995.20 an ounce and palladi- owed the start of the fair, but city governor for including some 900 million euros ($1.02 billion) from classical sculpture and a 1950s-themed bar con- believe the Fed will hike rates or not, so investors um up 2 percent at $586.60 an ounce. —Reuters tourism Franco D’Alfonso said ticket sales are on the Qatari sovereign wealth fund, according to BNP ceived by film director Wes Anderson, also opened track to reach between 18 million and an original Paribas Real Estate. in May. —Reuters WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 BUSINESS Business group says China running out of time for reform

BEIJING: A European business group posed laws that would limit use of for- facturing, auto sales and exports weak- the state-dominated economy more sion of SOEs,” said the chamber warned that China is running out of time eign security and computer technology. ened this year. productive by giving market forces a president, Joerg Wuttke, in an inter- to keep slowing economic growth on Growth in the world’s second-biggest “The current slowdown could evolve central role and opening more view ahead of the report’s release. track and needs to speed up market- economy fell to a two-decade low of 7.4 into a soft landing if China manages to industries to private and foreign The chamber urged the Chinese opening reforms promised in a 2-year- percent last year. It is forecast to fall fur- rebalance its economy,” the chamber competitors. leadership to speed up reforms old development plan. ther as the ruling party tries to shift to report said. But with an aging popula- The chamber termed current con- aimed at making bank lending and In some areas, the ruling Communist sustainable expansion based on domes- tion, the report said, “its window of ditions “reform and closing up” - a other financial business more mar- Party is moving backward on reform tic consumption and service industries opportunity to successfully roll out the play on the party’s long-time ket-oriented. It called for an end to pledges by reducing market access for instead of trade and investment. structural reforms needed to do so is description of its economic plans as China’s system of catalogues that foreign and private companies, said the Concern about a possible “hard landing” rapidly closing.” “reform and opening up.” tell foreign companies in which European Union Chamber of Commerce of plummeting growth that triggers The party’s long-range development industries they can invest. Instead, it in China in a report. It pointed to pro- political tensions has mounted as manu- blueprint issued in 2013 calls for making Volatile markets urged Beijing to carry out its repeat- The report echoes a similar ed promises to switch to a “negative appeal last month by the American list” that would put some areas off Chamber of Commerce in China for limits for national security or other Beijing to move faster on opening reasons and leave the rest of the banking, insurance and other serv- economy open. The chamber ice industries to private and foreign warned that recent legal changes competitors. The group said that could close wide swathes of the could help China improve its volatile economy to foreign and private financial markets and cope with dis- business. It pointed to a sweeping, asters such as the deadly chemical vaguely worded National Security explosion in the port of Tianjin. Law, proposed restrictions on use by Beijing has made some changes banks of foreign security products, a such as repealing in April a rule that law tightening control over non- limited foreign investors to owning governmental organizations and only a minority stake in online com- proposed cyber-security and anti- merce businesses. But it has yet to terrorism laws. make significant changes to reduce “Yes, China needs a national secu- the dominance of politically favored rity law,” said Wuttke. “But the state-owned enterprises, or SOEs. wording is so opaque and vague “Basically, we still see market that a lot of mergers and acquisi- forces being impaired by the tions by foreign businesses in china strengthening or even the expan- could be impossible.” —AP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 BUSINESS

Kuwait’s fiscal surplus narrows to 7.5% of GDP on lower oil prices

NBK’S ECONOMIC UPDATE KUWAIT: Kuwait’s government lion or 20%, primarily due to a posted a budget surplus of KD 3.5 doubling in general subsidies billion for the fiscal year 2014/15 which reached KD 1.5 billion in (FY14/15). The surplus before the FY14/15. transfer to the Reserve Fund for As per the budget figures for Future Generations (RFFG) was FY14/15, more than 50% of subsi- 73% lower than last year’s due dies were allocated to funding largely to lower oil prices. The fuel for power generation plants budget surplus narrowed to an and refined hydrocarbon prod- estimated 7.5% of GDP, compared ucts. Another 10% was for sup- to an average of 24% of GDP dur- porting national labor working in ing the previous five years. The the private sector. budget surplus turns into a deficit Meanwhile, subsidies for of KD 2.7 billion after the deduc- reducing the cost of living do not tion for the RFFG, amounting represent more than 4% of the exceptionally to 25% of total rev- total subsidies. Transfers abroad enues (usually 10%). witnessed a similar hike as well, of The government saw revenues 133%, reaching KD 1.4 billion, KD decline by 22% in FY14/15 to set- 1 billion of which was for humani- tle at KD 24.9 billion, down from tarian aid. Civilian wages and KD 31.8 billion in FY13/14. As oil salaries (Chapter 1) rose by 5.3%, prices tumbled throughout the reaching KD 5.3 billion. The cur- second half of 2014 and 1Q15, rent wage bill for the FY14/15 is revenues dropped by 23% to KD almost threefold the bill of 22.5bn, or 48% of GDP which is FY04/05. The increases in wages the lowest in a decade. Oil prices and salaries during the last two averaged $84/bbl versus $75/bbl years were relatively small com- assumed in the FY14/15 budget. pared to the double-digit growth Meanwhile, non-oil revenues rose posted in FY08/09, FY11/12 and by 4% but remained a small share FY12/13. In these years, growth in of total revenues. Income tax rev- the wage bill averaged 20% per enues, encompassing tax on annum and led to efforts to nonoil foreign companies and restrain that growth. Capital corporate income tax, grew by spending rose by a 6.9% on the 15% y/y each, though they still back of healthy growth in spend- represented no more than 5% of ing on projects, maintenance and nonoil revenues. Despite the low- land purchases (Chapter 4) which er oil price environment that pre- rose by 8.6% y/y to KD 1.7 billion. vailed for almost half of the fiscal This was a welcome outcome giv- year, expenditure growth en the decline seen in this item mostly on a higher oil price. (FY15/16) and authorities will con- remained strong at 13.3%, with the year before and the impor- Projected expenditures, at KD tinue to prioritize capital spend- spending rising to KD 21.4 billion tance of capital spending in the 19.2 billion, were reduced by 17% ing. This is despite the prevailing in FY14/15. Current expenditures government’s economic develop- from the prior year’s budget low price environment and con- represented 91% of total spend- ment plan. In fact, capital spend- though by only 9% from actual cerns that oil prices will remain ing and provided most of the ing reached 81% of the full year spending in FY14/15. The largest low in the short term. Indeed, boost in spending growth. budget, the highest in five years. cut was due to an accounting budgeted expenditures on proj- Growth came primarily from a On the other hand, there was a decline in the cost of subsidies; ects, maintenance and land pur- 26% increase in “miscellaneous & decline in spending on trans- since the current year’s budget is chases are up 3% to KD 2.1 billion. transfers” (chapter 5) which, portation and equipment, a much based on an oil price of $45 per Given Kuwait’s comfortable fiscal among other things, is comprised smaller category, by 6% y/y. In barrel, 40% lower than last year, buffers, we think authorities can of military salaries, transfers to the FY15/16, the government expects this led to a similar drop in the and will, as officially stated, main- social security fund, fuel subsidies a budget deficit of KD 7 billion, or projected cost of subsidies. tain the current pace of project and transfers abroad. Domestic 18% of GDP. We think the deficit Meanwhile, investment spending implementation despite the pro- transfers increased by KD 1.4 bil- will be closer to 5.5% of GDP, was increased in the budget jected fiscal deficit. Austrian firms sign $89m partnership deals in Iran

TEHRAN: Austrian companies signed a Mitterlehner, Austria’s deputy chancellor series of deals with Iranian partners yes- and economy minister, told reporters in terday, becoming the first Western firms the Iranian capital. to put down concrete stakes in the He said the partly state-owned Islamic Republic since it reached a land- Austrian energy group OMV was just mark nuclear deal with big powers in making contacts as part of the delega- July. tion. The WKO’s Leitl said seven more Austrian businesses in industries Austrian trade missions to Iran were including car parts, information technol- scheduled for the second half of the year. ogy and engineering sealed agreements Iranian President Hassan Rouhani said worth 80 million euros ($89 million) at an the recent period of sanctions was an economic forum in Tehran, Austrian exception in a centuries-long relationship Chamber of Commerce chief Christoph between Iran and Austria, and he hoped Leitl said. Fischer’s visit signalled a new period of It was part of a three-day visit by cooperation. Vienna hosted the final stage NEW DELHI: In this photograph released by the Press Information Bureau (PIB) yesterday, Indian Prime Minister, Narendra Modi Austrian President Heinz Fischer, the first of the marathon nuclear negotiations (4L) chairs a high-level meeting with industry leaders and top finance bureaucrats on the global economic scenario, in New Delhi by a Western head of state in more than a between Iran and the global powers. as Minister for Finance, Corporate Affairs, Information, and Broadcasting, Arun Jaitley (3L) and Reserve Bank Governor, decade and a sign of the cordial relations Fischer, a Social Democrat, told his Raghuram Rajan (R) look on. —AFP neutral Austria has kept through years of hosts yesterday of his hopes for economic high tension between Iran and the West. benefits for both countries as overall Tehran has bustled with Western busi- Western diplomatic relations with Tehran Modi asks billionaires if ness delegations since the diplomatic thaw. “We expect to boost our volume of breakthrough with six world powers in trade to 300 million euros in the short which it agreed to curb its disputed term, and we then look forward to nuclear programme in exchange for an markedly increasing our economic rela- China’s pain is India’s gain end to sanctions, easing its international tions,” he said in a joint news conference isolation. with Rouhani. Still, most Western firms have said they The WKO said trade ties could hit 1 bil- Expectations growing to lure foreign investment will wait until the nuclear agreement is lion euros by 2020. Fischer said the two implemented on the ground and sanc- governments had also agreed to increase tions are removed, which is widely political and economic cooperation. He NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Narendra Modi “Mr. Modi ran a successful state,” US investor jitters and an expected hike in US lending rates. expected to happen in 2016, before they met Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei and his top economic team yesterday assured Jim Rogers told Reuters Trading India. “He cam- India’s drive to modernize its infrastructure make any firm business commitments in later yesterday. Details were not immedi- a group of billionaires that India could with- paigned for two years, saying he knew what to was made easier by cheaper commodities as the Islamic Republic. ately released. Khamenei, who has the stand global turbulence and China’s economic do. He has been there 15 months ... yet little Chinese demand slows, he said, with investors The WKO, Austria’s chamber of com- final say on all major matters of state in slowdown, then asked them to open their wal- has happened.” Rogers recently announced he seeking returns turning to India. “Some of these merce, said the 15 deals and memoranda Iran, has only rarely received Western dig- lets. had sold his India investments. Foreign investments are a little bit of a hedge against a The meeting at Modi’s residence came as investors have sold a net $756 million of Indian Chinese slowdown,” Subramanian said, citing of understanding signed would comply nitaries during his 26 years in office. India’s rupee fell to two-year lows and a stock shares this month. recent commitments from Taiwan’s Foxconn, with existing US and European Union Fischer has faced some criticism over market sell-off wiped out most of the record Germany’s Siemens and China’s Xiaomi. sanctions. “The end effect is to create the his visit by groups in Austria opposed to gains made since he took office last year. Lack of demand During the three-hour meeting also attend- structures for the years ahead,” Reinhold Iran’s Shi’ite theocracy. —Reuters Markets bounced back after the session. Apparently strong headline growth is under- ed by central bank governor Raghuram Rajan, India’s projected economic growth of 8 per- mined by doubt about the quality of economic businessmen called for interest rates to be cut cent is still viewed by the IMF as a bright spot data and a slow recovery, with job losses in as much as 1.25 percentage points by next among major economies and has attracted for- construction and a summer drought hitting March. After farmer protests forced Modi to eign manufacturers, but indebted domestic consumer demand. “Domestic investment is drop a major land reform and opposition par- firms are pushing for rate cuts and protection. sluggish because of lack of demand and high ties delayed a growth-boosting tax overhaul, Modi sees a chance to attract more foreign cost of capital,” Jyotsna Suri, president of indus- expectations are growing for new measures to cash as money flows out of China, but it will be try group FICCI, said after the meeting. lure foreign investors. tough. Investors and firms increasingly worry Chief economic adviser Arvind Subramanian India’s macroeconomic situation has he has not moved fast enough since taking told the gathering, which included India’s rich- improved since the “taper tantrum” of 2013, office. Annual growth slowed to 7 percent in est man, Mukesh Ambani, that the economy thanks largely to lower prices for its huge oil the June quarter. was healthy and could withstand global market imports. —Reuters Weak Japan GDP stirs speculation on yet more easing

TOKYO: Disappointing growth figures showed domestic demand was not in Democratic Party in a rubber stamp poll life into the economy. The programme released in Japan yesterday rekindled great shape. that could give him three more years at called for big government spending, speculation that the central bank might Marcel Thieliant of Capital Economics the helm. He sought to put a positive massive Bank of Japan (BoJ) monetary have to unleash yet more stimulus to said manufacturers were running up gloss on the state of the economy, which easing and reforms to cut red tape in prop up a faltering recovery that is refus- inventory-indicating they were not sell- he has vowed will return to growth and Japan’s highly regulated economy. ing to take root. ing their products-and were investing banish the years of deflation. But reforms, including shaking up a The numbers came as data from less in new machinery and plants. “Employment and incomes are both protected agricultural sector and drawing China showed its international trade was “The details were hardly reassuring,” getting stronger. The remaining (task) is more women into the workforce, have slowing, underlining the difficulties the he wrote in a commentary. “The upward to keep this virtuous economic cycle not moved as fast as initially expected. world is facing as Beijing re-orientates its revision was mostly due to a larger contri- going so people feel that a recovery in Household spending has also been BEIJING: In this July 15, 2015 file photo, a maintenance worker rides a scoot- export-driven economy. bution from stock building,” he added. under way and that the exit from defla- unsteady following a sales tax rise last er past banners reading “Development” and “Prosperity” in English and Tokyo’s revised GDP figures yesterday The latest numbers present another chal- tion will drive future economic growth,” year, brought in to pay down a massive lenge to Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, he said. national debt, which saw consumers rush Chinese on a street in central Beijing. The world’s second largest economy is showed the world’s number three econo- my shrank a little less than previously whose bid to kickstart Japan’s long-lag- to stores before prices rose. “The eco- decelerating, and the prospect of its slowing growth is rattling financial thought — 0.3 percent, against an earlier gard economy has stumbled. Stalled reforms nomic outlook will likely depend on a markets around the world. But China also is shifting, from a dependence on estimate of 0.4 percent. But analysts said However, Abe-who swept to power in The slowdown comes more than two recovery in domestic demand, such as exports and investment in factories, infrastructure and housing to a reliance the slightly-better-than-expected head- late 2012 — was yesterday re-elected years after Abe launched his policy blitz, capital investment and household spend- on consumer spending from the country’s emerging middle class. —AP line concealed worrying details that unopposed as head of his ruling Liberal dubbed “Abenomics”, aimed at breathing ing,” said SMBC Nikko Securities. —AFP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 BUSINESS

