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QNA THE WINNERS Anti-Corruption Authorities KUALA LUMPUR I was delighted to (IAACA) to set up a special O Lifetime Achievement Award honour, alongside fund in support of the many THE Amir HH Sheikh Tamim for Noho Ribado and Leonard PM @chedetofficial, incidents where the champi- bin Hamad al Thani, Prime Frank McCarthy the International ons of fight against corruption Minister of Malaysia Dr Ma- had suffered in line of duty, hathir Mohamad and UN Sec- O Youth Creativity Award Anti-Corruption Award some even got killed. retary-General’s Representa- and their interaction with the winners in Putrajaya. I For his part, Qatar’s At- Amir, Malaysian PM tive and Executive Director of Accountability laboratory “Ac- lend my support to the torney-General and UN Re- UN Office on Drugs and Crime countability Lab” and Fernanda gional Special Advocate for Angelica Flores winners. My thanks to unveil anti-corruption (UNODC) Yury Fedotov hon- the #UN for backing the Prevention of Corruption oured the winners of Sheikh O Research Award and stressed that the Amir HH Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani academic reaching Materials for this initiative, and to Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad monument in Putrajaya International Anti-Corruption Professor Jason Sherman and #Malaysia for its great al Thani has given away this Excellence Award, during a On Bolael BIBB Bailey efforts in fighting this prize and hopes to strengthen The Amir HH Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani and Malaysian ceremony at Putrajaya Square this award on an internation- Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad on Friday unveiled the “Sheikh in Kuala Lumpur on Friday. O Innovation Award for BNG global challenge. al level through partnership Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani International Anti-Corruption Excel- In a speech on the occa- Foundation for Telephone with the United Nations. lence Award” in its third edition, in Putrajaya in Kuala Lumpur. sion, the Malaysian PM con- Against Corruption and Dr Roger “Through this prize, the The monument, shaped like a hand of steel, symbolises all gratulated the Government Obong Kortang out. Without doubt, it was the and good governance in our Amir wishes to send a mes- countries around the world uniting to combat corruption. The of Qatar on organising this disgust for corruption that led countries and in our organi- sage to those who fight cor- geometrical configurations of the monument represent the important event and thanked year’s ceremony. This event the majority of Malaysians to sations.” ruption everywhere in the combined efforts of all nations to end corruption. Spaces in the the United Nations Office on being organised in Malaysia stand up and vote out the pre- “If we want to join the world that there are those monument represent transparency. This, the third monument, is Drugs and Crime (UNODC) is an important recognition vious administration.” ranks of developed countries, who stand with you, there the largest in size. for its support. from the international com- “It is therefore incumbent then we need to take corrup- are those who see your work, Former Tunisian president Dr Mohammed Mouncef al Mar- “I would also like to take munity of our efforts towards upon us to ensure efforts to tion seriously. We did not get there are those who will take zouki, UN Secretary-General Representative and Executive Direc- this opportunity to thank combating corruption in Ma- improve governance and in- there by taking shortcuts to your hand to give you an ex- tor of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Yuri Fedotov, the committee of the Sheikh laysia,” he said. troduce anti-corruption ini- success,” the Malaysian pre- ample to follow. You are those Malaysia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Saifuddin bin Abdullah, Tamim Bin Hamad Al Thani He went on to say: “Malay- tiatives intended to bring an mier said. who can save your country Minister of Justice of Azerbaijan Fikrat Mammadov, and a number International Anti-Corrup- sia and Malaysians made his- end to corrupt practices and Mahathir voiced his gov- from falling into the trap of of members of the Supreme Committee to select the winners tion Excellence Award for tory with the May 9th elections abuse of power,” he said, ernment’s support for the corruption,” he added. and senior officials attended the event. (QNA) choosing Putrajaya, Ma- when the coalition that ruled stressing, “We should up- initiative proposed by the laysia, as the venue for this since independence was voted hold the values of integrity International Association of Continued on page 16 Ô

Chinese diplomats Qatar takes part in OPEC Merkel defends hail Qatar’s success meetings for the last time legacy as Qatar took part, for the last time, in the meetings of the in overcoming siege Organization of Oil Exporting party chooses Countries (OPEC). Minister of QNA nar held by the Center for new leader (PG 8 ) DOHA Chinese-Arab Studies for Re- State for Energy Affairs HE Eng form and Development at its Saad bin Sherida al Kaabi A number of Chinese dip- headquarters in Shanghai, headed the delegation of Qatar lomats and academics have China, to mark the 30th an- to the meeting. PAGE 9 praised the developments ef- niversary of Qatar-China re- Trump picks William Barr as new AG (PG 8 ) forts exerted by the Qatari lations. government in the areas of The participants pointed infrastructure, industrial pro- out that China is a major jects and self-sufficiency, in partner of the Arab and Gulf the wake of the unjust siege region, especially Qatar, mak- imposed on the state. ing investments, supporting Qatar steps in to They have stressed that various industries and help- Qatar has dealt with the cri- ing to meet the needs of the sis with great professional- Qatari people in the areas of ism and innovative initia- infrastructure, food indus- pay civil servants tives that have enabled it to tries, culture and education, overcome the crisis in a very pointing out that the Qatari short period. potential is immense and its wages in Gaza They pointed out that infrastructure allows the es- the people of Qatar made a tablishment of large indus- REUTERS “Thanks Qatar”. good conscious decision by trial and scientific zones. GAZA “If the Qatari donation supporting their leadership, They stressed that the stops, we will be destroyed,” attributing to the state ap- GCC is required to resolve QATAR paid the salaries of said 45-year-old civil serv- proach of investing in the hu- the current Gulf crisis to nearly 30,000 Gazan civil ant Ammar Fayyad, the main man resource and reliance on face the external dangers servants on Friday, delighting bread-winner in his 13-strong young people, noting at the that surround the region, the impoverished workers. family. same time that this week will especially as it was the only Thousands queued in Palestinian sources said witness the signing of a coop- strong regional organisation the winter cold to get their Friday’s payout, thought to be eration agreement between after the decline of the Arab cash at post offices — one of around $15 million, was part Shanghai University of Inter- League and the weakness which was decorated with a of a $90 million Qatari dona- national Studies and Qatar that disables it. large mural of the Amir HH tion that began in November University. Palestinian civil servants wait to receive their salaries paid by Qatar in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad and is due to be paid into Gaza This came during a semi- See also page 2 Ô Strip on Friday. (REUTERS) al Thani and the message over six months. 02 Saturday, December 8, 2018

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Shura takes part in QICDRC receives delegation Qatar attends deal signing world trade meet from Supreme Court of China between Govt of Sudan A DELEGATION from the Shura Council is QATAR International Court and participating in the annual session of the Par- Dispute Resolution Centre and Sudanese movements liamentary Conference on World Trade Organi- (QICDRC), a world-class spe- zation (WTO), currently being held in Geneva, cialised civil and commercial THE Special Envoy of the Foreign This agreement seeks to pave the Switzerland. court, on Friday received a Minister for Combating Terrorism way for the negotiations between The conference aims at exchanging views, delegation from the Supreme and Mediation in Dispute Settlement the parties concerned, scheduled information and experiences while seeking to Court of China. Dr Mutlaq bin Majid al Qahtani at- to be held early next year in Doha find future solutions to promote free and fair The delegation was led by tended the ceremony for the signing trade that benefits developing as well as devel- the Deputy Chief Justice Jiang of the pre-negotiation agreement to oped countries, in addition to promoting devel- Wei and comprised other judges resume the Doha negotiations be- achieve a comprehensive and sustain- opment and reducing poverty. and officials of the Supreme tween the Government of Sudan and able peace in Darfur and establish ap- During the conference, preliminary infor- Court of China. the Justice and Equality Movement propriate mechanisms to implement mation will be presented on the latest develop- CEO of QICDRC Faisal al led by Dr Jibril Ibrahim and the Su- the outcomes of the negotiations. ments in the Doha negotiations known as the Sahouti provided the delegation dan Liberation Movement (SLM) led In his speech on the occasion of ‘Doha Round’, a trade negotiations of the WTO with a tour of the state-of-the-art by Minni Arko Minawi. the signing of the pre-negotiation that started in November, 2001, aimed at realis- facilities including the court and The ceremony was hosted by Ger- agreement, Dr Qahtani expressed ing the principle of free trade between the coun- the arbitration room. During the ment signed earlier this year al Bader and other members many in Berlin on Friday. Qatar’s appreciation for the re- tries of the world. meeting, Sahouti discussed the between Qatar and China for of the QICDRC registry team. This agreement seeks to pave the gional and international efforts for The Parliamentary Conference on the WTO means of enhancing the legal improving bilateral relations in Sahouti thanked the Chinese way for the negotiations between the peace in the region, hoping that all was established in 2002 as a permanent moni- and judicial relations between various fields. delegation for their visit which parties concerned, scheduled to be parties will show the same positive toring mechanism with a parliamentary dimen- QICDRC and the Supreme Court At the end of the visit, the would enhance the legal and held in Doha early next year . spirit during the upcoming negotia- sion to oversee the WTO activities and to en- of China. two sides exchanged gifts in judicial relations between the The Doha Peace Agreement is the tions in Doha in order to complete hance the transparency of its procedures. (QNA) The visit follows an agree- the presence of Judge Rashid two countries. (QNA) basis of the negotiations, aiming to peace process. (QNA)

Shura to take part in Arab Parliament WC golden opportunity to resolve Gulf meetings in Cairo A DELEGATION from the Ad- crisis: Chinese diplomats, academics visory (Shura) Council will par- ticipate in the second meeting of the third session of Arab Parlia- and openness in China and the the only strong regional organi- should consider rearranging ment at the headquarters of the ‘This World Cup reflects the image of the whole of Middle East’ ‘Belt and Road’ initiative. sation after the decline of the the GCC from within to face the Arab League in Cairo. The participants pointed role of the Arab League and the external dangers that surround The delegation will attend QNA self-sufficiency, considering hai University of International out that China is a major part- weakness that disables it. the region, put aside differences the meetings of the four perma- DOHA the current crisis and the un- Studies and Qatar University ner of the Arab and Gulf region, The participants stressed and continue economic, politi- nent committees of Parliament, just siege imposed on the state. will be signed this week. especially Qatar, through in- that the Gutlf crisis is hamper- cal, social and developmental including the meeting of Com- THE 2022 World Cup is a gold- They stressed that Qatar had This came during a seminar vestment, supporting various ing the implementation of the reforms to give priority to com- mittee on Economic and Finan- en opportunity to resolve the dealt with the crisis with great held by the Center for Chinese- industries and helping to meet Belt and Road initiative and the mon interests, renew trust be- cial Affairs to discuss a guiding Gulf crisis and benefit from the professionalism and innova- Arab Studies for Reform and the needs of the Qatari people in signing of the free trade agree- tween the parties and put an law to attract Arab capital to the momentum of the media and tive initiatives that enabled it to Development at its headquar- the areas of infrastructure, tech- ment between China and the end to the political crisis. Arab world and the proposal to the great sporting mobility that overcome the ordeal it experi- ters in Shanghai, China, to mark nology, food industries, culture GCC as well as several joint in- They explained that the up- enact a guiding law to achieve will be seen during this tourna- enced in a very short period. the 30th anniversary of Qatar- and education. They said that frastructure projects between coming summit of this impor- food security. ment, especially as this World They further pointed that China relations. the Qatari potential is large and the Gulf countries such as the tant regional organisation is The Arab Parliament will Cup reflects the image of the the people of Qatar made a good The seminar includes topics its infrastructure allows the im- Gulf train project, electrical an opportunity to resolve this also hold meetings to discuss the entire Middle East, several Chi- conscious decision by support- such as the geopolitical trans- plementation of large industrial linkage and other major pro- crisis, which harms the inter- report on the political situation nese diplomats and academics ing their leadership, attributing formations in the Gulf region, and scientific zones. jects that contribute to the im- ests of all. in the Arab world and to elect have said. that to the state approach of in- the future of the Gulf Coopera- They also stressed that the plementation of the Chinese The seminar was attended the speaker of the Arab Parlia- They also praised the efforts vesting in the human resource tion Council (GCC), the objec- GCC is required to resolve the initiative and drive the develop- by former Chinese Ambassa- ment and the chairmen of the exerted by the Qatari govern- and reliance on young people. tives and challenges of Qatar current Gulf crisis to face the ment of the region. dor to Qatar Jai Yuzhen along committees. (QNA) ment in the areas of infrastruc- They also noted that a coopera- National Vision 2030, Qatar- external dangers that surround The participants concluded with a number of diplomats ture, industrial projects and tion agreement between Shang- China bilateral relations, reform the region, especially as it was that the countries of the region and academics.

Costa Rica V-P meets Qatari ambassador Indian Navy’s ‘INS Tarangini’ to arrive in Doha today VICE-PRESIDENT and Minister for Foreign Affairs of Costa Rica Epsy TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK months that an Indian naval period of over 20 days. The ship has recently com- Campbell Barr met on Friday with DOHA ship is visiting Qatar. Tarangini has an illustrious pleted a seven month long voy- Ambassador of Qatar to Costa Apart from the visit of history when it comes to long age to Europe in October 2018, Rica HE Mohammed bin Kurdi INS Tarangini, the first sail Indian Coast Guard ship voyages and holds the distinc- visiting 15 ports in 13 countries. Taleb al Marri. They discussed training ship of the Indian Samarth in November 2017, tion of being the only commis- The primary role of the ship bilateral relations and means of Navy, will be arriving at Doha Indian naval ships Kolkata sioned ship of Indian Navy to is to foster time-honoured vir- boosting them, besides topics of Port on Saturday (December 8) and Mumbai visited Qatar this circumnavigate the globe. Dur- tues of courage, camaraderie common interest. (QNA) on a three-day visit to Qatar. year in March and September ing the 15 months voyage in and endurance in officer cadets The ship is commanded respectively. 2003-04, Tarangini achieved embarking on a naval career. Qatar’s ambassador by Commander Rahul Mehta Built in Goa Shipyard Lim- this by covering a distance of She provides an ideal setting meets French official and has a complement of eight ited, INS Tarangini was com- over 61,000 km and visited 36 for first-hand experience of the officers and 40 sailors. In ad- missioned in the Indian Navy ports in 18 countries. natural elements by imparting SECRETARY-GENERAL of the dition, the ship can accommo- on November 11, 1997. The Since then, Tarangini has training which includes sail- French Ministry of Foreign Affairs date and impart sail training to vessel has a steel hull, with sailed to The Great Lakes in ing, setting and furling of sails, Maurice Gourdault-Montagne 30 cadets. an aluminium deckhouse and Canada for races and has also watch-keeping and sail ma- met with Ambassador of Qatar to In the framework of the teak wood deck and interiors. participated in European tall noeuvres. France HE Sheikh Ali bin Jassim deep-rooted friendly ties and She carries 20 sails, with a to- ship races. Tarangini won The This visit is a testimony to al Thani. The meeting discussed the multi-faceted and growing tal sail area of almost 10,000 Royal Thames Yacht Club Chal- the friendly ties between India bilateral relations and means of cooperation between India and square feet. The ship has ex- lenge Trophy in 2005 at Europe and Qatar and will further en- enhancing them, in addition to is- the State of Qatar, this is the cellent endurance and can re- and stood third in Youth Sailing hance maritime cooperation sues of common concern. (QNA) second time in the last three main at sea continuously for a Division in 2007 at USA. between the two countries. INS Tarangini is the first sail training ship of Indian Navy to visit Doha. Katara Publishing House showcases 112 titles at book fair TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK Arabic Novels are available for DOHA sale along with a number of critical studies on Arabic nov- THE Katara Publishing House els and other areas of Arab art stall at the 29th Doha Inter- and literature. national Book Fair (DIBF), “These novels by authors being held at the Doha Exhi- from across the Arab region bition and Convention Center have been attracting a large (DECC) has been attracting a number of visitors. The Ka- large number of visitors. tara Publishing House stall The Katara stall has show- is also frequented by visitors cased about 112 titles, in Ara- from other GCC countries, es- bic, English and French, all pecially Oman and Kuwait,” published and being circu- said Sayed. lated by the Katara Publishing The latest and previous House. editions of Al Da’ad, an illus- Katara Publishing House The stall showcases Qatari heritage and traditions through a number of books on topics such as fishing and pearl diving, shipbuilding and traditional dhows, and pigeons in Katara. trated monthly magazine for also released two new books children being published by at the fair- Medical Analysis the Gulf region. pecially books on the heritage through a number of books which is available in English Katara Cultural Village. Katara and the Katara diary, of an Arab Love Story, Maj- “This is the first time Ka- and traditions of Qatar have in Arabic on topics such as and Arabic, introduces Qatari The other attractions of Mufakkirath Al Da’ad are of- noon Laila by Hajar Ahmed tara Publishing House is par- generated tremendous inter- fishing and pearl diving, landmarks supported with the stall are award-winning fered to the visitors free of cost. Hajar Albinali, MD, and the ticipating in the Doha Inter- est among the visitors,” said shipbuilding and traditional brilliant photographs. There Arabic novels and their trans- The Katara Publishing other by Dr Mohammed Ab- national Book Fair. Our stall Khalid al Sayed, director of dhows, pigeons in Katara and is a book dedicated for the lations in English and French. House stall is located at Gate dul Raheem Kafoud in Arabic is offering Arabic novels and Katara Publishing House. Qatari maritime traditions. famous Qatari dhow Fath Al More than 20 novels that have 1 Booth 1. The 10-day exhibi- on language, identity and cul- other books on a wide range of The stall showcases Qa- A book titled Forts, Strong- Khair and another on the dif- won prizes over the first three tion will conclude on Satur- ture, with a special focus on topics at reasonable prices. Es- tari heritage and traditions holds and Towers in Qatar, ferent variety of trees found in editions of the Katara Prize for day (December 8).

