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EMIR H H Sheikh Tamim bin siege nations’ Hamad Al Thani sent yester- day a cable of congratulations to President of the Republic of Macedonia, Gjorge Ivanov, on the occasion of the anniversary allegations of his country’s Independence Day. Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani Doha MSC will launch a new Yang Ming will start a weekly also sent a cable of congratu- QNA lations to Gjorge Ivanov while The Ambassador weekly service with 4 ships, service with one ship with Prime Minister and Interior he State of Qatar stressed that the Minister H E Sheikh Abdul- expressed yesterday position of the State each with a capacity of 6,000 containers including lah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al its rejection and con- of Qatar was clear 6,000 containers including 400 reefer containers Thani greeted Prime Minister demnation of the of Macedonia, Zoran Zaev, on statement issued by since the beginning 400 reefer containers. capacity. the occasion. Tthe siege countries led by Saudi of the crisis, which Arabia, which included unsub- was reaffirmed in the Qatar donates stantiated allegations and remarks of the accusations against Qatar. $30m to help Director of the Information Foreign Minister. Two new shipping lines from Hamad Port Office at the Foreign Ministry Harvey victims H E Ambassador Ahmed bin Irfan Bukhari reefer containers. This new the end of December 2014, MSC Saeed Al Rumaihi told the Qatar Emir of Kuwait in Washington, The Peninsula service will be weekly and run was operating 471 container Doha News Agency (QNA) yesterday reflected the State of Qatar’s through ports of Mersin, Istan- vessels with an intake capacity Al Jazeera that the statement from the rejection of dialogue for resolv- wo new maritime lines are bul, Tekridag, Canakkale and of 2,435,000 twenty-foot equiv- quartet which alleged that ing the crisis. The Ambassador being launched from Iskenderun in Turkey, Piraeus alent units (TEU). The atar is donating $30m to Qatar interferes in internal commented on that and said THamad Port on Septem- in Greece, Mundara in India, Geneva-headquartered com- help people in Texas affairs of other countries and that the statement inaccurately ber 17 which will enhance Sohar and Salalah in Oman and pany operates in all major ports Qrecover from Hurricane finances terrorism is baseless. interpreted the remarks of the Qatar’s trade connections with Hamad Port in Qatar. of the world. Harvey, its ambassador said. He added that those allegations Foreign Minister, which various ports in China, India, Mwani Qatar has also MSC had inaugurated its This is apparently the largest also contradicted Qatar’s poli- renewed the State of Qatar’s Malaysia, Turkey and Greece, announced on its social media maiden voyage between Hamad contribution from a foreign cies which are based on commitment to dialogue which among other countries. pages that another shipping Port and Salalah Port in June this government to assist the dev- respecting the sovereignty of it made clear since the begin- Qatar Ports Management company Yang Ming will start a year and MSC KERRY was the astated stretches of the Texas other countries, in addition to ning of the crisis. Company (Mwani Qatar) weekly service with one ship of first vessel that called the coast. Doha pledged the funds its contradiction with the inter- He reflected on reports that announced yesterday that two 6,000 containers including 400 Hamad Port. through the newly created national recognition the State Qatar accepts the 13 demands shipping companies, Mediter- reefer containers capacity. Yang Ming Marine Transport Qatar Harvey Fund, which of Qatar received for its efforts of the siege countries and said ranean Shipping Company It will connect Shanghai, Corporation is an ocean ship- Ambassador Meshal bin in counter-terrorism. that the comment made by the (MSC) and Yang Ming, would Ningbo, Xiamen and Shekou in ping company based in Keelung, Hamad Al Thani said would The statement from the Emir of Kuwait was taken out open the new lines from Sep- China, Kaohsiung in Taiwan, Taiwan (ROC). Yang Ming cur- work with Texas Governor siege countries also said that of context. He said that the full tember 17, 2017. Port Klang in Malaysia and rently operates 84 container Greg Abbott, local organisa- remarks made by Foreign Min- context showed clearly the MSC will launch a new line Hamad Port in Qatar. ships up to 8,250 twenty-foot tions and other Texas officials. ister H E Sheikh Mohammed bin rejection of demands that in Mediterranean Sea with four MSC is the world’s second- equivalent units (TEU) and 17 The funds will be used “to help Abdulrahman Al Thani, follow- infringe on sovereignty. ships, each with a capacity of largest shipping line in terms of bulk carriers. rebuild communities” affected ing statements made by the →Continued on page 2 6,000 containers including 400 container vessel capacity. As of →Continued on page 2 by flooding. Qatar will stick Traffic Police gear up to its policies New York to meet school rush QNA Sidi Mohamed opening,” said Major Jaber he State of Qatar has The Peninsula Mohamed Rashid Odaiba, affirmed that nothing will Assistant Director of Media & Tstop it from its approach s schools are set to resume Traffic awareness section of the and policy, which enjoy the sup- their classes from tomor- General Directorate of Traffic. port of the international Arow, the Traffic “The police patrols will focus community. and that it will con- Department has chalked out more on areas like Al Mamoura tinue to fulfill its legal and moral plans to maintain the smooth which has more than 15 schools. obligations to help needy peo- flow of vehicles on roads. They We don’t like to be near the ple, work with its partners in the will increase patrols particularly schools but will be monitoring international community to during opening and closing hours all the roads leading to them,” he meet common challenges and of schools with focus on round- added. Traffic department has continue its efforts to resolve dis- abouts, intersections and near also focused on creating aware- putes by Peaceful means, despite schools. ness and posted a number of tips the unilateral measures it faces “The traffic patrols will on the department’s twitter and in imposing an illegal land, sea double their efforts to make Facebook pages to motorists and and air siege. Families shopping for back-to-school items at a hypermarket in Doha. traffic flow smooth especially road users. Pic: Salim Matramkot / The Peninsula Full story on page 2 on the first day of schools’ →Continued on Page 2 Tillerson meets Kuwaiti FM Siege has no impact on back-to-school stationery supplies US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson met yesterday with Sanaullah Ataullah succeeded in maintaining ade- as an alternative in case of any school items like notebooks, The official said that his Kuwaiti First Deputy Prime The Peninsula quate stocks at competitive delay in the arrival of consign- pens, pencils, bags, lunch company had recently received Minister and Foreign Min- prices by overcoming hurdles ments directly from boxes, water bottles, among a container of stationery from ister Sheikh Sabah Khalid mid the surge in demand created by the blockade. manufacturing companies, sta- other accessories, at reasona- China and was waiting for more Al-Hamad Al-Sabah. They for school supplies Some stationery companies tionery shops told The ble prices,” an official from a consignments in the coming discussed means of enhanc- Aahead of the schools reo- have signed contracts with Peninsula. company with a chain of sta- days. ing joint cooperation. pening, local companies have local suppliers for school items “We have enough stocks of tionery shops across Qatar said. →Continued on page 2 02 HOME SATURDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2017 Emir holds telephone We can endure siege for a long time: Envoy talks with US President Athens to promote international peace QNA The Ambassador said that the siege countries and security, its efforts to settle disputes through peaceful means QNA Arabia, as well as the discus- atar’s Ambassador to “have only two options; either to negotiate with and its international and bilat- sions held in this regard with Greece H E Abdulaziz Ali the Qatari government within 60 days, or to eral counter-terrorism efforts. mir H H Sheikh Tamim bin the Emir of Kuwait H H Sheikh QAl Naama stressed that the face trade sanctions and international banks’ He noted that “the State of Hamad Al Thani held a Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al State of Qatar is able to endure refrain from dealing with them if the World Qatar has provided educational Etelephone conversation Sabah, within the framework the situation caused by the siege opportunities for more than 7 yesterday evening with Presi- of the generous mediation led for a long time. Trade Organization rules in favour of Qatar”. million children and created dent Donald Trump of the by His Highness. In an interview with the more than 300,000 jobs to give friendly United States of Following that, a telephone Greek newspaper ‘The Editors’ hope to those at risk of being America. conversation was held between the ambassador said “We are reconsider their positions, which Qatar through their London and recruited by terrorist groups”. During the phone call , they HH the Emir and his brother, preparing to present 3,000 law- is contrary to social norms and New York centers instead of On the implications of the discussed the latest develop- HRH Crown Prince of Saudi suits from individuals and 600 international laws. Dubai because of the difficulties return of the Qatari ambassador ments related to the Gulf crisis Arabia, based on coordination files in Qatar Chamber of Com- The Ambassador said that imposed by the Gulf crisis. to Tehran, Al Naama said that in light of Kuwait’s efforts to of the US President, where they merce to international courts. the siege countries “have only On the implications of the the return reflects Qatar’s desire resolve it through diplomatic stressed the need to resolve this He pointed out that the State two options; either to negotiate Convention on Combating Ter- to develop its relations with Iran, channels and through dialogue crisis by sitting down to the dia- of Qatar has filed a complaint to with the Qatari government rorism signed recently by Qatar adding that his is reflected in the between all parties to ensure logue to ensure the unity and the World Trade Organization within 60 days, or to face trade and the US , the Ambassador said Qatari Foreign Ministry’s state- the security and stability of the stability of the GCC countries. (WTO) against the trade embargo sanctions and international that the significance of this ment, which announced the region. HH the Emir welcomed the imposed by the siege countries banks’ refrain from dealing with agreement stems from the facts resumption of diplomatic rela- The US President briefed H proposal of his brother HRH the to avoid the repercussions and them if the World Trade Organ- that the major powers recognise tions between Doha and Tehran, H Emir on the results of his Crown Prince of Saudi Arabia economic damage caused by the ization rules in favour of Qatar”. the State of Qatar as a party to where the State of Qatar communication with HRH during the call to assign two siege. He pointed out that the siege the international coalition expressed its aspiration to Prince Mohammed bin Salman envoys to resolve controversial He explained that Qatar filed countries have also begun to suf- against extremism and terror- strengthen bilateral relations bin Abdulaziz Al Saud, Crown issues in a way that does not this complaint after losing hope fer, as some international banks ism, Qatar’s continued fulfilment with the Islamic Republic of Iran Prince of the Kingdom of Saudi affect the sovereignty of States. that the siege countries would started offering their services to of its international obligations in all fields. Qatar to continue efforts to resolve disputes peacefully

New York Interfaith Dialogue actively con- initiatives in the field of educa- of the parties concerned, based QNA H E Sheikha Alia Ahmed bin Saif Al Thani said tributes to efforts of combating tion at the national, regional and on the Charter of the United extremism and hatred and to international levels, especially Nations and the principle of dia- he State of Qatar has that as part of the State of Qatar’s contribution building bridges of cooperation in areas plagued by conflicts and logue as an alternative approach affirmed that nothing will to the international efforts to prevent conflicts and understanding between fol- war, such as the World Summit to resolving disputes between the Tstop it from its approach and mediation, the State has adopted a clear lowers of different religions. The for Innovation in Education parties. These efforts have and policy, which enjoy the sup- policy aimed at preventing and resolving armed Hamad bin Khalifa Islamic WISE, the Syrian Education and yielded satisfactory results for all port of the international Center, established by the state Training Initiative (QUEST), the parties and have been welcomed community, and that it will con- conflicts by peaceful means. in Copenhagen, Denmark, also Education for All, and the Edu- by international community. tinue to fulfil its legal and moral contributes to international cate a Child program. The State It was pointed out that tak- obligations to help needy peo- efforts to promote peaceful co- of Qatar is also working on ing unilateral measures instead ple, work with its partners in the Declaration and Program of particularly the 16th goal, point- existence among religions, she capacity building and empow- of resorting to dialogue for international community to meet Action on the Culture of Peace, ing that the State of Qatar said adding that the State of erment of local communities, resolving differences between common challenges and con- we must acknowledge the efforts attaches great importance to it. Qatar is among the leading coun- providing employment and States, did not serve the efforts tinue its efforts to resolve and the achievements made in She added that as part of the tries that support the United training, strengthening the econ- to promote the culture of peace disputes by Peaceful means, the promotion of a culture of State of Qatar’s relentless efforts Nations Alliance of Civilizations, omy and encouraging dialogue which is based on mutual respect despite the unilateral measures peace and non-violence. We to promote peace and under- which plays an active role in pro- in addition to embracing toler- and dialogue to settle differences it faces in imposing an illegal must also recognise that the path standing among peoples and to moting the culture of peace. ance, fighting extremism and and adversely affected UN efforts land, sea and air siege. towards achieving and spread- promote values of tolerance and In the context of interna- renouncing sectarian and ethnic to promote peace in the world. This came in the State of ing the culture of peace in the cooperation between cultures tional efforts to combat violent discrimination. Ambassador Sheikha Alia Qatar’s statement delivered by world is not free of obstacles and and faiths, the country has estab- extremism and terrorism, Sheikh Ambassador Alia Ahmed bin Ahmed bin Saif Al Thani, Qatar’s the Permanent Representative challenges that can not be over- lished several national Alia said that the State of Qatar Saif Al Thani said that as part of Permanent Representative to the of the State of Qatar to the United come without cooperation and institutions that promote the cul- adopts a cooperative approach the State of Qatar’s contribution United Nations, reiterated Nations H E Sheikha Alia Ahmed cooperation between Member ture of peace, acceptance of the and addresses the root causes of to the international efforts to Qatar’s commitment to imple- bin Saif Al Thani before the High- States, intergovernmental organ- other, the fight against violent violent extremism, particularly prevent conflicts and mediation, ment the Declaration and level forum on the culture of izations, civil society, the extremism and renouncing vio- among youth by focusing on the State has adopted a clear pol- Program of Action on a Culture peace at United Nations Head- academic sector and the busi- lence, and play an active role in education, being one of the most icy aimed at preventing and of Peace and to continue to sup- quarters yesterday. ness sector, she added. spreading the of peace at the important means to build strong- resolving armed conflicts by port all efforts at the national, Ambassador H E Sheikha Alia In this regard, she praised the national, regional and interna- holds of peace in the minds of peaceful means. She explained regional and international lev- Ahmed bin Saif Al Thani said that inclusion of dissemination of the tional levels. future generations. She added that the State of Qatar has made els to promote a culture of peace as part of the international com- culture of peace in the Sustain- She pointed out that the that Qatar has established many great efforts to resolve disputes and non-violence. For the ben- munity’s commitment to the able Development Goals of 2030, Doha International Center for institutions and launched many through mediation at the request efit of all humankind.

No impact of siege on school stationery supplies Leisure time... Secretary-General Continued from Page 1 of Foreign Ministry rerouting of the shipments due to block- meets Polish official ade, the company has signed contracts “Stationery shops are full with stocks with five local suppliers to meet the ecretary-General of the of different quality,” Abdul Qadeer, a growing demand ahead of school open- Foreign Ministry H E Dr father of five school going children told ing, said the official. SAhmed bin Hassan Al The Peninsula. “I bought stationery items “Local suppliers are playing a key Hammadi met yesterday in for my children yesterday. The school role in maintaining the stocks. A truck Warsaw with Deputy Mar- supplies including bag, lunchbox, water carrying bags and notebooks from a local shall of Poland’s lower house bottle, notebooks, pen and pencils among supplier is unloading now at the store of of parliament (Sejm) Ryszard other cost me about QR250 per child,” the facility,” he added. Terlecki, who is also Parlia- said Abdul Qadeer. Regarding the price hike of station- mentary Caucus Head of the “Prices of school bags range between ery ahead of school opening, the official ruling Law and Justice party. QR50 to QR250 at various outlets in the said: “We did not increase the prices of They discussed bilateral local market but I preferred the one any stationery items this year”. relations and the means to which was available at QR100 due to its For example, the most selling items enhance them. quality and also considering my budget,” are notebooks and school bags. “We offer he added. a dozen famous notebooks called locally Qatar rejects siege School uniforms are also available as ‘bunni’ (brown color) at QR17 and the at various outlets and tailoring shops. price of a notebook is QR1.25, QR1.5 and Tourists enjoying camel ride at Sealine Beach, yesterday. nations’ allegations Shopping complexes are not lagging QR1.7 as per the size and thickness.” Pic: Baher Amin / The Peninsula Continued from Page 1 behind in the race. Some major outlets “School bags are also available at offer school uniforms on reasonable very competitive prices at all branches The Ambassador stressed prices, The Peninsula has noticed. of my company across the country. We that the position of the State “I bought two sets of school uniform offer small bags at QR22 and a big one Two new shipping lines from Hamad Port of Qatar was clear since the and a sport-kit for my daughter at QR330 at QR40 per piece,” he added. beginning of the crisis, which from a shop at Bin Mamoud, Abdullah,” Speaking to The Peninsula, the par- Continued from Page 1 was reaffirmed in the a father of two school going children told ents expressed satisfaction over the service — three times a week. On June remarks of the Foreign Min- The Peninsula. availability of stocks of stationery items Yang Ming’s service scope covers over 23, another new line linking Hamad Port ister yesterday. Qatar was To avoid any shortage because of the in local markets. 70 nations with more than 170 service directly to Salalah Port was launched. willing to discuss any request points. Mwani Qatar in cooperation with Mwani Qatar had announced launch- by the siege countries in the its partners has launched a number of ing a new maritime line between Qatar context of a constructive dia- new direct shipping lines between Hamad and India named “India Qatar Express logue based on respecting Port and various ports of the region and Service” (IQX) on June 14. Last month, international law and the sov- More traffic patrols to meet school rush beyond in the last three months. Kuwait Qatar Express Service started ereignty of countries. The new routes, launched after impo- between Hamad Port and Shuwaikh Port The Ambassador Ahmed Continued from Page 1 like English, Arabic and Urdu. Karwa has sition of blockade by three Gulf countries, in Kuwait using a 515 TEU vessel. bin Saeed Al Rumaihi agreed with us that all drivers will attend have connected Hamad Port to Sohar and On August 27, Milaha announced the expressed appreciation of the “To avoid traffic jam, people should the lectures”, Al Odaiba said. Salalah ports in Oman, Shuwaikh Port in launch of a direct service between Paki- Emir, the government, and leave their homes early and use public He said that the department would Kuwait, Karachi Port in Pakistan, Izmir stan and Qatar. The new service, called the people of Qatar for the transport instead of personal vehicles to also organise various activities at schools Port in Turkey, Mundra and Nava Shiva PQX (Pakistan Qatar Express Service), is mediation efforts of the Emir avoid congestion,” Al Odaiba said. and will distribute gifts to students and Ports in India. Within a week of three operating weekly between the Port of of Kuwait in order to resolve From next week, the Traffic Depart- the main opening activity will be held at Gulf countries imposing a blockade on Karachi, Pakistan and Hamad Port, Qatar the crisis. He also expressed ment will also organise awareness Omar bin Al Khattab Independent Sec- Qatar, Mwani Qatar launched a new with a competitive transit time of 4 days, Qatar’s appreciation to all campaigns for Karwa drivers, he added. ond Primary school for boys. “Also there direct service between Hamad Port and making it the fastest direct connection countries that supported “We will organise lectures in languages will be activities for community schools.” Sohar Port in Oman under Milaha’s DMJ between the two countries. Kuwaiti mediation. SATURDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2017 MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA 03 US needs to review charges: Erdogan

Istanbul ex-head of a state-owned President Barack Obama as The charges stem from the Reuters Turkish bank were charged much, when the sanctions case against Reza Zarrab, a with conspiring to violate the were in force. “We said to the wealthy Turkish-Iranian gold urkish President sanctions by illegally moving relevant people, we said we trader who was arrested in the Recep Tayyip hundreds of millions of dollars would not take part in sanc- United States over sanctions Erdogan urged the through the US financial sys- tions... These steps are purely evasion last year. He has United States yester- tem on Tehran’s behalf. political.” pleaded not guilty. day to review “For the moment, it is Prosecutors in New York Reporters were not able to Tcharges against a Turkish impossible to evaluate this said on Wednesday they had reach Caglayan or Aslan for former minister for violating within legal logic,” Erdogan charged Caglayan and former comment. US-Iran sanctions, saying told reporters at Istanbul’s Halkbank general manager “The United States needs Ankara had never agreed to Ataturk airport. “I see this step Suleyman Aslan and two oth- to revise this decision (to comply with the embargo and against our former economy ers with “conspiring to use the charge Caglayan),” Erdogan the prosecution was politically minister as a step against the US financial system to conduct said. “I hope we’ll get a chance motivated. Turkish Republic. hundreds of millions of dollars’ to discuss this issue in the “There are very peculiar “We didn’t decide to worth of transactions on behalf United States. You may be a big smells coming from this issue,” impose sanctions on Iran. We of the government of Iran and nation, but being a just nation Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan speaks during a news Erdogan said. have bilateral ties with Iran, other Iranian entities, which is something else. Being a just Former economy minister sensitive relations,” he said, were barred by United States nation requires the legal sys- conference at Ataturk International Airport in Istanbul, yesterday. Zafer Caglayan and the adding he had told former US sanctions.” tem to work fairly.”

