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Emir’s gesture helps High demand for several Qataris to perform Haj maids but fees MAKKAH: A number of Qatari pilgrims are performing Haj this year with the costs covered by the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin remain unchanged Hamad Al Thani. Emir’s generous gesture allows a number of citi- zens to carry out the Haj within the country’s allocated number of application, he added. “The demand pilgrims, reports QNA. “We bring 40 for domestic helpers surges during The pilgrims expressed their Ramadan and after the summer gratitude and appreciation to housemaids a month vacation. Usually the recruitment the Emir who helped them per- on an average but last charges also go up with the growing form the fifth pillar of Islam. They month we recruited 60 demand, like what happened during highlighted the generous gesture last Ramadan, but this year charges of the Emir and said this gesture domestic helpers”, said will not go up,” said the agent. will count in Emir’s good deeds. a local manpower agent. “To check price manipula- The Qatari Pilgrims’ Affairs tion and overcharging, the Labour Office in Makkah said all the Department asked the manpower beneficiaries are Qatari citizens, agencies to display the recruit- adding that the gesture covers all By Sanaullah Ataullah ment charges at the entrance of its Haj expenses and is granted annu- The Peninsula offices,” said another agent. ally to a number of Qatari citizens “As soon as the inspectors enter within the Haj quota allocated to Pilgrims circling around the Holy Kaaba at the Grand Mosque in Makkah, yesterday. the office, the first thing they check Qatar. is whether the price board is availa- DOHA: As families return after a ble or not. My office was downgraded long summer vacation, the demand because we did not display the for housemaids has surged but the charges of our services during last fee for recruitment of domestic inspection. The inspectors also check Sea of pilgrims head to Mina today helps is not going up thanks to the contracts and monthly recruitment strict monitoring by the authorities. reports from the agencies to the Licences of 15 manpower agen- Labour Department,” another agent Agencies Arafah tomorrow early morning for don’t come here with fear in our authorities, access to the Kaaba is cies were revoked this year by the disclosed. According to an agent the climax of the Haj. Over a mil- hearts,” said Naouri Abdelkarim, suspended during prayers, and the Ministry of Administrative Devel- Labour inspectors conduct routine lion foreign pilgrims have arrived in 50, of Casablanca, Morocco. walk around it is stopped to avoid opment, Labour and Social Affairs inspections at the manpower agen- Saudi Arabia to partake in the Haj, Death can come at any time, pil- overcrowding. Security has also been for violating rules governing them. cies. They also raid the offices upon MAKKAH: Close to two million pil- which is incumbent on every Muslim grims say, and for Lawan Nasir, 45, that reinforced around Islam’s holiest site, “We bring 40 housemaids a receiving complaints. The complaints grims converged on the western once in their life if they are able to do meant there was no reason to avoid the where officers in red berets and cam- month on an average but last month could be about delay in the recruit- Saudi Arabian city of Makkah will so. The Haj is one of the five pillars of Haj even though he lost a cousin in last ouflage uniforms man green plastic we recruited 60 domestic help- ment process or not returning money begin to start heading to the holy site Islam, which capable Muslims must year’s stampede. “The pains have not barricades to control the crowd. Dur- ers”, a local manpower agent told to the employers within the probation of Mina in the next few hours as Haj perform at least once, marking the dulled a bit,” but it would be “silly” to ing the weekly Friday prayers, the The Peninsula. “We bring only Fil- period of three months. begins today . spiritual peak of their lives. stay away, the Nigerian said. white-clad throng made the area ipino maids at QR10,500 per head Pilgrims are expected to spend Rich and poor alike come dressed In one of several safety meas- around the Kaaba resemble a snow- within two months from the date of → Continued on page 3 all day in Mina before heading to in the same white garments. “We ures implemented by the Saudi dusted field from above.

Global anger over Solar-powered chargers Ooredoo: New iPhones’ Qatar safest N Korea nuclear test pre-order from Sept 16 country from UNITED NATIONS: World powers expressed outrage yesterday after disaster risks North Korea claimed it had suc- The Peninsula The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7s will cessfully tested a nuclear warhead be compatible with Ooredoo’s latest DOHA: Qatar ranked the first that could be mounted on a mis- Supernet enhance- safest place to live from natu- sile, prompting urgent UN talks ment- Category ral disaster risks according to and calls for new sanctions. DOHA: Ooredoo yes- 9 LTE-Advanced a study issued recently by the South Korea, the United terday announced it Standard, which United Nations University Insti- States, Japan, Russia and China all will offer iPhone 7 enables customers tute for Environment and Human condemned the blast at the Pung- and iPhone 7 Plus, to access down- Security after assessing the disas- gye-ri nuclear site, the North’s the best and most load speeds of up ter risks in 171 countries. fifth and most powerful yet at 10 advanced iPhones to 325Mbps. The top four places after kilotonnes. At the United Nations, ever, from Sep- Ooredoo has Qatar are Malta, Saudi Arabia, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon tember 24. The a range of data Barbados, and Grenada, while the urged the Security Council to take recently launched plans available five most dangerous places are “appropriate action” after what he models feature an for all budgets, Vanuatu, Tonga, the Philippines, called a “brazen breach” of the all-new advanced ranging from QR3 Guatemala and Bangladesh. council’s resolutions. camera system, dust daily for 150MB on The report which published by and water resist- Hala, to QR500 TakePart website said that the ant design, stereo for unlimited safest places are exposure less to Teenager shot dead speaker system and Shahry monthly flood risk, drought, storms and the A10 Fusion chip data. earthquakes. by Israeli troops which is the most The iPhone 7 While the islands of powerful chip on any and iPhone 7 Plus Vanuatu and Tonga face a mul- GAZA CITY: Israeli troops shot smartphone while are powered by titude of natural hazards, from and killed a Gazan teenager dur- delivering the best iOS 10, the biggest earthquakes to volcanic erup- ing clashes yesterday near the battery life ever in an release ever of tions, wealthier countries were border fence, the health ministry iPhone. the world’s most able to lessen their risk rank- and witnesses in the Palestinian Customers can advanced mobile ing thanks to higher standards enclave said. Joggers charging their cellphones with solar-powered chargers pre-order iPhone 7 and operating system. for building codes, larger food Ministry spokesman Ashraf Al which were installed recently on the Corniche. iPhone 7 Plus beginning September iPhone 6s, iPhone 6s Plus, iPhone supplies, and increased access Qodra identified the teenager as Pic: Baher Amin / The Peninsula 16 and both will be available in retail 6 and iPhone 6 Plus will also be to information technology. 16-year-old Abdel Rahman al-Dab- shops and online at ooredoo.qa. available. bagh, and said he was killed east of Bureij refugee camp in central Gaza. Qodra said the teenager was hit in the head and taken to hospi- tal where he was pronounced dead. Qatar’s oldest library with rare collections awaits visitors Meanwhile, a group of Euro- pean lawmakers yesterday urged football’s world governing body FIFA to ban Israeli clubs based in settle- By Irfan Bukhari time reading books. It remains open Library located at Old Al Ghanim. homonymous Qatar National Library the QNL has an excellent collection ments in the occupied West Bank. The Peninsula on weekdays in two shifts, morning Established in 1962, it is being run being run by the Qatar Foundation. of rare Islamic literature,” said the In a letter to FIFA president Gianni and evening, but greets one or two by the Ministry of Culture and Sports. The Peninsula found all the chairs official. Infantino, 66 MEPs identified five visitors in long twelve hours. Thanks “The times have changed … people empty but nicely cleaned. “Yes you The library provides the facility clubs based in the settlements and to living in the digital age, the online gain knowledge from the Internet will find the same position all the of photo-copying to all visitors and its insisted they either move inside Isra- DOHA: There was pin-drop silence treasure of knowledge and informa- and have no time visiting libraries,” time. Only one two persons visit membership is also open for Qataris el’s internationally-accepted borders, in the hall and it was not due to dis- tion has changed people’s attitudes lamented an employee of the library. the library daily. Most of the peo- and expatriates. or be excluded from the Israeli Foot- cipline rather it was due to the fact a lot. Remember, this library is a sep- ple particularly students visit here ball Association. that people were too busy to spend It is the story of Qatar National arate body and has no link with the when they need some reference as → Continued on page 3 02 SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2016 HOME

Emir congratulates Tajikistan President Kahramaa adds more services online DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday sent a cable of congratulations to through the website of the corporation km.qa Tajikistan’s President Emomali Electricity and water and its mobile app. The move aims to provide Rahmon on his country’s Inde- the best services to customers and achieve the pendence Day. connection, disconnection strategic plan of ‘smart shift’ in its all services. Deputy Emir H H Sheikh and inspection available The number of online requests for inspec- Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani tion reached 5,460 till the end of August 2016. also sent a congratulatory cable for all buildings, properties The service allows customers to request to President Rahmon. and facilities and can for the inspection electronically according to Prime Minister and Interior be accessed through an adopted procedure after the construction. Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin If all documents are completed, the con- Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani also Kahramaa’s website and tractor and customers will receive an SMS of sent a similar cable to President mobile app. the appointment for inspection within three Rahmon. days. They will also be informed about inspec- tion results immediately. Emir sends message The Peninsula Kahramaa has a number of qualified Qatari inspectors who are trained with high to Colombia President levels of quality and safety. Kahramaa has also strictly advised all DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim DOHA: Customers can now apply online for inspectors not to violate procedures and never bin Hamad Al Thani has sent a electricity and water connection, discon- compromise on safety and security rules to written message to Colombia’s nection and inspections, the Qatar General help customers. President Juan Manuel Santos on Electricity and Water Corporation (Kahramaa) Within continuous improvement, Kah- relations between the two coun- has said. ramaa provides its e-services for customers tries and ways of enhancing them. The service is available for all buildings, round-the-clock in order to minimise proce- Kahramaa officials conducting inspection at a new building to provide electricity and Qatar’s Ambassador to properties and facilities and can be accessed dures, save time and efforts. water connections. Colombia Batal Mojab Al Dosari presented the message to San- tos during a meeting in Bogota yesterday. Arab League praises Qatar for hosting Yemen aid forum Kuwaiti Haj Greetings cable Mission briefed QNA Council to shoulder its responsibilities in pre- by supporting terrorism, providing training, on Qatar’s to North Korea serving peace and security and take measures to smuggling arms and explosives into the country, implement Resolutions No. 2254 of 2015 and No. instigating sectarian conflicts and making state- preparations 2268 of 2016 on ending hostilities and achieving ments that undermine the kingdom’s security and DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim DOHA: The Arab League Council expressed grat- a ceasefire across the country. stability. bin Hamad Al Thani yesterday itude to Qatar for hosting a humanitarian relief On Libya, the Arab League Council stressed The Arab League Council also reiterated the DOHA: A medical delegation sent a cable of congratulations conference for Yemen in February. its rejection of any military intervention in the UAE’s absolute sovereignty over the three islands of Kuwait’s Hajj ission visited to Marshal Kim Jong Un, Chair- The Arab ministers discussed the situation in country in view of its severe consequences on the of Abu Musa, Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb and Qatar’s Haj Mission in Makkah man of Workers’ Party of Korea, Yemen and stressed support for the constitutional country and the region. It said any military action stressed its support for any peaceful measures by to learn about the latter’s medi- Chairman of State Affairs Com- legitimacy of President Abdrabhu Mansur Hadi. aimed at fighting terrorism should be carried out the country to reclaim its sovereignty over them. cal unit’s experience in providing mission of the Democratic People’s In a statement after its 146th session on Thurs- by the national reconciliation government in line Referring to Israel’s nuclear abilities, the coun- healthcare to Qatar’s pilgrims and Republic of Korea and Supreme day at the level of foreign ministers, the council with the UN Charter. cil asked the Arab group in Vienna to continue preparations for them. Commander of Korean People’s reaffirmed that any negotiations should be based The council condemned the hostile and inflam- to monitor and evaluate developments on the Dr. Mubarak Al Ajami, Head Army, on his country’s Independ- on the Gulf initiative, its executive mechanism and matory statements by Iranian supreme leader Ali international arena to prepare an Arab consen- of Kuwaiti mission’s medical ence Day. United Nations Security Council Resolution No. Khamenei, in which he attacked Saudi Arabia and sual statement during the general assembly of the unit, said the visit also aimed at Deputy Emir H H Sheikh 2216. its leadership. It said the Saudi government is the International Atomic Energy Agency. exchanging expertise between Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani On Syria, the council expressed deep concern only authority in charge of organising Haj-related It urged all Arab delegations to make national Gulf Haj missions. He said the also sent a congratulatory cable over the escalation of military actions across the matters, serving the pilgrims and ensuring their speeches during discussion on Israel’s nuclear abil- meeting discussed establishing a to Marshal Kim. country, which could lead to the failure of the comfort and security so that they can perform their ities and highlight the risks of these abilities to Gulf medical entity under Gulf Hajj Prime Minister and Interior arrangements aimed at ending hostilities that rituals with ease and tranquility without any out- international security and safety. It expressed soli- missions and the proposal will be Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin were agreed at the meetings of the International side interference. darity with Arab and world countries suffering due presented to Gulf Haj missions or Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani sent a Syria Support Group. The statement also deplored Iran’s con- to terrorist groups, and offered condolences to the at the meeting of the GCC health similar cable to Marshal Kim. The ministers called on the UN Security stant interference in Bahrain’s internal affairs families of victims who died in terrorist operations. ministers, reports QNA. HOME / MIDDLE EAST SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2016 03

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to monitor DOHA: Uganda’s President Yoweri Museveni yesterday met H E Dr. Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al Kawari, Cultural Adviser at the Emiri Diwan and Qatar’s candidate for the Unesco Director-General’s Eid traffic post, at the presidential palace in Entebbe, Kampala, yesterday. Dr Al Kawari presented to the President with a detailed explana- Maamoura. tion about his election platform On the first day of Eid, the and his plan for the promotion of About 25 vehicles traffic police will work to ensure Unesco. to organise traffic in smooth flow of vehicles during Eid Museveni thanked Qatar for prayers. its keenness to communicate with Doha during Eid Al After prayers, they will moni- its friends, and provide detailed Adha holidays. tor traffic near the abattoirs where information about its Unesco the faithful go to slaughter animals bid with details of its different as part of Eid rituals. aspects. The police will also increase Uganda is a member of patrols near entertainment venues Unesco’s executive board and Dr. By Sidi Mohamed like parks, beaches and commer- Al Kawari’s visit comes as part Children following a kite at the Sheraton Park Doha yesterday. Falling temperature is making evenings The Peninsula cial complexes. of an African tour that included The Traffic Department will cooler and people are seen outdoors nowadays. Pic: Kammutty VP / The Peninsula many capitals, where he met sen- be assisted in these efforts by the ior officials. Lekhwiya and Al Fazaa. DOHA: The Traffic Department According to police, speeding will increase its patrols across and use of mobile phones while Doha during Eid Al Adha holidays driving are the two most com- to avoid traffic jams, especially in mon traffic violations during Eid Kahramaa announces tanker timings for Eid the main roads and places which Al Adha holidays. witness huge crowds like markets. Major Odaiba said the reasons Major Jaber Mohamed Rashid for these violations are that peo- Odaiba, Assistant Director of Media ple want to visit their relatives and The Peninsula to respond to any emergency during working from 6am. Sailiyah and stations will be closed. & Traffic Awareness Department, friends as much as possible dur- the holidays. Umm Salal filling stations will be During the rest of the holidays, said that “around 20 to 25 traf- ing the holidays and they are busy Customers have been advised to open from 6am to 12 midnight. The Sailiyah and Umm Salal filling sta- fic vehicles will work to organize talking and sending Eid greetings call on 991 in case of an emergency remaining filling stations will be tions will work round-the-clock. Al traffic in Doha during Eid Al Adha and messages while driving. DOHA: Qatar General Electricity and as the customer service centres closed by 10pm. The filling station Wakra filling station will work from holidays”. He has urged motorists to Water Corporation (Kahramaa) has will be closed during the holidays. at Al Ghuwairiya will be closed. 6am to 10pm and other filling sta- The traffic police will focus cooperate with the traffic patrol announced the timings for its Tanker Customers out of Qatar can call Kah- On the first day of Eid Al Adha, tions at Al Khor, Al Shahaniya, Al on commercial streets, markets teams and obey traffic rules and Filling Stations (TFS) during Eid Al ramaa on 0097-44494000. filling stations at Sailiyah, Umm Salal Shamal, Al Jumeiliya, Mesaeid and and places which witness crowds also reduce speed in residential Adha holidays. On the day before Eid Al Adha, and Al Shihaniya will work from 2pm Al Ghuwairiya will work from 6am like the animal market near Al areas for their and others’ safety. All technical teams are on alert all tanker filling stations will start to 10pm, and the remaining filling to 2pm.

Minister visits Qatar Haj QNL has 2,000 members RAF distributes sacrificial pilgrims’ camps Continued from page 1 meat coupons to 600 families Despite its easy and DOHA: Minister of Endowments open-to-all membership The Peninsula and Islamic Affairs H E Dr. Ghaith procedures, the QNL has only bin Mubarak Al Kuwari, who is around 2,000 members. “We also Head of Qatar’s Haj Mission, have also cancelled member- yesterday visited the camps of ship of numerous people who DOHA: Sheikh Thani Bin Abdullah Foundation for Humanitarian Serv- Qatar’s pilgrims in Mina, Arafat have not visited the library ices (RAF) has distributed coupons for sacrificial animals to 600 needy and Muzdalifah. since 2007,” said the official families in Qatar. The most deserving beneficiaries, including widows He was briefed on prepara- of the library. and orphans, will get half-slaughtered sacrificial animals each on the tions at the camps in Mina and One simply needs filling third and fourth days of Eid Al Adha. Arafat, the readiness to receive an application-form duly The coupons were distributed according to a list prepared by the Qatar’s pilgrims and services and certified from the institution social services unit of RAF after conducting a survey of needy families amenities to enable them to per- they are studying or working. registered with it. Priorities were given to widows, orphans and low- form rituals. The newspaper and mag- income people. Separate centres were set up at two branches of RAF He was accompanied by the azine section of the library, in Duhail for men and women to distribute coupons. Men can receive mission’s Executive Chairman Dr. situated at the ground floor sacrificial animals after producing the coupons on the third and fourth Abdul Salam Al Qahtani and offi- of the building, also pre- days of Eid while women benefit on the fourth day. cials from the ministry and Qatar’s sented a deserted look. No Haj delegation. visitor was there except few lower-cadre employees of the facility reading fresh The Qatar National Library. Greedy ‘agents papers and enjoying a good- chat. The empty chairs in libraries multiple-volume-sets are not issued “The library is a garden of books”, Lavrov blames US as could exploit do not necessarily mean that reading to anyone. It is our precious asset “The library is far all, provides habit has died rather it has changed which we cannot bear losing. One knowledge in a nice shape” etc. But its form. People pick up stories from can get particular pages photocop- no one is there to even read these demand for maids’ their Face book page feed and read ied,” the official said. golden phrases. Syria talks drag on the online versions of newspapers The library’s English section Ahmed Bik, an Egyptian expat, Continued from page 1 and magazines. The e-books are also also has a good collection of books was the one and only reader present there on the web to satisfy readers’ on medicine, fiction, history, earth in the main hall buried in a book GENEVA: Russia’s Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov urged reporters waiting Another agent said: “My office hunger for knowledge. But fondness sciences, biography, international Tareekh e Sina (History of Sinai). He for the end of talks on the Syrian crisis to be patient yesterday and said US is hiring housemaids from the for books and hard-copies is vanish- relations etc. When asked whether was looking for a reference to win officials were checking back with Washington. Philippines, Indonesia and Bang- ing very fast under thick clouds of expatriates and other people know- an ongoing argument with a friend. Separately, senior US official confirmed Secretary of State John Kerry ladesh at QR11,900, QR15,200 and digitalization of knowledge. ing English language used to visit the “Yes I have found the point at last,” was in talks with his government on the results of efforts to strike a deal QR8,200 respectively. Demand is The Arabic section of the library English section of the library, the he exclaimed. Bik also got a video with Russia to agree a ceasefire Syria. Moscow’s envoy appeared briefly in a growing but the charges are the has thousands of books and has official said: “They appear few and clip recorded with the book prov- Geneva hotel ballroom room set aside for a news conference to mark the end same. We recruited 36 house- the honour of maintaining record far between.” ing his point in Arabic in victorious of talks with Kerry but did not mount the podium that had been prepared. maids, mostly Indonesians, last of rare Islamic books on tafseer, In this age of Internet and pres- tune to his would-be audience. “I Instead, in a brief chat with reporters, he said in English: “I believe it is month. hadith and history. Overall, the ence of dozens of social media tools, will share it not only on Face book important for them to check with Washington. That’s why I apologise for “Some greedy agents might library has around 500,000 books. the walls of the library are decorated but will also publish it on the You the delay. We cannot help it. “It’s going to be announced very soon I think. exploit the surge in demand to “All rare books and the books from with quotable quotes on books like Tube,” he said. I hope before Washington goes to sleep, we can get some news. My appeal make money but authorised man- to you is to be patient. Same as me,” he added. power agencies will have to think The United Nations envoy to the Syrian conflict also briefly entered the several times before flouting the room to appeal for patience, but there was no sign of Kerry, who had ear- labour rules”. lier met with both Lavrov and De Mistura. “It is a matter of fact that the 133 teachers attend training Both Kerry and Lavrov had been expected to fly home later Friday, supply and demand situation sets but all three officials said they still hoped to hold a news conference to the prices of services and goods. announce the results of the negotiation. But here the matter is different. There is a very strict monitoring. The Peninsula Actually, the prices for the recruit- Turkey to hire 20,000 police officers ment of housemaids depend on the commissions of agents in the ANKARA: Turkey will recruit 20,000 new police officers in the coming exporting countries”. DOHA: The Training and Educational Development period and will deploy half of them to special forces units, Turkish Inte- “We pay $3,000 and $2,300 Center (TEDC) of the Ministry of Education and Higher rior Minister Suleyman Soylu told state-run broadcaster TRT yesterday. to our agents in Indonesia and Education has concluded a training programme. Authorities had announced they would strengthen the police force fol- Philippines respectively as com- A total of 133 new teachers of Independent schools lowing a failed coup bid on July 15 in which rogue soldiers commandeered mission for providing housemaids. took part. fighter jets and tanks in an attempt to overthrow the government. Commissions help speed up the The training program is part of Al-Tamkeen Training He said administrators would be appointed to 28 municipalities. Secu- recruitment and we get house- Program (Education Empowerment Training Program) rity officials and the state-run Anadolu agency said the government was maids in no time. In some cases, organized by TEDC is being held for the second con- engage in the teaching-learning process in independent appointing administrators to replace member pro-Kurdish HDP opposi- we have brought them within a secutive year. schools and introduce them the standards of the national tion party because of alleged support for Kurdish militants. week of getting requests from Trainees included new graduates from non-edu- curriculum, its teaching methodology and related edu- Meanwhile, police detained dozens of people and used water cannon families. cational disciplines, former teachers, eleven school cational concepts and values. to disperse several hundred teachers demonstrating against their sus- “Usually, we take a maximum directors and 20 new vice directors. Along with this trainees also learnt different types pension from classrooms in the largely Kurdish city of Diyarbakir, union of three weeks from the date of The training program was implemented by 16 of assessment, class managements and interaction with sources said and TV footage showed. Brawls erupted and police pushed application to bring a domestic trainers. the students and involvement of parents in the teaching back crowds after authorities suspended over 11,000 teachers over alleged help,” said another agent. The aim of the program is to prepare trainees to and learning process. links with the Kurdish militants. 04 SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2016 ASIA / AFRICA

Zimbabwe public Gabon’s Ping challenges poll results workers reject govt job cuts plan hoping to overturn a result whose Total and Royal Dutch Shell , have Opposition parties in Africa fre- Ping says the Haut-Ogooue num- validity has been questioned at home mostly benefited the elite. quently dispute elections citing fraud bers were inflated to give Bongo Opposition leader and abroad. France, which still has a military and, while it is unusual for foreign gov- victory, and the European Union has HARARE: Zimbabwe’s main public lodged a complaint Former foreign minister Jean base the country, reiterated calls for ernments to press for further scrutiny also reported anomalies. service union rejected government Ping lost the August 27 election a recount, a foreign ministry spokes- after an election has been declared, Sarah Crozier, EU election mon- plans to cut 25,000 jobs and sus- against poll results to President Ali Bongo by fewer man saying a “transparent, impartial results are rarely overturned. itor spokesman, said on Thursday pend annual bonuses, saying that in the constitutional than 6,000 votes, an outcome that examination of the results” was Ping has also said he says he has the official turnout for Haut-Ogooue would hurt workers already strug- sparked days of riots in which at least needed to resolve the political crisis. little faith in the court, his only legal indicated just 47 abstentions out of gling to make ends meet. court, in a bid to six people were killed. Bongo has said only the court can avenue for redress and which he says more than 71,000 registered voters. The Apex Council demanded overturn the results. Ping’s spokesman said in a state- consider that request, while Foreign is tied to the government. Election uncertainty may com- talks with the government over ment he would seek a recount in the Minister Emmanuel Issoze Ngondet Criticism of the poll has focused plicate Gabon’s adjustment to lower the plan that Finance Minister province of Haut-Ogooue, a strong- said an African Union (AU) media- on Haut-Ogooue, where results oil prices and that could have impli- Patrick Chinamasa has said is hold of the Bongo family, who have tion mission, due to arrive in the now showed 95.46% of voters backed cations for the country’s credit essential to ensure the country Reuters ruled the central African oil-produc- becalmed Libreville yesterday, had Bongo on a turnout of 99.9%, more profile, Fitch Ratings agency said on can keep paying its staff. ing nation of 1.8 million for nearly been postponed until further notice. than double the participation rate of Thursday. “We believe these measures half a century. The mission’s head, Chad’s Pres- other regions. Bongo has accused the opposi- are ill-conceived and can only The poll and its aftermath have ident Idriss Deby - who took power The president, who has in turn tion of cheating in its turn and said further entrench the doom and LIBREVILLE: Gabon’s opposition shone a rare and unwelcome inter- in 1990 and is one of Africa’s long- accused the opposition of cheating, on Wednesday he would ask the gloom that has become the lot of leader lodged a constitutional court national spotlight on Gabon, a former est serving rulers - was “tired” after was re-elected after coming to power constitutional court to investigate the average civil servant,” said challenge yesterday against a pres- French colony where petrodollars, attending a summit in China, the in 2009 on the death of his father, irregularities in Ping’s stronghold Cecelia Alexander, head of the idential election he narrowly lost, invested by foreign firms including minister said. Omar Bongo, who ruled for 42 years. and elsewhere. Apex Council.