Pakistan / SA / World Saturday, December 8, 2018 05

PAKISTAN STRIKES A DEFIANT POSTURE AGAINST US Pakistan SC sets up NEWS panel on extension IN BRIEF of constitutional Top Kenya officials rights to GB arrested over TRIBUNE.COM.PK ‘spilled’ petrol ISLAMABAD NAIROBI: The director of the THE Supreme Court consti- Kenya Pipeline Company tuted a special committee on and four others have been Friday to finalise recommen- arrested after millions of dations on extending consti- litres of petrol went missing tutional rights to the people of in dubious circumstances, Gilgit-Baltistan, Radio Paki- police said Friday. In October, stan reported. 10 leading fuel marketers A seven-member bench of demanded an independent the apex court headed by Chief audit of KPC’s stock, suspect- Justice of Saqib Nisar passed ing up to 20 million litres had the order. The special com- gone missing, with much of mittee headed by the attorney it falsely declared as “spill- general of Pakistan will com- age”, and believed to have prise senior lawyers Aitazaz been stolen. “We have five Ahsan, Salman Akram Raja, KPC officers including MD Javed Ahmed, Afrasiab and Joe Sang in custody,” said a the secretary ministry of Kash- senior detective. (AFP) mir affairs. The court directed the Ethnic militias committee to take on board fuel surge in all the stakeholders and sub- Mali violence mit its recommendations by December 11. The hearing has CAPE Town: Ethnic militias been adjourned for December in Mali have caused a surge 24. On November 28, Prime in violence this year, killing Minister Imran Khan ap- more than 200 civilians proved changing G-B’s status and burning down dozens to an interim province by ac- of villages in the volatile cepting the recommendations West African nation, Human of a reforms committee. Rights Watch (HRW) said Fri- day. Most victims belonged to the Peuhl ethnic group and had been attacked by members of the Dogon and (File photo) Pakistan Prime Minister Imran Khan. Sri Lanka court Bambara groups in retalia- tion for their alleged sup- extends ban port of armed groups linked to Islamist terrorist network on sacking of al-Qaeda, HRW said in a Pakistan will no longer fight new report. (DPA) parliament Militants kill at AFP least 18 people in someone else’s war: Imran COLOMBO Congo Ebola zone SRI Lanka’s highest court Fri- DAKAR: A Congolese army day banned President Maithri- colonel has been arrested Those who were asking us to do more now want us to help them in Afghanistan: PM pala Sirisena from sacking the in connection with the killing legislature until it decides on of two UN sanctions moni- AFP the legality of his move last tors, a prosecutor said on ISLAMABAD month to call snap elections. Friday–the first member of Pakistan engagement a Will reconstruct Pakistan The Supreme Court con- the security services de- PAKISTAN will no longer act as cluded hearing 10 petitions tained over the case. Zaida a hired gun in someone else’s priority: Centcom chief brick-by-brick: Gen Qamar against Sirisena’s move as part Catalan, a Swede, and Mi- war, Prime Minister Imran of a bitter power struggle with chael Sharp, an American, Khan said Friday, striking a note ISLAMABAD: Lieutenant general Kenneth McKenzie, the ISLAMABAD: Chief of Army Staff (COAS) General Qamar Javed his erstwhile prime minister were killed in March 2017 of defiance against US demands incoming chief of US Central Command, said he would make Bajwa on Thursday said that no person or institution is above Ranil Wickremesinghe, but while investigating reports for Islamabad to do more in the Pakistan a priority engagement after he takes command of the the law. Director General of the Inter-Services Public Relation reserved judgement for an un- of atrocities during an battle against militancy. strategic command theatre. (ISPR) Maj-Gen Asif Ghafoor read out the army chief’s message specified date. armed conflict in Democrat- Khan–who also reiterated In a written response to a set of advance policy ques- while addressing the media in Rawalpindi. The courts reopen on ic Republic of Congo’s Kasai his backing for a recent push tions, the Marine Corps general termed the military to “We will reconstruct Pakistan brick-by-brick to have a Monday. Sirisena plunged the region between government by the US for talks with the military relationship between the two countries strong and normalised Pakistan… the country will run as per the Constitu- country into crisis on October forces and the Kamuina Taliban in Afghanistan–said important strategically, given “that Pakistan is a nuclear tion,” the army’s spokesperson quoted the COAS as saying. 26 when he fired Wickremes- Nsapu militia. (REUTERS) in a televised address that he power that sits at the nexus of Russian, Chinese, Indian and According to Gen Qamar, prerogative of violence rests with inghe and appointed the con- wants Pakistan to move for- American geopolitical interests”. McKenzie said previous the state alone. Earlier in his media talk, Maj-Gen Ghafoor had tentious Mahinda Rajapakse China to attempt ward with “honour”. frustration between Washington and Islamabad has centered said that the Pakistan Army is focused on improving bilateral in his place. landing mission on “We will no longer fight around instability in Afghanistan. relations with India. Four days after he sacked far side of moon someone else’s war, nor will McKenzie said, “stability in the South Asia region re- The head of the military’s media wing regretted that the parliament through a special we bow down in front of mains the most important mutual strategic interest for both country’s eastern neighbour has not agreed on resuming dia- decree, the Supreme Court BEIJING: China is set to anyone”, the former crick- the US and Pakistan, and I think we must continue to engage logue with Pakistan and criticised the hardline BJP-led govern- issued an interim ruling sus- attempt an ambitious eter said. Islamabad joined with Pakistani leadership to realise how we can achieve this ment for the deterioration of ties. (TRIBUNE.COM.PK) pending Sirisena’s action and mission to land on the far Washington’s “war on terror” mutual interest”. (TRIBUNE.COM.PK) restoring parliament, which side of the moon, with the in 2001, and says it has paid almost immediately passed a launch scheduled for early a heavy price for the alliance, no-confidence motion against Saturday, informed sources which sparked an Islamist accuse Islamabad of ignor- that Pakistan’s Inter-Services could be pivotal in deciding asking us to help them in Af- Rajapakse. told dpa. If successful, the backlash and homegrown mil- ing or even collaborating with Intelligence agency and oth- the outcome of the war. ghanistan, to establish peace “The court issued a fresh mission would mark the itant groups who turned their groups such as the Afghan er military bodies have long Khan, who has long been and to negotiate,” he said. order extending the ban on first time humans reach guns on the Pakistani state, Taliban and the Haqqani net- helped fund and arm the Tali- vocal about Pakistan’s role More than 17 years after the president until the case the far side of the moon, costing thousands of lives. work, which allegedly attack ban both for ideological rea- in the war on terror, said his the US invasion, Washington is concluded,” a court offi- which is more rugged than Security has dramatically im- Afghanistan from safe havens sons and to counter rising In- country wants “peace with all”. has stepped up its bid for talks cial told reporters after the the near side. A Chang’e-4 proved in recent years after a along the border between the dian influence in Afghanistan. “Thanks (God) that today, with the resurgent Taliban unusually long hearing on probe is to launch from military crackdown. two countries. It believes that a Pakistani the same people who were with a flurry of recent diplo- Friday marking four days of Xichang Satellite Launch But the US continues to The White House believes crackdown on the militants asking to do more are now matic efforts. legal arguments. Center in south-west China early Saturday. (DPA) Congo arrests colonel in connection Nigerian army repels fresh Boko Haram attacks with killing of UN monitors: Lawyer N Korean foreign AFP many vehicles... and engaged Forward base about 9:30 pm on Thursday. DAKAR: A Congolese army colonel has been arrested in KANO, NIGERIA soldiers in a battle which lasted “The terrorists came in four connection with the killing of two U.N. sanctions monitors, a minister reaffirms until 7:05 am,” said one mili- Militants attacked a forward gun trucks and several motor- prosecutor said on Friday - the first member of the security SOLDIERS have fought off at- tary source, speaking on condi- operation base in the cycles and attacked the base of services detained over the case. commitment to tempts by Boko Haram fight- tion of anonymity. 3 Battalion in Rann,” the first Zaida Catalan, a Swede, and Michael Sharp, an American, ers to overrun two army bases “The terrorists were re- town of Bama, some 70 source said in an account sup- were killed in March 2017 while investigating reports of atroci- denuclearisation in northeast Nigeria, security pelled and the base was se- kilometres (45 miles) ported by local civilian militia. ties during an armed conflict in Democratic Republic of Congo’s sources said on Friday, in the cured. No casualty has so far southeast of the Borno state “It was a heavy fight that Kasai region between government forces and the Kamuina Nsa- REUTERS latest attacks to hit the region. been recorded.” A second mili- capital, Maiduguri, at about lasted for an hour before the pu militia. Congolese authorities initially blamed the militia, ar- BEIJING Militants attacked a for- tary source confirmed the ac- 3:45 am (0245 GMT) Friday terrorists were pushed out with rested about two dozen alleged fighters and charged them with ward operation base in the count and said reinforcements aerial support.” The officer said involvement in the killings. The government later said it could NORTH Korea’s commitment town of Bama, some 70 kilome- were sent from a battalion sta- Source the Islamist militants set fire to not exclude the possibility state agents were involved. Timothee to denuclearisation and safe- tres (45 miles) southeast of the tioned in Bama itself. some homes as well as a Unicef Mukuntu, the prosecutor overseeing the case, told Reuters on guarding peace and stability Borno state capital, Maiduguri, The attack came after clinic in the town as they with- Friday that Colonel Jean de Dieu Mambweni had been arrested on the Korean peninsula are at about 3:45 am (0245 GMT) Boko Haram fighters attacked Rann, in northern Borno near drew. There were no military but no formal charges had yet been filed.(REUTERS) unchanged, its foreign minis- Friday. “The terrorists were in a military base in the town of the border with Cameroon, at casualties, he added. ter, Ri Yong Ho, said on Fri- day, at a meeting in Beijing with the Chinese government’s top diplomat, Wang Yi. Ri added that North Ko- rea hoped to build “required Rohingya sent back to Myanmar hungry & destitute mutual trust” with the United States and “move in the same AFP nal violence with ethnic Rakh- my ration book back,” he said. khine, including the group of 20 direction”, the Chinese foreign YANGON ine Buddhists. The end of the “I can only earn 1000 kyat men who made it to Aceh. ministry said in a statement on monsoon brings more favour- per day on a fishing boat, The four other boats were the meeting of the two officials. FLEEING Rohingya Muslims able, if still treacherous, sailing which isn’t enough to eat.” picked up in Myanmar waters “China and North Korea sold ration books to help pay conditions for those desperate whose identity is withheld to between November 16 and 29 must continue to push the pen- hundreds of dollars to traf- to escape the camps that are protect him. and carried between them a fur- insula toward the direction of fickers in order to flee squalid branded as “open-air prisons” UN refugee agency ther 356 people, who have since denuclearisation,” the ministry Myanmar camps by boat, by rights groups and where the spokeswoman Aoife McDon- been sent back to the camps. cited Wang as saying, and add- only to be stopped at sea and refugees have little access to nell said many of the Roh- There have also been ru- ing that the neighbours should forced back destitute, the ref- work, education or healthcare. ingya had sold or lost all their mours of sightings of several maintain high-level exchanges. ugees said on Friday. One Rohingya boat this possessions, including their other vessels. But fears that Meeting Ri later, President Images of hungry and week made it to Aceh on the shelters, to pay people smug- the number could escalate to Xi Jinping said China and thirsty refugees huddled on northern tip of the Indonesian glers. They are in “acute need 2015 levels are for now over- North Korea should strength- boats have stirred memories island of Sumatra but several of support” now they are back stated, said Chris Lewa from en communication. of a 2015 crisis, when thou- others have been picked up in in the camps, she said. the Arakan Project. “The international and sands of fleeing Rohingya Myanmar waters and those on A leader in nearby Dapaing The circumstances are regional situation, as well as were stuck at sea as a traffick- board sent back to the camps. (File photo) Myanmar Navy personnel escort a group of Rohingya camp confirmed that some es- “completely different” now, the situation on the Korean ing trail south collapsed. Journalists are not allowed Muslims back to their camp in Sittwe, Rakhine. capees had paid up to $700 for she said, pointing out that peninsula, remains in flux, so Some 120,000 of the state- to enter the camps except on their places on the flimsy fish- the boats are much smaller timely exchanges and the coor- less Muslim minority have brief government-chaperoned food ration book to help pay the sea his boat was seized south ing boats, often in the hope of and the Bangladeshi authori- dination of positions between languished in camps in central tours, but one young Rohingya 600,000 kyat ($385) fee to traf- of Yangon and authorities sent reaching Malaysia or Indonesia. ties have also managed to China and North Korea are still Rakhine for six years since a in Thechaung camp told AFP fickers. He had hoped to reach him and his fellow detainees So far five boatloads are known prevent any mass departures extremely essential,” Xi said. bloody bout of intercommu- by phone how he had sold his Malaysia, but after 15 days at back to the camps. “I need to get to have set off from central Ra- from the camps there. 06 Saturday, December 8, 2018

ESTABLISHED SEPTEMBER 3, 2006 PRINTED AT ALI BIN ALI PRINTING PRESS Opinion HAMAD BIN SUHAIM AL THANI CHAIRMAN ADEL ALI BIN ALI MANAGING DIRECTOR DR HASSAN MOHAMMED AL ANSARI EDITOR-IN-CHIEF

