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Emir sends Metal cylinders message to to be phased out Mauritania QNA by mid-2017 DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani has sent a written message to President Mohamed Ould Abdel Aziz of the in order to phase out all metal gas Islamic Republic of Mauritania, on cylinders and replace them with bilateral relations. Qatar Fuel (Woqod) Shafaf. The message was handed over started marketing Woqod has already replaced by Qatar’s Ambassador to Maurita- one-third of the total metal gas cyl- nia Abdulrahman bin Ali Al Ajaj Al Shafaf cylinders in inders with Shafaf in the last three Kubaisi, during a meeting with the 2010, along with years. Mauritanian President yesterday. Due to Woqod’s aggressive cam- During the meeting, they the launch of an paign on the advantages of using reviewed bilateral relations and awareness campaign Shafaf cylinders, there had been ways of boosting them. rise in demand in the local market in order to phase recently. out all metal gas Among the benefits of Shafaf are US President Barack Obama hugs an atomic bomb survivor Shigeaki Mori as he visits Hiroshima Peace Campaign against cylinders and it is safer and explosion proof com- pared to metal gas cylinder. Memorial Park in Hiroshima, Japan, yesterday. cars displaying replace them with In addition it is easier to carry as Shafaf. it weighs 5kg when empty compared sale stickers to metal cylinders which weigh 12kg. Because it is transparent, it is easy Obama makes historic Hiroshima visit to monitor the remaining gas and The Peninsula determine when to purchase. The Peninsula Shafaf cylinders are availa- ble in 12kg and 6kg variants. The AFP to Hiroshima? We come to ponder a and embraced one elderly man who sales of 12kg transparent cyl- terrible force unleashed in the not- appeared overcome with emotion. DOHA: The Public Traffic Depart- inders last year rose by over 44 so-distant past. We come to mourn He also chatted with a smiling ment is gearing up to launch a DOHA: Qatar Fuel (Woqod), the percent to about 1.9 million com- the dead,” he said. Sunao Tsuboi, 91, who had earlier campaign against car owners main retailer of energy products pared to previous year. HIROSHIMA, JAPAN: Barack Obama Obama, accompanied by Jap- said he wanted to tell the US presi- displaying sale notices at public including cooking gas cylinders in The sales of 6kg units increased paid moving tribute to victims of anese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, dent how grateful he was for his visit. places, because it is against the the country, is planning to phase out by 21.6 percent to 45,000 cylinders, the first atomic bomb yesterday and offered a floral wreath in front of the The trip comes more than seven traffic law and its amendments. all metal gas cylinders with Shafaf, compared to 37,000 for 2014. called for a world free of nuclear cenotaph before pausing in momen- decades after the Enola Gay bomber Displaying stickers about the a transparent plastic gas cylinder, Woqod offered QR100 compen- weapons, during a historic and emo- tary contemplation, closing his eyes dropped its deadly atomic payload, sale of the vehicles and leaving before the middle of next year, says sation to attract more consumers to tional visit to Hiroshima. and lowering his head. dubbed “Little Boy”, over the western them in public places like grounds, Woqod Chief Executive Officer Ibra- replace their metal cylinders with In a ceremony loaded with symbol- The site lies in the shadow of a Japanese city. The bombing claimed parking slots or by the roadside will him Jaham Al Kuwari. Shafaf from March 1 to May 31 last ism, the first sitting US president to visit domed building, whose skeleton the lives of 140,000 people, some of be fined, in addition to legal proce- Al Kuwari’s statement came year. the city met survivors of the fearsome has been left standing in silent tes- whom died immediately in a ball of dures against the owner, Al Sharq in reply to a proposal by Cen- Last year witnessed a fair attack that marked one of the final, ter- tament to those who perished. Abe searing heat, while many succumbed reports. Traffic patrols will moni- tral Municipality Council member growth in LPG sales exceeding 9.6 rifying chapters of World War II. followed by offering his own wreath to injuries or radiation-related ill- tor cars with sale stickers parked in Fatima Ahmed Al Kuwari to replace percent compared to 2014, with total “71 years ago, death fell from the and a brief, silent bow. nesses in the weeks, months and undesignated places for sale. metal gas cylinders with Shafaf sales rising to 122,165 tonnes (includ- sky and the world was changed,” After both men had spo- years afterwards. A second nuclear According to the traffic law, cylinders. ing LPG sales in bulk) compared to Obama said of a bomb that “dem- ken, Obama, whose predecessor bomb was dropped on the city of automobile showrooms and auc- Woqod started marketing Sha- 111,497 tonnes during the previous onstrated that mankind possessed Harry Truman made the decision Nagasaki three days later. tioneers need special permission faf cylinders in 2010, along with the year, according to Woqod”s annual the means to destroy itself”. to launch the world’s first nuclear to display cars in open grounds launch of an awareness campaign report. “Why did we come to this place, strike, greeted ageing survivors → See also page 5 & 9 and roadsides for sale. 100,000 Syrians trapped near Turkey Duterte officially wins Philippines presidency AFP

AP BEIRUT: At least 100,000 people were trapped Friday along Syria’s border with Turkey after the Islamic State (IS) group swept through rebel territory in Aleppo province, rights groups and MANILA: Philippine lawmakers com- activists said. pleted the official vote count from May 9 The shock IS advance on two rebel-held elections yesterday and announced that towns came as the militant group is facing an Mayor Rodrigo Duterte (pictured), won offensive further east in its own heartland of the presidency by an overwhelming mar- Raqa province. gin, while Rep. Leni Robredo triumphed as IS fighters cut a key road between the rebel vice president. towns of Azaz, close to the Turkish border, and Duterte, the tough-talking mayor of nearby Marea, journalist Maamoun Khateeb southern Davao city, received more than said from Azaz. 16.6 million votes, 6.6 million more than “This is a disaster,” Khateeb said, adding his closest rival, former Interior Secretary victory would be contested by Marcos, that some 15,000 people were now besieged Mar Roxas, who was backed by outgoing who has raised suggestions of election in Marea. President Benigno Aquino III. irregularities. The militant onslaught threatens tens of About 81 percent of more than 54 mil- “It was a very divisive and difficult thousands of internally displaced Syrians liv- lion eligible voters cast ballots for a successor election,” Robredo said in a TV interview. ing in informal camps near the border, closed to Aquino and thousands of other national, “We need to rebuild as one country and by Turkey for several months. congressional and local officials whose terms President Duterte really needs all our help.” “We are terribly concerned... about the end on June 30, according to lawmakers and Robredo, a lawyer who has helped estimated 100,000 people trapped between official figures released by Congress. Duterte the poor with free legal services, said the Turkish border and active front lines,” said had led by a wide margin in an earlier unof- she learned of her victory while she was Pablo Marco, regional operations manager for ficial count, and most of his rivals have with her daughters at a cemetery to mark People inspect the damage after an explosion occurred outside a mosque in the rebel- Doctors Without Borders (MSF). conceded defeat. The vice presidential the 58th birthday of her late husband, a MSF said it was evacuating patients and controlled city of Idlib, Syria, yesterday. race, however, was closely fought. reformist politician who perished in a 2012 staff from a hospital it supports in Salamah, a Robredo, who was also backed by plane crash. Sen. Aquilino Pimentel III, who nearby town, just three kilometres (two miles) Aquino, received more than 14.4 million helped oversee the vote count, said Con- from the front line. IS has tried to advance on both towns for bomb attacks on an opposition-controlled east- votes, according to the official count, just gress will officially proclaim Duterte and “There is nowhere for people to flee to as months. ern district of Aleppo city, the civil defence 263,000 more than Sen. Ferdinand Mar- Robredo as winners on Monday. the fighting gets closer,” Marco said. In a statement on Friday, the jihadist group — known as the White Helmets —- said. cos Jr., the son of a dictator ousted in a 1986 Duterte, who has stayed mostly in Gerry Simpson from Human Rights Watch said it launched a “surprise attack” and seized Air strikes also killed nine people in the “people power” revolt sparked by wide- Davao city since the elections, did not said the number of Syrians trapped along the a series of villages near Azaz. town of Hreitan and four in Kfar Hamra. spread human rights abuses and corruption. immediately comment. He has said he closed border could be as high as 165,000. Also yesterday, government bombardment Since fighting intensified there in 2012, Presidents and vice presidents are does not plan to attend his proclamation Marea and Azaz both fell to opposition on rebel-controlled areas of Aleppo province Aleppo province has been transformed into elected separately in the Philippines, as president-elect in metropolitan Manila. forces in 2012 and have been vital stops along left at least 15 people dead, rescue workers said. a patchwork of territories held by the govern- and often are from different parties. It a rebel supply route from Turkey. At least two people were killed in barrel ment, rebels, Kurds, and militants. was not immediately clear if Robredo’s → See also page 4 02 SATURDAY 28 MAY 2016 HOME

App developed in Qatar a big Feeding time hit among foreign researchers

The application ‘Rayyan’ is a data analytics system helps to automate the process of systematic review of available research. It is being used in Qatar and 50 other countries by at least 1,000 researchers, mostly in Europe. Qatar Computing Research Institute (QCRI) senior software engineer Hossam Hammady and lead scientist Dr Mourad Ouzzani.

Birds cool off by feeding on a discarded watermelon at the Vegetable Market yesterday. The maximum Scientist, Data Analytics, QCRI told Qatar as well as to develop the sys- temperature recorded yesterday was 42 degrees Celsius in Abu Hamour, according to Qatar Meteorology The Peninsula that those who had tem further. Department. It is forecast today’s weather to be hot during the day with slight dust with a maximum used Rayyan were reporting positive “We have few users from Qatar, temperature of 43 degrees Celsius. Pic: Baher A / The Peninsula By Fazeena Saleem results from the technology, which exactly 12, the two more prominent The Peninsula helps to identify relevant published are from the Primary Health Care and unpublished evidence, select Corporation. We hope to grow further studies for inclusion, collaborate on by reaching out to Hamad Medical reviews, assess the quality of each Corporation (We just got our first Indian Embassy receives 1,789 EU expands DOHA: A unique application devel- study and synthesize the findings in user following our presentation at the oped in Qatar is widely helping an unbiased way. Qatar International Medical Congress cultural ties medical professionals and research- “Rayyan is changing the way sys- held recently), Sidra, QBRI, Qatar labour complaints this year ers to decide health guidelines and tematic reviews are produced and University, Qatar National Library with Qatar support evidence-based medicine, is dramatically reducing the time and the private healthcare prac- according to a senior scientist. it takes for producing systematic tices interested in research,” said Dr The Peninsula (ICBF), which works under the aegis The application ‘Rayyan’ is a data reviews for a large number of users Ouzzani. of the embassy for the welfare of DOHA: The founding charter of analytics system helps to automate around the world. By automating the “We want to add more features workers. European Union National Insti- the process of systematic review of production of systematic reviews, to Rayyan to cover other steps in the A total of 32 Indians were at the tutes of Culture (EUNIC) cluster in available research. It is being used Rayyan is expediting the availa- production of systematic reviews. DOHA: The Indian embassy has deportation centre and 154 in the Qatar was signed at the Nether- in Qatar and 50 other countries by bility of current best evidence for We are also part of a group of people received 1,789 labour complaints central prison and an embassy team lands Embassy. at least 1,000 researchers, mostly in policy and clinical decision-mak- around the world interested in auto- since January, an official statement visited the facilities to enquire about The charter was signed by Qatar Europe. ing,” he said. mating systematic review, namely the said yesterday. their welfare. and European Union member states Rayyan is a free web and mobile Dr Ouzzani and Hossam Ham- International Collaboration for the The number of complaints The embassy registered 119 with embassies in Qatar including application developed by Qatar Com- mady, senior software engineer, Automation of Systematic Reviews; received last year was 4,132. deaths in May. Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, puting Research Institute (QCRI), a QCRI devised Rayyan and released We are looking at ways in making The statement follows the Following requests from Qatari Cyprus, France, Germany, Greece, research institute of Hamad Bin Kha- its first version in September 2014. Rayyan a reference system within monthly Open House the embassy authorities for travel documents for Hungary, Italy, Poland, Portugal, lifa University. According to a recent survey on this group,” he added. holds to address urgent consular inmates at the deportation centre, Romania, Spain, Sweden and the Traditionally, scientists conduct Rayyan revealed that 36 percent As the amount of medical and labour-related problems of its the embassy issued 38 emergency Netherlands, as well as the British systematic reviews of the available of the respondents achieved more research explodes to about 1.8 mil- nationals. certificates in May and 12 air tickets Council and the French Institute. research – costly and time-consum- than 50 percent time saving and 33 lion articles in 20,000 journals per Ambassador Sanjiv Arora, Dep- to Indians in distress to return home. The signing ceremony was ing exercises that typically involve percent of them between 25 and 50 year, with much research outdated uty Chief of Mission R K Singh and ICBF provided five air tickets to those attended by a representative of the one or two people sifting through percent compared to other tools they as quickly as new evidence emerges, other officials met complainants and who could not afford travel expenses Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the thousands of medical journal arti- used before. expect data analytics to be used more discussed their problems. Present to facilitate their deportation. It also state of Qatar and Faleh Al Ajlan Al cles for at least a year. Plans are underway to increase frequently to establish the effective- was Arvind Patil, President, Indian supports workers with financial and Hajri, Director of the Culture and Dr Mourad Ouzzani, Principal the number of users of Rayyan within ness of an intervention or a drug. Community Benevolent Forum medical assistance. Arts department. Freej Aspire events to draw 3,000 visitors a day Ramadan working hours announced DOHA: Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Cabinet Affairs H E The Peninsula businesses to exhibit their services and products to introduced innovative culturally-themed work- Ahmad bin Abdullah Al Mahmoud has issued a circular on the working hours the local community, stemming from AZF’s keen shops for children, and dedicated space to small during the holy month of Ramadan for the ministries, government bodies interest in supporting the development of such ini- and medium-sized Qatari business to exhibit their and public institutions. On the occasion of the advent of the holy month of tiatives. Freej will feature the merchandise of more services and products to the community.” Ramadan for the Hijri year 1437, it was decided that working hours for civil DOHA: This year’s Freej Aspire will host new cul- than 22 Qatari businesses, in addition to 17 kiosks Families and children visiting Freej Aspire will employees will be five hours a day from 9am till 2pm, the circular said. tural events and activities in an 8,000 square metre featuring traditional Qatari products, four moving have the opportunity to partake in a number of tradi- air-conditioned open area capable of hosting 3,000 trolleys and a traditional café. tional Qatari sports, in addition to sports tournaments visitors a day, Aspire Zone Foundation (AZF) has Commenting on Freej preparations, Abdullah including football, basketball and volleyball. The UN envoy hails Qatar’s role in Yemen talks announced. Taking up to three months to con- Aman Al Khater, Chairman of Ramadan Organising children’s play area in this year’s edition has been struct, the “Freej, which means “neighbourhood” in Committee at AZF, said: “With every new edition expanded threefold, due to the increased community KUWAIT: UN envoy to Yemen, Ismail Ould Sheikh Ahmed has commended the Gulf dialect, is laid out in the shape of adjoining of AZF’s cultural programme of activity in Ram- participation in Freej Aspire year after year. the efforts of Qatar, Kuwait and the United Nations, which led to the return traditional houses, aiming to replicate the envi- adan, the Foundation introduces new and unique Children will also have the opportunity to of the Yemeni government’s delegation to the peace consultations in Kuwait. ronment of an authentic “Freej” and inspire Qatari elements designed to cater to and attract all mem- explore and develop their creative side through In a press conference, Ould Sheikh Ahmed said he visited Doha on Sun- culture and tradition. bers of the local community.” Arabic calligraphy and graffiti workshops. Several day to participate in the 16th edition of Doha Forum and attended a series On its second year, Freej Aspire will offer the Al Khater added: “The community’s widespread activities will also be on offer designed to increase of meetings of concern to the Yemeni issue. community the opportunity to enjoy a unique cul- participation in previous edition of Freej Aspire children’s awareness and knowledge of Qatari tra- He added that the United Nations didn’t and wouldn’t disappoint the tural atmosphere in a space with temperature not has motivated us to innovate the activities offered ditions and past crafts, offering them the chance to Yemenis and will continue its efforts to urge the parties involved in peace exceeding 25 degrees centigrade. It is set to launch further and build upon past successes, which we not only learn about them but also practice them. consultations in Kuwait to reach a peaceful solution to the crisis. on the fifth of Ramadan and provide new and inno- hope will cater to all members of the commu- Freej Aspire forms part of Aspire Zone’s Ram- He called on the Yemeni parties to assume their responsibility towards the vative experiences from June 10 to 19. nity. This year; we have increased the children’s adan Festival which will include spiritual, sports Yemeni people, saying that the country is going through a critical juncture, which For the first time, Freej Aspire will be dedi- play area, added new sports activities for fami- and social activities in observance of the Holy requires speeding up the pace and taking constructive measures to save the sit- cating spaces for small and medium-sized Qatari lies alongside the traditionally offered activities, Month. uation there, particularly at the economic, humanitarian and security levels.

Japanese band enthrals audience WISE opens Tunis Forum

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DOHA: The World Innovation Summit for Education (WISE) opened the Tunis Forum at the IHEC Carthage in Tunisia. The event, aimed at exploring how edu- cation fosters peace and development in communities and nations, brought together for the first time one of the recipients of the 2015 Nobel Peace Prize, awarded to the Tunisian National Dia- logue Quartet, Ouided Bouchamaoui, and the WISE Prize for Education Lau- reate, Dr Sakena Yacoobi. Dr Sakena Yacoobi (left), winner of the WISE Prize for Education, and Dr Yacoobi affirmed her belief Ouided Bouchamaoui, Nobel e Prize Laureate, at the WISE Tunis Forum. in the transformative power of edu- cation, saying: “To unlock human potential, education is the key. It is Industry, Trade and Handicrafts) and one of the speakers in the plenary Japanese band Hibikiya enthralled the audience with a musical performance at Katara Drama Theatre such a powerful tool to overcome and a representative of the Tunisian session, noted: “WISE recognises the on Wednesday. The audience interacted with the band as they played a number of items using poverty and rebuild. If we are to National Dialogue Quartet, said: “The potential of education as an engine for Japanese musical instruments which included various types of drums during the concert held as part overcome terrorism and violence, stability of a country’s economy relies peace and growth. Awarding the Nobel we need education. That is the only on three main pillars, namely, the Peace Prize to the Tunisian Quartet sig- of the Cultural Diversity Festival. The festival which kicked off in January is being organised by Katara way we can win.” strength of its civil society, educa- nifies that Tunisia has been recognised and Unesco Office in Doha. It will conclude on Monday with a performance by an Argentinian troupe. Bouchamaoui, President of tion, and women’s empowerment.” as a model for national dialogue and UTICA (Tunisian Confederation of Stavros N. Yiannouka, CEO of WISE peaceful transition”. MIDDLE EAST SATURDAY 28 MAY 2016 03 Coalition jets pummel IS in Syria bastion

intensification of air strikes,” Observ- IS swept through rebel terri- atory head Rami Abdel Rahman said. tory in Aleppo province in a shock The US is backing SDF forces have pushed forward advance, cutting off tens of thousands twin assaults against from Ain Issa, less than 60km north of internally displaced Syrians living IS — one in Raqa of Raqa city, into the surrounding in informal camps near the closed farmland and small villages. The Turkish border. province and another fighting and bombardment has left 31 In Aleppo city, at least four civil- which aims to retake IS fighters dead so far, Abdel Rahman ians including a child were killed in said. The number of SDF casualties barrel bomb attacks on an oppo- the Iraqi city of was unclear. sition-controlled eastern district, Fallujah across the Near the front line, witnesses according to the civil defence. on Wednesday saw US soldiers Air strikes also killed 11 people border. supporting SDF forces, who say in a bakery in the town of Hreitan they have advanced 7km from and four in Kfar Hamra in the same Protesters carry a woman overcomed by tear gas after anti-government protesters tried to approach the Ain Issa. The twin offensives province, rescue workers said. Rebel come as world powers try to sal- rocket fire hit Aleppo’s regime-held heavily fortified Green Zone at Tahrir Square in Baghdad yesterday. AFP vage a shaky ceasefire between district of Midan, killing an elderly the regime and non-jihadist rebels woman and wounding nine others, agreed in February to boost efforts state media said. to end a conflict that has killed In Iraq, pro-government forces Security forces fire tear gas as BEIRUT: Warplanes from the US-led more than 280,000 people. have advanced towards bridges lead- coalition have pounded the Islamic The estimated 300,000 people ing to IS-held Fallujah, said Staff State group with at least 150 strikes still living in Raqa city are becom- Lieutenant General Abdulwahab thousands protest in Baghdad to bolster a major offensive on the ing increasingly desperate to flee. al-Saadi, head of the Fallujah Lib- jihadists’ Syrian stronghold of Raqa, According to anti-IS activist group eration Operations Command. IS a monitor said yesterday. Raqa is Being Slaughtered Silently fighters were using “car bomb and The US is backing twin assaults (RBSS), residents were paying smug- suicide (bombers) and sniper detach- AFP Zone, where Iraq’s main government bullets largely fired into the air to dis- against IS — one in Raqa province glers $400 each to try to escape. ments” to resist the advance. institutions are located. perse the protesters and harry them and another which aims to retake the “There is nearly no one walking in the About 50,000 civilians are esti- Some protesters, who are call- away from the Green Zone, killing at Iraqi city of Fallujah across the bor- streets,” said RBSS activist Hamoud mated to be trapped inside the city, ing for a new government, gave olive least two people and injuring dozens. der. A Kurdish-Arab alliance is being al-Musa. and only 800 had been able to BAGHDAD: Security forces fired branches and flowers to security per- Abadi had sought to head off a supported by coalition air raids as “People are afraid of a bru- escape, according to the UN’s refu- tear gas as thousands of protesters sonnel at Tahrir, but events quickly repeat this week, calling on Thurs- well as US forces on the ground in its tal onslaught from the warplanes, gee agency. gathered in central Baghdad yes- escalated, and the forces fired tear day for protesters to postpone their push for territory north of Raqa city whether coalition, Russian, or even Spokeswoman Melissa Fleming terday and attempted to head to the gas in an attempt to disperse the demonstration, as security forces are — IS’s de facto Syrian capital. regime,” he said. IS had set up a few said the UN had received reports Green Zone, a fortified area they have demonstration. busy fighting to retake the city of Fal- Turkey yesterday said it was new checkpoints in Raqa city and that people including women and breached twice. Many of the protesters, most of lujah from the Islamic State group. “unacceptable” that US troops had was “amassing its forces on the front children had been killed trying to Iraqi Prime Minister Haider Al them supporters of powerful Najaf- Saif, a 23-year-old protester who been seen near Raqa wearing insig- lines” further north, he said. flee. “There have been reports of a Abadi had called on the demonstra- based cleric Sadr, had come equipped was recovering from the effects of nia of Kurdish militia who belong to For the second time this week, dramatic increase in the number of tors, most of them supporters of cleric with gas masks or surgical masks. tear gas, said he had two brothers the US-backed Syrian Democratic coalition warplanes dropped leaf- executions of men and older boys in Muqtada Al Sadr, to stay home and “Those with masks, go this way who were killed fighting IS. “I hope Forces (SDF) and who Ankara regards lets yesterday encouraging residents Fallujah refusing to fight on behalf of security forces deployed to block to pick up the injured,” one protester our forces finish the job in Fallujah; I as a terror group. to flee Raqa. IS, which has tightened extremist forces,” Fleming said. their way to the Green Zone, but the instructed his comrades after the first wish them well, of course,” Saif said. The coalition has been provid- restrictions on movement, has been She described “harrowing tales” protesters were undeterred. canisters were fired at the crowd. The protest eventually wrapped ing air support to the SDF with 150 accused of using residents as human of families trekking for hours through Demonstrators pushed past secu- Demonstrators forced open a gate up with only minor injuries reported, strikes on IS positions since the shields. Abdel Rahman said a hand- the night on foot, sometimes hiding rity forces at Tahrir Square, breached to the Green Zone and stormed the mostly cases of suffocation. Protests assault began Tuesday, accord- ful of families had fled the city to in old irrigation pipes, to reach safety. a barbed wire barrier and attempted premier’s office last Friday before have been held almost every Friday ing to the Syrian Observatory for Idlib province, controlled by a rebel Fallujah, which lies only 50km west to pull down slabs of heavy concrete being driven away by security forces. for weeks by people demanding the Human Rights, a British-based alliance including IS’s jihadist rival, of Baghdad, has been out of govern- blast wall blocking Jumhuriyah They used tear gas, water can- current government be replaced with monitor. “There has been a serious Al-Nusra Front. ment control since January 2014. Bridge, which leads toward the Green nons, sound bombs and a barrage of technocrats.