Tainted eggs Top IS commanders dead in Syria: Russia ‘mired in politics’: Turkey Moscow 40 fighters dead AFP “As a result of a Istanbul ussia claimed yesterday to precision air strike of Anatolia have killed several top the Russian air forces Rcommanders of the in the vicinity of Deir urkey’s Federation of Islamic State group in an air Ezzor city, a Food and Drink Indus- strike in Syria, including the US- command post, some Ttry Association said trained “minister of war” who 40 ISIS fighters have yesterday that the tainted egg has a $3m bounty on his head. been killed,” the crisis is a political debate. “As a result of a precision air “We must act very care- Russian defence strike of the Russian air forces fully. There is no trace of ministry said. in the vicinity of Deir Ezzor city, [poisonous] residue in eggs a command post, some 40 ISIS produced in Turkey. The fighters have been killed,” the bounty for information leading tainted egg crisis stems from Russian defence ministry said in to Khalimov’s location or arrest. political issues,” said Semsi a statement posted on Russia’s SU warplanes Kopuz, head of the associa- Facebook. dropped “bunker buster” bombs tion. In a statement, Kopuz “According to confirmed on the fighters as they were said that some countries were data, among the killed fighters meeting near Deir Ezzor to dis- using the issue to worsen are four influential field com- cuss how to respond to the relations between Germany manders including Deir Ezzor advance of the Syrian army, and Turkey. emir Abu Mohammed Al Shi- Moscow said. Backed by Russia, He added that the EU mali,” the ministry said. Syrian troops on Tuesday broke Commission had accused Gulmurod Khalimov, who is through a years-long siege Turkey of exporting tainted known as the IS group’s minis- imposed by IS militants on tens eggs. The commission had ter of war and the of thousands of civilians in Deir earlier reported that 24 out of highest-ranking defector from Ezzor. 28 EU countries had eggs with ex-Soviet Tajikistan, suffered a The Times reported in April traces of fipronil, a chemical “fatal injury,” it added. that Khalimov, described as the found in pesticides used to Reports of Khalimov’s death highest-ranking IS commander Syrian government forces gesture and inspect the site as they arrive at a destroyed bridge on a control fleas in animals. have surfaced before, and the in Mosul, had been killed in an road between the Kabajeb and Al Shula on the southwestern outskirts of Deir Ezzor, yesterday. According to the World Tajik interior ministry said it airstrike. The trained sniper and Health Organization, fipronil could not immediately confirm former colonel, he was appar- “coming” for top officials in the it of a sarin attack in April that have used chemical weapons is “moderately toxic” if eaten the claim. “We are working with ently wounded in 2015 but mainly Muslim Tajikistan, killed scores of people, state more than two dozen times dur- in large quantities and may our Russian colleagues to obtain survived. including long-ruling President media said yesterday. ing the six-year conflict.The UN have dangerous effects on the reliable information,” a spokes- He headed the Tajik interior Emomali Rakhmon. Damascus sent the United Commission of Inquiry on Syria kidneys. man said. But a spokesman for ministry’s special forces unit and The high-profile defection Nations a letter “asserting that said a government warplane the Tajik security services, received American training rocked the country. Last year, his Syria has not and will not use dropped sarin on Khan speaking to AFP, suggested that before joining IS in 2015, pledg- second wife, herself a former toxic gases against its people Sheikhoun in insurgent-held Netanyahu’s wife “this time around” he might have ing allegiance to the jihadist interior ministry official, fled because it does not have them Idlib province in April, killing been killed. group in a video released in May Tajikistan with her three young in the first place”, state news more than 80 civilians. The faces possible “We’re checking the infor- 2015. In the footage he warned children to join Khalimov in agency SANA said. attack prompted a US missile mation,” he said. In 2016, the that he and other IS recruits Syria. The Syrian government UN war crimes investigators strike on a Syrian government corruption trial United States offered a $3m based in the Middle East were has denied a UN report accusing said this week that Syrian forces air base.

Jerusalem AFP Zimbabwe oppn accused of plot UN to deploy guards to he wife of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin TNetanyahu has been Harare protect its base in Libya formally told that she faces a AFP possible trial over alleged Rome a guard unit which will be basi- misuse of public funds, the resident Robert Mugabe Reuters cally UN military personnel justice ministry said yesterday accused a coming from Nepal,” Lacroix yesterday. Precently launched oppo- he United Nations is pre- said. UN Libya envoy Ghassan “The attorney general has sition alliance seeking to paring to deploy 150-250 Salame said that “a little under informed the counsel of Mrs. unseat him in next year’s elec- Tmostly Nepalese guards 250” could be deployed in the Sara Netanyahu, wife of the tions of plotting with Western to Libya to protect its base in “coming weeks”. Deploying the prime minister, that he is con- powers to force him out. the capital as part of a plan to guards to the base in Tripoli sidering putting her on trial, Morgan Tsvangirai, the return its operations to the “will mean that around the over her part in the ‘catering leader of the country’s main country, UN officials said beginning of October we can affair’,” it said in a opposition party the Movement yesterday. carry out a significant part of statement. for Democratic Change (MDC), Backed by Western govern- our work in Libya,” said It refers to allegations that formed a grand coalition last ments, the UN is trying to heal Salame, who has headed the she and an aide falsely month with former allies and a rift between Libya’s rival fac- mission since June. declared that there were no four opposition parties in an tions in order to stabilise the A spokesperson for the cooks available at the prime effort to end Mugabe’s 37-year country and to tackle militant mission said there were no minister’s official government rule. violence and people-smuggling plans to send UN peacekeep- residence in Jerusalem and “Recently we have wit- from Libya’s northern coast. ers to Libya. they ordered from outside nessed the concerted effort by The mission has been based Security in Tripoli and caterers at public expense. opposition political parties to in Tunis since 2014, when fight- other parts of western Libya is “In this way, hundreds of President Robert Mugabe (left) and his wife Grace attend a coalesce and fight (us) as one,” ing among rival Libyan fragile, and armed groups that meals from restaurants and Mugabe, 93, said at a meeting rally of his ruling ZANU (PF) in Chinhoyi, Zimbabwe, yesterday. brigades forced out most for- are largely unaccountable hold chefs were fraudulently of his ZANU-PF party’s central eign embassy staff, but it has power on the ground. obtained from chefs and res- committee in Harare. A planned pact between as violence against his sup- gradually increased its pres- Most foreign embassies taurants at a cost of 359,000 “We know of course they Tsvangirai and Mugabe’s porters raged. ence in Libya and has been closed and pulled out their staff shekels ($102,000, 85,000 are a creature of the West former vice president Joice Past elections in Zimbabwe planning for months for a fuller in 2014 when heavy fighting euros),” the statement said. whose sole purpose is to dis- Mujuru failed following disa- have been marred by violence, return. between rival factions It added that Sara Netan- lodge ZANU-PF from power, greements over leadership. intimidation and charges of The military unit would destroyed the capital’s airport. yahu would be able to argue but really if they come together Tsvangirai has made three electoral fraud. probably consist of around 150 It was the worst fighting since her case in front of Israeli as a bundle, one blow will set failed bids for the presidency. The president, who often guards, Jean-Pierre Lacroix, UN the fall of long-time leader Attorney General Avichai the bundle in pieces. In 2008, he beat Mugabe in the travels abroad for medical Under-Secretary-General for Muammar Gaddafi in 2011. Mandelblit at a hearing before “Fortunately for ZANU-PF, first round of voting but failed treatment, has refused to name Peacekeeping Operations, said. In July, rival leaders he makes a final decision on the political parties are as to win an outright majority, a successor and repeatedly “To make sure that we pro- pledged in Paris to work whether to press charges. divided as ever, fighting over leading to a run-off. He later denounced factionalism within tect our colleagues as they towards elections in 2018 and Netanyahu denied any political positions.” pulled out of the second ballot his own party. deploy in Tripoli there will be a conditional ceasefire. wrongdoing. 04 ASIA SATURDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2017

JNU votes to Rahul slams Modi for ignoring farmers elect union

Nanded 9,000 incidents waiver... why should they be demonetisation, but in Jammu education, health and representatives IANS made to stand in long queues?” and Kashmir, the picture is dif- unemployment. New Delhi In the past three years, Gandhi asked, addressing large ferent... 99 percent of the money “The government does not IANS he country needs farm- 9,000 farmers ended meetings of party workers on his was returned after demonetisa- want the names of Mahatma ers as much as it needs their lives in daylong visit to Nanded and tion, then where is the black Gandhi, Indira Gandhi, Rajiv THE Jawaharlal Nehru Uni- industrialists but Maharashtra...India’s Parbhani. money that was supposed to Gandhi... They have started eras- versity (JNU) yesterday voted under the government farmers have been Accusing the government of come out? The truth is: Modi has ing them from textbooks, but to choose its student repre- led by Prime Minister under attack all over working for “the interests of 50 converted all the black monies how will they remove them from sentatives for the next one TNarendra Modi, farmers’ suicides top industrialists,” he held the through demonetisation,” he the hearts of over a billion year. the country. Modi gave have increased in the country, Prime Minister responsible for alleged. Indians. A total of 14 polling Rs 65,000 crore to one Congress Vice President Rahul what he termed “the failure of The Congress Vice President “The Congress may have booths were set up for about person for setting up Gandhi said in Maharashtra demonetisation”. said the main issues confronting shortcomings... But it does not 7,200 students of the varsity yesterday. the Nano factory but Gandhi said Modi had put the the country are protecting the mean we show false dreams to to elect a new President, Vice “In the past three years, did not give a rupee to common people to hardship by interests of the farmers and pro- the people. Communal hatred is President, General Secretary, 9,000 farmers ended their lives farmers: Gandhi cancelling the currency notes of viding jobs to the unemployed. being spread all over India, in and Joint Secretary of the JNU in Maharashtra... India’s farm- Rs 500 and Rs 1,000 value in “Under the ‘Make In India’, Goa, Manipur and Gujarat... BJP Students Union. ers have been under attack all November last year, ruined the Modi had said two crore youths buys votes,” Gandhi claimed. The Left alliance (SFI- over the country. Modi gave Rs be implemented fully. economy and the GDP tumbled would be given jobs, but in real- Focusing on the Goods and AISF-DSF), the All India 65,000 crore to one person for Citing the case of Maharash- down to 4.5 percent. “Who is ity, there are zero job Services Tax (GST), he said it was Students’ Association (AISA), setting up the Nano factory but tra, he alleged that a loan waiver answerable for this?” opportunities created. Every- the Congress government’s pol- Akhil Bhartiya Vidyarthi did not give a rupee to the farm- of Rs 35,000 crore is said to have “What was the real reason? where we see ‘Made In China’ icy and it did not recommend Parishad (ABVP), the Con- ers,” Gandhi said in a renewed been implemented, but actually Perhaps, he did not like the design and our competition is with more than 18 percent GST “for gress’ National Students attack on the Bharatiya Janata only Rs 5,000 crore have been of the old currency notes,” Gan- China. Then what was the pur- our poor country”. Union of India (NSUI) and Party (BJP). disbursed by the state govern- dhi said sarcastically, questioning pose of ‘Make In India’.” “But today, we have up to 28 Birsa-Ambedkar-Phule Stu- He said the farmers’ loan ment, while the Congress regime the wisdom behind the measure Accusing Modi of “showing per cent GST and five tax slabs,” dents’ Association (BAPSA) waivers in Uttar Pradesh and had given farm loan waivers of in near-identical speeches in false dreams”, Gandhi said the he said, criticising the manner in are the prominent student Maharashtra were the outcome Rs 70,000 crore. Nanded and Parbhani. Prime Minister speaks of giving which it has been implemented groups in the fray. of the “pressure from the Con- “What is the need for asking “It was claimed terrorism the Bullet Trains but the govern- and said it will hit small and gress”, but the waivers are yet to the caste of the farmers for loan would reduce after ment does nothing about medium businesses very hard. Army to induct 800 women in Farooq seeks results in Bus disaster military police New Delhi NIA’s terror fund probe IANS THE Indian Army would induct Srinagar women in the Corps of Mili- IANS Rajnath ready to tary Police and a proposal is being finalised for inducting ormer Chief Minister and discuss Kashmir around 800 women for it -- president of the National New Delhi with an yearly intake of 52, FConference (NC) Farooq IANS it was announced yesterday. Abdullah yesterday said unless The decision was the NIA probe into terror fund- AHEAD of his four-day announced at the Army ing brings out some result he visit to Jammu and Kash- Chiefs’ Conclave, a forum of would not acknowledge the mir, Union Home Minister former Army chiefs, who actions taken by the agency. Rajnath Singh said the gov- were told that with increas- Abdullah also said he had ernment was ready to discuss ing needs for investigation of “no hopes” of anything emerg- the Kashmir issue with all gender-specific allegations ing from Union Home Minister stakeholders in the state. and crime, a necessity was Rajnath Singh’s four-day visit “I personally want that felt to introduce women in the to the state from today. we talk to everyone. So Corps of Military Police. “Unless the NIA investiga- whoever comes to meet me, The Indian Army so far tion produces some results, I I will talk to them.” does not have women in any will not acknowledge it. If the Singh, who begins his kind of combat roles. NIA action is intended to cre- visit today, said the govern- The Indian Army is also ate turbulence in Kashmir, then ment has “all the intentions” An onlooker stands next to a damaged school bus after it collided with a truck in starting two more residential let me tell the Centre and the to solve the Kashmir issue. Navapura village, yesterday. Army Public Schools which are NIA that no torture would force He will be accompanied likely to come up in Punjab. the people of Kashmir to give by newly-appointed Union up their ideals.” Home Secretary Rajiv The NC president was Gauba and senior ministry speaking to media on the side- officials. lines of a function to remember Dera headquarters search operation begins his father and NC founder, late Rajnath Singh’s four-day visit Sheikh Muhammad Abdullah to the state beginning yester- on his 35th death anniversary. day, Abdullah said. “I have no Sirsa The search operation began inside and that a couple of rooms conducted under the supervision Abdullah said “nobody hope from this visit.” IANS amid tight security and curfew in one of the buildings had been of court commissioner A K S would bow down due to the He said the separatists in the area yesterday morning. sealed. Pawar appointed by the Punjab torture of the NIA and the Gov- “must be released so that they CB machines, locksmiths, Officials involved in the Official sources said that the and Haryana High Courts. ernment of India”. can tell the Home Minister what forensic experts and dog search remained tight-lipped search operation could take a Senior district administra- He alleged that the present they have to tell”. Jsquads assisted a comprehen- about the recoveries made inside. long time. tion and police officers, along NIA probe is being carried out The NC president also said sive search operation launched The media was stopped at some Internet services in and with para-military forces and only to “create turbulence” in the NIA should probe the by security agencies and district distance from the Dera premises around Sirsa town were sus- Haryana Police, were involved Kashmir. “money pumped into the state authorities at the Dera Sacha to avoid any controversy. pended by local authorities in the videographed operation Asked what hopes the NC by the Government of India to Sauda headquarters near Hary- One official said that some yesterday. around the sprawling 700-acre had of Union Home Minister weaken” the NC party. ana’s Sirsa town yesterday. cash had been recovered from The search was being campus. Naik blames right-wing forces for reporter’s death Indian teen rape survivor Panaji IANS gives birth to baby boy

oa Congress President Mumbai the foetus, a decision they said Shantaram Naik yester- AFP was in line with the Supreme Gday alleged that Court order. right-wing forces could be 13-year-old rape survi- “Terminating pregnancy as behind the murder of Bengaluru vor who was allowed to sought by the Supreme Court journalist Gauri Lankesh. Aterminate a late preg- means discontinuing the preg- “I strongly feel that right- nancy by India’s Supreme Court nancy and not killing the wing forces are involved, has given birth to a pre-term foetus.” considering that murders of sim- baby boy, a doctor said “The Court focused on ilar nature took place in yesterday. mother’s health as she is a Karnataka in the past. She was The teenager was 32 weeks minor and after the termina- a strong writer on various issues, pregnant, well beyond India’s tion we have to accept the about which she felt strongly 20-week legal limit after which consequences as they come.” about. Those affected by her terminations are only allowed “The baby, who is in inten- writings must have committed where there is a danger to the sive neonatal care, will be put the crime,” Naik said. life of the mother or the baby. up for adoption,” the hospital Naik, a former Congress Sec- On Wednesday, in a rare said. retary in charge of its affairs in ruling the top court had allowed The girl, who cannot be Karnataka, also condemned the girl to terminate the preg- named as per Indian law, was Union Tourism Minister K J nancy in view of the “trauma raped allegedly by her father’s Alphons for allegedly asking for- she has suffered... and the colleague who has been arrested. eigners to eat beef in their own A woman covers her mouth with an orange scarf during a rally called "Not In My Name", in agony she is going through at In recent months courts countries before visiting India. New Delhi. the present”, according to the have received a number of peti- He said the Minister should copy of the order. tions from women—including apologise for his controversial understand that you cannot decide what people should eat?” Alphons reportedly said: “They Nikhil Datar, a Mumbai- young rape survivors and traf- statement made yesterday in impose eating habits on people. Asked by reporters if beef (foreign tourists) can consume based doctor who had ficking victims—seeking Odisha. They will eat what they think is ban in several states would deter beef in their respective countries examined the girl earlier, said abortions where pregnancies “These people fail to proper. Who is this Minister to tourists from visiting India, and then come here.” the doctors took a call to save had gone beyond 20 weeks. SATURDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2017 ASIA 05 Malaysia to temporarily shelter Rohingya

Kuala Lumpur Malaysia, hundreds of kilo- Aid Reuters metres to the south on the Andaman Sea, is likely to see Prime Minister Najib alaysia’s coast more boat people from Myan- Razak said that guard will not turn mar in coming weeks and Malaysia will send a away Rohingya months because of the renewed humanitarian mission Muslims fleeing violence, said Zulkifli Abu Bakar, to help refugees violence in Myan- the director-general of the seeking shelter at the Mmar and is willing to provide Malaysia Maritime Enforcement Bangladesh-Myanmar them temporary shelter, the Agency. border. maritime agency’s chief said However any such voyage yesterday. would be hazardous for the next few months, because of the annual monsoon. “We are supposed to provide Over 1,000 feared dead basic necessities for them to con- tinue their journey and push them away. But at the end of the in Myanmar violence: UN day, because of humanitarian reasons, we will not be able to Seoul Others have died trying to do that,” Zulkifli said, adding that AFP flee the fighting in Rakhine no fresh refugees had been seen state, where witnesses say yet. ore than 1,000 people entire villages have been Malaysia will probably house may already have burned since militants launched the new arrivals in immigration Protesters rally against Myanmar’s treatment of the Rohingya outside the Myanmar Embassy, Mbeen killed in Myan- a series of coordinated attacks detention centres, where for- in Kuala Lumpur, yesterday. mar, mostly minority Rohingya on August 25, prompting a mil- eigners without documents are Muslims -- more than twice the itary-led crackdown. typically held, he said. The mission, to be led by the refugee camps. Malaysia Airlines Commissioner for Refugees in government’s total -- a senior On the basis of witness tes- Malaysia, which has not Malaysian armed forces, is a and Malindo Air will help in the Malaysia although unofficial UN representative said. timonies and the pattern of signed the UN Refugee Conven- “manifestation of Malaysia’s distribution of aid.” numbers are almost double. In the last two weeks alone previous outbreaks of violence, tion, treats refugees as illegal strong objection of the contin- “Malaysia will hold talks with In the year 2015, mass 270,000 mostly Rohingya said Yanghee Lee, the UN spe- migrants. ued suppression of the Rohingya Bangladesh to set up a military graves were exhumed at jun- civilians have fled to Bangla- cial rapporteur on human “Malaysia will send a human- community by the Myanmar hospital at the border,” Najib gle camps on the border desh, overwhelming refugee rights in Myanmar, “perhaps itarian mission to help refugees security forces,” Najib said in a added. between Thailand and Malay- camps that were already burst- about a thousand or more are seeking shelter at the Bangla- statement. There are about 59,000 sia that were thought to be ing at the seams, the UN said. already dead”. desh-Myanmar border,” Prime “The mission will leave today Rohingya refugees registered mainly Rohingya victims of Minister Najib Razak said. to review the situation in with the United Nations High human traffickers.