Be Modest, Please, Like George HW Bush Trump Shouldn’t Gloat

Obituaries and reflections on the former US president’s Over France’s ‘Yellow Vests’ life remind us that he has achieved success in life while most often acting with honour and humility It’s not just French politicians who should fret because the US president’s HERE was once a private school that of Congress. A few days ago in Springfield, own tax reforms have also done little for American workers graded students on the usual academic Democratic state Rep Stephanie Kifowit Tsubjects, plus a fuzzy category related said on the House floor that she wanted to to decorum: “Claims no more than his fair pump a deadly “broth” of bacteria into the share of time and attention.” Modesty and water system used by a Republican col- deference are still enviable traits, but im- league’s family. She later apologised. agine enforcing such behaviors in the age Bush was no saint; he was a politician of social media. Where would Twitter and who could brawl with the best of them during Facebook be without boasts and rants? Our campaign season. Anyone elected president current president would be rendered mute. must have a large ego and a quick left jab. The student who once excelled at “claims But obituaries and other reflections on his no more …” was President George HW Bush, life remind us that Bush achieved success in whose lifetime of service to the country life while most often acting with honour and was characterised by his decency and good humility. Turning 18 in 1942, he enlisted in manners. These were virtues he learned at the service, becoming the nation’s youngest the Greenwich Country Day School in the naval aviator. He was shot down in the Pacif- 1930s, further instilled by his parents, who ic. He was captain of the Yale baseball team. admonished him against being conceited. “I He ran the CIA. He didn’t keep those accom- don’t want to hear any more about the Great plishments secret, but he also didn’t present I Am,” his mother told him. himself as the meanest guy in the room. And so Bush was polite. A biographer, Bush’s comportment worked against Jon Meacham, called him “the last gentle- him as a presidential candidate, because his man.” As president, Bush strove to work self-effacement was misconstrued as weak- with political friends and foes alike. He as- ness. Newsweek magazine wrote an absurd pired to make America “a kinder, gentler 1987 cover story headlined ‘Fighting the nation.” He was an inveterate letter-writer, ‘Wimp Factor’. CBS News, during the 1980 Meacham said, but these were nice letters, campaign, had asked Bush if he was “too handwritten thank-yous and supportive nice” to be president. missives, not mean tweets. Bush defended himself — politely: “I The former president died Friday last don’t equate toughness with just attacking week at age 94. Evidence to the contrary, ci- some individual. I equate toughness with vility did not go with him. It just feels like that moral fibre, with character, with principle, era is gone in the public arena. Consider Pres- with demonstrated leadership in tough jobs ident Donald Trump’s penchant for attacks where you emerge not bullying somebody and insults. Check out Twitter, where Inte- but with the respect of the people you led. … rior Secretary Ryan Zinke last week accused a If I happen to be decent in the process, that Democratic lawmaker of being a drunk. should not be a liability.” But it’s not just Trump and his allies Those are words to live by. If enough LIONEL LAURENT est compatriots, but he also acknowledges ductive use, rather than hoarding assets who are responsible. Plenty of other poli- politicians and others in the public sphere TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE that demands for a fairer distribution in the assumption they’ll rise in value. If ticians share blame for sullying public dis- would take a lesson from the former presi- are a global phenomenon and need to be I own land or property that’s not being course. There was Republican US Rep Joe dent’s honourable conduct, Americans ONALD Trump is enjoying Em- tackled as such. If that’s the case, it’s not used and not generating income, a wealth Wilson, who shouted “you lie!” at Presi- would have more respect for their govern- manuel Macron’s struggles with just French politicians who should fret. tax of 1 percent might encourage me to dent Barack Obama during a joint session ments — and for each other. the gilets jaunes. In a tweet this Trump’s own tax reforms have done little use it to generate returns above this level, (Tribune News Service) week, he said the French had come for American workers. or sell it to someone who will. Daround to his scepticism about the This, in his defence, is what Macron Paris climate change agreement and the Wealth inequality is harder to meas- has tried to do. France’s old wealth tax cost of fighting global warming. brought in more revenue but there were The billionaire US president should be ure, but it has narrowed in France myriad carve-outs, opt-outs and exemp- less smug. What started as a howl of anger since 2000 while increasing rapidly tions. It also acted as an incentive for US-China Trade War Rattles The World about fuel duties is fast morphing into a in the US. The top 1 percent of rich people to take their assets abroad. By broader movement to get the rich to pay Americans now have about 40 per- narrowing the tax to just property, Ma- HE sharp rise of the Dow Jones Indus- tween Earth’s two biggest economies cre- their fair share of taxes overall. The same cent of the country’s net wealth cron has stuck to things that can’t be trial Average since Donald Trump’s ates headaches for nearly everyone. But as forces that are now pressuring Macron moved out of the country in the same way Telection as president in November 2016 it became clear that Xi had only agreed to a to reverse his tax breaks for the wealthy as stock and bond portfolios and other is something he and his supporters often 90-day truce on trade issues — not remotely – which he’s resisting – could easily take Indeed, it’s the US that’s experienced investments. That’s a spur for wealthy cite to show how he has helped the econ- what Trump claimed — investors panicked. root in Trump’s America or Brexit Britain. the most remarkable rise in developed- individuals to consider repatriating to omy — and how, despite his divisive style, The Dow has fallen by 2,000 points from its Justifiably so, if inequality is any guide. world income inequality over the past France, a serious consideration as Paris Trump’s tax cuts and regulation reductions 2018 high, wiping out nearly all of its gains Support for more taxes on the rich is 35 years, according to OECD data, with tries to seize advantage of the City of Lon- have been good for America. But the presi- for the year. Adding to investors’ worries: growing, and not just in France, which is the top 1 percent now taking home about don’s Brexit wounds. dent’s bluster about trade wars — ‘I am a the news that Meng Wanzhou, chief finan- one of the few developed economies to a quarter of the pay. It was less than 10 As clumsy as Macron’s tax reforms Tariff Man’ — and the important US-China cial officer of the giant Chinese tech firm still have a wealth tax. According to recent percent in 1980. Over the same time- have been, it’s hardly as if he’s suddenly relationship has so far fuelled only chaos. Huawei, had been arrested by Canadian au- polls, three-quarters of Americans favour frame, the UK’s richest saw their income embraced a tax-light economy or a sud- Consider this week. The Dow dropped 799 thorities at the US Justice Department’s be- higher taxes for the rich, as do Brits. As share rise about 10 percentage points to den conversion to “trickle-down” eco- points on Tuesday then had a wilder day on hest, reportedly because of Huawei’s break- the yellow jackets have shown, this im- nearly 15 percent. The same measure in nomics. France remains a big taxer, a big Thursday, closing down 79 points after fall- ing sanctions by doing business with Iran. pulse for a fairer social contract goes way France has barely budged from less than spender, and a big redistributor. ing as much as 784 points. The arrest only underscored the valid beyond the political left. The idea of tax- 10 percent. President Macron may well end up be- There’s been global fallout since Saturday, reasons that Washington has for being ing top earners’ capital as well as income Wealth inequality is harder to meas- ing the latest resident of the Elysee Palace when Trump asserted that Chinese President upset with China’s trade practices. China is becoming more palatable, according to ure, but it has narrowed in France since to fail to water down his country’s wealth Xi Jinping had caved in his trade war with the tramples on laws and agreements it doesn’t a 2017 paper for the Washington Center 2000 while increasing rapidly in the US, taxes. But whereas in the past this might US Trump said he’d cut an “incredible” deal like, not just by trading with ‘international for Equitable Growth based on US sur- according to the OECD. The top 1 percent have been viewed as a peculiarly French in which China would drop a 40 percent im- sponsors of terrorism’ and subsidising ex- veys. This is new. of rich Americans now have about 40 per- thing, this time around the implications port duty on American cars in return for the ports but by aggressively stealing intellec- The paper found that American at- cent of the country’s net wealth. are global. US dropping a planned increase in tariffs on tual property and business secrets from US titudes lean toward a wealth tax of about The tough thing about tackling this $200 billion of Chinese exports. tech firms. Trump has a case when he says 1 percent, similar to French academic is making sure wealth taxes don’t just (Lionel Laurent is a Bloomberg Initially, markets around the planet his predecessors let Beijing get away with Thomas Piketty’s call for a 1 or 2 percent become an expression of the “politics of Opinion columnist covering fi- were thrilled by the news — a trade war be- awful behaviour. But it’s his problem now. tax on global wealth. Piketty has criticised envy.” We need incentives to create rich- nance and markets. He previously (Tribune News Service) Macron’s bid to ease the load on his rich- es. But we also need to put them to pro- worked at Reuters and Forbes.) Birthday Greeting Card Vs Facebook Reminder The point of a birthday wish is to show affection — not to show the efficacy of an online database

HANNA KOZLOWSKA telling you—as Facebook does—that it’s close person,” she said. “It feels cheap to My two attempts to buy a birthday TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE the birthday of Frank from your freshman be reminded by Facebook.” calendar at stationery stores in Manhat- bio class, or of a coworker at a previous job This is not an argument to call every tan were met with blank stares, but you N her kitchen wall in Warsaw, you friended out of obligation. one of your 1,500 Facebook friends. But it can find plenty of these calendars (also Poland, my grandmother has an How about this for a modest proposal: is worth picking those who you really care called ‘perpetual’) on Etsy. I’ve also spot- old notebook pinned up alongside Let’s just stop with the endless parade of about, and make the effort. Send them a ted this one at the MoMA Design Store. photos of her grandchildren and Facebook ‘HBD!’ posts. Let’s be honest, card, call them, or, at the very least, send Muji makes an undated monthly planner Oour childhood drawings. It’s a cal- they were never particularly meaningful. a considered text. The point of a birthday that could work as well. Or, you can make endar, densely filled out in her round cur- Oh great, you remembered about your un- wish, after all, is to show affection—not to one yourself, ideally with a simple vertical- sive with different coloured pens. cle’s birthday because Facebook told you show the efficacy of an online database. style notebook (which would make a great It’s not your average planner. No years about it. You took three seconds to type Instead, be like my grandmother, DIY Christmas gift). are assigned, just a month per page and something, and then you moved onto the who remains perplexed by Facebook and I called my grandmother to talk about a line for each date. It’s where she keeps next person in the birthday notification amazed by the fact that I’m already abreast birthday calendars. The conversation was track of birthdays or anniversaries of fam- box. Isn’t that just kind of…lazy? of what’s going on with my cousins before long, because as she looked through hers ily and friends. It works. She’s always on Anecdotal evidence among my friends she tells me. Start a birthday calendar! she kept remembering stories about the the phone, sending birthday wishes in and co-workers suggests that people have Let’s just stop with the endless Sure, you can just put the occasions that people whose names she saw. She’s had it warm conversations with people sprinkled already been getting and giving fewer parade of Facebook ‘HBD!’ posts. matter in your Google calendar, or what- for 30 or 40 years, she said. She keeps it all over the globe that she’s kept in touch birthday wishes on Facebook lately. This Let’s be honest, they were never ever productivity app you use. But isn’t it in her kitchen, and looks at it every day. with over decades. She’s a master greeting- could be because we’re a relatively young particularly meaningful. Isn’t it nicer nicer to be reminded of the people you care There are friends she will call only twice card-writer, with return notes frequently bunch, mainly based in New York. Many about by your own handwriting on nice a year because she sees their name in the arriving in the mail. of them check the social network less and to be reminded of the people you stationery? calendar—but they often end up using the Those phone calls and cards are less, out of boredom or frustration with care about by your own handwriting? People in the Netherlands love their opportunity to have a real catch-up. And a far cry from the five generic “happy the platform—and some even boycott Fa- birthday calendars, and apparently often some dates she has marked with a name birthday!’s” you write in a row on Face- cebook (though not everyone can, as we’ve run the risk of forgetting the important have them in their bathrooms. (I asked and a cross—the day of someone’s death. book, or the cute, but dispassionate emo- pointed out before). ones. An editor at Quartz pointed out a a friend who lives there why this was the “If I want to remember to put a flower on jis you get on your wall from friends who But if you’ve outsourced remembering related anxiety: “I always feel kind of em- case, and got back the charming answer: their grave, I have the death anniversary,” really should have texted or called. And birthdays to Facebook, and you don’t visit barrassed if it’s clear that Facebook just re- “It’s practical. When else are you sitting she explained. A Facebook reminder won’t my grandmother’s calendar won’t bother the platform as often as you used to, you minded me it’s someone’s birthday, if it’s a somewhere with a moment to spare?”) do any of that.

