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Qatar defeat Singapore in friendly Call for campaign Overspending against mobile phone pictures

DOHA: The practice of people taking pictures of individuals, making many including young girls, in pub- lic places and posting on social networking sites is not liked by many in Qatar. Most people do it to get “liked” couples bitter by people and increase the num- bers of their followers, say critics. And many consider it a breach Wives blamed for bid to show off of people’s privacy and want authorities to curb the phenom- DOHA: Extravagant spending upsetting the family budget.” enon and take legal action against by wives for social prestige and But Abdul Rahman Al Kuwari violators. show-off is leading to a lot of said her wife is a spendthrift. He Some people take photos of bitterness in the lives of many a said GCC wives are generally so young girls at wedding functions couple in Qatar. much obsessed with shopping that and in shopping centres and of In a report carried by a local they would buy a luxury watch for road accidents and post them on Arabic daily yesterday, many men QR50,000 merely to show off and social networking sites, Al Raya and women have traded charges impress friends. “They would buy reports. THE PENINSULA as to which of their folk is more expensive things one can use only Action during a friendly match between Qatar and Singapore at Jassim bin Hamad Stadium in Doha, yesterday. Continued on page 2 reckless spender. occasionally. Most often these Qatar won 4-0. Report on Page 21 Men have accused women of branded goods rot in the house being insensitive to their hus- and are thrown in the garbage bands’ income levels and splurg- later,” he added. ing hugely on leisure and shopping Mohamed Al Harbi said his just to show off. Women have wife is mad about summer pro- alleged that their husbands are motions and would buy just about EU to review border rules over migrants more spendthrift, with some say- anything on offer whether or not ing they earned and shared their it is of any use. “She is a God- BRUSSELS: Concerned about secu- improve security or control migration. in the Middle East has impacts far beyond the income with husbands. gifted spending machine,” Al rity threats and illegal migration, some EU officials say governments are free to region. Spokesman Josh Earnest said Europe “So what’s wrong if I save my Harbi said sarcastically. European governments are considering check for, say, weapons, and Schengen per- should crack down on traffickers exploiting salary for two-three months to Psychologist Hind Ibrahim said amending the Schengen border code, which mits to check people’s identities, including at migrants and ensure that their human rights spend on shopping during sum- most people obsessed with shop- eliminated systematic frontier controls their frontiers, if there are security threats. are protected. mer-time promotions?” asks a ping were of nervous tempera- across much of Europe. Germany, for example, imposed border con- Seventy-one corpses were found in a parked woman Al Raya identified as Umm ment and felt happy spending. A week after passengers subdued a gunman trols when it hosted the G7 summit in June. lorry in Austria on Thursday. And Libya Mohamed (mother of Mohamed). Then, there are those who want on an Amsterdam-Paris express, interior and Talk of more sweeping curbs in the Schengen recovered 105 bodies after a boat packed with The rest of the year, she said to show off to compensate for transport ministers from nine countries meet zone, which excludes Britain but includes non- migrants sank in the Mediterranean Sea and she helped her husband with cash. some void or weakness in their today in Paris to discuss improving security EU members Norway and Switzerland, trou- said almost 100 more people were missing and “So I don’t accept the accusation personality, she added. on cross-border trains and efforts to contain bles business leaders, who see the speed and feared dead. Both tragedies were a result of that women generally don’t care The daily said summer is the a flood of migrants from the Middle East and ease of moving people around Europe as a boon a renewed surge in migrants fleeing war and about household budgets and are time when people spend lavishly Africa. for the economy. poverty that has confronted Europe with its spendthrift.” on travel and holidaying overseas Belgium said it would make proposals at the However, a discussion on security and asy- worst refugee crisis since World War Two. Another woman, Fauzia and many women go on a shop- talks, including on the border code. A spokes- lum may be useful because national govern- The number of refugees and migrants cross- Abdullah, said many wives were ping spree during family vaca- man for Prime Minister Charles Michel said ments taking unilateral steps could challenge ing the Mediterranean to reach Europe has fed up because of their husbands’ tioning and buy expensive gifts change could improve security without under- the Schengen zone code, said Elizabeth Collett, passed 300,000 this year, from 219,000 in 2014, extravagance. for friends and relatives, upset- mining the principle of passport-free travel. Director, Europe office of Migration Policy the UN refugee agency UNHCR said, adding “We keep extra funds for shop- ting family budgets which makes However, the European Commission, the Institute, a Washington-based think tank. over 2,500 have died making the crossing this ping during summer promo- their married lives bitter. EU executive which enforces the Schengen Meanwhile, the White House said the year. AGENCIES tions. So there is no question of THE PENINSULA code, insists it sees no need to change rules to migrant crisis in Europe shows that unrest See also pages 4 & 5

Iraq protest Student shot dead Yemen army recruits 4,800 fighters ADEN: The Yemeni army has recruited 4,800 southern fighters at US university following a presidential decision to integrate loyalist militiamen WASHINGTON: A student who helped push Iran-backed rebels out of second city Aden, a mili- died early yesterday after being tary official has said. shot at a university in the US “This brigade has 4,800 fighters, including soldiers and officers. Most state of Georgia, in an alterca- recruits are former fighters of the Popular Resistance” pro-government tion that triggered a temporary militia, Colonel Fadel Mohammed Hassan said at a military base in lockdown of the campus. Aden. Christopher Starks, a junior The majority of the recruits come from Aden province, where forces from the Atlanta metropolitan loyal to exiled President Abdarabuh Mansur Hadi pushed back Iran- area, died at a local hospital fol- backed rebels last month, aided by Saudi-led coalition air power. lowing an “altercation” late on The Salman Decisiveness Brigade is named after the Saudi monarch Thursday at Savannah State whose country has led an Arab military campaign since late March in University’s student union build- support of Hadi. New recruits carried out training drills, dust rising ing, the school said. above them as they exercised, at a military base in Aden this week. No arrests have been made, A sign on the base’s front gate carried a poster of Gulf leaders, and though the campus was placed a sign reading: “Registration is closed.” on lockdown for about two hours “All members of the resistance have been taken in without any until just before midnight. exemptions” following orders from Hadi, said Hassan. The Georgia Bureau of Shia Houthi rebels and troops loyal to former president Ali Abdullah Investigation is probing the inci- Saleh advanced in March on Aden, where Hadi took refuge after escap- dent along with campus police ing house arrest in Sana’a. Hadi later fled to Riyadh, which mounted because the university is a state along with Arab allies a fierce air campaign against the rebels. school. Bolstered by heavy weaponry and Gulf troops as well as Yemeni It comes just days after the fighters trained in Saudi Arabia, loyalists have retaken Aden and four brazen shooting of two journal- Riot policemen stand in front of protesters during a demonstration against the poor quality of basic services other southern provinces and are fighting for control of Yemen’s third ists during a live broadcast that and outages and for trial of corrupt politicians, in Baghdad, yesterday. Report on page 4 city Taez. has once again renewed calls for stricter US gun controls. Iran deal ‘will survive in Congress’ The school said classes would be delayed until 10am yesterday. WASHINGTON: The White House yesterday expressed confi- “The safety of those who live, Fewer Qataris make medical trips abroad dence that it has the support in Congress to sustain a veto of a study, work and visit the univer- resolution to reject the Iran nuclear agreement. sity remains a top priority — no DOHA: There has been a sig- in 2014 over 2013. Despite rising list of hospitals in the US, the UK “We’ve got some momentum built-up on our side,” said spokesman exceptions,” the university said in nificant drop in the number population, the number of nation- and Germany with which deals Josh Earnest at a briefing, referring to the 30 Senators who have pub- a statement on its website. of Qataris going overseas for als who applied for state support will be signed for treating Qataris. licly announced support for the deal. “The university has zero toler- treatment on state expenses. for treatment overseas in 2014 fell The list is being prepared based Deal supporters need 34 of the 100 senators or 146 members of the ance for violence of any kind,” the This is because of increasing by 27 percent. on the quality of services provided 435-seat House to sustain a veto. statement added. availability of specialist health- The Supreme Council of Health by these healthcare facilities, Democratic Senator Tom Carper said he would support the US-led The university urged students care services in the country and (SCH) has switched to an online their track record and pricing. agreement, moving President Barack Obama a step closer to having to report to campus police with a change in the system of applying system of application for state The more famous hospitals in sufficient backing to ensure the deal stands. any information about the inci- for state support for treatment support for treatment of ailing these countries are being put by Carper backed the deal negotiated by the US and other world powers dent or the presence of weapons abroad. citizens abroad. HMC on the list, Al Sharq said. that would put new limits on Iran’s nuclear programme in exchange on campus. Last year, the number of citi- It more effective and transpar- The idea of health authorities for eased economic sanctions. Two women told NBC affiliate zens who went abroad for treat- ent now, Al Sharq reports, quoting in Qatar is to ensure more and Obama is trying to muster 34 votes in the Senate to ensure lawmak- WSAV that there had been a fight ment was down by seven percent medical sources. more specialist services are pro- ers cannot kill the deal. Thirty senators, all Democrats and independ- at the student union that resulted over the previous year. The SCH, in coordination with vided locally so people don’t need ents who vote with Democrats, have now said they will support it. in one person being shot in the As for cancer patients, the Hamad Medical Corporation to go overseas for treatment. Congress must vote on the deal by September 17. collarbone area. AFP number declined by 11 percent (HMC), is making an extensive THE PENINSULA AGENCIES SATURDAY 29 AUGUST 2015 HOME / MIDEAST 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Stone laid for new building of Philippine School Doha To be renamed Philippine Science School Doha when campus opens in 2017 BY RAYNALD C RIVERA

DOHA: Philippine School Doha (PSD) will be the first Philippine science school in the Middle East when the new school building is completed and opens its doors to stu- dents in 2017. This was revealed at the foun- dation laying ceremony in Abu Hamour yesterday morning. www.swiss-belhotel.com “The ceremony marks a new milestone for PSD. Today is a Tel joyous occasion because we are Fax not just celebrating the lay- ing of foundation of the new building but, more impor- tantly, the beginning of a new Tel chapter in the history of PSD Fax as an educational institution, as a community school and as the first Philippine science school in the Middle East,” said Ambassador Wilfredo C Tel Santos in a speech. Fax PSD Principal Alexander S Acosta said the school’s name will be changed from Philippine School Doha to Philippine Tel + 974 44298888 Science School Doha (PSSD) in time for the opening of the Fax new campus. Philippine School Doha Principal Alexander S Acosta (fifth left), Ambassador Wilfredo C Santos (seventh left) “We are waiting for the and Board of Trustees Chairman Edgar V Bondoc (eighth left) with faculty and staff. RAYNALD C RIVERA go signal of the (Philippines) Tel Department of Education. We plot by the Qatari government QR120m. Work on the new big libraries, a speech lab, an have sent a letter to them and to build its permanent building. school has started, said Acosta. audiovisual room, and a swim- Fax all documents. Santos stressed “the generos- The ambassador underscored ming pool, among others. “We were hoping to receive ity of our host country Qatar, “the importance of cultivating “The permanent school build- communication within this year to Father Emir H H Sheikh leaders to take on the enormous ing of PSSD is erected as a sym- Tel but hopefully in time for the Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani responsibilities that come with bol of the united and shared Fax opening of this new building in for granting this piece of land the expansion of the school and vision of its founding parents, 2017 we will definitely be chang- on which the new PSD building implementation of the K to 12 pioneer teachers, Philippine ing the name of the school,” will be constructed” and urged programme.” embassy officials, board of Acosta told the media. his compatriots “to continue The programme, which adds trustees, PTA, unit heads, fac- Tel The recent granting of Qatar to work within the established two years of senior high school, ulty and staff, supreme student Fax National School Accreditation rules of the host country to requires more classrooms, facili- government, community organi- (QNSA) institutional accredita- show appreciation for the grand ties and teachers. In a recent sations, benevolent parents www.doha.hilton.com tion to PSD was a big step for gesture.” interview with this daily, Acosta and philanthropists, an edifice the school to realise its goal to He vowed continued support had said the new school will be where the spring of knowl- Tel 44233333 974+ be the first Philippine science to PSD “in its pursuit for aca- K to 12-compliant with more edge and wisdom flows where school in the Middle East. demic excellence for the Filipino classrooms and facilities. the seat of Filipino culture and Fax 44233000 974+ The first Philippine school children who represent our The new school, which can values emerges and where the in Qatar, PSD has operated in country’s hope and future.” accommodate over 4,000 stu- legacy of service and excellence renting buildings from one loca- Recently a bank approved dents, will have 132 classrooms, remains,” said Board of Trustees tion to another for 23 years. In a QR108m loan to build the four science labs, a gym which Chairman Edgar V Bondoc. 2010, it was granted a 14,375sqm new school, estimated to cost can accommodate over 3,000, THE PENINSULA Ministry warns over illegal animal shades Tel DOHA: The Ministry of Fax Environment has referred several people to public pros- ecution for action for building illegal shades in the desert to Tel raise livestock. Fax The ministry which issues licence for animal farms has warned people against encroaching on government Tel property and build illegal animal Fax farms. The ministry, according to Qatar News Agency (QNA), has a patrol division whose inspectors make regular rounds of outer areas to check illegal Tel farms and shades. Fax QNA reports that inspectors have, in crackdowns, caught several illegal farms people built in the remote desert areas. Tel Those caught and referred to public prosecution were issued Fax warnings and asked to remove the illegal shades and farms but they didn’t listen. The picture of an illegal animal farm built in a remote desert area, carried by Al Sharq on its website. THE PENINSULA Tel Fax Sudan arrests 17 opposition Privacy ‘of people activists amid dialogue call is being violated’ KHARTOUM: whose activists have rein in the national Continued from page 1 Tel Sudan’s security forces been giving speeches security service and Clicking photos in commercial centres and other Fax h av e a r r e s t e d at le a s t 17 criticising Bashir’s rule. uphold free speech and public places are illegal but due to lack of enough opposition activists this Most of those arrested assembly.” monitoring, the privacy of the people is being violated, month, Human Rights were released after being The arrests have come many people interviewed by the daily said. Watch (HRW) said interrogated but must as Bashir, 71, has been People’s keenness to get “liked” on social network- Tel yesterday, as President report back daily for pressing for a national ing sites motivate them to breach public privacy by Fax Omar Al Bashir urges further questioning, and dialogue to address the taking pictures without the subject’s knowledge, said opponents to join talks some told HRW they conflicts on Sudan’s Dr Moza Al Malki, a famous psychologist. to solve Sudan’s myriad had been beaten during peripheries and its ail- Unfortunately, the trend is catching on, she said. www.marriottmarquisdoha.com problems. detention. ing economy. “I wonder how people take the pictures of the The National “Sudan’s national Bashir, who has been injured and dead in road accidents. They should rather Tel + 974 44195000 Intelligence and Security security officials are in power since a 1989 help them by providing first aid instead of clicking Fax + 974 44195100 Services have arrested abusing people just for Islamist-backed coup, is pictures,” she said. 17 members of opposi- expressing their politi- wanted by International Al Malki demanded severe action against those tion parties since the cal views,” said Daniel Criminal Court for war violating people’s privacy. beginning of August, Bekele, Africa director crimes in the western A famous cleric, Dr Mohammad Hasan Al Muraikhi, mostly affiliated with for the New York-based region of Darfur. He won said breaching people’s privacy by clicking their pic- the Sudanese Congress rights watchdog. another five-year term tures is forbidden in Islam. He said a campaign should party. The Sudanese “The government in April elections. be launched to educate people about the negative Congress is a small party should end these tactics, AFP impact of the practice. THE PENINSULA SATURDAY 29 AUGUST 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Pro-Kurdish party joins interim Turkish cabinet Posts divided according to parties’ seats in parliament

ANKARA: Turkish President form an interim “election gov- Turkes, son of party founder Recep Tayyip Erdogan yes- ernment” which according to Alparslan Turkes, accepted an terday approved the makeup the constitution must be made invitation serve as deputy prime of the provisional government up of all parties represented in minister in a move denounced by that will run the country until parliament. the faction’s leadership. November 1 elections, including It is the first time in modern Davutoglu had to appoint non- for the first time pro-Kurdish Turkish history that post-election partisan figures to fill the seats MPs. talks on forming a coalition gov- snubbed by the opposition parties. “Our president... approved ernment have failed. Selami Altinok, former Istanbul the interim cabinet formed The cabinet spots are divided police chief, was appointed inte- under the leadership of Prime up according to the parties’ share rior minister and foreign min- Minister Mr Davutoglu,” the of seats in parliament — with 11 istry undersecretary Feridun presidency said in a statement going to AKP, five to the second- Sinirlioglu as new foreign after a nearly one-hour meeting placed Republican People’s Party minister. between Erdogan and Premier (CHP) and three a piece to the Speaking to his party’s pro- Ahmet Davutoglu. Nationalist Movement Party vincial heads earlier Friday, The two pro-Kurdish law- (MHP) and the pro-Kurdish Davutoglu said: “We will work just makers are from the Peoples’ Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP). like a four-year government as we Democratic Party (HDP), mark- are heading toward November 1.” ing the first time a Kurdish party TWO KURDISH MPS The election comes at a time has been represented in the Opposition parties have refused of escalating violence between government. to take part in the interim govern- Turkish security forces and The newly appointed cabinet ment, making the HDP — which Kurdish militants which has for Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu addresses the 104th enlarged meeting of provincial chairmen of Justice will not have to undergo a vote the government accuses of being now killed off hopes of ending the and Development Party (AK Party) at the AK Party headquarters in Ankara, yesterday. of confidence in parliament, as a political front for the outlawed three-decade insurgency. required in the constitution. The Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) Erdogan on Wednesday urged former deputy prime minister offensive against Islamic State “More of the same, it appears,” president’s approval is considered — and the AKP major partners in voters to choose “stability” in the Ali Babacan, much-respected eco- militants in Syria could be “nega- Inan Demir, chief economist at enough for interim governments. the new cabinet. November polls — in a clear mes- nomic chief, is out of the cabinet. tive for the sovereign risk profile Istanbul-based Finansbank, wrote Erdogan called new elections Ali Haydar Konca will act as sage to vote for the AKP thereby Fitch Ratings warned on in the medium term” if there were in an email. after Davutoglu — whose ruling EU affairs minister and Muslum avoiding the instability caused by Friday that new elections may an escalation of violence within “Based on the currently avail- Justice and Development Party Dogan as development minis- shaky coalition governments that “prolong rather than end the Turkey, or if it were drawn into a able information, seat distribution (AKP) lost its overall majority in ter, Davutoglu said in a press marred Turkish politics before political uncertainty” that is over- protracted regional conflict, the in the next parliament is unlikely parliament in June polls — failed announcement. Both are lawmak- the party came to power in 2002. shadowing Turkey’s domestic and ratings agency said. to be very different and AKP is to form a coalition government ers from the HDP. Finance Minister Mehmet external policy challenges. Commentators say new elec- likely to fall short of absolute with the opposition. In a deviation from the party Simsek retained his seat in The breakdown of the peace tions are unlikely to yield a results majority, again.” He appointed Davutoglu to line, MHP lawmaker Tugrul the interim government while process with the PKK and very different from those in June. AFP

Protest in Bahrain UAE accused Tel Aviv’s ‘Iranian embassy’ of torturing turns out to be atomic hoax Libyan-Canadian TEL AVIV: A billboard in central Tel Aviv announcing the opening NICOSIA: Authorities in the of an Iranian embassy that met with disbelief and curiosity turned United Arab Emirates have tor- out to be a hoax, organisers of the eye-catching stunt have said. tured a Libyan-Canadian man “Opening here soon — Embassy of Iran in Israel,” proclaimed the five- who has been held for a year on storey tall hoarding emblazoned with the Iranian and Israeli flags this suspicion of having links to the week. Posts on Facebook suggested that the billboard could be an art Muslim Brotherhood, Amnesty installation or a private peace campaign by Israelis of Iranian descent. International said yesterday. But the truth was revealed as a massive publicity stunt in a state- Salim Al Aradi has been in ment from the makers of a new Israeli film comedy about a nuclear detention since August 29 last conflict between Tehran and the Jewish state. year. Although police in Dubai “Mystery solved!” it said, announcing “the upcoming launch of (direc- gave no reason for his arrest, it tor) Dror Shaul’s new film ‘Atomic Falafel’ an atomic comedy.” is believed that authorities sus- Opening locally on September 10, its producer Avraham Pirchi calls pect he is linked to the banned it “a satirical comedy mocking ultra-militarism.” Islamist organisation, the rights Israel and Iran severed diplomatic relations in the wake of the watchdog said. 1979 Islamic revolution which overthrew Iran’s pro-Western shah and Aradi is “believed to have been installed a regime which did not recognise Israel. tortured or otherwise ill-treated The Jewish State vehemently opposes the nuclear deal reached in in custody. His health is said to be mid-July between Iran and major powers which will lead to the lift- deteriorating rapidly and he has A Bahraini protester holds a placard bearing the portrait of Sheikh Ali Salman, head of the opposition move- ing of economic sanctions against Tehran. Prime Minister Benjamin been denied access to adequate ment Al Wefaq, during a demonstration against his arrest, in the village of Sitra, South of capital Manama, Netanyahu believes the agreement is not strict enough to prevent Iran medical care,” said Amnesty in a yesterday. from acquiring nuclear weapons which it could use against Israel and statement. reserved the right to stage a pre-emptive strike if necessary. AFP “The unlawful treatment of Salim Al radi demonstrates the extreme tactics the UAE authori- Senior US official to travel to ties are resorting to in the name Iranian ship and crew escape of protecting national security,” said Amnesty’s Middle East and Israel to discuss Iran deal North Africa deputy director Said Boumedouha. after 5 months in captivity WASHINGTON: A senior US Treasury official will travel to Israel The group said that Aradi this week to discuss the nuclear deal reached between Iran and world was among 10 Libyan business- NAIROBI: An Iranian fishing due to shipping firms hiring pri- the Iranian ship had reached a powers with senior Israeli officials, the Treasury Department said. men arrested in the UAE, four of vessel and its crew have escaped vate security details and the pres- vessel which was part of the Acting Under Secretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence whom were released in December after being held captive for five ence of international warships. European Union’s international Adam Szubin will travel to Israel from today, the Treasury said in a and deported to Turkey. months by Somali fishermen, John Steed, a regional man- Naval Force protecting the busy statement. It will be his first visit there since the nuclear deal was The UAE has not seen any of maritime piracy experts said ager for Oceans Beyond Piracy, shipping lanes from pirates. signed in July. the pro-reform protests that have on Friday, but it was not clear said Jaber and its crew escaped in Lieutenant Robert Thurmott, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu strongly opposes the swept other Arab countries since how many crew members had early hours of Thursday morning spokesman for the EU Naval accord reached between Iran and the United States and five other world 2011, including fellow Gulf states escaped. and were pursued by pirates who Force operations, said the force powers, which imposes limits on Iran’s nuclear program in return for Bahrain and Oman. But authori- Jaber, an Iranian fishing ves- had been holding the ship close to had provided food and water to relief from sanctions. He argues the deal does not do enough to curb ties have stepped up a crackdown sel believed to have up to 19 crew, the shore in Ceel Hur, in central the Jaber crew on their own ves- Iran’s nuclear program and will bring Tehran a windfall in sanctions on dissent and calls for democratic was captured on March 26, along Somalia. “It looks like the captain sel. Somali and Iranian officials relief that could help fund regional conflicts. reform. Most of those targeted with another Iranian fishing ves- took the opportunity of a pass- have been informed about Jaber’s While in Israel, Szubin will discuss details of the nuclear deal and have been Islamists. A rare mass sel, Siraj. Local officials accused ing helicopter or whatever, when situation, he added. “emphasize the United States’ commitment to increasing cooperation trial of 41 radical Islamists accused them of illegal fishing in Somali the guards were distracted and As well as the Siraj crew, only with Israel to combat Iran’s support for terrorism and other destabi- of seeking to overthrow the gov- waters. were not on the ship ... and cut his 26 other sailors are held by Somali lizing activity in the region,” the Treasury said. ernment and of having links with Although there are still rare anchors and motored out,” Steed, pirates, from a peak of about 750 A Treasury spokesperson said Szubin will meet with Dore Gold, “terrorists” opened on Monday. cases of sea attacks, piracy in the who runs a programme helping at the beginning of the decade, director-general of Israel’s Foreign Ministry, National Security Adviser Indian Ocean has largely subsided hostages, told Reuters. according to United Nations fig- Yossi Cohen and Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz, among other officials. in the past three years, mainly Kenya-based Steed added that ures. REUTERS REUTERS US envoy to Syria visits Moscow MOSCOW: Russia yesterday Policeman killed hosted the newly appointed US special envoy for Syria as world Saudi-led air strikes kill 10 people in Yemen in Bahrain blast powers intensify efforts to end the four-year civil war raging in SANA’A: Warplanes from a seized Sanaa last September in intervened in the conflict to push Ali Abdullah Saleh advanced on DUBAI: A “terrorist blast” in a the country. Saudi-led coalition killed 10 what they called a revolution back what they see as spreading Aden, in which Hadi had taken Shia village in Bahrain killed a The new envoy, Michael Ratney, people in air raids in central against a corrupt government, Iranian influence in their backyard. refuge after escaping house arrest policeman yesterday, the coun- who was appointed to his posi- Yemen yesterday, local officials then took over much of the coun- The war has killed more than in Sana’a. try’s interior ministry said. tion last month, had previously said. One air strike targeted the try. Yemeni government forces 4,300 people, many of them civil- Bolstered by heavy weaponry “One policeman killed in the worked for the State Department home of a retired army briga- intend to launch an attempt ians, and spread disease and hun- and Gulf troops as well as Yemeni terrorist blast in Karana village,” in the Middle East. dier in the central city of Ibb, to recapture Sanaa within two ger in one of the Arab world’s fighters trained in Saudi Arabia, it said on its Twitter account, giv- In Moscow, Ratney met with killing him and five members of months. poorest states. loyalists have retaken Aden and ing no further details. Russian deputy foreign minister his family, the officials said. Steps are already under way to The Yemeni army has recruited four other southern provinces and Bahrain, home to the US Navy’s Mikhail Bogdanov and other sen- Four more people were killed in break the grip of Houthi fighters, 4,800 southern fighters following a are currently fighting for control Fifth Fleet, was swept by unrest ior officials, but no details about separate air strikes on military and the country’s exiled foreign min- presidential decision to integrate of Yemen’s third city, Taez. during the 2011 “Arab Spring” their meeting were immediately security buildings in the city, the ister said. President Abdrabuh loyalist militiamen who helped The Red Cross warned yester- uprisings when majority Shias, released. In recent weeks Middle officials said. Mansur Hadi fled Aden, where he push Iran-backed rebels out of sec- day of the “deteriorating” situation complaining of discrimination, Eastern leaders have flocked to The mountainous area of Ibb had sought refuge, for Riyadh in ond city Aden, a military official in Taez, speaking of “indiscrimi- demanded political reforms. The Moscow, one of the few remaining lies between the coast and the March. said yesterday. nate shelling of civilian areas” and Sunni-led government denies allies of Syrian President Bashad Houthi-controlled capital Sanaa. Arab countries led by Sunni In March, Shia Houthi rebels and destruction of essential infrastruc- discrimination. Al Assad. AFP The Iranian-allied Houthis Muslim power Saudi Arabia troops loyal to former president ture. AFP REUTERS SATURDAY 29 AUGUST 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST Libya recovers 105 bodies after boat sinks About 198 migrants rescued off Zuwara, a major launchpad for smugglers shipping migrants to Italy