Turkey party seeks Clashes in Nablus Iran sticking to nuclear constitutional change to deal: UN watchdog boost Erdogan AFP centrifuges and associated infra- structure have remained in storage AFP under continuous Agency monitor- ing” and no enriched uranium has VIENNA: Iran is still complying with been accumulated through research ANKARA: Turkey’s ruling Justice the July 2015 landmark nuclear deal and development activities. and Development Party (AKP) is with major powers, a report from the The steps taken by Iran under seeking a quick revision to the UN atomic watchdog said yesterday. the 2015 deal extend to at least a constitution that would allow The International Atomic Energy year the length of time Tehran would President Recep Tayyip Erdogan Agency’s second quarterly assess- need to make one nuclear bomb’s to renew his party political activ- ment since the accord came into worth of fissile material — up from a ity, sources said yesterday. force on January 16 showed that Iran few months before the accord. Erdogan, one of the founders was meeting its main commitments. They included slashing by two- of the Islamic-rooted AKP, had to The report showed that Iran “has thirds its uranium centrifuges, cutting cut his ties with the party and step not pursued the construction of the its stockpile of uranium and remov- down as its leader when he became existing Arak heavy water research ing the core of the Arak reactor which president in August 2014 to obey reactor” and has “not enriched could have given Iran weapons-grade constitutional rules that the pres- uranium” above low levels. Iran’s plutonium. Centrifuges are machines ident should be politically neutral. stockpile of low-enriched uranium that “enrich” uranium by increasing But the AKP is now seeking a has not risen about the agreed level the proportion of a fissile isotope, ren- “mini-revision” to the constitu- of 300kg. The level of so-called dering it suitable for other purposes. tion that would allow Erdogan to heavy water has not exceeded the Throughout the 12-year standoff become a “party-affiliated presi- permitted level of 130 tonnes, as that preceded the deal, Iran always A Palestinian protester hurls a tear gas canister back towards Israeli security forces during clashes dent”, an AKP source said. The bill it did briefly during the previous denied wanting nuclear weapons, would be submitted to the parlia- following a demonstration against the expropriation of Palestinian land by Israel, in the village of Kfar reporting period. Verification by saying its activities were exclusively ment in June, the source added. Qaddum, near Nablus, in the occupied West Bank, yesterday. the IAEA has continued as agreed. for peaceful purposes such as power The move for the so-called The IAEA added that “all stored generation. “mini-revision” — already flagged in the Turkish press — comes as Erdogan also seeks to rally support for a whole new constitution which would enshrine the president’s sta- Israeli minister quits Netanyahu’s ‘extremist government’ tus as the Turkish number one. But mathematics are cur- rently against the AKP with the party lacking the “super major- AFP government a week ago in protest, “Full appreciation to Avi Gabbay US State Department spokes- bombing the Aswan Dam in Egypt, ity” required to call a referendum warning of a rising tide of extrem- who proves that another way is pos- man Mark Toner, in a rare comment accusing Israel’s Arab neighbour of on changing the entire constitu- ism in the party and the country as a sible. One must not give up.” on Israeli internal politics, said supporting a Palestinian uprising. tion and writing a new one. whole. “I could not accept the removal Co-opting Lieberman and his Wednesday that Washington had More recently he said that the For the mini-revision, the AKP JERUSALEM: Israeli Prime Minister of Yaalon, a professional and thought- Yisrael Beitenu party will add five “seen reports from Israel describing leader of the Islamist movement hopes to win the support of the Benjamin Netanyahu suffered his sec- ful defence minister,” Gabbay said. lawmakers to Netanyahu’s previously it as the most right-wing coalition in Hamas in the Gaza Strip, Ismail opposition Nationalist Movement ond cabinet resignation in a week “The country of course has the wafer-thin majority if the coalition Israel’s history”. Haniya, had 48 hours to hand over Party (MHP) which could support yesterday when a minister quit over right to have a government of the right deal is given parliamentary approval “And we also know that many of two detained Israeli civilians and the the smaller change but is opposed the appointment of a hardline nation- or left,” he added. “But I do not think next week as expected. its ministers have said they oppose a bodies of soldiers killed in a 2014 war to a presidential system. alist in the “extremist government”. it is right... to form an extremist gov- In his announcement, Gab- two-state solution,” he said. “or you’re dead”. Analysts say that Erdogan, Environment minister Avi Gab- ernment.” “We must stop the process bay referred to the frosty relations Netanyahu says he still plans to As defence minister, Lieberman, who served as premier from bay announced his resignation in which I fear will lead to our ruin.” between Netanyahu and US Presi- pursue peace with the Palestinians who himself lives in a Jewish set- 2003-2014 and has transformed a strongly worded statement that Gabbay, of the centre-right dent Barack Obama. “It wasn’t easy — though negotiations have been at a tlement in the occupied West Bank, Turkey over the last one-and- accused Netanyahu of putting the Kulanu party, is not a member of par- for me being a member of this gov- standstill since April 2014. The Palestin- would oversee military operations in a-half decades, is seeking to country on a path to ruin. liament and his resignation does not ernment... which completely messed ians said that Lieberman’s appointment the Palestinian territories and have consolidate his powers to ensure Gabbay said that he was “unable affect the ruling rightwing coalition’s up relations with the most important jeopardises regional stability. “The a major say in policy towards the there is no challenge to his rule. to swallow” Netanyahu’s decision majority. Yaalon himself was quick to power in the world, which preserves existence of this government brings a settlements. Last week, his loyal ally Binali to take the defence portfolio from praise Gabbay for his stand. our security interests.” real threat of instability and extremism The defence portfolio is widely Yildirim became prime minister former general Moshe Yaalon and “In our politics, sticking to princi- The United States has said that in the region,” Palestinian chief negoti- seen as the second-most powerful in following the shock resignation hand it to Avigdor Lieberman, who ples has become an object of ridicule, the new coalition raises “legitimate ator Saeb Erekat said, adding that the the government, overseeing an array of Ahmet Davutoglu who had has pledged harsh measures against while U-turns and deceit are con- questions” about the Netanyahu gov- move would “result in apartheid, racism of contracts, missions and activities feuded with the president on sev- Palestinian “terrorists”. sidered ‘sophisticated’,” he wrote on ernment’s commitment to a two-state and religious and political extremism.” in a country on a near-constant war eral issues. Yaalon resigned from the Twitter in Hebrew. solution with the Palestinians. In 2001, Lieberman advocated footing. 04 SATURDAY 28 MAY 2016 ASIA / PHILIPPINES

10 Chinese Marcos son loses Philippines VP elections fishermen

the closely fought vice presidential race went down the wire, with Mar- held in Luzon The result dealt a cos losing by around 263,000 votes blow to the political to political neophyte Leni Robredo. Reuters “The elections have been very aspirations of the divisive and we need to rebuild as family, which had a nation. He (Duterte) needs every- MANILA: Two Philippine Coast one’s help in rebuilding our country,” Guard vessels intercepted a Chi- targeted the position Robredo said over GMA television as nese fishing boat with 10 crew off for Ferdinand the country’s Congress completed northeastern Luzon after a two- the tallying of election returns. hour chase, two local broadcasters “Bongbong” Marcos Marcos, 58, did not immediately said yesterday, accusing them of Jnr as a potential return telephone calls made by us encroaching into Philippine ter- stepping stone to yesterday. ritorial waters. But his lawyer George Garcia It was the latest in a series of recapturing his late said his client was considering fil- similar clashes, with each side say- father’s presidential ing an appeal, alleging 3.9 million ing the other is in the wrong. votes for Marcos were not reflected China and the Philippines are post. in the official count. locked in a territorial dispute in “We suspect that these votes the South China Sea, a strategic were credited to other candidates.... waterway where $5 trillion worth We believe these votes belong to of ship-borne trade passes every AFP Bongbong Marcos,” Garcia added. year. Brunei, Malaysia, Taiwan and President and vice president of Vietnam also have claims. the Philippines are both directly Lieutenant Jeffrey Collado told elected positions. A win for the broadcasters ABS-CBN and GMA MANILA: The son and namesake younger Marcos would have been the steel-hulled Chinese fish- of the late Philippine dictator Fer- the family’s biggest political vic- ing boat, flying a Philippine flag, dinand Marcos has narrowly lost the tory since its humiliating downfall in tried to escape after ramming election for vice president, accord- 1986 after a “People Power” uprising the Coast Guard boat but another ing to an official count that was only ended 20 years of the family’s rule. vessel arrived to help stop the Chi- completed yesterday, almost three The Marcos family fled to US nese boat. “The Chinese fishing weeks after polls closed. exile 30 years ago after the revolu- boat was in Philippine territorial The result dealt a blow to the tion ended the dictator’s one-man waters, they are not in disputed political aspirations of the family, rule, in which thousands of critics seas,” he said, adding the 10 fisher- which had targeted the position for were thrown in prison and $10 bil- men would be charged with illegal Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jnr as lion was allegedly plundered from fishing. Tension between the Phil- a potential stepping stone to recap- state coffers. ippines and China has risen as an turing his late father’s presidential The patriarch died in exile international tribunal in the Hague Filipino artist Freddie Luna Cruz shows his fist besides his painting of Philippine President-elect Rodrigo post. Anti-crime firebrand Rodrigo in Hawaii in 1989, but no mem- prepares to deliver a ruling in the Duterte won the separate May 9 con- ber of the Marcos family has been Duterte in his shop at a mall in Manila, yesterday. Cruz has received many offers for the painting but refused next few months in a case lodged test for president by landslide, but convicted. as he hopes to present it as a gift on Duterte’s inauguration on June 30. by Manila in 2013. Duterte death squad fears rise as police kill eight

AFP extra-judicial killings once the con- Escamillan, police spokeswoman for according to rights group Amnesty and vowed that tens of thousands of the city’s police spokeswoman, Sen- troversial politician begins his the Manila district where two of the International. criminals would die. Duterte also var- ior Inspector Milgrace Driz. six-year term on June 30. suspects were killed. “We fear an erosion of the rule iously denied and acknowledged links Up to five gunmen on motorcy- Police insisted the eight drug sus- When asked for comment, of law. Once that happens, the Phil- to vigilante squads in Davao, a major cles attacked the men on a street near MANILA: Philippine police shot pects were killed lawfully, with the national police spokesman Wilben ippines will become a Wild West city in the southern Philippines that a school, Driz said. “Police records dead eight drug suspects this week, officers only firing back after being Mayor said all officers “appeared” to and become totally ungovernable,” he has ruled for most of the past two show these men were pickpockets authorities said yesterday, following shot at in three separate raids. One follow operational procedures on the Wilnor Papa, campaign coordinator decades. Rights group say the death and burgled cars,” Driz said, add- repeated calls by president-elect Rod- occurred in Manila, another near the use of force, based on the reports sent for Amnesty’s Philippine office, said. squads have killed more than 1,000 ing the deaths could have been due rigo Duterte for security forces to kill capital and the third in a small town to headquarters in Manila. Duterte won this month’s elec- people, including children and petty to gang warfare. When asked if the criminals. in the northern Philippines. Such deaths are not unusual in a tions in a landslide largely on an criminals, and that no-one has been so-called Davao Death Squads could Gunmen on motorcycles also “There is no new policy to kill nation where the police force has a incendiary law-and-order platform brought to justice for those deaths. have been responsible, she described murdered three petty criminals drug suspects. We have our rules track record of extra-judicial killings, headlined by a vow to wipe out crime Three suspected petty crimi- them as a “myth”.“They don’t exist, it in Duterte’s hometown of Davao, of engagement and respect their and show the danger of the situation within six months. He pledged to give nals were killed in a single attack on is only you journalists who say they police said, deepening fears of mass human rights,” said Inspector Teresita getting much worse under Duterte, security forces shoot-to-kill orders, Wednesday in Davao, according to exist,” she said.

Sands of time Eight Chinese & six Malaysians charged after $145m drug haul in Australia

AFP drugs from the fishing boat to West- collaboration in order to com- ern Australia via small watercraft,” bat transnational crime networks,” police said. he said. The eight crew, who were The Australian Federal Police taken into custody when the ship was SYDNEY: Fourteen suspected mem- said that six Malaysian nationals aged intercepted, were held in immigra- bers of an international drug ring from 24 to 54 and eight Chinese aged tion detention until being charged were charged in Australia yesterday between 37 and 56 had been charged on Friday. over $145m seizure of the drug ice, with commercial drug importation, Police said the boat was tracked police said. offences that carry a maximum pen- after it was spotted off the coast, and The 14 include eight Chinese crew alty of life imprisonment. escorted to Geraldton, some 400km from a commercial fishing boat along Police called it the biggest seizure north of Perth. with six Malaysians. of methylamphetamine in Western Australia has launched a Border forces detected the boat Australia this year, adding that they Aus$300 million strategy to combat off Australia’s west coast on April 27, would allege in court they had dis- the growing use of ice after a gov- but when it was boarded at sea sev- rupted and dismantled a significant ernment report revealed the country eral days later no drugs were found. organised crime network. has proportionally more users than Police said their inquiries led Australian Federal Police acting most nations. instead to two properties in the West- Assistant Commissioner David Stew- It showed that the use of the drug ern Australia state capital Perth with art praised the cooperation between had doubled since 2007 to more than 150kg of crystal methylamphetamine, law enforcement agencies in target- 200,000 people in 2013, with anec- or ice, found in one and 50kg in the ing drug trafficking by increasingly dotal evidence that numbers have other. complex criminal syndicates. grown since then. An Australian “It will be alleged in court that “The globalisation of crime has Crime Commission report last year People view sand sculptures at an exhibition that opened as part of a four-day sand festival on the people charged today were part become so complex that the law found that while US$80 bought one Haeundae Beach in the southeastern city of Busan, South Korea, yesterday. of an organised criminal syndicate enforcement response requires a gram of ice in China, users in Aus- that facilitated the transport of the high degree of sophistication and tralia had to pay $500. Bangladesh hackers attacked other Asian banks: Symantec

Reuters A senior executive at Mandiant, lost money to hackers, although he did blocked. “There is a group operat- - have declined comment or denied SWIFT said earlier this week that the cybersecurity company investi- not rule out the possibility of cyber ing in Southeast Asia that definitely knowledge of any other breaches. February’s Bangladesh Bank hack was gating the Bank Bangladesh heist, also attacks. understands the bank industry and There have been at least four a “watershed event for the banking said the hackers had recently pene- “We are checking if there are sim- is at more than one location,” he said. known cyber attacks against a bank industry” and that it was “not an iso- SINGAPORE: Hackers who stole trated banks in Southeast Asia. ilar attacks on Philippine banks,” Heilman declined to identify the involving fraudulent messages on the lated incident.” $81m from Bangladesh’s central In the blog post published on Espenilla said. “However, no reported country or countries, or the institu- SWIFT payments network, one dating SWIFT was “actively looking bank have been linked to an attack Thursday, Symantec did not name the losses so far.” He added: “It is one tions attacked. He said it was the same back to 2013. SWIFT, the Society for into other possible instances of such on a bank in the Philippines, in addi- Philippines bank or say whether any thing to be attacked. It is another to group as the one involved in the Bank Worldwide Interbank Financial Tel- fraud,” but would not comment on tion to the 2014 hack on Sony Pictures, money was stolen, but said the attacks lose money.” Marshall Heilman, vice Bangladesh theft and that the attacks ecommunication, urged banks this individual entities. cybersecurity company Symantec could be traced back to October last president for Mandiant, a part of US- were recent, but declined to be more week to bolster their security, saying Symantec said it had identified Corp said in a blog post. year. It did not identify the hackers. based FireEye, said it was not known specific. Central banks elsewhere in it was aware of multiple attacks. three pieces of malware that were The US Federal Bureau of Investi- The Philippines central bank’s whether any money was lost in the Southeast Asia - Singapore, Indonesia, Banks around the world use used in limited targeted attacks gation has blamed North Korea for the deputy governor, Nestor Espenilla, other attacks he described or whether Brunei, Myanmar, Laos, Cambodia, secure SWIFT messages for issuing against financial institutions in South- attack on Sony’s Hollywood studio. said that no bank in the country had the hackers had been successfully Vietnam, Thailand and East Timor payment instructions to each other. east Asia. ASIA / AFRICA SATURDAY 28 MAY 2016 05 Obama’s Hiroshima visit draws raves

that Obama placed in front of a cen- Reaction on social media was otaph to victims at the city’s Peace also upbeat, with Twitter user It also spawned a Memorial Park. The line of hun- @0li0li0livia saying: “Mr Obama’s huge queue of well- dreds snaked along a concrete path speech was really great. I had tears leading up to the iconic monument in my eyes.” wishers eager to where Obama had stood as the first American visitor Miki Palm wel- snap a picture of the sitting US president to visit Hiro- comed Obama’s decision to come to shima since the bomb was dropped Hiroshima, but it aggravated long- white-flower wreath on the city on August 6, 1945, in the standing questions about wartime US that Obama placed in final chapter of World War II. Some President Harry Truman’s decision to posed beside the wreath inscribed use an atomic weapon to end the war. front of a cenotaph with Obama’s name, including visi- to victims at the city’s tors who had been unable to catch a Hugs and tears Peace Memorial Park. glimpse of the US president because of the huge crowds. Two men who suffered horrific US President Barack Obama places a wreath at the cenotaph at the Peace Momorial Park in Hiroshima yesterday. “I couldn’t see him at all so at injuries in the world’s first nuclear least I wanted to get a picture of the strike seven decades ago came AFP wreath,” said Hiroshima local Kana face-to-face yesterday with the that was broadcast around the world. Park. “Why did we come to this place, reporters afterwards. Tsuboi suffered Kamioka, a 30-something shop present-day commander-in-chief of That very human moment between to Obama also met the sprightly Sunao burns all over his body during the employee. “I’m going to upload them the country that launched the attack. an old man and one of the world’s Tsuboi, a 91-year-old who suffered attack, and wandered naked through on my Twitter account so my friends And one of them got a hug. most powerful people came after serious burns in the blast and subse- the charred streets until he could no HIROSHIMA: US President Barack know I was here.” Megu Shimomura, Shigeaki Mori, 79, appeared over- Obama delivered a soaring speech quently developed cancer. longer walk, before collapsing in the Obama’s visit to Hiroshima yesterday a 14-year-old schoolgirl, said she was whelmed with emotion as he shook that touched on the horrors of the Tsuboi, a long-time campaigner for radioactive dirt. drew raves on social media and from “thrilled” to have seen history in the hands with US President Barack American atomic bomb that obliter- nuclear disarmament, smiled broadly “I told him to firmly study what many of the thousands who turned making. Obama after a highly-charged cer- ated Hiroshima. as he shook Obama’s hand, with the exactly nuclear weapons are,” he said, up to witness the historic event. “He is someone who lives in emony in Hiroshima. “71 years ago, death fell from the two men conversing for upwards of a adding that he appreciated Obama’s It also spawned a huge queue of a very different world than I do, “The president gestured as if he sky and the world was changed,” minute. visit. well-wishers eager to snap a pic- but I felt his humanity,” she said of was going to give me a hug, so we Obama told a specially-invited audi- “I was able to convey my “I give him a big welcome. His ture of the white-flower wreath Obama’s impassioned speech. hugged,” Mori said of the embrace ence at the Hiroshima Peace Memorial thoughts,” a satisfied Tsuboi told Prague speech is still alive,” he added. Boko Haram violence creates educational crisis in northeast Nigeria

AFP Nigeria, is overgrown with shrubs and have yet to resume classes, even with the challenges facing those charged million males. More than one million destroyed, including in Chibok, from grass. Boko Haram fighters stormed relative peace restored in the state. with reconstruction of the devastated children have been kept out of school where more than 200 girls were the boarding school on February 25, “Some parents who have the region. The insurgency exacerbated because of the violence since it began abducted in April 2014. 2014, killing at least 43 students as means have sent their children to problems in a region already grap- in 2009, the UN children’s agency said At least 18,000 of the 130,000 BUNI YADI: More than two years they slept, and destroying classrooms, schools elsewhere,” Husseini Idi said pling with low levels of education. in December. people to flee when Boko Haram after being attacked by Boko Haram, offices, laboratories and dormitories. from under a tree outside his burnt- According to a report published In Yobe, Boko Haram, which attacked Buni Yadi again in July last piles of blackened furniture, iron bed Five months earlier, 40 students out house overlooking the deserted last year by the Africa Health, Human opposes so-called Western educa- year have now returned, according frames and computers still litter the were shot in their beds at an agricul- school. and Social Development Information tion, killed 128 students in five public to one military officer in the town burnt-out shell of the Federal Govern- tural college in Gujba, 23 kilometres “Most of us are poor and can’t Service, some 52.4 percent of men and schools, burning down hundreds of involved in documenting returns. ment College in Buni Yadi. (14 miles) away. afford to send their children to boys over aged six and 61.1 percent classrooms, the state government But one of those to come back, Ibra- The corrugated iron roofing has After the second attack, public schools in other places.” The situa- of girls and women had no educa- said last week. Next door in Borno, him Kampani, said: “For two years our caved in and the eerily silent school officials in Yobe closed all schools. tion in Buni Yadi is reflected across tion in the northeast. In Yobe, it said the authorities said at least 350 teach- children have not been going to school compound in Yobe state, northeast But local residents say their children northeast Nigeria and a reminder of the figure was 83.3 percent of the 1.4 ers have been killed and 512 schools and this worries us as parents.” Militants blow up oil & South Korea fires warning gas pipelines in Niger shots

Reuters of Warri that was protected by sol- AFP diers and operated by the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC). SEOUL: A South Korean naval ves- YENAGOA: Militants attacked crude “At 11:45pm on Thursday @ sel fired warning shots yesterday oil and gas pipelines operated by NDAvengers blew up other #NNPC after a North Korean patrol boat Nigeria’s state oil firm in the Niger Gas and Crude trunkline close to and fishing boat crossed the coun- Delta, a community leader said yes- Warri,” the group said on its Twit- tries’ disputed maritime border, terday, in an attack claimed by the ter feed. It had claimed on the same Seoul’s defence ministry said. Niger Delta Avengers, which has platform an attack on Chevron’s The incident coincided with been targeting energy facilities for main power feed in the Delta, which a prolonged push by North Korea weeks. shut down the US firm’s onshore for talks to reduce military ten- “Another crude pipeline was operations, according to a com- sions that escalated sharply after attacked on Thursday night near pany source. The Avengers, who have Pyongyang conducted its fourth Batan oil field in Warri,” said Eric given oil firms until end of the month nuclear test in January. Omare, spokesman for the Ijaw to leave, say they want independence The two North Korean ves- Youth Council, which represents for the Delta and have intensified sels crossed the Yellow Sea one of the largest ethnic groups in attacks in recent weeks, pushing border around 7:30am but swiftly the vast delta in southern Nigeria. oil output to its lowest in more than retreated after a South Korean “There were two simultaneous 20 years and compounding Niger- navy patrol boat fired five warn- attacks on (state oil firm) PPMC and ia’s economic problems. ing shots, a ministry official said. Fish swimming through the coral on Australia’s Great Barrier Reef. NNPC pipelines,” he said, referring Delta residents, some of whom The de-facto maritime bound- to the marketing arm of the NNPC. sympathise with the militants, have ary between the two Koreas is not The militant group tweeted long complained of poverty in an recognised by Pyongyang, which later that they had blown up a gas area producing oil accounting for argues it was unilaterally drawn Australia pulls Great Barrier Reef and crude pipeline near the town 70 percent of national income. by US-led United Nations. damage from Unesco’s report Magnificent click

Reuters concern about its future. The Depart- Bleaching occurs when the water ment of the Environment said it was is too warm, forcing coral to expel concerned that the “framing” of the living algae and causing it to calcify report could have created confusion and turn white. Mildly bleached coral SYDNEY: Australia’s Department of between the issues of the status of can recover if the temperature drops. the Environment said yesterday that world heritage sites, and the risks Although the impact has been it had omitted its contribution to a UN arising from climate change. exacerbated by one of the strongest report examining the impact of cli- “The department expressed con- El Nino weather systems in nearly mate change on world heritage sites cern that giving the report the title 20 years, scientists believe climate over concern it could create “con- ‘Destinations at risk’ had the poten- change is the underlying cause. fusion” and have a negative impact tial to cause considerable confusion,” Will Steffen, a climate scientist at on tourism. a department spokeswoman said. the Australian National University, The World Heritage and Tourism “Recent experience in Australia who had been asked to contribute to in a Changing Climate report, which had shown that negative commentary the report, was dismayed to discover was released yesterday with no ref- about the status of World Heritage yesterday that all references to Aus- erences to Australia, has sparked properties impacted on tourism.” tralian heritage sites were missing. outrage from climate scientists, who Australian scientists said last “The science is really well known, were not informed that their contri- month just 7 percent of the Great Bar- that’s not a problem at all so it’s noth- butions had been removed. rier Reef, which attracts about A$5 bn ing new to the tourism industry. It’s Unesco’s World Heritage Com- ($3.61bn) in tourism every year, has nothing new to the scientific com- mittee last May stopped short of been untouched by mass bleaching munity at all. So it’s really hard to see A man takes a photograph from the ‘Boomslang’ Canopy Walkway in the World Heritage Site Table placing the Great Barrier Reef on an and much of it was at risk of being what’s so provocative in that report,” Mountain National Park’s Kirstenbosch Botanical Gardens in Cape Town, South Africa, yesterday. “in danger” list, but the ruling raised destroyed. Steffen said. 06 SATURDAY 28 MAY 2016 PAKISTAN

Religious body favouring Showcasing nuclear strength ‘violence’ on women flayed

defies his commands and refuses to redefines “violence” to include dress up as per his desires. “any offence committed against a The media quoted The proposal was met with a woman” including things like domes- the Council of Islamic wave of mockery in the media and tic or emotional abuse, stalking or online yesterday. cybercrimes. Ideology in its draft The country’s biggest newspaper, The bill, which was passed in of bill saying that a Dawn, published a satirical article February, also provides for a univer- with a list of things people could beat sal toll free help line for the women, husband should be other than their wives—including and establishes district protection allowed to lightly eggs, the bottom of ketchup bottles. centres and residential shelters under The article was a rare example of a phased programme. beat his wife if she the media mocking those claiming to It also allows courts to order a defies his commands speak in the name of religion in Paki- GPS tracker installed to monitor a and refuses to dress stan. The draft was also slammed by defendant’s movements. the Human Rights Commission of The CII, formed in 1962 to advise up as per his desires. Pakistan (HRCP), which condemned parliament on compatibility of laws Labourers arrange lights on a replica of Chagi mountain in Islamabad. Every year, May 28 is celebrated its recommendations as “ridiculous” with Sharia, has previously spoken as a national day in Pakistan in commemoration of Chagai when Pakistan detonated six nuclear devices and called for the council of “zealots” out against the bill. The council’s rec- in response to India’s five detonations of Pokhran-II in 1998. to be disbanded. ommendations are non-binding, and AFP “It is difficult to comprehend why it has drawn widespread criticism in anyone in his right mind would think the past for other rulings—including that any further encouragement or in 2013, when it suggested making justification is needed to invite vio- DNA inadmissible evidence in physi- ISLAMABAD: Pakistani media and lence upon women in Pakistan,” the cal exploitation cases, instead calling Karachi traffic cops get spy cameras activists yesterday poured scorn on HRCP stated. Online in Pakistan, the for the revival of an Islamic law that a suggestion from a religious body bill was met with derision. makes it mandatory for a survivor to that men should be allowed to “lightly “This body should be dissolved, provide four witnesses to back their Internews during the past one year. sunglasses and pens to our officers beat” their wives, made in their draft preferably in acid,” wrote one claims. The authorities acquired a set posted in south district,” said DIG of a women’s protection bill. Twitter user, as others expressed CII chairman Maulana Muham- of spy gadgets and distributed them (traffic) Dr Ameer Sheikh. The Council of Islamic Ideol- bafflement and anger. mad Khan Sherani emphasised to among the officials as a pilot project “The objective of the exercise is to ogy (CII) released a draft of bill on Women in Pakistan have fought reporters that the bill is still being KARACHI: Traffic police authorities which would be expanded to other bring reforms in traffic policing. Our Thursday, their response to progres- for their rights for decades, in a drafted. “Islam does not allow vio- have provided sunglasses and pens parts of the city later. An official said personnel remain directly engaged sive legislation giving women greater country where so-called honour lence against women,” he said. attached with spy cameras to some of positive feedback had been received with people round the clock. It is rights and protection in the province killings and acid attacks remain “There may be a dispute their personnel in a move to monitor from certain areas where programme not easy, we to receive complaints of Punjab. Local media quoted the commonplace. between husband and wife but that their behaviour and for security sur- was launched to modernise policing. from both sides - drivers or com- draft as saying: “A husband should be But the Punjab Protection is something separate from tortur- veillance, as eight traffic policemen “In the first phase, we have dis- muters and traffic policemen,” the allowed to lightly beat his wife if she of Women Against Violence Bill ing wives.” have been killed in targeted attacks tributed these camera-attached officer said.