China coming along with New Silk Road

BEIJING: The whole world witnessed China’s independently, establishing BeiDou Navigation ing Chinese enterprises to go abroad. Middle East eration of Diyar Company and Chinamex, who did impressive Grand Martial Review on the 70 Satellite System (BDS), out of control of American’s area comes the first priority. Big state-own compa- the Dragonmart Dubai in 2004. The project owns Anniversary of the Victory of the World Anti-Fascist GPS, and upgrading the world most speedy super nies, mainly construction companies and oil com- 100,000 sq.m. of land, and 50,000 sq. m. mall, with War on Sept. 3, which might cause over-interpreta- computer (Peta scale computer) to one million bil- panies, are the pioneers, while some SMEs from nearly 500 Chinese manufacturers and trading tion on China, with a fearsome face of a dragon. lion operations per second, etc.. private section are also following up, and one of companies doing wholesales and retails, providing Since decades, China has been showing its friend- This is China, working hard and moving forward the typical case is the “Dragon City” business mod- 9 categories of products such as building materi- ship and gentle to Arabs and people from devel- firmly, ignoring noises from some people, to devel- el, which organize SMEs together to go global. In als, home appliances, furniture, electronics etc. The oping countries, standing with and supporting op its economy and improve people’s lives and late 2004 the first Dragonmart was built and put mall is expected to open in the coming October. them shoulder by shoulder. Will that mean a human right and democracy on its own way, while into operation in Dubai, and now it is well known Dragon City Bahrain will serve small business change on China’s nature? The answer is certainly some western countries have been trying to sell in the region by trade businessmen and local con- not only in Bahrain, but also those in Saudi Arabia NO. theirs’, and some other countries are busying in sumers, bringing huge opportunities of trade, and Kuwait, who are suffering from flying over color revolutions. investment, tourism, and jobs, which also promot- long distance to China and making purchase China’s Achievements ed the bilateral trade relationship between China there, facing difficult quality problems and deliv- With more than 30 years of economic reform China’s Aim and UAE. ery problems. 50-minute fly to Bahrain or 3-hour and opening to the world, China created a tremen- Chinese Government advocates economic Nowadays, another new Dragon City is coming driving will make business journey much easier, dous change in respect of economy and society. In globalization and free trade policy, aiming to con- over, which is located in Bahrain. while Dragon City management will be an umbrel- 2014, China is becoming the second largest econ- duct fair and win-win situation international eco- la to secure the quality and services to all visitors omy and biggest trade country in the world, build- nomic and trade cooperation. As an effort of realiz- Dragon City Bahrain to the City, providing a good environment of ing the world biggest 300Km/h high-speed ing this, Chinese new leaders launched “new silk Dragon City Bahrain is located in Diyar doing business. express rails networks; sending their astronauts to road” strategy, established Asian Infrastructure Muharraq island, north side of Bahrain We can’t help asking, when will this gentle the space and set up space station of their own Investment Bank (AIIB) and Brics Bank, encourag- International Airport, built and operated by coop- dragon fly to Kuwait one day? Mercedes-Benz drives clarity of growing model portfolio New system will come into operation in Q4 of 2015

KUWAIT: With the growth of the Mercedes-Benz model portfolio forecast to include more than 30 models available on the worldwide market by 2020, Abdul Rahman Albisher & Zaid Alkazemi Company - the authorised General Distributor of Mercedes-Benz in Kuwait - has announced that it will start imple- menting Mercedes-Benz’s new, simple and logical vehicle nomenclature system which aims to ensure clarity for the millions of Mercedes-Benz lovers around the globe. Based on model series, different body variants and drive systems, the new system will come into opera- tion in Q4 of 2015, and will begin with the Mercedes- Benz SUV range, followed by the Roadsters in 2016. “Mercedes-Benz is always thinking of ways to enhance our customer experience and there is no doubt the new nomenclature system will enable our customers to easily navigate our growing product portfolio,” said Michael Ruehle, CEO, Abdul Rahman Albisher & Zaid Alkazemi Co. “Now is the ideal time to do this as 2015 is an exciting year for our SUV range with many new models to be introduced.” The nomenclature system is straightforward and easy to understand. The model designation is always an acronym made up of between one and three upper- case letters. The different types of engine are indicat- ed by a lower-case letter. The system centres around the five core model series, A, B, C, E and S, which will continue to be used to provide orientation for cus- Al-Tijari offer with tomers. In the case of model designations for the SUVs, the third letter, which indicates the relationship to the series designations, the different types of engines will and in tribute to the legendary G-Class, all SUV mod- relevant core model series. In specific terms: also be given new designations. These provide clear Bader Al-Yahya Yachts Co els will carry the first two letters “GL” in their name. GLA = GL A-Class orientation and are also shorter than the designations GLC = GL C-Class; previously GLK used until now. The boot lids will in future feature KUWAIT: The Commercial Bank of Kuwait ally, the customer have the option to GLE = GL E-Class; previously M-Class or ML lower-case letters for, diesel, hybrid, electric, fuel cell & has announced a special offer with Bader finance the boat purchase with an interest GLE CoupÈ = GL E-Class CoupÈ compressed natural gas models. Al-Yahya Yachts Company for its Premier free loan for a year against deposit pledge. GLS = GL S-Class; previously GL As has been the case until now, there will be no Banking customers and Visa Infinte card- This exclusive offer will run for seven G = unchanged suffix for the petrol models. The defining and estab- holders. months starting from Sept 2015 until The system for the 4-door CoupÈs is constructed lished designation 4MATIC for Mercedes-Benz all- Bader Al-Yahya Yachts Company sells March 31, 2016. along similar lines. The first two letters, “CL”, denote wheel-drive vehicles will remain unchanged and will the most luxurious European Yacht & Boat Premier Banking customers at CBK the origin, the third letter the link to one of the core be celebrating its thirtieth anniversary next year. The “G” here denotes the car’s lineage. The “L” is a let- brands such as PRESTIGE, JEANNEAU, enjoy a new dimension of elite products model series: in other words CLA or CLS. Given the way that Mercedes-Benz has evolved into ter that appears time and time again over the history NUMO, FJORD and SEALINE. All Premier and personalized banking services. From 2016, Mercedes-Benz Roadsters will all the leading brand for all-wheel drive, 4MATIC will in of Mercedes-Benz that serves as a linking letter to Banking customers and VISA Infinite card- Commercial Bank of Kuwait brings to its include “SL” in their names to denote their origin, with future play an even more important role in its model make model designations easier to remember and holders will receive an exclusive 10% dis- Premier Banking customers exclusive offers the third letter again the link to one of the core model portfolio. As a result of a steadily growing demand, easier to pronounce; for example, the legendary SL, , count when buying any yacht or boat from and benefits specially tailored to meet their series. The SLK therefore becomes the new SLC. Mercedes-Benz will in future be adding further mod- and more recently, the CLS and CLA. It is followed by Bader Al-Yahya Yachts Company, addition- expectations and life style. In a development paralleling that of the model els to its all-wheel drive segment. flydubai announces first network-wide sale with 30% off flydubai sale is now on #flydubaiSale for business and economy class

KUWAIT: flydubai yesterday viding its customers with a better Economy Class continues to give launched its first network-wide travel experience by offering more people the opportunity to sale offering customers 30% off greater choice and flexibility. fly- travel to more places more often Business and Economy Class fares dubai’s Business Class offers an for less. to Dubai and select destinations. even more comfortable and per- Book before 20 September and Customers who plan to travel sonal flying experience while the flydubai to where you want to be between 01 October 2015 and 30 airline’s popular and convenient for 30% less. June 2016 and book before 20 September will receive 30% off. With a fleet of 49 modern Next-Generation Boeing 737-800 aircraft, flydubai operates over 1,600 weekly flights to more than 90 destinations in 45 countries creating a network that spans the GCC, Middle East, Africa, the Caucasus, Central Asia, Europe and the Subcontinent. Dubai is at the crossroads of east and west and at the heart of a dynamic global industry con- necting people of all back- grounds and cultures. Dubai is also a cosmopolitan oasis, a futur- istic cityscape that towers over the Arabian Desert. From shop- ping malls and indoor skiing slopes to desert safaris and the world’s tallest building, Dubai is a city with attractions for the whole family and travel enthusiasts alike. flydubai is dedicated to pro- WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 t e c h n o l o g y

Federal appeals court set to hear Microsoft ‘cloud’ case NEW YORK: Microsoft Corp. gets a second Washington-based company hopes the In court papers, Microsoft calls on Congress seeking to profit on the storage of information the foreign-based data and U.S.-based employ- chance to prove it’s entitled to keep data stored appeals court will overturn the decision to “grapple with the question whether, and overseas. ees can retrieve it. They said Microsoft cus- overseas out of the hands of US investigators upholding the US government’s right to search when, law enforcement should be able to com- “The fact remains that there exists probable tomers also have no right under the company’s when its lawyers appear before a federal a consumer email account that Microsoft stores pel providers like Microsoft to help it seize cus- cause to believe that evidence of a violation of terms of service to demand that data be stored appeals court today, but the computer soft- in Dublin, Ireland. The government wants to tomer emails stored in foreign countries.” “Only US criminal law, affecting US residents and at any particular data center. In a filing in the ware giant is already hedging its bets, calling search the account as part of a narcotics inves- Congress has the institutional competence and implicating U.S. interests, is present in records appeal, the government of Ireland noted that on Congress to clarify the law. tigation. constitutional authority to balance law under Microsoft’s control,” they wrote. “With the the Irish Supreme Court has ruled The 2nd US Circuit Court of Appeals will A warrant for the information was issued in enforcement needs against our nation’s sover- benefits of corporate citizenship in the United that Irish courts have the power to order hear Microsoft’s challenge to a July 2014 lower December 2013, saying there was probable eignty, the privacy of its citizens and the com- States come corresponding responsibilities, production of documents by an Irish registered court ruling concluding that a court or law cause to believe the account in a facility petitiveness of its industry,” it said. But including the responsibility to comply with a company by one of its branches situated in a enforcement agency in the United States is opened in 2010 was being used to further nar- Manhattan federal prosecutors said in court fil- disclosure order issued by a U.S. court. foreign country. It said Irish taxation authorities empowered to order a person or entity to pro- cotics trafficking. Microsoft turned over the ings that “powerful government interests” Microsoft should not be heard to complain that also can force Irish banks to produce records of duce materials, even if the information is customer’s address book, which was stored in override potential negative effects on doing so might harm its bottom line.” accounts held by customers wherever the housed outside the country. The Redmond, the United States. Microsoft’s business or any other company Prosecutors noted Microsoft still controls information is located. — AP