ZUWARA, LIBYA: Libya condition and people died with fleeing conflict and poverty to request for help,” said a spokes- western Libya, which seized the Mediterranean to reach Europe recovered 105 bodies after a us,” said Ayman Talaal, a Syrian make it to Europe. Cross-border man for the Italian coast guard, capital Tripoli a year ago by has passed 300,000 this year, up boat packed with migrants survivor, standing next to his smuggler networks exploit the which has been coordinating res- expelling the official premier to from 219,000 in the whole of 2014, sank in the Mediterranean Sea daughter. “We have been forced country’s chaos to bring Syrians cue operations with the European the east. the UN refugee agency UNHCR and said almost 100 more people into this route. It’s now called the into Libya via Egypt or nation- Union off the Libyan coast. Western and most Arab pow- said yesterday. were missing and feared dead. grave of the Mediterranean Sea.” als of sub-Saharan countries via About 100 angry Zuwara resi- ers only deal with the eastern- More than 2,500 people have The vessel sank on Thursday Local officials and residents Niger, Sudan and Chad. dents took to the town’s main based government, which has no died making the crossing this after leaving Zuwara, a major were putting bodies into red bags The migrants pay thousands of square on Thursday when news control of western Libya from year, not including those feared launchpad for smugglers shipping on a beach littered with shoes, dollars for the land and sea pas- of the sinking spread, demanding were boats are launched due to drowned off Libya in the last 24 migrants to Italy by exploiting a trousers and other personal items sage with smugglers often beat- that authorities stop human traf- its proximity to the Italian island hours, it said. That compares with security vacuum in Libya where from drowned migrants. A blue ing and torturing them to press fickers, witnesses said. of Lampedusa. 3,500 who died or went missing in rival governments are fighting for inflatable brought in more bodies. for more money for the final leg Libya has asked the European The United Nations has been the Mediterranean in 2014. control four years after the oust- “We, the Red Crescent, work of the trip by sea in unseaworthy Union for help to train and hosting peace talks between the Libya has been struggling to ing of Muammar Gaddafi. with nothing. Some fishermen vessels, rights groups say. equip its navy which was largely two administrations to form a cope with the influx of migrants, Lacking navy ships, Libyan offi- help us with a boat,” said Ibrahim Libyan officials brought 147 destroyed during the uprising in unity government but a Tripoli putting them in overcrowded cials were searching for survivors Al Attoushi, an official at the Red survivors to a detention facility 2011 that toppled Gaddafi. based rival parliament, riddled makeshift detention facilities with fishing boats and inflatables Crescent in Zuwara. “We only for illegal migrants in Sabratha, But all training and coopera- with divisions, refused to sign a such as schools or military bar- provided by locals. About 198 peo- have one ambulance car.” west of Tripoli, a Libyan secu- tion was frozen in 2014 as the preliminary agreement last month. racks where they live in poor con- ple had been rescued by noon, offi- Lawless Libya has turned into a rity official said, asking not to be European Union boycotted a self- The number of refugees and ditions lacking medical care. cials said. “The boat was in a bad major transit route for migrants named. “We have not received a declared government controlling migrants crossing the REUTERS

Two British scribes Nine hours battling detained in Turkey death off Libya coast DIYARBAKIR: Turkish police have detained two British ZUWARA, LIBYA: Pakistani “My little sister, someone journalists from Vice News for teenager Shefaz Hamza spent climbed on her back and pushed reporting from the predomi- nine hours at sea clinging to the her down. When I saw her for the nantly Kurdish southeast with- wreckage of a migrant boat that last time, she was underwater out government accreditation, sank off Libya. By the time the with him on top of her.” security sources said on Friday. coast guard arrived his mother “My mother and I spent nine Police detained Jake Hanrahan and young sister were dead. hours in the water, holding on to and Philip Pendlebury in the They were among at least 105 a bit of wood. I kept telling her Baglar district of Diyarbakir people to die when their boat went everything would be okay. But province, where they were filming down on Thursday off the west- a quarter of an hour before the clashes between Turkish security ern Libyan port of Zuwara, Red rescue team arrived, she passed forces and Kurdish militants, the Crescent spokesman Mohamad Al away,” he said. “She died in my sources said. The two Britons and Misrati said. Up to 198 other peo- arms. I asked the man to let me their Turkish translator were in ple were saved, including many of take her body with me, but he close contact with the Kurdistan Arab and African origin, but doz- refused. My mother is dead. My Workers’ Party (PKK) militants, ens of others are still missing at little sister is dead.” the same sources said. sea, he said. At a police station near Later on, Hamza found out his A 2-1/2-year-old ceasefire Zuwara, Hamza sat on the ground father and other sister survived between Turkey and Kurdish mil- next to his brother among those and had been taken to hospital. itants collapsed in July after a group rescued. “We set off at about 1:30 One of those rescued said he close to Kurdistan Workers Party am,” said the 17-year-old. and his two friends had each paid (PKK) rebels shot dead two police “It was a wooden boat with 2,200 dinars (about $1,600, ¤1,400) officers. Ankara retaliated with about 350 people on board, includ- to get on the ill-fated boat. People strikes against the group in Iraq and ing my father, my mother, my lit- smugglers have taken advantage Turkey. Vice News describes itself tle sister (aged 11), my older sister of the chaos gripping Libya since Libyan Red Crescent workers move the body of a migrant recovered by coastguard after a boat sank off the as an international news organisa- (27) and my brother (16). the 2011 uprising to step up their coastal town of Zuwara, west of Tripoli on Thursday. tion that focuses on under-reported “After an hour and a half, the lucrative business. But the cross- stories around the globe. boat started shaking, then water ing to Europe is treacherous, and crisis committee said: “Many res- a friend from Gaza, repeated the who have found refuge in the started to leak in, and very fast more than 2,500 people have died cued told us that the number of same question to the deaf ears of Netherlands, for three years. we found ourselves in the sea,” he this year alone, according to the people who were on the boat is the security officer in charge of the “I got onto that boat to see Al Qaeda lashes said, a hand on his forehead and UN refugee agency. around 400.” station. “What will happen to us?” them after I wasn’t able to get gaze cast to the ground. This figure excludes those who “But there are also 60 other he asked, again and again. permission to reunite with them. 10 in Yemen “The boat shattered into pieces died when Hamza and his family’s people who were on another The 25-year-old from the My request was rejected, so I of wood. My mother and I grabbed boat sank. He had been hoping small boat that sank the day Syrian city of Latakia had trav- travelled from death in my coun- ADEN: Al Qaeda militants in on to one and I saw my brother for “better luck” for his family before (Wednesday)”. Libya is just elled to Libya four months ago try to death at sea. “For nine southeastern Yemen have pub- and little sister by my side. in Italy, he said. A Libyan coast 300km from the Italian island of from Algeria after working there hours I thought of my family and licly flogged 10 men in a new sign “Someone tried to grab the life guard official has estimated that Lampedusa, which unprecedented for three years. “I saw three of my what would happen to me,” he of their growing control over jacket that my brother was wear- there were 300 to 400 people on numbers of migrants seek to reach friends die,” he said, his eyes well- added, crying. the lawless region, witnesses ing because he didn’t have one, board. Speaking on the beach every week. At the police station ing up. “I saw them die one after “Why am I dying at sea while and an official said yesterday. but by brother hit him and he left where many of the bodies were near Zuwara, not far from Hamza, the other of exhaustion.” people over there sit happily at The men were whipped in him alone,” said Hamza. laid, Seddik Said of the Zuwara Sami Maqsud from Syria, next to “I have not seen my family, home?” AFP Al Shihr, a coastal town in Hadramawt province, after being summarily convicted of insulting God and consuming alcohol and drugs, the official said. Dozens of people attended the flogging, which is said to follow the Huge protest against Islamic Shariah law. Witnesses said each man received between 80 and 100 lashes and that both graft in Iraq capital screamed in pain. The official said Al Qaeda mili- tants have been harassing resi- BAGHDAD: Thousands of supporters of Sadr, responding dents by interfering in all aspects Iraqis demonstrated against to his call to take part. of their daily lives. Al Qaeda in corruption in Baghdad’s Tahrir Sadrists, many of them dressed the Arabian Peninsula controls Square yesterday, including in black, chanted slogans includ- parts of Hadramawt, including supporters of powerful Shia ing “Bye bye Nouri Al Maliki” provincial capital Mukalla, which cleric Muqtada Al Sadr. and called for the ex-premier, they seized in April. Protesters have taken to the whose eight years in office were AQAP has exploited months of streets of Baghdad and cities in marked by widespread graft, to be fighting in Yemen between Iran- the Shia south for weeks, railing executed. “We came out (to pro- backed rebels and the beleaguered against rampant corruption and test) in support of the reforms that Saudi-backed government to take abysmal services, especially power were announced by Prime Minister advantage of the growing chaos. outages that leave just a few hours Abadi. We want to push and sup- The United States considers it of government-supplied electric- port the state in implementing to be the extremist group’s deadli- ity per day during the scorching them,” said Nafia Al Bakhaki, an est global franchise and regularly summer heat. Prime Minister official in the Sadr movement. targets its militants with drone Haider Al Abadi has responded “All the officials in the previous strikes on Yemeni territory. to the demonstrations and a call governments, especially Maliki’s from Iraq’s top Shia cleric, Grand government, are responsible for Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani, with a corruption,” said Sheikh Samir Release Hekmati, reform programme aimed at Al Zraijawi, also from the Sadr curbing corruption and stream- movement. Some did not wel- US tells Iran lining the government, but it is come the involvement of support- still in its early stages. ers of Sadr, who had ministers WASHINGTON: US Secretary At yesterday’s demonstration, in Maliki’s governments and of State John Kerry yester- hundreds waved Iraqi flags and still wields significant influence day urged Iran to free Amir chanted anti-corruption slogans despite seeking to officially dis- Hekmati, an American who Iraqi protesters wave their national flags and shout slogans during a demonstration against corruption in Baghdad’s as in previous weeks, but this tance himself from politics as he served as a US Marine, from Tahrir Square yesterday. time the crowd also included pursues religious studies. AFP four years of “unjust detention.” Today marks the fourth anni- versary of Hekmati’s impris- onment on what Kerry called “false espionage charges” while Iraq PM orders forces to prepare to open Green Zone Hekmati was visiting relatives in the Islamic republic. BAGHDAD: Iraqi Prime corruption and streamlining the ahead, it is likely to face significant still a frequent occurrence in the and other senior figures and sup- “We repeat our call on the Minister Haider Al Abadi has bloated government, in response opposition from embassies in the capital. The Green Zone is sur- porters of his regime before his Iranian government to release ordered security forces to pre- to weeks of protests and calls Green Zone — including those of rounded by high concrete walls, overthrow in 2003, but was much Amir on humanitarian grounds,” pare to open Baghdad’s heavily from top Shia cleric Grand the United States and Britain — guarded by labyrinths of succes- more accessible then than it is now. Kerry said in a statement. fortified Green Zone govern- Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani. due to security concerns. sive checkpoints and protected by After his fall, those same pal- “This is a milestone no family ment and embassy area to the Abadi directed security forces While attacks have dropped in Abrams tanks, armoured person- aces served as the headquarters wants to mark, and the Hekmati public, his office said yesterday. to make “the necessary arrange- Baghdad compared with the first nel carriers and elite members of for the US-led occupation, and family has shown inspiring perse- The order comes in the third ments to open the Green Zone to half of last year, bombings that the security forces. later for Iraq’s new political elite, verance in the face of this injus- week of a reform drive by Abadi the citizens,” a statement from his are sometimes claimed by the It held lavish palaces occupied by whose corruption has aroused tice,” he added. AGENCIES aimed at combatting rampant office said. If the move actually goes Islamic State jihadist group are former president Saddam Hussein widespread popular ire. AFP SATURDAY 29 AUGUST 2015 EUROPE www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Berlin pledges Four arrested police backup to refugee over Austria flashpoint town HEIDENAU, Germany: Berlin pledged yesterday to send police reinforcements to the east- ern German town hit by vio- truck tragedy lent anti-migrant protests, as a court ruled that a ban imposed on rallies there over fears of Toddler, 3 young boys among dead new clashes was “clearly illegal”. The town of Heidenau has VIENNA: Hungary said yes- they would be detained beyond an become the focus of Germany’s terday it has arrested four initial 72-hour period. struggle to host 800,000 asylum- people over the discovery of Austria will likely seek to have seekers — a record figure — 71 decomposing bodies in an the suspects extradited, pos- after far-right protests erupted abandoned truck in Austria, sibly even on murder charges, against a refugee shelter over the another grim tragedy involving the country’s public prosecutor weekend. migrants desperately seeking Johann Fuchs said. In a bid to prevent a repeat of refuge in Europe. Doskozil said those arrested the violence, the regional authori- In the horrific incident — a included the owner of the vehi- ties of the eastern state of Saxony rare occurrence on land in a cle and two drivers, and were had outlawed all outdoor public prosperous country when so likely “low-ranking members... of gatherings in Heidenau from 2pm many migrants have died at sea a Bulgarian-Hungarian human- yesterday to 6 am Monday. — Austrian police said the dead trafficking gang”. The ban meant that a party were likely Syrians and included Austrian motorway mainte- organised to welcome refugees a toddler and three young boys. nance workers alerted police after on Friday as well as any planned “Among these 71 people, there noticing “decomposing body flu- rallies by the far-right were to be were 59 men, eight women and ids” dripping from the vehicle, A child of a migrant family creeps under the barbed fence near the village of Roszke on the Hungarian-Serbian scrapped. four children including a young Doskozil said. border yesterday. But the court said Saxony’s girl one or two years old and three Police were then confronted argument did not stand up boys aged eight, nine or 10,” police by an overpowering stench and a present were “shaken” by the leaders could hold a special sum- chief Heinz Patzelt. The United because “police forces from other spokesman Hans Peter Doskozil mass of tangled limbs and foren- “horrible” news. mit on the crisis, but that such a Nations said the number of refu- states and from the federation told a news conference. sics experts worked all night to “This is a warning to us to gathering “must be able to take gees and migrants crossing the could be made available”. He said the time and cause of clear out the vehicle. tackle this migrants issue quickly certain decisions”. Mediterranean to Europe has “In addition, the police have the death still had to be determined The state of the corpses sug- and in a European spirit, which European interior and trans- soared past 300,000 this year. resources, including water can- but there was a “certain prob- gested that those inside had been means in a spirit of solidarity, and port ministers gathering in Paris Over 2,500 men, women and non, to prevent any dispropor- ability” they had suffocated in dead for some time. Television to find solutions,” she said. Saturday to discuss security children have drowned trying to tionate damage,” it said. the truck, found Thursday on a images showed flies buzzing European Union leaders have measures following the thwarted reach EU nations after rickety The decision came as the inte- motorway near the Hungarian around the back of the vehicle in struggled to get to grips with a train attack in France will also overcrowded boats operated by rior ministry said it would send border. the baking sun. crisis that has seen nearly 340,000 touch on the migration issue. often unscrupulous people-smug- in police reinforcements to boost Hungarian police said they had Austrian newspaper Kurier migrants cross the bloc’s borders “If the stink from our car glers capsized. security. arrested three Bulgarians and an carried a black front page with this year — not counting August parks gets stronger perhaps we In the latest disaster at sea, at The regional authority of Afghan and had raided several the headline: “Who will stop this — and many have come from will finally understand, not just in least 76 people died after a ship “Saxony sought the help of fed- addresses and confiscated items madness?” hotspots like Iraq and Syria. Austria... that it is time to create carrying hundreds of migrants eral police and this support will be over the Austria truck discovery. German Chancellor Angela Millions of other refugees safe routes to Europe, fast reg- sank off the coast of Libya, a provided,” said interior ministry A spokesman for Hungary’s Merkel, in Austria Thursday for have sought refuge in places like istration and a swift and a fair spokesman for the Libyan Red spokesman Johannes Dimroth, chief prosecutor said a court a summit with Balkan leaders Lebanon, Turkey and Jordan. sharing out (of migrants),” said Crescent said, with 198 rescued. without detailing the size of the would decide on Saturday whether on the migrant crisis, said those Merkel said Friday that EU Amnesty International’s Austrian AFP extra forces. Chancellor Angela Merkel her- self said the federal state will “do everything possible to provide support to the Saxony police”, 17 years jail when asked during a press confer- Syriza leads polls as Greece sets vote for Sept 20 ence with Danish Prime Minister Lars Rasmussen. for organiser of Merkel has condemned the ATHENS: Greece geared up in January on a wave of popu- “Greece cannot turn back and a referendum, the European anti-migrant protests as “vile” liberal Russian yesterday for a snap election lar anger over austerity, is now will not turn back. It will only go Central Bank restricted its assist- and travelled to Heidenau in a next month, with an opinion seeking re-election to implement forward,” he said ance to Greek banks, forcing the show of support to volunteers and poll showing leftist party Syriza more reforms demanded under However, the country can for government to shut them down refugees at the shelter. Her visit on MP’s murder ahead despite a wave of defec- the new ¤86bn ($96bn) interna- now look forward to more reces- and impose capital controls to Wednesday was met with a show of tions over the country’s massive tional rescue package. sion, despite posting growth in avert a run on deposits. defiance by about 200 people, some SAINT PETERSBURG: A new bailout. A poll in leftist newspaper the second quarter of the year, the Chouliarakis said his main aim of whom booed her and shouted Russian court yesterday sen- The state-run ANA news Efimerida ton Syntakton gave new interim finance minister said over the next four weeks was “not far-right slogans including “trai- tenced the organiser of the 1998 agency said President Prokopis Syriza only a slim 3.5-point yesterday. “The Greek economy to lose valuable time.” tor, traitor” and “we are the mob”. killing of prominent opposition Pavlopoulos had signed a decree lead over the conservative New has already entered a recession- He said he planned to “move Pro-refugee activists had politician Galina Starovoitova dissolving parliament and con- Democracy. The survey by poll- ary phase. We hope it will not last forward with strengthening sought to mobilise against the to 17 years in prison. firming the widely-expected date sters ProRata said 23 percent of long,” said George Chouliarakis, the Greek bank system as fast far-right extremists by organis- Saint Petersburg’s Oktyabrsky of September 20 for the crisis-hit voters would support Syriza over head of the state economic advi- as possible, further consolidate ing a welcoming party for refu- district court sentenced former country’s fifth election in six years. 19.5 percent for New Democracy. sor council, and the top negotiator credibility and confidence in the gees in the town. But it had to lawmaker Mikhail Glushchenko A caretaker government But more than a quarter with Greece’s creditors. economy... and raise capital con- be scrapped because of the tem- to 17 years in a tough-regime appointed by Pavlopoulos to of those polled said they were The past eight months since trols as fast as possible”. porary ban on public gatherings prison colony for organising organise the election took office undecided. Syriza came to power have proved Until today, there was only one — until the court waded in. Starovoitova’s murder almost two earlier Friday with Greece’s top “Today the great electoral bat- a rollercoaster for the troubled known photograph in circulation Emboldened by the court rul- decades ago. judge Vassiliki Thanou as prime tle begins. The Greek people will Greek economy. of Chouliarakis, a low-profile ing, dozens of anti-fascist activ- The gunning down of the minister, replacing Syriza leader give a strong mandate for the As talks broke down in June ecoomics lecturer at Manchester ists travelled to the town of 16,000 52-year-old liberal member of Alexis Tsipras who resigned last present and the future,” Tsipras between Athens and its inter- University in England who prefers inhabitants, where they marched parliament in the stairwell of her week. said in a statement to the Syriza national creditors and Greeks to work in the background. in support of migrants. home was one of Russia’s most Tsipras, who rode to power newspaper Avgi. rejected austerity proposals in AFP AFP notorious political killings of the 1990s. “The court established that Glushchenko along with an uni- Poland almost dentified person decided to kill British Library rejects the State Duma deputy Galina certain it has Starovoitova with the aim of ending her active political and Taliban documents located buried governmental activity,” the pros- ecutor-general’s office said in a statement. PARIS: Academics have criticised the British government for Nazi train A charismatic politician and creating a “climate of fear” after the national library declined rights activist, Starovoitova was to store the world’s biggest collection of Taliban-related docu- WARSAW: Poland said yesterday an MP in the State Duma lower ments over concerns it could be prosecuted under terrorism it was almost certain it had located house of parliament and chaired laws. a buried Nazi German train, Democratic Russia party. She was A group of international researchers spent years putting rumoured to have gone missing also an advisor to Boris Yeltsin together a trove of documents related to the Afghan Taliban, near the close of World War Two during his presidency. including official newspapers from their time in power, poems, loaded with guns and jewels. In 2005, a court in Saint maps, radio broadcasts, and several volumes of laws and edicts— Photographs taken using Petersburg convicted two hitmen, digitising the estimated two to three million words and translat- ground-penetrating radar equip- one of whom was disguised as a ing everything into English. ment showed a train more than woman at the crime scene, and sen- It was hoped the project, which was launched in 2012 and 100 metres long, the first official tenced them to 23 and 20 years, but included members of the British Library on its advisory board, confirmation of its existence, failed to identify the mastermind. would prove an unprecedented resource for academics and offi- Deputy Culture Minister Piotr Glushchenko, a former deputy cials trying to understand the movement and the ongoing insur- Zuchowski said. for the ultranationalist Liberal gency in Afghanistan. The vehicle was armoured, sug- Democratic Party led by Vladimir But despite hopes that the library would host a master copy of gesting it was carrying a special Zhirinovsky, was arrested in 2009 the digital collection, it got cold feet at the last minute, telling the cargo, “probably military equip- over a separate case after being project’s organisers that they feared they could be in breach of ment but also possibly jewellery, on the run for several years. Britain’s increasingly stringent counter-terrorism laws. “It’s surpris- works of art and archive docu- His sentence took into account ing and disappointing,” said Alex Strick van Linschoten, a Berlin- ments,” he told journalists in that he is already serving an based author and researcher who helped spearhead the project. Warsaw. “I am over 99 percent eight-year sentence for extortion “There’s no recipes for making bombs or anything like that. sure that such a train exists,” in a separate case after being con- These are documents that would help people understand history, though experts would only be victed in 2013. whether it’s Afghans trying to learn about their recent past, or certain once they managed to Glushchenko, who appeared outsiders wanting to understand the movement. uncover the vehicle, he added. in court in a crumpled grey suit, “Any scholar would realise it’s essential to read primary docu- Authorities started looking for pleaded guilty to being one of the ments related to your subject if you want to understand militant the train this month, tipped off by a organisers of Starovoitova’s mur- groups, but there is a climate of fear among academics who study German and a Pole who said through der and asked for “forgiveness from this kind of material because UK law is very loose,” he said. lawyers that they had found it in the the Russian people.” Glushchenko The British Library was reluctant to discuss the decision, refer- southwestern district of Walbrzych said in court the murder was ring queries to the government. A spokeswoman confirmed the and expected 10 percent of the value ordered by the head of the power- library was “not currently able to acquire a copy of the archive”. of the findings as a reward. ful “Tambov” criminal syndicate, “It is a large digitised archive which contains material that Rumours have circulated for dec- Vladimir Barsukov, a one-armed could contravene the Terrorism Act,” she said. “The legal advice ades that a Nazi train loaded with mobster nicknamed the “night received jointly by the British Library and other similar institu- weapons and loot had disappeared into governor” of Saint Petersburg for tions advises against making this type of material accessible.” a tunnel near Poland’s border in 1945 his far-reaching influence. The Home Office declined to comment. as Soviet Red Army forces closed in. AFP AFP REUTERS SATURDAY 29 AUGUST 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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HAD HAS sentenced ten members of Boko Haram to death on terror charges. The militants belonging Are there any reasons for to the most dangerous terrorist group in Africa Cwere found guilty of twin terror attacks in the capital N’Djamena in June that killed 38 persons. The death penalty given to the Islamist militants will set an example for other terror groups and work to hope in the Middle East? dampen the spirits of Boko Haram, which has been waging BY HENRI J BARKEY and ratcheting down the virulent anti-Amer- Syria requires Iran’s participation at a relentless battle against the government of Nigeria. DAVID F GORDON The group, led by the intransigent Abu Bakr Shekau, has icanism that had dominated its narrative the negotiating table, a reversal of his been perpetrating numerous atrocities on the people of of world events since the annexation of previous position. HE WINDS of change Crimea and the imposition of Western The regime in Syria would not survive Nigeria and neighbouring countries like Chad. Death to the are unexpectedly blowing sanctions last year. without Iran’s contributions to man- militants will work to demoralise the group as it ratchets through the Levant. Then Secretary of State John Kerry power and armaments. up attacks against Nigerian troops and the public after In the aftermath of the and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Hence, it seems unlikely that the President Muhammadu Buhari took charge. More than Iran nuclear agreement, Lavrov were in Doha to meet Gulf lead- recent initiatives would have taken place Tthere was a broad expectation in the ers, which included a joint meeting with without Tehran’s acquiescence, at mini- 1,000 people have been killed in Boko Haram attacks in the region and beyond that sectarian ten- their Saudi counterpart. mum. Iraq, which also coordinates with last three months. sions and conflict would intensify and This was followed by a visit to Riyadh Iran, recently assured visiting Defence The death sentences came a day after Nigeria marked deepen the proxy battle between Iran by Assad’s intelligence chief and the dis- Secretary Ashton Carter that Sunni 500 days since 276 girls were kidnapped by Boko Haram. and Saudi Arabia. In the US, some patching of the Syrian foreign minister militia would play a significant role in Militants stormed the Government Secondary School in the strong supporters of the nuclear deal for meetings in Oman, the only Gulf the coming offensive to retake Anbar town of Chibok in Borno state on the evening of April 14 emphasised that Washington needed to state not actively supporting anti-Assad province from IS, with Shia militias last year, abducting the girls who were preparing for end- respond aggressively to the inevitable rebels in Syria. playing a less prominent role. push by Tehran to expand its regional Critical to the new diplomacy is the The US and Saudi Arabia had of-year exams. influence at the expense of traditional flurry of unusual diplomatic activity been urging just such an approach on Fifty-seven of the girls escaped but there has been no US allies. between Russian and Saudi officials in Baghdad. trace of the 219 others since May last year, when about What we are seeing on the ground, recent months. It remains uncertain whether Iranian 100 of them appeared in a Boko however, looks different. There is an In the aftermath of Saudi King hardline elements, especially the There is Haram video, dressed in Muslim increasing possibility for new geopoliti- Abdullah’s death in January, the Revolutionary Guards, will go along with attire and reciting the Holy Quran. cal alignments throughout the region. Russians sought to explore prospects a policy of cooperation, especially one no trace of The confluence of the growing fear for Saudi flexibility in Syria. that may endanger the Assad regime The kidnappings drew global in Saudi Arabia and Iran of the threat The new Saudi leadership, expecting and, by extension, Iran’s most prized the more attention to the plight of the Nigerian posed by Islamic State (IS); the weak- a nuclear deal with Iran and frustrated ally, the Hezbollah militia. Nor will the than 200 population especially in the country’s ening of President Bashar Al Assad’s with the US, looked to test whether Russians easily jettison their ally Assad. northeast, which has been overrun regime in Syria; Turkish President Moscow was willing and able to moder- This was clear in Lavrov’s comments Chibok girls by the militant group. It triggered Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s policy shift to ate Iranian regional policy. that the Syrian strongman is a perfectly cooperate with the US in Syria, and The Saudis are particularly focused on acceptable partner in fighting IS. an international outcry and a social kidnapped Moscow’s and Washington’s growing Yemen, which is critical to Saudi secu- Recent diplomacy notwithstanding, media campaign — Bring Back Our shared interests in steering the Saudi- rity and where anti-Saudi Houthi rebels we remain a long way from resolving 500 days Girls — even drawing celebrities like Iran rivalry onto a less escalatory path, had taken control, with what Riyadh the complex problems emanating from ago by Boko US First Lady Michelle Obama and while creating a broad coalition against believes was direct Iranian support. the Syrian civil war and the weakening Haram in Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie to IS, is creating political fluidity. The rapidity with which Saudi Arabia of the Iraqi state. the cause of the schoolgirls. As diplomatic moves accelerate, the has, unlike Israel, dropped its active oppo- But a critical test will be the speed Nigeria. US and allies look to be preparing a seri- sition to the Iran nuclear deal speaks and extent of success that is achieved As hapless relatives of the Chibok ous onslaught on IS in Iraq and Syria. of the importance it gives to the new in the coming offensive against IS. The girls brood over their unknown fate, The opening of Turkish air bases to coa- regional diplomacy. Recent successes by militant group is unlikely to be eradi- their abductors continue to kill scores lition aircraft, manned and unmanned, the Saudi-led military force seeking to cated completely. of innocent people every week. A group of Islamist militias will enable the allies to prepare for a drive the Houthis out of power, if con- But if its hold on large parts of Iraq given to killing, loot and plunder challenging the might of major ground offensive by local allies to solidated, may provide the Saudis with and Syria are broken fairly quickly, the state is not a good sign for citizens and government recapture Mosul. the confidence they need to give on-the- momentum would shift and IS would Iraq’s third-largest city has been ground momentum to the new diplomatic be a substantially weakened adversary. authorities. With every carnage, Boko Haram keeps gaining under IS control for more than a year. momentum building in the region. Ironically, such an outcome would traction in a country that has been ravaged by militancy. More inchoate is the parallel jockey- It is too early to tell what role Iran make the Assad regime in Syria more Muhammadu Buhari’s government had come to power on ing around Syria’s political future, and intends to play. In the nuclear negotia- vulnerable. Without IS breathing down the promise of fighting militancy and corruption. Even whether a compromise framework can tions with the six world powers, regional its neck, the opposition forces would be so many weeks after taking over, there is no indication be found to end that country’s civil war. issues were excluded from discussions to freed from fighting a two-front war. The first sign that a diplomatic offen- maximise prospects for success on the This is the ultimate paradox: By that the government has been trying to trace the girls. It sive was in the works was President nuclear front. threatening everyone, including the is likely that after 500 days, the girls have been married Barack Obama’s praise of the Russian But some Western leaders, particu- Iranians and the Russians, IS will have off or sold as sex slaves by their captors. It is incumbent role in the endgame of the Iran nego- larly Obama, hoped that a successful succeeded in uniting all to defeat it. on the Nigerian government to find out in what state the tiations during his interview with New conclusion of talks might create space Yet the price down the road for both kidnapped girls are and whether, if at all, they will ever be York Times op-ed columnist Thomas for a broader diplomacy. countries will be increased pressure to freed from their captors• Friedman. Obama also expressed his view that abandon the Assad regime. This was reciprocated by the Kremlin a solution to the continuing conflict in REUTERS The other side Quote of Shared interests outweigh feuds and differences the day

S NATIONAL Security Advisor cooperation and build consensuses issues among themselves, they are also no intention of challenging the US’ Susan Rice is in town on Friday on thorny bilateral and multilateral expected to jointly contribute to interna- supremacy, it always looks to work with to discuss the preparation issues, especially about how they are tional efforts to address issues of glo- the US as cooperative partners. The work for Chinese President Xi going to interact in the Asia-Pacific bal concern, such as climate change. fact that cooperation has outweighed UJinping’s trip to the United States next region. In recent months, some dif- Recently, currency fluctuations and tur- confrontation during the vicissitudes in On our way to month. Both Beijing and Washington ferences, old and new, have cropped bulence in the global stock markets have China-US ties indicates their shared November 1, we have attached great importance to Xi’s up to cloud bilateral ties. Washington fueled fears of fresh financial turmoil. It is interests prevail over their differences. upcoming visit, which is sure to lay an has ratcheted up its tone on pressing to be hoped that the summit between Xi Hence, the two should stick to their will act like a indelible mark on Sino-US relations. China over cybersecurity and rallied and his US counterpart Barack Obama shared goals and interests, accommo- Xi’s visit is expected to give further more closely behind countries such as can send positive signals that will shore date each other’s legitimate concerns government elected guidance to the building of a new model the Philippines to stir up the troubled up confidence and prevent a crisis. and prevent their differences from dom- for four years. We of major-country relations between the waters of the South China Sea. The feuds and differences between inating the agenda of bilateral interac- two nations and bring greater benefits As the most important nation-to- Beijing and Washington have, by tion. Only by so doing can Beijing and will not be working to the two peoples. nation relationship, ties between China and large, stemmed from how the Washington learn to deal with each The top Chinese leader’s visit also and the US are always under world- US increasingly sees China as a rival other better and jointly contribute to in the mood of an presents a good opportunity for the wide scrutiny. Beijing and Washington that will sooner or later challenge its world peace and development. interim government. Ahmet Davutoglu two countries to deepen their practical are not only expected to straighten out global supremacy. In fact, China has CHINA DAILY Turkish Prime Minister SATURDAY 29 AUGUST 2015 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 IS fight has given Jordan new life Today, Jordan is a pivotal member of the anti- militant coalition, with a vibrant economy and a military being armed to teeth by the United States and regional allies.

