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TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 • 26 Shawwal 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6519 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Humidity to Fancy vehicle be high at night; hotter number plates day forecast DOHA: Qatar is expected to witness a hotter and more getting pricier humid day today with humid- ity levels reaching up to 90 percent at night, a weather Many people wasting money: Survey forecaster said. The maximum temperatures DOHA: There is so much craze today is to buy fancy car regis- forecast for today range between in the cash-rich Qatari com- tration numbers, luxury watches, 40 and 43 degrees C (40 degrees in munity, particularly among the sunglasses and cars even if they Al Ruwais, 42 degrees C in Doha, youth, to own fancy car regis- must take huge bank loans and and 43 degrees C in Al Wakra and tration numbers that many of get into a vicious debt trap.” Messaieed). them take bank loans and some Al Sharq said that there is Nightly temperatures will even sell their properties. much demand for such numbers hover at between 29 and 33 A Qatari, Abdulaziz Azzam, and that explains why there are degrees C (29 degrees C in Al estimates that annual turno- even websites which people access Wakra and Messaieed, 33 degrees ver involving pricy car number to trade in fancy car registration Turkish medics and police with a wounded female attacker after shots were fired at the US consulate in in Doha, 30 degrees in Al Khor). plates in Qatar could be equiv- numbers. Istanbul yesterday. However, high humidity lev- alent to the budget of a small The daily spoke with an els at night would likely make country. imam, Mohamed bin Hassan Al the weather uncomfortable. “It is simply a piece of iron but Miraikhi, and he said that buy- Humidity levels are expected to some people are crazy enough to ing such numbers was a criminal US consulate in Turkey attacked be between 80 and 90 percent take bank loans to buy fancy car waste of money. at night. numbers. Some even sell their He advised youngsters to ISTANBUL/DIYABAKIR: security at US diplomatic mis- member of the DHKP-C. No US Humidity varied between 70 land and property to own such desist from indulging in such Two women shot at the US con- sions was being tightened. Police personnel were injured and the and 80 percent yesterday and numbers,” he said. wasteful activities. “Why spend sulate in Istanbul yesterday and with automatic rifles cordoned consulate will be open for busi- at 9.32pm when the weather The hobby is catching up par- so much money only to own a car at least nine people were killed off streets around the US con- ness today, State Department bureau was contacted for ticularly among Qatari youth. number plate?” in a wave of separate attacks on sulate in the Sariyer district on spokesman John Kirby said in inputs, the humidity level was Ali Yusuf, another Qatari, told “There are people who are hun- Turkish security forces, weeks the European side of Istanbul. Washington. 74 percent. Al Sharq that he bought an easy- gry. There are people who are in after Ankara launched a crack- Ahmet Akcay, a resident who On the other side of Istanbul, a It was slightly less humid to-remember car registration genuine need of money,” he said down on Islamic State, Kurdish witnessed the attack, said that vehicle laden with explosives was because the wind was north- number for QR800 some 15 years hinting that the moneyed must and far-left militants. one of the women fired four or five used to attack a police station, westerly. Easterly winds cause ago and its price today was a mil- help them instead of wasting their A far-left group that killed rounds, aiming at security officials injuring three police officers and more humidity. lion riyals. wealth. a Turkish security guard in a and consulate officers. “Police seven civilians, police said. Asked why it is rather unbear- “But that is nothing. There Al Sharq, on its website, con- 2013 suicide bombing of the US were shouting ‘drop your bag, Violence between the security ably hot this summer, the weather are such pricy car number plates ducted a survey with 50 people embassy in Ankara claimed it was drop your bag’. And the woman forces and suspected militants forecaster said that it is because which are even worth QR15m and participating in it. They were involved in yesterday’s attack. The was saying: ‘I will not surrender’,” intensified in the mainly Kurdish temperatures are higher as com- more,” said Yusuf. selected randomly using the social Revolutionary People’s Liberation Akcay said. “The police warned southeast yesterday. Four police pared with last year. A collector of fancy car media. A majority 82 percent of Army-Front (DHKP-C), consid- her again: ‘Drop your bag or we officers were killed when their “This is true not only of number plates himself, he said them said they thought it was a ered a terrorist organisation by will have to shoot you’, and the armoured vehicle was hit by Qatar but the entire region. it was his hobby. “In the days sheer waste of money to buy fancy the United States and Turkey, woman said: ‘Shoot.’” roadside explosives in the town The whole region is witnessing gone by our forefathers worked car registration numbers. said one of its members was One of the two women was later of Silopi, the governor’s office in higher mercury levels this sum- really hard to earn a riyal so they However, the remaining 18 per- involved, and called Washington captured wounded, the Istanbul the province of Sirnak said. mer and when you have high could buy food, but the new gen- cent said people had the right to the “arch enemy” of the people of governor’s office said. The Dogan A soldier was also killed when humidity levels, you feel hotter eration, with access to wealth, has spend their money the way they the Middle East and the world. news agency said the injured Kurdish militants opened fire on and more uncomfortable,” com- no value for money,” Yusuf said. wished to. Turkey’s foreign ministry woman was aged 51 and had served a military helicopter in a separate mented the forecaster. “The dream of most people THE PENINSULA condemned the attack and said prison time for being a suspected attack in Sirnak. REUTERS THE PENINSULA