ECP to buy 400 The last respect Medical student’s appeal to EVMS for free and fair by-polls appear for 31st time rejected

till 2018 Internews in ten years. A bench headed by Justice Mian Saqib Nisar heard an appeal filed Internews by a medical student Tariq Javed of ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court King Edward Medical College against yesterday dismissed an appeal filed Lahore High Court’s order. The pros- ISLAMABAD: As part of its efforts by a 51-year-old medical student for ecution counsel apprised the court to ensure free, fair and transpar- appearing in the examination for 31st that Javed got admission in King ent elections, Election Commission time. The court remarked that Paki- Edward Medical College Lahore in of Pakistan (ECP) has decided to stan Medical and Dental Council rules 1985. He appeared in three exams for purchase 400 Electronic Voting allowed only five years’ time for reap- MBBS degree in 1990, 1991 and 1992. Machines (EVMs) that would be pearing in the examinations while the He also appeared in examina- used in all bye-elections till 2018. petitioner failed to pass a subject even tion in 2011 last time. According to an advertisement published in a section of press, last date for submission of tender for EVMs to ECP is June 20 after which the appropriate firm or company Opposition helps Sharif would awarded the contract. Supporters of banned Islamic charity Jamatud Dawa offer funeral prayers in absentia for Taliban The decision to purchase leader Mullah Akhtar Mansoor, in Peshawar, yesterday. A US drone strike killed Mullah Mansoor in EVMs has been taken on rec- Balochistan province of Pakistan on May 21. to get out of hot waters ommendations of multi-party Parliamentary Sub-Committee of Electoral Reforms. Internews The agreed preamble does not The working paper pre-pared focus on any particular person. with regard to the purchase of However, much to satisfaction of EVMs stated ECP would care- PTI rejects hike in lawmakers’ salaries Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif, no fully review appropriateness of ISLAMABAD: Prime Minister Nawaz less than the opposition’s most vocal the latest EVMs that would make Sharif appears to be getting out of hot voice Aitzaz Ahsan offered to drop use of “paper trails”, meaning Internews Imran Khan. Last week, the National Assembly waters in Panama Papers controversy Sharif’s name from proposed ToRs. the machines print a paper with But the decision is strange voted unanimously to adopt recommen- as the opposition not only offered to This offer from the opposition would a physical proof of each vote and because PTI MNAs did not initially dations of the committee that increased exclude his name from proposed Terms be a great relief for the government, voter’s presence. vote against recommendations of the salary packages of lawmakers to Rs of Reference (ToRs) for the Judicial which from the day one was resisting As many as 300,000 EVMs ISLAMABAD: Terming it ‘unjustified’ Committee on Salary and Allowances 470,000, including a basic salary of Rs Commission but also agreed to expand the inclusion of Sharif’s name in any would be required to conduct the and ‘inappropriate’, Pakistan Tehreek- in the National Assembly last week. 200,000, transport allowance of Rs scope of inquiry beyond Panama Leaks. inquiry. Contrary to what is being general elections in 2018 in one e-Insaf (PTI) yesterday rejected a The party meeting, held ahead of 50,000, utilities of Rs 50,000, office The preamble of the proposed discussed in parliamentary com- phase. It said the results man- government move to grant lawmak- 12-member parliamentary committee maintenance of Rs 100,000, and con- ToRs for the Judicial Commission mittee meeting, the Supreme Court agement system would be given a ers a massive bump in their salaries. meeting to frame Terms of Reference stituency allowance of Rs 70,000. as agreed by the government and wanted specific names and partic- solid legal framework and a range “Given (the current) economic (ToRs) for the probe into Panama leaks, Further the road journey opposition yesterday resolves not ular cases for probe. of innovative initiatives would also conditions of the country, (we) can- decided to highlight scandal and con- allowance was increased from only to probe the Panama Papers but While the opposition offered to be piloted such as mobile results not afford lavish spending on MPs,” tinue demanding thorough probe into Rs 10 to Rs 20 per km with the other offshore companies, transfer withdraw Sharif’s name from the transmission, biometric voter said a statement issued by the party. it. PTI decided to play an active role provision that a member be pro- of funds originating from corrup- proposed ToRs, the challenge for identification, and a GIS-enabled The decision came at a meeting for legislation which would grant legal vided with vouchers which can be tion, commission and kickbacks, and both the sides is to meet the demand polling schemes. of the party chaired by PTI Chairman cover to any eventual probe. cashed for up to Rs 30, 000. written off loans. of the Supreme Court. Fading splendour of Pakistani Mughal mosque

AFP “And thus the construction work square feet, it was constructed so was badly damaged,” said Qasim Ali started taking off,” said Syed Murad that an imam’s voice travelled every Qasim, director of Sindh Archaeol- Ali Shah, the ninth generation heir to corner without amplification. But as ogy Department. Amir Khan, then-governor of Sindh. Thatta’s importance declined after The facade of mosque’s arched THATTA: Legend says when con- “There were hundreds of pious the 18th century, the mosque too fell entrance was damaged during struction on Pakistan’s Shah Jahani men in those times, but are none into disrepair. repairs, with stones engraved with mosque was destroyed in 1644, advis- today to salvage the mosque,” he Poor reconstruction work carried Koranic verses removed and taken ers to Mughal governor told him to said, standing outside the centuries- out in the 1970s by the federal govern- to National Museum in Karachi find someone “who is so pious that old structure, now threatened by time, ment inflicted irreparable damage to then dumped in a junkyard. They he has committed no sin in all his life” exposure, neglect and negligence. original features including its unique were retrieved earlier this year only to lay the foundation. Completed in 1647 by thou- auditory system. to be installed in a replica of the Bells rang out with the message, sands of labourers, the Shah Jahani “Many things were replaced mosque’s arch built at entrance to calling on such men to come in to lay mosque is a rare example of Paki- during the repair work, and the the museum, a move that enraged a stone in the grounds of the mosque, stan’s Mughal heritage outside of replacements have ruined the orig- mosque prayer leaders who wanted which was being constructed on the country’s cultural centre of Lahore. inal immaculate work, as well as them returned. orders of Shahjahan, the emperor best Thatta was for centuries historic disturbing the sound system,” said Qasim said efforts are being known for building Taj Mahal. capital of Lower Sindh, and the cen- Mohammad Ali Manji, principal of made to drain groundwater threat- The next day, 450 bricks were tral mosque would fill to capacity on the Government College Thatta. ening the structure of the mosque, found placed in the foundations at Fridays and during Eid. “No archaeologist was consulted which still draws a small number of The exterior of Shah Jahani mosque in Thatta in Sindh province. the site in the town of Thatta. Spanning more than 6,300 (for the repair) work, so its originality worshippers. INDIA SATURDAY 28 MAY 2016 07 Six militants & soldier killed in Kashmir violence

of Control - the de facto border that many militants may have succeeded divides Jammu and Kashmir between in crossing over to this side with arms Highly placed India and Pakistan. Two more mili- and ammunition. intelligence sources tants were gunned down in another “Some 40-45 militants have battle near Tangmarg, the gateway managed to come to this side. This is said that there has to the famed Gulmarg tourist resort, definitely higher than what has been definitely been also in north Kashmir. the normal for the past few years,” Security forces in the state have said an intelligence official. an increase in the been on high alert since militants But the overall situation in the number of infiltration gunned down three policemen in state, according to the officials, was shoot-and-run attacks in Srinagar not disturbing at all. They said secu- attempts from across on Monday. Two terrorists, including rity forces have mostly been able to the border. a Jaish-e-Mohammed commander, eliminate militants in the hinterlands were also killed in a gunfight with before they succeeded in moving security forces in the heart of the city into populated areas, like the pro- on the same day amid reports that longed gunfight at Toot Maar Ghali in IANS more militants had entered the val- Nowgam sector of the de facto bor- ley and were planning attacks. der in Kupwara district that ended The violent incidents are the yesterday. latest in a series of deadly militant A soldier, identified as Havaldar SRINAGAR: At least six militants activities in the Kashmir Valley Hangpang Dada, 36, of Arunachal and a soldier were killed in two sep- since the beginning of this sum- Pradesh, was also killed in the shoot- arate Kashmir gun battles yesterday mer as melting snow opened up the out. Army officials said that security amid flared up terrorist activities in mountain passes that Pakistan-based forces were still combing the densely the restive valley following increased militants rely on for mobility. forested area. The identity and group levels of infiltration from across the Highly placed intelligence affiliation of the slain militants was border with Pakistan, officials said. sources said that there has definitely not immediately known. However, They said four militants were been an increase in the number of a senior police official said it was killed in a prolonged gunfight that infiltration attempts from across “most likely” that they belonged to Masked Kashmiri protesters throw stones towards Indian security personnel during a demonstration against began on Thursday morning in a the border. They said while most the Pakistan-based Jaish-e-Moham- north Kashmir village near the Line such attempts have been foiled but med militant group. the plan to resettle Hindus in the valley, according to local media, in Srinagar yesterday. Mamata sworn Thane blast: Toll at ten; Government committed to in Bengal CM northeast’s welfare: Modi for second term factory owners booked

IANS IANS IANS Corporation (MIDC) in whose area the factory is located. KOLKATA: Trinamool Congress Meanwhile, the Thane police supremo Mamata Banerjee was slapped charges of culpable hom- SHILLONG: The government is yesterday sworn in for a second THANE: The toll in the boiler blast icide not amounting to murder committed to the welfare of the consecutive term as West Bengal in a chemicals factory here rose to against the owners of Probace Enter- northeastern India, especially the chief minister at a grand public 10 yesterday including three rela- prises, Dombivali, a police official women of the region, Prime Min- ceremony witnessed by thousands tions of the owners even as charges said. “We have sought help from the ister Narendra Modi said yesterday of supporters as well as eminent of culpable homicide not amounting factory inspector and other depart- after laying the foundation stone of personalities. to murder were slapped on them, a ments to determine the exact cause a new football stadium here. Attired in a simple white sari police official said. of the blast and fire,” said an official “The government is committed and white stole, Banerjee was While Vishwas Wakatkar, a fam- of Manpada Police, which is prob- to the development in the northeast administered the oath of office ily member of the owners of the ing the case under the direction region, the Self Help Groups (SHG), and secrecy by Governor Keshari Probace Enterprises, was injured Joint Police Commissioner Ashutosh particularly the women SHGs. Keep- Nath Tripathi in a ceremony held and is recovering in a hospital, bod- Dumbre. ing this in mind, the government has at the city’s historic Indira Gandhi ies of three other relatives - Nandu Police have registered a case also approved a special package for Sarani (Red Road), a wide boule- Wakatkar, Sumit Wakatkar and against the owners of the factory in the northeast,” the prime minister vard that bisects the Maidan. Sneha Wakatkar - were recovered Dombivali city here under Indian said at the North Eastern Council Banerjee, the state’s eighth from the debris. Penal Code’s section 304A (culpable meeting here. Prime Minister Narendra Modi wears traditional Khasi tribe head gear chief minister took her oath in More than 150 other injured are homicide not amounting to murder) Modi laid the foundation stone as he delivers a speech in Shillong, yesterday. Bengali, and in the name of “Ish- undergoing treatment in various which attracts upto 10 years jail term of a football stadium which is being war and Allah”. She dedicated hospitals for which the state gov- and a fine. constructed in Shillong at a cost of the Kamakhya-Katra weekly train government’s focus on the northeast the event to “Ma, Mati, Manush” ernment will foot the bills. On Thursday, Dombivali, around Rs.38 crore. “Foundation stone of a from Assam to Jammu and Kashmir. is manifested in its ‘Act East Policy’. (Mother, land and people”, Ban- A probe has been ordered to 35km north of Mumbai, was shaken football stadium has been laid. This He said he wanted to see the “We want to particularly improve erjee’s pet slogan. Along with the ascertain whether the company had to its foundation when a deafening region has a great talent in sports, northeastern region shine in the connectivity, infrastructure and tour- chief minister, 41 other ministers followed or violated norms of the blast occurred in a boiler in the Pro- particularly football. Football is a organic farming sector. “I am par- ism,” said Modi. The North Eastern were also sworn in. Maharashtra Industrial Development bace chemical factory. passion here and it is played in each ticularly keen to see the northeast Council (NEC) is the nodal agency for and every nook and corner of the shine in the organic farming sector. channelising the funds for economic state and the region,” said Modi. Northeast can become the organic and social development in the region. The prime minister also inau- food basket of India,” said Modi, who The prime minister said Agartala, gurated passenger train services is the first prime minister in the last the capital of Tripura, has become the New entry to Mizoram and Manipur on the two decades to attend the NEC ple- third international location to be con- newly-laid broad gauge line, and nary meeting. He said the central nected to Cox Bazar of Bangladesh. Promises will be fulfilled: Shah

IANS outfits could not be equated with the two years. He said, “After 10 years BJP. of turmoil under a scam-tainted “In the last two years the gov- and corrupt UPA (United Progres- ernment has laid down a strong sive Alliance) rule, the country got NEW DELHI: Stressing that India has foundation, and in the coming three a government that not only took key got a corruption-free and decisive years it will raise a strong building decisions but also implemented them government under Prime Minister of development. I am sure when we wholeheartedly. We have given a cor- Narendra Modi, BJP president Amit go to the people again for votes in ruption-free government. Even our Shah yesterday said that the NDA 2019, we would have fulfilled all our opponents cannot accuse us of cor- regime created hope across all sec- promises,” the Bharatiya Janata Party ruption.” “We have given a decisive tions of people by laying down a president told the media here. government that takes decisions, strong foundation in its two years. “People put their stamp of makes policies and implements it. He also downplayed a con- approval on the central govern- After a long time, the country has got troversy over the Bajrang Dal’s ment’s performance whenever they a decisive government in the form “self-defence training camps” in got a chance as the BJP has formed of the National Democratic Alliance Uttar Pradesh, saying his party’s government in five states for the first government,” Shah said. He said it focus in next year’s assembly polls time, and preformed better than ear- took steps to provide long-term solu- A man enters Facebook’s new office in Mumbai, yesterday. in the state would be on develop- lier everywhere,” Shah said, referring tions to end poverty, unemployment ment and the activities of such Hindu to assembly polls held during the past and farmers’ problems. Rescuers find body of missing climber on Mount Everest

AFP Nath and Goutam Ghosh -- were metres -- marks the beginning of the Sunday. The fourth team member, abandoned. Hundreds of climbers spring climbing season, due to end near the summit of the 8,848-metre “death zone”, notorious for its diffi- a woman, was rescued and taken to fled Everest last year after an earth- soon. mountain on Saturday when they lost cult terrain and thin air, as low levels hospital. Subhash Pal was the third quake-triggered avalanche at base Mountaineering is a major rev- contact with the rest of their team. of oxygen raise the risk of altitude mountaineer to die on Everest in camp killed 18 people. enue-earner for the impoverished KATHMANDU: Rescuers yesterday “Rescuers located Paresh Nath’s sickness. recent days after an Australian and a Only one climber reached the top Himalayan nation. found the body of one of two Indian body around the South Col (mountain “There is too much wind and snow Dutch climber succumbed to altitude in 2014 after an avalanche killed 16 The wave of successful summits climbers missing on Mount Everest, pass),” Wangchu Sherpa of Trekking to continue our search for Goutam sickness. Some 400 people, including Nepali guides that year. is expected to give a boost to the before bad weather forced them to Camp Nepal said. Ghosh today,” Sherpa said. more than 150 foreigners, have sum- Despite the risks and recent climbing industry, left reeling after halt search operations, an expedition The cause of Nath’s death has not The missing climbers were part of mited Everest this season after two disasters, Everest’s allure remains a string of disasters, including last operator said. The two men -- identi- yet been established. But the South a team of four, one of whom -- Sub- consecutive years of deadly disasters undimmed, with Nepal issuing 289 year’s quake, which killed almost fied by the Indian embassy as Paresh Col -- located at an altitude of 8,000 hash Pal -- died after falling ill on that led to almost all attempts being permits to foreigners for this year’s 9,000 nationwide. 08 SATURDAY 28 MAY 2016 VIEWS

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EDITORIAL Israeli extremism Beirut’s loveable losers

he resignation of another Israeli minister from Hariri fielded 24 candidates under they had started would help sway Benjamin Netanyahu’s government is a sad the coalition name “Beirutis’ List,” people at the voting booth. commentary on the direction of Israeli politics, or which took on nasty undertones, as Groups like Beirut They have yet to recover from Tmore precisely, that of Netanyahu’s government. it appeared to hint that Beirut, one Madinati show this miscalculation. Faced with the The rise of the rabid right has been roiling Israeli of the most cosmopolitan cities in that, politically, the highly organised Muslim Brother- politics for many months, with the prime minister’s role in this the region, was only for “real” Bei- hood and remnants of the previous phenomenon coming under special scrutiny. rutis. Lebanese politics often play Middle East’s youth regime, the revolutionaries barely Environment minister Avi Gabbay announced his resignation on people’s regional or sectarian made a dent. Their ability to affect belonging, and Hariri was hoping and new political the country’s politics has decreased in protest against Netanyahu’s decision to take the defence to encourage people to vote to pro- leaders are slowly even further with the coup that portfolio from former general Moshe Yaalon and hand it to tect their city -- though he never brought to power President Abdel Avigdor Lieberman, who is known for his extremist views and made clear against what. coming of age. Their Fattah Al Sisi. harsh treatment of Palestinians. Yaalon had resigned from the By Kim Ghattas Most of the other Lebanese path forward will be The transition from the idealis- government a week ago in protest, warning of a rising tide of The Washington Post political parties helped get the vote long and arduous. tic fervour of uprisings to the hard extremism that was threatening to swallow both the party and out for Hariri’s list, in an effort to work of change has been a tricky maintain their own stranglehold But the onus is one. The other mistake activists the country. In a strongly worded statement, Gabbay accused on the system that serves them so now on them to made, especially in Egypt, was to Netanyahu of leading the country up a dark alley into ruin. “I well. And yet, in the face of unani- believe that toppling the head of could not accept the removal of Yaalon, hey celebrated the results by mous opposition from the political turn their recent state was the equivalent of chang- a professional and thoughtful defence gathering their candidates, establishment, Beirut Madinati cap- achievements into a ing the whole system. What Egypt’s minister,” Gabbay said. volunteers, and support- tured two out of every five votes. sustainable political revolutionaries quickly faced after Netanyahu The rise of extremism of the most ers at a seaside events hall But why does a municipal elec- the ouster of Mubarak was the sol- There in the capital. Several hundred tion in Beirut matter? In a region idly entrenched state - the military, must realise violent variety, which is built on a plank movement. people sang, cheered, and swayed that seems overwhelmed by chaos security services, and the bureau- that his of antipathy towards Palestinians to the traditional dabke line dance. and upheaval, even a minor election crats loyal to them - which continues acquiescence and illegal confiscation of their land, And yet Beirut Madinati, or “Bei- where independent actors make Madinati was criticised by some as to stifle real change. is causing huge concern among the rut My City,” a group of 24 citizens their mark is a hopeful sign that a an elitist coalition that represented Lebanon never had a dictator; to the actions country’s liberals and the international who had just run in the city’s munici- new generation of leaders may be only a sliver of the city’s popula- but in 2005, it had its own upris- of the radical community. But it’s a phenomenon pal elections — many of them young rising — a generation that is trying tion. Mneimneh, the head of the ing against oppression, dubbed the the liberals have been forced to watch, professionals, most of them sec- to move beyond ideas of revolution, Beirut Madinati list, admitted that “Beirut Spring” by many. At that fringe is ular, half of them women — had or even civil society activism, to as they visited neighbourhoods to time, hundreds of thousands of being unable to stop its tide. Netanyahu not without actually lost. So what were they change the status quo. For the first introduce their platform and get the protesters, enraged by the killing has been aiding and abetting the growth celebrating? time in my conversations in Beirut, vote out, they were “taken aback of Rafik Hariri, took to the streets, consequences. of these radicals, many of whom are The upstart movement, formed a I heard talk of forming new political by the poverty and difficult condi- forcing the withdrawal of Syrian settlers, for his political survival. For few short months before the election parties. Aside from Tunisia and now tions that people were living in, so troops that had occupied the coun- example, co-opting Lieberman and his and with only a small, underfunded Lebanon, there have been too few perhaps our campaign and goals try for some 30 years. Believing Yisrael Beitenu party would add five ground operation, had taken on examples of a new type of leader could be better adjusted to the dif- that the end of the Syrian occu- lawmakers to Netanyahu’s wafer-thin majority if the coalition Lebanon’s entrenched political emerging, and while civil society ferent sections of society.” pation was the end the road, the overlords and sectarian political activists may remain engaged from But he pointed out that the coali- protesters left the rest of the struc- deal is given parliamentary approval next week as expected. establishment and garnered a stag- Egypt to Yemen, the impact of their tion also did reasonably well in areas ture intact: The politicians who still Israel is in the throes of a debate about the dangers posed gering 40 percent of the vote. work is limited. with voters who were not Beirut’s served the interests of Damascus to the future of the country by these radicals, but their voices of By doing so, the candidates of Beirut Madinati didn’t win, but it Western-educated elite, attract- and the traditional feudal leaders, concern and protest have been drowned out by the bellicosity Beirut Madinati showed their fel- certainly put politicians on notice. Its ing 37 percent of the vote even in who upheld the sectarian system. of extremists and their brutal hold on the government. If low Lebanese, and perhaps the rest detailed platform — which offered predominantly Sunni, middle- to It may have taken 11 years until these radicals have their way, they will eliminate the ‘threat of the region, that it is possible for a 10-point programme proposing lower-class neighbourhoods that an alternative political movement civil society to organise, engage solutions to the trash crisis, public are typical Hariri fiefdoms. emerged in Lebanon, but Mneimneh of Palestinians’ through any method that suits them, and will in politics, and start the process transportation plans, and poverty Beirut Madinati was also ham- told me he had heard from friends capture all of Palestinian land and even beyond. of political reform. Ibrahim Mne- alleviation — sent rivals scurrying. pered by its refusal to play the around the region that people in Netanyahu must realise that his acquiescence to the actions imneh, the head of the list, told me Hariri only announ1 cedhis typical political game of using Morocco, Egypt, and elsewhere of the radical fringe is not without consequences. The West is the group of concerned citizens had own list of candidates after Beirut local patriarchs to bring voters to have been keeping an eye on Bei- increasingly becoming aware of the suffering of Palestinians and initially thought of fielding just a Madinati had made its candidates’ the polling stations in large num- rut Madinati and trying to learn the atrocities committed by the settlers and Israeli soldiers. This few candidates as a symbolic pro- names public. He also made sure bers, usually in exchange for money. from its experience. rising awareness is leading to an erosion of support for Israel in test, until they realised there was to include the kind of technocrats Its reasoning was admirable: The “If we had won, the impact an opportunity to seize upon cit- who could speak of public spaces movement didn’t want to offer pay- would no doubt have been greater,” the West, growing sympathy with Palestinians. izens’ deep frustration with the and public transportation just as offs to individuals in exchange for he said. However, he hopes their The weakening of Palestinians and Arabs has also been current system. well as their rivals. The new munic- their vote, but instead wanted to win example will still create ripples, just responsible for the rise of Jewish extremism. The silence of the Beirut — a concrete jungle ipal council may not deliver on its on the basis of policy solutions that as he believes Lebanon’s ability to international community, especially the US, has emboldened where sidewalks are used as parking promises — but politicians in a guaranteed communities a better bring an end to the Syrian occupa- Netanyahu in his promotion of radicalism. lots, monstrous traffic jams are the post-revolution Arab world may life in Beirut. And this is the conun- tion in 2005 inspired those watching bane of daily life, and the only real be beginning to grasp that they need drum: How do you challenge the around the region to realize that public space is the seaside prome- to do better and offer real improve- system, without using those ele- peaceful change to the status quo nade — has suffered for years from ments to citizens’ lives. Fear of chaos ments of the system that would was possible. mismanagement. Its problems is not enough to justify the status allow you to actually win? Well, it Beirut Madinati’s approach is reflect the wider political paralysis quo. requires slow, painstaking work. already being copied in other cities Quote of the day in the country, where parliamen- Beirut Madinati also introduced In March 2011, then-secre- in Lebanon for the next rounds of tary and presidential elections have a new way of doing politics. The tary of state Hillary Clinton visited municipal elections, and the coali- We have known the agony been postponed for years. A trash group publicly reported donations Cairo and met with the activists tion is looking into how it can build of war. Let us now find collection crisis, which brought cit- to its campaign and budget and held who had led the protests against on its initial success, potentially by izens to the streets last summer to town-hall meetings to present its Hosni Mubarak. The organisers of forming a shadow municipal coun- the courage, together, to protest the mountains of garbage program, where citizens could speak the movement were still high on the cil, possibly even a political party, spread peace, piling up in the capital, has only for two minutes each to lay out their adrenaline of their astounding suc- or fielding individual candidates in and pursue a world been temporarily resolved. concerns. It launched a real “get out cess in bringing down a man who legislative elections. without nuclear weapons. Beirut Madinati was born partly the vote” operation, helping peo- had ruled the country for 30 years. Groups like Beirut Madinati out of the recognition that change ple figure out which polling station Clinton asked them how they were show that, politically, the Middle requires active involvement in pub- to go to, their rights as a voter, and getting organised for the upcoming East’s youth and new political lead- lic life. The group was up against what documentation they needed parliamentary elections that year. ers are slowly coming of age. Their the massive, cash-rich electoral to cast a ballot. All of this is prac- The activists’ answers stunned her. path forward will be long and ardu- Barack Obama machine of Saad Hariri, a former tically unheard of in the region. “We don’t do politics,” one of them ous. But the onus is now on them to US President prime minister and son of slain With its social media campaign said dismissively. They were cer- turn their recent achievements into former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri. and filmmaker candidates, Beirut tain that the momentum of what a sustainable political movement.