Nigeria postpones Ivory Coast re-opens western borders Security tops agenda for polls in Edo state Reuters “We had to take these meas- ures to protect our country. And Reuters the fact we didn’t have a single Prayut-Najib meeting case must be considered a real ABIDJAN: Ivory Coast has re- success,” Bruno Kone said, refer- opened its western borders with ring to the border closure measure. AFP ABUJA: Nigeria’s Independent Liberia and Guinea two years Ivory Coast, French-speaking National Electoral Commission after they were closed to prevent West Africa’s largest economy, shut (INEC) has postponed elections the spread of an Ebola epidemic its borders in August 2014. in the southern state of Edo to that killed thousands across West It came under criticism at the BANGKOK: Fighting terrorism and September 28 from September Africa, an Ivorian government time from some health organi- cracking down on smuggling across 10 because of security threats, a spokesman said yesterday. sations that argued the closure their restive border topped talks government official said. Around 29,000 people con- risked aggravating the epidemic between Malaysian Prime Minister Soyebi Solomon, the national tracted the haemorrhagic fever and would worsen hardship in Najib Razak and Thailand’s junta commissioner in charge of voters, during the more than two-year countries already struggling with chief, the leaders said yesterday. education and publicity, said after long outbreak, the worst on record. the economic fallout from Ebola. Thailand’s three Muslim- a meeting with police and security Over 11,000 died before it Several other regional nations, majority southernmost provinces agents that a delay “is necessary in finally ended in June, nearly all of including Mali and Senegal, also bordering Malaysia are plagued by view of threats of terrorists activi- them in Guinea, Liberia and Sierra shut their borders temporarily as a bloody insurgency waged by eth- ties in Edo State and other states of Leone. a precaution. nic Malay militants seeking greater the federation during the election.” autonomy from the Thai state. The porous 650-km border is also a hotbed of crime, criss-crossed by human traffickers, drug mules and weapon smugglers. Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak (centre left) shakes hands with Myanmar ‘releases’ 55 child soldiers “We will continue to work closely Thai Prime Minister Prayuth Chan-O-Cha (centre right) accompanied together to combat the threat of glo- by their wives Rosmah Mansor (left) and Naraporn Chan-O-Cha at bal terrorism, human trafficking and Government House in Bangkok, yesterday. AFP to work as porters and even human Unicef Myanmar. “We will have some- transnational crime, including vio- mine detectors. one follow up with them to decide lent extremism,” Najib said in a press It has released a total of 800 what they want to do, if they want to conference alongside his Thai coun- crackdown last year that saw smug- provinces, analysts believe the rebels former child soldiers since it signed a go back to school or if they want to get terpart, Prayut Chan-O-Cha. glers abandon hundreds of people on were also behind a string of bomb- YANGON: Myanmar’s military dis- pact with the United Nations in 2012. some other type of training.” “These are very very important boats and in squalid jungle camps. ings that struck Thai tourist towns in charged 55 child soldiers from its “We welcome this discharge... At least seven of the ethnic rebel matters for us to work on closely Ethnic Malay rebels fighting the early August. Najib reaffirmed Malay- ranks yesterday, the UN said while while stressing the need for the gov- militias who have been fighting the together because some of the perpe- Thai state are also thought to routinely sia’s commitment to hosting nascent warning that new underage recruits ernment to continue making every military in the country’s borderlands trators, they move between our two slip across the border to seek refuge. peace negotiations between the Thai continue to enter the armed forces. effort to end the recruitment and use for decades also use underage fight- countries,” he said, adding that the The festering insurgency has killed government and a group that claims There are no verifiable figures of children in its armed forces,” said ers, according to the UN. governments are still discussing a pro- thousands of people, mostly civilians, to represent the insurgents. on how many children still serve Renata Dessallien, the UN’s Resident “Until now we don’t have an posal to erect a new “fence or wall” since the most recent wave of rebel- However, the talks have yet to in Myanmar’s huge military, which and Humanitarian Coordinator in action plan with ethnic groups, but along the shared border. lion erupted in 2004. bear any fruit and the recent uptick ruled over the country for 50 years Myanmar. we are working with a few of them,” The border has for years been a The Malaysian premier’s visit in violence suggests the rebel negoti- before allowing November polls that The former child soldiers dis- said Unicef’s Palavra. well-trodden route for people smug- comes amid a flare-up of violence in ators have little sway over fighters on swept democracy heroine Aung San charged yesterday, who were all Suu Kyi has devoted her first glers bringing migrants and trafficking the area, with three deadly bombings the ground. The two leaders also dis- Suu Kyi to power. under the age of 18 when recruited, few months in power to laying the victims into Malaysia. in the past month. cussed expanding trade between the The army is accused of a long come from around the country and groundwork for peace talks between But the trade has slowed since While the violence has historically two countries and bolstering trans- history of rights abuses, including were picked up by their families in the patchwork of ethnic minority the Thai junta launched a belated been contained to the southernmost portation links. the forced recruitment of children Yangon, said Mariana Palavra from insurgents and the military.

Congolese warlord on hunger strike for maltreatment

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AMSTERDAM: A former Congo- lese rebel commander on trial at the International Criminal Court (ICC) for alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity has gone on hunger strike to protest at the conditions of his detention, his lawyer said yesterday. Bosco Ntaganda faces charges for atrocities committed by his troops in the Democratic Repub- lic of Congo in 2002-2003. People line up to visit the mausoleum of China’s late Chairman Mao Zedong on the 40th anniversary “Mr Bosco Ntaganda has decided to stop eating,” defence of his death in Beijing, yesterday. attorney Stephane Bourgon said, and he will also refuse to attend court hearings. Ntaganda is unhappy with China marks Mao anniversary restrictions imposed on his phone calls and visitation rights in 2014 due to concerns that he was Reuters and his embalmed body attracts party paper in Mao’s home prov- attempting to interfere with wit- hundreds, if not thousands, of ince, carried a small article on its nesses. The measures were upheld visitors a day to Beijing. front page proclaiming “Chair- by the court last month. While the ruling Communist man Mao, the people cherish your “Ntaganda has lost all faith in BEIJING: Chinese state media Party has acknowledged Mao memory”, but banished to its fifth the court because of the way he is yesterday marked the 40th anni- made mistakes, there has yet to page a longer article about him. treated. The situation now is that versary of the death of the founder be an official accounting for the The party’s official People’s my client would prefer to die than of modern China, Mao Zedong, chaos of the Cultural Revolution Daily carried several pictures to be were he is,” Bourgon said. with articles praising him, but when Mao declared class war, or of him on its Weibo microblog Ntaganda has asked the judges President Xi Jinping visited a school the millions of deaths from star- along with a collection of some if he can explain his viewpoint and did not mention the day. vation during the 1958-61 Great of his most well-known quotes when the case resumes on Tues- Mao, who died in 1976, Leap Forward, a failed attempt at and asked people to name their day. It was unclear if he will be remains a divisive figure. rapid industrialisation. favourite. However it disabled the allowed to do so. His image adorns banknotes The Hunan Daily, the main comments section. ASIA / PHILIPPINES SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2016 05 North Korea conducts ‘largest’ nuclear test

Pyongyang claimed Ban urges ‘appropriate that it had mastered the ability to mount a action’ over nuke test warhead on a ballistic AFP “I count on the Security Council missile. to remain united and take appro- priate action. We must urgently break this accelerating spiral of UNITED NATIONS: UN Secretary- escalation,” he said. AFP General Ban Ki-moon yesterday Ban spoke ahead of an emer- urged the Security Council to take gency meeting of the council “appropriate action” in response requested by the United States and to North Korea’s fifth nuclear test. Japan to discuss Pyongyang’s fifth SEOUL: North Korea claimed yes- Ban condemned the under- and most powerful nuclear test to terday it had successfully tested ground nuclear test “in the date. a nuclear warhead that could be strongest possible terms,” brand- North Korea’s state media said mounted on a missile, drawing con- ing it “yet another brazen breach the test had realised the country’s demnation from the South over the of the resolutions of the Security goal of being able to fit a miniatur- “maniacal recklessness” of young Council.” ized warhead on a rocket. ruler Kim Jong-Un. People watch a television news report on North Korea’s latest nuclear test at a railway station in Seoul, yesterday. The blast at the Punggye-ri message to our nuclear scien- nuclear site was the North’s fifth tists... for conducting the successful earn more sanctions and isolation... “The 10-kilotonne blast was watch the official announcement of Park & Abe pledge and most powerful yet at 10 kilo- nuclear warhead explosion test,” and such provocation will further nearly twice the (power of the) fourth the test -- which came on the 68th tons experts said. said Ri Chun-Hee, a veteran who accelerate its path to self-destruc- nuclear test and slightly less than anniversary of the country’s found- ‘close cooperation’ “If we put that into perspective, it has delivered all the North’s biggest tion,” Park said. the Hiroshima bombing, which was ing -- were approving. is smaller than Hiroshima or Naga- announcements. US Secretary of State John Kerry measured about 15 kilotonnes,” said “The US may be saying this and SEOUL: South Korean President saki, but would still be capable of The news drew swift condem- and his Russian counterpart Sergei Kim Nam-Wook from the South’s that, but we fear nothing as our mili- Park Geun-hye and Japanese ripping the heart out of a city,” said nation from US President Barack Lavrov, meeting in Geneva, said they meteorological agency. tary power has strengthened further,” leader Shinzo Abe agreed to Karl Dewey, an analyst at IHS Janes. Obama who warned of “serious con- would refer the matter to the United But attention soon shifted from said one woman, who did not give cooperate closely yesterday Pyongyang’s state media said sequences” and said he had called the Nations. the power of the blast to Pyongyang’s her name. after the North Korea claimed it the test, which comes after a series leaders of South Korea and Japan to Yesterday’s test came as Ameri- claim that it was a miniaturised Ordinary North Koreans usually had successfully tested a nuclear of ballistic missile launches, had real- confer over the crisis. can and South Korean forces staged a warhead. express only officially-sanctioned warhead that could be mounted ised the country’s goal of being able The South’s President Park Geun- re-enactment of the Incheon landing, If Pyongyang can make a nuclear views when questioned by foreign on a missile. to fit a miniaturised warhead on a Hye spoke out against the “maniacal 66 years after the start of Operation device small enough to fit on a rocket news organisations. The two leaders spoke on rocket. recklessness” of Kim, who since Chromite, the battle that turned the -- and bolster the range and accuracy Pyongyang routinely insists the phone about Pyongyang’s “Our nuclear scientists staged taking control after the death of tide in the Korean War. of its missiles -- it might achieve its Washington is on the verge of launch- test which they agreed was a nuclear explosion test on a newly his father in 2011 has carried out a First indications of an under- oft-stated aim of hitting US targets. ing all-out war against it. “unacceptable”, South Korea’s developed nuclear warhead at the series of purges and weapons tests ground explosion came when seismic But its past claims to have achieved Outside experts said authenti- Yonhap news agency reported. country’s northern nuclear test site,” designed to show strength and con- monitors detected a 5.3-magnitude this have been discounted. cating North Korea’s claim to have a North Korean TV presenter said. solidate power. “artificial earthquake” near the However, North Koreans who mastered miniaturisation would be “Our... party sent a congratulatory “Kim Jong-Un’s regime will only Punggye-ri nuclear site. gathered around public screens to difficult using seismic data alone. Indonesia and Philippines vow to tackle sea kidnappings

AFP President Rodrigo Duterte in Jakarta yesterday, President Joko Widodo Strong 6.3 quake hailed the neighbours’ “cooper- ation in guaranteeing security in strikes Australian JAKARTA: Indonesia and the Phil- the Sulu Sea. ippines yesterday pledged to ensure “We hope that there will be no Antarctic base security on the high seas after a more security issues in the Sulu Sea surge of kidnappings by Islamist in the future, and we will conduct SYDNEY: A strong 6.3 militants in the strife-torn south- joint patrols to ensure security.” magnitude earthquake ern Philippines. Duterte, on his first foreign struck yesterday south- At least 25 Indonesian sailors bilateral trip since winning power west of remote Macquarie and a handful of Malaysians have in May elections, said the two sides Island where Australia been abducted this year travelling had committed to take “all nec- maintains a small Ant- in the Sulu Sea between Indonesia, essary steps” to ensure maritime arctic base, officials said, Malaysia and the Philippines. security. but no injuries or damage Philippine Islamist extremist “There is a lot of piracy there... were reported. outfit Abu Sayyaf Group, notorious it has prevented the two countries The tremor hit at a for carrying out kidnappings-for- from comfortably exchanging com- depth of 10km some ransom, has been blamed for the merce and trade.” 29km from the island, abductions. Abu Sayyaf is a loose network which lies in the Pacific Those abducted are typically of a few hundred Islamist mili- Ocean about half-way taken to Abu Sayyaf strongholds tants, formed in the 1990s with seed between Australia and in the southern Philippines. Most money from Osama bin Laden’s Al Antarctica, the US Geo- have been released, with author- Qaeda network. logical Survey said. ities refusing to confirm whether Duterte also said that they “We have been in ransoms were paid or not, although would work together to tackle the touch with the base and a handful of Indonesians are still “menace” of illegal drugs, at a time they did feel it, but only Indonesian President Joko Widodo (left) reviews a guard of honour with visiting Philippine President Rodrigo being held. both countries claim to be fighting slightly. They’re all fine Duterte at the Presidential Palace in Jakarta, yesterday. After talks with Philippine a war against rising narcotics use. and there is no damage,” an Australian Antarctic Division spokeswoman said. Duterte’s insults and drug Cambodian oppn leader convicted Police name war ‘worry’ US investors suspects in Haj AFP According to the watchdog, two opposition MPS are currently in passport scam AFP The “increased number of prison, at least 10 more are facing killings during the heightened charges, and more than 20 politi- TUBAN: Police have anti-drug campaign is harming PHNOM PENH: A leading Cam- cal activists and rights workers have named seven people sus- the country’s image... some inves- bodian opposition politician was faced legal action over the past year. pected of fraudulently MANILA: American investors in the tors are now asking whether this convicted yesterday in a trial The opposition party’s top supplying 177 Indone- Philippines yesterday warned that campaign reduces the rule of law,” slammed by rights groups as long- leader and Hun Sen’s chief rival, sians wishing to go on Haj President Rodrigo Duterte’s brutal it said in a statement. ruling Prime Minister Hun Sen’s Sam Rainsy, has spent nearly one with permits allocated to drugs war and foul-mouthed tirades The US is the Philippines’ larg- latest effort to hobble rivals ahead year in self-imposed exile to avoid the Philippines. could hit foreign investment. est trading partner after China, of 2018 elections. arrest warrants he claims are The Indonesians were Obama cancelled a meeting and a key source of foreign direct Acting opposition leader Kem politically-motivated. arrested on August 19 at with Duterte after the firebrand investment. Sokha (pictured) was sentenced to “Prime Minister Hun Sen is using Manila airport with gen- leader unleashed a barrage of crit- The traditionally strong ties five months in prison for refusing to every trick in the book to neutralise uine Philippine passports icism of the US president, saying he between the US and the Philippines appear in court. He condemned the one-day trial, the opposition,” HRW’s Asia Director believed to have been would not be lectured about human have been “strained by language “The (court) decided to convict which he boycotted, and accused the Brad Adams said yesterday. acquired through “fraud- rights over his crackdown on nar- from Philippine leaders” which is Kem Sokha, age 63, to five months government of trying to “end my The wily premier has loomed ulent means” in exchange cotics, which has seen police and also creating “investor concern,” the in jail,” said judge Keo Mony. political career”. over Cambodian politics for three for $6,000-10,000 each. shadowy assassins kill nearly 3,000 statement said. The politician has spent the past “Using the court to violate my decades, steering the impoverished Of the 177, only 168 people. The high-profile spat “could few months holed up in the head- political and election rights is not nation out of the ashes of civil war. returned to Indonesia The crackdown has seen harm the long-standing optimism quarters of his Cambodia National only making the upcoming elec- But opposition groups have on September 3, among Duterte’s domestic popularity soar of American business to invest in Rescue Party (CNRP) to avoid arrest, tion illegitimate, but it also threatens gained ground amid growing disil- them an elderly couple but has prompted widespread inter- thePhilippines,” the chamber of amid threats from Hun Sen that he Cambodia’s democracy,” he said. lusionment with endemic corruption, who had sold a hectare national condemnation from the UN commerce added. could be jailed at any time. Human Rights Watch has lam- rights abuses and political repression. of farmland to pay for the and human rights watchdogs, and Duterte was elected to office in But he made a rare appearance basted the case as the latest move in The opposition CNRP accuses Muslim pilgrimage. The the American Chamber of Com- a landslide this year after pledging yesterday morning to speak to hun- “an increasingly violent Cambodian Hun Sen of denying it a majority charges carry a penalty of merce in the Philippines said it was to kill 100,000 people in an unprec- dreds of supporters gathered outside government campaign to prevent by rigging the 2013 election in his 12 years in prison. also damaging investor sentiment. edented war on crime. the party’s office. free and fair elections in 2018”. favour, a charge the premier denies. 06 SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2016 PAKISTAN Afghan forces encircled by Taliban in provincial capital

the country’s top opium-produc- running short of ammunition.” ing areas, has exposed how thinly Overnight clashes left at least American military stretched Afghan security forces seven dead on the government side command confirmed have become as they try to contain and 30 among the Taliban, said Abdul Islamist insurgents in other areas of Karim, head of the Uruzgan provin- that its warplanes the country. cial council. had conducted at Taliban insurgents on Thursday He accused the Taliban of using least three air strikes, battled their way to within a few civilians as human shields, com- hundred metres of key government plicating efforts to drive out the with aircraft of the buildings in Tarin Kot, a city of about insurgents. “It will take more atten- Afghan air force also 70,000 and capital of the south- tion and effort to clear all areas,” he central province, while many local added. providing support. leaders fled to a nearby airport. The Taliban on Thursday In the capital, Kabul, the Amer- rejected government officials’ ican military command confirmed claims of high casualties among that its warplanes had conducted at the attackers, saying in a state- Reuters least three air strikes, with aircraft ment they had overrun more than a of the Afghan air force also provid- dozen checkpoints and seized many ing support. weapons and other equipment from Bolstered by reinforcements and retreating troops. Afghan residents walk in the Tarin Kot district of Uruzgan province. The Taliban stormed into Tarin Kot on KANDAHAR: US warplanes air support, Afghan troops pushed the Photos posted online by the Tali- unleashed three strikes in Afghani- Taliban out of the city by nightfall, but ban purport to show fighters looting Thursday, triggering heavy fighting around government buildings as panicked residents scrambled to flee stan’s province of Uruzgan yesterday, the situation remains serious, said and burning what appears to be a the capital of southern Uruzgan province, the latest city to be targeted by insurgents. where Afghan security forces Dost Mohammed Nayab, a spokes- government military base. remained surrounded by Taliban man for the Uruzgan governor. About 16,000 Nato and allied air strikes in support of Afghan a half of international military efforts Afghanistan long dominated by the fighters a day after having fought “The Taliban are still in sur- troops remain in Afghanistan, mostly operations. to defeat the Taliban and other mil- Taliban and warlords who vie for back a concerted push by the mili- rounding areas of the city,” he said. in advisory and counterterrorism At least 69 coalition troops died in itant groups after 2001. access to its lucrative smuggling tants. The Taliban attack, in one of “Our forces are exhausted and are roles, but also regularly launching Uruzgan during nearly a decade and The province is in a part of routes and illicit drug production. Imran’s march to be postponed Pakistan extends stay for Afghan refugees Internews

AP & Agencies came amid reports that Pakistani the Cabinet. put added pressure on resources, ISLAMABAD: Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf’s plan to march to Raiwind the authorities have been forcing Afghans Kabul had initially wanted which are already stretched by some palatial housing complex of the ruling Sharif family near Lahore is run- to go back home even before the expi- Islamabad to extend their refugees’ 221,000 internally displaced people ning out of steam even before it gets off the block following a lukewarm ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Prime Min- ration of the previous, December 31 stay until the end of December next in Afghanistan. response from other opposition parties. ister Nawaz Sharif yesterday extended deadline. year. Pakistan had been a safe haven The problems apparently stem from Imran Khan’s solo decision to the stay for Afghan refugees in his The statement quoted Sharif as Yesterday’s decision comes just for hundreds of thousands of Afghan announce the date for the decisive march against the government with- country, pushing back a previously saying “Afghans are our brothers ahead of the major Muslim holiday refugees since the 1980s, when out consulting the combined opposition, which otherwise endorses his announced deadline by three months, and very dear to us. Adequate and of Eid Al Adha, or “Feast of Sacrifice,” Afghanistan was invaded by the Soviet demand for an independent inquiry into the Panama leaks. a government statement said. concrete steps will be ensured for during which Muslims slaughter Union. There are about 1.5 million Earlier this week, Imran announced that he would lead thousands of The decision, which came at a facilitation of Afghan refugees liv- sheep, cattle and other livestock, registered Afghan refugees living in supporters to Raiwind on September 24 to force the ruling party into ini- Cabinet meeting in the capital, Islam- ing in Pakistan.” and give part of the meat to the poor. Pakistan, and an estimated one mil- tiating investigations into the massive tax evasion scandal. abad, will enable registered Afghan Sharif also asked Pakistani offi- Afghan refugees living in Pakistan lion illegal immigrants. Though the PTI has yet to formally invite the opposition parties, Imran refugees to stay here until the end of cials to meet with representatives celebrate the holiday at camps or with Islamabad has recently begun dropped a hint on Friday that the date and venue of the protest rally could March. of Afghan refugees to address their relatives who live across the country. enforcing long-ignored rules limiting be changed after consultation with likeminded parties. Pakistan is currently hosting concerns. “Afghan refugees living in The number of registered Afghan the freedoms of refugees, including The party’s senior leadership will meet today (Friday) not only to discuss at least 1.5 million refugees. An Pakistan ... are our guests and their refugees leaving Pakistan has surged prohibitions on living outside of des- the proposed date but also to think over changing the venue as Raiwind additional 1 million unregistered return plans would be decided in a in the past three months from 1,250 in ignated camps, running a business, has not received much appreciation from the opposition. Afghans have been staying in many way that does not create any negative June, to 67,057 in August, according to or owning real estate, the Economist The Pakistan Muslim League-Quaid (PML-Q) was the first to reject the parts of Pakistan since 1980s, when impression in the minds of people liv- UN figures. The number is expected to reported. The bank accounts of refu- idea of staging a rally in Raiwind. Others, except the Dr Tahirul Qadri-led they escaped the violence at home. ing on both sides of the border,” the rise further after the Eid festival ends gees, as well as their mobile Simcards, Pakistan Awami Tehreek (PAT), are not too sure about joining the march. The government’s announcement Pakistani leader was quoted as telling in mid-September. The returnees are being shut down.

