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Amir patronises Military College graduation event Amir honours top 10 graduates, reviews parade of 152 graduates from Qatar, Kuwait and Sudan

Amir to embark on Asian tour from Jan 27 QNA DOHA

THE Amir HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani will start an Asian tour on January 27 by paying an of- ficial visit to the Republic of Korea, followed by visits to Japan and China. During the tour, the Amir will hold talks with the leaders and sen- ior officials of the three countries on prospects for enhancing bilateral co- operation and strategic partnership in The Amir HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani at the graduation ceremony of the 14th batch of candidates for the Armed Forces Officers at the Ahmed Bin Mohammed Military College on Thursday. different fields, for the mutual benefit QNA of Qatar and those states and their We are proud to graduate three new cohorts of Holy Quran, the Amir honoured Ahmed Mohammed Saeed (first people. The Amir will exchange views DOHA the top ten outstanding graduates in law — Sudan), Mohammed Ab- on regional and international issues our young and promising members of Qatar’s of the 14th batch. The graduates dul Halim Fadel al Mawla Saadul- of common concern with the leaders THE Amir HH Sheikh Tamim bin military and security colleges to serve as an are: Abdullah Ali Mohammed Fa- lah (first in international relations of the three states. Hamad al Thani patronised the additional tributary to the service of our dear had al Khater (joint-first), Saad — Sudan), Fawwaz Faraj Hamad The tour will also see the signing graduation ceremony of the 14th Jumah Sultan Lamlum al Mesifari Faraj al Shalal (first in leadership of a number of agreements and mem- batch of candidates for the Armed nation and its march towards greater security (joint-second), Shaheen Ahmed competence — Kuwait) and Antar oranda of understanding in various Forces Officers of the Ministry of and prosperity. Shaheen Issa al Ghanim (joint- Hamad Antar al Munkhas al Marri fields. The Amir will be accompanied the Interior and other security third), Abdullah Ibrahim Moham- (first in the shooting). by an official delegation. services at Ahmed Bin Moham- med bin Hamed (first in military After that the 14th batch hand- med Military College on Thursday. Ali Mohammed and Army’s Deputy them, the commander of the pa- science — Sudan), Mubarak Mo- ed over the flag to the 15th batch. The ceremony was attended Chief of Staff and representative rade came forward requesting the hammed al Mubarak Ahmad (first An order for promotions was read by Prime Minister and Minister of of the Minister of Defense in the Amir to review the parade of the in accounting — Sudan), May- out and the graduates took the Interior HE Sheikh Abdullah bin State of Kuwait Lt Gen Abdullah al 152 graduates from Qatar, Kuwait sarah al Tom Hamed Manna (first oath. Nasser bin Khalifa al Thani, Min- Nawaf al Sabah. and Sudan. in the administration — Sudan), ister of Defense of Somalia Hassan After playing the National An- After reciting verses from the Al-Munther Mohammed Saeed More on page 16 Ô

Qatar, UN sign pact to fight graft in sports Venezuela crisis: Russia condemns bid to ‘usurp QNA organisations and related enti- VIENNA ties to fight corruption in clubs power’ from Maduro ASIAN CUP: QATAR and associations. THE Doha-based Rule of Law He said the agreement RUSSIA has condemned foreign powers for FACE S KOREA TODAY, and Anti-Corruption Center makes Qatar and the UN part- backing a Venezuelan opposition leader who AIM TO REACH SEMIS (ROLACC) signed a coop- ners join hands to stop corrup- declared himself interim president, calling eration agreement on fighting tion in sports in all its forms. it a bid to “usurp power”. Moscow said that UNBEATEN Qatar will be looking to post sports corruption with United Marri said corruption in sports the move violated international law and their second successive win over conti- Nations Office on Drugs and takes various forms, such as was a “direct path to blood- nental giants South Korea on Friday when Crime (UNODC). betting, suspicious transac- shed”. Juan Guaidó declared the two sides meet in the quarterfinals of Chairman of the Board tions and other corrupt prac- himself interim leader on the AFC Asian Cup. Speaking at a press of Trustees of ROLACC HE tices. Wednesday - a move recog- conference before the match, coach Felix Ali bin Fetais al Marri, who The pact will support nised by the US and several Sanchez said: “Up until this point the team is also UNODC Special Re- sports entities around the other nations. President has performed well and has achieved gional Advocate for the Pre- world by training them on Nicolás Maduro, who some very good results. Of course, all of vention of Corruption, signed quality and good governance retains some other them are professional players and they are the agreement with UN Under Chairman of the Board of Trustees of ROLACC HE Ali bin Fetais al Marri within clubs and associations, nations’ support, used to playing in competitions such as Secretary-General and Execu- signs a pact with UN Under Secretary-General and Executive Director of he added. broke off rela- their domestic leagues and the AFC Cham- tive Director of UNODC Yury UNODC Yury Fedotov in Vienna on Thursday. Marri said there will be tions with the pions League, so they are used to having Fedotov. joint coordination between US in response. this kind of pressure.” PAGE 12 The agreement aims to sports as well as highlight the found in various sports. The ROLACC and the UN to carry PAGE 8 work on fighting corruption in different ways of corruption pact will seek to help states, out training courses. Qatar sees 38% rise in tourists from China MSC SPLENDIDA CALLS HISHAM ALJUNDI The increase in said he is visiting Qatar for the first DOHA Chinese visitors to time along with a group of tourists, Qatar is due to the and that it is their second stop in a ON DOHA PORT AROUND 62,000 Chinese tourists great cooperation between long vacation. visited Qatar in 2018, an increase of the governments of Qatar and “I really like it here. There are Cruise ship MSC Splendida arrived at the Doha Port on Thursday 38 percent over the previous year, China. The exemption of visa by lovely beaches and this place is full on its third visit during the ongoing 2018-19 cruise season. The Chinese Ambassador to Qatar HE Li of fascinating Middle Eastern archi- ship was carrying a total of 3,456 passengers and 1,305 crew Chen has said. both the parties will introduce tecture. The people here are friendly members. PAGE 2 The increase in tourist inflow Qatar to the Chinese people and generous. I would definitely from China has been attributed and investors.” recommend visiting Qatar to my told Qatar Tribune to the efforts exerted by the Qatar — Chinese Ambassador to friends,” Wang . Tourism Authority to make Qatar a Qatar HE Li Chen Another tourist from the same top tourist destination in the region. group, Wang Lei said, “We had great The Chinese envoy said the in- time in the traditional Souq Waqif crease in Chinese visitors to Qatar and had a great experience there is due to the enhanced cooperation The number of inbound visi- HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al visiting the bazaars. We also went between the governments of Qatar tors from China in 2017 was Thani will be visiting China next on a desert trip to the beaches in the and China. He said the exemption 45,000 visitors. week to discuss further cooperation south and now we are just enjoying of visa by both the parties will in- Moreover, the Chinese envoy between Qatar and China. this lovely weather and there are troduce Qatar to the Chinese people said, the ties between the two coun- Wang Min, a Chinese tourist, many good photos to be snapped and investors. tries are getting stronger as the Amir who visited Katara Cultural Village, here,” he said. 02 Friday, January 25, 2019

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QPO all set to host Music of Bollywood show on February 8 QNA DOHA

QATAR Philharmonic Or- chestra’s (QPO) upcoming concert will feature Music of Bollywood with Naveen Ku- mar as part of the Qatar-India MURAIKHI MEETS PARLIAMENTARY ASSEMBLY OF MEDITERRANEAN Year of Culture 2019. FM MEETS US SPECIAL REPRESENTATIVE FOR AFGHANISTAN: Deputy Prime Minister DELEGATION: Minister of State for Foreign Affairs HE Sultan bin Saad al Muraikhi The concert will be held and Minister of Foreign Affairs He Sheikh Mohammed bin Abdulrahman al Thani met met with President of the Parliamentary Assembly of the Mediterranean (PAM) at Qatar National Convention with US Special Representative for Afghanistan Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad in Doha on Antonio Pedro Roque and PAM Secretary-General Sergio Piazzi in Doha on Thurs- Centre (QNCC) Al Mayassa Thursday. During the meeting, they discussed the ways of promoting peace and stability in day. During the meeting, they discussed bilateral relations and the ways to boost Theatre on Friday, February 8 Afghanistan. (QNA) them, in addition to a number of issues of mutual interest. The meeting was at- from 7:30pm. tended by a number of officials at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. (QNA) The show will feature Tuo- mas Kantelinen, conductor; Naveen Kumar, flute; Ravi The initiative is part of the of- Chari, sitar; Tanmoy Bose, ficial Qatar India 2019 Year of tabla; Ratul Shankar, drum; Culture. Madhab Deka, keyboard; Hri- Qatari WCM-Q alumna explains post-surgery recovery cha Debraj Das, vocals and programme developed by Qa- Pranav Robin Joseph, vocals. tar Museums to deepen un- TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK ing class, the Class of 2008, accurate expectations about the which uses very small or key- The programme includes A derstanding between nations DOHA said: “The goals of ERAS are surgical and anaesthetic proce- hole incisions and robotic sur- R Rahman: Theme from Bom- through mutual exchanges to attenuate the surgical stress dures, and to ensure preopera- gical tools, had dramatically bay; Dana Alfardan: Spirit of of arts, culture, heritage and STRATEGIES for achieving response, reduce the length of tive instructions, such as fasting enhanced recovery outcomes. Thunder; Nasser Sahim: Four sport. enhanced recovery of pa- hospital stay, speed up the pa- and taking medications, are fol- Postoperatively, incidence of Seasons; Ravi: Music from The Years of Culture pro- tients after gynaecological tient’s return to normal daily ac- lowed correctly. nausea and vomiting – com- Chaudhvin Ka Chand; Un- gramme, developed under the surgeries were explained at tivities and improve outcomes Patients and relatives mon after gynaecological sur- known: Cyclists Theme; Wael patronage of Chairperson of the latest Weill Cornell Med- without increasing the rate of should have a chance to meet gery - can be reduced by in- Binali: From Shafallah Suite: Qatar Museums HE Sheikha icine-Qatar (WCM-Q) Grand complications, readmissions or with the surgeon, anaesthesiolo- creased utilisation of regional The Oryx and the Unicorn al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Rounds by one of the col- costs. I think of surgery as like gist and nurse, and instructions anaesthesia and decreasing or and A R Rahman: Cry of Rose Khalifa al Thani, has gone lege’s former students. a marathon for the patient: you should be given both verbally eliminating use of opioid-based (Kadhal Rojave). from strength to strength with WCM-Q graduate and Qa- must prepare them carefully be- Dr Aisha Ahmad AA Yousuf. and in writing. These measures pain medications. Other features will include each passing year and the tari national Dr Aisha Ahmad forehand, manage the stresses help to diminish misunder- Dr Javaid Sheikh, dean of Naveen Kumar: Cafe Fluid; breadth and depth of activities AA Yousuf, now Medical Di- on the body during the proce- Michael’s Hospital, University standing, fear, fatigue, and pain, WCM-Q, said: “It gives us great A R Rahman: Medley of Tol- have continued to expand. rector of Reproductive Surgery dure, and then follow a recovery of Toronto. and enhance recovery and early pleasure to welcome Dr Yousuf, lywood and Bollywood Un- Qatar India 2019 Year of at Sidra Medicine, returned to process afterwards in order to Dr Yousuf said that ERAS discharge, she said. Special care one of our most talented alum- known: Ave Maria: Symphon- Culture was planned in col- the college to explain the con- achieve the best results.” requires a multidisciplinary should be taken when perform- ni, back to WCM-Q to share her ic Music on Indian Bansuri; laboration with leading insti- cept of enhanced recovery after After graduating from approach involving active par- ing surgery on patients with knowledge and expertise with Naveen Kumar: Fantasy Flute; tutions in Qatar and India, in- surgery (ERAS), the advantages WCM-Q, Dr Yousuf completed ticipation of patients, surgeons, pre-existing conditions such as us. It is wonderful to see Qatari Ilaiyaraaja: From the movie cluding the Embassy of Qatar it offers to patients, and its cur- the obstetrics and gynaecology anaesthesiologists, pain special- diabetes and anaemia, or who physicians who were trained Thalapathi: Rakkamma Kaiya in New Delhi, the Embassy of rent therapeutic limitations be- residency programme at Uni- ists, nursing staff, physical and are taking medications such as at WCM-Q return from their Thattu; M.M. Keeravani: Mu- India in Doha, Qatar’s Min- fore an audience of physicians, versity of Michigan Hospital in occupational therapists and so- hormone replacement therapy residency programmes and fel- sic from Baahubali. istry of Culture and Sports, pharmacists, nurses and allied the US. She then completed a cial workers. She explained the or oral contraceptives. lowships overseas to contribute The initiative is part of Qatar Foundation, National health professionals. fellowship in minimally inva- importance of pre-admission Dr Yousuf said that ad- to Qatar’s model healthcare sys- the official Qatar India 2019 Tourism Council, Doha Film Dr Yousuf, who was a mem- sive gynaecologic surgery and information, education and vances in technology allowed tem. We are very proud of her Year of Culture, a year-long Institute and many more. ber of WCM-Q’s first graduat- pelvic floor reconstruction at St counselling to give the patient for minimally invasive surgery, and all she has achieved.”

Doha Drug Qatar Museums to empower teachers Store supports The Color as museum ambassadors in schools Run 2019 DOHA Drug Store, one of Qa- QM is committed to engaging more teachers by developing learning resources, getting their feedback and training them on self-guided tours tar’s major FMCG distribu- tors, has been announced as AILYN AGONIA the official retail partner for DOHA The Color Run presented by Sahtak Awalan: Your Health QATAR Museums (QM) is First. The five-kilometre run working closely with teachers will return to the Qatar Na- and officials of various schools tional Convention Centre on in the country to get them ac- Saturday (January 26). quainted with its programmes Having previously sup- to be ambassadors of museums ported The Color Run in 2018, in their respective schools, ac- Doha Drug Store will once again cording to Dr Jelena Trkulja, be present with an array of new director of Education at the QM and exciting products under the Department of Education. hashtag #FeelHappyRunHap- Speaking to on the sidelines Participants at the Qatar Museums Annual Teachers Council held at the Museum of Islamic Art on Thursday. (HANSON K JOSEPH) py2019. Many quality brands of the QM Annual Teachers will be sampled at the event. Council held at the Museum ficials to get them acquainted thing and ask for their feed- engaging the teachers to lead visits they accommodate on undergoing restorations. Doha Drug Store Benjamin of Islamic Art (MIA) on Thurs- with upcoming exhibitions as back. We implement their feed- museum tours. a regular basis, Dr Trkulja The Teacher’s Council fea- Martis said; “The community in day, Dr Trkulja underlined the well as learning resources that back and then we offer it to all She said, “We want to em- said the figures fluctuate but tured presentations that pro- Qatar has shown their enthusi- commitment of QM in engag- we offer. Similarly, it is also the schools in Qatar. This is one power teachers to acquaint given the high interest among vided information about the asm for living a healthy lifestyle. ing more teachers in Qatar by held to engage them to con- aspect. On the other hand, we themselves with museum col- schools, they are keen to push exhibitions, educational work- It is truly an exciting event to be developing specific learning tribute to our work by giving would like to work more closely lections. That way, instead of forward with the idea of self- shops and events for the 2018- a part of as it encourages people resources, getting and imple- us feedback. in developing workshops which having one or two visits per guided tours. 2019 academic year. Among to get active together in a fun menting their feedback and “We have another platform will be delivered by some of the museum per day, which is what She said QM currently has them was the comprehensive manner. The 2019 Color Run training them to do self-guided called Executive Teacher’s teachers to identify those who we can accommodate as small two open museums, the MIA presentation by Dr Alan Mi- has a new ‘Hero Tour’ theme tours to accommodate more Council for teachers who would would be ambassadors of mu- museum education team, we and Mathaf, that actively ac- chael Kirwan, associate director that will see participants don school visits and amplify the really like to work more closely seums in their school.” can have many more. With commodates school visits. of Learning and Outreach at the capes and other superhero garb. work of museum educators. with us on developing specific Dr Trkulja said the huge that, we will ensure all the This is apart from the popu- National Museum of Qatar, on It shows us that getting out and She said, “Teacher’s Coun- learning resources. In the past, level of interest among local schools in Qatar and all the larity of Doha Fire Station with the educational programmes of exercising does not have to be cil is a platform we use to com- we have done lesson plans and educators motivates QM to children have the chance to its many exhibition openings, the iconic desert-rose inspired boring, and can be done in an municate our programmes we always do this together with come up with various alter- visit the museums.” while Al Riwaq and the QM museum which is slated for a exciting way with family and to the teachers and school of- the teachers. We develop some- natives and creative means of On the number of school Gallery in Katara are currently grand opening in March. friends.” (TNN)

MSC SPLENDIDA DOCKS AT DOHA PORT WITH ABOUT 5,000 ONBOARD

Doha Port on Thursday welcomed the cruise ship MSC Splendida on its third visit during the ongoing 2018/19 cruise season, carrying a total of 3,456 passengers and 1,305 crew members. (TNN) Nation Friday, January 25, 2019 03 Doha to host 3rd global meet on food-water-energy nexus TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK from Europe and the US. Environment and Energy Re- DOHA The decision to organise search Institute (QEERI). the third meeting and scientific Meanwhile, the scientific INTERNATIONAL scientists, seminar in Doha follows execu- team in Qatar invites experts experts and specialists as well tion of the decisions of the sec- and specialists from a number as specialised global centres in ond meeting, which was held in of national universities, institu- the field of food-water-energy Berlin last month. The agenda tions and organisations as well nexus will participate in a semi- of the meeting was approved as specialised research centres nar in Doha. by Qatar National Research to attend the scientific seminar The event is being held as Fund (QNRF) which supervises and present their experiences Qatar hosts the third meeting global scientific researches, the and initiatives related to food, of the Global Scientific Panel on Ministry of Municipality and water and energy. Food-Water-Energy Nexus on Environment and Qatar Envi- One of the famous farms of April 10-11 this year. One of the innovative devices on ronment and Energy Research Qatar has also been invited to The event will be preceded the farm. Institute (QEERI) at Hamad the meeting to showcase its ex- by a scientific seminar to review Bin Khalifa University. periences in use of sustainable innovative global experiments from the Federal Republic of Dr Mohammad Saif al Ku- water systems. in the field on April 9. Germany, University of the wari, director, Environmental During the seminar, in- Prominent among the par- West of England (UWE), Bristol and Municipal Studies Institute ternational models and global CULTURE MINISTER MEETS INDIAN ENVOY: Minister of Culture and Sports HE Salah bin Ghanem ticipants include the Austrian Water Company PLC from west in the Ministry of Municipality smart systems which aim at al Ali with Ambassador of India to the State of Qatar HE P Kumaran in Doha on Thursday. During the Institute of Technology (AIT), London, ROC Connect from the and Environment attended the reducing consumption of water meeting, they discussed aspects of cooperation between both countries in cultural and sports fields and Leibniz Centre for Agricultural United States of America and second meeting in Germany and energy for irrigation pur- the ways to develop them. (QNA) Landscape Research (ZALF) other specialised organisations along with an expert from Qatar poses will also be presented.