BY TOBIN HARSHAW reputation for political stability. Then came the fight against IS, a jihadist foe hile much has been made that the secular-minded Jordan, with of how the war against its small but well-trained military, was Islamic State (IS) gives uniquely suited to confront. WIran a chance to increase When Congress passed a measure its influence across the Middle East, speeding arms sales to Amman this another country has already parlayed February — shortly after Islamic State the violence into tangible gains: Jordan. released the grisly video of a captured Just a decade ago, the tiny, oil-poor Jordanian pilot being burned to death — Hashemite kingdom had all but slipped it marked the kingdom’s turnaround as off the West’s radar, no longer needed a valued Mideast partner. as a forward bulwark against Saddam Overall US aid for each of the next Hussein. Today, Jordan is a pivotal mem- three years has been boosted to $1bn, ber of the anti-militant coalition, with from $660m in 2014. Washington has a vibrant economy and a military being recently agreed to sell Jordan 260 Javelin armed to teeth by the United States and and Hellfire anti- tank missiles; 92 regional allies. Cougar armored personnel carriers; 100 Consider this: In 2003, the year of the Paveway laser-guided bombs, and a new Iraq invasion, the US gave Jordan $950m targeting system for its F-16 fighter jet in economic assistance and $612m in fleet. Jordan is one of the two sites where military aid. By 2011, those figures were the Pentagon is spending more than half down to $362m and $300m. Jordan’s a billion dollars to train Syrian rebels other benefactors followed suit: Overall to fight Islamic State. And it will get aid plummeted from nearly 13 percent of a hefty amount of the $2.1bn Congress gross national income in 2003 to under 4 has appropriated for the White House’s percent from 2006 through 2011. Counterterrorism Partnerships Fund. A rally in Amman against the killing of pilot Maaz Al Kassasbeh, after he was captured by IS when his plane went down in Syria in December. Down went the economy. Per-capita Military cooperation is also coming gross domestic product, which soared by from Israel. The Jewish state has sup- and services. Inflation has eased, and the That’s just in the short term. Even well-educated citizens still have little 9 percent the year after the Iraq invasion, plied its neighbour with surveillance nation expects to hash out a $1.5 billion more important is Jordan’s potential role political clout in a system where the was down to 1.3 percent growth in 2010, drones and Cobra helicopters, and the loan deal with the IMF. The global col- in the Israel-Palestinian peace process. prime minister and Senate members are even as neighbors prospered. two nations created a joint intelligence lapse in oil prices has helped too, since Should a two-state deal ever come to all appointed by the monarch. Freedom Economic doldrums begat politi- war room inside Jordan to keep tabs Jordan imports its energy. fruition, the nascent Palestinian entity House gives Jordan a score of six (seven cal stagnation. The 10-year, reformist on Islamic State. The Jordanian press The obvious upside for the rest of the will rely on Jordan for its economic being the worst) for political freedom; “National Agenda” of King Abdullah, reports that the Israeli weaponry will world is the role Jordan can play against and political survival. To begin with, the press is muzzled; and the coldly effi- introduced in 2007, never became much be used to help carve out a “buffer zone” Islamic State. It can bring significant nearly half of Jordan’s population now is cient state- controlled justice system is more than words on paper. In 2004 and free of jihadist troops in southern Syria, firepower to bear — over three days in Palestinian, and remittances from those one reason any sparks of the Arab Spring again in 2008, there was widespread similar to what Turkey is doing in the February, Jordanian pilots carried out families will be key to the new nation’s were quickly damped. domestic concern — somewhat justified — north. 56 bombing raids on Islamic State tar- economy. Palestinians will also need trad- As the jihadist threat recedes over that with Israeli-Palestinian negotiations The economy is looking up as well. New gets. The military has more than 100,000 ing partners and investors other than time, the US would do well to condition foundering, the kingdom would be forced financial aid from Persian Gulf allies and active-duty troops, 750 tanks and 250 Israel. Excluding the Gulf states, Jordan further aid on Jordan’s progress toward to merge with the West Bank into a sort elsewhere has pushed GDP growth to aircraft, including 38 F-16 fighters. Its has the Arab world’s highest “knowl- the promises in Abdullah’s National of Jordanestine, in which Palestinians near 3.5 percent since 2013, despite the 14,000-man special forces are consid- edge economy index” and its fledgling Agenda, particularly expanding social would form a majority population. loss of Syrian trade and a refugee crisis ered among the best in the region. The high-tech industries show real promise inclusion, equality under the law and Then came salvation in the form of at its northern border. The World Bank nation’s proximity to the front is also — telecom and information technology freedom of speech. But Washington violent upheaval. First came the Arab estimates that in 2016 the economy will important: not only is the US training now comprise nearly 15 percent of the should not make the same mistake it Spring uprisings, which all but passed see increased rates in private and govern- Syrian rebels there, a UAE fighter squad- economy. made a decade ago. After Islamic State is Jordan by as they turned the region ment consumption, gross fixed invest- ron is now operating out of Muwaffaq The key to Jordan’s long-term regional defeated, it cannot abandon its tiny ally. upside down, burnishing the kingdom’s ment, and exports and imports of goods Salti airbase. influence lies in political reform. Its WP-BLOOMBERG Democrats confident Iran nuclear Russia’s food burning an irrational show deal will survive in Congress BY SERGEI GURIEV

he “purifying fire” came as a surprise when the Russian gov- White House is edging ernment starting burning food and boasting about it on state towards the 34 Senate television. A year ago, the government introduced an embargo Ton food imports from Western countries. This embargo raised domestic food prices and contributed to a major decline in real incomes. votes needed to sustain But why isn’t it enough to confiscate Western food? Why burn it? Obama’s veto and For people raised in Soviet and post- Soviet Russia, the destruction of food is a taboo. In the past 100 years, Russia has experienced several preserve his top foreign famines. Even though there is no famine in modern Russia, more than 20 million people live in poverty. It would certainly make more sense to hand policy achievement out food to them instead of destroying it. Can food burning be rationalised? Actually, for today’s Russian government, burning imports is a very from collapse. rational move because it looks so horrible. The Kremlin wants to send a clear message: Yes, we can do things that you find irrational and BY PATRICIA ZENGERLE unthinkable; do not mess with us. It is important to communicate this message inside and outside of Russia. To its supporters within Russia, the government says: The standoff with the West is a matter emocrats are confident of principle, whatever the economic cost. (Such a statement is very they will have enough timely — Russia’s second-quarter gross domestic product fell by 4.6 votes to protect the percent over the second quarter of last year.) The Kremlin also sends DIran nuclear deal in a signal of self-confidence to the domestic opposition: The government the US Congress, but they face can afford doing unpopular things and still remain in control. an uphill task to avoid President Outside of Russia, this is a signal of commitment to the course of Barack Obama having to use his Activists hold signs during a rally supporting the Iran Nuclear Agreement in Los Angeles, California, yesterday. confrontation. The West should understand that it cannot predict the veto power to ensure the agree- Kremlin’s actions, and Western leaders should be afraid that Russia ment’s survival. other backers of the controver- edging towards the 34 Senate votes groups have lobbied intensely for the will do things that they would not dare do themselves. Coming from a “We’re getting close,” said sial accord, which gives sanc- needed to sustain Obama’s veto agreement, promising to block dona- nuclear power, this message sounds especially frightening. Senator Richard Durbin, who as tions relief to Iran in exchange and preserve his top foreign policy tions to any “war hawk” who opposes But this is not the whole story. Food burning also demonstrates that Minority Whip is the Democrats’ for curbs on its nuclear program. achievement from collapse. it. Opponents have spent millions on the embargo’s main goal was not to reciprocate Western sanctions. chief vote counter in the Senate, If Obama has to use his prom- Growing support for the advertisements. Republican lead- If the goal were to punish European farmers, the government would referring to the 34 Senate votes ised veto, it would undercut his deal has led to speculation that ers, powerful pro-Israel groups and confiscate the imports and hand them to the poor — this would hurt the needed to sustain an Obama veto ability to claim broad political Democrats are approaching the 41 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin European exporters as much as burning the food would. Food burning if Congress initially rejects the deal. backing for the deal agreed by votes they would need under pro- Netanyahu himself denounce the benefits only the Russian agricultural lobby. It reduces the supply of “I have really been heartened by six major powers and Iran. The cedural rules to block a disapproval deal, which Netanyahu calls a threat food in Russia, raising domestic prices and domestic producers’ profits. the positive response from our cau- appearance of more unity would resolution in the Senate and keep to his country’s survival. The White In this sense, food burning is not geopolitics; it is good old protection- cus,” he said. Obama will be able to strengthen the international com- it from reaching Obama’s desk. To House has declined to comment ism, fair and square. It shows that the government cares more about save the agreement if he can deny munity’s hand in forcing Iran to reach 41 votes, 12 of the 15 unde- on its outlook beyond saying it is the agricultural lobby than Russian households. opponents in either the Senate comply with the nuclear agree- cided Senate Democrats would working to gather enough votes Russia’s anti-trade lobby has always been strong, but the World or the House of Representatives ment, backers say. have to support a motion blocking to keep Congress from “spoiling” Trade Organization (WTO) accession in August 2012 has put it in a the two-thirds majority needed to A Reuters poll runderlined the it. Senior Democratic aides said the pact. straitjacket. Initially, the Russian elites did not fully understand the override his expected veto. growing partisan divisions over the they do not yet have that many Obama’s veto would be only the WTO’s power. Allegedly, when selling the WTO accession to leftist Senate aides said they expected deal, with 54 percent of Republican votes even in their private “likely fifth of his presidency. Congress members of parliament, a top government official said, “You should to reach that threshold before supporters opposing it, up from 30 yes” columns. “The last 10 percent has failed to override any of the not worry about WTO rules; we will only pretend to stick to them while Congress returns from recess on percent in April. Only 16 percent is always the hardest,” a Senate other four. Overrides are rare, continuing protectionist policies.” After joining the WTO, the govern- September 8, ahead of a vote on of Democrat respondents oppose Democratic leadership aide said. blocking only 110 out of the 2,566 ment introduced a “car recycling duty.” It was supposed to be paid only the deal which must take place the deal. Twenty-seven Senate One pro-deal group tracking vetoes in the history of the United by foreign car manufacturers — to protect the domestic automotive before September 17. But achiev- Democrats and two independents the vote said it was confident of States. Deal supporters need 34 sector after WTO accession commitments required a lowering of car ing the 41 Senate votes needed to have announced support for the only about six or seven of the 15 of the 100 senators or 146 mem- import duties. However, Russia soon discovered that the WTO is a rule- block an expected “resolution of agreement, which was reached in remaining undecided Democrats bers of the 435-seat House to sus- based organization with teeth. An obvious violation of rules would result disapproval” of the deal by the mid-July and which Republicans eventually backing the deal. tain a veto. So far, only 78 House in retaliation — which other members immediately told Russia. Russia Republican majority — avoiding say will empower Iran without effec- Obama has lobbied heavily for members, all Democrats, support had to return to the equal playing field, and the government imposed the the need for a veto — remains in tively blocking its path to a nuclear the deal and an aide said Durbin the deal, according to a count by recycling duty on domestic car producers as well. With Russia’s annexa- doubt, they acknowledged. weapon. With more Democrats had called undecided Democrats the Bipartisan Policy Center. No tion of Crimea, everything has changed. Having sold the cow, Russia has The distinction is viewed as expected to come out in favour every day during Congress’ four- Republican has yet backed the also sold her milk. Having violated the UN Charter when it did so, Russia crucial by the White House and within days, the White House is week summer recess. Progressive agreement. REUTERS can afford to break WTO rules. WP-BLOOMBERG SATURDAY 29 AUGUST 2015 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com AMERICAS Erika claims 12 lives in Dominican Republic Storm lashes Caribbean, heads to Florida

MIAMI: Tropical Storm declared a state of emergency on over the Dominican Republic Erika threatened Haiti and Friday, noting the storm could and impoverished Haiti’s notori- the Dominican Republic with travel “up the spine of Florida” ously eroded hillsides, with up to heavy rain and strong winds from Sunday into next week. 10 inches possible in some areas. yesterday as it swirled across Scott said the Tampa area on This could cause “life-threatening the Caribbean and geared up Florida’s Gulf Coast was a major flash floods and mud slides,” the for a run at south Florida, the flood concern due to saturation Miami-based NHC said. US National Hurricane Center from rain earlier this month. Dominica’s prime minister said said. He urged residents, especially in a radio broadcast that emer- At least 12 people were con- those who have moved to Florida gency officials were searching for firmed dead on the island of in the decade since Hurricane several missing people after rain- Dominica, Prime Minister Wilma — the last major storm to triggered landslides on Thursday Roosevelt Skerrit said on Twitter, hit the state, in 2005 — to follow on the small, mountainous island adding: “The number may be news reports and make possible with a population of about 72,000. higher.” evacuation plans. Overflowing rivers and land- Due to some likely weakening US President Barack Obama slides washed away several roads over mountainous areas, Erika has asked for regular updates on and bridges there, and the nation’s was no longer forecast to make the forecast for Erika over the Tourism Minister Robert Tonge landfall in the United States as a weekend, White House spokes- posted photographs and video on hurricane. But it may still smack man, Josh Earnest said. Facebook showing widespread General view after the passage of Tropical Storm Erika in the Eastern Caribbean in Roseau, Dominica, yesterday. the Miami area by late on Sunday The storm also caused cruise flooding in the capital. with sustained winds of 60 miles lines to adjust itineraries for some For days, forecasters have which weakens a storm, as well as 50 mph, the NHC said. The storm If Erika survives the moun- per hour, before sweeping north- ships coming in and out of South described Erika, the fifth named warm water, which adds energy. should weaken as it passes over tains, it would probably regain ward up the Florida peninsula, Florida, rerouting to avoid the storm of the Atlantic hurricane As Erika neared the Dominican the mountains of the Dominican intensity over warm seas in toward Orlando’s popular theme storm. season, as unusually hard to predict Republic’s capital, Santo Republic and Haiti, “and could the Bahamas and the Straits of parks. The greatest risk over the due to disruption from wind pat- Domingo, on Friday, its sus- degenerate to a tropical wave,” Florida, it added. Florida Governor Rick Scott next few days is heavy rainfall terns and its interaction over land, tained winds were measured at the center said. REUTERS

Court hands Journalist killings revive US gun control debate win to NSA ROANOKE, United States: CBS affiliate in Roanoke, Virginia Parker’s father Andy made an tooth and nail by the National an ABC affiliate in Philadelphia The brazen killing of two US — were no different. impassioned plea for change, say- Rifle Association (NRA), the on Wednesday. “What we know journalists during a live tel- “How many massacres do ing his daughter’s death had left main US gun rights lobbying is that the number of people who over metadata evision broadcast by a former we have to have... before the him heartbroken. group, which has been success- die from gun-related incidents reporter fired by the station public cries out and says what “I’m for the Second ful in blunting drives to restrict around this country dwarfs any reignited calls for tougher gun it is that they want us to do?” Amendment, but there has to be weapons sales. deaths that happen through collection control in America — though Roanoke Mayor David Bowers a way to force politicians that are US lawmakers have been hesi- terrorism.” WASHINGTON: A US appeals there was little hope for change. said on CNN. “We just haven’t cowards and in the pockets of the tant to enact tougher limitations After the Roanoke attack, court yesterday threw out a Mass shootings in the United reached a consensus on this in NRA to come to grips and make on access to guns, in part because Wal-Mart said it will stop sell- judge’s ruling that would have States — from the 2012 school America.” sense—have sensible laws so that they are loath to anger voters ing the AR-15 -- the type of rifle blocked the National Security massacre in Newtown to June’s Parker and Ward were shot crazy people can’t get guns,” he for whom gun rights cannot be used in Newtown and in the Agency from collecting phone slaying of black churchgoers in dead at close range by 41-year- said. abridged in any way. Colorado theater massacre—and metadata under a controversial Charleston — regularly prompt old Vester Lee Flanagan, who “It can’t be that hard, and yet President Barack Obama other semi-automatic weapons, program that has raised privacy widespread hand-wringing about was dismissed from WDBJ in politicians from the local level made a concerted effort to push but cited flagging demand as the concerns. easy US access to guns, and a 2013 over angry, erratic behavior. to the state level to the national gun control legislation through reason. The US Court of Appeals need for action. Images from Ward’s camera as level, they side-step the issue. Congress in the wake of the Republican presidential candi- for the District of Columbia The killings on Wednesday of the attack took place were aired They kick the can down the road. Newtown school shooting, but the date Donald Trump said efforts Circuit said there were not suf- reporter Alison Parker, 24, and live. This can’t happen anymore.” draft went nowhere. should focus on bolstering mental ficient grounds for the prelimi- cameraman Adam Ward, 27, as The woman they were inter- The constitution’s Second “It breaks my heart every time health treatment, rather than on nary injunction imposed by the they conducted an early morning viewing was also shot, but was in Amendment — enshrining the you read or hear about these gun restrictions. lower court. The law in question on-air interview for WDBJ — a good condition on Thursday. right to bear arms — is defended kinds of incidents,” Obama told AFP expired in June and was revised by Congress. The three-judge panel con- cluded that the case was not moot despite the change in the law and sent the case back to U.S. Former student found District Court Judge Richard Leon for further proceedings. “Although one could reasonably infer from the evidence presented not guilty in abuse case the government collected plain- tiffs’ own metadata, one could CONCORD: A former student jury of his peers for the crimes he also conclude the opposite,” wrote of an elite New Hampshire prep committed against our daughter.” Judge Janice Rogers Brown. As school was found not guilty yes- Carney, a prominent Boston such, the plaintiffs “fall short of terday of raping a 15-year-old defence attorney, argued that meeting the higher burden of girl days before graduation last Labrie and the teen, whose sister proof required for a preliminary year in a case that has shone a was a senior at the school, had a injunction,” she added. harsh spotlight on the school’s mutually flirtatious relationship The NSA and other intelli- culture. and went on to have a consensual gence agencies had no immediate Owen Labrie, 19, was found encounter that stopped short of comment. not guilty of three felony counts intercourse. Under the amended law, the of sexually assaulting a fellow The defence had focused on existing metadata collection pro- student at St Paul’s School in the testimony of a close friend gram is set to continue for 180 Concord. The jury found him of the accuser, who said the teen days after the June 2 enactment guilty of lesser misdemeanour told her that she was willing to of the USA Freedom Act. counts of having sex with a per- engage in certain sex acts short The new law would require son under the age of consent, as of intercourse. The accuser denied companies such as Verizon well as a felony count of using having said it. Communications Inc and AT&T online communications to seduce Carney, whose high-profile cli- Inc, to collect and store telephone a minor. ents have included Boston mob records the same way that they do Labrie closed his eyes and boss James “Whitey” Bulger, now for billing purposes. began to sob as the first verdict, said the teen accused Labrie of But instead of routinely feeding finding him guilty of computer- rape only after rumours of their US intelligence agencies such data related seduction, was read but encounter began to spread. in bulk, the companies would be regained his composure as the The accuser, Carney said, “had required to turn it over only in Former president George W Bush talks with Ashantae Martin (left) and Ronjae Pleasant at Warren Easton Charter jury forewoman read out the to make a decision whether it response to a government request High School one day before the 10-year anniversary of Hurricane Katrina in New Orleans, Louisiana, yesterday. three not guilty verdicts. His law- would be her reputation that approved by the secretive Foreign yer, J W Carney, patted his back would go into the toilet, or Owen’s Intelligence Surveillance Court. to soothe him. and she took the easier choice.” Former NSA contractor Bush hails New Orleans ‘resilience’ He could face a sentence of Prosecutors had argued that Edward Snowden disclosed the up to 11 years in prison for the Labrie targeted the teen for a massive phone record collection charges he was found guilty of. last sexual conquest before grad- in June 2013. Documents provided NEW ORLEANS: Former agencies to adequately prepare for Bush said it is also “a story of Each felony sex assault count had uation, citing Facebook messages by Snowden showed a US surveil- president George W Bush, who the storm or the fact that it took commitment and compassion.” carried a potential sentence of as in which he boasted of having lance court had secretly approved faced fierce criticism for the four days for supply trucks with “I hope you remember what much as 20 years in prison. sex with her and a list of girls the collection of millions of raw botched government response food and water to reach tens of I remember, the thousands who Central to the trial was the he compiled that he wanted to daily phone records in America. to Hurricane Katrina, returned thousands of people who sought came here on a volunteer basis to “senior salute,” a longstanding “slay,” school slang for sex, with The program was challenged to New Orleans yesterday to shelter at the city’s convention provide food for the hungry and tradition among St. Paul’s stu- the teen’s name in all-capital by plaintiffs Larry Klayman and mark the storm’s 10th anniver- center and on the freeways. to help find shelter for those who dents that involved seniors invit- letters. Charles Strange. Klayman is a sary by celebrating the US city’s “All of us who are old enough had no home to live in.” ing underclassmen to get together St Paul’s, whose alumni include conservative lawyer and Strange “resilience.” to remember will never forget the Bush said he was moved by the before graduation, often for sex- powerful US business and politi- is the father of a US cryptologist “The darkness of a dec- images of our fellow Americans city’s determination to “rebuild ual purposes. cal leaders such as Secretary of technician killed in Afghanistan ade ago has lifted,” Bush told a amid a sea of misery and ruin,” better than before” and “a spirit The accuser, who spent more State John Kerry, said the tradi- in 2011. They won the case in US crowd gathered in a high school Bush said. much stronger than any storm.” than two days on the stand, tion did not accurately reflect its District Court in Washington in auditorium. “We’ll always remember the “We honor the resilience of a acknowledged agreeing to Labrie’s culture. December 2013. “The Crescent City has risen lives lost across the Gulf Coast. great American city whose levees invitation for a “senior salute,” but Defense attorneys had sought The government said the again and its best days lie ahead.” Their memories are in our hearts gave out but whose people never said she expected to kiss Labrie to portray Labrie, of Tunbridge, program was authorized under Bush did not address the fed- and I hope you pray for their gave up,” Bush said. and not go much further. She said Vermont, as a hardworking and Section 215 of the Patriot Act. eral government’s failure to families.” “On this anniversary, the work Labrie aggressively kept pushing ambitious student, who unlike In a separate case, the 2nd US adequately maintain the city’s More than 1,800 people were of making a stronger and more her until she was “frozen” in fear many of the students at the Court of Appeals in New York poorly-built levees, which burst killed across the US Gulf Coast hopeful New Orleans goes on. and unable to resist. prestigious boarding school did ruled in May that the program under the pressure of Katrina’s when Katrina struck on August You’ve achieved a lot over the last “Today, a measure of justice has not come from a privileged back- was unlawful. The court is due to massive storm surge and flooded 29, 2005 and a million were 10 years and with belief in success been served for victims of sexual ground and was able to attend hear new arguments next week 80 percent of New Orleans. displaced. and a faith in God, New Orleans violence,” the girl’s family said in only because he had earned a over whether an injunction should Nor did he acknowledge the While Hurricane Katrina is will achieve even more.” a statement. “Owen Labrie was scholarship to do so. be imposed. failure of state, local and federal “a story of loss beyond measure,” AFP held accountable in some way by a REUTERS REUTERS SATURDAY 29 AUGUST 2015 ASIA / AFRICA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09

Landslides bury US, China to resolve differences five in Nepal relief camp Prior to President Xi’s US visit, both countries agree to talk on Iran, N Korea, S & E China Seas KATHMANDU: Landslides triggered by heavy rainfall BEIJING: Chinese President The US and China, both killed at least five people in Xi Jinping and US President permanent members of the central Nepal, four of them in Barack Obama’s key national United Nations Security a shelter for survivors of a dev- security aide hinted at tensions Council, participated in nego- astating earthquake, police said that divide their countries yes- tiations that secured a land- yesterday. terday ahead of a state visit to mark nuclear deal with Iran last Rescuers in Nepal’s Nuwakot Washington by Xi. month. district are still searching for a Meeting in Beijing with US Beijing and Washington have nine-year-old boy missing since national security adviser Susan also worked together as members an overnight landslide crushed Rice, Xi said that he looks for- of the six-party talks on North two bamboo and tin shelters built ward to continuing a dialogue Korea’s nuclear programme, for families displaced by the April with Obama next month and which also take in Tokyo, Seoul, 25 quake. working to ensure that China-US Moscow and Pyongyang. “The landslide occurred around relations keep expanding. Rice also met with Fan 2.00 am, burying the shelters “China attaches great impor- Changlong, a vice chairman of while the victims were sleeping tance to the growth of the the Communist Party’s powerful inside,” said district police chief China-US relationship,” Xi said. Central Military Commission, Siddhi Bikram Shah. “We stand ready to further pro- which is chaired by Xi. “We have recovered four bodies mote our practical cooperation, The US envoy said Washington and have been searching for the effectively manage the sensitive was “deeply committed to build- missing boy since early morning,” issues between us and strengthen ing a healthy, stable, reliable mili- Shah said. the friendship between the people tary-to-military relationship with Six quake victims injured in the of both countries.” China” and stressed an agree- accident have been taken to hos- Rice responded that Xi’s visit ment last year to “reduce the risk pitals in Nuwakot and neighbour- to the US will provide a “great of unintended consequences” in ing Kathmandu for treatment, he opportunity” for the two coun- encounters. said. In a separate incident, an tries “to strengthen and deepen Beijing says the efforts have no 80-year-old woman died when a our relationship” as they seek aggressive intent and are meant landslide slammed into her house ways to benefit their peoples as to largely foster maritime safety in Nuwakot, he said. well as the world. in the waters, a major global trade Heavy rainfall is hamper- “At the same time, we obviously US National Security Adviser Susan Rice with Chinese President Xi Jinping during a meeting at the Great Hall of artery which Washington says it ing delivery of relief supplies to have issues of difference and some the People in Beijing, yesterday. is committed to keeping open to mountainous villages reeling from difficulty that we need to work unhindered navigation. April’s massive earthquake. through,” she said. as its territorial disputes with Rice told state councillor Yang and climate change, along with Rice’s visit comes as China Over three dozen people died Xi’s visit to the US comes as the countries close to the US such as Jiechi, China’s top foreign policy questions of “regional rights and prepares to hold a massive mili- last month in multiple landslides countries have shown a willing- the Philippines and Japan. official of the latter that both interests”. tary parade next week to com- in western and southern Nepal, ness to cooperate on global mat- The tone of Rice’s talks with sides “acknowledge their need to That could refer to the South memorate victory over Japan in including a student who died ters ranging securing a nuclear other Chinese officials earlier be addressed effectively”. China Sea and East China Sea, World War II, though the US, as when mud and rocks buried his deal with Iran to climate change. Friday was similar to her encoun- Yang said China and the US where Beijing is embroiled in well as major Western countries, school. Another 35 people were But they have also clashed over ter with Xi, highlighting areas of will stay in close communication territorial disputes with its will not be sending top officials to killed in June when a landslide issues including China’s increas- cooperation while recognising on subjects including “the Iran Southeast Asian neighbours and participate. smashed into villages in northeast ing assertiveness in Asia as well differences. and North Korean nuclear issues” US treaty ally Japan respectively. AFP Nepal. AFP