State of emergency in Ferguson Assad’s cousin Yemen loyalists make arrested over road rage killing more gains in south DAMASCUS: Syrian authori- ADEN: Saudi-backed forces Sunday as they pressed an advance ties have arrested Suleiman Al loyal to Yemen’s exiled govern- from second city Aden. A medical Assad, a cousin of the president ment announced yesterday the source in Aden said that 16 loyalist accused of killing a military recapture of Abyan province in militiamen were killed and dozens officer in a road rage incident, a southern offensive that has wounded in Abyan over the past 24 official news agency SANA said seen key gains against Shia hours, most when mines planted by yesterday. Houthi rebels. retreating rebels exploded. “Suleiman Hilal Al Assad has Military officials who back Clashes were also reported by been arrested and transferred President Abdrabuh Mansur residents in third city Taez, as to the appropriate authorities,” Hadi said that loyalist forces have well as in the central province of SANA reported, without adding retaken Loder, the last town in Ibb. However, the rebels still con- details. The Syrian Observatory Abyan to fall from Huthi hands. trol the capital Sana’a which they for Human Rights monitoring “Abyan is now completely free” of seized last year. group, citing local sources, said he the insurgents, one official said. The latest loyalist gain came was detained on the road between There was no immediate confir- as seven pro-government activ- Protesters run to take cover after shots were fired in a police officer-involved shooting in Ferguson, Missouri. Latakia and Qardaha, President mation from rebel sources that ists were handed over in Yemen’s Authorities declared a state of emergency. Prosecutors charged an 18-year-old man with assault on officers. Bashar Al Assad’s ancestral village. Loder had fallen. second city Aden as part of a Suleiman Al Assad, a first Loyalists had already taken prisoner swap overseen by the The man, Tyrone Harris, was critically wounded in an exchange of gunfire with police late on Sunday as people cousin once removed of the Abyan provincial capital Zinjibar International Committee of the marked the shooting death one year ago of unarmed black man Michael Brown by a white officer in Ferguson. president, is accused of shooting from the rebels and their allies on Red Cross (ICRC). AFP Report on page 10 dead air force Colonel Hassan Al Sheikh in an apparent road rage incident on Thursday evening. Both Sheikh and his alleged Woman drowns after father killer are Alawites, and the inci- IS car bomb attacks kill 58 in Iraq dent caused tensions in Latakia’s blocks rescue to save ‘honour’ provincial capital, where more than BAGHDAD: At least 58 peo- a crowded marketplace,” said militias fighting the radical jihad- 1,000 people on Saturday protested DUBAI: A young Asian woman drowned after her father ple were killed and more than Diyala police captain Mohammed ist group. The attacks took place the murder demanding justice. allegedly prevented Dubai lifeguards from coming to the res- 100 wounded yesterday in two Al Tamimi. less than a month after a bombing Earlier, Syrian daily Al Watan cue because that would “dishonour” her, Emirati news media blasts in eastern Iraq claimed by Islamic State, which controls claimed by Islamic State in the quoted Sheikh’s relatives as say- reported yesterday. Emirates 24/7 reported that Dubai police Islamic State in a province once large parts of northern and west- nearby town of Khan Bani Saad, ing the president had pledged the arrested the unnamed man. When two lifeguards tried to help considered mostly free of them. ern Iraq, claimed responsibility which killed more than 100 people crime would not go unpunished. the drowning 20-year-old, her father “started pulling and pre- An explosion at a market in for the attack and said the target and prompted riots by distraught Sheikh’s wife Mayssa Ghanem venting the rescue men and got violent with them”, it reported. Huwaidar, about 4km north of was “rejectionists”, as the group mourners. told the paper, which is close to the “He told them that he prefers his daughter being dead than being the provincial capital of Baquba, refers to Shias. Security forces and militia government, that she had “received touched by a strange man,” said Lieutenant Colonel Ahmed Burqibah, killed 51 people and wounded at A separate blast to the east of groups are currently focused on a promise from President Assad to deputy director of Dubai police’s search and rescue department. least 80, police said. Baquba killed a further seven peo- routing Islamic State from the punish the perpetrator, whoever he The Asian man “considered that if these men touched his daugh- “The attacker managed to ple and wounded 25. Islamic State western province of Anbar, where is”. The pledge was passed to her ter, then this would dishonour her. It cost him the life of his daugh- pass a checkpoint by lining up said it had targeted a checkpoint they have been gearing up for an by “official delegations that came ter,” Burqibah said, quoted by the website. Dubai police later arrested with a wedding motorcade and manned by the army and volun- offensive to retake the sprawling to Latakia to express their sym- the father for having blocked rescue teams from doing their job and then split off with his explosives- teers from the Hashid Shaabi — Sunni heartland. pathies,” she said. saving his daughter’s life. AFP packed vehicle to blow it up in an umbrella group for mainly Shia REUTERS AFP TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