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EXT of President Barack Obama’s remarks Friday at Hiroshima Peace Memorial Park about the US atomic bombing, the legacy of World War II and nuclear Tweapons, as delivered: Seventy-one years ago, on a bright, cloudless morning, death fell from the sky and the world was changed. The flash of light and a wall of fire destroyed a city and demonstrated that mankind possessed the means to destroy itself Why do we come to this place, to Hiroshima? We come to ponder a terrible force unleashed in a not-so-distant past. We come to mourn the dead, including over 100,000 Japanese men, women and children, thousands of Koreans, a dozen Americans held prisoner. Their souls speak to us. They ask us to look inward, to take stock of who we are and what we might become. It is not the fact of war that sets Hiro- shima apart. Artifacts tell us that violent conflict appeared with the very first man. Our early ancestors, having learned to make blades from flint and spears from wood, used these tools not just for hunt- ing but against their own kind. On every continent, the history of civ- US President Barack Obama (right) and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe turn around after laying wreaths during a visit to theHiroshima Peace Memorial ilization is filled with war, whether driven Park in Hiroshima yesterday. Obama paid moving tribute to victims of the world’s first nuclear attack. by scarcity of grain or hunger for gold, compelled by nationalist fervor or reli- gious zeal. Empires have risen and fallen. children — no different than us — shot, That is why we come to this place. possess the means to defend ourselves. simple words. All men are created equal Peoples have been subjugated and liber- beaten, marched, bombed, jailed, starved, We stand here in the middle of this But among those nations like my own that and endowed by our creator with certain ated, and at each juncture, innocents have gassed to death. There are many sites city and force ourselves to imagine the hold nuclear stockpiles, we must have the unalienable rights, including life, liberty suffered — a countless toll, their names around the world that chronicle this war, moment the bomb fell. We force our- courage to escape the logic of fear and and the pursuit of happiness. Realiz- forgotten by time. memorials that tell stories courage and selves to feel the dread of children pursue a world without them. ing that ideal has never been easy, even The world war that reached its bru- heroism, graves and empty camps, the confused by what they see. We listen to We may not realize this goal in my within our own borders, even among our tal end in Hiroshima and Nagasaki was echo of unspeakable depravity. a silent cry. We remember all the inno- lifetime, but persistent effort can roll back own citizens. fought among the wealthiest and most Yet in the image of a mushroom cloud cents killed across the arc of that terrible the possibility of catastrophe. We can But staying true to that story is worth powerful of nations. that rose into these skies, we are most war, and the wars that came before, and chart a course that leads to the destruc- the effort. It is an ideal to be strived for, an Their civilizations had given the starkly reminded of humanity’s core con- the wars that would follow. tion of these stockpiles. We can stop the ideal that extends across continents and world great cities and magnificent art. tradiction: how the very spark that marks Mere words cannot give voice to such spread to new nations and secure deadly across oceans. The irreducible worth of Their thinkers had advanced ideas of us a species — our thoughts, our imagina- suffering, but we have a shared respon- material from fanatics. every person. The insistence that every justice and harmony and truth. tion, our language, our tool-making, our sibility to look directly into the eye of And yet, that is not enough. For we life is precious. The radical and neces- And yet, the war grew out of the same ability to set ourselves apart from nature history and ask what we must do differ- see around the world today how even the sary notion that we are part of a single base instinct for domination or conquest and bend it to our will — those very things ently to curb such suffering again. crudest rifles and barrel bombs can serve human family. that had caused conflicts among the also give us the capacity for unmatched Someday the voices of the hibakusha up violence on a terrible scale. That is the story that we all must tell. simplest tribes. An old pattern amplified destruction. will no longer be with us to bear witness. We must change our mindset about That is why we come to Hiroshima: so that by new capabilities and without new How often does material advancement But the memory of the morning of Aug. war itself to prevent conflict through diplo- we might think of people we love. The first constraints. or social innovation blind us to this truth? 6, 1945, must never fade. That memory macy and strive to end conflicts after they’ve smile from our children in the morning. In the span of a few years, some 60 How easily we learn to justify violence in allows us to fight complacency. It fuels our begun. To see our growing interdependence The gentle touch from a spouse over the million people would die. Men, women, the name of some higher cost. Every great moral imagination. It allows us to change. as a cause for peaceful cooperation and not kitchen table. The comforting embrace of religion promises a pathway to love and And since that fateful day, we have made violent competition. To define our nations a parent. We can think of those things and peace and righteousness. And yet no reli- choices that give us hope. The United not by our capacity to destroy, but by what know that those same precious moments gion has been spared from believers who States and Japan forged not only an alli- we build. And perhaps above all, we must took place here 71 years ago. have claimed their faith as a license to kill. ance but a friendship that has won far reimagine our connection to one another Those who died, they are like us. Ordi- Nations arise telling a story that binds more for our people than we could ever as members of one human race. nary people understand this, I think. They people together in sacrifice and cooper- claim through war. For this, too, is what makes our spe- do not want more war. They would rather Those who died, they are like us. ation, allowing for remarkable feats. But The nations of Europe built a union cies unique. We are not bound by genetic that the wonders of science be focused those same stories have so often been used that replaced battlefields with bonds of code to repeat the mistakes of the past. on improving life and not eliminating Ordinary people understand this, I to oppress and dehumanize those who commerce and democracy. Oppressed We can learn. We can choose. We can tell it. When the choices made by nations think. They do not want more war. are different. peoples and nations won liberation. An our children a different story — one that — when the choices made by leaders — Science allows us to communicate international community established describes a common humanity, one that reflect this simple wisdom, then the lesson They would rather that the wonders across the seas and fly above the clouds, to institutions and treaties that worked to makes war less likely and cruelty less eas- of Hiroshima is done. of science be focused on improving cure disease and understand the cosmos. avoid war and aspired to restrict and roll ily accepted. The world was forever changed here. But those same discoveries can be turned back and ultimately eliminate the exist- We see these stories in the hibaku- But today, the children of this city will go life and not eliminating it. When the into ever more efficient killing machines. ence of nuclear weapons. sha: the woman who forgave a pilot who through their day in peace. What a pre- choices made by nations — when the The wars of the modern age teach us Still, every act of aggression between flew the plane that dropped the atomic cious thing that is. It is worth protecting, this truth. Hiroshima teaches this truth. nations, every act of terror and corrup- bomb because she recognized that what and then extending to every child. choices made by leaders — reflect Technological progress without an equiv- tion and cruelty and oppression that we she really hated was war itself. The man That is a future we can choose: a this simple wisdom, then the lesson alent progress in human institutions can see around the world, shows our work is who sought out families of Americans future in which Hiroshima and Nagasaki of Hiroshima is done. doom us. The scientific revolution that led never done. We may not be able to elimi- killed here because he believed their loss are known not as the dawn of atomic war- to the splitting of an atom requires a moral nate man’s capacity to do evil. So nations was equal to his own. fare, but as the start of our own moral revolution as well. and the alliances that we form must My own nation’s story began with awakening. Middle East refugees help Europe prosecute war crimes

up of an international court for Syria. Most European countries have Investigators have interviewed posts showed him posing alongside The search for evidence takes a legislation allowing them to prosecute Yazidi Kurd refugees in Germany for decapitated heads. variety of forms. Dutch and German international crimes like genocide evidence of alleged genocide against Last year, Swedish courts con- immigration services hand out leaflets regardless of where in the world they the ethnic and religious minority. A victed a Syrian on the basis of a video to arriving migrants, inviting them to happen. About 15 have units dedicated German citizen thought to be in Syria showing him torturing a fellow com- testify. to investigating and prosecuting them. is the subject of a sealed arrest war- batant. Crimes being investigated In Norway, police screen arrivals’ Over the past decade, authorities rant on separate war crimes charges. around the continent include torture, mobile phones for evidence of possi- in Europe have launched 1,607 inter- They are preparing further cases murder, rape, crimes against human- ble involvement in war crimes. national war crimes cases in domestic against two other suspects, one ity and genocide. With more than “Over the next five years you’ll jurisdictions, while another 1,339 are accused of torture and another of With more than 400,000 people see a lot of prosecutions,” said Matevz ongoing, according to EU judicial kidnapping a US legal adviser near killed in Syria since 2011, there have 400,000 people Pezdirc of the European Union’s Gen- cooperation agency Eurojust. Damascus. been calls for perpetrators of massa- killed in Syria By Thomas Escritt ocide Network, a forum that brings German police have compiled In France, genocide and war cres to face trials in a UN court, like Reuters together police and prosecutors twice testimony from hundreds of poten- crimes prosecutors have a handful those that followed the Yugoslav wars since 2011, there a year in The Hague to swap informa- tial witnesses to the Syria conflict, and of investigations open into Syrian of the 1990s. have been calls tion about war crimes. war crimes prosecutors in Karlsruhe nationals, including a former Syrian But division among the five veto- Some alleged perpetrators may have questioned a few dozen of them colonel, once a doctor in a military wielding permanent members of the for perpetrators uropean authorities are seek- be European citizens who have joined in greater depth. hospital, who has sought asylum. UN Security Council - who include of massacres to ing testimony from some of the Islamic State; others may be mili- But gathering evidence is a More than 4,000 European citi- Syria’s ally, Russia - has stymied face trials in a UN Ehundreds of thousands of ref- tants who have travelled to Europe painstaking process. Traumatised zens are estimated to have left to fight attempts to refer such cases to the ugees fleeing Middle East violence from Syria or Iraq, blending in with witnesses, fresh from harrowing jour- in Syria, of whom around a third have International Criminal Court in The court, like those as they try to build war crimes cases the more than 1 million migrants and neys on foot and by sea, need time since returned home, a Dutch think Hague, or set up a special tribunal. that followed the linked to the conflicts in Syria and refugees who streamed into the con- before they are ready to testify, and tank said earlier this year. So rights campaigners are pinning Iraq. As witnesses to atrocities, they tinent last year. “You may have lots can often face only short periods of With both witnesses and perpe- their hopes on national prosecutions, Yugoslav wars of the are invaluable to prosecutors prepar- of victims or witnesses in one place, questioning each day. “The refugees trators on their territory, European and Syria and Iraq have come to dom- 1990s. ing trials in European courts that will but you can’t move with a prosecution usually need time to rest and calm prosecutors have already brought inate the agenda of the Genocide offer a way round the United Nations until you have a perpetrator in your down before they decide to cooperate some cases. A German citizen is on Network, which has been operating impasse that has prevented the setting jurisdiction,” Pezdirc said. with law enforcement,” Pezdirc said. trial for war crimes after Facebook since 2004.

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Air France French govt hits back against striking workers shirt-ripper “Unblocking these depots will allow an increase in delivery capac- trial postponed Police cleared all 15 ity to resupply more and more petrol blockades around the stations,” a transport ministry spokes- man said. Six of France’s eight oil Reuters country, leaving only refineries were also still either closed one depot still shut or operating at reduced capacity due to ongoing union action. PARIS: Members of a union by a strike. The stoppages are part of a wave spearheading protests in France of strikes and mass demonstrations rallied at a courthouse yesterday that have disrupted France, just as it in support of five people who risk gears up to host the Euro 2016 football prison over an incident in which AFP championships in two weeks’ time. Air France executives had their A defiant Hollande, in Japan for a shirts ripped to shreds by employ- G7 summit, said he would not bend to ees furious over planned job cuts. the unions’ demands to withdraw the The rally was timed to coin- PARIS: The French government reforms that the Socialist government cide with hearings—ultimately fought back yesterday in a bitter hopes will free up France’s famously put off until September—in a labour dispute with unions, sweeping rigid labour market. trial where five stand accused of away blockades at fuel depots after “I will stand firm because I think aggravated violence, an offence President Francois Hollande vowed it is a good reform,” he told reporters. that carries a sentence of up to to “stand firm” over the reform that The president said the govern- three years in jail. sparked the industrial action. ment’s top priority was to ensure Fifteen people in all are Striking French labour union employees stand near a barricade to block entrance of the depot of the SFDM Authorities stepped up their “normal functioning of the economy” accused over an altercation that offensive at dawn, when riot police in the face of some of the most severe company near the oil refinery to protest labour reforms law proposal, in Donges, France, yesterday. hit world headlines last Octo- swept away a blockade of burning industrial action for two decades. ber when Air France’s human tyres at an oil depot near a Total Strikes also continued at nuclear The employers’ federation, Medef, condemned the “thugs’ methods” of tourist season is completely unac- resources director and another refinery in Donges, western France. power stations—which provide expressed growing anger over the the unions and urged the government ceptable,” the GNI hotel industry executive were forced to flee a Police cleared all 15 blockades three-quarters of the country’s effect the strikes are having on to “resist their blackmail”. federation said in a statement. heated meeting about plans for around the country, leaving only one electricity—but have so far failed France’s fragile economic growth. “A strike of this size a few weeks Small business owners were feel- 2,900 job cuts. depot still shut by a strike. to affect supply, authorities said. Medef chief Pierre Gattaz before Euro 2016 and in middle of the ing the pinch too. Photos and video footage showed Xavier Brosetta stum- bling to the ground, his shirt torn to pieces, as he and the other exec- utive fled, subsequently scaling a Cameron says happy to meet metal fence to escape an angry Putin visits Greece aimed crowd of employees. The incident prompted weeks Trump but no dates fixed of hand-wringing in France over the country’s image abroad and its at reinforcing relationship tumultuous labour relations, now Reuters “On Donald Trump, look I would back in media headlines at the congratulate anybody who can get moment with wave after wave of AFP Steinmeier on Friday floated the But this time could be different, through those marathon processes street demonstrations and strikes possibility of a “step by step” reduction said Ioannis Mazis, a professor of geo- for leading one of the two great over labour law reforms in differ- of sanctions but only if there is progress politics at Athens’ National University. ISE-SHIMA: Prime Minister David political parties in the United States ent parts of the country. on ending the conflict in Ukraine. “Russia needs to compete with Cameron said yesterday that no of America - it is an extraordinary The hardline CGT union, which ATHENS: Russian President Vladimir G7 leaders in a statement warned China which is in the process of dates had been fixed for a potential marathon,” Cameron said. is leading the anti-reform protests Putin was in Greece yesterday in a the policy would not change until the piecing together a ‘pearl necklace’ visit by Donald Trump to Britain but Speaking on migration issue, in a showdown with the Socialist visit aimed at reinforcing a relation- conflict in Ukraine ends. “We recall of ports” from Europe to the South that he would be happy to meet the Cameron said the figures showing government, has denounced what ship with one of his few friends in that the duration of sanctions is China Sea, Mazis told Skai televi- presumptive Republican presiden- net migration at its second highest it describes in the Air France case the EU amid tensions with the West. clearly linked to Russia’s complete sion, referring to China’s investment tial nominee if he did visit. level on record were disappoint- as “a strategy of criminalisation of The visit, Putin’s first to the EU implementation of ... agreements and in a string of foreign ports in recent “Often these candidates chose ing but that he expected the trend union activity”. since December, comes at a low ebb respect for Ukraine’s sovereignty,” the decades. to come through various European to change. The judge in charge of the in relations between Russia and group said in a statement. In an article in Kathimerini countries in run up to the US elec- Cameron said people had been trial at the court near Paris said Europe over the conflict in Ukraine Greece’s leftist leader Alexis daily, Putin said Russia was inter- tions. I don’t know whether that will drawn to Britain because the econ- two days of hearings would be that broke out in 2014, with sanctions Tsipras however criticised the sanc- ested in tenders involving Greek happen. No dates are fixed but I am omy had outperformed others in needed instead of the one day still in force against Moscow. tions policy in an interview with rail assets and the port of Thes- always happy to meet people on Europe for several years, a key scheduled, leading him to post- It also comes as Athens desperately Russian state news agency RIA saloniki, a major gateway into the that basis,” Cameron told reporters issue ahead of next month’s EU pone the case and reschedule it seeks to come out of recession. Greek Novosti, saying the country had an Balkans. at the G7. referendum. for next September. officials say increased trade with Rus- independent foreign policy. Leading Chinese shippers Cosco, sia could play a part in recovery efforts. He also urged Europe to cooper- who have a major presence at the EU leaders are to discuss next ate with Russia, and to move away main Greek port of Piraeus, are also month whether to renew sanctions on from what he branded a futile cycle eyeing Thessaloniki. Macedonian Russia’s banking, defence and energy of sanctions and militarisation. As a major gas exporter, Mazis A fence for migrants in sectors that expire in July. Tsipras’ government angered its said, Moscow is also keen to take While the sanctions are likely to EU peers by holding up a joint state- advantage of the EU’s switch away president revokes be extended, German Foreign Min- ment by the bloc on further sanctions. from petrol, and is desperate to find Solvenia who never came ister Frank-Walter Steinmeier said Putin is to meet Tsipras and Pres- a southern pipeline route to bypass pardons for resistance is growing within the EU ident Prokopis Pavlopoulos, and sign Ukraine—a country which is a major to extending them, and a unanimous a number of agreements before giv- thorn in EU relations after Moscow’s politicians AFP “The migration flow was over vote is required. ing a brief news conference. annexation of the Crimea in 2014 and 100 km away from here. We haven’t Italy and Hungary have been Except for tourism, Russia is lit- Russia’s support of separatist rebels. seen a single migrant but they (the among the most sceptical while tle involved in Greece’s economy The Kremlin said trade and AFP army) occupied us with this fence Poland and the Baltic states have despite a flurry of agreements over economy will top the agenda and KOSTEL , SLOVENIA: In Slovenia’s anyway,” Martin Lindic, the owner repeatedly pressed for maintaining the years, many of which never came a “number of bilateral agreements” southeastern Bela Krajina region, of a canoeing camp on the river, said. pressure on Moscow. to fruition. would be signed. SKOPJE: Macedonia’s president where the crystal-clear Kolpa river He said his business had suffered as yesterday revoked pardons he had marks the border with Croatia, a for- a result. “People are calling to book granted to 22 politicians implicated lorn barbed wire fence reminds locals and, the first thing they ask me about in a wiretapping scandal, after the of the migrants that never came. is the fence.” move sparked outrage inside and Instead of keeping refugees out, Although the Balkan migrant outside the troubled Balkan country. the barrier cutting through lush for- trail is now closed after countries In a surprise announcement ests all along this pristine waterway shut their borders earlier this year, last month, President Gjorge is now chasing away tourists. the barrier is still in place. Ivanov said he was halting probes Its razor-sharp coil has also The government of Prime Min- into 56 people involved in the become a lethal trap for wildlife. ister Miro Cerar said recently its scandal, sparking angry protests Last December, soldiers had removal “depends of the develop- across Macedonia. rushed to erect fence on the ment of the migrant crisis”. “I have made the decision to Schengen border, as hundreds of Every summer, more than annul the pardon for all 22 politi- thousands of migrants trekked along 100,000 tourists—mostly Slovenians cally active persons,” Ivanov said the Balkans in their quest to reach but also others—flock to Kolpa valley in an address broadcast live on wealthy bloc members. and explore its beauty by paddling national television. The aim was to channel the down the river in canoes or kayaks. The list is expected to include influx towards official frontier Because of the hard-to-access the president’s ally Nikola checkpoints and stop migrants from natural terrain on both sides of Kolpa, Gruevski, former prime minister entering Slovenia illegally via the so- the fence was mostly erected in areas and leader of the ruling VMRO- called green border. But the 166-km where access to river is easiest. But DPMNE party, who had officially barrier—more than half the length of these are also the main spots for tour- Russian President Vladimir Putin (centre) greets Greek Foreign Minister, Nikos Kotzias prior to his meeting demanded that the pardon be the Kolpa river—has proved much ists. Some places, like the well-known with his Greek counterpart, Prokopis Pavlopoulos (right) at the Presidential Palace in Athens, yesterday. revoked. ado about nothing, say disgruntled fish restaurant Madronic, were com- locals in the pretty village of Kostel. pletely surrounded by the fence. Savchenko ready to talk with pro-Moscow separatists

AFP being held by rebels in east Ukraine. jail, also raised the possibility she the West accuse of militarily backing “When they say that we should could run for president. separatist rebels in the east. not engage with separatists politi- “Ukrainians: if you need me to be She was sentenced to 22 years cally, I don’t think so. I will engage president, very well, I will be presi- by a Russian court which found she KIEV: Ukrainian pilot Nadiya with everyone,” said Savchenko. dent,” she said. informed Ukrainian forces of the Savchenko, freed from a Russian jail “What would I say to (Russian But she added: “To be honest, I location of television journalists who this week, yesterday said she is ready President Vladimir) Putin? Hands off can’t say I want to. I love to fly. But were killed in shelling in June 2014. to negotiate with pro-Russian sepa- Ukraine! Hands off every country that if it’s necessary I will do anything.” Savchenko has insisted on her ratists on releasing prisoners. you’ve grabbed hold of,” she said. Savchenko on Wednesday was innocence, saying she was captured “I am ready to talk to the devil She said she is “ready to fight and swapped with two Russians accused by separatist rebels before the men’s himself to get every one of our people ready to make peace,” adding that if by Kiev of serving in military intelli- deaths and then forcibly taken to back,” she said at her first news con- separatist rebels are also ready to gence, something Russia denies. Russia. ference since her dramatic release. negotiate “then we will find a com- She received a hero’s welcome on She said she had known nothing Ukrainian Foreign Minister mon understanding.” her return to Kiev. about her upcoming release until the Pavlo Klimkin said on Thursday The 35-year-old army helicop- The crop-haired Iraq war veteran last moment. “They came in the mid- A barb wire fence is seen on the field near the Slovenian-Croatian that 174 Ukrainians are currently ter pilot, elected as an MP in absentia has become a symbol to Ukrainians of dle of the night and said ‘Get ready to border in Rakovec, Slovenia. imprisoned in Russia and Crimea or during almost two years in a Russian resistance to Russia, which Kiev and leave with your belongings,’” she said. AMERICAS SATURDAY 28 MAY 2016 11

Hillary says email Trump lays claim row won’t affect to Republican White House bid AFP nomination WASHINGTON: Hillary Clinton defended her use of a private email server for official correspondence publicity stunt last June, when Trump while US secretary of state, insisting announced his candidacy. her actions were no different than that Donald Trump Trump eventually swept 16 of her predecessors. vaulted past the Republican rivals aside, and was the After the release of a critical State last man standing when his remain- Department investigation faulting threshold of 1,237 ing two challengers quit the race her use of personal email for govern- needed to win the early this month. ment business, Clinton vowed that she “The folks behind me got us right would not allow the issue to dog her party’s primary race over the top from North Dakota,” campaign. “There may be reports that when a group of Trump told reporters in Bismarck, come out, but nothing has changed,” standing with some 15 unbound del- the Democratic White House front- unbound delegates egates from the Midwestern state runner told CNN. from North Dakota who committed their support to the “It’s the same story. Just like pre- said they would back real estate tycoon. vious secretaries of state, I used a Several US media outlets, cit- personal email. Many people did. It him. ing their own analysis of pledged was not at all unprecedented.” Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump waves to the crowd following a speech at a rally in Billings, delegates and unbound delegates In a subsequent interview with who announced their commitment Montana. the television network, she repeated to Trump, said earlier that Trump her acknowledgement that she made AFP reached or surpassed the 1,237 mark. Trump still faces the daunting task “We’ll have great relationships struggled to win the support of key a “mistake,” and that looking back she The Republican Party will not of unifying skeptical Republicans, with with these countries. But if they’re establishment figures, including House would have avoided such actions. make delegate results official until turmoil continuing to dog his cam- rattled in a friendly way, that’s a good Speaker Paul Ryan, who have voiced “As I said many times, it was a mis- its national convention in July, when paign as conservatives grapple with thing, John. Not a bad thing,” he told a concern about Trump’s tone and his take and if I could go back, I would BILLINGS, UNITED STATES: delegates vote for their nominee. their party’s direction. reporter. Trump will likely face Hillary lack of policy specifics. have done it differently,” she said. White House hopeful Donald Trump Trump was already the Republi- Democrats have gleefully high- Clinton in November, and the Demo- “What I’m most concerned about “I understand why people have claimed victory in the Republican can presumptive nominee, following lighted Republican anxiety about their crat weighed in on Trump securing the is making sure that we actually have concerns about this, but I hope voters nomination race, while shrugging a spectacular and unlikely run for nominee. Republican nomination. real party unity, not pretend party look at the full picture of everything off criticism from the man he aims the White House that thoroughly Speaking in Japan, Obama plunged “This man, who is an unqualified unity,” Ryan told reporters yesterday that I’ve done.” to replace, President Barack Obama, upended American politics. into the fray, telling reporters that loose cannon, is within reach of the in Washington. The issue has dogged Clinton for who blasted the billionaire’s igno- Early yesterday, he took a victory world leaders are “rattled” by some most important job in the world,” she The former reality TV star has more than a year, and has been used rance and arrogant attitude. lap of sorts, addressing a crowd in of Trump’s policies. told MSNBC. dominated headlines since launch- by her political enemies, including her Trump vaulted past the thresh- Billings, Montana where he mapped “A lot of the proposals that he “Of course they’re rattled,” she said ing his presidential campaign with a presumed Republican opponent Don- old of 1,237 needed to win the out a bit of his future campaign strat- has made display either ignorance of of foreign leaders. mix of incendiary comments and pol- ald Trump. party’s primary race when a group egy to focus on swing states like world affairs or a cavalier attitude or “He’s talking about breaking up icy stances seen as insulting Mexicans, Trump, celebrating reaching the of unbound delegates from North Florida, Ohio and Michigan, as well an interest in getting tweets and head- our alliances, letting more countries Muslims and women among others. milestone of 1,237 delegates neces- Dakota said they would back him. as California. lines,” Obama said. get nuclear weapons, banning all Mus- He has proposed building a giant sary to clinch the nomination, assailed The accomplishment caps an “I want to focus on 15 or so states,” Trump shot back, calling Obama lims from coming to America. That is a wall along the US border with Mex- Clinton’s “bad judgment” about using extraordinary rise by a political he said. “Because we have to win, and “incompetent” and suggesting keeping recipe for fewer friends and more ene- ico to keep out illegal immigrants, and a private email account and described neophyte whose campaign was I want my energy to be put into states world leaders guessing about Wash- mies that will make us all less safe.” called for a ban on Muslims entering the State Department inspector gen- widely derided as a distraction and a where it could go either way.” ington was just fine. The provocative Republican has the United States. eral’s report as “devastating.”