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US fails to get enough UN votes to condemn Hamas movement Israel may expand it’s anti-tunnel operation into Lebanon: Minister AFP Hamas to be presented to the condemn Hamas had been “hi- JERUSALEM: Israel is prepared to take action in Lebanon UNITED STATES 193-nation assembly, which has jacked” by procedural votes and against Hezbollah cross-border tunnels if necessary, an Israeli been meeting since 1946. hailed the “broad support from cabinet minister said on Friday. Israel’s military said earlier this A US resolution championed Speaking ahead of the vote, the world” for condemning Ha- week that it had found a number of passages dug across the by Ambassador Nikki Haley to Haley said the measure “would mas. Kuwait had asked the as- Israel-Lebanon border to be used in carrying out attacks inside condemn the Palestinian Ha- right a historic wrong” and “put sembly, on behalf of Arab coun- Israel. The Israeli military sent mechanical diggers, troops and mas movement at the United the General Assembly on the tries, to require a two-thirds anti-tunneling equipment to the border to shut them down. Nations for firing rockets at Is- side of truth and balance in the majority, which was narrowly The Israeli military, which launched the operation on rael failed to win enough votes effort to achieve peace in the endorsed by a vote of 75 in fa- Tuesday, has said its activity would, for now, stop on the Israeli for adoption on Thursday. Middle East.” vor, 72 against including EU side of the border. The proposed measure won “The question before us now countries and 26 abstentions. But Israeli news media on Thursday quoted a unnamed 87 votes in the General Assem- is whether the UN thinks terror- The United States had senior official saying that Israel could extend its activity into bly, falling short of the required ism is acceptable if, and only if, won crucial backing from the Lebanon, and on Friday Israeli Intelligence Minister Israel Katz two-thirds majority. Fifty-eight it is directed against Israel,” she European Union, with all 28 reiterated that messages. “If we think that in order to thwart countries opposed the measure told the assembly. countries supporting the US the tunnels that one needs to operate on the other side - then and 32 abstained. Hamas praised the out- measure that would have con- we will operate on the other side of the border,” Katz told Haley, who steps down come of the vote, describing it demned Hamas for firing rock- Radio Tel Aviv 102FM. from her post at the end of the as a “slap” to President Donald ets into Israel and demanded an The United Nations peacekeeping Interim Force in Lebanon year, has repeatedly accused the Trump’s administration which Islamic Jihad, PLO, Hamas and Hezbollah leaders attend a Solidarity end to the violence. (UNIFIL), confirmed the existence of a tunnel near the “blue United Nations of having an an- has taken a firm pro-Israeli Meeting entitled ‘Jerusalem is Arab and Islamic, It was and will always The European Union, like line” frontier between the two countries on Thursday, describ- ti-Israel bias and has defended stance in addressing the Middle be’, in the Crowne Plaza Hotel, Beirut, Lebanon, on Thursday. (EPA-EFE) the United States, considers ing it as a “serious occurrence”. In the aftermath of the Israeli Israel in its latest confrontation East peace process. Hamas a terror group. The as- tunnel announcement, the situation has remained calm on with Hamas, the militant group “The failure of the American of the legitimacy of the resist- to refer to armed groups that sembly also adopted by a wide both sides of the border. But the Israeli operation has brought that has ruled the Gaza Strip venture at the United Nations ance,” Hamas spokesman Sami oppose Israel. Israeli Ambas- margin of 156 to six with 12 ab- renewed attention to a frontier across which Israel and Hezbol- since 2007. It was the first pro- represents a slap to the US ad- Abu Zahri wrote on Twitter, us- sador Danny Danon lamented stentions a Palestinian-drafted lah last fought a war in 2006. (REUTERS) posed resolution condemning ministration and confirmation ing a phrase comwmonly used after the vote that a decision to measure, presented by Ireland. Heavy fighting hits last IS pocket Houthis reject Yemeni govt’s in eastern Syria proposal to open Sanaa airport DPA The number of civilians BEIRUT who are still trapped inside the embattled town remains HEAVY battles were raging unknown. The airport is under rebels’ control but access is restricted by the coalition, which controls the air space on Friday between US-backed The observatory said Kurdish Syrian fighters and Islamic State extremists REUTERS Islamic State militants in the were executing civilians RIMBO, SWEDEN terrorist group’s last pocket in caught while attempting to eastern Syria. flee Hajeen, accusing them YEMEN’S Saudi-backed gov- In recent months, the oil- of heading to “areas of in- ernment has proposed reo- rich province of Deir al-Zour in fidelity.” pening the Houthi-held air- eastern Syria has seen clashes The areas under Islamic port in the capital Sanaa on between the Syrian Democratic State control in the eastern condition planes are inspect- Forces (SDF), a Kurdish-led countryside of Deir al-Zour ed in the airports of Aden or group allied with the US, and have experienced the heaviest Sayun which are under its the Islamist extremists. airstrikes from a US-led coali- control, two government of- “Our fighters managed to tion since the SDF forces started ficials said on Friday. take neighbourhood of Haw- an operation to expel the radical The Houthis rejected ma, one of the first districts group from the area in Septem- the proposal floated at UN- of Hajeen,” SDF spokesman ber, the watchdog said. sponsored peace talks in Ahmed Mohammed said. The UN World Food Pro- Sweden that are aimed at ce- Hajeen is the largest town gramme (WFP) said Friday that menting confidence-building in the Islamic State’s last pocket airstrikes and ground battles measures that could lead to in eastern Syria. Islamic State had displaced 16,500 people a ceasefire to halt air strikes has gradually been driven back from Hajeen, most of whom by a Saudi-led coalition and in the multi-faceted civil war, have sought shelter in villages Houthi missile attacks on which began in 2011 with vari- on the north-eastern side of the Saudi cities. ous opposition groups taking Euphrates. But given this is only the on government forces loyal to “WFP has provided ready- second day of the talks due President Bashar al-Assad. to-eat rations for all those dis- to last until Dec. 13, and with “Bad weather including placed, in addition to the 33,500 both sides are coming under heavy fog is not helping our most vulnerable individuals in mounting pressure for action fighters move faster,” Moham- the host communities receiving because of the human toll of med said. the displaced families, totalling the war, there could be room The Syrian Observatory 50,000,” the agency said in a for concessions. for Human Rights, a Britain- statement released in Geneva. Griffiths wants a deal on based war monitor, reported The SDF has played a reopening the airport, shor- that the fighting has resulted in major role in fighting Islam- ing up the central bank and the deaths of 42 Islamic State ic State in war-torn Syria. securing a truce in Hodeidah, militants and 36 SDF fighters The radical group also con- the country’s main port, held since Monday. trols some pockets in south- by the Houthis and a focus The SDF forces are in con- ern Syria. of the war after the coalition trol of more than 70 per cent of In Syria’s north-western launched a campaign to cap- Othman Hussein Faid Mujali (Centre), Yemen’s Minister of Agriculture and Irrigation, speaks to journalists during the ongoing peace talks on Hajeen, the observatory said, a province of Idlib, the last ture it this year. Yemen, at the Johannesberg Castle, in Rimbo, 50km north of Stockholm, Sweden, on Friday. (EPA-EFE) report that the Kurdish militia key opposition stronghold Sanaa airport, which has did not confirm. in the country, violence over been bombed several times, is UNHCR urges rivals to improve Military offensive still open if rebels At least 600 civilians have the last week has displaced in Houthi territory but access fled Hajeen for SDF areas on 15,000 people towards gov- is restricted by the Saudi-led civilian protection amid talks reject Hodeida pullout: Yemen govt the east of the Euphrates River ernment-held areas in the coalition, which controls the RIMBO: The United Nations’ refugee agency (UNHCR) urged warring RIMBO: A government offensive on Yemen’s Hodeida remains an in Deir al-Zour since Novem- adjacent province of Hama, air space. parties in Yemen on Friday to improve the protection of civilians, as option if rebels refuse to withdraw from the port city, a minister said ber 30, the monitor said. according to WFP. Marwan Dammaj, Yem- rival delegations were holding separate meetings with negotiators Friday, as the warring sides met for UN-brokered talks. “We are now in en’s minister of culture in the in Sweden. Between August and October this year, nearly 1,500 negotiations in response to calls by the international community, the internationally recognised civilian casualties were reported in Yemen, with an average of 123 UN and the UN envoy. We are still looking into means towards peace,” government of President civilian deaths and injuries every week during this period, UNHCR said Agriculture Minister Othman al-Mujalli. Turkey asks US to scrap Abd-Rabbu Mansour Hadi, spokesperson Shabia Mantoo said. “But if they (the rebels) are not responsive, we have many op- said Sanaa airport should be “Each new day of the conflict inflicts more suffering on an tions, including that of military decisiveness,” he told reporters in syria observation posts re-opened to put “an end to already battered and exhausted civilian population. Given the heavy response to a question on the rebel-held city. “And we are ready.” the people’s suffering regard- human cost, UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, urges parties to the Talks between Yemen’s Saudi-backed government and Huthi rebels, ANKARA: Turkey on Friday asked the US to scrap obser- ing transportation”. conflict in Yemen to improve the protection of civilians and civil- linked to Iran, opened Thursday in Sweden -- the first meeting between vation posts in northern syria aimed at helping prevent “But it should be a domes- ian infrastructure,” he said. In Sweden, the UN’s special envoy to the two sides in two years in a conflict that has pushed impoverished clashes between Turkish forces and a Kurdish militia backed tic airport from where Yem- Yemen, Martin Griffiths, held separate talks with the Saudi-backed Yemen to the brink of mass starvation. Rights groups have urged both by Washington. Defence Minister Hulusi Akar made the enis can go to Aden and then government delegation and the Houthi rebels delegation. (DPA) sides to make concessions in the fight.(AFP) demand during a meeting with James Jeffrey, the US Special leave to international desti- Envoy to syria, his ministry said in a statement. nations,” added Dammaj, a leaving Yemen. A UN source declined to in sporadic battles after a de- sons and not the Houthis. We US Defense Secretary Jim Mattis had said that Wash- member of the government The Houthi delegation comment. The United Na- escalation last month. cannot legitimise the presence ington wanted the observation posts to help minimise delegation. head at the peace talks, Mo- tions is also trying to avert a Yemen’s government is of the Houthi in Hodeidah.” tensions between Turkish forces and Washington’s Kurd- Hamza Al Kamali, anoth- hammed Abdusalam, rejected full-scale assault on Hodei- sticking to its position that Abdusalam said the port of ish allies, including the syrian Kurdish YPG militia which er member of the delegation, the proposal. “The airport dah, the entry point for most Hodeidah should be under its Hodeidah must be kept apart Ankara regards as a “terrorist offshoot” of the outlawed said airplanes must stop in should be opened in accord- of Yemen’s commercial goods control, said Kamali. from the military conflict, and Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK). (AFP) airports in the southern city ance to international stand- and aid. “We say that the city that a government should be of Aden or Sayun, east of the ards, and we do not accept in- Both sides have reinforced should be controlled by a po- formed first before all parties capital, for inspection before spections,” Abdusalam said. positions in the Red Sea city lice force from Hodeidah’s are disarmed.

Turkey, US commit to progress on How Yemen’s rebels survive the Saudi-led onslaught Manbij road map ANKARA: Turkey and the United AFP international community to de- led coalition has claimed that in bunkers in its strongholds in States have agreed to speed DUBAI mand peace. members of Iran-backed Leba- the northern mountains. up efforts to put in place an The war in Yemen is viewed nese militant group Hezbollah The rebel’s impressive ar- agreement on Syria’s Manbij by YEMEN’S Huthi rebels sit at by many as a front in the broad- have been killed in Yemen while senal has been on display in the end of the year, a working the negotiating table in Sweden er struggle between regional training the Huthis. Hezbollah the latest battles for the key committee between the NATO with delegates of the interna- heavyweights Saudi Arabia and has denied this. port city of Hodeida as they de- allies said on Friday. tionally recognised govern- Iran that has heated up since Despite the allegations of ployed tanks to halt the advance Earlier this year, Turkey ment, undefeated on the battle- Crown Prince Mohammed bin Iranian support, it appears that of pro-government forces. and the United States reached field and still firmly in control of Salman took over the running the bulk of the Huthi’s weapon- The Huthis have also laid a a deal over Syria’s Manbij, the capital Sanaa. of the kingdom’s affairs. ry comes from stockpiles of the large number of landmines and after months of disagreement, Saudi Arabia and its coali- The Saudis and their ally army, much of which remained manufacture some of their own under which the Kurdish YPG tion partners predicted a quick the United States say Shiite Iran loyal to Saleh after Hadi’s suc- weapons, including rockets and militia is to completely with- victory when they launched a provides military support to the cession to the presidency. reportedly also drones. draw from the town. Ankara, military intervention in 2015 rebels, including components Brigadier Abdo Majli, a - Local backing?The Huthis which considers the YPG a to restore President Abedrabbo for ballistic missiles that have spokesman for pro-government have benefited from home ad- terrorist organisation, says the Mansour Hadi after he fled into been fired over the border. Members of Houthi rebel movement on a truck patrol at the Sana’a forces, told AFP that “90 per- vantage and local alliances as withdrawal has yet to happen. Saudi exile. Tehran denies the accusa- International Airport, in Sana’a, Yemen. (EPA-EFE) cent of Huthi arms came from they have faced off against some During Friday’s meeting the But more than three and a tion and insists its backing for Yemeni army depots” taken of the best equipped militaries two sides also agreed to con- half years later, the two sides the Huthis is purely political. to develop ballistic missiles” “Where and when possible, along with Sanaa in 2014. in the region. tinue to work on joint planning have fought themselves into a Brigadier Jamal al-Moam- arrived in 2015. Iran supplies the rebels with Majli said coalition war- Despite hailing from north- with regard to other areas, quagmire that has set off the mari, a former Yemeni air Security analyst Aleksandar equipment and training for the planes had managed to destroy ern Yemen, they know the rest as mentioned in the Manbij world’s worst humanitarian force officer, said that Iranian Mitreski says Iran helps the Hu- Huthis to remain a formidable some of the heavy weapons, but of the country and the terrain roadmap. (REUTERS) crisis prompting an outraged arms, experts and “equipment this both directly and indirectly. opponent,” he said. The Saudi- the rebels had concealed the rest very well, said analyst Mitreski. 08 Saturday, December 8, 2018 Europe / Americas

News Merkel protege Kramp-Karrenbauer succeeds her as German CDU leader in brief REUTERS A former state premier in above all learnt that leadership Earlier, an emotional Mer- HAMBURG Saarland, where she led a three- is more about being strong on kel bowed out as party leader, CNN’s NY offices way coalition, Kramp-Kar- the inside than being loud on telling the congress: “It has been evacuated after GERMANY’S Christian Demo- renbauer has a reputation for the outside.” a great pleasure for me, it has bomb threat crats elected Annegret Kramp- uniting support across the con- Merkel said in October she been an honour.” Karrenbauer on Friday to re- servative Christian Democratic would step down as party chief Kramp-Karrenbauer has dif- NEW YORK: CNN’s New place Angela Merkel as party Union (CDU) and a talent for but remain chancellor, an effort ferentiated herself from Merkel York offices were evacuated leader, a decision that moves striking alliances with other par- to manage her exit after a series on social and foreign policy by Thursday night after a bomb her into pole position to succeed ties. Sometimes dubbed “mini of setbacks since her divisive de- voting in favour of quotas for threat, but no explosive was Europe’s most influential leader Merkel”, Kramp-Karrenbauer cision in 2015 to keep German women on corporate boards and found and police later gave as chancellor. is admired by the CDU upper borders open to refugees fleeing taking a tougher line on Russia. the all clear, the network Kramp-Karrenbauer, 56, is echelons for her appeal across war in the Middle East. She told Reuters last week said. The roughly 90 minute Merkel’s protege and was the the party. There was jubilation as the that Europe and the United drama recalled a similar continuity candidate favoured “I have read a lot about what Newly-elected CDU chief Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer (left) with Ger- result of the run-off was an- States should consider block- evacuation in October after by the party elite. She won the I am and who I am: ‘mini’, a man Chancellor Angela Merkel in Hamburg on Friday. (EPA-EFE) nounced. A tearful Kramp-Kar- ading Russian ships over the an explosive device was dis- leadership with 517 votes out of copy, simply ‘more of the same’. renbauer thanked her rivals and Ukraine crisis. But on what lies covered at CNN’s New York 999 votes cast by delegates. Her Dear delegates, I stand before Karrenbauer said in a passion- regional government, she added invited them to share the stage ahead for the CDU, Kramp-Kar- headquarters. Fire alarm rival, Friedrich Merz, won 482 you as I am and as life made me ate speech to the congress. to cheers and loud applause: “I with her in a show of party unity, renbauer said when campaign- bells rang inside the news- votes in a run-off. and I am proud of that,” Kramp- Playing up her experience in learned what it is to lead - and which delegates applauded. ing: “I have no particular recipe.” room to signal an evacua- tion shortly after 10:30 pm, CNN said on its website, as the network went to pre- taped programing. (AFP) Trump names new AG, Ecuador eager to US ambassador to UN end Assange’s Trump attacks Russia stay in embassy REUTERS ambassador to the United Na- QUITO: WikiLeaks activist WASHINGTON tions. Both are posts that have Julian Assange could leave to be confirmed by the Senate. the Ecuadorian embassy in IN another staff shake-up of his Trump also said he would make London without danger to investigation ahead of often turbulent administration, another personnel announce- life and limb, according to President Donald Trump said ment on Saturday. the government of the South on Friday he had picked the “It will have to do with the American country. “The Brit- two people he wants to be the joint chiefs of staff, the succes- ish government has told us next US attorney general (AG) sion,” he told reporters outside that due to the law, he can- and next US ambassador to the the White House, suggesting he not be extradited to a country new Mueller report United Nations. may name a new top US mili- where his life is in danger or Trump said he will nomi- tary officer. Separately, CNN re- he faces thedeath penalty,” nate former Attorney General ported on Friday that John Kel- President Lenin Moreno William Barr to fill the top job ly is expected to resign as White said on Thursday in a radio US president alleges the prosecutor had coerced false testimony from witnesses at the US Justice Department House chief of staff in coming interview. Ecuador has been again, and that he will put for- days, citing unnamed sources. trying to end the activist’s ward State Department spokes- Reuters has not independently embassy asylum for more woman Heather Nauert as confirmed the report. than six years. (DPA) British teenager jailed over bomb threats to schools Trump ‘undisciplined,’ wanted LONDON: A British teenager to break law, says Tillerson who sent hoax bomb threats to schools across Britain and AFP the United States and caused WASHINGTON a security scare at an Ameri- can airport was jailed for three FORMER US secretary of state years on Friday, prosecutors Rex Tillerson says that Presi- said. George Duke-Cohan, 19, dent Donald Trump repeatedly emailed thousands of schools wanted to violate the law, de- in the UK with a bomb threat scribing him as “undisciplined” in March, Luton Crown Court and uninterested in details. had heard. He was arrested Tillerson, who was fired just days later but while still in March, made no attempt to under investigation, he sent deny his poor relationship with more email threats to British Trump during a rare interview and US schools, claiming a Thursday night as part of a char- pipe bomb had been planted ity dinner in his native Texas. on their premises. (REUTERS) “I think part of it was obvi- Rex Tillerson. ously we are starkly different in At least 12 dead our styles. We did not have a him you can’t do that and let’s in Brazil bank common value system,” Tiller- talk about what we can do.” robbery shootout son told veteran journalist Bob Tillerson, a former chief ex- Schieffer of CBS News, which ecutive of oil giant ExxonMobil, BRASILIA: At least 12 people broadcast an excerpt Friday. had no government experience were killed on Friday, includ- “I’d have to say to him, ‘Well, and had never met Trump when ing six policemen, in an early Mr President, I understand his nomination was promoted morning shootout between what you want to do, but you by Republican Party insiders, police and bank robbers in a can’t do it that way -- it violates who hoped for a stable figure small town in northeastern the law, it violates a treaty.’ who could nonetheless appeal Brazil, the state governor’s US President Donald Trump grabs the brim of a young boy’s ‘Make America Great Again’ cap as he is greeted by supporters waiting for him on “He got really frustrated,” he to the tycoon-turned-president office said. Five hostages, the airport tarmac while arriving in Kansas City, Missouri, US, on Friday. (REUTERS) said. “I think he grew tired of me with his outsider status and including two children, being the guy every day that told business background. died in the shootout, local AFP weeks appeared to leave him in- counsel’s office said Manafort media reported, when police WASHINGTON Among five tweets, Trump creasingly under pressure. had violated his plea deal by ly- interrupted a gang trying also attacked Deputy Among five tweets, Trump ing. to rob ATMs at two bank US President Donald Trump Attorney General Rod also attacked Deputy Attorney Also on Friday, prosecu- branches on the main street unleashed a series of attacks General Rod Rosenstein, who tors were expected to file more Czech intelligence busts in Milagres in the interior of Friday on US Special Counsel Rosenstein, who was in was in charge of the probe un- details about the cooperation Ceará state. “Our preliminary Robert Mueller and his team, charge of the probe until til Trump in November named which Trump’s ex-lawyer Mi- Russian spying network information is that 12 people with the prosecutor expected to Trump in November named Matthew Whitaker, who had chael Cohen has provided the died, including six police release documents that could Matthew Whitaker, who criticised Mueller’s investiga- special counsel. AFP On Friday, BIS chief Michal officers,” a spokeswoman shed new light in the Russia had criticised Mueller’s tion, as acting attorney general. Cohen has admitted lying PRAGUE Koudelka said that earlier this for the governor said by probe. Trump asked whether to Congress about pursuing a year the agency had told the telephone. (REUTERS) Repeating his regular dis- investigation, as acting Rosenstein isn’t “totally con- real estate deal with Russia on THE Czech Republic’s intelli- authorities it reports to that missal of the probe as a “total attorney general flicted,” while also singling out Trump’s behalf. gence agency said Friday it had “we had bust the spying net- witch hunt,” Trump accused a member of Mueller’s team, Comey is to testify behind smashed a Russian spying net- work of a Russian intelligence Mueller of political bias in an sia to swing the 2016 election: Andrew Weissmann, who has closed doors Friday to the work, after the EU member’s service operating on our terri- Paris braces for early morning tweetstorm al- former Trump campaign chair- been involved in the prosecu- House Judiciary Committee, pro-Russian, pro-Chinese tory and paralysed its activity.” leging that the prosecutor had man Paul Manafort and the tion against Paul Manafort. which is conducting a Repub- president had criticised it for “Over the past five years, new ‘yellow vest’ coerced false testimony from president’s ex-lawyer Michael On Friday, the special coun- lican-driven probe into the poor results. we have prevented dozens of witnesses. Cohen. sel’s team was expected to pro- conduct of law enforcement The BIS agency had warned Russian and Chinese intelli- protests this week He complained that inves- “Robert Mueller and Leak- vide court with details of Mana- officials. earlier this week that Russian gence officers from pursuing tigators were ignoring Demo- in’ Lyin’ James Comey are Best fort’s lying to investigators. Mueller has already charged and Chinese diplomats had their activities,” he added in AFP crats’ dealings with Russians Friends, just one of many Muel- Manafort chaired the Trump more than 30 individuals, most intensified their espionage ac- the statement. PARIS and suggested his own deputy ler Conflicts of Interest,” Trump election campaign from March of them Russians. tivities on Czech soil last year. BIS said in its report ear- attorney general was “totally tweeted, referring to the for- until August 2016. In Septem- Among those pleading This led President Milos lier this week that Russian FRENCH Interior Minister conflicted.” mer FBI chief he sacked while ber this year he admitted finan- guilty in the Mueller probe is Zeman, an outspoken ex- spies with diplomatic cover Christophe Castaner said Friday Trump’s tweets came with Comey was leading the Russia cial crimes related to his work Michael Flynn, Trump’s first Communist, to say Thursday capitalised on Moscow’s large that a three-week-old rebellion Mueller’s team expected to file probe. before 2015 for Russia-support- national security advisor. Mu- that the report was “gibberish” embassy in Prague, while over taxes had spawned “a mon- court documents related to two Trump has repeatedly dis- ed Ukrainian politicians, and eller reported this week that while intelligence agents were their Chinese counterparts ster”, as Paris braces for further pivotal figures in their probe paraged the 19-month-old in- agreed to cooperate with Muel- Flynn has given “substantial “pettifoggers” who had not had “almost unlimited” re- violent “yellow vest” protests into possible collusion between vestigation but ratcheted up his ler’s probe. assistance” to the investigation identified any specific Russian sources to spend on buying this weekend. Trump’s campaign and Rus- attacks as the probe in recent But last week the special and should serve no jail time. or Chinese spies. intellectual property. On the eve of a fourth set of demonstrations in the capital in as many weeks, Castaner vowed “zero tolerance” towards those hoping to enact a repeat of last weekend’s destruction and may- Campaign for new referendum gathers pace as Brexit crunch nears hem. “These past three weeks have seen the birth of a monster REUTERS hopes would overturn the shorter every day that we makers have drafted a detailed liamentary defeats for May that has escaped its creators,” a LONDON 2016 result. get another referendum. All roadmap, setting out possible cast new doubt over her plan grave-looking Castaner told a The idea of a second ref- the momentum is with our legislative routes to another to quit the bloc. press conference. AFTER losing the most con- erendum has been gathering campaign.” referendum. Turning Brexit upside “It’s time now for dialogue,” tentious referendum in Brit- support from some senior Betting odds show there is Meanwhile, campaigners down would mark one of the he urged. Last Saturday’s riots in ish history, James McGrory British politicians and seems a 43 percent probability of an for another vote are busy lob- most extraordinary reversals Paris, where the Arc de Triom- went for a drink in The Hope to have traction with sections EU referendum before 2020. bying parliament and trying in modern British history phe war memorial was sacked, pub near London’s medieval of public opinion, but the po- Gamblers think there is a 55 to drum up public support and likely alienate the 17.4 dozens of cars torched and meat market. Amid butchers litical situation is so uncertain percent probability that Brit- with rallies and on social and million people who voted to shops looted, were the worst in in bloodied coats, his dream that it is hard to say whether ain does not leave as planned mainstream media. They note leave the EU. decades, plunging President of reversing Brexit seemed this will actually translate into on March 29. Prime Minister Theresa May The path to a new referen- Emmanuel Macron’s govern- hopeless. another vote, and when or Opinion polls suggest has included their desired out- dum is fraught with crisis. ment into a deep crisis. Two years later, with the how that might done, or what there has been a slight shift by come as one of three options May’s Brexit deal has first Shops around the famous country in crisis over how question might be put. Prime Minister Theresa May. voters towards remaining in facing the country: her deal, to be voted down in parlia- Champs-Elysees boulevard or whether to leave the Eu- “We have gone from be- the EU, but the public remains no deal or reversing Brexit. ment on December 11. Second, -- epicentre of last week’s bat- ropean Union, McGrory is ing seen as a fringe view, 36-year-old campaign director broadly split down the middle. US investment bank JP her government has to endure tle between police and protest- feeling more confident that dismissed and laughed at, to of the People’s Vote campaign, It remains unclear how Morgan said the chances of an attempt by the opposition ers -- were battening down the his campaign can help secure now being at the centre of the said in an interview. exactly a second vote might Britain calling off Brexit had Labour Party to topple it and hatches on Friday. another referendum that he Brexit debate,” McGrory, the “The odds are getting be called, though some law- increased after a string of par- then call a national election. Huawei CFO Meng to appear in www.facebook.com/QatarTribune Canada court www.youtube.com/QatarTribuneChannel PAGE 10 www.twitter.com/Qatar_Tribune