Apple event to focus on new iPhones, Apple TV and Siri

SAN FRANCISCO: Hey, Siri, what does Analysts say the new TV box is part of Apple have in store for us this week? Along Apple’s broader strategy to carve out a big- with new iPhones, the iconic tech compa- ger role in the home. For instance, the new ny is expected to show off a new Apple TV Apple TV could serve as a hub for Siri to system and a bigger role in the home for control lamps, thermostats and other Siri, its voice-activated digital assistant. “smart” appliances, using Apple’s HomeKit After a series of high-profile Apple technology. launches over the past year - super-sized It could also set the stage for Apple to iPhones, a digital wallet, a sleek smart- later introduce a streaming video service watch - analysts say this week’s news aimed at competing with Netflix and other might not seem as dramatic. But the event Internet entertainment services. could reveal more about the company’s strategy and its aspirations to be an indis- SMARTER SIRI pensable part of daily life. Even without an Apple TV, new iPhone “Apple’s master plan is to be ubiqui- software will make it easier to set up auto- tous,” said Jordan Edelson of software firm mated homes, including having lights turn Appetizer Mobile, explaining why Apple is on and window shades go up when you increasingly designing its iPhone and Siri tell Siri on the phone, “Time to wake up.” to interact with cars, televisions and With the new software for iPhones and “smart” home systems. iPads, Siri can also offer recommendations, It isn’t a sure bet: Apple rivals like such as nearby restaurants, before you Google, Samsung and Microsoft are build- even ask. It might even launch apps for ing their own technology for Internet-con- you, based on your past habits, when you nected cars and homes. While the compa- attach headphones or connect to a ny has been coy, here’s what analysts and Bluetooth speaker in a car. Siri will also others expect at Apple’s event Wednesday offer to add calendar and contact entries in San Francisco: based on your incoming email - something Google already does with its competing NEW IPHONES services. Apple sold a record 183 million iPhones New iPhones will come with this new in the nine months since releasing the software, known as iOS 9. Apple also plans iPhone 6 and 6 Plus, which have bigger to release it as a free update for existing screens than earlier models. That has iPhones and iPads, likely next week. allowed the company to remain highly profitable, even as Samsung and other WHAT ELSE? NOORDWIJK: A screen shot taken on September 7 shows the Interact Centaur rover remotely guided by an astronaut from the International phone makers struggle. After major software updates over the Space Station (ISS). While orbiting some 400 kilometres (250 miles) above Earth, Danish astronaut Andreas Mogensen took control of the Based on the iPhone’s usual two-year past two years, the new software for Interact Centaur rover which has a pair of arms for delicate, high-precision work, under the careful control of the European Space Agency. —AFP product cycle, industry experts expect this iPhones and iPads is mostly about refine- year’s models will be the same size with ments, including a different font, a new more subtle refinements, such as a faster way to scroll through photos and behind- processor, higher-resolution cameras and the-scenes tweaks to improve battery life. Big step for man as astronaut new exterior colors. But there will be a few new features One likely addition is “Force Touch,” beyond a smarter Siri. For instance, major which uses screen sensors to discern cities will get transit directions, addressing controls robot from space between a light tap and extended finger a major shortcoming with Apple Maps. In pressure to trigger different functions. This some cities, including New York and arrived on Apple’s smartwatch and some London, Apple sent teams to map out sub- Technology will allow people to do human-like tasks laptops this spring. Some analysts ques- way exits and entrances. That way, users tion whether these features will inspire the getting to the subway are guided to the NOORDWIJK: European experts into place. He then very slowly which means before they first step “Feeling” robots would have been same type of consumer demand that pro- closest entrance, while those getting off have pulled off a major advance lowered a metal pin held by the foot on the planet “you would useful to cap the 2010 Gulf of pelled last year’s iPhone success story. But are told which exit signs to look for. that might one day help build new robot into a tight hole in a task have to build an entire launch- Mexico oil spill, or help seal the research firm Kantar Worldpanel says a Apple is also expected to unveil a larger worlds in space after an astronaut board with less than a sixth of a platform on the planet.” reactors at Japan’s Fukushima substantial number of iPhone owners are iPad for business users, but probably not in the International Space Station millimetre of wriggle room. Robots like the Centaur-also nuclear power plant after the 2011 still using older, smaller models, which until at least October. Existing iPads can remotely guided a robot on Earth affectionately dubbed the “blue meltdown. Professor Frans van der makes them likely candidates to upgrade. get the software update when it comes by feel. Using a joystick bug” by some of its designers- Helm, from Delft University’s out for the iPhone. With it, iPad users will Danish astronaut Andreas For the first time-thanks to could be put in place first to do mechanical engineering unit, said APPLE TV also be able to run two apps side by side, Mogensen performed the breath- force-feedback technology-when the building. one scheme was looking at using Apple is expected to unveil a or have video running in a small window taking experiment in which he the pin was not aligned correctly “There’s going to be a need for such robots to work in a massive redesigned Apple TV set-top box with new within the main screen. It’s a feature placed a peg into a very tight hole Mogensen felt it hit the sides of a set-up, some building before a nuclear fusion project in France. capabilities for apps and games, plus Samsung phones and tablets already have. on Monday under the careful con- the hole via the joystick he was human even sets foot on the plan- Inside the costly, multipartner recognition of Siri voice commands to Mac computers will get their own soft- trol of the European Space operating on the space station. et and for that we could send International Thermonuclear search for shows and retrieve weather ware update, but not until after the new Agency. Cheers erupted when after sev- down robots and control them Experimental Reactor (ITER) — if it forecasts and sports scores. The current iPhones are out. Unknown is whether While orbiting some 400 kilo- eral long nail-biting minutes the from a space station,” said industri- is built-”the heat will be about one model is a few years old and does little Apple will update its Apple Watch software metres (250 miles) above Earth, rover-which slightly resembles al designer Emiel den Exter. million degrees,” Van der Helm told beyond playing video and music. now or in a few months. — AP Mogensen took control of the Disney’s WALL.E cartoon character- The 18-month project was a AFP. “So everything starts to Interact Centaur rover which has a dropped the pin successfully into collaboration between the deform” making it hard for robots pair of arms for delicate, high-pre- place. European Space Agency (ESA)and to complete a task which they cision work. The blue-and-white Scientists and engineers believe students from Delft University of have been programmed for, he fibreglass robot, which cost less applications of this kind of tactile Technology. “Even something like said. In this case, telepresence than 200,000 euros ($224,000) to technology are huge-allowing lacing your shoe is something you technology would allow a human build, also has a camera on its humans to guide robots in delicate rely entirely on your tactile senses” to feel their way through and fix a head which allows the controller tasks by feeling their way. The for, Schiele told journalists gath- problem. to directly see the task it is per- technology will allow people “to ered at the ESA headquarters in For 27-year-old Turkish student forming. But sight is not the most project a human-like presence into the Dutch town of Noordwijk. Doga Emirdag, who helped design important sense in this project. It the robots, to do human-like tasks the Centaur’s exo-skeleton as part is touch. on the surface” of a planet, Andre Earthly uses of his masters degree, Monday’s In real-time, thanks to super Schiele, head of ESA’s Telerobotics On Earth this cutting-edge demonstration was a big day. “The swift signals bouncing off a dedi- and Haptics Laboratory, told AFP. technology known as haptics robot as it is wouldn’t go into cated complex system of satellites With space engineers hoping at could also be used “everywhere space. But the technology being working in synchronisation, the some point to fly people to Mars, where you basically don’t want to developed will go to space,” he astronaut manoeuvered the robot “we have to bring them back” send humans,” said Schiele. said with a broad smile. — AFP Disney teams up with

CUPERTINO: In this Sept. 9, 2014 file photo, Apple CEO Tim Cook speaks during an Amazon and Microsoft announcement of new products in Cupertino, Calif. At an event today in San NEW YORK: Disney has signed devices and through the Microsoft devices, as well as online. Sept. 15. Disney’s stock added Francisco, the iconic tech company is expected to show off new iPhones and new agreements with Amazon and Movies and T V service on The app will be available on $2.13, or 2 percent, to $103.10 in ways to use its voice-activated digital assistant Siri — perhaps to control TVs and Microsoft that will allow them to Windows and Microsoft Xbox Roku and Android T V starting premarket trading. — AP other appliances. — AP use its cloud-based digital movie service. The deals expand the number BlackBerry to buy security of ways in which people can watch Disney films. The company already has agreements in place company Good Tech for $425m with Vudu, Google Play and NEW YORK: BlackBerry said that it will Ltd. bought WatchDox, a provider of iTunes. make another security-related acquisi- secure enterprise file-sync-and-share The service includes more than tion, buying Good Technology for $425 technology, and agreed to buy AtHoc, a 450 digital movies. The Walt million in cash. BlackBerry, once known software company that develops emer- Disney Co. said that US customers for making smartphones, is now trying gency alert systems for government of Amazon Video and Microsoft to focus on software that lets IT depart- agencies, military bodies, and other Movies & TV will now be able to ments manage mobile devices. The organizations. connect to Disney Movies company said Good Technology will The company also announced a Anywhere starting Tuesday. The help it offer a unified secure platform for round of job cuts earlier this year as it service will let users access Disney, mobile devices that runs on any operat- restructures its business and deals with Pixar, Marvel and “Star Wars” ing system. It said Good Technology has weak smartphone sales. BlackBerry has movies in various ways, including about $160 million in annual revenue, eliminated thousands of jobs in the last through the Disney Movies while BlackBerry has reported about $3 few years under CEO John Chen, who Anywhere app for Microsoft’s billion in revenue in its last four fiscal and has focused on reducing costs and Xbox 360 and for Amazon Fire quarters. increasing innovation.US shares of tablets, Fire TV and Fire TV Stick. The Canadian company expects to BlackBerry rose 10 cents to $7.56 in mid- Customers can also access and watch movies through the TOKYO: Visitors play a game called “Hado” during the Wearable Tech Expo in Tokyo 2015 exhibition in complete the purchase by the end of day trading Friday. The stock has fallen Tokyo yesterday. Hado was developed by Meleap and combines AR (augmented reality) technology with November. Earlier this year BlackBerry 28 percent over the past year. — AP Amazon Video app for televisions, connected devices and mobile physical movement. Each player can dynamically activate ‘super powers’ triggered by gestures to attack and protect each other’s ‘crystals’. — AFP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 HEALTH & SCIENCE

Infants’ whooping cough source likely siblings, study finds

CHICAGO: Infants are more likely to catch notes. To protect infants, experts have recom- infection could be identified for about half the age 11 or 12. Booster shots also are recom- women get whooping cough shots, she noted. whooping cough from their siblings than their mended two strategies - vaccinating close children. Of these, siblings were linked to more mended for adults. Vaccination rates are high Women who develop whooping cough during moms, says a study with implications for how contacts after birth, including parents and sib- than a third of the cases and moms to about for US children and teens. The shots provide pregnancy can’t transmit the disease to fetus- to protect them. Previously, moms were con- lings, and vaccinating pregnant women, who one-fifth. Dads accounted for another 10 per- good protection for a few years, and although es, but transmission is possible if mothers sidered the more common source of infection. can transfer some disease protection before cent, a bit higher than grandparents and aunts effectiveness tends to wear off, kids should cough during childbirth, Skoff said, “so the The change is probably due in part to an birth. or uncles. Results were published online continue to get vaccinated, said lead author benefits of maternal vaccination during preg- increased frequency of whooping cough The study results suggest the first option Monday in the journal Pediatrics. Whooping Tami Skoff, a researcher at the federal Centers nancy are two-fold: protect both the mom and among school-aged children, the study of gov- may not be as effective as hoped, so boosting cough, also called pertussis, is highly conta- for Disease Control and Prevention. the infant.” Outbreaks of whooping cough are ernment data suggests. Infants face the great- low vaccination rates among pregnant gious and typically begins with cold-like symp- But until vaccines with longer-lasting common and cases spike every few years. Last est risk of severe illness and death from women should be a top priority, the study toms followed by severe coughing fits, immunity are developed, getting more year, nearly 29,000 cases were reported and whooping cough, especially before 2 months, authors said. The research examined data from although not all infants and young children women immunized during every pregnancy is eight infants died, versus nearly 49,000 cases the recommended age for beginning a series 1,306 infants in seven states who were diag- develop a cough. Five vaccine doses are rec- the best way to protect infants, she said. Only in 2012 - a peak year when 16 infants died, of vaccinations against the disease, the study nosed between 2006 and 2013. The source of ommended by age 6, with a booster shot at 15 percent to 20 percent of US pregnant most of them younger than 3 months. — AP

McKenzie County, ND: Photo shows salt residue from oilfield wastewater leaks that contaminated a CROSSROADS, NM: Photo shows salty residue from spilled oilfield wastewater on cropland in McKenzie County, ND. — AP photos farm pond and killed aquatic vegetation in McKenzie County, ND. Drilling boom means more harmful waste spills ‘Most ranchers are very attached to the land’

CROSSROADS, NM: Carl Johnson and son state,” said Kerry Sublette, a University of total was 4,643. The amount of wastewater Disposal Co. acknowledged responsibility. Justin are third- and fourth-generation Tulsa environmental engineer and specialist spilled doubled from 21.1 million gallons in No fines were levied because the leak was ranchers who for decades have battled oil- in treating the despoiled landscapes. “Brine 2009 to 43 million in 2013 before dipping to accidental. Vice President Rory McGinn field companies that left a patchwork of bar- spills are much more difficult.” 37.6 million last year. The extent of land or blamed practices and materials the compa- ren earth where the men graze cattle in the In addition to the extreme salinity, the water contamination is unknown; state and ny no longer uses, saying in an interview high plains of New Mexico. Blunt and pro- fluids often contain heavy metals such as federal regulators make no such assess- that “an enormous amount of money” has fane, they stroll across a 1 1/2-acre patch of arsenic and mercury, plus radioactivity. Even ments. Texas, the nation’s biggest oil and gone into upgrades. sandy soil - lifeless, save for a scattering of smaller discharges affecting an acre or two gas producer, had the most incidents, 4,783, stunted weeds. Five years ago, a broken gradually add up for landowners - “death by and the highest volume spilled, 62 million Prevention devices pipe soaked the land with as much as a thousand bee stings,” said Don Shriber of gallons. Industry groups and regulators said The company said much the same in 420,000 gallons of oilfield wastewater - a Farmington, New Mexico, a cattleman who much of the waste is recovered during 2005 after earlier spills, telling the state in a salty and potentially toxic drilling byproduct wrangled with an oil company over dam- cleanup operations or contained by berms letter obtained through a records request it that can quickly turn fertile land into a dead age. For animals, the results can be fatal. near wells. Still, they acknowledged a cer- had spent nearly $250,000 on higher-grade zone. The leaked brine killed every sprig of Ranchers, including Melvin Reed of Shidler, tain amount soaks into the ground and can pipe, tanks and valves and “our objective flow into waterways. and goal is to be 100 percent maintenance “You’re going to have spills in an indus- and environmentally safe in our operation.” trial society,” said Katie Brown, spokes- The company has had a dozen spills since woman for Energy In Depth, a research and 2003, said Larry Behrens of the New Mexico education arm of the Independent Department of Energy, Minerals and Natural Petroleum Association of America. “But Resources. Despite such incidents, relatively there are programs in place to reduce them.” few farmers and ranchers complain publicly. Wastewater spills have dogged the oil TEXAS: Don Stoker looks over land that was damaged by an oilfield waste- Some get royalty checks for wells on their industry from its earliest days more than a water spill near Snyder, Texas. property. Others don’t want to be seen as century ago, borne witness by barren sites opposing an industry that is the economic from the Great Plains to the Pacific. A notori- lion gallons in 2006 caused a massive die- images of birds flailing in black goo and backbone of their communities. “If they ous symbol is the “Texon scar,” where brine off of fish, turtles and plants in the tourist beaches fouled. Regulators rely on treat us right, we’re all friends of oil,” said from a well drilled in 1923 near that tiny Yellowstone River and a tributary. Cleanup private operators to notify them, and it’s not Mike Artz, a grower in North Dakota’s West Texas town created a desolate 2,000- costs approached $2 million. Two larger always required. For example, Oklahoma Bottineau County who lost a five-acre barley acre swath dotted with dead mesquite spills since then scoured vegetation along exempts reporting of most spills of less than crop in 2013 after a saltwater pipeline rup- trees. Efforts to restore the land continue to an almost 2-mile stretch and fouled a creek 10 barrels, or 420 gallons. ture. “But right now, it’s just a horse running this day, said range conservationist Joe and a river. Wastewater from unlined pits The loudest whistleblowers are often without the bridle.” Petersen. seeped beneath a 6,000-acre cotton and property owners, who must allow drilling Oil and gas developers said they have Concentrated brine, much saltier than nut farm near Bakersfield, California, and access to their land if they don’t own the everything to gain from stopping spills, seawater, exists naturally in rock formations contaminated groundwater. Oil giant Aera mineral rights. “Most ranchers are very which cost them money for cleanup and thousands of feet underground, a remnant Energy was ordered in 2009 to pay $9 mil- attached to the land,” said Jeff Henry, presi- soil restoration. Sara Hughes, spokeswoman of prehistoric oceans. When oil and gas are lion to grower Fred Starrh, who had to dent of the Osage County Cattlemen’s for pipeline operator Kinder Morgan, said CROSSROADS, NM: Photo shows salty residue from an oilfield wastewater pumped to the surface, the water comes remove 2,000 acres from production. spill on cropland in Bottineau County, ND. too, along with fluids and chemicals inject- ed to crack open rock - the process known Groundwater table grama and bluestem grasses and shinnery Oklahoma, said they have lost cattle that as hydraulic fracturing. Production of Brine leaks exceeding 40 million gallons shrubs it touched. For the Johnsons, the spill lapped up the liquids or ate tainted grass. methane gas from coal deposits also gener- over decades on the Fort Peck Indian is among dozens that have taken a heavy “They get real thin. It messes them up,” Reed ates wastewater, but it is less salty and Reservation in Montana polluted a river, pri- toll: a landscape pockmarked with spots said. “Sometimes you just have to shoot harmful. The spills usually occur as oil and vate wells and the municipal water system where livestock can no longer graze, legal them.” gas are channeled to metal tanks for separa- in Poplar. “It was undrinkable,” said resident fees running into the tens of thousands and tion from the wastewater, and the water is Donna Whitmer. “If you shook it up, it’d look worries about the safety of the area’s under- Gas production delivered to a disposal site - usually an injec- all orange.” Under a 2012 settlement with ground aquifer. The AP obtained data from regulatory tion well that pumps it back underground. the US Environmental Protection Agency, oil “If we lose our water, that ruins our agencies in Texas, North Dakota, California, Pipelines, tank trucks and pits are potential companies paid $320,000 for new water ranch,” Justin Johnson said. “That’s the end Alaska, Colorado, New Mexico, Oklahoma, weak points. wells and other improvements. Drinking of the story.” Their plight illustrates a largely Wyoming, Kansas, Utah and Montana - Accidents range from the mundane to water tainted with oilfield brine can cause overlooked side effect of oil and gas pro- states that account for more than 90 per- the freakish; in 2010, a storage tank near high blood pressure, dehydration and other duction that has worsened with the past cent of the nation’s onshore oil production. Ardmore, Oklahoma, overflowed after a health risks, EPA spokeswoman Sarah decade’s drilling boom: spills of wastewater Officials in ninth-ranking oil producer snake slithered into a panel box and blew a Teschner said. that foul the land, kill wildlife and threaten Louisiana and second-ranking gas producer fuse. Most spills are caused by equipment In Fort Stockton, Texas, officials in freshwater supplies. An Associated Press Pennsylvania said they could not provide malfunction or human error, according to February accused oil company Bugington analysis of data from leading oil- and gas- comprehensive spill data. The spill total state reports reviewed by the AP. Though no Energy of illegally dumping 3 million gal- producing states found more than 180 mil- increased each year, along with oil and gas full accounting of damage exists, the scope lons of wastewater in pastures. Paul TEXAS: Photo shows salt residue is visible on drying mud after an oilfield lion gallons of wastewater spilled from 2009 production. In 2009, there were 2,470 is sketched out in a sampling of incidents: Weatherby, general manager of the Middle wastewater spill on Wesley Graves’ land near Snyder, Texas. to 2014 in incidents involving ruptured reported spills in the 11 states; by 2014, the In North Dakota, a spill of nearly 1 mil- Pecos Groundwater Conservation District, pipes, overflowing storage tanks and other said he fears contamination of the area’s mishaps or even deliberate dumping. There groundwater table. The district levied a Association in Oklahoma. “It’s where we her company has lowered water injection were some 21,651 individual spills. And $130,000 fine but the company hasn’t paid, derive our income, raise our families. It’s pressure and installed additional leak-detec- these numbers are incomplete because contending the district overstepped its who we are.” tion devices on its lines since its spill on many releases go unreported. authority. A big reason why there are so many Stoker’s land. “We are committed to public Though oil spills tend to get more atten- A pipeline joint failure caused flooding spills is the sheer volume of wastewater safety, protection of the environment and tion, wastewater spills can be more damag- on Don Stoker’s ranch near Snyder, Texas, in extracted: about 10 barrels for every barrel operation of our facilities in compliance ing. And in seven of the 11 states the AP November 2012 and turned his hackberry of oil, according to an organization of state with all applicable rules and regulations,” examined, the amount of wastewater shade trees into skeletons. Vacuum trucks ground water agencies, or more than 840 Hughes said. released was at least twice that of oil dis- sucked up some saltwater and the oil com- billion gallons a year. Sometimes, the exact In North Dakota, where the spills charged. Spilled oil, however unsightly, over pany paid damages, but Stoker said his cause is never determined. The Johnsons increased at a higher rate than the well time is absorbed by minerals in the soil or operation was in turmoil. “I had to stay out have yet to learn why an underground line count during the boom years of 2009-’14, degraded by microbes. Not so with the there three days and watch them while they ruptured in at least two places on the state- pipelines near waterways must have leak wastewater - also known as brine, produced were getting the saltwater out, to make sure owned land they lease for ranching. A salty, prevention devices but not those else- water or saltwater. Unless thoroughly they didn’t totally destroy the whole area.” oily odor wafted heavily on the breeze where; critics said that shows the oil cleansed, a costly and time-consuming Government agencies acknowledge when Justin Johnson reached the site in industry’s political clout. Lynn Helms, process, salt-saturated land dries up. Trees having a limited view of the accidents, October 2010. director of the North Dakota Department die. Crops cannot take root. “Oil spills may which often happen in remote places and, “I was just totally and thoroughly dis- of Mineral Resources, said more devices look bad, but we know how to clean them LOVINGTON, NM: Disposal pipes carry wastewater from pumping units to unlike oil spills, don’t produce dramatic gusted,” he said. New Mexico Salt Water would be costly and wouldn’t necessarily up and ... return the land to a productive collection tanks in a field near Lovington, NM. catch small leaks. — AP WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 HEALTH & SCIENCE Doctors warn of snakebite serum shortage