Missing scribes Peace balloons Haitian and African held captive by Colombia’s ELN migrants reach Mexico rebels: Govt seeking access to US

Reuters AFP His journey through Central America lasted three months and BOGOTA: The Colombian Marxist cost him all his savings. He said he rebel group, the National Libera- entered Mexico through Chiapas, tion Army, has kidnapped three TIJUANA, MEXICO: Hundreds where he obtained a temporary journalists, including one from of migrants from Haiti and Africa 30-day authorisation to stay. Spain, who disappeared in recent have streamed in recent days into Another migrant in the queue days near the border with Vene- the Mexican border city of Tijuana, was a 25-year-old man from Guinea zuela, government officials said. hoping to apply for political asylum Bissau who declined to give his name The reporters vanished while in the neighboring United States. for fear the authorities would refuse working in El Tarra municipality Since last Saturday, the San to grant him political asylum. in Norte de Santander, where the Ysidro border crossing separating He said that in Colombia, Gua- group, known as the ELN, earns Tijuana from San Diego, Califor- temala, Nicaragua and Peru, he was money from illegal cocaine pro- nia has seen a continuous stream the victim of corrupt police who duction in the lawless region about of men, women and children from demanded money. 400 km north of Bogota. Guinea, Angola and Haiti. They have “Now I always hide my travel Spanish reporter Salud Hern- Inmates at Topo Chico prison release white dove for peace balloons during the presentation of the spent days and nights waiting to see money, or ask people I trust to andez, 59, who writes for Spain’s programme “Families with a future” presented by Governor of the state of Nuevo Leon, Jaime Rodriguez US immigration authorities. deposit money in each country I El Mundo and local newspapers, Calderon, in Monterrey, Mexico. “I’m surprised by the number of visit,” he said in a broken Spanish, was the first of the three report- foreigners. They don’t usually arrive after arriving in Tijuana from Brazil, ers to go missing. She was last seen in such large numbers, and they usu- a journey he says cost him $3,000. climbing aboard a motorcycle taxi ally come to other border crossings “In my country there are no on Saturday while working on a like Laredo,” US Consul General Wil- employment opportunities. There’s story about the illegal drug trade. liam Ostick said. Usually, migrants no work due to the political divi- Reporter Diego D’Pablos and US officials sees first case of bacteria trying to reach the United States from sions” and regional conflicts, said cameraman Carlos Melo, from Mexico come from Central America. the former textile merchant. local television news channel Noti- “I left alone, then I met some Ostick cautioned that each case cias RCN, went to the area to cover friends and other people,” said Jonas is reviewed carefully and individu- Hernandez’s disappearance before resistant to last-resort antibiotic Despinasse, a 39-year-old Haitian. ally to determine whether to grant they also vanished on Tuesday. “The political problems since asylum to a refugee. Norte de Santander is a hub 2004 have made the economic situ- “Everyone must present their for cultivation of coca, the plant Reuters It said the superbug itself had first But she said the potential speed ation worsen, and things have gotten case, and the requirements for asy- used to make cocaine. The ELN, been infected with a tiny piece of of its spread will not be known until even worse after the 2010 earth- lum are very specific. They need to the Revolutionary Armed Forces DNA called a plasmid, which passed more is learned about how the Penn- quake,” said the academic, who has provide reliable or verifiable infor- of Colombia, or FARC, and crime along a gene called mcr-1 that con- sylvania patient was infected, and been waiting since Wednesday to see mation that they fear of persecution,” gangs sometimes clash over drug WASHINGTON: US health officials fers resistance to colistin. how present the colistin-resistant a US immigration agent. he explained. routes and crops. reported the first case in the country “(This) heralds the emergence of superbug is in the United States and The government has been of a patient with an infection resist- truly pan-drug resistant bacteria,” globally. holding peace talks with the FARC ant to a last-resort antibiotic, and said the study, which was conducted In the United States, antibiotic since late 2012. expressed grave concern that the by the Walter Reed National Military resistance has been blamed for at “Following confirmation by the superbug could pose serious dan- Medical Center. “To the best of our least 2 million illnesses and 23,000 Defence Ministry of kidnapping of ger for routine infections if it spreads. knowledge, this is the first report of deaths annually. the three journalists ... the negoti- “We risk being in a post-antibiotic mcr-1 in the USA.” The mcr-1 gene was found last ating teams for talks with the ELN world,” said Thomas Frieden, director The patient visited a clinic on year in people and pigs in China, and the FARC energetically reject of the US Centres for Disease Con- April 26 with symptoms of a infec- raising alarm. these occurrences and demand the trol and Prevention, referring to the tion, according to the study, which The potential for the superbug to immediate liberation of the jour- infection of a 49-year-old Pennsyl- did not describe her current condi- spread from animals to people is a nalists,” said Frank Pearl, head of vania woman who had not travelled tion. Authors of the study could not major concern, Cassell said. the government negotiating team within the prior five months. immediately be reached for com- For now, Cassell said people can for the ELN talks, speaking from Frieden, speaking at a National ment. The study said continued best protect themselves from it and the presidential palace. Press Club luncheon in Washington, surveillance to determine the true from other bacteria resistant to anti- Defence Minister Luis Car- DC, said the bacteria was resistant to frequency of the gene in the United biotics by thoroughly washing their los Villegas said earlier yesterday colistin, an antibiotic that is reserved States is critical. hands, washing fruits and vegeta- that the ELN was “responsible for for use against “nightmare bacteria.” “It is dangerous and we would bles thoroughly and preparing foods the disappearance” of the three The infection was reported assume it can be spread quickly, even appropriately. Experts have warned journalists. He refrained from Thursday in a study appearing in in a hospital environment if it is not since the 1990s that especially bad Jonas Despinasse stands as he waits with other migrants for the describing the events as kidnap- Antimicrobial Agents and Chem- well contained,” said Dr Gail Cassell, superbugs could be on the horizon, pings, in line with government otherapy, a publication of the a microbiologist and senior lecturer but few drugmakers have attempted Custom and Border Protection agents to seek for asylum in the United comments all week. American Society for Microbiology. at Harvard Medical School. to develop drugs against them. States, on the Mexican side of the San Isidro Port of Entry in Tijuana. 12 SATURDAY 28 MAY 2016 BREAK TIME

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Toronto police Clashes as Chile students step up protests raid marijuana

AFP to free public education in Chile. stores in Protesters are They have been appealing for the past decade to change the current sys- crackdown demanding that tem dating to the 1973-1990 dictatorship SANTIAGO: Hooded protesters pelted President Michelle of Augusto Pinochet. stones at police who fired tear gas and Frustrated with delays to the water cannons in the Chilean capi- Bachelet speed reform, student groups have hardened Reuters tal early yesterday, as thousands of up a long-awaited their protests in recent days. On Tues- students staged fresh street rallies day, a group of protesters made it past demanding free university education. reform to guarantee security into the courtyard of govern- TORONTO: Toronto police have Students rallied in the centre of universal access to ment headquarters. started raiding and shutting down Santiago, where security forces tried “We are tired of waiting,” read some marijuana dispensaries in to block their path. free public education the slogan on their banners as they Canada’s largest city, a spokesman During similar disturbances on in Chile. marched yesterday. said, in the latest crackdown by the Saturday, a security guard choked Marcelo Correa, spokesman for the local authorities. as the federal gov- to death in the smoke from petrol national students’ grouping CONES, ernment moves to legalise the drug. bombs at a protest near the national injured during yesterday’s protest. promised more rallies. The police spokesman said Congress in Chile’s second-biggest Protesters since long are “They are growing and getting officers are executing search war- city, Valparaiso. demanding that President Michelle stronger. If they do not listen to us we rants and seizing products from Riot police arrest a student during a march held to protest the slow Police told reporters that 117 peo- Bachelet speed up the long-awaited will give it everything we have got,” stores they believe are selling to ple were arrested and 32 officers were reform to guarantee universal access he told CNN Chile. pace of educational reform, in Santiago, yesterday. recreational users. At least 45 of Toronto’s 83 known unlicensed dispensaries were tar- geted, according to the municipal government. US praises Europe’s Canadians are allowed to use medical marijuana with a prescrip- anti-terror efforts Push for encryption law falters in US tion, but recreational use is illegal. Even so, unlicensed dispensaries have multiplied in Toronto, Van- Reuters Key among the problems was the and encryption, which has been raging according to several current and former couver and other Canadian cities AFP lack of White House support for legis- in one form or another since the 1990s. intelligence officials, in part because since the country’s Liberal gov- lation in spite of a high-profile court Tech companies, backed by civil officials in the agencies feared any ernment came to power last year showdown between the Justice Depart- liberties groups, insist that building new law would interfere with their pledging to legalise recreational WASHINGTON: Two senior offi- WASHINGTON/ SAN FRANCISCO: ment and Apple Inc over the suspect law enforcement access into phones own encryption efforts. marijuana. Some of these stores cials from President Barack Obama’s After a rampage that left 14 people dead iPhone, according to Congressional and other devices would undermine Even supporters worried that if have been accused of selling to peo- administration acknowledged in San Bernardino, key US lawmak- and Obama Administration officials security for everyone-including the a bill were introduced but failed, it ple without proper prescriptions. Europe’s increased cooperation in ers pledged to seek a law requiring and outside observers. US government itself. would give Apple and other tech com- The government has said it will the fight against terror, but cautioned technology companies to give law “They’ve dropped anchor and taken Law enforcement agencies main- panies another weapon to use in future introduce a law in spring 2017 to that further progress was needed. enforcement agencies a “back door” down the sail,” former NSA and CIA tain they need a way to monitor phone court battles. fulfill its pledge, but in the mean- European countries “are to encrypted communications and elec- director Michael Hayden said. calls, emails and text messages, along Burr had said repeatedly that leg- time, former Toronto police chief improving in sharing of informa- tronic devices, such as the iPhone used For years, the Justice Department with access to encrypted data. Polls islation was imminent. Bill Blair, the government’s point tion when it comes to anti-terror by one of the shooters. lobbied unsuccessfully for a way to show the public is split on whether But last week, he and Feinstein man on legalisation, has emphasised efforts, they are on the right path,” Now, only months later, much of unmask suspects who “go dark,” or the government should have access told reporters there was no timeline the current laws remain in effect. Deputy Homeland Security Secre- the support is gone, and the push for evade detection through coded com- to all digital data. for the bill. Feinstein said she planned Toronto’s move comes within tary Alejandro Mayorkas told a US legislation dead, according to sources munications in locked devices. The legal battle between the FBI to talk to more tech stakeholders, and a month of a similar operation by Senate panel.“They are not where in congressional offices. When the FBI took Apple to court and Apple briefly united many around Burr said, “be patient.” Vancouver, which handed out tick- we need to be but we are working Draft legislation that Senators Rich- in February to try to open the iPhone in the idea that Congress—not the courts In the meantime, tech companies ets to unlicensed medical marijuana to make sure they are.” ard Burr and Dianne Feinstein, the its investigation of the San Bernardino — should decide the issue. But the con- have accelerated encryption efforts dispensaries. Justin Siberell of the State Republican and Democratic leaders slayings, the cause gained traction in sensus was fleeting. in the wake of Apple case. The court Vancouver’s enforcement, how- Department’s Bureau of Coun- of Intelligence Committee, had cir- Washington. The political landscape Feinstein’s Democratic colleagues showdown ended with a whimper ever, did not involve police, who had terterrorism said recent attacks culated weeks ago likely will not be had shifted - or so it seemed. on the Intelligence Committee — along when the FBI said it had found a way said they would not crack down on in Paris and Brussels highlighted introduced this year and, even if it were, The short life of the push for legis- with some key Republicans - backed to get into the phone, and subsequently dispensaries as long as they do not the need for heightened transat- would stand no chance of advancing, lation illustrates the intractable nature away. The House never got on board. conceded privately it had found noth- sell to minors and are not selling lantic collaboration. the sources said. of the debate over digital surveillance The CIA and NSA were ambivalent, ing of value. other illicit drugs.

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GCC and Russia join forces 1 to fight terrorism BEIJING: Standing, lying and look- ing far down below, tourists are Relations between Qatar and flocking to a new glass-bottom 2 Luxembourg growing sightseeing platform on the high- est peak of China’s Shilin Gorge on Four international players to the outskirts of Beijing. 3 continue with Al Rayyan Billed by its makers as the largest glass sightseeing platform in the world, it consists of a walkway and a circular viewing TWEET OF THE DAY platform. It has an area of 415 square metres and hangs some 400 metres (1,312 ft) up from the foot of the cliff. Titanium alloys reinforce the framework of the structure, which extends 32.8 metres out to look onto the lush forest gorge below. Those venturing out to take selfies put on cloth coverings on their A woman lies to pose for her souvenir picture on the glass sightseeing platform on Shilin Gorge in Beijing, yesterday. shoes. Lava-loving tourists flock to active Nicaragua volcano

AFP magma are Masaya, Hawaii’s Kilauea Pacific coastal stretch and is inside a limited to just a few minutes because of and Nyiragongo in the Democratic nature reserve of some 50 square kil- the risk from the toxic gases. The only INSTAGRAM OF THE DAY Republic of Congo, explained a Nicara- ometers (20 square miles) where vast signs of life in the walls of the crater, guan geographer and environmentalist, fields of petrified lava contrast with the that go down hundreds of meters, are MASAYA: Centuries ago, a native Cen- Jaime Incer. white flowers of frangipanis. green parrots and bats. tral American people terrified of a witch “It’s something extraordinary, The 400-metre high volcano Masaya has erupted twice in A man holds a bou- believed to live deep in the earth used unique in the world,” said Noheli Pravia, formed 5,000 years ago, and its activity recorded history: in 1670 and 1772, quet of flowers and a to sacrifice children and young women a French visitor filming and photo- has intensified in the past six months. scaring the Spanish conquistadors. torch as he faces riot to Nicaragua’s Masaya volcano. graphing the scene which has happened “This is the first time I’ve seen some- “It is a maw of fire that never ceases police during a dem- Today, the crater southwest of the every 20 to 25 years since 1902. thing like this -- it’s really impressive,” to burn,” the first governor of the region, onstration against capital Managua is an international The red-hot liquid performs an agi- said Mijaela Cuba, an Austrian nurse, Pedrarias Davila, wrote to the king of the government’s tourist magnet, where photo-snap- tated ballet for the spectators, with a speaking above the waves of lava. She Spain in 1525. The pre-Columbian peo- planned labour ping visitors scramble among sulfurous cloud of white smoke filling the active was one of 4,000 tourists whom the ple who inhabited the area believed reform, on May 26, fumes to get views of its bubbling lava crater, whose name is Santiago. Nicaraguan government has given per- that a subterranean witch they called 2016 in Lyon, France. -- a rare sight. The only volcanoes in Masaya volcano is located in the mission to edge up close to the crater’s Chalchihuehe lived inside, and they the world to boast lakes of incandescent most populated part of Nicaragua’s edge in the past two weeks. Each visit is sacrificed people to try to appease her. Kids more likely ‘Most beloved elephant in Japan’ dies Japan’s master of realism to beat cancer gets first overseas exhibition than young adults AFP

IANS AFP propaganda-style shots of military cadets and nurses destined for the TOKYO: Japanese animal lovers were frontline in the 1930s through his mourning the death of the country’s documenting of Japan’s post-war LONDON: Adolescents and young oldest elephant, Hanako, yesterday, ROME: The works of Ken Domon, social and political struggles. adults have a lower chance of sur- who passed away “quietly” aged 69 an acclaimed photographer whose There are also examples of his viving some common types of after triggering protests over her cap- images of the aftermath of the Hiro- meticulous capturing of the coun- cancer than children, finds a new tivity. shima bomb shocked 1950s Japan, try’s temples and Buddhist statues study on cancer survival across Hanako, which means “Flower take centre stage in Rome yesterday and portraits of artistic figures of the Europe. Child” in Japanese, became something with the opening of the first exhibi- 1960s and 1970s. “The good news is that the of a cause celebre last year following tion of his pictures outside his home “He loved ‘his’ Japan, all of its number of children, adolescents an international campaign to improve country. art and its people and he wanted to and young adults surviving for at the ageing pachyderm’s cramped liv- Domon, who died in 1990, is show this Japan to the world through least five years after diagnosis has ing conditions. venerated in Japan as one of the a Japanese eye,” said Takeshi Fuji- risen steadily over time in Europe,” The cause of death was not imme- country’s greatest photographers mori, a former student of Domon’s said lead author Annalisa Trama diately known, zookeepers said adding and a pioneer of realism, but rela- who was in Rome for the opening. from The National Institute of Can- that an autopsy would be conducted tively unknown internationally. Fujimori jointly curated the cer in Milan, Italy. later in the day and that the ani- Organisers of the collection on Rome exhibition with Rossella Men- “However, we found that ado- mal’s body is to be donated to medical display at the Italian capital’s Ara egazza, an Italian expert on the lescents and young adults still tend research. Pacis museum hope that will begin history of East Asian art. to die earlier than children for sev- According to Guinness World to change with an exhibition that Now the artistic director of the eral cancers common to these age Records, the oldest known elephant runs until September 18. Ken Domon Museum of Photogra- groups, particularly blood cancers was Lin Wang, an Asian elephant who It features some 150 of his phy in Sakata in northern Japan, like leukaemias and non-Hodg- lived until the grand old age of 86 and works dating from the 1920s to the Fujimori recalls Domon as having a kin’s lymphoma (NHL),” Trama died in 2003 at Taipei Zoo. Captive 1970s and encompasses the full gruff, uncompromising side to him added. elephants have a life expectancy of range of his enormous output, from that made him a hard taskmaster. According to researchers, 40-plus years. Japan’s oldest elephant “Hanako” at Tokyo’s Inokashira Park Zoo. the variations in survival rates Mourners flocked to Tokyo’s Inoka- between both age groups are due shira Park Zoo to pay their respects on to a number of factors including Friday with more than 70 condolence delays in diagnosis and treatment, cards left for Hanako by well-wishers. zoo, was quoted as saying by Japan’s just stood there almost lifeless, like a lack of treatment guidelines and “Fans are visiting the park to place Kyodo news agency. a figurine.” clinical trials specifically for teen- flowers in front of Hanako’s enclosure,” “It’s truly a pity. She was the most The post, along with a photo of agers and young adults, as well as said Hiroshi Mashima, in charge of beloved elephant in Japan.” a sad-looking Hanako, went viral as differences in the biology of some information and education at the zoo. Hanako, who lived longer than more than 400,000 people signed cancers. Hanako passed away on Thursday the average 55-60-year life span the “Help Hanako” petition. For the study, published in the after 20 zoo staff members attempted of wild elephants, became a media Hanako was brought to Japan in journal The Lancet Oncology, the to raise her to her feet by rope, a com- star last year after a heart-wrench- 1949 when she was two years old as team analysed data from 27 Euro- mon technique used when elephants ing blog post by a Canadian animal a gift from the Thai government and pean countries on nearly 56,505 remain lying on the floor, according rights activist led to an online peti- her story was turned into children’s cancer cases in children, 3,12,483 to Mashima. tion. “I was shocked and dismayed books and a television drama. in adolescents and young adults Elephants die if they lie on their to see the conditions of her con- Hanako also had a dark past, and 35,67,383 in adults. side for a prolonged period of time finement first-hand,” wrote Ulara stomping on a drunk man who The findings showed that over- as it can crush their internal organs, Nakagawa. sneaked into her enclosure at night A woman visits the exhibition of Japanese photographer Domon Ken all, survival was significantly Mashima added. “Totally alone in a small, barren, in 1956 and a zookeeper some years worse for adolescents and young “She passed away quietly and cement enclosure, with absolutely no later, forcing zookeepers to keep her (1909-1990) during a press preview at the Ara Pacis Museum (Museo adults compared with children. calmly,” Kiyoshi Nagai, head of the comfort or stimulation provided, she chained up for around six months. dell’Ara Pacis) in Rome. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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GCC sovereigns’ LONDON: World oil prices may struggle to sustain a push beyond $50 a barrel after hitting the key level for the first time this year, analysts warned yesterday. ability to reform Crude futures topped $50 a barrel on Thursday, as production disruptions in Canada contribute to a drop in US crude inventories. Sovereigns have implemented Prices slipped back yester- Moody’s expects that several fiscal measures to adjust to day however, as analysts warned lower revenues. The introduction of that the week’s move above $50 fiscal and external a GCC-wide value-added tax (VAT) could trigger some North Ameri- constraints will of 5 percent from 2018 will sup- can producers of crude extracted port revenue diversification, while from shale rock to lift output. persist beyond 2016. governments are also considering Oil at $50 is meanwhile viewed increases in corporate income taxes as a level at which it makes eco- and taxes on remittances. nomic sense for certain suppliers The Peninsula The reforms — while positive to start pumping again, CMC Mar- — will only partly compensate for kets trader Alex Wijaya said. “Crude the continued oil price slump. As oil prices have failed to hold above such, Moody’s expects that fiscal the $50 level due to concerns that DOHA: Gulf Cooperation Coun- and external constraints will per- A Bank of America branch in Washington, DC. A US appeals court threw out a nearly $1.3bn penalty higher prices could unlock more cil (GCC) countries’ institutional sist beyond 2016. against Bank of America earlier this week, concluding the bank had not committed fraud amid the supply,” he said yesterday. Traders strength will determine their abil- Moreover, the social impact housing bust. are now eyeing next week’s meet- ity to push through economic and of fiscal reforms will make policy ing of Opec in Vienna. fiscal reforms designed to counter implementation tougher for Bahrain the drop in oil revenue, says Moody’s (Ba2 negative), Oman (Baa1 stable) Investors Service in a report. and Saudi Arabia (A1 stable), where The report titled “Sovereigns— governments are under pressure to Gulf Cooperation Council: Peer continue redistributing oil revenues Property insurance to touch QR6.4bn by 2019 Comparison - Institutional Strength to their populations to avoid eco- Determines Adjustment To Lower Oil nomic-related civil unrest. Prices”, notes that Moody’s recent In comparison, Kuwait (Aa2 neg- review of the ratings of GCC coun- ative), Qatar (Aa2 negative) and the The Peninsula category’s gross written premium as allocating more budget to non-oil light rail systems, the construction of tries considered each sovereign’s UAE ( Aa2 negative) have fewer such skyrocketed from QR1.8bn ($500m) sectors. roads, ports, stadia and related sport- capacity to formulate and imple- constraints. Governance frameworks in 2010 to QR4.3bn ($1.2bn) in 2014, There are six leading insurance ing infrastructure. Qatar’s real GDP ment effective policy responses to are at various stages of development at a compound annual growth rate providers in Qatar and Qatar Insur- is expected to rise from QR280.9bn the lower oil prices. The review con- and diverging. Relative to globally DOHA: Property insurance in Qatar of 24 percent. ance Company is the market leader ($77.2bn) in 2014 to QR368.3bn cluded with a downgrade of three rated sovereigns, Qatar and the UAE is expected to remain the largest in According to the report, invest- with 43.5 percent market share, fol- ($101.2bn) in 2019, at a compound GCC sovereign ratings, and a nega- have high institutional strength scores. the non-life insurance sector over ment in construction projects will lowed by Qatar General Insurance annual growth rate of 5.6 percent. tive outlook assigned to four ratings Bahrain’s and Oman’s scores rank the next couple of years and is likely drive property insurance. The growth and Reinsurance (QGIRCO) with 18.7 The Qatari government plans to that were confirmed. toward the middle, while Kuwait’s to value QR6.4bn ($1.8bn) by 2019. A of property insurance will be influ- percent share, added the report. The start investing in the non-oil sectors “Low oil prices are testing even and Saudi Arabia’s scores are weaker. new report from Timetric predicts a enced by an increased investment size of the Qatari insurance industry – an initiative that is also expected strong institutions,” said Math- Reserve buffers are a key credit bright future for property insurance in construction activity, propelled is comparatively smaller than other to support growth in property insur- ias Angonin, a Moody’s Analyst support for many GCC sovereigns. in Qatar, fuelled by projected infra- by real estate and infrastructure countries in the Gulf region. ance. In 2015, India entered into a and author of the report. Moody’s However, there is a high degree of structure spending ahead of the 2022 and development in particular. The Qatar will also be the first Arab bilateral agreement with Qatar to assessment of institutional strength opacity in policy making and fiscal FIFA World Cup, and investment in country is also looking to diversify its country to host the FIFA World Cup invest in the country’s infrastruc- incorporates policy effective- buffers compared to global peers, the non-oil sectors in order to diver- economy, with the government plan- in 2022. The successful World Cup ture and information technology ness, governance indicators, and particularly for Kuwait, Qatar and sify the economy. ning to spend QR546.1bn ($150bn) bid is accelerating large-scale infra- sectors as part of the Qatar 2030 transparency. the UAE. In the last five years, the on infrastructure projects, as well structure projects such as metro and vision initiative. Aramco boosting market share as it prepares for listing

Reuters its exports since the lifting of inter- “trend upward by the end of the year” Aramco is working on the options national sanctions. as global demand picks up and pro- for floating less than 5 percent of its “We are preserving our market duction from high-cost producers, value, which include a single domestic share which continues to increase such as shale oil and deep water off- stock exchange listing and a dual list- KHOBAR, SAUDI ARABIA: Saudi oil year-on-year,” he said in the inter- shore fields, falls. ing with a foreign market, Nasser said. giant Aramco is gaining market share view, conducted yesterday. “This year, He saw energy continuing to play The company is finalising its pro- and pushing for greater efficiency, as last year, it is increasing. Our mar- a major role while Vision 2030 aims to posals and will present them to its chief executive Amin Nasser said in ket share is picking up,” he added, address falling oil revenue and sharp Supreme Council soon, which could an interview, as it acts as a “bridge” without giving figures. fiscal deficits by boosting the private see part of Aramco publicly listed by to a future when the nation relies less Aramco’s crude oil exports aver- sector, ending government waste and 2017-18. However, Nasser said the on energy exports. aged 7.1 million bpd, up from around diversifying the economy. Central to timeframe was not set yet. Nasser also said that the state- 6.8 million bpd in 2014, it said in its this is the planned initial public offer- As part of Aramco’s market share owned group was pressing on with 2015 annual review released late on ing (IPO) of Aramco shares. push, the company plans to raise its preparations for its partial privatisa- Thursday. “Listing Saudi Aramco is in the total refining capacity - both inside tion via a stock market listing, which Asia accounted for 65 percent of heart of Vision 2030. We are seri- the kingdom and abroad - to 8 mil- he said lay at the heart of Riyadh’s its total oil exports; an increase from ously working on the IPO,” Nasser lion-10 million barrels per day from “Vision 2030”, a long-term economic 62.3 percent a year earlier. said. “Of course, the oil and gas sec- around 5.4 million bpd now. plan headed by Deputy Crown Prince An Opec meeting on June 2 will be tor will be the bridge to the long-term This week it signed an agreement Mohammed bin Salman. the first for new Saudi energy minister and we need to maximise our reve- to supply up to 270,000 bpd of crude Riyadh has been the driving force Khalid Al Falih at a time when Iranian nue by introducing more efficiency oil to a refinery it will jointly upgrade behind Opec’s decision in November exports have risen close to pre-sanc- in the sector.” with Indonesia’s Pertamina. 2014 to refuse to cut supply to boost tions level. “Vision 2030 isn’t saying no to oil Forecasting growing crude oil prices. Instead it opted to raise out- Riyadh’s current tactics seem to by 2020. What we need is to diversify demand, Aramco has said it was seek- put and fight for market share against be working. Oil has recovered to $50 our economy and we should have a ing to invest further downstream as President and CEO of Saudi Aramco Amin H Nasser attending the Oil higher-cost rivals such as US shale a barrel from a 12-year low of $27 in more sustainable economy because part of broader expansion plans in producers - as well as fellow Opec January despite the Iranian increase. we shouldn’t be totally dependent on several markets such as China, India, and Gas Climate Initiative summit in Paris, France, on October 16, 2015, member Iran which has ramped up Nasser said he expects prices to one commodity,” he added. Vietnam and the United States. in this file photo. 18 SATURDAY 28 MAY 2016 BUSINESS G7 vows strong measures to boost global growth

followed the 2008 Lehman Broth- sceptical about public spending to G7 leaders wrap up ers bankruptcy, said the G7 “shares boost growth. The G7 called global a strong sense of crisis” about the industrial overcapacity, especially summit in Japan global outlook. in steel, a “pressing structural chal- vowing to use all “The most worrisome risk is lenge with global implications”. a contraction of the global econ- The G7 demanded that North policy tools to boost omy,” led by a slowdown in emerging Korea fully comply with UN Secu- demand and ease economies, Abe told a news con- rity Council resolutions and halt ference after chairing the two-day nuclear tests, missile launches and supply constraints. summit. “There is a risk of the glo- other “provocative actions”. bal economy falling into crisis if The group condemned Russia’s appropriate policy responses are “illegal annexation” of the Crimean not made.” peninsula from Ukraine. The decla- Reuters In the broad-ranging, 32-page ration threatened “further restrictive declaration, the G7 committed to measures” to raise the costs on Mos- market-based exchange rates and to cow but said sanctions could be ISE-SHIMA, JAPAN: The Group of avoiding “competitive devaluation” rolled back if Russia implemented Seven industrial powers pledged of their currencies, while warning previous agreements and respected yesterday to seek strong global against wild exchange-rate moves. Ukraine’s sovereignty. growth, while papering over dif- This represents a compromise The G7 also expressed con- ferences on currencies and stimulus between the positions of Japan, cern over the East and South China IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde (left) being welcomed by Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe upon policies and expressing concern over which has threatened to inter- Seas, where China has been taking her arrival to attend the Group of Seven summit meeting in Shima, yesterday. North Korea, Russia and maritime vene to block sharp yen rises, and more assertive action amid territo- disputes involving China. the United States, which generally rial disputes with Japan and several G7 leaders wrapped up a sum- opposes market intervention. Southeast Asian nations. “This G7 summit organised by The G7 also called large-scale global glut in steel, though their state- mit in central Japan vowing to use The G7 vowed “a more forceful Without mentioning Beijing, the Japan’s hyping up of the South China immigration and migration a major ment did not single out China, which “all policy tools” to boost demand and balanced policy mix” to “achieve G7 reiterated its commitment to the Sea issue and exaggeration of ten- challenge and vowed to increase produces half of the world’s steel and and ease supply constraints. a strong, sustainable and balanced peaceful settlement of maritime dis- sions is not beneficial to stability in global aid for the immediate and long- is blamed by many countries for flood- “Global growth remains moder- growth pattern”, taking each coun- putes and to respecting the freedom the South China Sea and does accord term needs of refugees and displaced ing markets with cheap steel. ate and below potential, while risks try’s circumstances into account, of navigation and overflight. The with the G7’s position as a platform people. On climate change, the G7 said of weak growth persist,” they said in while continuing efforts to put pub- group called for countries to refrain for managing the economies of Referring to Britain’s referen- they aim to put into effect by the end a declaration. “Global growth is our lic debt on a sustainable path. from “unilateral actions which could developed nations,” Foreign Minis- dum next month on whether to leave of the year the Paris climate agree- urgent priority.” Abe has stressed the need for increase tensions” and “to settle dis- try spokeswoman Hua Chunying said the European Union, the G7 said an ment, in which almost 200 nations Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo flexible fiscal policy to sustain eco- putes by peaceful means”. in Beijing. “China is extremely dis- exit “would be a serious risk to glo- agreed a sweeping plan to end global Abe, talking up what he calls paral- nomic recovery, while German China was not pleased with the satisfied with what Japan and the G7 bal growth”. dependence on fossil fuels to limit ris- lels to the global financial crisis that Chancellor Angela Merkel has been G7 stance. have done.” The leaders pledged to tackle a ing temperatures.