Death sentence for 10 Park rates higher after peace with N Korea

SEOUL: Beset by crisis, scandal down by a weak economy, the Boko Haram members and a sluggish economy in the sinking of a ferry last year that first half of her single five-year killed more than 300 people, N’DJAMENA: A court in willful destruction with explo- term, South Korean President mostly school students, and graft Chad sentenced 10 suspected sives, fraud, illegal possessions of Park Geun-hye’s approval rat- scandals engulfing a prime min- members of Boko Haram to arms and ammunition, as well as ing soared in a poll released last ister who later resigned. death yesterday for a double using psychotropic substances. Friday after a pact with North South Korea has a one-term suicide bombing that killed 38 The accused include Nigerian Korea brought back the rivals presidency system. Relations people in the country’s capital national Mahamat Mustapha, from the brink of conflict. with North Korea, however, are N’Djamena in June. also known as Bana Fanaye, who Park’s rating in a Gallup poll less constrained by domestic “The 10 Boko Haram defend- according to Chadian authorities climbed a remarkable 15 percent- politics, which should give Park ants have been condemned to masterminded the June 15 suicide age points from a week earlier to more room to manoeuvre for the death,” according to the ruling attacks that struck a school and 49 percent, the highest in nearly remainder of her term. in the country’s first trial of pre- a police building in N’Djamena, a year, after the accord early last Still, she is not likely to rush sumed members of the Nigeria- killing 38 people and injuring over Tuesday ended an armed standoff into a summit as her style is cau- based Islamist group. 100. in one of the world’s most dan- tious and she prefers an incre- Nigeria’s neighbours Chad, Shortly after Fanaye’s arrest gerous flashpoints and cleared the mental approach. Relations Cameroon and Niger have all suf- in late June, Chad’s top prosecu- ground for further engagement between the Koreas are char- fered attacks by Boko Haram and tor Alghassim Kassim said the with Pyongyang. acteristically volatile and could earlier this year they announced suspect was the “ringleader of She also scored points for be set for another downturn if a regional force to end the mili- a network smuggling weapons talking tough in the midst of the South Korean President Park Geun-hye meets soldiers after a US-South Pyongyang conducts a ballistic tants’ insurgency that has claimed and munitions between Nigeria, negotiations, insisting that North Korea military exercise in Pocheon, South Korea, yesterday. missile test on October 10 to mark more than 15,000 lives since 2009. Cameroon and Chad”. Chad has Korea had to apologise for land- the 70th anniversary of the ruling The defendants were accused beefed up security in response to mine blasts along their border. all, but frozen since 2010, when 1950-53 Korean War. Workers’ Party, as it has hinted of criminal conspiracy, killings, the bloodshed. AFP “This is a beginning to pierce Seoul blamed Pyongyang for sink- The atmosphere between the it will do. through clogged-up South-North ing a South Korean naval ship. two sides appears to have signifi- Lee Junhan of Incheon National ties, but we don’t yet have a Park’s mother was shot dead cantly improved after the pact. University said Park could take legacy,” said Choi Jin, the head in 1974 by a North Korean agent In a meeting with his top mili- advantage from the engagement Boko Haram kills three in Niger of the Institute for Presidential attempting to assassinate her tary aides, Kim called the accord with the North, but in the end, Leadership in Seoul. “How she father, then President Park a landmark that should pave she would be judged by how the NIAMEY: Suspected Boko Tuesday night. They killed two can continue to achieve outcomes Chung-hee. the way for defused tension and economy fared. Haram militants raided a vil- civilians. We lost a sergeant last to live up to this higher expecta- Many in South Korea credited improved ties, the North’s official “If we have more outcomes in lage in southern Niger, killing Wednesday during a pursuit of tion is the next challenge.” Park’s tough stance for bringing media said yesterday. the follow up to the talks, such three people including a soldier. the terrorists. We neutralised Park, the daughter of a former Pyongyang to the negotiating The leaders of the two Koreas as family reunions and more The attack took place in the them,” a military source said. president who came to power in table and forcing it to express have held just two summit meet- working-level meetings, then the village of Abadam in the Diffa The militants have struck back February 2013, has made improv- regret for the mine blasts. ings since the 1950-53 Korean ratings can remain high, but if region near Niger’s border with with a renewed wave of suicide ing relations with nuclear-armed The two sides also agreed to War, the last in 2007. Park came economic recovery is slow, then Nigeria. bombings. and unpredictable North Korea. work towards resuming the meet- to office with a strong electoral her ratings will decline again,” he “Boko Haram attacked last REUTERS Ties between the rivals have been ings of families divided by the mandate, but has been bogged said. REUTERS

Guard of Honour More suspects arrested over Philippine army kills 3 blogger’s death Abu Sayyaf militants DHAKA: Bangladeshi police have arrested two more sus- MANILA: Three Islamic escape,” Captain Antonio Bulao, pects in connection with the militants were killed after the a military spokesman said. killing of an online critic of reli- Philippine military yesterday Last week two Philippine coast gious militancy. launched a second attempt guard men held by Abu Sayyaf, Militants have targeted secu- in two weeks to rescue hos- escaped during fierce clashes larist writers in Bangladesh in tages held by the Abu Sayyaf between military forces and Abu recent years, while the govern- rebels, the army said. More Sayyaf in Jolo. ment has tried to crack down on than 300 Abu Sayyaf fighters Impoverished Jolo is a known hardline Islamist groups seeking retreated after the hour-long stronghold of the Abu Sayyaf, to make the South Asian nation of firefight in the jungles of the a loose band of several hun- 160 million people a sharia-based remote southern island of Jolo, dred armed men set up in the state. Four bloggers were hacked said Brigadier-General Alan 1990s with seed money from the to death in the Muslim-majority Arrojado, the military com- Al-Qaeda network of Osama Bin nation this year. mander in the area. Laden. The group engages in kid- Earlier this month, three mili- However the military did not nappings to finance operations, tants, including a British citizen, say if any of the hostages were often targeting foreigners and were arrested for masterminding freed or injured in the clashes, or sometimes beheading captives if the killings of two bloggers, Avijit how many hostage were believed ransoms are not paid. Roy and Ananta Bijoy Das. Two to have been held at the rebel It has also been blamed for the brothers had been arrested from camp. Ten Philippine soldiers worst bomb attacks in the coun- Sylhet for their role in the kill- Thai Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha (right) and Philippine President Benigno Aquino III (left) at a welcome were wounded. try, including the firebombing of a ing of blogger Das, a senior police ceremony in Malacanang presidential palace, Manila, yesterday. The Thai Prime Minister is in Manila on a state “The bandits positioned their ferry off Manila Bay in 2004 that official said yesterday. visit to boost relations. hostages in the back of the rebel killed more than 100 people. REUTERS camp, they don’t want another AFP SATURDAY 29 AUGUST 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN Pakistan bans IS under Border firing kills 10 civilians anti-terror law Four Indian Kashmiris die, six Punjabis fall to bullets in Sialkot as India, Pakistan trade fire ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has formally banned the activities ISLAMABAD: At least 10 mortar fire. of Daesh (Islamic State of Iraq civilians were killed yesterday “Four villagers died in the shell- and Syria) in the country thus as India and Pakistan traded ing from across the border, three indirectly confirming reports fire across their disputed bor- of them were killed early morning about the footprints of this mil- der, officials said, less than and one died of injuries in a hos- itant organisation in the coun- a week after high-level talks pital later,” Pawan Kotwal, the top try, official sources said. were aborted amid a row over administrator of the region said. A notification declaring pro- Kashmir. Another BSF officer, J S Oberio, scription of Daesh has been issued Six died near the city of Sialkot put the number of injured at 16, by the Ministry of Interior in in Pakistan’s Punjab province and saying at least 10 border posts and which the organisation has been at least four villagers were killed several villages were targeted by banned under section 11 of the in Indian-administered Kashmir. Pakistani troops. Anti-Terrorism Act 1997, it has Officials said more than 50 were Pakistan and India have fought been learnt. wounded. two of their three wars over the “Pakistan has followed the A meeting between the Indian Himalayan region since both United Nation’s declaration of and Pakistani national security gained independence in 1947, banning the Daesh or ISIS,” an advisors in New Delhi last Sunday and it remains a major source of official said. was called off at the last minute tension. Another source claimed that amid a dispute about whether the About a dozen militant groups besides the international obliga- agenda should include Kashmir, have been fighting since 1989 tion, the organisation was banned the Himalayan territory both for either the independence of in light of the intelligence reports sides control in part but claim in the Indian-controlled portion circulated to the Ministry of full. of Kashmir or its merger with Interior and its subordinate In a statement issued to the Pakistan. departments. media, the Ministry of Foreign Shelling across the de facto bor- The decision to slap ban on Affairs said Pakistan summoned der, known as the Line of Control ISIS is in contrast with the gov- the Indian High Commissioner (LoC) in disputed Kashmir and ernment denial of its presence in in Islamabad to lodge protest the “working boundary” in Punjab, Pakistan. against ceasefire violations. "The has been on the rise this month. In October 2014, Shahidullah Government of Pakistan strongly Pakistan's failure to hand over Shahid together with five com- protested over the latest ceasefire Pakistani activists from Shabab-e-Milli party shout anti-Indian slogans during a protest against cross-border fire or prosecute the alleged mas- manders of the defunct TTP violations by India in Harpal and along the India-Pakistan Line of Control in Peshawar, yesterday. terminds of the 2008 Mumbai had announced their allegiance Chaprar sectors at the Working attacks has infuriated India, par- to Abu Baker Baghdadi, head of Boundary resulting in shaha- and to the south in Punjab, killing “Six civilians embraced shaha- military said, adding that they ticularly when the suspected ring- the ISIS. dat (martyrdom) of 6 civilians, civilians. dat and 46 were severely injured had returned fire. leader, Zaki-ur-Rehman Lakhvi, The sources claimed that fol- including a woman and a child," A senior Pakistani security offi- including 22 females due to Indian In Indian-controlled Kashmir, was freed on bail. lowing that development the the statement said cial said that Indian forces began unprovoked firing/shelling on Border Security Force (BSF) Islamabad, for its part, insists ban of the ISIS in Pakistan was The two sides regularly fire firing around 3am yesterday and working boundary near Sialkot official Rakesh Kumar Sharma talks must be wide-ranging expected. shells and mortars across the continued intermittently during in Chaprar and Harpal sector,” accused Pakistan of target- and include thorny issues like INTERNEWS disputed border both in Kashmir the morning. a statement from the Pakistani ing civilians with “unprovoked” Kashmir. AFP Afghan refugees need IS bid foiled by drones, Afghan Taliban KHOGYANI: The Islamic His views are echoed by other Washington-based Woodrow Crucially, beyond the battlefield two years to register State (IS) group had ambi- NATO officials who say that IS Wilson International Center for the Taliban have been far more tious plans for Afghanistan, in Afghanistan are not yet capa- Scholars, said Islamic State is successful than IS in attracting but Taliban resistance, US ble of carrying out the sort of “flavour of the month right now. the support of local Afghans. PESHAWAR: The federal gov- comprehensive policy to deal drone strikes, and a society less coordinated operations they are It has a dramatic appeal to a lot “Daesh (IS) militants are ernment of Pakistan has yet to with the issue of Afghan refu- scarred by sectarianism mean conducting in Iraq and Syria, of alienated militants.” cruel -- they kill without start registering undocumented gees, beginning with registration the extremists have so far failed although the potential exists But the Taliban are attempt- reason,”explained a resident of Afghan nationals as outlined in of all refugees,” said 19th point of to repeat their Middle Eastern for them to evolve into a bigger ing to counter that, with an the volatile district of Achin in the 20-point National Action NAP, but federal and provincial breakthrough. threat. aggressive drive north from their eastern Nangarhar province bor- Plan, devised to deal with ter- governments have yet to work out The jihadist group, which Some Taliban insurgents, southern and eastern strongholds, dering Pakistan. rorism in the aftermath of feasible solution to the issue. controls large areas of Syria particularly in the restive as well as a wave of fatal The Taliban, who have them- Army Public School tragedy. Majority of unregis- and Iraq, has been trying for eastern provinces of Kunar bombings in the Afghan capital, selves often been accused of The exercise to register over tered Afghans live in Khyber months to establish itself in and Nangarhar, have adopted Kabul. savagery during their 14-year one million undocumented Pakhtunkhwa. Officials said Afghanistan's eastern badlands, the IS flag to rebrand themselves Experts say the escalating insurgency, are seeking to appear Afghans was delayed twice. The 13,000 unregistered Afghans wer challenging the Taliban on their as a more lethal force as NATO violence demonstrates Mullah as a bulwark against IS’s rein ministry of states and frontier arrested in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa own turf. troops depart after 14 years of Mansour's bid to boost his image of brutality and as a legitimate regions (Safron) first fixed July after enforcement of NAP and Its franchise in the war-torn war. within the Taliban, which could group waging an Islamic war. 25 to kick start the registration cases were registered against country has managed to recruit The risk of defections grew halt the defections to IS. Earlier this month the Taliban process but later deferred it to 6,000 Afghans. disaffected Taliban fighters, as the after the July announcement “The Taliban remain a formi- condemned a “horrific” video that August 25. The ministry released The Afghan government fractious Afghan militant move- of Mullah Omar's demise, with dable fighting force. It’s in a posi- apparently showed IS fighters Rs170m to National Database and recently moved a proposal seek- ment wrestles with a bitter power many angry Taliban fighters tion to fight back and push back blowing up bound and blindfolded Registration Authority (Nadra) ing another two years extension transition. accusing the leadership of cover- against IS inroads,” Kugelman Afghan prisoners with explosives. to undertake countrywide docu- of stay for its refugees. But the loss of senior com- ing up the supremo’s death for said. “This un-Islamic act... can mentation of Afghans for which it Jamali confirmed that Afghan manders in drone strikes and the two years. “The Taliban has been able never be justified,” the Taliban will set up 22 centres in the four government had formally group's signature brutality, which Some top cadres including to keep IS at bay in eastern said. provinces and Azad Jammu and requested to extend stay of refu- repels many Afghans, has helped Omar's son and brother have Afghanistan.” One other reason IS have Kashmir. The plan is expected to gees till December 2017. stem its advance. refused to pledge allegiance US drone strikes in recent struggled to gain a firmer foothold cost Rs500m. “The Afghan government said Frequent clashes and firefights to new leader Mullah Akhtar weeks have also dealt a signifi- in Afghanistan, Kugelman said, Safron secretary Pir Bakhsh it could not absorb the whole load with Taliban insurgents have also Mansour, saying the process to cant blow to IS in Afghanistan, is because of the lack of a deeply Jamali said yesterday that the of refugees and requested a pro- hampered its bid to capture sig- select him was rushed and even killing dozens of suspected sectarian environment. government does not issue Proof longed stay of PoR card holders nificant territory. biased. cadres, including the group's “It’s sharp sectarian divides of Registration cards to undocu- till December 2017,” Jamali said. “In Iraq and Syria, you might “The Taliban have no redeeming Afghanistan-Pakistan regional that IS is exploiting in Iraq and mented Afghans. The Safron will place the say (IS) are in stage six or seven features,” said Mullah Mirwaïs, chief Hafiz Saeed. Syria,” he said. Registration of undocumented Afghan request before the cabi- or eight,” top US military officer a former Taliban militant who NATO spokesman Colonel “IS simply cannot use any sort Afghan nationals was included in net meeting. General Martin Dempsey said is now an IS commander in the Brian Tribus said IS is an “opera- of sectarian divide as traction to Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif’s 20 “Neither the provincial home last month. Kajaki district in the southern tionally emergent” group but the gain a foothold in the region. You points NAP that was announced department nor agencies dealing “In Libya, they are in stage province of Helmand. Taliban pose a “greater threat” simply don't have a sharp divide on December 25, 2014. with refugees were consulted,” three or four, and in Afghanistan Michael Kugelman, to the Afghan government and in Afghanistan.” “Formulation of a said an official. INTERNEWS they are in stage one or two.” Afghanistan expert at the foreign forces. AFP

Soccer time WB approves $75m to rehabilitate people displaced by militancy

ISLAMABAD: The World Orakzai, Kurram and Khyber. future crises, by strengthening Bank (WB) yesterday approved The aim of the project is to the emergency response safety $75m credit line for Pakistan support the early recovery of net delivery systems in Fata in a that would be mainly utilised approximately 120,000 displaced sustainable manner,” says Rachid for providing cash grants to families from Fata through two Benmessaoud, World Bank Temporarily Displaced Persons cash grants: (i) a one-time Early Country Director for Pakistan. (TDPs) to return to their homes Recovery Grant of Rs35,000 The project will also pilot the in the Federally Administered per family; and (ii) a Livelihood provision of a basic health serv- Tribal Areas (Fata) after the Support Grant of Rs16,000 per ices package to 64,000 families completion of the military family in four monthly instal- with children aged 0 to 24 months offensive Zarb-e-Azb to flush ments of Rs4,000. in up to four Tehsils of the tar- out the militants. These two cash grants provide geted areas. “The WB approved a credit of complementary interventions to “Given the specific circum- $75m to support the early recov- help the displaced families from stances of Fata, the reconstruc- ery of families affected by the the five targeted Agencies cover tion phase will be initiated in militancy crisis, promote child the initial expenses needed to parallel to the early recovery and health, and strengthen emer- restart their lives and livelihood. rehabilitation phases and will gency response safety net delivery The Government of Pakistan is continue for the coming years,” systems in the affected areas of committed to supporting the early says Amjad Zafar Khan, Task Fata,” a statement issued by the recovery and sustainable rehabili- Team Leader of the project. WB says here yesterday. tation of all the 340,000 displaced Thousands left Maidan in 2013 Beneficiaries of the Fata families from the affected areas after the government launched Temporarily Displaced Persons of Fata. military operation to purge the Emergency Recovery Project “The safety net delivery sys- area of militants. At least 40 are the families from five tems built through this project percent houses in Maidan were Students of a religious school (madrasa) play soccer on a slum ground in Karachi, yesterday. Fata Agencies namely North will enhance the capacity of the destroyed completely. Waziristan, South Waziristan, government to better respond to INTERNEWS SATURDAY 29 AUGUST 2015 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Veterans to shun war commemoration Ex-servicemen say Modi not serious on ‘One Rank One Pension’, as his principal secretary avoids meeting

NEW DELHI: India yesterday anniversary of the 1965 war, I bow setting the tone. On September began commemorating the 1965 to all brave soldiers who fought for 22, the government will felicitate India-Pakistan war, but many our motherland,” Modi tweeted. the war veterans. New Delhi: veterans have announced a boy- “The courage and bravery of As another round of parleys on cott of official events because our armed forces is very inspir- One Rank One Pension (OROP) of protests over One Rank One ing. They triumphed over every failed to break the logjam, ex- Pension scheme. obstacle and protected India’s servicemen yesterday said the President Pranab Mukherjee unity and integrity. NDA government did not intend laid a wreath at the Amar Jawan “We recall the dynamic leader- to implement the scheme. Jyoti, the memorial of unknown ship of Lal Bahadur Shastri. In “The government does not soldiers at the India Gate, a World 1965, he led from the front and intend to implement OROP,” War I monument. was a key source of strength for retired Major General Satbir It was on August 28 in 1965 the nation.” Singh, chairman of the United when India captured Haji Pir The veterans paid homage to Forum of Ex-Servicemen, told Pass. The commemorative events the martyrs at the Amar Jawan his protesting colleagues. will be spread over nearly a Jyoti. At Jantar Mantar, where He also said that some people month. an agitation is on over OROP, the in the central government were While the plans from the ex-servicemen also observed the making OROP issue a difficult government include felicitating war anniversary. one. Satbir Singh said talks met veterans of the 1965 war, many The veterans as well as some a dead end as the government did veterans have announced to boy- of the families of the martyrs not agree to budge from its posi- cott the events as a hunger strike were honoured and a two-minute tion on revising pensions every over One Rank One Pension silence was observed. five years. (OROP) is on in the national “Giving us OROP will be the Initially, the government said capital. real respect the government can pensions would be revised every “Many veterans have decided give. Everything else is for show,” 10 years, and the veterans pressed they will boycott all government Lt Gen Ashok Agarwal (retd), for a revision every two years. celebrations unless the OROP a veteran of the 1965 war, said. The defence force retirees also issue is sorted out,” said Maj Nearly 3,000 soldiers, sailors and wanted an annual increment of Gen Satbir Singh (retd), chair- airmen died in the 17-day war. three percent. man of the United Forum of India is marking the golden jubilee However, when the repre- Ex-Servicemen. of the war on a grand scale. The sentatives of the ex-servicemen, A group of veterans met commemoration, from August 28 including Maj Gen Singh, went for Defence Minister Manohar to September 26, will involve all a scheduled meeting, Nripendra Parrikar. Yesterday morning, three wings of the armed forces. Misra, the principal secretary to Prime Minister Narendra Modi Marshal of the Air Force Arjan Prime Minister Narendra Modi, also paid his respects to the sol- Singh, who led the air force in did not meet them last Thursday diers who fought in 1965. 1965, will also be honoured. A tri- evening. Modi recalled the role of then service seminar will be held on “We were in army chief General President Pranab Mukherjee lays a wreath at Amar Jawan Jyoti-All India War Memorial at India Gate, in New prime minister Lal Bahadur September 1-2, with a commem- Dalbir Singh’s office. Despite his Delhi, yesterday. Shastri, who died at Tashkent orative exhibition slated from repeated calls, we got to know where he had gone to meet September 15-20. On the evening that the principal secretary was revision in pensions will be done the government and the ex-serv- April 2014, the government wants Pakistani military ruler General of September 20, a musical busy with the prime minister. only after five years. We refused icement is the date of implementa- it to come into force from April Ayub Khan for a truce. evening will be held at the India “However, a message was sent to compromise,” said the officer. tion of the OROP. While veterans 2015. “As we mark the 50th Gate lawns, with patriotic songs through a joint secretary that the A point of contention between want it to be implemented from IANS