PARIS: Tens of thousands of people will ent snake species, among the most danger- Antivenom treatment can cost as much as unnecessarily die of snakebites unless an ous in Africa. About five million people are $250-500 (224-448 euros) per patient, accord- affordable new source of antivenom is found, bitten by snakes every year, of whom about ing to MSF. Sanofi said Fav-Afrique could no Doctors Without Borders has warned, with 100,000 die, according to the World Health longer compete with cheaper alternatives stocks of a French-produced drug running Organization (WHO). flooding the market from Asia, Latin America out. Pharmaceutical company Sanofi stopped and Africa, but MSF warned these versions production of the drug, Fav-Afrique, at the ‘Market failure’ were less effective and did not cover end of last year, the medical volunteer group, Some 300,000 people per year lose limbs snakebites by such a wide range of species. known by its French acronym of MSF, said. or suffer other permanent disabilities after The pharmaceutical giant said it “regretted” The last batch will expire next June. An effec- snakebites. The UN’s health body lists having to stop production, but stressed it had tive replacement will not be available “for snakebites as a “neglected” public health issue. been warning of the impending situation for another two years,” MSF warned in a state- “Poor data on the number and type of years. “This situation, essentially a failure of the ment issued to coincide with a symposium in snakebites, leading to difficulty estimating market, has clearly shown how price pressures Basel, Switzerland yesterday, entitled: “Time needs, combined with deficient distribution can lead to choices being made to the detri- to improve snakebite management in the policies, have ment of reliability and, potentially, quality, of tropics.” “The absence of a safe and effective contributed to manufacturers stopping drug supply, with impacts on public health,” it antivenom that is active against multiple tox- production or increasing the prices of antiven- said in a statement. MSF warned of a “real cri- ins from June 2016 until at least the end of oms,” says a WHO factsheet. “Poor regulation sis”. “The global health community, donors, 2018 will translate into countless deaths,” it and the marketing of inappropriate antiven- governments and pharmaceutical companies said. “Until alternative treatments are found, oms, has led to a loss of confidence in the should accept responsibility for their share of SUDAN: Banywich Bone, 18, who had his left leg amputated after a severe infec- Sanofi needs to ensure the interim produc- available antivenoms by clinicians, health the neglect of snakebite as a public health tion which developed following a snake bite, convalesces at Agok hospital, tion of the Fav-Afrique antivenom.” Fav- managers and patients, which has further emergency and take immediate, appropriate South Sudan. — AP Afrique acts against the venom of 10 differ- eroded demand” and pushed up prices. and collaborative action,” it said. — AFP

Violence, self-harm and suicide common among trafficked children

KUALA LUMPUR: Children as young as 10 have through very difficult, often extremely abusive cir- been driven to attempt suicide or have suffered cumstances, sometimes akin to situations of tor- serious mental health problems after being traf- ture,” Zimmerman of the London School of ficked as sex slaves or forced laborers in situations Hygiene and Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) told the “akin to torture”, researchers said yesterday. They Thomson Reuters Foundation in an email. interviewed 387 boys and girls aged between 10 and 17 in Cambodia, Thailand and Vietnam who Abuse and violence had been trafficked for sex work, forced begging Just over half of those surveyed had been and fishing. Even though global estimates suggest exploited for sex work and 15 girls had been traf- that millions of boys and girls are in forced labor, ficked to China as brides. One third of the total had trafficked or exploited in the sex industry, little is been abused sexually or physically, or both, mostly known yet about their health and wellbeing. Some by their trafficker or employer. Sexual violence was 56 percent of those surveyed were depressed, a more common among girls, who represented 82 third suffered from an anxiety disorder and around percent of those surveyed. About a quarter of girls a quarter had post-traumatic stress disorder, trafficked into sex work experienced physical vio- according to the study published in the JAMA lence, and 71 percent reported sexual violence by a Pediatrics journal. Twelve percent of victims said client. Even though counseling is available for child they had tried to harm or kill themselves in the sex trafficking survivors, services are insufficient in month before the researchers interviewed them, dealing with victims experiencing such high levels while almost 16 percent reported having suicidal of mental health issues, said Ligia Kiss, a lecturer at thoughts. “These findings are especially disturbing the London School of Hygiene and Tropical given estimates that each year thousands, if not Medicine, who led the study. “Staff of post-traffick- millions of children are trafficked and suffer severe ing services often don’t feel equipped to deal with abuse, such as being beaten up, tied or chained, mental health problems, especially with situations choked, burned, cut with a knife and subjected to involving suicidal intent and alcoholism,” Kiss said. sexual violence,” said Cathy Zimmerman, one of Only the most severe cases and life-threatening the authors of the study. “Children and adolescents mental health conditions ended up receiving who survive trafficking experiences have been appropriate help, she added. — Reuters

INDONESIA: Indonesian fire fighters, rangers, soldiers and activists extinguish a fire in Kampar, Riau province yesterday. — AFP Indonesian fires send smog over Singapore, Malaysia

JAKARTA: Smog from forest fires choke the region with acrid smog. lem at a rally: “What do we worry Indonesian President Joko Widodo in Indonesia yesterday prompted In Sumatra’s Riau province, air about? Just look around you, at to visit Sumatra at the weekend the cancellation of flights and quality reached hazardous levels the grey haze.” and pledge a crackdown on com- warnings for people to stay and visibility dropped as low as Several areas in western panies that break the law by start- indoors, while pushing air quality 100 metres (330 feet), with the air- Malaysia, including the capital ing blazes. Pressure to stop the to unhealthy levels in neighboring port and schools in the provincial Kuala Lumpur, recorded unhealthy annual outbreaks of smog has Singapore and Malaysia. The thick capital closed and people warned air quality. Western Malaysia lies increased since 2013 when PARIS: Tobacconists wear kangaroo costumes and masks as they hold placards read- haze came from blazes on western not to venture outdoors. Flights across the Malacca Strait from Southeast Asia suffered its worst ing in French “Neutral cigarette packaging Doesn’t work in Australia”, “Neutral ciga- Sumatra island and the were also disrupted at other air- Sumatra. Efforts to tackle the fires air pollution crisis for more than a rette packaging = tobacco traffic”, “#Hands off - There is no question of putting us Indonesian part of Borneo island, ports in Sumatra. In Singapore, with water-bombing helicopters decade, with haze levels hitting a k.o” and “Marisol, stop jumping on bad ideas #Neutral cigarette packaging “, which are home to huge palm oil east of Sumatra, haze shrouded and by chemically inducing rain record high in Singapore. But “#Marisol, Neutral cigarette packaging is not in the pocket” and “#Neutral cigarette and pulp and paper plantations. the skyscrapers of the city-state’s were being hampered by poor vis- attempts by the 10-member packaging - Repression 1 Prevention 0” after dumping tons of carrots in front of the Vast tracts of land are cleared on skyline and air pollution rose ibility due to the smog, which was Association of Southeast Asian Economy Ministry building to protest against neutral cigarette packaging that both islands for plantations using above the “unhealthy” level. preventing aircraft from flying, Nations to resolve the problem French government wants to reintroduce in his new draft Health law yesterday. The illegal slash-and-burn methods, Campaigning for elections due on Indonesia’s disaster agency said. have moved only slowly, with French Senate will begin on September 14 the draft Health law public examination causing fierce fires every year dur- Friday, Prime Minister Lee Hsien The fires started raging intensely repeated meetings on the subject which one of its objectives is to reduce youth smoking. — AFP ing Indonesia’s dry season that Loong raised the perennial prob- several days ago, prompting producing little concrete. — AFP WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Health Ministry holds annual hajj gathering he Health Ministry held its annual hajj (pilgrimage) gathering, in preparation for the hajj season, and organized a health awareness exhibition on the sidelines of the gathering. Various government departments and Tprivate companies participated in the event. Sebamed was among the companies present at the exhibition.

The Sabah Al-Ahmad Center for Giftedness and Creativity signed a cooperation protocol with the Public Authority for Disability Affairs to establish a ‘Fab Lab’ workshop for people with special needs; the first of its kind in the world.

KFH visits Chest Kuwait Embassies Football Diseases Hospital League invitation (KEFL) he Premier Sport Academy in association with uwait Finance House (KFH) paid a visit to the Chest Everton FC is pleased to invite Embassy teams to Diseases Hospital as part of its social responsibility participate in a Football League dedicated to serv- and in attempt to put smiles on patients’ faces and T K ing the international community in Kuwait. Weekly wish them quick recovery. KFH Public Relations team matches will be played at the Everton Bayan Sports organized a tour to all hospital wards and distributed gifts. Arena on Sunday evenings with kick off times of either This reflects KFH’s keenness to participate in all occasions 7pm or 8pm starting in October. that underline its status as part and parcel of the society. Teams should consist of 7 players (one goalkeeper The medical and administrative staff in the hospital commended KFH’s efforts and its continuous contributions plus 6 outfield) and up to 4 substitutes. Matches will be towards the health sector. KFH contributed in supporting two halves of 25 minutes each. Participating teams hospitals by purchasing medical devices, sponsoring their must represent their Embassy and be either employees events and activities while organizing awareness and or nationals from the Embassy. The League will be blood donation campaigns that bid to enhance its role in organized by P.S.A. Everton and will initially run for supporting the health field. twelve weeks followed by the Everton Cup competition. WHAT’S ON WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

Al-Roumi as he ties the ropes around the box. Tying the ropes around the box.