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S&P 500, Dow slip on trade Kaabi leads Qatar’s delegation to its last OPEC meeting worries but The minister met Ku- Qatar had announced on Monday that it is wait’s Oil Minister Bakheet al end above Rasheedi, Oman’s Oil Minis- withdrawing from the OPEC membership ter Muhammad bin Hamad session lows al Rumhi, Iraq’s Oil Minister TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK ministerial conference, which Thamer al Ghadban, Iran’s Oil REUTERS DOHA discussed a number of devel- Minister Bijan Zanganeh, and NEW YORK opments related to the oil mar- Malaysia’s Economy Minister MINISTER of State for En- kets and production levels. Mohamed Azmin Ali. THE S&P 500 and Dow indus- ergy Affairs HE Saad Sherida The meeting also reviewed The meetings discussed trials ended slightly negative but al Kaabi led Qatar’s last del- a number of reports including boosting bilateral ties and co- well above their session lows in egation to the meetings of the the Secretary General’s report operation in the field of energy volatile trading on Thursday as Organisation of the Petroleum on oil market outlook, and the and the challenges facing the oil the arrest of a Chinese technol- Exporting Countries (OPEC) report of the 130th meeting industry, OPEC in particular. ogy executive fanned fears of in Vienna on Thursday. of the Economic Commission Kaabi also met with the US-China tensions over trade, Qatar had announced on Board. OPEC Secretary General Mu- while some beaten-up big tech- Monday to withdraw its mem- Kaabi also held a series hammad Barkindo, and dis- nology and internet shares post- bership from the oil cartel. of talks with OPEC oil min- cussed Qatar’s decision to ed gains. Kaabi took part in the isters on the sidelines of withdraw its membership Following a rare midweek 175th meeting of the OPEC the meetings. from the organisation. Minister of State for Energy Affairs HE Saad Sherida al Kaabi in Vienna on Thursday. US trading holiday, stocks tum- bled at the outset of the trading, with the benchmark S&P 500 dropping as much as 2.9 per- cent. But from midday stocks began paring their losses and the tech-heavy Nasdaq ended in OPEC, Russia agree to slash oil positive territory. “The market had gotten way oversold,” said Gary Bradshaw, senior vice president and port- folio manager at Hodges Capital output despite Trump pressure Management in Dallas. “Inves- tors looked up and saw they could buy good companies at much cheaper valuations than Oil prices jumped about 5 percent to more than $63 a barrel as the combined cut of 1.2 million bpd was larger than expected they could a couple of months ago.” The initial selling followed REUTERS Saudi Arabia first denied news that the chief financial of- VIENNA the Hook-Falih discussion ficer of telecom equipment mak- took place but later con- er Huawei Technologies had OPEC and its Russia-led allies firmed it. been arrested in Canada and agreed on Friday to slash oil “US political pressure is faced extradition to the United production by more than the clearly a dominant factor at States. market had expected despite this OPEC meeting, limiting The arrest came as investor pressure from US President the scope of Saudi actions to enthusiasm had already faded Donald Trump to reduce the rebalance the market,” said following a truce reached over price of crude. Gary Ross, chief executive of the weekend in talks between The producer club will Black Gold Investors and a the United States and China, curb output by 0.8 million veteran OPEC watcher. which had prompted some hope barrels per day from Janu- The price of crude has about resolving differences over ary while non-OPEC allies fallen almost a third since Oc- trade that have clouded the contribute an additional 0.4 tober as Saudi Arabia, Russia stock market’s outlook this year. million bpd of cuts, Iraqi Oil and the United Arab Emirates “You have got the news Minister Thamer Ghadhban raised output to offset lower overnight of the arrest of the said after OPEC concluded two exports from Iran. CFO of Huawei that I think is days of talks in Vienna. The price decline prompt- throwing a real monkey wrench Oil prices jumped about ed OPEC and Russia to start into the positive optimism that 5 percent to more than $63 discussing an output cut, but surrounded the weekend meet- a barrel by 1500 GMT as the Russia long resisted any deep ing,” said Katie Nixon, chief in- combined cut of 1.2 million reduction. vestment officer for the wealth bpd was larger than the mini- Novak met Russian Presi- management division of North- mum 1 million bpd that the dent Vladimir Putin in St Pe- ern Trust in Chicago. market had expected. tersburg on Thursday and re- Stocks seemed to gain fur- Saudi Arabia, de facto turned to the Austrian capital ther support from a report in leader of the Organisation on Friday. the Wall Street Journal that of the Petroleum Exporting A Russian Energy Ministry Federal Reserve officials are Countries, has faced demands source said Moscow was ready considering whether to signal a from Trump to help the global to contribute a cut of around new wait-and-see mentality af- economy by refraining from Russian Energy Minister Alexander Novak (left) and Mohammad Sanusi Barkindo (right) in Vienna on Friday. (EPA) 200,000 bpd - more than the ter a likely interest-rate increase cutting supplies. initially suggested figure of at their meeting in December. An output reduction The OPEC deal had hung the baseline. OPEC and Rus- 150,000 bpd. An OPEC source The Dow Jones Industrial also would provide support in the balance for two days sian output was lower in Octo- later said Russia had agreed to Average fell 79.4 points, or to Iran by increasing the - first on fears that Russia ber than in November. How- cut by 230,000 bpd. 0.32 percent, to 24,947.67, the price of oil amid attempts by would cut too little, and later ever, OPEC might not disclose US political pressure is Russia, Saudi Arabia and S&P 500 lost 4.11 points, or Washington to squeeze the on concerns that Iran, whose individual output quotas, clearly a dominant factor at the United States have been 0.15 percent, to 2,695.95 and economy of OPEC’s third- Trump to be crude exports have been de- sources said. this OPEC meeting, limiting vying for the position of top the Nasdaq Composite added largest producer. pleted by US sanctions, would “The OPEC+ cut is fuzzy the scope of Saudi actions crude producer in recent years. 29.83 points, or 0.42 percent, to “We will never address unhappy receive no exemption and on details and will likely re- to rebalance the market The United States is not part of 7,188.26. geopolitical issues at OPEC,” President Trump will not be block the agreement. sult in less reduction than the any output-limiting initiative Aside from trade, concerns United Arab Emirates Energy happy to see today’s But after hours of talks, headline figure of 1.2 million Gary Ross, chief executive of due to its anti-trust legislation over bond yields and interest Minister Suhail bin Moham- Iran gave OPEC the green light bpd,” said Bob McNally, presi- Black Gold Investors and fragmented oil industry. rates have pressured the stock med al-Mazroui told a news headlines, but how strongly he and Russia indicated it was dent of US-based Rapidan En- On Thursday, US gov- market in recent days. conference. reacts depends mainly on ready to cut more. ergy Group. ernment figures showed the US Treasury yields fell on Russian Energy Minister whether crude prices rise A meeting of OPEC and “President Trump will Washington added fuel country had become a net ex- Thursday, with 10-year yields Alexander Novak praised the strongly as a result in coming non-OPEC producers quickly not be happy to see today’s to the fire when US special porter of crude oil and refined hitting three-month lows, as ability of his Saudi counter- days and weeks, says Bob approved the deal, according headlines, but how strongly representative for Iran Brian products for the first time on traders scaled back expecta- part Khalid al-Falih “to find a McNally, president of to two OPEC sources. he reacts depends mainly Hook met Falih in Vienna record, underscoring how the tions on the number of rate solution in the most difficult US-based Rapidan Energy The cut will last for six on whether crude prices rise this week, in an unprecedent- surge in production has al- hikes the Fed would implement situation”, indicating Russia Group months from January, Ghadh- strongly as a result in coming ed development ahead of an tered the supply equation in amid weakening economic data was on board. ban said, and take October as days and weeks.” OPEC meeting. world markets. and market volatility. Japan government to halt buying Huawei, ZTE equipment as early as Monday. conference. “We’ll take firm Japan and not do anything Huawei supplies network equipment to The government does not measures looking at it from a to harm bilateral cooperation plan to specifically name Hua- variety of perspectives.” and mutual trust.” private Japanese telcos NTT and KDDI wei and ZTE in the revision, ZTE declined to comment. Huawei supplies some but will put in place measures Huawei did not immediately network equipment to private REUTERS used by Beijing for spying. aimed at strengthening securi- comment. Japanese telcos NTT Docomo TOKYO A government ban in Ja- ty that apply to the companies, Chinese foreign minis- and KDDI Corp. pan will come after Huawei a person with direct knowl- try spokesman Geng Shuang And SoftBank Group Corp JAPAN plans to ban govern- has already been locked out of edge and a person briefed on expressed “serious concern” has a long relationship with ment purchases of equipment the U.S. market and after Aus- the matter said. about the reports. Huawei - which in 2011 be- from China’s Huawei Tech- tralia and New Zealand have Japan’s chief government The essence of China-Ja- came the first Chinese firm to nologies Co Ltd and ZTE Corp blocked it from building 5G spokesman, Yoshihide Suga, pan business and economic join Japan’s conservative Kei- to beef up its defenses against networks. Huawei has repeat- declined to comment. But he cooperation is mutual benefit danren business lobby - and intelligence leaks and cyber at- edly insisted Beijing has no in- noted that the country has and win win, and both com- has partnered with it on 5G tacks, sources told Reuters. fluence over it. been in close communication panies have legally operated in trials. Chinese tech companies The Yomiuri newspaper, with the United States on a Japan for a long time, he told a “The government will not are under intense scrutiny which first reported the news wide range of areas, including daily news briefing in Beijing. buy where there are security from Washington and some of Japan’s planned ban ear- cybersecurity. “We hope the Japanese concerns but it is difficult to prominent allies over ties to lier on Friday, said the govern- “Cybersecurity is becom- side can provide a fair com- restrict procurement by pri- A woman walks by a Huawei logo at a shopping mall in Shanghai on the Chinese government, driv- ment was expected to revise its ing an important issue in Ja- petition environment for Chi- vate companies,” one of the Thursday. (REUTERS) en by concerns they could be internal rules on procurement pan,” he told a regular news nese companies operating in sources said. 10 Saturday, December 8, 2018 Economy & Business