South Korea braces for North’s new missile threat Australia & New Zealand Seoul marking the founding of its rul- twice in July and analysts say the conditions of atmospheric re- AP ing party. flight data from the launches entry and detonate properly. to beef up islands security North Korea has previously indicate the missiles could cover In Washington, President outh Korea is closely watch- marked key dates with displays a broad swath of the continen- Donald Trump reiterated on Apia affairs Susan Thornton said. ing North Korea over the of military power, but now its tal United States, including major Thursday that military action is AFP “So we talked about the Spossibility it may launch tests appear to be driven by the cities such as Los Angeles and “certainly” an option against importance of having good another intercontinental ballis- need to improve missile Chicago, when perfected. North Korea, as his administra- ustralia and New Zea- information sharing on things tic missile as soon as tomorrow capabilities. North Korea fired the ICBMs tion tentatively concurred with land announced plans like electronic passports and when it celebrates its founding The North is just coming off at highly lofted angles in July to the pariah nation’s claim to have Ayesterday to step up other migration data.” anniversary. its sixth and the most powerful reduce ranges and avoid other tested a hydrogen bomb. security in the Pacific as the New Zealand Foreign Seoul’s Unification Ministry nuclear test to date on Sunday countries. But South Korean offi- A senior administration offi- US warned of potential ter- Minister Gerry Brownlee said spokeswoman Eugene Lee said in what it claimed was a deto- cials say the next launches could cial said the US was still ror threats to the region. his nation would provide that Pyongyang could potentially nation of a thermonuclear be conducted at angles close to assessing last weekend’s under- Speaking at the annual $8.41m for aviation security conduct its next ICBM tests this weapon built for its ICBMs. operational as the North would ground explosion but so far Pacific Islands Forum in including equipment and weekend or around October 10, The country tested its devel- seek to test whether the war- noted nothing inconsistent with Samoa, an attending US del- training. another North Korean holiday opmental Hwasong-14 ICBMs heads survive the harsh Pyongyang’s claim. egation raised the possibility Australia -- which is of terror groups using isolated already building 19 patrol Pacific islands as hideouts. boats to help island nations “That might be a place to protect their waters -- 5.3 magnitude exploit for transit through to announced it would fund an other countries,” the US act- aerial surveillance mission to ing assistant secretary of state crack down on crime, partic- earthquake hits for East Asian and Pacific ularly illegal fishing. northern Japan

Tokyo AFP Yingluck last seen heading

A moderate 5.3-magnitude earthquake struck northern towards Cambodia: Govt Japan yesterday night but there was no tsunami warning, Jap- Bangkok anese authorities said. AFP “The quake was at a depth of 10km in Akita pre- convoy believed to be carrying Thailand’s fugitive former fecture at 10:23pm,” Japan’s prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra was last spotted head- meteorological agency said Aing through a military checkpoint close to the border with yesterday. Cambodia, the junta’s deputy leader said yesterday. There were no immedi- Thailand’s first female prime minister pulled a dramatic dis- ate reports of injuries or appearing act last month on the day a court was due to deliver a damage, according to public verdict in her trial for criminal negligence. broadcaster NHK. Thailand’s junta has said it was unaware she was planning to The Japan Meteorological flee—something analysts and many Thais have found hard to Agency did not issue a tsu- believe given the round-the-clock surveillance Yingluck frequently Australian Defence Minister Marise Payne (right) and Defence Secretary Delfin Lorenzana nami warning. complained of. during their joint press conference at a military air base, in Manila, yesterday. “No abnormality was Yesterday, deputy junta leader General Prawit Wongsuwon reported at nuclear power said that former premier’s convoy was last seen on CCTV at a facilities in the region,” NHK military checkpoint in Sa Kaeo province, which borders Canberra to help Manila in terror fight said. Cambodia. Manila Payne said Manila agreed to an with Indonesia, Malaysia and AFP offer from Canberra, made in Singapore. August, for Australian troops to Australian Foreign Minister he Philippines has wel- train local soldiers inside yet- Julie Bishop revealed last week Pakistan opens fifth nuclear plant comed Australia’s offer to to-be-named Filipino bases. that she recently spoke to Pres- Tdeploy troops to train Fil- “We have increased our ident Rodrigo Duterte and Islamabad the Fukushima nuclear disas- The previous power plant ipino soldiers, the defence engagement, a surge if you like, offered training aid to the Phil- AFP ter in Japan in 2011, as it seeks was inaugurated in December ministers of the two allies said in the context of the current ippines similar to that provided to close an electricity shortfall by former Prime Minister yesterday, as extremists con- events,” Payne said at a joint to Iraq. akistani Prime Minister that can stretch up to 7,000 Nawaz Sharif, who was dis- tinue to terrorise parts of the news conference with Lorenzana stressed that the Shahid Khaqan Abbasi MW in peak summer months, qualified on corruption charges country. Lorenzana. Philippines did not need foreign Pyesterday inaugurated or around 32% of total demand. last month. The announcement came as She said many areas of the troops for actual combat but the country’s fifth nuclear The 340-megawatt “Ending of loadshedding is the Philippine military called Asia-Pacific were threatened by said Australians could train local power plant, developed in col- Chashma-IV reactor, located the highest priority of our gov- yesterday for more funds to root the return of “foreign fighters” soldiers in information-gather- laboration with China amid some 250km southwest of cIs- ernment and the power out pro-IS group militants, more who had gone to engage in com- ing and analysis. hopes that his government lamabad, is the fourth built as projects of 10,000 megawatts than three months into a deadly bat in the Middle East. “It will not look good if we could end chronic power part of a collaboration between would be completed by next offensive devastating the south- “They (foreign fighters) are would need (foreign) troops to shortages this year. the Pakistan Atomic Energy June,” Abbasi said. ern city of Marawi. battle-hardened. They are well fight the war here,” he said. Pakistan is one of the few Commission (PAEC) and China “We will be able to end Philippine Defence Secre- trained, they are very deter- Australia has a defence developing countries pursuing National Nuclear Corporation loadshedding by November tary Delfin Lorenzana and his mined,” she warned, adding that cooperation programme with atomic energy in the wake of (CNNC). 2017.” Australian counterpart Marise she had also discussed the threat the Philippines. 06 EUROPE SATURDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2017 Catalonia vote: Madrid ups pressure on separatists

Barcelona Tensions boil vowed yesterday. She said the desire for a vote,” Lluis Corom- mayors now find themselves in “incapacity or lack of will” to find AFP central government would fight inas, vice president of the Catalan a delicate position, having been “a political solution to a political Catalonia’s separatist- what it branded “provocations” parliament, told national radio. asked by regional authorities just conflict”, but she has also called pain’s top courts yester- controlled regional with “all necessary legal means”. Catalan prosecutors yester- a day earlier to provide lists of on separatists not to seek their day heaped fresh parliament upped the Asked if it would potentially day urged the local appeals court possible polling stations. goal at any cost, even if it means threats on Catalan sep- ante by passing a bill trigger article 115 of Spain’s con- to launch proceedings against the Neus Lloveras, mayor of the bitterly dividing the region. With aratists planning an early yesterday stitution — an extreme step that separatist regional president town of Vilanova outside Barce- its own language and customs, independence referen- outlining a transition to would allow it to partially sus- Carles Puigdemont and the 12 lona who heads an association of Catalonia accounts for about Sdum, pressuring hundreds of a possible independent pend Catalonia’s autonomy members of his government on pro-independence municipalities, one-fifth of Spain’s economic mayors set to open their polling republic. — government spokesman Inigo accusations of disobedience, said more than 600 town halls output, and already has signifi- stations for the vote next month. Mendez de Vigo said Madrid was malpractice and misuse of pub- have signalled they will take part cant powers over matters such After sparking Spain’s deep- “not ruling anything out”. Spain’s lic funds. The Supreme Court has in the vote. Others have said they as education and healthcare. The Supreme Court has est political crisis in 40 years this Constitutional Court has since meanwhile ordered senior Cat- will refuse to organise a banned But Spain’s economic wor- ordered senior Catalan week by voting to push ahead 2014 declared any bid for an alan officials to desist from any referendum, such as Angel Ros, ries, coupled with a perception with the referendum, Catalonia’s officials to desist from independence referendum to be actions that further the referen- mayor of the town of Lerida. that the region’s 7.5 million peo- separatist-controlled regional any actions that unconstitutional. On Thursday dum bid, warning they could “We would be leaving the ple pay more in taxes to Madrid parliament upped the ante by further the referendum night, it moved again to suspend otherwise face criminal charges. legal framework,” he told TV3 than they get in return, have passing a bill early yesterday bid, warning they the bills passed by Catalan law- The warning went out to all television. “Is it worth trying to helped push the independence outlining a transition to a possi- could otherwise face makers to organise the vote. members of the regional govern- build a state in order to divide question to centre stage. ble independent republic. criminal charges. But the separatists have ment, as well as mayors, the the country? I’m among those Catalonia remains divided, The separatists say the leg- ignored the actions of the judges directors of regional public who think not.” Barcelona’s left- however. In a survey by the Cat- islation would serve as a referendum push has sparked — most of them named by the broadcasters, and Catalan police ist mayor Ada Colau has yet to alan Centre of Opinion Studies in temporary “basic law” in the fury in Madrid. ruling conservatives — branding chief Josep Lluis Trapero, a pop- announce if the vote will be June, 41.1 percent backed inde- wealthy northeastern region in “There will be no independ- them illegitimate. ular figure after winning plaudits allowed to take place in the pendence while 49.9 percent the event of a “yes” vote on Octo- ence referendum of any kind in “It is worrying that the state for his handling of last month’s regional capital. rejected it. Some 70 percent ber 1, serving until a new Catalonia,” Defence Minister is seeking to scare people and terror attacks in Barcelona and She accused Prime Minister wanted a referendum, however, to constitution is in place. The Maria Dolores de Cospedal make threats, faced with the Cambrils. The region’s 948 Mariano Rajoy of having an settle the question once and for all.

Macron in Athens Orban ‘respects’ NEWS BYTES EU migrant French fashion tycoon Pierre ruling but vows to fight on Berge dies aged 86 PARIS: The French fashion tycoon Pierre Berge — the busi- Budapest ness brains behind the Yves Saint Laurent empire — has died AFP aged 86, his foundation said yesterday. Berge, the longtime partner of the late designer Yves Saint Laurent, died in his fter days of fierce rhet- sleep early Friday at his country home at Saint-Remy-de- oric, Hungarian Prime Provence in southern France, the foundation said. A passionate AMinister Viktor Orban bibliophile and art collector, he was also a tireless campaigner said yesterday that his govern- for gay rights and donated a large part of his fortune to AIDS ment “respected” an EU court’s research. Politically engaged to the end, he was an impor- rejection of Hungary’s chal- tant backer and confidant of French president Francois lenge to a migrant relocation Mitterrand, and this year threw his weight behind Emmanuel plan, but vowed to fight on Macron’s successful campaign for the Elysee Palace. Former against the measure. French culture minister Jack Lang led the tributes to a man he “Hungary is a European called a “true prince of the arts and culture”. “He was a magi- Union member, so the bloc’s cian who made his life and those who he loved a symphony of treaties must be respected happiness,” he said. Berge and Saint Laurent were joined in a and the court’s rulings must civil union a few days before the designer died of a brain tumour be acknowledged,” the pop- in 2008 aged 71. Two museums dedicated to the life and work ulist leader said in a radio of Saint Laurent, financed by the foundation the two men interview. “But this is not a founded, are to open in Paris and Morocco this year. reason to change an immigra- French President Emmanuel Macron greets people during his visit to central Athens’ tion policy that rejects German teenager on trial for commercial street yesterday, as part of a two-day official visit of the French president migrants,” Orban said. to Greece. “The court’s ruling does ‘darknet’ knife murders not require Hungary to do anything”, he added, because BERLIN: A teenager went on trial in Germany yesterday it focused only on whether accused of two knife killings that shocked the country, includ- the EU had the legal right to ing the murder of a child he allegedly bragged about on the enforce refugee quotas. Internet. Marcel Hesse, 19, remained silent in court, but his Trump visit to Britain still unfixed The “real battle (against lawyer Michael Emde said he did not deny the charges against Brussels) is just beginning,” him. Prosecutors say Hesse lured a local nine-year-old boy he added. into his basement and stabbed him 52 times with a folding nine months after May’s invitation The European Court of knife in March this year. He allegedly boasted about the mur- Justice threw out the chal- der in a video clip he published on the darknet, a hidden London few days after he took office pre-presidential visits to the two lenge from Hungary and online arena notoriously used by criminals to trade weap- Reuters sparked controversy in Britain. golf courses he owns in Scot- Slovakia against the EU’s ons, drugs and child pornography. Police discovered the child’s Just hours after she left the land, many Trump-watchers scheme to spread up to body in Hesse’s home in the western town of Herne, spark- ine months after Prime White House, Trump announced expected Britain to be one of the 160,000 Syrian, Iraqi and Eri- ing a major manhunt. Prosecutor Danyal Maibaum said Hesse, Minister Theresa May his widely-criticized ban on first stops on any presidential trean asylum seekers among described as unemployed and socially withdrawn, was hid- Ninvited President Donald travel from Muslim-majority European tour. the 28 member states. ing at the home of a 22-year-old man he knew from training Trump for a formal state visit to countries. White House representatives Brussels approved the college. When his friend realised Hesse was a murder sus- Britain, no arrangements have yet Such is the controversy that told British officials at the time of deal in 2015 when more than pect on the run and said he wanted to call police, Hesse been made and there is no sign of some officials on both sides of the invite that Trump had one million people landed on allegedly killed him too, stabbing him 68 times. Hesse later the visit taking place soon, US and the Atlantic are privately hav- accepted. But a senior US gov- Europe’s shores, mainly in set the apartment on fire, but soon after walked into a res- British officials said. ing second thoughts about the ernment official told Reuters in Italy and Greece. taurant and shouted “call the police, I’m wanted”, media Discussions between Wash- visit, worried about street dem- July that Trump had no plans to But recent EU figures reported at the time. Security was tight at the court, which ington and London about a onstrations that might greet visit Britain in the near future. show that just under 28,000 has set another 10 hearings in the trial until mid-October. Trump visit have continued, said Trump in London and other A full-scale state visit to Brit- migrants had been relocated one official who asked not to be British cities. “There have been ain involves considerable pomp. from Italy and Greece by Sep- Paraplegic girl in France named, but so far the White signs of relief in some quarters Upon arriving in London, the tember this year. House has not signalled when that he has yet to appear on Her president would be greeted by Describing immigration attacked by rats while in bed and how the president wants to Majesty’s schedule,” said a Brit- Queen Elizabeth and other as “poison”, Orban has been proceed. ish official. members of the Royal Family at at the forefront of a rebellion LILLE: A paraplegic teenage girl was attacked in her bed by May’s invitation to Trump Given Trump’s penchant for a ceremony near the Houses of in eastern and central Europe rats which bit and scratched her hundreds of times, French during a visit to Washington a showmanship and his Parliament. against the quotas. police said yesterday. The 14-year-old, who was defenceless in her medical bed when the attack occurred last Friday night, suffered 225 wounds all over her body, including her face. Police in the city of Roubaix, close to the Belgian border, were told last Sunday by hospital staff that the disabled girl had UKIP’s Farage rallies Germany’s right-wing AfD been admitted, the source said. An examination by a foren- sic pathologist determined that the injuries were caused by rats which swarmed her as she lay on her bed, according to Berlin president, whom he labelled “a Parliament member, the AfD’s behaving so badly, you’re tak- a local newspaper. The girl’s father has filed a complaint AFP pro-EU fanatic”, ahead of Sep- Beatrix von Storch, the grand- ing away so much of people’s against the landlord of the house and against the city, saying tember 24 elections. daughter of Hitler’s finance freedom, liberty and that he had repeatedly asked them to remove a pile of rub- ritain’s former UKIP party “It’s all too embarrassing to minister Lutz von Krosigk. democracy”. bish bins left in a nearby car park, the police source said. leader Nigel Farage yes- admit that their beloved Euro- Farage said he wanted “to But Farage charged that Ger- Bterday said that Germans pean project is now about to be get a proper debate going in the many “hasn’t had the debate” First combat death in Kiev since truce should lead a revolt against exited by one of the big coun- biggest, richest, most impor- about Europe and “about break- Brussels as he joined a campaign tries,” said Farage, whose UK tant and powerful country in ing the closed shop” of EU KIEV: Kiev reported yesterday the first combat death since rally of the anti-immigration and Independence Party was the Europe about not just the shape bureaucrats. “We managed to Ukraine agreed a new truce with Kremlin-backed rebels in eurosceptic AfD party. driving force that led to Britain’s of Brexit but perhaps even the break it in the United Kingdom. the east of the country ahead of the start of the new school Farage said he was amazed shock vote to leave the European shape of the European project At the moment Germany is at a year. “As a result of active hostilities, one Ukrainian soldier Brexit had barely figured in Union in 2019. to come”. point where it is very, very to was killed over the past 24 hours,” military spokesman Andriy debates between Chancellor Farage insisted he was at the He said Germany, as the big- tough to break through,” he said, Lysenko told journalists. “It happened during the shelling of Angela Merkel and her centre- Alternative for Germany (AfD) gest EU economy, should “say to adding however that “I predict, Avdiivka”, her said, referring to a city about 10km north of left challenger Martin Schulz, the event at the “personal invitation” Brussels: look, the reason the in Germany, it will probably start the rebel stronghold of Donetsk. former European Parliament of his fellow European Brits left is because you’re in Bavaria”. 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Hundreds of people gather in an emergency shelter at the Miami-Dade County Fair Expo Center in Miami, Florida, yesterday, ahead of Hurricane Irma. RIGHT: Hurricane Irma is driving toward Florida passing the eastern end of Cuba in this Nasa’s GOES-16 satellite image taken at about 0800 EDT yesterday. Florida mass exodus as Irma closes in