Plates decorated with Al-Kumbar and Al-Bayye ropes. Samples of tied-boxes decorated with Al-Bayee and Al-Kumbar. Al-Bayye and Al-Kumbar ropes Kuwaiti keeps traditional hand-made ropes alive

n an effort to evoke memories of old skipper, revealing the secrets behind making or which turns brown after being soaked in that there were two stages for making ropes; thickness. Some of these thick ropes will be Kuwait, a senior citizen found his passion in traditional hand-made ropes. red tea, said Al-Roumi. ‘Back in the old days, the first starts in collecting and assembling tied around a big wooden box, used by sea or Imaking hand-made ropes used for sailing “Al-Kumbar” is a brown rope, basically the process of making ropes usually started fibers together while the second begins by desert travelers to keep personal belongings. and traveling. Speaking to KUNA, Ali Saleh Al- made of coconut fiber, while “Al-Bayye”, a simi- before the sea travel season with people buy- tying a number of those half-fabricated ropes Nowadays, the box became a piece of art that Roumi talked about his field of expertise as a lar kind of rope, and is known for its white col- ing material to make these ropes.’ He added around each other to form ropes’ desired is often used to decorate houses. —KUNA

The Republic of Tajikistan

he Republic of Tajikistan located in the cen- of genius Tajik men have contributed along cold summer in the far east, where the tower- Capital: Dushanbe Economy ter of Central Asia, known to Arabs as this ancient history in the making of a fine civi- ing Pamir Mountains spread freely in the National Day: September 9 (National Tajikistan’s economy depends on the cultiva- T“beyond the river”, bordered by Uzbekistan lization and culture of authentic cherished south, center and north. Independence Day) tion of agricultural crops, including cotton and Kyrgyzstan to the north and west, humanity. Land use Joined the United Nations: March 1992 (more than 400 thousand tons per year), vegeta- Afghanistan to the south and east of China. Tajikistan is a mountainous country, about Arable land: 6% bles, fruit quality and higher aluminum produc- The country is administratively divided into 93 percent of the area of towering mountains Pastures: 25% National Independence tion (more than 400 thousand tons per year). A three states and an ETA AlsgdChtlan in the of 7495 meters above the ground and most Forest: 4% Tajikistan won its national independence priority of the country’s economy is to build north and in the south and the mandate of the important rivers Sihon and Gihon with their Other: 65% on September 9, 1992, after the disintegration dams and Hydroelectric power stations on the mountainous Badakhshan in the east. And its tributaries. In the distant past the area in Water: 400 km of the former Soviet Union. A civil war was interior mountain rivers to rationalize the use of capital, Dushanbe city (more than 700 thou- which Tajikistan is today considered one of the Irrigated land: 6.390 km fought until 1997 when a reconciliation agree- water and ward off floods and consequences sand people (with a population of more than most important stations in the Great Silk ment and national reconciliation was signed in mountain landslides risk along the rivers and 7.0 (census 2007) million people, mostly Tajiks which linked the Far East and the far south Cultural environment Moscow. Since then the situation began to the production of electric power cheap cover its (80 percent), also inhabited by other national and west by. Population: 7 million inhabitants (2007) return to normal and restored security and internal needs and export the surplus abroad - minorities often where Uzbeks (15 percent). Density: 40.6 inhabitants / km solving stability and calm and tranquility in all Afghanistan, Pakistan, Iran etc. The country’s The Tajik people are the oldest dwelling Natural environment Natural increase: 1.9% parts of the country and today enjoys a repub- huge reserves of iron, mercury, silver, gold, coal, peoples in Central Asia and date its origins Land border: 3.651 km. National Language: Tajik lic of peace and stability under the wise lead- salt, marble, metals and gems are waiting for back thousands of years BC. An honorable line Climate: Extreme variation combines the Currency: Samani ($ 1 = 4.43 Samani) ership of the commander of Imam Ali Rahman. investors from home and abroad. GUST appoints new director of MBA Program

ulf University for Science and Director said, “I am very pleased to take on Technology (GUST), announced this new role and hope to infuse some new Gtoday the appointment of Professor energy into this fantastic program. After Antonis Simintiras as the new Director of many years of experience in the UK, I see it the Masters of Business Administration as an exciting challenge to find myself at a (MBA) program. new university, immersing myself in a new Professor Simintiras joins GUST after culture, and strengthening the MBA at nearly 15 years at the Swansea University, GUST to make it more relevant to the needs UK, where he held several important posts of Kuwait’s future industry leaders.” including that of the Dean of the Business Professor Simintiras’ research interests School, Director of the Consumer are in the areas of personal selling and sales Confidence Research Center, Deputy Dean management, cross-cultural research for Internationalization and Director of the methodology, and consumer behavior. He MBA and Executive MBA Programs. has co-authored a book on ‘Global Sales Simintirasis also a member of the Academy Management’, a monograph on ‘Success of Marketing Science, the American and Failure of IS/IT Projects: A State of the Marketing Association, and the Academy of Art Analysis and Future Directions’, and his Marketing - all of which are internationally research output has appeared in many recognized professional organizations. international academic journals including Professor Donald Bates, GUST President, the Journal of International Business said, “We as a university have a duty to Studies, Journal of Business Research, remain relevant and constantly find ways to Industrial Marketing Management, challenge our students. One way we do Psychology & Marketing, European Journal this is by searching the globe for the best of Marketing, Journal of Managerial professors to give them the best amalga- Psychology, and the Journal of Small mation of minds and experiences for their Business Management. Over the years, future. In fact, this has always been a point Professor Simintiras has held several visit- of pride here at GUST, we have, arguably, ing professorial appointments at renowned the best faculty in the country.” executive levels in subjects such as Marketing. Professor Simintiras has more- universities in France, Spain, Austria, In addition to his administrative experi- International Marketing, Market Analysis over successfully supervised several PhD Greece, Finland, USA, and China; and acted ence, Professor Simintiras has taught cours- and Decision Making, Marketing candidates and masters dissertations. as a consultant for various companies and es at undergraduate, postgraduate and Management, Consumer Behaviour, and e- Professor Simintiras, GUST’s new MBA government organizations. T V P R O G R A M S WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015

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

Sparks are flying and you are energized by the electric buzz in the atmosphere. Irrepressible Uranus zaps your key planet Mars today, provoking You’re not in the mood to put up with any nonsense today. Your emotional fuse is you to act on your feelings without restraint. However, you’re likely to have tran- short and your reaction to someone’s shortcomings could be swift. However, sitory moments of self-doubt interspersed throughout the day. Rest assured you your impatience with a friend or coworker might actually be a result of your own will bounce back each time, so make the most of your enthusiasm when it frustration. Expressing what’s on your mind may feel cathartic in the moment, but returns. Your passion for life is contagious, but others will be more supportive of could create major disruptions to your routine. Decide in advance if your outburst your spirited approach if you remember to respect their boundaries in the will be worth it. Not every thought or feeling needs to be shared. Channel your process of chasing your dreams. angst into your creativity and there will be less collateral damage to regret.

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

There’s a lot going on today but you don’t want to be pulled off course. It’s all too You might be running circles around everyone at work today. Your nerves are on easy to be swept up in distractions with so much planetary energy reverberating edge and your energy is indefatigable. However, something may be quietly gnaw- around you now, leading you to misplace your wallet or skip an appointment. ing away at your confidence from a dark corner in the recesses of your mind. This You might try to run away from all the commotion because too much instability negativity can be a momentary passing thought if you’re willing to be proactive in makes you nervous. Nevertheless, you don’t need to ignore reality to find happi- your thinking. Once you know the source of your self-doubt, you can quickly ness. Let your inner composure act as your guide as you calmly navigate the out- move past it and reclaim your position as the unchallenged king of the mountain. er chaos of the day.

Gemini (May 21-June 20) Sagittarius (November 22-December 21) Your current creativity is a sight to behold because it appears as if you are freely living your dreams. You Archers have sprouted wings Everyone seems to be having a good time today and you long to be a part of the and are riding high on the planetary thermals as inventive Uranus trines energetic action. You’re ready for the show as long as you can share the stage with people Mars in your 9th House of Distant Horizons. However, unbeknownst to others, ACROSS 4. Capital and largest city of Cuba. you respect. You don’t want all the attention because you know that responsibili- your emotions are anchored to a stable point on the ground, blessing you with 1. Thickening of tissue in the motor tracts of the 5. The boy whose upbringing was described by ty comes along with performing the lead in a production. Nevertheless, you the ability to soar without losing touch with reality. Balancing between reckless lateral columns and anterior horns of the spinal Jean-Jacques Rousseau. would like your magical moment in the spotlight. Luckily, your charm works in abandon and cautious responsibility empowers you to reach further into the cord. 6. A person who evokes boredom. your favor now as long as you don’t lay it on too thick. Ultimately, the best role future than ever before. Fly, baby, fly! 4. Any period of seven consecutive days. 7. Tall East Indian cedar having spreading you can play is your authentic self. 12. A federal agency established to coordinate branches with nodding tips. programs aimed at reducing pollution and pro- 8. A religious belief of African origin involving tecting the environment. witchcraft and sorcery. Capricorn (December 22-January 19) 15. Resinlike substance secreted by certain lac 9. Used in combination to denote the middle. Cancer (June 21-July 22) insects. 10. A public promotion of some product or 16. The animal order including amoebas. service. You may seem overly moody to others today, especially if you’re Your penchant for serious thinking won’t stop you from joining in the fun and 17. A machine-readable version of a standard 11. (Irish) Mother of the Tuatha De Danann. oblivious to their perceptions. Although the reflective Moon is swimming through games today. Even if you are tempted to act in an authoritative manner, you can’t dictionary. 12. (computer science) A system of world-wide your sign, you don’t have time to contemplate your emotions when there’s a lot at play the role of a heavyweight for long when your spirit feels so light and free. 18. A vinyl polymer used especially in paints or electronic communication in which a computer stake at work. You are overwhelmed with so many tasks to do that you can’t sit Partaking in the pleasures of the day is more beneficial to you in the long run than adhesives. user can compose a message at one terminal still. Setting clear intentions right from the start empowers you to maintain your striving to achieve another goal. Sometimes a Mountain Goat just wants to act 19. A plant virus with its RNA arranged in a cir- that is generated at the recipient's terminal direction in spite of the hustle and bustle of the day. Fixating on your goals like Pan, spontaneously singing and frolicking on the edge of a cliff without a care cular chromosome without a protein coat. when he logs in. anchors you even when circumstances keep changing all around you. 20. An anti-inflammatory drug that does not 13. First in rank or degree. in the world. contain steroids. 14. Large antelope with lightly spiraled horns of 22. Shod with sandals. desert regions of North Africa. 25. Used of a single unit or thing. 21. Dotted or adorned with or as with studs or Leo (July 23-August 22) Aquarius (January 20- February 18) 26. United States writer (born in Poland) who nailheads. wrote in Yiddish (1880-1957). 23. Fallow deer. 29. Genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs. 24. The federal agency that insures residential Your actions tell the most convincing story today. In spite of all your inspirational You’re eager to show off your wild and quirky side today and people can’t decide 30. (Jungian psychology) The inner self (not the mortgages. talk, you’re happy to fly solo now. You’re not willing to go along with the group if you’re brilliant or crazy. Thankfully, your actions are inspired by a higher powe r external persona) that is in touch with the 27. Cereal grass widely cultivated for its grain. consensus, but your agenda is so brilliant that people may choose to follow you, that encourages you to go right to the edge of acce ptability without stepping unconscious. 28. An accountant certified by the state. instead. Unfortunately, you’re moving so fast that you appear as a blur to those over it. Don’t cling to old patterns; trusting your instincts now won’t steer you 33. Having a slightly undulating margin. 31. A computerized data system to provide bro- who might select you as their leader. Nevertheless, your independent attitude wrong while warrior Mars harmonizes with ingenious Uranus. You possess the 35. Kamarupan languages spoken in northeast- kers with price quotations for securities traded isn’t necessarily in your best interest. When you work as part of a successful team, magic to make anything happen as long as you believe in the impossible. ern India and western Burma. over the counter. the whole is more than the sum of its parts. 38. A white metallic element that burns with a 32. A large waterfall on the border between brilliant light. Argentina and Brazil. 39. Mix up or confuse. 34. Shrub bearing oval-fruited kumquats. Virgo (August 23-September 22) Pisces (February 19-March 20) 43. Inflammation of the urethra of unknown 36. A small nail. cause. 37. A family of Sino-Tibetan languages spoken 44. An ancient city in northern Portugal. in southeastern Asia. There’s a lot of energy wafting through your world these days and it needs a posi- Your current understanding of your place in the world is in the midst of major 46. Small genus of dioecious tropical aquatic 40. Any of numerous low-growing cushion- tive direction to prevent it from bottling up. Luckily, you are in touch with your upheaval as spontaneous Mars trines unpredictable Uranus in your 2nd House of plants. forming plants of the genus Draba having feelings and are certain about your destination. Nevertheless, you may need to Values. So much is happening so fast that there’s no way you can maintain the sta- 47. The sixth month of the civil year. rosette-forming leaves and terminal racemes of make mid-course corrections throughout the day when you encounter unexpect- tus quo. Fortunately, you’re so busy anticipating the future that you’re not experi- 49. (of animals) Fully developed. small flowers with scapose or leafy stems. ed twists and turns on your path. Fortunately, the element of surprise works to encing any feelings of fear or uncertainty. However, you may be like a fish out of 51. American Revolutionary patriot. 41. A caustic substance (Ca(OH)2) produced by your advantage now if you don’t resist the changes. You can easily exceed your water now; luckily, integrating the changes with a spiritual slant allows you to 52. Be idle. heating limestone. own expectations if you’re willing to meet reality halfway. walk on solid ground like a pro. 53. Indigo bush. 42. Freedom from difficulty or hardship or 54. Any of numerous hairy-bodied insects effort. including social and solitary species. 45. A Russian prison camp for political prison- Word Search 55. Short and fat. ers. Yesterday Solution 57. A state in midwestern United States. 48. The limits within which something can be 58. A fractional monetary unit in Bangladesh effective. and India and Nepal and Pakistan. 50. A spread consisting of capers and black 61. A hard brittle blue-white multivalent metal- olives and anchovies made into a puree with lic element. olive oil. 62. (Greek mythology) Goddess of the earth 56. American literary critic and historian (1886- and mother of Cronus and the Titans in ancient 1963). mythology. 59. A river in north central Switzerland that runs 66. A state in the Rocky Mountains. northeast into the Rhine. 70. Not having rhyme. 60. United States space station. 73. (informal) Roused to anger. 63. Wild sheep of northern Africa. 74. A member of the Iroquoian people formerly 64. Cubes of meat marinated and cooked on a living east of Lake Ontario. skewer usually with vegetables. 77. The 3rd planet from the sun. 65. A port city of south central Ukraine on an 78. A loose sleeveless outer garment made arm of the Black Sea. from aba cloth. 67. A Chadic language spoken south of Lake 79. A Dravidian language spoken in southern Chad. India. 68. (Old Testament) In Judeo-Christian mytholo- 81. By bad luck. 82. A member of a Mayan people of southwest- gy. ern Guatemala. 69. The battle in 1806 in which Napoleon deci- 83. An elastic synthetic fabric. sively defeated the Prussians. 84. A small cake leavened with yeast. 71. A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element. DOWN 72. Among the largest bony fish. 1. A large mountain system in south-central 75. A period of time spent sleeping. Europe. 76. A hotel providing overnight lodging for trav- 2. Rock that in its molten form (as magma) elers. issues from volcanos. 80. An edge tool with a heavy bladed head 3. The act of scanning. mounted across a handle. Yesterday’s Solution

