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Qatar treats thousands of Deputy Amir meets Russian Chief Justice patients from siege nations FAZEENA SALEEM A total of 232,576 1,883 from the UAE, and 11,643 THE PENINSULA patients from siege from Saudi Arabia were treated at HMC hospitals. DOHA: Qatar is continuing to countries were The PHCC’s health centres provide treatment for patients treated across Hamad have treated 101,802 patients hailing from the blockading Medical Corporation from the blockading countries countries and has treated a total and Primary Health and they have made 503,885 of 232,576 medical cases across visits in the last 14 months. Hamad Medical Corporation Care Corporation in “All these are people residing (HMC) and Primary Health Care the last 14 months. in Qatar,” said Dr Al Maslamani. Corporation (PHCC) in the last 14 A total of 22,793 in-patients months. from the blockading countries Among them 6,136 are from Hamad General Hospital (HGH) were treated at HMC hospitals. Bahrain, 203,705 from Egypt, told The Peninsula. About 130 patients with 2,945 from the UAE, and 19,790 “We have continued to treat kidney failure have sought from Saudi Arabia. They have patients from the blockading services at HMC’s dialysis units made 1.08 million visits to dif- countries and we will continue at different hospitals. ferent facilities across HMC and treating them,” he added. The HGH and National Centre PHCC from June 5, 2017 to As many as 138,414 have for Cancer Care and Research has August 4, 2018, according to data availed the services provided at provided chemotherapy released yesterday. HMC hospital network and they treatment for 184 patients from “Humanity supersede any- have made 451,183 visits to dif- the blockading countries and 169 thing. We will treat all patients, ferent facilities. have undergone surgeries as part because they are humans and of cancer care at the HMC. Deputy Amir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani met at the Amiri Diwan yesterday with Chief Qatar is a humane country. We More than 2,000 women Justice of the Supreme Court of the Russian Federation, Lebedev Vyacheslav Mikhailovich, and his will treat all patients despite have undergone normal deliv- accompanying delegation on the occasion of his visit to the country. The meeting reviewed ways their nationality, either form eries or caesarian section at HMC of developing the bilateral cooperation, especially in the legal and judicial fields. blockading or non blockading The Pediatric Emergency hospitals. Among them 58 are country. Politics will never Centres of HMC have treated Bahraini, 1,727 are Egyptians, 36 interfere into medical 30,640 cases during the said are Emirati and 355 are from treatment,” Dr Yousef Al period. A total of 3, 757 patients Saudi Arabia. Maslamani, Medical Director of from Bahrain, 121,127 from Egypt, Approximately 960 patients from the four blockading coun- Silatech provides one million jobs in 16 countries tries have availed services for SAUDI ARABIA: 19,790 trauma. Around 300 adult patients THE PENINSULA eighth session of the Global and others, said a statement. and 28 children under the age of Donors Forum in London, Al Emadi gave a brief 14 years, from the blockading DOHA: Since its establishment, entitled “Building Resilient Eco- overview of Silatech and its countries have undergone sur- Silatech has been able to provide systems Philanthropys Response journey which was launched in UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: 2,945 geries for cardiac problems. A total one million jobs for needy youth to Inequality and Societal 2008, saying the idea to of 8,275 patients have undergone in more than 16 countries, in Tensions”. establish Silatech was born out surgeries for different types of ill- cooperation with its govern- The forum saw a wide par- of a vision of HH Sheikha Moza BAHRAIN: 6,136 nesses. Among them the highest mental and non-governmental ticipation of representatives bint Nasser, that supporting the number of 2,482 surgeries were partners. from governments, financial future of youth supports all performed at the HGH. This came during a presen- institutions and academics, society. EGYPT: 203,705 tation by Executive Director of charity counsellors, humani- →SEE ALSO PAGE 5 Silatech Faisal Al Emadi, at the tarian and relief organisations →CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 Over 200% rise in value of real estate deals Turkish Souq targets SACHIN KUMAR expected to grow in the coming plots. Total 174 villa complexes August 26 to August 30 at the THE PENINSULA years, as the government has were sold in July which involved Ministry of Justice’s real estate 5 million products in 2019 taken several measures in the transactions worth QR613m registration department stood MOHAMMAD SHOEB DOHA: The real estate sector of past to boost construction and Qatar real estate market has at QR211.5m. quarter of 2019 the range of Qatar has shown strong real estate sector. performed well in the last week The department’s weekly THE PENINSULA products will reach over five performance in July. The value In December last year, the of August, showed the data by report said that the trading million,” Faleh bin Mohammed of sold properties has jumped by Cabinet had approved the draft Ministry of Justice’s real estate included vacant lands, resi- DOHA: Qatar Post (Q-Post) has Al Naeimi, Chairman and Man- about 224 percent in July this law on regulating non-Qatari registration department. dential units, multipurpose revealed that its e-commerce aging Director of Q-Post told year compared previous month. ownership and use of real estate. The trading volume of reg- buildings, residential buildings platform — Turkish Souq — will The Peninsula. Rising transactions in summer In terms of geography, most istered real estates between and multipurpose empty lands. achieve the target of offering Al Naeimi added: “We at shows the robustness of Qatar’s of the deals happened in Doha fivemillion products by early Q-Post are expanding our oper- real estate sector. Municipality, which is a most next year, said a top official of ations rapidly, especially in the The total value of sold prop- happening area in the country. ROBUST REAL ESTATE the company. logistics sector, helping our erties reached around QR4.3bn Total 429 deals were completed Launched early this year, clients and corporate to reach out in July, showing a whopping rise in July this year, out of which 123 DEALS IN 2018 the online shopping facility by to customers worldwide. We are of around QR3bn compared to deals happened in Doha Monthly rise in value of Q-Post, will see the massive also introducing new products June. The value of sold prop- Municipality. QR3bn jump in the product range and services as part of our erties stood at around QR1.33bn This municipality saw sold properties in July within a very short span of time, expansion plan and transfor- in June this year, according to several big deals showing that Total value of sold which will be offering nearly 25 mation journey, which is to be the Ministry of Development buyers are ready to pay higher QR4.3bn properties in July 2018 times more items compared to completed by early next year.” Planning and Statistics data. price for properties in this area. the current level of 200,000 He noted that over the last Spike in deals in July Of the total QR4.3bn deals, Rise in the value of sold properties products available to the couple of years, Q-Post has assumes importance as summer highest transactions were wit- 135% in July 2017 against July 2018 customers. already introduced several is usually considered to be a rel- nessed in Doha Municipality, The online shopping changes, which included a lot atively dull season for real estate where a total of around QR1.9bn Total value of sold properties platform (turkishsouq.qa) pro- of new services such as market. Compared to other transactions took place. QR1.8bn in July 2017 vides easy access to Turkish logistics, home-delivery and months, less number of deals Al Rayyan Municipality came products ranging from clothing, e-commerce services. take place as several residents second in attracting buyers as Transactions for vacant shoes, accessories, home fur- He also noted that Q-Post are out of country on vacation. 88 deals involving transactions QR1.4bn plots of land in July. nishing, furniture and as well is giving top priority to a lot of Along with month-on- worth QR1.2bn took place during as vehicle parts and everything services, which is the main month increase, the rising trend July. Value of sold properties in in-between, all at a flat delivery business of the organisation. It was visible on year-on- year Majority of buyers were QR1.9bn Doha Municipality in July rate of QR50 by Q-Post. has achieved significant comparison also. When com- interested in villa complexes, “Turkish Souq is doing improvement in this regard. pared to same month (July) last apartment buildings and vacant excellent. Given the sharp rise “We are giving global priority year, the value of sold properties plots of land in July. in trade volumes and over- to improve the quality of our has risen by around 135 percent In terms of value of deals, whelming response, we are services which has helped us as the total transactions stood at vacant plots of land were at the introducing large number of earn international recognition. QR1.8bn. top, as transactions involving new products on the webstore. The real estate sector is around QR1.4bn were for vacant And we hope that by the first →CONTINUED ON PAGE 8 02 HOME WEDNESDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2018

Qatar, UNIDO explore ways to boost relations Deputy PM & FM Backpacks, less sends message to Bulgarian activity trigger counterpart

SOFIA: Deputy Prime back pain in kids Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman FAZEENA SALEEM Al Thani has sent a written THE PENINSULA message to the Deputy Prime Minister in Charge of the Judi- ciary Reform and Minister of DOHA: The number of children Foreign Affairs in the visiting Orthopedic Clinics at the Republic of Bulgaria, Ekat- Hamad General Hospital (HGH) erina Zakharieva, pertaining for muscle and joint pain has to bilateral ties and means to increased recently. support and develop them. Most of them have developed Qatar’s Ambassador to complications due to wrong use Bulgaria, Rashid bin Ali Al of backpacks and less physical Khater, handed the message activity, said an expert during a meeting with Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani yesterday. 30kg-35kg weight, the bag Zakharieva. met yesterday with the Director-General of the United Nations Industrial Development Organization At least 40 percent of should not weigh more than 3kg children visit the clinics suffer to 4kr kg with books,” said Dr (UNIDO), LI Yong, during the official visit to Austria. During the meeting, they discussed ways to back, neck, shoulder and muscle Alnori. promote the relations between the State of Qatar and UNIDO. They also discussed increasing Qatar, US team pain, said Dr Omar Alnori (pic- An appropriate backpack technical cooperation between Qatar and UNIDO in the industrial development field. tured), Associate Consultant, should be light weight with mul- discuss Mideast Orthopedic and Spine Surgery, tiple compartments. It should be HGH while speaking to media packed with essential books and Security Alliance persons. with heavier ones towards the “Children visit us at the age trunk. Length of the backpack of 13 or 14 years. It is more should be from the shoulder to Qatar supports dialogue of civilisations DOHA: A United States dele- common than before. Some the waist-line of a child. gation led by General (Retd) children we see in the clinic now “Straps should be wide and DOHA: The Secretary-General of the Ministry of Bulgarian nurses during the period of Gaddafi in Anthony Zinni visited Doha. have early arthritis in the lower on both shoulders of the child to Foreign Affairs, H E Ahmed bin Hassan Al Libya, the transfer of Catholic hostages in Syria The delegation met with back. But they are young and balance weight. Or it will cause Hammadi, has underlined that the State of Qatar to Lebanon, the mediation between Eritrea and senior Qatari officials to about 16 or 18 years old,” he said. lower back pain. Straps of the pays special attention to the issue of the Alliance Djibouti and other diplomatic mediation efforts discuss the Middle East “To reduce joint and muscle backpack should be tightened as of Civilizations, noting that the Qatar National of the State of Qatar.” Security Alliance, a proposed pains at the early age, children well as waist and chest straps will Vision 2030 affirmed the patronage and support Dr Al Hammadi referred to the message of the initiative that the US is devel- should be encouraged to do more give extra support for the child,” of dialogue of civilisations and coexistence among Qatari Committee of the Alliance of Civilizations, oping with partners from the sport activities and follow correct said Dr Alnori. different religions and cultures. which was established in 2010, to enhance the region, said a statement. practices while using backpacks. He also said that trolley bags Speaking during his meeting with the United role of the State of Qatar in highlighting the con- The American and Qatari In most cases we give advice to are safer for children compared Nations Alliance of Civilizations delegation yes- tribution of Islamic civilization, as well as its role delegations had a productive change their lifestyle,” he added. to backpacks. However, Dr terday, he said that “Qatar’s support for the dia- in promoting dialogue, resolving conflicts. exchange of views and will A safe backpack weight Alnori insisted that children logue of civilisations, culture of dialogue and con- For his part, UN Envoy for Humanitarian continue discussions on this should be within 10 or 15 percent should use trolley bags carefully, flict resolution is reflected in its successful initi- Affairs Dr. Ahmed bin Mohammed Al Muraikhi initiative. General Zinni is the of the child’s weight. especially while getting into atives to resolve disputes and mediation in several met with the visiting UN Alliance of Civilizations former commander of the US “If the child is about vehicles. issues, including the Darfur issue, the case of the delegation. Central Command. Arab League foreign ministers discuss UNRWA crisis THE PENINSULA participating in this meeting with its responsibilities towards Pal- in 2018. Qatar’s donation will a delegation headed by Minister estinian refugees. In May, the also enable the continuation of DOHA: The meeting of Arab of State for Foreign Affairs H E State of Qatar signed an the provision of UNRWA League foreign ministers to Sultan bin Saad Al Muraikhi. agreement with UNRWA, in the services in the region during this discuss the lack of financial The meeting is held at the presence of Deputy Prime Min- period of financial crisis and support threatening the United request of the Kingdom of ister and Minister of Foreign political turmoil. Nation Relief and Works Agency Jordan to discuss the repercus- Affairs H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Meanwhile, Minister of State for Palestine Refugees (UNRWA) sions of the severe financial Abdulrahman Al Thani. for Foreign Affairs H E Sultan bin was held yesterday at the head- shortage faced by UNRWA in its Under the signed agreement, Saad Al Muraikhi met here yes- quarters of the General Secre- various areas of operation. the State of Qatar will donate terday with the Commissioner tariat of the Arab League. UNRWA’s serious fiscal $50m to protect Palestinian ref- General of the UNRWA, Pierre The meeting was prior to the deficit threatens not to ugees’ access to basic education Krahenbuhl, on the sideline of meeting of the Council of the provide its humanitarian and in 2018. The donation will be the 150th session of the Arab Arab League at its 150th session educational services to more used immediately to sustain the League Ministerial Council. on the ministerial level, chaired than five million Palestinian Agency’s educational services They discussed the role of by Sudan. The meeting was par- refugees in its five areas of in all five UNRWA regions: UNRWA in providing the needs ticipates by Arab ministers of operation. The special session Jordan, Gaza and the West Bank, of five million Palestinian ref- foreign affairs or their represent- aims to emphasize the impor- including East Jerusalem, Syria, ugees in addition to the Agency’s atives with the presence of the tance of providing the Agency and Lebanon, during the period financial shortfalls in light of the Minister of State for Foreign Affairs H E Sultan bin Saad Al Muraikhi, Secretary-General of the Arab with financial, moral and between June and October 2018. reduction of financial support at the meeting. League, Ahmed Aboul Gheit. political support to ensure The State of Qatar is one of provided by the US and ways to The State of Qatar is that it continues to discharge the biggest donors to the Agency face it. Turkish team reviews technological systems at MoI THE PENINSULA The delegation Ministry Brig. Khalifa Sultan Al Qatar, adding that in light of the understood the Harami said that the visit comes development of relations DOHA: A delegation from the as a complement to the visit made between the two countries, Scientific and Technological services provided earlier by a delegation of Ministry Turkish Council seeks to enhance Research Council of Turkey in the field of of Interior engineers to Turkey. cooperation in the field of reviewed the advanced techno- communications He added that these visits aim communications. logical systems at the Ministry of and the advanced to exchange experiences between He noted the development of Interior (MoI) during a visit to the the Turkish and Qatari sides in communications technologies Communications Department at technologies used. the field of technology and and systems at the Ministry of the Ministry, within its current achieve cooperation between the Interior. The Communications Qatar, Syria discuss ties visit to Qatar. two parties in terms of research, Department of the Ministry of the The delegation listened to an the Ministry of Interior and the information technology, and Interior of Qatar has several The Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, H E Dr explanation about the technical advanced technologies used. network security. advanced technological systems, Ahmed bin Hassan Al Hammadi, met with the Ambassador of Syrian sections of the Communications The Turkish delegation made Vice-President of Business which provide good communi- Republic to the State of Qatar, Nizar Al Haraki. They discussed Department and the services pro- a presentation about its duties. Development at Turkish Council cation services in the Ministry bilateral relations and means of supporting and developing them vided in the field of communica- Assistant Director of Communi- Orhan Muratoglu expressed and the security services in Qatar, as well as issues of mutual concern. tions in various departments of cations Department at the pleasure to visit the State of he added. Qatar reiterates interest in promoting rights of older persons QNA Nations Office in Geneva Abdulla Khalifa He said the promotion and pro- important of which are religious duty He said Qatar has passed legislations Al Suwaidi before the 39th session of tection of the rights of older persons and cultural values that emphasize the guaranteeing the elderly all rights such GENEVA: The State of Qatar has the Human Rights Council (Item 3) on have two aspects: one is a moral and reverence and protection of the older as social security, housing, work and affirmed its interest in the rights of older clustered interactive dialogue with UN value aspect that is to recognize the persons as well as the promotion of their legal protection. At the same time, it persons based on fundamental prin- independent expert on the enjoyment older persons’ contributions, capacities rights, adding: “Convinced that the established specialized institutions, ciples, the most important of which are of all human rights by older persons and and rights to live in dignity and inde- family constitutes the natural envi- topped by the Centre for Elderly religious duty and cultural values that UN special rapporteur on the human pendently, while the other is a material ronment for the life of any person, the Empowerment & Care (Ehsan) of the emphasize the reverence and protection rights to safe drinking water and one that is to provide adequate resources State has devoted attention to building Qatar Foundation for Social Work which of older persons as well as the promotion sanitation. that respond to the special needs of the a strong and cohesive family which provides the older persons with health, of their rights. Al Suwaidi said social exclusion older persons. Al Suwaidi said in line remains the pillar of the protection and social and psychological services This was stated in Qatar’s statement affects the quality of life, the cohesion with this concept, Qatar’s interest in the promotion of the rights of all its through a variety of services and pro- delivered by Second Secretary at Qatar’s and integration of older persons in rights of older persons has been based members, in particular the older grams, including residential care, day Permanent Delegation to the United society as a whole. on fundamental principles, the most persons.” care, mobile home care and aftercare. WEDNESDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2018 HOME 03

Venezuelan President receives credentials of Ambassador of Qatar French President grants Qatar Ambassador National Order of Merit The President of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, Nicolas Maduro, has received the credentials of Rashid Mohsin Abdullah Fetais as Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the State of Qatar to Venezuela. The Ambassador conveyed the greetings of Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani to the President, wishing him the best of health and the government and people of Venezuela further progress and prosperity. For his part, the President entrusted the Qatari Ambassador with his greetings to H H the Amir and his wishes of further development and prosperity to the Qatari people. The President wished the Qatari Ambassador success in his new duties to push forward the friendship and cooperation relations The President of the French Republic, Emmanuel Macron, granted Qatar’s Ambassador to France, between Qatar and Khalid bin Rashid Al Mansouri, the National Order of Merit with the rank of Commander on the Venezuela. occasion of the ending of his tenure. Training course on sign language for Traffic Department staff THE PENINSULA said that it is part of the training plans of the Society which aims to rehabilitate DOHA: Qatar Society for Rehabilitation persons with disabilities and provide of Special Needs is organising a training ways to communicate with different sec- course on sign language which is used tions of the society. to communicate with hearing-impaired The move also aims at providing people for a group of officers and non- access for such segment to various commissioned officers of Traffic services in all state facilities easily Department. through easy and smooth communi- The course aims at educating sign cation between them and service pro- language to the officers so they could viders of all levels like traffic officers communicate in a better way with and non-commissioned officers. hearing-impaired people in providing First Lt. Azan Abdullah Al Kathiri, them services of Traffic Department, Head of Training and Development LEFT: Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Al Thani, the Chairman of Qatar Society for Rehabilitation of Special Needs. RIGHT: Officers said a release. Department of Traffic Awareness of Traffic Department are receiving lessons to communicate with hearing-impaired people. A three-week training course will Department of the General Directorate cover topics like communication skills of Traffic, said that the training course to deal with people with impaired experts of sign language from reputed Chairman of Qatar Society for Rehabil- the Ministry of Interior and its various is aimed at educating traffic officers and hearing, basic knowledge of sign lan- institutions have been invited to deliver itation of Special Needs, said that the departments, including the General introducing them sign language so that guage and advanced level of sign lan- lectures on said topics. training course is being held under the Directorate of Traffic. they can communicate with the people guage through practical training. Many Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Al Thani, cooperation between the Society and Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Al Thani with hearing-impaired. 04 HOME WEDNESDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2018 Qatar Post gets international accreditations for performance

THE PENINSULA Qatar Post has been and Safety Management System awarded three ISO ISO OHSAS 18001 Assessment DOHA: Qatar Post has been certifications in the Series. internationally recognised for The certificates have been its quality performance and categories of Quality, awarded following a compre- awarded three ISO certifications Environment and hensive and extensive external in the categories of Quality, Health and Safety audit that demonstrated the Environment and Health and compliance of Qatar Post to Safety Management by the UK’s Management by the these three systems with recog- accreditation body BEREAU UK’s accreditation nised standards globally in VERITAS. body BEREAU accordance to the International The international accredi- VERITAS. Organization for Standardi- tations were granted for Qatar zation (ISO). Post’s integrated management Faleh bin Mohammed Al system, which included three Naemi, Chairman and Managing ISO certifications in Quality Environmental Management Director of Qatar Post, hailed the Management System ISO9001, System ISO14001 and Health ISO certification as a great CEO of QMC and GCC official discuss ties achievement stating that Qatar Post has invested heavily over The Chief Executive Officer of Qatar Media Corporation, H E Sheikh Abdulrahman bin Hamad Al the past years to improve the Thani, met yesterday with the Director-General of the Joint Program Production Institution of the quality of its operations and cus- tomer services. Gulf Cooperation Council, Ali Hassan Al Rayes. During the meeting, they discussed bilateral relations “We are pleased with the between the two sides and means of enhancing them. outcome of the comprehensive audit and accreditation process applied to our administration systems to measure our capacity in providing basic postal services, financial services, e-commerce and e-gov- Qatar and Russia explore ernment,” he added. The accreditation, which was announced on August 7 will legal and judicial relations be valid until 2021, covers THE PENINSULA various areas of postal opera- tions including quality, health, safety, environment, sales, mar- DOHA: The Chief Executive keting, transformation, strategy Officer of Qatar International / change management, human Court, Faisal bin Rashid Al resources, finance, Security, IT, Sahouti, yesterday received a procurement, processing, Russian Judicial delegation delivery and ports. headed by Professor In the final quarter of 2017, Vyacheslav Mikhailovich Qatar Post achieved 100% Lebedev, the President of the service completion for standard Supreme Court in the Russian postal services according to Federation. reports from the UPU – GMS. As During the meeting, they for the quality level of the same discussed means of enhancing year, Qatar Post exceeded the the legal and judicial relations target (80%) after reaching between Qatar International 95.8%, the second highest per- Court and the Supreme Court The Russian delegation during a visit to Qatar International Court Qatar Post Chairman and Managing Director receiving international centage for best International of the Russian Federation. and Dispute Resolution Centre. accreditations. mail. As part of their visit, CEO of Qatar International Court, Faisal bin Rashid Al Sahouti, the establishment of the Qatar and investment disputes that gave a detailed explanation of International Court. may arise from the transactions the successful attempt by the Qatar International Court is of international financial com- State of Qatar to establish its the first specialised court in the panies which operate through specialised judiciary through State to look into commercial the Qatar Financial Centre.