Camel dance PPP wins Karachi’s Malir seat in by-election after 12 years

Internews There were 134 polling stations reservations, alleging that his party in total. According to presiding had not been given the results of 14 officers, the turnout remained 21 polling stations. He claimed that per cent. There were 207,467 reg- the MQM-Pakistan’s candidate was KARACHI: The Pakistan Peoples istered votes. maintaining a lead of 9,500 votes Party (PPP) yesterday regained its The election result was sig- over his rival candidate in 82 poll- old constituency by winning the nificant because of two counts: ing stations. Sindh Assembly PS-127 (Malir) after a it shows MQM founder Altaf Hus- “Going by the election result, this long period of 12 years, in a by-elec- sain’s floundering popularity after translates into the MQM-Pakistan tion marred by violence, allegations his seditious statements last month, candidate bagging 1,500 votes from of unfairness and voter apathy. and the fact that PTI Chairman 52 polling stations while the PPP got The PPP defeated the Muttahida Imran Khan, Pak Sarzameen Par- 16,000 votes.” Qaumi Movement and the Pakistan ty’s Mustafa Kamal and almost all “The election has been rigged,” Tehreek-e-Insaf. The seat fell vacant leaders of the MQM-Pakistan cam- MQM-Pakistan leader Khawaja after Ashfaq Mangi defected to the paigned aggressively. Izharul Hasan, who is the opposition Pak Sarzameen Party led by former Soon after the announcement of leader in the Sindh Assembly, said. Karachi mayor Mustafa Kamal. the result, PPP leadership and work- Meanwhile, the by-election in According to unofficial results, ers erupted into jubilation. From PS-127 (Malir) was marred by vio- PPP candidate Murtaza Baloch Bilawal Bhutto Zardari to Chief lence and clashes between the secured 22,187 votes. His close rival Minister Syed Murad Ali Shah, they Muttahida Qaumi Movement- A camel held in ropes by its traders performs a dance to attract customers at a makeshift cattle market, MQM’s Waseem Ahmed managed exchanged victory messages. Pakistan and Muhajir Qaumi ahead of the Eid Al Adha festival in Karachi, Pakistan, yesterday. 15,553 votes while PTI’s Nadeem However, MQM-Pakistan Movement-Haqiqi (MQM-H) Memon secured only 5,580. leader Dr Farooq Sattar expressed yesterday. Unregistered Afghan varsity students face problems in Pakistan

Internews at the examination department to matter to Afghan consulate. passports to issue degree to us.” “We do not admit any Afghans hosts the largest number of refugees attach photocopy of the POR card “I have also approached the con- He urged the authorities to take on foreign seats [who have] no - approximately 1.5 million Afghans or of the passport if he wanted the sulate of Afghanistan in Peshawar to action as the future of hundreds of passports,” Hizbullah said. “If any and 7,000 asylum seekers, also form to be accepted. He requested sort out the issue,” he added. Afghan students is at stake. Afghan national has completed mostly Afghans. ISLAMABAD: Afghan students who the examination department that The consulate agreed to issue When contacted, University degree from any other affiliated The National Action Plan (NAP), graduated from affiliated institu- he would either submit his father or them letters to provide them the of Peshawar Admissions Director college having no POR card or pass- launched after the Army Public tions of University of Peshawar have uncle’s POR card. However, his form degrees. However, he said the uni- Dr Hizbullah said there were two port, they might have applied on School massacre to combat mil- been denied degrees by the varsity was rejected. versity administration said such seats reserved for Afghan nation- fake Pakistani CNIC.” itancy, included repatriation of administration owing to the failure to ‘We have not been issued POR nor letters will not be accepted and no als which Afghan Commissionerate He added, “UoP will issue degrees Afghan refugees. produce Proof of Registration (POR) have the passport do we,” said Khan, degree will be issued to Afghan stu- recommended to the university for to those who have valid POR card or The government is also con- cards and passports. another student. He added that he dents without attaching either a copy admission of students with PoR cards passport attached with the degree ducting crackdowns against those Abdul Wali, who graduated along had studied in the university’s affil- of their POR card or passport with the issued by the Pakistan government. application form.” residing in parts of the province with his three other friends two years iated college and has completed the degree form. Furthermore, he said the remain- He said submitting a degree form without registration papers. Afghans ago from Islamia Degree College degree. He said at the time of admission ing Afghan nationals applied to the without POR card or a copy of a stu- who don’t possess legal documents Peshawar, said the officials refused However, the university is not the college asked students to submit university on foreign seats and the dent’s passport meant he has been have been asked to leave the coun- to accept his degree form without a providing him the degree. He is not POR cards but he did not attached it university offers them admission if granted illegal admission at any affil- try by December. So far, according photocopy of his POR card or Afghan the only one to face the brunt of this with the form and was still granted they adhere to the admission criteria iated college. to UNCHR, over 65,000 Afghan ref- passport. problem. According to Khan, hun- admission. “I was not aware the uni- and have a valid passport with visa According to United Nations High ugees have permanently repatriated Wali said he was told by officials dreds of students have reported the versity will demand POR cards or stamped on it. Commission for Refugees, Pakistan in August. INDIA SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2016 07 Karnataka shuts down; PM urged to resolve Cauvery row

absence of public/private transport similar circumstances, the Supreme across the city. Court on December 28, 1995 requested Hundreds protest “We will work on the next week- then prime minister P. V. Narasimha across state over end to make up for the loss,” an Infosys Rao to resolve the issue of implemen- spokesperson said. A Wipro spokes- tation, which was “then duly done to releasing water to person said the company was closed the satisfaction of all parties,” Siddar- Tamil Nadu on the but would work today, which is nor- amaiah said the “unrest”, if continued, Supreme Court’s mally an off-day. would have a serious impact on the Though the protest did not affect state’s economy and the IT economy, order. trains and flights, hundreds of passen- which brought enormous revenue and gers who alighted at the international foreign exchange to the country. airport here and railway stations were The state-run Bengaluru Metro stranded in the absence of buses and Rail Corp, which suspended service, IANS cabs. resumed operations after 6.15pm. “We were caught unawares by the Earlier, the state government shutdown and are at the railway sta- declared a holiday for schools and tion since morning,” said a passenger colleges to avoid inconvenience to BENGALURU: Karnataka shut down who came from Pune with his family. students and teachers in the absence yesterday protesting release of Cau- Drawing Modi’s attention to the of transport services. Similarly, fac- very river water to Tamil Nadu, unrest in the Cauvery basin on releas- tories, offices, banks, markets, shops, crippling normal life and disrupting ing 15,000 cusecs daily to Tamil Nadu malls, hotels, eateries, clubs, theatres work in hundreds of IT firms and back for 10 days from Wednesday in com- and petrol bunks were closed. offices in India’s tech hub Bengaluru pliance with the Supreme Court’s Hundreds of people staged dem- while Chief Minister Siddaramaiah September 5 order, Siddaramaiah said onstrations and took out rallies in asked Prime Minister Narendra Modi any more release would deprive Ben- Activists burn tyres as they blockade traffic on a major connecting road during a statewide strike in Bengaluru Bengaluru, Mandya, Mysuru and other to call an immediate meeting to galuru of drinking water and affect yesterday. cities and towns across the state. In resolve the inter-state row. crops. Mandya district, police carried out Global software firms and many “The unrest, if continued, will also state,” he said in a letter to Modi and “I request you not only as Prime ministers of the states at a few hours’ baton charges and fired teargas shells start-ups declared a holiday in sup- impact the livelihood of the common urged him to urgently convene a meet- Minister, but also as head of the federal notice to resolve the impasse,” he said. to disperse protesters and clashing rival port of the shutdown and due to the man adversely in large parts of the ing of the chief ministers. system to call a meeting of the chief Citing a precedent, when under groups. Govt likely Clashes in Kashmir; army to be deployed to roll back IANS sent to the valley and the army was deployment of troops was for anti- was re-imposed yesterday as author- rail ‘flexi fare’ being deployed in south Kashmir, terror activities as the “army does ities feared more violence. But people Saradha scam the hub of the ongoing unrest on not act in internal matters unless at various places in Srinagar, south the streets. asked by the local authority”. Army and north Kashmir regions defied accused IANS SRINAGAR: Dozens of civilians However, the army, which is nei- chief General Dalbir Singh yester- restrictions to march on the streets, were injured in clashes with secu- ther trained in nor equipped with day reviewed the security situation shouting anti-government and pro- granted bail rity forces in continuing protests in non-lethal weapons, will not get into in the valley, especially in the south, freedom slogans. They threw stones NEW DELHI: The government is the Kashmir Valley yesterday as the mob control and react only in “self- and visited forward areas along the at security forces which retaliated likely to roll back the “flexi fare” army was set to be deployed in the defence” if attacked by protesters. Line of Control in Kupwara district. with pellet guns, leaving dozens of KOLKATA: Former West pricing of railway tickets on three restive southern districts. The sources said the army would Agitation, security restrictions, protesters injured. Bengal transport and premium trains after coming Home Minister Rajnath Singh launch a major offensive against and separatist-called shutdown have Police also foiled a scheduled sports minister and Tri- under widespread attack includ- said in Panaji that the situation in the militants believed to have crossed disrupted normal life in the valley for press conference of hardline sepa- namool Congress leader ing within the BJP, sources said. valley was “under better control than over from Pakistan and are fanning 62 days. Shops, businesses, schools ratist Syed Ali Shah Geelani at his Madan Mitra was yes- The sources said Railway earlier” and “will be under complete trouble in the aftermath of the July and private and government offices Hyderpora residence. He later issued terday granted bail by Minister Suresh Prabhu took the control” in coming days. 8 killing of Hizbul Mujahideen com- have remained closed since July 9, a a statement, thanking Pakistan a court, over 21 months decision despite his junior col- The comments came as govern- mander Burhan Wani. day after Wani’s killing. and China for support to Kash- after his arrest in the league Manoj Sinha’s contention ment sources in Srinagar said more Also in Panaji, Defence Minister The curfew, largely removed miris “in their fight for the right to multi-crore-rupee Saradha that this will hit hard the middle paramilitary troopers were being Manohar Parrikar said the increased since the beginning of this week, self-determination”. chit fund scam. Mitra was class and affect the BJP in assem- in jail since December 12, bly elections due next year in five 2014, except for a brief states. period in October, 2015, After Prabhu overruled him, when he was granted Sinha took up the matter with the Defence display ‘`1,000’ mosquito net bail by a lower court. The Prime Minister’s Office and BJP relief was cancelled by the President Amit Shah who was Calcutta High Court. Yes- convinced by Sinha’s arguments. terday, the court of Chief Sinha argued that for “nom- that is also a bed sheet judicial Magistrate, Alipore, inal commercial benefits”, the granted him bail on twin Bharatiya Janata Party can’t bonds of `15 lakh each. afford political damage as the IANS shaped which is erected on a base decision had angered vast sections and can be filled with water. of the middle class and lower- “The tubes on the side have to Precautions income groups who depend on be filled with air by mouth or using trains for travel. KAYAMKULAM: An amateur sci- a small pump. The base filled with ‘being taken on Shah sought to know from entist has designed a mosquito net water forms the support system for Prabhu the benefits of the con- that can double up as a bed sheet. the mosquito net. Scorpene data’ troversial move. Prabhu claimed The product is expected to be “The size of the net can be that the decision, which went into priced at `1,000. increased or decreased depending PANAJI: Precaution- effect yesterday, would fetch the M.C. David, 60, has fetched his upon the need,” he said. ary measures are being railways `500crore, the sources An Indian Army cadet rides through a ring of fire during a display third patent in as many years and And to pack up the equipment, taken vis-a-vis information said. at an Officer Training Academy in Chennai yesterday on the eve of the latest one he got is for the port- all one needs is to drain the water about the making of the Shah reportedly made it President Pranab Mukherjee’s visit to review a passing out parade. able mosquito net with inflatable out and deflate the tube which can Scorpene submarines said clear that the BJP can’t risk the support system. be rolled up like a bed sheet. to have been leaked by resentment of the middle class “I have got the Indian patent David, who returned after a long an Australian newspaper for `500crore, that too at a time just now. Talks have started with stint in the Middle East, was in the last month, Defence Minis- when assembly polls are due in a few people to take this into mass news first when he got a US patent ter Manohar Parrikar said Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Uttara- A night in jail — tourist-style production. in 2013 for generation of electricity yesterday. khand, Manipur and Goa. “I am confident that this prod- from gravitational energy. On the sidelines of The flexi fare on the Rajd- uct, which can be rolled up like a bed “This has been tested a few times the commissioning of the hani, Shatabdi and Duranto Reuters that costs `500 ($7.50). Besides pro- sheet and weighs around a kg, can and I am fine-tuning it for taking it to Indian Coast Guard off- Express trains was announced moting tourism, spending a night in be sold for as low as `1,000 each,” its logical conclusion of production. shore patrol vessel Sarathi on Wednesday. According to the jail could educate people on how David said. The other product that I have got in Vasco town, 35km from new system, the base fares of SANGAREDDY: A 200-year-old tough life is behind bars, said Vinoy The mosquito net is devoid of any patent for is an emergency escape here, he said the leak, these trains will increase by 10 former jail in southern India offers Kumar Singh, Director-General of metal or sharp edges and is capable system for high rise buildings with which comprises 22,000 percent with every 10 percent tourists the chance to live a day in Prisons of the state. of being assembled or disassembled a mechanism to regulate the speed pages outlining the details of berths sold, subject to a ceil- the life of a prisoner. Intended as a cavalry barracks quickly, he said. of descent,” said David. of six submarines being ing limit. Visitors to the colonial-era San- after being built in 1796, the build- David said this product consists “Two teams from Bhabha manufactured for the The sources said that after gareddy District Jail in the state of ings were converted into a prison. of a mosquito net and two inflata- Atomic Research Centre have come Indian Navy by the French Shah’s intervention, the railways Telangana receive a prison uni- That was closed in 2012. It is now ble supports that can hold the net in and asked for a full display. I have arms manufacturing com- said the flexi fare pricing was form, basic bedding, soap and a museum displaying paintings and position to cover the person lying on applied to the state government to pany, DCNS, did not occur being implemented on an “exper- eating utensils before being taken other artefacts related to crime and the cot or the floor. provide me funds to set up one at in a naval area. “(The) com- imental basis”. to their cell for an overnight stay prison life in India. “The inflatable tube is arch an engineering college,” he added. pany which is a partner, has leaked at their place,” he added.

BJP & Sena take on Kapil as he complains to Modi about graft SC to examine Gujarat quota

IANS to Modi. Stung by the 35-year-old individuals. It is no blame on any accusing Kapil of usurping 16 feet of Aaditya Thackeray earlier lauded NEW DELHI: The Supreme popular comedian’s allegation, political party be in BJP, MNS or Shiv government land by indulging in an Kapil, hours later the party alleged Court yesterday said a Maharashtra Chief Minister Deven- Sena.” The Shiv Sena and the BJP illegal construction of his office in that an “outsider” was trying to three-judge bench will dra Fadnavis immediately called for control the BrihanMumbai Munici- Andheri West. defame the BMC, India’s biggest and examine the validity of MUMBAI: The BJP, the Shiv Sena “strictest action” and asked him to pal Corporation (BMC). Some of his neighbours and local richest municipal body. the Gujarat government’s and the MNS yesterday took on provide all information regarding the BMC’s Chief of Vigilance Depart- activists joined the chorus, alleg- Maharashtra Navnirman Sena’s ordinance for 10 percent comedian-actor Kapil Sharma who bribery allegation. ment Manohar Pawar said it had ing that Kapil used his star status to (MNS) Chitrapat Sena President Amey reservation for econom- complained to Prime Minister Naren- “We will not spare the culprits,” taken a serious view of the allega- bulldoze opponents and indulge in Khopkar dared Kapil to prove his ically weaker sections dra Modi that he was asked to pay a Fadnavis said. tion and told Kapil to lodge a formal questionable activities. allegation or they would bar him which was quashed by the bribe by a municipal officer. But within hours, accusing fin- complaint and identify the officer Kapil came out with a fresh alle- from conducting his shootings in state High Court in August. “I am paying `15 crore income tax gers were pointed at Kapil. By late who allegedly demanded bribe for gation that local Shiv Sena and MNS the city. Khopkar charged that a It said the admissions from last five years and still I have to evening, he had virtually retracted speeding up the work on his under- activists also demanded money and studio set used by the comedian for made prior to quashing of pay `5 lakh bribe to BMC office (every his morning allegations with a construction office. that he had earlier complained to the shooting his shows was illegal. Kapil the ordinance would not year) for making my office. Is this tweet: “I just voiced my concern on Later, the BMC revealed it had civic body but no action was taken. must apologise or face the music, he be distributed. your ‘Achhe Din’?” Sharma tweeted the corruption I faced with certain slapped a notice on July 16 this year, Though Shiv Sena youth leader warned. 08 SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2016 VIEWS

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EDITORIAL North Korean threat Trump would spend billions

orth Korea has conducted umpteen nuclear tests before, but none of them has caused as much on military, but for what? outrage and shock as the one carried out yesterday. The test conducted in the morning, marking the 68th anniversary of the country’s founding, was steps that budget experts called cost an estimated $1 trillion over seniors and the poor. “None of the N most powerful the reclusive communist state has conducted insufficient. 30 years. To pay for the buildup, those things are politically pop- to date, so powerful it triggered a magnitude 5.3 earthquake “He just called for higher Trump said he would ask Congress ular,” he said. drawing immediate condemnation from its neighbours and the defence spending without giving to lift a Pentagon budget cap The Committee for a Respon- us a number and without telling and “fully offset” the increased sible Federal Budget estimated world powers. Japan called for an emergency meeting of the UN us how he is going to pay for it,” costs by collecting unpaid taxes, that lifting the cap would cost Security Council and Prime Minister Shinzo Abe described North’s said Lawrence Korb, a former cutting appropriations for federal $450bn over 10 years. The rev- nuclear weapons programme as a “grave threat” to Japan. Reagan administration Penta- programs operating without enue-generating steps proposed Experts said that the test’s estimated yield of 10 kilotonnes gon official and senior fellow at congressional reauthorisation, by Trump would leave $150bn of was higher than any of the North’s previous four controlled the Center for American Progress, cracking down on social welfare that amount uncovered, it said. nuclear detonations and shows that Pyongyang may be edging a think tank aligned with the fraud and other fraud, and Another flaw in Trump’s plan Obama administration. collecting additional taxes and is the assumption that Republican closer to developing a warhead capable of striking the US Trump’s Democratic oppo- fees from increased energy members of the House of Rep- mainland. nent in the November 8 election, production. resentatives who belong to the The magnitude of yesterday’s tests sends two messages: first, Hillary Clinton, advocates tough deficit-fighting tea party move- the international community has grossly defence and foreign policies, but ‘SOFT-PEDALING’ THE COST ment would agree to end the underestimated North Korea’s nuclear has yet to take a stand on the size Writing in The Weekly budget cap. The world has aspirations, dismissing it largely as a of the Pentagon budget. Standard, a conservative In April, Army Chief of Staff reacted with political stunt and a bargaining card in Stephen Miller, a Trump pol- magazine, Tom Donnelly, a General Mark Milley told a Senate icy adviser, said Trump’s proposal defence scholar at the American committee that adding more sol- shock and its standoff with its neighbours. Second, came in contrast to Clinton, who Enterprise Institute think tank diers without a sufficient budget outrage at Kim Jong-un is capable of carrying out he said has “no military plan.” who opposes Trump’s election, would be disastrous for the coun- his threats and is building a sizeable By Jonathan Landay and Trump pledged to expand the praised Trump for embracing a try and the Army. Bases would North Korea’s arsenal which he will not baulk at using Warren Strobel Army to 540,000 active-duty buildup that many mainstream close and programs that support latest nuclear if his rule comes under serious threat Reuters troops from its current 480,000, Republicans advocate. troops and their families would from ‘his enemies’. increase the Marine Corps from “However, Trump undercut have to be curtailed to make up test, its most 23 to 36 battalions — or as many the power of his proposals by the shortfall, he said. The latest test shows that the world powerful to as 10,000 more Marines — boost soft-pedaling the cost of such a The Navy already has has failed miserably to forge an effective epublican presiden- the Navy from 276 to 350 ships buildup,” he wrote. launched a shipbuilding program date. strategy to restrain Pyongyang. There is tial nominee Donald and submarines, and raise Air Independent cost estimates to raise the number of vessels to talk of imposing more sanctions on the Trump’s US military Force tactical aircraft from 1,100 for Trump’s plan range from more than 300 by 2021. Trump’s communist state though sanctions have buildup plan would to 1,200. $150bn in additional spending plan fails to account for the coun- achieved nothing so far. Sanctions of varying severity have been cost hundreds of Trump said those numbers over 10 years, according to the try’s limited shipbuilding capacity Rbillions of dollars — but with were based on assessments by the bipartisan Committee for a and the cost of manning, main- imposed on North Korea since 1992 but they have only succeeded no apparent strategy, defense conservative Heritage Foundation Responsible Federal Budget, taining and basing the additional in ostracising North Korea from the outside world and driving it experts from across the political and other groups. Heritage said to as much as $900bn over the warships he proposes to build. into more maniacal recklessness while at the same time pushing spectrum said. in a report that it looked at the same period, as assessed by “The whole thing is unre- ordinary North Koreans to the extremes of poverty and isolation. “I haven’t seen any kind of capacity needed to handle two Todd Harrison, a defence budget alistic,” said Dov Zakheim, the More sanctions will help achieve only more of what we have strategy,” said William Hartung, major wars to determine its force- analyst at the Centre for Strategic Pentagon’s top financial official achieved – more nuclear tests. History has proved that sanctions director of the Arms and Security size recommendations. and International Studies think under former President George are only provocative and destructive. Look at Cuba, Iran, Project at the Center for Interna- Trump said he would bolster tank. W Bush. Zakheim, who opposes a tional Policy. “He (Trump) says the development of missile Harrison said that increase Trump presidency, estimates that Myanmar, Libya and Syria, among other examples. nobody is going to challenge us defences and cyber capabilities. could be achieved only by raising Trump’s plan would boost defense The world, especially the United Nations, needs to come up because we will be so strong. But He made no mention of US the federal budget deficit, raising spending by roughly $300bn over with a new strategy. North Korea must be reinstated into the that’s not a strategy. It’s just a kind nuclear forces already in the midst taxes, or cutting other spending, five years. “It’s a soundbite,” he global mainstream. Engagement, incentives and negotiations of wish-fulfillment.” of a modernisation effort that will such as benefits programs for said. must be tried instead of sanctions. Pyongyang has already US Senator Jeff Sessions, a proved that it doesn’t need any outside support to push its top Trump backer who sits on the nuclear ambitions. Senate Armed Services Commit- tee, said the proposal was based Unfortunately, the world doesn’t have enough time to think on recommendations from groups a strategy. Kim Jong Un cannot be trusted and should not be left such as the National Defence alone to pursue his maniacal policies. He is unpredictable and Panel and served as a statement reckless. of Trump’s commitment to build the military. “I believe this lays out a framework for rebuilding the military, and it represents a commitment by Donald Trump Quote of the day to make this a priority,” Sessions said in an interview. “If you don’t have presidential leadership We are prepared to take really defending the need for a whatever measures are robust national defence, you’re not going to maintain the defence necessary to ensure budget.” our alliances continue Trump’s proposal, unveiled in to defend against this a speech on Wednesday, did not growing threat (North spell out how he would accom- modate the additional manpower Korea) to international and hardware as the United peace and security.” States shutters military bases, or where and for what purposes the larger forces would be employed. John Kerry Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump speaks to Matt Lauer during the Commander in There were no cost estimates and US Secretary of State John Kerry Chief Forum in Manhattan, New York. Trump proposed revenue-raising

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he US-led war on Islamic State has depleted the group’s funds, leadership and foreign fight- ers, but the biggest battle yet is expected later this year in TIraq’s northern city of Mosul, where Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi declared his “caliphate” two years ago. The jihadist insurgents have lost more than half the territory they seized in Iraq and nearly as much in neighbour- ing Syria, but still manage to control their twin capitals of Mosul and Raqqa, sym- bols of the state they sought to build at the heart of the Middle East. US soldiers gather in the town of Gwer, northern Iraq. Military and humanitarian prepa- rations are now in full swing to retake Mosul, the largest city under the ultra- Hardcore fighters have likely slipped and Sinjar in the north, the oil refinery corruption and sectarianism despite bil- State risks turning Mosul into a “blood- hardline group’s control. American troops out already through the desert and into town of Baiji, and finally Ramadi and Fal- lions of dollars in U.S. aid, dropped their bath”, according to a Western diplomat are establishing a logistics hub to the Syria, while many top leaders and for- luja in western Anbar province, the heart weapons and fled from the insurgents. in Baghdad. south, while the United Nations warns eign fighters have been killed in targeted of the insurgency following the US-led Kurdish peshmerga forces, of the world’s most complex humanitar- air strikes, according to Major General invasion in 2003 that toppled Saddam entrenched east, north and northwest HUMANITARIAN CRISIS ian operation this year. Najm Al Jabouri, the Mosul operation’s Hussein. of Mosul since 2014, will help tighten The Mosul operation has also trig- Iraq’s recapture over the summer of commander. In northern Syria, US-allied Kurdish the noose around the city but might not gered large-scale humanitarian planning, Qayyara airbase and surrounding areas He said that victory by year’s end militia of the People’s Protection Units enter central districts to avoid aggravat- with the UN predicting up to one million along the Tigris river 60km south of would be easy, in keeping with pledges (YPG) have taken vital territory and bor- ing political sensitivities. people could flee the city in all directions. Mosul have set the stage for a big push by Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi. der crossings below the frontier with After retaking 11 villages southeast The Kurds expect half of those leaving on the city, which commanders say could “We will go to Mosul, they will go to Turkey after capturing Kobani and later of Mosul last month, they are now eye- will head towards their territory, which start by late October. Tel Afar. We will go to Tel Afar, they will taking Tel Abyad, a key supply line for the ing eastern Christian and Shabak villages already struggles to accommodate more Whether Islamic State makes a final go to Baaj,” said Jabouri, referring to IS- jihadist capital Raqqa further south. The long abandoned by minority communi- than one million displaced people. stand in Mosul or slips away to fight controlled districts 70km and 140km YPG has expanded its territory west of ties the group seeks to eliminate. Regional authorities, fearing a new another day remains in question, but west of Mosul, respectively, which can the Euphrates, seizing Manbij last month. The peshmerga’s role is complicated wave will exacerbate demographic and Baghdad expects a fierce battle and the be used to reach Syria. Meanwhile Turkey, backing Syrian by tensions with the central government, security concerns, aim to settle new international coalition backing it is pre- “We will go to Baaj, maybe. It depends rebels, this month cleared Islamic State which claims territory the Kurds have arrivals in camps outside of main cities. paring for one. on the situation in Syria. They can get to from its southern border by seizing some taken from IS and effectively annexed In the best-case scenario, though, The densely populated river val- Syria but the situation there is not like 20 villages while Libyan government to their autonomous region. The Kurds there is only enough land and funding ley may hold obstacles for the military, before. It is not a safe haven for them forces are close to flushing IS insurgents say Baghdad is not forthcoming about its for about 450,000 people, according to a though Islamic State appears to be putting now.” from holdouts in Sirte. military strategy for Mosul or its plans to senior U.N. official, raising the prospect up relatively little resistance, possibly Amid those territorial losses, Islamic manage it after the battle. of housing others in unused buildings or to conserve fighters for a showdown in TURNING TIDE State has claimed credit for a surge in “If we do not prepare the politics of it, abandoned villages. Mosul where their forces are estimated Lieutenant General Vincent Stewart, global attacks this year beyond its main we may not succeed in the military plan “If there is mass displacement, there at between 3,000 and 9,000. Director of the US Defence Intelligence Middle East theatre. European countries or we may succeed in the military plan could be shantytowns in the disputed Agency, said on Thursday that he remain on alert for additional strikes but lose the political plan and that would border areas because the plan for camps expected the Mosul operation could based on undisclosed information. be disastrous,” Falah Mustafa Bakir, the doesn’t accommodate them all,” said Tom unfold in the next two or three months Nonetheless, the US military has said head of Kurdistan’s Foreign Relations Robinson, director of Rise Foundation, In the past year-and-a-half, IS has but that it would be long and difficult. Iraq is on track to retake Mosul later this Department, told Reuters last week. which analyses Iraq’s humanitarian crisis. “Urban warfighting is not easy and year. Over the past two weeks, convoys of The participation of the Hashid Aid workers say the authorities are lost swathes of territory and strategic this is a large city that has had at least two sophisticated engineering vehicles have Shaabi, a government umbrella for mostly limiting the construction of new camps outposts. In Iraq it was driven out years to prepare to defend its position ... been seen approaching Qayyara airbase, Shia militias, is also unresolved. Pow- to discourage displacement. In fact, the It’s going to be a multi-dimensional fight,” which Islamic State wrecked before with- erful commanders have pledged to take military is urging residents to shelter in of Tikrit and Sinjar in the north, the Stewart said at a national security sum- drawing in July. part, despite fears among Mosul’s Sunni place as it advances, but that will only oil refinery town of Baiji, and finally mit in Washington. Repairing it to help supply the 20,000 leaders and residents of rights abuses. be feasible if fighting doesn’t lay waste to The war against jihadist insurgents in to 30,000 Iraqi troops expected to be Prime Minister Abadi said this week homes and infrastructure as it has before. Ramadi and Falluja in western Anbar the Middle East has ebbed and flowed but used in the campaign could take another the demands of the battle would dictate Jabouri, the top Iraqi commander, province, the heart of the insurgency there is a palpable sense in the region that two months. Until then, forces trained by the disposition of forces but that no deci- dismissed concerns that such a scheme following the US-led invasion in 2003 the tide has turned against Islamic State. the U.S.-led coalition are amassing fur- sion had been made to bar the Hashid. jeopardises civilians’ safety, saying: In the past year-and-a-half, the group ther afield. Confrontation that inflames sectarian “What does it mean if some areas receive that toppled Saddam Hussein. has lost swathes of territory and strategic Mosul fell to Islamic State in June 2014 tensions between Shi’ite-led government mortars? That’s not the end of the world. outposts. In Iraq it was driven out of Tikrit when Iraqi security forces, riddled with forces and the Sunni jihadists of Islamic We are in Iraq, not in Switzerland.” How do you solve a problem like North Korea?