Miami Trump plea hurricane was over the northern AFP edge of Cuba and the central Baha- “Hurricane Irma is of mas and heading northwest at lorida’s highways were epic proportion, around 14 miles per hour. jammed yesterday with perhaps bigger than In the Caribbean, violent winds families fleeing their we have ever seen,” ripped roofs and facades off build- homes as Hurricane Irma US President Donald ings, hurling lumps of concrete, honed in on the Sunshine Trump warned on cars and even shipping containers FState after reducing island resorts aside. At least two people were Twitter. “Be safe and to rubble and killing at least 17 peo- get out of its way, if killed in Puerto Rico, and more ple across the Caribbean. than half of its three million resi- possible.” Bumper-to-bumper traffic dents were without power after snaked north out of the peninsula, According to the latest rivers broke their banks in the with mattresses, gas cans, mat- center and north of the island. trajectory from the tresses and kayaks strapped to car Another four people were killed on Miami-based National roofs, as residents heeded increas- the US Virgin Islands. One person ingly insistent warnings to get out Hurricane Center, Irma died in tiny Barbuda where 30 per- and Florida’s governor said all of is expected to strike cent of properties were demolished the state’s 20.6 million inhabitants the Florida Keys late and 300 people had been evacu- should be prepared to evacuate. today before moving ated to Antigua. France said at least “Hurricane Irma is of epic propor- inland. nine had been killed across its Car- tion, perhaps bigger than we have ibbean territories. Six out of 10 ever seen,” US President Donald bears down for a direct hit on homes were left uninhabitable, Trump warned on Twitter. “Be safe southern Florida, where the mass with insurers in Paris estimating and get out of its way, if possible.” exodus is being complicated by their overall costs would likely be Roaring across the Caribbean, gridlock and fuel shortages. “much higher” than $240m. the monster storm laid waste to a Normally bustling Miami Beach Britain’s defence ministry said it series of tiny islands like Saint Bar- was deserted and storefronts were was sending two military transport thelemy and Saint Martin, where boarded up with plywood, some planes to the region carrying person- 60 percent of homes were wrecked bearing graffiti reading “Say no to nel, supplies and recovery and scenes of looting have broken Irma” or “You don’t scare us Irma”. equipment. European nations quickly out, before slamming into the Vir- Police cars crawled the coastal mobilized to help their citizens in the gin Islands and Puerto Rico. roads of West Palm Beach, blaring Caribbean, with France and the “Houses are smashed, the air- out “Attention, attention, this is a Netherlands ordering hundreds of port is out of action, telephone and mandatory evacuation zone, please extra police to St Martin to tackle an electricity poles are on the ground,” evacuate.” In Georgia, Governor outbreak of looting amid major Olivier Toussaint, a resident of Nathan Deal ordered a mandatory shortages of food, water and petrol. Saint-Barthelemy, said. evacuation of the city of Savannah, In the Dominican Republic, tor- Irma was downgraded over- which has a population of around rential rain and powerful winds left night from a rare Category Five 150,000 people, and other coastal 17 districts cut off, with nearly storm to a still-deadly Category areas. 20,000 people evacuated and Four, and continued to pack According to the latest trajec- more than 100 houses destroyed. extremely dangerous winds of 150 tory from the Miami-based And in Cuba, some 10,000 foreign miles per hour (240km per hour). National Hurricane Center, Irma is tourists were evacuated from Forecasters warned of storm expected to strike the Florida Keys beach resorts as authorities hiked surges of up to 25 feet above nor- late today before moving inland. the disaster alert level to mal tide levels, as the hurricane At 11am (1500 GMT) yesterday, the maximum. US Congress okays $15bn hurricane relief package Washington the measure on Thursday, 80 to 17. AFP If Trump signs the bill, as expected, it would extend US borrowing authority and prevent a gov- he US House of Representatives passed a ernment shutdown by funding federal operations $15 billion hurricane relief package yester- until December 8, and free up emergency relief Tday that included raising the debt ceiling funding just as Florida braces for a direct hit from and funding government until early December, Hurricane Irma. Congress’s immediate focus how- sending the bill to President Donald Trump. ever was funnelling sufficient funding to Lawmakers voted 316 to 90 to approve the government authorities like the Federal Emer- package, which was the result of an agreement gency Management Administration, which has struck between Trump and congressional Dem- been helping thousands of victims of Hurricane ocrats in a hurried effort to free up emergency Harvey that pummelled Texas late last month. funding in the wake of Hurricane Harvey, and as Of the $15.25bn in relief funding, about half is a second monster storm bears down on Florida. designated for FEMA’s disaster relief fund. FEMA “The House just voted to send critical aid to has burned through much of its disaster funding, the victims of #HurricaneHarvey. Next stop ? @ due to the scope of Harvey and technical advance- Aerial view of devastation following Hurricane Irma at Bitter End in Virgin Gorda, British Virgin POTUS,” House Speaker Paul Ryan said in a tweet, ments that allow the agency to distribute money Islands, yesterday, is seen in this still image taken from social media video. referring to the president. The Senate easily passed more quickly than in previous disasters. US airlines scramble to evacuate residents ahead of hurricane

Florida temporarily cease through the week- Delta Air Lines Inc said it had the storm in a mission to evacuate booked or cancelled. Medical student Reuters end and beyond. But flights out of the upsized aircraft and added flights to another plane-full of passengers from Eric Slabaugh said he was dismayed by area remained extremely limited. At increase the number of available out- the area ahead of Irma’s landfall. ticket prices over $2,000 when he irlines were racing against the clock Miami International Airport, many out- going seats by 2,000. United Airlines As residents sought to secure last- started looking for flights. He got a ticket to clear as many customers as pos- bound flights were cancelled, leaving added six flights out of Miami to its hubs, minute flights out of the dangerous to Detroit for $700, he said, “because Asible from the likely Florida path of residents scrambling to rebook to any- including Newark, New Jersey, and Chi- Category 5 storm’s path, airlines faced nobody wants to go there”. Hurricane Irma, as social and political where outside the path of the storm. cago O’Hare. All three carriers said they accusations of trying to capitalize on the Also affected by the storm, Carnival pressure mounted for carriers to play a American Airlines, which has one of planned to mostly wind down south panic and chaos by price gouging. Cruise Lines, which has major opera- bigger role in aiding evacuations. the larger operations in south Florida, Florida operations soon. But while airlines offered some tions out of Florida ports, said it had Airlines ramped up the number of said it had added 16 flights out of Miami, A Delta-operated flight from New cheap flights out of south Florida after cancelled four of its Caribbean cruises, flights available out of south Florida air- amid more than 2,400 forced cancella- York to San Juan, Puerto Rico, and back, complaints, passengers said that did lit- though it still planned to operate sev- ports, where operations were likely to tions through Monday. made headlines for narrowly avoiding tle good if all the flights were fully eral more under modified itineraries. 08 VIEWS SATURDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2017

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EDITORIAL Suu Kyi’s cruel silence

deally, Aung San Suu Kyi should be squirming in her seat. Such is the intensity and quantum of global outrage against her silence over the Igenocide of Rohingya Muslims in Myanmar that she should be doing something to please the world. And Suu Kyi is no ordinary leader. She is a Nobel The Taliban: Undefeated, Peace Prize winner, who has been rewarded for her fight for justice and freedom. That a leader of her stature has become so thick-skinned and shows scant regard in the face of persecution of a community under her rule speaks volumes about her and possibly undefeatable lack of commitment to the ideals she professes to expound. Suu Kyi is facing intense international criticism over the persecution of Rohingyas in Myanmar. A seems ever widening and feeding the None of it, of course, is a real suc- growing number of world leaders, especially those Rafia Zakaria doubt and disenchantment of soldiers cess in the sense of being locally engaged in the fight for human rights, have come out Al Jazeera who have yet to deploy. A president like sustainable once the influx of US cash is against her inhuman silence. Trump may rhetorically disavow nation gone. Taliban leaders know this, of Earlier this week, Malala Yousafzai called on Suu building but he has failed to answer the course, and they also know that other Kyi to act to “stop the violence” against the Rohingya. ensuing question: If the war is no longer Afghans know this. Unlike American “I am still waiting for my fellow Nobel laureate Aung to build Afghanistan, then what exactly soldiers, unused to the terrain, ignorant San Suu Kyi to do the same. The world is waiting and ust over a week after US President Don- is it for? of the language and culture and the Rohingya Muslims are waiting,” Malala said. ald Trump announced the deployment of The generals at the Pentagon and increasingly confused about why they A couple of days later, Desmond Tutu, a veteran additional US troops to Afghanistan, US the war bureaucrats in Washington and are there at all, the Taliban is adept at of the fight against apartheid in South Africa, joined army servicemen in Alaska were already Kabul will, of course, never acknowl- framing its fight as the fight for an Malala in condemning Suu Kyi. He said Suu Kyi’s Jpreparing for deployment to the region. edge that the near trillion-dollar price authentically Islamic and indigenously “silence” was “too steep” a price to pay for her posi- The Fourth Brigade Combat Team, 25th Infan- tag of the war in Afghanistan has been Afghan homeland. tion and called on her “to be courageous and try Division is to provide at least 1,000 of the for naught. As recently as a year ago, As a recent study by Yale political resilient again”. Tutu, who retired in 2010, said he 4,000 additional soldiers announced by the General John Nicholson, the current scientist Jason Lyall establishes, was breaking a vow to president as part of the continuation of the war. commander, insisted that “overall our Afghans have an extremely strong “remain silent on public Even as additional troops get ready to mission in Afghanistan is on a positive group identity. The consequence of this affairs out of profound deploy, the United States continues to be trajectory”. In April of this year, is that harm inflicted by foreign forces sadness” for the plight of without a clear plan as to what it is hoping to Anthony Box, a Department of Defense in the country weakened support for Suu Kyi remains the Rohingya. accomplish, with defence officials at the adviser lent out to the Afghan govern- those forces and increased support for stubborn in her These pleas for action Pentagon saying that they are “not prepared ment, boasted, “citizens trust in the Taliban. However, harm inflicted by refusal to help coincide with an ongoing to move forward” with the president’s plan Government is an all time high”. the Taliban does not translate into the Rohingya global campaign and that critical planning was “still under It was an astounding statement to increased support for foreign forces. demanding the revoca- way”. In the meantime, Taliban spokesper- make, given that the United Nations This last fact may actually make a despite the global tion of the Nobel Prize son Zabihullah Mujahid respondedto reports that violence against civilians in complete Taliban victory in Afghanistan outrage against awarded to Suu Kyi to Trump’s statement by telling him to take US Afghanistan reached its highest levels in even more likely following Trump’s dis- her silence and protest her complicity in troops back home because “the Taliban 2016. Statements like these, reveal the avowal of nation building as the the crimes against could not be defeated.” proclivity to create artificial advances supposed prerogative for the US pres- inaction. humanity. Several West- It is a smug statement to make, but in the where no actual ones can be found. ence in the country. ern columnists and case of the Tehreek-e-Taliban Afghanistan, Americans whose jobs and pres- Not only will US troops being writers, who have so far it could well be true. In March of this year, tige depend on the war’s success do deployed to the country face an even refrained from making the group released a report citing how much not wish to acknowledge its failures. larger dose of doubt and disillusion- such a demand, are sign- territory it controlled. According to the Similarly, Afghans, who benefit from ment in the face of risking their lives for ing a global petition now. “This week, to my own report, 211 of Afghanistan’s administrative the war and aid economies created some murky strategic motive, but astonishment, I found myself signing a petition for districts were in the group’s control or were by the influx of billions of dollars, are Afghans, confronted with a foreign the revocation of her Nobel peace prize. contested. The estimate was not overblown; eager to goad them army waging war for the sake of war, I believe the Nobel committee should retain a comparison with media reports and esti- on, interested in will likely flock to the Taliban in even responsibility for the prizes it awards, and withdraw mates released (pdf) by the Special Inspector extending their own greater numbers. The Taliban, whose them if its laureates later violate the principles for General for Afghanistan Reconstruction well-being as the recruits know the terrain because it is which they were recognized,” writes George Monbiot (SIGAR) shows that they estimate contested haves in a country of their own and have long-embraced war in the Guardian. and Taliban-controlled districts at 171, not have-nots. as its normal, will be waiting with open Sadly, the global outrage and condemnations very far from the Taliban number. Either arms to welcome them. have failed to move Suu Kyi. She remains stubborn way, then, nearly 16 years of US occupation The US plan for Afghanistan may in her refusal to act, and seems to be gripped by a and the expenditure of nearly $840.7bn (at The US plan for Afghanistan not “be there yet” but the Taliban’s is fear of the local Buddhist extremists who are out to the end of budget year 2018), the Taliban may not ‘be there yet’ but there, and tragically for those Afghans ethnically cleanse the Rohingya. It’s surprising and remains undefeated and possibly the Taliban is there, and who oppose it, it is there to stay. deplorable that she can show such insensitivity and undefeatable. tragically for those Afghans callous disregard for the plight of a persecuted The question of why, however, is not one minority. most Americans or even the war planners who oppose it, it is there The writer is a lawyer and author of The UN has described the Rohingya as “the seem interested in considering. Some to stay. The Upstairs Wife: An Intimate History world’s most persecuted minority” and their suffer- acknowledge the reality that military solu- of Pakistan; and Veil. ing is continuing and multiplying even amidst all this tions are not the answer, and yet seem international attention. willing to lobby for deployments of addi- tional forces, while blaming past presidents (Obama) and intransigent neighbours (Paki- stan). The truth is distant from all of these analytical directions and centres on a com- QUOTE OF THE DAY plex amalgam of the beliefs and proclivities of the US military and the reality of Afghani- stan’s own normal of constant war. First among these is the fact that 16 years Venezuela will take a into the war in Afghanistan, US soldiers find position to defend the it hard to buy into the moral justifications that they are given for their deployment judicial and financial there. Osama bin Laden is dead and the “war security of the republic on terror” turned out to be a deadly fiasco. and its investors or What justifies US military presence in Afghanistan now? holders of financial US soldiers were told that they were the instruments. “good guys” showing up in Iraq and Afghani- stan to build democracies, create institutions Nicolas Maduro and establish the rule of law. The reality of Afghanistan is much differ- Venezuelan President Afghan commandos wait for their turn during live firing exercises at Camp ent. The ensuing gap between the lie told to gear soldiers up for war and the war itself Morehead on the outskirts of Kabul. SATURDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2017 OPINION 09 Bangladesh wants safe zones to ease Rohingya crisis

sending them back. Serajul Quadir, Ruma Paul & Krishna N Das Bangladesh officials are turning Reuters to the international community for help, claiming support from coun- tries such as Turkey, which has angladesh has proposed creating “safe promised aid. zones” run by aid groups for Rohingya On Friday, a Malaysian coast Muslims in Myanmar’s Rakhine state to guard official said the country will stop hundreds of thousands of refugees not turn away Rohingya Muslims crossing into its territory following a mili- and is willing to provide them tem- Btary crackdown. porary shelter. But any such The plan, the latest in a string of ideas floated by voyage would be hazardous for the Dhaka, is unlikely to get much traction in Myanmar, next few months, because of the where many consider the Rohingya community of annual monsoon. 1.1 million as illegal immigrants from Bangladesh. “The world community must That will leave Bangladesh, one of the poorest come forward to help them, not by nations in the world, with little choice but to open putting pressure on Bangladesh but new camps for refugees. by putting pressure on Myanmar Dhaka sent the proposal to the Myanmar gov- not to resort to these atrocities and ernment through the International Committee of the violence,” said H.T. Imam, a senior Red Cross to secure three areas in Rakhine, home to aide to Bangladesh Prime Minister the Rohingya community, suggesting that people Sheikh Hasina. displaced by the violence be relocated there under “The only solution is to force the supervision of an international organisation, Myanmar to take back their citi- such as the United Nations. zens through international “The logic of the creation of such zones is that no pressure. And we are working with A view of newly built makeshift shelters at the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in the Bangladeshi Rohingya can come inside Bangladesh,” said Sha- our partners on that,” Imam said. hidul Haque, Bangladesh’s foreign secretary, the top district of Ukhia. Besides the creation of interna- civil servant in the foreign ministry. tionally-controlled safe zones in The Red Cross confirmed that it had passed on attacked several police posts and an army base. with Myanmar. “They will be given temporary shel- Rakhine state, Bangladesh has also the request to Myanmar but said that it was a politi- Since then, an estimated 270,000 Rohingya have ter,” said Kazi Abdur Rahman, additional deputy mooted creating a buffer zone cal decision for the two countries to make. fled to Bangladesh, according to the UN High Com- commissioner of Cox’s Bazar. But Rahman added along the border, where the inter- A Myanmar government spokesman did not missioner for Refugees, joining more than 400,000 that the refugees would be fingerprinted and con- national community could set up respond to a request for comment. others already living there in cramped makeshift fined to the camp so that they did not mix with the camps and provide for the refu- Hundreds of thousands of Rohingya have fled to camps since the early 1990s. local community. gees, the officials said. Further Bangladesh, a mostly Muslim nation of 160 million, There are widespread fears that tens of thou- These measures, however, do not offer a long- details of the plan could not be from Buddhist-majority Myanmar in recent years. sands more could try to cross if the violence doesn’t term solution to the crisis, and Dhaka says it is learned. The decades-old conflict in Rakhine flared most abate. Recent pictures from the border between the getting little support from its neighbour, which has “We will give aid agencies recently on August 25, when Rohingya insurgents two countries show hundreds of Rohingya men, been accused of trying to engineer ethnic cleansing access. But we are not interested to women and children trying to cross over into Bang- within its borders. give them shelter here. We are ladesh on foot and by boat. Bangladesh officials said they had proposed joint already overburdened,” said The humanitarian crisis next door has left Bang- patrolling along the border but did not receive a Mostafa Kamal Uddin, Bangla- The world community ladesh scrambling to deal with people that it does response from Myanmar. Earlier this week, Bangla- desh’s home secretary. not welcome either. desh lodged a protest after it said Myanmar had laid must come forward to In recent days, Bangladesh officials have said landmines near the border between the two help them, not by putting they plan to go ahead with a controversial plan to countries. pressure on Bangladesh develop an isolated, flood-prone island in the Bay of Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi, a Nobel Lau- but by putting pressure Bengal to temporarily house tens of thousands of reate, has come under pressure to halt violence refugees, drawing fresh criticism from the interna- against Rohingya. She has said that her government on Myanmar not to resort tional community. was doing its best to protect everyone in Rakhine but to these atrocities and did not refer specifically to the Rohingya exodus. D-RING ROAD Temporary Shelter violence. The only solution “The solution lies in Myanmar. The UN hopes POST BOX: 3488 is to force Myanmar to take It bowed to pressure on Thursday, with govern- that Myanmar can address the root causes of the ment officials saying that Dhaka would now make problem,” said Shinji Kubo, head of the United DOHA - QATAR back their citizens through another 1,500 acres (607 hectares) of land available Nations High Commissioner for Refugees in Bangla- [email protected] international pressure. for camps to house refugees near Cox’s Bazar, where desh. Kubo said the Bangladesh government was many refugees already live as it is near the border doing its best by accepting the refugees instead of EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OFFICE TEL: 4455 7741 / 767 FAX: +974 4455 7758 Experience shows the US can weather the storm MANAGING EDITOR TEL: 4462 7505 Orleans, which seems to have become a perma- need to change. By some estimates, about 80 percent DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR nently smaller city after Hurricane Katrina in of the victims do not have flood insurance. Damage to Tyler Cowen TEL: 4455 7769 Bloomberg 2005, is the exception. homes thus will devastate many families’ savings. What about the fates of individuals affected by Given the extreme and unprecedented nature of the major storms? The best study we have, conducted storm, it is not clear what kind of preparation might LOCAL NEWS SECTION by economist Steven Levitt and co-authors, found have been reasonable to expect. TEL: 4455 7743 that within a few years, Katrina victims’ incomes Greater federal aid to the victims is a likely option. s the rain and wind from fully recovered. Still, it will not be obvious to many Americans why BUSINESS NEWS SECTION Hurricane Harvey clear out, Additional research found that people who those who lost homes might end up receiving higher TEL: 4462 7535 and the physical and human relocated after Katrina (often to Houston, by the government benefits than people elsewhere who toll becomes clear, it’s way) often improved their incomes. 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Over the longer run, as housing stocks turn body of research looks at how cities resources that go into over, that will help limit homeowner and also fiscal All thoughts and views bounce back from natural and man- rebuilding after a big storm exposure to extreme events. expressed in these columns made catastrophes. If we consider the So while our current response capabilities are better 1871 Chicago fire, the 1906 San Fran- could have been used than we might think, improving that performance very are those of the writers, not cisco earthquake, the 1889 Johnstown elsewhere, and there is no much won’t be easy. of the newspaper. flood, or the 1900 Galveston hurricane, good reason to think that after rebuilding periods economic an economy, either at the The writer is a Bloomberg view columnist. He is a profes- All correspondence progress continued in each case. Even sor of economics at George Mason University and writes regarding Views and national or regional level, for the blog Marginal Revolution. His books include “The the bombings of Japanese cities during Opinion pages should be World War II didn’t affect their longer- will come out ahead. Complacent Class: The Self-Defeating Quest for the term economic futures very much. New American Dream.” mailed to the [email protected] 10 AMERICAS SATURDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2017