QRCS ready to support EAA condemns displaced people attack near school in in northern Syria Afghanistan THE PENINSULA the morbidity and mortality THE PENINSULA rates, QRCS will support the DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent health facilities that offer emer- Society (QRCS) is preparing an gency services and provide DOHA: Education Above All emergency response plan to primary health care, particularly (EAA) yesterday condemned support Syrian people in case of in maternal and child health, first the twin bomb attack in mass displacement in the aid, and referrals. Afghanistan, near a girls’ northern parts of the country. A field hospital will be school, killing a small boy and According to a report issued operated to treat the patients at injuring four others. in August about the humanitarian shelter centres, IDP congrega- “Another attack on edu- impact of any military escalation, tions, and areas of military cation, another innocent the United Nations estimates that action. Moreover, three mobile young life that has been lost around 900,000 civilians would medical clinics will be deployed to this horrific tragedy. Edu- be displaced over the coming six to offer treatment and medi- cation Above All Foundation months, including 700,000 cation free of charge. To meet the strongly condemns the latest within Idlib alone, said a release. increasing demand, ambulance double bombing that Developed by QRCS’s repre- vehicles and health facilities in occurred outside Malika sentative mission in Turkey, the target areas will be supplied with Omaira girls’ school in Jala- plan involves a set of relief and medical equipment and medi- labad,” said Professor, medical interventions, guided by cines. QRCS’s mission in Turkey Maleiha Malik, Executive the overall relief plan adopted by will be working closely with the Director of PEIC, a pro- UN agencies and other human- UN Office for the Coordination gramme of Education Above itarian providers in Syria. of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), All . Under the scheme, QRCS will as well as other NGOs such as the “The deliberate and con- secure makeshift shelter mate- Turkish Red Crescent and the tinued targeting of students, rials, pay for housing rentals in Disaster and Emergency Man- teachers and educational safe areas for three months, agement Presidency of Turkey institutions is an active install more tents at existing (AFAD). Since November 2017, attempt to destabilise shelter camps, and establish new the military operations going on Afghanistan, destroy its camps in coordination with the in southern Idlib and northern infrastructure, and weaken UN Camp Coordination and Hama countryside have caused its ability to ever truly Camp Management (CCCM) a huge influx into neighbouring recover. Cluster. A temporary reception towns, making extra pressure on “In order to build a centre will be created to serve up the already overpopulated and peaceful world, we must to 2,400 internally displaced underserved region. strengthen global gov- people (IDPs) per day with “Recent weeks have seen a ernance and hold shelter, protection, water and further serious deterioration of accountable all those who sanitation, food and nonfood aid, the humanitarian situation in the unleash violence against and medical care. north-west, with intense aerial children and education,” said Also, an emergency catering bombardment and shelling Professor Malik. Education hub will be opened to prepare reported in parts of Idlib, Aleppo, Above All advocate in the and distribute daily meals and Hama, and Latakia governo- defence of education and bread bundles at IDP congre- rates,” said John Ging, Director of education facilities, when gation areas. In order to reduce Operations and Advocacy, OCHA. they are most at risk. WEDNESDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2018 HOME 05

Patients from siege countries treated at HMC & PHCC (June 5, 2017-August 4, 2018) Overall patient visits of all HMC hospitals, PHCC, PEC, Dialysis Centers and Walk-in Centers Bahraini Egyptian Emirati Saudi Grand Total Visits Grand Total Total visits Total patients Total visits Total patients Total visits Total patients Total visits Total Patients Patients Outpatient 24,112 3,261 713,825 108,530 9,506 1,439 68,980 10,207 816,423 123,437 Emergency 5, 966 2,001 194,179 75,467 2,877 1,036 20,707 6,569 223,729 85,073 Inpatient 1,036 713 20,001 15,276 596 396 3,522 2,628 25,155 19,013 Daycase 1,025 161 13,326 4,432 174 74 2,162 386 16,687 5,053 Grand Total 32,139 6,136 941,331 203,705 13,153 2,945 95,371 19,790 1,081,994 232,576

All HMC Hospital visits (Includes HGH, Al Wakra, Heart Hospital, Rumailah, Al Khor, Cuban, Women’s Hospital, Mental Health Hospital, NCCCR, CDC, ACC, QRI, WWRC, Home Healthcare Services) Bahraini Egyptian Emirati Saudi Grand Total Visits Grand Total Total visits Total patients Total visits Total patients Total visits Total patients Total visits Total Patients Patients Outpatient 8,452 1,425 258,221 48,525 3,800 700 23,020 4,391 293,493 55,041 Emergency 3,763 1,481 104,993 53,722 1,760 727 11,505 4,385 122,021 60,315 Inpatient 980 694 18,599 14,460 550 382 3,271 2,498 23,400 18,034 Daycase 854 157 10,257 4,420 161 74 997 373 12,269 5.024 Grand Total 14,049 3,757 392,070 121,127 6,271 1,883 38,793 11,647 451,183 138,414

Bahraini Egyptian Emirati Saudi Grand Total Visits Grand Total All PHCC & Walk-in Total visits Total patients Total visits Total patients Total visits Total patients Total visits Total Patients Patients Center Visits Outpatient 15,186 2,900 438,168 88,641 5,527 1,232 45,004 9,029 503,885 101,802

Bahraini Egyptian Emirati Saudi Grand Total Visits Grand Total All PEC visits Total visits Total patients Total visits Total patients Total visits Total patients Total visits Total Patients Patients Emergency 2,182 608 88,432 27,069 1,106 371 9,151 2,592 100,871 30,640 The Fire Station hosts public art Qatar promotes cultural exchanges with Russia at Moscow International Book Fair talk with international artists QNA pavilion of the Ministry of Qatari books are available in THE PENINSULA Culture and Sports in cooper- Russian language, which con- DOHA: Qatar participated in the ation with its partners: Qatar tributes to increasing cultural DOHA: As part of Qatar Museums’ 31st edition of the Moscow Inter- Museums, Hamad Bin Khalifa exchange between the two (QM) ongoing efforts to connect national Book Fair and its University Press, Rosa Pub- countries and achieving the local and international artistic participation was an oppor- lishing House and Lusail Pub- main objective of the Qatar communities, the Fire Station tunity to promote cultural lishing House. It was within the Russia 2018 Year of Culture”. hosted a public art talk with inter- exchanges and enhance cultural framework of the Qatar-Russia The Qatari pavilion at the national artists Katharina Grosse relations with the Russian 2018 Year of Culture. Moscow International Book Fair and Andrea Zittel. Federation as well as celebrate The Ambassador of the State witnessed a public interaction The duo delivered an informal the relevant ties through part- of Qatar to the Russian Feder- with the events organized during presentation about their work and nerships between the major ation, Fahad bin Mohammed Al its participation in the five-day shared insights gathered from their The participants at the art talk at the Fire Station. Qatari and Russian cultural Attiyah, said the State of Qatar exhibition, attracting visitors who respective artistic journeys. organisations. is making great efforts to confirmed that they contributed Katharina Grosse is a con- Eccles, who is also the Executive two artists of Katharina Grosse’s The Qatari participation in develop the publishing industry, to their knowledge of aspects of temporary German painter Director of the Center for Cura- and Andrea Zittel’s caliber and are the exhibition included a and “we are pleased that the the cultural landscape in Qatar. known for her brightly coloured torial Studies and the Hessel looking forward to another rich acrylic paintings and installations. Museum of Art at Bard College. season of various art and culture Made with an industrial air brush Eccles had previously hosted a activities in Qatar.” and mounds of pigmented dirt, number of QM-supported talks The Fire Station sits at the her work attempts to create a including one held last year with heart of Doha’s thriving art com- bodily, psychedelic-like expe- internationally renowned artist munity, acting as a platform rience for the viewer, submerging Ai Weiwei. where local talent can be intro- them in a world of color and Khalifa Al Obaidly, Director duced to their international peers emotion. The works of Andrea at the Fire Station stated: “Qatar and expand their artistic horizons. Zittel encompass spaces, objects Museums is focused on turning The Fire Station also provides a and modes of living in an ongoing Qatar into a vibrant centre for the gallery space for exhibition and investigation that explores the arts, culture and education, and community interaction; while the questions “How to live?” and that includes exposing the local public spaces host a café, res- “What gives life meaning?” community to inspiring art works taurant, bookshop, art supply The talk was moderated by and thought-provoking conver- shop, a cinema and artist art expert and curator, Tom sations. We were pleased to host facilities. Multiple sclerosis program at HGH caring for over 700 patients

THE PENINSULA early diagnosis and treatment are disease. Professor Deleu says MS critical to preventing relapses is a very unpredictable disease DOHA: Emerging treatments are and may help delay or prevent that has both physical and emo- helping to prevent relapses and irreversible damage. tional effects. He says researchers halt the progression of multiple “We are able to help many believe a combination of genetic sclerosis (MS) in most patients. patients with MS effectively and environmental factors con- However, the neurological manage their symptoms and tribute to the development of MS. condition remains one of the these patients are able to live full “The causes of MS are not most misunderstood diseases, and active lives. However, early well understood. There is no said an expert. detection is the key to getting the cure, but there are effective med- “MS is one of the most disease under control. If ications and therapies that common disabling neurological symptoms are ignored or dis- modify the disease outcome. We conditions affecting young counted and a person has several are continuing to learn more people, but it is also one of the attacks, we may have lost the about what causes MS and are most misunderstood. No two critical window for treatment,” zeroing in on ways to prevent it,” patients with MS experience the said Professor Deleu. said Professor Deleu. same symptoms or have the MS is a potentially disabling Most patients with MS are same journey. This makes under- disease that affects the brain and diagnosed between the ages of standing MS all the more difficult. spinal cord. The symptoms of MS 20 and 40, although it can occur It also highlights the significance can vary widely and depend on in children as well as in older of raising awareness of the con- the amount of central nervous adults. Professor Deleu says MS dition and the importance of system tract damage and which can be difficult to diagnose early diagnosis and treatment,” tracts are affected. because of the diversity of said Professor Dirk Deleu, Professor Deleu said the symptoms it causes and the mul- Director of HMC’s MS Program. initial presenting symptoms tiple ways in which the The MS Program at Hamad often include blurred vision, symptoms present. General Hospital is currently numbness or loss of sensation, MS is rarely fatal, but it is a caring for over 700 patients who incontinence, weakness in the lifelong condition that requires have been diagnosed with the extremities, coordination careful monitoring and ongoing disease. Over the last four years, problems, and double vision. The management. Professor Deleu almost 45% of those diagnosed disease is more common in explains that treatment plans are have been Qatari, with the women than men and while it is individualized and designed majority of patients being not believed to be hereditary, around the patient, depending women between the ages of 31 family members have a slightly on the type and stage of their and 40. Professor Deleu says higher risk of developing the disease. 06 HOME WEDNESDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2018 Brookings discusses diversification issues AAB supports HMC THE PENINSULA with second blood DOHA: The Brookings Doha Center (BDC) hosted an event donation campaign yesterday to discuss the chal- lenges facing Qatar and other THE PENINSULA GCC countries to diversify their business units at the Industrial economies in an era of demand- Area and the Al Abdulghani driven energy markets. While DOHA: Abdullah Abdulghani & Tower, said a statement. these countries understand the Bros. Co. W.L.L. (AAB), the All volunteers underwent importance of diversifying their exclusive distributor of Toyota the mandatory screening con- economies and have taken steps and Lexus in Qatar, carries on ducted by the HMC Staff before towards diversification, the its commitment to promote the reaching the actual number of changes have been slow. The spirit of voluntary blood accepted donors. event discussed how GCC coun- donation in support of Hamad R K Murugan, Acting CEO, tries can kick start and accel- Medical Corporation (HMC) by Rami Fani, Acting HR Director erate their moribund economic conducting the second Blood & Administration Manager and transitions, as well as the Donation Campaign for this Muthusamy — Senior Manager, economic and geopolitical year. National Service welcomed the consequences of abundant A good turnout of volun- medical team from HMC on global oil supplies on the GCC. teers marked the Campaign behalf of AAB. Panellists included Hatem Al successful with a significant AAB is dedicated in Shanfari, professor of economics contribution to the Blood Bank reaching out to the community and finance at Sultan Qabus Uni- as a result of a good number of and holding the Blood Donation versity; Khalid Al Khater, volunteers and accepted donors Campaign annually manifests The panellists discussing the challenges facing GCC countries to diversify economies. researcher at the Institute for coming from the various this commitment. New Economic Thinking at the The event discussed this aim.” Samantha Gross talked this puts on infrastructure and University of Cambridge; Nader about the difficulties of eco- building human capital. Kabbani, director of research at how GCC countries nomic diversification in the GCC, Hatem Al Shanfari discussed the Brookings Doha Center; and can kick start and saying, “Economic diversifi- better management of water and Samantha Gross, fellow in the accelerate their cation in the Middle East is a real renewable energy sources, Cross-Brookings Initiative on moribund economic challenge, because the oil and saying that water is a scarce Energy and Climate at the gas industry is so productive, source and there are many Brookings Institution. transitions, as well and it throws off so much opportunities in this. The event was moderated by as the economic income that it becomes difficult He said, “There are many Tarik Yousef, director of the and geopolitical for other industries to compete opportunities that can be created Brookings Doha Center and was consequences of with that.” within the oil and gas industry. attended by members of Doha’s Khalid Al Khater discussed To help the country and the oil diplomatic, academic, and media abundant global oil what the GCC countries have and gas sector, we need to better communities Center and was supplies on the GCC. done to meet the goals of diver- link up to the global supply held at the Intercontinental sification, saying, “We must chain.” Hotel in Doha. reform private and public Nader Kabbani discussed the Tarik Yousef opened the dis- significant political and eco- sectors to create an incentive for issue of peak demand, saying, cussion by saying that despite nomic block. human capital-building.” “We might soon see structural foreign policy differences, eco- Yousef stated, “One of the Al Khater focused on the shifts in the energy sectors. nomic diversification is an achievements of the GCC was to various sectors that need to be Renewable energy sector is important unified objective bring about economic inte- addressed, including youth moving faster than natural gas. within the GCC. However, the gration beyond oil and gas and unemployment, public sector Big changes in how energy is recent Gulf rift has dealt eco- to bring about economic diver- employment, migrant workers, stored will have huge impacts AAB management team with the representatives and medical nomic diversification a sification. The blockade has hurt labor market, and the pressure on the energy sector.” team from HMC.

Qatar Biobank hits 15,000-participant milestone

THE PENINSULA is an important initiative that population, particularly Qatari will play a pivotal role in con- youth.” DOHA: Qatar Biobank, a tributing to a healthier local A regular visit to the Qatar member of Qatar Foundation population for generations to Biobank includes standard (QF), recently marked a major come.” medical tests such as blood milestone with the screening of Researchers at the Qatar pressure and lung function. its 15,000th participant, as part Genome Programme (QGP), However, the tests carried out of its medical health research another member of QF, are also include new screenings initiative to improve the health already using Qatar Biobank’s that are not included in other of the local population through samples to gain important large-scale biobanks, including personalized medicine. insights into the health of the advanced imaging techniques Through providing bio- local population, including the to measure whole-body com- logical samples and infor- prevalence of diabetes, obesity, position and the health of mation, volunteer participants and vitamin D deficiency. carotid arteries, and a treadmill help Qatar Biobank enable Dr Nahla Maher Afifi, Edu- test to measure physical medical researchers and cation and Scientific Manager fitness. healthcare professionals to and Acting Director of Qatar Qatar Biobank welcomes form a clearer picture of the Biobank, said, “Qatar Biobank Qataris over the age of 18 and The participants at the Best Buddies awareness workshop. prevalent health-related issues serves as a large-scale bio- adult expatriates who have in Qatar and the region. medical research initiative that lived in Qatar for at least 15 Best Buddies Qatar and Ooredoo hold Dr Asmaa Al Thani, Chair- is based on population in the years to take part in this pio- person of the Qatar Genome Arab world, thus ensuring far neering medical research Programme Committee and more accurate and effective endeavor. awareness workshop on disability Board Vice Chairperson of targeted medical treatments. All participants receive Qatar Biobank, said, “We are We encourage the people of feedback in approximately two THE PENINSULA awareness about disability and which obstacles can be removed delighted to celebrate the Qatar who are eligible and have weeks after their initial visit, its causes in light of the many to help them contribute to pro- screening of our 15,000th par- not yet been screened to par- however, Qatar Biobank DOHA: As part of the mutual current misconceptions about it. ductivity and creativity, “Laalei ticipant — a milestone that rep- ticipate in this vital initiative – immediately notifies partici- partnership between Best Buddies The executive director of Best Abu Alfain added. Manar Khalifa resents the local population’s the success of which is pants who are found to have Qatar and Ooredoo, an awareness Buddies Qatar, Laalei Abu-Alfain Almuraikhi, Director of PR and eagerness to contribute to their dependent on large-scale par- serious or life-threatening workshop was held about how to commented that the initiative is Corporate Communications, improved health. Qatar Biobank ticipation by the local conditions. help and support people with a highly keen to approach all com- Ooredoo Qatar, said: “Ooredoo is disability. munity categories “The initiative keen to partner with various The event, which was pre- is seeking to spread the culture of leading institutions in Qatar in sented by Sahar Al Kahlout and disability in the community and order to support and to enhance MEC recalls Abdullah Al Mimi from Best to raise awareness of persons the work of charities across the Buddies which was held in with disability, their needs, abil- country. Dodge Ram Ooredoo Tower and was part of ities and capabilities as active We needed to host Best Best Buddies community members in society. Moreover, Buddies to ensure our staff knew 2015 model awareness programme. raising awareness about how to more about the importance of The workshop included a deal with them through organ- including persons with disability DOHA: The Ministry of number of main points, most ising a number of awareness and to help them to be active Economy and Commerce, in prominent of which was about workshops, trainings and pres- members in society. Ooredoo is collaboration with United Cars intellectual and developmental entations which are based on a an active employer of persons Almana, dealer of Jeep disability definition and cate- comprehensive training plan with disability and we encourage vehicles in Qatar, has gories, causes of disability, developed on the society needs other companies in Qatar to speak announced the recall of Dodge examples of most common disa- analysis. Through this training to Best Buddies and host a Ram model of 2015 because bilities; characteristics and plan, the initiative can achieve its workshop in your business.” the transmission is not symptoms and finally, tips on how mission and vision.” Best Buddies Qatar has compatible with the manufac- to help persons with disabilities. “The initiative is putting all thanked all stakeholders in turer specifications. The The workshop aimed to raise efforts possible to introduce to Ooredoo for the unlimited Ministry said the recall the community awareness level society members the essential support they provide to Best campaign comes within the about disability causes, the rights role for persons with disability. Buddies Qatar and for the pre- framework of its ongoing of persons with disability and to Hence, all potentials must be cious opportunity to commu- efforts to protect consumers spread the culture of disability. accommodated to include them nicate with staff through this OshKosh B’gosh opens store and ensure that car dealers The workshop had a great fully in all different daily life workshop, which will be followed follow up on vehicle defects attendance from Ooredoo staff, aspects. with various other workshops in and repairs. It said that it will A new OshKosh B’gosh store was inaugurated on September 6 at who were interacting actively This is to accomplish the the future. coordinate with the dealer to Landmark Mall. The ribbon was cut by Walid Khoury, Landmark during the workshop. Best Qatar National Vision 2030 which Best Buddies has invited other follow up on the maintenance Buddies has stated Ooredoo aims to empower persons with entities in Qatar to communicate Mall Manager, in the presence of Ramesh Bulchandani, General and repair works and will employee inquiries and questions disability and to increase their with Best Buddies Qatar for the Manager LTC – Qatar. The OshKosh brands are most-recognised communicate with customers during the workshop emphasized participation in society and find best advantage for persons with brands of baby and children’s apparel in the world. to ensure that the necessary the community need for more new working fields through disability. repairs are carried out WEDNESDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2018 HOME 07 CIS to participate in Doha International Book Fair THE PENINSULA The centre’s exhibit to rich scholarly discourse within marks the University’s the community. DOHA: Highlighting its 5th participation Director of CMCC, Dr Aisha commitment to the furtherance Yousef Al Mannai, said, of a vibrant literary Islamic and underlines its “Throughout their academic culture in Qatar, Muhammad Bin positive stance journey, students are bound to Hamad Al Thani Center for towards providing experience transformational Muslim Contribution to Civili- development as they immerse sation (CMCC), part of Hamad Bin access to unique themselves in the scholarly Khalifa University’s (HBKU) scholarly publications, exploration of narrative. In their College of Islamic Studies (CIS), translated from Arabic essence, books serve as a is set to participate at the 29th to English, in line with gateway for a world of thought edition of the Doha International and knowledge exchange, estab- Book Fair this year. its directive for the lishing them as crucial compo- The centre’s exhibit marks creation of a solid nents of any researcher’s toolkit. the University’s 5th participation knowledge-based “Together, we aim to and underlines its positive stance conquer the unknown and economy. Muhammad Bin Hamad Al Thani Center for Muslim Contribution to Civilization, part of HBKU’s College towards providing access to promote the acquisition of of Islamic Studies, will make a wide selection of classical texts on various disciplines exclusively unique scholarly publications, knowledge through the spread translated from Arabic to English, Convention Center (DECC), is of the written word. In the end, available to the local community at this year’s upcoming book fair. in line with its directive for the expected to attract hundreds of literature can eradicate barriers creation of a solid knowledge- reputable publishing houses to correct understanding, culture, disseminate information to all pioneering in-house publishing and the wider community, who based economy. The book fair, from nearly 30 countries. geography and even language. members of the public.” house — HBKU Press. As such, gain valuable insights into the which will take place from As HBKU’s oldest college, CIS Particularly within Qatar’s Taking its commitment to the CIS’ proactive exhibit fosters an academic feats in the realm of November 29 to December 5 at has already established a long- diverse community, this inclusive distribution of publications even interactive exchange between scientific discovery and inno- the Doha Exhibition and standing tradition of contributing approach can serve to further, HBKU is also home to a the college’s research outputs vation for Qatar.