AFP uncle, and blood-curdling threats of how rigorously Beijing has enforced defiance, Beijing fears both a flood to regional security. war against the South and the US, sanctions and tensions between the of refugees if its neighbour is plunged “THAAD brought China and interspersed with appeals for peace. world’s top two economies have into turmoil, and the presence of North Korea closer by driving a At the same time he has yet to risen. Without Beijing’s help, ana- US troops on its border in a unified wedge between China and South orth Korea’s fifth nuclear test visit Beijing to pay his respects to lysts agree, sanctions are a lost cause. Korea. Korea,” said John Delury, a historian is yet more evidence of how China’s rulers, his country’s key Yesterday’s test “shows that our Relations have improved recently, at Yonsei University in Seoul. Nineffective sanctions are in diplomatic protector and provider approach to North Korea has failed, with top North Korean party offi- Beijing’s foreign ministry spokes- deterring Pyongyang while China of trade and aid. we haven’t managed to deter their cial and former foreign minister Ri woman Hua Chunying said Friday Each successive test is unwilling or unable to intervene, Even so, and despite yesterday’s nuclear ambitions,” said Jenny Town, Su Yong making a rare visit to China that “unilateral” actions taken by has been met with analysts say, with some arguing a new test, Beijing is unlikely “to opt managing editor of 38 North, a web- and meeting Xi in May—just months “relevant parties” had made the sit- new approach might be necessary for significantly greater pressure on site focusing on North Korea analysis. after Pyongyang’s fourth nuclear test. uation “more tense and complicated”, greater outrage and — engagement. the DPRK”, said Bonnie Glaser, sen- “Without China, this is a losing The North may have even in remarks apparently directed at hand-wringing from Since Pyongyang’s first nuclear ior adviser for Asia at the Center for battle, we need cooperation and col- informed China of its intention to South Korea and the US. test sent tremors worldwide, it has Strategic and International Studies laboration to find solutions,” she said. stage yesterday’s blast, said Adam “To some degree, North Korea is the international been hit by five sets of United Nations (CSIS) in Washington. John Carlson of the Lowy Insti- Cathcart an expert on Sino-North using its nuclear plan to manipulate community, to no sanctions over its atomic and missile China prefers “diplomatic tute in Sydney took a similar stance. Korean relations at the University China’s relationship with South Korea programmes. engagement with Pyongyang that “The only way to change the of Leed in the UK. and the US,” said Zhang Liangui, a avail. The carrot has been tried as well results in a peace treaty and an even- DPRK’s behaviour is to engage with “North Korean diplomat Choe professor at the Chinese Commu- as the stick, with offers of food aid if tual decision by the DPRK to give up it and see if there are incentives that Son-hui went to Beijing on Tuesday, nist Party Central Committee school. Pyongyang abandons its weapons. its nuclear weapons in exchange for can persuade it to freeze its nuclear and slipped out sometime thereafter Without Chinese action, Cathcart It has pursued them regard- economic assistance and US diplo- and missile programmes,” he said. — it is quite possible that the purpose said, “there is very little that can be less, even as its own people have matic recognition,” she said. But prospects for engagement of that visit was to privately inform done to retaliate or otherwise make regularly suffered crippling food Each successive test has been look dim. US President Barack Chinese comrades of the planned the North Korean leadership feel shortages over the years, under both met with greater outrage and hand- Obama has his hands full with con- test,” he said. A recent agreement more pain as a result of the test”. Kim Jong-Il and his son and succes- wringing from the international flict in Syria, and South Korean between Washington and Seoul to “North Korea has done very thor- sor Kim Jong-Un. community, to no avail. president Park Geun-hye has held a station a missile defence system ough work in insulating itself from His rule — the third reign of the Washington has long pushed the hard line against the North. known as THAAD in the South has intrusive global systems generally, Kim dynasty — has seen former top Asian giant to up the pressure on its While China has been increas- infuriated Beijing, which says the and the people are well accustomed officials executed, including his own unruly neighbour, but it is not clear ingly frustrated by the North’s hardware poses a significant threat to outside sanctions.”

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Uzbekistan interim Russia flaunts leader rules out military alliances military might AFP ALMATY: Ex-Soviet Uzbekistan’s new interim president Shavkat Mirziyoyev has ruled out mili- in Crimea drills tary alliances, the government said yesterday, following the same course as the late veteran strong- man Islam Karimov. “This training range is the big- Mirziyoyev — who served as gest on the Crimean peninsula, the Central Asian country’s prime Russia showcased which allows for such exercises to minister for nearly 13 years — is its ground, marine be held,” said Konashenkov, add- the frontrunner to replace Kari- ing that it had been used by Russia mov. The presidential election in set and air forces in the before the peninsula’s annexation. to take place on December 4, the biggest exercises The Crimean drills were part of country’s election commission said. Caucasus-2016 exercises held across “The firm position of our coun- held on the strategic Russia’s southern regions with some try, as before, is non-membership in peninsula since its 12,500 troops, the defence ministry all military-political alliances and 2014 annexation said. The drills involved warships, not allowing other states’ military aircraft and tanks, with Moscow fir- bases and facilities on the terri- from Ukraine. ing its S-300 missile systems, while tory of Uzbekistan,” Mirziyoyev told Spanish Guardia Civil policemen, firefighters and security members stand past the wreckage of a train the more advanced S-400 systems lawmakers, according to a foreign were used earlier in the Cauca- derailed in O Porrino, northwestern Spain, yesterday leaving at least four people dead and 50 injured. ministry statement. sus-2016 exercises that began on “No one should doubt that any AFP September 5 and reached their attempt by internal and exter- finale on Friday. Four dead in Spain as train derails nal forces to encroach on the “Strategic drills... are essential to sovereignty and independence military training in Russia in 2016,” of our country will be severely OPUK: Under a blazing sun, Sukhoi Konashenkov said, “with a focus on AFP train’s Portuguese driver — and “I looked and saw the train derailing. suppressed.” Under Karimov, jets zoomed across the sky and different troops working together.” another 47 were hurt, some of them I was speechless, in shock, I didn’t authoritarian Uzbekistan kept dropped explosives, as Russian war- In Crimea, the exercises sim- still in hospital but none critical. really realise what had happened,” strategic partners Russia and the ships sailed right up to the shore. ulated an attempted invasion by A spokeswoman for Spain’s he said. Ramilo went straight to the US at arm’s length while attempt- And beyond on a dusty steppe, para- a major force. But Konashenkov O PORRINO: A train carrying tour- railway company Renfe said the station, where he tried to help. ing to benefit from their rivalry in troopers made a mass landing while insisted: “You should not twist this ists to Portugal from northwestern Spanish conductor of the train was “There were loads of people... the majority Muslim region. ground forces ignited a wall of fire into anything — there’s no politics.” Spain veered off the tracks and also killed, but the other two victims residents who wanted to help. The country quit a Russia-led with napalm. The drill was planned last year smashed into a pillar yesterday just are as yet unidentified. “And as there were not enough security organisation in 2012 and This display of military might and is not related to the current as it was approaching a station, leav- Jesus Vazquez Almuina, in emergency personnel, some peo- cancelled the lease of a US military took place as Russia showcased its heightened tensions with the West, ing its driver and three others dead. charge of health matters in the ple even helped them extract people base used in Afghanistan opera- ground, marine and air forces in he said. Nevertheless such flexing of The train, which was going regional government, told Spanish from carriages.” A passenger who tions after Washington called for the biggest exercises held on the Russia’s military muscle sent out a to Porto in Portugal from Spain’s television there were many nation- emerged unscathed from the train an independent investigation into strategic peninsula since its 2014 clear message that any real attack Vigo, appeared to have hit the wall alities on board. said in a video posted on local daily La a brutal crackdown in 2005. annexation from Ukraine. on Crimea will be fought off. of a bridge as it was going under- “There were a lot of Spaniards Voz de Galicia that the carriage sud- Mirziyoyev’s remarks were “On such a scale and with the The drills also come about a neath and subsequently crashed and Portuguese obviously, but also denly started wobbling. “It wouldn’t made at a parliament session in deployment of different force month after President Vladimir on a good-visibility, straight line, Americans, Germans, people from stop. I was sitting down and I fell to the which he was appointed interim groupings, such drills are being held Putin accused Kiev of sending a according to the mayor of the town Chile, Argentina... people who were ground,” she said. “And then the train president. He was granted the posi- for the first time,” defence ministry group of saboteurs into Crimea, say- of O Porrino. doing the Road to Santiago (pilgrim- stopped. It was that quick.” tion after being backed by Senate spokesman Igor Konashenkov said. ing Ukraine was “practising terror.” A carriage of the train, which age) and were continuing their trip Adif, the company in charge of leader Nigmatilla Yuldashev, who Watching the drills at the Two Russian officers were was carrying at least 65 people, lay to Porto,” he said. Witnesses of the railway tracks in Spain, said the under the constitution should have Opuk training range on the Black killed in clashes on the frontier but on its side at the scene, the front accident, the causes of which remain accident happened around 9.30am become interim president ahead of Sea coast of eastern Crimea were Ukraine denied any involvement. completely caved in and mangled. unknown, spoke of a loud noise. local time just before the train pulled the presidential elections. Analysts Russian Defence Minister Sergei “The troops really are training Helicopters and ambulances Alex Ramilo, a 15-year-old local into the station. A spokeswoman have speculated that powerful Shoigu and the head of the General here to make sure that everything is rushed to attend to victims of the resident who was biking over the added that maintenance work had deputy premier and finance min- Staff Valery Gerasimov as well as guaranteed — security is ensured,” accident, in which authorities said bridge when the crash happened, been undertaken in the area, but ister Rustam Azimov could now Crimean leader Sergei Aksyonov. Konashenkov said. four people died — including the said he heard a “deafening noise”. stressed this was routine. take on the prime minister’s role.

No parking, please Sweden to begin British PM rides into row age tests for over school selection unaccompanied child refugees AFP But she has vowed to use her office to make Britain a fairer coun- try, and laid out yesterday her first AFP steps to address what she said was a LONDON: British Prime Minister widespread desire for change. Theresa May set out bold plans yes- In her first major domestic pol- STOCKHOLM: Sweden will next terday for more selection in schools, icy speech, she said she wanted to year begin medical testing to raising a deeply divisive issue two “give ordinary, working-class peo- determine the age of unaccom- months into a premiership that has ple the better deal they deserve”. panied child refugees, officials so far been defined by Brexit. She added: “In a true meritoc- said yesterday over fears adults The Conservative leader racy, we should not be apologetic are trying to pass themselves off announced the end of a two-dec- about stretching the most aca- as minors to up their chances of ade ban on new grammar schools, demically able to the very highest getting asylum. which only accept the bright- standards of excellence.” The National Board of Foren- est pupils, as part of a package of Grammar schools had their hey- sic Medicine told reporters it reforms intended to build a “truly day in the 1950s, but were phased would begin age tests in early meritocratic Britain”. out from the mid-1960s and a ban 2017. Forensic examiners will Her proposals, described by the was introduced on new schools in determine whether an asylum press as an “education revolution”, 1998. Some 163 survive in England, A young woman sticks post-it notes on an illegally parked car in Heidelberg, western Germany, seeker is over or under the age of delighted many Conservatives but and most are oversubscribed. yesterday. An initiative of the city of Heidelberg and a workgroup of bike-friendly municipalities in 18 based on dental assessments of are opposed by Labour, and there Supporters say such schools offer Baden-Wuerttemberg, who intentionally had placed the car in a non-parking area for its action, aims wisdom teeth and magnetic imag- are questions about whether they poor, bright students an academically to draw attention to the problem of cycle paths not usable due to illegally parked cars. ing of the knee joint. will get through parliament. rigorous education. But critics say “There’s no method to medi- The campaign ahead of Britain’s they are divisive and take far fewer cally determine the exact age of an vote in June to quit the EU exposed poor pupils than other schools. individual... but by studying which divisions within the Conserva- The chief inspector of schools, phase a person is in, you can draw tive Party, which only has a small Michael Wilshaw, said the propos- approximate conclusions,” forensic majority in the House of Commons. als risked two decades of progress in Scotland will not hold an independence examiner Elias Palm said. May took over in July and her education. “We will fail as a nation The tests will be conducted first two months have been dom- if we only get the top 15 to 20 per- when an asylum seeker claiming inated by questions over how and cent of our children achieving well,” vote for five years: Former first minister to be under the age of 18 is una- when she will implement Brexit. he told BBC radio. ble to prove his or her age, and the case handler is in doubt. The tests will be voluntary, Reuters which runs the country’s devolved Scotland’s First Minister Nicola meaning that an individual can government, he said. “The (Conserv- Sturgeon has pledged to honour their refuse to undergo them. A spokes- Wildfires hit Portugal’s tourist region atives) are playing Russian roulette vote by whatever means necessary, man for the Migration Agency, with Scotland and its role within the including via a possible new referen- Fredrik Bengtsson, said that minors AFP coastal town of Portimao in the EDINBURGH: Scotland will not UK,” McLeish, a Labour Party first dum on independence although she wanting to prove their real age would southern Algarve region because hold another vote on independence minister from 2000 to 2001, said. has also named a “Brexit” minister, welcome the tests. Those who refuse of the threat from the flames. in the next five years because there “The grave danger is not of Michael Russell, to ensure Scotland’s run the risk of having case handlers “The fire was very close, there is no sign it can be won, but the risk another (Scottish) referendum in the voice is heard during negotiations. determine that they are adults. LISBON: Portugal’s Algarve tour- was a lot of smoke, but the flames of secession from the United King- short term, but that (May) continues Broadly speaking, polls show Sweden has taken in more unac- ist region was the latest to be hit by spared the hotel,” the hotel’s direc- dom is growing, a former Scottish to alienate Scots who are not born- increased support for independence companied child asylum seekers violent forest fires, prompting the tor, Rui Covas, said. first minister predicts. again nationalists or even traditional since 2014, but not enough to win. than any other country in Europe. evacuation of a luxury hotel and Officials evacuated another 30 Henry McLeish said Scotland’s nationalists, but are the people who “There won’t be another refer- In 2015, the Scandinavian three hamlets, officials said. people from three nearby hamlets future would depend on the deal the SNP is now trying to reach out to endum in the next five years because country took in more than 35,000 Backed by water-dropping air- because of the blaze, which broke struck by British Prime Minister win 60-40 or even 65-35 in another Nicola won’t win,” McLeish said. McLeish unaccompanied children, 90 per- craft, over 2,700 firefighters were out in the wooded hills around the Theresa May in divorce talks with the referendum.” dismissed an SNP campaign launched cent of whom were boys and many trying to bring under control some mountain town of Monchique and European Union and its impact on the Scots rejected independence last week to survey Scots’ desire for of whom do not have identifica- 100 blazes nationwide despite a res- then moved south towards the coast. overwhelming majority of Scots who by a 10 point margin in 2014. But independence as a “delaying” ruse to tion papers. Sweden has since pite from the intense heat which has Vitor Vaz Pinto, head of emer- had wanted to remain in the bloc. while Britain as a whole voted to win the SNP time while Britain’s new tightened its asylum regula- gripped the country in recent days. gency services there, said that after That carried more weight than leave the European Union in June, trading and political partnerships are tions, and this year the number About 50 tourists, including dying down, the fire had re-started any fresh independence offer from Scots backed remaining in the bloc worked out, a process that he calculates has fallen to 1,700 as of the end many British nationals, were evac- on Wednesday evening “in an explo- the Scottish National Party (SNP) by 62 to 38. could take at least five years. of August. uated from a hotel just north of the sive manner”. EUROPE SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2016 11 France foils terror attack by IS female cell

found in her possession. Clear links Teams of police then swooped also emerged yesterday between the on the women and in the struggle, France is on high women arrested and jihadist attacks Madani was shot in the thigh and alert after IS called in France this summer. the ankle. The 15-year-old daugh- Investigators have learned that ter of 39-year-old Amel S, the third on its followers to one of the women arrested was the alleged member of the cell, has also attack the country in fiancee of Larossi Abballa, who killed been arrested and three other peo- a senior police officer and his part- ple are in custody. revenge for air strikes ner at their home in a Paris suburb in The prosecutor said there was on the group’s bases June before himself being shot dead, evidence that attempts had been Molins said. made to light the gas cylinders found in Syria and Iraq. The woman, identified only as in the car near Notre Dame in the Sarah H., then became engaged to heart of Paris’ tourist district. Adel Kermiche, one of two jihad- “A half-smoked cigarette” and a ists who slit the throat of an elderly piece of material soaked in flamma- AFP priest in July near the northern city ble liquid found in the boot of the car of Rouen, the prosecutor said. had been used to try to light one of The developments came after the gas cylinders. the owner of the abandoned car was Molins said if the fire had taken PARIS: French authorites have foiled identified by the insurance badge that hold, “it would have led within min- an attack by three heavily radicalised remained on the car’s windscreen utes to the explosion of at least one of women who were being guided by even though the number plates had the cylinders which would have led to the Islamic State jihadist group from been removed. the destruction of the whole vehicle”. Syria, France’s anti-terrorism pros- Investigators tracked down The women’s other targets ecutor said Friday. Madani and her two accomplices remained unclear. A police source “A terrorist cell made up of young who were hiding out in an apartment said that security services had issued A handcuffed man is taken out of the building in Boussy-Saint-Antoine south of Paris where female suspects, women totally receptive to the deadly in the Paris suburb of Boussy-Saint- a warning Thursday about a possible ideology of Daesh has been disman- Antoine on Thursday. Madani was attack on train stations in Paris and said to have been planning new acts of violence, were arrested. tled,” Francois Molins said in a press already known to intelligence serv- the area where the women lived, but conference, using the Arabic name for ices after trying several times to Molins did not confirm this. not only women, but young women, “A group has been destroyed” but connection with terrorist networks or IS. The three women, led by 19-year- travel to Syria, the prosecutor said. France is on high alert after IS who get to know them and develop warned: “There are others.” operations since the beginning of the old Ines Madani, were arrested south She had sworn allegiance to IS in called on its followers to attack the their plot from a distance,” he said. IS has claimed responsibility year. The arrests followed a deadly of Paris on Thursday. a letter found in her handbag. country in revenge for air strikes on Interior Minister Bernard Caze- for a string of attacks, including last summer in France in which 86 people They were “determined” to On Thursday, the woman iden- the group’s bases in Syria and Iraq. neuve said earlier the three women November’s coordinated bloodshed were killed when a truck ploughed launch an attack, Molins said. A tified as Sarah H, 23, stabbed a Molins said the foiled plot showed “were apparently preparing new, in Paris in which gunmen and suicide into a Bastille Day crowd in Nice. IS car laden with gas cylinders found policeman in the shoulder who had that while the group once confined violent and, what is more, imminent bombers killed 130 people. said the truck was driven by one of abandoned near Notre Dame cathe- been keeping watch on them from an women to domestic tasks, it now saw actions” when they were arrested. Cazeneuve, the interior minister, its followers. That was followed two dral in Paris on Sunday belonged to unmarked car near the apartment, them as “fighters”. President Francois Hollande, on Friday told La Presse daily that weeks later by the gruesome murder Madani’s father and the keys were the investigator said. “The terrorist organisation uses speaking on a visit to Athens, said: 260 people have been arrested in of the priest near Rouen. Tourists stuck in cable cars ordeal rescued Southern EU leaders call

AFP for revised asylum rules

AFP was important to send a message COURMAYEUR: More than 30 of unity,” French President Francois tourists who spent a dramatic night Hollande said in remarks after the stranded in cable cars above the four-hour conclave. French Alps were brought to the ATHENS: Southern EU leaders yes- “Europe is a soft power, and it ground yesterday after an 18-hour terday called for revised asylum can forge a real identity,” added Ital- ordeal, operators said. rules to fight the ongoing migra- ian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi, They were the last of 110 sight- tion crisis, and appealed for unity referring to the alternative use of seers trapped when the cable cars ahead of a showdown on the post- economic and cultural influence ground to a halt on Thursday after- Brexit future of the bloc. available to the bloc. noon in the shadow of Mont Blanc, A joint declaration signed by A showdown is expected in Bra- western Europe’s loftiest peak. France, Italy, Spain, Portugal, tislava, where the so-called Visegrad After a night in the frozen dark, Cyprus, Malta and host Greece said group — made up of Hungary, Slova- dangling at an altitude of 3,800 the European Union should double kia, the Czech Republic and Poland metres (12,500 feet), the string of cars the funding for strategic investment — has demanded a tougher stance lurched into movement at around and for additional European experts on migration. The Visegrad four 8am (0600 GMT). to help the front-line states tackle have already held their own meet- The incident was caused by cables migration. It also stressed the need ing to present a united front. that got crossed for “unknown rea- to revise existing cross-nation EU The gathering also came less sons”, but a gust of wind is thought asylum rules. than two weeks after rescuers saved to have played a part, said Mathieu Under the so-called Dublin Reg- a one-day record of 6,500 migrants Dechavanne, boss of the Mont-Blanc ulation, asylum seekers may be sent making the perilous journey across Company which manages the system. back to their first country of arrival the Mediterranean to Europe. The cars were restarted after the last in the EU to have their application Missing at the talks was Spain’s cable was untangled, he said. processed there. acting Prime Minister Mariano The 33 remaining passengers The mostly centre-left or left- Rajoy who stayed at home amid des- People among the 33 tourists who spent a night in cable cars in the French Alps arrive escorted by rescuers were able to reach the ground by leaning leaders were also seeking perate efforts in Madrid to form a exiting the cars at three points on before being brought to the ground in Courmayeur, yesterday. to close ranks ahead of an expected coalition government. German reac- the way down, an official said. clash with EU hardliners at a sum- tions to the meeting — which has Teams on Thursday had been they were only wearing sweatshirts. Stephane Bozon, said. cars”. During the night, a team of res- mit next week in Bratislava to chart been derisively termed ‘Club Med’ able to rescue 77 passengers, most of When the Sun set, it was cold,” she “The last hour seemed very, cuers, three French and two Italian the union’s post-Brexit future—even — were dismissive. them by helicopters and others who said, sobbing. very long. We called the operators police officers also attempted to as they called for unity. More than 850,000 people were able to climb down with help. “For two-and-a-half hours we who explained that three cables got reach the trapped tourists. “We are not, nor do we wish to — most of them fleeing conflict But as darkness fell and the didn’t know what had happened and snarled up and they had to be untan- One of the officers managed to be, another grouping, another ini- in war-ravaged Syria, Iraq and weather deteriorated, the operation the cable car was moving a lot when gled but they didn’t manage to do it,” get into the car where the 12-year- tiative to divide Europe. We wish to Afghanistan — arrived on the Greek was suspended, leaving the remain- they were trying to untangle the a man who was one of the first tour- old boy was. The trapped passengers be an initiative for dialogue to bet- islands last year alone after risking ing tourists, one of them a 12-year-old cables.” An elderly man was treated ists to be rescued told French radio, had access to emergency blankets, ter unite Europe,” said Greek Prime their lives in unseaworthy boats and boy, to spend the night suspended in for hypothermia but all the passengers without giving his name. energy bars and bottles of water, Minister Alexis Tsipras. The 27 EU dinghies. mid-air. The boy’s sister, Italian tourist trapped overnight in the small, four- The top official in the Haute- which are stocked aboard the cars. leaders — the entire bloc, except “We need to reach a European Maria Elena Perrone, 18, was rescued person pods were in good condition Savoie region, Georges-François The 5km-long system, which Britain — will gather on Septem- asylum system that is realistic and on Thursday but then had an agonis- despite their ordeal, police said. “We Leclerc, said rescuers had been went into operation in 1950, connects ber 16 to discuss the fallout from the shows solidarity, instead of shifting ing wait for news of her brother and were in contact with them throughout forced to halt their operation at Aiguille du Midi on the French side of British vote in June to quit the EU. the burden to entry states,” Greece’s parents who were in a different cable the night, the people were cold” but 8:45 pm Thursday as they could not the mountains with Pointe Helbron- “At such a decisive moment, junior foreign minister for European car. “It was terrible. My brother had there did not appear to be any health “guarantee the safety of the pilots, ner on the Italian border, offering with populists and extremists hop- affairs, Nikos Xydakis, said in an to stay up there with my parents and emergencies, the local police chief, rescuers and the people stuck in the panoramic views of Mont Blanc. ing to see Europe breaking up, it interview. Croatia snap polls tomorrow Italy’s populist surge stalled by week of capital chaos