Soldiers stand guard a few metres away from the Sensacion Hotel which collapsed with the powerful earthquake that struck Mexico overnight, in Matias Romero, Oaxaca State. RIGHT: People look on at a destroyed car in Juchitan de Zaragoza. 58 dead in powerful Mexico earthquake

Rescue efforts on devastating 1985 temblor that flat- much of central and southern possibly trapped in collapsed tened swathes of Mexico City and Mexico on Friday to allow buildings. By early yesterday, the The 8.1 magnitude killed thousands. This time, dam- authorities to review damage. human cost of Mexican quake quake off the age to the city was limited, as the In one central neighbour- appeared to be less severe than southern coast late quake was deeper and further from hood of Mexico City, dozens of many far less powerful tremors. on Thursday was the capital, but still shocking. people stood outside after the Windows were shattered at stronger than a “The National Emergency quake, some wrapped in blan- Mexico City airport and power devastating 1985 Committee is currently report- kets against the cool night air. went out in several neighbor- temblor that ing 58 deaths from the Children were crying. Liliana hoods of the capital, affecting flattened swathes of September 7 earthquake,” the Villa, 35, who was in her apart- more than one million people. agency’s director, Luis Felipe ment when the quake struck, fled The cornice of a hotel came Mexico City and Puente, wrote on Twitter: 45 in to the street in her nightclothes. down in the southern tourist city killed thousands. the state of Oaxaca, 10 in Chia- “It felt horrible, and I thought, of Oaxaca, a witness said. pas and three in Tabasco. ‘this (building) is going to fall,’” People in Mexico City, one of Rescue workers The Chiapas governor she said. The US Geological Sur- the world’s largest cities, ran out laboured through the reported 12 deaths there, how- vey (USGS) said the 8.1 into the streets in pajamas and night in badly ever. Officials warned the toll magnitude quake had its epi- alarms sounded after the quake affected areas to look could continue to rise as rescue center in the Pacific, 87km struck just before midnight. “I for people who were workers search for bodies in the southwest of the town of Pijijia- had never been anywhere where possibly trapped in rubble in the three southern pan at a depth of 43 miles. the earth moved so much. At first collapsed buildings. states that were hardest hit. “It Allen Husker, a seismologi- I laughed, but when the lights almost knocked me over,” said cal expert at the geophysical went out, I didn’t know what to Gildardo Arenas Rios, a 64-year- institute of the National Auton- do,” said Luis Carlos Briceno, an Juchitan old security guard in Mexico said, after the long, rumbling State oil company Pemex said omous University of Mexico, said architect, 31, who was visiting Agencies City’s Juarez neighborhood, who quake that also shook Guatemala it was checking for damage at its the quake had rewritten the Mexico City. “I nearly fell over.” was making his rounds when and El Salvador. installations. President Enrique record books. “It’s the worst Helicopters buzzed overhead t least 58 people were buildings began moving. A spokesman for emergency Pena Nieto said operations at the quake (in Mexico) in more than looking for damage to the city, killed when the most The southern town of Juch- services said seven people died Salina Cruz refinery in the same 100 years,” Husker said. which is built on a spongy, powerful earthquake itan in Oaxaca state, near the east of Oaxaca in the state of Chi- region as the epicenter were tem- Across the Pacific Ocean, the drained lake bed. Authorities to hit Mexico in dec- epicenter, was hit particularly apas, where thousands of people porarily suspended as a national disaster agency of the reported dozens of aftershocks, ades tore through hard, with sections of the town living on the coast were evacu- precautionary measure. Two Philippines put the country’s east- and President Pena Nieto said buildings,A forced mass evacua- hall, a hotel, a bar and other ated from homes as a precaution children died north of Chiapas in ern seaboard on alert for possible the quake was felt by around 50 tions and triggered alerts as far buildings reduced to rubble. when the quake sparked tsunami Tabasco state, the local governor tsunamis, though in the end no million of Mexico’s roughly 120 away as Southeast Asia. “The situation is Juchitan is warnings. Waves rose as high as said. At least 250 people in Oax- evacuations were ordered. Res- million population, with further The 8.1 magnitude quake off critical; this is the most terrible 2.3 ft in Mexico, the Pacific Tsu- aca were also injured, according cue workers laboured through the aftershocks likely. He advised the southern coast late on Thurs- moment in its history,” the nami Warning Center said, to agriculture minister Jose Cal- night in badly affected areas to people to check their homes and day was stronger than a town’s mayor, Gloria Sanchez though that threat passed. zada. Classes were suspended in look for people who were offices for damage and gas leaks.

US Senate panel Hillary Clinton plays blame okays funding for US appeals court game in new book UN climate body rejects Trump’s bid Washington Reuters Washington Clinton also criticized former vice to bar most refugees AFP president Joe Biden, who cam- he US Senate Appropri- paigned with her, and former FBI ations Committee New York guarantees from resettlement illary Clinton (pictutred) director James Comey. Tpassed a spending bill Reuters agencies. The 3-0 ruling takes takes responsibility for She blamed a frustrated elec- late on Thursday that includes effect in five days. The US Hher devastating loss to torate for falling for Trump $10m to help fund the United US appeals court on Supreme Court ruled in June that Donald Trump in her tell-all instead of embracing her more Nations’ climate change body Thursday rejected the Trump’s ban could be imple- book about the 2016 presiden- traditional campaign, writing that that oversees the Paris Cli- ATrump administration’s mented on a limited basis, but tial race, but she also blames the billionaire businessman ran mate Agreement, despite effort to temporarily bar most should not be applied to people Barack Obama, Bernie Sanders, “a reality TV show that expertly President Donald Trump’s refugees from entering the with “bona fide” relationships to Vladimir Putin and others, pub- and relentlessly stoked Ameri- decision to stop funding it. country, ruling that those who people or entities in the US. lished excerpts show. cans’ anger and resentment.” The 30-member Senate have relationships with a reset- The government took a nar- In her campaign chronicle Women voters apparently panel, which allocates federal tlement agency should be row view of that interpretation, “What Happened,” set for were also partly to blame. funds to various government exempt from an executive order which the state of Hawaii chal- release on September 12, the Clinton wrote that while she agencies and organizations, banning refugees. lenged in court. A lower court veteran Democrat acknowl- were, “Bernie would come out was impressed with the massive approved a $51bn spending A three-judge 9th US Circuit judge sided with Hawaii, and the edges her own role in her defeat, with something even bigger, anti-Trump demonstrations in bill for the State Department Court of Appeals panel also ruled 9th Circuit judges upheld that writing: “It was my campaign. loftier and leftier, regardless of the days after his January inau- and foreign operations, which that grandparents, aunts, uncles view. “It is hard to see how a Those were my decisions.” But whether it was realistic or not,” guration, “I couldn’t help but ask included an amendment to and cousins of legal U.S. resi- grandparent, grandchild, aunt, she also points the finger at a she added. where those feelings of solidar- continue funding the UN dents should be exempted from uncle, niece, nephew, sibling-in- long list of political rivals, Sanders offered a terse ity, outrage and passion had Framework Convention on President Donald Trump’s order, law, or cousin can be considered apparent allies, and morning tel- response. “I.e., Bernie Sanders been during the election.” Climate Change as well as the which banned travelers from six to have no bona fide relationship evision hosts, and signals that just stole all of Hillary Clinton’s Putin—and Russia’s appar- scientific body the Intergov- Muslim-majority countries. with their relative in the United much of what happened in 2016 ideas. Does anybody really ent meddling in the 2016 ernmental Panel on Climate The ruling is the latest legal States,” the court said. was outside her control. believe that?” he said on MSNBC. election—also took hits, with Change. blow to the President’s sweep- The court also rejected the Sanders, a socialist-leaning Clinton also trained her Clinton accusing the Russian The amendment passed ing executive order barring administration’s argument that senator who challenged her dur- frustrations on Obama, who president of holding a “personal even though the 2018 budget travelers from Iran, Syria, Libya, the written assurances provided ing the Democratic primaries, backed her as his successor, say- vendetta” against her, accord- proposal that Trump, a Repub- Somalia, Sudan and Yemen for by resettlement agencies obligat- resorted to “innuendo and ing a stronger, televised ing to Vanity Fair. lican, introduced earlier this 90 days, which the Republican ing them to provide services for impugning on my character” in response by the then-president Perhaps in a page out of year eliminated support of any president said was necessary specific refugees is not a bona attacks that caused “lasting dam- to Russian meddling in the elec- Trump’s own playbook, Clinton mechanism to finance climate for national security. fide relationship. The agencies’ age” and disunity, the 69-year-old tion might have helped her. took a shot at the media as well, change projects in developing The Justices said that the advance preparation and Clinton wrote, according to “Maybe more Americans in particular the NBC ‘Today’ countries and organizations. government did not persuasively expenditure of resources for each excerpts reported by US media would have woken up to the host Matt Lauer. Clinton has The United States is still a explain why the travel ban should refugee “supports the district on Thursday and Friday. threat in time. We’ll never know,” scheduled a 15-city tour pro- party to the 1992 UNFCCC, be enforced against close rela- court’s determination that a bona Regardless of how “progres- she said according to CNN, which moting her book, beginning in which oversees the Paris tives of people from the six fide relationship with the refu- sive” her own policy proposals obtained a copy of the book. Washington on September 18. agreement. countries or refugees with gee exists,” the decision said. BUSINESS

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PAGE | 12 QE FTSE100 BRENT PAGE | 12 8,675.46 21,813.16 7,377.60 $47.76 BoE fear factor -9.09 PTS +28.33 PTS -19.38 PTS -1.33 Uber to stop 0.10% 0.13% 0.26% and data bounce using diesel cars DOW help sterling in London Dow & Brent before going to press

French-Greek business leaders’ meet ECB agrees on UK’s economy stimulus cut at shows little sign policy meeting Frankfurt Reuters

of lifting lethargy uropean Central Bank policymakers meeting Eon Thursday were in Rate hike leave the European Union had broad agreement their next done more harm than good. step would be to cut bond The official figures That muted assessment was purchases, with four options suggested the backed up by the official data under consideration, two world’s fifth-biggest which showed little help for sources with direct knowl- economy continued exporters from sterling’s edge of the discussion said. to lag the recovery in weakness. Possibilities discussed by the euro zone. “The economy is clearly the ECB included - but are not underperforming compared to limited to - cutting monthly The data suggested what is going on globally and assets buys from €60bn now that the Bank of regionally, but weakness in to €40bn a month or €20bn growth does not appear to be French President Emmanuel Macron (left) and Greek Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras (second from the start of next year, England will remain intensifying,” JPMorgan econ- left) arrive for a roundtable discussion with French and Greek business leaders yesterday with extension options cautious about omist Malcolm Barr said. in Athens, as part of a two-day official visit of the French president to Greece. including 6 months or 9 raising interest rates. The Office for National Sta- months, said the sources, who tistics said manufacturing asked not to be named. London output rose 0.5 percent in July, Any decision, likely come Reuters above economists’ forecasts in in October, should also be a Reuters poll, after car produc- backed by a broad consen- ritain’s Brexit-bound tion reversed a dip in Turkish wealth fund to be sus, the sources said, with one economy is showing theprevious month. suggesting a compromise little sign that its But growth in the broader could be found for setting leaden performance measure of industrial output monthly purchases some- in the first half of slowed to 0.2 percent, in line reorganised: Erdogan where between €20bn and B2017 is improving much, despite with forecasts as a lack of sum- €40bn. hints of better times for manu- mer maintenance of North Sea Ankara “We need to reorganise the investment. But Turkey imports This showed that policy- facturers in data released oil fields boosted production Reuters wealth fund and we will take almost all of its energy and some makers are keen to avoid the yesterday. more than usual for the time of that step after the Kazakhstan economists have said the gov- repeat of the public discord Factory output increased at year. resident Tayyip Erdogan visit.” ernment could better spend that has marred the history of the fastest pace this year dur- The data suggested that the said yesterday. Turkey The president said he dis- money paying down a national the quantitative easing pro- ing July, but this was set against Bank of England, which holds Pwould reorganise its $40 cussed the issue with Prime debt that runs at roughly 30 per- gram since its 2015 launch, a sharp decline in the construc- its next monetary policy meet- bn sovereign wealth fund after Minister Binali Yildirim, who is cent of economic output. with decisions criticized by tion industry and another ing next week, will remain dismissing the organisation’s responsible for the fund, and The government has trans- national central banks hostile lacklustre month for trade. cautious about raising interest chairman over its failure to meet they “decided it could not go on ferred stakes worth billions of to the policy and even by The official figures sug- rates despite an inflation rate targets since it was founded a this way”. dollars of state assets, including some within the ECB’s own gested the world’s fifth-biggest heading for 3 percent, above its year ago, Reuters was not immedi- stakes in flag carrier Turkish Air- Executive Board. economy continued to lag the 2 percent target. Mehmet Bostan was ately able to reach Bostan or lines, major banks and fixed-line Indeed, Germany’s cen- strong recovery in the euro Business surveys over the removed as chairman of the Karadag for comment. operator Turk Telekom. tral bank governor Jens zone and is now growing slowly last week suggested manufac- fund as of Thursday and the The fund was set up last year The government has said it Weidmann, who has long in the third quarter after suf- turers look set for a stronger head of the Borsa Istanbul stock by the government to develop wanted the fund to manage called for the ECB to step off fering its slowest first half of the end to the year, boosted by exchange, Himmet Karadag, and increase the value of Tur- $200bn in assets as soon as pos- the QE pedal, struck a concil- year since 2012. exports -especially to the Euro- was named as acting chairman, key’s strategic assets and sible. One senior official iatory tone yesterday. Separately on Friday, the pean Union. Still, official data a senior official earlier told provide resources for invest- toldReuters this year that the “The increase in inflation British Chambers of Commerce have yet to reflect this. The ONS Reuters. ment. Historically, sovereign fund could be used to secure is sluggish and the uncertainty said the economy was “tread- said Britain’s trade deficit in “The desired goals and wealth funds have been set up financing for major infrastruc- about the future inflation path ing water” ahead of Brexit, goods edged up to £11.576bn progress were not achieved in with oil producers such as Nor- ture projects. Ratings agency S&P is quite large,” Weidmann, adding that the pound’s sharp ($15.24bn) in July, the biggest the wealth fund,” Erdogan told way or Gulf states, using money has said the fund was more akin who sits on the ECB’s Govern- fall since last year’s vote to since March. reporters ahead of a foreign trip. from energy exports for to a national development bank, ing Council, said. LNG glut may flip to deficit as Cheniere sees China growth

London/New York operation or being built will add according to the Cedigaz report. existing or under-construction million tons, according to the Bloomberg to global oversupply, aging facil- Output will end in some nations plants, Cedigaz said. Trinidad report. Qatar produces 77 mil- ities and shrinking resources in such as Trinidad and Tobago. and Tobago, the world’s ninth- lion tons a year. he global glut plaguing liq- some areas mean capacity will “I foresee that the LNG mar- biggest producer, will stop While the oversupply lingers, uefied natural gas markets start declining after 2021. That’s ket needs at least a hundred production in 2029. The Atlan- increases in Australian and US Tmay start to dwindle in five a boon for companies from Royal million tons of new liquefaction tic LNG venture in the Caribbean capacity will shake up the list of years, threatening to spur a huge Dutch Shell Plc to Tellurian Inc. capacity above what’s under nation has already curbed out- the biggest producers. The out- deficit. and Novatek PJSC looking to construction today in order to put and cut its workforce due to look is based on stable New projects are needed to invest in new production in the meet demand needs of the mar- feed-gas shortages. production at Qatar, though the fill the shortfall, with demand for next decade to meet demand. ket by 2025,” Meg Gentle, chief Algeria, Indonesia, Malaysia nation’s decision to boost output the super-chilled fuel forecast to “The continuous growth of executive officer at Tellurian, and even Australia, which next by 30 percent to 2024 “could double in the 20 years to 2035, the LNG market will leave a large said by phone Thursday. year will add more capacity than change the game,” Cedigaz said. Cedigaz, a Paris-based industry margin for the implementation “Demand is growing more than any other nation, will see LNG imports are set to research group, said in its LNG of new projects,” Cedigaz said in people expected.” declines in output by the end of increase to 503 million tons by Outlook. Buyers in Asia are of US exporter Cheniere Energy the report emailed Thursday. Global LNG capacity is the next decade. By 2035, new 2035 from 243 million tons in boosting use of the fuel at a Inc., said in a Bloomberg Televi- The US shale boom will make expected to peak at 387 million LNG projects will be required in 2015, according to the report. “staggering” pace, Jack Fusco sion interview. the country the biggest LNG pro- tons a year by 2021-2022 from all regions, with additional Asia will remain the biggest LNG (pictured), chief executive officer While plants currently in ducer by the end of the period, 288 million tons this year at capacity needs estimated at 154 import region. 12 SATURDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2017 BUSINESS E-cars to shine at Frankfurt show as diesel takes backseat Frankfurt am Main “On the one hand, the auto Merkel to open AFP industry is enjoying its best years ever in terms of sales and prof- German Chancellor undreds of thou- its, but on the other it’s Angela Merkel will on sands of car wondering what’s going to hap- Thursday formally enthusiasts are set pen in future,” said Bratzel of open the 67th to flock to Frank- Germany’s Center for Automo- International Motor furt’s IAA motor tive Management. Show. Hshow next week where auto “Diesel and its harmful emis- giants hope to show off their sions are a topic of hot debate Diesel and its harmful electric prowess as scandal- right now, especially in Germany, emissions are a topic plagued diesels take a creating an image problem for of hot debate, backseat. the entire industry.” Two years after “dieselgate” German Chancellor Angela especially in Germany. crashed the last IAA party, when Merkel, eyeing a fourth term in Volkswagen’s public admission a September 24 general election, that it had cheated on diesel will on Thursday formally open emissions tests embarrassingly the 67th International Motor said in a recent interview. But coincided with the fair, organis- Show. other countries aren’t so sure. ers are hoping to turn the page While Merkel has said she Both France and Britain have Electric cars seen charging up at a power station in Denmark in this file picture. by focusing on the cleaner cars had been “angered” by the cheat- announced plans to ban the sale of the future. ing scam, she has also been of new diesel and petrol cars by But as more automakers careful not to demonise a sector 2040 to clamp down on harm- Automakers around the world are mainstream. In the run-up to the models across all their brands in have come under suspicion and that is the backbone of the Ger- ful emissions. responding to the challenges by IAA, which alternates each year coming years. concern about diesel pollution man economy and employs more “All this uncertainty surround- dramatically shifting focus to elec- with the Paris Motor Show, Ger- Despite all the buzz, the has grown, industry expert Ste- than 800,000 people. ing diesel and gasoline engines will tric and automated vehicles, man luxury carmaker BMW and year’s most-talked about car will fan Bratzel expects the mood at “Diesel, and the internal hang over the trade show,” pre- belatedly joining a race started by Britain’s Jaguar Land Rover be conspicuously absent from the this year’s 10-day extravaganza combustion engine, will exist for dicted Flavien Neuvy, auto expert Silicon Valley giant Tesla to take became the latest manufacturers Frankfurt convention centre: to be “mixed”. many, many years to come,” she at France’s Observatoire Cetelem. zero-emission cars into the to promise electric or hybrid Tesla’s Model 3. Uber to stop using diesel cars in London BoE fear factor and data China’s