QC launches campaign to 31 slaughtered animals found support school drop-outs unfit for human consumption THE PENINSULA DOHA: The Health Moni- toring Unit at Al Rayyan DOHA: Qatar Charity (QC) has launched a campaign to Municipality destroyed 31 support school drop-outs and create educational oppor- slaughtered animals after tunity for other children as it is one of their basic rights . finding them unfit for human The campaign “Bring me Back to School” coincided consumption last month. with the start of the new school year, aiming to meet the The teams of the school needs and expenses of the children, especially inspectors, accompanied by primary school students belonging to poor, needy and low- veterinary doctors, inspected income families, said a release. a total of 5,100 animals at the The campaign has targeted 3,000 students in the first abattoirs operating across Al stage. School fees and transportation, bag, stationery and Rayyan Municipality in book expenses will be covered for 1,500 students for a whole August, said the Ministry of The inspectors from Al Rayyan Municipality inspecting year. campaign and make donations to pay for children’s edu- Municipality and Envi- an eatery in Al Rayyan area. “Bring me Back to School” campaign, which will con- cational materials such as student books, uniforms, ronment. The inspectors tinue until the end of the school year, focuses on raising footwear, school fees and other school supplies. made 476 inspection visits to sions of the Law No. 8 of 1990. funds to pay the tuition fees of the children from poor and Donors can contribute to the campaign by visiting in commercial outlets and carried 41 The inspectors made three reconcil- low-income families. The education cost of 1,500 children person the headquarters of Qatar Charity its branches and inspections required for the issuance of iations with the erring company. Al for a whole academic year is intended as a first stage. collection points located in commercial complexes across new commercial licenses. Two violations Rayyan Municipality collected a fine Qatar Charity has urged people in Qatar to support this the country. were caught according to some provi- worth QR22,500. New faculty and courses at NU-Q

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DOHA: As Northwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q) cele- brates its 10th anniversary and welcomes its largest class — it is also announcing two new faculty appointments and new programmes. The University, which is now home to more than 300 students, is offering new courses in liter- Dr James Hodapp ature and writing, as well as Dr Jairo Lugo-Ocando executive education pro- “Professors Lugo-Ocando gramming, the launch of a Media studies at the University of Leeds’s and Hodapp bring a level of con- Innovation Lab (MIL), and plans School of Media and Communi- siderable experience in teaching to open the first digital university cation and has served as director and leadership to NU-Q,” said museum in Qatar — The Media of the MA programme in Global Dennis. “Professor Lugo- Majlis at Northwestern Uni- Journalism at the University of Ocando’s extensive experience versity in Qatar. Sheffield. Before entering in administering journalism pro- “NU-Q has seen many suc- academe, Lugo-Ocando was a grams at top media schools cesses in its 10 years in Doha,” journalist and editor-in-chief of across Britain will help NU-Q lay said Everette E Dennis, Dean and Venezuela’s Dairio La Verdad. the foundations for a vibrant CEO. “We are looking forward to Lugo-Ocando received his executive education program. building on that success with our PhD from the University of Professor Hodapp’s scholarship new academic programming and Sussex and his MA from Lan- and teaching experience in both faculty — along with a growing caster University in media the US and the Middle East will student body.” studies and international enhance our writing and liter- The two new faculty relations. ature course offerings.” members are Dr. Jairo Lugo- Also joining NU-Q this year is NU-Q’s academic curriculum Ocando and Dr. James Hodapp, James Hodapp, who has been has continuously expanded since respectively professor and appointed assistant professor in its founding in 2008 and with its assistant professor in the school, the Liberal Arts Program. Hodapp, new state-of-the-art facilities both with extensive international who will teach courses in liter- now provides its students with experience and expertise in their ature and writing, joins NU-Q opportunities to engage in respective fields—media studies from the American University of immersive and hands-on and English and African Beirut (AUB) where he was an learning experiences. literature. assistant professor of English. Since moving to its new Overseeing the executive and Prior to AUB, he was an building, the school has graduate education program will instructor and lecturer at the developed programming to take be Jario Lugo-Ocando, a distin- University of Maryland and has advantage of the what is one of guished scholar, global media teaching experience at Harold the largest media communi- expert, and institutional leader. Washington College and Wilbur cation schools in the world, the As the director of the pro- Wright College, both in Chicago. new lab – MIL – offers students, gramme he will be responsible He also has two edited books faculty, and staff the space and for the conceptualisation, devel- under review and several technology to collaborate in the opment, and execution of NU-Q’s research articles in the works. development of innovative ideas forthcoming executive education Hodapp earned his PhD in and solutions to challenges in and graduate programmes in English from the University of the media world. areas that include sport and Maryland, his MA in humanities The Media Majlis at NU-Q, health communication. from the University of Chicago, which will open later this year, Prior to his appointment at and his bachelor’s degree in lit- will serve as a platform for NU-Q, Lugo-Ocando was an erature from the American Uni- active learning, research, and associate professor of journalism versity in Washington D.C. intellectual discovery. 08 HOME WEDNESDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2018 EAA’s moving exhibition showcases barriers to education THE PENINSULA The exhibit marks 68.5 million people having been the achievement of forcibly displaced from home. DOHA: Education Above All Since EAA was founded in 2012, (EAA) Foundation’s (EAA) moving securing commitments it has committed to enrolling exhibition ‘Reaching 10 Million to enrol 10 million out more than 1.9 million out of Out of School Children’ has of school children in 50 school children and refugee and landed at Hamad International countries around the internally displaced people (IDP) Airport (HIA). children in 18 countries, part- The exhibit marks the world. The exhibition nering with UNHCR, Unicef, achievement of securing com- is taking place in the UNRWA, Unesco, IRC, NRC, and mitments to enrol 10 million-out- departure’s terminal Save the Children. of-school children in 50 coun- Concourse C, at Hamad The exhibition allows visitors tries around the world. The exhi- to experience the journey of bition is taking place in the International Airport refugee children, highlighting the departure’s terminal Concourse until September 23. significant challenges they face C, at Hamad International Airport on route and when accessing (HIA) until September 23. quality primary education after The exhibit previously held of life simultaneously. Everyone being uprooted from their homes, at Qatar Academy and the W has a role to play in the global families, friends and Hotel Doha, showcases the bar- education crisis, and we want the communities. riers to education that more than millions of passengers passing Al Derham said, “The work 63 million children around the through the airport during this of EAC has shown that change is world face, and highlights the time, to help us raise awareness, possible on a large scale. We will work EAA and its partners are learn about the different barriers change the lives of 10 million doing to overcome these to education the world’s children children; we have already barriers. are facing and become advocates changed the lives of more than EAA’s moving exhibition at HIA attracts passengers. Leena Al Derham, Senior for the protection of education 6.8 million, including 1.3 million Education Specialist of Educate during times of conflict and refugees and IDPs.... Even though education, we can all make a dif- School Children’ travelling exhi- them to actively learn more about A Child (EAC) programme, said, insecurity.” this a huge achievement, the ference in our own way.” bition at the airport. With an this program. We all hold a “Bringing this exhibition to The latest instalment of the work is not finished. With more Abdulaziz Al Mass, Vice-Pres- average of 8,700 passengers per responsibility to raise awareness Hamad International Airport, a exhibition focuses on the support than 63 million children still out ident Commercial & Marketing hour passing through HIA, the around the valuable work and leading, global transportation for refugee and displaced of school, there is a responsibility at HIA, said, “We are proud to airport is a prime platform for outreach for young children hub, helps us to reach and engage children. The world today is con- on all of us to ensure every child partner with EAA to host the engaging local and international struggling to access primary with people from different walks fronted with a refugee crisis, with has access to quality primary ‘Reaching 10 Million Out of communities and encouraging education.”

Transmission patterns of HSV-1 changing in Asia Turkish Souq targets THE PENINSULA mitted sexually. 5 million products in 2019 The study, which CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 DOHA: Researchers at Weill Cornell provided a compre- e-commerce arena in which Medicine-Qatar (WCM-Q) found that trans- hensive characteri- we live. All the postal com- mission patterns of herpes simplex virus type zation of HSV-1 “We are among the top five in panies have no choice but to 1 (HSV-1) are changing in Asia in a striking infection patterns in the world in terms of quality reform and transform the way way, and that this virus is emerging as a key Asian countries, also of services, such EMS or the we do business as per the fast sexually transmitted infection. estimated that about regular mail services. We have changing equation,” said Al According to findings published in the 50 percent of also been certified with three Naeimi. high impact and prestigious Journal of children are infected ISO certifications for our inte- On the possibility of intro- Clinical Infectious Diseases, 20 percent of with the virus, all of grated management system,” ducing new technology such genital herpes cases and six percent of genital whom are infected said Al Naeimi. as drones for the door-to-door ulcer cases are now caused by HSV-1. orally, and that 75 Q-Post is also working on delivery of parcels, he said that HSV-1 is one of the most widespread percent of adults are a lot of other projects which Q-Post has carried out a suc- infections globally. It is normally transmitted infected with the are currently in the pipeline, cessful pilot project in this orally leading to blisters and lesions around virus, through both such as its self-service kiosks, regard a couple of years ago. the mouth known as oral herpes. Recent data the oral and genital which is to be rolled out within “We did a trial with 5kg from the United States and Western Europe, routes. months across the country. and 10kg parcels, which Professor Laith Abu-Raddad (second left) and his team during a however, showed that HSV-1 can also be “It was striking for Asked about the survival worked successfully with 4G discussion. transmitted sexually leading to genital herpes us to discover this shift of the classic postal services networks. Now we have 5G and genital ulcer disease. in HSV-1 transmission in this digital era, he said that networks in Qatar so it will However, the study, conducted by the patterns from oral to genital infection in policy and research at WCM-Q, concluded: such services will continue as work more efficiently. We Infectious Disease Epidemiology Group Asia,” said Manale Harfouche, joint first “These findings demonstrate the criticality everybody will receive parcels have already approved the (IDEG) at WCM-Q, demonstrated that this is author of the study and senior research spe- of accelerating HSV-1 vaccine development and letters but the volume of concept and waiting for the also the case in Asia. The study found that cialist at WCM-Q. to control transmission and to prevent the letters will be replaced by needful legislation which will although HSV-1 remains mostly orally trans- Laith Abu-Raddad, Principal investigator medical and psychosocial disease burden parcels (of goods) “which is allow such services to be oper- mitted, the virus is increasingly being trans- of the study and professor of healthcare that is emerging from this infection.” growing incredibly”. ational at full scale,” said Al “Thanks to the digital and Naeimi. Silatech provides one million jobs in 16 countries CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 working closely with its partners non-governmental organisations needy youth in more than 16 solutions to help young people spread globally. Silatech was for- He said that Silatech was from governments, or multilateral and bilateral countries. who need support to establish mally launched at the Alliance organisations in order to He also presented the expe- their own businesses. of Civilisations Forum in January mobilise co-financing for the rience of Silatech in designing Al Emadi also noted that 2008 by H H Sheikha Moza bint implementation of large- and developing innovative youth Silatech is working on devel- Nasser. scale employment employment programmes in line oping a system to be launched in Silatech’s mission is to programmes. with the goals of sustainable 2019. He expects this platform connect Arab young people with JOB OPPORTUNITY Salitech has provided development, and providing will achieve success and a wide employment and enterprise nearly one million jobs for innovative technological impact that will enable it to opportunities. MARKETING EXECUTIVE  IHG opens new Crowne Plaza in West Bay

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The con- attack”. sequences of inaction are executions, barrel bombs, Erdogan warned that the immense,” Erdogan said in the chemical and conventional Assad regime was preparing to article titled ‘The World Must weapons — which targeted the launch “a massive offensive Stop Assad’. Syrian people for seven years. against Idlib” where some 3 Erdogan also said the Syrian “As a result of the Syrian million people live and is one people could not be left to the civil war, which the United of the few safe havens for inter- mercy of the Bashar Al Assad Nations Human Rights Council nally displaced Syrians. regime. calls ‘the worst man-made dis- “In an attempt to prevent “A regime assault [in Idlib] aster since World War II’, mil- the assault, my government President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan (left), with Iran’s religious leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei would also create serious lions of innocent people have contributed to the creation of after the trilateral summit between Turkey, Iran and Russia in Tehran. humanitarian and security risks become refugees or have been a deconfliction zone and set up for Turkey, the rest of Europe internally displaced,” he said. 12 observation posts to doc- and beyond,” he added. He also recalled Turkey’s ument and report ceasefire vio- its possible attack on the pretext better than Turkey, as it has been which is focused on chemical He recalled the regime’s role in protecting the Syrian lations,” he said. of counterterrorism, Erdogan the target of terrorist attacks attacks by the Assad regime, criminal acts — arbitrary arrests, people, as it hosts the largest Stating that the Syrian said no country would appreciate since the beginning of the Syrian needed to “reject its arbitrary systematic torture, summary number of refugees in the regime was trying to legitimize the need to combat terrorism conflict. Erdogan said the US, hierarchy of death”. IS militants slay 21 Syrian regime fighters in ambush Iran calls on Iraq to hand AFP It also comes with President Damascus, adding that gov- their children. At least 27 are great swathes of territory strad- Bashar Al Assad’s forces poised ernment aircraft and artillery believed to still be held, dling Iraq and Syria which it over rebels BEIRUT: Islamic State militants to launch an attack on the north- “targeted hideouts and positions” according to Human Rights seized in 2014, but retains a AFP have killed 21 Syrian regime western province of Idlib, the last held by the group. Watch, after IS said it had presence in the vast Badiya fighters in an ambush as the major region in Syria still con- Government forces have beheaded a 19-year-old man and desert that lies between group faces separate assaults on trolled by rebels and militants. been fighting IS in Sweida since announced an elderly woman Damascus and the Iraqi border, TEHRAN: Iran’s armed forces its last desert strongholds, a war The IS ambush in Sweida’s militants carried out a wave of had died. and holds a pocket in the chief of staff called yesterday monitor said yesterday. volcanic plateau of Tulul Al Safa attacks in the mainly Druze Observatory chief Rami Euphrates Valley in the east. for the authorities in Iraq and The attack late on Monday sparked fighting that killed eight province on July 25, killing 250 Abdel Rahman said the hostages In that eastern pocket, a US- its Kurdish region to “expel” in Syria’s southern province of militants, the Britain-based people according to the Observ- were believed to be held captive backed Kurdish-Arab alliance Iranian-Kurdish rebels on Sweida came as US-backed Observatory said. atory. During their rampage, in the Tulul Al Safa area. has for months been closing in their territory, local media forces advanced against the mil- State news agency SANA which targeted the provincial A source in Sweida said that on the town of Hajin east of the reported. itants on the border with Iraq, reported heavy clashes with IS capital as well as rural areas, the families had had no word of their Euphrates River near the Iraqi “These people are crim- said the Syrian Observatory for in the area, which lies some militants also seized around 30 kidnapped relatives in weeks. border, and on Monday launched inals. (The Iraqi authorities) Human Rights. 100km (60 miles) southeast of hostages, mostly women and IS has lost nearly all of the an assault to retake it. must either hand over the rest of them or must expel them from their country,” Major- General Mohammad Bagheri told the semi-official ISNA Saad Hariri seeks justice news agency. Iran launched missile strikes against the head- for slain father at trial quarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party of Iran AFP Tribunal for Lebanon in (KDPI) in Iraq’s autonomous Leidschendam, a suburb of The Kurdish region on Saturday, LEIDSCHENDAM, NETHER- Hague. killing at least 15 members. LANDS: Lebanon’s incoming “From the start, we It said the strikes were a prime minister called for demanded justice because we retaliation for repeated cross- “justice” as a UN-backed believe that justice and the truth border incursions by the “ter- tribunal into the huge bombing protect Lebanon,” added Hariri, rorist” group. that killed his father Rafiq recently designated for a third Bagheri said Kurdish Hariri in 2005 entered its last term as prime minister. leaders in Iraq had given stage. The tribunal is unique in assurances in the past that it Saad Hariri was in court in international justice because it would rein in the KDPI and The Netherlands as closing is trying the four suspects other anti-Iran militants. arguments began in the trial in despite the fact that they are not “But since last year, pro- absentia of four Hezbollah sus- present, as Hezbollah has voked by America, they broke pects over the attack. refused to hand them over. this pledge,” he told ISNA. Prosecutors said the suicide They have been on trial “If such hazardous inci- bomb, which also killed 21 other since 2014 accused of core roles dents continue, the incident people and wounded 226, was in the Valentine’s Day attack on that happened to their com- a deliberate attempt to create Beirut’s waterfront targeting manders will happen again,” “horror” and that billionaire Hariri, Lebanon’s Sunni Muslim he added in reference to Sat- former premier Rafiq Hariri prime minister until his resig- urday’s strikes. was assassinated because he nation in October 2004. The PDKI is Iran’s oldest opposed Syrian control of The alleged mastermind, Kurdish separatist group. It Palestinian women hold aid during a protest against a US decision to cut funding to the United Lebanon. Hezbollah commander Mustafa was banned after the Islamic Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), outside an aid distribution centre, in Khan Younis in “There is no doubt that this Badreddine, was indicted by the revolution of 1979 and the southern Gaza Strip, yesterday. day is difficult for me, as the son court but is now believed to appears to have resumed of Rafiq Hariri,” Saad Hariri told have died while fighting with operations in 2016 after a Palestinians renew ICC reporters outside the Special the Syrian regime in May 2016. long truce. push against Israel Iraqi seeks release after long detention AP Ali, of Rochester, has been to the US in 2014 as a refugee AFP “included a focus on the war following an Israeli high court held since his arrest in May 2017, from Turkey. He became a crimes facing Khan Al Ahmar, ruling that it was built without MINNEAPOLIS: An Iraqi man after he allegedly lied to the FBI lawful permanent resident in RAMALLAH: The Palestinians specifically the crimes of for- the necessary permits. who is accused of hiding his past about his social media activity, July 2015. announced a fresh push against cible displacement, ethnic The Palestinians submitted as a member of an elite Iraqi which included use of Facebook A federal immigration judge Israel at the International cleansing and the destruction of a similar complaint regarding military force is asking a federal and an app called Viber. has refused to release Ali on Criminal Court yesterday, a day civilian property,” Erekat said. the village in July. judge in Minnesota to release An FBI agent wrote in court bond, finding that he failed to after the United States said it He added that the PLO had The latest submission came him after 16 months in immi- documents that Ali’s Viber con- show that he didn’t pose a was closing their Washington also asked the ICC’s prosecutor a day after the US confirmed it gration custody. tacts included a Fallujah native danger. Ali’s attorneys say that mission partly over the to speed up a preliminary probe would close the PLO’s office in Attorneys for 34-year-old who is allegedly linked to an unless a US District Court judge campaign. into other alleged Israeli war Washington, the highest Pales- Farass Adnan Ali are chal- insurgent cell behind attacks on intervenes, he could be held at Saeb Erekat, Secretary- crimes. Khan Al Ahmar is in a tinian representation in the lenging what they call his Iraqi and coalition forces. Ali’s least another year. General of the Palestine Liber- key location near Jerusalem. country, amid worsening rela- “unreasonable, prolonged” pre- Facebook account includes an “This is somebody who’s ation Organization (PLO), said International powers say its tions between the two. deportation detention, which image of Islamic State militants never committed a crime in it had submitted a new com- demolition could enable Israeli The White House cited the has included seven months of entering a Libyan city in 2015. America, he entered as a plaint over an Israeli “war settlement expansion that would Palestinians’ ICC campaign and solitary confinement. But the Ali hasn’t been publicly refugee, he’s got a green card crime” against a Palestinian eventually cut the West Bank in what it said was their unwill- Star Tribune reports that court charged. His attorneys say the and the United States is holding village in the occupied West two, further threatening the ingness to negotiate. Trump’s documents show Ali’s immi- government hasn’t publicly him for no really good reason,” Bank, expected to be demol- prospects of an independent administration has also cut more gration case also intersects with invoked any national security said Ian Bratlie, an attorney for ished by the Israeli army in the Palestinian state. It could be than $500m in aid to an FBI counterterrorism statutes that would justify his the American Civil Liberties coming days. The dossier demolished in the coming days, Palestinians. investigation. prolonged detention. Ali came Union in Minnesota. 10 VIEWS WEDNESDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2018