In biggest TURMOIL OVER DETENTION India’s gold Indian IT demand loses deal, HCL to steam due to buy $1.8 bn high prices of IBM assets REUTERS NEW DELHI REUTERS MUMBAI/BENGALURU GOLD was sold at a discount this week in India for the first HCL Technologies will buy time in a month as a rebound some software assets from in local prices prompted jew- US-based IBM Corp for ellers to postpone purchases, $1.8 billion, the compa- while demand improved in top nies said on Friday, mark- consumer China due to season- ing the largest purchase al buying. ever by an Indian IT ser- “Jewellers are delaying vices firm. purchases expecting a correc- HCL Tech will buy tion in prices. The sudden price seven software platforms rise surprised them,” said Har- from IBM, giving it a larg- shad Ajmera, the proprietor of er clientele and allowing it JJ Gold House, a wholesaler in to step up its presence in the eastern Indian city of Kol- areas such as commerce, kata. security, and marketing — Local gold prices have ris- an over $50 billion market en nearly 3 percent so far this opportunity that the In- week following gains in the dian firm said would help overseas market and on a de- boost profits. preciation in the rupee. The deal will also help “Jewellers are struggling to HCL collect additional understand the price trend due revenue of about $650 to volatility in the rupee. They million in the second year are making small purchases,” of the acquisition on a run- said a Mumbai-based dealer rate basis, though sales with a private bullion-import- would take a roughly $25 ing bank. million hit in the first year. Dealers in India were of- Shares in HCL, which fering a discount of up to $1.5 lags bigger local rivals an ounce over official domestic Tata Consultancy Services prices this week, compared to a (TCS) and Infosys in big premium of $2 in the previous data, analytics and cloud Russia’s President Vladimir Putin (right) with Meng Wanzhou, Executive Board Director of the Chinese technology giant Huawei, in Moscow. (File photo) (REUTERS) week. The domestic price in- computing, tumbled as cludes a 10 percent import tax. much as 7.7 percent on Retail jewellery demand Friday to their lowest was moderate as buyers were since July 6 after the deal making purchases for wed- was announced. Huawei CFO Meng set to dings, Ajmera said. The fall knocked some Gold is considered an es- $1.5 billion off the mar- sential part of weddings in In- ket value of the company dia, the world’s second-biggest chaired by India’s sixth- consumer after China, and it is richest person Shiv Nadar. a popular gift for special occa- Some IT analysts said appear in Canada court sions. the deal did not make stra- “Demand has been good in tegic sense for HCL over China and Hong Kong... Retail the long term because it Chinese state media have slammed Meng’s detention, accusing the US of trying to ‘stifle’ Huawei investors are buying gold be- already maintained a part- cause of the wedding and fes- nership with IBM for a REUTERS Xi Jinping in Argentina. said. The Crown counsel is ex- company has been provided could go so far as to order tive period,” said Brian Lan, bulk of the products it was VANCOUVER/TORONTO Trump did not know about pected to argue that Meng pos- very little information regard- security to monitor her while managing director at Singa- buying and was overpay- the arrest in advance, two US es a flight risk and should be ing the charges and is not she awaits a decision on extra- pore dealer GoldSilver Central. ing for the purchase. A top executive of China’s Hua- officials said on Thursday, in kept in a detention facility, le- aware of any wrongdoing by dition, lawyers said. Premiums of $5-$7.4 an The products being ac- wei Technologies Co Ltd who an apparent attempt to stop the Ms. Meng.” If Meng fights extradition, ounce were charged in China quired were in the middle is under arrest in Canada is set incident from impeding talks A Huawei spokesman de- her case could go on for years, against $6-$7 charged last or end of their life cycles to appear in a Vancouver court to resolve the trade dispute. clined to comment on Thurs- lawyers said, pointing to ex- week, while in Hong Kong pre- and would likely not show on Friday for a bail hearing as Details of the case against day and said that Wednesday’s amples like Lai Changxing, miums were quoted at $0.60- more than a mid-single she awaits possible extradition Meng, to be heard in the Su- statement still stands. a Chinese businessman who $1.50 against the previous digit percentage growth, to the United States. preme Court of British Co- Huawei staff briefed on an fled to Canada after he was week’s $0.90-$1.50 range. Indian brokerage Axis Huawei CFO Meng Wan- lumbia, remain sparse. No evidence internal memo told Reuters implicated in a bribery case While higher prices sof- Capital said in a note. zhou, 46, who is also the Canada’s Justice Depart- on Friday the company had and fought extradition to Chi- tened demand in Singapore, “This deal is a negative daughter of the company ment has declined to provide Chinese Foreign ministry appointed Chairman Liang na for 12 years. If she chooses traders said. Premiums in from HCL’s standpoint,” founder, was arrested on Dec. details of the case and Meng spokesman Geng Shuang said Hua as acting CFO following not to fight, she could be in the Singapore were slightly lower said Sudheer Guntupalli, 1 at the request of the United has secured a publication ban, on Friday that neither Canada Meng’s arrest. United States within weeks, at $0.60-$0.70 compared an analyst with Ambit States. The arrest, revealed which curbs the media’s abil- nor the United States had Chinese state media have experts said. to $0.70-$0.90 charged last Capital in Mumbai, add- by Canadian authorities late ity to report on the evidence provided China any evidence slammed Meng’s detention, “You need massive materi- week. ing that HCL would have on Wednesday, was part of a or documents presented in that Meng had broken any law accusing the United States of al and evidence to support de- Spot gold touched a near to keep investing in these US investigation into an al- court. in those two countries, and trying to “stifle” Huawei and tention release,” said Richard five-month peak at $1,244.32 products to ensure they leged scheme to use the global Chinese Foreign ministry reiterated Beijing’s demand curb its global expansion. Kurland, a Vancouver-based an ounce on Thursday and was don’t become obsolete. banking system to evade US spokesman Geng Shuang said that she be released If granted bail, Meng will immigration lawyer. He said set to rise about 1.5 percent for HCL recorded rev- sanctions against Iran, people on Friday that neither Canada likely have to post bail with “a Meng would likely be returned the week. enue of 505.69 billion ru- familiar with the probe told nor the United States had pro- surety of several million dol- to detention if there was no de- In Japan, prices remained pees ($7.16 billion) in the Reuters. vided China any evidence that lars”, Vancouver lawyer Gary cision on bail. on par with the internation- last fiscal year. TCS, the The news roiled global Meng had broken any law in gal experts said. The onus will Botting, who has experience It is unclear where Meng is al benchmark for the 12th largest listed company in stock markets on fears the those two countries, and reit- be on Meng’s lawyer to provide with extradition cases, said. being held in Vancouver. Sev- straight week. India, made 1.23 trillion move could escalate a trade erated Beijing’s demand that evidence that she will not flee, She would also have to give up eral lawyers have noted that “Sentiment in gold is rupees in revenue, while war between the United States she be released. they added. her passport, he said. detention facilities in the re- shrinking and if the price Infosys raked in 705.22 and China after a truce was The bail hearing could be Huawei, which has con- Meng could also be fit- gion are spartan and she would doesn’t change demand will billion rupees. agreed on Saturday between just a preliminary session to firmed Meng was arrested, ted with electronic monitor- likely be sharing her quarters decline,” a Tokyo-based trader President Donald Trump and set out a schedule, lawyers said on Wednesday that “the ing equipment, and the court with other inmates. said. Nissan to recall 150,000 cars due to improper checks

AFP the inspection process,” the between November 2017 and final inspections on some units have resulted in the improper TOKYO company said in a statement, October this year. intended for the domestic mar- checks, Honda said: “In a way, adding it would “promptly” re- Nissan plans to notify au- ket before they were shipped to maybe.” NISSAN on Friday announced call as many as 150,000 units thorities of the recall on Thurs- Nissan has recently found dealers. But he added: “We have plans to recall approximately in Japan. day, it added. several non-conformities In a separate case that not established any link be- 150,000 vehicles owing to It confirmed that im- Nissan vice president Seiji that may have caused erupted in July, Nissan admit- tween that and our latest prob- improper tests on new units, proper tests were carried out Honda said the company was inaccurate pass/fail ted data on exhaust emissions lem with inspections.” dealing a fresh blow to the on brakes, speedometers and reviewing internal systems for judgements during the and fuel economy had been de- The latest recall represents Japanese car giant follow- other systems before shipment its regulatory compliance. liberately “altered”, hampering another blow to the company, ing the shock arrest of former at its domestic assembly plant. “We will work hard to re- inspection process, the its efforts to recover trust after which has been rocked since People walk in front of the chairman Carlos Ghosn. The recall will cover around gain the trust of the parties company said the inspection scandal. Ghosn was arrested on No- HCL Ltd office in Noida, on “Nissan has recently found 10 models including Note concerned,” Honda told a news Asked if excessive cost-cut- vember 19 on allegations he the outskirts of New Delhi. several non-conformities that hatchbacks and Leaf electric conference. million vehicles last year after ting measures under Ghosn -- under-reported his salary by (File photo) (REUTERS) may have caused inaccurate vehicles as well as March and The manufacturer was admitting staff without proper who earned the nickname “Le millions of dollars over five pass/fail judgements during Cube compact cars produced forced to recall more than one authorisation had conducted Cost Killer” in France -- may years. US job growth cools in November, monthly wage gains modest

REUTERS Ashworth, chief economist at previously reported. Econo- comes as soft October data on The dollar fell against a bas- WASHINGTON Capital Economics in Toronto. mists polled by Reuters had the housing market, business ket of currencies on the data. “There is nothing here to sug- forecast payrolls increasing by spending on equipment as well US Treasury prices initially rose US job growth slowed in No- gest the economy is suffering 200,000 jobs in November. The as a jump in the trade deficit to before turning lower. US stock vember and monthly wages a more sudden downturn.” unemployment rate was un- a 10-year high have heightened index futures turned positive. increased less than expected, Nonfarm payrolls increased by changed at near a 49-year low fears the economy is slowing. “The data fits with some suggesting some moderation 155,000 jobs last month, with of 3.7 percent as more people Growth forecasts for the fourth slowing from trend... but is far in economic activity that could construction companies hir- entered the labor force. quarter are around a 2.7 percent from unhealthy for this point support expectations of fewer ing the fewest workers in eight Average hourly earnings annualized rate. The economy in the cycle,” said Alan Ruskin, interest rate increases from the months, likely because of un- rose six cents, or 0.2 percent in grew at a 3.5 percent pace in the global co-head of FX research Federal Reserve in 2019. seasonably chilly temperatures. November. October wage gains third quarter. at Deutsche Bank Securities. The Labuor Department’s Some of the moderation in were revised down to 0.1 per- In the wake of the employ- “It still allows the Fed to hike closely watched monthly em- hiring in November could be cent from the previously report- ment report, US financial mar- in December, but take a more ployment report on Friday the result of a shortage of quali- ed 0.2 percent. In the 12 months kets continued to price in one cautious line thereafter.” RATE came against a backdrop of a fied workers. But it also fits in through November, wages in- rate hike from the Fed in 2019, HIKE PAUSE? Fed Chairman steep sell-off on Wall Street and with other data showing a rise creased 3.1 percent, matching compared with expectations for Jerome Powell last month ap- a partial inversion of the US in layoffs in recent weeks and a October’s jump, which was the possibly two rate hikes a month peared to signal the central yield curve, which have stoked decline in a measure of services biggest gain since April 2009. earlier, according to CME bank’s three-year tightening fears of a recession. sector employment in Novem- Companies also reduced Group’s FedWatch program. cycle was drawing to a close, “This is still a solid gain that ber. hours for workers. The aver- The US central bank is saying its policy rate was now suggests economic growth is Data for September and age workweek fell to 34.4 hours expected to increase borrow- “just below” estimates of a level gradually slowing back towards October were revised to show from 34.5 hours in October. ing costs on Dec. 18-19 for the that neither cools nor boosts a its potential pace,” said Paul 12,000 fewer jobs added than The employment report fourth time this year. healthy economy. Pedestrians walk past stores in Harlem in New York. (File photo) (AFP) www.guide.com.qa  Saturday December 8, 2018

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Al Sadd thump Al Shahania 4-1 Algerian star to be placed strikes a brace Bounedjah breaks 2nd on points; to go past Duhail held to Clemerson’s a 1-1 draw by mark of QSL record Qatar SC 27 goals in AYENI OLUSEGUN DOHA a single

BAGHDAD Bounedjah broke QSL season Clemerson de Araujo’s Qatar Stars League single-season goal record by notching his 27th and 28th strikes for Al Sadd at the Al Arabi Stadium on Friday. Bounedjah’s brace saw Al Sadd thump Al Shahania 4-1. The win moved The Wolves to just a point way from lead- ers Al Duhail, who suffered a shocking draw at home to Qatar Sports Club earlier in the day. Al Sadd will hope to go top on Tuesday when they host Al Duhail in a rescheduled fixture. The day, however, be- longed to tall Algerian striker Bounedjah who equalled the record five minutes into the second half before scoring his 28th goal with seven games left in the league, and eight left QNB STARS LEAGUE STANDINGS for Al Sadd. CLUB M W L D GF GA GD PTS Brazillian Clemerson had set the record with Al Gharafa 1. Al Duhail 14 11 0 3 36 10 26 36 during the 2007/08 season 2. Al Sadd 14 11 1 2 62 13 49 35 with 27 goals. 3. Al Rayyan 15 7 2 6 22 14 8 27 Al Shahania started the 4. Al Ahli 15 8 5 2 25 22 3 26 game brightly but Jean-Paul 5. Al Sailiya 14 8 5 1 25 15 10 25 Kesse should have scored but 6. Al Gharafa 15 5 7 3 27 28 -1 18 his shot was parried to safety 7. Al Arabi 14 6 8 0 14 27 -13 18 by Saad al Sheeb. 8. Umm Salal 14 4 5 5 17 24 -7 17 Bounedjah’s missed a clear 9. Al Shahania 15 4 7 4 14 28 -14 16 chance to put Al Saad ahead. 10. Qatar SC 15 4 8 3 14 23 -9 15 With just the goalkeeper to beat the Algeria saw his effort 11. Al Khor 14 2 9 3 10 25 -15 9 turned out by the right foot of 12. Al Kharaitiyaty 15 1 14 0 10 47 -37 3 Amer al Amri in goal. Tabulated as: M=matches, W=won, L=loss, D=drawn, GF=Goals Al Sadd kept attacking and For, GA=Goals Against, GD=Goal Difference, Pts=Points. Akram Afif showed some daz- Teams in red in the relegation zone. zling skills to create space before seeing his shot flash wide off the Al Sadd striker Baghdad Bounedjah in action against Al Shahania goalkeeper Amer al Amri during their QNB Stars League match at the Al Arabi Stadium on Friday. (HANSON K JOSEPH) post. But the Wolves weren’t to be denied for long. Amri failed The second half kicked off With Xavi pulling the found Bounedjah in the box life. To his colleagues who also QSC hold Al Duhail Osama Omari put Qatar to hold on to Afif’s shot and with Al Sadd on the front foot strings in midfield, Al Sadd with enough time to shoot past create the for him they deserve Defending champions Al Du- SC ahead in the 22nd minute could only fumble the ball di- as Xavi made his return as a dominated the game and the the defensive wall for the record. this also. hail were stunned by the 10th- from a set piece. rectly at Hassan al Haydos who substitute after a month ab- Spaniard could have added to “I congratulate Bouned- “I am confident that he placed Qatar Sports Club after The Red Knights created made no mistake to fire home sence due to injury. his team’s lead but scuffed his jah on breaking the league will score many goals and it a 1-1 draw saw their lead at the more chances, but could not for the opener 23 minutes in. Bounedjah got his record- shot wide. record and he also broke the will be difficult to break his top cut to one point. break down a resilient Qatar However, Shahania equal- equalling goal in the 50th Bounedjah was not to be de- Asian Champions League re- numbers,” Al Sadd coach Al Duhail were sans South Sports Club defence. ised five minutes before half minute. Al Shahania’s defence nied his record and in the 76th cord. This success is not only Jesualdo Ferreira said on the Korean midfielder Nam Murad Naji rescued a time. Lucho Vazquez con- failed to track the Algerian’s minute the Algerian made his- for him but for the team that club’s website. Tae-Hee, who got injured point for the leaders in the trolled the ball exquisitely run in the box and he was able tory. Afif’s brilliant run down helps him. Haydos made it four in ad- while doing duty for his coun- 76th minute when his free- from Kesse’s cross before slot- to tap in Haydos’ cross from the left beat the Shahania de- “For me, he is the best ditional time with Afif again try during the last interna- kick beat Jassem Adel al Hail ting past Al Sheeb. close range. fence and the Qatari’s pass player I have ever seen in my being the provider. tional break. in goal.