Prime Minister meets German, Dutch envoys Emir congratulates Polish President DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sent a cable of greetings to Andrzej Duda of Poland after he was sworn in as the new president. Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani and Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani have also sent similar cables. Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sent a cable of con- gratulations to President of Ecuador Rafael Correa Delgado on his country’s National Day yesterday. Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani and Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani have also sent similar cables to Ecuador President. QNA

Minister meets Saudi Deputy Crown Prince

Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani yesterday met German Ambassador to Qatar Angelika Storz- Chakarji (left) and Netherlands’ envoy Yvette van Eechoud. The Prime Minister wished the German envoy, who is ending her service in Qatar, success in her future missions. The Prime Minister also reviewed bilateral cooperation with the Dutch envoy. Minister of State for Defence Affairs Major General H E Hamad bin Ali Al Attiyah with Saudi Arabia’s Deputy Crown Prince and Minister of Defence Prince Mohammed bin Salman bin Abdulaziz in Jeddah yesterday. Boeing 747 freighter joins QA cargo fleet Airline to receive four Boeing, two Airbus freighters

DOHA: Qatar Airways Cargo’s strategy that is strengthened by cost effective global charter solu- first Boeing B747 freighter has our global network and expand- tions to any part of the world, joined the carrier’s expanding ing fleet. The addition of the including full, split and combina- fleet having completed its first B747 freighter will enable further tion charter services. The carrier’s flight from Doha to Hong Kong. flexibility by supplementing our dedicated Charter team delivers a Qatar Airways Cargo oper- existing scheduled services as and high level of customer service and ates one of the most modern when required.” communication with proven expe- freighter fleets in the sky com- Flexibility in loading is a rience across an increasing port- prised of Boeing B777 and Airbus key feature of the Boeing B747 folio of charter services satisfying A330 freighters. The addition of freighter. With a large side cargo customer requirements. the popular Boeing B747-400BCF door the aircraft can be loaded One of the largest palletised heavy cargo aircraft, and its 112.5 quickly and easily, whether the cargo aircraft available in the tonne capacity, will enable Qatar cargo is made up of standard con- market, the Boeing B747F will Airways Cargo to satisfy grow- tainers and pallets or nonstand- provide belly freight capacity and ing demand for outsized freight ard, outsized objects. main cargo deck capacity with transportation from customers The airline will welcome a 39 ULD positions. The pressu- investing in significant infra- Boeing B747-400F with a nose- rised cargo cabin means that the structure projects in the Middle loading door to its fleet in October aircraft is suitable to transport East and throughout the world. 