ESTABLISHED IN 1996 9/11 is still hurting us

CHAIRMAN SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DR. KHALID BIN MUBARAK AL-SHAFI JOE SCARBOROUGH [email protected] THE WASHINGTON POST

ACTING MANAGING EDITOR ataclysmic events often bring MOHAMMED SALIM MOHAMED with them violent and abrupt [email protected] endings to settled ages and long- established norms. ThoseC absorbing the impact of these DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR historical aftershocks rarely grasp the MOHAMMED OSMAN ALI epochal changes in real time. [email protected] Who could have imagined during their commute home on the night of November 21, 1963, that an event in Dallas the next day would shake the postwar order guaranteed by Amer- ica’s victory in World War II? Even after Lee Harvey Oswald’s shots rang out from the Texas School Book EDITORIAL US Vice-President Mike Pence and Karen Pence lay a wreath during a ceremony Depository, could anyone have at the National 9/11 Pentagon Memorial to mark the 17th anniversary of the 9/11 foreseen the collapse of such an terror attacks, in Arlington, Virginia. ordered age soon overtaken by the Growing fast anarchy of Vietnam, the murders of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and display of both soft- and hard-power his foreign policy approach this way: atar is growing fastest in the region irrespective of Bobby Kennedy, the race riots, assets across the globe. “Don’t do stupid [stuff].” Even Demo- the unjust siege imposed on it by some countries. Chicago, Kent State, Watergate, On the eve of bin Laden’s attacks, cratic foreign policy experts would QIt’s reflected in every sphere of life when one looks postindustrial rot and the cultural America’s gross domestic product quietly complain that their president’s at the various data coming out each month. Also, chaos set loose across the country by was nearly 10 times China’s and 40 strategic retreat from the world Qatar’s existing relationships around the world have these events? times Russia’s. The US military would come at great cost. continued to flourish, while new markets and opportu- And could even the most machine was unparalleled, with the The ignoring of crossed red lines, nities are constantly being identified. insightful observer have foreseen — Pentagon spending more on national the rise of the Islamic State and the Qatar’s growth story is well-showcased in the devel- while staring at the billowing smoke defense than the next 15 countries deaths of 500,000Syrians proved opment of various sectors and institutions. One such set against New York’s brilliant Sep- combined. And despite those stag- Obama’s Democratic critics right. example is that of the Hamad Port. The Port has achieved tember sky — the avalanche of stra- gering outlays, Washington was Sixteen years of strategic missteps yet another milestone in the pursuit to support the growth tegic blunders set in motion by running a $125 billion surplus. have been followed by the maniacal story of the country. Osama bin Laden’s attack on the Seventeen years later, endless moves of a man who has savaged The Port has registered a stellar performance in the United States? wars abroad and reckless policies at America’s vital alliances, provided first half of the year. The Port has received 803 ships in Of course not. But two wars, three home have produced annual deficits comfort to hostile foreign powers, the first six months of the current year and handled presidents and 17 years later, the approaching $1 trillion. President attacked our intelligence and military 644,824 Twenty-Foot Equivalent Units (TEUs) containers tragic lessons of that time are still lost Donald Trump’s Republican Party communities, and lent a sympathetic in January-June period, while handled 631,076 break- on our will create more debt in one year than ear to neo-Nazis and white suprema- bulk cargo in the same period. It handled 132,325 bulk leaders. was generated in the first 200 years cists across the globe. cargo; 341,793 heads of cattle and 32,084 units of vehicles On Sep- of America’s existence. For those of us still believing that in the first six months of this year. tember 10, And while the United States has extremists hate America because of The growth story is showing positive signs each passing 2001, the been mired in endless wars and the freedoms we guarantee to all month. It had received 936 The question United States bloody occupations over the past 17 people, the gravest threat Trump ships during January to July for voters this dominated years, China has used that same poses to our national security is the period. The Port, which is one fall is whether the world period to aggressively develop eco- damage done daily to America’s of the largest ports in the their country will stage in a nomic partnerships across Asia, image. As the New York Times’ Roger Qatar’s growth region, received 128 ships in way no other Europe, Latin America and Africa. Cohen wrote the month after August, taking the total count move beyond this country had Perhaps that is one reason China will Trump’s election, “America is an story is well- of ships called at the port to troubled chapter in since the soon overtake the United States as the idea. Strip freedom, human rights, showcased in the 1,064 so far this year. history or whether height of the world’s largest economy. democracy and the rule of law from development of The Port witnessed they will continue Roman and Any discussion of policy failures what the United States represents to various sectors and increased traffic in various British since 2001 must begin with George W the world and America itself is segments in August. The bulk supporting a empires. Bush’s decision to invade Iraq even gutted.” institutions. One cargo category saw the highest politician who has Nato’s long though no evidence linked Saddam Osama bin Laden was killed by such example is increase as it handled 31,392 done more damage twilight Hussein’s regime to the Sept. 11, 2001 Seal Team 6 before he accomplished attacks. Even a majority of Senate that goal. Other tyrants who tried to that of the Hamad tonnes bulk cargo in August to the dream of struggle Port. The Port compared to 8,005 tonnes against the Democrats voted for a resolution sup- do the same were consigned to the such cargo in July, showing a America than any Soviet Union porting the Iraq invasion, and more ash heap of history. The question for has achieved yet whopping rise of 292 percent. foreign adversary ended with than 70 percent of Americans agreed. voters this fall is whether their another milestone The Port handled 63,858 ever could. Russia in But we were wrong. country will move beyond this in the pursuit to tonnes of break bulk cargo in ruins. The That war cost nearly 5,000 troubled chapter in history or August compared to 61,280 Japanese American lives, $2 trillion and inesti- whether they will continue sup- support the growth tonnes of cargo in the previous economic miracle, predicted by some mable damage to America’s credi- porting a politician who has done story of the country. month, reflecting a rise of four to turn America into little more than a bility across the globe. more damage to the dream of percent. The Port also handled granary for Japan, had flatlined. And a The excesses of Bush’s military America than any foreign adversary 112,749 TEU containers last month. It also handled 10,946 rising China was still struggling with a adventurism led to his successor, ever could. heads of cattle and 4,929 vehicles in August. multitude of internal security con- President Barack Obama, placing the Since it commenced its operations in December 2016, cerns and was eclipsed on the world United States in a defensive crouch The writer is a former Republican Hamad Port has modernised the way Qatar handles stage by the Pax Americana. The for the better part of eight years. congressman from Florida, hosts the imports and exports and has helped in facilitating the United States deployed a dazzling The commander in chief defined MSNBC show “Morning Joe.” growth and diversification of the country’s economy. Within a short span, the port has reached a global port connectivity coverage with 40 ports in three continents. The port has seen tremendous growth in a short duration and is further cementing Qatar’s position as a regional China should reform its massive assistance measures for Africa maritime hub. Generally, ports in Qatar have played significant role THE JAPAN NEWS Chinese companies, for the no jobs for local people. have had to take the criticism in defeating the unjust siege imposed by blockading coun- development of key African Another cause for concern into consideration. tries by ensuring smooth supply of goods for residents of ow should sus- infrastructure, including in is a “debt trap,” where a Before China, Japan began Qatar. In 2017, the ports in Qatar handled 1.26 million tainable devel- energy and airports. country receiving Chinese holding from 1993 the tonnes of general cargo, 772,835 TEUs containers, 857,429 opment be realised Xi’s remarks that China assistance falls into excessive summit-level Tokyo Interna- cattle heads and 578,654 tonnes of aggregates and 3,869 in Africa, a con- takes such approaches as “no debt and as a consequence is tional Conference on African vessels. Htinent rich in natural resources interference in African coun- forced to cede the rights to use Development (TICAD). In the All these developments show vigour and vitality of the and whose population is tries’ internal affairs,” and “no a port, for instance. If China previous meeting held in 2016, economy of the country under the able and wise growing fast? What is called attachment of political strings uses that port for military pur- Japan promised investment leadership. for is assistance that will not to assistance,” are poses, it may have an adverse totaling $30 billion over the end up only pouring in a huge problematic. impact on regional security. following three years. amount of money, but that can Unlike countries in Europe Wary voices have begun Japan attaches importance also help recipient countries and North America, China’s to be heard in African coun- to carrying out infrastructure QUOTE OF THE DAY enhance their ability to govern assistance to developing tries, worrying that the development with its and nurture human resources. countries is characterized by country will become deeply advanced technology and The summit of the Forum its not demanding that the entangled in debt with extending meticulously The European on China-Africa Cooperation, partner country democratize Chinese-style assistance, worked-out assistance to dream cannot be attended by the leaders of 53 itself or improve its human which will give China more nurture experts. There are crushed between African countries, was held in rights situation. Even if such political clout. International likely many elements of Beijing. The forum started in assistance is welcomed by a criticism has also been Japan’s assistance that China the destructive 2000 as a ministerial-level despotic administration, it will growing. should adopt in its own. neoliberalism and the meeting and has been held not lead to improvement in During the summit, Xi pre- Japan, which is not as horrible far-right and regularly. people’s lives nor to the coun- sented a policy of China strong as China in terms of the European elections Chinese President Xi try’s economic exempting some African financial power, is avoiding Jinping pledged that China will self-sustenance. countries from the debt they excessive rivalry with China will be more than just extend financing totaling $60 It has been pointed out have incurred in the form of over winning orders, while also one more election. billion (about 6.6 trillion yen) that there have been many Chinese government loans. He exploring ways to cooperate in the next three years. He cases in Africa in which also emphasized that China with that country. Japan is Alexis Tsipras spelled out a policy of con- Chinese companies that have will cooperate with African calling on China to participate Greek Prime Minister tinuing to advance the pro- received an order for a countries to improve the envi- in Japan-led projects, such as vision of financing, and project there dispatch ronment and public health of one to build major roads investment by workers from China, creating its partner countries. Xi may linking West African countries. WEDNESDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2018 OPINION 11 Argentina’s IMF bailout rekindles painful memories of past crises

lmost two decades after a countries like Mexico and Greece. never really managed to sever. will somehow help Argentina massive popular uprising As South America’s second-largest This dependence left the country overcome its long-standing triggered Argentina’s record economy and an important trading particularly prone to currency and financial instability this time $100bn default of 2001- partner of the developed countries in debt crises resulting from excessive around. A2002, the country finds itself back in a the Global North, Argentina has lending and speculative over- For the multimillionaire pres- major economic crisis. always been acutely dependent on investment, especially when these ident and his allies in business, the JEROME ROOS With the peso losing over half of its commodity exports, international were followed by a rapid fall in global intervention of the IMF - while AL JAZEERA value this year, inflation running at loans and foreign direct investments commodity prices, a decline in the fraught with political risks - clearly over 30 percent and the central bank to fuel domestic economic growth, value of the peso, a rise in interna- presents a welcome opportunity to raising the interest rate to 60 percent, leaving it particularly vulnerable to a tional interest rates, and/or a sudden re-liberalise the national economy many ordinary Argentinians are change in international conditions. stop of foreign capital inflows. and dismantle some of the social already beginning to feel the pain. This already became clear soon If Argentina’s recurring crises have protections that had been estab- In a televised address earlier this after the country won its inde- historically coincided with downturns lished under the previous Peronist week, President Mauricio Macri pendence from Spain in 1816. in the international credit and com- governments of Cristina Fernandez declared an economic emergency and Attracted by its immense natural modity cycle, it is equally clear that the de Kirchner and her late husband announced a dramatic new set of aus- wealth and its relatively educated management of these crises has in Nestor Kirchner. terity measures in a desperate bid to workforce, and hoping to reinvest recent decades taken a decided turn For many ordinary Argen- convince the International Monetary their surplus capital in more profitable for the worse. tinians, however, Macri’s eager Fund (IMF) to speed up the release of emerging markets abroad, British Ever since the resumption of embrace of the standard IMF recipe its previously agreed $50bn bailout investors began to lend large sums of large-scale international lending in is bound to rekindle painful mem- loan - the largest in the IMF’s history. money to Argentina as early as the the late 1970s, Argentina’s long- ories of past crises, when the “What we have to face is a basic 1820s. standing vulnerability to external eco- Argentine economy effectively dis- problem,” Macri said, “which is that This investor euphoria soon ended nomic shocks has combined with the integrated on the IMF’s watch. The we cannot spend more than we have. in tears, however, as a market panic structural adjustment programmes of experience of these past crises This is not just another crisis. It has to on the London Stock Exchange in 1825 the World Bank and especially the IMF presents three main lessons in this be the last.” caused international credit to dry up. to produce a particularly explosive respect. If Argentina’s tumultuous eco- Like many of its Latin American mix of recessionary pressures, social First, given Argentina’s struc- nomic history is anything to go by, neighbours, Argentina responded by dislocation and political instability. tural dependence on foreign credit however, this time is unlikely to be suspending payments on its external The consequences of this shift to and investment, recurring crises Macri’s keen any different. In fact, Macri’s keen debt. neoliberal crisis management have have long been all but inevitable. embrace of the embrace of the standard IMF recipe of It was not until the 1870s and been wide-ranging. Most importantly, Second, the social and economic standard IMF recipe far-reaching austerity only risks 1880s that capital began to flow back the unilateral payment suspensions consequences of these crises have of far-reaching repeating the mistakes of the past - towards the semi-peripheral countries that had characterised the crises of the only been made worse by the aus- deepening the economic recession again. As before, Argentina was one of nineteenth and early-twentieth cen- terity measures demanded by the austerity only and leading to renewed social unrest, the main beneficiaries of this new turies suddenly gave way to IMF IMF. And third, not a single pres- risks repeating the making further political turmoil all but speculative boom — and as before, its bailouts and austerity programmes ident has been able to survive the mistakes of the past inevitable. government was eventually forced to that shifted virtually the entire burden resultant political turmoil. - deepening the A tumultuous economic history suspend payments in the inevitable of adjustment for recurring crises onto Macri may still comfort himself To understand Argentina’s suscep- bust that followed. The Argentine the shoulders of workers, peasants in the knowledge that history never economic recession tibility to recurring economic crises, default of 1890 would set off a major and taxpayers in the debtor countries. simply repeats itself. But with presi- and leading to we have to consider the peculiar international financial crisis that In this brave new world of interna- dential elections coming up next renewed social nature of its integration into the capi- nearly brought down the mighty tional finance, alternatives to full year and anti-austerity protests talist world economy. Barings Bank of London. repayment would simply not be tol- picking up steam, he would cer- unrest, making Ever since gaining independence a Several decades later, Argentina erated — something that became par- tainly be well-advised to heed the further political little over two centuries ago, Argentina was once again hit hard by a decline in ticularly clear following Argentina’s dictum that it often rhymes. turmoil all but has occupied a subordinate, semi- the terms of trade, this time due to the return to democracy after the fall of inevitable. peripheral position that it has histori- Great Depression that began in 1929. the military junta in 1983. The author is a Fellow in Interna- cally shared with other crisis-prone The next year, General Jose Felix Upon assuming office, Argentina’s tional Political Economy at the Uriburu overthrew the newly elected President Raul Alfolsin London School of Economics. democratically elected accepted the binding nature of the but economically dis- previous government’s odious debts, credited government but briefly declared a six-month mor- of Hipolito Yrigoyen atorium on interest payments to ease and seized power in a the pressure on the country’s military coup — estab- embattled population, declaring that lishing a disconcerting “we are not going to pay our debt by D-RING ROAD pattern that was to be making our people hungry”. 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He as a person he pull off a similar are those of the writers, anti-establishment most prominent eurosceptic leader, for EU states, stronger borders, less is of no interest to us,” a party repre- Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, to the migration and the eradication from sentative told Dagens Nyheter news- not of the newspaper. revolution in the EU cause and his project has been praised Europe of what it calls radical Islam. paper in July. Sweden Democrats did and get eurosceptics by another fierce EU critic, Hungarian “It is a club, a loose affiliation,” not respond on Monday to emailed All correspondence from all corners Prime Minister Viktor Orban. Bannon said, stressing that racist and questions about Bannon’s project. Bannon is now turning to the EU’s anti-Semitic parties were not Bannon, though, is undeterred, regarding Views and of the union voted northern member states, where his welcome. “We have spoken to these saying in an email to Reuters on Opinion pages should be into the European latest admirer is Dutch nationalist populist nationalist parties around Monday that the Swedish party’s feat send to editor-in-chief Parliament at Geert Wilders. Europe and one of the things they say of winning 17.6 percent of the vote had office or mailed to the elections next year. “Sometimes you need a catalyst,” to us is that they never get the chance set “an example for populists Wilders told Reuters at the annual to talk together. They feel alone.” everywhere”. [email protected] 12 MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA WEDNESDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2018 Ethiopia and Eritrea reopen land border after 20 years REUTERS Soldiers and civilians reshaped the political landscape waving Ethiopian and in the Horn of Africa and ADDIS ABABA: The leaders of beyond. Ethiopia and Eritrea reopened Eritrean flags lined The two leaders also opened crossing points on their shared the road as Ethiopian another frontier crossing at border for the first time in 20 Prime Minister Abiy Bure, Eritrea’s Information Min- years yesterday, cementing a Ahmed and Eritrean ister Yemane Meskel said in a stunning reconciliation and tweet. The Debay Sima — Bure giving Addis Ababa a direct President Isaias crossing leads to the port of route to its former foe’s Red Sea Afwerki opened the Assab in Eritrea’s east, while its ports. frontier in a ceremony Massawa port is directly north Thousands of people from of the Serha — Zalambessa both countries watched one cer- broadcast live on connection. emony in Zalambessa, an Ethi- Ethiopian state TV. Ethiopia, a rising economic opian border town that was power with 100 million people, reduced to rubble soon after had been almost entirely hostilities between the neigh- just across the frontier, told dependent on tiny neighbour bours broke out in 1998. reporters. “I never thought this Djibouti for access to the Red Soldiers and civilians would take place in my lifetime.” Sea access since 1998. Eritrea’s President, Isaias Afwerki, and Ethiopia’s Prime Minister, Abiy Ahmed, arriving for an inauguration waving Ethiopian and Eritrean The war over their border and Pictures posted online by ceremony marking the reopening of the Eritrean Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. flags lined the road as Ethiopian other issues killed an estimated Abiy’s chief of staff showed the Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and 80,000 people before fighting leaders talking and walking side Eritrean President Isaias ended in 2000 in a contested by side in Bure — Abiy in cam- and Ethiopian leaders have reciprocated last week and the Ethiopia follows a calendar Afwerki opened the frontier in peace deal. ouflaged military fatigues and moved swiftly to end two two countries have resumed similar to the ancient Julian cal- a ceremony broadcast live on Tensions burned on over the Isaias wearing sandals and a decades of hostility since signing flights. The two leaders also cel- endar — which started disap- Ethiopian state TV. position of the frontier - until safari suit. a breakthrough agreement in ebrated Ethiopian New Year pearing from the West in the “This is the happiest day of Abiy offered to end the military The Bure region saw some Asmara on July 9 to restore ties. together at the border with their 16th century — meaning the my life,” Ruta Haddis, an Eri- standoff this year as part of a of the fiercest fighting during the Eritrea reopened its embassy in troops yesterday, Abiy’s Chief country entered its year 2011 trean from the town of Senafe package of reforms that have 1998-2000 war. The Eritrean Ethiopia in July, and Ethiopia of Staff, Fitsum Arega, said. yesterday. Congo’s Bemba warns of ‘chaos’ if vote unfair Over 100 dead after two migrant boats sink off Libya this month AP candidate in the December 23 “They just screwed me, they he is out of the race for good. He AFP election, calling the witness used the court to screw me, they warned that the December BRUSSELS: A top Congo oppo- interference synonymous with made a big confusion,” said election “will not be fair and sition figure who is barred from corruption. Congolese law pre- Bemba, whose father was close credible if we don’t do some- PARIS: More than 100 migrants, including at least 20 children, December’s presidential election vents people convicted of cor- to former longtime leader thing to re-establish the credi- died when two boats sank off the coast of Libya early this month, is warning that “chaos” will ruption from running for the Mobutu Sese Seko and who fin- bility of the process,” and he said according to Doctors without Borders (MSF), citing survivors. follow if the vote is not trans- presidency. ished second to Kabila in the that “today is another kind of The witnesses told MSF that two inflatable boats had left the parent and fair. Bemba accused both the 2006 election. struggle, that we need to restore Libyan coast on September 1, each with 160 people on board, the Former Congolese Vice- commission and the Constitu- Bemba also said he expects democracy.” Whoever wins the medical charity said in a statement. The migrants were from Sudan, President Jean-Pierre Bemba tional Court, which last week Congo’s opposition to rally December 23 vote takes over a Mali, Niger, Cameroon, Ghana, Libya, Algeria and Egypt, MSF said. spoke to reporters yesterday, upheld the commission’s behind a joint candidate to chal- vast country with trillions of According to a survivor, the motor broke down on one boat days before his sentencing at the decision, of being under “full lenge Kabila’s preferred one but dollars’ worth of mineral wealth while the other continued until it “began to deflate... there were International Criminal Court control” of the government of did not say who it should be: “I but with dozens of armed groups 165 adults and 20 children on board”. after being convicted of inter- President Joseph Kabila, who don’t know, frankly.” He has said battling for a part of it. As the boat began to sink, “few passengers had life jackets or fering with witnesses. after two years of deadly unrest it would have been him. The United States was knew how to swim, only those who held onto the hull of the boat Congo’s electoral com- amid the long-delayed election Bemba did not directly among those praising Kabila for managed to survive,” said the witness to the tragedy. There were mission rejected him as a has said he will step aside. answer the question of whether his decision to step aside. only 55 survivors, the source added.