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he Amy Winehouse Foundation has made just couldn’t cope with it. So I lived on the streets. tinues to influence and inspire young people an album to celebrate the singer’s birthday. “I’ve always wanted to be a musician - a producer through her life and music. “The Foundation does TThe ‘Back to Black’ star would have turned - and the inspiration Amy’s Yard gives me is just a fantastic job in keeping Amy’s spirit alive by 32 on September 14 and the charity set up in her amazing. But going there is about much more offering hope and opportunity to young people name by her father Mitch Winehouse has gath- than just making music. “You get to see what a who are struggling in life and it’s an honour for ered some of the young musicians that they’ve professional studio looks like and hear just how Island Records to help these emerging talents get helped through their ‘Amy’s Yard’ program to con- amazing a human voice can sound! You meet their music heard.” ‘Amy’s Yard - The Sessions: tribute to the record. Amy - who tragically died with lawyers and record company executives and Volume 1’ is out on September 18. aged 27 in 2011 - was passionate about support- real professionals. They’re role models.” The LP ing troubled youngsters and Jhordan Romaine, was recorded in Amy’s own studio and Darcus 21, whose track ‘Early Bird’ opens the LP, says her Beese, President of Island Records, says it was an legacy changed his life. He said: “I was registered honour to help create the 10-track album. He with two psychiatrists when I was 17, my mum said: “It’s really gratifying to know that Amy con-

Goulding to Adele rejected Sia collaboration

headline Apple dele rejected a song she recorded with Sia from her album. The ‘Rolling in the Deep’ hitmaker teamed up Awith the ‘Chandelier’ singer on a track titled ‘Alive’ and although it was originally intended for her highly anticipated Music Festival third album, Sia has now kept it for her own record after Adele turned it down. Sia said: “It’s about [her] life, so now I sing the song from [her] perspective.” The 39-year-old singer went on llie Goulding, Mumford & Sons and Carrie to admit that a lot of the songs on her album ‘This Is Acting’ Underwood will headline the Apple Music Festival at were originally written for other artists but for one reason or ELondon’s Roundhouse. They will be among the main another had been rejected. She told RTV Slovenija: “I have acts at the event, formerly known as the iTunes Festival, these songs made and they have [been] rejected, but [they] which is set to take place from September 19th until seemed good, so I kept [them for] myself.” Sia is now preparing September 28th. Carrie said: “Playing in the UK is always to release ‘Alive’ as the lead single off of her seventh studio such a thrill! I’m really looking forward to heading back and album. Meanwhile, Adele is reportedly preparing to unveil her being a part of such an amazing line-up at Apple Music next LP - which is rumored to be titled ‘25’ - in November after Festival. What a unique concert experience, not only for the its original release date of May 2014 was pushed back by her fans at the Roundhouse, but also for fans across the globe record label XL Recordings. The 27-year-old star’s last album who can stream it live!” Mumford & Sons added: “We’ve had ‘21’, which was released in 2011, sold 11 million copies world- some great experiences at the Roundhouse over the past wide and topped the charts in 2011 and 2012. few years. The first time we played there was in 2009 open- ing for The Temper Trap and Stephen Fry, and then we were lucky enough to return a year later to collaborate with Laura Marling and Dharohar Project who had trav- elled in from India for their first trip outside the country. It new album was one of the most memorable and surreal shows we’ve ever played. Nobody knew what was going to happen next, least of all us. “In 2012 we celebrated the release of Suede’s ‘Babel’ at The Roundhouse, which was awesome. We’re out in January looking forward to coming back for this year’s Apple Music Festival. We’ve not played London for a bit and we’re look- ing forward to it”. LION BABE, NAO and Jack Garratt have uede will release their next album ‘Night Thoughts’ in when we got back together we reminded people of what also been added to the line-up. Previously announced January. The legendary Britpop band’s seventh LP we did really well. I think there was a real re-evaulation of headliners include Take That, Florence + The Machine, Sdeals with “life, death, love, anguish and despair” and Suede as an artistic force. “With ‘Bloodsports’ (2013 come- Disclosure and Pharrell Williams. One Direction will be sup- will be accompanied by a full-length feature film to be back album), we tried to make it compete with our best ported by Little Mix, and singer Niall Horan said: “It’ll be shown at London’s Roundhouse venue on November 13 ever work. It’s very hard doing a comeback album when great to be back in London and we can’t wait to perform and 14. “The film starts with a man drowning in the waters you haven’t made an LP for 10 years, because you can’t for our fans in the Roundhouse and around the world on of a deserted beach at night, as he fights for life, his mind reinvent yourself - you have to look at what you’ve done Apple Music!” Previous performers at the eight-year-old old plays out the events that lead him to be there.” Suede dis- best and solidify that. But it sent out a statement that we event - which has been renamed the Apple Music Festival banded in 2003 after poor sales of their fifth record, ‘A New can still make great music.” ‘Night Thoughts’ will go on sale to support the launch of the new Apple Music app - have Morning’ and lead singer Brett Anderson’s public battle January 22. included Adele, Lady Gaga and Justin Timberlake. with drug addiction. They reformed in 2013 to make new music and tour again but Brett admitted making a come- back album ‘Bloodsports’ was no easy feat. He said: “I felt, before we reformed, that we’d gone off the radar a bit. And Fifth Harmony: One Direction will ‘live on forever’

ifth Harmony thinks One Direction will “live on for- ever”. The chart-topping boy band announced Fthey would be taking an extended hiatus next year but the ‘Worth It’ hitmakers are sure the group will continue as before once they’ve taken a break. Normani Hamilton said: “Honestly I feel like they’ll live on forever. They’re like a sea. There comes a point in careers where people just want to be happy. We support happiness.” And the girls have no plans to follow in the boy band’s footsteps just yet. When asked how a band knows it’s time to take a break, Dinah-Jane Hansen told gossip website TMZ: “I don’t know, because right now we’re pretty psyched.” Meanwhile, the girl group have got a lot to look forward to themselves, having recently announced their first ever European tour. Member Ally Brooke Hernandez said at the time of the announce- ment: “We love Europe and our European Harmonizers who have always made us feel so welcome. We’re really excited to be bringing our tour to the UK. It’s going to be crazy! “We are going to be in Europe! I’m literally cry- ing about this because this is a dream come true.”

Ice Cube: Iggy Azalea makes ‘dope songs’ Rita Ora: Brown in control of his destiny

ce Cube thinks Iggy Azalea makes “dope songs”. The ‘Check ita Ora believes Chris Brown “takes charge and control of his Yo Self’ hitmaker has defended the ‘Fancy’ rapper amidst own destiny”. The 24-year-old singer recently collaborated Irumours she doesn’t write her own tracks. He told the Daily Rwith the controversial star - who was arrested in 2009 for Mail Australia: “She make dope songs, that’s what it is all assaulting his then girlfriend Rihanna - on her new single ‘Body On about.”It’s not about how the song gets made, it’s about what Me’ and she’s insisted it was easy work getting up close and per- comes out of the speaker. If she can be hot coming out of the sonal with him for the steamy music video. Speaking on ‘Rickie, speaker, who cares what it took to make it.”It’s a difference Melvin & Charlie In The Morning’ on KISS FM UK, Rita shared: “Well, I between a rapper and an MC. Some MCs are battle rappers can officially tell you, they weren’t hard! I think any female, and they need to write their own lyrics but if you are just rap- depending on your taste, would vouch for me when I say it was an ping out there, songs by committee have been the history of extremely eventful day. I’m only saying that because he’s so, so music.”Every great song that you hear has probably been put easy to work with. “I’ve always looked at Chris as someone that together by a few people, not just one soul.” Meanwhile, the takes charge and control of his own destiny.” The ‘Poison’ hitmaker 25-year-old beauty previously insisted her haters make her also claimed the ‘Loyal’ singer was her only choice when it came to “relevant”. After being criticized for joining Demi Lovato on providing vocals for the song. She explained: “Musically, I really stage at the MTV Video Music Awards, she wrote on Twitter: respect him. And vocally, his voice was the only voice that made “who cares it shows im very relevant in their lives still. im flat- sense for ‘Body on Me’ ... Like his tone of voice worked and the way tered. hahaha (sic)”. She later added: “Its funny to see i was he sings. I had my little thought, like who could work on it well and trending WW [worldwide], man. haters got SO MUCH to say. I for some reason it was just Chris’ name that kept coming into my was only on stage 30 seconds! Wait till my new drops, its 4 head, and I’d been wanting to work with him for a while.” Rita Ora mins long! hahahahahaha.... “its really tough to stick by some- will be performing at the KISS Haunted House Party on October 29. one when the “cool” thing is to hate on them. thanks to every- one who made the choice to stand by me. (sic)” l i f e s t y l e WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 G o s s i p Emily Browning: Hollywood movies are for white men

mily Browning thinks “Hollywood movies are Frances Shea, Reggie’s wife in ‘Legend’ - admitted made for white men”. The 26-year-old actress - she’s best at playing fragile characters because she Ewho stars alongside Tom Hardy in the new finds them easy to relate to. She told the Guardian crime thriller ‘Legend’, about London gangsters newspaper: “I’m plagued by constant anxiety. “It’s Ronald and Reginald Kray - has claimed it’s tough for this nagging, buzzing little thing in my head. I her to avoid playing the part of the “hot babe” learned a word the other day - metacognition - because Hollywood films are geared towards a spe- which is to have awareness and understanding of cific group. She shared: “I got told all the time when I your own thought process. “Sometimes, I think was younger that I am wise beyond my years, before about what I’m thinking about on this constant loop I realised they say that to everyone. “I’m so deter- until I feel like my brain is eating itself. If I sit still for mined not to play the hot babe that doesn’t say any- too long, that’s what it feels like; falling into a black thing, that can’t have an opinion, but it’s so difficult hole in my own mind. When I’m in front of the cam- to resist all of that. Hollywood movies are made for era, that’s the only time I really get a release. I’m just white men, and that’s something I think about and there.” which bothers me all the time. “The sad thing is it’s so consistent and so present. Sometimes you don’t even notice it.” Meanwhile, Emily - who appears as