Haryana gets 21 all-woman Sheena murder: Khanna’s confession, Mikhail’s proof MUMBAI: As investigators In a major breakthrough in Indrani, her driver Shyam Rai police stations waddled through an intrigu- the murder case, Mumbai Police and Khanna allegedly poured ing web of lies and deceit in Commissioner Rakesh Maria said petrol on Sheena’s body and set CHANDIGARH: Promising the Sheena Bora murder case, that Khanna confessed to his role it on fire. a better policing environment Mumbai Police yesterday took in the crime. “(Indrani’s son) Khanna’s mobile phone, laptop to make women feel secure in Sanjeev Khanna, a prime Mikhail Bora submitted some and passport were seized. approaching police, the Haryana accused and former husband of evidence to us. We are verifying Police are browsing through government yesterday launched co-accused Indrani Mukherjea, it,” Maria added. details of telephone call records all-woman police stations in all to the spot where the young Indrani was arrested on August of Khanna and Indrani, email 21 districts of the state. woman was killed three years 25 on charges of killing Sheena exchanges, birth certificates, Haryana Chief Minister ago. Khanna later cracked and on April 24, 2012 along with her school records and other docu- Manohar Lal Khattar inaugu- confessed to his role in the driver Shyam Rai and Khanna. ments. Maria is personally con- rated the first all-women police crime. Public Prosecutor Laxman ducting the interrogation Indrani, station at Mansa Devi complex Police, permitted Indrani to Rathod said police needed to know Khanna, Rai, Peter Mukherjea, in Haryana’s Panchkula town, meet her lawyers while in cus- how Sheena was killed, the vehicle his son Rahul, who admits to adjoining Chandigarh. tody, and officers again ques- in which she was murdered before having had a relationship with “The all women police stations tioned former media baron Peter her body was burnt and dumped Sheena. are a gift for women of Haryana Mukherjea -- Indrani’s husband -- Mumbai’s Police Commissioner Rakesh Maria leaves after interrogating in forests near Pen in Raigad dis- Suggesting a pre-planned con- on the eve of the festival of and the victim’s brother Mikhail, Indrani Mukherjea in Mumbai, yesterday. trict, adjacent to Mumbai. spiracy, police said Indrani rec- Raksha Bandhan,” Khattar said. who, after flying into Mumbai Seeking custodial interroga- ceed Pen area with her driver a The remaining 20 women police from Guwahati, vowed to get jus- The probe picked up pace when brought here and sent to police tion, Rathod said police wanted day before the actual killing. stations were inaugurated by tice for his murdered sister. Khanna, nabbed in Kolkata, was custody till August 31. to take the accused to where IANS ministers, MPs and legislators in various districts. “Investigation of crimes and all cases related to women will be done by only women police officers at these police stations,” Actor hails Naidu for stalling land deal Court wants evidence Haryana director general of police (DGP) Yashpal Singhal said. HYDERABAD: Popular sentiments of farmers. acquisition of land. He had threat- “The women police stations Telugu actor and Jana Sena He also thanked Agriculture ened to stage a sit-in if the TDP- will help women to get their com- president Pawan Kalyan yester- Minister P Pulla Rao, Municipal led government went ahead with of Smriti’s education plaints lodged freely and without day thanked Andhra Pradesh Administration Minister P the forcible land acquisition. any hesitation,” the DGP said. Chief Minister Chandrababu Narayana and other ministers The actor has been opposing NEW DELHI: Human of the complainant firstly in May Each woman police station Naidu for taking steps to stop for the initiative taken towards acquisition multi-crop lands for Resources Development 2014 when media reports on her would have a minimum strength land acquisition. halting the land acquisition. construction of the capital. Pawan Minister Smriti Irani has given educational qualifications first of 38-40 women police personnel, The actor tweeted that he was He had visited some villages in wants the government to consti- false and misleading informa- appeared. including one woman inspector thankful to the chief minister for Guntur district on August 23 to tute an experts’ panel to resolve tion regarding her educational Khan alleged that Irani, in (SHO) and other staff. Each such sympathetically considering the meet farmers and oppose forcible the issue. IANS qualifications in her election her three affidavits filed before station would have jurisdiction affidavits, a Delhi court heard the poll panel for Lok Sabha over the entire district. yesterday. as well as Rajya Sabha polls, However, women can lodge Ahmer Khan, who filed a com- has purportedly given different complaints either at the local Attractive ‘rakhis’ plaint against the minister, told details about her educational police station or at the women the court that Irani has given qualifications. Khan, in his com- police station. IANS false, misleading facts in her affi- plaint, sought action against davits filed before the election the minister for allegedly lying commission. He was testifying as on oath about her educational a complainant witness in the case. qualifications. Mizo landslides Khan told Metropolitan He alleged that Irani has Magistrate Akash Jain that he declared herself to be a 1996 block highway filed the complaint after thorough batch B A graduate from research. He added that Irani did Delhi University’s School of AIZAWL: Mizoram remained not give any clarification regard- Correspondence in her affida- cut off by road from the rest of ing her educational qualifications vit filed for the 2004 Lok Sabha the country as huge landslides after the issue came before the election. blocked National Highway 54 - media. But in her 2014 Lok Sabha the lifeline of the state - since The court listed the matter for election affidavit, she stated last Thursday, an official said further examination of Khan for she had done B Com Part yesterday. November 20, observing that the 1 in 1994 from Delhi University “A large number of different complainant at present was not (open learning). types of vehicles, carrying pas- having sufficient documents to In another affidavit of July sengers and goods, are stranded substantiate the allegations. 11, 2011 for contesting Rajya on the highway due to massive The court asked Khan to come Sabha election from Gujarat, landslides at Kawnpui township with documents to substantiate she said her highest educa- (in western Mizoram),” Public his allegations on the next date tional qualification was B Com Works Department chief engineer of hearing. Part I from DU’s School of Vanlaltluanga said. The court was hearing a private Correspondence. The petition Quoting people who by foot complaint against Irani for alleg- claimed that Irani also lied on oath crossed the landslide affected edly misrepresenting facts in her about her assets and it sought areas, the official said the mud Women shop for ‘rakhi’ on the eve of the Hindu festival ‘Raksha Bandhan’ in Bangalore yesterday. The ‘Raksha election affidavits. action against her for offences slides were so massive that it Bandhan’ ritual is observed on the full moon day during Shravan, when sisters tie the sacred ‘rakhi’ string on The court has observed that under the Representation of the looked like as if the entire hill had their brothers’ right wrists and pray for their long life. the discrepancies in the affidavits People Act, 1951. collapsed. IANS of Irani came to the knowledge IANS SATURDAY 29 AUGUST 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA Security forces kill Tensions rise across Gujarat six Nagaland rebels Court orders probe into protester Shwetang Patel's custodial death GUWAHATI: Security forces involved in Friday’s encounter, yesterday killed at least six sus- has opposed any truce with the AHMEDABAD: A court in pected armed separatist rebels Indian government. Gujarat ordered an inquiry yes- in the country’s insurgency-hit Indian intelligence officials say terday into the death of a pro- northeastern state of Nagaland, several militant groups including tester in police custody, in a police said. the NSCN-K, operating in India’s case that could further exacer- Police said armed forces killed northeast, have their training bate tensions in Prime Minister the rebels from one faction of camps in northern Myanmar's Narendra Modi’s home state. the National Socialist Council thick jungles. Shwetang Patel, 28, died after (NSCN) of Nagaland in Tuensang In June, India’s main investi- he was detained last Tuesday for district, close to the Myanmar gation agency captured NSCN- taking part in a mass rally that border. Khaplang's leader more than turned violent. Police said he “This encounter happened in three weeks after heavily armed had died on the way to hospital Tuensang district of the state and rebels ambushed a military con- after falling unconscious while in six militants have been killed,” G voy, killing 20 soldiers. custody. Akheta Sema, Nagaland’s addi- It was one of the most deadly But an autopsy ordered by the tional director general of police attacks in the restive region in Gujarat high court after a com- said over the phone. recent times and led to a rare plaint from Patel’s family found Initial reports also showed a cross-border operation against he had suffered a brain haemor- civilian casualty and injuries to a the rebels in coordination with rhage as a result of a head injury. several people including a security the Myanmar government, offi- “The police has no answer as personnel, Sema said. He added cials said. to how my son died. My only that it was not yet clear whether But Myanmar later denied option was to approach the the civilian casualty was fatal. the reports, saying it would not court for help and get justice,” Earlier this month, Prime tolerate rebels using its soil to Patel’s mother Prabhaben said Minister Narendra Modi attack neighbours. The NSCN from Gujarat’s main city of announced a peace accord with and its other faction groups have Ahmedabad. the Isak-Muivah faction -- the been pressing for an independent The family’s lawyer B M largest faction of the NSCN -- tribal homeland for more than six Mangukiya said the court had effectively ending the country’s decades. More than 50,000 people ordered an investigation “after oldest insurgency in the under- have lost their lives to insurgency going through the second post- developed state of Nagaland that in the northeast since India's mortem report that suggested shares its border with Myanmar. independence from Britain in the youth died of shock and But the Khaplang faction, 1947. AFP brain haemorrhage due to head Paramilitary personnel patrol Ahmedabad roads, yesterday. injuries”. At least 10 people died the name Patel, receive the same It sets aside a proportion of Gujarat was run for over a dec- in clashes that broke out preferential treatment as some government jobs and university ade by Prime Minister Narendra between police and rioters in lower castes on government jobs places for some castes under Modi and is one of the country’s Ahmedabad last Tuesday before and university places. measures intended to bring vic- most affluent states. Political Mamata slams CPI-M spreading to other parts of the Authorities deployed thousands tims of the worst discrimination leaders appeared to have been western state. of troops and declared a cur- into the mainstream. But the taken by surprise by the scale The protesters were demand- few and the situation has since policy causes resentment among of the protest movement, which for violent farmers rally ing that the Patidar caste, one calmed, but tensions between other communities, who say it began earlier this year but has of the state’s most affluent com- police and the Patidar community freezes them out from cushy gov- rapidly gathered pace in recent KOLKATA: Slamming the Left guns and killing. Forget 2016, munities many of whom carry are running high. ernment jobs. weeks. AFP Front over its “violent” peas- the CPI-M will not come back ants rally, West Bengal Chief to power even in 3016. They have Minister Mamata Banerjee yes- been rejected by people every- terday said the Marxists won’t where,” said Banerjee. come to power in the state for Slamming the erstwhile Left Minister wants another 1,000 years. government for taking Bengal to No talk with Modi on CBI probe: CM A day after the Left rally the brink of destruction, Banerjee turned violent, leaving many peo- accused CPI-M, Congress and the FIR against ple including policeman injured, BJP of forging a tacit understand- PANAJI: The issue of hand- last Tuesday. considering the international Banerjee accused the Front ing to create trouble. Banerjee ing over the Louis Berger brib- “No, no. On that aspect, it ramifications, the case could Sheila Dikshit led by the Communist Party of also charged the Congress with ery case to the CBI did not was not discussed,” Parsekar be handed over to the Central India-Marxist (CPI-M) of politi- politicising the lynching of a col- come up during an interaction said, when asked if the issue of Bureau of Investigation, after a NEW DELHI: Delhi Water cal bankruptcy. “Those who have lege student in West Midnapore. with Prime Minister Narendra transferring the probe, in which preliminary probe by the state Minister Kapil Mishra wants been rejected by people, those who “Every death is unfortunate and Modi, Goa Chief Minister a former PWD minister has been Crime Branch. former chief minister Sheila follow archaic politics are trying sad. We should not politicise them. Laxmikant Parsekar said last arrested and a former chief min- Louis Berger was part of a Dikshit to be booked for alleg- to create tension... Is this what Some people are using tragic inci- Thursday. ister’s arrest is being sought. consortium that eventually won edly causing a loss of Rs400cr to comrades call politics?” she told dents to defame the Trinamool,” Speaking on the sidelines of a Top officials of Louis Berger a contract to execute the JICA- the state exchequer. a gathering on the foundation she said, referring to the killing of post-cabinet briefing at the state have already pleaded guilty to funded water and sewerage The case dates to 2012 when day of the Trinamool Chhatra Krishna Prasad Jana on August secretariat, Parsekar said no offering bribes to the tune of project in Goa. alleged irregularities were found Parishad - her party’s student 8. The Congress has been up in specifics about the state Crime $3.9m to secure contracts in “No specifics were discussed. I in the procurement of water wing. arms over Jana’s killing, alleging Branch probe were shared with countries like India, Vietnam, told him (Modi) that it was going tankers by the Delhi Jal Board. “The CPI-M is politically the administration was trying to Modi, during his (Parsekar’s) offi- Indonesia and Kuwait. on the right track,” Parsekar said. Mishra has sent a govern- bankrupt, its ideology is bricks, cover it up. IANS cial visit to the national capital Parsekar had earlier said that IANS ment report to Chief Minister Kejriwal stating that Dikshit, during the chairmanship of the Delhi Jal Board (DJB), “consist- ently bypassed laws and rules”, causing a loss of almost Rs400cr Rahul offers to the department. Two more die over Andhra’s special status In a letter to Kejriwal, Mishra prayers at two said the report by The Fact HYDERABAD: The issue owner, left behind a suicide note who was dejected over the delay status would help the unemployed. Finding Committee on Water of special status to Andhra in which he called upon stu- in the state getting special sta- Earlier, Ramishetti Lakshmaiah Tanker Distribution Management shrines in J-K Pradesh continues to claim lives dents to fight for special status. tus, died of a heart attack. (55) committed suicide in Nellore System “is self-explanatory and with one person committing “Get AP free. Dead or alive,” he Lokes Rao (32) died at his home district on the same issue last exposes how the then DJB chair- SRINAGAR: Congress vice suicide and another dying of a wrote. in Guduru in Kurnool district. Thursday. YSR Congress party man and chief minister Sheila president Rahul Gandhi yes- heart attack yesterday. Unhappy over the delay on A contract lecturer in a pri- chief Y S Jaganmohan Reddy Dikshit and other board mem- terday concluded his three-day A day after a man hanged him- the part of the Centre in grant- vate college, Rao had partici- yesterday visited Lakshmaiah’s bers consistently bypassed laws visit to Jammu and Kashmir self in Nellore district, a youth ing special status to Andhra, pated in a protest organised by house and consoled the family. and rules, causing a loss of almost after paying obeisance at two ended his life in Krishna district. he discussed the issue with his a non-political organisation last The leader of opposition said Rs400cr to DJB”. shrines in the Valley. Uday Bhanu (40) was found hang- friend before returning home Thursday. According to fam- Chief Minister N Chandrababu Calling it a big “expose”, Mishra He paid obeisance at the ing in his house in Gudivada town and resorting to the extreme step, ily members, Rao discussed Naidu failed to convince the said attempts would be made to Hazratbal shrine in Srinagar of Krishna district. family members said. the issue with them last night Centre to immediately accord destabilise the Delhi government where, he said, he prayed for the Uday Bhanu, a kirana shop In another incident, a man, and explained how the special special status. IANS and unseat him. IANS peace and prosperity in Jammu and Kashmir and the rest of the country. The Congress vice president Onam flower carpet earlier went to a holy shrine of Kashmiri Pandits, Tullamulla, Unruly scenes mar in north Kashmir’s Ganderbal district. “Rahul Gandhi prayed at the Tullamulla shrine where many Himachal assembly locals gathered outside to have a glimpse of the Congress leader,” SHIMLA: The Himachal walked up to the speaker’s podium, said a senior local Congress leader Pradesh assembly yester- raised anti-government slogans who accompanied Rahul to the day witnessed unruly scenes and disrupted the proceedings. shrine. He also went to Ishbar as members of the treasury In the melee, members of the temple on the outskirts of the city. and opposition benches virtu- Congress and the BJP came to Rahul’s grandmother and ally came to blows after argu- blows in the presence of Chief former prime minister Indira ments over the opposition BJP’s Minister Virbhadra Singh. Gandhi visited the Ishbar temple demand for a debate on a clash Transport Minister G S Bali during her visits to Kashmir. in a Shimla college. and Industries Minister Mukesh Before his departure for New After more than half-an-hour Agnihotri took the lead from the Delhi, Rahul Gandhi met party of verbal slugfest, Speaker B B L treasury benches to pacify the legislators and senior leaders at Butail adjourned the house for 15 BJP members. the Srinagar airport. He flew back minutes. Seeing the pandemonium, to Delhi in the afternoon. Earlier, BJP member Gobind Butail adjourned the house. Senior Congress leader Ghulam Thakur stood up soon after the After the house re-assembled, Nabi Moonga said the party vice question hour was over and the BJP members remained near president asked Congress legisla- wanted to raise the issue of the the speaker’s seat and disrupted tors and other senior leaders to clash on August 20. the proceedings of the house by work relentlessly to highlight the He alleged that the college shouting slogans. problems faced by the people and principal manhandled a girl stu- Despite repeated requests by work to help solve these problems. dent during the clash. the speaker, they refused to relent. Rahul Gandhi surprised party The speaker said this issue was Butail expunged the unparliamen- leaders and workers as he stepped Women wearing traditional attire decorates a 'Pookalam' or flower carpet as part of the Hindu harvest festival under his consideration and he tary words exchanged between out of the party office in Srinagar of Onam, yesterday. Locals put flower mats in front of their homes to welcome King Mahabali, a past ruler of was awaiting a reply from the the opposition and the treasury and visited a roadside tea stall on Kerala in southern India, during the 10-day festival. government. benches. the Maulana Azad road. IANS Later, all the BJP legislators IANS SATURDAY 29 AUGUST 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Arabs brace for weak oil for rest of 2015 Second day of Let market correct itself: Gulf Opec member short-covering

DUBAI/LONDON: A second around $60 by December when frenzy lifts US oil price rout of 2015 has forced Opec meets next. Arab Opec members to cut Arab Opec delegates initially crude 6pc their price expectations for this thought prices would recover more year, showing they are prepared quickly after the group’s shift to NEW YORK: US crude jumped to tolerate cheaper crude for the market-share strategy in 2014 six percent yesterday as a rally longer to defend market share deepened the decline, saying last in gasoline prices and air raids and curb rivals’ output. December they saw oil between in Yemen prompted traders Opec delegates, including those $70 and $80 by the end of 2015. to scramble for a second day from core Gulf Opec countries, Other Opec delegates outside to cover short positions, while see economic troubles in top the Gulf are also bracing for a market players also kept an eye energy consumer China as short prolonged period of low prices as on a storm that appeared to term and unlikely to have much they do not expect the group’s top be approaching the oil-rich US impact on demand for crude producer Saudi Arabia, the driv- Gulf. which will rise seasonally in the ing force behind Opec’s refusal to US crude has gained about 16 fourth quarter. cut output, to change course and percent over two sessions, headed But they also believe it will take prop up prices. for its first weekly rise since mid- more than just a few months for “If this oversupply continues June. If the day’s gains stick, it weak oil prices, which fell to a with no action from Opec or Saudi would be the second largest two- more than six-year low near $42 Arabia, then I expect prices will day rise in 25 years. on Monday, to reduce supplies stay around $45 until the end of “A severely oversold and from higher-cost producers such the year,” said one. shorted oil market is creating a as US shale and stimulate demand. As a policy, Opec has not openly bid for covering in US crude,” said They expect the recent price targeted specific oil prices for over Chris Jarvis, analyst at Caprock drop will help reduce the crude a decade, ever since it abandoned A businessman walks past an electronic board displaying Tokyo’s Nikkei Stock Average in Tokyo, yesterday. Tokyo Risk Management in Frederick, oversupply towards the end of a $22 to $28 price band instituted stocks climbed 3.03 percent to finish above 19,000 points. Maryland. the year and thus lift oil prices after a price crash in the late 1990s. US crude’s front-month was slightly. But the comments signal how up $2.60, or 6.1 percent, at $45.16 The comments further indi- big producers see the market play- Global stocks mixed after torrid week a barrel by 11.38am EDT (1538 cate that the Organisation of the ing out and that Opec’s strategy GMT). It showed a near 12 per- Petroleum Exporting Countries is championed by Saudi Arabia is cent gain on the week. Brent, the sticking to its policy of defending not a short-term one, but rather a LONDON: Global stock mar- DAX 30 index slipped 0.17 as also trading mixed around mid- global benchmark, rose $2.44, or market share rather than cutting plan that needs time to work and kets finished mixed yesterday investors remained cautious after day Friday, with the Dow Jones 2.5 percent, to $50 a barrel. It production to shore up prices - they are willing to wait. at the end of a turbulent week a yo-yo week of trading. Industrial Average 0.40 percent gained 10 percent on the week. regardless of how low they would Gulf oil insiders see no sign of driven by worries over China’s In Asia, Tokyo led the gains on lower, the broad-based S&P 500 Petrol prices surged about five fall and how long it would take to Saudi Arabia wavering on its long- slowing growth with some relief Friday, with Shanghai and sev- down 0.13 percent, while the tech- percent on the day after Phillips balance the market. term strategy. “This is not going coming from data showing the eral other markets in tow after rich Nasdaq Composite Index was 66 unexpectedly shut down a “It will be better to leave the to be two-three quarters’ adjust- strength of the US economy. the US reported a surprisingly up a slight 0.03 percent. 150,000-barrel-per-day fluid cat- market to correct itself. I don’t ments, this is going to be a two- Global equities were hammered strong new estimate of economic Thursday’s data, which showed alytic cracker at its 238,000bpd think this low price will continue,” three years’ adjustments,” said on Black Monday as risk-averse growth at 3.7 percent for the sec- the world’s biggest economy grew refinery in Linden, New Jersey, said a Gulf Opec delegate who Yasser Elguindi of economic con- investors dumped shares on ond quarter. Hong Kong, however, at an annual rate of 3.7 percent due to a leak. In Yemen, war- declined to be identified. sultants Medley Global Advisors. spreading panic that the flagging dropped 1.04 percent. in the April-June quarter, buoyed planes from a Saudi-led coalition “Prices will be around $40-$50 Opec reconfirmed the market- Chinese economy — the world’s IG Markets analyst Angus markets that have been worried killed 10 people in air raids yster- a barrel until the end of the year share strategy at its last meet- second largest — could spark a Nicholson cautioned that “there still over the faltering Chinese economy. day, local officials said. and hopefully they will reach $60, ing in June and the Gulf Opec new worldwide recession. does not seem to be the macro foun- In Asia yesterday, Tokyo Some analysts also attributed assuming there will be a recovery delegates were still expecting a However, sentiment was dations for indices to fully recover jumped 3.03 percent higher and US crude’s strength to concerns in China.” A second Gulf Opec recovery in prices towards the soothed by Tuesday’s interest from their corrections, as concerns Shanghai gained 4.82 percent. that Tropical Storm Erika was delegate also expected the oil end of 2015, supported by higher rate cut from the People’s Bank of over China and uncertainty over Seoul, Sydney, and several other headed toward oil and gas instal- price to remain around $40-$50 global demand. China (PBoC) and by Thursday’s Fed rate hikes continue to linger.” Asian markets also rose. Beijing lations in the US Gulf, as visible a barrel for the rest of the year. But those sentiments have bright gross domestic product Federal Reserve Vice Chair has sought to mitigate global con- on the US National Hurricane A third Gulf oil source said: changed with the latest unex- (GDP) data in the United States. Stanley Fischer said yesterday cerns in recent days by taking a Center website. “People are over-reacting to pected price drop, growing con- “After a hectic rollercoaster that no decision had been made series of measures, from boosting Global oil prices are still at China. But you cannot underes- cern about the demand outlook in of a week across financial mar- yet on raising interest rates at the amount its massive state pen- half their value from a year timate the sentiment, that’s the China and persistent oversupply. kets... the moves by the PBoC the US central bank’s September sion fund can invest in stocks, to ago thanks to a huge oversup- problem.” Opec’s own forecasts show the and the better-than-expected US 16-17 policy meeting. cutting interest rates and slash- ply of fuel and sluggish demand. “Oil is bottoming... and the group initially over estimated the GDP have revived risk-taking to “The change in the circumstances ing reserve levels for banks. Worries over China’s economy deeper it goes the more the speed at which low prices would curb a degree,” said London Capital which began with the Chinese The measures are not only have compounded the falls in rebound will be quicker and the non-Opec supply. This, plus record- Group analyst Brenda Kelly. devaluation is relatively new and aimed at increasing cash flow in recent weeks. supply reaction will be even big- high output from Saudi Arabia and In Europe, London’s bench- we are still watching how it unfolds. China, but also at reviving confi- Some analysts said the slump ger,” the source said, adding prices Iraq, point to an oversupply of more mark FTSE 100 index closed So I wouldn’t want to go ahead and dence that Beijing can steer the of nearly 30 percent in just two may dip again to slightly below than two million barrels per day. up 0.90 percent and the CAC 40 decide right now,” Fischer said. economy away from a hard landing. months meant a rebound was due. $45 before slowly recovering to REUTERS rose 0.36 percent. But Frankfurt’s Wall Street equities were AFP REUTERS

Payments glitch at HSBC leaves Autos lift US consumer spending; sentiments slip thousands without WASHINGTON: US con- said consumer spending, which members of the Fed’s policy that prospects of a September in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. sumer spending rose in July as accounts for more than two- making committee that income lift-off in the central bank’s Economists say that underly- wages in UK households stepped up auto- thirds of US economic activity, and spending fundamentals short-term interest rate “seems ing strength, also highlighted by mobile purchases, offering fur- increased 0.3 percent last month remain in good shape,” said John less compelling to me than it was a rebound in business spending, LONDON: Thousands of ther evidence of strength in the after a similar gain in June. Ryding, chief economist at RDQ a few weeks ago.” buoyant housing and labour mar- Britons failed to receive their economy that could keep the Spending on long-lasting goods Economics in New York. But St. Louis Fed President kets, gives the economy muscle wages yesterday when a prob- door open to a Federal Reserve such as automobiles increased 1.1 It was the latest report indicat- James Bullard told Reuters on to weather the fallout from the lem at Europe’s biggest bank interest rate hike this year. percent, reversing June’s decline. ing momentum in the economy Friday that the stock market markets rout. The economy grew HSBC prevented some of its While other data yester- Auto purchases accounted for as it confronted recent global rout should not delay the first at a 3.7 percent annual rate in business customers from mak- day showed consumer senti- about half of the increase. When financial markets turbulence, rate hike since 2006. the second quarter. Muted infla- ing payments. ment dipped in August, likely as adjusted for inflation, consumer sparked by concerns over a slow- “Nothing has happened here tion, however, suggested the US The glitch affected payments households fretted over a recent spending rose 0.2 percent after ing Chinese economy, which has that is so radically changing the central bank was unlikely to hike made by the companies through stock market sell-off, confidence being flat in June. diminished the chances of an U.S. outlook that the basic tra- rates next month even if financial Britain’s Bacs system, which remained at levels consistent with “We score this report as a solid interest rate increase next month. jectory of policy would change,” markets settled down before the processes electronic transactions. solid consumer spending growth. adjunct to yesterday’s strong GDP New York Fed President Bullard said on the sidelines of a September 16-17 policy meeting. “Approximately 275,000 pay- The Commerce Department report that should encourage William Dudley said this week global central bankers’ conference REUTERS ments have been affected, includ- ing payments to customers of other banks,” HSBC said. Chinese windfall for Volkswagen The bank later said the major- ity of transactions would be com- pleted over the course of Friday Air China reports leap afternoon and early evening, with any remaining payments com- pleted overnight. Many Britons were scheduled in first half profit to receive their monthly wages on Friday, with a large number plan- SHANGHAI: Air China, the China’s growth is actually slowing. ning getaways to make the most of country’s flag carrier, said its The economy expanded 7.0 percent the final public holiday in Britain net profit surged more than in each of the first two quarters of before Christmas. Those affected 720 percent year-on-year in the this year, lower than the 7.4 per- by the glitch took to social media first half of 2015, supported by cent growth last year, which was to vent their frustrations. lower fuel prices. its weakest since 1990. “Plans for the weekend out of The company made net profits The airline said its operations the window. Thanks HSBC!,” said of 4.19bn yuan ($655m) in the first benefited from lower oil prices, one. Britain’s retail banks have half, up strongly from 510.37m which contributed to a near 30 been hit by a number of technol- yuan in the same period last year, percent reduction in fuel costs for ogy failures causing inconven- it said in a statement filed to the the first half. ience for hundreds of thousands Hong Kong stock exchange late Air China carried 43.67 million of customers. on Thursday. passengers in the first half, up 8.79 State-backed Royal Bank of “The global aviation industry percent from the same period last Scotland has been the worst was generally healthy with sus- year, it said. The airline’s stock affected and promised to invest tained growth in demand and rela- gained 8.90 percent in Shanghai hundreds of millions of pounds in Attendees look at a Volkswagen Golf R Touch car during the 2015 International Consumer Electronics Show tively low fuel prices,” Air China trading but closed 4.00 percent its computer systems after its lat- Asia in Shanghai. When China’s central bank singled out auto financing companies for extra help, it effectively said, adding a recovery in the world down in Hong Kong yesterday est glitch in June. freed up more than $30m for Volkswagen AG’s China finance unit. economy and a “steady” Chinese after the results announcement. REUTERS economy supported the company. AFP SATURDAY 29 AUGUST 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Germany ignores calls Postbank general assembly to boost spending Govt focuses on achieving sustainable balanced budgets

BERLIN: Germany posted a In Brussels, the European that crippled growth and caused record-breaking ¤21bn surplus Commission urges Germany to tensions, Germany’s federal gov- in the first half of 2015 but has use its “fiscal space” to promote ernment posted a ¤500m budget turned a deaf ear to criticism growth in the EU. surplus in 2014 — its first surplus from home and abroad that it French Economy Minister since 1969. should cut taxes or raise public Emmanuel Macron told a Berlin At the same time, Germany’s spending to help alleviate pres- audience this week Germany may infrastructure investment has sures in the eurozone. have gone too far with austerity. lagged for years. A group of may- Despite calls from its European “Germany can make a mistake of ors said last year that 118 billion Union (EU) partners and the ‘over-consolidating’,” he said. euros of investment was needed United States to ramp up spend- But Brzeski said foreign lead- for roads and buildings, while ing on infrastructure after years ers are giving up arm-twisting another public committee has of neglect, the government said it “because Schaeuble has convinced called for investments of ¤7.2bn will stick to its austerity course them he won’t spend any more”. a year to fix public transport and goal of achieving sustainable The government said on infrastructure. balanced budgets. Tuesday Germany’s budget sur- Charles Blankart, a public Postbank Chairman Frank Strauss (right) and head of the supervisory committee Stefan Krause (left) arrive Economists believe Chancellor plus was ¤21.1bn in the first half, finance professor at Humboldt at the general assembly in Bochum, Germany, yesterday. The assembly was to decide if the shares of the Angela Merkel’s conservative-led or 1.4 percent of gross domestic University, says the government minority shareholders will be transferred to the Deutsche Bank. government is also tacitly trying product (GDP). About half of the has scope to raise infrastruc- to teach other EU governments surplus came from the federal ture spending. “But it won’t help the virtues of balanced budgets budget, which was boosted by a French or Spanish companies if as a cure for the euro zone cri- 4.4 billion euro windfall from the Germany builds more roads.” sis. Her party is expected use sale of mobile phone frequencies. The budget surplus has also Germany’s return to budget sur- The first half surplus was larger prompted calls for tax cuts, espe- Fitch lowers Ukraine’s rating pluses as a cornerstone of its 2017 than Iceland’s entire 2014 GDP. cially the so-called “cold progres- election campaign. Whereas France, the euro sion” (or bracket creep) as well as KIEV:P Ratings agency being conducted in order to avoid sought by Kiev, the compromise “Balancing the budget was a zone’s second biggest economy, is a “Solidarity Tax” used to finance Fitch has lowered its rating default,” the agency said in a deal with creditors was vital central pledge in the 2013 elec- still struggling to bring its deficit unification. “This record surplus for Ukraine saying the debt statement released late Thursday. to Ukraine’s efforts to secure tion and they want to tick that down to below the EU’s three per- shows the ‘Solidarity Tax’ is no restructuring deal Kiev struck The accord struck between $15.3bn in savings on total foreign box,” said Carsten Brzeski, chief cent cap, leaving Paris little room longer needed,” Frank Steffel, a with a group of creditors was Kiev and Franklin Templeton debt over the coming four years. economist at ING-Diba, add- to boost still-fragile growth rates. member of parliament in Merkel’s tantamount to default. and three other US financial Restructuring was a manda- ing Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble planned a balanced party, told Reuters. “It would Fitch lowered Ukraine’s rat- groups calls for a 20 percent tory part of a broader $40 billion Schaeuble wants to show Europe budget in 2015, not a surplus. He cause no pain to cut that now.” ing of long-term public debt from “haircut” to the face value of the global rescue package that the he “practices what he preaches.” and officials in his ministry have Steffel added Germany should “CC” to “C,” after the deal was bonds they hold — nearly half of IMF patched together at the start “There’s a horrible lack of kept mum about the surplus but open its wallet now. announced Thursday because the $19bn (¤16.8bn) in commer- of the year. investment in the economy yet last month he told trade maga- “The considerable surplus it led to major losses for the cial debt under review. Though the default-avert- the government is running an zine DBB: “The plan through to should be given back to taxpay- bondholders. Thursday’s agreement saves ing accord with lenders allows enormous surplus. It doesn’t add the 2019 budget is no new debt. If ers,” he said. “And investment “Fitch considers that this Ukraine $11.5bn but is still Ukraine continued access to inter- up. More flexibility would be good. there were to be added scope, we’d spending, especially for educa- represents a Distressed Debt short of the target set by the national credit markets, Fitch’s With such low interest rates they use that for important invest- tion and infrastructure, would Exchange (DDE) under its cri- International Monetary Fund. downgrade is likely to increase should reconsider. But flexibility ments for the future.” be a most effective instrument.” teria that results in material While the “haircut” was far costs of additional borrowing. isn’t in the German DNA.” Defying the euro zone crisis REUTERS losses to bondholders and is less than the 40 percent initially AFP