Zimbabwe oppn Explosion at Nigerian fuel party to declare depot leaves nine dead Chamisa president AFP AFP problematic. which witnesses said was the President Muhammadu first of its kind in the city. HARARE: Zimbabwe’s main LAFIA, NIGERIA: Nine people Buhari’s office had earlier said Households in Nigeria and opposition party will this were killed and dozens more “several” people were killed, wider West Africa rely on week hold a mock inaugu- injured, some of them critically, without specifying numbers, bottled gas for cooking but acci- ration to name its leader in an explosion and fire at a gas while a senior road safety dents caused by improper Nelson Chamisa as the coun- filling station in central Nigeria, official said three died. storage, refilling or lax safety try’s president, highlighting the state governor said “Two people were killed on procedures are commonplace. its claims the July 30 election yesterday. the spot while one person later Officials say the location of was rigged. The accident happened on died in the hospital,” said the gas filling stations in residential Chamisa, who heads the Monday in Lafia, the capital of member with the Federal Road areas is responsible for most Movement for Democratic A portrait of Kofi Annan is displayed at the entrance of Accra Nasarawa state, 190km (120 Safety Corps (FRSC). accidents. Change (MDC), narrowly lost International Conference Centre in Accra, yesterday. miles) by road east of Abuja. Thirty-two people were In one incident in 2015, nine to Emmerson Mnangagwa in “At the moment, we have taken to hospital “with many of people were killed in a blast in Zimbabwe’s first election recorded nine deaths as against them in critical condition with the southeastern town of Nnewi since the ousting of long-time Mourners pay last respects the large figures being specu- severe burns”, he said on con- as they filled cooking gas cyl- ruler Robert Mugabe last year. lated in the media,” Nasarawa dition of anonymity as he was inders on Christmas Eve. Chamisa’s legal bid to to Kofi Annan in Ghana governor Tanko Almakura said. not authorised to speak to the Ibrahim Balarabe-Abdula- have the result overturned Of the injured the worst media. llahi, the speaker of Nasarawa due to alleged electoral fraud AFP rights, said he saw Annan rise affected had been taken to Abuja An AFP photographer at the House of Assembly, said: “The and irregularities was through the ranks. for treatment for severe burns, scene said many vehicles and station should be on the out- rejected by the constitutional ACCRA: A steady stream of Now retired and back living he added. some nearby houses were skirts of the city. court. mourners yesterday paid their in Ghana, he said Annan taught Conflicting tolls of dead and gutted in the inferno. “We are going to come with “He will be recognised as respects to the former UN him “the benefit of humility, the injured are not unusual in Firefighters alerted to the a law to stop this kind of the legitimate president of secretary general Kofi Annan, benefit of honesty, the benefit Nigeria and getting corrobo- initial leak have said they were business in the heart of the city,” Zimbabwe by his party and as his body lay in state in the of decisiveness, and diplomacy ration of figures is often unable to prevent the blast, he told reporters. the people of Zimbabwe fol- capital of his native Ghana. from the grassroots”. lowing resolutions of the The diplomat’s body was His role at the UN’s first national council,” MDC flown back from his home in black African leader was “an spokesman Nkululeko Switzerland on Monday ahead honour for Ghana”, he said. Sibanda told AFP. of a state funeral and private “It was marvellous in our Sibanda said Chamisa had burial in Accra tomorrow. eyes, it was one of these things been denied victory by Nobel peace laureate that we can only dream... he “cheating and chicanery” and Annan, who was the world lifted Africa and showed that that the ceremony would be body’s first leader from sub- we are also able to do great held on Saturday, when the Saharan Africa, died aged 80 things,” Kitcher said. party celebrates its 19th on August 18 after a short Most of those who queued anniversary. illness. to pay their respects wore black “Resolutions will be His coffin, draped in and red mourning clothes and passed to recognise his Ghana’s red, green and gold passed under large posters of victory and state it publicly,” flag, was guarded by senior mil- Annan to the sound of pulsating he said. itary officers in ceremonial drums. Mnangagwa, of the ruling uniform at the Accra Interna- Cleaner Akwo Kwame ZANU-PF party, won the tional Conference Centre. Johnson, from neighbouring election with 50.8 percent of A choir sang hymns and tra- Ivory Coast said he wanted to the vote — just enough to ditional dances were performed pay his last respects to “our meet the 50 percent threshold as the public got their chance great father”. needed to avoid a run-off to say farewell to one of the Whenever he saw Annan in against Chamisa, who scored country’s most famous sons. the news, Johnson said he felt 44.3 percent. Mnangagwa had Fritz Kitcher, who spent his like he was watching a family pledged free and fair elections career working for the United member. “He was a president to restore relations with the Smoke and fire are seen during a gas explosion in Lafia, Nigeria, yesterday. Nations in Geneva in human to all the world,” he added. west. WEDNESDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2018 ASIA 13 Modi’s personal culpability in Rafale scam: Shourie, Sinha

IANS The two former BJP Bhushan also claimed that the Ministers dismissed choice of a private party as NEW DELHI: Alleging Narendra offset partner rejecting HAL was Modi’s “personal culpability” in all the explanations a “result of Modi’s personal the Rafale jet purchases, former given by the Modi decision”. BJP Ministers Yashwant Sinha government and In the wake of the gov- and Arun Shourie yesterday ernment recently rejecting a accused the Prime Minister of the ruling BJP in proposal by Russia to make “compromising national justifying the deal Adani Group a partner for a joint security” by unilaterally final- as “blatant lies” and venture to manufacture the ising the deal, shunning every said Modi “usurped modern AK-series assault rifles, rule of military procurement. both Shourie and Bhushan said Addressing the media, both the authority” and “MoD’s total abdication of duty Sinha and Shourie said the gov- unilaterally cancelled while granting approvals for ernment had “spun a web of lies the original deal for offset contracts in the Rafale to protect Modi’s culpability in the sake of his “crony deal was exceptional”. the largest defence scam” the “The question is how the country had ever seen. capitalists”. price of Rs670 crore per aircraft The two dismissed all the went up to Rs1,670 crore. The Flood throws life out of gear in Allahabad explanations given by the Modi government has been hiding government and the ruling BJP flouted to unilaterally reduce the behind confidentiality clause. Indian villagers cross a waterlogged road by boat in a flooded area near the River Ganges at Badara in justifying the deal as “blatant number of planes from 126 to “If it is confidential, then Sanuti village, near Allahabad in Uttar Pradesh, yesterday. lies” and said Modi “usurped the 36 and remove Make in India how come (former defence min- authority” and unilaterally can- under Transfer of Technology ister) Manohar Parrikar and celled the original deal for the by Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd then (Minister of State for sake of his “crony capitalists”. (HAL) despite the fact that IAF, Defence) Subhash Bhamre had “In so far what has tran- Defence Acquisition Council quoted the price of the jets,” spired, it directly reflects Modi’s (DAC) and MoD had come to a asked Shourie. 52 dead in Telangana bus accident personal culpability, there is no reasoned conclusion that 126 Parrikar in 2015 told escaping that fact. Every expla- aircraft were required for the Doordarshan that the UPA- IANS from Hyderabad. victims include 26 women and nation they put out ensnares the long term needs and security of negotiated price for 126 Rafale The bus, carrying more than 10 children. The toll could go up government in the web of lies the country,” said Shourie. combat aircraft would have HYDERABAD: In a ghastly 70 passengers, met with the as the condition of some of the they have spun. This means they Citing procedural been Rs715 crore apiece while tragedy, as many as 52 people accident when the driver injured was stated to be critical. have a lot to hide,” said Shourie. requirement of DAC’s approval a year later Bhamre told the Lok were killed and more than 20 reportedly lost control at a speed The injured were shifted to They said that Modi kept the being a condition precedent for Sabha that the NDA-negotiated others injured when a state-run breaker. a government hospital in Jagtial. Indian Air Force (IAF), the finalising a new deal, they price would be approximately overcrowded bus fell into a Finance Minister Etela A few critically injured were Defence Ministry and the pointed to the fact that the Rs670 crore. gorge in Telangana’s Jagtial Rajender told reports at Jagtial taken to hospitals in Karimnagar External Affairs Ministry in the approval for Modi’s deal was “Each new invention shows district yesterday. that 52 people were killed in the and Hyderabad. dark about the new deal before given by DAC on May 13, 2015, that all these arguments are an The bus belonging to the disaster. He said 47 bodies were Chief Minister K Chan- making a sudden announcement more than a month after Modi afterthought to justify the scam Telangana State Road Transport brought to Jagtial Hospital while drashekhar Rao expressed in April 2015. had already announced the new through which the price per air- Corp (TSRTC) fell off Kondagattu five people succumbed at a hos- shock over the accident. He “National security has been deal. craft has been increased from Ghat Road while returning from pital in Karimnagar. announced Rs5 lakh ex-gratia compromised by Modi and Shourie along with Sinha Rs670 crore to Rs1,660 crore Anjaneya Swamy temple atop The dead include driver B each for the families of the every rule of procurement and lawyer activist Prashant approximately,” said Sinha. Kondagattu Hills, about 190km Srinivas. Officials said the dead.

Aadhaar can’t be hacked, vested interests spreading lies: UIDAI India, US armies to train together IANS of over one billion Indians, “had confusion in the minds of people every one of the operators in system monitoring. been compromised by a software which is completely unwar- every enrolment, identifying Earlier, a report by the in Uttarakhand NEW DELHI: The Unique Iden- patch which disables critical ranted,” a statement issued by every one of thousands of HuffPost said a software patch tification Authority of India security features of the software the organisation said. machines using a unique available for as little as Rs 2,500 mountain warfare (UIDAI) yesterday dismissed used to enrol new Aadhaar users”. It added that the UIDAI machine registration process, lets a user bypass critical security reports of hacking of Aadhaar According to the report, any matches all the biometric (10 fin- which ensures every encrypted features such as biometric IANS enrolment software as unauthorized person from any- gerprints and both iris) of a resident packet is tracked,” the statement authentication of enrolment “completely incorrect and irre- where in the world can generate enrolling for Aadhaar with the bio- said. operators to generate unau- NEW Delhi:Some 700 Indian sponsible” and said some vested Aadhaar ID using the patch metrics of all Aadhaar holders It said all measures to ensure thorised Aadhaar numbers. It and US soldiers will hone interests were deliberately trying which is freely available for before issuing the unique ID. end-to-end security of resident said the patch also disables the their counter-terrorism skills to create confusion among Rs2,500. “UIDAI has taken all nec- data were taken including full GPS security feature of the in mountainous terrain in the people. The UIDAI said the claims essary safeguard measures encryption of resident data at the software allowing anyone from foothills of Himalayas in Utta- The denial came after an about Aadhaar being vulnerable spanning from providing stand- time of capture, tamper any location to enrol users. rakhand from next week, investigation by HuffPost India to tampering lacked substance ardized software that encrypts resistance, physical security, UIDAI clarified that no furthering interoperability revealed that the Aadhaar and were totally baseless. entire data even before saving access control, network security, operator can make or update between the armies of the database, which contains the bio- “Certain vested interests are to any disk, protecting data using stringent audit mechanism, 24x7 Aadhaar unless resident himself two countries. metrics and personal information deliberately trying to create tamper proofing, identifying security and fraud management gives his biometric. The two-week joint mil- itary training “Yudh Abhyas 2018” will be conducted in Chaubattia from September 16 to 29. This will be the 14th Congress, TDP and edition of the joint military exercise hosted alternately by both countries. “The joint exercise will CPI form alliance simulate a scenario where both nations will work together in counter-insur- in Telangana gency and counter-terrorism environment in mountainous IANS likely in November. terrain under United Nation The opposition parties have charter,” an army spokes- HYDERABAD: In a major termed TRS chief’s action as person said here. development, opposition undemocratic. “The exercise will witness Congress, TDP and CPI Uttam Kumar Reddy, TDP’s participation of about 350 yesterday joined hands to form Telangana unit president L. personnel of the US Army and a grand alliance to take on the Ramna and CPI’s state secretary similar strength of the Indian ruling TRS in Telangana in the Chada Venkat Reddy and other Army.” The military drill cur- ensuing Assembly elections. leaders of the three parties held riculum is progressively The leaders of these parties the talks. planned where the partici- announced after first round of Later, they joined leaders of pants are initially made to get talks that they are forming the other opposition parties to meet familiar with each other’s alliance. This is the first time in Governor ESL Narasimhan and organisational structure, Telugu Desam Party’s 35-year- demand President’s rule in the state. weapons, equipment, confi- Samsung Opera House comes up in Bengaluru old history that it is joining hands They said that free and fair dence training and tactical with the Congress in a state. elections were not possible in drills. Samsung’s staff and visitors interact at Samsung’s world’s largest mobile experience centre “Samsung State Congress chief Uttam Telangana with Chan- Subsequently, the training Opera House” begins business in Bengaluru, yesterday. Kumar Reddy said they would drashekhar Rao as the care- advances to joint tactical try to bring together all oppo- taker Chief Minister. exercises wherein the battle sition parties to defeat Tel- The state Congress chief later drills of both the armies are angana Rashtra Samithi (TRS). told reporters that the opposition coherently unleashed. The alliance will also seek parties have expressed their The training will culminate support of all people’s organi- concern over KCR abusing power with a final validation exercise Governance in Kerala at a standstill: Congress sations, employees, unem- for the benefit of TRS. They said in which troops of both coun- ployed and women’s groups. KCR had openly claimed that he tries will jointly carry out an IANS The convention in Kerala is for the US on September 2. The leaders of Congress, had discussed with Central operation against terrorists in that the Cabinet meets every “This is happening because Telugu Desam Party (TDP) and Election Commission to hold the a fictitious but realistic setting. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: Wednesday. Vijayan has not given charge to Communist Party of India (CPI) elections in November. Exercise Yudh Abhyas 2018 With Chief Minister Pinarayi Speaking to the media here, any other Cabinet Minister. This met at a star hotel in the city. “This is against the prin- will witness a Division Head- Vijayan away in the United State Ramesh Chennithala, the Leader is similar to what happened in This was their first meeting to ciples of democracy and against quarter based Command Post for treatment and none given of Opposition in Kerala Tamil Nadu when then Chief form an alliance. the Constitution. Holding of Exercise, an Infantry Battalion the charge of the post, the Assembly, said the state is Minister J. Jayalalithaa was in Chief Minister K Chan- elections and formation of gov- carrying out field training governance has come to a passing through a difficult time hospital,” said Chennithala. drashekhar Rao last week dis- ernment is the duty of Election exercise and discussions on standstill in Kerala, said the as there has been no Cabinet He said Kerala never had to solved the Assembly to go for Commission and not the ruling issues of mutual interest by opposition Congress yesterday. meeting ever since Vijayan left face such a situation before. early elections. The polls are party’s,” he said. experts of both countries.” 14 ASIA WEDNESDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2018

Arrest warrants Wife of Nawaz Sharif dies in London for former Pakistani PM REUTERS “She was a whether Nawaz Sharif or his seat in a by-election after the 1999 military coup that ended a courageous woman daughter, Maryam, might be Supreme Court disqualified him. previous Sharif administration. Abbasi issued ISLAMABAD: The cancer- of great dignity released from prison to attend Three-time-premier Nawaz With her husband jailed by stricken wife of Pakistan’s jailed funeral services. Sharif, who was removed from General Pervez Musharraf, she former Prime Minister Nawaz and confronted Nawaz Sharif was in London office in each of his elected terms, broke through a police barricade INTERNEWS Sharif died in London yesterday her disease with with Kulsoom earlier this year has maintained that his most set up around her home in Lahore while her husband and daughter fortitude,” Prime when the anti-corruption court recent ouster in July 2017 and in July 2000 in an attempt to LAHORE: The Lahore High were in prison, officials said. Minister Imran Khan handed him a 10-year jail term and subsequent conviction were part prevent her from leading a public Court issued bailable warrants Kulsoom Nawaz Sharif, 68, sentenced his presumed political of a plot against him by the pow- rally. for the arrest of former Prime died after months in a coma. She said on Twitter after heir, Maryam, to seven years in erful military and the judiciary. She managed to get away in Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi was diagnosed with lymphoma the death of Kulsoom prison over the purchase of luxury The army has repeatedly a car, which was chased by the for not attending proceedings last year, barely a month after Nawaz Sharif. flats in London in the 1990s. denied any interference in pol- police for several miles. When of a petition against PML-N’s Nawaz Sharif was removed from The father and daughter left itics, while the courts insist justice police finally surrounded the car, jailed supremo Nawaz Sharif office by the Pakistan Supreme her bedside to return to Pakistan is carried out impartially. she locked herself in for several that sought action against him Court, which ordered him to face to rally their followers ahead of Army chief General Qamar hours in a standoff until police under treason charges for trial in an anti-corruption court. condolences, and said the gov- July 25 elections, which their Javed Bajwa expressed “grief and finally towed the vehicle away. allegedly trying to defame state “The wife of Mian Nawaz ernment “as per law” would party lost to the former cricket heartfelt condolences to the The Musharraf regime even- institutions in an interview. Sharif is no more among us. May provide assistance to the family. star Imran Khan’s party. Both bereaved family”, said the tually allowed Nawaz and Kulsoom A three-judge bench, God rest her in peace,” Shehbaz “She was a courageous were arrested on arrival and official military spokesman. Sharif to leave the country, and they headed by Justice Syed Sharif, the former prime minis- woman of great dignity and con- have been imprisoned since. Up until her husband’s ouster spent years in exile until returning Mazahar Ali Akbar Naqvi, ter’s brother, said on Twitter. fronted her disease with for- Kulsoom Sharif was briefly last year, Kulsoom Sharif had in 2007 to contest new elections ordered the court’s office to New Prime Minister Imran titude,” Khan said on Twitter. a member of parliament after never been a politician, but she after Musharraf stepped down in ensure serving of notices to Khan issued a statement offering It was not immediately clear she won her husband’s former memorably led protests after the the face of mass protests. Nawaz Sharif through the superintendent of Adiala Jail and to journalist Cyril Almeida through the SSP Operations, Islamabad. 32 dead in attack on As the bench resumed hearing, no one appeared on behalf of the three respondents, Afghan protesters annoying the judges. Justice Naqvi observed that Abbasi should have REUTERS lowing one in July. attended the court as he was Nangarhar, one of the main present during the previous KABUL: A suicide bomber in strongholds of Islamic State mil- hearing on June 29 and was Afghanistan killed at least 32 itant fighters since early 2015, has supposed to appear in all sub- people at a gathering yesterday been one of the most volatile sequent proceedings. on the highway between the regions this year, with a string of The petitioner’s counsel, eastern city of Jalalabad and the suicide bombings and attacks on Azhar Siddique, told the main border crossing into neigh- its capital, Jalalabad. bench that Abbasi was bouring Pakistan, officials said. Officials and elders said reportedly in the city to run The blast, less than a week yesterday’s attack targeted a his campaign for a by-poll. after a suicide attack killed gathering to protest against a The bench issued bailable more than 20 people in the police commander, adding that arrest warrants for Abbasi capital, Kabul, came as violence hundreds of people were subject to furnishing bonds of has flared across the nation, present when the blast Rs1 million. It issued fresh with heavy fighting in northern happened. notices to Sharif and Almeida provinces. The blast dispersed the asking them to appear before Officials have warned vio- crowd, but more people the court on Sept 24. lence is likely to intensify ahead gathered after the explosion to Amina Malik, of the Civil of parliamentary elections next continue the protest. Society Network, had filed the month and a presidential Qaderi said rescue efforts petition pleading that Sharif, election in April. were being hampered by reports Fruits of labour on May 11, had said that There was no immediate of another suicide bomber in the “those who attacked a hotel claim of responsibility for yes- area, making police and emer- Pakistani vendors gather around of canary melon piles at a fruit market in Peshawar, yesterday. in Mumbai actually belonged terday’s attack, although the gency services cautious about to Pakistan”. Taliban issued a statement approaching the scene. denying involvement. The explosion followed a At least 32 bodies were series of smaller blasts yes- taken to hospitals but the final terday that targeted schools in total was unclear and could Jalalabad and surrounding dis- Pakistan PM to supervise dams project rise, said Inamullah Miakhel, a tricts, killing at least one person spokesman for the provincial and wounding three. INTERNEWS health department. In the northern province of water flow of Pakistan, of which The Prime Minister also of state land and rest houses and Sohrab Qaderi, a member Sar-e Pul, hundreds of armed 80 per cent is in three months tweeted Pakistan has only 185 official residences built on that of the Nangarhar provincial men assembled to boost the ISLAMABAD: Pakistani Prime and only 20 per cent in rest of dams and only two large ones. land. According to figures cited council, said at least 56 bodies city’s defences as security Minister Imran Khan yesterday nine months,” he said in tweets. In contrast, India has 5,000 by Prime Minister Imran Khan, were taken to hospital, with 43 forces fought to push the hinted at supervising the Diamer The Pakistan Water and dams and China has 84,000 34,459 kanals of the state- more wounded. Taliban back from the city Bhasha and Mohmand dams Power Development Authority dams, including 4,000 large owned land is located in rural The violence has dampened centre, said Zabihullah Amani, project, given the urgency. (Wapda) Chairman, Lieutenant ones. “We need to avert the areas while 17,035 kanals is in hopes of peace talks to end the provincial governor’s “Met Chairman Wapda today Generalo (retd) Muzammil looming water crisis confronting urban areas. Afghanistan’s 17-year conflict spokesman. and emphasised urgency of Hussain, called on the prime min- Pakistan,” he tweeted. “I have just got figures of 90 but two Taliban officials on There were no reports of US building the Diamer Bhasha and ister and briefed him about the The Prime Minister said per cent of state-owned land in Tuesday said the movement strikes in Sar-e Pul yesterday Mohmand dams. I may supervise water situation in the country and Pakistan is sitting on hundreds KP, Punjab and federal areas and was preparing for another but there were three strikes on dams project myself, given the future development of water and of billions of rupees in what he rest houses/official residences meeting with US officials fol- Monday. urgency. Forty finve MAF is total hydropower sectors. called ‘dead capital’ in the form built on this land.