London proportion of their new cars, with this bold plan,” said Uber’s Head Reuters Volvo becoming the first major of UK Cities, Fred Jones. bounce help sterling yuan leads carmaker to set a date for phas- “Londoners already know ber will cease using die- ing out vehicles powered solely many cars on our app are hybrids, EM gains sel cars in London by the by the internal combustion but we want to go much further London Uend of 2019 and the vast engine. and go all electric in the capital,” Reuters majority of rides will be in elec- Britain will ban the sale of he said. London tric or hybrid vehicles by then, the new petrol and diesel cars from Globally, Uber has endured a tronger-than-expected Reuters taxi app said yesterday. 2040, replicating plans by France tumultuous few months after a manufacturing data At the moment the company and cities such as Madrid, Mex- string of scandals involving alle- Shelped Britain’s pound rise hina’s yuan was the star says around half of all the jour- ico City and Athens. gations of sexism and bullying at towards $1.32 and hold its performer among ney miles completed in the British Uber, which has about the company, leading to investor ground against a broadly Cdeveloping market cur- capital are undertaken with 40,000 London drivers, will only pressure which forced out CEO stronger euro yestereday as a rencies yesterday, heading for greener vehicles on the firm’s offer electric or hybrid models on and co-founder Travis wave of selling in the past its best week since revalua- standard low-cost UberX service, UberX by the turn of the decade Kalanick. month ran out of steam. tion in 2005, while a bruised which lets customers book jour- and plans to do the same by 2022 In London, the firm has faced Overall industrial output dollar sent emerging stocks neys on their smartphone. nationwide. criticism from unions, lawmak- was in line with forecasts for a to new three-year highs. Several carmakers have “Air pollution is a growing ers and traditional black cab small 0.4 percent expansion on The Chinese currency has announced plans in recent problem and we’re determined drivers over working the year in July but manufac- risen more than 7.5 percent months to electrify a large to play our part in tackling it with conditions. turing, bolstered by a weaker against the dollar this year, pound, did far better, expand- pound, but the emergence of helped by signs the world’s ing 1.9 percent compared to a several forecasts for a fall to second-largest economy is forecast 1.7 percent. parity with the euro underlines still expanding at a healthy Neither number is likely to the risks to sterling from the pace. International Forum for Financial Inclusion settle the unease that saw spec- Brexit process over the next It was up 0.4 percent on ulators double net bets against few months. yesterday to 6.45 versus the sterling in the past three weeks. The euro’s strength after dollar, its highest since March But traders say the weak- Thursday’s European Central 2016, after data showing ness of the dollar and the Bank meeting also raised the stronger-than-expected possibility of a sign next week prospect of more pressure. import growth in August rein- from the Bank of England that “With the ECB seemingly forced optimism. it is worried about the weak gearing up to reduce its Asset “A year ago people were pound’s effect on inflation have Purchase Programme once worried about how long Chi- stalled the build-up of bets again, the risk remains of a na’s hard currency reserves against the currency. fresh rally for the euro into ter- would last as they were burn- “We had the forecast beat ritory (against the pound) it has ing through them to try and on the industrial data this rarely traded in before,” said support the currency. And morning, but the big driver is Simon Derrick (pictured), now we have had FX reserves really the weakness of the dol- chief market analyst with Bank rising for a few months,” said lar,” said Sam Lynton-Brown, of New York Mellon in Julian Evans-Pritchard, China a strategist with BNP Paribas London. economist at Capital in London. “The pound faces a number Economics. “The resistance (to more of potential stumbling blocks “The scope that the yuan euro gains) comes from the in the weeks ahead,” he said, can appreciate is limited by Bank of England’s FX sensitiv- pointing to parliament’s vote how willing the PBOC is to let ity. They have said several on the government’s umbrella it appreciate,” Evans-Pritch- times they are not indifferent, EU repeal bill next week. ard said, predicting the yuan Queen Maxima, the UN Secretary-General’s Special Advocate for Inclusive Finance for and sterling is approaching the By 1008 GMT, sterling was would be at 6.4 to the dollar Development, speaks with Mexico’s President Enrique Pena Nieto during the opening October lows.” 0.1 percent higher against the at the end of next year and 6.2 ceremony of the Third International Forum for Financial Inclusion at the National Palace A number of major banks euro on the day at 91.70 pence. at the end of 2019. in Mexico City, Mexico. have argued this week there is It gained just under a half a Broad dollar weakness room for a pause in sales of the percent to $1.3161. helped emerging assets after European Central Bank Presi- dent Mario Draghi suggested the central bank may begin tapering its massive stimulus Hedge fund momentum trade hits bumps as energy rallies programme this autumn. MSCI’s benchmark index of emerging stocks was up 0.3 New York end of the world, but perhaps a for their businesses. Retailers are While the S&P 500 is within 1 money managers since the bull percent yesterday after touch- Bloomberg trend worth noticing. still up against Amazon.com Inc. percent of its all-time high market began. Thanks to the ing its highest since 2014 “We can’t endorse groups and oil still won’t climb above reached on Aug. 7, fewer than boost from tech stocks, more earlier in the day. omentum traders like retail or energy structurally, $50 a barrel. Rather, the reversal one-tenth of its members have than half of the large-cap mutual It was on course for its beware: the stocks you we do want to respect recent is part bounce from extreme made 52-week highs in each funds have beat their benchmark eighth week of gains in nine. Mleast want to see rally- price action,” Chris Verrone, depths, part calendar quirk in trading session over the past indexes during the first eight There were strong gains in ing are suddenly doing just that. head of technical analysis at which October and November month. months of 2017, the highest hit Russian shares and on the Energy shares, whose 17 per- Strategas Research in New York, have historically been the month The bad news, however, is rate since 2009, Bank of Amer- Hong Kong bourse yesterday, cent decline from January wrote in a note Thursday. “There when losers rally. that investors may not be posi- ica’s data showed. but stock markets in South through August was the worst are some turns playing out.” The biggest losers have out- tioned for that shift yet. Take The stress from losers win- Africa and Turkey slipped. return in the S&P 500, just Surging laggards are threat- performed the biggest winners energy, for instance. Mutual fund ning may also show up on hedge The Russian rouble fell climbed six straight days for the ening to upend a hugely by at least 1.2 percentage points managers reduced their holdings funds’ short books. For most of around 0.3 percent versus the longest streak in a year. Retail- successful trade that has drawn each month, according to data for five consecutive months the year, bears have raised dollar, pricing in expectations ers, at risk of their biggest annual investors to market leaders such compiled by Strategas Research through July, with their exposure wagers against energy and that the central bank will cut loss since the financial crisis, as technology. While momen- Partners LLC that goes back to reaching the lowest in a year, retailer stocks, a trade that has interest rates by as much as 50 have advanced on all but three tum chasing delivered gains 1990. according to data compiled by paid off with their shares basis points next week follow- days since bottoming about three double the S&P 500’s this year, Theoretically, the rotation Bank of America Corp. tumbling. ing a sharp slowdown in weeks ago. lately it’s stumbled as losing broadens stock participation, At the same time, they held Now these bets may be back- inflation. Currencies like the One result is that a Dow stocks suddenly jumped. Right helping ease investor concern a record overweight in firing. A Goldman Sachs Group rouble, Turkey’s lira and South Jones Index that shorts the low- now in September, 2017’s worst that a rush into popular names technology. Inc. basket of most-shorted Africa’s rand are all up over 0.5 est momentum stocks and buys performers are beating the best such as Facebook Inc., Apple Inc. A reversal in market leader- stocks was up in 10 of the past percent against the dollar this the highest fell four days in a row by 2 percentage points. and Amazon leaves the market ship, if it lasts, may cast a shadow 12 days, advancing 6.5 percent week, following falls in the through Thursday. Hardly the Not that the tide has turned too dependent on a few stocks. on what’s been the best year for over the stretch. greenback. SATURDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2017 CLASSIFIEDS 13

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utchman Lars Boom took the lead of the Tour of Britain after winning a short indi- comforts to extend lead Dvidual time trial on Thursday. Boom, overall winner in 2011, was six seconds quicker than Lotto NL-Jumbo team mate Victor Misano Adriatico, Italy Campenaerts over the 16km layout on the Essex AFP coast, averaging 51kph. Boom now leads overall by eight seconds from ew MotoGP champion- Campenaerts with Team Sky’s Vasil Kiryienka ship leader Andrea third. Dovizioso heads into Twelve riders lie within 30-seconds of the race this weekend’s San lead, including Team Sky’s Welsh duo Geraint Tho- Marino Grand Prix with mas and Owain Doull. Na slender nine-point advantage to defend over reigning world cham- pion Marc Marquez. The Italian, who overtook Mar- Ducati Team’s Schurter looks to quez at the top of the riders’ Italian rider standings last time out with victory Andrea Dovizioso at Silverstone, is a native of Forlim- rides his bike out seal dominance in popoli, a town just 65km from the of his pit during Misano circuit in Rimini. the first practice elite class at worlds The Ducati man will be looking session at the to make good use of home comforts, Marco Simoncelli AFP especially with his legendary com- Circuit of the patriot Valentino Rossi missing after San Marino Moto witzerland’s defending world champion Nino breaking his leg in training. Schurter will be bidding to extend his record- GP Grand Prix “Coming to Misano as leader of breaking winning run in the men’s elite event race in Misano S the championship is fantastic, even at the world mountain bike championships in Aus- though I’m really sorry that Rossi will yesterday. tralia today. not be there, as it would have been Schurter, the reigning Olympic champion, has great to also battle against him,” won all six events in the World Cup this season Dovizioso said. mentality that have worked very well and is after the world title to complete his “In the past the Misano circuit Motorcycling: World championship standings for us so far.” domination. hasn’t been too favourable for MotoGP Marquez’s Honda teammate The Swiss will be challenged in Cairns in north- Ducati, but a couple of weeks back 1. Andrea Dovizioso (ITA/Ducati) 183 points, 2. Marc Marquez (ESP/Honda) 174, 3. Maverick Dani Pedrosa won in Misano last ern Australia by two former world and Olympic we did a very positive test at this cir- Vinales (ESP/Yamaha) 170, 4. Valentino Rossi (ITA/Yamaha) 157, 5. Dani Pedrosa (ESP/Honda) year and sits fifth in the standings, champions Julien Absalon of France and the Czech cuit and we are on good form, so 148, 6. Johann Zarco (FRA/Yamaha Tech3) 109, 7. Jorge Lorenzo (ESP/Ducati) 90, 8. Cal although he hasn’t won since edg- Republic’s Jaroslav Kulhavy. we’ll be trying to take home the best Crutchlow (GBR/LCR Honda) 89, 9. Jonas Folger (GER/ Yahama Tech3) 77, 10. Danilo Petrucci ing out Marquez on home soil at Jerez Schurter’s winning streak at the World Cup possible result.” (ITA/Ducati Pramac) 75 de la Frontera back in May. began in May at Nove Mesto and continued in Alb- The 31-year-old was losing “I’m looking forward to the Mis- stadt and Vallnord. ground in the title race a month ago, Moto2 ano race and it’s a track I like,” he The closest match to Schurter this season was when he was 21 points adrift of Mar- 1. Franco Morbidelli (ITA/Kalex) 223, 2. Thomas Luthi (SUI/Kalex) 194, 3. Alex Marquez (ESP/ said. at the fourth round in Lenzerheide, when Kulhavy quez after the Spaniard’s Kalex) 155, 4. Miguel Oliveira (POR/KTM) 141, 5. Francesco Bagnaia (ITA/Kalex) 111, 6. Mattia “I have good memories there and chased back from a bad start to come within three back-to-back wins in Germany and Pasini (ITA/Kalex) 104, 7. Takaaki Nakagami (JPN/Kalex) 104, 8. Simone Corsi (ITA/Speed Up) I’ve enjoyed some strong results, so seconds of the Swiss at the finish line. the Czech Republic. I hope to be able to work well in “I’m stoked I’ve achieved this 6/6 strike but it 78, 9. Dominique Agerter (SUI/Suter) 63, 10. Luca Marini (ITA/Kalex) 59 But Dovizioso has hit back with every session.” takes a good portion of luck and a reliable team successive victories of his own, The 22-year-old Vinales still has and equipment to conquer,” Schurter said. although has five riders within 35 because riding in front of the fans find his best form after being forced championship hopes of his own and Schurter has already had success at the world points of him in a close there is something very special, but to quit in Britain with engine is only 13 points behind Dovizioso championships, helping Switzerland end France’s championship. I have to treat the injury with care.” failure. and four adrift of second-placed dominance in the cross country team relay. Rossi, 38, now looks unlikely Marquez has won four times in “We’ll try and have a great week- Marquez, thanks largely to his two Schurter anchored the Swiss team to victory though to claim a record 10th world total at this race, which is called the end in Misano, putting the last race straight wins right at the start of the 24 seconds ahead of Denmark and France. title this year after his injury, and San Marino Grand Prix because of behind us,” said the three-time campaign. France had won the past three relays before Maverick Vinales will be Yamaha’s its proximity to the country and the MotoGP world champion. “I’m starting to have the same the format changed to five riders for 2017. sole rider tomorrow in his absence. fact that there is already an Italian “The important thing is that feeling on my M1 that I had at the “It’s a big pity that I can’t be at race at Mugello. lately we’ve been competitive at all beginning of the season and that my home GP,” Rossi lamented. But only one of those Marquez kinds of tracks, so now we go to Mis- gives me a lot of calm and allows me “For sure, I was really looking wins has come in the top class, and ano, which has a twisty, tight layout, to focus on continuing to get points Indians set club record forward to the round in Misano, the Honda rider knows he needs to with the same approach and in each race,” he said. with 15th straight win

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Chiefs upset Patriots in NFL season opener he Cleveland Indians set a franchise record with their 15th consecutive win on Thursday Boston night, beating the Chicago White Sox 11-2 Kansas City Chiefs running back Kareem Hunt T AFP behind another terrific outing for Corey Kluber. prepares to touchdown in front of New England Cleveland also belted five homers while becom- ookie running back Kareem Patriots strong safety Jordan Richards and ing the first major league team with a 15-game Hunt upstaged Tom Brady as cornerback Malcolm Butler (right) at Gillette winning streak since Oakland won 20 in a row in Rthe Kansas City Chiefs Stadium on Thursday. 2002. Edwin Encarnacion hit a three-run drive in launched the new National Football the first, Francisco Lindor connected in the sec- League season with a stunning 42-27 ond, Erik Gonzalez went deep twice and Greg Allen upset of the New England Patriots hit his first major league homer in the seventh. on Thursday. Kluber (15-4) struck out 13 in seven innings. Chiefs quarterback Alex Smith Yolmer Sanchez and Jose Abreu homered in the threw for 368 yards and four touch- first for Chicago, but Kluber allowed only one more downs to puncture the festive hit — a fifth-inning single for Omar Narvaez. atmosphere as the Super Bowl The last-place White Sox turned to Mike Pel- champion Patriots raised their frey after left-hander Carlos Rodon was scratched championship banner in the tradi- with shoulder stiffness. Pelfrey (3-11), who threw tional season kick-off at Gillette 40 pitches in 2 1/3 relief innings on Tuesday night, Stadium. allowed seven runs and eight hits in four innings. But it was 22-year-old Hunt who Elsewhere, the Twins’ Jorge Polanco drove in stole the show for the Chiefs, recov- the go-ahead runs off ailing Kansas City closer Kel- ering from a fumble on his first vin Herrera with two outs in the ninth inning. possession to finish a debut to Herrera (3-3), who has been dealing with a mild remember with three touchdowns. than we did tonight. Because we The Pats looked to have grabbed put the Chiefs 21-17 ahead only for forearm strain, inherited a 2-1 lead before giving “We just stuck together,” Hunt said. didn’t dig very deep tonight.” another touchdown after recover- Gillislee to barrel over from one yard up a pair of singles and a walk. Brian Dozier hit a “We’re like the underdogs, a lot of peo- Patriots coach Bill Belichick was ing a Chiefs fumble, only for Rob to put the Patriots 24-21 ahead with tying sacrifice fly, and after Joe Mauer was walked ple didn’t believe in us. We just wanted typically blunt in his assessment of Gronkowski’s end zone reception to 5:01 remaining in the third quarter. intentionally, Polanco lined a single up the middle to come out and shock the world.” the loss. be deemed incomplete after a video A further Gostkowski field goal for the lead. Smith meanwhile produced a “We didn’t really do much of review. stretched the Patriots lead to 27-21 Trevor Hildenberger (3-2) earned the win with virtuoso display at quarterback for anything well enough to deserve a Instead it was the Chiefs who but Kansas City hit back almost a scoreless eighth. the Chiefs, completing 28 of 35 pass win,” Belichick said. “We gave up 42 recovered, getting on the board immediately with a brilliant 78-yard attempts with no interceptions. points. Gotta coach better, gotta when Demetrius Harris gathered touchdown from Smith to Hunt to BASEBALL RESULTS Brady had a frustrating night, practice better, gotta play better. Smith’s seven-yard pass after a put the Chiefs ahead. Colorado 9 LA Dodgers 1 throwing for 267 yards and no touch- Patriots fans had launched the 90-yard drive. The Chiefs stopped the Patriots San Diego 3 St. Louis 0 downs. The 40-year-old five-time evening in Foxborough in raucous A Stephen Gostkowski field goal on a crucial fourth and inches early Minnesota 4 Kansas City 2 Super Bowl champion completed mood, raining boos down on NFL and a second Gillislee touchdown in the fourth quarter, and Hunt then Cleveland 11 Chicago White Sox 2 only 16 of 36 attempts. Commissioner Roger Goodell at the saw the Patriots go 17-7 up but Hunt’s dived over in the corner for his third Atlanta 6 Miami 5 “It’s a terrible feeling,” a stony- opening ceremonies. first touchdown of the night from a touchdown of the night to make it NY Mets 7 Cincinnati 2 faced Brady said after the defeat. Brady was quickly into his three-yard Smith pass pulled the 35-27. Chicago Cubs 8 Pittsburgh 2