Myanmar New IEA boss faces world energy landscape in flux airport project PARIS/BRUSSELS: The oil-consuming countries, the IEA “COP-21 must send a strong help in boosting morale, which tradition, his first official visit new head of the International finds member the United States signal to investors to not lock insiders say is bruised. in September just after he takes Energy Agency faces dilemmas once again a leading producer in our energy system to a high- “It’s the first time somebody office will be to China at Beijing’s delayed by that challenge the purpose of and replacing Opec as a dominant carbon future,” Birol said in an within the organisation has invitation, and not to an IEA the body set up to protect the force on world markets. email. risen to the top job. In many member. four years interests of the West against And major energy consumers Environment campaigners ways, he has been the face of IEA membership is restricted the power of Opec in the 1970s. China and India are not even are sceptical. They say Birol has the organisation for some time,” to countries in the Organisation YANGON: A long-delayed Fatih Birol of Turkey — the members, presenting a headache always underestimated renewa- said Douglas Hengel, a vet- for Economic Co-operation and international airport project in IEA’s respected chief economist for the Paris-based IEA’s prized bles and over-emphasised the eran former US diplomat who Development (OECD), which Myanmar has been postponed — takes over on Tuesday, replac- role as the leading forecaster and continued role of fossil fuel. liaised with the IEA and is now includes the major economies again, by four years this time, ing Dutch politician Maria van data repository for opaque energy “He is a very smart person. He at the German Marshall Fund of North America and Europe, because of a delay in securing der Hoeven, a former economy markets. knows the issue very well. But he think-tank. as well as Japan and South funds, state media and an offi- minister whose four-year term Birol also has to convince the is also very conservative,” said “There are big morale prob- Korea. cial source said yesterday. has expired. oil and gas community, tradition- Sven Teske, a senior renewable lems,” one official said, referring “The IEA hasn’t got the same A South Korean company first “There is a lot of expectation ally central to the IEA, to shift energy expert at Greenpeace, to silos preventing informa- investigative powers over China planned to build the Hanthawaddy on Birol — not just external per- towards lower carbon fuels as who was on the advisory board tion flow and a lack of internal and India as it has over the International Airport on an old formance, but crucially internal United Nations’ talks, referred to for the IEA’s flagship publication, coherence across a spread of U.S. or Europe,” said Jacques World War Two Japanese airfield upgrade and institutional strat- as the Conference of the Parties the World Energy Outlook. publications. Percebois, an energy professor at near the town of Bago, about 100 egy,” said one official on condition (COP), on a new climate deal will Birol’s credentials as a long- Birol will continue the drive Montpellier University in south- km north of the commercial city of anonymity. take place in Paris at the end of term IEA staffer, who has won for closer cooperation with Asian ern France. Yangon. Although speaking for big this year. the loyalty of his colleagues, may consumers. In a departure from REUTERS However, the project was abandoned in 1994, soon after a groundbreaking ceremony. The state-run Global New Employees’ brand Light of Myanmar newspaper Egypt’s GASC said the country’s fourth interna- Irish retail sales add to tional airport was now expected to open in seven years. receives offers “The launch date of the fourth international airport in the coun- in wheat string of strong data try, had been put off from 2018 to 2022 due to delays in getting ODA DUBLIN: Irish retail sales prices hit a four-month high after (official development assistance),” purchase tender volumes rose 9.9 percent year- three months of consecutive falls the newspaper said, citing Deputy on-year in July, data showed and net emigration almost halved Director Min Lwin Oo of the Civil HAMBURG: The lowest offer yesterday, capping a week of Young people leaving in search Aviation Department. in the wheat purchase ten- strong job, house price and wage of work was one of the hard- A senior Transport Ministry der from state Egyptian buyer figures that indicated there was est felt aspects of a crisis that official confirmed the project had GASC which closed yesterday little prospect of the economic pushed unemployment above 15 been delayed because of a diffi- was $177.95 a tonne free-on- recovery abating. percent in 2012 and while Irish culty in seeking fund. board (FOB) for 55,000 tonnes After growing by over five per- emigrants appear to be still reluc- “Frankly, major construction of Ukrainian wheat, traders cent in 2014, Ireland’s economy tant to return home, fewer are work still hasn’t started at the said. is set to be the best performing leaving and Ireland isbe coming site as talks are still going on for No purchase has yet been made in Europe again this year as the an attractive location for foreign the ODA,” said the official who and results are expected later on country rebounds from a debt cri- workers again. declined to be identified as he Friday, traders said. sis that saw it follow Greece into The data has been backed up by not an authorised spokesman. He GASC, Egypt’s main wheat an international bailout less than positive results this month from declined to give further details. buying agency and one of the five years ago. banks to builders and also reflected The project was revived in world’s biggest state importers of Retail sales snapped two in earnings data that showed wage 2012 when tourist arrivals were wheat, is seeking to buy soft and/ months of declines after consum- growth up 1.8 percent year-on- boosted by political and economic or milling wheat sourced from the ers rushed to buy cars with new year, driven by the private sector reforms after a government led by United States, Canada, Australia, registrations pushing sales across where pay in the booming tech- civilians took office after nearly France, Germany, Poland, all sectors up 11.6 percent on the nology industry has now risen by 50 years of military rule. Argentina, Russia, Kazakhstan, month. More new cars were sold almost 17 percent since 2010. The project attracted criticism Ukraine or Romania. in the first seven months than in “A key feature of Ireland’s because of the lack of a plan to Shipment is sought between the whole of 2014. recovery that has been miss- transfer passengers to Yangon. October 1-10. Along with Excluding car sales, volumes ing has been positive earnings In 2014, a Japan-Singapore Ukrainian wheat, Russian, French were up 6.6 percent year-on-year growth. Falling wages have led consortium called Yongnam- and Romanian wheat was offered, with annual rises in 12 of the 13 to deflationary pressures, forc- CAPE-JGCC won a bid to build traders said. There were no offers sectors. “Although retail sales ing Irish consumers to maintain the airport at a cost of $1.5bn with for US wheat, they added. remain erratic on a monthly basis, exceptionally high savings rates 49 percent of that being secured In its previous international the underlying trend is positive,” to reduce their debts,” Davy chief through an ODA loan and the tender held on Thursday, GASC said Alan McQuaid, chief econo- economist Conall Mac Coille said. rest from private loans and the bought 60,000 tonnes of Russian mist at Merrion Stockbrokers. “The emergence of positive consortium. The capacity of the wheat also for Oct. 1-10 shipment “Personal spending in other wage growth is also extremely airport was targeted at 12 million at $180.47 a tonne fob plus a $9.60 areas is starting to pick up too important for investors in the passengers a year. a tonne freight/ocean shipping Secretary-General of the French worker’s union General Confederation and is becoming more broad- Irish economy. It will allow house Tourist arrivals have almost charge. of Labour Philippe Martinez visits the factory of the former ‘Fralib’ based. This can only be good news prices to rise over the medium- exceeded the capacity of existing Traders said these offers were renamed ‘Scop Ti’ tea production unit company in Gemenos, southern for retailers and employers.” term without stretching afford- international airports in Yangon, submitted to GASC in the first France, yesterday. Scop Ti employees launched “1336”, their own Earlier this week, unemploy- ability and facilitate nominal the city of Mandalay and the capi- round brand of teas and infusions. ment fell to a fresh six-year low growth in bank lending.” tal Naypyitaw. REUTERS of 9.5 percent, growth in property REUTERS REUTERS SATURDAY 29 AUGUST 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15 Burundi inflation hits Brazil enters recession in Q2 8pc in July as Gross domestic product falls 1.9 percent; biggest contraction for six years unrest persists RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil economists believe the country is involving politicians and senior contraction will continue through and investor caution in a country has slipped into recession, the headed for the longest recession executives. Rousseff’s Workers’ 2016, albeit at a shallower rate of that as part of the BRICS nations KIGALI: Burundi’s inflation government said yesterday, since 1931. Party has also been dragged into the 0.26 percent. “If that forecast of was once considered a lucrative bet. rose to 8 percent year-on-year deepening the gloom in the Brazil’s economy has been tail- scandal, fuelling political instabil- a fall in GDP for two consecutive The rest of the group of emerg- in July from 7.7 percent in June world’s seventh largest economy ing off for four years, ever since ity. “The GDP points to what Brazil years is confirmed then it will be ing giants — Russia, India, China as a political crisis in the coun- already battered by falling com- the end of a boom fuelled by com- has been experiencing recently: a the worst economic performance and South Africa — face mixed try drove up costs for all essen- modity prices, political crisis modity exports, principally to strong recession, a pretty turbu- for Brazil in 85 years. The last fortunes, with China’s stock mar- tials, notably for housing, water and a corruption scandal. China. Falling prices for oil and lent political situation, with infla- time that happened was in 1930- ket in free fall and Russia badly and energy, official data showed In the second quarter of this other commodities have punched tion rising, with rates rising,” said 1931,” Agostini said. damaged by low oil prices and yesterday. year, gross domestic product fell huge holes in the budget. Alex Agostini, chief economist at Yesterday’s figures showed the international sanctions over the The landlocked east African 1.9 percent, according to official Adding to the economic malaise Austin Rating. “This has impacted steepest second quarter shrinkage in war in Ukraine. nation has been in crisis since late figures. GDP had already been is a growing political crisis in on the confidence of investors, or the industrial sector, which includes Andrei Perfeito, at Gradual April when its president, Pierre down 0.7 percent in the first which President Dilma Rousseff businesses and consumers.” the troubled oil industry centered on Investimentos, said there was a pos- Nkurunziza, decided to run for a quarter, the government statistics faces calls for her impeachment A quick recovery is not Petrobras, at 4.3 percent. itive side to the bad news, because third-term, which his opponents agency IBGE said, revising that and discontent — even among expected, with unemployment Agriculture, where Brazil is one it also reflects attempts at pain- and Western countries said broke figure down further from the ear- many of her own supporters -- now at 7.5 percent and rising and of the world’s main producers of ful but needed reforms. “Brazil is a peace deal that ended an ethnic lier estimate of minus 0.2 percent. over attempts to push through the national currency, the real, commodities like soybeans, sugar making strong adjustments to hold civil war in 2005. Year-on-year, the second quar- austerity measures. down about 25 percent this year and poultry, slipped 2.7 percet. back inflation,” he said.But “Brazil’s From then, dozens of people ter growth was down 2.6 percent. A huge corruption investiga- against the US dollar. Inflation is Family spending fell 2.1 percent, the problem is even more political than have been killed during months Brazil is now in its biggest con- tion named Operation Car Wash forecast at 9.56 percent this year. second consecutive quarterly drop. economic. There is uncertainty over of street protests, while at least traction for six years and with has revealed a bribes-and-embez- This month a central bank Moody’s has cut Brazil’s credit the government’s conduct and busi- 181,000 citizens were forced to flee the 2015 slump forecast to extend zlement scheme revolving around survey of economists for the first rating to near junk status, reflect- nesses are retreating.” to neighbouring countries. in milder form through 2016, state oil giant Petrobras and time indicated that the current ing growing struggles with debt AFP The unrest has negatively affected economic activity in the capital city, Bujumbura. Inflation for housing, water and Abercrombie profit soars energy rose to five percent in the year to July from 4.2 percent in Profit slides June, the country’s Institute for Economic Studies and statistics at Australian (ISTEEBU) said in its report. supermarket Economic analysts see a worsening economic situation giant Woolworths in the future, as the country’s aid-dependent runs a risk of no SYDNEY: Australian super- longer benefiting aid from its key market giant Woolworths yes- Western donors. terday posted a 12.5 percent Belgium, German and slide in full-year net profit and Netherlands which have already announced its chairman was announced their intention to stepping down, just months stop funding Burundi, saying after the group’s chief executive elections which led Nkurunziza quit. and his ruling CNDD-FDD party Profit at the country’s larg- to a sweeping victory were not est food retailer fell to A$2.15bn credible. ($1.54bn) in the year to June 28 The United States, another on the back of poor sales of food, biggest donor which supports liquor and petrol amid fierce the coffee producer nation in the competition from rival Coles and health, agriculture and military German retailer Aldi. sectors, warned it will cut some One-off costs and write-downs aid. of A$426m also hit the bot- Nkurunziza was sworn in on tom line, along with more than August 20 for another five-year A$200m spent on improving its term in office and appointed a supermarkets during the year. new cabinet this week, with some Revenue edged down 0.1 per- five members from an opposi- cent to A$61.15bn. tion coalition led by former rebel In June, Woolworths announced leader, Agathon Rwasa. chief executive Grant O’Brien But still, Burundi’s donors was leaving and 1,200 jobs faced urged him to engage an inclusive the axe as the company sought dialogue with the opposition and to turn itself around, with chair- civil society, to end the unrest and man Ralph Waters following him prevent the country from another out the door. civil war. “If the company disappoints the Pedestrians walk by an Abercrombie & Fitch store yesterday in San Francisco, California. Abercrombie & Fitch reported better-than-expected REUTERS market in any way, there are two second quarter revenue falling to $817.8m from $890.6m one year ago. people who carry the responsibil- ity: the CEO and the chairman,” Waters said. “I’ve put my hand up.” He will be replaced from China worries to dominate Tokyo stock trading next week September 1 by Gordon Cairns, the former chief of food and drinks giant Lion Nathan. TOKYO: Lingering worries percent over the week to end week, including a sharp upward “Caution is warranted given the those reports for the latest clue “The most immediate issue about China will dominate Friday at 1,549.80. revision to second-quarter GDP possibility that slowdown worries about the health of the world’s top is to identify new leadership to Tokyo trading next week, ana- The Nikkei racked up six to annual growth of 3.7 percent, over China will be rekindled” if economy, and the possible timing take the business forward,” Cairns lysts said, after global equity straight losing sessions through from 2.3 percent, along with solid the data disappoint, Daiwa said. for a Fed rate hike. said of the global search to find markets took a roller-coaster Tuesday as markets around the durable goods figures also helped Investors are also awaiting On currency markets, the dol- O’Brien’s successor. ride on fears a slowdown in the world nosedived on the uncer- fuel optimism. news from an annual US Federal lar rose to 121.12 yen, from 121.02 “Ralph Waters’ decision to world’s number two economy tain outlook for China, a key But concerns over China will Reserve symposium in Jackson yen in New York, where it firmed retire has facilitated board would weigh on global growth. driver of global growth now seen likely hang over equity markets Hole, Wyoming, this weekend, against other major currencies on renewal and allows me to partici- The Nikkei 225 at the Tokyo as a potential threat to the world as investors mull whether the followed by a meeting of finance the revised GDP figures. pate in the CEO search process.” Stock Exchange ended a wild economy. moves by Beijing will be enough chiefs and central bankers from In Tokyo share trading, strug- The company, which is unre- week down 1.54 percent at After China’s central bank to kick-start growth in Asia’s top G7 nations scheduled for next gling electronics maker Sharp lated to South African depart- 19,136.32, with a three-day rally chopped interest rates and cut economy, Daiwa Securities said in weekend. surged 8.92 percent to 183 yen, ment store Woolworths Holdings, from Wednesday pulling the the amount of money banks must a research note. The Fed’s regional economies as the top-selling Yomiuri news- maintained a final dividend of 72 benchmark index off six-month hold in reserve, global investors Markets would keep a close Beige Book report and US trade paper said it may sell a majority cents per share. Its shares closed lows. returned to buying and drove up eye on the Chinese manufactur- data are among a string of figures stake in its liquid crystal display 1.29 percent higher at A$27.40. The broader Topix index of major indexes around the world. ing purchasing managers’ index due next week. business to rival Japan Display. AFP all first-section shares lost 1.48 Upbeat data from the US this due next week. Dealers will keep a close eye on AFP

Switzerland warms up to Iran Switzerland dodges recession

ZURICH: Switzerland’s econ- The economic affairs ministry who had feared a second quar- omy expanded by 0.2 percent in SECO said the imports of goods, ter with negative growth in an the second quarter of this year, except for non-monetary gold and economy hit by the strong Swiss the economic affairs ministry valuables, had slumped 3.6 per- franc, which would have plunged said yesterday, allowing the cent during the second quarter, the country into its first recession country to dodge a recession. stressing that “such a consider- since 2009. The meagre growth from the able decline for this category in The Swiss franc soared against first quarter came after the Swiss one quarter is uncommon.” the euro in January when the economy contracted by 0.2 per- Exports, which slid slightly country’s central bank suddenly cent during the first three months during the first three months of stopped holding down its value of the year, which had left many the year, meanwhile grew slightly artificially, causing massive head- analysts forecasting that the during the second quarter. aches for the country’s exporters. wealthy Alpine nation would slip SECO said exports, excluding Swiss GDP growth in the sec- into recession. non-monetary gold, valuables and ond quarter “surprised on the Analysts polled by the AWP merchanting, grew 0.5 percent, upside,” J Safra Sarasin analyst financial news agency had boosted especially by swelling Alessandro Bee wrote in a note. expected to see the country’s exports of watches, jewellery and “These GDP figures suggest gross domestic product shrink by precision instruments, as well as that the Swiss economy is in a as much as 0.3 percent compared in the chemical and pharmaceuti- much stronger shape than previ- with the previous quarter. cal industries. ously thought,” he added, pointing The Swiss economy meanwhile Household consumption mean- out that the strong Swiss franc’s grew by 1.2 percent compared while inched up 0.3 percent dur- impact on the economy had been with the same period a year ear- ing the quarter, while general less than expected. Participants await the start of an event hosted by Swiss government-funded organisation Swiss Global lier, again beating analysts’ expec- government consumption grew “However, we now expect the Enterprise, in Zurich, Switzerland, yesterday. Switzerland’s ambassador called Iran a “pole of stability” in tations that it would grow by up 0.2 percent, SECO said, helping Swiss economy to take more the Middle East and urged companies to make the most of a lucrative market about to re-open after years to 0.9 percent. The GDP growth ensure overall GDP growth. time to escape the downturn,” he of crippling sanctions. can especially be attributed to a The numbers came as a posi- warned. steep drop in imports. tive surprise to many observers AFP SATURDAY 29 AUGUST 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS VIEWS

Multi-tasking CEOs seem How Chavez trashed fine, but trend worrisome BY ROB COX Latin America’s economy lon Musk is working on some pretty visionary projects. Among those most far along are Tesla Motors’ electric cars, BY JUSTIN FOX SolarCity’s renewable energy grid and SpaceX’s rockets point to some indicators that of oil. Its proven reserves have Maduro have been a time of Eto Mars. As far as the world knows, though, one thing the poverty and malnutrition were skyrocketed since 2000 as geolo- unparalleled fiscal profligacy. billionaire has not managed to develop is a cloning device. hen Hugo on the decline. gists have learned more about One outside estimate puts this Fiat Chrysler Automobiles boss Sergio Marchionne — who could Chavez first Now, of course, Venezuela’s the heavy crude of the Orinoco year’s budget deficit at 24 per- don another hat to run Ferrari — and Twitter and Square entrepre- took office as economy is a disaster. The Belt. But getting at that oil cent of GDP. That’s not unheard neur Jack Dorsey may also be exceptional leaders. But they too are Venezuela’s government stopped releasing will take a lot of resources of for an oil-exporting country in human beings. Investors in public companies, especially young or president in regular economic statistics in and expertise, both things that an oil-price slump. challenged ones, need 100 percent dedication from the boss. That’s W1999, the country wasn’t exactly December. By 2014 Venezuela Venezuela’s state-owned oil com- Around 2005, Chavez began physically and mathematically impossible if one person becomes anybody’s economic model. had slid to fifth place in per- pany, Petroleos de Venezuela calling his approach govern- chief executive of more than one company. Great oil riches had been squan- capita GDP in Latin America, (PVDSA, best known in the US ing “Socialism of the 21st There are very few instances of the same person holding CEO dered, repeatedly. Inflation was behind Chile, Cuba (!), Uruguay for its Citgo subsidiary), has Century.” But it was more akin titles at two separate listed companies with aplomb. Steve Jobs a recurrent problem -- it had and Panama. Mexico and Brazil been lacking in since Chavez to what political scientist Terry managed it at Apple and Pixar. But he arguably acted more like topped 100 percent in 1996. The may pass it this year, despite initiated a sort of hostile takeo- Lynn Karl dubbed “petrolisa- a part-time chairman at the animation studio and he sold it to economy wasn’t growing much. their own economic trou- ver starting in the early 2000s. tion”— making the spending of Disney in 2006, when Apple was a fraction of its size and before it Almost half the population was bles. Even next-door neighbor First he kicked out 18,000 work- oil money your government’s rolled out the paradigm-shifting iPhone. below the country’s poverty line. Colombia is getting within strik- ers and executives, 40 percent main purpose, even after the Of course, some people are just better at multi-tasking, making One political scientist, sizing ing distance. of the company’s workforce, oil money starts to run out. good decisions, motivating their subordinates, delegating work and things up a few months into the What happened to Venezuela after a strike. Then he started This has left the country in an avoiding distraction than others. Even these paragons, though, Chavez presidency, went so far between 2005 and now? Well, demanding control of PVDSA’s impossible situation. To pay its need to avoid putting their performance and reputations at risk as to declare that the nation was this happened: joint ventures with foreign oil bills the government has bor- by spreading themselves too thinly. “in ruins.” Note that the divergence companies. One could interpret rowed $45bn from China, but As it happens, Musk’s only listed-company CEO job is at Tesla, Still, Venezuela was Latin between Venezuela’s revenue this in the most Chavez-friendly it also printed tons of money. though he also runs private SpaceX and chairs public SolarCity’s America’s most affluent country, and spending started long before way possible — he was aiming And yes, you could say that board. Meanwhile in the more traditional auto manufacturing thanks to all that oil. Its govern- last summer’s oil-price collapse. for a more just allocation of his the Federal Reserve in the US business, Carlos Ghosn is a notable exception to the one man, one ment finances were in tolerably When oil prices hit their all- nation’s resources — and still also printed money during and job rule. He became the first person to run two Fortune Global 500 good shape, also thanks to oil. time high in July 2008, govern- conclude that he made it harder after the financial crisis, but in firms at the same time when he took over Renault and Nissan in The head of the country’s ment revenue — 40 percent of for PVDSA to deliver the neces- Venezuela the money creation 2005. chamber of commerce even which comes directly from oil sary tax revenue. has reached such epic propor- Marchionne is another car-industry star who might seem capa- replaced him as president in a — was already falling. The main As you can see from the chart, tions that people have to carry ble of taking on more than is humanly possible. Emulating Ghosn, 2002 coup attempt that failed problem was Venezuelan oil pro- government spending initially the stuff around in bags. he managed to run both Fiat and Chrysler for a spell before they after two days. But as of 2005 duction, which dropped from 3.3 followed tax revenue down, Chavez isn’t around anymore, merged. Venezuela still had the highest million barrels a day in 2006 to although it didn’t quite keep up. but in terms of basic macr- But running two allied companies making similar products is per-capita gross domestic prod- 2.7 million in 2011. It was still at Then, starting in 2010, spend- oeconomic management Hugo different from overseeing two separate businesses. Marchionne uct in Latin America (adjusted 2.7 million in 2014, according to ing surged. The last years of Chavez has to go down as one of might also become the CEO of Ferrari. If that’s true, he will be for purchasing-power parity), the latest BP Statistical Review Chavez — he died of cancer in the most disastrous leaders the taking on a far more difficult balancing act. and no trouble paying its bills. of World Energy. 2013 — and the first under his world has seen quite in a while. Fiat Chrysler owns 90 percent of Ferrari today. But the leg- Chavez supporters could even Venezuela isn’t running out handpicked successor Nicolas BLOOMBERG endary sports-car maker is embarking on a life of its own. The initial public offering planned in the coming months could give the Maranello, Italy-based icon a valuation of some 10bn euros, according to Marchionne. Despite a shared Italian heritage, there is little of the sort of over- lap between the companies that characterised the Fiat-Chrysler relationship before the two joined forces. On the contrary, buyers of a $300,000 Ferrari would seem to have very little in common with those shopping for a Dodge Ram 1500 truck, starting at $25,660, or any number of the cheap-and- cheerful models Fiat sells all around the globe. As a standalone, the super-luxury Ferrari, whose logo is a prancing horse, needs a different jockey than its mass-market parent. Moreover, a newly public company needs full-time direction. There’s no way Marchionne, managerial stud though he may be, could provide that at Ferrari without curtailing some of his involve- ment at the complex and sprawling $19bn Fiat Chrysler. Not to mention that he is also vice chairman of Exor, the Agnelli family’s investment vehicle, and chairman of CNH Industrial. If Marchionne running both Fiat Chrysler and Ferrari sounds like a stretch, what to make of news reports that Dorsey will move from interim to permanent boss of Twitter, the microblogging service he co-founded, even though the company said in June it only wanted full-time candidates? He’s already CEO of Square, a mobile-payments company he founded six years ago. Square has confidentially filed for its own public offering at a time when com- petition among tech payments firms is surging. Twitter, whose shares dropped below their IPO price earlier this week, needs a chief executive who eats, breathes and thinks in 140-character bites, 24 hours a day. Attempting to juggle both CEO roles, at companies in totally different businesses, would be a disservice to both sets of shareholders — among the largest of which is the 38-year old Dorsey himself. If Jobs, whose best-known legacy is the $600bn Apple, repre- sents the gold standard for today’s striving executive, then perhaps running two disparate public companies could be seen as the ultimate goal. But it’s a rare human who possesses both the skills and the luck to achieve it without incurring the disgruntle- ment of at least one set of shareholders. Company boards should know better than to saddle investors with the risk of such an experiment. REUTERS Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

Emerald Cay is at glimmering edge of good sense BY STEVEN PERLSTEIN After circumnavigating Shortly after construction on lake near Cody, Wyo., and a pri- district court in Miami, Blixseth discriminating and investors to Emerald Cay in a sea kayak the the island began, financial and vate golf club just down the road accuses di Silvestri of being the take more risk, it’s hard to draw urks and Caicos — I’m other day, I became rather curi- real-estate markets cratered, and from St. Andrews in Scotland, real mastermind behind the tax the line between self-interest and sitting on the patio of a ous about who would want to the di Silvestris began negotia- in addition to Emerald Cay. To fraud on Emerald Cay and seeks greed. That conundrum has led rental house looking out own such an over-the-top vaca- tions to sell the still-incomplete finance the purchase of the prop- $28m in damages. some market purists to conclude Tover a turquoise inlet tion property. It didn’t take much project to Tim Blixseth. Blixseth erties, Blixseth arranged a $375m Maybe it’s the rum punch, that there can be no distinction, known as Silly Creek in this digging to discover the answer. was the founder and developer of loan from Credit Suisse, the big but it But this is also a parable or that, as the fictional Gordon Caribbean island paradise. My The story begins in 1999 with the ultra-exclusive Yellowstone Swiss bank, offering as collateral about greed — and, in particular, Gekko infamously argued, greed wife and I are here to celebrate a high-flying hedge fund man- Club, the Montana enclave where his stake in the Yellowstone Club the indulgence and sense entitle- is good. 30 wonderful years of marriage. ager named Gary di Silvestri. Di several hundred owners of multi- and other personal assets, includ- ment that has become so endemic However difficult it may be Just at the moment, though, I’m Silvestri is a Staten Island boy million-dollar homes pay $75,000 ing his 300-acre home in Palm among those who, because of to define, greed offends moral thinking about greed. who went to Georgetown and a year in membership and main- Springs, Calif., with its private, some combination of luck and instincts and intuitions that, for Across the creek is Emerald Columbia Business School and tenance fees to enjoy the exclusive 19-hole golf course (the extra hole skill, have risen to the top of good reason, have become hard- Cay, a 2.3-acre island estate eventually became chief invest- use of a private, 10,000-foot ski is in case of a tie). the economic ladder. One of the wired into our nature. Actions accessed by a remote-control- ment officer of something call- mountain and championship golf The sale of Emerald Cay to thought experiments I do with my strike us as greedy if the pleas- led swing bridge and a drive- ing itself Deutsche Suisse Asset course. Gary di Silvestri was an Blixseth was completed around economics class at George Mason ure they bring to some are vastly way paved with Turkish marble. Management Ltd. Di Silvestri and early Yellowstone member and a 2005 for a price of around $28m. is to ask the students to define outweighed by the misery they According to a local real estate his wife are best known today for Blixseth friend. To avoid US income taxes and greed. Invariably someone sug- cause to others. People are greedy Web site, the 30,000-square-foot having wheedled their way into With Yellowstone starting the hefty property transfer tax gests that greed is wanting more if their hunger for acquisition main house features 10 bedrooms the 2014 Winter Olympics in to take off, Blixseth decided to in Turks and Caicos, di Silvestri than you need. Would that mean, becomes such an all-consuming and 10 baths, a three-storey great Sochi, Russia, by arranging to be expand the concept with some- and Blixseth arranged for the I ask, that a person who buys a obsession that riches cannot be room and equally grand library, designated as the cross-country thing he called Yellowstone sale to be structured as a series BMW rather than a Ford Focus enjoyed. Greed is an invitation to along with a 6,000-bottle wine cel- ski team from the tropical island World Club, a collection of opu- of stock sales among several shell is greedy? Unhappy with that dis- wasteful consumption and a mis- lar. In addition to a caretaker’s of Dominica. But back in 1999, lent retreats that he offered on corporations, according to court tinction, someone else invariably allocation of scarce resources. lodge and a guest house, there is their focus was on getting into a time-share basis to 150 of the documents here and in the United suggests greed is wanting things Greed leads to a brutish indiffer- a lighted tennis court, two swim- the real estate development game world’s most discriminating One States valuing the property at the that hurt other people. ence to the plight of others and ming pools, a beach volleyball in Turks & Caicos by ingratiating Percenters willing to plunk down artificially low price of $10m. The point of the exercise is to can be a pretext for illegal behav- court, two beaches, separate boat themselves with the island’s noto- initiation fees of up to $10m. The Blixseth demands $24bn in point out that in a free-market iour. Greed erodes civic virtue and and personal watercraft docks riously corrupt political leader- nine properties included two 150- damages for himself and other economy in which self-interest undermines the faith we have in and a fully equipped exercise ship. Emerald Cay became their foot yachts, a 14th-century cha- Yellowstone property owners. In drives workers to be more pro- each other. pavilion with 360-degree views. signature project. teau outside of Paris, a fly-fishing a separate action filed in federal ductive, consumers to be more WASHINGTON POST SATURDAY 29 AUGUST 2015 CLASSIFIEDS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 17