Sri Lankan women selling kidneys to Bangla court refuses repay loans: UN bail for photographer AFP AFP the court did not explain the COLOMBO: Sri Lankan war reason for the rejection. widows and women in former DHAKA: A Bangladesh court Prosecutor Abdullah Abu conflict zones are being refused bail for award-winning said that they opposed Alam’s forced to sell their kidneys to photographer and rights activist bail after he incited people during pay loan sharks, a UN expert Shahidul Alam, whose month- last month’s protests by making said yesterday, urging long detention has triggered an seditious comments against the government intervention. international outcry, his lawyer government and the state. Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, said yesterday. “He has said the present the UN’s independent expert on Alam was arrested on government must be over- effects of debt on human rights, August 5 for making “false” and thrown,” Abu said, quoting from said that debt collectors were “provocative” statements on Al the preliminary charges police also demanding sexual favours. Jazeera and on Facebook Live filed against Alam. “Women are at times during massive student protests Alam’s arrest capped a tur- exposed to psychological and in the capital Dhaka. bulent month in Bangladesh as stu- physical violence by these Rights groups, UN rights dents poured onto the streets for collectors...,” he said in a experts, Nobel laureates and nine straight days after two teen- statement after a visit to the hundreds of academics have agers were killed by a speeding bus. island nation. called for the immediate release Alam had told Al Jazeera “I have also learned of of the 63-year-old, who says he that the protests were the result cases of borrowers who have has been beaten in custody. of pent-up anger at corruption tried to sell their kidneys for After the country’s high and an “unelected gov- money to repay loans,” he court last week refused to con- ernment... clinging on by brute said without elaborating. sider the request, Alam’s force” that had looted banks Sri Lanka is home to tens lawyers moved to Dhaka’s Met- and gagged the media. of thousands of war widows ropolitan sessions judge on He is being investigated for nine years after the 37-year Tuesday, making another allegedly violating Bangladesh’s civil conflict ended, many of Open-air opera in Beijing petition for his release on bail. internet laws, enacted in 2006 them forced to use small “But the court rejected the and sharpened in 2013, which A man performs a traditional Chinese opera outside a mall in Beijing, yesterday. “microfinance” loans to bail application,” his lawyer critics say are used to stifle survive. Sara Hossain said, adding that dissent and harass journalists. WEDNESDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2018 ASIA 15 Kim asks Trump for another meeting in ‘very warm’ letter

REUTERS While South Korea missiles. In South Korea, officials SEOUL/WASHINGTON: US had hoped an accord nurtured hope that next week’s President Donald Trump formally ending the inter-Korean summit could received a “very warm, very conflict could have provide renewed momentum to positive” letter from North been unveiled on the nuclear negotiations, after last Korean leader Kim Jong Un month’s setback when Trump asking for a second meeting and sidelines of the UN cancelled a visit to Pyongyang the White House is looking at General Assembly by Secretary of State Mike scheduling one, White House later this month, Pompeo due to a lack of spokeswoman Sarah Sanders progress. said on Monday. Moon’s security chief South Korea’s President The two countries have been Chung Eui-yong said Moon is expected to present discussing North Korea’s nuclear last week that the some proposal to Kim sug- programmes since their leaders necessary conditions gesting phased steps toward met in Singapore in June, denuclearisation and US although that summit’s outcome for a three-way security guarantees including an was criticised for being short on meeting were missing. official end to the Korean War. concrete details about how and Moon could then discuss the South Korean Foreign Minister Kang Kyung-wha talks to US special representative for North Korea Steve whether Kim is willing to give idea when he meets Trump Biegun at the Foreign Ministry in Seoul, yesterday. up weapons that threaten the three-way meeting were during the UN General Assembly United States. missing. meeting in New York later this The likely timing of a second Trump’s National Security month, South Korean officials Trump-Kim meeting was Adviser John Bolton has also said. Moon calls for ‘bold decisions’ ahead of summit unclear. said he did not believe Kim Trump asked Moon to act as AP South Korea’s President would attend such a gathering. “chief negotiator” between summit in June between Kim and as a joint declaration to end the Moon Jae-in is scheduled to Hopes of progress were Washington and Pyongyang President Donald Trump to rid the 1950-53 Korean War. have his third summit with Kim revived however after Trump during their phone call last SEOUL: South Korea’s President North of its nuclear weapons. Moon said South Korea has no next week in Pyongyang, and his told reporters on Friday that a week, Moon’s spokesman Kim yetserday urged both North Korea During a Cabinet meeting choice but to mediate between the government had pushed for a personal letter from Kim was on Eui-kyeom told reporters. and the United States to “make Tuesday, Moon said Kim and Trump two countries to promote dia- three-way summit involving the way. “In order for us to move bold decisions” to break a deep- must think broadly and “make bold logue, saying both Trump and Kim Trump, with the aim of agreeing “It was a very warm, very toward the next level of disman- ening diplomatic impasse over the decisions” to move the diplomacy have asked him to play such a role. a joint declaration to end the positive letter,” Sanders said at tling North Korea’s existing nuclear North’s nuclear ambitions, saying forward and get North Korea to dis- He wants “genuine talks” between 1950-53 Korean War. Monday’s briefing. weapons, the leaders of North he’ll continue to act as mediator. mantle its nuclear arsenal. Washington and Pyongyang to The conflict ended with an “The primary purpose of the Korea and the United States once President Moon Jae-in’s com- “North Korea must carry out resume soon. armistice, not a peace treaty, letter was to request and look again must have big ideas and take ments come days before he’s to its nuclear dismantling and the During a visit to Seoul yes- leaving the US-led United to schedule another meeting bold decisions,” Moon told a meet with North Korean leader United States must take a corre- terday, Steve Biegun, the new US Nations forces including South with the president which we are cabinet meeting on Tuesday. Kim Jong Un for the third time this sponding step,” Moon said. “Under special envoy on North Korea, Korea technically still at war open to and are already in the “North Korea should abolish year to discuss how to achieve such a process, the two countries stressed the need to maintain with North Korea. process of coordinating that,” its nuclear programmes, and the denuclearisation and peace on the must pull back their deep-rooted nuclear diplomacy. While South Korea had she said. United States foster such con- Korean Peninsula. Moon said the mutual distrust caused by their 70 “We have some hard work to do. hoped an accord formally Sanders told reporters the ditions with corresponding summit must lead to another “big years of hostile relations.” But we also have tremendous oppor- ending the conflict could have letter exhibited “a continued action.” The nuclear envoys of step” toward denuclearisation. North Korea has dismantled tunity created by President Trump, been unveiled on the sidelines commitment to focus on denu- South Korea and the United The talks come at a crucial its nuclear and rocket engine by President Moon and by Chairman of the UN General Assembly clearisation of the peninsula.” States also held a meeting on moment in the overall diplomacy, testing sites, but US officials have Kim. We need to do everything we later this month, Moon’s security She said a military parade in Tuesday as part of efforts to which is currently stuck amid demanded more serious steps. can to make the most of this moment chief Chung Eui-yong said last Pyongyang on Sunday was “a jumpstart stalled nuclear talks recriminations between Wash- Kim has reportedly said that his of opportunity,” Biegun said at the week, without elaborating, that sign of good faith” because it did between Pyongyang and ington and Pyongyang on how to efforts must be reciprocated by start of his meeting with South the necessary conditions for a not feature any long-range Washington. follow through on vows made at a corresponding US measures such Korean nuclear envoy Lee Do-hoon

Thai-based film company Duterte vents anger at fierce critic on TV talk show AP to retell saga withdraw a 2011 amnesty a recent history of military have focused on growing public other national issues, Duterte granted to Trillanes, a former uprisings. concern over inflation, which hit announced changes in a gov- of cave boys MANILA: The Philippine Pres- navy officer who joined past Military chief of staff General a nine-year high last month, rice ernment food agency and bared ident vented his anger toward mutinies, has forced the senator Carlito Galvez Jr. warned troops shortages and poverty. a plan to resolve a delay in the AFP his fiercest political critic on a to seek refuge in the Senate, over the weekend “not to meddle A powerful typhoon entry of a telecommunications state TV talk show yesterday, where he has been marooned for or take part in partisan churning over the Pacific is company to improve Internet BANGKOK: A Thai-based prompting opposition calls for a week and gained wide media politics.” forecast to lash the country’s connections. Economic man- film company has joined the him to focus instead on wors- coverage. Military officials and even agricultural north later this agers were working to tame scramble to retell the ening inflation, rice shortages The 47-year-old senator has Trillanes say that the military week. inflation, he said. dramatic story of the 12 young and an approaching powerful brought his fight against remains united, but Duterte Disaster-response agencies In his parting words, Duterte footballers and their coach typhoon. Duterte’s actions, including an repeated that he was ready to have begun forming contingency defended his deadly crackdown who were freed from a President Rodrigo Duterte order for his arrest, to the step down anytime and would plans. on illegal drugs, touched on his flooded cave, one of the attempted to explain the legal Supreme Court, which rejected not allow infighting among state “President Duterte should fight against corruption and then producers said yesterday. offensive he has launched the senator’s plea to block the forces. snap out of his fantasy with rambled back to alleged threats Since the ‘Wild Boars’ against opposition Senagtor presidential order and ruled that “If the armed forces think destabilization plots, roll up his by his opponents to force him team were extracted from Antonio Trillanes IV. He linked two lower courts should handle that I am not competent, that I sleeves and start working,” from power. Tham Luang cave in northern Trillanes’ political group to an the case. am not qualified to be sitting opposition Senator Risa Hon- “You start it now and don’t Thailand two months ago, alleged plot to oust him, and said Concerns have been raised here as president... it’s up to you,” tiveros said, adding that people delay,” the tough-talking pres- there has been a frenzy of he has ordered the release of that Duterte’s moves may Duterte said. “You want another “need a reliable leader, not just ident said. “That’s their plan. If media interest in the feel- intelligence provided by a undermine judicial inde- president? Fine.” a tough talker. they can’t do it through explo- good tale that captivated the foreign government about the pendence and that the political Opposition politicians said The people yearn for sions, then assassinate. I’ll be world for weeks. alleged plan. impasse may ignite restiveness Duterte’s TV appearance, which democracy, not tyranny.” happy to die in your hands, at Documentary makers and Duterte’s decision to among troops in a country with lasted more than an hour, should Replying to questions about least it’s not death from illness.” Hollywood producers have tussled to get films off the ground, with journalists also spinning book deals from the real-life rescue mission. Hokkaido power station A Bangkok production company called De Warrenne Pictures are the latest to agree to take weeks to restart financing to make their version called “The Cave” with shooting REUTERS plant, the Tomato-Atsuma coal planned for November. power station, will take more “The project is already TOKYO: The biggest coal than a month, industry minister set,” producer Katrina Grose power station on Japan’s Hiroshige Seko told reporters. told AFP, of a movie that will northern island of Hokkaido, Previously he said it would take be directed by Tom Waller —a hit by a devastating earthquake at least a week to restart. Bangkok-based filmmaker of last week, will take weeks Supplies will be tight until mixed Thai-Irish descent. longer than thought to restart, Friday, when the 200-meg- The operation to save the a government minister said awatt Kyogoku No.2 pumped boys, who wandered into the yesterday. hydro-electric power unit is cave after a football training Clean-up operations con- expected to come back online, session and became stuck as tinued after the magnitude 6.7 Seko said. floodwaters surged in, quake on Thursday, which left Rolling blackouts may have involved expert cave divers 44 people dead, knocked out to be imposed from Thursday from across the world. power and damaged the only if supplies are not enough to They were found after 11 oil refinery on an island the size meet projected demand, he days huddled on a muddy of Austria with a population of added. ledge without food or fresh about 5.3 million. The power outage on water, floodwaters lapping Power shortages are ham- Hokkaido was the worst to hit ominously below them. pering efforts to clear debris Japan since the aftermath of the An ex-Thai Navy SEAL and restart factories and the March 2011 earthquake and died in the run-up to the government is calling on resi- tsunami and has exposed flaws daring extraction of the dents and businesses to reduce in Japan’s electricity grid. group, who were heavily Knowledge seekers their consumption by about 20 Supplies have been restored sedated as they were carried, percent. to almost all of Hokkaido’s 2.95 pulled and dragged free from Visitors read books at a library in Bangkok, Thailand, yesterday. Fully restarting Hokkaido million power customers, Seko deep inside the cave. Electric Power’s main power said. 16 EUROPE WEDNESDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2018 EU to debate possible action against Hungary

REUTERS Chancellor Angela Merkel also sit. STRASBOURG: The European The EPP membership has Union parliament will decide If the so-called Article muted EU reaction to Orban’s whether Hungarian Prime policies over the years and the Minister Viktor Orban should be 7 procedure passes, big question mark is how the punished for undercutting it would set in motion group’s 217 members will act democracy, an unprecedented a process that could when the vote is held today. vote highlighting how the bloc is It will also be a test for struggling with a populist and lead to sanctions Merkel ally and EPP head nationalist tide. such as a suspension Manfred Weber, who announced It is a unclear however of Hungary’s voting his bid to become the new head whether the 750-strong legis- rights in the EU. of the bloc’s executive European lature can muster the two-thirds Commission next year. Taking a majority needed to pass the stance on Orban comes as his Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban delivers a speech during a debate at the European Parliament, motion finding that Hungary has own, without help, without the first big challenge. in Strasbourg, eastern France, yesterday. persistently breached the EU solidarity and cooperation of Italy’s anti-imigration core values under Orban. other countries?,” he told the Interior Minister Matteo Salvini, show how difficult it is for the EU accused of dismantling an inde- on what to do with Hungary An immigration hard-liner, lawmakers. “There can be no whose League party has six law- to discipline those members that pendent judiciary at home, will should the parliament’s first-ever Orban has put pressure on future for Europe like that.” makers in the European body, flout its central tenets and take also defend Orban with the 73 such vote pass. They would need courts, media and non-gov- But the case put forward by said separately: “We will vote in a eurosceptic course. votes of its eurosceptic group. unanimity to sanction Orban, ernment groups since coming to liberals, EU enthusiasts and defence of Orban.” Poland’s ruling Law and Eventually, it would be up to making any tough punishment power in 2010. Though the EU many others in the bloc is much These political divisions Justice party, which stands the other 27 EU states to decide highly unlikely. has often protested, it has largely broader. Even Orban’s fellow failed to stop what his critics migration hard-liner, Austria’s decry as his growing authori- Chancellor Sebastian Kurz, sur- tarian drive. prised by announcing plans to Hungarian Prime Minister defends migration policies “Pro-migration representa- vote against Budapest. tives hold majority in the “We believe that there can AFP values on which the European its anti-migrant stance. a government... violates the European Parliament. They are be no compromises on the rule Union was founded. Budapest argues that its values on which this union was now preparing revenge against of law and democracy,” Kurz told STRASBOURG: Prime Minister “Whatever your decision anti-migrant measures and built without consequences?” Hungary because the Hungarians ORF television. Viktor Orban vowed Hungary will be, Hungary will not accede defence of sovereign rights are the Green MEP from the Neth- decided they will not become an If the so-called Article 7 pro- would resist any attempt to to this blackmail,” an angry in tune with the mood of erlands asked. immigration country,” Orban cedure passes, it would set in “blackmail” it into softening its Orban told the lawmakers, European voters — who will “Or will you ensure that the said before arriving in motion a process that could lead anti-migrant stance yesterday whom he alleged had already elect a new parliament in Stras- values of this union are more Strasbourg. to sanctions such as a suspension on the eve of an EU parliament made up their minds to activate bourg next May. than just words written on a Orban’s refusal to accept of Hungary’s voting rights in the vote to censure his populist article seven of the EU treaty But Judith Sargentini, who piece of a paper?” some of the Mediterannean EU. government. and seek measures to restrict is spearheading the vote on Her report voices concerns arrivals overwhelming coastal Kurz’s party is in the same Orban denounced as his government’s voting rights. whether to take action against about the Hungarian judiciary’s states like Italy has upset many conservative bloc in the insulting to Hungary’s honour “Hungary will protect its Hungary, told fellow MEPs that independence, corruption, of his EU peers, including Greek European Parliament as Orban’s. a report presented to the Stras- borders, stop illegal migration the time had come for them to freedom of expression, aca- Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, They form the biggest faction in bourg assembly that accuses his and defend its rights,” Orban make an “important choice” demic freedom, religious who said in Strasbourg: the European Parliament, the government of posing a “sys- said, accusing EU elites of after eight years under Orban. freedom, and the rights of “Do you really believe that European People’s Party (EPP), temic threat” to the democratic wanting to punish Budapest for “Will you let it happen that minorities and refugees. any country...can survive on its where lawmakers with German