Lenovo revenue Monsanto boss could net $70m from Bayer takeover plunges 19% as Motorola woes Reuters and the exercise of options he already with Bayer. Grant, who is eligible for to hold out for the highest possible shares were trading at around $90. At owned, a Reuters analysis of Mon- retirement, said his company firmly sale price in any deal, which would that price, Grant’s share options were weigh on profit santo filings shows. endorsed “the substantial benefits an not only be in the interests of share- worth around $1m. At $122-per-share, But $73.5m of that represents integrated strategy could provide to holders but also increase the value of they are worth over $49m. Bloomberg LONDON: Monsanto boss Hugh gains the 58-year-old Scot could growers and broader society” after the his holdings. A $130-per-share bid, Other top executives would also Grant could land more than $70m make as a result of the Bayer court- bid was snubbed on Tuesday. for example, would lift his holdings benefit from a takeover. if the world’s largest seed company ship, largely thanks to increases in the Even should a deal be struck, it by another $12m, the Reuters anal- Brett Begemann, president and PARIS: Lenovo Group Ltd. fourth- is taken over by German chemicals value of his stock options. is not certain that Grant would be ysis shows. chif operating officer, could walk quarter revenue slumped 19 giant Bayer AG. The gains also reflect the rise in ousted. But in most takeovers, the A spokesman for St Louis-based away with a total of $36.5m for his percent and profit missed ana- The US firm said it was open to the value of his shareholdings and CEOs of the targets tend to exit after Monsanto declined to comment on its shares and in gains on his options, lysts’ estimates as the company engaging in further negotiations with accelerated payout of bonuses that their companies are sold. The agro- compensation scheme. accelerated bonuses and severance, struggled against falling PC sales Bayer after turning down its $62bn bid would occur if there is a takeover, as chemicals mega-deal between Dow The company - which makes the should a deal be done at $122-a-share and plunging mobile shipments in as “incomplete and financially inad- well as a $14.5m “golden parachute” Chemical and Dupont agreed in world’s most widely used herbicide, and his job terminated. China and North America. equate” this week. severance payment he would receive December - an unusual case because Roundup - has been wrestling with Such an accord would make him Sales were $9.13bn in the That $122-per-share offer would if he loses his job as a result. it was billed as a “merger of equals” of low crop prices and spending cut- about $20m better off than he was three months ended March, Bei- allow CEO and Chairman Grant to There is no certainty that ongo- two companies of roughly equal size backs by US farmers, which have hit based on the pre-bid share price. jing-based Lenovo said in a filing walk away with a total package of ing negotiations will result into a deal - will see both CEOs depart. its profits. The other three directors whose on Thursday, missing the average more than $123m after a takeover, although Monsanto’s board has sig- Grant’s exposure to shares and Before reports about a potential total pay is disclosed in filings - Chief of analyst projections by more including from the sale of shares nalled interest in reaching an accord options means he has an incentive Bayer bid in early May, Monsanto’s Financial Officer Pierre Courduroux. than $1bn. Net income of $180m compares with expectations for $184.9m. Lenovo has been struggling to revive the Motorola smartphone Paris woos Chinese tourists China and EU Commission business it bought for $2.8bn in 2014 as its devices lose market share in China and growth in the edge towards deal on global industry slows. The com- pany is focusing more on overseas market economy status markets and cutting costs after slipping outside the top five glo- bally, compounding the challenge of a shrinking PC industry that is Reuters doing business with the EU would be hurting its biggest business by affected, if we find our trading part- sales. ners don’t respect the rules.” “We continue to see that Len- China is the European Union’s ovo holds limited advantages and BRUSSELS: The European Commis- second-largest trading partner after lacks a coherent strategy in a slow- sion and China may be near a deal the United States. Europe is China’s ing and competitive smartphone to avoid a dispute at the World Trade top trading partner. market,” analysts led by Ken Hui Organization and a wider trade war, Europe’s concerns have been at Jefferies Hong Kong wrote in diplomats say, but must convince EU worsened by record Chinese steel a report. “Management should lawmakers angry over record Chi- production in April amid a global explore more drastic options.” nese steel output. steel glut. After world economies Lenovo shares fell 3.8 per- The Commission is set to accept failed to find agreement on how to cent to HK$4.79 in Hong Kong, its a change to China’s trade status at deal with overcapacity, the United lowest closing price since Octo- the WTO by treating it as an econ- States put hefty duties on China. G7 ber 2011. omy controlled by the market, not leaders discussed the issue in Japan. Lenovo swung to a full-year the state. That would benefit Beijing Beijing’s private stance contrasts loss of $128 million compared with and make it easier for it to export with public remarks that changing net income of $829m a year earlier. into the bloc. China’s status at the WTO is not for “This year was a big write- But the Commission also wants negotiation. off,” said Chris Yim, an analyst to enhance the bloc’s ability to defend “This is the consensus reached at BOCOM International Hold- Paris Mayor Anne Hidalgo (left) and French Olympic champion of 1976 and IOC member Guy Drut itself against cheap Chinese imports. between China and other WTO mem- ings Co. “Fiscal 2017 is going to be talking outside the National Olympic Stadium, known as the Bird’s Nest, in Beijing. Hidalgo is visiting “Everyone has to know that if some- bers during the negotiation on China’s profitable, but the thing is with the China to revive Chinese tourism to the French capital. body distorts the market, Europe accession,” Chinese Foreign Ministry current PC market, and we don’t cannot be defenceless,” Commission spokesperson Hong Lei said earlier know what the current mobile President Jean-Claude Juncker said at this month. “It must be observed by lineup is going to be like, we’re not the G7 summit in Japan. all WTO members as their obligation.” sure what kind of profit to expect.” Chinese envoys have sig- The WTO recognised when Lenovo struck the Motorola nalled they could live with the dual Communist-ruled China joined in deal to bulk up in smartphones EU regulators approve Gilead’s drug approach, which is designed to 2001 that its local prices were not at a time when the Chinese mar- assuage fears of European industry set by market forces. WTO members ket was surging. That growth has that Europe’s economy will suffer if can normally apply punitive tariffs since slowed, compounding the Reuters Human Use backed Gilead’s combi- and grazoprevir to treat viral infec- China is able to undercut its indus- on others only if export prices are challenge of turning around the nation of velpatasvir and sofosbuvir. tion of the liver. tries with heavily subsidised goods. below those in the exporter’s home business. Sofosbuvir is at the centre of a Merck is trying to catch up with “Every country has a legiti- market. The company needs to build patent battle between Gilead and Gilead, which dominates the market mate right to make full use of trade But with China, the EU and oth- a smartphone business that can BRUSSELS: An advisory panel to Merck & Co Inc. with a new generation of hepatitis C defence measures, within WTO ers have been able to ignore low withstand industry fluctuations the European drug regulator rec- Gilead’s combination treatment drugs that can cure over 90 percent rules,” a Chinese diplomat said. “If domestic prices and set tariffs to like it does in PCs, Chief Financial ommended an approval for Gilead shares an active ingredient with of patients with the liver disease. they follow the WTO rules, there’s make Chinese exports as expen- Officer Wong Wai Ming. Sciences Inc’s new drug combination Sovaldi, the company’s blockbuster The EMA said Gilead’s new com- no problem for us.” sive as in wealthier countries. “It probably will take a little bit to treat hepatitis C. drug for hepatitis C. bination therapy targeted all six Without a deal, China is will- However, those WTO limitations longer for us to build a foundation, The European Medicines Agency The panel yesterday also recom- genotypes of the virus, while Mer- ing to retaliate. “A trade war is not on China are due to expire on Dec. not only in the rest of the world but (EMA) said yesterday that the Com- mended granting marketing approval ck’s combination drug targets only our choice,” a second Chinese dip- 11, though there is some room for also in China,” the CFO said in an mittee for Medicinal Products for for Merck’s combination of elbasvir two kinds. lomat said. “But our confidence in interpretation. interview with Bloomberg TV. BUSINESS SATURDAY 28 MAY 2016 19 US growth revised higher on surge in home building

Gross domestic product rose at a a strong dollar and sluggish global currently estimating second-quarter Businesses accumulated $69.6 bil- initially thought. That, together with a Gross domestic 0.8 percent annual rate as opposed demand, which have eroded export GDP rising at a 2.9 percent rate. But lion worth of inventory, instead of the decline in imports, produced a smaller to the 0.5 percent pace reported last growth. It has also been squeezed by the ongoing high level of inventories $60.9bn estimated last month. Inven- trade deficit, which subtracted 0.21 product rose at a month, the Commerce Department lower oil prices, which have undercut poses a downside risk to that forecast. tories cut two-tenths of a percentage percentage point from first-quarter 0.8 percent annual said yesterday in its second GDP esti- profits of oilfield companies like Sch- Economists polled by Reuters had point from GDP growth instead of the GDP growth instead of the 0.34 per- mate for the January-March period. lumberger and Halliburton, forcing expected first-quarter GDP growth previously reported 0.33 percentage centage point reported last month. rate as opposed to That was the weakest growth them to slash spending on equipment. would be revised up to a 0.9 percent point. There was no revision to con- A sustained plunge in energy the 0.5 percent pace since the first quarter of 2015. Economists also believe the model rate. The economy grew at a 1.4 per- sumer spending, which accounts for sector investment undercut business The upward revision reflected a used by the government to strip out cent rate in the fourth quarter. more than two-thirds of US economic spending. Equipment spending tum- reported last month. smaller drag from trade than previ- seasonal patterns from data is not Prices for longer-dated US Treas- activity. Spending increased at a pace bled at a steeper 9.0 percent rate, the ously estimated. The government also fully accomplishing its goal despite uries briefly pared losses after the of 1.9 percent, a slowdown from the fastest pace of decline since the sec- reported a rebound in after-tax cor- steps last year to address the problem. data, while the dollar fell against a fourth quarter’s 2.4 percent rate. ond quarter of 2009. It was previously porate profits, which increased at a Residual seasonality has plagued basket of currencies. US stock index Households were frugal in the first reported to have dropped at a 8.6 per- Reuters 0.6 percent rate in the first quarter first-quarter GDP data, with growth futures were little changed. quarter, cutting back on purchases of cent rate. after plunging at an 8.4 percent pace underperforming in five of the last six Spending on residential construc- long-lasting manufactured goods like Spending on equipment will likely in the fourth quarter. years since the beginning of the eco- tion increased at a 17.1 percent rate in automobiles. remain weak in the second quarter, WASHINGTON: US economic growth Income growth for the first quar- nomic recovery in 2009. the first quarter, the fastest pace since Income at the disposal of house- with a report on Thursday showing slowed in the first quarter although ter also was revised higher. There are signs the economy the fourth quarter of 2012. It was pre- holds after accounting for taxes and orders for manufactured capital goods not as sharply as initially thought, as As a result, the economy grew at regained momentum early in the sec- viously reported to have increased at inflation was revised up to show it excluding aircraft and defense declined a surge in home building and steady a much faster 2.2 percent rate when ond quarter, with retail sales, goods a rate of 14.8 percent. surging at a 4.0 percent rate in the in April for a third straight month. inventory accumulation partially measured from the income side, after exports, industrial production, hous- Residential construction added first quarter instead of the previously Investment in nonresidential offset the impact of modest con- expanding at a 1.9 percent pace in the ing starts and home sales surging in 0.56 percentage point to first-quarter reported 2.9 percent. Savings were structures dropped at an 8.9 percent sumer spending and soft business fourth quarter. April. GDP growth, up from the 0.49 per- revised up to $782.6bn from $712.3bn. pace in the first quarter instead of the investment. The economy has been hurt by The Atlanta Federal Reserve is centage point reported last month. Exports were not as weak as previously reported 10.7 percent rate.

Turkey tourist Longest tunnel ECB credit buying to arrivals see biggest drop start small: Sources in 17 years Reuters for clients among enterprises that Reuters are too small to tap financial mar- kets directly, the ECB hopes. Creating this trickle-down effect FRANKFURT: The European Central will be crucial if the programme is ANKARA: The number of foreign Bank will aim to start small when it to succeed and would address the visitors to Turkey fell by 28 per- begins buying corporate debt in June, criticism that it may simply supply cent in April, official data showed seeking first to lure new issuers and more money to already well-funded yesterday, the biggest drop in 17 then slowly raise the monthly pace companies that can borrow cheaply. years amid tensions with Russia of purchases to €5-10bn euros, sev- Fitch says, for example, that and security concerns after a wave eral central bank sources have said. European issuers sold bonds with of bombings. Investment-grade corporate the lowest coupons on record in the The decline signals more pain bonds issued in euros are the latest first quarter of the year, with high- for Turkey’s economy, which is addition to a growing list of assets rated companies paying less than 2 smarting from slowing exports the ECB is buying as part of its 1.74 percent on bonds with a maturity of and weak private investment. trillion euro effort ($1.95trn) to boost 10 years or more. Some economists have forecast economic growth in the euro zone In the meantime, while the ECB that tourism revenue will drop via lower borrowing costs. has yet to buy a single corporate by a quarter this year, costing The difficulty is that the €600bn bond, the mere announcement has around $8bn, or the equivalent market for such notes is largely lim- had an effect on supply. of 1 percent of GDP. ited to big corporations in France Since the second week of March, The drop-off does not bode and the Netherlands that already when the ECB unveiled the pro- well as Turkey heads into the May- enjoy easy access to credit. gramme, non-financial companies August high tourism season, when Miners celebrating after a giant drilling machine completed the world’s longest tunnel beneath the The ECB, however, is hoping in Europe have issued around €61bn European holidaymakers usually Swiss Alps. Switzerland is preparing to celebrate the inauguration of the new Saint-Gothard (Gotthard) its money will eventually trickle worth of euro-denominated bonds, flock to its southern beaches. down to smaller borrowers across or 50 percent more than in the same rail tunnel, the world’s longest (57km), which will increase traffic between northern and southern “As we move from low to high the euro zone for whom funding is period in 2015, Thomson Reuters Europe. season in tourism, the deteriora- still a problem. data shows. tion in tourism statistics gets more Since this is likely to take time, But activity was still concen- and more significant,” said Deniz the ECB will increase the pace of its trated in cash-rich countries. Cicek, an economist at Finansbank purchases only gradually and refrain Issuers in Germany, Britain and in a note to clients. from setting a monthly target, con- France accounted for 70 percent of Tourism fell 28.07 percent versations with seven sources in new bonds sold this year and there year-on-year in April, with 1.75 Thermo Fisher to buy FEI for $4.2bn or near the ECB’s decision-making was little evidence of growing sup- million people arriving, data body revealed. ply from peripheral countries. showed. It was the biggest drop “There could be big fluctuations Similarly, debut issuers have been since May in 1999, when the in buys but if we succeed in induc- few and far between since March, with Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) Bloomberg instrumentation asset with leverage to U.S. FEI, which had 2015 revenues of ing issuance, that would naturally S&P Global Ratings assigning only militant group launched a bomb- the highly attractive applied markets.” $930mn, will become part of Thermo smooth out the market,” one sources three new ratings to companies that ing campaign and warned tourists Thermo Fisher has been acquir- Fisher’s Analytical Instruments Seg- said. Another source said there might would be eligible for ECB purchases: to stay away after the capture of its ing genetic testing, diagnostics and ment. Both boards unanimously be months when purchases will be Finnish insurer Sampo, German leader Abdullah Ocalan. LONDON: Thermo Fisher Scientific research assets through a series of approved the deal. The agreed price in the region of just €1bn. energy company Uniper and Ital- The number of Russian vis- Inc. will buy FEI Co. for about $4.2bn, deals. In April, it bought Affymetrix represents a 14 percent premium to France and the Netherlands, ian subway operator MM. This may itors all but evaporated, falling the latest deal by the diagnostics and Inc. for about $1.1bn, adding technol- FEI’s closing share price of $94.58 on which account for 57 percent of the change. “We would expect the ECB’s by nearly 80 percent, the data research equipment company in a ogy used by scientists and biologists Thursday. bonds that the ECB can buy accord- programme to encourage issuers showed. Russians traditionally campaign of acquisition to beef up its to analyze specimens at the cellu- The transaction will immediately ing to Fitch Ratings, will initially be to move in that direction in coming account for one of the biggest suite of testing and technology services. lar and genetic level. And in 2014, it add about 30 cents to Thermo Fisher’s the main focus of the purchases, the months,” said Paul Watters, head of groups of foreign visitors after Thermo Fisher will pay $107.50 a paid $15 billion for Life Technologies adjusted earnings in the first full year sources said. corporate research at S&P. Germany, but they have stopped share in cash and the deal is expected Corp., a DNA-sequencing company. after the deal closes, the company But the bank hopes to broaden There is also some concern coming after Turkey shot down a to close early next year, the compa- FEI produces electron micro- said, and will also produce cost sav- the scope of the programme once that the programme might have Russian warplane over Syria last nies said in a statement yesterday. FEI scopes which are used to analyze ings about $80m within three years. supply in other countries, such as unintended consequences in non- year, souring relations. rose 14 percent to $107.48 at 9:49 a.m. proteins, giving Waltham, Massa- JPMorgan Chase & Co. was Spain and Italy, picks up. One of the investment grade, or junk, market. The number of Germans fell by in New York, suggesting that investors chusetts-based Thermo Fisher a Thermo Fisher’s financial adviser, aims of the programme, indeed, is to Junk-rated companies are excluded more than a third. believe the purchase will go through. complementary product line to its and Wachtell, Lipton, Rosen & Katz its encourage medium-sized compa- from the ECB’s programme, but some “The substantial decline in “We view this acquisition as a mass spectrometry systems. Based in legal adviser. Goldman Sachs Group nies, which have traditionally relied have been tapping the market as the tourist arrivals this year was not nice tuck-in,” Ross Muken, an ana- Hillsboro, Oregon, FEI has more than Inc. was FEI’s financial adviser, and on bank loans, to issue bonds. fall in coupons paid by higher qual- limited to Russia, and spread out lyst at Evercore ISI, said in a research 3,000 employees worldwide and has Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati PC This would free up bank cash ity issuers has lured buyers to riskier to all major tourism partners of note. “FEI is a unique high end operations mainly in Europe and the provided legal advice. and indirectly force lenders to look investments. Turkey to some extent,” Cicek said. The pronounced drop in tour- ism is yet another headache for a government trying to win back investor confidence. Europe needs more integration as ECB powers limited: Experts Sentiment has been battered by security fears and worries about President Tayyip Erdogan’s grow- ing power. It was given a boost this Reuters long, it has negative side effects such that the currency bloc should now set “The third and final stage of fiscal week when Deputy Prime Minister as financial imbalances and misal- up an institution to fully coordinate integration would only be achieved Mehmet Simsek, seen as an anchor locations in the broader economy.” national fiscal and structural policies, if agreement can be found both on of investor confidence, retained his Cutting rates deep into negative transferring some national authority financing and on the desirable level position in the new cabinet. How- MADRID: The European Union territory, buying €1.7trn ($1.90trn) to a powerful euro zone finance min- of business cycle synchronization,” ever, Simsek’s authority has been needs more growth to restore peo- worth of assets and offering ultra ister with a budget. Villeroy said. curbed in his new role, and secu- ple’s confidence but monetary policy cheap loans to the bank sector, the Such a minister should eventu- Such proposals are relatively rity concerns continue. is nearing its limits so more integra- ECB has pushed euro zone growth ally preside over a euro area budget, common among those in the bloc Turkey has been hit by a wave tion is needed, top European central above potential in recent years, giv- backed by a Treasury administration, seeking tighter integration. But there of suicide bomb attacks this year, bankers said. ing Europe its best stretch since the because the lack of economic coordi- is often little appetite for them among including two in Istanbul - its big- Presenting differing views on start of the financial crisis. nation weighs on growth and keeps some member states. gest city and traditional tourist the future of the euro zone, French But euro zone countries have still the bloc vulnerable to crises, Villeroy, Expressing scepticism with polit- draw - blamed on Islamic State central bank chief Francois Villeroy diverged over the past decade, with who is also a member of the ECB’s ical will for such a leap, Knot argued militants. In January a suicide de Galhau (pictured) and Dutch Italy, Spain, Portugal and Greece fall- Governing Council argued. for an incremental approach to inte- bomber killed 12 German tourists national bank Governor Klaas Knot ing behind their peers, challenging the “In the first stage, member states gration with a focus on minimum when he blew himself up in the both warned that the euro zone has notion of convergence and threaten- would be free to join... In a second criteria for stability and growth. city’s historic heart. grown too reliant on the European ing the very viability of the currency stage, this budget could become Knot said Europe needed to Three Israeli tourists and an Central Bank’s unprecedented stim- bloc as public confidence erodes and a common stabilisation instru- strengthen compliance with its budget Iranian were killed in March when ulus and needs to rethink how the limited,” Knot, a member of the ECB’s social tensions rise. ment, centralising a well-defined rules, complete the banking union another suicide bomber blew him- bloc functions. rate setting body said. Villeroy argued that the relative set of policy instruments, such as a and implement the bloc’s services self up in Istanbul’s most popular “What monetary policy can “Monetary stimulus is reaching its stability of the euro zone nonethe- European layer for unemployment directive, which alone would add 1.5 shopping district. achieve in terms of growth is very limits and if it is maintained for too less opens a window to reform and insurance.” percent to growth. 20 SATURDAY 28 MAY 2016 BUSINESS VIEWS

Clothing brands must Carmakers and tech companies ensure garment workers get a living wage decide to make deals, not war