Danny Boyle: Chris Eccelston’s Kaya Scodelario: blood thirsty character Maze Runner filming Trainspotting 2 is hris Eccelston’s character in ‘Legend’ is like a “blood- hound”. The 51-year-old actor stars in the new movie was like a hangover close to reality Cbased on the book ‘The Profession of Violence: The Rise and Fall of the Kray Twins’ by John Pearson, and plays aya Scodelario found making ‘Maze Runner: The ‘Trainspotting’ sequel is moving closer to reality. the policeman Leonard ‘Nipper’ Read, who finally takes Scorch Trials’ like having a “hangover every single Award-winning director Danny Boyle - who helmed down identical twin gangsters Ronald and Reginald Kray. Kday”. The 23-year-old actress - who’s reprised the role Athe 1996 original movie, which starred the likes of Chris said: “Me and Brian (Helgeland) did have a number of of Teresa Agnes for the sequel to the 2014 sci-fi hit ‘The Ewan McGregor, Jonny Lee Miller and Robert Carlyle - has conversations about what type of dog Nipper Read might Maze Runner’ - has revealed the physical impact of spend- revealed the key members of the movie’s cast are keen to be, he decided on a bloodhound. That’s because a blood- ing hours filming scenes for the new movie at altitude in reunite and the only obstacle to overcome relates to syn- hound - according to Brian - will run until it dies, will chase Mexico. Speaking at a specially-arranged fan event in chronizing their working schedules. Boyle shared: “All the its prey until its heart bursts.” But the actor didn’t carry out London’s Leicester Square last night, Kaya shared: “It feels four main actors want to come back and do it.” The 58-year- research for the part. He said: “I think there’s a load of bad like you wake up with a hangover every single day.”But it’s old film-maker said that once the cast members find a sus- spoke about research, I think it’s make believe and I felt beautiful. The landscape is really important to the movie, tained space in their diaries, they can press ahead with the that what Brian had written sent me a very clear message it’s so vast.” Meanwhile, director Wes Ball revealed filming much-anticipated sequel. He told Deadline: “Now it is only about what he wanted.” He added: “I thought of Nipper the latest movie in the franchise posed a markedly differ- a matter of getting all their schedules together which is Reid as puritanical and a man who did not want the 60s to ent challenge to the first. He explained: “Filming for the complicated by two of them doing American TV series.” happen, who did not want the Krays to have fun, he didn’t first film was flat and humid and full of bugs. Now we’re in Earlier this year, Ewan McGregor revealed he would be want The Rolling Stones to have fun, he was the man from this mile-high city with a big change in atmosphere. keen to make a ‘Trainspotting’ sequel, but he hadn’t seen a the previous 10 or 20 years.” Meanwhile Tom Hardy por- “Shooting in these crazy environments of sand and rock script for the movie. He said: “I would be up for it. I’ve said trays both twin brothers in the film and wasn’t afraid to and rusty metal was a completely different environment that to Danny. Everybody has talked about it and speculat- admit he had to do his homework for part. Tom, 37, said: for us, but it adds to the movie in a really cool way.” ‘Maze ed about it, but I don’t if it’s happening yet. I’ve not seen a “There is a plethora of research that one can do on the Runner: The Scorch Trials’ - which sees Dylan O’Brien, script and I don’t know if there is one. It’s been a long, long Krays. We had various members of their world come out Thomas Brodie-Sangster and Ki Hong Lee all return to their time.” and talk. “But there’s lots of photos, but mainly people’s roles from the first movie - opens later this month. mythic tales, people’s legend, which are usually asinine, that circulate usually from people that didn’t know them, you get a lot of them come out. “Then there’s patterns of Hardy wants to stories that seem to re-appear a lot, I also had loads of diaries as well and some footage from a Panorama docu- be next James Bond mentary. So I did loads of research really.” Simpson’s om Hardy would like to be the next James Bond. The 37-year-old star - who’s currently promoting his new Tmovie ‘Legend’, in which he plays London gangster twins Ronald and Reginald Kray - has been linked to the diamond role of the iconic secret agent and admitted he’d be open to replacing Daniel Craig. Asked whether he has been approached about the part, Tom told Sky News: “I think anybody would consider doing Bond, wouldn’t they?” treat Meanwhile, Tom confessed recently that it’s a “bad idea” for one actor to play two roles in a movie, as he does in essica Simpson loves to treat herself to dia- ‘Legend’. He plays the central roles in the new Brian mond earrings. The fashion mogul - who is Helgeland-directed crime thriller, but conceded appearing Jcelebrating the 10th anniversary of her as two characters is far from ideal. Tom shared: “It is one of brand, The Jessica Simpson Collection - them situations. You get an actor to play two characters, revealed that whenever she signs another big and immediately, it’s pony. It’s gonna be rubbish. Just: no. business contract, she splurges on expensive It’s a bad idea.” The initial idea was for Tom to just play the studs. She said: “Every time I sign a big contract, part of Reggie - but he was ultimately more drawn to his I trade the ones I own in for a bigger pair!” The twin brother. He said: “I was like, ‘Well, I feel Ronnie. “So 35-year-old entertainer - who has dabbled in which actor am I gonna give up Ronnie to, if I play Reggie? acting - also revealed that her new fashion col- Errrrrggh.... I can’t have that. ‘Cos that’s all the fun there! lection pays homage to her ‘Dukes of Hazard’ And Reggie’s so straight! But there was a moment when I character Daisy Duke as it features a pair of red could have come away just playing Reggie. “We could cowboy boots. She told PEOPLE: “Daisy’s red have gone and found a superlative character actor to play cowboy boots ended up being [the inspiration Ronnie, and that would have been the best of everything.” for] the first shoe to launch my collection, [and] I was really excited to bring them back for the 10th anniversary. “As the collection has evolved, we’ve always kept that All-American DeGeneres launches spirit. When we do store visits or personal appearances, I still see girls wearing the origi- Hudson got her first nal cowboy boot. I love that. We all have those iconic pieces in our wardrobe and I am thrilled footwear line that people have embraced our brand that way.” llen DeGeneres is launching her own ops”. Earlier this year, Ellen teamed up with pair of high heels at 12 footwear line. The chat show host will GAP on a children’s collection named Eadd to her ED lifestyle collection - GapKids x ED and she revealed her hope which launched in June - with a range of that it will inspire youngsters. She said: ate Hudson was given her first her graduation. Speaking to Jimmy casual shoes. Announcing the new deal “Gap has always encouraged people to be pair of high heels at just 12 years Choo, Kate said: “I must have been with the Camuto Group, Ellen said: “I am so themselves, and I love that they have the Kold. The 36-year-old actress has twelve [when I got my first pair of high excited for my brand to partner with the same values that I have: to be true to who admitted she used to raid her mother heels], and it was graduation. My mum Camuto Group. They say you have to walk a you are and to wear cute pants. “I know Goldie Hawn’s wardrobe and totter didn’t let me wear heels back then, but I mile in someone else’s shoes to really know from my own experience that nothing about in her stilettos, so the stunning used to go in her closet and try hers on, how they feel. Well, now you can literally makes you feel better than being who you actress, 69, splashed out on a pair of red of course. “I wore a sundress that had a walk a mile in my shoes, or even further if are and celebrating what makes you shoes with a one-inch heel for her on big skirt and it was white with little you choose.” WWD reports that a capsule unique. I think if we shine a light on real cherries on it. My mum bought me my collection will launch on September 30th girls doing incredible things, that’ll encour- first pair of high heels that day, they before a spring collection is released. The age other girls and boys to do incredible must have only been an inch or so. range will feature leather, suede, linen, can- things, and that’ll encourage even more “They were bright red and she gave vas and denim shoes. According to CEO people to do incredible things, and eventu- them to me all wrapped up. I was so Alex Del Cielo “we will focus on footwear to ally the world will be a more incredible happy! So my first pair of heels were begin and are open to exploring additional place.” bright red pumps, which I couldn’t have opportunities together as the brand devel- been more excited about.” Kate is now fronting Jimmy Choo’s autumn/winter 2015 ballet-inspired campaign, which is something close to her heart. She explained: “I grew up dancing. “My mum put me in dance classes since I was three years old and I did ballet up until 12 before she allowed me to take more types of dance, like lyrical.”

— bang Showbiz l i f e s t y l e WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 M u s i c & M o v i e s New film charts short life and long legacy of Janis Joplin

ack when rock ‘n’ roll was still a new adventure, Janis find both musical success and love. Read by singer-songwriter Amy Winehouse and not see her influence coming from Janis,” Joplin proved it wasn’t just for the boys. The big-voiced, Chan Marshall (also known as Cat Power), they are by turns Berg said. “But they had a different relationship with fame.” Bbluesy singer dominated the stage, forged her own excited, proud and poignantly insecure. “If you watch Janis, While Winehouse looked distracted or uncomfortable in many path and paved the way for female singers to come. But 45 you see this woman who just seems fearless, and then you of her live performances, Joplin blossomed onstage, perform- years after her death from a drug overdose in 1970, music is read these letters and it’s such a different persona,” said Berg, ing with wit, power and passion. When she sang “take a little still “a very male-dominated industry,” said Amy Berg, director who received an Oscar nomination in 2007 for clerical sex- piece of my heart,” she sounded like she meant it. of the new documentary “Janis: Little Girl Blue.” Berg’s film abuse documentary “Deliver Us From Evil.” “She loved performing,” Berg said. “She was liberated the includes onscreen interviews with Joplin’s ex-bandmates and “You see this very vulnerable, raw woman seeking valida- minute she stepped out there.” The film is a departure for Berg, other 1960s musicians - almost all of them male. She says sev- tion.” Made with the approval of Joplin’s siblings, the film who is best known for social-issues documentaries including eral female performers of the era turned her down, including traces her talent and her troubles back to Port Arthur, a home- “Deliver Us From Evil” and true-crime tale “West of Memphis.” former Jefferson Airplane singer Grace Slick. town where she never felt at home. There’s an excruciating But she says profiling an artist she idolizes was a “passion proj- “Grace Slick did not think that people wanted to see her scene in which Joplin goes back for a high-school reunion, ect.” “At certain points in my life when I was going through how she looks today, because she was such a beautiful pop and her rock-star confidence completely deserts her. “It was a something great or something awful, I’ve found myself going star in her 20s,” Berg said during an interview at the Venice middle-class Southern community,” Berg said. “And she want- back to her music,” Berg said. “It’s like a healing thing for me. “I Film Festival, where “Janis” had its world premiere this week. ed equality, she wanted integration, she wanted free expres- was so hard on myself in the edit bay, because I just want to “That’s kind of tragic, I think. “I really wanted to get that sion, she wanted to sing the blues. “She wanted to go out and make her proud.”— AP female perspective.” Fortunately, there is a female voice at the explore.” By chance, “Janis” - part of a healthy crop of docu- heart of “Janis” - Joplin’s own. The documentary features some mentaries at this year’s Venice festival - is emerging in the of the singer’s best-known performances - including her wake of Asif Kapadia’s acclaimed Amy Winehouse documen- breakout set at the Monterey Pop festival in 1967 and her tary “Amy.” woozy appearance at Woodstock two years later - as well as a Both singers fought unhappiness with drinking and drugs, Amy J Berg director of ‘Janis: Little girl blue’ poses for por- previously unseen version of her biggest hit, “Me and Bobby and both are members of the macabre “27 Club” of musicians traits at the 72nd edition of the Venice Film Festival in McGee.” who died at that age, alongside Jimi Hendrix, Jim Morrison, Venice, Italy, Monday. — AP And Berg builds the movie around letters Joplin wrote to Brian Jones and Kurt Cobain. But Berg says there are as many her parents back in Port Arthur, Texas, chronicling her quest to differences as similarities between the two. “You can’t look at

Bon Jovi Sam Smith to sing next Bond song

ritish soul singer Sam Smith yesterday said he will sing the theme song for the next James Bond film, B“Spectre,” following in the footsteps of top artists selected for the prestigious spot. Title songs for the popu- lar British spy films typically open the movie to a backdrop of flash graphics and sultry silhouettes, and usually guar- antee the artist major airplay. “Spectre,” the next install- ment in the bond franchise, stars Daniel Craig and is due to be released on October 26 in Britain and Ireland before being rolled out elsewhere. “This is one of the highlights of my career. I am honored to finally announce that I will Author fans controversy as be singing the next Bond theme song,” Smith posted on his Instagram account. “I am so excited to be a part of this iconic British legacy Bond returns in book form and join an incredible line up of some of my biggest musi- You give music a bad name: cal inspirations.” Smith, who until a few years ago was a he latest literary installment of the recent weeks by comments Horowitz made bartender in London, amassed a global fan base with his James Bond saga hit bookshelves yes- about previous books in the series, current soulful ballad about a one-night stand, “Stay With Me.” He Bon Jovi China gigs cancelled Tterday, following controversial com- Bond actor Daniel Craig and the possibility of was the big winner at the latest Grammy Awards, taking ments by Anthony Horowitz, the latest author black actor Idris Elba taking on the role. He home three of the four most prestigious prizes. Other to assume 007 creator Ian Fleming’s mantle. criticized Jeffery Deaver’s 2011 “Carte wo upcoming concerts in China by to the color of Tibetan monk robes. The artists who have provided vocals for Bond film title tracks American rock group Bon Jovi-who band featured images of the Dalai Lama in “Trigger Mortis” is the first Bond novel Blanche”, which featured a 32-year-old Bond include Shirley Bassey, Paul McCartney & Wings, Lulu, released since the death of British writer as an Afghanistan War veteran, saying the Thave previously included imagery of a video that played with several concerts- Carly Simon and Adele. — AFP Fleming 51 years ago to be set in the “tradi- “contemporary setting was wrong”. The the Dalai Lama in a show-have been sud- including in Washington-in 2010, according tion and timeline” of the original series, author called actor Craig “weak” and said that denly cancelled, reports said yesterday. to reports at the time. Maroon 5 cancelled according to publisher Orion. It begins two the most recent film “Skyfall” was riddled with Bon Jovi was scheduled to play two dates- its China concert in July after authorities weeks after Bond’s defeat of arch-criminal errors. Sam Smith in Beijing and Shanghai-but ticket sales refused permission because a band mem- “Goldfinger”, immortalized in the Oscar-win- “Skyfall is my least favorite,” he told the were abruptly halted with no reason given ber had met the exiled Tibetan spiritual ning 1964 film of the same name. Mail on Sunday. “The villain wins. The villain and the performances scrapped, according leader the Dalai Lama. “It was always my intention to go back to sets out to kill M (head of the Secret to local blogs. The ticket sellers Damai.cn Chinese officials have been especially the true Bond,” said the 60-year-old British Intelligence Service). The film finishes with confirmed that they had stopped selling sensitive about live concerts since Bjork author. “My aim was to make this the most the villain killing M. So why have I watched tickets at the behest of the concert organiz- chanted “Tibet” during her song “Declare authentic James Bond novel anyone could it?,” he asked. He said Elba, best known for his ers, but were not told why. “The concert is Independence” in 2008. Authorities censor have written.” Gang leader Pussy Galore, who onscreen portrayal of Nelson Mandela, was “a likely to be cancelled, we are still waiting content they deem to be politically sensi- set the benchmark for the so-called “Bond bit too rough” and “probably a bit too ‘street’ for confirmation,” a customer service agent tive or obscene, while international music Girls”, the spy’s series of glamorous love inter- for Bond,” but stressed it was nothing to do for Damai, who declined to give her name, acts are required to submit set lists for ests and sidekicks, makes a return in the nov- with the color of his skin. Despite the contro- told AFP. “We do not know the specific rea- major concerts in advance. Last year, the el. Bond also comes up against Korean super versies, the reviews were mostly complimen- sons.” suggestive lyrics of “Honky Tonk Women” villain Jason Sin and his plot to sabotage a US tary. Jon Bon Jovi recently recorded a video were apparently too much for China’s cul- rocket launch. Horowitz was selected by the “Horowitz seems to me to have captured of him singing in Mandarin ahead of his tural authorities as the Rolling Stones said estate of Fleming. Niece Lucie Fleming said the spirit of Fleming more successfully than planned concerts. Some speculated the the chart-topping song was “vetoed” for the newcomer had “written a James Bond his recent illustrious predecessors in the shows may have been cancelled because of their show. — AFP book that could have come from Ian’s type- Bond-sequel game,” said Jake Kerridge from Bon Jovi’s inclusion of imagery of the Dalai writer.” Daily Telegraph. The Bond stories are among Lama in shows with one blogger writing, Indeed, the novel includes previously the top-selling series of fictional books, sell- “seems somebody spent a bit too much unpublished material, featuring a car race, ing over 100 million copies worldwide. — AFP time with the saffron robe crowd,” referring written by Fleming for an unfilmed television series. But the release was overshadowed in