From January 25, permanent change of QU, MoPH join hands for access to Umm Slal Wholesale Market research to serve elderly TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK DOHA

THE Public Works Authority QU seeks to contribute in improving the conditions and the quality of life of senior citizens (Ashghal) has announced a permanent change of access to TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK Umm Slal Wholesale Market. DOHA The change will start on Friday, January 25, 2019 in QATAR University (QU) and coordination with the General the Ministry of Public Health Directorate of Traffic to allow (MoPH) on Thursday signed a for the completion of the Or- memorandum of understand- bital Road construction works ing to cover an array of areas, at Jery Al Samur Interchange. particularly health and medi- The new access to Umm cal research that meets the Slal Wholesale Market and needs of Qatar’s residents and adjacent areas will be through it’s elderly. Jery Al Samur Interchange The agreement covers ex- instead of the existing access to guide motorists of the speed limit which remains at change of technical expertise after the interchange. traffic shift. 80 kph along the route and as well as consultancy and The Public Works Au- Ashghal has requested follow the road signs to ensure training between the two par- thority will instal road signs all road users to abide by the their safety. ties; cooperation with experts in QU in conducting social, health and medical research; making use of QU’s research centres and study areas; and Vice-President for Research and Graduate Studies Prof Mariam al Ali al Maadeed with Assistant Secretary- Closure on Al Maqareen St from Jan 27 finally jointly organising semi- General for Medical Affairs at the Ministry of Public Health Dr Saleh bin Ali al Marri and other officials at nars, debates and workshops an agreement-signing event in Doha on Thursday. TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK in particular areas of interest. DOHA The signing ceremony was ute to the development of the sions were held on how QU the services of senior citizens. attended by Vice-President social and health of Qatar’s el- can offer its expertise to help Such relevant disciplines THE Public Works Authority for Research and Graduate derly population. in the required areas. The include statistics, social ser- (Ashghal) will implement a Studies Professor Mariam The MoU also includes the two parties formed working vices, sociology, psychol- 300-metre closure Al Maqa- al Ali al Maadeed, Assistant formation of working commit- teams that studied the needs ogy, health affairs and other reen Street near Al Luqta Secretary-General for Medi- tees and teams that will work and developed appropriate departments concerned area and remove the traffic cal Affairs at the Ministry of together to ensure the deliv- plans to work, which helped with providing social and signal at the junction of Al Public Health Dr Saleh bin Ali erables of the scope of work form this agreement.” health services. Maqareen Street and Lebday al Marri as well as a number and the preparation of an ex- Dr Marri said the MoU She said QU seeks to con- Street, the authority has an- of vice presidents and senior ecutive programme or several comes within the framework tribute to improve the condi- nounced. officials of the Ministry of programmes between the dif- of the ministry’s belief in the tions of the population and The closure, designed in Health and QU. ferent administrative sectors vital and effective role that their quality of life, which is coordination with the Gen- Through the MoU, the at both QU and the ministry. ministries and government one of the important goals of eral Directorate of Traffic, is two parties aim to organise Professor Maadeed said bodies have in servicing the the Qatar and the Qatar Na- required to facilitate the con- exhibitions with the aim of the agreement aims to con- nation and the community. tional Vision 2030. struction of a new bridge at Al enriching knowledge about tribute to providing appropri- He praised the university’s Dr Hanadi al Hamad, Luqta Interchange, and will shared interests. ate services to senior citizens, cooperation with the minis- chairperson of Geriatrics commence on Sunday, Janu- to travel to new Lebday Street service road at Khalid They also agree to provide who are an important part of try and the presentation of its and Long Term Care and ary 27, 2019 for one year. Street service road and con- Bin Abdullah Al Attiyah vocational training to uni- Qatar’s society. expertise in the service of this lead in the ministry’s team During the c;losure, tinue south to Lebday Inter- Interchange and continue versity students by involving She added, “QU is greatly important group of society. to coordinate with QU on the road users travelling south change towards Al Waab. straight, and turn right onto them in ministry needed or invested in serving the needs Dr Kaltham al Ghanim, a preparation of the studies, from Al Luqta Zone will Road users travelling Makkah Street to access Al ministry organised research of its community and offering professor at the College of Arts stressed that the ongoing no longer be able to use Al north from Al Waab can turn Luqta Zone. and activities, and conducting its expertise in this field. The and Sciences and lead of the meetings with the university Maqareen Street. Instead, left onto Al Rayyan Al Jadeed The Public Works Au- research and studies that sup- MoU comes after a series of QU research team assigned to contributed to the forma- they will use the new local Street at the Interchange thority will instal road signs port the design, implementa- meetings where the ministry the project, said the university tion of the MoU, which will route between Al Maqareen known as Al Mukafaha. They to guide motorists about the tion and evaluation of policies communicated the needs of will coordinate its efforts across improve the lives of senior Street and Ras Al Ghariya can turn right onto Huwar traffic shift. and programmes that contrib- the community and discus- several departments to improve citizens in Qatar. MoI raises awareness of Art expo highlights impact of digital world dangers of modern tech TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK QNA anonymous and suspicious DOHA DOHA websites, and not to open links that reach through text mes- THE Cultural Village Founda- PEOPLE must exercise caution sages (SMS) or other social net- tion (Katara) opened the art so they do not fall for adver- working applications without exhibition ‘Living in a digital tisement messages that come ascertaining their sources. world’ at the Katara Art Studios through some social commu- He also stressed the impor- building 5 on Wednesday nication applications, it was tance of intensifying awareness The exhibition will run until stressed at a meet in Doha. programmes for students and February 17. The Communications De- members of society at large The exhibition was opened partment of the Ministry of through lectures, workshops by Katara Deputy General Man- Interior (MoI) participated in and educational materials in the ager Ahmed al Sayyed along the 4th edition of the Entre- media outlets to create a com- with several other officials as preneurship Business Con- munity awareness that protects well as many art enthusiasts ference and Products 2019 everyone from these dangers. and artists. organised by Social Develop- First Lieutenant Shaheen The expo is a collective ment Center (NAMA). Saad al Kaabi talked about se- work of five artists who re- The department participat- curity of home networks and flected on the effects of social The expo is a collective work of five artists who reflected on the effects of social media and digital revolution on people’s lives. The exhibition ed in the seminar held on the mobile phones, addressing the media and digital revolution will run until February 17. sidelines of the conference titled threats of hackers on home net- on people’s lives. ‘Security of wireless networks works and mobile phones. The group of artists includes and personal mobile phones’. He noted that the Ministry artist Sara al Zeyara, Sumaia First Lieutenant Saad al of Interior is making vigorous al Kilani, Sultan al Abdulla, Kuwari gave a presentation on efforts to protect the commu- Maryam al Tajer and Monzer the legacy of Security Protec- nity from these risks. al Safi. “Living in a digital world tion for Future Generations, in Qatar is one of the few expressed the experiences that which he addressed a number countries in the world that pro- artists nowadays go through” of awareness issues to protect vided legal protection to society said Sara al Buainain, the the current generation from the against cybercrimes, he said. group’s curator. dangers that modern technol- He added that the MoI She added, “Social media ogy users may face, especially works through its competent and technology are influenc- smart phones as well as the agencies to combat this type ing the art world and the out- means of social communication of crime, stressing that the re- come is that we are clearly and the Internet. sponsibility of protecting elec- seeing these transformations “There are many methods tronic devices and telephones through art. The digital world used by hackers to get to their lies primarily on the user, who affects us in many ways, not victims,” he explained stress- must be very careful in using necessarily a negative way. On ing the importance of keeping various technological means in the other hand, it can hold a personal or banking data from the field of communications. positive effect as well.” 04 Friday, January 25, 2019 (http://www.islamweb.net) Under the guidance and supervision of Islam Ministry of Awqaf (Religious Endowments) and Islamic Affairs The creation is in need for Allah AN always looks for what have compelled my back to refuge in give him a better one. Allah Almighty benefits him and what You, in want and in fright of You, there Said (what means): “And whoever protects him from harm. is no resort nor survival from You ex- fears Allah, He will make for him a However, to accomplish cept (in turning) to You. I have faith way out. And will provide for him this, man must be able to in Your book (i.e. the Quran) which from where he does not expect. And realiseM what is harmful. He must then You brought down and in the Prophet whoever relies upon Allah — then He know whom he should need, trust and (Muhammad) you have sent.” (Al- is sufficient for him. Indeed, Allah will love so that he can attain what is ben- Bukhari & Muslim) accomplish His purpose. Allah has eficial as well as to feel good about his When we read in the Qur’an (what already set for everything a [decreed] choice. means): “Whatever of Mercy (i.e. of extent.” [Qur’an 65:2-3] He also must know the proper and good), Allah may grant to mankind, The above texts, necessitates that good approach that would make him none can withhold it, and whatever man must depend upon Allah Al- achieve this goal. This latter condition He may withhold, none can grant it mighty asking Him Alone for assis- requires that man: thereafter. And He is the All-Mighty, tance. It also requires that man must 1. Know about harm the All-Wise.” [Qur’an 35:2] love Allah and worship Him Alone 2. What ways can be used to And when we read (what to gain His pleasure and His help. Is drive harm away? means): “If Allah touches you with it not true that the people who con- Certainly, man can have no better hurt, there is none can remove it but sider this life as the ‘Final Goal’ end up guidance than that which comes from He; and if He intends any good for worshiping many things in it? You see the One Who had perfected everything you, there is none who can repel His them so careful about ‘having it all’. and the One who Has no deficiency in favour which He causes it to reach They torture themselves: pain, dif- Himself and in His Attributes. The whomsoever of His slaves He will, and ficulty, constant worry, keeping their One Who is Ever-Living and Who He is the Oft-Forgiving, Most Merci- hands in the banks for loan after loan does not die. There can be no One bet- ful.” [Qur’an 10:117] to keep up with the ‘demands of devel- ter than the One Who Has no need We should be motivated to return opment’. They are under the constant for anything; the One Who is rich; the to Him Alone at times of ease and at threat of fore-closure. They constantly Giver; the One Who, after all, controls times of hardship. And when we read see poverty in front of their eyes. man’s soul. Man is so poor to Him. He (what means): “If Allah helps you The Prophet, peace be upon is Allah, the True and only God. Man none can overcome you, and if He him, said: “Allah says: ‘Son of Aadam: can bring harm to himself if he seeks revealed to His Messengers may Allah so that man turns to them for help; Allah (then) surely (all) your deeds forsakes you, who is there, after Him, Fill your time with My worship and I other than Allah for help. Allah is the exalt their mention the final of whom loves them or fear them, etc. He is will be in vain and you will certainly be that can help you. And in Allah (alone) will fill your heart with richness, and One Who can help man drive away was Messenger Muhammad, peace be the same God of all nations. He does among the losers. Nay! But worship let believers put their trust.” [Qur’an end off your poverty. But if you do not, any harm for it cannot occur without upon him. not order that people should make of Allah and be among grateful.” [Qur’an 3:160] I would make your hands fully busy His Will and His Power. This Revelation contains a com- stars, sun, fire, ‘Eesaa (Jesus), Moosaa 39:65-66] The Qur’an, therefore, leads man (i.e. in worldly affairs) and I would not Allah The Almighty sent down His plete code of life. Everything that is (Moses), Muhammad may Allah exalt Let us know what Muhammad, to a true liberation from any false at- end off your poverty.’” (At-Tirmithi) Books and chose His Messengers to beneficial or harmful is established their mention etc. gods besides Him. peace be upon him, the man – Prophet tachment. It brings peace to the heart. Our purpose of existence on guide man to: so that man can centre his life around He (Most Exalted) cannot be ‘contra- - who knew Allah best, used to say: “O It helps the believer against hypocrisy earth is more meaningful than be- 1. Know His Lord as He Almighty this Revelation. If man commits dictory. He has one way (religion) that Allah, I seek refuge in You for Your and all forms of dishonesty. ing slaves to worldly gains. There had explained about Himself, and wrong and knows that Allah is Oft- calls man to surrender his will only to Pleasure and against Your Wrath, and Imagine, for example, a believer can be no meaningful life better than 2. Seek Him Alone while living in Forgiving he would turn to Him, and Him. in Your Forgiveness and against Your facing a problem at work. He sees that prescribed by our Creator Al- accordance with His plan to Him alone, seeking His forgiveness; He warned that if man (even Mu- Punishment and in You from You, I wrong and faces unlawful practices. lah. Every act done according to Al- Knowing Allah’s Names and At- Allah Says (what means): “So know, hammad, peace be upon him) would cannot Praise You as You can Praise He does not fear rejecting what is lah’s way is an act of worship. Man tributes liberates man from worship- [O Muhammad sallallaahu alaihi wa take partners with Him, then his work Yourself.” (Muslim, Abu Daawood, wrong. He knows that the job is only is the beneficiary and Allah is in no ing any form of creation because sallam], that there is no deity except will fail and will be among losers; Allah At-Tirmithi, Ibn Maajah) a means to gain his sustenance. While need; Allah Says (what means): “O creation is weak and is in need of The Allah and ask forgiveness for your Says (what means): “And verily, it had He, peace be upon him, used to he may be unable to correct what is mankind! It is you who stand in need Creator, Allah. The knowledge about sin.” [Qur’an 47:19] been revealed to you (O Muhammad say also: “I have surrendered myself wrong, he knows well that Allah is of Allah, but Allah is Rich (Free of Allah leads man to know that he is cre- It is wrong to think or believe that ) as has been revealed to those before to You, I have directed my face to You, the One Who provides. If he leaves all wants and needs), Worthy of All ated to live according to Allah’s way as Allah created other ‘gods’ besides Him you. If you join others in worship with I have entrusted my affairs to You, I his job for the sake of Allah, Allah will Praise.” [Qur’an 35:15] Hypocrisy is Internal Destruction The Kindness of the Prophet Question: Assalamu alaikum, Can you describe to us how friendly was Rasullah sallahu alaihi wa sallam with his YPOCRISY is a chronic disease Hypocrites are known for many that they are liars. If they are expelled, ed to reject it; and Satan wishes to lead sahabas. I will like to see some hadiths regarding this. Did and a dangerous moral devia- characteristics which we will only brief- they will not leave with them, and if they them far astray. And when it is said to he use to keep a little distance from people? We know that tion in the life of individuals, ly mention as elaboration needs many are fought, they will not aid them. And them: “Come to what Allah has revealed friendliness is good. And he did not use to talk much. Barak communities and nations. Its books to expose their real qualities: [even] if they should aid them, they will and to the Messenger,” you see the hypo- Allah feekum wa jazakum Allah khairan danger is great and the hypo- 1- They say with their tongues surely turn their backs; then [thereafter] crites turning away from you in aversion. H Answer: All perfect praise be to Allah, The Lord of the Worlds. crites are the cause of this great evil. what is not in their hearts, as Allah The they will not be aided.} [Qur’an 59:11-12] So how [will it be] when disaster strikes This danger is clearly noticeable when Almighty Says (what means): {And of the 7- Making efforts to dishearten them because of what their hands have I testify that there is none worthy of worship except Allah, and the destructive consequences of hypoc- people are some who say: “We believe in and disappoint the believers. In this re- put forth and then they come to you that Muhammad sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam, may Allaah risy afflict the entire Ummah (Mus- Allah and the Last Day,” but they are not spect, Allah The Almighty Says (what swearing by Allah: “We intended nothing exalt his mention, is His slave and Messenger. lim nation) and the charitable reform believers.} [Qur’an 2:8] means): {And [remember] when the but good conduct and accommodation.” First of all, we thank you for contacting us. movements in particular, as the hypo- 2- They deceive the believ- hypocrites and those in whose hearts is Those are the ones of whom Allah knows You should know that this question is very broad and can- crite causes his fatal internal destruc- ers, as Allah the Almighty Says (what disease said: “Allah and His Messenger what is in their hearts, so turn away from not be answered in a Fatwa. Rather, it requires books consist- tion, whilst he is safe and unwatched. means): {They [think to] deceive Allah did not promise us except delusion,” And them but admonish them and speak to ing of many volumes; it is not one or two Ahadeeth, but rather No one expects his slyness and plotting and those who believe, but they deceive when a faction of them said: “O people them a far-reaching word.} [Qur’an 4:60- hundreds of Ahadeeth! since he is considered a Muslim whose not except themselves and perceive [it] of Yathrib, there is no stability for you 63] For example, Ibn Sa’d reported in his book At-Tabaqaat that name, appearance and speech is like not.} [Qur’an 2:9] [here], so return [home].” And a party of Such is the state of the hypocrites Anas ibn Maalik may Allah be pleased with him narrated: that of any other Muslim. 3- They cause corruption on earth them asked permission of the Prophet, when they reject the legislation of Allah “I accompanied the Prophet sallallaahu `alayhi wa sal- Scrutinising the essence of hypocrisy, by means of both their speech and their saying: “Indeed, our houses are unpro- and His Messenger, peace be upon him, lam for ten years [..] If one of his companions met with him, you will find it a satanic combination that actions. Concerning this point Allah The tected,” while they were not exposed. and their hypocrisy is revealed before he would stand with him and he would not go away until it is comprises severe cowardice, greed for Almighty Says (what means): {Unques- They did not intend except to flee. And others. When this happens, they invent the man would be the one to depart from him. If one of his the immediate pleasures of this worldly tionably, it is they who are the corrupters, if they had been entered upon from all false and fabricated excuses and falsely companions met him and held his hand, he would not take off life, denial of truth and lying. Of course, but they perceive [it] not.} [Qur’an 2:12] its [surrounding] regions and Fitnah swear in order to acquit themselves. They his hand until it is the man who would take his hand off. If any one can imagine the evil effects of such 4- They mock the believers. Allah [tribulation] had been demanded of say: “We did not intend to contradict of his companions wants to speak to him secretly and puts his a combination. The linguistic meaning The Almighty Says (what means): {And them, they would have done it and not the Messenger of Allah, peace be upon mouth next to his ear (to whisper to him), the Prophet would of hypocrisy implies deception, cunning, when they meet those who believe, hesitated over it except briefly. And they him, in his judgment; we only meant to not take away his ear (head) unless it is the man would pull showing outward goodness and conceal- they say: “We believe”; but when they had already promised Allah before not settle and reconcile the two parties and away from him.” [Al-Albaani classified it as Hassan] ing evil. are alone with their evil ones, they say: to turn their backs and flee. And ever is we wanted to be good to them both.” The Prophet sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam also used to “Indeed, we are with you; we were only the promise to Allah [that about which Strangely, when they find the judgment be friendly with boys. Anas, may Allaah be pleased with Forms of Hypocrisy mockers.” [But] Allah mocks one will be] questioned. Say, in their favor, they accept it; otherwise, him, narrated that he was once walking with the Prophet Many scholars mentioned that hy- them and prolongs them [O Muhammad]: “Nev- they turn away. Allah The Almighty has sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam and they passed by young pocrisy is divided into two types: in their transgression er will fleeing benefit informed us about this where He Says boys and the Prophet sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam greeted 1- Hypocrisy in Belief: Some schol- [while] they wander you if you should (what means): {But the hypocrites say: them. [Al-Bukhari and Muslim] ars call this form of hypocrisy ‘Major blindly.} [Qur’an Hypocrisy is flee from death “We have believed in Allah and in the Moreover, Sahl ibn Haneef narrated: “The Prophet sallal- Hypocrisy’. Al-Haafith ibn Hajar, may 2:14-15] a chronic disease or killing; and Messenger, and we obey”; then a party of laahu `alayhi wa sallam used to go to the poor Muslims, visit allah be pleased with him, explained it 5- They then [if you them turns away after that. And those are them, visit the ill ones amongst them and attend their funeral as follows, “It is when the person shows falsely swear and a dangerous moral did], you not believers. And when they are called to processions.” [Al-Haakim who graded it as authentic] his belief in Allah, His angels, His books, in order to deviation in the life of in- would not [the words of] Allah and His Messenger These three Ahaadeeth about the kindness of the Proph- His messengers and the Last Day, but conceal their be given en- to judge between them, at once a party et sallallaahu `alayhi wa sallam are enough. They are excerpt- conceals what contradicts some or all crimes. Allah dividuals, communities and joyment [of of them turns aside [in refusal]. But if ed from a chapter entitled ‘Khuluq At-Tawaddud’ (the conduct of this.” He added, “This was the type of The Almighty life] except the right is theirs, they come to him in of kindness) from Mawsoo’at Al-Akhlaaq (the Encyclopedia of hypocrisy that prevailed during the time Says (what nations. Its danger is for a little.” prompt obedience. Is there disease in Morals), issued by Ad-Durar As-Saniyyah Foundation. of the Prophet, peace be upon him. In means): {They great and the hypocrites Say: “Who their hearts? Or have they doubted? Or Allah knows best. the Qur’an, Allah The Exalted dispraises have taken their is it that can do they fear that Allah will be unjust to such hypocrites and brands them as dis- oaths as a cover, are the cause of this protect you them, or His Messenger? Rather, it is believers. The Qur’an also mentions that so they averted great evil. from Allah if they who are the wrongdoers.} [Qur’an they will be destined to be in the lowest [people] from the He intends for 24:47-50] depths of Hell. Allah The Almighty Says way of Allah. Indeed, it you an ill or 10- Defaming the believers and (what means): {Indeed, the hypocrites was evil that they were do- intends for doubting the intentions of the obedient is “Who remember Allah while standing or sit- will be in the lowest depths of the Fire - ing.} [Qur’an 63:2] you a mercy?” another of their sly characteristics. Allah ting or [lying] on their sides and give thought and never will you find for them a help- 6- Having allegiance towards the And they will not find for them- The Almighty Says (what means): {Those er.} [Quran 4:145] disbelievers and supporting them against selves besides Allah any protector or who criticize the contributors among the to the creation of the heavens and the earth, 2- Hypocrisy in Action: Some schol- the believers. Allah The Almighty Says any helper. Already Allah knows the believers concerning [their] charities and [saying], ‘Our Lord, You did not create this ars call this form ‘Minor Hypocrisy’. It is (what means): hinderers among you and those [hypo- [criticise] the ones who find nothing [to when the person has some of the man- {Give tidings to the hypocrites crites] who say to their brothers: “Come spend] except their effort, so they ridicule aimlessly; exalted are You [above such a ners of the hypocrites such as lying and that there is for them a painful punish- to us,” and do not go to battle, except for them - Allah will ridicule them, and they thing]; then protect us from the punishment slackness in performing prayers. Howev- ment - Those who take disbelievers as al- a few.} [Qur’an 33:12-18] will have a painful punishment.} [Qur’an er, he still believes in Allah The Almighty, lies instead of the believers. Do they seek 8- Conspiring against the believ- 9:79] of the Fire.’ – [Quran 3:191] His Messenger, peace be upon him, and with them honour [through power]? But ers or participating in such matters. The They do not know sincerity or feel the Last Day. It was narrated in a Ha- indeed, honour belongs to Allah entirely. books of history are full of incidents that in their hearts the true meaning of wor- deeth that the Prophet, peace be upon And it has already come down to you in show their plotting against the Mus- shipping Allah The Almighty. Therefore, him, said: “The signs of the hypocrite are the Book that when you hear the verses of lim Ummah, and our current situation they think that both the believers and three: Whenever he speaks, he tells lies; Allah [recited], they are denied [by them] also proves this fact. The conspiracies the hypocrites are alike, and that their whenever he makes a promise, he breaks and ridiculed; so do not sit with them un- of the hypocrites were also the cause of righteous deeds are only for the sake of it; and whenever he is entrusted with til they enter into another conversation. any M ujaahids (holy warriors) being worldly gains. In their view, an actress something, he betrays the trust.” Indeed, you would then be like them. In- captured by the disbelievers and the oth- who repents must have received millions In another Hadeeth, it was narrated deed Allah will gather the hypocrites and er enemies of Islam in Palestine, Chechn- in return for this and the Mujaahids are that the Prophet, peace be upon him, disbelievers in Hell all together} [Qur’an ya or other places. simply failures in life who choose to com- said: “The most burdensome prayers for 4:138-140] 9- Referring legislation to other mit suicide. the hypocrites are the ‘Ishaa’ prayer and · {Have you not considered those than Allah and His Messenger, peace Finally, it should be noted that “Be conscious of Allah; do not curse the Fajr prayer. If they were to know what who practise hypocrisy, saying to their be upon him, where Allah The Almighty the aforementioned characteristics these two prayers include [of goodness], brothers who have disbelieved among Says (what means): {Have you not seen of the hypocrites are just a few of the Satan in public while befriending him in they would come to them, even if they the People of the Scripture: “If you are those who claim to have believed in what many other traits that could have been had to do so crawling.” expelled, we will surely leave with you, was revealed to you, [O Muhammad], mentioned later. May Allah grant us private.” and we will not obey, in regard to you, and what was revealed before you? They all refuge against hypocrisy, and pro- Dominant Characteristics of anyone - ever; and if you are fought, we wish to refer legislation to Taaghoot tect the Ummah from the evil of the – [Wahb ibn Munabbih] the Hypocrites will surely aid you.” But Allah testifies [false judges] while they were command- hypocrites. India / Pakistan / World Friday, January 25, 2019 05