“But the only guys that can do some- groove, leading a nine-play, 73-yard Chiefs back to 17-14. Charcandrick West then added Washington 4 Philadelphia 3 thing about it are back in that locker drive that culminated with Mike Gil- A superb 75-yard touchdown another touchdown to complete the NY Yankees 9 Baltimore 1 room. We’ve got to dig a lot deeper lislee’s two-yard touchdown run. pass from Smith to Tyreek Hill then scoring for the Chiefs. SATURDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2017 SPORT 17

Women’s coach England press for series win Marijne to take charge of India Anderson joins London AFP men’s team

500 wicket club osts England pushed New Delhi for a series-clinch- AFP London ing win against the AFP West Indies at ndia yesteray put women’s Lord’s yesterday. field hockey coach Sjoerd ames Anderson became the HIn a three-match contest all IMarijne in charge of the first England bowler to take square at 1-1, West Indies ended men’s team following the J500 Test wickets and just the second day of the third Test sacking of fellow Dutchman the sixth in history when he on 93 for three in their second Roelant Oltmans. dismissed West Indies opener innings -- a lead of just 22 runs. India’s new Sports Minis- Kraigg Brathwaite on the sec- Shai Hope, West Indies’ bat- ter Rajyavardhan Singh ond day of the third Test at ting star this series, was 35 not Rathore, an Olympic medal- Lord’s yesterday. out and Roston Chase three not ist, announced the Anderson, who started out. appointment on Twitter. West Indies’ second innings After Ben Stokes (60) and “Current chief coach of on 499 Test wickets, reached Stuart Broad (38) had given Eng- Indian senior women hockey the landmark when, with the land a valuable first-innings lead team, Mr. Waltherus (Sjoerd) last delivery of his second of 71, it was James Anderson who Marijne, will take over as over, he bowled Brathwaite fittingly made the chief coach of Indian senior between bat and pad for four breakthrough. men hockey team,” Rathore with a big inswinger that Starting West Indies’ second wrote. demolished the right-hand- innings on 499 Test wickets, it Hockey India sacked Olt- er’s middle stump. took the 35-year-old just 12 mans on Saturday after a poor Anderson is just the sixth deliveries to become only the European tour. It placed an bowler and only the third sixth bowler and third paceman England’s James Anderson (left) celebrates with England’s Stuart Broad after taking his 500th advertisement this week, paceman to have taken 500 with 500 when he bowled Test match wicket of West Indies’ Kraigg Brathwaite during the second day of the third Test which was quickly taken Test wickets. Kraigg Brathwaite for four with match at Lords cricket ground in London yesterday. down. He is also the only active a superb inswinger. The 43-year-old Marijne cricketer in that elite group, West Indies were now six for SCOREBOARD is expected to start this month with the spin trio of Sri Lan- one and that became 21 for two towards the left-hander’s stumps after returning from a tour of ka’s Muttiah Muralitharan when Kyle Hope, Shai’s older only move away late off a full West Indies (I innings): ...... 123 Fall of wickets: 1-1, 2-15, 3-19, 4-24, 5-63, 6-119, Europe with the women’s (800 Test wickets), Austral- brother, saw his miserable series length and clip the off bail. England (I innings): 7-128, 8-134, 9-163, 10-194. team. ia’s Shane Warne (708), end when he was lbw to Broad West Indies were now 69 for A Cook c Dowrich b Roach ...... 10 Bowling: Roach 24-8-72-5; Gabriel 15-1-64-1 (6nb); “I’m excited to take the India’s Anil Kumble (619), as for one. Stokes was on a hat- three -- still two runs behind and M Stoneman c Dowrich b Roach ...... 1 Holder 13.5-1-54-4 (1nb). new role and thank Hockey T Westley lbw Holder ...... 8 West Indies (II innings): well as Australia seamer trick after taking two wickets in with plenty of overs left in an J Root c Powell b Holder ...... 1 K Brathwaite b Anderson ...... 4 India for showing their con- Glenn McGrath (563) and two balls at the end of the tour- extended third session under the D Malan c Dowrich b Roach ...... 20 K Powell b Anderson ...... 45 fidence in my abilities,” West Indies fast bowler ists first innings. floodlights after rain earlier in B Stokes b Gabriel ...... 60 K Hope lbw b Broad ...... 1 Marijne was quoted as saying Courtney Walsh (519) now all Kieran Powell, dropped on the day. Shai Hope, whose twin J Bairstow lbw Roach...... 21 S Hope (batting) ...... 35 in a statement by the hockey retired. two, denied him that prize. hundreds -- his first in Test M Ali c K Hope b Roach ...... 3 R Chase (batting) ...... 3 federation. Walsh, the first bowler to But there was nothing Pow- cricket -- had done so much to T Roland-Jones c S Hope b Holder ...... 13 Extras (LB-5) ...... 5 In February, Marijne and 500 Test wickets back in ell, who made a fine 45, could secure a series-levelling win at S Broad c Dowrich b Holder ...... 38 Total (for 3 wkts)...... 93 Eric Wonink were named as J Anderson (not out) ...... 8 Fall of wickets: 1-6, 2-21, 3-69.

2001, also took 129 matches do when Anderson, from around Headingley -- again showed his Extras (LB-4, NB-7) ...... 11 Bowling: J Anderson 9-2-17-2; S Broad 8-2-25-1; T chief coach and analytical to reach the landmark the wicket, produced an unplay- class when he cover-drove Total (all out) ...... 194 Roland-Jones 6-2-17-0; B Stokes 8-2-29-0. coach of the women’s team figure. able delivery that speared in Stokes for four. until the 2020 Tokyo Olym- pics. But now India’s Harendra Singh takes over as the chief coach of the wom- en’s team. Pakistan’s Ali Oltmans, who joined as Megabucks deal just the performance director in 2013, was sacked after two years as seeks to bowl coach because of a string of poor performances. India finished sixth in the start, says IPL chairman Hockey World League semi- out Amla finals in London and went on to suffer a 3-1 loss against Lahore, Pakistan New Delhi cricketers can expect a step-change hosts Belgium in a European AFP AFP in their wages next year. tour in August. “It’s a game-changer, not only in akistani bowling sensation Hassan Ali said Fri- he Indian Premier League is Indian cricket but world cricket. The La Liga mulls day he wants to bowl out South Africa’s expecting even higher returns kind of money that’s generated in PHashim Amla when he plays an international Tin the years ahead after striking India through cricket is enormous,” Barca and Real before a home crowd for the first time at next week’s a bumper $2.55bn broadcast deal to former India captain Mohammad World XI tour in Lahore. become one of the world’s richest Azharuddin said. Ali, 23, the highest wicket-taker at the Cham- sports competitions. “You never know what’s in store. games abroad pions Trophy which underdogs Pakistan won earlier IPL chairman Rajeev Shukla (pic- If you compare it to EPL then an IPL this year, said he “can’t wait” to take on the star- tured) believes there is plenty more player’s worth can be even more in Madrid studded World XI in the three-match Twenty20 growth to come for the glitzy coming years. The bar is raised and I AFP series. Twenty20 cricket league, whose am all for players making money,” he It is the highest-profile international fixture to heady success comes despite its his- added. Many critics are concerned the he likes of Real Madrid take place in Pakistan since a deadly militant attack tory of corruption scandals. growing sums on offer will have a and Barcelona may eight years ago drove international cricket -- and This week Rupert Murdoch’s Star negative impact on international Tsoon play competitive most other sports -- from the country. India beat rival bids from Facebook, terms of reach, in terms of value and cricket, as players prioritise earning La Liga games in China or the “This is my first international match on my home Sony and India’s Airtel to land the impact. In 10 years it has gone up money over representing their United States, Spanish league ground in Pakistan. I’m very excited to play in front IPL’s TV and digital rights over five manyfold and I hope in future also the countries. president Javier Tebas of my home crowd on my home ground,” he told years from 2018. enhancement will keep on happen- But Delhi Daredevils spinner revealed yesterday. reporters after a practice session at the stadium The deal, a four-fold increase after ing,” Shukla. Shahbaz Nadeem, as yet uncapped by Tebas suggested the stag- yesterday. Sony paid $1.2 billion for broadcast “Since the value of property has India, said international cricket ing of La Liga games abroad The attack on the Sri Lankan team in Lahore in rights over 10 years in 2008, puts the seen signficant gains with each pass- remained the pinnacle for players. from next season would help March 2009, which killed eight people and wounded IPL on a similar level to football’s Eng- ing year so in future also it will keep “Money is no doubt a factor in IPL Spanish soccer compete for nine, isolated Pakistan, forcing it to host its “home” lish Premier League, a bellwether for on increasing,” he added. but the ultimate goal is to represent foreign revenue with its Eng- fixtures in neutral venues. global sports marketing. The IPL has spawned copycat your country. Yes, IPL can act as a lish and German rivals. Ali said he was “sad” about this, but put the inter- The eight-week IPL’s 60 games leagues in Australia, Pakistan and good launchpad for showcasing your “It would only be one or national players who are coming for the World XI are now valued at roughly $8.5 mil- elsewhere, and has already swelled talent,” the 28-year-old said. two games a season, like the on notice: especially Amla. lion each, not far off the estimated the bank accounts of scores of play- The IPL, which is broadcast NFL or NBA do,” said Tebas. “The World XI is a good team, it has very $9.6 million per Premier League ers, making domestic T20 a lucrative around the world, is hugely popular “If we want to compete good players, I will try to bowl well to all of match -- and well over the $6.2m alternative to the international game. for its mix of sport and showbiz, with with the Premier League or them. Especially I would like to out brother price tag attached to home interna- India captain Virat Kohli was the a number of teams fronted by Bolly- the Bundesliga we have to Hashim Amla, it would give me more pleasure,” tionals in India. best-paid player at this year’s IPL, wood stars. It is the brainchild of look for added value,” he said. he said. Shukla said he wasn’t surprised at earning $2.26 million with Royal Chal- Indian cricket administrator Lalit “We would look into it He said he would partner with strike bowler the IPL’s new earning power, which lengers Bangalore, while the most Modi, who is now in Britain and refus- deeply before presenting the Mohammad Aamir to take as many wickets as is tipped to have a wide-ranging expensive foreigner was England’s ing to return to his home country to idea to the clubs, there are possible. impact on cricket, much as Kerry Ben Stokes on $2.16m. face corruption charges. The IPL was legal and social implications “There are partnerships in bowling too just like Packer’s renegade World Series Earning hundreds of thousands of also hit by a spot-fixing scandal in and you’d have to look at the batting. If one bowler in the pair is being thrashed, Cricket of the 1970s ushered in a new dollars a week -- albeit for only two 2013 which led to the Chennai Super hours too,” he said. the other tries to contain, so there is no era for the sport. months -- is usually the preserve of Kings and Rajasthan Royals being sus- “But it’s not a bad idea.” competition.” “Every year IPL is growing in footballers and NBA players, but IPL pended for two seasons in 2015. The 55-year-old Tebas has been in the news of late accusing Qatari-owned French side Paris Saint-Ger- French GP aiming for reduced crowd and congestion main of “laughing” at UEFA’s the financial fair play (FFP) London year and hope to avoid the traf- “We are confident we can than in the final years at Magny- a high-tech test track under the system. Reuters fic snarls of the past. have a big capacity but we are Cours, a track in the rural heart ownership of a trust linked to The NFL has been staging The circuit, on a plateau also being very humble,” she of the country whose last grand former Formula One supremo games in London since 2007, rganisers of the first between Marseille and Toulon, said. “So we are working on an prix in 2008 drew a Sunday Bernie Ecclestone. calling those game the ‘Inter- French Formula One could accommodate 20,000 estimate of accommodating attendance of 78,000. Road access was always a national Series’. The NBA calls OGrand Prix in a decade more but commercial director 65-70,000 people for the race. Le Castellet, also known as problem in the old days and its version the Global Games, are aiming for a race day crowd Aurelie Letellier told Reuters that That is a reasonable the Circuit Paul Ricard, hosted Letelier said traffic management with two or three matches of around 70,000 when the they would not go for full capac- objective.” 14 grands prix between 1971 and had been top of the list of each season in places such as event returns to Le Castellet next ity in year one. That number would be less 1990 before being converted into priorities. China, Brazil or France. 18 SPORT SATURDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2017

Pele delighted Lewandowski Sanchez has mentality to by Neymar’s criticises PSG switch Bayern’s spending policy deliver for Arsenal: Wenger Paris AFP Berlin London razilian legend Pele AFP AFP hailed Neymar’s move Bfrom Barcelona to Paris op striker Robert rsene Wenger says Saint-Germain as an oppor- Lewandowski has said his star forward tunity for his compatriot to TBayern Munich must Alexis Sanchez has “be the big star”, in an inter- spend more on star players the mentality to view with goal.com on or risk being left trailing their deliver for Arsenal Friday. rivals. despiteA suffering the disappoint- Pele, who won the World “Bayern have to think ment of an aborted transfer to Cup three times as a player something up and be more Manchester City. and scored over 1,000 goals creative if the club wants to The London club reportedly during his career, said that it attract a world-class player agreed a fee for the Chilean for- would be good for Neymar to to Munich,” Lewandowski ward on transfer deadline day, leave the shadow of former told magazine Der Spiegel in only for the deal to collapse after Barca teammate Lionel Messi. a critical interview. Wenger was unable to complete “For Neymar, I think it “If you want to play on a move for Monaco winger Tho- (moving to PSG) was the best the front foot, you need the mas Lemar. thing,” he said. quality players.” But Wenger believes “I think it was the best Bayern set a new Bundes- Sanchez is in the right mental thing because there was liga record in June by signing state to respond positively for always the discussion, ‘Ney- France midfielder Corentin Arsenal as they prepare to take mar, Messi, Neymar, Messi’. Tolisso from Lyon for 41.5m on Bournemouth today follow- Now, he will have the oppor- euros ($49.9m). ing a 4-0 drubbing at tunity to be the big star.” However, the figure was Chelsea manager Antonio Conte during a press conference on the eve of English Premier Liverpool. Neymar spent four sea- dwarfed by the 222m euros “I have no doubt about Alex- League match against defending champions Leicester City. sons with Barcelona before Paris Saint-Germain, who is’s mind and mentality,” the joining big-spending PSG in Bayern face in their Champi- Frenchman said of the player whose side are languishing “It is important to change responded: “I wouldn’t call it like a world-record transfer ons League group, paid who scored 30 times last sea- towards the bottom of the Pre- that before the championship that. We wish him well and all worth 222m euros ($267m). Barcelona for Neymar. son. “People question and he mier League table after a poor starts,” said Wenger, speaking the best and thank him. You The 25-year-old forward In July, Bayern president needs to come back to full fit- start to the season. at his weekly press conference make decisions. You choose one started out at Santos, where Uli Hoeness described the ness, not what he was at “My view is it is very difficult at Arsenal’s London Colney or the other. “We had to sell Pele played for the majority inflated fees as “madness. Liverpool. to speak about that because training base. “Players have no somebody. Overall we are in a of his glittering career. That’s something that we will “It was his first game. He had Lemar is at Monaco and focuses clarity. Are they in or are they strong financial position as “It’s a great responsibility refuse totally at Bayern”. a negative experience with Chile there and Sanchez is here and out? always. That does not take away he has now,” Pele, 76, added. However, Lewandowski and will be back quickly to his focuses here. After that we have “Are they half in and half out? the quality of Alex Oxlade- “Because people started says they need to spend big if best.” to keep a certain confidentiality Are they tapped up in the after- Chamberlain but that opens the comparing Neymar to Messi. they are realistic about win- Sanchez looked miserable about transfer negotiations and noon of the game by people who door for younger players to get And as a Brazilian, I say that ning the Champions League during Arsenal’s 4-0 thrashing the transfer market is part of want to get them out? It’s not the an opportunity they won’t get.” there’s no doubt that Neymar for the first time since 2013. at Liverpool prior to the inter- that. Many things happen in the way to work. It’s time to kick that Wenger refused to confirm is one of the best in his posi- “To date, Bayern has national break and then suffered last second what I regret.” out before the season and not whether Jack Wilshere, who tion, because we have never paid more than around successive defeats with Chile in English Premier League have players in the dressing room spent last season on loan at Cristiano Ronaldo who is a 40 million euros for a player,” World Cup qualifying. clubs voted on Thursday to close half out and half in.” Bournemouth, will make his centre-forward as well. added the Poland striker. “I believe the transfer mar- the 2018 close-season transfer When asked if the decision long-awaited Arsenal return “But with Messi it’s a bit “In international football, ket is over and for us there was window before the start of the to sell England midfielder Alex after injury against his former different. Messi is an organ- that has long since been a fig- a lot going on,” said Wenger, 2018-19 campaign. Oxlade-Chamberlain, Wenger club. iser and he also scores goals.” ure which is only average, rather than at the top.” Lewandowski says the gap between what Bayern spend and what PSG paid for Neymar and France striker 41 cities bidding Kylian Mbappe, who they signed in a deal which could reach 180m euros, is “really for 2026 World huge”. “Paris has bought up a world-class squad, whether or not that will become a Cup games world-class team, we will have to wait and see,” said Lewandowski. Los Angeles expanded 48-team format. “Bayern Munich, as a AFP “We’re thrilled with the team, has experienced a lot submissions that we have together. orty-one cities in Canada, received, especially each city’s “Football is pure capital- Mexico and the United commitment to innovation and ism, everyone wants to make FStates have submitted bids sustainability,” the bid commit- money in this sector.” to serve as host cities for the tee’s executive director John Lewandowski says Euro- 2026 World Cup, officials said Kristick said. pean football’s governing on Thursday. Cities not hosting games body UEFA should investigate The joint North American could be chosen as other ven- the huge transfers. bid is seen as the favorite for ues needed for the tournament, “UEFA must look into the 2026, with only one other bid such as team base camps, a huge transfers this summer -- Morocco -- so far in the run- statement said. and work alongside FIFA to AS Monaco football club’s Russian Vice-President Vadim Vasilyev pose with newly recruited ning for the tournament. Bid officials have said 60 of close any holes in the regula- The list of 41 cities has been the tournament’s matches (from left) Yugoslavian forward Stevan Jovetic, French midfielder Rachid Ghezzal, Spanish tions,” added Lewandowski. finalised after three cities would be staged in the United forward Keita Balde and French forward Adama Diakhaby on Thursday in Monaco. Meanwhile, head coach invited to submit bids -- San States, with Canada and Mex- Carlo Ancelotti says rotation Diego, Green Bay and Calgary ico hosting 10 games each. will sort out any issues in his -- failed to do so. The United States will host star-studded squad as Bay- The US-Mexico-Canada all knockout games from the Old boy Hughes out to end ern start a heavy fixture list. World Cup bid will submit quarter-finals onwards. The defending champions between 20-25 venues in its Stadiums under consider- are at Hoffenheim on Satur- final bid to FIFA, with 12 loca- ation in the United States day in the first of six matches tions likely to be chosen as host include several venues used in Man United’s 100% start this month. cities for the tournament, which the 1994 World Cup, including Bayern host Anderlecht will be the first to use FIFA’s the Pasadena Rose Bowl. on Tuesday in their opening Stoke-on-Trent “The Premier League is very saved during their last league Champions League match, AFP long and every team can beat match, a 2-0 victory over then Mainz, Schalke, Wolfs- you,” Herrera said. Leicester City. burg and travel to face PSG in anchester United have “Now we have to face Stoke But he shrugged off the dis- rapid succession. made the perfect start and we’ve had four seasons appointment during the Germany star Thomas Mto the Premier League without winning there. It’s been international break, scoring four Mueller was left out of the season, but one of their most a good way to start the season, times in two matches for Bel- starting line-up for the 2-0 fondly remembered former but we cannot relax. gium as they secured win at Werder Bremen a fort- strikers is plotting their “We are ready to face them qualification for next year’s night ago while new signing downfall. and, hopefully, the weather is World Cup in Russia. James Rodriguez is also in Jose Mourinho’s side have not so bad there because, when Marcus Rashford, a scoring contention for the attacking begun the campaign with three it is bad, it is very difficult to substitute against Leicester, midfield role after injury. wins from three matches, with- play. has made a strong claim to Mueller moaned to the out conceding a goal, and start “We are ready. No excuses return to the starting line-up German media after being the weekend top of the table as -- let’s try to win there. We are after his fine winner against benched at Bremen, but they prepare to visit Stoke City Manchester United, so we are Slovakia moved England closer Ancelotti says no player has today. not scared.” to a World Cup place of their a guaranteed place. But they have not won at the United appear to be in the own. “He (Mueller) is fit, he bet365 Stadium since United old mood to secure a first away Rashford’s form puts extra could play tomorrow, but Former Colombian footballer Carlos Valderrama (right), who boy Mark Hughes became victory over Stoke since April pressure on Anthony Martial, we have a lot of good and played in three World Cup tournaments, poses for pictures Stoke’s manager in 2013 and 2013. who was overlooked by France important players and I with former Indian cricket captain Sourabh Ganguly during midfielder Ander Herrera knows Romelu Lukaku experienced coach Didier Deschamps for the can’t go through the sea- an event ahead of the FIFA U-17 World Cup tournament in his side are in for a difficult the first setback of his United fourth international get- son with 11 players,” said India, in Kolkata yesterday. afternoon. career when he saw a penalty together in succession. Ancelotti. SATURDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2017 SPORT 19 Froome Al Sadd and Duhail eye holds firm; De Gendt season’s first silverware wins sprint Gijon, Spain AFP Armstrong Vas looking forward to yet. We didn’t play The Peninsula the match against Al any official match in ky’s Chris Froome inched Sadd which he said four months. The last closer to his dream of l Sadd and Al Duhail is an ideal prepara- match we played was Sadding the Vuelta a will be looking to tion for the long and in the Emir Cup final Espana to his Tour de France kick off the new tough road ahead. against Al Rayyan,” title, by maintaining his 1min season in style by “It’s always a Ferreira added. 37sec lead over key rival Vin- picking up the first challenge to take “It would not be cenzo Nibali in the 19th stage silverwareA in the one-match on Al Sadd but easy for the team yesterday. season-opener Sheikh Jassim there is no better because we are going Four-time and reigning Cup at Sheikh Abdullah bin Kha- way to prepare for to face one of the Tour de France winner lifa Stadium her today. the long season best teams in Qatar,” Froome is now hot favourite Al Duhail, which won the ahead. We have he added. to become only the third rider Qatar Stars League title last sea- prepared well and Meanwhile to clinch the French-Spanish son as Lekhwiya, will be looking are looking for- Duhail’s Abdulrah- double in the same year. to get off to the best starts for ward for a good man Abker said he is Belgium’s Thomas de the long and challenging season result. We aim for keen to made an Gendt won a bunch sprint ahead. success in every ‘ideal’ start to the ahead of Jarlinson Pantano Coach Djamel Belmadi’s season. My mission season. and Ivan Garcia at the finish side will face fierce competition is to work with the “We aim to win line in the Atlantic coastal from Al Sadd team, which won players on achiev- our first title of the town of Gijon, to join a small two local titles last year - Qatar ing the best season and make an circle of riders to have Cup and Emir’s Cup, when the results.” ideal start to the year clinched stage wins in all two sides kick off at 7.00pm “It’s going to a ahead. It will also three Grand Tours. today. difficult season as motivate us to do The day’s racing, how- Al Duhail coach Djamel Belmadi (left) and Al Sadd coach Jesualdo Ferreira addressing Belmadi, who managed to most of the teams well in the (QNB ever, was lit up by a heroic retain the hot seat as coach of will be hoping to do the gathering during a pre-match press conference held at the Al Duhail Sports Club Stars League) escape bid from fading local Duhail in the unification of well,” added on Thursday. league.” superstar Alberto Lekhwiya and El Jaish teams, Belmadi. Abker praised Contador. said his team is keen to begin Belmadi’s opposite an impact on our performance,” players who were busy with the backroom staff for keeping Contador launched his the campaign on a winning note. number, Al Sadd coach Jesu- said Ferreira. World Cup qualifying duty for the players fit during the off attack on the last climb and “It’s an important match for aldo Ferreira said his side will The Wolves will be without Qatar and Iran and informed season. opened up a lead of over a us and we’ll want to win the title miss a number of players going experienced centre-back Ibra- they joined the team only on “Thank God, the coaching minute, before being reeled and begin the season on a pos- into the match as they are on him Majid and Pedro Miguel in Wednesday. staff have worked hard with the in with 2km to race. itive note,” said the Algerian the injured list. the season’s first competition. “There are injuries and some players and helped them to Froome, Nibali and Wilco during a press conference. “We’re missing some impor- The Portuguese said, besides of the players have just joined. reach their highest level of Kelderman, third overall at Belmadi said his team is tant players, for sure it will have injuries, his team missed We haven’t settled on a line-up physical fitness.” 2min 17sec.