AFP AFP became the first female leader of the Eternal City. public. Political opponents and much of the media After a week of turmoil, Raggi, 37, now stands smelt blood: was the squeaky clean party of trans- accused of being anything but honest. She has parency exposing itself as just like all the others? scored a string of political own goals and, despite Raggi maintains she did not deliberately mis- ZAGREB: Croatia votes tomorrow in an early election that seems likely ROME: It was supposed to be the start of some- hopes to the contrary, has failed to tame what lead the public. “I’m not giving up,” she vowed. to prolong political uncertainty in the EU’s newest member, at a time of thing big. When the Five Star Movement won the many regard as an ungovernable city. But her handling of the issue has angered M5S strained ties between Balkan neighbours. Some 3.8 million Croatians will keys to Rome’s City Hall in June, all the talk was Her woes started last month when rub- activists and increased tensions between Raggi and cast ballots less than a year after an election last November which yielded no of the anti-establishment movement founded by bish began to pile up on the streets of Rome’s Grillo. The pair are reportedly no longer on speak- absolute winner and resulted in a barely-functioning coalition government. comic Beppe Grillo starting to look like Italy’s gov- neglected outlying suburbs, providing a smelly ing terms. Luigi Di Maio, the Grillo protege seen as The right-wing alliance was led by the HDZ party, which fell in June over ernment in waiting. reminder of endemic problems at the city’s cor- the movement’s likely candidate for prime minister, a conflict of interest scandal, weakened by constant internal wrangling. Two months later the party is in crisis, its cred- ruption-tainted refuse collection agency AMA. has also been damaged, having been forced into an During its five-month rule Croatia saw a growing climate of intolerance, ibility on the line because the beleaguered new Simultaneously, Raggi came under fire for embarrassing confession that he had not grasped the including attacks on independent media and minorities, and a far-right mayor, Virginia Raggi, has still not finalised a team putting a former AMA insider, Paola Muraro, in severity of the allegations against Muraro. “I made a surge to which authorities appeared to turn a blind eye. to run the city she vowed to start cleaning up from charge of cleaning up the agency. Worse was to mistake,” he told a rally of party faithful. The conservative HDZ however goes into the election campaign with day one. Fed up with chaos and corruption in their follow. Muraro, it quickly emerged, is under crim- Raggi’s cause was not helped by her decision a new and more moderate leader, Andrej Plenkovic, who has promised to public services, Romans swept Raggi into power inal investigation linked to her time as an AMA to appoint a chief of staff on a reported salary of move the party away from populism and extremism. to chants of “Onesta, Onesta” (Honesty, Honesty), consultant and the mayor knew that. ¤193,000, twice that of his predecessor. Despite Surveys and analysts give a slight lead to the rival “People’s Coali- Five Star’s rallying cry. Raggi told a parliamentary hearing this week the generous stipend, he resigned last week, along tion” led by the Social Democrats (SDP) of former prime minister Zoran But the themes that dominated the election that she had informed her own party hierarchy but with the city finance chief and three senior staff Milanovic, who was in power for four years until November. have come back to haunt the political novice who had not felt compelled to make the information at AMA and ATAC. 12 SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2016 AMERICAS Trump criticises US policy on Russian channel

The White House said it had no Traditionally, comment on Trump’s remarks. Trump’s praise of Putin, US presidential which he repeated during a tele- candidates do not vised national security forum on Wednesday night, has drawn sharp bash their country criticism from Democrats and some before a foreign Republicans. Trump told King he does not audience. think the Russians were intervening in US elections, a concern expressed by some US officials and by Demo- cratic presidential candidate Hillary Reuters Clinton. The New York businessman also said he did not think Russia’s government was behind the hack WASHINGTON: Republican pres- of Democratic National Committee US Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to the Annual Session of the National Baptist Convention in Kansas City, Missouri, idential candidate Donald Trump email servers. criticised US policy in Iraq again, Experts inside and outside the United States. but this time he aired his grievances government have pointed to Rus- on an unusual platform: a Russian sian-backed actors as the source of government-funded television net- the hack, which has been used to Clinton shifts focus to herself as polls tighten work. leak information in an attempt to Trump, who has often praised embarrass Democrats. Russian President Vladimir Putin, Trump criticized US policy in made the comments in an inter- Iraq from the days of Republican AFP criticized Clinton’s record in public and families, and national service in other. Not urged or requested. We view with former CNN broadcaster President George W Bush, who office and questioned her honesty the coming weeks. are commanded,” she said. “Some Larry King, whose podcast was ordered the American-led inva- and qualifications for the White She started on Thursday night days it’s really hard for me,” she said aired on Thursday night on the RT sion in 2003 in the aftermath of the House. with an address to the National Bap- to laughter. network, a 24-hour news chan- Sept. 11, 2001, Al Qaeda attacks on KANSAS CITY: Democratic pres- But the Clinton campaign tist Convention, made up primarily Clinton does not speak frequently nel that broadcasts in both English the United States. idential nominee Hillary Clinton acknowledged she had to spend of African-Americans, that focused about her faith, although she dis- and Russian. Trump then attacked Obama reflected on her religious faith dur- more time focusing her remarks on on her own religious life. cussed its importance to her in a Critics of the network, which and Clinton, the president’s first ing the first of a series of speeches herself so voters could see the “aspi- Clinton spoke of teaching the televised town hall event in Febru- mostly targets audiences outside of secretary of state, for their roles in her campaign said would focus on rational” vision she hopes to enact if occasional Sunday school class and ary during her battle with US Senator Russia and also includes program- the US troop withdrawal from Iraq. her values and vision rather than she becomes the first woman elected being married for more than 40 Bernie Sanders for the Democratic ming in Spanish, Hindi and Arabic, “It’s a war we shouldn’t have those of Republican opponent Don- US president. years to former President Bill Clin- presidential nomination. have described it as a propaganda been in, number one,” Trump said ald Trump. “We believe we have to work ton, a Southern Baptist, despite being Her words on Thursday seemed to arm of Putin’s government. in the interview. The shift comes as opinion polls extra hard to make sure that the pos- a lifelong Methodist herself. connect with members of the mostly Traditionally, American presi- “And it’s a war that, when we tighten between Clinton, the former itive notion of what she wants to do She told the crowd about her black audience, who applauded and dential candidates do not bash their got out, we got out the wrong way. secretary of state and US senator, and breaks through given the amount of gruff Navy father praying by his raised their hands in affirmation of country before a foreign audience, That’s Obama.” Trump, a New York businessman, interest that there is (in Trump) and bed every night and her mother, many of her comments. Clinton polls even if they are fierce critics of the Clinton’s campaign has seized ahead of the Nov. 8 election. what he says and also in what we say who experienced love during a tough strongly among black voters. current administration while cam- on criticism of Trump for lauding Clinton has focused many of about him,” Clinton’s communica- childhood that grounded her faith. “I’ve learned to be grateful not paigning in the United States. Putin, frequently pointing to the her public remarks on criticism of tions director, Jennifer Palmieri, told Reflecting on her Christianity, just for my blessings but also for my Trump has said far worse about Republican’s praise of the Russian Trump, including his provocative reporters on her plane. Clinton said Jesus Christ’s greatest faults, and there are plenty,” she said, President Barack Obama in appear- president as a disqualifying for the comments on illegal immigrants, Clinton will do that with command was to love. noting the importance of humility ances on US broadcast networks. White House. Muslims and women. Trump has speeches on the economy, children “We’re not asked to love each among leaders. 9/11: US returns to rebuilt 1 World Trade Centre US court rejects Michigan straight-ticket voting appeal Reuters “message to the entire world that we will never, ever renounce our values or be afraid,” New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio said. Reuters governor, was one of numerous NEW YORK: The US federal govern- More than 1,000 employees of voting measures passed at the ment yesterday marked its return the GSA, the Federal Emergency state level that put new restric- to the rebuilt 1 World Trade Center, Management Agency, and US Cus- tions on voting. These measures also moving its New York City offices back toms and Border Patrol had moved WASHINGTON: The US Supreme include stricter voter-identification to Lower Manhattan 15 years after into the space by March, a spokes- Court yesterday rejected a bid by laws and reduction of early-voting the September 11 attacks that had woman said. The lease for the Michigan to reinstate its Republi- periods before election day. reduced the site to rubble. approximately 220,000 square feet can-backed ban on straight-ticket Proponents of the law, enacted “Today is meant to be an uplift- is $15m per year. voting for the November 8 general in January, have said most states ing day, a sign of our determination Still, not everyone was happy election. have moved away from a straight- to move forward,” said US Secre- about the return of government The justices left in place a deci- ticket voting option. tary of Homeland Security Jeh agencies to the building. sion by a federal district judge in Removing the option forces Johnson at an event on the 63rd In 2015, six GSA employees sued Michigan who in July suspended a voters to study candidates and floor. to try to block the move, saying they law that abolished straight-ticket encourages voters to make deci- Also known as the Freedom feared the rebuilt tower would again voting, the practice of using one sions based on criteria other than Tower, the 104-story 1 World Trade be a target for possible attacks. A fed- mark to vote for all candidates party affiliation, they said. Center is the tallest skyscraper in eral judge in Manhattan threw out from one party, finding that it Opponents say voting restric- the Western Hemisphere, at 1,776 the case in June. would disproportionately affect tions are aimed at reducing turnout feet (541 meters). The New York Police Department holds a memorial procession in New In Washington on Friday, black voters. of minorities, who are more likely Construction began in 2006 and York yesterday in remembrance of the September 11 attacks. members of the US House of Repre- The 6th US Court of Appeals to vote for Democrats. the building opened in 2014 when sentatives gathered on the exterior upheld that finding last month, US District Judge Gershwin media company Conde Nast, the Patrick Foye. 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The one of the first tenants in the origi- third tenant in the new building field in Pennsylvania, killing nearly lican, spoke of the first responders the request, the brief order said. judge said elimination of straight- nal World Trade Center in the 1970s, when the General Services Admin- 3,000 people. “who went rushing into danger when The Michigan law, passed by ticket voting would be a burden on said Port Authority of New York istration signed the lease on its behalf The federal government’s return the whole world was running away a Republican-controlled legisla- voting rights and cause long wait and New Jersey Executive Director in 2012. to the World Trade Center sends a from it.” ture and signed by a Republican times at polls. Opposition’s strategy of street protests against Maduro a risky bet

AFP end of the year. referendum drive, the Democratic supporters and include traditional the slow pace of change in a coun- (the presidential palace), people get The notable exception was on Unity Roundtable (MUD), is an “iso- Chavista supporters.” try where Maduro retains a strong demotivated. Maybe this strategy September 1, when an anti-Maduro lated” elite that does not represent That is something the fragmented grip on the levers of power after 17 isn’t the right one,” he added. “Peo- march drew a million people into the the people. opposition coalition MUD has strug- years of leftist rule. ple are very busy standing in line. If CARACAS: Venezuelan President streets of Caracas, according an esti- Analysts say the challenge for the gled to do. An umbrella group whose For instance, the opposition scored they don’t, they’ll die of hunger.” Nicolas Maduro’s opponents are bet- mate by organizers, who called it the center-right opposition is to mobilize members span the political spectrum, a major victory when it won a landslide Venezuelan political analyst ting on the power of the street as they largest rally in decades. But dozens of a broad base, including traditional it leans to the center-right but has in legislative elections in December -- Benigno Alarcon said there is a risk try to force him from office, but their other protests in recent months have supporters of “Chavismo” -- the been riven by divisions. only to find itself stymied at every turn of triggering an “exhaustion effect” strategy could backfire. rallied only a fraction of that. movement named for Maduro’s late The peculiarities of the Venezuela by the Supreme Court. by “abusing” the protest strategy. With crisis-racked Venezuela On Wednesday, for example, the predecessor and mentor, the social- crisis also make it difficult to rally “People are a little disappointed Legislative speaker Henry stuck in a downward spiral of hyper- nationwide follow-up to the Sep- ist firebrand Hugo Chavez. big crowds. because we haven’t achieved our Ramos Allup, a top opposition leader, inflation, shortages, and violent tember 1 march drew numbers in “Protests will have to be mas- The crippling shortages mean objective,” said one protester, acknowledged as much. crime, discontent is on the rise. the thousands. Maduro’s supporters sive and sustained over a period of Venezuelans have to spend hours in 21-year-old dentistry student Jose “It’s not easy to motivate peo- Yet the opposition has struggled staged counter-demonstrations that weeks or months,” said analyst Risa line to buy food and basic goods, hop- Miguel Villa, at Wednesday’s dem- ple and put a million people in the to get large turnout at its protests -- were just as large. Grais-Targow of the New York-based ping from store to store in search of onstration in the city of Los Teques, street. And if you use a strategy like a cornerstone of its strategy to force Small turnout risks feeding into consultancy Eurasia Group. increasingly scarce products ranging just outside the capital. that indiscriminately, it tends to authorities to allow a referendum on the leftist president’s rhetoric that “And critically, they will have from flour to medicine to toilet paper. “When the marches are over and have diminishing returns,” he said removing Maduro from power by the the opposition coalition behind the to transcend traditional opposition There is also frustration with Maduro’s still there in Miraflores recently. CLASSIFIEDS SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2016 13

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ONLINE CHART BUST US and Japan warn ‘The fair milk’ against using Galaxy www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Note 7 on planes

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Qatar launches first-ever zipline 1 TOKYO: Japanese aviation authorities yesterday followed their US counterparts Private school fee to be by urging passengers not to turn on or 2 linked to quality charge Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smart- phones on aircraft following reports of All eyes on Manchester as Mourinho, explosions from faulty batteries. 3 Guardiola lock horns The South Korean smartphone maker last week suspended sales of the “phablet” and recalled 2.5 million units following the reports. “In light of recent incidents TWEET OF THE DAY and concerns raised by Samsung about its Galaxy Note 7 devices, the Federal Avi- ation Administration strongly advises passengers not to turn on or charge these devices on board aircraft and not to stow them in any checked baggage,” the US watchdog said in a statement. Etihad Airways also said it has tem- Two sculptures of cow bearing the colour of the European flag with an inscription reading “The fair porarily banned the use of Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones on board milk” are pictured next to a milk truck from the Mille Vaches farm pouring 23,000 litres of milk to its flights. “Following the global recall protest against milk purchase conditions by dairies near the French town of Bailleul yesterday. by Samsung of its Samsung Galaxy Note 7 smartphones, Etihad Airways has, as a precautionary measure, enforced a temporary ban on the in-flight use and battery charging of these devices on all its flights until the issue is rectified by Heat at 21: Pacino and There are four the manufacturer,” the Abu Dhabi-based carrier said. De Niro in rare reunion species of Qantas and Virgin Australia also told customers on Thursday not to use or charge the devices on their planes. AFP cinematography, taut action and giraffe, not Japan’s transport ministry followed suit a meeting in a diner between the yesterday. two leads that marked their first The phone is not yet on sale in Japan, scene together after appearing one: Scientists Follow us on but the ministry cited accidents over- LOS ANGELES: Twenty-one years separately in “The Godfather: Part Snapchat seas for its warning, which also cautioned ago Michael Mann’s iconic crime II” 21 years earlier. against using or charging them onboard, opus “Heat” paired Hollywood leg- Pacino, 76, revealed for the first AFP Open Snapchat and or stowing them in checked bags. ends Al Pacino and Robert De Niro time that he deliberately played his “Until such time that safety measures for the first time, delighting mov- famously brash detective — a role scan the Snapcode are taken by Samsung, the ministry has iegoers and inspiring a generation which has come to define his later MIAMI: There are actually four to add The Peninsula requested that Japanese airlines strongly of filmmakers. career — as a drug addict who reg- species of giraffe, not one as pre- account. communicate instructions to passen- The sprawling 1995 epic, which ularly “chips cocaine”. viously believed, researchers gers regarding bringing Galaxy Note 7 pits the actors against one another Mann never filmed the character said in a discovery that could on board planes,” the ministry said in a as kindred spirits on opposite sides taking drugs but Pacino said much of change conservation efforts for statement. of the law, has become a benchmark his motivation for the over-the-top, the world’s tallest mammal. in neo-noir cinema, lauded for its erratic detective came from think- The study in the journal Cur- melancholic but visually stunning ing of him as constantly strung out rent Biology is based on DNA depictions of Los Angeles. on coke. Nolan, who drew inspi- evidence from skin biopsies of The stars and their director reu- ration in his portrayal of Gotham 190 giraffes across Africa. Giraffe Suspected meteor hits Cyprus with a bang nited this week for the first time to City in the “Dark Knight” films from populations have dropped dra- share memories of an intense 107- “Heat,” rebuffed a long-held con- matically in Africa over the past day shoot, debunk myths and reveal spiracy theory about the movie few decades, going from about AFP Authorities are now searching for The civil aviation authority said an aspect of Pacino’s acclaimed per- — that Pacino and De Niro didn’t 150,000 to less than 100,000. space rock debris from any mete- that there had been no reports of formance kept secret for two decades. actually act opposite one another. But giraffes have been little orite fall. “We have yet to confirm anything untoward in the skies from “I knew it would be special Their paths cross on several studied, compared to other large that it was in fact a meteorite but it is pilots and all flights had operated when I read the script so I’m happy occasions but they appear sep- animals like elephants, rhinoc- NICOSIA: A suspected meteor more than likely that it was,” police normally in the island’s air space that it got the attention it did,” De arately in close up shots, and an eroses, gorillas and lions. Until triggered a flash of light and loud spokesman Andreas Angelides said. during the pre-dawn hours. Niro, 73, told a panel at the Acad- urban legend asserting that they now, researchers believed there explosions in the skies over Cyprus “We have had many witness Meteors are pieces of comet or emy in Beverly Hills, moderated by were never together at the same was one species of giraffe, and as before dawn yesterday, prompt- reports of a flash of light in the sky, a asteroid from outer space that create Oscar-nominated British filmmaker time has grown popular over the many as nine subspecies. ing hundreds of calls to police from series of loud noises that were espe- a fireball as they hit the Earth’s atmos- Christopher Nolan. years. Nolan pointed out, however, The latest data shows there alarmed residents. cially loud and heard in the districts phere. Those that survive the intense “Heat” follows Pacino’s LAPD that after moving to LA he had seen are four distinct species of giraffe There were no reports of casual- of Nicosia and Limassol.” Police said heat and friction and reach the sur- detective Vincent Hanna over a picture of the acting legends on which apparently do not mate ties or damage from the phenomenon they had received hundreds of calls face without breaking up are known almost three hours as he and his set together, hung for years above with each other in the wild. which was reported across a wide area from the south coast of the island as meteorites and are sought after by team chase a gang of robbers led a door at the now closed Kate Man- “Those four species include (the) of the south of the Mediterranean and some inland areas. They said scientists for the information they can by De Niro across Los Angeles. tilini diner in Beverly Hills, where southern giraffe (Giraffa giraffa), island between midnight and 1 am. they would continue to investigate. give about the early solar system. It is lauded for its striking the scene was filmed. Masai giraffe (G. tippelskirchi), reticulated giraffe (G. reticulata), and northern giraffe (G. camelop- ardalis), which includes the Nubian giraffe (G. c. camelopardalis) as a Amitabh Bachchan still the big boss of Bollywood at 74 distinct subspecies,” said the study. It also said the genetic differences among giraffe species “are at least as great as those between polar and AFP 20s who are molested one night by The 73-year-old, whose birth- “I don’t know how others think brown bears.” a group of drunk, socially influen- day on October 11 will see hoards of about me, but if I have to walk the “We were extremely sur- tial men. However, it’s the women fans gather outside his home, shot streets, I will, and if I need to stand prised, because the morphological MUMBAI: Bollywood megastar who end up on trial. A short trailer to stardom in the early 1970s on the in a queue at the airport, that’s ok. and coat pattern differences Amitabh Bachchan turns 74 next released by the production company back of powerful roles in hits “Zan- “I am not conscious of the fact that between giraffe are limited,” month but he says he’s still hungry for shows one of them being accused of jeer” and “Sholay”. He was dubbed something special should be done for says Axel Janke, a geneticist at new challenges after his latest movie defamation and another of soliciting India’s “angry young man” due to his me,” Bachchan added. the Senckenberg Biodiversity about violence against women left while a policeman appears unsym- portrayal of violent heroes fighting “Pink” will be Bachchan’s third and Climate Research Centre and him deeply moved. pathetic to their plight. against an unjust system. release of the year following crime Goethe University in Germany. In an interview at his sumptuous The actor affectionately known Bachchan is married to former thrillers “Wazir” and “Te3n” and he “Consequently, giraffes should be Mumbai office, the Hindi film legend as “Big B”, a reference to his decades- leading heroine of Hindi cinema Jaya is clearly revelling in being cast as a recognized as four distinct species of almost half a century said court- long command over Bollywood as well Bhaduri and hosts the Indian version troubled elderly male in recent roles. despite their similar appearance.” room drama “Pink”, to be released on as his six foot one inch frame, was so of TV quiz show “Who Wants To Be a Bachchan said it was “wonderful” to Now, researchers say some September 16, would challenge atti- moved that he penned an open letter Millionaire”. His son Abhishek is also work on films where the average age giraffes could be considered for list- tudes in conservative India. to his two granddaughters this week. an actor while his daughter-in-law is 25-30 and insisted he has no plans ing as a vulnerable or endangered “During the course of the film In it he urged them and all of Aishwarya Rai Bachchan is a former to slow down. species on the Red List maintained there will be substance that will India’s granddaughters to make their Miss World and leading Hindi film “At 74, beggars are not choos- by the International Union for Con- talk about women, society and how own choices and “don’t let anyone actress. ers. I get whatever comes to me. servation of Nature (IUCN). morality views them,” Bachchan said make you believe the length of your Bachchan, whose father was a Fortunately they are stories that For example, the northern of the thriller set in India’s capital. skirt is a measure of your charac- renowned poet, said dealing with the are commensurate with my age so I giraffe numbers less than 4,750 “Delhi has been chosen deliberately ter”. His experiences shooting “Pink”, adoration of millions throughout his accept them. I need to work and I am individuals in the wild. There as many of these cases have been which is directed by Aniruddha Roy career had been easy because it was happy to be working,” he said. “As an are fewer than 8,700 reticulated occurring in Delhi,” he added. Chowdhury, “became a source of the only life he had ever known. “I actor I love to be challenged. I love to giraffes, making each species Amitabh Bachchan during a “Pink”, which sees Bachchan play inspiration to write that letter”, Bach- was born in fame. I was always rec- be put in a different sphere and hope among the most endangered an ageing lawyer with bipolar disor- chan explained in his famous, deep ognised and known. Personally I feel I can tackle it. I hope there are still promotional event for the forth- large mammals in the world, the der, centres on three women in their baritone voice. normal about it,” he insisted. new things out there for me to try.” coming film ‘Pink’ in Mumbai. research team said. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 18 QE 10,839.73 -10.57 PTS PAGE | 19 DOW 18,163.55 -316.63 PTS Cost cutting on cards Schaeuble blames as growth pressure FTSE100 6,776.95 -81.75 PTS ECB for German mounts on Twitter BRENT $45.95 +$1.67 export surplus

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QNB projects crude prices at $55 in 2017

‘Qatar Monthly Monitor’ noted. fell by 29.7 percent over the same Bank deposits year-on-year Investment as a share According to QNB analysts, period. QNB expects the government growth increased to 9.8 percent in investment as a share of Qatar’s to run a budget deficit of around 5.4 July from 6.2 percent in June. Growth of Qatar’s GDP rose GDP rose to 44.9 percent in Q1, 2016 percent of GDP in 2016, down from a was driven by non-resident deposits to 44.9 percent in from 41.0 percent in Q4, 2015, while surplus of 1.2 percent in 2015. which increased 92.9 percent year- exports share fell to 49.2 percent of The country’s international over-year and private sector deposits Q1, 2016 from 41.0 GDP (53.2 percent in Q4, 2015) on reserves rose to $38.0bn in July 2016 which gained 1.0 percent; meanwhile, percent in Q4, 2015. lower oil prices. Private consump- compared with $36.0bn in June . In public sector deposits contracted by tion rose to 26.8 percent of GDP in Q1, months of prospective import cover, 4.4 percent. Asset growth increased 2016 from 23.7 percent in Q4, 2015. international reserves increased to to 13.0 percent in July from 10.2 per- Imports similarly increased from 38.6 7.5 months of imports in July com- cent in June. Domestic asset growth percent to 45.1 percent of GDP. pared to 7.2 in June. International increased to 13.6 percent in July, com- By Satish Kanady The country’s Broad Money (M2) reserves are expected to stabilise pared to 10.6 percent year-on-year The Peninsula year-on-year growth contracted by at around 7 months of import cover the month prior, reflecting stronger 5.2 percent in July, after a 7.2 percent going forward as oil prices recover. growth in domestic credit. Foreign contraction in June. The slowdown The current account swung into assets also grew by 16.8 percent year- was mostly attributable to the con- a deficit of $2.3bn (6.3 percent of on-year in July up from 12.3 percent DOHA: As the rebalancing of oil mar- traction of foreign currency deposits GDP) in Q1 2016 on lower oil prices; in June. Loan growth increased to 15.1 ket continues, with strong growth in by 20.8 percent and time deposits by the capital and financial account percent in July from 13.2 percent in demand and supply cuts among high- 1.9 percent in July. Overnight inter- recorded a surplus of $2.5bn over the June . Growth was driven by loans cost producers, Brent crude oil price bank rates fell to 0.74 percent in July same period. For 2016, QNB expects to the public sector which increased is expected to average $44.7 per bar- from 1.16 percent on average in June a current account surplus of 2.0 per- 27.3 percent year-on-year; the pri- rel in 2016 and $55.0 in 2017. Qatar’s 2016 . The 3-month interbank rate fell Qatar’s fiscal deficit reached by seasonality in spending and reve- cent of GDP as oil prices recover and vate and foreign sectors witnessed crude oil production rose to 671,000 by 25 basis points to 1.25 percent in 9.9 percent of GDP in Q1, 2016 due nues. Revenues declined 59.6 percent a capital and financial account deficit growth of 8.5 percent and 15.8 per- barrels per day (b/d) in May 2016 from July. The 1-year interbank rate rose by to lower revenue. The fiscal deficit compared with a year earlier on of 2.7 percent of GDP due to invest- cent respectively, moderating from 625,000 b/d in April, QNB Group’s 8 basis points to 1.73 percent. reached QR13.1bn in Q1 2016 driven lower oil prices; while expenditure ment overseas from Qatar. higher growth the previous month.