NEWS Pakistan conducts successful training Top court set to hear appeal against IN BRIEF launch of ballistic missile Nasr: ISPR Asia Bibi acquittal in blasphemy case

Indonesia flood, DAWN.COM volved launching of quad salvo Zubair Mahmood Hayat wit- DPA kistan (TLP), and the govern- landslide death ISLAMABAD for desired effects,” it read, nessed the launch ceremony ISLAMABAD ment filed an appeal appar- toll rises to 30 adding that Nasr is a “high pre- and appreciated the standard ently to appease them. PAKISTAN on Thursday cision, shoot and scoot Weap- of training and operational PAKISTAN’S Supreme Court “The appeal is being heard MAKASSAR: The death toll “successfully conducted the on System with the ability of preparedness of the military’s is set to hear an appeal against on Tuesday, January 29,” from flash floods and land- training launch of Nasr” — a in-flight maneuverability”. strategic forces command. the acquittal of a Christian court official Shahid Hussain slides in Indonesia has risen short-range surface-to-surface “This weapon system has He also congratulated the woman who has been on death told dpa. to 30, as rescuers raced to ballistic missile, read a state- augmented full spectrum de- scientists and engineers for row for more than eight years A three-judge bench led by find two dozen still missing, ment issued by the Inter-Ser- terrence posture while remain- developing the “sophisticated” for blasphemy, officials said Chief Justice Asif Saeed Khosa the disaster agency said vices Public Relations (ISPR). ing within the precincts of the weapon system in order to “en- on Thursday. would decide on the same day Thursday. Thousands have According to the ISPR policy of credible minimum hance Pakistan’s deterrence The Supreme Court sus- whether to admit the appeal or been evacuated from their statement, the launch was con- deterrence, against prevailing capability”. pended the death sentence of reject it. Legal experts said it homes as heavy rain and ducted by Army Strategic Forc- and evolving threat spectrum The JCSC chairman ex- Asia Bibi, a Christian mother would be very unusual for the strong winds pounded the es Command and was aimed more effectively including en- pressed his complete confi- whose trial triggered global Supreme Court overturn its southern part of Sulawesi at enhancing operational effi- emy’s ballistic missile defence dence in effective command, outrage, in October last year in own decision. island, swelling rivers that ciency as well as re-validating and other air defence systems,” control, and security of all a judgement hailed by rights Asia Bibi. “We expect the appeal will burst their banks and inun- the desired technical param- the military’s media wing said. strategic assets and measures groups. be rejected and she is going to dating dozens of communi- eters. Joint Chiefs of Staff Com- being taken to augment these But Bibi was not released tivists of a hard-line Sunni be released,” Islamabad-based ties in nine southern dis- “This training exercise in- mittee (JCSC) Chairman Gen aspects. because of protests by the ac- group, Tehreek-e-Labbaik Pa- lawyer Munawar Rajput said. tricts. Parts of the provincial capital Makassar have also been affected. (AFP) Malaysian royals elect new king Rahul accuses after abdication BJP may face rout in 2019 in PM of favouring KUALA LUMPUR: Members industrialists of Malaysia’s royal families on Thursday elected Sultan over farmers Abdullah Sultan Ahmad Shah as the new king, following the unexpected UP if oppn parties unite: Poll IANS abdication of the previous AMETHI/RAE BARELI monarch. Sultan Abdullah, 59, ruler of the central state CONGRESS President Rahul of Pahang, will formally ‘Number of seats held by BJP, ally could fall to 5 from 73 if oppn teams up to take on Modi’ Gandhi on Thursday attacked take over the throne on Prime Minister Narendra Jan. 31 for a five-year term, Modi accusing him of favour- the keeper of the rulers’ Poll alliance ing industrialists over farm- seal said in a statement. ers even though they have Malaysia is a constitutional O A recently formed been facing an unprecedented monarchy with the king as- alliance between three crisis. suming a largely ceremonial regional parties in the Addressing party work- role. (REUTERS) state could win 58 seats ers in his parliamentary con- without Congress joining it, stituency Amethi, the Con- Congress Party the poll showed. gress chief said while farmers to go alone in were in distress with ever- Andhra Pradesh O BJP and its ally would mounting debts, Modi was win 18 seats in that busy helping his industrialist VIJAYAWADA: Congress scenario and Congress friends by waiving off their party in Andhra Pradesh has loans. decided to go alone in the would have 4 He also accused Modi of ensuing simultaneous elec- overlooking state-owned aer- tions to the State Assembly ospace and defence company, and Lok Sabha. Party’s scenario and Congress would Hindustan Aeronautics Lim- central leader Oommen have 4. Uttar Pradesh sends 80 ited (HAL), which had been Chandy, who is incharge lawmakers to the lower house making planes for the past 70 of party affairs in Andhra of parliament, the most for any years and giving contracts to Pradesh, on Wednesday state in India. make jet fighter planes to help said Congress had decided A total of 2,478 people were an industrialist friend. to contest all 175 Assembly polled in Uttar Pradesh, which He said the “chowkidar” and all 25 Lok Sabha seats. has a population of about 220 has siphoned off the money The decision would mean million, for the survey. meant for the Mahatma Gan- that there will be no Grand The shock poll comes after dhi National Rural Employ- Alliance of Congress and the BJP lost elections in five ment Guarantee Act (MN- Telugu Desam Party (TDP) in Prime Minister Narendra Modi (right) with his Malta counterpart Joseph Muscat in Ahmedabad recently. (EPA-EFE) state assemblies late last year, REGA) and given it to Nirav Andhra Pradesh. (IANS) including three that it had con- Modi, the diamond merchant REUTERS trolled, largely because of rural who ran off to foreign shores Nigeria’s leading NEW DELHI Desist from presenting a full budget, Cong warns Modi govt anger about low farm incomes with it. presidential tied to weak crop prices and On the second day of his hopeful quits race INDIAN Prime Minister Naren- NEW DELHI: The Congress on Thursday warned the Modi government against presenting a full- amid concerns about a lack two-day visit to Amethi, Gan- dra Modi’s ruling party could be fledged Budget instead of a vote on account, saying it will violate Constitutional propriety and parlia- of job creation. Following the dhi also said that the name of ABUJA: Nigeria’s leading crushed by an opposition alli- mentary norms and threatened massive protests. losses, Modi is considering a se- Modi was synonymous with female presidential candidate ance in the country’s most pop- Questioning the legitimacy of the Modi government’s reported move, Congress spokesperson ries of vote-catching measures, hatred, which was causing a Oby Ezekwesili on Thursday ulous state of Uttar Pradesh in Manish Tewari asked how the government can present a budget for 365 days when its tenure ends including directly transferring huge loss to the country. withdrew from the race, a general election, which is due within 56 days of the beginning of the financial year 2019-20. money to farmers, that may cost “In this country Narendra pledging to form an opposi- by May, according to an opinion “If the NDA-BJP government presents a full Budget, then it will be a flagrant violation of parlia- more than 1 trillion rupees, ac- Modi means hatred. When tion coalition to defeat the poll released on Wednesday. mentary conventions and norms followed over seven decades. The Modi government has neither cording to government sources. the Congress government ruling party. Polls to elect a The India Today-Karvy In- the electoral mandate nor electoral legitimacy to present its 6th full Budget in 5 years,” Tewari told Congress, meanwhile, ap- comes to power, we will end new president and parliament sights Mood of the Nation poll the media here. (IANS) pointed its President Rahul this,” he added. take place on February 16, forecast that the number of Gandhi’s charismatic young- He also termed demoneti- while governorship and state seats held by Modi’s Bharatiya er sister, Priyanka Gandhi sation as the biggest scam of assembly elections take place Janata Party (BJP) and an ally parties, including the Congress opposition candidate to fight the ties in the state could win 58 Vadra, to a senior party po- independent India in which two weeks later. A total of could plummet to just 5 from party, team up to take on Modi. BJP in each constituency. seats without Congress joining sition that party officials say millions of Indians were 73 candidates want the top the 73 it won in the last election That would mean they A recently formed alliance it, the poll showed. BJP and its will help to energise its cam- forced to stand in lines out- job but it is expected to be a in 2014 if most of the opposition would have to agree on only one between three regional par- ally would win 18 seats in that paign. side banks. contest between President Muhammadu Buhari of the All Progressives Congress and Atiku Abubakar, of the Peoples Democratic Party. (AFP) Air strike kills 16 civilians in Afghanistan DR Congo ushers in new president

DPA while adding that it was not since last year. Based on sta- AFP ed the historic event outside the KABUL clear whether US or Afghan tistics provided by the US mili- KINSHASA Palace of the Nation, the seat of Philippines sets forces conducted the airstrike. tary, close to 6,000 “weapons” the presidency. new tourism AN airstrike in Afghanistan’s Provincial council member - meaning bombs and rockets OPPOSITION leader Felix Tsh- “We hope that this will be southern Helmand province Abdul Majid Akhundzada also - were deployed in Afghani- isekedi was sworn in on Thurs- a real change, especially as he record in 2018 early Thursday left at least 16 confirmed the incident and the stan between January and the day as president of Democratic has taken power without blood- civilians dead, local officials number of casualties. end of October 2018. A total of Republic of Congo, marking shed,” said Saddam Kongolo, a said. Sangin is largely con- 4,361 “weapons” were dropped the country’s first-ever peaceful member of Tshisekedi’s Union AFP At least three civilians were trolled by the Taliban. It is one throughout the country during handover of power after chaotic for Democracy and Social Pro- MANILA also injured in the incident of the districts in the largely the wholeof 2017. and bitterly disputed elections. gress (UDPS). One of Tshiseke- that took place in the district of Taliban-controlled province Experts believe the US and Tshisekedi, 55, took the Felix Tshisekedi. di’s first tasks will be to appoint a THE Philippines welcomed a Sangin, the head of the provin- where British and American Afghan forces recently started oath of office before receiving prime minister in a move which record 7.1 million tourists to its cial council, Attaullah Afghan, troops fought hard to keep the targeting specific Taliban field the national flag and a copy of the helm of sub-Saharan Africa’s will see him sharing power with beaches and dive spots in 2018, told dpa. insurgents at bay. commanders they see opposed the constitution from outgoing biggest country. Thousands of Kabila’s supporters, who hold an despite its most famous resort He said the strike hit a ci- US and Afghan forces to a possible peaceful settle- president Joseph Kabila, who is Tshisekedi supporters, many of overwhelming majority in par- Boracay being shut half the vilian house and destroyed it have increased their airstrikes ment in the conflict. stepping aside after 18 years at them dressed in white, celebrat- liament. year to recover, authorities said Thursday. The archipelago nation of over 7,000 islands saw the num- ber of visitors jump by nearly eight percent over the previous year, with South Koreans lead- A clean Ganga not possible without continuous flow: Activists ing the way as its top tourists. This growth came without IANS said Magsaysay awardee and were sanctioned for creating ing of dams and any construc- much help from Boracay, which KOLKATA a member of the erstwhile Na- 3,076 MLD (million litre per tions on the river be stopped.” was closed for clean up from tional Ganga River Basin Au- day) new sewage treatment Echoing Singh, another April to October after President THE Centre’s efforts to rejuve- thority (NGRBA), Rajendra Nothing has been done for plants (STPs), rehabilitating member of the now dissolved Rodrigo Duterte branded it a nate the Hindu holy river have Singh. ensuring a continuous flow 887 MLD of existing STPs and NGRBA, K.J. Nath, said the “cesspool” fouled by reckless failed to impress environmen- Spending crores of rupees of the river and also for its laying 4,942 km of sewer lines flow of the river had been ob- development. Before the clo- talists, who feel a clean Ganga for beautification of ghats has rejuvenation by the for battling pollution in the structed at many locations and sure, the tiny island’s white sand will remain a distant dream been “wastage of the public Narendra Modi government Ganga and Yamuna rivers. its own space (flood plains) beaches and turquoise waters due to the Modi government’s exchequer” because “without Till November-end of the encroached upon at multiple were seeing some two million failure to ensure the continu- ensuring a continuous flow, Magsaysay awardee 2018-19 fiscal, the National places in the name of river- sun worshippers a year. ous flow of the river. clean Ganga will continue to Rajendra Singh Rajendra Singh. Mission for Clean Ganga re- front development. “The challenging act of clos- “Nothing has been done remain a distant dream”, said leased Rs 1,532.59 crore to the However, Jayanta Bandy- ing down Boracay... the country’s for ensuring a continuous flow Rajendra Singh, who goes by cleaning, institutional devel- states and the Central Public opadhayay, a former Professor top sun-and-beach destination of the river and also for its re- the sobriquet “Waterman of Under Namami Gange, opment, biodiversity conser- Sector Undertakings for im- of IIM-Calcutta and presently has evidently become a bless- juvenation by the Narendra India”. 254 projects worth Rs24,672 vation, afforestation, rural plementing the programme Distinguished Fellow at the ing in disguise,” said Philippine Modi government. Continuity Soon after assuming of- crore have been sanctioned sanitation and public partici- and meeting establishment Observer Research Founda- tourism secretary Bernadette is of supreme importance as fice, the Modi government for various activities such as pation. expenditure. tion, said the success or other- Romulo-Puyat. Other spots like the holy river has been admit- rolled out its flagship “Nama- construction of sewage in- According to the Ministry Rajendra Singh said: wise of initiatives and projects natural paradise Palawan and ted in the Intensive Care Unit mi Gange” mission at an esti- frastructure, ghats, develop- of Water Resources, River De- “Ganga wants freedom today. of any government in cleaning beach destination Siargao island for many years. But the Cen- mated budget Rs20,000 crore ment of crematoria, river front velopment and Ganga Rejuve- There is no need for any bar- the Ganga cannot be judged in saw a jump in foreign tourists tre is trying to treat its teeth,” to clean and protect the Ganga. development, river surface nation, 131 projects out of 254 rage or dam. We want build- a five-year time frame. during the closure. 06 Friday, January 25, 2019

ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 3, 2006 PRINTED AT ALI BIN ALI PRINTING PRESS Opinion HAMAD BIN SUHAIM AL THANI CHAIRMAN ADEL ALI BIN ALI MANAGING DIRECTOR DR HASSAN MOHAMMED AL ANSARI EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Going Nuclear On Single-Use Plastic The Parallel Paralyses Of A California’s Berkeley has gone beyond banning plastic bags and straws to comprehensively reduce the use of single-use plastics trash, a move that Brexiting UK And A Shutdown US must be emulated by all

HANK heavens for Berkeley. The fa- reusable cups, forks, plates and the like, Bipartisan compromises in both the countries have been rendered more mously liberal Bay Area city’s govern- starting in mid 2020. ment may go over the top at times, but There are other elements of the ordi- difficult as economic inequality and social tensions are fuelled by is not afraid to take tough and unpopu- nance that bear mentioning. The city plans deeply polarised media and powerful impact social media Tlar stands against public health and en- to set up a grant programme to help dine-in vironmental threats. It adopted the nation’s restaurants make the transition to reusable first tax on sugary drinks, for example. It plates and cups. The city will install more TRUDY RUBIN was an early adopter of curbside recycling composting bins to deal with both the heavy TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE and banned polystyrene (what you might volume of compostable takeout containers think of as Styrofoam) 30 years ago, way as well the food remains they carry. And ATCHING the parallel paralyses before it was hip to do so. in three years, the city plans to establish a of the British and US govern- So perhaps it was only natural that programme to develop reusable takeout ments, it’s easy to see why Xi Berkeley would be the first California city containers, which has never been done on a Jinping or Vladimir Putin might to take on the challenge of crafting a truly large scale so far. If the city can find a model Wthink democracies were cooked. comprehensive plan to reduce single-use that works, that could be a game-changer The two great Anglo-Saxon democ- plastic trash. After months of hearings and for takeout trash worldwide. racies have sharp structural differences study, the City Council In short, this is a big — a parliamentary party system versus a adopted the Single-Use deal, and officials in other constitutional republic — yet both have Disposable Foodware Dine-in restaurants will be pro- cities and the state capital ground to a screeching halt. and Litter Reduction Or- hibited from using anything but ought to pay close attention. On the one hand, the British parlia- dinance on Tuesday to reusable cups, forks, plates and It’s the kind of broad ap- ment is tied in knots, unable to agree how force a shift from plas- the like, starting in mid 2020 proach we have urged poli- to implement a 2016 referendum calling tic to compostable food cymakers to develop, given for London to Brexit the European Union containers. If everything the vast amount of plastic by a March 29 deadline. Even more aston- goes as planned, by this time next year the waste accumulating on the planet — particu- ishing, the US government has been shut flow of plastic containers, cups, lids and larly in oceans, rivers and other waterways. down for weeks, longer than ever before, utensils from restaurants, fast-food outlets So far, the response has been to adopt bans over President Donald Trump’s unmet and other businesses serving prepared food or restrictions on individual items, such demand that Congress approve funds for within city limits will have virtually stopped. as grocery bags or plastic drinking straws. his border wall. The city’s goal, however, is not just to Those kinds of policies get attention but There is a chance – although most ex- change the composition of its trash piles. don’t make appreciable dents in the stagger- perts claim it is small – that London will It’s also to reduce them. Waste, no matter its ingly high — and ever-growing — volume of “crash out” of the EU with no deal, caus- makeup, comes with a cost to manage. (At disposable plastic produced every year. ing potential economic catastrophe. Yet paign tactics that targeted disaffected seg- least part of the justification for the new or- Meanwhile, plastic is piling up in the the divisions in parliament, and the weak In America, the partisan divide is ments of the population that had never dinance is to cut back on cleanup costs and natural environment because it doesn’t bio- leadership of Prime Minister Theresa fuelled by a president who disdains voted. “They not only used clever target- to meet regional goals of zero litter in storm- degrade. Instead, it breaks down into small May, create total uncertainty on how to ing,” says Mallaby, “but spread stuff that water by 2022.) To that end, Berkeley con- pieces that are easily ingested by sea birds prevent that disaster. Meantime, a stub- facts, and ideologues who reject is untrue.” One example in the HBO film: sumers will be required to pay an extra quar- and creatures, killing some of them. Micro- born president and an angry Congress consensus. By spreading confusion, prominent Leave activist and cabinet ter on every takeout cup they use, even after plastic particles, which may contain toxins, can’t find a realistic compromise. they prime the public to blame ‘ene- minister Boris Johnson admitting that restaurants switch to compostable ones. have been found pretty much everywhere, So would a Xi or a Putin be correct in mies’ when nothing gets done a campaign claim that about 70 million City officials estimate that about 40 mil- including in our drinking water and in the surmising that these dual paralyses are Turks were poised to invade Britain un- lion to-go cups are used every year in Berke- food chain. The long-term health effects of symptomatic of a common disease that der EU rules was rubbish. That number ley alone, so the fee will generate a fairly this aren’t well studied, but are unlikely to has crippled the world’s two oldest de- a base-obsessed president wouldn’t block equals the entire population of Turkey; sizable amount of cash. The businesses get promote good health. mocracies? I put that question to Sebas- the bipartisan compromises that once were moreover, Britain did not admit any of to keep the money and can use it to offset Berkeley, at least, answered the call to tian Mallaby, a noted British journalist possible in Washington, on immigration the Muslim refugees from the 2015-2016 the higher cost of supplying compostable think beyond bags and straws. And while and economics fellow at the Council on or health care for example, US inequalities flood arriving in Europe. takeout containers, but they are required we’re not endorsing every piece of this com- Foreign Relations. In brief, the answer is could be lessened. At least, in principle. “How do you create a consensus to make sure that customers know they are plex ordinance, officials there deserve credit a yes, but the disease isn’t fatal – yet. But it is the second common challenge around facts, when everyone denies those getting dinged for not bringing in a reusable for the courage and patience it took to enact “The situations are parallel, because that makes it much harder to get these two facts,” Mallaby asks. cup. Fees are known to change behaviours. such an ambitious, aggressive waste reduc- the two countries face a set of challenges democratic governments back on track. That point, to me, is what makes the Also, dine-in restaurants in Berkeley tion effort that could serve as the test case that have common roots,” says Mallaby. “There is a common weakening of dual British-American breakdowns so will be prohibited from using anything but for other cities and states. The first challenge, of course, is the forces government’s ability to deal (with the eco- scary. In Britain, some consensus build- of economic stagnation and growing in- nomic bitterness) because of a change in ers are trying to press May, and hardline equality, especially geographic, with once the method of communications,” Mallaby leftist Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn, to prosperous industrial and coal mining re- contends. Historical changes in those compromise on a Brexit plan (a second gions in Britain sharing the same fate as methods have had a major impact in the referendum still seems unlikely). But much of America’s rust belt. past, as when radio enabled Franklin De- they, too, must contend with a media “There is a lot of bitterness,” says lano Roosevelt to reach the masses, or TV environment that spews lies and under- Mallaby, that finds expression in antipathy enabled John F Kennedy to charm Amer- mines pragmatism. to immigration and nostalgic nationalism. ica. But since the 1980s when partisan And in America, the partisan divide is “Older Britons voted heavily to leave the cable shows replaced the “bully pulpit” fuelled by a president who disdains facts, EU, because they dream of getting back to with the “bullying pulpit,” media has been and ideologues who reject consensus. By Churchillian greatness.” This Make Brit- more and more outside governmental spreading confusion – mainly via the web ain Great Again wave is well captured in control. That reality has been exponen- and Fox News – they prime the public to HBO’s recent movie ‘Brexit’, starring Ben- tially expanded by the powerful impact blame “enemies” when nothing gets done. edict Cumberbatch as the top Leave strat- social media – and by a US president who That puts the burden on mainstream egist Dominic Cummings, who has an aha mobilises that ‘bullying pulpit’ on his side. media and new members of Congress moment when he devises the 2016 cam- In 2016, says Mallaby, the Leave cam- who seek real solutions to get an accu- paign slogan ‘Take Back Control’. paign could “speak to the embittered part rate message out there. There are con- One can imagine how the British and of the population and could get away with sensus answers for border security, and US systems could meet this first challenge inflammatory propaganda because the the amelioration of inequality, if we deal if government was properly working. “We channels of communication were so dif- with real facts. do understand a set of policies that could ferent. They deliberately bypassed profes- address those inequalities, with health, sional media and involved a lot of lying.” (Trudy Rubin is a columnist education, and regional development,” As we now know, Leave strategists used and editorial-board member says Mallaby. If ideological extremists or data-mining tech firms to design cam- for the Philadelphia Inquirer.) (Tribune News Service) Go Ahead, Post Photo Of Yourself From 10 Years Ago The Internet and tech companies have our data anyway, so fear over Facebook’s #10yearchallenge meme is misplaced

ALEXIS C MADRIGAL School’s Shoshana Zuboff in her new book, recognition from all kinds of crazy angles TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE ‘The Age of Surveillance Capitalism’. and in video. Two frontal head shots is a Whew, okay. Now that we’ve gotten task that their artificial-intelligence ex- O you want the good news or the that out of the way, let’s talk about the perts have almost certainly already solved. bad news first? #10yearchallenge, which has swept through You’re not sticking it to the companies Okay, bad news. Everything Facebook (and Instagram) users. The deal by refraining from this particular behav- you do on the internet is tracked. is: You post a photo from 10 years ago and iour. And the idea that you could prevent DYour information streams into one from now. It’s like viewing a painting of Facebook from modeling how you’ve aged massive databases that are then linked to Cronus eating his children, but online. or will age is downright misleading. one another. At least several companies At first it was all a game. Ha ha! Every- Another way of putting it: There isn’t have good models of your social networks, one is getting older! But then our current some global corporate conspiracy to get purchasing behaviour, and, yes, your face. reality began to sink in. Kate O’Neill, the you to post a photo of yourself from the old Your face 10 years ago and your face today. founder of a tech-consulting firm, posted days and today. There has been a global cor- Ten years ago, Facebook already had what she described in a later op-ed for porate conspiracy to get you to post every- 15 billion photos in its database. As you Wired as a “sarcastic tweet.” thing about yourself, continuously, for the uploaded pictures and tagged friends and Me 10 years ago: probably would have past 15 years. Which many of us have done, added date and location data, the software played along with the profile picture age- No doubt. But here’s that good news generally have to work with. And still, there providing the vast data sets that companies got really, really good at recognising peo- ing meme going around on Facebook and I promised: Whatever bad scenario these has been tremendous technical progress. have already trained their neural networks ple’s faces. This facial-recognition capabil- Instagram new photos could be used to support … For example, for a biometric security sys- with. If you think that not posting these ity is mirrored at other companies—and Me now: ponders how all this data has probably already happened. Facebook tem using 16 years of photos, “the average two photos does anything to surveillance some, such as Amazon, sell it to whoever could be mined to train facial recognition isn’t building an age-progression machine- subject can still be correctly verified at a capitalism or the platforms that succeed wants it. They do all this to more effec- algorithms on age progression and age learning system; it almost certainly already false accept rate (FAR) of 0.01 percent.” through it, that’s just not right. tively show you things you are likely to recognition has one. (Perhaps this is not good news.) But consider a platform that has access And, geez, it’s hard out there. If people buy, in the form of advertisements in a Neill’s larger point is the same as the Researchers have been working hard to many orders of magnitude more photos, derive some tiny measure of pleasure from feed or product recommendations. That’s one above: “Humans are the richest data on “age-invariant facial recognition” for as well as the most cutting-edge machine- seeing themselves and their friends back literally how the internet works, and it sources for most of the technology emerg- years now, building a variety of datasets learning systems and unending computa- when they had hair and plump cheeks, goes to the very core of the new economy, ing in the world,” she writes. “We should such as MORPH to help them do the work. tion. I would bet that Facebook’s systems then … I can’t find it within myself to tell as many smart people have been telling us know this, and proceed with due diligence To O’Neill’s point, these data sets are usu- go far beyond what O’Neill is suggesting. them: No, this one sliver of the problem of for years, most recently Harvard Business and sophistication.” ally quite small, but that’s what academics Facebook wants to do age-invariant facial our time is just too much.

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News UN rapporteur to lead global in brief US announces sanctions on two Iran-backed militias fighting in Syria probe into Khashoggi’s murder WASHINGTON: The US Treasury announced sanctions on Thursday on two Iran-backed militias fighting in Syria in a move aimed at raising pressure on Tehran and the powerful Revolu- tionary Guard Corps. Callamard to visit Turkey from Jan 28-Feb 3 and will report findings to UNHRC in June The Fatemiyoun Division, comprising Afghan nationals, and the Zaynabiyoun Brigade, consisting of Pakistanis, were placed on Treasury’s financial blacklist, which aims to cut off their access to international financial networks to choke their opera- tions. Both militias are recruited by the Revolutionary Guard, the Treasury said, from communities of refugees and migrants living inside Iran, and sent to fight for the Bashar al-Assad regime in Syria. “The brutal Iranian regime exploits refugee communities in Iran... and uses them as human shields for the Syrian conflict,” Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin in a statement. (AFP)

Israeli prosecutors charge Jewish teen over killing of Palestinian woman JERUSALEM: Israeli prosecutors on Thursday charged a Jewish 16-year-old with manslaughter after he allegedly threw a stone at a car in the occupied West Bank and killed a Palestinian woman. Prosecutors announced the indictment for the October in- cident in a statement, alleging the unnamed suspect threw the stone in an anti-Arab attack “as part of an act of terror”. He was also charged with stone-throwing and intentional sabotage of a vehicle, both “under terrorist circumstances”. Aisha Rabi, 48, died after the stone smashed through the windshield of the car she was travelling in with her husband and nine-year-old daughter in the West Bank on October 12. The mother of nine was struck on the head and died later at a hospital in the city of Nablus. The stone weighed about two kilogrammes (4.4 pounds), according to prosecutors. (AFP)

3 dead in bomb About 1,000 Syrian blasts in rebel-held refugees return Syrian towns home from Lebanon BEIRUT: At least three civilians BEIRUT: Some 1,000 Syrian were killed and scores injured refugees, who were forced to on Thursday from a string of flee their war-torn country in bombs hidden in motorbikes 2011, returned on Thursday as in Syrian towns controlled by part of a repatriation process, Turkey-backed rebels, a resi- Lebanese security sources and dent and witnesses said. local media reported. (File photo) Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions at UN Agnes Callamard attends a meeting in San Salvador, El Salvado. (REUTERS) They said a woman, a A Lebanese security child and a young man were source said that most of the REUTERS Activists slam WEF for allowing immediate word on what other killed and at least eight returnees are from areas in GENEVA experts would take part in the others injured when one the countryside of the Syrian large Saudi presence in Davos investigation or whether they exploded near a public park in capital Damascus. THE United Nations special My findings and had sought access to Saudi the heart of the city of Al Bab, The state-run Syrian news rapporteur on extrajudicial, recommendations will be DAVOS: Activists are criticising the World Economic Forum (WEF) Arabia. north of Aleppo. agency SANA said that some summary or arbitrary execu- reported to the UN Human for allowing a large Saudi presence in Davos this week without A Saudi public prosecu- “There were a lot of returnees from Lebanon have tions told Reuters on Thursday devoting time to the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. tor’s spokesman said last year injuries.. it was a motorcycle arrived to the Syrian border she will travel to Turkey next Rights Council at the June The Saudi presence “is deeply distressing”, Amnesty Interna- that 21 Saudis were taken into (that exploded) near a main and will head to their homes in week to head an “independent 2019 session tional chief Kumi Naidoo told AFP on the sidelines of the annual custody in relation to the case, roundabout..,” said Ibrahim “areas which were liberated by international inquiry” into the meeting of the global elite in the Swiss Alps. 11 of whom have been indicted Sabra, a trader in the vicinity Syrian army from terrorists.” murder of Saudi journalist Ja- UN investigator The WEF’s annual meeting, he said, comes “literally months and referred to trial. of the blast. A local police Syria’s civil war of more mal Khashoggi. Agnes Callamard after one of the most atrocious violations we have ever seen Earlier this month the source in the town said they than seven years has recently Khashoggi, a columnist against the journalistic community”. As part of the backlash, prosecutor said it was seeking had staged a controlled deto- wound down after government for the Washington Post and a Saudi Arabia in October faced a widespread boycott by internation- the death penalty for five of the nation of another motorbike in forces, supported by Russia, critic of Crown Prince Moham- international investigation and al leaders and business executives of an investment forum. (AFP) 11 detained suspects. the town of Al Rai, north of Al regained large swathes of the med bin Salman, was killed that President Tayyip Erdogan Callamard, a French aca- Bab, and arrested a suspect. country’s territory from rebels, and dismembered by Saudi had ordered preparations to demic who is director of the In a similar incident, three backed by Western powers, agents at its consulate in Istan- be made. “I will be heading UN investigator Agnes Cal- and individuals’ responsibili- Columbia Global Freedom people were injured in the and Islamist militants. Accord- bul on October 2, provoking an an independent international lamard said in an email reply ties for the killing”. of Expression Department at nearby towns of Qabasin and ing to the United Nations’ refu- international outcry. inquiry into the killing of Saudi to Reuters in Geneva. “My findings and recom- Columbia University in New Al Ghandura by blasts also gee agency, UNHCR, almost Earlier on Thursday, Turk- journalist Mr Jamal Khashog- Callamard said that she mendations will be reported York, reports to the UN Hu- caused by explosives planted 950,000 Syrians refugees are ish Foreign Minister Mevlut gi, commencing with a visit to would evaluate the circum- to the U.N. Human Rights man Rights Council in Geneva in motorcycles parked in currently registered and living Cavusoglu President Tayyip Turkey from 28 January to 3 stances of the crime, and “the Council at the June 2019 ses- and has a global mandate to public places. (REUTERS) in Lebanon. (DPA) Erdogan said it was time for an February 2019,” independent nature and the extent of states’ sion,” she said. There was no investigate executions.