US OPEN WOMEN’S FINAL Keys, Stephens book all-American title showdown WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW New York AFP All-American final First-time Grand Slam finalists Stephens and Keys are the first mericans Sloane Stephens and Americans to meet in a US Madison Keys, both struggling Open final since Serena Awith serious injuries just three Williams defeated older sister months ago, advanced to their first Venus Williams in the 2002 Grand Slam final at the US Open on final. But it has only been since Thursday. January’s Australian Open that Stephens, who missed 11 months two Americans have met in a with a left foot injury before return- Slam final, with a pregnant ing in July, outlasted seven-time Serena carrying the day again Slam champion Venus Williams 6-1, over Venus Williams. 0-6, 7-5. “I’m super happy to be in a Grand Slam final,” Stephens said. “To do it First-time Slam winners here, my home slam, is obviously No matter which American more special. I think this is what captures the title on Saturday, every player dreams about.” it will be the fifth time in the US 15th seed Keys, who had left past nine Grand Slam events that a first-time Slam champion wrist surgery for the second time in is crowned. The run of new 10 months after a first-round French major winners began on the Open exit, routed US 20th seed CoCo New York hardcourts and Vandeweghe 6-1, 6-2 in 66 minutes includes Italy’s Flavia Pennetta to complete the first all-American at the 2015 US Open, US Open final since Serena Williams Germany’s Angelique Kerber at beat sister Venus in 2002. the 2016 Australian Open, “It still doesn’t feel real. I’m still Spain’s Garbine Muguruza at shaking,” Keys said. the 2016 French Open and “I played pretty well. There’s a lot of things in my head right now Latvia’s Jelena Ostapenko at Sloane Stephens of USA competes against Venus Williams of USA in their Women’s Singles semi-final of the 2017 US this year’s French Open. The so I’m struggling to come up with Open at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York, United States on Thursday. Stephens outlasted seven-time Slam champion last American to become a words. first-time Slam winner was “I knew I had to rise to the occa- Williams 6-1, 0-6, 7-5 to march into the final. INSET: Madison Keys of the US reacts after winning a point against CoCo Jennifer Capriati at the 2001 sion. I’m just happy to be in the Vandeweghe during their 2017 US Open Women’s Singles semi-final match on Thursday. Keys won 6-1, 6-2. Australian Open. final.” The friends and Fed Cup team- court again. I’m excited we get to “It was definitely well com- US OPEN WOMEN’S FINAL mates will meet today at Arthur Ashe play each other in the US Open peted,” Williams said. “In the end she How low can you go and win? At 83rd in the world rankings, Stadium in the biggest match of final.” won more points than I did and that’s The friends and Fed Cup Sloane Stephens would be the either’s career for a top prize of Stephens needed a thrilling what it added up to. team-mates will meet today at $3.7m. break at love in the penultimate “Just made so many errors at the fourth-lowest-ranked Grand Arthur Ashe Stadium in the “I’ve known her for a long time. game and closing hold of serve to end there... I wasn’t playing well. Just Slam champion since computer biggest match of either’s career rankings began in 1975. Evonne She’s one of my closest friends on deny two-time champion Williams wasn’t playing well.” Goolagong was unranked when tour,” Stephens said. “I love her to her first US Open final in 15 years. Williams will return to the top for a top prize of $3.7m. she won the 1977 Australian death. And it’s not easy playing a “I just worked my tail off and five in Monday’s world rankings for Open after giving birth to her friend.” tried to run every ball down and here the first time since 2011, the year she Sloane Stephens, who missed 11 first daughter seven months Stephens, who was wearing a we are,” Stephens said. “It required was diagnosed with strength-sap- months with a left foot injury earlier. Kim Clijsters was walking boot in June and ranked a lot of fight and a lot of grit.” ping Sjogren’s Syndrome. before returning in July, outlasted unranked after coming out of 957th in July, has won 14 of her past Now 83rd, Stephens is the low- Stephens, 24, is 4-0 in WTA seven-time Slam champion Venus retirement when she won the 16 matches, with semi-final runs at est-ranked Slam finalist since finals, having won titles in 2015 at Williams 6-1, 0-6, 7-5 in 2009 US Open. Toronto and Cincinnati. unranked Justine Henin at the 2010 Washington and last year in Auck- semi-final. And Chris O’Neil was ranked “I have no words to describe Australian Open and the lowest at land, Acapulco and Charleston. 111th when she won the 1978 what I’m feeling, what it took to get the US Open since unranked Kim Cli- The only cautionary note for US 15th seed Madison Keys, who Australian Open. Stephens here, the journey I’ve been on,” jsters won the 2009 title. Keys, 22, was a medical timeout to had left wrist surgery for the would also become just the Stephens said. Stephens, who beat Williams in have her right leg taped three games second time in 10 months after a fifth unseeded player to win a “It’s incredible. I don’t know how the first round of the 2015 French from the end. Grand Slam title in the Open I got here. Your guess is as good as Open in their only prior meeting, will “I definitely started to feel it,” she first-round French Open exit, Era (since 1967) after O’Neil, mine. Just hard work. That’s it.” jump into the world top 25 next week said. routed US 20th seed CoCo Clijsters, Serena Williams at the Stephens beat Keys in the sec- with the victory. “I felt if I went too far it might be Vandeweghe 6-1, 6-2 in 66 2007 Australian Open and ond round at Miami in 2015 in their US ninth seed Williams could not something more.” minutes to complete the first all- Jelena Ostapenko in June at only career meeting. overcome 51 unforced errors that It was the first all-American US American US Open final since the French Open. “Sloane is a new person right doomed her bid to become the old- Open women’s semi-finals since 1981 Serena Williams beat sister Venus now,” Keys said. est women’s singles finalist in US and the first at any Slam since Wim- in 2002. “She’s so excited to be out on the Open history at age 37. bledon in 1985. 20 MORNING BREAK SATURDAY 9 SEPTEMBER 2017

PRAYER TIMINGS Wild tigers to reappear in Kazakhstan after 70 years

FAJR 04.00 am SHOROOK 05.17 am Astana its southeastern Ili-Balkhash region in Astana. Kazakh Agriculture Minister with mass irrigation and agricultural AFP the mid-20th century. Askar Myrzakhmetov said work on a development that cut into the partly ZUHR 11.31 am MAGHRIB 05.47 pm The fund is providing $10 million specially protected natural area for the wooded habitat it inhabited along with ASR 03.00 pm ISHA 07.17 pm (8.3 million euros) for the project that tigers would start at the beginning of its prey, mainly boar and deer. ild tigers could be returning will see Kazakhstan become the first next year. Bounty hunting was also rife in the to Kazakhstan after a country to reintroduce a population of “In fact, we are talking about early Soviet period. WEATHER TODAY Wgroundbreaking reintroduc- large cats back into a territory follow- restoring a whole ecosystem, where The Caspian tiger is generally tion plan was signed off yesterday. ing an extinction. this species is set to be reintroduced,” thought to have become extinct glo- o o Seven decades since poaching and WWF’s Russian representative Igor Myrzakhmetov said at the press bally in the mid to late 20th century. habitat destruction wiped out indige- Chestin hailed the signing as a “event conference. Numbers of wild tigers as a whole 31 C 43 C nous stocks of the giant cats, it is hoped of global significance” but warned According to a scientific article on have dwindled precipitously over the Minimum Maximum they will once again roam free -- but reintroducing tigers into the country the introduction, co-authored by the last century, plunging from 100,000 experts said it will take years. will take “years”. WWF’s Chestin, Caspian tigers inhab- to fewer than 4,000 across a dozen The Central Asian country’s agree- “It will be years before tigers ited a range taking in 13 modern-day countries today. In 2016 tigers were ment with the World Wildlife Fund appear on this territory because the countries with Turkey and China at its declared “functionally extinct” by the requires it to gradually integrate Amur territory needs to be specially pre- extremes just prior to the turn of the WWF in Cambodia, with the last big tigers, closely related to the extinct pared,” Chestin said at a press century. The Soviet Union sped up the cat seen on a camera trap there in Caspian tiger, that disappeared from conference in the Kazakh capital animal’s extinction 2007. Scientists invent pen that Lady Gaga taking a ‘rest’ from music detects cancer in 10 seconds Toronto Houston AP QNA ady Gaga says that she’s planning to take a cientists have developed a pen-like device that “rest” from music and “slow down for a accurately identifies cancerous tissue during sur- Lmoment for some healing.” Sgery in 10 seconds that improve treatments and The pop star was at in Toronto yesterday for reduce the chances of cancer recurrence. a pair of concerts and to premiere a Netflix doc- The MasSpec Pen, developed by researchers from umentary about herself, “Gaga: Five Foot Two.” University of Texas, Austin in the US, is a handheld The film, playing at the Toronto International Film instrument that gives surgeons precise diagnostic Festival, chronicles her life, February’s Super Bowl information about what tissue to cut or preserve dur- performance and her struggle with chronic pain. Poor visibility expected at places by ing surgery. Gaga teared up speaking to reporters about early morning. Hazy to misty / foggy The current methods for diagnosing cancers and her health issues. “It’s hard,” she said, “but it’s lib- at places at first becomes hot day- determining the boundary between cancer and nor- erating too.” The singer said that she’ll still be time with some clouds and humid mal tissue during surgery, is slow and sometimes creating during a break from music. “It doesn’t by night. inaccurate. mean I don’t have some things up my sleeve,” said Each sample takes 30 minutes or more to prepare Gaga. Gaga recently shot a remake of “A Star is HIGH TIDE 06:00 – 18:30 LOW TIDE 00:30 – 11:45 and interpret by a pathologist, which increases the Born,” co-starring Bradley Cooper. Courtesy: Qatar Meteorology Department risk of infection in patients. However, in tests on tissues removed from 253 human cancer patients, the MasSpec Pen took about 10 seconds to provide a diagnosis and was more than 96 percent accurate. Kechiche’s new drama New Japanese The technology was also able to detect cancer in marginal regions between normal and cancer tissues Venice that presented mixed cellular composition. Reuters robot dog sniffs Living cells, whether they are healthy or cancer- ous, produce small molecules called metabolites. These eteran director Abdellatif Kechiche premiered molecules are involved in all the important processes his coming of age drama “Mektoub, My Love: out smelly feet of life - such as generating energy, growing and repro- VCanto Uno”, which is in competition for the top ducing - as well as other useful functions such as award at the Venice Film Festival. Tokyo removing toxins, researchers said. Taking audiences back to 1994, the film follows a AFP Each type of cancer produces a unique set of group of youths spending the summer together in a metabolites and other bio markers that act as small fishing village in the south of France drinking, o your feet smell bad? Just a little fingerprints. dancing and going to the beach. When asked about or absolutely awful? If you don’t “Since the metabolites in cancer and normal cells the way the women in the film are portrayed, Kechiche Ddare to ask a friend, one Japanese are so different, we extract and analyse them with the denied taking a “macho approach”. “I describe strong start-up might have the answer with a new MasSpec Pen to obtain a molecular fingerprint of the women - free women ... among the scenes I have shot, robot dog that will sniff your feet and give tissue,” said Livia Schiavinato Eberlin, Assistant Pro- you will see that most of the scenes focused on the you a pitilessly honest verdict -- even fessor at University of Texas, Austin. faces,” Kechiche said. fainting if the stink is especially strong. Malodorous feet can be socially awk- ward in Japan where shoes are removed at the entrance to every home. Hana-chan -- a play on the Japanese Photo exhibition word for “nose” and a common girl’s nick- name -- is a helpful little robot mutt who will bark if she detects moderately whiffy toes, but will keel over if the pong is par- ticularly pungent. The 15-centimetre (6-inch) dog, equipped with an odour detection sensor for a nose, also sprays air freshener to resolve the situation if the aroma is unbearable. Manufacturers Next Technology created the robot in response to a request from a man who was desper- ate to know if he had a problem. “He told us his daughter had said his feet were smelly... But he didn’t want to know how bad the odour was because he would feel hurt,” employee Kimika Tsuji said. “That’s why we developed this cute robot.” Tsuji said smells are becoming more of an issue in Japan, a place where subjecting others to your honking body can even be considered harassment. In July, Konica Minolta, a Japanese Italian photographer Marco Longari answers visitors’ questions during his exhibition entitled tech company, began pre-sales of a “Crowds and solitude in Africa” as part of the International Festival of Photojournalism “Visa pour pocket-sized device that allows people to l’image” in Perpignan, yesterday. self-test three categories of smell on a scale from 0 to 100. By 2070, a third of animal parasites may be extinct: Study

New York which help control wildlife numbers journal Science Advances, the most been consistent long enough for these IANS and keep energy flowing through food catastrophic model predicted that complex associations to develop,” chains, could dramatically disrupt eco- more than a third of parasite species noted Anna J. Phillips, zoologist at the ne in three animal parasites, one systems. On the other hand, having worldwide could be lost by 2070, while Smithsonian Institution National of the most threatened groups parasites indicates that the ecosystem the most optimistic models predicted Museum of Natural History in Wash- Oof life on Earth, may face has been stable. “Parasites are defi- a loss of about 10 per cent. ington D.C. extinction by 2070, as a result of glo- nitely going to face major extinction “[Slowing climate change] has a For the study, 17 researchers from bal climate change, a study has risk in the next 50 years,” said lead really profound impact on extinction eight countries tracked geospatial warned. author Colin Carlson, graduate student rates, but even in the best-case sce- information of 457 parasite species The study determined that para- at the University of California nario, we’re still looking at fairly major including worms, fleas, lice and oth- sites are even more threatened than - Berkeley. global changes,” Carlson said. ers. Using climate forecasts, the the animal hosts they rely on and thus “They are certainly as threatened “Having parasites means the eco- researchers compared these will be should be included in conversations as any other animal group,” Carlson system has a diversity of animals in it impacted by changes in climate under about conservation. Loss of parasite, added. In the study, published in the and that conditions have various scenarios.