Mastercard sued for $19bn in Boeing studies Juncker set to draw plans for longer up plans for EU’s free Britain’s biggest damages claim version of 737 mobile roaming policy Reuters AFP

AFP LONDON: Some 46 million people in NEW YORK: Boeing is Britain could potentially benefit from studying designs for a a legal case brought against Mas- longer version of its 737 tercard demanding £14bn ($19bn) plane to compete with BRUSSELS: European Commis- in damages for allegedly charging rival Airbus’ successful sion head Jean-Claude Juncker excessive fees, according to court A321Neo, a person famil- (pictured) yesterday ordered offi- documents filed in London. iar with the matter said. cials to draw up new plans for the The case brought by a former Boeing is analyzing EU’s landmark free mobile phone chief financial services ombuds- two potential designs for roaming policy after it ran into man alleges the payments company a plane that is expected to fierce criticism. charged unlawfully high fees to be called the 737 MAX 10 The Commission announced the stores when shoppers swiped their and would be the largest original “free roaming” plans with debit or credit cards and these were aircraft in the 737 line. huge fanfare in early 2015, but when passed on to consumers in higher Boeing has held recent it unveiled the details this week, prices. discussions with airlines consumer groups were outraged by Mastercard is alleged to have and aircraft leasing firms a limit to just 90 days of free roam- done this for 16 years between 1992 to gauge interest in such a ing per year. and 2008, in more than 600 pages of plane. Such a plane would “In light of the initial feedback documents filed at the Competition address an important gap received, President Juncker has Appeal Tribunal. “This was almost an between the 737 MAX 9, instructed the services to with- invisible tax,” Walter Merricks, who claimants unless they opt out. Any 0.3 percent for credit cards. Mer- which can transport 200 draw that text and to work on a source of extra income. is bringing the case, told the BBC. person living in Britain who used ricks in a statement said the case is travellers and the Airbus new proposal,” said a Commission Commission spokesman Alex- “Mastercard has behaved disgrace- a credit card, cash or cheques and a watershed moment for consumer plane, which holds up to statement. ander Winterstein insisted Friday fully in this. They have not had the was over 16 years old in the period compensation in Britain. Merricks 240 passengers. “As we have promised, roam- that the decision was perfectly rou- reasonableness to accept that what covered by the lawsuit will auto- was head of Britain’s financial serv- The A321Neo has ing charges will disappear. Nothing tine, that Juncker had not been fully this was doing was damaging UK matically be part of the claim. If the ices ombudsmen for ten years until given the edge to the changes there,” it said, downplay- aware of all the details and when he consumers.” £14bn claim was shared equally 2009, helping to settle disputes European giant in the ing the importance of the apparent had seen them and the reaction, had Mastercard said in a statement between the number of eligible between consumers and financial lucrative market for mid- U-turn on one of the Commission’s asked officials to try again. it denied any wrongdoing. “We con- claimants, each person could receive services companies. dle-range planes, with most high profile priorities. The overall roaming plan was a tinue to firmly disagree with the more than £300 each, according to Britain’s banks have been caught orders running about “The draft in question was about “major success” and the review con- basis of this claim and we intend a Reuters’ calculation. in a range of misspelling cases in the 1,000 above those for the modalities, and it was only a cerned the “modalities” only, not the to oppose it vigorously,” the world’s A lawyer working on the case last five years. They have paid £24bn Boeing’s 737 line, accord- draft by the services,” it said. objective, Winterstein told a press second-largest payments network said Mastercard charged shops fees in compensation for mis-selling loan ing to data released by the Consumer groups had assumed briefing. “It was simply not good said. in excess of 1 percent for card use on payment insurance, making it Brit- companies. “We continue the Commission’s pledge to end enough for our president (Juncker) The lawsuit comes after the international transactions between ain’s costliest scandal in financial to look at the higher end mobile roaming charges — charges therefore he instructed us to work European Union’s antitrust regula- 1992 and 2008. Although the EU’s services. of the MAX family,” said when people use their phone outside harder, try harder and come back tor found in 2014 Mastercard’s fees to anti-trust regulator only ruled Mas- Consumers no longer living in Boeing spokesman Doug their home country — meant exactly with something better,” he added. store owners to process international tercard’s international fees were Britain, but who lived in the coun- Alder. “The needs of our that, without conditions or caveats. Winterstein declined to give payments within the EU were exces- illegal, this impacted British con- try between 1992 and 2008, can opt airline customers, as well As a result, they responded any details about what might be sive. Law firm Quinn Emanuel said sumers as it was the default fee used in to the collective claim against as the business case, will angrily to the 90-day “fair use” included in the new draft, stress- the lawsuit was the largest damages in Britain. Mastercard. drive our decision and limit, charging that Brussels had ing instead that the Commission claim in British history and would Two years ago, the European Any hearing on the case is not timing.” caved in to the powerful telecoms was absolutely committed to end- be brought under a law meaning Union capped the fees retailers pay expected until early 2018, unless companies for whom roaming ing roaming charges by June 2017 consumers would automatically be at 0.2 percent for debit cards and MasterCard settle it out of court. charges have long been a lucrative as planned. 18 SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2016 BUSINESS Hanjin Shipping funding plan faces further delay

decided to discuss the matter again place from the government including tomorrow,” a spokesman for Korean deployment of alternative vessels are Around $14bn of Air Lines said. carried out smoothly.” cargo has been tied The collapse of Hanjin has caused Representatives of the US havoc in global trade networks and Department of Commerce met with up globally as ports, a surge in freight rates, as more the vice minister of South Korea’s tug boat operators than half of Hanjin’s 141 ships have maritime ministry on Friday been blocked from docking at ports. morning, a ministry spokesman said, and cargo handling Four vessels have also been seized but declined to comment on what was firms refuse to work as of Thursday, according to Hanjin discussed before a planned official Shipping. statement. for Hanjin because Hanjin’s collapse came during the Banks led by state-run Korea they fear they will not peak shipping period ahead of the Development Bank (KDB) withdrew be paid. year-end holiday season, stranding backing for Hanjin last week, say- cargo for the likes of HP Inc and Sam- ing a funding plan by its parent group sung Electronics Co Ltd. was inadequate to tackle debt that Samsung on Thursday asked a US stood at 6.1 trillion won ($5.5bn) at the Reuters judge to allow the South Korean com- end of June 2016. Hanjin Group, the pany to pay cargo handlers to remove parent of both Hanjin Shipping and its goods from Hanjin Shipping ves- Korean Air earlier pledged to raise sels stationed near US ports. 100bn won in funds to help rescue SEOUL: Korean Air Lines, the big- While the US bankruptcy court cargo. Hanjin Group planned to raise gest shareholder in Hanjin Shipping, has prevented Hanjin ships being 60bn won by putting up as collateral yesterday delayed a decision on a seized if they enter US ports, it should stakes in overseas terminals such funding plan for the troubled com- also allow the ships to leave port once as Long Beach Terminal and other pany for a second time, adding to unloaded and for cargo holders to assets, while Hanjin Group Chair- uncertainty about cargo stranded recover their property, Samsung man Cho Yang-ho will raise 40bn at sea following the failure of the argued ahead of the hearing. won from private funds, the group world’s seventh-largest container Earlier this week, Samsung said said in a statement. carrier. goods worth $38m, mostly televi- The court presiding over Hanjin’s An empty Hanjin Shipping Co dock is seen at the Port of Long Beach, California. Around $14bn of cargo has been sions and appliances, were stuck receivership asked KDB on Wednes- tied up globally as ports, tug boat aboard two Hanjin ships. The tech day for fresh funds to normalise operators and cargo handling firms giant said it may have to charter at to result in significant damage to companies in the past, have shown incident,” Bank of Korea Governor operations but met resistance. refuse to work for Hanjin because least 16 planes to move the goods if cargo owners, including Samsung,” little appetite to step in to save Hanjin. Lee Ju-yeol said at a press conference Cho still expected to provide they fear they will not be paid. “We the cargo cannot be unloaded imme- Samsung lawyers said in the court “I’m aware that some exporters in Seoul yesterday. the 40bn won in private funds next haven’t reached a conclusion at diately, costing it at least $8.8m. documents. South Korean authori- are going through considerable dif- “However, the impact on the week, the Korean Air Lines spokes- today’s board meeting, so we have “This lack of progress continues ties, criticised for propping up failing ficulties from the Hanjin Shipping economy won’t be big if measures in man said. Cost cutting on cards Turkish growth slows to 3.1% in second quarter as growth pressure Reuters saving, he said. The second-quar- Timothy Ash, a strategist at in the southeast, and a volatile elec- ter number was below a poll forecast Nomura, said the latest numbers tion cycle last year. of 3.4 percent growth, and down may not be enough to swing the bal- Simsek said the coup had weak- from a revised 4.7 percent in the ance. “Sub 3 percent and I think there ened economic conditions but that mounts on Twitter ANKARA: Turkey’s economy grew first quarter. Government minis- would be more focus/expectations of the effect would not be lasting. Still, a less-than-expected 3.1 percent in ters had already said Turkey would Moody’s using that as the smoking inflation remains high, and uncer- the second quarter, data showed miss its year-end target of 4.5 per- gun for them to pull the trigger on a tainty over the timing of a US Federal yesterday, putting the government’s cent. “Meeting the 4.5 percent this downgrade. Not sure this number is Reserve interest rate hike and pos- AFP year-end target seemingly beyond year seems almost impossible and decisive from a rating perspective,” sible credit rating downgrades are reach, with a further slowdown achieving even 4 percent growth will he said in emailed comments. also hanging over markets. “We are expected after a failed coup in July mean success,” a senior economy Finance Minister Naci Agbal said seeing domestic demand continues hit sentiment. official said. A second official said global conditions had contributed to to contribute to growth but is losing SAN FRANCISCO: Twitter shares Growth in the quarter was heav- growth in the third quarter could the loss in economic momentum and momentum. Public spending stands were down nearly six percent at ily consumption-led, with domestic slow to around 2 percent. that reforms would support growth out as limiting the fall in growth,” Is the close of trading on Thursday as demand accounting for 5.2 percent Credit rating agency Fitch in the coming months. Investment economist Muammer pressure mounted to ignite growth but external demand wiping off 2.1 lowered its outlook on Turkey to neg- But Turkey faces considerable Komurcuoglu said in a note to clients. or find a suitor for the global one- percent, Deputy Prime Minister Meh- ative from stable last month, while headwinds. A July 15 coup attempt Output grew 0.3 percent in the to-many messaging service. The met Simsek said in a statement. That Moody’s said on July 18 it was putting knocked investor confidence, already second quarter on a seasonally and company’s shares ended the official showed the importance of govern- its rating on review for a possible battered by a series of bombings, the calendar-adjusted basis, the Turkish trading day on the New York Stock ment efforts to increase domestic downgrade to junk status. resumption of a Kurdish insurgency Statistical Institute said. Exchange at $18.70, having lost $1.17. The stock slide came as reports swirled that Twitter’s board met to consider ways to cut costs, ramp to bring in revenue. up revenue, and maybe even sell Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey China auto itself or properties such as video- (pictured) returned to the CEO job snippet sharing service Vine or last year in a bid to boost growth sales jump mobile application-building plat- and user engagement, with shares form Fabric. slumping on concerns the company Twitter has been the subject of is failing to keep pace in the fast- 24.2% in Aug takeover rumours for months, with growing world of social media. speculation about potential suitors “Twitter has struggled to evolve ranging from Google and Microsoft from a passive, mobile-first, RSS AFP to telecommunication giants, Dis- news reader on steroids to a fully ney, and Rupert Murdoch’s News engaging, interactive media and Corp. Twitter’s most recent quar- messaging platform,” equity terly earnings report showed more research firm BTIG said in a note SHANGHAI: Auto sales in China, losses for the struggling social to investors. “Twitter is still basically the world’s biggest car market and media platform, which has seen what it was when we first started crucial to worldwide manufactur- sluggish growth in revenues and using it in 2008.” ers, grew at a faster rate in August, active users. The company has been seek- data from an industry group showed The report showed Twitter’s loss ing to expand its reach with live yesterday. narrowed to $107m in the second video and an array of partnerships Sales reached 2.07 million units quarter from $136m a year earlier. in sports and the political field. in August, up 24.2 percent year- Significantly for investors, the However, many analysts remain on-year, the China Association of number of monthly active users skeptical about whether Twitter Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM) edged up to 313 million, up three can reverse its fortunes. said. Both growth and total sales sur- percent from a year ago and only Online video is one of the social passed July, when vehicles sales rose slightly more than the 310 million network’s latest initiatives aimed at 23 percent to 1.85 million units. Chinese staff work on the assembly line at DPCA Chengdu plant production start and Dongfeng Peugeot in the past quarter. invigorating its platform in the face Auto sales growth has accel- 4008 line in Chengdu. Revenue rose 20 percent from of stagnating user ranks and per- erated for the last four months in a year earlier to $602m, but lagged sistent financial losses. China as the economy shows signs behind expectations. Twitter stock has lost two thirds of stabilising. An official measure of for more than four years. to 1.29 million, CAAM data showed. their Chinese sales surge last month, Twitter has never posted a profit of its value since hitting a historic manufacturing activity rebounded Sales of passenger cars with The government slashed the pur- with US auto giant General Motors since its keenly anticipated stock peak a few weeks after making its to its strongest level in nearly two engines smaller than 1.6 litres, which chase tax on passenger cars with selling 293,537 vehicles, up 18 per- market debut in 2013, but has been debut on Wall Street in November of years last month while China’s pro- accounts for more than 70 percent of small engines last October. cent year-on-year, and Ford’s sales ramping up its advertising efforts 2013 at an IPO price of $26. ducer prices fell at their slowest rate total auto sales, jumped 40.7 percent Some foreign manufacturers saw jumping 22 percent to 96,450 units.

GM recalls 4.3m vehicles over air bag-related defect Nissan recalling 134,000 cars on fire risk

Reuters and was the latest air bag-related Corvette, Silverado 1500, Chevrolet the event of a crash. issue the Detroit automaker has Tahoe, Suburban and Silverado HD GM received a report in May of Reuters faced. The world’s No. 3 automaker and Cadillac Escalade. a crash involving a 2014 Chevrolet said the sensing and diagnostic mod- GM stock fell on the news and Silverado truck in which the driver’s WASHINGTON: General Motors Co ule that controls air bag deployment was trading down $0.90 a share to frontal air bag and seat belt equip- DETROIT: Nissan Motor Co is recalling about 134,000 late-model said yesterday it will recall nearly 4.3 has a software defect that may pre- $30.81, down 2.8 percent. ment called pretensioners did not cars, mainly in the United States and Canada, because a fluid leak in million vehicles worldwide due to a vent the deployment of frontal air The U.S. National Highway Traf- deploy. Pretensioners tighten up any the braking system could lead to a fire, the company and US regula- software defect that can prevent air bags in certain “rare circumstances.” fic Safety Administration (NHTSA) slack in the seat belt webbing in the tors said yesterday. bags from deploying during a crash, GM said the recall of trucks, said in a notice posted yesterday event of a crash and work in tandem No one has been injured due to the potential defect but several inci- a flaw already linked to one death cars and SUVs from the 2014 to 2017 that “certain driving conditions may with the air bags. dents were reported to Nissan of “thermal damage” to vehicles that and three injuries. model years would not have a mate- cause the air bag sensing and diag- GM opened an investigation into could include some fires, a Nissan spokesman said. GM’s action marked the latest rial impact on its financial results. nostic module software to activate the issue in June and conducted road Models involved are certain 2016-2017 Maxima sedans, 2015-2017 massive air bag-related recall in The recall includes some newer mod- a diagnostic test” that would pre- testing at its Milford Proving Grounds Murano SUVs, and 2015-2016 Murano Hybrid SUVs. recent years by leading automakers, els of the Buick LaCrosse, Chevrolet vent the air bag from deploying in in August before deciding on a recall. BUSINESS SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2016 19

Greece told to deliver Britain to miss 2020 renewable reforms as bailout falters energy targets

Athens is struggling Reuters to deliver on fresh reforms that are LONDON: Britain is set to needed to unlock miss its 2020 European renewable energy targets, a further $3bn in German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble (left) and Member of a parliamentary committee bailout loans. the European Commission Pierre Moscovici talk prior a round table report said yesterday, set- during an Informal Meeting of Ministers for Economic and Financial ting a poor example for less Affairs in Bratislava yesterday. wealthy countries as the AFP world tries to rein in global warming. Britain has a target Schaeuble blames ECB for to meet 15 percent of its BRATISLAVA: Eurogroup head Jer- energy needs from renewa- oen Dijsselbloem warned Athens ble sources by 2020, but had yesterday to swiftly deliver on over- German export surplus achieved just over 8 percent due reforms as its massive bailout by the end of 2015. Eurogroup head and Netherlands State Secretary of Finance Jeroen programme fell off track triggering “The UK will miss its Dijsselbloem (left) and and European Central Bank President Mario fears of a new row with Greece. 2020 renewable energy tar- Leftist-led Greece is struggling Draghi during an Informal Meeting of Ministers for Economic and Reuters meeting other European finance gets without major policy to deliver on fresh reforms that are Financial Affairs in Bratislava, Slovakia, yesterday. ministers. improvements,” said Angus needed to unlock a further €2.8bn When asked whether he had any MacNeil, chair of the cross- ($3bn) in bailout loans and more cru- for the matter of trust and effi- would take a decision on its role by plans to decrease Germany’s export party Energy and Climate cially, launch negotiations on debt ciency,” he said. the end of the year. BRATISLAVA: Germany has no surplus, Schaeuble said: “I haven’t Change Committee. relief later in the year. Greece’s creditors are mostly Mujtaba Rahman of the Eurasia plans to reduce its export surplus, heard that the ECB is changing its Britain’s electricity sec- “The pressure is back on. We concerned with staffing picks risk assessment group warned that Finance Minister Wolfgang Schae- monetary policy.” tor is on course to meet its really need some progress. The sum- proposed by Athens to run the pri- the tensions risked boiling over early uble said yesterday, as the European Berlin expects domestic demand expected contribution to mer is over, pack up the camping vatisation fund, which are seen as next year “when the government Central Bank (ECB) has not changed to be the sole driver of economic the target but energy used gear, get back to work,” Dijsselbloem, too inexperienced or too politically needs cash and its ECB obligations its monetary policy which has led to growth this year, with an estimated in transport and for heating who leads the group of 19 finance linked to the ruling Syriza party, a are once again around the corner.” a weaker euro which in turn boosts expansion rate of 1.7 percent in 2016. homes and buildings is well ministers from the eurozone, told European source said. Delays by Athens make it easier German exports. The Munich-based Ifo economic behind what is needed, the reporters in Bratislava. The influential German Finance “for creditors to hide their differ- Schaeuble dismissed a sugges- institute has said Germany’s current committee report said. Athens has committed to deliver Minister, Wolfgang Schaeuble, said ences and blame Greece. As such it tion this week by ECB head Mario account surplus would probably hit The renewable target is on the reforms by the end of the Greece still had a short period of pushes off the need for Germany and Draghi that Germany should use fis- a new record of €278bn ($313.28bn) a legally binding commit- month. They include the long delayed time to get back in line on its €86n the IMF to come to a deal over debt cal room for manoeuvre to decrease this year, overtaking that of China ment set by the EU. “Our launch of a massive privatisation bailout programme, agreed amid relief,” he added. its export surplus. again to become the world’s largest. priority is providing secure, fund and reforms in the highly sen- much bitterness in July 2015. The eurozone ministers met “Even before the European Schaeuble also plans to move affordable and clean energy sitive energy sector. “They have to do this until the in the Slovak capital as Greek Central Bank decided its policies ahead with proposed tax cuts as for families and businesses. The EU’s Economic Affairs com- end of September, so there is still Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras, an of unusual monetary policy, which soon as possible and Chancellor Renewable energy already missioner Pierre Moscovici said time for Greece,” Schaeuble said. anti-austerity champion, hosted a also led to the euro exchange rate Angela Merkel’s ruling right-centre makes up around 25 percent Athens must deliver on 15 reforms, Left unaddressed at the talks was mini-summit between the Euro- falling significantly, I said that we coalition could consider an initial of our electricity and we’re with only two of those achieved so the part played by the IMF, which pean Union’s seven Mediterranean will increase German export sur- tranche of cuts next week, the Bild on track to hit our overall far. was key to Greece’s three bailouts states in Athens. Schaeuble belittled plus,” Schaueble told reporters. newspaper reported. targets,” a spokeswoman for “It’s not a secret ... that there is but is now holding off until the euro- the summit as a political meeting of “If the surplus in the eurozone But the finance minister wants the Department for Business, a lot to be done to complete these zone ministers commit to debt relief “socialist party leaders”, even though as a whole rises by a total of 3.6 per- to kickstart the process by enact- Energy and Industrial Strat- reforms,” he said after the ministers for Athens. “The IMF is in a very con- non-left leaders attended. “And when cent , one should not be surprised ing some tax cuts at the start of egy (BEIS) said. Britain could discussed Greece’s bailout. structive mode and I’m very happy socialist party leaders meet, most of that the German export surplus 2017, with the rest to follow in 2018. be fined if it misses the target, “The Greek authorities must about that”, Dijsselbloem said, add- the time, nothing intelligent comes has also risen, if not by 3.6 percent “We want to approve the tax relief although Britain’s decision know that we are waiting for them, ing that the Washington-based fund out of it,” he added. but by 2 percent,” he said before quickly,” Schaeuble told Bild. earlier this year to leave the European Union means the status of such targets is unclear. However, the lawmakers Global airport traffic up 6.4% in 2015, fastest rate since 2010 said a lack of clarity should not deter the country from trying to meet the goal. “We agreed our 2020 Reuters While the highest number of pas- of the airports in this category are renewable energy targets as sengers, 2.46 billion, went through from the typical mature markets part of the EU but they still the Asia-Pacific region in 2015, up of North America and Europe,” the have many merits, even as 8.6 percent from a year earlier, Atlan- release said. the UK Government prepares MONTREAL: Global airport traffic ta’s Hartsfield-Jackson remained the It said North America experi- for Brexit,” MacNeil said. “If grew at its fastest rate last year since world’s busiest airport, the report enced a resurgence in air transport the UK reneges on these 2010, rising 6.4 percent to 7.2 billion said. demand, especially at many of its targets, it will undermine passengers, according to data pub- Passenger traffic in emerging large hubs, following years of con- confidence in the Govern- lished yesterday by an international markets and developing economies solidation and capacity discipline by ment’s commitment to clean trade association representing air- soared 8.1 percent in 2015, compared US airlines. Large airports are ben- energy and the climate tar- ports. with a 5.2 percent rise in slower- efiting from capacity shifts where gets agreed in Paris,” he said. But passenger growth this year growing mature markets, said ACI, flights are being directed through Last year, more than could be tempered by the threat of which collects data for over 2,300 major connecting hubs. 190 countries agreed at cli- militant attacks, geopolitical unrest airports in 160 countries. But the trend toward hubs comes mate talks in Paris to limit and potential bottlenecks for pas- Passenger traffic generated by at the expense of smaller regional increases in global tem- sengers lining up to clear security Brazil, Russia, India, China and South airports, which are losing out on traf- peratures to well below 2 checks, said the report by Mon- Africa grew 8.2 percent on an annual fic, Gittens noted. degrees. Britain has been Delta Air Lines jets taxi at Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International treal-headquartered Airports Council basis. Globally, there were 37 large Air cargo grew more weakly than seen as a leader in efforts to Airport in Atlanta. International, or ACI. airports with over 40 million passen- passenger traffic, rising 2.6 per- fight climate change and has “It is important to maintain gers, more than double the number cent in total volume during 2015, a domestic target to cut emis- cautious optimism as we navigate a news release. “There are several could potentially encumber growth in 2005. partly because of subdued growth sions by 80 percent compared through 2016,” ACI World Direc- impediments that could curtail the prospects over the short and medium “This level of growth is unprece- in emerging markets and develop- with 1990 levels by 2050. tor General Angela Gittens said in continued rise in demand, which terms.” dented, particularly since a majority ing economies. Unemployment China producer prices rate in Canada edges up to 7% fall at slowest in 4 years

AFP decline. Protracted drops in PPI AFP bode ill for industrial prospects and economic growth, as they put off customers — who seek to delay OTTAWA: The Canadian economy BEIJING: China’s producer prices fell purchases in anticipation of cheaper created 26,000 jobs in August, a at their slowest rate for more than deals in future — starving compa- bit better than expected amid four years in August, the government nies of business and funds. a struggling economy, and the said yesterday, another sign of stabi- Chinese PPI has been negative unemployment rate ticked higher lisation in the world’s second-largest for more than four years but narrow- to seven percent, the government economy. ing declines in the past three months said yesterday. The increase in The news came a day after Bei- have fuelled hopes for the country -- unemployment occurred because jing unveiled a forecast-beating rise a key driver of the world economy. “more people participated in the in imports — the first in almost two China’s economy expanded last labor market,” Statistics Canada years — raising hopes that a long year at its slowest rate in a quarter of reported. period of slowing growth could be a century as Beijing strives to effect Economists had predicted bottoming out. The producer price a difficult transition in its growth 25,000 new jobs and a decline index (PPI), which measures the cost model from reliance on exports and in the jobless rate to 6.8 percent of goods at the factory gate, fell 0.8 fixed-asset investment towards one from 6.9 percent in July. The lack- percent in August, National Bureau driven by consumers. lustre jobs numbers come at a of Statistics said. “It shouldn’t be long before rough moment for the Canadian It was the smallest fall since headline producer price inflation economy, which contracted at an April 2012, figures from Bloomberg is back in positive territory,” said annual rate of 1.6 percent in the News showed, and was significantly Julian Evans-Pritchard of Capital second quarter. narrower than July’s 1.7 percent Economics. Chinese customers select goods at a supermarket in Qingdao, east China’s Shandong province yesterday. BUSINESS VIEWS 20 SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2016