LIBERTADORES FINAL Sarri faces Kante conundrum before Man City descend on the Bridge

REUTERS PREMIER LONDON LEAGUE WHEN Maurizio Sarri made a flying start at Chelsea, few LIVE ON dared to question his choice BEIN SPORTS to shunt N’Golo Kante further forward and trust his former SATURDAY Fans of Argentinian football clubs Boca Juniors and River Plate in Napoli player Jorginho as the Bournemouth vs Liverpool front of the Santiago Bernabeu Stadium in Madrid on Friday. (EPA-EFE) side’s deep-lying midfielder. Arsenal vs Huddersfield Yet defeats over the past Burnley vs Brighton Madrid under tight security for ‘high risk’ two weeks by Tottenham Hotspur and Wolverhampton Cardiff City vs Southampton MADRID: Nearly 4,000 police and private security guards will be de- Wanderers heading into Sat- M United vs Fulham ployed in Madrid for the “high-risk” Copa Libertadores final between urday’s home clash against a West Ham vs Crystal Palace Argentine rivals Boca Juniors and River Plate, the government said free-scoring and undefeated Chelsea vs Manchester City Friday. More than 2,000 national police will deploy around the Santi- Manchester City side have Leicester vs Tottenham ago-Bernabeu stadium on Sunday where both teams will be playing brought out the revisionists. far from home after the second leg final was postponed following an There is no doubting the attack by River fans on Boca’s team bus. That is more than for the talents of midfield dynamo this has left Chelsea vulner- last Champions League final in the 81,000-seat stadium in 2010 Kante, who was an integral able to be overrun with the de- when national police deployed a 1,400-strong force. cog in Leicester City’s title fence exposed. It is also more than the 1,500 police officers deployed for the success in 2015-16, and then “You need to change the “clasico” game between rivals Real Madrid and Barcelona that took moved to Chelsea to help mentality in 25 minds to place under high security five days after the 2015 Paris attacks. them win the Premier League change the way you play foot- Apart from national police officers, 1,700 private security guards will the season after. ball. And you cannot do that in be used on Sunday by Real Madrid, which owns the stadium. City He also anchored France to one day. It is very difficult... it hall has called on 150 municipal police while 150 emergency work- the World Cup in Russia ear- is a long way to go,” Sarri said ers will be on site, said Jose Manuel Rodriguez Uribes, the central lier this year. Yet the 27-year- on Friday. government’s representative in Madrid. old has surprisingly been the Chelsea manager Maurizio Sarri looks on as players warm up. (REUTERS) Next up for Sarri is the visit “These are really big measures as it’s a high-risk match,” he told target of recent criticism from of the league’s great entertain- reporters. CONMEBOL, South America’s football federation, decided Sarri for not adapting to the Kante does not play alongside 15 games, but leading the divi- success rate of 68 percent and ers City, who have been blow- to rearrange the game, controversially moving it from Argentina to more advanced role in which Jorginho, to get the best out of sion for passes with 10,658. made on average 63.24 passes ing teams away for fun domes- Spain amid fears of further fan violence. the Italian prefers him. both players. That, however, Kante’s strengths lie more per match. tically and can still play with The stadium will be surrounded by a triple security cordon, as Spain Sarri explained that he would fundamentally alter the in his ability to break up play This season those numbers swagger, even without the likes remains on high terror alert – at level four out of five. Two fan zones preferred “a more techni- full effectiveness of the Ital- and then carry the ball for- are down to 52 percent and of injured Kevin De Bruyne and will be set up on either side of the stadium. Two large squares cal player” in the deep mid- ian’s preferred style of play, ward, rather than his distri- 57.13, respectively. Sergio Aguero on the pitch. -- Puerta del Sol and Plaza Colon -- have also been set aside for field position, hence playing dubbed ‘Sarriball’. bution. This is part of the rea- Yet Jorginho’s passing Sarri’s honeymoon pe- celebrations after the match depending on who wins. They are Jorginho there. The Italian likes quick, son Chelsea became such an ability means the wing backs riod looks to be over. Yet he just under two kilometres apart. Rodriguez said some 200 to 300 “Kante, in the last match, one-touch passing to get the effective counter-attacking can overlap effectively, the at- now faces the conundrum of “particularly violent” supporters from each team had been identified wanted to solve the match after ball up the field through a pre- force under previous coach tackers like Willian and Eden whether to stick to his philoso- by Spanish and Argentinian authorities, but if was unclear whether the first 15 minutes, but in the cise movement of players and Antonio Conte. Hazard can move into the phy in the belief that its imple- they were in Madrid or not. He added that supporters found to have wrong way. He lost the posi- accurate passing channels in a Even in Conte’s final sea- centre and all at once Chelsea mentation will take more than a “serious” criminal record could be sent straight back to Argentina tion, he attacked too much,” traditional 4-3-3 formation. son where Chelsea disappoint- can have seven players in a just a few months, or acqui- if they came to Madrid. (AFP) Sarri said after the Spurs defeat. This has left the club fourth ed in the league and finished forward position. esce in the short term and put Many have questioned why in the table on 31 points after fifth, Kante still had a tackle As has been seen, however, Kante back in his slot. Sports Saturday, December 8, 2018 13

21ST QATAR NATIONAL ARABIAN HORSE SHOW

The team of Class 3B 1st winner Daasah Al Shaqab with their prize at Al Shaqab equestrian centre’s indoor arena on Friday. (On right) The team of Class 3A 3rd winner Tiflah with their prize. The 21st Qatar National Arabian Horse Show which began on Friday will be held on two more days till Sunday. Cool Head keeps Australia alive as India bowlers strike AFP ADELAIDE

TRAVIS HEAD hit a stubborn half-century to keep Australia in the hunt on Friday after their top order slumped under sustained pressure from In- dia’s bowlers, leaving the first Test in Adelaide finely poised. Batting on his home ground, Head kept his cool in the humid conditions to be 61 not out at stumps on day two, with Mitchell Starc unbeaten on eight. His efforts helped steer Australia to 191-7 in reply to India’s 250. Off-spinner Ravichandran Ashwin bowled beautifully to take three wickets, while Ishant Sharma and Jasprit Bumrah grabbed two each. New Zealand spinner Will Somerville (centre) celebrates with team- It was Head’s second 50 in mates after taking the wicket of Pakistan captain Sarfraz Ahmed on his third Test, with the Ade- the fifth day of their third and final Test in Abu Dhabi on Friday. (AFP) laide-born 24-year-old playing the sort of gutsy innings that his more experienced team- Debutant Somerville mates couldn’t match. All of Australia’s top four were back in the pavilion with- shines as Kiwis out passing 30, with Aaron Australia batsman Travis Head plays a shot as India wicket-keeper Rishabh Pant and fielder K.L. Rahul look on during Day Two oftheir first Test Finch (0) and Shaun Marsh at the Adelaide Oval on Friday. (AFP) (2) notable failures. overwhelm Pak It once again reinforced SCOREBOARD how much Australia are miss- SCOREBOARD ing Steve Smith and David INDIA (1ST INNINGS; OVERNIGHT 250-9) (Ashwin), 8-210 (Sharma), 9-250 (Pujara), 10-250 U. Khawaja c Pant b Ashwin 28 Extras: (lb9, b6, nb2) 17 It is New Zealand’s Warner, who remain banned M. Shami c Paine b Hazlewood 6 (Shami). S. Marsh b Ashwin 2 TOTAL: (For 7 wickets; 88 overs) 191 J. Bumrah not out 0 Bowling: Starc 19-4-63-2, Hazlewood 20-3-52-3, P. Handscomb c Pant b Bumrah 34 Fall of wickets: 1-0 (Finch), 2-45 (Harris), 3-59 (Marsh), NEW ZEALAND (1ST INNINGS): 274 over their part in the South Af- Extras: (lb1) 1 Cummins 19-3-49-2, Lyon 28-2-83-2, Head 2-1-2-0. T. Head not out 61 4-87 (Khawaja), 5-120 (Handscomb), 6-127 (Paine), first away Test PAKISTAN (1ST INNINGS): 348 rica ball-tampering affair. TOTAL: (All Out, 88 overs) 250 AUSTRALIA (1ST INNINGS) T. Paine c Pant b Sharma 5 7-177 (Cummins); Bowling: Sharma 15-6-31-2, NEW ZEALAND (2ND INNINGS; OVERNIGHT 272-4) Fall of wickets: 1-3 (Rahul), 2-15 (Vijay), 3-19 (Kohli), A. Finch b Sharma 0 P. Cummins lbw b Bumrah 10 Bumrah 20-9-34-2, Shami 16-6-51-0, Ashwin 33-9-50- series win over K. Williamson lbw b Hasan 139 “It was nice to do a job for 4-41 (Rahane), 5-86 (Sharma), 6-127 (Pant), 7-189 M. Harris c Vijay b Ashwin 26 M. Starc not out 8 3, Vijay 4-1-10-0. Toss: India. H. Nicholls not out 126 the team and it will be an excit- Pakistan in 49 yrs C. de Grandhomme c Asif b Yasir 26 ing day tomorrow,” said Head. BJ Watling b Yasir 0 AFP T. Southee not out 15 Extras: (b9, lb 1, nb 1) ...... 11 ABU DHABI TOTAL: (For 7 wkts dec; 113 overs) ...... 353 Fall of wickets: 5-272 (Williamson), 6-334 QATAR SUPERSTOCK 600 & QATAR TOURING CAR CHAMPIONSHIP Pakistan recall DEBUTANT Will Somerville (Grandhomme), 7-334 (Watling). Bowling: Hasan 16-5-62-1, Shaheen 20-5-85-2, grabbed three key wickets to Yasir 39-8-129-4, Asif 36-6-62-0 (1nb), Azhar 1-0- Amir for SA guide New Zealand to their 2-0, Hafeez 1-0-3-0. first away series win over Paki- PAKISTAN (2ND INNINGS; TARGET: 280) Test series stan in 49 years with a crush- Imam-ul-Haq c Nicholls b Patel ...... 22 Defending champs Sulaiti and Mohammad Hafeez b Southee ...... 8 AFP ing 123-run win in the third Azhar Ali c Watling b de Grandhomme ...... 5 and final Test on Friday. Haris Sohail c Taylor b Somerville ...... 9 LAHORE The off-spinner took 3-52 Asad Shafiq c Watling b Somerville ...... 0 Babar Azam c Southee b Patel ...... 51 Khelaifi start season in style and was aided by fellow spin- PAKISTAN selectors Friday ner Ajaz Patel’s 3-42 as Paki- Sarfraz Ahmed b Somrville ...... 28 recalled fast bowler Moham- Bilal Asif c Watling b Southee ...... 12 TRIBUNE NEWS NETWORK stan came up well short after Yasir Shah c Patel b Southee ...... 4 car, managed to secure the mad Amir in the 16-member being set a daunting 280-run Hasan Ali c Williamson b Patel ...... 4 DOHA pole position with a lap time squad for the three-match Test target in 79 overs. Shaheen Shah Afridi not out ...... 2 of 2:25.368 and the Qatari will tour of South Africa starting Extras: (b4, lb6, nb1) ...... 11 The race will be They crumbled to 156 in TOTAL: (All out; 56.1 overs) ...... 156 QATAR Superstock 600 and start tomorrow from the front. later this month. 56.1 overs on a weary pitch at Fall of wickets: 1-19 (Hafeez), 2-32 (Azhar), 3-43 Qatar Touring Car Champion- difficult tomorrow “I am very happy to be Sarfraz Ahmed will lead Sheikh Zayed Stadium. (Sohail), 4-43 (Shafiq), 5-55 (Imam), 6-98 (Sarfraz), ship kicked off on Friday with with 12 laps and I back. I have a new car for this the side, which opens the tour The victory gave New Zea- 7-131 (Azam), 8-137 (Yasir), 9-150 (Azam). the qualifying sessions and believe there will be championship and after the with the first Test at Centurion land a 2-1 series win after they Bowling: Southee 12-3-42-3, Boult 6-4-7-0, de both defending champions free practice, I had minor is- from December 26. Grandhomme 4-1-3-1, Patel 14.1-4-42-3, a good fight between had taken the first Test by a Somerville 20-2-52-3. managed to keep the lead. sues that were solved luckily Pakistan will also play five narrow four-run margin at the Toss: New Zealand. In Qatar Superstock 600, Abdullah, Meshal and now I am ready to race,” one-day internationals and same venue. Pakistan bounced Result: New Zealand won by 123 runs. Saeed al Sulaiti took the first and myself. said Khelaifi. three Twenty20 internationals back with an innings and 16-run Series: New Zealand 2-1. pole of the season at the Lo- A total of twelve cars took on the tour, for which squads win in the second Test in Dubai. sail International Circuit and Saeed al Sulaiti part in the first round and the will be announced later. New Zealand’s last away ball resistance before getting clocked a lap time of 2:04.438. newcomer drivers proved to The second Test will be series win against Pakistan the last wicket when he dis- Sulaiti will start the race Saeed al Sulaiti at the Losail International Circuit on Friday. be very strong and will fight played at Cape Town from was a 1-0 victory in matches missed Hasan Ali for four, in the first row, ahead of com- for the championship title. January 3 to 7 next year, while played in Pakistan in 1969. sparking celebrations among patriot Mashel al Naimi, who with this lap time. The race managed to find a good set up in On Saturday, QSTK Race 1 the third and final match is Captain Kane Williamson, the New Zealand players. posted the second best time of will be difficult tomorrow with the Superpole with the used tyre will start at 11:30am and Race in Johannesburg from Janu- whose 139-run innings turned Pakistan were again let 2:05.296. Abdullah al Qubaisi 12 laps and I believe there will but still have some problem with 2 at 2:30pm. For QTCC, the ary 11 to 15. Amir was dropped the match and the series in down by sloppy batting and will start in third on the grid be a good fight between Abdul- the front tyre. Tomorrow in the first race is scheduled at 1pm, from the side after failing to get his side’s favour, said: “It was Sarfraz rued missed opportu- with a time of 2:05.321. lah, Meshal and myself so let’s warm up we will try to do some- and the second at 4pm. a single wicket in three Asia Cup fantastic. Beating Pakistan in nities. “We had our chances “I am really happy to get see tomorrow,” said Sulaiti. thing different with the front Qatar Superstock 600 and matches in UAE in September their backyard is very tough. in all three Tests but we could the Superpole. Compared to Although Meshal al Naimi fork,” he said. Qatar Touring Car Champi- this year. He missed Pakistan’s “It feels pretty special, and not grab them,” he said. last week in the official test, I couldn’t fix the problems with In the Qatar Touring Car onship is organised by Losail two-match Test series against this will be one that the guys “It’s very disappointing feel much better with the in- the front tyre from last week, Championship, the defendant Circuit Sports Club and Qatar Australia and then three Tests remember for a long time. to lose a series in conditions jury in my finger and actually he is satisfied with his second champion Abdullah al Khelaifi, Motor & Motorcycle Federation against New Zealand – both “We know the game can which are our own.” I didn’t expect to be in front position. “Overall I am happy. I although he is driving a new with Pirelli Qatar as sponsor. in UAE – but chief selector ebb and flow very quickly but Pakistan were off to a dis- Inzamam-ul-Haq believes the we came out and played very astrous start when Moham- left-armer has regained his well today.” mad Hafeez, in his last innings form in domestic matches. It was New Zealand’s fifth before he retires from Test “Amir makes a comeback Test series win in their last six cricket, was bowled by fast in the team after regaining his played since November 2016. bowler Tim Southee for eight. form in domestic cricket, giv- They beat Pakistan, Bangladesh, Medium pacer Colin de ing strength to a fast bowling the West Indies and England – Grandhomme had first-innings attack that includes four pace all at home – with the single loss centurion Azhar Ali caught be- bowlers,” said Inzamam while came against South Africa. hind for five before Somerville’s announcing the squad. Somerville, who took double strike pushed Pakistan Also staging comebacks are 4-75 in the first innings to to 55-5 at lunch. leg-spinner Shadab Khan, and finish with seven wickets in Somerville had Haris So- openers Fakhar Zaman and the match, broke a stubborn hail caught off a tentative Shan Masood. Zaman made his 43-run sixth-wicket stand push in the slip with his third Test debut against Australia be- between top scorer Babar ball of the first over for nine fore he was ruled out of the NZ Azam (51) and skipper Sarfraz and next ball had first innings series with a knee injury, while Ahmed, who made 28. centurion Asad Shafiq caught The Qatar Superstock 600 riders before the start of the championship The Qatar Touring Car Championship drivers prior to the start of their Shadab missed both series due Patel ended Azam’s 114- behind off the glove. at Losail International Circuit on Friday. race at Losail International Circuit on Friday. to a hamstring problem. 14 Saturday, December 8, 2018 Entertainment