Help sought as Activists slam UK for failing to tackle modern slavery 56 tortoises REUTERS suspected to have been trafficked would not solve the problem. Britain last week announced officer at charity ECPAT UK. stolen in Corsica — mostly trapped in exploitation, “We need to create support a $2.6m scheme to help author- “In the care of children’s AFP LONDON: Britain is failing to domestic servitude or forced networks that can make children ities protect vulnerable children services, they too often go protect thousands of children labour - were referred to the gov- and their families resilient to from traffickers and gangs who missing or are retrafficked. This from being trafficked and ernment last year, up 66 percent being coerced, are able to spot rape them and force them to move marks a complete failure to AJACCIO: A turtle conser- enslaved, activists said on 2016 and the highest annual the worrying signs quickly, and drugs from cities to rural areas. prevent these most vulnerable vation park on the French yesterday, criticising the number on record. can provide specialised support Yet, the government mostly of victims from further harm.” island of Corsica is asking the government for lacking a clear About a third were British, for children who have already focuses on helping children who Hailed as a global leader in public for help after 56 rare strategy to stop girls being many used as drug runners, been trafficked,” she added. have been exploited, rather than the anti-slavery drive, Britain Hermann’s tortoises, abused and gangs using young while hundreds were trafficked A Home Office (interior min- prevention, while frontline pro- last month said it would review considered a nearly people as drug mules. from countries such as Vietnam, istry) spokesman said that the fessionals such as doctors, its landmark 2015 law amid crit- threatened species, were The government’s approach Sudan, Eritrea, Afghanistan and government already had a clear teachers and social workers lack icism that it is not being used stolen from the site. to tackling child trafficking is Iraq, according to government plan to prevent human traf- the training to spot vulnerable fully to jail traffickers, help The A Cupulatta park in fragmented and young victims figures. ficking, especially that of children, according to the ATMG. victims, or drive companies to Vero, about 30km northeast lack specialist care at a time “Having no clear plan in children. Unlike adult victims, traf- spot and stop forced labour. of Ajaccio, issued its appeal when a record number of child place to prevent child trafficking “This has been a key com- ficked children have no guar- Britain is home to at least on Facebook after discov- slaves are being uncovered, said in the UK ... should shame this ponent of our world-leading antee of specialist support once 136,000 modern-day slaves, ering the missing adult tor- the Anti-Trafficking Monitoring government,” said Anti-Slavery approach to tackling modern identified, and many go into the says the Australian human rights toises, recognisable by their Group (ATMG), a group of International’s chief executive slavery since 2014, when the care of local authorities where group Walk Free Foundation - a distinctive black-and-yellow charities. Jasmine O’Connor, adding that Modern Slavery Strategy was they may end up in fresh danger, figure about 10 times higher than shells. In Britain, 2,118 children simply targeting the traffickers published,” he said. said Catherine Baker, policy a 2013 government estimate. “These tortoises cannot be legally sold so can only be destined for trafficking,” the park wrote. It also warned that wild Rejecting Brexit plan is turtle populations could be at risk if the Hermann’s were stolen by anti-zoo activists not a confidence vote who might be planning to release the tortoises. on May: Lawmaker “They could contaminate wild populations with fatal If she loses that vote, Britain germs, since they’ve been could leave the EU without a kept in captivity for a long deal, an outcome some believe time and have been exposed would spark a crisis of confi- to animals and people which dence that could cost her the wild turtles aren’t used to premiership. seeing,” the park said. “Share Jacob Rees-Mogg (pic- this message: the turtles may tured), chair of the European still be in Corsica”. Research Group, a faction Police have opened an within May’s Conservatives, inquiry, according to the local REUTERS plans to vote against the prosecutor Eric Bouillard. Chequers deal but said that A Cupulatta bills itself as does not mean May has to go. the only site in Europe dedi- LONDON: Lawmakers from “The vote on the legislation cated to the breeding and British Prime Minister Theresa will not be a vote of confidence,” protection of turtles from May’s Conservative Party can Rees-Mogg, tipped by some as a around the world, housing vote against her Brexit plans possible successor to May, told a 170 species and more than without it being a vote of confi- pro-Brexit event in parliament. 3,000 animals. dence in her government, the “We can vote down the bad The land-based Her- head of an influential group of Chequers proposals on Monday mann’s turtles are found pro-Brexit lawmakers said. and support the government in around the Mediterranean but Brexiteers have said as a vote of confidence on Pledge to pay all burqa fines in Denmark have been threatened in many as 80 of May’s 315 law- Tuesday. They are separate recent years by loss of habitat. makers could vote against her things and trying to align them French-Algerian businessman, Rachid Nekkaz is asked by police officers to step down from the The International Union so-called Chequers plan, I think is a mistake. So we can main entrance of the Danish Parliament, during his attempt to fulfill his promise to pay people for Conservation of Nature, a leaving the fate of the gov- carry on supporting the prime fined for violating the ban of wearing niqab in public areas, in Copenhagen, Denmark, yesterday. Swiss-based NGO, classifies ernment and the Brexit deal in minister but we can oppose this So far nobody has been fined. the turtle as “near threatened” the hands of the opposition policy until it is changed or on its Red List of species at Labour Party. collapses.” risk. WEDNESDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2018 EUROPE 17

Turkey arrests Russia displays its military might Austrian reporter on terror charges REUTERS the military’s readiness to move them as a threat had they been 3,200 members of the People’s REUTERS troops large distances, to test excluded. Liberation Army (PLA) will join MOSCOW: Russia began its how closely infantry and naval The exercise — which will in. biggest war games since the fall Taking part in the forces cooperated, and to perfect involve more than 1,000 military Some experts see the war VIENNA: Turkish authorities of the Soviet Union yesterday command and control proce- aircraft, two Russian naval fleets, games as a message to Wash- have arrested an Austrian close to its border with China, drills are, more than dures. Later stages will involve up to 36,000 tanks and ington, with which both Moscow journalist and activist on mobilising 300,000 troops in a 1,000 military aircraft, rehearsals of both defensive and armoured vehicles and all and Beijing have strained ties. suspicion of a terrorism- show of force that will include two Russian naval offensive scenarios. Russian airborne units — began “With its Vostok 2018 related offence, the leftwing joint exercises with the Chinese fleets, up to 36,000 Russia also staged a major as President Vladimir Putin held exercise Russia sends a message website where he works said. army. naval exercise in the eastern talks with Chinese President Xi that it regards the US as a Re:volt, which describes China and Russia have tanks and armoured Mediterranean this month and Jinping in the Russian port city potential enemy and China as a itself as a “radical left-wing” staged joint drills before but not vehicles and all its jets resumed bombing the of Vladivostok. potential ally,” wrote Dmitri online magazine, said Max on such a large scale, and the Russian airborne units. Syrian region of Idlib, the last Relations between Moscow Trenin, a former Russian army Zirngast had been arrested at Vostok-2018 (East-2018) major enclave of rebels fighting and Beijing have long been colonel and director of the his apartment in Ankara yes- exercise signals closer military its ally President Bashar Al marked by mutual wariness with Carnegie Moscow Center think terday morning. ties as well as sending an move, and combat helicopters Assad. Russian nationalists warning of tank. “We condemn this arrest unspoken reminder to Beijing and fighter aircraft taking off. The location of the main encroaching Chinese influence “China, by sending a PLA in the strongest terms of that Moscow is able and ready In one clip, marines from training range for Vostok-2018 in the country’s mineral-rich far element to train with the Rus- course and call for his imme- to defend its sparsely populated Russia’s Northern Fleet and a 5,000 km east of Moscow means east. sians, is signalling that US diate release,” Re:volt said by far east. motorised Arctic brigade were it is likely to be watched closely But Russia pivoted east pressure is pushing it towards email, confirming a statement Vostok-2018 is taking place shown disembarking from a by Japan, North and South Korea towards China after the West much closer military cooperation on the arrest from rights group at a time of heightened tension large landing ship on a barren as well as by China and Mon- sanctioned Moscow over its with Moscow.” Reporters Without Borders. between the West and Russia, shore opposite Alaska. golia, both of whose armies will annexation of Ukraine’s Crimea Putin, who is armed forces “Our writer, who has and Nato has said it will monitor This activity was part of the take part in the manoeuvres later region in 2014 and trade links commander-in-chief, is lived in Turkey for many the exercise closely, as will the first stage of the exercise, which this week. between the two, who share a expected to observe the exercises years, is a passionate leftist United States which has a strong runs until September 17, the min- Analysts said Moscow had land border over 4,200 km long, this week alongside Defence activist and author who cam- military presence in the Asia- istry said in a statement. It to invite the Chinese and Mon- have blossomed since. Minister Sergei Shoigu, who is paigns for freedom and Pacific region. involved deploying additional golian militaries given the prox- Russia broadcast footage of overseeing them. democracy,” the German- Russia’s Ministry of Defence forces to Russia’s far east and a imity of the war games to their some of 24 helicopters and six Shoigu has said they are the language publication added. broadcast images yesterday of naval build-up involving its borders and because the scale jets belonging to the Chinese air biggest since a Soviet military Turkish officials were not columns of tanks, armoured Northern and Pacific fleets. meant the neighbouring coun- force landing at Russian air bases exercise, Zapad-81 (West-81) in immediately available for vehicles and warships on the The main aim was to check tries would probably have seen for the exercise. Beijing has said 1981. comment on the matter.

German zoo Putin’s ally challenges sends its last orangutan to oppn leader for a ‘duel’ AFP the soldiers, “literally takes food Louisiana out of your mouth for profit”. AP MOSCOW: Russian President The expose alleges that the Vladimir Putin’s close ally and agency purchases poor quality NEW ORLEANS: A German chief of the National Guard food for its soldiers for over- zoo is sending its last oran- yesterday challenged Kremlin inflated prices. gutan to Louisiana, and he’s critic Alexei Navalny to a “duel” Navalny is not set to finish already learning some and threatened to turn him into his 30-day jail term until late English. “steak”. this month. His team however Jambi is a 22-year-old Wearing his reacted to Zolo- Sumatran orangutan, a criti- uniform, Viktor tov’s message with cally endangered species of the Zolotov (pictured) a mixture of horror red-haired Asian great apes. spouted threats and ridicule. He’ll travel 8,050 km and insults on a The video has from Hannover Adventure video message to “open, very serious Zoo to the Audubon Zoo in Navalny, who last threats,” said Nav- New Orleans, where he will month alleged alny’s former head join three females: Reese, corruption in the of campaign staff People wave pro-independence Catalan flags ‘Esteladas’ during a pro-independence demonstration, Feliz, and Feliz’s daughter, National Guard Leonid Volkov on in Barcelona, yesterday. Menari. and is currently in Twitter, adding But first, Jambi must spend jail for violating that Zolotov “must about a month out of view at anti-protest have forgotten” the Dallas Zoo, which is Fresh call for Catalan independence legislation. that Navalny is approved by the US Centers “You, Mr locked up and AFP for Disease Control and Pre- eastern region with its own dis- in El Maresme near Barcelona on Navalny, have never faced can’t reply. vention as quarantine location tinct language. his green tractor, one of dozens payback,” Zolotov said, after “They can’t even hire good for imported primates. BARCELONA: Around one But this year’s event had par- of tractors at the event. rubbishing Navalny’s cor- PR people with their stolen bil- Although Hannover gave million Catalans rallied in ticular significance as a test of City police said on Twitter ruption expose as slander. lions,” wrote Lyubov Sobol, Jambi a farewell party in Barcelona yesterday, banging strength after a referendum last that around one million people “Nobody has given you a quality who works for Navalny’s anti- August 31, he’s moving to drums and blowing whistles in October 1, and the Catalan par- took part, a similar amount to kick. In a way you feel it in your corruption centre. “Six minutes Dallas this week, accom- a show of support for inde- liament’s unilateral declaration last year’s protest. liver.” of threats and not a single word panied by a German keeper pendence nearly a year after a of independence on October 27, Organisers said they had sold “I simply call you to a duel, to refute facts and evidence in and one from Audubon, Joel failed attempt to break away all came to naught. over 200,000 coral-red T-shirts to the ring, to the tatami, to the investigation.” M. Hamilton, vice president from Spain. Demonstrators climbed on — the colour used in the ties used wherever. And I promise to Previously Navalny had and general curator at the Wearing coral-red T-shirts each others shoulders to form to secure the ballot boxes during make a juicy beefsteak out of alleged Zolotov himself -- a Audubon Zoo, said. and waving the red, yellow and human towers, a Catalan tradi- last year’s contested referendum. you in just a few minutes,” he former head of Putin’s security blue Catalan separatist flag, a tion, while others carried yellow Catalan President Quim said in the video posted on the detail who was appointed to the sea of protesters gathered for and black signs that read “Free Torra said that the rally marks National Guard’s official current newly-created post in French MPs push the rally on Catalonia’s “national Catalan political prisoners now”, the start of a “mass mobili- website. 2016 — was “very rich” and that day” which commemorates Bar- a reference to Catalan separatist sation”. Further protests are Navalny in late August pub- his family owned several luxury for ban on plastic celona’s fall to troops loyal to leaders in jail awaiting trial over planned for an anniversary of lished a video he addressed to properties. Spain’s King Philip V in 1714. last year’s independence bid. last year’s banned referendum, the rank and file employees of Zolotov in his video said bottles in schools The annual “Diada” holiday “I am outraged...the politi- which was marred by police the National Guard, the agency that he was “not a poor man” has since 2012 been used to cal prisoners have to be released violence, and on the anniver- tasked with dispersing Russian but went on to accuse Navalny REUTERS stage a massive rally calling for now!, said Santi Noe, 54, who sary of the failed declaration protests. of being a “rotten” American secession for the wealthy north- came to the rally from his farm of independence. Agency leadership, he tells agent. PARIS: Lawmakers in France’s ruling party are pushing for a ban on plastic water bottles in school canteens from 2020 as Report: Spy chief backtracks consumers and governments become increasingly aware over Chemnitz video doubts of the damaging impact of REUTERS plastic that ends up in land- of mainstream parties last week fills or in the ocean. for telling Bild he was not sure if The measure is part of a BERLIN: The head of Germany’s the footage, shot in Chemnitz two draft field-to-fork bill that domestic spy agency, facing calls weeks ago and circulated online, also includes a ban on plastic to quit for questioning whether was genuine. straws and hot-drink stirrers. a video showing far-right gangs The Sueddeutsche Zeitung Legislators begin a second hounding migrants in the city of and the Frankfurter Allgemeine reading of the bill in the Chemnitz was genuine, now Zeitung said Maassen had National Assembly today. accepts the footage was real, two written to Interior Minister Horst As companies and house- papers reported yesterday. Seehofer saying that the video holds pay more attention to Germany’s most violent far- had not been falsified and that their green credentials, the right protests in decades, which his comments had been EU has also put forward a ban took place in the eastern city misunderstood. FROM LEFT: Head of German Federal Police Dieter Romann; Chief Commissioner of Germany’s on single-use plastic products over the fatal stabbing of a Maassen said he had meant Bundeskriminalamt (BKA) Federal Crime Office Holger Muench; Head of the German Federal Office for which have environmentally German man blamed on two to express doubt about whether the Protection of the Constitution (BfV) Hans-Georg Maassen, and President of the German Federal friendly alternatives. migrants, have reignited a the video genuinely showed Intelligence Agency (BND) Bruno Kahl during a reception of safety authority, in Berlin, yesterday. Lawmakers in the centre- heated debate about Chancellor people being chased, the papers right-dominated Senate had Angela Merkel’s 2015 decision to wrote. explain his comments, and it is events in Chemnitz. She last city for giving the Nazi salute, an stripped the school bottle ban open the country’s borders to Lawmakers including the not yet clear to what extent the week rebuked a conservative action that is illegal in Germany. out of the bill at its first more than a million refugees. leader of the Social Democrats new explanation will ease the ally, head of the state of Saxony Merkel and her spokesman reading, but ruling party law- Hans-Georg Maassen, who (SPD), who share power with pressure on him. where Chemnitz is located, for have repeated several times that makers in the lower house heads the BfV intelligence agency, Merkel’s conservatives, called on Maassen had appeared to playing down the violence. far-right violence is unac- reinserted it. prompted anger from lawmakers Maassen to resign if he failed to contradict Merkel’s view of the Police also arrested people in the ceptable in Germany. 18 AMERICAS WEDNESDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2018

United Nations Representatives observe a moment of silence in honour of 9/11 victims during a UN Security Council meeting at the United Nations Headquarters, in New York, yesterday. RIGHT: A US flag that flew over the World Trade Center is presented during ceremonies marking the 17th anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Center, at the National 9/11 Memorial and Museum, in New York. US marks 17th anniversary of 9/11 attacks AP Melania joined an observance at centered on reading the names routinely asks candidates not to human being was ever meant to the September 11 memorial in a of the dead. But each year at campaign or run political ads for bear,” Thomas Langer said, NEW YORK: Americans looked field near Shanksville, Pennsyl- ground zero, victims’ relatives the day. Organizers of the ground adding that he had struggled with back on 9/11 yesterday with Thousands of 9/11 vania, where one of the jetliners infuse the ceremony with per- zero ceremony allow politicians despair himself. solemn ceremonies, volunteer fell to the ground after 40 pas- sonal messages of remembrance, to attend, but they’ve been September 11 still shapes service and a presidential tribute victims’ relatives, sengers and crew members inspiration and concern. barred since 2011 from reading American policy, politics and to “the moment when America survivors, rescuers realized hijackers had taken For Nicholas Haros Jr., that names or delivering remarks. everyday experiences in places fought back” on one of the and others gathered control and tried to storm the concern is officials who make If not political speeches, from airports to office buildings, hijacked planes used as weapons on a misty morning cockpit. comparisons to 9/11 or invoke it some victims’ relatives made even if it’s less of a constant in the deadliest terror attack on Calling it “the moment when for political purposes. appeals to patriotism and presence in the public con- US soil. yesterday at the America fought back,” Trump “Stop. Stop,” pleaded Haros, support for the military and first sciousness after 17 years. Thousands of 9/11 victims’ memorial plaza where said the fallen “took control of who lost his 76-year-old mother, responders as they read names. Memorials to 9/11 continue to relatives, survivors, rescuers and the World Trade their destiny and changed the Frances. “Please stop using the Mary Ann Marino said her family grow at Shanksville, where the others who gathered on a misty course of history.” bones and ashes of our loved is humbled by the actions of first Tower of Voices will eventually yesterday morning at the Center’s twin towers They “joined the immortal ones as props in your political responders like her husband, include a wind chime for each of memorial plaza where the World once stood. ranks of American heroes,” said theater. Their lives, sacrifices and firefighter Kenneth Marino, but the 40 people killed there, and Trade Center’s twin towers once Trump. deaths are worth so much more. “our hearts still ache for what ground zero, where work is to stood. Pence recalled the heroism Let’s not trivialize them.” should have been.” begin soon on a pathway honoring President Donald Trump and from her home in suburban of service members and civilians This year’s anniversary Other relatives laid bare the rescue and recovery workers. Vice-President Mike Pence Baldwin. who repeatedly went back into comes as a heated midterm toll their losses had taken on their Meanwhile, a subway station headed to the two other places “To me, he is here. This is my the Pentagon to rescue election cycle kicks into high families. Thomas Langer said his destroyed on 9/11 finally reo- where hijacked planes crashed holy place,” she said before the survivors. gear. But there have long been brother, Timmy, “drank himself pened on Saturday. In June, on September 11, 2001: a Penn- hours-long reading of the names The terrorists “hoped to some efforts to separate the to death” over the grief of losing doors opened at the 80-story 3 sylvania field and the Pentagon. of the nearly 3,000 dead, break our spirit, and they failed,” solemn anniversary from pol- his wife, Vanessa, and their World Trade Center, one of Seventeen years after losing including her husband, Joel he said. itics. The group 9/11 Day, which unborn child on September 11. several rebuilt office towers that her husband, Margie Miller went Miller. The 9/11 commemorations promotes volunteering on an “I witnessed my brother have been constructed or to the New York City ceremony The president and First Lady are by now familiar rituals, anniversary service in 2009, endure the pain that no one planned at the site.