Yield-starved Vietnam’s ‘Silicon Valley’ investors find solace in sterling sparks startup boom

By Helene Durand underlying Gilt yields which are and Laura Benitez at very subdued levels, and this Reuters may push investors further down the risk and tenor spectrum to source yield,” said Eric Holt, a senior fund manager at Royal Lon- orporate and financial don Asset Management. “We have issuers that had shunned seen consistent inflows into our the sterling market for sterling credit funds and a notice- most of 2016 are return- able increase in the more recent Cing in droves, spurred by investors’ period.” This lease of life comes search for yield and the Bank of from a combination of domes- England’s upcoming corporate tic and international demand. purchase programme. While the former investor base Six issuers raised £2.4bn on can sometimes buy more than 90 around £6.7bn of demand this percent of a sterling bond, interna- week as the fightback staged by tional investors are now muscling the market since the UK voted to in on the market. Less than 50 leave the EU gathers steam ahead percent of Aviva’s trade was sold of the start of the BoE’s purchase domestically, for instance, while scheme later this month. 35 percent of Bank of Nova Sco- Investors forced out of the tia’s 0.75 percent £500m five-year euro market by the tightening of covered bond was placed inter- yields caused by the ECB’s bond nationally. “There has been a lot purchase programme are now of interest from overseas inves- turning to sterling, lured by the tors looking to take advantage of relatively attractive yields on offer. a depreciated sterling to purchase High cash balances have also con- more corporate debt,” said Paola Employees working inside the French IT company Linkbynet in Ho Chi Minh City. tributed to the market’s renewed Binns, a senior fund manager at vigour. “The sterling market, par- Royal London Asset Management. ticularly the longer part of the “Despite the overhanging polit- AFP users or made by local developers. Vietnam Silicon Valley in 2013 to create an curve, hasn’t competed with euros, ical risk regarding Brexit, returns US-born Thai, 31, whose parents left “ecosystem of innovations and technology whether it was on price or demand, still look attractive.” during the Vietnam War, belongs to a van- commercialisation”. for a good part of 2016,” said Sean According to RBC’s Taor, many guard of entrepreneurs who have arrived to Hollande applauded the industry dur- Taor, head of European DCM at investors are changing their man- ecent Vietnamese graduate look- offer expertise in the country, where Intel ing his visit to IT service provider Linkbynet, RBC Capital Markets. “However, dates so that they can invest in ing for an English-language and Samsung already have a foothold in which was founded in a garage in France. investors have been very active in sterling. The universe of sterling teacher? There’s an app for that. the hardware industry. “What strikes me is the global character... sterling recently, which in turn has investment-grade bonds trading at Or hunting the best bowl of pho “I kept getting tugged by Vietnam, I saw it’s Vietnam but it’s a global environment, driven yields down and in many a negative yield stood at 0.16 per- in your Hanoi neighbourhood? that the opportunity to make an impact with global clients,” he said. cases sterling is now more com- cent on September 9, according to RThere’s now an app for that, too. and make money doing it were bigger the But some observers say investors should petitive than euros.” Tradeweb, far less than the 31.82 A decade ago such technology would sooner I came back,” he said. be wary of the hype, warning of red tape Aviva, the UK’s largest insurer, percent in euros. likely have been developed in California’s For Thai, the mathematics made the and murky local laws. “Vietnam has hid- attracted over £2.3bn of demand While demand is clearly there Silicon Valley. But today those apps are move a no-brainer: 90 million people, 45 den tech potential, but it could take another for a £400m 4.375 percent 2049 and issuance has been vibrant being churned out by Vietnam’s startup sec- million internet users, 30 million smart- five years maybe really to create these non-call 2029 Tier 2 bond this since the Brexit vote, the mar- tor — an industry driven by local techies phone users and internet usage 10 times huge massive companies that have global week, while British American ket has to digest Mark Carney’s trained overseas but returning home to what it was a decade ago. He arrived in 2012 influence,” said Anh-Minh Do of Singapore- Tobacco garnered £1.5bn of inter- statement in front of the Treas- prowl for opportunities. The sector’s growth to work for a corporate firm, and eventu- based Vertex Venture Holdings. est for a £650m 2052 benchmark. ury Select Committee this week. in a young tech-hungry nation has caught ally joined 500 Startups, which has funded “The law needs to be better, the gov- BAT was also quick to take The BoE governor suggested that the eye of foreign firms — President Fran- ventures including the language learning ernment needs to be more supportive, advantage of the US dollar mar- the universe of bonds targeted by cois Hollande on Wednesday visited French app Elsa and online ticketing platform there needs to be more interaction from ket and returned the following day the bank’s programme might be tech firm Linkbynet in Ticketbox. Vietnamese-Americans, specifically Viet- to print a $650m three-year trade smaller than expected at £100bn. Ho Chi Minh City, the Other apps developed in Vietnam namese-Californians because of the ‘Valley’ at a coupon of 1.625 percent. “It now sounds as if the pro- communist country’s include Lozi for food lovers and mobile connection.” “The announcement of the gramme will arrive later and be startup hub. bespoke tailor UKYS, which are not con- While Vietnam’s startup sector is [BoE’s bond buying] programme more selective than expected, so Much of the tech- nected to Thai’s firm. But much of the talent smaller than early entrants such as Indone- has repriced the market and cre- we will probably have a few ses- nology, which also is also homegrown: Vietnamese teens rank sia and Malaysia, there is hope the country ated demand from asset managers sions of uncertainty as people includes popular ahead of peers in the United States, Brit- is fast evolving from export industries such who felt they were underinvested,” reassess their expectations. Some mobile games and ain and Sweden in maths and science, as garments or commodities like coffee. said Zoso Davies, a credit strate- bonds will need to reprice wider,” e-commerce software, according to the latest survey from the “Vietnam has been present in the tech sec- gist at Barclays. “We were negative said Barclays’ Davies. Much of the is being produced Organisation for Economic Cooperation tor for several years but now it is moving on the economic value of the pro- The BoE has said that it would technology, which for local consumers and Development in 2012. That educated up the value chain,” said Romain Caillaud, gramme but, with hindsight, it has buy up to £10bn of corporate in Vietnam, where labour force, which comes cheap compared Southeast Asia director for US company FTI unlocked the market and given it bonds as part of its quantitative also includes popular the median age is with China or Singapore, is helping to pique Consulting. “The sector is growing because a new spurt of life.” easing programme but it is still mobile games and 30 and internet con- interest from tech heavyweights like Google Vietnam is making strategic moves in terms Bank of Nova Scotia, Paragon, grappling with what should make e-commerce software, nectivity is rapidly CEO Sundar Pichai, who took time away of competitive advantages to attract for- Henkel and WPP were the other the cut as the “criteria of material expanding. “The local from his holiday in December to speak to eign investment.” issuers to join the sterling party contribution to economic activity is being produced for market is large, young, tech entrepreneurs in Hanoi. Thai conceded the road is sometimes this week. Henkel attracted £1.4bn in the UK” proves tricky to define. local consumers in fast-growing, and not Comprehensive official figures are not rocky, but he is optimistic Vietnam’s star- of demand for a £300m 0.875 per- “Our interpretation of this is fully tapped,” said available. But state media reported turno- tup culture will overcome growing pains cent September 2022 trade, while that the BoE may end up sticking Vietnam, where the Eddie Thai of 500 Star- ver in the software and IT services industry to see substantial progress, even if it is a WPP drew £800m in orders for a quite heavily to the blueprint of median age is 30 and tups, a venture with a was $3bn last year, from $2bn in 2010, cit- few years off. £400m 2.875 percent September their 2009 corporate bond pur- $10m pot — mostly ing the Vietnam software and IT services “Generally speaking, Vietnam is moving 2046. “Corporate sterling bonds chase scheme,” Bank of America internet connectivity is of foreign cash — to association. one step back occasionally, but two steps are attractive compared to the analysts said in a research note. rapidly expanding. splurge on tech enter- The government has also outlined its forward. Hopefully in the next five or 10 prises for Vietnamese own strategy for the sector, and founded years it will get better.” Trade deal of EU and Canada awaiting green light

By Philip Blenkinsop was partly seen as a protest by some voters Service companies could also benefit Germans chose a chancellor. “I am confi- Reuters against globalisation. and EU companies would be able to tender dent that the closer to election days we come, “CETA (EU-Canada Comprehensive Eco- for public contracts at Canadian provincial more politicians will think twice whether to nomic and Trade Agreement) is the little and municipal level, the first time Canada pass these agreements or not,” said De Masi. brother of TTIP (EU-US Transatlantic Trade has offered this. Trade is unusual in the EU because it is deal that would allow Canada to and Investment Partnership) and needs to The deal, agreed by negotiators two one of the few policy areas where the Euro- sell maple syrup duty free in the EU be buried alongside it,” said Fabio De Masi, years ago after five years of talks, should pean Commission negotiates on behalf of and Europeans to ship more cheese a German member of the European Parlia- get the green light from EU member states national governments, rather than each to Canadian shops has become the ment (MEP) for the leftist Die Linke party. next month before it is signed during Cana- country doing it individually. Afocus of a battle with anti-globalisation Canada is not impressed. “If the EU dian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s visit to The deal will still need backing from the groups that is key to the future of Europe’s cannot do a deal with Canada, I think it is Brussels on October 27. However, there are European Parliament, with a vote possible in free trade agreements. legitimate to say who the heck can it do a risks it will not. Austrian Chancellor Chris- December, as well as ratification from up to Supporters of the huge deal say it would deal with,” Canadian Trade Minister Chrys- tian Kern said last week he would start a 30 national and regional parliaments, which increase trade between the EU and Canada tia Freeland said in June. “conflict” over CETA, while toning down his could take up to five years or more. Supporters of the huge on a range of products, from cars to invest- Other supporters say CETA is the most opposition a day later. The Belgian regional parliament of ment and farm products, by nearly a quarter, modern trade deal ever made and that the Observers say Kern and others are Wallonia has already voted to reject CETA. deal say it would increase boosting the EU economy by €12bn. new Canadian government bent over back- responding to public mistrust of the planned “There is the sense that globalisation is the trade between the EU But anti-globalisation and other groups wards to accept EU demands for a new way TTIP in particular what critics call a “race thing that’s at fault,” said Jeffrey Bergstrand, emboldened by France’s call to suspend of settling investor claims. to the bottom” in environmental and food finance professor at Notre Dame University and Canada on a range EU trade talks with the United States, have “There are no deals that are compara- standards. CETA, say opponents, is just a in Indiana. “There is clearly this momentum of products, from cars turned their attention to the deal already ble in their quality with CETA,” said Artis mini-TTIP and indeed more advanced, given towards a protectionist attitude, back to what reached with Canada which has not yet Pabriks, a member of the European Parlia- TTIP is simply under negotiation and not yet we had in the Great Depression.” to investment and farm been approved. There is a growing pub- ment. “I would say it is a gold standard.” a deal. Even if CETA is not blocked it could face products, by nearly a lic backlash in the West against free trade The deal would eliminate tariffs on France and Germany hold elections a crippling delay. Luisa Santos, international quarter, boosting the EU and globalisation, which critics blame for almost 99 percent of goods. The benefici- next year and politicians are curbing their relations director at business federation factory closures, depressed wages and a aries would include, for example, carmakers enthusiasm for trade deals. Germany’s Social BusinessEurope, says waiting for final rati- economy by €12bn. widening gap between rich and poor. Brit- or the EU textile sector, for which Canadian Democrats will vote on CETA at a party fication could mean CETA taking almost 15 ain’s decision to leave the European Union duties can be up to 18 percent. meeting on September 19, a year before years from start to finish. SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2016 21

Espargaro tops practice at Misano Circuit Aussies down SL, seal series

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The visitors claim Sri Lankan cricketer Tillakaratne MISANO ADRIATICO: Spaniard four-wicket victory Dilshan leaves the ground after Pol Espargaro was fastest during for 2-0 triumph losing his wicket, marking his yesterday’s opening two prac- international retirement during tice sessions for this weekend’s in Dilshan’s last the final T20 match against San Marino MotoGP but Andrea international game Australia at the R Premadasa Iannone crashed out to leave the Cricket Stadium in Colombo, Italian a doubt for the race. yesterday. Yamaha Tech3 rider Espar- garo topped compatriot Dani AFP Pedrosa by 0.065sec with And- rea Dovizioso third fastest at the Misano Circuit. However Iannone, who crashed out of last week’s Brit- COLOMBO: Australian bowlers set ish Grand Prix, again hit the deck up a four-wicket victory over Sri during the first practice session Lanka to spoil veteran batsman with tests revealing a small frac- Tillakaratne Dilshan’s farewell and ture to his upper back. sweep the two-match Twenty20 The Italian, winner of last series in Colombo, yesterday. month’s Austrian Grand Prix, was The visitors, who won the first initially ruled out of Sunday’s race match after scoring a world record but his condition is reportedly set 263, rode on opener Glenn Maxwell’s Dilshan, who quit the one-day participated in 87 Tests, 330 ODIs and got the wicket of Matthew Wade, unbeaten on nine, hit the winning to be reviewed today. 29-ball 66 to chase down their 129- format in the middle of the five- and 80 T20s, was given a standing who scored 14, in his very next over runs to help Australia finish the Defending world champion run target with 13 balls to spare. match series which Sri Lanka lost ovation by a raucous home crowd as Australia slipped from 93 for no two-month long tour on a high after Jorge Lorenzo was fourth, ahead Earlier, Aussie bowlers James 1-4, scored just one off three balls in as he ended his 17-year-long glitter- loss to 120 for six. the visitors suffered their first series of overall leader Marc Marquez Faulkner and Adam Zampa claimed his final international game but took ing career. Travis Head, who remained whitewash in the three Tests. and Italian legend Valentino Rossi, three wickets each to restrict the two wickets to add drama to Austral- However the inventor of the “dils- who trails Marquez by 50 points hosts to 128 for nine despite Dhanan- ia’s chase. coop”, the cheeky paddle shot played with six races remaining. jaya de Silva’s fighting half-century. The 39-year-old Dilshan, who over the wicketkeeper’s head, did not SCOREBOARD Britain’s Cal Crutchlow, sec- have a chance to execute the auda- ond at his home race last time out, cious stroke. SRI LANKA AUSTRALIA was seventh fastest while Suzu- Maxwell, fresh from his unbeaten M D K J Perera c Warner b Faulkner 22 D A Warner c N Perera b Pathirana 25 ki’s Maverick Vinales came 10th, a 145 off 65 deliveries on Tuesday, once T M Dilshan c Warner b Hastings 1 G J Maxwell b Prasanna 66 week on from his maiden MotoGP again turned the spotlight on himself D M de Silva c Faulkner b Starc 62 M C Henriques st M Perera b Pathirana 1 victory at Silverstone. after equalling an Australian record L D Chandimal c&b Faulkner 4 J P Faulkner (run out) 1 The qualifying stage today will for the fastest T20 fifty in 18 balls. be followed by the race tomorrow. The 27-year-old batsman, who B K G Mendis lbw Zampa 5 M S Wade c Chandimal b Dilshan 14 put on a 93-run opening stand with C K Kapugedera c Warner b Zampa 7 U T Khawaja lbw Dilshan 6 skipper David Warner, was bowled N L T C Perera c Head b Zampa 0 T M Head (not out) 9 FREE PRACTICE by leg-spinner Seekkuge Prasanna S S Pathirana c&b Hastings 6 P M Nevill (not out) 0

after hitting seven fours and four S Prasanna c Khawaja b Faulkner 7 Extras (LB-1, W-4) 5 TIMES sixes. 1. Pol Espargaro (ESP/Yamaha Tech3) Left-arm spinner Sachith S M S M Senanayake (not out) 7 Total (for 6 wkts in 17.5 overs) 130 1:32.769m 2. Dani Pedrosa (ESP/ Pathirana struck twice in the 10th R A S Lakmal (not out) 0 Did not bat: M A Starc, A Zampa, J W Hast- Honda) at 0.065, 3. Andrea Dovizioso over of the innings to get Moises Hen- Extras (LB-1, W-5, NB-1) 7 ings. (ITA/Ducati) 0.132, 4. Jorge Lorenzo riques and Warner, who scored 25, Total (for 9 wkts in 20 overs) 128 Fall of wickets: 1-93, 2-97, 3-98, 4-99, 5-113, (ESP/Yamaha) 0.287, 5. Marc Marquez trudging back to the pavilion. Fall of wickets: 1-9, 2-44, 3-51, 4-58, 5-76, 6-210. (ESP/Honda) 0.427, 6. Valentino Rossi Faulkner’s run out in the very 6-76, 7-86 , 8-114, 9-125. Bowling: R A S Lakmal 2-0-15-0 (1w); S M S M (ITA/Yamaha) 0.618, 7. Cal Crutchlow next over gave Sri Lanka a scent of (GBR/Honda LCR) 0.731, 8. Scott Red- a turnaround as Australia suddenly Bowling: M A Starc 4-0-32-1 (3w); J W Hast- Senanayake 4-0-36-0; S S Pathirana 2.5-0-23- ding (GBR/Ducati Pramac) 0.783, 9. found it difficult to get the remain- ings 4-0-23-2 (1nb, 1w); G J Maxwell 1-0-16-0; 2; N L T C Perera 1-0-19-0; S Prasanna 4-1-16-1 Hector Barbera (ESP/Ducati Avin- ing runs. J P Faulkner 4-0-19-3; A Zampa 4-0-16-3; M C (2w); D M de Silva 2-0-12-0; T M Dilshan 2-0- Australia’s Adam Zampa (second right) celebrates with team-mates tia) 0.812, 10. Maverick Vinales (ESP/ Dilshan then trapped Usman Henriques 3-0-21-0 (1w). 8-2. Suuki) 0.860. after he dismissed Sri Lanka’s Thisara Perera in Colombo, yesterday. Khawaja lbw with his wily off-spin IOC chief Bach in Paralympics: Brazilian swimming ticket scam spotlight star the new Phelps? No, he’s Dias AFP the founding of their Olympic Committee. An IOC member since 1995 Hickey, 71, was arrested on AFP LAUSANNE: Recently under August 17 before being released pressure in the Russian doping on health grounds under condi- scandal, International Olym- tion of remaining in Brazil. pic Committee (IOC) President Frenchman Jerome Valcke RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil’s star Par- Thomas Bach now faces further lost his post as FIFA general sec- alympic swimmer Daniel Dias tore problems with Brazilian police retary after presumed implication off to a gold winning start in Rio, but wanting to call him as a witness in in a ticket touting ring during the don’t call him another Michael Phelps a suspected Olympic ticket scam. 2014 World Cup in Brazil. – Dias is busy writing his own name Rio de Janeiro police official Rio police seized some 781 in history. Ronaldo Oliveira said investiga- tickets which they say were des- With a gold late on Thursday in tors had seen an email that the tined to be sold on the black the 200 meters freestyle S5, Dias, top suspect in the probe, Ireland’s market and also claim that around who was born with congenital mal- Olympic chief Patrick Hickey, sent $3m were generated by the ticket formation of his arms and right leg, to Bach requesting tickets. scam. now has 16 medals and is closing in “We want to question Thomas “If Mr Bach comes to Brazil we on becoming one of the most deco- Bach as a witness because he fea- will call him as a witness, but this rated Paralympians of all time. tures in emails and we want to does not make him a suspect in At stunning speed, the 28-year- clear up certain uncertainties,” the case,” Rio Police commissioner old delighted the raucous Brazilian Rio Police official Ronaldo Oliveira Aloysio Falcao said yesterday in a home crowd by beating US swimmer said on Thursday. statement. Roy Perkins by 10 seconds. What’s The German Bach failed to Bach’s absence from the Par- scary for opponents is he has eight Brazilian Daniel Dias competes and wins the 100 meters freestyle-S5 in the Olympic Aquatic Stadium during attend the opening ceremony of alympic opening ceremony is more events to go. the Paralympics in Rio this week unprecedented for an IOC presi- That’s where the Phelps com- the Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, on Thursday. and the IOC said he has no imme- dent since 1984, and had already parisons come in. The US swimmer diate plans to go back there. led to speculation in the Brazil- – the most decorated Olympian in The police move comes just ian media. any sport – retired at the close of the overtake Phelps. “I never think about breaststroke, 50m Backstroke and had been born with no hands or feet,” after Bach was criticised for the In July 2015 Hickey sent an Rio Summer Games in August with a this,” he says. three relay events. They’re likely to she remembered, although he does handling of the allegations of state email to Bach asking to be allo- haul of 28 medals, 23 of them gold. “That’s true. I just try to do my be the hottest tickets in Brazil. have one leg. sponsored doping in Russia and cated more tickets for the Rio Dias is catching up, but says he best and to swim well. The medal is “This is unique. We’ll never have He discovered swimming at 16, for the handling of organising the Games, saying he had had more has his own story to tell. the consequence of that work,” he something like this again,” said the inspired by Paralympic swimmer Games in Rio. for the London Games in 2012, “I’m Daniel Dias and I want to adds. national hero of the home event. Clodoaldo Silva, who has his own Now Bach is caught up in an fraud squad commissioner in build my own legacy. But I’m happy Dias became Brazil’s most suc- After an evening’s work, it was medal collection from Sydney, Ath- affair which centres on the August Rio Ricardo Barbosa de Souza to be compared to a great athlete,” cessful Paralympic athlete during back to the Athletes’ Village and bed ens, Beijing and London and lit the 17 arrest of Ireland’s Olympic chief, revealed on Thursday. he said. the London 2012 Games. And the for Dias -- and the medal went with cauldron during Rio’s opening cer- Patrick Hickey, who is suspected “Mr Bach did not reply but we It’s possible that Dias will go all emotion in the swimming arena on him. “You don’t want to let go of it,” emony on Wednesday. of illegally trading the Olympic do know that Mr Hickey got 296 the way in Rio, reaching 24 medals. Thursday was intense. he said. Dias’ life didn’t suddenly become tickets. extra tickets for Rio and that is That would take him past the cur- “He is the champion!” chanted Daniel de Faria Dias was born in easier. Bach has given no indication why we want to question the IOC rent record holder for Paralympic the delirious crowd -- including his Sao Paulo state on 28 May, 1988, and He had much suffering to over- of publicly addressing the mat- president,” he explained. male swimming medals, Australian two sons, wife and parents -- before right away his mother Raquel Dias come and prejudice, including the ter. After attending the funeral of The email was discovered after Matthew Cowdrey, who has 23 -- breaking into the national anthem. knew something was wrong. teasing by fellow students who he former West German president Rio police confiscated the compu- although way off the astonishing 55 “It was more emotional than She recalled “crying with- remembers “touching me to see if I Walter Scheel on Wednesday, ter of a third person, Martin Burk, medals for the now retired US swim- I could have imagined,” he said out knowing why” right after the was real.” he is due in Croatia this week- also of the Irish Olympic Commit- mer Trischa Zorn. afterwards. delivery, she wrote on the athlete’s But he did find his place, first in end for a 25-year celebration of tee, at their delegation’s hotel. If Dias competes again in Tokyo Coming up next are the 50m and website. the swimming pool and now in Bra- 2020, he’d even have a chance to 100m freestyle, 50m butterfly, 100m “Later they told us that our son zilians’ hearts. 22 SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2016 SPORT