KERRI WESTENBERG sailboat. The rest of us peered over TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE the sides in awe as a 40-foot-long behemoth descended below the WANTED to find wild Maui, so water on port and reappeared on naturally, I piled my family into starboard. An escort -- a male who a rental car for a five-hour drive accompanies a mother and her on a narrow road with single- baby to ward off predators -- had I lane bridges and curves so come to spy on us, just as we were sharp that I sometimes lost sight spying on him. of the pavement -- and oncom- The ukulele music pour- ing cars. Horns and brakes get a ing from the sound system may workout on this roadway. Knuck- have intrigued the les turn white. And, still, I decided whale, or maybe it that it was our path to paradise, was the sailboat’s remote Maui where Hawaiians rounded wooden outnumber haoles (aka mainland- hull. One thing is ers), horses graze on oceanside clear: He kept his pastures and the landscape drips distance from the with verdant beauty. other sightseeing Our destination, the tiny town boats on the water, of Hana, was all that. Especially metal monsters the dripping part. with vibrating mo- One day, five inches of rain fell tors. in an hour. We learned online that In Maui, boats some sections of the highway we are forbidden had braved -- the legendary Road from approaching to Hana -- had closed. I could think within 100 yards of of worse places to be stranded. But humpback whales. we were on Day Three of our win- Of course, they can ter escape and had not yet seen the come to us. sun. We had swum in a pool over- Our visit from looking the Pacific, strolled a black- the whale was a highlight of the sand beach, climbed a nearby peak vacation, but we had daily brushes -- and also reached for rain gear, with natural wonders. a lot. The Seven Sacred Pools in We saw few other hikers dur- Haleakala National Park, where we ing a windblown walk on the Ka- hiked on red-mud paths, appeared palua Coastal Trail. as one big gushing waterfall, the On a blustery day, we watched distinct pools drowned. Sunglasses SEEKING THE a lone windsurfer jump waves remained tucked in our bags. from our perch at wide-open One- The day after the deluge, we loa Beach. high-tailed it to the more popu- On several occasions, we snor- lous and, we hoped, sunny side of keled at Honolua Bay, marve- the island. We were ready to trade WILD SIDE OF ling at the abundance of fish; the wild Maui for better weather. But waters are part of the same ma- we soon discovered that we hadn’t rine life conservation district as left rugged scenes and near-emp- Slaughterhouse Beach. Across the ty beaches behind. They were all street, beside a creek, we ate cur- around us. ries and acai bowls from a food Sure, during our drive from truck staffed by cheerful, tattooed Hana to Kaanapali, we hit stop- millennials. and-go traffic in Paia, a surfer The day we wound our way to town, and again in Lahaina, where MAUI? the Nakalele Blowhole, we got a so- we inched our way past its busy ber reminder of how the astound- chain grocery stores and oceans- ing can turn ugly. Near the parking ide downtown filled with T-shirt lot stood makeshift memorials for shops and restaurants. Yes, hotels people who have lost their lives by with intensely manicured lawns EASY, IT’S EVERYWHERE falling into the hole or getting hit line the shores of West Maui. But by a wave on the low-lying lava this side of the island -- where sun- coast. We hiked down, but kept a shine generally rules and tourists careful distance as ocean waters flock _ holds authentic, quiet, un- burst skyward like a geyser. Lava trampled pockets, too. And we had lobby, she handed out umbrellas to the ocean roiling with white- rocks on the hillside were pitted by found one that very night, Slaugh- and sympathy. Path to bliss, verdant beauty caps, she said, “Such force and the periodic beating of saltwater. terhouse Beach. Nearby, a list of the day’s ac- power. There’s nothing but ocean On one of our last days on Just 10 minutes after leav- tivities was pinned to a bulletin In this remote island, Hawaiians outnumber haoles between us and South America.” Maui, we headed to Napili Bay, ing our condo, we parked the car board. Horseback riding: canceled. (aka mainlanders), horses graze on oceanside pastures I checked a map later. She which, like all of the places we on the highway shoulder, where Outrigger canoeing on Hana Bay: and the landscape drips with stupendous beauty. would be right -- on the geographic visited on this side of the island, a small blue sign was our only canceled. In Maui, boats are forbidden from approaching within claim -- if it weren’t for Mexico, the was not far from where we stayed. clue that we had found the beach; Undeterred, we put on rain- 100 yards of humpback whales. Of course, they can first land mass east of Hana. No Napili is known for its coral reef it noted that the area is part of a coats and set off for a hike in the come to visitors. And you can have daily brushes way to verify the aliens. and colorful fish. We’d arrived be- marine life conservation district. Dr. Seuss-like, almost psychedeli- with natural wonders One morning, we chartered a fore lunch, and already the beach We climbed down steep stairs and cally green Waianapanapa State whale-watching sail on the Scotch was crowded with visitors and over thick tree roots to Park. We crossed its Mist, which we boarded at Lahaina their snorkeling gear. We squeezed a small cove, where black-sand beach and Harbor. our towels onto the sand and head- the only other group followed an ancient Our captain and his skipper ed to the water, where face down, appeared to be Na- coastal trail across looked like bandits, their faces cov- we spotted bright yellow tangs, tive Hawaiians. Jag- volcanic rock host- ered to their sunglasses with neck languid sea turtles and other crea- ged rocks dotted Travel ing a riot of growth. gaiters. “You can’t put on enough tures, including occasional fellow the sands. Towering We were so taken sunscreen when you’re on the wa- snorkelers. lava cliffs hugged the wwith the park’s strange ter all day,” the skipper told me. In that crowded bay, nature bit beach. We watched as cragcraggy charms that we al- We were just happy to see the sun. back. turquoise waves curled most failed to notice we were Soon, we were gliding out to My arm began to tingle and and crashed. wet. sea on a gentle breeze, black giants on shore, I discovered I’d been Clouds hovered, but rain rarely We took the Road to Hana tantalizing us in the distance. brushed by the tentacles of a jel- fell during the next seven days. We -- this time beyond the town, hoped for scraps. women -- yoga instructors from A mother and calf appeared, lyfish. happened to be in Maui during an where it grows recklessly narrow We even put on swimsuits; Lahaina -- joined us. One looked rising to the surface and flipping Fortunately, saltwater can unusually wet winter. But on this and passes the churchyard where then, quickly, sweatshirts over at the swirling steam rising from tails. The baby breached several tamp down the sting. We headed leeward side of the island, volcanic Charles Lindbergh is buried -- to them. At the pool, we had our pick the warm water and spoke of al- times, jumping from the water and to Slaughterhouse for one last dive peaks generally hold clouds on the lush Haleakala National Park. of lounge chairs. We toweled them iens among us; we can’t see them slamming back down. Then came into its fierce waves. As the ocean far side, where our trip began. For lunch in town, we walked dry, sat down but soon hopped in because they occupy a different di- the real close encounter. washed over me, the welts on my “So sad, all this rain. Very unu- to the Thai food truck and ate deli- the empty pool and settled in the mension, she explained. Then she The captain pleaded with a arm went away, the burn subsided sual,” the receptionist at our Hana cious concoctions at picnic tables hot tub. turned our attention to something humpback to spare the boat’s keel, and the pervasive wilds of Maui resort lamented. In the open-air under a tent, where a lazy dog Two friendly middle-aged grounded in our world. Motioning a shaft that goes deep below the proved their powers again.

Emergency resuscitation device boosts cardiac arrest survival rate

PREMIUM HEALTH NEWS SERVICE “For over three decades, emer- rates among 3,000 adults with car- gency medical services personnel in diac arrest treated by paramedic the U.S. have performed intubation crews from 27 emergency medical HEN paramedics resus- to deliver oxygen into the lungs of services (EMS) agencies from De- citated cardiac arrest pa- cardiac arrest victims. While iden- cember 2015 to November 2016. tients with a new type of tical to techniques used by doctors Approximately half received the breathing tube, their pa- in the hospital, intubation in the newer laryngeal tube airway, while Wtients were more likely to prehospital setting is very difficult the other half received traditional survive. and fraught with errors,” Wang endotracheal intubation. “Based upon these results, use said. “Our trial showed that cardiac Overall, survival was higher in of the newer, more could result in arrest patients treated using the the new tube device group than the thousands of saved lives newer and easier laryngeal standard intubation group. With every year,” said Henry tube device may have a the new tube, 18.3 percent survived E. Wang, M.D., M.S., higher survival rate.” three days in the hospital, while in professor and vice Sudden cardiac the intubation group, 15.4 percent chair for research in arrest, or loss of me- survived three days. A total of 10.8 the Department of chanical activity of percent in the new tube group sur- Emergency Medicine. Health the heart, is usually vived to leave the hospital, while “This is one of the caused by a heart at- 8.1 percent in the intubation group first randomized trials tack.tac More than 400,000 survived to leave the hospital. The to show that a paramed- individuals are treated for proportion of patients surviving ic airway intervention can improve out-of-hospital cardiac arrest each with good brain function was also cardiac arrest survival,” said Wang, year, with the vast majority oc- higher for the new device than who described the study as a mul- curring at home, according to the standard intubation. ticenter head-to-head comparison American Heart Association. Stud- While additional research is between the newer intubation tube ies show that only about 10 percent needed to support the study’s find- and a traditional one. of people who suffer cardiac ar- ings, the researchers believe that Funded by the National Heart, rest outside the hospital survive. the benefits of the newer airway de- Lung, and Blood Institute, the Delivery of oxygen to the lungs is vice are due to its easier technique, study is the largest of its kind to a critical part of reviving a patient leading to better blood flow and test oxygen delivery methods used from cardiac arrest. The research oxygen delivery. They are continu- by firefighters, emergency medical study -- Pragmatic Airway Resus- ing to analyze the data to gain addi- technicians and paramedics. citation Trial -- compared survival tional insight into the study results. Saturday, December 8, 2018 15 Kids Corner

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Amir, Malaysian PM unveil anti-corruption monument

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THE Amir His Highness Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al Thani and the Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mo- hamad unveiled a steel monument symbolising solidar- ity among nations to fight corruption, in Putrajaya in Kuala Lumpur on Friday. Former Tunisian President Dr Mohammed Mouncef al Marzouki, UN Secretary-General Representative and Executive Director of the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime Yuri Fedotov, Malaysia’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Saifuddin bin Abdullah, Minister of Jus- tice of Azerbaijan Fikrat Mammadov and a number of members of the Supreme Committee to select the win- ners and senior officials attended the event. The event was also attended by the members of the official delegation accompanying HH the Amir. The monument, shaped like a hand, symbolises all countries around the world uniting to combat corrup- tion. The geometrical configurations of the monument represent the combined efforts of all nations to stop corruption. Spaces in the monument represent trans- parency. This, third monument, is the largest in size. Meanwhile, HH the Amir left Kuala Lumpur on Fri- day evening after a work visit to Malaysia. HH the Amir and the accompanying delegation were seen off upon departure at Kuala Lumpur International Airport by Malaysia’s Foreign Minister Saifuddin Abdul- lah, Qatar’s Ambassador to Malaysia HE Fahad bin Mo- hammed Kafood and members of the Qatari Embassy. HH the Amir sent cables to the prime minister of Malaysia, expressing deep thanks and appreciation for the hospitality and honour accorded to him and the ac- companying delegation during the visit, which allowed meetings with the PM, and the exchange of views on is- sues of common concern and means of strengthening and promoting the friendly relations and cooperation between the two countries in various fields for the good and the benefit of the two peoples. HH the Amir wished the president and the prime minister the best of health and happiness, and the friend- ly people of Malaysia further progress and prosperity. HH the Amir returned to Doha later in the evening. ‘Fight against corruption can’t be won unless a leader believes in it’

Continued from page 1 Ô the United Nations Headquarters. He added neither an acceptable cost of doing busi- that this year, this award is being held in ness nor a necessary evil. It is a serious HE stressed that the war on corruption can Kuala Lumpur. crime, and simply unacceptable”. be won only when those fighting believe that UN Secretary General’s Representa- He went on saying: “Corruption harms it can be won. tive and Executive Director of the UN Of- us all. It stifles growth and innovation, and “The corrupt cannot fight corruption. fice on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) Yury enables many other crimes, from the illicit Unless you find a leader who believes in the Fedotov said that 15 years ago, there was trafficking of drugs, arms and people to the elimination of corruption, you will not win, no global instrument to criminalise cor- poaching and pillaging of natural resources no matter how hard you fight,” he said. ruption. Now nearly every country in the and cultural heritage.” He pointed that the award is being pre- world is a party to the UN Convention The UNODC Executive Director com- sented in support of the United Nations, ex- against Corruption and they cooperate mended the Amir HH Sheikh Tamim bin plaining the first award was held in Vienna and provide mutual legal assistance to Hamad al Thani for the International Anti- in 2016 in the presence of the former Secre- prevent and fight corruption, stressing Corruption Excellence Awards to recognise tary-General of the United Nations, Ban Ki- that the convention “represents the fun- exceptional efforts made by individuals, Moon, and the second was held in Geneva at damental recognition that corruption is groups and organisations around the world. Sheikh Tamim Anti-Corruption Award aims to fight Shura to take corruption for sustainable development, says Marri part in COP 24 conference in QNA Hamad Al-Thani Internation- to emphasize that the Arab their role in attracting foreign KUALA LUMPUR al Anti-Corruption Excellence world must pay attention to investments, Marri said there Poland tomorrow Award’, the attorney-general the fight against corruption, are serious, strong and reli- ATTORNEY-GENERAL and said the hosting of this event the state of law, and division able organisations and there QNA President of International by Malaysia stemmed from of powers, in addition to en- are other bodies that exploit DOHA Association of Anti-Corrup- its appreciation of the role suring that the weak citizen other political goals or dis- tion Authorities (IAACA) HE of Malaysian people in anti- is protected by law, and to al- tort them and such organisa- THE Advisory (Shura) Dr Ali bin Fetais al Marri af- corruption issues. The people low judicial bodies to fight all tions lose their credibility in a Council will participate firmed that ‘Sheikh Tamim and the leadership’s belief in forms of corruption. short period of time. in the 24th session of the bin Hamad al Thani Interna- combating corruption is the He said this award also On the idea of establish- Conference of the Par- tional Anti-Corruption Excel- shortest path to sustainable sends a message to the world ing a Qatari advisory coun- ties (COP 24) to the Unit- lence Award’ was launched at development, he said, while to cooperate with the UN, cil for the award, Marri ex- ed Nations Framework the initiative of the Amir HH noting that a war on corrup- which is the best partner in plained that this award is Convention on Climate Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al tion is the only way for sus- such cases. “Qatari-born, but it is a global Change (UNFCCC), slated Thani, to support the efforts tainable development across Dr Marri said the award’s award and cannot be linked for Sunday in Poland. of the United Nations (UN) in the world. memorial, unveiled at the Pu- to Qatar”. He pointed out that The conference will fighting corruption in order Marri praised the role trajaya Square in Kuala Lum- HH the Amir’s initiative was discuss means of imple- to support development and played by Malaysia Prime pur, would send a message not aimed at Qatar, as it is a menting the Paris Climate encourage those who have Minister Dr Mahathir Mo- that there is someone fighting developed country in the is- Accord, which aims to con- undertaken the task of com- hamad in fighting corrup- Attorney-General HE Dr Ali bin Fetais al Marri. against corruption and that sues of transparency and the tain high temperatures and bating corruption with finan- tion and eradicating crime, transparency is a strong tool fight against corruption. “His reduce emissions, as well cial prizes. to make Malaysia a model for Marri said the Arab world ruption”. in the face of corruption. Highness aimed through this as how parliamentarians At a press conference on countries that have succeed- suffers from two important He said the award’s aim is On the importance of award to help countries of the can have a greater impact Friday, after the distribution ed in achieving sustainable issues -- “the absence of jus- to act as a “warning bell”, and classifications issued by anti- world that suffer from these on achieving the objectives of the ‘Sheikh Tamim bin development. tice and rule of law, and cor- to cooperate with the UN, corruption organisations and problems,” he said. of this accord.