By Rina Chandran some income left for emergencies. Reuters The ILO defines a living wage as a “basic human right”. Yet minimum wages across Asia are well below a level that a person could live on, LOBAL clothing brands and are revised by governments must take responsibil- too rarely to reflect escalating liv- ity for the millions of ing costs, campaigners say. workers in Asia who “Companies are responsible for are poorly paid by sup- the human rights impacts through- Gpliers and ignored by governments, out their supply chain, and cannot said a campaigner for higher wages outsource these to the state or to in the region, ahead of an Interna- the suppliers,” said Bhattacharjee. tional Labour Organization (ILO) “Global brands cannot wait for conference. governments to raise the minimum Asia accounts for more than wage to an acceptable level. They 60 percent of the world’s gar- must pay the difference between ment production, with the industry the minimum wage and the liv- employing more than 15 million ing wage, as most of their profits people directly, most of them comes from production in Asia,” women. she said. Workers deserve a living wage Garment exports from Asia because the minimum wage set by are worth more than $200 billion most Asian countries is inadequate annually. Many garment workers to keep them out of poverty, said in South Asia tend to be landless Anannya Bhattacharjee, a coor- labourers or lower-caste workers dinator with the Asia Floor Wage who are particularly vulnerable By Joseph White and Paul Lienert BMW AG said on Wednesday its BMW iVen- said on Wednesday. Alliance (AFWA), a supply chain to discrimination and are often Reuters tures venture capital arm has invested an Toyota and some rival automakers cur- lobby group. in debt bondage. undisclosed amount in California-based rently offer discounts to drivers for Uber “The complexity of the supply In Bangladesh and Sri Lanka, Scoop Technologies, which offers a smart- and its ride-hailing rival, Lyft. An Uber chains is often used as an excuse the minimum wage is a fifth of phone-powered carpooling service called driver who wants to buy a Toyota Prius, for for brands having no control over the living wage estimated by FLURRY of deals between big Scoop. example, could receive a $750 discount. The paying a living wage,” Bhattach- AFWA, based on purchasing carmakers and ride hailing and On Tuesday, Toyota Motor Corp, the world’s Uber discount for a Ford Focus is $2,100, arjee told the Thomson Reuters power parity. transportation startups is rewrit- No.1 carmaker by vehicle sales, said it was according to information on Uber’s website. Foundation. Working conditions and wages ing the playbook in the contest investing an undisclosed amount of money Uber said on Wednesday discounts “But brands have so much in South Asia’s garment industry to control the future of personal in Uber. Germany’s Volkswagen AG said on from various automakers have saved its leverage with governments and have come under greater scrutiny transportation. Carmakers now the same day it would invest $300m in Gett, drivers more than $20m on vehicle pur- suppliers, and they have the power since the Rana Plaza disaster in Arecognise they may turn ride-hailing services a smaller ride-hailing company. chases globally as of the end of last year. to set prices,” she said. April 2013 in Bangladesh, in which and car sharing companies into steady cus- Earlier this year, General Motors Co As of last December, more than 50,000 Higher wages in China, the more than 1,100 workers died. tomers for all sorts of vehicles, particularly acquired a stake in Uber rival Lyft, and the people around the world had used its car world’s largest clothing exporter, Swedish fashion retailer hybrid and electric cars, industry executives Detroit automaker is launching its own car- discount program, Uber Vehicle Solutions, are driving brands worldwide to Hennes & Mauritz last week said it and analysts say. sharing and mobility ventures under the Maven to buy or lease vehicles worth over $1bn. seek cheaper alternatives in coun- was collaborating with trade unions Tie-ups with carpooling services or brand. Ford Motor Co, Daimler AG and other Ride hailing and car sharing companies tries such as Bangladesh, India, and governments to improve work- short-term rental com- major automakers have unveiled efforts to could become outlets for automakers try- Pakistan and Sri Lanka. ers’ conditions, after an AFWA study panies help carmakers embrace ride-hailing and car-sharing services. ing to sell more electric vehicles, or hybrid Suppliers in these countries found violations at its suppliers’ expose consumers to Carmakers “want to make sure they are in cars, to earn credits under U.S. federal and are under enormous pressure to factories in India and Cambodia. brands they might oth- the game,” as more consumers use ride shar- state environmental rules. The high costs reduce costs and produce garments AFWA, along with other cam- erwise ignore. Technology ing or carpooling, said Mark Short, an Ernst of an electric car battery are more rap- as quickly as possible. paigners, will lobby the ILO at its companies offer access to and Young partner who advises automakers idly offset by ferrying passengers around Wages in the garment industry conference in Geneva next week to troves of consumer data, on transactions. “To be in the game, you have a city all day than by a routine round-trip are “structurally failing” to meet move forward on setting a global and sophisticated ways to make investments in these companies.” commute. workers’ basic needs, leading to standard for supply chains, includ- to analyse them. In the case of Uber and Toyota, both could GM executives say Lyft will be an impor- excessive overtime, ill health and ing for wages. From the automakers, benefit from an alliance. Uber “actually knows tant customer for the automaker’s Chevrolet workers being forced to live apart “If you corner workers and you Tie-ups with the Silicon Valley mobility very little from its own experience about Bolt electric car, due to launch late this year. from their families, according to increase the pressure on them, they carpooling services companies obtain fresh cars - how they’re made, how they work,” BMW’s investment in Scoop is also the Clean Clothes Campaign, which are going to erupt like a pressure capital, access to auto said Jan Dawson, technology analyst with aimed at selling vehicles, Ulrich Quay, man- is a member of AFWA. cooker some day,” Bhattachar- or short-term rental industry engineers who Jackdaw Research. Uber has said it wants to aging director of BMW iVentures, said on Activists are calling for a living jee said. companies help know how cars work and develop self-driving cars - as does Toyota - Wednesday. Ride sharing can help the auto- wage, which an employee earns “That’s not good for the country carmakers expose discounts on vehicles for and the two indicated they will collaborate maker get to know customers who have in a standard working week and or for business. So it’s in everyone’s their drivers. on research. never driven a BMW, he said. is enough to provide for a fami- interest to prevent that situation - consumers to brands In the latest tie-up Toyota said it expects to offer new ways for The Scoop application connects peo- ly’s basic needs, including housing, and it’s easy, given how little it will they might otherwise between an automaker Uber drivers to buy Toyota cars, and could mar- ple who live in the same neighbourhoods education and healthcare, with take to fix it,” she said. and a transportation ket Toyota and Lexus brand vehicles to Uber and work near each other to arrange car- ignore. technology startup, Ger- in bulk fleet sales. Details of these programs pools. The company currently operates in man luxury car maker have yet to be decided, a Toyota spokesman the San Francisco Bay area. Italians need convincing as well as connecting to join digital drive

By Agnieszka Flak and returns for their multi-billion-euro investments. up paying €6 to file the form via registered the telecoms firms say demand will only arise Stephen Jewkes Even where provision exists for superfast mail,” she said. “The system is improving, but once big-ticket films, television shows and sports Reuters broadband - defined as more than 30 meg- it’s frustrating when it doesn’t work.” events are being offered online - preferably exclu- abytes per second (Mbps), generally enough Worryingly for Renzi, that doubt about the sively and in bandwidth-guzzling high definition, to allow several members of a household to usefulness of the internet seems to extend to suitable for big television screens. use the internet and stream video at the same the small businesses that are the backbone “I can bring the horse to the fountain,” Tel- HEN Giulia Spada gets a traf- time, take-up is slow. Italy has the European of the economy. Only around 40 percent of ecom Italia chairman Giuseppe Recchi said, fic ticket, she pops along to Union’s fourth largest economy, but comes last firms that were listed in a register of ‘inno- “but I can’t make it drink ... Even if we are her local post office to pay it. of the 28 members in Internet usage, EU data vative startups’ at the end of last year had a ready with the networks of the future today, Even though that can mean shows. A third of the population has never used functioning website, according to a study by people still do not have sufficient incentives standing in line for an hour. the web and only just over half of households the digital marketing agency Instilla. to use them: watching videos online or inter- W“I found out recently you can do it online subscribe to fixed-line broadband. It all suggests a lack of the demand that the acting digitally with public administration.” but I’m still not convinced,” said the 33-year- Only mobile broadband take-up is in line telecoms providers say they need in order to And that, at least, is where Renzi hopes Bringing superfast old postgraduate student from Pavia, a town with the EU average as Italians use phones to justify investing in faster connections. government can help, offering more and more Internet to all Italian near Milan. “It’s not that straightforward, and listen to music and play video games. But the Italy is second to last in the EU for the public services to citizens with digital IDs to it’s just easier to go to the post office.” use of online banking and shopping remains rollout of superfast broadband after provid- create a “faster, more agile, less bureaucratic homes by 2020 has Spada’s experience epitomises Italy’s limited, due to an ageing population, poor ers, also hampered by regulatory uncertainty, Italy” - while at the same time scaling down become one of the pillars struggles with the Internet. Bringing super- English skills, a distrust of uploading personal held back on investments for years. But even personal, over-the-counter services. of Prime Minister Matteo fast Internet to all Italian homes by 2020 has data and a fear of overly complex procedures. though a superfast connection is available to Whether that really means all of Italy has become one of the pillars of Prime Minister Even those like Spada, who has set up broad- more than 40 percent of households, only 3 to have superfast broadband right away, with Renzi’s push to galvanise Matteo Renzi’s push to galvanise a stagnant band at home to move more transactions online, percent have taken it up. The average con- an expensive fibre-optic connection all the way a stagnant economy, economy, create jobs and open businesses to end up facing a tangle of red tape that makes nection speed in Italy is 7.4 Mbps, according to the home, is widely debated. The debt-laden the global market. the very idea of using a public site a headache. to the online content distributor Akamai. former state monopoly Telecom Italia and rival create jobs and open But citizens have been less eager to embrace When she tried to file for an exemption to paying Broadcasters and entertainment providers provider Fastweb argue that it is sufficient for businesses to the global the digital drive than their 41-year-old premier, her TV licence fee, she was told first to apply on appear to be finding it hard to commit. Catch- now, particularly in low-density, high-cost rural creating a headache for broadband firms and a separate site for a PIN-number, which would up TV is still virtually unheard-of in Italy, and communities, to have a copper cable cover- market. content providers: rolling out a fast network take two weeks to arrive - after the deadline. the on-demand video entertainment service ing the last stretch from the roadside cabinet is no guarantee of commercial demand and “So I went back to the post office and ended Netflix only launched there last October. But to homes, with the potential to upgrade later. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 22 PAGE | 24 EyesEye on Champions Gatlin, Farah League crown, lead elite field aatt insists Ronaldo Prefontaine

SATURDAY 28 MAY 2016 • 21 SHA’BAAN 1437 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Mourinho England press on against Sri Lanka becomes Man AFP Siriwardana’s fourth delivery of the day. But next ball, the left-arm spin- ner had his revenge when Hales’s fiercely-edged cut was brilliantly CHESTER-LE-STREET: England caught one-handed by Sri Lanka cap- captain Alastair Cook was still left tain Angelo Mathews at slip. United boss searching for his 10,000th run in Hales was out for 83 off 145 balls. Test cricket as fellow opener Alex Root threaded a superb cover Hales, Joe Root and Jonny Bairstow drive through the in-field for four all missed out on contrasting land- off Rangana Herath on his way to United’s powerbrokers have decided marks at the Riverside yesterday. a 70-ball fifty. Root could neither to take a chance on Mourinho, despite England ended the first day of the pull nor cut as the ball got ‘big’ on The 53-year-old his turbulent reputation. Media reports second Test against Sri Lanka on 310 him and spooned a simple catch to Portuguese supercoach said Mourinho will earn up to £15m for six. cover which ended a stand of 59 with ($21m/19.6m euros) a year and will have Moeen Ali was 28 not out and Vince. ince, in his second innings in is expected to a £200m fund to buy players for United Chris Woakes eight not out, with Sri Test cricket, had struck four fours on transform the Red who failed to qualify for the Champions Lanka paceman Nuwan Pradeep tak- his way to 35. League with their fifth-placed finish in ing three for 69 from 19 overs. But he was out when his hard-hit Devils into a title the English Premier League under Van Cook, who won the toss in over- drive off Siriwardana was superbly winning force again Gaal. cast conditions that offered some held by a diving Lahiru Thirimanne “Jose is quite simply the best man- swing movement, failed to score the at short cover. ager in the game today,” said United’s 20 runs he needed to become the first Bairstow fell to the new ball executive vice-chairman Ed Woodward. England batsman to reach 10,000 for 48 when he bottom-edged an AFP “He has won trophies and inspired in Tests. Meanwhile Root’s exit for intended cut off Pradeep to oppos- players in countries across Europe and, 80 meant he had failed to convert ing wicket-keeper Dinesh Chandimal. of course, he knows the Premier League seven of his last eight Test fifties into very well, having won three titles here.” a hundred. SCOREBOARD LONDON: Manchester United yester- Mourinho was sacked by Chelsea Cook had made 15, just five England (I innings): New Manchester United day appointed Jose Mourinho as their in December but has established a rep- shy of the 20 he needed to get to A Cook c Karunaratne b Lakmal 15 new manager to launch a third bid in utation as one of the best coaches in the manager Jose Mourinho 10,000, when recalled paceman less than three years to transform the game. He has won league titles and cups Suranga Lakmal, in for the injured A Hales c Mathews b Siriwardana 83 Red Devils into a title-winning force in four countries with Porto, Chelsea, Dushmantha Chameera, had him N Compton c Lakmal b Pradeep 9 again. Inter Milan and Real Madrid. He won the JOSE MARIO DOS SANTOS MOURINHO FELIX FACTFILE well-taken low down by diving sec- J Root c Silva b Pradeep 80 After three days of talks, Mour- Champions League in 2004 with Porto ond slip Dimuth Karunaratne as the J Vince c Thirimanne b Siriwardana 35 Age: 53 FA Cup (1): 2006-07 inho agreed a three-year contract on a and in 2010 with Inter Milan. left-hander carelessly pushed away J Bairstow c Chandimal b Pradeep 48 bumper salary reportedly worth more United released a picture taken Date of birth: January 26, 1963 League Cup (3): 2004-05, 2006-07, 2014-15 from his body.

Place of birth: Setubal, Portugal Community Shield (1): 2005 M Ali (batting) 28 than $20m a year. Thursday of a smiling Mourinho hold- New batsman Nick Compton But the 53-year-old Portuguese ing up the club’s red home shirt. PLAYING CAREER INTER MILAN was out for nine when he top-edged C Woakes (batting) 8 supercoach said it was the “mystique” The Red Devils’ statement on Mour- Position: central midfielder Serie A (2): 2008-09, 2009-10 a hook off Pradeep and Lakmal, after Extras (B-1, LB-3) 4 of United that drew him to the chal- inho’s appointment did not mention Teams: Rio Ave (POR/1980-1982), Belenenses Coppa Italia (1): 2009-10 the ball had gone over his shoulder, Total (for 6 wkts) 310 lenge. United, one the world’s biggest the future of Ryan Giggs, the club stal- (POR/1982-1983), Sesimbra (POR/1983-1985), Supercoppa Italiana (1): 2008 held a brilliant two-handed catch To bat: S Broad, S Finn, J Anderson. football clubs, need reviving after first wart and Van Gaal’s deputy who had at long leg that left him facing the Comerico e Industria (POR/1985-1987) UEFA Champions League (1): 2009-10 Fall of wickets: 1-39, 2-64, 3-160, 4-219, David Moyes and then Louis van Gaal been seen as a potential successor to boundary and just inches from the MANAGERIAL CAREER REAL MADRID 5-227, 6-297. failed to emulate the glory years of Alex the Dutchman. Mourinho is expected Teams: Benfica (POR/2000), Uniao de Leiria La Liga (1): 2011-12 rope. Bowling: Eranga 19-2-67-0; Lakmal 18-3- Ferguson. to bring long-time assistant Rui Faria (POR/2001-2002), Porto (POR/2002-2004), Copa del Rey (1): 2010-11 Hales completed a 131-ball fifty 58-1; Pradeep 19-3-69-3; Herath 24-1-74- “To become Manchester United man- and goalkeeping coach Silvino Louro Chelsea (ENG/2004-2007), Inter Milan Supercopa de Espana (1): 2012 with eight fours. Having made 86 at 0; Mathews 2-1-3-0; Siriwardana 8-0-35-2. ager is a special honour in the game,” with him, meaning Van Gaal’s assistant (ITA/2008-2010), Real Madrid (ESP/2010-2013), Headingley, he went into the 80s yes- Mourinho said in a club statement. coaches Albert Stuivenberg and Frans terday with a straight six off Milinda Chelsea (ENG/2013-2015), Manchester United INDIVIDUAL Mourinho seemed destined to man- Hoek are likely to be dismissed. (ENG/2016-) FIFA World Coach of the Year: 2010 age United ever since his Porto side Mourinho will hope to have signif- eliminated Ferguson’s men from the icantly improved an unbalanced and MANAGERIAL HONOURS Primeira Liga Manager of the Year: 2002-03, 2004 Champions League. Porto went often lacklustre United squad by the PORTO 2003-04 on to win the title. time the new season begins in August. Primeira Liga (2): 2002-03, 2003-04 Premier League Manager of the Year: 2004-05, Brilliant Warner drives He thought his time had come when Former Paris Saint-Germain forward Taca de Portugal (1): 2002-03 2005-06, 2014-15 Ferguson retired in 2013, but concerns Zlatan Ibrahimovic, Sporting Lisbon Supertaca Candido de Oliveira (1): 2003 Serie A Manager of the Year: 2008-09, 2009-10 Hyderabad to IPL final over his volatile personality prompted midfielder Joao Mario, Everton defender UEFA Champions League (1): 2003-04 UEFA Manager of the Year: 2002-03, 2003-04 United to turn to the more reserved John Stones, Chelsea midfielder Nemanja UEFA Cup (1): 2002-03 OTHER Moyes instead. Matic and Atletico Madrid forward Anto- CHELSEA Officer of the Order of Infante Dom Henrique: But with that move proving a dis- ine Griezmann are reportedly among the Premier League (3): 2004-05, 2005-06, 2014-15 2006 Agencies lifted Gujarat to 162 for seven in aster and Van Gaal faring little better, names on his wanted list. the second qualifier at the Feroze- shah Kotla Stadium in New Delhi, Warner single-handedly drove his NEW DELHI: Captain David Warn- team past the target as he forged a er’s belligerent innings of 96 not out 46-run unbroken stand with Bipul Mourinho is United’s biggest ever helped Sunrisers Hyderabad over- Sharma (27 not out off 11 balls) for come Gujarat Lions by four wickets the seventh wicket. yesterday to enter the final of the The Australian superstar hit 11 Indian Premier League. fours and three sixes in his 58-ball signing, says former CEO Kenyon After Aaron Finch’s 32-ball 50 stay. SCOREBOARD

Reuters in 50 years that season. That’s the GUJARAT LIONS SUNRISERS HYDERABAD ability he has. E R Dwivedi c Boult b Kumar 5 D A Warner (not out) 93 “He makes good players bet- B B McCullum c Kumar b B Sharma 32 S Dhawan (run out) 0 ter. Everybody talks about new S K Raina lbw Boult 1 M C Henriques c Dwivedi b Smith 11 LONDON: Jose Mourinho is the big- signings but the current players at K D Karthik (run out) 26 Yuvraj Singh c Smith b Kaushik 8 gest signing Manchester United have Manchester will be better under Jose ever made, former United and Chel- Mourinho. A J Finch b Cutting 50 D J Hooda lbw Bravo 4 sea chief executive Peter Kenyon “They’ll get a coach who brings D R Smith c Dhawan b Cutting 1 B C J Cutting c Karthik b Kaushik 8 said on Friday. new techniques, new developments R A Jadeja (not out) 19 N V Ojha c Jadeja b Bravo 10

Kenyon, who now works as and forward thinking. I think he’ll D J Bravo b Kumar 20 Bipul Sharma (not out) 27 an advisor for Champions League have an immediate impact. It’s Unit- D S Kulkarni (not out) 3 Extras (LB-1, W-1) 2 finalists Atletico Madrid, was the ed’s biggest ever signing.” man who first brought Mourinho Kenyon, who worked for United A man holds a scarf Extras (W-5) 5 Total (for 6 wkts in 19.2 overs) 163 into English football as Chelsea from 1997 to 2003 before joining featuring the image of Total (for 7 wkts in 20 overs) 162 Did not bat: B Kumar, B B Sran, T A Boult. manager in 2004. Chelsea, believes the Portuguese Manchester United’s Did not bat: P Kumar, S Kaushik. Fall of wickets: 1-6, 2-33, 3-61, 4-75, 5-84, “When I appointed him I was is “a perfect fit” for the Old Traf- new Portuguese Fall of wickets: 1-7, 2-19, 3-63, 4-81, 5-83, 6-117. looking for someone who could ford club. manager Jose Mourinho 6-134, 7-158. Bowling: P Kumar 3.2-0-32-0 (1w); D S bring a winning mentality to what “It’s exactly what he needs, a big outside the club’s Bowling: B Kumar 4-0-27-2 (2w); T A Boult Kulkarni 4-0-32-0; D R Smith 2-0-29-1; S K was already a good team,” he told club, and that’s what he’s got,” he Old Trafford football 4-0-39-1 (2w); B B Sran 3-0-28-0 (1w); Bipul Raina 2-0-15-0; S Kaushik 4-0-22-2; D J Bravo Sky Sports. added.“It shows real aspiration on stadium in Manchester, Sharma 3-0-21-1; B C J Cutting 3-0-20-2; M C 4-0-32-2. “What Jose brought was a win- the part of United and it’s incredi- north-west England Henriques 3-0-27-0. Player-of-the-Match: D A Warner (SRH) ning mentality and that led to bly exciting to have him back in the yesterday. Chelsea winning their first title Premier League.” 22 SATURDAY 28 MAY 2016 SPORT

TACTICAL PREVIEW A look at the formations, strengths and weaknesses of Real Madrid and Simeone shouldering history as Atletico Madrid before the Champi- ons League final at Milan’s San Siro Stadium today: FORMATIONS %Atletico use a 4-4-2 formation, holding midfielders Gabi and Augusto Torres awaits ‘game of my life’ Fernandez providing an extra shield to protect the defence. Coach Diego Simeone has the option of bringing on the more attack-minded Yannick Carrasco from the bench. Upbeat Atletico seek to % Real boss Zinedine Zidane avenge their 2014 defeat favours a 4-3-3 system with Brazilian midfielder Casemiro sitting deep- against record ten-time est. The shape can quickly become champions Real in Milan a 4-4-2 with Gareth Bale occupying the right-wing berth. final today STRENGTHS % Atletico equalled a La Liga record this season by conceding just 18 goals and their expert defence AFP shut out free-scoring Barcelona and Bayern Munich in the home legs of their quarter-final and semi-final MILAN: Atletico Madrid coach Diego Simeone Champions League triumphs. is ready to shoulder “113 years of history” ahead % They have a habit of stay- of a Champions League final with Real Madrid ing resilient and clinging on when that striker Fernando Torres has labelled the faced with an onslaught, as demon- “game of my life”. strated in the semi-final second leg Record ten-time champions Real are the at Bayern. hosts at the San Siro stadium in Milan today % Real have the best defensive when Atletico will seek to avenge their stunning record in the Champions League, defeat to their bitter city rivals in a pulsating conceding five times in 12 games 2014 final in Lisbon. and keeping 10 clean sheets. Their Real have beaten Atletico only once in their most obvious weapon lies with the 10 meetings since, meaning there is huge expec- dynamic front three of Bale, Karim tation on Atletico to show they can also beat Benzema and Cristiano Ronaldo who the competition’s most successful club when it have scored a combined 98 goals in matters most. all competitions. But Simeone says he won’t be shying away The Champions League trophy ahead of the final between Real Madrid and Atletico Madrid WEAKNESSES from the challenge. today in Milan. RIGHT: Atletico Madrid’s striker Fernando Torres at the arrival of the team % Atletico are not the free-scor- “I like to have 113 years of history on my to Barajas International Airport to departure Milano in Madrid, Spain on Thursday. ing machine that Real are. Simeone’s back. I love the pressure, I love it,” he told media men netted 47 fewer goals in La Liga at the San Siro ground traditionally shared by and on occasions struggled to find a Serie A giants AC Milan and Inter Milan. “There’s no doubt, it’s the most important go out and write a new chapter.” Captain Gabi way through, failing to find the net in “To play a final is fantastic. To win it, there’s game I am ever going to play,” said Torres, who said: “We lost the final but it built pride among 210 minutes against PSV Eindhoven nothing better.” returned to his childhood club in 2014 follow- the players. Now we have a fresh chance, but no in the Champions League. Atletico were a whisker away from being ing an ill-fated spell in Serie A with AC Milan. one’s gifted us anything. We had to work hard % Simeone is perhaps over-reli- crowned champions of Europe for the first time “With Chelsea and the Spanish national team to get here.” ant on Antoine Griezmann who has two years ago, until Sergio Ramos’s 93rd minute I’ve won a lot of titles, but this is really special Simeone’s men go into the final boasting 35 Simeone added: “For the balance of Real Madrid, scored 33 of their 74 goals in all com- header pushed the final into extra-time. for me. To me it means everything. It’s the game clean sheets in 56 games this season, includ- yes.” petitions this term. Atletico crumbled and Real prevailed 4-1 of my life.” ing shutouts at home to Barcelona and Bayern Real’s other danger man, however, is likely % Real are a less complete unit to claim ‘La Decima’ -- stretching their record Atletico and Real made history in 2014 by Munich when they were dumped out of the com- to be Cristiano Ronaldo, who has the chance to than Atletico. Ronaldo and Bale do to 10 titles. becoming the first clubs from the same city to petition in the quarters and semis respectively. match and surpass his own record of scoring 17 not always chip in with defensive Torres – a Champions League winner with feature in the Champions League final. Yet the Argentinian hailed the “great work” Champions League goals in a season. duties, making the team less intense Chelsea in 2012 – said he’s ready to give it But Torres said they want to write a new of Real coach Zinedine Zidane, and pinpointed But Gabi believes Atletico have the tools to in midfield. everything. page in the competition’s history books. Brazilian midfielder Casemiro as the danger master what will be their toughest “game in DEFENCE “Real Madrid is a great club, one of the best. man. three years”. We share the same city and we know what this “He (Zidane) has done some amazing work,” “Madrid always play these games at a very %Atletico’s defence is well defined means,” he said. said Simeone. “He’s notably made the decision high level. It’s going to be our toughest game in with full backs Juanfran and Filipe NEW CHAMPIONS LEAGUE “But we can’t sit back and think of what to rely a lot on Casemiro, which has changed three years,” he said. Luis always aware of what is going WINNERS TO BE DECIDED TODAY we’ve achieved already... this is a big oppor- the team.” “But there’s nothing better than winning a on. Juanfran has limited Ronaldo to tunity for us to create history and we want to Asked if he was Real’s most important player, Champions League title against one of the best.” just one goal in open play in their last 10 meetings. %Uruguayan centre backs Diego Godin and Jose Maria Gimenez pro- vide a commanding presence in the Busquets air and are never afraid to put their Eyes on the 11th Champions League bodies on the line. extends % Real captain Sergio Ramos improved towards the end of a cam- Barca deal paign marred by a shoulder injury while Pepe was their outstanding by 5 years crown, insists Real Madrid’s Ronaldo defender in both semi-final games with Manchester City. % Dani Carvajal has proved a far AFP better option at right back than AFP Guardiola when they ousted his Bay- Danilo and also provides a stronger ern Munich side on away goals in the attacking threat. BARCELONA: Barcelona’s defen- semi-finals. MIDFIELD sive midfielder Sergio Busquets Real fans may have the history, % Simeone has sung the praises has extended his contract by five MILAN: Cristiano Ronaldo insists but Zinedine Zindane’s men have of Casemiro, ranking the Brazilian years until 2021, the Catalan giants personal goals will be put to one beaten Atletico only once in 10 meet- above Bale and Ronaldo in impor- announced yesterday. side as Real Madrid seek to embel- ings since their 4-1 victory in Lisbon tance for the balance he offers Real. “It’s a five year extension lish their incredible European record two years ago. In Augusto Fernandez and Gabi, running until June 30, 2021,” a Bar- with victory over Atletico Madrid in Unsurprisingly, Simeone is bull- Atletico have two players to do the celona statement explained. the Champions League final today. ish ahead of a clash that Ronaldo says job Casemiro does while wingers “Sergio Busquets is a key mem- Ronaldo, a three-time world will settle which side rules the roost Koke and Saul Niguez frequently ber of the playing staff, both out player of the year, has never scored in the Spanish capital. strengthen their grip on midfield. on the pitch and in the dressing a goal at the San Siro but has the “We’ve already played two of the % Luka Modric provides the flair room,” it said. chance to match and surpass his top three teams in the world and now and spark for Real while Toni Kroos The agreement includes an own record of scoring 17 Champions we’re facing the third in the final,” dictates the rhythm of their play. incentive option for a two-year League goals in a season. Simeone told UEFA.com. Atletico’s focus will be on keeping extension, based on the number Yet two years after Real defender He believes the key to beating the Croatian quiet. of appearances he makes. Sergio Ramos levelled at the death to Real will be breaking down a solid ATTACK The contract has a 200-mil- inspire a stunning, extra-time come- defence and making sure his players lion-euro ($223m) buyout clause back and secure a 10th triumph in remain vigilant at set-pieces. %Ronaldo is the competition’s all- and will be signed in the coming Lisbon, the Portuguese superstar “Madrid are different to Barce- time top scorer and is one goal away days, Barca said in a statement. insists winning an 11th crown is far lona and Bayern; they’re a much more from matching his record of 17 strikes “I feel valued by the club, more important than who hits the net direct team who are a massive threat in the 2013-14 season. the fans, the staff and my team- at the San Siro. from set pieces. %Bale has taken on new respon- mates,” Busquets told the press at “It would be nice to equal or even “We’ll be ready and will look to sibilities in his best campaign since the opening of a municipal sports pass the (scoring) record, but I am not play the game on our terms. Fingers joining Real and provides almost as centre on the outskirts of Barce- obsessed with that because the most crossed, that will be enough for us to much of a threat as the prolific Por- lona. “I hope we can continue to important thing is to win,” Ronaldo do what we want, which is to win.” tuguese. Centre forward Benzema do at least as well as we have been said when asked about adding to his Whoever wins, says Ronaldo, will provides the balance. doing so far and even if the negoti- 16-goal tally in the competition this earn the local bragging rights: “We % Griezmann claimed crucial ations dragged on we’re all happy season. will see who is the best. I am positive. Atletico strikes against Barcelona with the outcome,” said Busquets, Victory would see Real Madrid I think Real are better than Atletico, and Bayern with the improving Fern- whose father played in goal for the embellish their reputation as the but we have to show it on the pitch.” ando Torres providing a supporting club in the 1990s. most successful club in Europe having But Real have plenty of reason to role alongside him. “I never saw myself leaving won the inaugural edition, the Euro- be wary. BOCELLI, KEYS TO PERFORM here, and I’m very happy.” pean Champions Clubs’ Cup, in 1956 Two years ago, Atletico were a BEFORE FINAL Busquets, who made his debut when Argentinian Hector Rial struck whisker away from avenging their % A handout image provided by the UEFA of Real Madrid’s Portuguese Italian tenor Andrea Bocelli and for Barcelona in 2008, has played the winner in a 4-3 victory over fallen European Cup final defeat to Bay- American soul diva Alicia Keys will striker Cristiano Ronaldo upon his team’s arrival at Malpensa airport 384 official matches with the first French giants Stade Reims in Paris. ern Munich in 1974 (4-0) after Diego both sing at a revamped Champions team, scoring 12 goals. Atletico’s achievements may pale in Milan, Italy, yesterday. Real Madrid will face Atletico Madrid in the Godin gave Simeon’s men a 36th League final opening ceremony in The 27-year-old has been part in comparison, but the threat from UEFA Champions League final today. minute opener. Milan on Saturday. of a Barca squad that has won Diego Simeone’s men, who have Ramos’s 93rd minute leveller, % UEFA are introducing a longer six La Liga titles, three Champi- restricted Real to only one win in their however, pushed the match into extra curtain-raiser in a nod to the money- ons Leagues, four Copas del Rey, past 10 meetings since the 2014 final, ‘Rojiblancos’ last continental trophy Simeone’s men are back having time and, with the fresh momentum, spinning advertising extravaganza three UEFA Super Cups, four Span- is real. was the now defunct European Cup stunned Barcelona in the quarter- Gareth Bale, Marcelo and Ronaldo, which American Football’s Superbowl ish Super Cups and three FIFA Club Before winning two Europa Winners’ Cup in 1962. finals, and ended the hopes of the from the spot, struck to compound half-time show galvanises. World Cups. League titles in 2010 and 2012, the Yet only two years after Lisbon, Catalan giants’ former coach Pep Atletico’s misery. SPORT SATURDAY 28 MAY 2016 23 23 athletes from London 2012 positive in retests