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 SATURDAY 29 AUGUST 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 Mayweather insists Berto Watson sizzles as Spieth fight will be his last bout

LOS ANGELES: Outspoken to me, a job,” he said. “If I could welterweight king Floyd say anything to a youngster taking Mayweather insists his up boxing it would be to be smart struggles in New Jersey September 12 showdown with and not take a lot of punches. Andre Berto will be his last “It’s called the sweet science for bout. a reason. Hit and not be hit, make “Nobody knows what the future a lot of money without taking a The Barclays: Spieth cards 74 in ‘worst round in years’ holds, but right now, I’m cool and lot of punishment. That’s what it’s comfortable and having no sec- about.” ond thoughts at all about retire- That slick defensive style has EDISON, New Jersey: Bubba ment,” Mayweather said at an made Mayweather a target for Watson charged into a tie for open workout in Las Vegas. some critics, as his choice of the first-round lead at the “I had a good career, I won 40-1 underdog Berto for the bout Barclays on Thursday while every world title, but boxing is touted as his last. newly crowned world number wear and tear on the body. “Berto can fight,” Mayweather one Jordan Spieth struggled to “It’s time to hang ‘em up. I’m said of the former welterweight his worst score of the year in looking forward to working with world champion, who battled a relation to par. some up-and-coming kids, going severe shoulder injury two years Twice Masters champion on walks and taking vacations.” ago but returned to knock out Watson used a red-hot outward It’s a vision of retirement few Josesito Lopez in March. nine as a springboard en route who have watched his career can “He’s hungry. He comes to to a sizzling five-under-par 65 at really picture for the ultra-com- wage a war. There is never a Plainfield Country Club, setting petitive American, who will be dull moment when he fights, so the pace with fellow Americans trying to equal Rocky Marciano’s I expect a hell of a fight out of Spencer Levin and Tony Finau, legendary record of 49-0. him,” Mayweather said of Berto, and Colombia’s Camilo Villegas. A chance to go to 50-0 could who brings a record of 30-3 with New Zealander Danny Lee, prove irresistible, as could the 23 knockouts to the fight. “We’ll Americans Jason Dufner, chance to inaugurate the MGM see how it all plays out.” Cameron Tringale and Bryce Grand’s new 20,000-seat arena in Mayweather said the reaction Molder, and Britons Paul Casey Las Vegas next year. to his superfight with Manny and Russell Knox opened with But for now the 38-year-old Pacquiao in May showed he’d 66s in the first of the PGA Tour’s Mayweather says he’s glad his be criticized no matter who he four lucrative FedExCup playoff success gives him the chance to fought. events. decide when to quit the ring -- “My last fight, all you guys put Spieth, however, was let down a choice many in the sport are Pacquiao on a pedestal and look by his usually stellar short game denied. what happened,” he said. as he limped to a 74 in his first “I’ve truly been blessed,” he “I went in there and did what I competitive round since he said. “I’ve taken my time, kept my needed to do, which is win. replaced Rory McIlroy at the top eye on the prize and done what “This fight, no matter who the of the rankings by finishing sec- I’ve had to do,” he said. opponent, somebody would have ond at the PGA Championship 11 “So I’m able to make a choice something critical or negative to days ago. when to retire. Most fighters say. Some people are never sat- “After the tee shots, that is the really couldn’t. isfied. But I’m satisfied,” he said. worst round I’ve played in years,” “Boxing has always been work AFP Masters and US Open champion Spieth, who hit 11 of 14 fairways on a challenging Plainfield layout, told reporters. “It was really a very unique round for this year. I hit my first Bubba Watson of the United States in action during the first round of the Barclays at Plainfield Country Club 11 fairways today and that’s really on Thursday in Edison, New Jersey. hard to do out here. “Typically when I hit the fair- ways, I’m not over par. That’s do what I have done best, bounce par-three sixth and a three-putt what was weird about the round,” back. I come back tomorrow at the tricky ninth cost him two The Barclays Scores he said. strong. bogeys in his last four holes. 65 Bubba Watson, Spencer Levin, Camilo Spieth covered his front nine “I know I can still shoot a low “All in all, it’s a good round but Villegas (COL), Tony Finau in a promising two-under 34 but round if I hit the shots I need to the back nine ... if I just make a 66 Danny Lee (NZL), Jason Dufner, then ran up five bogeys, a double hit ... hopefully see a few more better swing on the par-three and Cameron Tringale, Russell Knox (SCO), at the par-three third after his putts go in.” then a two-putt, it’s not too bad,” Paul Casey (ENG), Bryce Molder tee shot found water and a lone Left-hander Watson, who said Watson. birdie after the turn. played with Spieth and PGA “I missed the cut the last time 67 Daniel Summerhays, Will Wilcox, The best putter in the game Championship winner Jason Day I played here so we are ahead of Johnson Wagner, Nick Taylor (CAN), recorded two three-putt bogeys of Australia in a high-profile the curve right now,” he grinned. Stewart Cink, Matt Jones (AUS), Kevin as he carded his worst score since grouping, surged to the top of the World number three Day, who Kisner a first-round 75 at the Players leaderboard with five birdies in withdrew from Wednesday’s 68 Alex Cejka (GER), Pat Perez, Phil Championship in May. his first nine holes. pro-am competition due to a Mickelson, Rickie Fowler, Patrick Reed, Asked how he would respond, He picked up two more shots back issue, opened with a 68. Jason Day (AUS), Hudson Swafford the 22-year-old Texan replied: “I before a poor swing at the REUTERS Novak ends Solheim Cup selection Lang Czech 21-year cut drought grabs lead at LPGA Classic PRATTVILLE, US: Brittany PRAGUE: Vitek Novak marked Lang, newly selected for the US his home event in style yesterday Solheim Cup team, validated when he became the first Czech captain Juli Inkster’s confidence Boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr (left) spars with boxer Ramon Montano during player in 21 years to make the on Thursday by grabbing the a media workout at the Mayweather Boxing Club on Wednesday in Las cut at a European Tour event. first-round lead in the LPGA Vegas, Nevada. Mayweather will defend his WBC/WBA welterweight titles The 19-year-old amateur posted Classic. against Andre Berto on September 12 at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas. a four under par second round of Lang got off to a sizzling start 68, which included three consecu- on the par-72 Senator course with tive birdies from the fourth hole, five birdies in the first seven holes. for a three under par total 141 at She was seven-under through Brittany the halfway stage of the Czech 12 and looked set for a possi- Lang lines Masters at the Albatross Golf ble course record until she was up a shot Resort. slowed by bogeys at 13 and 14. on the Dodgers, Angels earn Jiri Janda, at the 1994 Czech “It was just one of those days,” fifth green Open, was the last Czech golfer said Lang, who birdied 16 and 17 during the to reach the weekend of a Tour to hold a two-stroke lead over first round event. Tiffany Joh, Sydnee Michaels and impressive victories of the “I’m very happy to shoot what Ryann O’Toole after 18 holes. Yokohama NEW YORK: I did today. It’s just amazing. The “It was so enjoyable,” Lang Tire LPGA Zack Greinke starts with the Angels. Detroit’s last Czech guy who made the cut added. “I wasn’t thinking about allowed four hits over seven Anthony Gose, who singled in Classic on was 21 years ago and I wasn’t a whole lot. You know, I was just innings to lift the Los Angeles the third and walked in the sixth Thursday in born,” said Novak. super committed to seeing my Dodgers to a 1-0 victory over was the only Tiger to reach base “My goal was to make the cut. shots, it was so much fun.” Prattville, the Cincinnati Reds. against Shoemaker. I am still in the process of getting Lang, whose 65 matched her United Greinke (14-3) struck out nine Albert Pujols drove in a run better and better, and I’m hoping best round of the year, said her States. and walked two for Los Angeles with a sixth-inning single while to go to college in the States to golf was “pretty flawless.” before Jim Johnson Shane Victorino help me improve.” “Even when I was making pars, earned his 10th Baseball Results added a ninth- Earlier, Spain’s Eduardo de la I was burning the edge from 10 save with a perfect inning sacrifice LA Dodgers 1 Cincinnati 0 Riva hit a sensational 18th hole feet,” she said. “Every hole I was ninth inning. fly to drive in eagle to earn a share of the lead right there. The birdies on 16 and Yasmani Grandal LA Angels 2 Detroit 0 Pujols from third after the first round. 17 were pretty big after the bogeys drove in the only Texas 4 Toronto 1 base. The 33-year-old joined playing on 13 and 14... small misses, but I run in the second Kansas City 5 Baltimore 3 Rangers 4, partner Renato Paratore at the stayed aggressive so I was excited inning when Justin San Francisco 9 Chicago Cubs 1 Blue Jays 1 top of the leaderboard with bird- with that.” Turner scored from Washington 4 San Diego 2 Yovani ies on the tenth, 11th and 12th Lang, seeking a second LPGA third after the NY Mets 9 Philadelphia 5 Gallardo col- holes heading for the last. catcher had hit into lected his 100th Tampa Bay 5 Minnesota 4 At the 18th, de la Riva holed his title, has held at least a share of Classic, but Suzann Pettersen a double play with career victory long-range approach at the last to LPGA Scores the first-round lead six times in birdied two of her last three holes the bases-loaded. Pittsburgh 2 Miami 1 while the Texas finish the opening day on seven PRATTVILLE, US: Leading her career but has never been to edge Lang by one stroke. Angels 2, Tigers Chicago White Sox 4 Seattle 2 Rangers used an under par 65. first-round scores on Thursday able to close it out. All three of the trio sharing 0 St Louis 5 Arizona 3 error by Toronto Paratore, 18, carded seven bird- in the LPGA Classic (par 72, She last held a share of the lead second played without a bogey in Matt Shoemaker right fielder Jose ies on his way to a 65, his best USA unless noted) after a 66 at the first round of the the round. returned from the minors and Bautista to score three runs in score on the European Tour to 2015 Honda LPGA Thailand but They were one stroke in front gave up just one hit in 7-1/3 the seventh inning in a 4-1 victory 65 Brittany Lang date. The Italian very nearly faded to a 73 in the second round of a group of five players on 68: innings as the Los Angeles Angels over the Blue Jays. 67 Tiffany Joh, Sydnee Michaels, Ryann shot a hole in one at the 16th. and finished in a tie for 13th. South Korea’s Kim Hyo-Joo, beat the Detroit Tigers. Royals 5, Orioles 3 O’Toole said Paratore. Matt Fitzpatrick, Earlier this season she was Ariya Jutanugarn of Thailand, Shoemaker (6-9) was recalled Yordano Ventura struck out 11 Sam Hutsby, Pelle Edberg and 68 Kim Hyo-Joo (KOR), Ariya Jutanugarn within striking distance of a sec- Denmark’s Therese Koelbaek, from Triple-A Salt Lake on while Paulo Orlando homered as Thomas Pieters are all a further (THA), Therese Koelbaek (DEN), Julieta ond career title with a final-round Paraguay’s Julieta Granada and Wednesday after giving up 13 runs the Kansas City Royals beat the shot behind. AFP Granada (PAR), Feng Simin (CHN) 65 at the Manulife Financial Feng Simin of China. AFP in 7-1/3 innings in his previous two Baltimore Orioles. AGENCIES SATURDAY 29 AUGUST 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT Bolt mulls retirement after 2016 Olympic Games BEIJING: Usain Bolt said he Rio, if I feel I can really put my TV cameraman riding an electric might end his glittering career body through one more season. scooter lost control and ploughed at next year’s Olympics after he If I’m going to be focused and I’m into him from behind, sending the completed a world sprint double going to be determined. That will Jamaican flying. The TV cameraman (left), in Beijing – and got clattered determine if I compete after Rio. “I probably should get my legs who drove into Jamaica’s by an electric scooter into the So we’ll see how it goes.” insured,” smiled the six-times Usain Bolt with a segway bargain. Bolt, troubled by pelvic prob- Olympic champion. “It was pretty after the 200m final, The towering Jamaican said he lems this year, was pushed all the scary when it happened but acci- apologises to Bolt after was only 50-50 about running at way by Justin Gatlin in Sunday’s dents happen.” Footage of the the medal ceremony of the the next world championships in 100m, but had an easier ride in incident quickly went viral, with men’s 200m final during 2017 in London, and could retire the 200m as he beat the American “Segways”, referring to the elec- the Beijing 2015 IAAF at the Rio de Janeiro Olympics by nearly two-tenths of a second. tric scooter, trending on Twitter instead. It was the fourth consecutive on Friday. World Championships at “After Rio, as I said, my spon- world 200m title for the 29-year- Some Chinese Internet users the National Stadium, also sors want me to go one more old, who has won all but one world commented that the cameraman known as Bird’s Nest, in year, but my coach said, ‘Listen and Olympic sprint competitions was the only person who was Beijing, China, yesterday. to me, if you’re not going to be since he lit up the 2008 Beijing able to take down Bolt in Beijing. serious about going to the world Olympics. “The only guy in the world who championships in London,’ then I However, Bolt’s celebrations can defeat Bolt,” a user with the shouldn’t do it,” he said. came to a sticky end at the Bird’s handle “Sehun” posted on his “So it’s all about how I feel after Nest stadium on Thursday when a Twitter-style weibo account. AFP World Championships Schippers pips Thompson to Results Women’s 200m final: 1. Dafne Schippers (Netherlands) 21.63; 2. Elaine Thompson (Jamaica) 21.66; 3. Veronica Campbell-Brown (Jamaica) 21.97; 4. Candyce McGrone (US) clinch 200m gold in Beijing 22.01; 5. Dina Asher-Smith (Britain) 22.07; 6. Jeneba Tarmoh (US) 22.31; 7. Ivet Lalova- Collio (Bulgaria) 22.41; 8. Sherone Simpson (Jamaica) 22.50. Dutch sensation clocks fourth fastest run of all time to win the title Men’s 110m hurdles final: 1. Sergey Shubenkov (Russia) 12.98; 2. Hansle Parchment (Jamaica) 13.03; 3. Aries Merritt BEIJING: Dutch sensation (US) 13.04; 4. Pascal Martinot-Lagarde Dafne Schippers clocked the Williams stuns (France) 13.17; 5. Dimitri Bascou (France) fourth fastest run of all time to 13.17; 6. Omar McLeod (Jamaica) 13.18; 7. pip Jamaica’s Elaine Thompson David Oliver (US) 13.33; 8. Garfield Darien by three-hundredths of a second rivals to win at (France) 13.34. and take 200 metres gold at the Women’s 100m Hurdles final: 1. Danielle world championships yesterday. 100m hurdles Williams (Jamaica) 12.57; 2. Cindy Roleder The former heptathlete, who (Germany) 12.59; 3. Alina Talay (Belarus) claimed silver in the 100 behind BEIJING: Jamaica’s Danielle 12.66; 4. Brianna Rollins (US) 12.67; 5. Tiffany Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce on Williams won the world cham- Porter (Britain) 12.68; 6. Noemi Zbaeren Monday, surged through the line pionship 100 metres hurdles (Switzerland) 12.95; 7. Shermaine Williams in 21.63 seconds, the quickest time gold as her more experienced (Jamaica) 12.95; 8. Sharika Nelvis (US) 13.06. for 17 years in the half-lap sprint. rivals crumbled under pressure Only Americans Florence yesterday. Women’s Long Jump final: 1. Tianna Griffith-Joyner, the world record She took the lead after the last Bartoletta (US) 7.14; 2. Shara Proctor (Britain) holder, and Marion Jones, who flight, winning in a personal best 7.07; 3. Ivana Spanovic (Serbia) 7.01; 4. was later banned for doping, have 12.57 seconds ahead of Germany’s Christabel Nettey (Canada) 6.95; 5. Lorraine run faster. Cindy Roleder who also clocked a Ugen (Britain) 6.85; 6. Malaika Mihambo “I can’t believe it,” Schippers best time of 12.59. (Germany) 6.79; 7. Khaddi Sagnia (Sweden) told reporters. “What a race! Bronze went to Aline Talay in 6.78; 8. Janay DeLoach Soukup (US) 6.67; 9. What a tournament for me! I a Belarus record 12.66. Nastassia Mironchyk-Ivanova (Belarus) 6.66; think they’ll be going crazy in the Danielle, 23, raced in the final 10. Darya Klishina (Russia) 6.65; 11. Katarina Netherlands at the moment.” alongside her 25-year-old sister Johnson-Thompson (Britain) 6.63; 12. Erica Thompson, 23, was second in a Shermaine who finished seventh Jarder (Sweden) 6.48. personal best 21.66 while bronze in 12.95. Men’s 1,500m semifinals: Semifinal went to her compatriot, twice It was the first time since the 1: 1. Asbel Kiprop (Kenya) 3:43.48 Q; 2. Olympic champion Veronica championships began in 1983 Nicholas Willis (New Zealand) 3:43.57 Q; 3. Campbell-Brown, in 21.97. that two siblings had competed Silas Kiplagat (Kenya) 3:43.64 Q; 4. Matthew Schippers, taking part in her together in a final. Centrowitz (US) 3:43.97 Q; 5. Leonel Manzano first major global championships Two of the leading American (US) 3:44.28 Q; 6. Mekonnen Gebremedhin as a sprinter, made a good start hopes, Dawn Harper Nelson and (Ethiopia) 3:44.31; 7. Chris O’Hare (Britain) but had plenty to do to catch Keni Harrison, were eliminated 3:44.36; 8. Pieter-Jan Hannes (Belgium) Thompson when they came off at the semi-final stage. 3:44.38; 9. Yassine Bensghir (Morocco) the bend. Harper Nelson fell and 3:44.95; 10. Ilham Tanui OEzbilen (Turkey) The tall 23-year-old got into Harrison was disqualified for a 3:45.70; 11. Abdi Waiss Mouhyadin (Djibouti) her powerful stride, however, and Netherlands’ Dafne Schippers celebrates after winning the final of the women’s 200 metres athletics event at false start. 3:46.82; 12. Carlos Diaz (Chile) 3:47.48. ate up the ground to overhaul her the 2015 IAAF World Championships at the “Bird’s Nest” National Stadium in Beijing, yesterday. In the final, 2013 world cham- rival as she dipped for the line. pion Brianna Rollins all but wrote Semifinal 2: 1. Elijah Manangoi (Kenya) “Wow! Wow! Wow!” said off her chances by knocking down 3:35.00 Q; 2. Taoufik Makhloufi (Algeria) Thompson, a student. “It has Paris in 2003, breaking 12 years best, with teenager Dina Asher- she chose the longer race, winning the first hurdle. 3:35.05 Q; 3. Abdalaati Iguider (Morocco) been a good feeling to compete of American and Jamaican domi- Smith fifth in a British record gold on Thursday. The American rallied but could 3:35.20 Q; 4. Charlie Grice (Britain) 3:35.58 with these ladies. Schippers is nance in the event. 22.07, having improved her per- What was considered a weak- do no better than fourth place in Q; 5. Timothy Cheruiyot (Kenya) 3:35.74 Q; 6. a great competitor. I am very, “I stayed relaxed in the last 30, sonal best for the third time in ened field produced one of the 12.67, passing Britain’s Tiffany Robby Andrews (US) 3:35.88 Q; 7. Aman Wote very pleased. “After 100 metres I 40 metres and that’s why I won,” three days. most thrilling and fastest races Porter who led to the eighth flight (Ethiopia) 3:35.97 Q; 8. Johan Cronje (South fought to keep Schippers away but she added. “Tomorrow I’m joining Fraser-Pryce, the 2013 cham- of recent world championships. before folding. “I was just hoping Africa) 3:36.59; 9. Morhad Amdouni (France) I could not run faster than I did.” up with the relay team and hope- pion, decided against doubling up It featured two of the five fast- I finished with a medal, I wasn’t 3:37.79; 10. Charles Philibert-Thiboutot Schipper is the first European fully we can go for a medal.” in Beijing while the schedule pre- est 200 metres of all time and six sure where I finished, I knew it (Canada) 3:39.62; 11. Julian Matthews (New to win the title since Russia’s American Candyce McGrone vented Olympic champion Allyson of the seven fastest of 2015 includ- was close,” Williams told report- Zealand) 3:40.45; 12. David Bustos (Spain) Anastasiya Kapachinskaya in was fourth in 22.01, her career Felix running the 200 and 400 and ing the top four. REUTERS ers. REUTERS 3:42.48. Rain ruins play after SL rattle India England’s Bell quits

COLOMBO: Sri Lanka gave conditions. The tourists slipped ODIs, to focus on Tests India a scare before bad weather to 14-2 in the fourth over before washed out a major part of the moving to 50 without further loss, LONDON: England batsman runs in 115 Tests at an average of opening day’s play in the series- but heavy rain that lashed the Ian Bell (pictured) is retiring 43, including 22 centuries. deciding third and final Test in Sinhalese sports club prevented from One-Day Internationals “I’ve a huge amount still to give Colombo, yesterday. any further play in the day. to concentrate on prolonging in the Test arena and still have so Just 15 overs were bowled in Cheteshwar Pujara was his Test career, the 33-year-old many ambitions left to achieve, the 75 minutes of play possible unbeaten on 19 and skipper Virat said yesterday. both from a personal and a team before lunch, during which Sri Kohli was on 14, the pair having Bell, who has scored an England perspective,” he said. Lanka grabbed two early wickets put on 36 for the third wicket to record 5,416 runs in 161 “I would love noth- after sending India in to bat on stymie the Sri Lankan attack. one-dayers, was left ing more than to go a greenish pitch under overcast The series is locked at 1-1 after out of the squad for to Australia in two Sri Lanka won the opening Test the five-match series years’ time and right in Galle by 63 runs and India drew against Australia the wrongs of our last Scoreboard level with a 278-run win in the starting next week. Ashes tour there,” the INDIA (I INNINGS): second match at the P. Sara Oval He helped his team right-hander added in L Rahul b Prasad ...... 2 in Colombo on Monday. win this year’s Ashes, reference to the 5-0 C Pujara (batting) ...... 19 The hard-working groundstaff, a record-equalling whitewash last year. A Rahane lbw Pradeep ...... 8 who had covered the entire field, fifth test series vic- “I’m not afraid of V Kohli (batting) ...... 14 tried to dry the surface but their tory for him over the being dropped. I’m Extras (W-1, NB-1, PEN-5) ...... 7 efforts were hampered by over- Australians, but aver- looking forward to cast skies. aged only 26.87 with challenging myself and Total (for 2 wkts) ...... 50 India’s captain Virat Kohli reacts as he slips while running between Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-14. Bad weather has been forecast the bat. putting myself into dif- for the next four days. wickets during the first day of their third and final Test against Sri Lanka “Deep down I probably knew I ficult situations against the best Bowling: Prasad 4-0-16-1 (nb1); Pradeep in Colombo yesterday. 6-0-16-1 (w1); Mathews 4-2-7-0; Herath India lost second Test century- wasn’t ready to call time on my players in the world,” he added. 1-0-6-0. maker Lokesh Rahul off the sec- Test career,” Bell wrote in the Cook, speaking after the Ashes, Sri Lanka: Kaushal Silva, Dimuth Karu- ond ball of the game, bowled by match, made eight when he was left-hander, Upul Tharanga, and Metro newspaper. was adamant he wanted the expe- naratne, Upul Tharanga, Lahiru Thirimanne, Dhammika Prasad with a sharp given out leg-before off seamer also included Pradeep and Perera. “I spoke with coach Trevor rienced Bell in England’s squad Angelo Mathews (captain), Dinesh Chandimal, in-swinger that the batsman Nuwan Pradeep in the fourth The hosts left out Jehan Bayliss and Alastair Cook after for tough upcoming series away Kusal Perera, Rangana Herath, Dhammika wanted to leave. over. Mubarak and Dushmantha the Oval loss, we had a really good to Pakistan in the United Arab Prasad, Nuwan Pradeep, Tharindu Kaushal Ajinkya Rahane, who also Sri Lanka replaced the retired Chameera from the side which talk and I was as honest as I could Emirates and in South Africa, scored a hundred in the previous Kumar Sangakkara with another lost the second Test .AFP be,” he said. Bell has scored 7,569 later this year. REUTERS SATURDAY 29 AUGUST 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