Sudan police fire tear gas as anti-govt Yemen govt accuses Houthis of violating Hodeida truce protesters hold rallies in several cities AFP Patrick Cammaert, who heads offensive to capture it in June. RIYADH a monitoring team tasked with But a precarious calm has overseeing the Hodeida truce. largely held in the city since the AFP protesters began demonstrating YEMEN’S embattled govern- Diplomatic sources on ceasefire agreement came into KHARTOUM in several areas of the capital, ment accused rival rebels on Wednesday said the UN was force on December 18. aiming to reach the palace but Thursday of failing to abide by looking to replace Cammaert. The Hodeida agreement SUDANESE police fired tear they were quickly confronted a truce reached between the “In due time, he will leave. stipulates a full ceasefire, fol- gas at protesters on Thursday as by riot police with tear gas, wit- warring parties at UN-spon- He is in this position until a lowed by the withdrawal and re- thousands of anti-government nesses said. sored peace talks in Sweden last successor is found,” one of the deployment of rival forces from demonstrators held simultane- “Let’s die like martyrs or month. sources told AFP. the city -- two clauses that have ous rallies across several cities fight for their rights,” shouted “The legitimate government The Houthis, who control yet to be fulfilled. and towns calling on President men and women as they took to remains committed to the Swe- Hodeida, have accused Cam- The Yemen conflict has Omar al Bashir to resign. the streets in Khartoum’s east- den accords,” state-run Saba maert of not being up to the killed some 10,000 people Protesters chanting the ern district of Burri -- a site of news agency quoted Yemeni task and of pursuing “other since a Saudi-led military coa- movement’s catchcry of “Free- regular protests. President Abedrabbo Mansour Yemeni President Abedrabbo agendas”. lition intervened in support of dom, peace, justice” have been Sudan President Omar al Bashir. Several previous attempted Hadi as saying. Mansour Hadi. Cammaert and members of the beleaguered government in confronted by a crackdown that marches on the presidential pal- Hadi accused Yemen’s the UN monitoring team came March 2015, according to the has drawn international con- wide rallies on Thursday. ace have been broken up by riot Houthi rebels of failing to re- millions of Yemenis dependent under fire in Hodeida last week World Health Organization. demnation, including from the The SPA called for rallies in police firing tear gas. spect an agreement on the on its imports to survive. but were unharmed. Human rights groups say United States which has warned 17 places in Khartoum and Om- Hundreds of protesters flashpoint port city of Hodeida, The United Nations’ Yemen The United Nations did the real death toll could be five Sudan it could damage moves to durman -- the capital’s twin city chanting “freedom, freedom” controlled by the insurgents envoy, Martin Griffiths, met not identify who was behind times as high. improve their ties. on the west bank of the Nile Riv- and “revolution, revolution” ral- since 2014, Saba said. with Hadi in Riyadh on Thurs- the shooting. Hodeida was for The war has pushed 14 mil- The Sudanese Professionals’ er -- from where demonstrators lied in Burri, blocking all roads The news comes as reports day, after holding talks with months the main front line in lion Yemenis to the brink of Association that is spearheading were told to march towards the leading to the district with tree surface that the UN is looking to rebels in the Yemeni capital the Yemen war after govern- famine in what the United Na- the protest campaign had upped presidential palace. trunks, iron pipes, rocks and replace the head of a monitoring Sanaa. Also at the Riyadh meet- ment forces supported by Saudi tions describes as the world’s the ante with a call for nation- On Thursday, hundreds of burning tyres, witnesses said. mission to Hodeida, a lifeline to ing was retired Dutch general Arabia and its allies launched an worst humanitarian crisis. Egypt ‘more dangerous’ than ever for govt critics: Amnesty Ankara can create ‘safe zone’ in AFP ernment in Egypt than at any they are found to publish “fake BEIRUT other time in the country’s re- Crackdown news”. Syria on its own, says Turkish FM cent history,” said Najia Bou- Rights groups say the legis- INTERNATIONAL rights naim, the group’s North Africa on dissent lation is aimed at curbing free- REUTERS “We could establish a safe group Amnesty International Campaigns Director. dom of expression online, with ISTANBUL zone on our own but we will said on Thursday that an in- Amnesty said the space for O Amnesty said authorities the internet being one of the not exclude the US, Russia or tensified crackdown on dis- dissent “is being crushed out of have arrested at least 113 last forums for dissenting voic- TURKEY has the capacity to others if they would like to co- sent in Egypt made the country existence”. people in 2018 for es to speak against Sisi’s rule. create a “safe zone” in Syria operate,” Cavusoglu said. “more dangerous” than ever for “Under President Abdel ‘peacefully expressing their Authorities insist that such on its own but will not exclude Speaking after Erdogan peaceful critics of the govern- Fattah al Sisi’s administration, views’ measures are needed to main- the United States, Russia or and Russian President ment. Egypt has been converted into tain stability and counter ter- others if they want to cooper- Vladimir Putin met in Mos- The statement from the an open-air prison for critics,” O The country has also rorism in the country. ate, Turkish Foreign Minis- cow on Wednesday, Cavu- group comes ahead of the it said. The Egyptian leader passed legislation allowing As army chief, Sisi led the ter Mevlut Cavusoglu said on soglu said Ankara and Mos- eighth anniversary of the Janu- recently denied in an inter- authorities to monitor overthrow of Egypt’s first freely Thursday. cow were “on the same page” ary 25, 2011 uprising which led view with CBS that the country popular social media elected president Mohamed After US President Don- regarding a Syrian political to the ouster of longtime ruler holds any political prisoners. Morsi in 2013 after mass street ald Trump’s decision to with- solution aside from the issue Hosni Mubarak. Human rights groups have accounts protests against the Islamist draw all 2,000 US troops Turkish Foreign Minister of whether President Bashar Amnesty said Egyptian au- regularly criticised Sisi’s gov- leader’s rule. from Syria, President Tayyip Mevlut Cavusoglu. al-Assad should stay in office. thorities had arrested at least ernment for cracking down on tivists have been detained in Sisi was re-elected in Erdogan said he and Trump Moscow backs Assad while 113 people during 2018 for secular and left-wing activists, Egypt in recent months. March 2018, winning a second had discussed Turkey setting yet certain about the planned Ankara wants him gone. Ca- “peacefully expressing their as well as the Islamist sup- The country has also passed four-year term after securing up a 20-mile-deep safe zone in safe zone, but that Ankara vusoglu said Turkey was in views”. porters of the banned Muslim legislation allowing authorities more than 97 percent of the Syria along the border. and Washington’s views were indirect contact with the Syr- “Today it is more danger- Brotherhood group. to monitor popular social me- vote in the absence of any seri- Cavusoglu told broadcast- in line, aside from a couple of ian government, but did not ous to openly criticise the gov- A growing number of ac- dia accounts and block them if ous competition. er A Haber that nothing was points. elaborate. 08 Friday, January 25, 2019 Europe / Americas Russia, China, Turkey warn US against intervention in Venezuela Most Latin American countries, Canada support opposition leader Guaido recognised by US in tense standoff REUTERS CARACAS Russia vows to protect VENEZUELA’S opposition leader Juan Guaido declared himself interim president on Venezuela’s sovereignty Wednesday, winning backing from Washington and parts REUTERS ed States and other coun- of Latin America and prompt- MOSCOW tries to step up pressure on ing socialist Nicolas Maduro, Caracas. the country’s leader since RUSSIA on Thursday warned Ryabkov did not men- 2013, to break relations with the United States not to inter- tion Maduro by name, but the United States. vene militarily in Venezuela, made clear Moscow backed US President Donald a close ally of Moscow’s, say- his government. Trump formally recognised ing such a move would trig- “Venezuela is friendly Guaido shortly after his an- ger a catastrophe. to us and is our strate- nouncement and praised his In an interview with gic partner,” he said. “We plan to hold elections. That Russian journal Interna- have supported them and was followed by similar state- tional Affairs published on will support them.” Sepa- ments from Canada and a Thursday, Sergei Ryabkov, rately, Russian lawmakers slew of right-leaning Latin Russia’s Deputy Foreign said U support for moves to American governments, in- Minister, said Moscow force Maduro from power cluding Venezuela’s neigh- would stand with Venezue- amounted to backing an il- bors Brazil and Colombia. la to protect its sovereignty legal coup d’etat, underlin- Lawmakers in Russia, and the principle of non- ing how worried Moscow is which has invested heavily in interference in its domestic about one of its closest al- Venezuela’s oil industry, pro- affairs. lies losing office. vided support to its military, Asked about the pros- The prospect of Maduro and become a lender of last re- pect of US military in- being ousted is a geopoliti- sort as the economy implodes, tervention in Venezuela, cal and economic headache denounced the declarations. Ryabkov said Washington for Moscow which, along- Lower parliamentary house should steer well clear. “We side China, has become speaker Vyacheslav Volodin warn against that,” he said. a lender of last resort for called the steps to remove “We consider that would Caracas, lending it billions Maduro illegal, Interfax news be a catastrophic scenario of dollars as its economy agency reported on Thursday. Juan Guaido (centre) greets the crowd as he announces that he assumes executive powers, in Caracas, Venezuela, on Wednesday. (EPA) that would shake the foun- implodes. A second lawmaker, Franz dations of the development Two Russian strategic Klinzevich, said Moscow said Beijing urged calm pend- In Paris, a presidency of- that would help the oil-rich ritory, with the possibility of model which we see in Latin bombers capable of carry- could wind up its military co- ing a “political resolution to ficial said France was consult- nation escape its hyperinfla- the opposition now running America.” It was not clear ing nuclear weapons landed operation with Venezuela if Venezuela’s problem through ing with its European part- tionary economic collapse. a parallel government rec- when the interview was in Venezuela last month in Maduro was ousted. peaceful dialogue within Ven- ners about the situation. “I swear to assume all the ognised abroad as legitimate conducted. Ryabkov said a show of a support that in- China, Venezuela’s main ezuela’s constitutional frame- At a rally on Wednesday in powers of the presidency to se- but without control over state Moscow expected the Unit- furiated Washington. creditor, “opposes interfer- work”. the east of the capital Caracas cure an end to the usurpation,” functions. ence in Venezuelan affairs by In Ankara, Turkish For- that drew hundreds of thou- 35-year old Guaido, the head of In a televised broadcast external forces”, Chinese for- eign Minister Mevlut Cavuso- sands of Venezuelans, Guaido the opposition-run congress, from the presidential palace, eign ministry spokeswoman glu said recognising a leader accused Maduro of usurping told an exuberant crowd. Maduro accused the opposi- Turkey’s Erdogan offers support Hua Chunying told a news other than Maduro might power. He promised to cre- Guaido’s declaration takes tion of seeking to stage a coup for Venezuela’s Maduro conference on Thursday. She cause “chaos”. ate a transitional government Venezuela into uncharted ter- with Washington’s support. DPA #WeAreMADURO to ex- ISTANBUL press Turkey’s solidarity with the embattled leader. Pompeo urges regional bloc to support Guaido TURKISH President Re- Turkish Foreign Minis- cep Tayyip Erdogan has ter Mevlut Cavusoglu said REUTERS American States, whose mem- have committed to uphold the to support Maduro. collapse, hyperinflation, and thrown his support behind in an interview to broad- WASHINGTON bers are divided as to wheth- inter-American democratic “The time for debate is food and medicine shortages Venezuela’s Nicolas Ma- caster A Haber on Thursday er to back Guaido’s claim, charter must now recognise done,” said Pompeo to the have sparked an exodus of duro, after an opposition that some Latin American US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said that the interna- the interim president.” OAS. “The regime of former millions of people. leader declared himself in- countries and the US “have Pompeo on Thursday urged tional community had watched While the majority of OAS president Nicolas Maduro Pompeo has asked to brief terim president. recently been constantly Latin American governments Venezuelans suffer too long. member countries - including is illegitimate, his regime is the United Nations Security “My brother Maduro! interfering in Venezuela’s to recognize Juan Guaido as “The tyranny of the now Canada, Brazil, Peru, Chile, morally bankrupt, it’s eco- Council on Venezuela on Sat- Stand tall, we stand by domestic affairs.” “There is Venezuela’s interim presi- defunct Maduro regime has Colombia and Argentina - nomically incompetent and urday, South Africa’s UN en- you,” Erdogan told Maduro an elected president there” dent and to declare President for far too long choked the have recognized Guaido as it is profoundly corrupt. It is voy said on Thursday. in a phone call, the Turk- Cavusoglu said, adding Nicolas Maduro’s govern- country and its citizens,” interim head of state, others undemocratic to the core.” The Trump administra- ish president’s spokesman that “it is a weird situation” ment illegitimate. Pompeo told a meeting of including Mexico, El Salvador He pledged $20 million to- tion ratcheted up pressure on said early on Thursday. that a de facto leader is an- In remarks to the Wash- the OAS Permanent Coun- and Nicaragua have said they wards humanitarian aid for Maduro to step down by rec- Spokesman Ibrahim nounced, according to state ington-based Organization of cil. “All member states who will stay neutral or continue Venezuela, where economic ognising Guaido. Kalin used the hashtag news agency Anadolu. No-deal Brexit would betray 2016 promises: Hammond

REUTERS within the Conservative Party, ations in the event of no deal. DAVOS, SWITZERLAND Hammond has long supported Concern about a ‘backstop’ Dutch govt seeks emergency Brexit powers a softer Brexit, though rarely agreement for the border be- THE Hague: Dutch lawmakers on Thursday grilled a top minis- BRITISH finance minister in such direct terms. Not leaving would be seen tween the British province of ter on a controversial bill granting Prime Minister Mark Rutte’s Philip Hammond hit back at “Not leaving would be as a betrayal of that Northern Ireland and the Re- government emergency powers to counteract any unforseen Nuclear, climate supporters of a no-deal Brexit seen as a betrayal of that ref- referendum decision. But public of Ireland has been a post-Brexit effects. on Thursday, telling business erendum decision. But leaving leaving without a deal would major sticking point for Con- Foreign Minister Stef Blok says in the draft bill the cabinet threats keep leaders that leaving without without a deal would under- servative Brexit supporters, would get the “temporary ability to take unforeseen measures in a deal would break promises mine our future prosperity, undermine our future who fear the EU will use it to time frames shorter than permitted by current legislation”. Doomsday Clock made in the 2016 referendum and would equally represent prosperity, and would equally extract concessions on British A no-deal Brexit “will have far-reaching consequences on close to apocalypse and risk fuelling populism. a betrayal of the promises that represent a betrayal of the sovereignty after Brexit. both citizens and companies”, added Blok, noting current law- Britain is due to leave the were made,” he told a Con- promises that were made “Ingenuity and flexibil- making processes were too slow to counter its effects. Emer- European Union on March federation of British Industry ity” from the EU, as well as gency laws would last for a year under the proposal. (AFP) REUTERS 29, and last week lawmakers (CBI) event at the World Eco- British Finance Minister “a spirit of compromise” from NEW YORK voted by an historic margin to nomic Forum in Davos. Philip Hammond some Conservative lawmak- block the transition deal which Opposition Labour Party ers would be needed on this British businesses are CBI Director-General A RENEWED nuclear arms Prime Minister Theresa May leader Jeremy Corbyn has re- area to reach a satisfactory deeply concerned by the gov- Carolyn Fairbairn warned of race, rising greenhouse gas had agreed with Brussels, put- fused to meet May to discuss bus warned it could shift fu- agreement, Hammond said. ernment’s refusal to rule out “another bleak day for Brit- emissions and the emergence ting the country on course for Brexit until she rules out a no- ture wing-building out of Brit- “Failure to do so could lead to a no-deal Brexit which would ish business” on Monday after of state-sponsored disinfor- exit without a deal. deal option, and lawmakers ain in the absence of a smooth instability (and) populism,” entail lengthy delays for cross- May announced little substan- mation campaigns have left While a no-deal Brexit is outside government are seek- exit from the EU, and predict- he added, according to a text border trade if it cannot get tive change to her Brexit plans the modern world as close to seen as tolerable or even desir- ing to block it. ed “potentially very harmful of his remarks provided by parliamentary support for its in response to their historic annihilation as it was at the able by many Brexit supporters Earlier on Thursday, Air- decisions” for its British oper- his office. preferred withdrawal plan. defeat in parliament. height of the Cold War, atomic scientists said on Thursday. The Doomsday Clock, created by the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists as an indica- US Senate plans votes on shutdown, lawmakers pursue temporary solution tor of the world’s susceptibil- ity to apocalypse, remained at REUTERS Her comment came one three-to-four-week govern- interview that he couldn’t un- two minutes to midnight for a WASHINGTON day after she announced that ment funding bill that would derstand why they were having second year running in what Trump’s State of the Union open shuttered agencies while trouble getting by. the scientists called a danger- THE Republican-led US Sen- speech in the House chamber, border security negotiations Pelosi denounced the com- ous “new abnormal.” ate planned votes on Thurs- scheduled for Tuesday, would take place. He urged Pelosi to ments. “Is this the ‘Let them “Though unchanged from day for competing proposals eat cake’ kind of attitude or 2018, this setting should be to end the partial government The longest such shutdown in US history ‘Call your father for money?’ taken not as a sign of stabil- shutdown - both of which were or ‘This is character building ity but as a stark warning to likely to fail - as lawmakers has left 800,000 federal workers without for you?’” Pelosi asked at a leaders and citizens around and the White House sniped at pay and struggling to make ends meet news conference. the world,” the Chicago-based each other over how to break She said she did not under- group said in a statement. their monthlong impasse. stand why Ross would make Humanity’s two simulta- In the hours before the not occur until the shutdown back the efforts in the House. the comment “as hundreds of neous existential threats of nu- vote, signs emerged that law- ended, despite the president’s The longest such shut- thousands of men and women clear war and climate change makers might consider new plans to come. down in US history has left are about to miss a second were exacerbated during the ideas for ending the 34-day Trump, who considered 800,000 federal workers, as paycheck tomorrow.” Trump past year by the “increased shutdown, which was trig- giving the speech at anoth- well as private contractors, responded to Pelosi, without use of information warfare to gered by President Donald er venue, conceded late on without pay and struggling to mentioning Ross. undermine democracy around Trump’s demand for money Wednesday and said he would make ends meet, with the ef- “Nancy just said she ‘just the world,” the group said. to fund his long-promised wall deliver the speech in the fects on government services doesn’t understand why?’ “In many forums, includ- on the US-Mexico border. House in the “near future.” and the economy reverberat- Very simply, without a Wall it ing particularly social media, House of Representatives Republican Senator Lind- ing nationwide. all doesn’t work. Our Country nationalist leaders and their Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Dem- sey Graham, who is in regular US Commerce Secretary has a chance to greatly reduce surrogates lied shamelessly, ocrat, told reporters she was contact with Trump, told re- Wilbur Ross on Thursday Crime, Human Trafficking, insisting that their lies were willing to meet with the Re- porters there were bipartisan urged furloughed federal work- Gangs and Drugs. Should have truth, and the truth ‘fake Federal employees holding empty plates stage a rally to call for a vote publican president to discuss efforts in the Senate to win ers to seek loans to pay their been done for decades. We will news,’” it said. on the shutdown on Capitol Hill in Washington on Wednesday. (AFP) the issue. the president’s backing for a bills while adding in a CNBC not Cave!” he said in a tweet. Airbus warns no-deal Brexit www.facebook.com/QatarTribune could spark www.youtube.com/QatarTribuneChannel ‘very harmful decisions’ www.twitter.com/Qatar_Tribune PAGE 10 FRIDAY, JANUARY 25, 2019