HISTORICAL Blatter under new FIFA FACTS ON MANCHESTER investigation over salaries Ahead of the Manchester derby at the weekend, The Peninsula Reuters FIFA has its headquarters. FIFA said sports picks out five historical facts about the city which might in June that an internal investigation even be a joint source of pride revealed that the three officials had for the two sets of rival fans: received 79m Swiss francs ($81m) in ZURICH: Former FIFA President compensation over five years, call- On your Marx Sepp Blatter and ex-secretary gen- ing them “massive payouts”. % Karl Marx and his will- eral Jerome Valcke, already banned FIFA’s lawyers Quinn Emanuel, ing sidekick Friedrich Engels from football for ethics violations, which conducted the investigation, would while away time in are facing a fresh investigation, this said the evidence revealed a coordi- 1845 in Chetham’s, believed to time over the salaries and bonuses nated effort by the three to “enrich be the oldest public library in they received in office. themselves through annual salary England. Fans of the duo can FIFA’s ethics committee said increases, World Cup bonuses and go and sit in their windowseat. its investigators had opened for- other incentives.” The library was founded in 1653 mal proceedings against both men, The sums received by the trio thanks to funding left by Hum- along with former finance director included 23m Swiss francs in “spe- phrey Chetham, who made his Markus Kattner, for possible ethics cial bonuses” for the 2010 World money out of textiles but was violations which included “bribery Cup in South Africa, while Blatter a humble man and declined a and corruption”. and Valcke got a total of 14 million knighthood... which earned him The suspected violations were francs in bonuses for the 2014 World a fine for the snub. “in the context of salaries and Cup in Brazil and 15.5m francs for Rock and Rolls bonuses paid to Mr Blatter, Mr Val- the 2018 World Cup in Russia, the % cke and Mr Kattner as well as other firm said. Manchester was the spark provisions included in the contracts Blatter, 80, who led FIFA from that brought the classic Brit- of these three individuals,” it said. 1998 until 2015, has already been ish car Rolls-Royce to fruition. Barcelona’s Argentinian forward Lionel Messi (centre) celebrates with his team-mates Neymar and They are also suspected of banned for eight years, later to The aristocrat and car dealer Barcelona’s Uruguayan forward Luis Suarez (right) after scoring a goal during their La Liga match against having breached rules on general reduced to six following an appeal. Charles Rolls and the engineer RCD Espanyol at the Camp Nou Stadium in Barcelona, in this May 2016 file photo. Henry Royce -- born in more conduct, loyalty, conflicts of inter- The ban was imposed for ethics modest circumstances -- met in est and “offering and accepting gifts violations related to a payment of 2 a hotel in the city and combined and other benefits.” million Swiss francs that FIFA made to create the first Rolls-Royce, Blatter, Valcke and Kattner to then European soccer boss Michel the 10hp, which rolled off the could not immediately be reached Platini with Blatter’s approval in factory supply line in 1904. for comment. They have previously 2011 for work done a decade earlier. The factory was eventually to Barca trio reunited denied wrongdoing. He has taken his case to sport’s move elsewhere and Rolls was Blatter has said his earnings highest tribunal, the Court of Arbi- to become famous for a second were in line with top officials from tration for Sport, and is awaiting a less unwanted reason -- in 1910 professional sports leagues around verdict. he became the first person to be the world. Valcke was fired in January and killed in a plane crash. Soccer’s global governing body has since been banned for 12 years, Artists and crusading as Ronaldo returns is attempting to recover from the reduced to 10 on appeal, for ethics women worst graft scandal in its history violations which included using which has seen 42 people, including FIFA expenses for sightseeing trips % Among the famous non- former FIFA executive committee and destruction of evidence. footballing people to hail from have also returned from injury to members, indicted in the United Kattner, who took over as act- Manchester are the artist LS La Liga: Messi, Suarez leave Zinedine Zidane with a fully-fit States since May last year. ing secretary general after Valcke’s Lowry and the celebrated and Neymar likely squad bar the absence of goalkeeper Criminal investigations are also dismissal, was fired by FIFA in May suffragette leader Emmeline Keylor Navas. under way in Switzerland, where this year. Pankhurst. Lowry -- whose to play today as the Champions League finalists works were subject of a chart- Atletico Madrid desperately need topping song in 1978 -- has a Portuguese superstar to kickstart their season after back- gallery dedicated to his work set to appear for Real to-back disappointing draws with Sepp Blatter in the city. One of his paint- ings cost over £5m at auction in after missing weeks Alaves and Leganes when they visit 2011. Unlike Chetham, Lowry of action due to a Celta Vigo in the first match in a new was not punished for constantly early Saturday kick-off time of 1300 declining honours. Pankhurst knee injury (1100GMT) designed to compete with was so effective as an activist the English Premier League in Asian she helped women get the vote television markets. in Britain. Celta finished sixth last season, AFP but have also endured a poor start Guardian of the Left with defeats in both their open- % The liberal establishment ing matches and the Galicians will and left-wing Britain’s favour- MADRID: Barcelona’s fearsome Andres Iniesta has also returned be without influential playmaker ite newspaper The Guardian front three of Lionel Messi, Luis Sua- to training following a knee injury Fabian Orellana for a month due to was founded in 1821 and for a rez and Neymar could join forces for and will battle Arda Turan and a muscle tear. long time was known as the the first time in four months against Denis Suarez for a place in midfield Early season leaders Las Pal- Manchester Guardian. Initially Alaves, while Cristiano Ronaldo (pic- as both have impressed early in the mas have been on fire in scoring nine though it was more favoura- tured) will make his Real Madrdid campaign. goals in their opening two games to ble to the employer than the return today. Ronaldo makes his long-awaited shoot ahead of Barca and Madrid to employee, being described as Neymar has missed Barca’s 100 return at the Santiago Bernabeu the top of the table for the first time the “foul prostitute and dirty percent start to the season due to his against Osasuna earlier today in in 38 years. Transfer ban won’t stop parasite of the worst portion efforts in leading Brazil to Olympic what will be his first appearance However, the searing Span- of the mill-owners”. However, gold on home soil, but returned to since suffering ligament damage in ish heat could get in their way this Real from winning: Zidane under C.P. Scott -- first as edi- Spain for the first time since May his left knee during Portugal’s Euro weekend with record temperatures tor from 1872 and then owner after more international duty in 2016 final win over France. for September registered across the in 1907 -- it became far more World Cup qualifying this week and Real haven’t suffered in Ronal- country. radical and anti-establishment. is expected to start at the Camp Nou. do’s absence with two wins from League chief Javier Tebas has Reuters with the players and they are happy Moved to London in 1964, right- wing politicians often resort to Messi is a much bigger doubt their opening two La Liga games and promised players’ safety won’t with me. If we have to have the same deriding their left-wing oppo- after missing Argentina’s clash with victory over Sevilla in the European be risked and Las Palmas’ visit to team for two or three years, it’s not nents by referring to them and Venezuela in midweek due to a groin Super Cup. Sevilla is one of a number of games a problem.” their supporters as “the Guard- problem. The five-time World Player And after winning two Cham- that could be delayed or even post- MADRID: Real Madrid coach Zine- Zidane is, however, concerned ian-reading chattering classes”. of the Year has played a limited part pions League titles in his first three poned if temperatures are deemed dine Zidane is confident the team’s at how the ban will affect the youth in training in recent days and coach seasons at Madrid, Gareth Bale to be too high. results will not suffer from a one- section of Real. The Frenchman has Mummy has students’ rapt Luis Enrique is likely to be cautious insists the European champions year transfer ban imposed by FIFA two children under 18 who play in attention for the first of seven games in 22 days have to put more emphasis on end- for breaking rules regarding the Real’s youth system. “I don’t under- % The British Museum for Barca. Paco Alcacer is in line to ing a four-year run without winning FIXTURES signing of under-age foreign players. stand the ban,” Zidane said. in London might possess a make his debut after sealing a 30m La Liga. Today FIFA rejected the appeals by “I can speak with regards to my euros ($33m) move from Valencia “It’s important to try to win La Real and Atletico Madrid against the children. They were born here, have much-admired collection of Celta Vigo vs Atletico Madrid (1100), embalmed Egyptian Mum- and the Spanish international striker Liga because it’s been a few years Real Madrid vs Osasuna (1400), Sevilla punishment which prevents the two lived here all of their lives and it’s mies but if you wish to become is aware he will have to make the since we have and it’s normal that vs Las Palmas, Malaga vs Villarreal La Liga clubs from registering new absurd that they can’t play football. a curator of such artefacts then most of limited opportunities as it’s our focus,” said Bale. (1615), Barcelona vs Alaves (1830) players during the next two trans- It bothers me and I don’t understand Manchester is the only place fourth choice behind Messi, Suarez “I’m looking forward to next fer windows. what is going on. I hope it a solution Tomorrow in the world you can obtain a and Neymar. weekend’s game against Osasuna “I don’t think the ban will affect can be found,” he added. degree in Mummy Studies. The “I will do everything I can to take and I’m sure that they will make it Sporting Gijon vs Leganes (1000), us because I’m very happy with the “The club is going to do all that it University has laboratories ded- advantage of the chances I have to difficult for us, but it’ll be great to be Valencia vs Real Betis (1400), Granada team that I have,” Zidane told a news can to change this. We have to wait icated to researching mummies the full,” Alcacer said as he was pre- able to call upon almost the whole vs Eibar (1615), Deportivo la Coruna vs conference yesterday. because the ban has just come out and a Mummy Tissue Bank. sented on Thursday. squad.” Karim Benzema and Pepe Athletic Bilbao (1830) “I have a big roster. I’m happy and I hope things are resolved.” United’s Mourinho dismisses Guardiola derby focus

AFP important than what happens on the Manchester City, it’s a very good squad, “It changed the approach because it’s touchline. it’s a very good team. more difficult,” Mourinho said. Asked whether the presence of Guar- “They had very good managers. They “When Aguero is available, we know diola in the opposition dug-out presented have now a very good manager. They had Aguero plays. We know the formation, we MANCHESTER: Manchester United man- a particular problem, Mourinho told jour- always very good players. They bought know their dynamic. Nobody has doubts: ager Jose Mourinho (pictured) played down nalists at United’s Aon Training Complex: some more very good players. when a player like him is ready, he plays,” the focus on his rivalry with Manchester “Just the players.” “So they are what they are since I he said. “In this moment, he doesn’t play. City counterpart Pep Guardiola yesterday Mourinho emphasised the need for return to England in 2013. They’re a title They are an amazing, rich squad in options. and said today’s derby would be decided “emotional control” in the match, which contender and we have to respect them On the other hand, he can have many by the players. will see United and City attempt to end that way, that’s for sure.” decisions, different decisions. This weekend’s encounter has been each other’s perfect starts to the Premier United’s hopes of winning the derby “One thing if he decides to play with billed as a grudge match between Mour- League season. have been aided by the absence of City (Kelechi) Iheanacho, another thing if he inho and Guardiola, who had several When he was told the match was being striker Sergio Aguero, who is serving a decides to play with (Raheem) Sterling. stormy encounters during their time in cast as a rematch between himself and three-game ban for elbowing West Ham “Another one is if he decides to play charge of Real Madrid and Barcelona Guardiola, he replied: “That’s no problem.” United’s Winston Reid. with (David) Silva as a fake number nine respectively. “They are a very good team,” he added. Mourinho, however, claimed the between the lines. It is three years since they last faced “They were a very good team last uncertainty about who Guardiola will “They have so many options that for off in a match, but Mourinho said the on- season, two, three, four seasons ago. select to replace the Argentina striker us, in preparation of the game, we have to pitch action at Old Trafford will be more Maybe since the new owners arrived at actually makes life harder for him. go step by step, situation after situation.” SPORT SATURDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 2016 23

Pacquiao reveals retirement anguish as comeback looms

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BEVERLY HILLS: Manny Pacquiao says he knew almost as soon as his retirement began that he had made a mistake, revealing that loneliness and love for the sport had drawn him back into the ring. The legendary Filipino icon, who hung up his gloves after what was supposed to be a farewell victory over Wozniacki Timothy Bradley in April, ended his short-lived retire- ment in early August. The 37-year-old fighter is now targeting a slice of looks to Asia the world welterweight title when he faces World Box- ing Organization champion Jessie Vargas in Las Vegas on November 5. after strong Pacquiao had initially planned to focus on his polit- Karolina Pliskova of the ical career after being elected to the Philippines Senate Czech Republic celebrates in May. US Open run after defeating Serena Williams But politics proved to be no substitute for pugilism of the United States 6-2, 7-6 during in the eyes of the Filipino great, who showed he had their women’s singles semifinal match plenty left in the tank with his stylish win over Brad- AFP of the 2016 US Open at the USTA Billie ley five months ago. Jean King National Tennis Center yesterday. “First when I hung up my gloves I realised,” Pac- quiao told on Thursday. NEW YORK: Former world “I felt lonely. And thinking about it over and over, number one Caroline Wozniacki I thought ‘Boxing still likes me. Boxing still loves me.’ (pictured) couldn’t make it back So why stop my boxing career? So that’s why I decided to a third US Open final, but the to continue my journey as a boxer.” Dane was pleased to have proved Freddie Roach, Pacquiao’s long-serving cornerman naysayers wrong with her run to revealed the fighter had made up his mind to scrap his the final four. Pliskova, Kerber set-up retirement before he had even flown back to the Phil- “I came into this tournament ippines from Las Vegas following the Bradley bout. ranked 74 in the world and prob- “Before he left for the airport after the last fight, he ably people ruled me out, but it’s told me very clearly ‘We will fight again’,” Roach said. nice to prove people wrong once “It was no surprise.” again,” said Wozniacki, who was The only surprise, Roach said, was the timing. sidelined nearly three months “I knew that after he became a Senator he would with an ankle injury this year. US Open final duel fight again. I just thought it would be next year.” Wozniacki’s run to the semis Pacquiao insists that while his boxing career is now included victories over ninth- firmly back under way, he remains committed to poli- seeded former champion Svetlana tics, maintaining that he has had a “perfect” attendance Kuznetsova of Russia and eighth- record in the Senate since his election. seeded American Madison Keys. Top seed Serena loses “I’ve learned a lot and not only talking about the But her bid to become just the to Czech giant slayer as problems. The most important thing is common sense,” fourth unseeded woman to reach Pacquiao said. the US Open final ran aground German star crowned The only challenge has been fitting his fitness when she was beaten 6-4, 6-3 by world number one regime around his duties in the Senate. newly minted world number one Many commentators have speculated that Pac- Angelique Kerber. quiao views his election to the Senate as a stepping “Obviously right now I’m a lit- stone for a presidential run. tle disappointed not to win today, AFP Pacquiao dismissed the suggestion however. “That’s but at the end of the day it’s been not in my mind right now,” he said “My focus is to serve a good tournament, something I honestly, and to pass laws that will help less fortu- can be proud of.” nate families.” The 26-year-old is projected NEW YORK: Karolina Pliskova shattered In the near-term though, Pacquiao’s gaze is firmly to improve to 28th in the world by Serena Williams’s bid for a record-break- fixed on his date with Vargas (27-1 with 10 knockouts) reaching the semi-finals. ing 23rd Grand Slam title on Thursday, her at the 19,000-capacity Thomas and Mack Center. Her run at Flushing Meadows 6-2, 7-6 (7/5) win setting-up a US Open final followed injury withdrawals from against new world number one Angelique Montreal and Washington and a Kerber. first-round exit at New Haven, so The win for Czech 10th seed Plisk- she was pleased to emerge from ova meant the 34-year-old American was Golovkin eyes the US Open feeling fit. deposed as the world’s top player, losing “I feel very good body-wise,” her chance to stay at the peak for a record she said. “I think it’s the best it’s 187 weeks. Mayweather mantle felt in a while. In today’s championship match, Plisk- “I have gotten a lot of matches ova will tackle second seed Kerber who here, which is great. Hopefully I marked her coronation as the new world in Brook bout can just bring this momentum into number one with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over the Asian swing.” two-time runner-up Caroline Wozniacki. During the tournament It will be Pliskova’s first appearance in AFP Wozniacki declined to dampen a Grand Slam final while Australian Open speculation that she was in the champion Kerber will be in her third of the verge of retiring from tennis. year having finished runner-up to Williams LONDON: Gennady Golovkin’s career has run a hyp- Her father Piotr was quoted at Wimbledon. notic and grimly relentless course for boxing fans in Danish media as suggesting Williams, who also lost in the semi- worldwide and evidence suggests that will not change his daughter was unlikely to play finals last year which ended her bid to claim today. beyond next year. a rare calendar Slam, said she had been suf- Viewers in over 100 countries are expected to tune Asked again about her long- fering from a knee injury in the run-up to in live to see the Kazakhstan punching machine defend term plans, Wozniacki said she the semi-final. two of his three world middleweight titles against Brit- was only focusing on the imme- “When you’re hampered you’re think- ish challenger Kell Brook. diate future. ing of other things,” said the American, a Despite Golovkin being heavily favoured to retain “To be honest right now, my six-time US Open champion. his WBC and IBF belts, there is still great interest in the head isn’t anywhere,” she said. “I “Like I was making errors that I never fight at the O2 Arena in London. have the Asian swing to look for- make, and definitely I didn’t make in this For many, the 34-year-old is the most exciting boxer Angelique Kerber of Germany returns a shot to Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark ward to, so that’s really what I’m tournament in particular. in the world, who is rapidly becoming the sport’s big- thinking about next. I’m playing “So many simple, simple shots that I during their women’s singles semifinal match of the 2016 US Open at the USTA gest global superstar following the retirement of Floyd Tokyo in a week’s time.” easily could have made. I just blame that Billie Jean King National Tennis Center yesterday in the Flushing neighborhood of Mayweather Jr. on just mentally thinking about my leg and the Queens borough of New York City. Kerber marked her elevation to the world This fight represents the biggest threat to Golovkin’s US OPEN SINGLES RESULTS just not thinking about the shot.” number one ranking by reaching the US Open final with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over run of 22 consecutive knockout wins, according to the Pliskova, the first Czech woman in the Wozniacki. champion himself. WOMEN US Open final since Helena Sukova in 1993, Brook, the reigning IBF welterweight champion SINGLES said she had not noticed that her opponent Wimbledon runner-up in July, is the first proved just that as she retrieved a break to from Sheffield with an unblemished record, is step- SEMI-FINALS: was carrying an injury. German woman to reach the final in New go 2-4. Wozniacki saved two set points in ping up two weight divisions and Golovkin considers Karolina Pliskova (CZE x10) bt Serena Wil- The 24-year-old preferred to focus on York since Steffi Graf in 1996. the ninth game but the German left-hander him his toughest test yet. finally making a Slam championship match She will emulate Graf as US Open secured the opener on serve at the next time “I understand it’s not an easy fight for us so I’m liams (USA x1) 6-2, 7-6 (7/5) after never making it past the third round champion if she gets the better of Karolina of asking. more serious and more focused,” he said. Angelique Kerber (GER x2) bt Caroline of a major in 17 prior attempts. Pliskova, who stunned Serena Williams Wozniacki, down at 74 in the world after “He’s my biggest fight and my biggest challenge. Wozniacki (DEN) 6-4, 6-3 “I knew I had the chance to beat any- 6-2, 7-6 (7/5) in her semi-final, in Satur- missing almost three months of the sea- It’s my biggest step. I have a different plan and a more one if I played my game. I am excited to be day’s championship match. son with an ankle injury, had refused on serious plan. Right now it’s my biggest fight.” DOUBLES in the final and to beat Serena as she is such Graf is also the only other German the eve of her fifth semi-final in New York California-based Golovkin is the biggest overseas SEMI-FINALS a great champion,” said the 6pht 1in (1.86m) woman to achieve the top ranking. to dampen speculation that she was on the boxer to fight in the United Kingdom since Russian- Bethanie Mattek-Sands/Lucie Safarova Czech who had also beaten Venus Williams “It’s incredible to be in the final and to brink of announcing her retirement. Australian Kostya Tszyu lost to Ricky Hatton in 2005. (USA/CZE x12) bt Ekaterina Makarova/ in the fourth round. be the world number one, it’s a great day,” She certainly appeared to have her mind Earlier this week, his presence at a public workout Elena Vesnina (RUS x5) 6-2, 7-6 (7/4) “Even when she was down a set and said Kerber who has made the final with- elsewhere as she slipped 2-0 down in the brought London’s busy Covent Garden to even more of Caroline Garcia/Kristina Mladenovic (FRA break she was still fighting. I had to fight out dropping a set. second set before a 27-shot rally in the third a standstill than usual. x1) bt Martina Hingis/Coco Vandeweghe hard to win.” Just moments after becoming the oldest game helped her open her account. That is because Golovkin, known as ‘Triple G’, (SUI/USA x6) 6-3, 6-4 Despite the injury, Williams admitted first-time world number one, Kerber raced Kerber was ruthless in her pursuit, arrived in London with a reputation of producing excit- Pliskova earned her victory. out of the blocks against the Dane, a two- breaking again for a 4-1 lead before she ing knockouts in an unbeaten career that has seen him MEN “Karolina played great today. I think if time runner-up at the tournament. cracked when serving for the match, get- stop 32 of his 35 opponents. DOUBLES she had played any less then maybe I would Two breaks of serve gave her a 4-0 lead ting broken to love. It has made him the most feared fighter in the world Jamie Murray/Bruno Soares (GBR/BRA x4) have had a chance,” said Williams. after just 15 minutes, conceding only five It was a brief respite as she then broke and none of his world title fights since 2010 have gone bt Pierre-Hugues Herbert/Nicolas Mahut Angelique Kerber marked her ele- points in the process and she had two more for the fifth time in the match to march into the distance. vation to the world number one ranking break points in the fifth which a desperately a third Grand Slam final of the year. Rival champions such as Mexican Saul ‘Canelo’ (FRA x1) 7-5, 4-6, 6-3 by reaching the US Open final yesterday scrambling Wozniacki saved to finally get Wozniacki at least has the consolation Alvarez have declined the chance to fight the world Pablo Carreno Busta/Guillermo Garcia- with a 6-4, 6-3 victory over Caroline on the board. of knowing her surprise run to a fifth semi- middleweight number one. Lopez (ESP) bt Feliciano Lopez/Marc Wozniacki. The 26-year-old Wozniacki, a former final in the city where she keeps a second The Kazakh’s promoter, Tom Loeffler, believes Lopez (ESP x8) 6-3, 7-6 (7/4) The 28-year-old left-hander, who won number one, consulted a page of scribbled home will translate to a place back in the Golovkin’s appeal is also down to his personality and the Australian Open in January and was notes in the changeover and the handy hints world top 30. friendly image outside the ring. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 22 PAGE | 23 BarcaB trio reunited Pliskova, Kerber as Ronaldo set-up US Open returns final duel

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UCI RWC Doha 2016 will be perfect showcase, says legend Merckx

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DOHA: With only one month to go to the historic UCI Road World Championships Doha 2016, cycling legend and Doha 2016 Ambassador Eddy Merckx (pictured) Juventus players celebrate on the podium after winning believes the event will be an unforgettable experience. the 2015 Italian SuperCup at the Shanghai Stadium in “Doha deserves to host the UCI Road World Cham- Shanghai, Beijing in this December 2015 file photo. pionships,” said the Belgian cycling legend, who first came to Qatar fifteen years ago and has watched cycling develop at a rapid pace in the Middle ever since. “Qatar was the first country in the Middle East to organise a professional cycling race. The country devel- oped rapidly over the past decade. Each year I got back and each year there were new roads, new buildings.” Doha to host Juventus, AC Milan The UCI Road World Championship Doha 2016 will be the first World Championships held in the Middle East, an historic event that will see 12 titles of UCI World Champion awarded across Elite, Under-23 and Junior categories. Each of the 12 races will finish at Qatar’s flagship development, The Pearl. in Italian SuperCup blockbuster Merckx, who has a total of 525 victories as a pro- fessional cyclist (1978-1965), says the UCI Road World Championships are a perfect showcase for Qatar. Juventus on penalties at Doha’s Jassim “We’re delighted to host Juven- “Cycling is the best sport to show the features of this FINAL SCHEDULED FOR Bin Hamad Stadium to win the title. tus and Milan, two of the most famous country, because the television spectators will get to see We are delighted to DECEMBER 23 An agreement has been signed Italian football clubs, and to see them a lot of the impressive desert landscape and the beauty host top teams in front between both parties that will see the challenge for the SuperCup in front of of the city of Doha.” of thousands of fans SuperCup played on foreign soil for the thousands of fans who will come from The Belgian legend believes that Qatar will continue will be held in Qatar for the second ninth time. all over the world,” he said. to play a critical role in the competition and training from all over the world: time on December 23, Serie A officials Serie A president Maurizio Beretta The SuperCup is traditionally con- schedules of the world’s best cyclists each season. QFA President announced yesterday. said: “We’re proud that (2022 World Cup tested by the league champions and Cup “Doha is beautiful and it’s an excellent place for pro- The trophy is normally disputed hosts) Qatar has shown such an interest winners. fessional riders to get in shape for the Spring Classics. between the winner of the Serie A in hosting the SuperCup. But since Juventus beat Milan in The climate is nice in January, when it’s often too cold championship and that of the Coppa “Qatar has shown it has the capac- the 2016 Cup final to secure a second to train or race in the rain and snow in Europe.” Italia. ity, passion and hospitality to host one successive league and Cup double, Merckx is the only rider to have won all five Agencies As both those titles were taken by of the top games in Italian football in the Rossoneri get the chance to make monuments (Milan–San Remo, Tour of Flanders, the Bianconeri last year, their opponents the best way possible.” amends. Paris–Roubaix, LiËge–Bastogne–LiËge, and the Giro will be the Coppa finalists from the past Sheikh Hamad bin Khalid Al Thani, In December 2015, Mario Mandzu- di Lombardia), all three Grand Tours (Giro d’Italia, Tour season, and that would be Milan. President of the Qatar Football Associ- kic and Paulo Dybala struck as Juventus de France, Vuelta a EspaÒa) and the UCI Road World MILAN: The Italian SuperCup final This is the second time the capital ation expressed his content following beat Lazio 2-0 in front of 30,000 fans Championships. between league champions Juven- of the Qatar is selected for this trophy. the announcement made by the Italian at Shanghai Stadium to win their 10th tus and beaten Cup finalists AC Milan In the 2014 final, Napoli beat Serie A officials. SuperCup trophy. Simple Verse, Rich Legacy earn grand double for Qatar Racing

The Peninsula Distance Cup on Champions Day. It’s a shame it’s not a Group 1 but it’s probably the race for her.” DONCASTER: Qatar Racing’s The silks of Qatar Racing Simple Verse who won the St were back in the winners enclo- Leger Stakes at the Doncas- sure thanks to the two-year-old ter Race-course last year and Rich Legacy, who won the May returned to land the Park Hill Hill Stakes (Gr2) and who is also Stakes (Gr2) at the same venue trained by Ralph Beckett. on Thursday, recording her first She showed plenty of deter- Group victory this season. mination to wear down Grecian Simple Verse beat Pretty Light, who came second in front Perfect by a neck in a very of Urban Fox. strong finish by the two fillies. “She’s a lovely straight-for- California came in third. ward filly who has rather crept “We had a few problems up on us”, said Ralph Beckett. with her post Ascot and it “She surprised us by win- wasn’t easy getting her back ning first time as I hadn’t seen from her break”, said Simple anything like that from her at Verse’s trainer, Ralph Beckett. home. I’m thrilled to bits. She’s “She wants this trip. She in the Prix Marcel Boussac. I wants to go further, but I’m thought that was the race for Jockey Oisin Murphy astride Qatar Racing’s Simple Verse (left) on their way to win the Park Hill Stakes (Gr2) at Doncaster Race-course in Doncaster, England delighted. I imagine that her after her debut win and we’ll probably go to the Long maybe it still is.” on Thursday. RIGHT: Qatar Racing’s Rich Legacy (left) in action during the May Hill Stakes (Group 2) event on Thursday.