Qatar thrash Singapore in Doha friendly

A Qatari player beats Singapore’s goal-keeper to score a goal during their friendly match at Jassim bin Hamad Stadium in Doha, yesterday. RIGHT: Qatari players celebrate one of their goals during the match. The Maroons claimed a one-sided victory, thrashing the visitors 4-0. Qatar returned home last week following extensive training camps in Austria and Switzerland. Qatar, coached by Daniel Carreno, is preparing for the qualifiers for FIFA 2018 World Cup and 2019 Asia Cup. Van Gaal rejects talk of ‘easy’ draw at Champions League It could be worse and it could be better, says Man United manager Michel Platini MANCHESTER: Louis van Gaal has refused to accept that Real’s Benitez Manchester United have been fortunate in their Champions Platini League draw and insisted he wary of PSG’s would take nothing for granted as he prepares for the club’s tightlipped European return. League threat The English giants, back in Manchester Europe’s top competition after a MADRID: Real Madrid coach on FIFA United’s painful one-season absence, were Rafael Benitez says his team manager Louis drawn in the same Group B as have inherited a difficult group campaign PSV Eindhoven, CSKA Moscow van Gaal (right), for the Champions League pool and Wolfsburg. Mamphis phase and feels French champi- MONACO: UEFA president It was generally accepted to be Depay (left) ons Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) Michel Platini remained tight- one of the more favourable draw and Wayne pose their greatest threat. lipped on the FIFA presidency available to the four English clubs Rooney during At a press conference yesterday campaign in his first pub- in this season’s knock-out stages, training at the ahead of Real’s second La Liga lic address yesterday since although the Dutch manager Jan Breydel match of the season against Real announcing his candidature for was clearly determined not to be Stadium, Betis following a 0-0 draw against the top job in world football. caught out by United’s opponents. Bruges, in this Sporting Gijon last Sunday, the “It’s my ninth press conference “It could be worse...and it could August 25, Spaniard expressed his concern as UEFA president in Monaco be better,” said van Gaal at a news 2015 file photo. about a group that also includes and I’m talking exclusively about conference yesterday. Shakhtar Donetsk of Ukraine and UEFA,” Platini told the press “So it is always with a draw. We Sweden’s Malmo. who gathered in Monaco for have to analyse the other teams The eight group draw was made Champions League and Europa and we have to analyse the other on Thursday in Monaco. League draws. teams at this moment because “It’s a group that is not easy “It’s neither the time nor the you can look at the past but the because we know that PSG are a place to talk about FIFA, the elec- present is more important. great team with great players and tions will take place in six months, “So my scout has already gone they reinforce their squad every and I think we’ll have the time to to Wolfsburg because they play season,” said the former Napoli, talk,” he continued. tonight (Friday) against Schalke. Chelsea and Liverpool handler. “I have my UEFA suit, my Tomorrow, he is going to PSV rivals hardly suggests a tough Pereira and James Wilson all play- “It was good for them. It had a “There is also Shakhtar who ‘UEFA cap’, not that of the FIFA Eindhoven because they play the time for van Gaal’s team. ing the entire game and defender major impact because they played are a team who have Champions presidency candidate. It’s a UEFA day after that against Feyenoord. Meanwhile, the United man- Marcos Rojo getting 60 minutes. 90 minutes. League experience and have event, we’ve never talked about “So we are already busy with ager declared himself happy with “A lot of players could play for “The first goal was scored by quality players, and then there is FIFA in Monaco. a lot of things but it is usual that the form of fringe players who 90 minutes and that is also good Sean Goss, who was in the USA Malmo who just eliminated Celtic, “I know why you’ve come, I’m we’re doing that.” may soon be pushing for first- for the building up of all the play- with us, and the second was so it is not an easy group, that’s disappointed not to be able to Newly-arrived United forward team selection at Old Trafford. ers who are not playing in the scored by James Wilson. After for sure” continued Benitez. reply to your questions on FIFA, Memphis Depay will have the Van Gaal gave six first team first squad,” said van Gaal. that it was very close because Real Madrid, who have won the we’ll talk about it another time.” opportunity to play against his squad members game-time in a “More than six first-team play- of the fitness also, so it was very competition a record 10 times, “I know that it’s difficult to former club PSV in the tourna- 2-1 ‘Under-21’ friendly win against ers played and Rojo also played good we have organised that game open their Champions League come to Monaco ... the weather ment, although the Champions Ajax with Antonio Valencia, Tyler for 60 minutes, so it was very and nobody is injured,” added Van campaign on September 15th at here is never nice,” joked the League track record of the three Blackett, Jesse Lingard, Andreas important. Gaal. AFP home to Shakhtar. AFP 60-year-old Platini with the many international journalists who had travelled to the sun-drenched Monaco sign Principality. The FIFA presidency election Germany call up Liverpool’s Can will take place on February 26 in Rony Lopes Zurich. BERLIN: Liverpool’s uncapped The 21-year-old Can is the only The former French interna- midfielder Emre Can was yes- uncapped player in the squad, tional’s rivals to succeed outgo- from City terday called up to the Germany which will be captained by Bastian ing leader Sepp Blatter are South squad for the world champi- Schweinsteiger for the first time Korean billionaire Chung Mong- MONACO: Monaco have signed ons’ forthcoming key Euro 2016 since his transfer to Manchester Joon, Brazil football legend Zico, teenage Portuguese midfielder qualifiers against Poland and United from Bayern Munich last Liberian Football Association Rony Lopes from Manchester Scotland. month. chief Musa Bility, and former City on a five-year deal, the Germany host Group D leaders “Emre has developed well in Liverpool ‘s Trinidad and Tobago captain Principality club said yesterday Poland in Frankfurt next Friday, Liverpool, he is flexible and has David Nakhid. Emre Can in a statement. with the global winners just one impressed us with his dynamic Prince Ali bin Al Hussein, (right) vies The 19-year-old, who was point behind in the table, then play. Now we want to get to know another former FIFA vice presi- already on loan in Ligue 1 at Lille face third-placed Scotland in him better in the next few days,” for the ball dent from Jordan, is considering last season, cost Monaco around Glasgow on September 7. explained Loew. with Arsenal’s a run. €10m ($11.25m) according to Can was mainly used at right- Bayern’s Manuel Neuer Hector Bellerin Platini said he would leave his various reports appearing on the back by Liverpool boss Brendan remains Loew’s first-choice, but during their post as European football chief in French media. Rodgers last season and will com- Barcelona’s Marc-Andre ter English Premier six months should he be elected “AS Monaco are an excellent pete for that position as Germany Stegen has been called up at the League match FIFA president or in 2019 at the team at which to progress, it’s a coach Joachim Loew searches for expense of Dortmund veteran at the Emirates end of his third term. good challenge for me,” said Lopes, a replacement for ex-captain Roman Weidenfeller. Stadium in “In any case one thing is very who was born in Brazil, on the Philipp Lahm at wing back. The top two teams in each London, in this clear, my fate is clear, either I club’s website. August 24, leave UEFA in six months (if Monaco coach Leonardo Jardim 2015 file photo. elected) or I leave UEFA in three said his compatriot would not be Germany Squad years. ready for first team action imme- “It means, perhaps, that I’m Goalkeepers: Manuel Neuer (Bayern Munich), Marc-Andre ter Stegen (Barcelona/ESP), Ron-Robert diately and may go out on loan. in favour of a limit in presiden- Zieler (Hanover 96). “He needs to know how we tial terms,” he added in a dig at work and our methodology here Defenders: Jerome Boateng (Bayern Munich), Emre Can (Liverpool/ENG), Matthias Ginter (Borussia Blatter, 79, who was reelected in Dortmund), Jonas Hector (Cologne), Mats Hummels (Borussia Dortmund), Shkodran Mustafi (Valencia/ at Monaco – that will take five or May 29 for a fifth term in office ESP), Sebastian Rudy (Hoffenheim). six months. before resigning several months “After that, we’ll see in January Midfield: Karim Bellarabi (Bayer Leverkusen), Ilkay Gundogan (Borussia Dortmund), Christoph Kramer later following the fall-out from if we send him on loan.” (Bayer Leverkusen), Toni Kroos (Real Madrid/ESP), Thomas Mueller (Bayern Munich), Mesut Ozil a corruption scandal. Lopes scored three goals in 23 (Arsenal/ENG), Lukas Podolski (Galatasaray/TUR), Marco Reus (Borussia Dortmund), Andre Schurrle group qualify directly for Euro to go top by avenging their 2-0 Platini was first elected UEFA Ligue 1 matches for Lille last sea- (VfL Wolfsburg), Bastian Schweinsteiger (Manchester United/ENG). 2016 in France and Loew says the defeat to Poland in Warsaw last president in 2007 and was ree- son. AFP Strikers: Mario Goetze (Bayern Munich), Max Kruse (VfL Wolfsburg), Kevin Volland (Hoffenheim). Germans must take the chance October. AFP lected in 2011 and 2015. AFP Most Popular Bangladeshi Newspaper

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Brilliant Barshim advances at World Championships

Qatar’s Mutaz Essa Barshim competes during the men’s High Jump qualification of the Beijing 2015 IAAF World Championships at the National Stadium in Beijing, yesterday. Defending champion Bohdan Bondarenko and 2013 world championship medalists Barshim and Derek Drouin were among the leaders who cleared 2.31 meters in the qualifying. Five more qualified for the final at 2.29 meters.

Djokovic, Nadal on collision course US Open Draw: Rivals may meet in quarters, Murray likely to take on Wawrinka in last-8

NEW YORK: World number one Novak Djokovic and 14-time US Open Men’s Draw major champion Rafael Nadal NEW YORK: are on a US Open quarter- Men’s draw for the US Open, the year’s final final collision course following Grand Slam tournament that begins on Monday on the Flushing Thursday’s draw at Arthur Ashe Meadows hardcourts (x denotes seed): Stadium. Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) vs Joao Souza (BRA); Vasek Pospisil (CAN) vs Andreas Haider-Maurer And Britain’s Andy Murray, (AUT); Teymuraz Gabashvili (RUS) vs Pablo Andujar (ESP); Qualifier vs Andreas Seppi (ITA x25); who opens against Australia’s Roberto Bautista Agut (ESP) vs Pierre-Hugues Herbert (FRA); Jerzy Janowicz (POL) vs Pablo tour bad boy Nick Kyrgios, might Carreno Busta (ESP); Joao Sousa (POR) vs Ricardas Berankis (LTU); Simone Bolelli (ITA) vs have to get past French Open win- David Goffin (BEL x14); Milos Raonic (CAN x10) vs Tim Smyczek (USA); Fernando Verdasco ner Stan Wawrinka and 17-time (ESP) vs Tommy Haas (GER); Marco Cecchinato (ITA) vs Mardy Fish (USA); Qualifier vs Feliciano major winner Roger Federer just Lopez (ESP x18); Fabio Fognini (ITA x32) vs Steve Johnson (USA); Pablo Cuevas (URU) vs Dudi to get a crack at Djokovic in the Sela (ISR); Qualifier vs Diego Schwartzman (ARG); Borna Coric (CRO) vs Rafael Nadal (ESP x8); final on the Flushing Meadows Kei Nishikori (JPN x4) vs Benoit Paire (FRA); Marsel Ilhan (TUR) vs Radek Stepanek (CZE); Sam hardcourts. Groth (AUS) vs Alexandr Dolgopolov (UKR); Qualifier vs Tommy Robredo (ESP x26); Jo-Wilfried The paths will be filled with Tsonga (FRA x19) vs Jarkko Nieminen (FIN); Lukas Lacko (SVK) vs Marcel Granollers (ESP); qualifiers ahead of Monday’s Sergiy Stakhovsky (UKR) vs John Millman (AUS); Qualifier vs Gael Monfils (FRA x16); Marin Cilic start of the year’s final Grand (CRO x9) vs Qualifier; Lucas Pouille (FRA) vs Qualifier; Lu Yen-Hsun (TPE) vs Mikhail Kukushkin Slam event in New York, where (KAZ); Qualifier vs Grigor Dimitrov (BUL x17); Jeremy Chardy (FRA x27) vs Ryan Shane (USA); Djokovic’s only title came in 2011. Florian Mayer (GER) vs Martin Klizan (SVK); Filip Krajinovic (SRB) vs Qualifier; Radu Albot (MDA) The 28-year-old Serbian star vs David Ferrer (ESP x7); Stan Wawrinka (SUI x5) vs Albert Ramos-Vinolas (ESP); Hyeon Chung owns nine Grand Slam titles (KOR) vs James Duckworth (AUS); Gilles Muller (LUX) vs Ruben Bemelmans (BEL); Victor Estrella and seeks his third of the year Burgos (DOM) vs Jack Sock (USA x28); Viktor Troicki (SRB x22) vs Frances Tiafoe (USA); Rajeev after a third career win at Spain’s Rafael Nadal reacts after Ram (USA) vs Ryan Harrison (USA); Ernests Gulbis (LAT) vs Aljaz Bedene (GBR); Donald Young Wimbledon and a fifth trophy at (USA) vs Gilles Simon (FRA x11); Kevin Anderson (RSA x15) vs Qualifier; Austin Krajicek (USA) the Australian Open. winning a point against Brazil’s Thomaz vs Santiago Giraldo (COL); Benjamin Becker (GER) vs Denis Istomin (UZB); Daniel Gimeno-Traver Djokovic has tasted defeat four Bellucci at the All England Tennis Club (ESP) vs Dominic Thiem (AUT x20); Thomaz Bellucci (BRA x30) vs James Ward (GBR); Qualifier times in the US Open final, losing in Wimbledon, London, in this July 1, vs Qualifier; Qualifier vs Adrian Mannarino (FRA); Nick Kyrgios (AUS) vs Andy Murray (GBR x3); to Federer in 2007, Nadal in 2010 2015 file photo. RIGHT: Serbia’s Novak Tomas Berdych (CZE x6) vs Bjorn Fratengelo (USA); Denis Kudla (USA) vs Qualifier; Sam Querrey and 2013 and Murray in 2012. Djokovic celebrates winning a point (USA) vs Nicolas Mahut (FRA); Janko Tipsarevic (SRB) vs Guillermo Garcia-Lopez (ESP x31); Nadal leads Djokovic 22-20 in against Finland’s Jarkko Nieminen Bernard Tomic (AUS x24) vs Damir Dzumhur (BIH); Aleksandr Nedovyesov (KAZ) vs Lleyton their all-time rivalry, but Djokovic during their Wimbledon match in this Hewitt (AUS); Robin Haase (NED) vs Dustin Brown (GER); Thanasi Kokkinakis (AUS) vs Richard won their most recent meeting at July 2, 2015 file photo. Djokovic and Gasquet (FRA x12); John Isner (USA x13) vs Malek Jaziri (TUN); Qualifier vs Mikhail Youzhny the French Open quarter-finals. Nadal are expected to meet in the (RUS); Jiri Vesely (CZE) vs Paolo Lorenzi (ITA); Federico Delbonis (ARG) vs Ivo Karlovic (CRO Defending champion Marin quarter-finals of upcoming US Open. Cilic, who beat Japan’s Kei x21); Philipp Kohlschreiber (GER x29) vs Qualifier; Jared Donaldson (USA) vs Lukas Rosol (CZE); Nishikori in a final of surprise Marcos Baghdatis (CYP) vs Steve Darcis (BEL); Leonardo Mayer (ARG) vs Roger Federer (SUI x2). packets last year, likes Djokovic Djokovic, who opens against quarter-finals. He beat Cilic at in the quarter-finals. Murray is to claim the crown once again Brazil’s Joao Souza, has a good Washington in their first meet- 3-0 all time against Kyrgios, this time. path to the last eight while ing since last year’s final on the the 20-year-old Aussie handed US Open Women’s Draw “I would still put Novak at the Nadal opens against Croatian way to taking the title in the US a suspended ban and fine this top of the list, even though Andy teen Borna Coric, who beat the capital this month. week for his lurid verbal attack NEW YORK: Women’s draw for the US Open, the year’s final has shown his tennis has gone up Spaniard last year in at Basel, and Second seed Federer, who last on Wawrinka at the Montreal Grand Slam tournament that begins on Monday on the Flushing and he is motivated,” Croatian might have to oust big-serving won a Slam in 2012 at Wimbledon Masters. Meadows hardcourts (x denotes seed): ninth seed Cilic said. 10th seed Milos Raonic of Canada and last won at the US Open in World number 37 Kyrgios Serena Williams (USA x1) vs Vitalia Diatchenko (RUS); Qualifier vs Mirjana Lucic-Baroni (CRO); “And Roger is a guy who will in the round of 16. 2008, opens against Argentina’s triggered widespread revulsion Qualifier vs Bethanie Mattek-Sands (USA); CoCo Vandeweghe (USA) vs Sloane Stephens (USA always be a contender. His win at Fourth seed Nishikori, denied Leonardo Mayer and could meet for his on-court taunt that fel- x29); Madison Keys (USA x19) vs Klara Koukalova (CZE); Tereza Smitkova (CZE) vs Andreea Cincinnati was great to see. the chance last year to become US number one John Isner in the low Aussie Thanasi Kokkinakis Mitu (ROM); Magda Linette (POL) vs Urszula Radwanska (POL); Katerina Siniakova (CZE) vs “And I hope there are a few the first Asian man to win a fourth round. had had a fling with WTA pro- Agnieszka Radwanska (POL x15); Belinda Bencic (SUI x12) vs Sesil Karatantcheva (BUL); Daniela guys lower in the draw who are Grand Slam singles crown, could France’s Richard Gasquet or fessional Donna Vekic, reportedly Hantuchova (SVK) vs Misaki Doi (JPN); Irina Falconi (USA) vs Samantha Crawford (USA); Monica going to make it interesting.” face a rematch with Cilic in the Czech Tomas Berdych could await Wawrinka’s girlfriend. AFP Puig (PUR) vs Venus Williams (USA x23); Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova (RUS x31) vs Magdalena Rybarikova (SVK); Qualifier vs Casey Dellacqua (AUS); Zheng Saisai (CHN) vs Madison Brengle (USA); Qualifier vs Karolina Pliskova (CZE x8); Maria Sharapova (RUS x3) vs Daria Gavrilova (AUS); Ana Konjuh (CRO) vs Tatjana Maria (GER); Lara Amuabarrena (ESP) vs Bojana Jovanovski Wozniacki to play Kvitova in semis (SRB); Kristina Mladenovic (FRA) vs Svetlana Kuznetsova (RUS x30); Elina Svitolina (UKR) vs Qualifier; Ana-Lena Friedsam (GER) vs Kaia Kanepi (EST); Lauren Davis (USA) vs Heather Watson (GBR); Teliana Pereira (BRA) vs Ekaterina Makarova (RUS x13); Carla Suarez Navarro NEW HAVEN: Four-time convincing victory was a welcome (ESP x10) vs Denisa Allertova (CZE); Vania King (USA) vs Roberta Vinci (ITA); Sofia Kenin (USA) Petra Kvitova champion Caroline Wozniacki respite after the 2014 US Open vs Mariana Duque-Marino (COL); Oceane Dodin (FRA) vs Jelena Jankovic (SRB x21); Eugenie of Czech and two-time defending champ runner-up. Bouchard (CAN x25) vs Alison Riske (USA); Polona Hercog (SLO) vs Zarina Diyas (KAZ); Qualifier Republic Petra Kvitova on Thursday set But Wozniacki will face a stiff vs Alison Van Uytvanck (BEL); Dominika Cibulkova (SVK) vs Ana Ivanovic (SRB x7); Petra Kvitova reacts during up a mouthwatering semi-final test in the semi-finals against (CZE x5) vs Qualifier; Lourdes Dominguez Lino (ESP) vs Nicole Gibbs (USA); Aleksandra Krunic her match showdown at the US Open tune- Kvitova, as both seek a morale- (SRB) vs Danka Kovinic (MNE); Julia Goerges (GER) vs Anna Karolina Schmiedlova (SVK); up event at New Haven. boosting win ahead of the final against Andrea Petkovic (GER x18) vs Caroline Garcia (FRA); Laura Robson (GBR) vs Elena Vesnina Kvitova, the second seed, rallied Grand Slam of the season. Agnieszka (RUS); Louisa Chirico (USA) vs Qualifier; Carina Witthoeft (GER) vs Garbine Muguruza (ESP from 5-3 down in the opening set Lucky loser Lesia Tsurenko Radwanska x9); Sara Errani (ITA x16) vs Qualifier; Qualifier vs Annika Beck (GER); Evgeniya Rodina (RUS) to beat seventh-seeded Agnieszka continued to make the most of Poland on vs Qualifier; Timea Babos (HUN) vs Samantha Stosur (AUS x22); Flavia Pennetta (ITA x26) vs Radwanska of Poland 7-5, 6-4. of her good fortune, booking a Day 4 of the Jarmila Gajdosova (AUS); Qualifier vs Monica Niculescu (ROM); Christina McHale (USA) vs Petra Connecticut Denmark’s Wozniacki, seeded semi-final berth with a 6-2, 6-2 third, overcame an early break victory over fifth-seeded Czech Cetkovska (CZE); Jamie Loeb (USA) vs Carolina Wozniacki (DEN x4); Lucie Safarova (CZE x6) vs Open at of serve, winning 11 of the next Karolina Pliskova. She has since Lesia Tsurenko (UKR); Varvara Lepchenko (USA) vs Kirsten Flipkens (BEL); Tsvetana Pironkova Connecticut 13 games in an emphatic 6-3, 6-0 defeated Czech Barbora Strycova (BUL) vs Mona Barthel (GER); Olga Govortsova (BLR) vs Irina-Camelia Begu (ROM x28); Victoria Tennis Center victory over France’s Caroline and Pliskova, and will try to see Azarenka (BLR x20) vs Lucie Hradecka (CZE); Francesca Schiavone (ITA) vs Yanina Wickmayer at Yale on Garcia. Wozniacki, who has been off another Czech when she (BEL); Ajla Tomljanovic (AUS) vs Karin Knapp (ITA); Alexandra Dulgheru (ROM) vs Angelique Thursday in troubled by back and calf inju- next faces fourth-seeded Lucie Kerber (GER x11); Timea Bacsinszky (SUI x14) vs Barbora Strycova (CZE); Qualifier vs Wang New Haven, ries this season, did much of her Safarova, a 6-7 (4/7), 6-4, 7-5 Qiang (CHN); Camila Giorgi (ITA) vs Johanna Larsson (SWE); Qualifier vs Sabine Lisicki (GER Connecticut. damage with an unexpected bar- winner over Slovakia’s Dominika x24); Alize Cornet (FRA x27) vs Kurumi Nara (JPN); Qualifier vs Sachia Vickery (USA); Yulia rage of forehand winners. The Cibulkova. 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A patient is ‘buried’ in the hot sand in Siwa, Egypt. RIGHT: Patients drink herbal tea inside a tent used as a sauna as they relax after their sand bath. Hot sand bath offers remedy for health ailments CAIRO: The hot sand of the time of the day, sufferers of rheu- massages by the feet of health researcher from Alexandria, allow cold air onto their skin. $51) per day, which includes desert probably seems the last matism, joint pain, infertility or workers after they submerge who has been taking the sand Patients with high blood pressure accommodation and food. place someone wants to be, espe- impotence lie buried neck-deep their patients up to their neck baths of Siwa for a few years. or heart disease are not allowed Haroun, who runs the sand bath cially in the searing heat of high in the sand of Siwa near Dakrour in the desert. El Fiqi, who suffers from back to undergo the treatment. operation with a team of about a summer. But for some, being Mountain. Patients drink mint tea in pain, said his doctor encouraged “Between three and nine days dozen people, follows on from his buried neck-deep in the sand Locals say taking a sand tents following the treatment. him to take the sand baths. After a of sand baths are recommended father and grandfather. Most of of the Siwa oasis near Dakrour bath is a natural therapy with “I always feel better here, it’s day’s treatment, patients are taken to feel any benefit,” said Isaid Al the patients find the first bath dif- Mountain in western Egypt is powers to cure many medical good for my blood circulation, to a house to cool down and change Sayyed Haroun, the owner and ficult but they then get used to it, their last hope for a cure. conditions. my breathing, and my immu- into fresh clothes before dinner. manager of the business. he said. It’s very rare that patients In the searing heat of summer Patients relax in the shade nity in general,” said Raafat They are not allowed to shower The treatment costs about 300 ask to stop the treatment because in western Egypt, at the hottest before treatment, which includes El Fiqi, a maths teacher and three days after treatment or to 400 Egyptian pounds ($38 to of the heat. REUTERS

Facebook urged to obey Artist’s creation It’s a boy! German law even if free Washington zoo gives details on speech curtailed new panda cub BERLIN: Facebook will have to abide by German laws banning racist sentiment even if it might be allowed in the United States WASHINGTON: The US under freedom of speech, Justice Minister Heiko Maas said in an National Zoo’s surviving giant interview. Maas, who has accused Facebook of doing too little to panda cub is a boy and was thwart racist and hate posts on its social media platform, said that fathered by the zoo’s male Germany has zero tolerance for such expression and expects the panda, the zoo said yesterday. US-based company to be more vigilant. The cub was born on Saturday “One thing is clear: if Facebook wants to do business in Germany, to Mei Xiang, who is a top tourist then it must abide by German laws,” Maas said. “It doesn’t matter draw in the US capital. that we, because of historical reasons, have a stricter interpretation A fraternal twin died on of freedom of speech than the United States does. Wednesday of pneumonia likely “Holocaust denial and inciting racial hatred are crimes in Germany caused by inhaling food, the zoo and it doesn’t matter if they’re posted on Facebook or uttered out in the said. public on the market square,” he added. Maas sent a letter to Facebook The cubs were sired by Tian public policy director Richard Allan in Dublin saying he received many Tian, the zoo’s male giant panda, complaints from users that their protests on racist posts have been the zoo said in a statement. Mei ignored. He suggested meeting in Berlin on September 14. Xiang was artificially inseminated Maas is a leader of the centre-left Social Democrats (SPD). The in April using sperm from Tian party faced a flood of racist emails, phone calls and bomb threat after Tian and from Hui Hui, a panda its chairman Sigmar Gabriel denounced an anti-refugee “mob” behind in China. anti-refugee violence in the eastern town of Heidenau. The town near The surviving cub is healthy, Dresden was the scene of violent clashes last weekend as far-right putting on weight and crying militants, protesting against the arrival of around 250 refugees at a One of the six 30-foot white monkeys called “Everybody Always Thinks They Are Right” by Austrian artist when Mei Xiang tries to leave local shelter, pelted police with bottles and rocks. REUTERS and graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister, is displayed at the La Villette parc, northern Paris, during the “L’Air its den. It weighed 157 grams Des Geants” exhibition. (5.5 ounces) early yesterday, a 16 percent gain in about 42 hours, officials said. “We’re ecstatic about that,” Robert Fleischer, head of the zoo’s Center for Conservation and Film on Prophet stirs calls for Tehran to ban it Evolutionary Genetics, said at a news conference. The father was identified using DUBAI: A film on the life of Iran to ban the film. “This mat- He said it was a “shame” there to the movie. “You cannot study gene sequencing, the statement Prophet Mohammad (peace be ter is already settled. Shariah were only two major productions Prophet Mohammad’s (PBUH) said. upon him) is expected to break (Islamic law) prohibits embody- describing the life of Prophet life and not fall in love with him The twins’ birth captured box office records in Iran after ing the prophets,” Al Azhar said Mohammad (PBUH), in contrast and his character. If this film international attention since its release on Thursday, but in a statement. to the many on Jesus Christ and makes people of the world know giant pandas are among the some Sunni Muslim clerics in “It is not permissible in Islam other prophets. our prophet better and see how world’s most endangered the Arab world are already that someone (an actor) has con- Depictions of Prophet (PBUH) kind he was, we have done our species. demanding that Tehran ban it. tradictory and conflicting roles; have often provoked angry unrest job,” Sami Yusuf said. The new cub will be kept out of The state-sponsored sometimes we see him as a blind after being deemed blasphemous Mohammad, Messenger of God public view until January and no Mohammad, Messenger of God” drunk, sometimes as a woman- by Muslims. Cartoons published has been mainly shot in Iran. name has been determined yet, directed by Oscar-nominated iser ... and then he embodies a by a Danish newspaper in 2005 Makkah was recreated on a officials said. director Majid Majidi, is at $40m prophet ... this is not permissible.” were followed by violent protests large scale and in minute detail. The David M Rubenstein Iran’s most expensive movie to Regional rivalry between Saudi in which scores of people died, Scenes with elephants were Family Giant Panda Habitat has date. Arabia and Iran has intensified attacks on embassies and con- filmed in South Africa, after India been closed to the public since “I decided to make this film mutual suspicion between follow- sumer boycotts. refused to let the filmmakers in, August 20. It will remain closed to fight against the new wave of ers of the two branches of Islam Mohammad, Messenger of God is fearing the reaction of Muslim to create a quiet area for the Islamophobia in the West. The only from behind, or only his in recent decades. There has been only the second full-length movie countries to the movie. Iran’s pandas. Western interpretation of Islam shadow. A steadicam was custom- no official comment on the movie drama on the prophet. The first, Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Ali Mei Xiang previously had given is full of violence and terrorism,” ised especially to depict Prophet yet from Saudi Arabia. The Message (1976), was directed Khamenei, has visited the film birth to two surviving cubs, Tai Majidi was quoted as saying by Mohammad’s (PBUH) point “Most of these reactions are by Syrian Moustapha Al Akkad. set through the production, in a Shan in 2005 and Bao Bao in 2013. Hezbollah Line, a conservative of view by the movie’s Oscar- political,” Sami Yusuf (pictured), Anthony Quinn played Prophet strong sign of support. Bao Bao marked her second birth- Iranian magazine. winning Italian cinematographer who is one of the Islamic world’s Mohammad’s (PBUH) uncle, The film is being released in 143 day on Sunday. The 171-minute movie, the first Vittorio Storaro. The identity of biggest musical stars and who Hamza. cinemas in Iran on the same day Giant pandas, which are native part of a planned trilogy, focuses the boy playing Mohammad has sang the soundtrack for the film, That film did not depict as it opens at the Montreal Film to China, have a very low repro- on the prophet’s childhood. His not been made public. said. “I am sure people in Al Prophet’s face on screen, but some Festival. One cinema in Tehran, ductive rate, especially in captiv- face will not be shown on screen, Egypt’s Al Azhar, the most Azhar and others who criticise Muslims were offended. Akkad which asked not to be named ity. There are about 300 giant in accordance with traditional prestigious institute of Sunni the film haven’t seen it yet. They was killed in a 2005 suicide bomb- for legal reasons, said the movie pandas in captivity and roughly Islamic strictures. The camera Islam, is not satisfied with such are against the film only because ing in Amman. It is not known was their most popular at the 1,600 in the wild. shows the boy actor playing him precautions and has called on it’s a cultural export of Iran.” whether the attack was related moment. REUTERS REUTERS