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Qatar banks SQUEEZE IN GLOBAL SUPPLY weigh US dollar al khaliji asset bond issuance from 2019 Q1 quality improves REUTERS DUBAI as NPLs drop QATAR banks are expect- ed to issue US dollar bonds from this quarter onwards, hoping to take advantage 12% in 2018 of any easing in global vol- atility casued by geopoliti- cal tensions, three sources SATYENDRA PATHAK familiar with the matter DOHA said. Qatar National Bank, AL Khalij Commercial Bank the largest bank by assets (al khaliji) witnessed a marked in the Middle East and improvement in its asset qual- Africa, and Qatar Islamic ity and decrease in cost of risk Bank have all held talks (CoR) in 2018, QNB Finan- with banks about poten- cial Services (QNBFS) has tial issues during the first said in its company report quarter, the sources said. on Thursday. “The bank’s nonperform- The sources said some ing loans (NPLs) dropped by of the banks had been 11.9 percent. As such, the NPL ratio declined to 1.88 percent holding off from tap- against 1.94 percent at the end ping bond markets as of 2017. Moreover, the cover- al khaliji posted net they seek to secure a age ratio moved up to 83 per- income of QR608.4 mn in more favourable price cent against 79 percent in the 2018, in line with our third quarter of 2018. We ex- In an emailed state- pect the coverage ratio to con- estimate of QR609 mn, ment Commercial Bank tinuously increase as manage- QNBFS report said Worries about the longer-term outlook for global economic growth, and therefore demand for crude, has pressured oil prices. said: “We have a US dollar ment exercises prudent risk bond maturing in Q2 2019 control,” the report said. growth in 2019’s bottom-line (June 2019) and plan to The bank’s CoR also im- could also be driven by an im- do a replacement issuance proved, receding to 60 basis provement in CoR.” around the maturity date points (bps) against 84bps in “Drop in revenue led to an Oil edges higher on of this bond.” 2017. “We foresee further im- uptick in cost-to-income (C/I) The sources said some provement in CoR, penciling ratio. Revenue declined by 5.9 of the banks had been in 46bps in 2019,” it said. percent, while operating ex- holding off from tapping Commenting on 11.7 per- penses receded by 1.6 percent. bond markets as they seek cent in increase in the bank’s The C/I ratio moved up to to secure a more favour- net income in 2018, the report 28.8 percent in 2018 against Venezuela turmoil able price, and hope for said, “al khaliji posted net in- 27.6 percent in 2017. We do more clarity on the trade come of QR608.4 million in note the current efficiency row between the United 2018, in line with our estimate ratio is acceptable and still in- z Brent rises to $61.28 z US inventories sharply rose by 8 mn barrels last week: EIA States and China and Brit- of QR609 million. The 11.7 an- line with management’s target ain’s departure from the nual increase was mostly due of less than 30 percent,” it REUTERS “That’s the big story of the to less than 1 million barrels a decline of 42,000 barrels. European Union. to a 40.3 percent drop in pro- said. NEW YORK day for oil,” said Phil Flynn, per day (bpd) due to US sanc- Gasoline stocks rose for It has been a relatively visions & impairments.” Despite contraction of 8.9 an analyst at Price Futures tions - lower than some other the eighth straight week to a quiet start to the year for “The bank’s liquidity re- percent in the bank’s annual OIL prices rose on Thursday, Group in Chicago. “The mar- estimates. record 259.7 million barrels, regional bond markets. mained strong with loan- gross loans by to QR32.7 bil- boosted by the US threat of ket is really concerned about The Brent and US West as demand for the motor fuel Saudi Arabia, First Abu to-deposit ratio (LDR) at 92 lion 12.5 percent drop in de- sanctions on OPEC member the geopolitical factors and Texas Intermediate (WTI) over the past four weeks fell Dhabi Bank and Dubai percent. Dividend per share posits to QR28.6 billion, the Venezuela, but gains were what will happen if there are contract are both backed by 0.1 percent from a year ago. Islamic Bank are the only (DPS) came in-line with our report said, the liquidity po- limited by US data showing sanctions on Venezuela.” light, sweet crude, and are “The report was rather main issuers to date, with forecast at QR0.75, offering sition remained strong with record high gasoline inven- Venezuelan oil is predom- not directly linked to Ven- bearish, punctuated by the the latter two issuing an above market average yield LDR amounting to 92 percent. tories and an unexpected big inantly heavy crude, which ezuelan oil. large crude oil inventory in- sukuk. of 6.4 percent at current lev- The bank divested non- build in crude. requires extensive refining. But concern about the crease,” said John Kilduff, els. The upcoming market- core loans in order to sharpen Brent crude futures rose It is frequently blended with supply of heavy crudes is partner at Again Capital wide 10-for-1 stock split could focus on preferred segments, 14 cents to $61.28 a barrel. lighter crudes to give refiners apparent in the US physical Management. “Gasoline de- inject some liquidity into the it said. US West Texas Intermediate higher-value products. market, where the price for mand remains anemic.” name, which has historically Factors like visible pro- (WTI) crude futures rose 62 With Iran already crip- Mars Sour, a medium crude, Worries about the longer- Quick read faced thin trading volumes. gress in management’s strat- cents to $53.24 a barrel. pled by US sanctions, a drop shot to its highest since early term outlook for global eco- We retain our ‘market per- egy, expansion of attribut- Washington signalled it in Venezuelan exports could 2011. nomic growth, and therefore No-deal Brexit form’ rating and QR15 price able RoE beyond 12 percent, could impose sanctions on squeeze global supply further. Weighing on oil futures, demand for crude, has pres- would cost Ford target on the bank,” the report improvement in the liquidity Venezuela’s crude exports as Geneva-based Petro- US crude inventories sharply sured oil prices. Persistent up to $1 billion said. of the stock and M&A activity Caracas descends further into Logistics said on its website rose by 8 million barrels last concerns about the US-China Given the current oper- will positively affect the bank’s political and economic tur- that Iranian crude and con- week, the Energy Informa- trade war as well as slower FORD faces a bill of up to $1 ating environment, QNBFS stock in the years to come, the moil. The threat to reduce sup- densate exports in December tion Administration said on world growth forecasts have billion if Britain leaves the said, “We are of the view that report said. plies supported futures prices. “fell steeply” from November Thursday, versus forecasts of kept investors wary. European Union without a deal, comprising World Trade Organiza- tion tariffs and the impact of a weaker pound, a source said on Thursday. The impact of Brexit on Ford, based on internal calcula- US, China ‘miles away’ from trade deal, says Ross tions, would be in the range of $500 million to $1 billion REUTERS talks, he said, as the world’s surprising,” Ross said in an in- Ross said the two sides depending on a variety of fac- WASHINGTON two largest economies try to Complicated terview with CNBC. were unlikely to resolve all tors, said the person, who asked meet a March 1 deadline to “Trade is very complicated, their disputes in next week’s not to be identified discussing THE United States and China resolve their trade disputes, Trade deal is very there’s lots and lots of issues - talks, but added, “I think internal company planning. Car are “miles and miles” from re- but Ross tried to tamp down complicated, there’s lots not just how many soybeans there’s a fair chance we do makers and other manufactur- solving trade issues but there expectations for the high-level and how much LNG.” More get to a deal.” US President ers, including Airbus earlier on is a fair chance the two coun- talks. and lots of issues - not just important, he said, were the Donald Trump has vowed to Thursday, have warned about tries will get a deal, US Com- “There is a very large how many soybeans and structural reforms that Wash- increase tariffs to 25 percent the toll a no-deal Brexit could merce Secretary Wilbur Ross group coming. There’s been a how much LNG ington believes are needed in from 10 percent on $200 bil- impose, including higher tariffs, said on Thursday. lot of anticipatory work done the Chinese economy, as well lion worth of Chinese imports disruption to supply chains and A 30-member Chinese but we’re miles and miles US Commerce Secretary as enforcement mechanisms on March 2 unless China takes threats to jobs. (REUTERS) delegation plans to come to from getting a resolution and Wilbur Ross for failure to adhere to what- steps to protect US intellectual Washington next week for frankly that shouldn’t be too ever is agreed to. property. Goodbye to Ghosn era as Renault appoints new chiefs

car industry, had resigned As head of Renault since ed to name Bollore, a 55-year- Jean-Dominique Senard, CEO of tyre giant from both roles at Renault late 2005, Ghosn was the keystone old at Renault since 2012, as Wednesday as he remains be- of its alliance with Nissan and permanent CEO and Senard as Michelin, has been named new chairman hind bars awaiting trial. Mitsubishi, forging an indus- chairman. The 64-year-old had al- try powerhouse which togeth- With years of experience AFP Ghosn was arrested in Japan ready been sacked as chairman er sold more cars than any of in Asia, Bollore is seen at Re- PARIS in November, will take over of Mitsubishi as well as Nissan, its rivals last year. nault as the right man to steer as chief executive, while Jean- where Ghosn is suspected of French Finance Minister the French company forward FRENCH carmaker Renault Dominique Senard, CEO of under-reporting tens of mil- Bruno Le Maire said Paris in its Japanese alliance, which named two experienced auto tyre giant Michelin, has been lions of dollars in income over would be “extremely vigilant” has been badly rattled by the executives to replace arrested named its new chairman. eight years. about the globe-trotting ty- Ghosn scandal. boss Carlos Ghosn on Thurs- In his first reaction to his Nissan welcomed the Re- coon’s severance pay. Senard, who will become day, signalling the start of a appointment, Senard moved nault announcement, express- Ghosn has denied the Renault chairman while con- new era for the manufacturer to reassure investors of his ing hope for a “new chapter” in charges, but with his release tinuing to run Michelin until and its vital but strained alli- faith in the Renault-Nissan- ties between the partners. from jail unlikely anytime May, is meanwhile well-liked ance with Nissan and Mitsubi- Mitsubishi alliance, calling it “This is a big milestone soon, Renault’s board had by the French government, French carmaker Renault’s newly appointed board chairman Jean- shi. “absolutely essential”. that we are reaching,” Nissan been gearing up to name new Renault’s biggest shareholder Dominique Senard (left) with new chief executive Thierry Bollore in Thierry Bollore, who has Ghosn, previously the most chief Hiroto Saikawa told re- directors. with a stake of more than 15 Paris on Thursday. (AFP) been running Renault since influential man in the global porters in Tokyo. It had been widely expect- percent. 10 Friday, January 25, 2019 Economy & Business Airbus warns no-deal Brexit could spark ‘very harmful decisions’

AFP “If there is a no-deal Brexit, out of Britain, also expressed terms May agreed with Brus- debate and votes on the way for- LONDON we at Airbus will have to make deep frustration over Prime sels, raising fresh fears that ward on January 29, with MPs potentially very harmful de- Minister Theresa May’s falter- Britain could crash out with no mulling a long list of options in- AIRBUS chief Tom Enders cisions for the UK,” Enders ing Brexit strategy. deal on March 29. cluding a second referendum or on Thursday warned the Eu- warned in a video published on “It is a disgrace that more The nation’s powerful CBI delaying the March 29 divorce ropean aerospace giant could the group’s website. than two years after the result of business lobby group has also date. make “very harmful decisions” The German CEO said that the 2016 referendum, business- expressed dismay that May had But EU negotiator Michel for Britain if it leaves the Euro- up to 110,000 jobs in Britain es are still unable to plan prop- not offered a clearer way for- Barnier warned on Wednesday pean Union without a deal, the relied on its British plants, erly for the future,” Enders said. ward. that a parliamentary move to latest multinational to issue a which generate around £6 bil- “We, along with many of our “The global market for avia- block a no-deal Brexit would fail stark alert. lion ($7.8 billion) of turnover peers, have repeatedly called for tion is growing at five percent unless a MPs could swing be- Enders branded the gov- every year. clarity. each year. But we are not de- hind an alternative agreement. ernment’s handling of Brexit The country’s whole aero- “But we still have no idea pendent on the UK for our fu- “There appears to be a ma- a “disgrace” and suggested space sector “now stands at the what is really going on here.” File photo of an Airbus A330 in the final assembly line in Colomiers ture,” Enders said. jority in the Commons to op- 14,000 jobs at its sites design- precipice,” he added. The aviation giant’s relationship near Toulouse, France. (EPA) “Airbus will survive and pose a no-deal but opposing a ing and manufacturing wings - ‘It is a disgrace’ -The Fran- with the EU has itself been un- thrive whatever the outcome. no-deal will not stop a no-deal at Filton in southwest England co-German firm, which has der scrutiny recently, with the proper subsidies from the bloc launch the A380 and A350 jets. “The question is: does the from happening” on the official and Broughton in north Wales repeatedly stated that Brexit World Trade Organization last after the US argued it had given British lawmakers last week UK wish to be part of that future March 29 departure date, he were under threat. could mean pulling investment year ruling the firm received im- $22 billion in state aid to help roundly rejected the divorce success?” May has promised a said. ECB keeps policy India’s e-commerce policy unchanged as EU economy suffers to hit Amazon, Walmart biggest slowdown The new policy to kick in from REUTERS weeks after ending its biggest Feb 1 is the latest FRANKFURT stimulus scheme. A guidance tweak not ac- India-US trade THE European Central companied by a policy move Bank left its policy stance would create an impression irritant unchanged as expected on that policy is not in sync with Thursday, keeping a rate policymakers’ assessment of REUTERS hike later this year on the the economy. NEW DELHI/NEW YORK table even as the euro zone Investors now see a rate economy suffers its biggest hike only in mid-2020 while slowdown in half a decade. a Reuters poll of economists THE United States govern- Having ended a landmark predicted the first rise in ment is concerned about In- 2.6 trillion euro ($3 trillion) nearly a decade in the fourth dia’s revised e-commerce reg- bond purchase scheme just quarter. ulations and has told officials weeks ago, the ECB said it Draghi’s big headache in New Delhi the policy will still expected to keep interest is that a growth dip, seen as hinder the Indian investment rates at record lows ‘through’ temporary just a few months plans of Amazon.com and the summer, sticking with its ago, shows few signs of going Walmart Inc, three sources long-standing guidance even away. familiar with the talks told though markets now see a Manufacturing contract- Reuters. much later move. ed near the end of 2018, ex- The tussle marks the lat- But ECB President Mario port growth slowed and PMI est in a number of US pro- Draghi may still acknowl- data out on Thursday once tests over Indian government edge a sharp slowdown in again disappointed. policies which impact Ameri- economic growth, raising the A predicted rise in under- can companies and comes at prospect that any further pol- lying inflation has also failed a time when the two coun- icy normalisation could be to materialise and employ- tries are trying to iron out delayed and suggesting that ment growth is slowing, a other trade irritants. In 2017, the bank’s next move might worrying sign for wages and the US lodged a written pro- even be an easing of policy inflation. test against India’s decision rather than a tightening. All this suggests that the to cap medical device prices, Germany, France and euro zone is now growing which upset American com- Italy, the euro zone’s biggest at or even below trend, so panies. Amazon and Walmart have both made bold bets to tap India’s booming e-commerce market. economies, barely grew in inflationary pressures may India’s e-commerce in- the fourth quarter of 2018 take longer to build -- test- vestment rules, which kick in two countries and stressed Amazon and Walmart It makes it harder to plan and survey data showed on ing the credibility of the ECB, from February 1, ban compa- that American companies have both made bold bets to things,” a US-based Walmart Thursday business activity which has undershot its price nies from selling products via should be given concessions tap India’s booming e-com- source told Reuters. across the euro zone expand- growth target since early firms in which they have an in the larger interest of bi- merce market, which Morgan “It is a serious issue. We ed at the slowest pace since 2013. equity interest and also bar lateral trade, but India gave Stanley had estimated, before are doing our best to work 2013 at the start of this year. Some of the weakness them from making deals with a “non-committal” response, Huge blow the latest government move with Indian authorities and With much of its firepow- may be temporary, like the sellers to sell exclusively on the source added. would grow 30 percent a year trying to explain why this is er depleted, Draghi will use struggles of the German auto their platforms. But Indian Prime Minis- The policy has dealt a blow to to $200 billion in the 10 years bad for business.” The Con- his few remaining tools spar- industry to adjust to new The policy has dealt a ter Narendra Modi is unlikely Walmart, which just last year up to 2027. federation of All India Trad- ingly, suggesting Thursday’s emissions standards, inves- blow to Walmart, which just to delay the revised rules or invested $16 billion in buying The companies have tar- ers, which has supported news conference, due at 1330 tor caution ahead of Brexit or last year invested $16 billion amend them in any meaning- 77 percent of India’s Flipkart, geted a growing population tougher scrutiny of large e- GMT, will be more about the drag on sentiment from in buying 77 percent of In- ful way as he is seeking the and Amazon, as it would force of tech-savvy shoppers in commerce players, said the words of comfort rather than protests against French Pres- dia’s Flipkart, and Amazon, support of the tens of mil- them to change their business India, luring them with deep companies were acting “des- action. ident Emmanuel Macron. as it would force them to lions of small retailers and structures in the country and discounts on everything from perate” by pressurising the At most, Draghi may But sluggish external change their business struc- traders in India ahead of a dishwashers to smartphones. Indian government. emphasise the danger that demand is likely to be more tures in the country and raise general election that must be raise their operational costs India’s small traders and “Any deferment or change the economy slows further persistent, with China’s eco- their operational costs. held by May. The small firms shopkeepers had for years (in the policy) will adversely by saying the balance of risk nomic struggles likely to ex- “There is a very strong see Walmart and Amazon as a nideepa Mukherjee, declined complained that e-commerce affect millions of small busi- is tilted to the downside. acerbate the slowdown. undercurrent as to how this threat to their businesses. to comment. companies were engaging in nesses,” said the group’s He could also provide clues If such a drag on growth should be made a bilateral An Indian industry source Asked about the In- predatory pricing and hurting secretary general, Praveen about new loans to banks, persists, the ECB will be issue,” said a Washington- said Walmart, Amazon and dian policy’s implications, the businesses of brick-and- Khandelwal. called Long-Term Refinanc- pressed to signal record low based industry source aware lobbying groups were coordi- Walmart spokesman Greg mortar retailers. Both Walmart-owned ing Operations or LTROs, rates for even longer, provid- of the companies’ thinking. nating efforts with the Office Hitt said: “We certainly, as They alleged that the on- Flipkart and Amazon have likely to come in the spring. ing more stimulus by delay- “This has gone way be- of the United States Trade you would expect, have en- line retailers used their con- requested the government to But some policymakers ing a hike. yond being a local (India) tus- Representative (USTR) and gaged the (United States) trol over inventory from their delay implementation of the have in the past objected to It could also offer long- sle.” A US government official the local embassy to express administration on this issue.” affiliates to create an unfair policy, but India is unlikely to changing the risk assessment term loans to banks on more earlier this month told Indian their discontent about the He declined to share further marketplace that allowed relent. since such a move would generous terms and may officials to protect Walmart policy. details. them to sell some products at Indian officials have told naturally raise expectations tweak its guidance on how and Flipkart’s investments in The USTR did not re- Amazon India said it was lower prices. Such arrange- Reuters no relief was likely of policy action and the ECB long it plans to invest cash the country, an Indian trade spond to a request for com- committed to complying with ments would be barred under as the policy was seen helping is not yet prepared for such from maturing bonds back ministry official told Reuters. ment. The US Embassy in local laws but it needed “ad- the new policy. the small trader community, a move and certainly not into the market. The US government cited New Delhi, and Indian trade equate time to understand” “We are disappoint- who form a critical voter base “good relations” between the ministry spokeswoman Mo- the policy. ed more than surprised. for Modi. Booz Allen shares top five strategies to harness AI in 2019