FBI agent sued over death of Trump dismisses Bob Woodward’s book as a ‘joke’ AFP Houston hostage the real book!” said last week, calling the book Woodward is a famed chron- a “scam.” AP WASHINGTON: US President icler of presidents, best known for The book’s picture was rein- Donald Trump dismissed jour- his revelations in the Watergate forced last week with the publi- HOUSTON: The family of a nalist Bob Woodward’s bomb- scandal that proved the undoing cation of a New York Times kidnapped man who was shell book as a “joke”, a day of Richard Nixon in 1974. op-ed written by an anonymous fatally shot during a rescue before readers get their first full Trump is quoted in “Fear” senior Trump administration mission in Houston is suing look at his detailed account of a brutally insulting members of his official who portrayed fellow the FBI agent who killed him. White House in disarray. own cabinet, referring to aides struggling to limit the The federal lawsuit filed “Fear: Trump in the White Attorney General Jeff Sessions potentially disastrous conse- by Ulises Valladares’ family House” hits US bookstores yes- as “mentally retarded” and quences of some of the presi- alleges illegal search and teday after a weeklong buildup, former chief of staff Reince dent’s rash decisions. seizure, and wrongful death, with published excerpts, leaks Priebus as a “little rat.” Infuriated by the unsigned The Houston Chronicle and interviews that portray US Defense Secretary Jim missive, Trump on Friday urged reported . It seeks punitive Trump as dangerously erratic Mattis, in turn, is quoted as Sessions to launch an investi- damages as a result of Valla- and uninformed. saying the president has the gation to uncover the author’s dares’ death. On the eve of its release, the mental capacity of a “fifth or identity, citing “national The family aims to president took to Twitter with a sixth grader,” while Chief of Staff security” concerns. prevent other hostages from preemptive round of attacks, The newly released book “Fear” by Bob Woodward is displayed at a John Kelly is insulting Trump. The Times argued that such being killed and to provide a denouncing as fiction Wood- Barnes and Noble bookstore, in Corte Madera, California, yesterday. Mattis, Kelly and other senior a probe would be a “blatant future for Valladares’ ward’s reconstruction of scenes aides have denied making the abuse of government power.” 12-year-old son, said Randall in which frustrated aides Joke — just another assault of a series of tweets. remarks. But on Monday, the White Kallinen, one of the family’s scramble to contain the mer- against me, in a barrage of “Many have already come “I don’t talk the way I am House reasserted its interest in attorneys. curial president’s reckless assaults, using now disproven forward to say the quotes by quoted. If I did I would not have studying whether any laws were The US Department of impulses. unnamed and anonymous them, like the book, are fiction. been elected President. These broken by the explosive op-ed’s Justice Office of the Inspector “The Woodward book is a sources,” Trump said in the first Dems can’t stand losing. I’ll write quotes were made up,” Trump author. General is reviewing the shooting, said Christina Garza, an FBI spokeswoman. Law enforcement raided a Houston residence Jan. 25, Brazil’s leftwing makes gains in poll Lula Da Silva bows out about a day after Valladares, BLOOMBERG 47, was taken for ransom by Bolsonaro only inched ahead, Electoral Court’s decision to bar men claiming to be part of a confounding the expectations of Lula’s candidacy, due to his con- of presidential race Mexican cartel. Investigators BRASILIA: Brazil’s leftwing candi- analysts who expected the attack viction for corruption and AP have since found that the dates made the most significant to translate into a significant money-laundering. fight for democracy. Are you?” claims were made to scare gains in the race for the presi- boost. The former paratrooper With only about four weeks tweeted Paulo Teixeira, a Con- Valladares’ brother into dency, while far-right lawmaker moved to 24% from 22%, within left before the first-round vote, RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil’s gressman and vice president of giving the men money. Jair Bolsonaro continues to lead the poll’s two percentage-point the outlook for Brazil’s presi- Workers’ Party yesterday the Workers’ Party. An FBI agent, who has not the field, according to the latest margin of error. Though he looks dential race is still uncertain. Bol- replaced former President Luiz Yesterday’s move was an been named, was attempting opinion poll. increasingly likely to make the sonaro is expected to remain off Inacio Lula Da Silva as its acknowledgement that the to enter the unlit home when The Datafolha poll showed second round, Bolsonaro would the campaign trail for another candidate for the October 7 party could not get da Silva on someone grabbed his rifle, the former Ceara state Governor still struggle against any other week at the very least as he presidential vote. the ballot despite numerous Houston police said . The Ciro Gomes rising from 10% in candidate in a run-off. The poll recovers from the stabbing. After a meeting of Workers’ attempts in courts. agent couldn’t see who it was August to 13%, as Fernando also showed his rejection ratings Despite his hospitalization, Party officials in the southern The party tried to leverage and fired twice, fearing that Haddad, who is set to replace increasing from 39% to 43%. the far-right candidate is con- city Curitiba, where da Silva is the decision of a UN-appointed the weapon would be used former President Luiz Inacio Lula Meanwhile, market-favourite tinuing to campaign on social jailed, two tweeted that former human rights committee that against him, police said. One da Silva as the Workers’ Party Gerald Alckmin failed to make media, where his followers far Sao Paulo Mayor Fernando said da Silva should be allowed bullet hit Valladares, who candidate, saw his numbers rise significant gains, rising just one outnumber those of his compet- Haddad was the new candidate. to run. And in recent months, died later at a hospital. from 4% to 9%. Environmentalist point to 10%, despite dominating itors. In the days following the His vice presidential running several international figures, The family is also suing Marina Silva’s vote intentions the political advertising on TV attack, many of his supporters mate will be Manuela D’Avila, such as former US presidential Valladares’ alleged kid- slumped from 16% to 11%. and radio over the past 10 days. have held rallies in his support a member of the Brazil Com- candidate Bernie Sanders have nappers for false impris- In the first major poll since he Datafolha’s survey of 2,804 on the streets of Sao Paulo, Rio munist Party. said the case against da Silva onment, assault and battery, was stabbed by a fanatic at a Brazilians, carried out on Sep- de Janeiro and the capital, “Fernando Haddad and was questionable and that he and wrongful death. campaign rally on Thursday, tember 10, follows the Superior Brasilia. Manuela D’Avila are ready to should be allowed on the ballot. WEDNESDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2018 AMERICAS 19 ‘Russia main suspect in US staff illnesses’ REUTERS suffering from a mysterious malady resembling brain injury. WASHINGTON: Russia is the Cuban officials, who are main suspect in US agencies’ The NBC reported conducting their own investi- investigation of mysterious gation, have denied any illnesses in American personnel that: The United States involvement or knowledge of in Cuba and China, NBC News believes sophisticated what was behind it. reported yesterday. electromagnetic The United States believes Evidence from communica- sophisticated electromagnetic tions intercepts has pointed to weapons may weapons may have been used Moscow’s involvement during have been used on government workers, pos- the investigation involving the on government sibly in conjunction with other FBI, CIA and other agencies, workers, possibly in technologies, NBC reported. NBC reported, citing three uni- The US military has been dentified US officials and two conjunction with other trying to reverse-engineer the other people briefed on the technologies. weapon or weapons used to probe. harm the diplomats, including The evidence, however, is by testing various devices on not conclusive enough for the illnesses, which began in 2016 and animals, NBC said, citing Trump United States to assign blame have affected 26 Americans. administration officials, con- publicly to Moscow, according Symptoms have included gressional aides and others. to the NBC report. hearing loss, tinnitus, vertigo, Part of the work is being FBI and CIA officials did not headaches and fatigue, a pattern done at the directed energy Workers board up a home while preparing for the arrival of Hurricane Florence, in Wrightsville immediately return a request for consistent with “mild traumatic research program at Kirtland Air Beach, yesterday. comment on the report. brain injury,” State Department Force Base in New Mexico, US officials said in July that officials have said. where the military has giant they are still investigating health The State Department said lasers and laboratories to test problems at the US embassy in in June it brought a group of dip- high-power electromagnetic Florence continues path to east coast Cuba, and do not know who or lomats home from Guangzhou, weapons, including microwaves, ANATOLIA what was behind the mysterious China, over concern they were NBC said. Maryland, South Carolina and strongest hurricanes to make North Carolina have all declared landfall in the continental US WASHINGTON: Hurricane states of emergencies. this far north. Florence continued its path “We want residents to The National Hurricane Gang members towards the US yesterday with prepare accordingly. Get to the Center (NHC) said that the Three teens shot at in Chicago the potential to cause cata- grocery store. Make sure you storm is expected to regain arrested in credit strophic damage to the coasts have your medications. Make strength today and “is expected AP along the mid-Atlantic and sure you have flashlights and to be an extremely dangerous card fraud scheme southeastern regions according batteries,” Bowser said. major hurricane through CHICAGO: A shooting near a high school on Chicago’s South Side to officials. Forecasts expect the landfall”. AP has left three teenagers seriously injured. More than one million Florence to hit the Carolinas late Winds are expected to pick Chicago police Chief of Patrol Fred Waller said two people are people have been issued evac- tomorrow and stall, with rainfall up and peak at around 241 kph, SACRAMENTO: More than in custody and a gun and casings have been recovered in the uation orders along the coastal expected to reach 20 inches or just shy of Category 5 status. 30 purported street gang shooting around 4pm yesterday outside Chatham Academy High areas of Virginia, North Carolina more in some areas. “This is a dangerous storm, members have been charged School in Burnside. Charges are pending, adding that someone and South Carolina, as the storm Florence is currently at a this storm will and has the with stealing more than $1m got out of a car and shot at the male victims, aged 16, 17 and 18. is not expected to weaken until Category 4 level, the second potential to cause loss of life,” in what authorities said was Principal Tony Qadir Lyons said the three were students at it makes landfall tomorrow in highest classification on the said Jeff Byard, the associate an unusually sophisticated Chatham Academy. He says two of them ran back to the school the Carolinas. Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind administrator of the Federal credit card fraud scheme. and the third was found in an alley. Mayor Muriel Bowser Scale, with winds currently at Emergency Management Members and associates The 16-year-old old was shot in the shoulder, the 17-year-old declared a state of emergency 209 km per hour. Agency. of the BullyBoys and the CoCo was struck in the leg and the 18-year-old was wounded in the in Washington DC as the city If it remains at Category 4, Florence is one of three Boys street gangs based in the right arm and left armpit. prepared for the storm. Virginia, Florence would be one the storms currently in the Atlantic. suburbs east of San Francisco defrauded hundreds of victims by breaking into dozens of medical and dental offices to steal credit card terminals and Colombia seeks aid to patient records, said state Attorney General Xavier cope with migrants surge Becerra and police chiefs from AFP Northern California cities. “We have made important The 32 alleged gang efforts lately and they are going members used the stolen ter- BOGOTA: Colombia lacks the to continue but the extent of the minals to process credit card capacity to face by itself a crisis is such that we do not returns, downloading them deluge of Venezuelan migrants have sufficient capacity to to debit cards, according to fleeing their crisis-afflicted respond” to the migrant flow the 240-count indictment. country, Bogota’s top diplomat without support, Trujillo told “It is easier today and it is said yesterday. Caracol Radio. more rewarding today to Foreign Minister Carlos Among the measures engage in identity theft and Holmes Trujillo called instead which Colombia’s government financial fraud than it is to go for an international response. seeks are: creation of a multi- out there on the street and More than 1.6 million Ven- lateral emergency fund and commit physical, violent ezuelans have left their naming of a high-level United crime,” Becerra said. “It pays homeland since 2015 — most Nations official to coordinate more at lower risk,” though of them for Colombia — when the actions of Latin American he alleged the gangs used the economic troubles worsened, countries. money to fund other illegal according to the United Nations. “It’s a problem that affects activities that are not included Venezuelans suffer from us particularly but it’s a crisis in the indictment. shortages of essential goods that concerns the whole region, The indictment handed including medicines and food, in view of the extent of this down last month by a special and the International Monetary influx,” the minister added. Sacramento County-based Remebering 1973 Chilean military coup Fund has predicted inflation in Colombia, which shares statewide grand jury includes the South American country 2,200 km of border with Ven- Images of late Chile’s president Salvador Allende are seen inside of the session room at Congress counts of conspiracy to commit will reach one million percent ezuela, has taken in more than marking the 45th anniversary of the 1973 Chilean military coup, in Valparaiso, Chile, yesterday. grand theft; hacking, computer this year. one million people from its access and fraud, grand theft, Colombia “cannot deal with neighbor and given most of burglary, and identity theft. this situation alone,” Trujillo said. them temporary resident status. International court ‘undeterred’ after US sanctions threat AFP the tribunal said in a statement. “The court must be able to any probe of US service members for all intents and purposes, the the principles and values In a further show of support, act and exercise its prerogatives would be “an utterly unfounded, ICC is already dead to us.” enshrined in the Rome Statute, THE HAGUE: The International the Hague-based court’s over- unhindered, in an independent unjustifiable investigation”. But in response, the ICC including in particular the judicial Criminal Court yesterday said its seeing body said it received and impartial manner.” He also cited a recent move declared itself an “independent independence of the court”. work would continue “unde- “strong cooperation and Germany’s foreign ministry by Palestinian leaders to have and impartial judicial He said the court was terred” after Washington backing” from its 123 member said on Twitter that “we are Israeli officials prosecuted at the institution”. “crucial for ensuring accounta- threatened to prosecute its states as well as from other committed to the work of the ICC ICC for human rights It also stressed that it would bility for the gravest crimes judges if Americans are charged states, international organisa- — in particular when it comes violations. only investigate and prosecute under international law”. with war crimes committed in tions and civil society. under fire”. “If the court comes after us, crimes “when the States con- The court can investigate Afghanistan. Key states spoke up to Bolton, US President Donald Israel or other US allies, we will cerned fail to do so at all or prosecute serious crimes but does France and Germany also defend the ICC, set up in 2002 Trump’s hardline national not sit quietly,” Bolton said. genuinely.” not have the capacity to arrest weighed in to support the Hague- with jurisdiction to investigate security aide, on Monday The US was prepared to slap In a separate statement, the suspects and depends on member based court after White House and prosecute the world’s worst threatened to arrest and sanction financial sanctions and criminal court’s overseeing body, the states for their cooperation. National Security Advisor John crimes including genocide, war court officials should they move charges on officials of the court Assembly of States Parties (ASP) Most of its cases have Bolton said the ICC was “already crimes and crimes against to charge any American who if they proceed against any also pointed out that the ICC involved crimes in Africa, a point dead to us”. humanity. served in Afghanistan with war Americans, he added. “recognises the primary juris- Bolton seized on when he said “The ICC, as a court of law, “France, with its European crimes. “We will not cooperate with diction of States to investigate that “despite ongoing ICC inves- will continue to do its work partners, supports the ICC, both He called the ICC “unac- the ICC. We will provide no and prosecute atrocity crimes”. tigations, atrocities continue to undeterred, in accordance with in its financial support and with countable” and “outright dan- assistance to the ICC and we cer- But its president O-Gon Kwon occur in the Democratic Republic those principles and the over- its cooperation,” the French gerous” to the United States, tainly will not join the ICC. We will added that the ASP “remains of the Congo, Sudan, Libya, Syria, arching idea of the rule of law,” foreign ministry said Israel and other allies, and said let the ICC die on its own. After all, committed to uphold and defend and many other nations”. 20 MORNING BREAK WEDNESDAY 12 SEPTEMBER 2018

PRAYER TIMINGS FAJR 04. 01 AM AZF-THR pact to create sports medicine centre SHOROOK 05. 18 AM AMNA PERVAIZ RAO THE PENINSULA ZUHR 11. 30 AM MAGHRIB 05. 44 PM ASR 02. 59 PM ISHA 07. 14 PM DOHA: Aspire Zone Foundation (AZF) has signed an MoU with Texas Health WEATHER TODAY Resources (THR) to create a joint centre of excellence focused on research, training, performance and sports medicine in the United States. The new partnership aims to create a sports medicine centre of excellence in North Texas. The MoU was signed at Aspetar’s headquarters by Dr. Abdulaziz Al Kuwari, CEO of Aspetar, and Dr. Steven Singleton, Chief Medical Officer at THR. During the event, Mohammed Khalifa Al Suwaidi, CEO of AZF and Director General of Aspetar, told The Peninsula: “We are proud to say that now we are in a position to exchange our expertise on this level. We have signed the agreement today and it will be our target to complete the process before 2026. Mainly we will focus on three areas which include, research, Mohammed Khalifa Al Suwaidi (right), CEO of AFZ, and Dr Steven Singleton, Chief Medical Officer at THR, exchange educational and clinical.” documents during the signing ceremony in the presence of Dr. Abdulaziz Al Kuwari (back right), CEO of Aspetar, and “The timing of the agreement couldn’t be better with Qatar being a Thomas Donohue, President and CEO of US Chamber of Commerce. PIC: QASSIM RAHMATULLAH / THE PENINSULA host of the FIFA World Cup in 2022 and North Texas being a site for held here. They had a rich background strong track record of sports-med- recognition in advance of the North o o matches when the US hosts the World in sports, medicine, surgeries and icine research, education and America hosted 2026 FIFA World Cup. 32 C 41 C Cup in 2026. For us, this collaboration rehabilitation and put all that together advanced orthopedic treatments Delegation from US included also Minimum Maximum furthers our progress towards to build such an example. They knew within an internationally-recognised Khush Chosky, SVP and Head of achieving AZF vision to become the what they needed then brought a programme” Middle East Program at US Chamber Misty to foggy at places by early morning, Reference in Sports Excellence World- facility from the US that is rich with Building off the performance, of Commerce, Chris Roberti, Chief of becomes hot and relatively humid daytime wide by 2020,” Al Suwaidi said in a great doctors and surgeons, and this treatment, rehab and research initi- Staff and Senior Vice-President at US with some clouds at times, humid by night. statement. partnership is what is going to make atives Aspetar, a member organisation Chamber of Commerce, Steve Lutes,

HIGH TIDE 06:30 – 18:45 LOW TIDE 00:45 – 12:15 Talking to The Peninsula, Thomas this work.” of Aspire Zone Foundation, has under- Director Middle East Program at US Courtesy: Qatar Meteorology Department Donohue, President and CEO of US During the event, Dr Steven said: taken to be a global leader in sports Chamber of Commerce, Dr. Steven Chamber of Commerce, said: “What “We’re committed to advancing our medicine and exercise science in Singleton, Chief Medical Medical brought this collaboration between sports medicine programme in North advance of the Qatar hosted 2022 Office, Texas Health Dallas — USA, AZF and THR together is a group of Texas and are excited about what the FIFA World Cup, the proposed affili- Thomas Donohue Jr, Founder and visionaries in Qatar who were aware future holds for athletes in the area. ation will be designed to achieve CEO of Adelphi Capital and Gareth that the world soccer events will be An organisation like Aspire has a similar global and regional Moore, VP of Adelphi Capital.

Back pain linked Most EU countries miss air quality targets to risky AFP Janusz Wojciechowski, the member of worse than India’s, the chart showed. behaviours in BRUSSELS: Most EU countries fail to the Luxembourg-based ECA respon- Lithuania and Poland were not far meet the bloc’s air quality standards sible for the report. behind. teenagers: Study and more than 1,000 Europeans die - “Considerable impacts” - “In The study cited WHO figures for IANS prematurely each day, ten times more recent decades, EU policies have con- 2012 where Bulgaria had nearly 2.5 lost than in road accidents, a watchdog said tributed to emission reductions, but air years of healthy life for every 100 yesterday. quality has not improved at the same inhabitants and Hungary around 1.8, SYDNEY: Does your The European Court of Auditors rate and there are still considerable compared with 1.7 lost years for China adolescent son or daughter (ECA), the European Union body which impacts on public health,” he added. and about 1.6 for India. suffer from back pain often? scrutinises how the bloc spends its The report blamed most of the The ECA, which looks for wasteful Beware, he or she may be budget, said pollution’s toll on health 400,000 premature annual deaths in spending, said direct EU funding can more likely to have bad in Bulgaria and other eastern European the bloc on high levels of particulate boost air quality, but added that funded behaviours and report countries was even worse than in Asian matter, nitrogen dioxide and ground projects “were not always sufficiently problems like anxiety and giants China and India. level ozone. well targeted.” It also warned that air depression. It said the failures in the 28-nation It presented a chart showing that pollution may be worse than estimated Although often dismissed bloc were all the more glaring as some Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Latvia and because it may not have been moni- as trivial and fleeting, ado- EU guidelines were weaker than those Hungary suffer higher numbers of “lost tored in the right places. lescent back pain is respon- suggested by the World Health years of healthy life from ambient air The ECA said member states “con- sible for substantial health Organisation. pollution” than China and India, which tinue to breach air quality limits fre- care use, school absence, and “Air pollution is the biggest envi- have drawn most of the global attention. quently” despite legal action from the interference with day-to-day ronmental risk to health in the The damage to health in Romania European Commission, the EU exec- activities in some children. European Union,” said was slightly better than China’s but utive arm. The findings showed that the rising frequency of pain increasing the proportion of participants reporting smoking, drinking, and ‘The Nun’ rakes up $53.8m missing school rose. For example, 14-15 year at North American box office olds that experienced pain more than once a week were AFP weekend that anticipation for 2-3 times more likely to have ‘The Nun’ was extremely high drunk alcohol or smoked in LOS ANGELES: Horror movie across multiple demos, but the past month than those “The Nun,” a spinoff from “The these results surpassed all our who rarely or never had pain. Conjuring” series, dominated expectations,” Jeff Goldstein, Similarly, students that the North American box office head of domestic distribution experienced pain more than in its opening weekend, raking for Warner Bros., told Variety. once a week were around in $53.8m and becoming the Vigilante action film “Pep- twice as likely to have missed latest box office win for Warner permint,” starring Jennifer school in the previous term. Bros. Garner as a mother seeking The trend with anxiety The movie, about a young revenge against the drug cartel and depression was less clear, novice about to take her final she blames for killing her although there was a marked vows and a priest sent by the husband and daughter, grabbed difference between the Vatican to probe the death of a the number two spot with children who reported no young nun in Romania, $13.4m in ticket sales. pain, and those who reported unseated another Warner hit — “Crazy Rich Asians,” with its frequent pain, the researchers “Crazy Rich Asians” — which nearly all-Asian cast led by said. had taken the No. 1 spot at the Henry Golding and Constance “Findings like this provide Nature’s farmers box office for three weeks in a Wu, came in third with $13.1m. an argument that we should row, box office tracker Another Warner film, “The be including pain in the A bird picks seeds from a withered sunflower yesterday in Ertingen, southern Germany. Exhibitor Relations said. Meg,” came in fourth with broader conversation about “We knew heading into the $6.1m in ticket sales. adolescent health,” said lead author Steven Kamper from the University of Sydney in Australia. “Unfortunately our Japanese humanoid mini-robot to work as tour guide understanding of the causes and impacts of pain in this age group is quite limited, the IANS visiting the country. The creator Sharp in a statement listening to the robot while in more inter-annually during the area is badly in need of more service, which will be available yesterday. the taxi, customers can get out same period in 2017, according research,” Kamper added. TOKYO: A Japanese humanoid from September 22 to March 31, The package is a joint initi- of the vehicle with Robohon, to figures of the Japan National The team used data col- mini-robot called Robohon will 2019, will allow travellers to ative by Sharp, taxi operator which is 19.5 cm tall and weighs Tourism Organization. lected from approximately work as a tour guide in Kyoto buy a tour in which the robot MK and JTB travel agency. It 390 grams. Kyoto was last year’s fourth 6,500 teenagers. Adolescent through a new service offered will be their guide and acquaint will offer Japanese, Chinese and Between January and July, favourite destination for trav- back pain may play a role in by city taxis to cope with the them with local history among English language services, Efe Japan received 18,730,900 ellers after Tokyo, Osaka and characterising poor overall growing number of foreigners other things, said the robot’s news reported. In addition to foreign tourists, 13.9 per cent Chiba. health throughout life.