‘Man Down’ Venice film review lthough in real life, United States troops haven’t fought on native soil since World War II, in the confused alter- Anate reality of Dito Montiel’s “Man Down,” there’s an urgent battle raging at home today. For countless American veterans-and one scuzzy-faced ex-Marine played by Shia LaBeouf in particular-the armed conflicts they face abroad are nothing compared to what awaits them upon their return. With that in mind, Montiel reunites with LaBeouf (whose star has dramatically skyrocketed-and just as swiftly plummeted-since “Saints”) in this appallingly manipulative psychological thriller, which scolds audiences for not caring enough about our veterans, while counting on the well- meaning message to excuse this otherwise awful mess of a Arnold Schwarzenegger movie. “America, we have a problem!” screams the bold, blood- red graffiti scrawled across the bombed-out remains of some Schwarzenegger American city, delivering what amounts to the subtlest mes- sage “Man Down” has to offer. What that problem is (zombies? terrorists? a pre-Christmas Tickle-Me Elmo shortage?) the film to receive Zurich prefers to keep hidden for the time being, allowing viewers’ imaginations to fill in the unspecified crisis that greets LaBeouf ’s Gabriel Drummer when he gets back from Film Festival Award Afghanistan (or more accurately, the desert set of Santa Clarita’s Blue Cloud Movie Ranch). Simon mean for the film to serve as a metaphor for what Long way he Zurich Film Festival will honor Arnold Beginning with its dramatically floodlit, ‘80s-movie-style Schwarzenegger with its Golden Icon Award, which is American troops experience on and off the field of battle, In time, Brando realized that the Method was taking too opening, in which a heavily-armed Gabe raids a two-story alternating between Gabe’s aforementioned realities much out of him, while audiences hardly recognized the dif- Tthe event’s top trophy. Schwarzenegger will receive the compound where his son Jonathan (Charlie Shotwell) is award, which recognizes the lifetime achievements of an actor (including boilerplate bonding scenes with best friend Jai ference. LaBeouf would do well to absorb that lesson early, as being held captive, there’s something irreconcilably phony Courtney and wife Kate Mara) and an extended therapy he’s likely to burn himself out at this rate, and a bit more levi- or actress, on Sept 30. Schwarzenegger also will present his about “Man Down.” On nearly every level-from its blockbuster latest film, “Maggie,” and discuss his body of work at a work- session overseen by empathetic Marine captain Peyton ty-say, that movie-star wink that actors like Kiefer Sutherland lensing (by “Captain America” director Joe Johnston’s d.p., (Gary Oldman), whose concerned position the pic shares. or Michael Douglas offer to remind that it’s only a perform- shop presented within the public ZFF Masters series. “We are Shelly Johnson) to the unremarkable locations where it takes extraordinarily proud to welcome Arnold Schwarzenegger, The scenes with Oldman are the pic’s quietest, likely to ance, and we’re all in this together-would have gone a long place (clumsily CG-embellished in post) — the film calls way here. Instead, it’s almost painful to watch the agony one of Hollywood’s most iconic legends, to Zurich and are bore those who rent the movie (which feels destined for attention to its own artifice, which comes in direct conflict VOD) for its intense battle scenes, and yet this interview LaBeouf puts himself through here: The cause may be just, delighted that he will share his films and stories with our pub- with LaBeouf’s ultra-earnest performance. reveals both the key to the film’s “twist” and the soul of but the part doesn’t warrant it. lic,” said the festival’s artistic director Karl Spoerri. At the outset, something awful is happening to Jonathan LaBeouf’s performance. Frankly, there should be a rule against the kind of emo- “Arnold has had a transformative career that no one in (the sort of all-American towhead one might find in a vintage In light of his off-screen shenanigans, it’s easy to forget tional manipulation perpetrated in “Man Down,” setting up Hollywood can match and established himself as a global kids’ cereal commercial), but the production lacks the just how intensely committed LaBeouf can be to his craft the scenario in which Jonathan is being terrorized from the brand, even beyond the box office. We are honored to present resources its ambitious post-traumatic/post-apocalyptic (the face wounds he self-inflicted on “Fury” have since beginning, and then waiting more than an hour to return to him with our Golden Icon award at this year’s festival.” As well vision demands-although, ironically, the exact same script scarred over, toughening his once boyish appearance), and the poor kid, still hanging from the same dramatic cliff. That’s as his career as an actor, the award recognizes his public serv- might have worked on a bare theater stage, where the leaps the sheer range “Man Down” demands of the actor-from not suspense, that’s sadism, and frankly, it’s unfair for “Man ice as California’s 38th Governor. A statement from the festival wouldn’t be so jarring between idyllic Louisiana-shot domes- upbeat father figure to ruthless vengeance machine-could Down” (which defines its own title as Drummer-family code read: “As governor, Schwarzenegger worked with leaders of tic life, spirit-breaking Marine boot camp, a crazy-making have been the role to save his imploding reputation. But for “I love you,” later flashing back to replay the entire scene to both major political parties to address the greatest challenges altercation in the streets of Afghanistan and the delusional Montiel’s sappy, melodramatic style is a poor match for his agonizingly obvious effect during the pic’s child-endanger- facing the state in a bold and historic manner. His leadership American wasteland he comes home to (where everyone has star’s sobering performance: Digging deep and mumbling ment climax) to hinge on negating a premise it failed to put California at the forefront of the nation in addressing cli- beards and a junkie-looking Clifton Collins Jr. is representa- his lines, LaBeouf achieves that authentic, hurts-to-watch establish in the first place. — Reuters mate change, pushing for the development of renewable tive of the few remaining survivors). approach seldom seen since the days of Marlon Brando energies, rebuilding critical infrastructure, investing in stem and Montgomery Clift, only to have his performance lac- cell research, and putting in place health care and political Intense battle quered over with artificial-looking camerawork and a reforms.” The festival runs Sept 24-Oct 4. — Reuters Think of it as “psy-fi”: Montiel and co-writer Adam handful of treacly Jimmy Haun ballads on the soundtrack. l i f e s t y l e WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 9, 2015 F e a t u r e s

Rochelle Evaristo makes a sandwich at a school run by the government’s Technical Education and Skills Development Rochelle Evaristo makes a sandwich. Authority (TESDA) in Manila. — AFP photos Philippine cooks take over the world’s kitchens

f you are holidaying on a Mediterranean cruise Asian cooking. He then got a job as a chef’s assistant Cooking creating dreams ship, celebrating your winnings at an Asian casino at a Manila hotel, where he befriended an Arab guest Evaristo, the former bank clerk, has far more mod- Ior dining with the president of the United States, who offered him a sous chef job in Oman in the early est ambitions, hoping to earn more money than her Teodoro Pascua deputy director for operations, Technical Education the chances are a Filipino will be cooking your meal. 1980s. It turned out to be at the Al Bustan Palace, previous career that paid just 14,000 pesos ($300) a and Skills Development Authority (TESDA) gestures as he explains the Since the 1970s, the Philippines has been known for where guests of the sultan would stay. month. After on-the-job training at a Philippine hotel roll of TESDA in Manila. its mass export of workers, particularly poorly paid In interviews with Philippine media, Logro said or restaurant following her six-month schooling, she maids and construction workers who choose an during his decade-long career in Oman he regularly hopes to join a cousin in Canada who is the head chef uncertain life abroad above deep poverty at home. cooked lamb for the sultan and served visiting royal- at a Vancouver restaurant. “My cousin doubled his But in recent years there has been a trend towards ty and heads of state. Returning to the Philippines, salary from his previous job here (as head chef of a higher-skilled and better-paying jobs, and cooking he became the first Filipino executive chef of a five- Manila restaurant chain),” Evaristo said. schools in the Philippines are now churning out tens star hotel. He eventually left the job to open his own While kitchen salaries vary greatly, virtually all pay of thousands of chefs a year for kitchens around the world. “I’ve always been interested in cooking, espe- cially baking, even as a kid,” former bank clerk Rochelle Evaristo told AFP as she took a break from making sandwiches alongside other aspiring cooks at a Manila school. “I also want to work abroad. My cousin is in Canada and he said they need a lot of cooks.” In her late 20s, she is among the oldest of the class of 39 mostly teenaged students at her government-run school in Manila. More than 10 million people from Students learn how to set a dining table. the Philippines work overseas and maids, sailors and laborers are still the most common jobs. However cooks, bakers, and pastry chefs are becoming the most sought-after professions, with ships, hotels, restaurants and casinos the main employers, the school’s deputy director for opera- tions, Teodoro Pascua, told AFP. Nearly 180,000 Filipinos went to work in ship galleys abroad between 2010-2014, including nearly 72,000 head chefs, with the rest made up of kitchen assistants, waiters and waitresses, according to labour depart- ment data. Over the same period, about 65,000 Filipinos went to work in similar catering jobs in hotels and restau- rants in foreign countries. Filipinos are big assets in the global catering industry because of their English proficiency, the ease with which they adapt to the host countries, and a resilience that belies their easy- A student learns how to set a dining table. Students learn how to fold napkins and set a dining table. going nature, according to Pascua. “These are soft Students learn how to set a dining table. skills that we have that make us a little more distinct than either our neighbors or other workers all over the world,” he said. Pascua also said a graduate of the culinary school and establish himself as a celebrity more than domestic workers earn. Maids are typically entry-level six-month course at his school, super- chef with his own successful television cooking paid about $400 a month in Saudi Arabia and $530 in vised by the Philippines’ Technical Education and show. Hong Kong, two of the most common destinations. Skills Development Authority, would be able to mas- A more recent success is Cristeta Comerford, who Even an entry-level job as a chef’s assistant on a ter the basics in any kitchen. “Your employers will began as assistant chef in Bill Clinton’s White House cruise ship pays about $900, according to industry know that you won’t drown in the kitchen. You won’t in 1995 after working at five-star hotels in the United publications. But while earning more money is the make a mess of anything,” he said. There are about States. She was then appointed executive chef in the main aim for most students, it also allows them to 2,500 cooking schools-mostly private but also gov- presidential kitchen in 2005 by George W Bush’s wife, dare to dream of emulating the likes of Logro and ernment-run-in the Philippines, according to Pascua. Laura, a position she carried into the Barack Obama Comerford, according to Imeldaughter Vera, one of presidency. Visiting the Philippines last year, Obama the trainers at the Manila school. “One of my students Remarkable trailblazers highlighted her introduction to the presidential fami- has gone on to work in a Middle East palace, cooking The culinary trail was blazed by Pablo Logro, a for- ly of two of the better known Filipino dishes. “Thanks for a princess,” Vera said. — AFP mer dishwasher who rose to become the personal to her, we in the White House enjoy the occasional chef of the sultan of Oman. Logro got his start help- lumpia and adobo,” he said in his toast at a state din- ing prepare soft buns for a Chinese restaurant in ner, referring to fried spring rolls and meat marinated A student learns how to set a dining table. Manila, which gave him a ringside view of its chef’s in salt, garlic and vinegar. Dr Beach gives extra credit for no smoking beaches in 2016

fter 25 years of ranking beaches, the professor known as “Dr Beach” is starting his list of best beaches over Afrom scratch in 2016. And he’ll be giving extra credit to beaches that ban smoking. Professor Stephen Leatherman of Florida International University began his best beaches list in 1991. Once a beach achieved the No. 1 ranking, it was retired from consideration on future lists. But now he says he’ll start fresh next year so that even beaches that he previously rated as tops have a shot at the No. 1 slot again. Leatherman rates beaches using 50 criteria including water temperature, air temperature, number of sunny days, rip cur- rents, water color, algae, views, access, seaweed and noise. But beginning in 2016, he says he’ll give extra points to beaches that ban smoking. “The No. 1 form of litter on beaches is cigarette butts, and it is disgusting,” Leatherman said in an email. “There is a national movement to prevent smoking, especially on public lands, and beaches should be a priority.” His annual list of best beaches is usually issued just before Memorial Day weekend. Dr Beach’s pick for best beach of 2015 was Hawaii’s Waimanalo Beach on Oahu.-AP

This undated photo provided by Stephen Leatherman shows cigarette butts in the sand Melissa Shapero holds a cigarette butt removed from the beachfront in Point Pleasant in Miami Beach, Fla. Beach, NJ, as part of statewide spring beach cleaning. — AP photos Philippine cooks take over the world’s kitchens

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Various images of Mahatma Gandhi make up a hand-made collage featured in the reception area at the Gandhi Peace Foundation in New Delhi yesterday. — AFP Sudan women footballers strive to build national team

n a dirt pitch next to Khartoum airport, Sara Edward watches the players she hopes to mould into OSudan’s first national women’s football team hone their skills, kicking up clouds of dust. Her 15 players have taken the name “The Challenge” because of the obstacles they face-no equipment, no funding and the suspicions of Sudan’s Islamist authorities. “We hope this team will become an international team,” Edward said as she watched the women practicing while jet planes screamed overhead. “We’re no worse than anyone else. We just lack opportu- nities,” the 29-year-old said. Darting about the pitch in her worn green jersey and shorts, giving instructions and encouragement, the diminutive Edward is the motor behind the team. Born in Juba, she became a citizen of South Sudan when it broke away in 2011 and cannot play for The Challenge if they do win national status. But she has still pressed on with the team, which she joined in 2001 when it was formed in Khartoum’s Comboni College. As dusk falls at the training session, temperatures hover around 40 degrees Celsius (104 degrees Fahrenheit). All but two of the players train in shorts and t-shirts, which Edward thinks may be partly responsible for their dif- ficulties. “Sudanese society says women are not supposed to ground to training ground. “We called the team The Challenge because we are wear shorts,” Edward said. “In other sports, such as volleyball, Edward said she approached the FA and Sports Ministry steadfast and until now we’ve relied on ourselves,” Fadlalah they make them wear long trousers when they play.” offering to change their kit to something less likely to cause said. The team was also hit by South Sudan’s secession, as offence, but to no avail. “Until now they say: ‘Inshallah (God five players returned to the newly independent country. No shorts willing) we will help,’ but nothing has happened”. Hasan Abu Sudan was left with just one other over-21s women’s team, In 1983, Sudan’s government implemented Sharia Jabal, the Sudanese FA’s executive secretary, said there are based at the Ahfad University for women. Edward has heard Islamic law and when President Omar al-Bashir seized pow- women’s teams in universities and some schools and others others are trying to form women’s teams elsewhere but for er in a 1989 Islamist-backed coup, his government vowed to are being formed. “We are trying to support them to prac- the moment The Challenge plays local men’s sides to hone continue implementing it. Sudan’s criminal code bans tice the sport according to rules that take into account social their skills. women from wearing “indecent” clothes with a punishment customs,” he said. She wants The Challenge to represent Sudan, but fail- of 40 lashes or a fine. In July, a group of 10 young Christian ing that she has longer term plans to try to build a nation- women from the South Kordofan region were arrested for ‘A sport for boys’ al women’s team. Several members of her team have wearing skirts and trousers. Four were fined while one was The Challenge has also faced difficulties with family atti- trained abroad to become coaches, which they plan to sentenced to 20 lashes for wearing trousers to court for her tudes, including the team’s wiry roving midfielder Nedal put to good use. “If I have 10 players who became coach- sentencing, which she is appealing. Fadlalah, who joined in 2002. Her family migrated to es, in two years we could have 10 teams for women in The law has never been applied to The Challenge’s play- Khartoum from war-torn South Kordofan seeking a better Sudan and in two years these 10 teams could produce a ers but Edward suspects the government’s Islamist leanings life, like many of her teammates. She played football with national team,” she said. “And if Sudan gave us the oppor- have contributed to the neglect of women’s football. In brothers and cousins growing up and rushed to join the tunity to become the national team, no one will refuse,” 2011, the team moved to pitches of the Sudanese Football team, despite opposition from relatives. “Some members of she added with a laugh. — AFP Association, who Edward said pledged to help with training the family opposed me playing football because I’m a girl and equipment. The Sudanese FA did not comment directly they thought football is a boys’ sport,” she said. They relented on their kits but never delivered on their promises, so the when she insisted, the first of many challenges she has team moved on and have since been buffeted from training faced alongside her teammates.

Sudanese female football players from “The Challenge” team take part in a training session at a picth near Khartoum’s airport. — AFP photos Sara Edward, the coach of Sudanese female Abdelkarim Dafallah, or ‘Coach Abdu,’ an football players’ team ‘The Challenge’ takes assistant coach of Sudanese female foot- part in a training session. ball team “The Challenge” takes part in a training session.