Reuters involved athletes from six different The IOC, which said one more disciplinary commission which has the Russia under investigation following are currently suspended pending an national teams four years ago. sample from Beijing had shown full power to take all the decisions on a report by the World Anti-Doping investigation into the scandal which The IOC, which stores samples “abnormal parameters” and would behalf of the IOC.” Agency (WADA) suggesting system- could leave the nation without a full for a decade in order to re-test using also be followed up on, added that The targeted re-testing focused atic doping in that country. team at the Games starting on August BERLIN: Twenty-three athletes from newer methods or to look for new the re-testing programme was still in mainly on athletes who could poten- Kenya, famed for its distance run- 5. The IAAF, the world governing five sports tested positive for banned drugs, will not name the athletes or progress and could deliver more pos- tially compete in Rio and the IOC said ners, is also racing against the clock to body of athletics, will decide on June drugs in re-checks of 265 samples the sports until the second sample or itive checks in the coming weeks. anyone found doping would be banned amend its anti-doping laws in order 17 whether Moscow has done enough from the 2012 London Olympics, the B tests has been analysed. That proc- “These re-analyses show, once from those Games. While the re-test- for WADA to rule the African nation to clean up its act in order to be read- International Olympic Committee said ess can take several weeks. again, our determination in the fight ing is yielding results, it also raises as compliant again. mitted to competition. yesterday. Last week the organisation found against doping,” IOC President Tho- speculation about the extent of dop- In a further blow to its credibility, Russia has pledged to ban all The results, part of the IOC’s re- 31 athletes from six sports who could mas Bach said. “We want to keep the ing at the Games some two months Russia has confirmed 14 of the posi- athletes with a doping past from its testing of samples from past Games be banned from Rio for failing doping dopers away from the Olympic Games before the Olympics. Doping scan- tive Beijing Games rechecks concerned Olympic squad but calls for a blanket to keep cheats from competing at the tests when 454 samples were re-exam- in Rio de Janeiro. dals have plagued the build-up to the their athletes, some of whom are med- ban of the entire team have grown Rio de Janeiro Olympics in August, ined from the 2008 Beijing Olympics. “I have already appointed a world’s biggest multi-sports event with allists. Russian track and field athletes louder with every twist of the scandal. Gatlin, Farah lead elite MVP Curry, LeBron pace All-NBA First Team lineup

AFP Angeles Clippers centre DeAndre Jordan. field at Prefontaine The All-NBA Second Team included for- wards Kevin Durant of the Thunder and Draymond Green of the Warriors, centre NEW YORK: NBA Most Valuable Player Stephen DeMarcus Cousins of the Sacramento Kings The American Curry of the Golden State Warriors and Cleve- and guards Chris Paul of the Clippers and Dam- land Cavaliers superstar LeBron James led ian Lillard of the Portland Trail Blazers. speedster is up selections named on Thursday for the All-NBA James was the only Eastern Conference against elite First Team announced by the league. player picked among the top 10 with the Second Curry, who sparked the Warriors to last Team entirely comprised of Western Confer- sprinters Asafa year’s NBA crown and the best record in league ence talent. Powell and Tyson history this season at 73-9, was a unanimous The All-NBA Third Team featured Indiana pick with all 129 voters in a media panel that forward Paul George, Spurs forward LaMar- Gay at Eugene decided the lineup. cus Aldridge, Detroit center Andre Drummond meet today James, trying to reach the NBA Finals for and guards Klay Thompson of Golden State and the sixth season in a row, was selected to the Kyle Lowry of the Toronto Raptors. All-NBA First Team for the 10th time, match- Curry won the MVP award for the second ing the second-most appearances on the list in season in a row, joining Magic Johnson, Michael AFP league history, with 125 votes. Jordan and Steve Nash as the only guards to Three other players were chosen for the claim MVPs in consecutive years. top-five for the first time - Oklahoma City This season, James ranked fifth in the NBA Thunder guard Russell Westbrook, San Anto- with 25.3 points a game, cracking the 25-point LOS ANGELES: Controversial nio Spurs forward Kawhi Leonard and Los average for an NBA record 12th season in a row. US sprinter Justin Gatlin, Brit- ish long-distance world champ Mo Farah and two-time Olym- pic 100 meter champ Shelly-Ann Stephen Curry Fraser-Pryce are some of the top (bottom) of the talent competing at the Prefon- Golden State taine Classic today. Warriors goes up for The IAAF Diamond League a shot during Game series hits US soil as a host of Five of their Western international stars will step up preparations for this summer’s Conference Finals Rio Olympics by competing at against Oklahoma Hayward Field, the US cathe- City Thunder during British the 2016 NBA dral of distance running made US sprinter Justin long-distance world Playoffs at ORACLE famous by Steve Prefontaine. Gatlin The event was also hit by a champion Mo Farah Arena on Thursday in number of late withdrawals as Oakland, California. Olympic silver medallist Galen clash between Felix and Sanya cheat label still hangs over his long-distance runner and has not Rupp, Ethiopian distance runner Richards-Ross, who retired after head. Gatlin has never admitted lost a 5,000 race since finishing Genzebe Dibaba and US sprinter the last Olympics. to doping, saying that a 2006 second at the 2012 Prefontaine Allyson Felix will not take part. Gatlin headlines an impres- failed test came as a result of a meet. He swept the 5,000 and It was expected Dibaba sive list of talent in the men’s 100 massage therapist rubbing tes- 10,000 races at the 2012 Lon- would make an attempt at the meter sprint that also includes tosterone cream on his legs. He don Olympics. 5,000 meter world record late Jamaican speedster Asafa Powell, also tested positive in 2001 for an Fraser-Pryce is returning to Friday, but she pulled out with Canadian Andre De Gasse, and amphetamine. He served a four- competition at the Prefontaine a toe injury suffered in training. defending 100m champ Tyson year ban, returning to the scene after missing three meets with Felix is skipping the event Gay of the United States. in 2010. a foot injury. due to a lingering ankle injury. Gatlin, who remains Gatlin posted a 9.94 second It will be Fraser-Pryce’s first She has already said that she unapologetic after serving two 100m victory earlier this year in competition after the toe injury hopes to double in the 200m and doping bans, will have the Hay- China and is the heavy favourite made her pull out of a May 7 race Desperate Warriors beat 400m in Rio de Janeiro. ward crowd on his side today heading into today’s race. in Jamaica and Diamond League Felix’s absence means there unlike Diamond races in places Britain’s Farah, 33, is con- meetings earlier this month in won’t be one final Hayward Field like Europe, where the drug sidered the world’s leading Shanghai and Rabat. Thunder to stay alive

AFP his injuries were one of the main reasons the Penguins reach Stanley Cup final Warriors were on the brink of elimination. “I though he looked like 91 percent,” Golden State coach Steve Kerr joked after the game. AFP postseason as the team’s backup LOS ANGELES: Stephen Curry scored 31 points Klay Thompson supported Curry with 27 netminder. Tampa Bay got an emo- as the defending champion Golden State Warri- points for the Warriors, who are now 4-1 after tional lift from the surprise return ors kept their record-setting season alive with losses in the playoffs. of captain Steven Stamkos, who a 120-111 win over Oklahoma City in game five “He came out and played a really good WASHINGTON: The Pittsburgh played for the first time since March of their Western Conference playoff. game. He is going to compete every night,” Penguins punched their ticket to 31 after developing a blood clot near Curry, who has been plagued by injuries said Kerr of Curry. the Stanley Cup final on Thurs- his neck. But his impact Thursday throughout the postseason, saved his best game The Warriors won despite making just nine day with a 2-1 victory over the was minimal. of the series for Thursday night as he also had of their 24 three-point attempts. Tampa Bay Lightning in the decid- Rust is one of the Penguins’ seven rebounds and six assists. Andrew Bogut tallied 15 points and 14 ing seventh game of their Eastern young guns who are battling for ice “We did what we are supposed to the do -- rebounds, and Draymond Green had an Conference play-off series. time behind superstars Crosby and win at home,” said Curry. 11-point, 13-rebound double-double perform- The Penguins begin the Evgeni Malkin -- the lone holdovers After a record-setting 73 regular season ance for the Warriors. best-of-seven championship on from Pittsburgh’s 2009 Stanley Cup wins, desperation set in for Golden State on The Warriors led just 81-77 before backup Monday when they host the San winning team. Thursday as they trimmed the Thunder’s lead guard Shaun Livingston opened the fourth Jose Sharks, who beat the St. Louis After a scoreless first period to 3-2 in the series. period with a short jump shot. Blues in six games in the other in which shots and scoring oppor- The Warriors have a daunting task ahead Iguodala and Barnes then nailed their NHL semi-final. tunities were scarce, everything of them when the teams square off for game three-pointers, opening an 89-77 advantage, Pittsburgh is back in the changed in the second period. Rust six Saturday in Oklahoma City as just nine NBA Golden State’s largest lead of the game to that Stanley Cup final for the fifth time beat Tampa’s Russian netminder teams have rallied from being down 3-1 to win point. overall, and the Sharks are in it for Andrei Vasilevskiy after being left a playoff series. Curry’s biggest basket of the night came the first time in franchise history. by himself in the lightning zone at Game seven, if necessary, would be Mon- with the Warriors holding a 103-98 lead with American right winger Bryan 1:55. day in Oakland. 4:34 to play. He made a driving left-handed Rust scored both goals for the Pen- Canadian forward Jonathan “We know they are not going to quit. It is floater while being fouled. He converted the guins, who will be playing in their Drouin managed to tie it midway going to be the toughest game of our lives in three-point play, pushing the lead to eight. first final in seven years as they through the period with his fifth of game six. We got to be ready,” Curry said. The Golden State’s solid defense took over won three of the first four they the playoffs. Andre Iguodala and Harrison Barnes from there, holding the Thunder without a appeared in. Rust answered just 30 seconds drained three-pointers on consecutive posses- field goal until a Durant dunk with 56 sec- Rookie goalie Matt Murray later with his fifth of the playoffs. sions during an eight-point flurry that opened onds remaining. stopped 16 or 17 shots as the Pen- Besides missing Stamkos for a 12-point lead early in the fourth quarter Russell Westbrook finished with 31 points guins finished off a comeback most of the series, Tampa Bay also Curry went 10-for-10 from the free-throw to go with seven rebounds and a team-high Pittsburgh Penguins centre Sidney Crosby skates off of from a 3-2 series deficit to deny had to play without Vezina Tro- line, as the Warriors overcame a 40-point per- eight assists for the Thunder. the Lightning a return trip to the phy finalist goaltender Ben Bishop, the ice with the Prince of Whales trophy after defeating formance by Thunder star Kevin Durant to keep Serge Ibaka had 13 points and Steven finals. who has been out with an undis- the Tampa Bay Lightning 2-1 in game seven of the Eastern their hopes of a title repeat alive. Adams a team-high 10 rebounds for the Thun- Murray is now 11-4 in the closed injury since the first period Conference Final of the 2016 Stanley Cup Play-offs at Prior to Thursday’s game, media reports der, who were able to eliminated Dallas and playoffs after heading into the of game one. Consol Energy Centre on Thursday. listed Curry as being 70 percent healthy, saying San Antonio in earlier series. 24 SATURDAY 28 MAY 2016

Briton Adams bags gold Philippines’ dream fades as Pacquiao rules out Rio medal AFP against seasoned professionals would be “total madness”. But in Reuters anticipation of a successful vote, the International Boxing Asso- ciation had already invited Pacquiao. Pacquiao did not wade into the controversy on Friday, say- LONDON: Great Britain’s Nicola MANILA: Boxing legend Manny Pacquiao said yesterday he ing only he wanted to be prepared for his new job as a senator Adams won the 51kg gold at the would skip the Rio Olympics even if professionals were allowed starting on June 30. AIBA World Championships yes- to compete, knocking out the Philippines’ best chance of win- “So I believe I don’t have enough time to prepare (for the terday to complete her collection ning its first gold medal. Olympics),” Pacquiao said. of international medals. Pacquiao, who was this month elected to his nation’s Senate The Philippines is an Olympics minnow, having only won The 33-year-old flyweight and harbours dreams of becoming president, said he wanted to nine bronze and silver medals since debuting at the 1924 Paris boxer beat Thailand’s Peamwilai instead focus on his political career. Games. Five of those medals were in boxing. Laopeam by a split decision to “I have decided to prioritise my legislative duty as I owe it to Pacquiao has never competed in the Olympics, although he win the final in Astana and add the people who voted for me,” the eight-time world champion was the country’s flag-bearer at the 2008 Beijing Games. the one crown that had eluded her and national hero said in a text message. Pacquiao had told sporting officials he hoped to compete to her Olympic, Commonwealth Pacquiao, 37, had previously said his victory over American in Rio as a way of giving back to the Philippines, Association of and European titles. Adams, who Timothy Bradley last month would be the final fight of his career Boxing Alliances of the Philippines executive director Ed Picson became the first female boxer to so he could pursue his political ambitions. said in an interview. win an Olympic title at the 2012 But Pacquiao never fully closed the door on his boxing career, However, he may have been concerned about criticism over London Games, had previously saying he could be tempted out of retirement for a chance at his poor attendance record in Congress, according to Picson. Pac- won three silver medals at the Olympic glory in August or another mega-bucks fight against quiao served two three-year stints as a congressman from 2010, world championships. arch-rival Floyd Mayweather. but barely turned up to sessions as he pursued his boxing career. She has already qualified for In a highly controversial move, the International Boxing Asso- “I expected he might have second thoughts because he This photo taken on May 19, 2016, shows Philippine boxing the 2016 Rio Olympics where she ciation proposed a few months ago allowing professional boxers received brickbats about being absent in Congress and that’s a has a chance of becoming the first to compete at the Rio Games, and will put it to a vote at its con- fresh wound. It was used against him during the campaign and icon and newly-elected Senator Manny Pacquiao waving Briton to win two Olympic boxing gress in Lausanne next week. he’s probably still smarting about it,” Picson said. to the photographers at the Commission on Elections gold medals since Harry Mallin in Pacquiao’s American promoter, Bob Arum, was among the Just 11 Filipino athletes have so far qualified for Rio, two of (COMELEC) proclamation of senators at the Philippine 1924. many critics of the plan, saying putting amateurs into the ring whom are boxers. International Convention Center (PICC) in Manila.

FRENCH OPEN Sister act RESULTS Roland Garros reeling as helps Rogers PARIS: French Open results yesterday. Men’s Third Round get it right

Milos Raonic (CAN x8) bt Andrej AFP Martin (SVK) 7-6 (7/4), 6-2, 6-3; Andy Murray (GBR x2) bt Ivo injured Nadal pulls out Karlovic (CRO x27) 6-1, 6-4, 7-6 (7/3); Albert Ramos-Vino- PARIS: Shelby Rogers moved into las (ESP) bt Jack Sock (USA x23) what is for her unchartered ten-

6-7 (2/7), 6-4, 6-4, 4-6, 6-4; nis territory yesterday and sent out Kei Nishikori (JPN x5) bt Fern- King of clay withdraws thanks to her psychologist sister ando Verdasco (ESP) 6-3, 6-4, for keeping her sane. 3-6, 2-6, 6-4; Richard Gasquet because of a wrist injury as The 23-year-old from Char- (FRA x9) bt Nick Kyrgios (AUS Murray and Nishikori advance leston, ranked a lowly 108 in the x17) 6-2, 7-6 (9/7), 6-25. world, shocked two-time Wimble- don champion Petra Kvitova 6-0, Women’s Third Round Reuters 6-7 (3/7), 6-0 to reach the last 16 of Tsvetana Pironkova (Bulgaria) a Grand Slam tournament for the bt 19-Sloane Stephens (US) 6-2, first time in 10 attempts. 6-1; 2-Agnieszka Radwanska It was, she said, the finest (Poland) bt 30-Barbora Strycova PARIS: King of clay Rafael Nadal’s hopes of moment of a career which has (Czech Republic) 6-2, 6-7(6), reclaiming his Roland Garros throne ended in failed so far to hit many heights. 6-2; 13-Svetlana Kuznetsova despair when the nine-times champion pulled But it was a performance that (Russia) bt 24-Anastasia Pav- out of the French Open because of a wrist injury she felt had been coming. lyuchenkova (Russia) 6-1, 6-4; yesterday. “I have been feeling really Shelby Rogers (US) bt 10-Petra The Spaniard, who looked in top form when confident.I have had a couple of Kvitova (Czech Republic) 6-0, cruising through the first two rounds for the loss of good wins here already. I was just 6-7(3) 6-0; 21-Samantha Stosur nine games and was due to face compatriot Mar- trying to focus on my game and do (Australia) bt 11-Lucie Safarova cel Granollers today, called a news conference at the things that have been working (Czech Republic) 6-3, 6-7(0) 7-5; short notice. Britain’s Andy Murray returns the for me in my first rounds,” she said. 25-Irina Begu (Romania) bt “I’m here to announce that I have to retire from ball to Croatia’s Ivo Karlovic during “Just focus on what I was doing Annika Beck (Germany) 6-4, 2-6 the tournament because I have a problem in my their men’s third round match at the and try not to think about who I 6-1; 6-Simona Halep (Romania) wrist that I have had a couple of weeks,” Nadal, 30 was playing too much, just kind of bt Naomi Osaka (Japan) 4-6, Roland Garros 2016 French Tennis next week, told a packed room. Open in Paris yesterday. play the ball.” 6-2 6-3; 4-Garbine Muguruza “Every day was a little bit worse. To win the The driving force behind that Blanco (Spain) bt Yanina Wick- tournament I need five more matches, and the doc- singular approach to the sport, she mayer (Belgium) 6-3, 6-0. tor says that’s 100 percent impossible.” said came from older sister Sabra, Fourth seed Nadal, beaten only twice in 74 who inspired her to start playing matches at the French Open since taking the place by storm in 2005, had been tipped for a strong reporters. “He was going to play probably Novak tennis when she was just four years ORDER OF PLAY showing as he looked to recover from last year’s (Djokovic) in the semi-finals, so one of those two old. quarter-final exit at the hands of Novak Djokovic. was going to be in the finals. It opens up the draw “She’s a psychologist. Funny Order of play on show courts at the French Open at Roland Gar- The claycourt slam has been robbed of two of its for some players.” Home favourite Richard Gas- enough,” she said. ros today, the seventh day of the biggest attractions after Roger Federer, the 17-times quet provided some cheer for the home fans on “She has a lot of work with me, 2016 championship (x denotes Grand Slam champion and winner in 2009, with- Philippe Chatrier Court where he tamed Australian but, you know, she keeps me sane. seeded player): drew with a back injury last week. tyro Nick Kyrgios 6-2 7-6(9) 6-2 to move into the She’s very helpful, for sure. With Nadal’s news reverberating around the last 16 where he will face fifth seed Kei Nishikori. “Just sister to sister. And we are Court Philippe Chatrier grounds, a day of third-round action under sunny Japanese Nishikori let slip a two-set lead against very close. We talk all the time. (0900GMT/1100 local) skies was overshadowed. Spain’s Fernando Verdasco before prevailing 6-3 She’s very involved with what I’m Ordinarily 10th seed and twice Wimbledon 6-4 3-6 2-6 6-4. doing. Pauline Parmentier (FRA) vs champion Petra Kvitova’s 6-0 6-7(3) 6-0 defeat In the women’s draw, fourth seed Garbine “Unfortunately she can’t travel Timea Bacsinszky (SUI x8) by 108th-ranked American Shelby Rogers would Muguruza shone in the Chatrier sunshine, thrash- with me all the time. That would be Serena Williams (USA x1) vs have been a big talking point. ing Belgium’s Yanina Wickmayer to set up a last-16 amazing, but she has a life of her Kristina Mladenovic (FRA x26) As would men’s second seed Andy Murray scy- clash with 2009 champion Svetlana Kuznetsova. own. So she follows as closely as thing past big-serving Croatian veteran Ivo Karlovic Sixth seed Simona Halep also prevailed as did she can. Like I said, we talk, and Ernests Gulbis (LAT)vs Jo-Wil- in straight sets -- a relief after the Briton’s first and experienced Australain Samantha Stosur who it’s great fried Tsonga (FRA x6) second round dramas when he was twice pushed beat 11th seed Lucie Safarova in a battle of two “She tries to keep me in the Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) vs Aljaz to five sets by lowly-ranked opponents. former runner-ups. The return of Nadal’s injury moment, not thinking about too Bedene (GBR) Tournament director Guy Forget expressed his curse caused the greatest impact, though, and his many things in the past or too sadness at Nadal’s misfortune, but said the show chances of recovering in time to play at Wimbledon many things in the future. And Court Suzanne Lenglen must go on without the most successful player in next month already look in the balance. that’s probably what she empha- (0900GMT/1100 local) Spain’s Rafael Nadal during a press conference Roland Garros history. “If I keep playing it’s gonna be broken in the sizes the most. to announce his withdrawal from the French “It’s his favourite tournament and the most next couple of days,” the crestfallen Spaniard said Next up for Rogers is the Alexander Zverev (GER) vs Open at the Roland Garros 2016 French Tennis important one, and for him to actually withdraw, of the injury to his left wrist tendon. “Every day the Romanian Irina-Camelia Begu, Dominic Thiem (AUT x13) Open in Paris yesterday. we know it’s a very painful decision,” Forget told image is a little bit worse.” the 25th seed. Venus Williams (USA x9) vs Alize Cornet (FRA) David Goffin (BEL x12) vs Nico- las Almagro (ESP) Confident Stosur says she is back to her best Monica Puig (PUR)vs Madison Keys (USA x15) Court 1 (0900GMT/1100 Reuters champion reached two semi-finals “I was like, jeez, I can’t remem- the way to the 2010 final where she local) and a final at Roland Garros between ber being so happy to win in the third lost to Italian Francesca Schiavone, Elina Svitolina (UKR x18)vs Ana 2009-12 but has not made it beyond round,” she told reporters, “It means Stosur said: “Yeah, I think that’s just Ivanovic (SRB x14) the fourth round of a grand slam a lot.” Stosur crunched down 14 aces as good as those matches. PARIS: Samantha Stosur (pictured) since. in a high-quality contest and broke in “I feel like today was a really good David Ferrer (ESP x11)vs Feli- said she was playing some of the best Australian Stosur will have to the last game of the match to claim step up again in level. That’s proba- ciano Lopez (ESP x21) claycourt tennis of her career after defeat Romania’s Simona Halep to only a fourth victory in 15 attempts bly as good as I have played here for Pablo Cuevas (URU x25) vs beating last year’s runner-up Lucie extend her stay in Paris but was buoy- against the Czech left-hander who many years.” Tomas Berdych (CZE x7) Safarova 6-3 6-7 (0) 7-5 yesterday to ant after recovering from a drubbing defeated her in the Prague final on Stosur must maintain that level reach the fourth round of the French in the second-set tiebreak against 11th clay last month. against Halep, however, if she is to Kiki Bertens (NED) vs Daria Open. seed Safarova to claim a notable vic- Asked if she was playing as well avenge a 6-2 6-0 hammering in the Kasatkina (RUS x29) The 32-year-old former US Open tory on Court Philippe Chatrier. as when she beat Serena Williams on Madrid semi-finals this year.