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Qatar lose ACC Western Region T20 final in MuscatPAGE 13 ASIAN CUP 2019 QATAR VS SOUTH KOREA Qatar can handle South Korean pressure in quarters: Sanchez Qatar coach says team has sufficient depth to deal with the absence of suspended Abdelkarim Hassan and Assim Madibo AFC ABU DHABI

HEAD coach Felix Sanchez be- lieves pressure will not play a part when his Qatar side face Korea Republic in Friday’s ea- gerly anticipated AFC Asian Cup UAE 2019 quarter-final encounter. Qatar head into the game against one of the tournament favourites having won Group E and then beating Iraq 1-0 in the Round of 16 – a run of vic- tories that has seen them score Familiar 11 times and keep four succes- sive clean sheets. situation When Qatar last played Korea, Uruguayan coach Jorge O “All of them are Fossati guided Al Anabi to a professional players and pulsating 3-2 win at Jassim they are used to playing in Bin Hamad Stadium in June competitions such as their 2017. Hassan Haydos scored a domestic leagues and the brace and Akram Afif the other AFC Champions League, so goal in a 2018 FIFA World Cup they are used to having this qualifying match. Despite Qatar never hav- kind of pressure.” ing progressed beyond this stage in any of their previ- ous nine appearances at the “I want them to feel the competition, Sanchez be- pressure in the right way be- lieves his squad is adequately cause it is a very important equipped to cope with the un- game, but they are absolutely doubtedly intense nature of used to these kinds of situa- an AFC Asian Cup quarter- tions.” final tie. Qatar will be without the “Up until this point the suspended Abdelkarim Has- team has performed well and san and Assim Madibo after has achieved some very good the key duo picked up their results,” explained the Span- second yellow cards of the ish tactician. campaign during the win over (From left) Almoez Ali, Karim Boadiaf, Bassam Hisham, Abdulkarim Salem, Akram Afif and Tameem Al Muhaza at a practice session in Abu Dhabi on Thursday. “Of course, all of them are Iraq. professional players and they Whilst acknowledging “Once you reach this far in United Arab Emirates even if formances. are used to playing in compe- their loss was a blow, Sanchez the competition, it is normal FIXTURES TODAY the Tottenham Hotspur for- “I’m not concerned about titions such as their domestic remained adamant that his to have injuries or players SOUTH KOREA VS QATAR (4PM) ward has a gruelling run of that, it’s not mandatory that leagues and the AFC Champi- squad has sufficient depth to suspended. We are a group of football behind him. Son scores with the national ons League, so they are used deal with their enforced ab- 23 players, and we have every UAE VS AUSTRALIA (7PM) Son played at the World team,” said Bento. “What is to having this kind of pres- sence; something which he confidence in all the players Cup last year, won the 2018 the most important for us is sure.” believes is par for the course who are here. public.” “We need to try to find Asian Games with South Ko- that we scored in every game “The pressure of being in in tournament football. “Of course, it would be Meanwhile South Korea the best solutions and not the rea in September and has in this competition. a quarter-final is more than “We know we are going better to have everyone coach Paulo Bento is inter- best excuses,” the Portuguese been key as Spurs challenged “I think we should have welcome and I think they have to face a very tough game available, but we are sure ested only in finding a way to Bento told reporters in Abu on multiple fronts. scored more goals because to enjoy it, and work very hard against what many people be- that we will maintain our progress rather than looking Dhabi on Thursday. He arrived late in the UAE we created a lot of situations to have the chance to have at lieve are one of the favourites [current level] and be ready to explain why things may go In Son Heung Min they and has yet to score in two in almost all the games we least one more game. for the tournament,” he said. to compete against Korea Re- wrong. boast the best player in the games, turning in mixed per- played.”

Al Annabi confident Qatar will be taking the VAR-assisted Japan reach Asian Cup Asian Cup back to semi-finals as Iran beat China 3-0 AFP Doha, says Ali Afif ABU DHABI REUTERS IRAN fired an Asian Cup warn- ABU DHABI ing by dispatching China 3-0 in ruthless fashion to reach the QATAR’S Ali Afif eschewed the usual pre-match conventions ahead semi-finals on Thursday while of a quarter-final clash against South Korea on Thursday, boldly a landmark VAR-assisted pen- declaring his side would be taking the Asian Cup back to Doha to alty sent Japan through. celebrate with their fans. Ritsu Doan scored from the Qatar have shown impressive form in reaching the quarter- spot in Japan’s 1-0 win over finals, winning four matches without conceding a goal and knocking Vietnam as the video assistant out 2007 champions referee system marked its tour- Iraq in the last 16. nament debut with a bang, the Afif said getting Blue Samurai marching on to past pre-tournament face top-ranked Iran in the last favourites South Korea four. Iran continued on their and into the semi-finals quest to end a barren run at the Japan’s Ritsu Doan (centre) shoots to score a penalty against Vietnam of the continental Asian Cup dating back 43 years in Dubai on Thursday. (AFP) championship for the with Mehdi Taremi, Sardar first time on Friday Azmoun and Karim Ansarifard Results should not be the ex- all on target in Abu Dhabi. tent of their ambition. Carlos Queiroz’s side drew Iran 3 (Taremi 18, Azmoun 31, Ansarifard 90+1) China 0 “We know they are first blood after 18 minutes of supporting us even an embarrassingly one-sided Iran’s forward Sardar Azmoun (left) celebrates his goal with midfielder Vietnam 0 Japan 1 (Doan 57-pen) they are not here,” the quarter-final when Azmoun Mehdi Taremi during the 2019 AFC Asian Cup quarter-final match in experienced midfielder squared for Taremi to sweep Abu Dhabi on Thursday. (AFP) said of the absent home after some calamitous whimper. long-range effort from Phong fans. Chinese defending. to slide in with a superb goal- also equalled South Korea’s re- Japan won the last of their Hong Duy but the southeast “We got messages Iran’s second was almost line clearance to deny Wu Lei a cord of keeping clean sheets in record four Asian Cups in 2011 Asian champions lacked the from Doha that they a carbon copy -- much to the tap-in. their first five games at a single and have hardly set the world creativity to break down Japan. are supporting us and will try to repay them with our unstinting chagrin of China coach Mar- Iran could have been out of Asian Cup. alight at this tournament. “It doesn’t matter how you efforts. The whole squad will do so and we will celebrate together cello Lippi, who stood staring sight by half-time as Azmoun Asia’s highest-ranking side, But they had too much qual- win -- the important thing is to and go back to Doha with the Cup for them.” Afif has only played 10 in horror. This time Liu Yim- -- known by Team Melli fans seeking to capture the title for ity for Vietnam in Dubai, Doan get through,” said Japan coach minutes as a substitute at the tournament so far with Felix Sanchez ing misjudged a hopeful punt as the “Iranian Messi” -- twice the first time since completing converting the spot kick on 57 Hajime Moriyasu. preferring younger players he has brought through from his days as down-field, allowing Azmoun went close and Taremi missed a hat-tricks of wins in 1976, are minutes after a penalty awarded “We knew Vietnam would coach of Qatar’s age group teams. to nip in and round goalkeeper an open goal. co-favourites with South Korea by VAR technology. be obdurate opponents but the The Spaniard was a little more respectful of the usual pre- Yan Junling to score his fourth Ehsan Hajsafi forced a sharp to go all the way. Japan captain Maya Yoshi- players kept their focus and we match protocols, paying tribute to South Korea as a “tough” team of the tournament. save from Yan on the hour mark China finished runners- da also had a headed goal move on.” On Friday, holders who play football “in the right way”. China’s best chance came before Ansarifard raced clear to up in 1984 and 2004 but the chalked off for hand-ball on re- Australia face hosts UAE, while “The players are very confident,” he added. “But at the same after just six minutes when Hao add a third in stoppage time. sleeping giants of Asian football view as VAR made an eventful South Korea -- runners-up to time we know it’s going to be very tough and have to be ready to Junmin wriggled free, only for It was another dominant failed to seriously trouble Iran Asian Cup debut. the Socceroos four years ago -- produce a good performance.” Iran defender Ramin Rezaeian performance from Iran, who as their challenge ended in a Vietnam went close with a take on Qatar. Sports Friday, January 25, 2019 13

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England shot out for 77 in first innings against West Indies BARBADOS West Indies bowled out England for 77 runs in their first innings on a remarkable second day of the first Test in Barbados on Thursday. Fast bowler Kemar Roach ripped through the England line-up, taking five for 17 off 11 fiery overs at Kensington Oval in Bridgetown, to give the home fans, outnumbered by visiting English supporters, plenty to cheer about. It was England’s fourth lowest total against West Indies. West Indies, who did not enforce the follow-on, enjoyed a 212-run lead, a most unlikely scenario after being all out for 289 earlier on Thursday. Roach was well supported by captain Jason Holder (2-15), Alzarri Joseph (2-20) and Shannon Gabriel (1-15), all getting plenty of bounce and enough movement to tie the batsmen in knots. Holder picked up the prized scalp of Joe Root with a mag- nificent delivery that trapped the England captain lbw for four. Earlier, the home team lost their final six wickets for 49, a portent of things to come for England on a pitch that for most of the first day did not present too many issues for the bats- men.

Dominant Australia in command against Sri Lanka in first Test BRISBANE Some fine pace bowling from Jhye Richardson and Pat Cummins put a dominant Australia firmly in charge after Spain’s Rafael Nadal celebrates his victory against Greece’s Stefanos Tsitsipas during their men’s singles semi-final match in het Australian Open in Melbourne on Thursday. (AFP) the first day of the day-night Test against Sri Lanka in Brisbane on Thursday. Newcomer Richardson took three wickets for 26 and Cum- mins four as the home side dismissed Sri Lanka for just 144. Australian opener Marcus Harris then batted assuredly Ruthless Nadal dismantles to finish on 40 not out at the close of play as the home side finished the day 72 for two. Sri Lankan captain Dinesh Chandimal earlier won the toss and elected to bat first on a hot and humid Brisbane afternoon but the visitors were forced to battle hard against the Austral- Tsitsipas in semi-final ian attack. The 22-year-old Richardson bowled with real pace and found just enough movement to trouble the Sri Lankans, who The Spaniard posts dominant straight-set win over Tsitsipas; Osaka too good for Pliskova struggled to come to terms with the bouncy Gabba wicket. AFP back from Karolina Pliskova leave former world number one MELBOURNE to reach her maiden Australian Pliskova stranded. BCCI lifts bans on Pandya & Rahul Open final with a 6-2 4-6 6-4 The Czech could muster RAFAEL Nadal handed rising win on Thursday setting up a only 20, half of which came in MUMBAI Indian cricketers KL Rahul and Hardik Pandya, who star Stefanos Tsitsipas a ten- title clash with double Wimble- the second set when she hung were suspended earlier this month for making controversial nis lesson on Thursday as he don champion Petra Kvitova. in to level the match despite the comments about women, have had their bans lifted with imme- drubbed him 6-2, 6-4, 6-0 in barrage of winners from her op- diate effect, the Indian cricket board (BCCI) said on Thursday. the Australian Open semi-final. ponent. Batsman Rahul and all-rounder Pandya were sent home Greek 14th seed Tsitsipas “I like the heat so I was “I mean I kind of expected from India’s tour of Australia two weeks ago and subsequently had enjoyed a fairytale run to kind of sad about that... (the comeback) a little... I was banned after making remarks that were widely condemned as his first Grand Slam last four, No, but like, they have the expecting a really hard battle,” sexist and inappropriate in a TV show interview. including a win over Roger said the Japanese, who had The Committee of Administrators (CoA) that is running Federer, but found Nadal in roof open and I was like, won once in their three previ- Indian cricket lifted the ban on the players pending the appoint- ruthless form as he won in 1hr ‘oh, it’s my time to shine’,” ous meetings before Thursday. ment of the board’s ombudsman, making the duo available for 46min. The Spanish second Osaka said. “I just told myself to re- selection to the national team in the interim. seed has not dropped his serve group in the third set and try as “The suspension orders dated 11.01.2019 is immediately for an astonishing 63 straight hard as I can.” lifted pending appointment and adjudication of the allegations games and has not lost a set on Naomi Osaka of Japan hits a return against Karolina Pliskova during Osaka burnished her repu- Osaka has now won 59 by the BCCI ombudsman,” the CoA said in a statement. his way to the final, where he their women’s singles semi-final match on Thursday. (EPA-EFE) tation as one of the cleanest straight matches when win- Local media reported that Pandya was likely to join up will face either Novak Djokovic hitters of the ball in women’s ning the first set and also with India’s squad for the ongoing limited-overs series in New or Lucas Pouille. pus was comprehensively halt- come a multi-Grand Slam tennis by smacking winners trumped Pliskova on the ser- Zealand. “It’s been a great match, a ed by the colossus called Nadal. champion,” Nadal said of the almost at will from both her vice front. great tournament,” Nadal said Nadal’s win put him into his young Greek, who enjoyed a forehand and backhand un- Coming into the match as after a breathtaking display of fifth Australian Open final and breakthrough 2018, winning der the roof of the Rod Laver one of the biggest servers in the Mandhana smashes fourth ODI ton almost perfect tennis. keeps him on course to become the ATP Tour NextGen Finals. Arena which was closed due to women’s game, Pliskova man- “I think I have played very the first man to win all four “When at that age he is in extreme heat. aged three aces in the match NAPIER India rode on opener Smriti Mandhana’s fourth ODI well every day. After a lot of Grand Slams twice in the Open the semi-finals that says a lot of “I like the heat so I was kind while the Japanese reeled off ton and a disciplined bowling effort from the spin twins of Ekta months without playing is era if he can add to his sole Mel- good things about him and win- of sad about that... No, but like, 15, often coming up with unre- Bisht and Poonam Yadav to outclass New Zealand by 9 wickets probably this court, this crowd bourne Park crown in 2009. ning the matches that he won they have the roof open and turned serves to win the crucial in the first ICC Women’s Championship One-day International it gives me that unbelievable Tsitsipas, in just his second already, so, yeah, I hope to face I was like, ‘oh, it’s my time to points. at the McLean Park here on Thursday. energy.” Australian Open and seventh him in important rounds in the shine’,” Osaka said in an on- “I believe she played un- Smriti, the 2018 ICC Women’s Cricketer of the Year, con- The 20-year-old Tsitsipas appearance at a Grand Slam, next couple of years, hopefully.” court interview. believable match. To be hon- tinued from where she left last year, as she belted a 104-ball had been hailed as a new Greek was looking to become the first She scorched the court est, maybe her best in the life. 105, comprising nine fours and three sixes, and was engaged god of tennis after beating Greek player -- man or woman Second Grand Slam final further with 56 winners, of- I don’t think she can repeat in a 190-run opening stand with teenager Jemimah Rodrigues Federer, but his ascent to the -- to reach a final in a major. U.S. Open champion Nao- ten going down on one knee match like this,” Pliskova told (81 not out) to power the visitors home with 17 overs to spare. summit of his personal Olym- “He has everything to be- mi Osaka staved off a fight- to generate immense power to reporters. Qatar lose ACC Western Region QATARI GOLD, DUKE OF DUNDEE SHINE T20 final in Muscat

TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK DOHA BRIEF SCORES FINAL QATAR, who had to play five Qatar lost to Saudi Arabia by eight wickets Qatar: 157 for six in 20 overs (Tamoor Sajjad 68, matches in four days, could not Noman Sarwar 30 not out, Mohammad Tanveer 27; sustain their brilliant run till Muhammad Nadeem 2/33) the end and lost the ACC West- Saudi Arabia: 163 for two in 15.3 overs ern Region Twenty20 Cricket (Shamsudheen Purat 88 not out, Faisal Khan 36, Malik Muhammad Naeem 17 not out, Mohammad Tournament final to Saudi Ara- Awais Malik 1/31, Tamoor Sajjad 1/47) bia by eight wickets in Muscat, Man of the match: Shamsudheen Purat (Saudi Oman on Thursday. Arabia) Asked to bat first, Qatar League match: recovered from three down for Qatar beat Bahrain by 48 runs 37 to put up a fighting 155 for Qatar: 205 for 5 off 20 overs (Faisal Javed Khan 60, six in 20 overs. Saudi Arabia, Kamran Khan 52, Mohammad Tanveer 36, Tamoor whose challenge was revived af- Sajjad 31) Bahrain: 157 all out in 18.2 overs (S.Ali 35, Fiaz 39; ter their victory over Kuwait in Iqbal Hussain Chaudhry 2/23, Tamoor Sajjad 2/23, the morning, continued in the Inam-Ul-Haq 2/23, Mohammad Nadeem 2/26, same aggressive mode and se- Mohammad Awais Malik 1/25) cured the win with eight wick- Man of the match: Faisal Javed Khan (Qatar) ets in hand. Qatar Cricket Association eight wickets. President Yousef Jeham al Earlier in the day, Qatar had Kuwari extended his words of Qatar’s Faisal Javed Khan receives the man of the match award from no problems as they brushed encouragement to the national Oman Cricket’s Chief Development Officer and former Sri Lanka aside Bahrain by 48 runs. They team players. “It was a tough player Duleep Mendis after his team’s win over Kuwait in Muscat on first flexed their muscles by schedule and it is never easy to Thursday. putting on another batting ex- play all out in five matches in a travanganza, scoring 205 for row. I feel the Qatar players had do better next time.” in a 59-run stand for the fifth 5 with Faisal Javed hitting his a bad match at the wrong time. Qatar had beaten Saudi wicket with Mohammad Tan- way to a scintillating 60 off just You won four matches in a row Arabia by four wickets in the veer, who hit 27 in 19 balls. 29 balls with six fours and four which amply shows the poten- league match. They qualified Saudi Arabia repaired the sixes. Kamran Khan (52 off tial that you have. for the final on better net run- damage quickly after Moham- 33), Mohammad Tanveer (36 “We’re happy that our team rate compared to that of Kuwait mmad Awais Malik removed off 22) and Taimoor Sajjad (31 qualified for the final and fin- and Bahrain after their stun- Sajid Imran Cheema. Sham- off 11) were equally impressive ished runner-up. I hope the ning over Kuwait in the morn- sudheen Purat and Faisal Javed whacking a flurry of fours and players will learn from this final ing. collected 77 runs off 33 balls to sixes in a superb display of bat- and try to put in an improved Being three down for 37, set up the victory in 15.3 overs. ting on an excellent pitch. showing,” he added. Qatar could not force the pace Purat smashed six sixes and Bahrain failed to match QCA Operations Manager as much as they would liked to half a dozen fours in his 88 not Qatar’s batting bravado, fold- Manzoor Ahmad said, “Our and ended up with 157 for six in out, while Khan hit three sixes ing up for 157 with nearly two players played well and had 20 overs. and four boundaries in his 15- overs to spare. Iqbal Hussain Qatari Gold, ridden by Theo Bachelot, won the Al Areeq Cup with a one-length margin over Black Granite, beaten Saudi Arabia in the Tamoor Sajjad played sol- ball 36. Chaudhry cleaned up the tail, while Duke of Dundee was piloted to the Khor Al Adaid Cup victory by Ronan Thomas at the Race Meeting opening match. But sometimes idly and struck a fine 68 off 38 Sjjad broke the partnership taking 3 for 23 while Taimoor at the QREC Racecourse on Thursday. Thomas later also helmed Alhazm to a thrilling nose victory against every team has a drop in perfor- balls with three sixes and five but Saudi Arabia managed to Sajjad and Inamul Haq bagged Full Moon in the Thoroughbred Classic. Gerald Avranche and Northern Beam completed the schedule, mance. I’m sure our players will boundaries. He was involved control the match and win by two wickets each. winning the fourth feature race of the day - the Thoroughbred Pearl - beating Flower Festival comfortably. 14 Friday, January 25, 2019 FEATURES

TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE The frogs were just starting their UBUD, INDONESIA nightly arias when the rhythmic sound of bells and drums wafted IVEN the situation, I was into my room. The mysterious moving as fast as I could. sound would swell, subside, then I was walking cautiously rise again. I felt as if I were being on a foot-wide earthen berm summoned by some ineffable force. Gsep arating water-soaked I walked out of my cottage and rice paddies. A big cross-body gar- wandered into the hotel’s open- bage bag banged against my hip as I GOING TO BALI? walled restaurant, where I found a clutched a 6-foot pole with a pointed dozen or so Balinese musicians sit- metal tip. ting on the floor making hypnotic Rivulets of sweat ran down my music with metallophones, which back as I speared yogurt cups, candy look like xylophones; bonangs, wrappers and plastic bags. HAVE FUN, BUT CONTRIBUTE TOO which look like brass kettles; and And then I lost my balance. drums. It was a traditional Balinese It was our first full day on the gamelan orchestra. The percussive Indonesian island of Bali, and nine music was ethereal. of us were on a “trash walk” near the As we sat down at a big round upland town of Ubud in the heart of dinner table, servers and cooks the island. The walk was organized fussed nearby with a whole roasted by Cynthia Hardy, a friend who had pig on a spit. (We hoped it was not invited us to Bali. She moved to the one of the black Balinese pigs we island in the ‘80s and has been here, had met earlier in the week on one on and off, ever since. of our walks, but Cynthia could give With Cynthia in the lead, we no guarantee.) traipsed through terraced green rice After we finished our feast, the paddies, along slippery brown river- orchestra accompanied a topeng banks and centuries-old waterways dance in which elaborately cos- in search of demon trash. We picked tumed dancers in grotesque masks our way past men, women and chil- acted out Balinese folk tales. dren bathing in the irrigation canals, Even without knowing the sto- the heart of the Balinese irrigation ries, it was easy to see that good tri- system known as subak, so unique umphed over evil. that UNESCO has designated it a World Heritage site. A CLOSED SOCIETY Toward the end of our walk, we Most visitors do not rent cars came upon a woman selling durian, on Bali and instead hire drivers, a football-size fruit with a hard, easy to do through hotels and local spiky shell. Cynthia bought one, companies. This is the safest choice, broke it open and tried to entice us because Bali streets are choked with to eat the fruit, whose scent is a nau- motor scooters and driving is on the seating mixture of sweaty socks and left side. The obstacles on any given rotting garbage. If you can get past road — trucks, tour buses, vans, the smell, she assured us, it tastes dogs, chickens and the occasional like a stick of Juicy Fruit gum. But however you experience Bali, gave them the means to create the cow — make driving daunting. I tried, but gagged and had to you will be charmed by its spiritual eco-centric luxury hotel Bambu In- One day, our Bambu Indah driv- spit it out. people, its intense beauty, and its dah, the private Green School and ers took us from Ubud to Karangas- tropical melange of fecundity and Green Village, a small community of em, a two-hour drive to Bali’s east PRICE OF POPULARITY decay. spectacular, custom bamboo homes coast, where we planned to spend For the American traveler, the designed by John’s daughter Elora one night. word “Bali” conjures up a lush image DRUMS IN THE NIGHT Hardy. On the way, we visited the an- of magic, spirituality and possibili- My nine-day visit to the island in The Bambu Indah is built on a cient village of Tenganan, whose ties. It’s an island of Hindu gods and November was unusual, but anyone ridge overlooking the Ayung River, residents are known as Bali Aga, or temples in a nation with the largest can replicate the itinerary. I went to its 2 1/2 acres dotted with vegeta- original Balinese. Theirs is a closed Muslim population in the world. Indonesia because of my friendship ble gardens, coconut and frangipani society; you can live in the village What is usually missing from the with the Hardys; I paid for my ac- trees, and rock-lined pools that look only if you were born there. If you Bali of our imaginations is the reality commodations, airfare and the rest like natural ponds. marry an outsider, you must leave. of an island struggling to maintain of my trip, in keeping with Los An- The accommodations consist of There was a small fee to enter its identity even as it has become a geles Times policy. 11 antique Javanese bridal houses, the village, which was laid out along tourist haven — and the rare target Nine women, most of them charmingly rustic but with fridges, a wide, grassy path. The homes on for Islamist terrorists. friends of Cynthia’s since her child- AC, good lighting and plumbing. A either side doubled as workshops New wealth has meant that Ba- hood in Marin County, had come to couple of new bamboo cottages, de- and stores. Inside one, we watched li’s roadways are overrun by motor- visit the place she has called home Cynthia and her husband, John, After our tour, we sat down with signed by Elora Hardy, are perched women weaving double ikat fabric, bikes. Its waterways and rice paddies for 30 years. We put ourselves in have created here, all in the cause some of the company’s employees on the river and surrounded by jun- an ancient, painstaking process that are choking on trash that has turned her experienced hands, and she ar- of promoting sustain- for a lunch of corn frit- gle. produces exquisite fabric highly val- this once pristine island into a cau- ranged treks, day trips, shopping ability and an appre- ters, fish wrapped in ba- Before dinner one night, I was ued by textile collectors. tionary tale about the perils of plastic outings, dinners and, of course, yoga ciation for the world’s nana leaves, salad, rice lolling in my spacious cottage, Af- The prices were astronomical — and consumption in an agrarian so- classes. natural balances. and banana cake. rika House, ensconced behind white $600 for a length of ikat about the ciety ill-equipped for the challenge. We were all ea- The Hardys first Travel Happy and full, we muslin bed curtains, safe from mos- size of a long, wide scarf — so I bought You can overlook the problems, ger to know more became known for meandered into the quitoes. some fine-gauge rattan baskets and or engage with them, as we about the mul- their jewelry business, boutique, a 90-foot-tall hollow eggs painted with Hindu tried to do on our tifarious which John founded babamboo marvel that looks gods instead. The eggs were carefully trash walk. world in 1975. A tour of the like a ship’s hull and appears wrapped and gently placed in woven that workshops and design center was to float on rice paddies. Let’s just say bamboo boxes, perfect for gifts. high on our to-do list. The compa- some of us were less restrained with ny employs hundreds of Balinese our credit cards than others. PLASTIC PROLIFERATES artisans who make the distinc- About a decade ago, the We arrived late in the day in Ka- tive John Hardy woven brace- Hardys sold the rangasem, where we stayed at Villa lets, earrings and necklaces business, which Campuhan, a beachfront complex sold in high-end stores of six villas and a long house on the around the world. Lombok Strait. It is owned by direc- tor Rob Cohen, whose movies in- clude “The Fast and the Furious” and “DragonHeart.” Cohen was drawn by the ex- cellent surf break and the view of Mount Agung, an active volcano that plays a central role in Ba- linese spirituality.

Your sustainable diet for the year 2050: More nuts, less sugar and red meat

TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE ers, food consumers and policy mak- per day. That’s the equivalent of one traditional diets including the Medi- ers toward creating a food system decent-sized hamburger a week, or terranean diet,” said Walter Willett, OOD news, Earthlings! An that will improve human health and one steak a month. Professor of epidemiology and nutri- international team of scien- the health of the planet. Dairy is not off the table, either. tion at the Harvard T.H. Chan School tists reports that it is indeed The proposed diet, based on The target diet includes up to one of Public Health who co-chaired the possible to feed everyone on a two-year review of hundreds of glass of milk or other dairy product report. “This is not radical at all in Gthe planet a healthy and en- nutrition studies, is not perp day. many culinary traditions.” vironmentally sustainable diet by as scary as one might For other pro- It would also lead to global im- the year 2050. think. Insects are not tein sources the re- provements in human health. If eve- All it will take is a wholesale, rad- required eating. No one searchers recommend ryone on the planet adapted these ical change to what foods we eat and is asking anyone to be- roughly two servings dietary rules 11 million premature the way we produce them. come a vegan. Health of fish per week, and 1 deaths would be avoided each year, “We call it the Great Food Trans- The reference diet ½ eggs per week. The he said. In order to keep this diet formation,” said Jessica Fanzo, di- includes 2,500 calories majoritym of calories on sustainable as the world’s popula- rector of the Global Food Ethics and per day, which is close to thishi dietd comes from grains tion grows, the authors set goals for Policy Program at Johns Hopkins the global average today of 2,370. as they do today, but the authors how our food is produced as well. University in Maryland. “While that In the U.S., men consume 2,800 emphasize that we need to shift to These include a drastic reduc- may sound dramatic, we need big calories per day while women con- whole grains. tion in greenhouse gas emissions as- transformation and massive cooper- sume between 2,000 and 2,200, ac- They also want to see a 100 per- sociated with food production from ation to meet this global challenge.” cording to the report. cent increase in the amount of leg- 8.5 to 13.7 gigatons today to about 5 In a report published Wednes- The authors say that red meat umes, nuts and fruits and vegetables gigatons by 2050. day in Lancet, Fanzo, along with can still be on a globally sustain- most of us consume and for added Environmental targets also re- 36 colleagues from 16 countries, able menu but in drastically re- sugars to become just 5 percent of quire a 50 percent reduction in food released a set of scientifically deter- duced quantities. The diet allows our total caloric intake. waste, and a strict zero expansion of mined targets to guide food produc- for roughly 1 tablespoon of red meat “It is very consistent with many farmland. Friday, January 25, 2019 15 KIDS CORNER

day in L.A. And that’s a little bit too young age of 21, was the most amaz- to retire. ing experience ever. And I wish Q: Did you and your I’d studied harder at school daughter, or any of your Q: How long did it take with my French because I never Gordon Ramsay kids, have a cook-off? you to get so good at cook- thought I’d ever need it. And so A: Yes. So we have cook- ing? And do you think you when I got to France I wish I’d offs normally on Saturday are a master at cooking? focused a little bit more on my morning, because that’s a big A: I started cooking along- French lessons. But I became breakfast for us. Tilly and Jack side my mom, who was a chef fluent in French, and France — talks about his new book, play water polo and after their in a local restaurant in Strat- that was my calling. two-hour water polo session on Saturday mornings, we Q: Have you ever made all come home and do a big something really amazing being a chef, dad brunch. Tilly is always say- P and then dropped it? ing that her eggs are better A: Yeah, I have. I got than mine. I’m saying that my asked to do a special birth- TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE scrambled eggs are better than The essence of the day surprise for a young man, hers. She doesn’t like her eggs recipes in this book for his 18th birthday, and it was E were lucky enough a little bit crispy. I like my eggs a filet beef Wellington. And to meet and interview a little bit crispy. We have a lit- me is all about find- his name was Simon, and on chef and TV personal- tle debate and we always have ing that balance with a the top of this Wellington, I ity Gordon Ramsay a cook-off about once a week had his initials on there, Si- Wwhen he was in Man- minimum. little bit of indulgence, mon, and “Happy 18th.” And hattan to talk about his latest a hint of dairy without I didn’t trust the waiter to go book, “Healthy, Lean & Fit” Q: If you could do it over upstairs to take it to the table. (Grand Central Life & Style). again, would you choose to going too crazy. I said, Leave it to me, I’ll do Gordon, a Michelin-starred chef be a chef or a professional it. Now I’ve got size 15 feet, so (the highest honor), owns 35 soccer player? — Gordon Ramsay they trip up quite often. When restaurants worldwide, is a hus- A: Oh, that’s a tough ques- I got to the top of the stairs, I band and dad, and even finds tion. Playing soccer was amaz- ford-upon-Avon, where we slipped on a little bit of grease, time to compete in triathlons. ing. And having really good grew up. And I used to go there and then held this tray out, friends, you know, that are after soccer practice and help but the tray tipped and the Q: What are some still amazing football or soc- her peel vegetables. I started Wellington rolled back down healthy, on-the-go snacks cer players today. I miss it. around the age of 15 or 16. But the stairs. It looked like a for busy 10-year-olds? But every year I play in a char- then it really came to fruition dog’s dinner. I had to go back A: I have three daughters. ity match in front of 80,000 when I went to live in France. upstairs and apologize to him And every morning before people. I’m very lucky to be I went to live in Paris for two that we did have a Wellington school we cut up things like still involved. To do it all over years and the south of France and I spent two days making carrots, cucumber, apples and again, my worry is that soccer for a year. And those three this thing. That was a disaster pears. Rub them with a lit- players retire in their early 30s. years in France for me, at the for me. tle bit of lemon juice, or lime juice. And then we make up like a peanut butter smoothie. A little tub of peanut butter smoothie, and then carrots, cucumber, apples and pears. It’s almost like a little crudité of YOUNGY ARTIST Charles Jacob raw vegetables. Perfect snack (5 yrs) for 10-year-olds. Calingin KG 2, Philippine Q: What is your favorite School Doha recipe from your book? A: That’s a really good Chef, author and TV personality Gordon Ramsay with Branon Smith, Cate Leonard, Lanie Krause and Ariel question. I believe I would say Greenberg, at Ramsay’s book publisher offices in Manhattan. (TNS) oatmeal. Breakfast for me is an important one. If it’s not crazy. It’s how I as a chef live the last three years writing and then a marathon. So that the muesli, it would be the oat- and eat, and having four amaz- it. And then with such a busy kept me on my toes. And while meal, and so we just start off ing children, how we find that lifestyle, and 35 restaurants I was doing that, I was writing our day with a good breakfast. balance between having good across the globe, and seven these recipes down. Get a good breakfast, then we food, eating healthily, working TV shows across America, my get off to a good day. No break- hard, training hard and then time was getting so congested Q: Where is your fa- fast, bad day. having a treat at weekends. and super-busy, so I decided vorite place to cook? to take up triathlon. And about A: My favorite place to Q: What makes your Q: How many books do seven years ago I did my first cook would be at home in L.A. recipe so healthy and good? you have, and what makes Ironman. And having that time with Matilda. Matilda is our A: The essence of the reci- this one different from the out, away from the business, youngest daughter. And she’s pes in this book for me is all others? training hard, swimming, bik- been cooking now for about 10 about finding that balance A: This is my 25th book. ing and running. An average years. I would say L.A. Produce with a little bit of indulgence, a This one is so much different triathlon would start off with is amazing. Everything is so hint of dairy without going too from the others because I spent a 3.8-km swim, 180-km bike, fresh. And the sun shines every

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AMIR GRACES AHMED BIN MOHAMMED MILITARY COLLEGE GRADUATION

QNA at Ahmed Bin Mohammed Kuwait Lieutenant-General Khayareen pointed out modern curricula. DOHA Military College. Abdullah al Nawaf al Sabah. that the graduates are mem- On the sidelines of the The ceremony was at- Addressing the gather- bers of the Armed Forces, event, the Amir His High- THE Amir His Highness tended by Prime Minister ing, Commander of Ahmed Ministry of Interior, Lekh- ness Sheikh Tamim bin Sheikh Tamim bin Ham- and Minister of Interior HE Bin Mohammed Military wiya, Amiri Guard and Qatar Hamad al Thani met with a ad al Thani on Thursday Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser College Major-General Fa- State Security, in addition number of military leaders patronised the gradua- bin Khalifa al Thani, Min- had bin Mubarak al Khaya- to colleagues from Kuwait from friendly countries. tion ceremony of the 14th ister of Defence of Soma- reen expressed the pride of and Sudan. The meeting was at- batch of candidates for the lia Hassan Ali Mohammed the college and the gradu- He stressed the col- tended by Prime Minister Armed Forces Officers of and Army’s Deputy Chief of ates for the patronage and lege’s efforts to develop and Minister of Interior HE the Ministry of Interior Staff and representative of honour of HH the Amir of its military and academic Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser and other security services the Minister of Defence of the graduation ceremony. programmes according to bin Khalifa al Thani.

DEFENCE MINISTER MEETS SOMALI DEFENCE MINISTER: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Defence Affairs HE Dr Khalid bin Mohammed al Attiyah met with Minister of Defence of Somalia Hassan Ali Mohammed in Doha on Thursday. During the meeting, they discussed military and defence relations between the two countries and the means to develop them. (QNA)