2015, replacing the existing Boeing freight of all kinds and can pro- Qatar Airways Chief Officer B747BCF to provide even more vide a temperature control range Cargo, Ulrich Ogiermann said: flexibility to satisfy customers’ from 4° to 30° degrees Celsius. “A dedicated charter aircraft oversized cargo transportation Livestock and horses, perisha- will enable Qatar Airways Cargo demands. Qatar Airways Cargo bles, heavy machinery, oversized to satisfy growing demand from confirmed an order for an addi- equipment, oil and gas equipment Qatar Airways Cargo’s first B747 freighter has joined the carrier’s expanding fleet after completing its first flight our customers for capacity in the tional four Boeing B777Fs at the and humanitarian and relief aid from Doha to Hong Kong. ad-hoc charter market. Qatar Paris Air Show in June, increasing can all be transported worldwide Airways Cargo continues to grow: its outstanding fleet order to eight on this aircraft, which is suitable Airport, Doha, where its cargo cargo complex has a capacity to airside loading docks to facilitate we have achieved our status as the Boeing B777Fs and two Airbus for long haul cargo flights of up to terminal is one of the largest in process 1.4 million tonnes of cargo the swift and efficient transfer of world’s fifth largest cargo carrier A330Fs. The carrier’s QR Charter 10 hours. The cargo airline oper- the world. Operating an advanced per year and can accommodate cargo in to and out of Qatar. by adopting a market-responsive service offers quality, reliable and ates from Hamad International air cargo handling system, the 11 wide-body freighters with 42 THE PENINSULA

Health officials conduct inspections at food outlets

The Health officials at Doha Municipality conducted a total of 420 inspections at various food outlets last week and seized more than 111 tonnes of stale food, the Ministry of Municipality and Urban Development (MMUP) official website announced yesterday. After detecting violations of health and safety norms, the municipality issued notices to 21 outlets. The officials also conducted inspections at 21 lady beauty salons during the week. ROTA announces six sponsors of GYC meet DOHA: Reach Out To Asia United Nations Office for the Pillars of the Qatar National global stage. The sponsors of the (ROTA), a member of Qatar Coordination of Humanitarian Vision 2030. Sharing the view UN’s first-ever GYC are Qatar Foundation for Education, Affairs (UNOCHA). that young people are critical National Bank (QNB), Qatar Science and Community As a member of QF, ROTA actors in rethinking the glo- Airways, Qatar Petroleum Development (QF), has unveiled believes in the importance of bal humanitarian architecture, (QP), Nakilat, Sheikh Thani the names of the six Qatari unlocking human potential, ROTA, as the event host, is Bin Abdullah Foundation for organisations that will spon- as well as the development of using its expertise, knowledge, Humanitarian Services (RAF), sor the first-ever Global Youth human capacity in-line with the and resources to ensure that the and United Muslim Relief. Consultation (GYC) for the Human and Social Development youth are given a voice on the THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

Tips to avoid harmful materials

Expert warns against use he US-based Food and Drug Administration provides a number Tof useful tips to help avoid exposure to potentially harmful chemicals found in plastic products: * Avoid buying meat, fruit or vegetables wrapped in PVC cling wrap. While most cling wrap sold for domestic use is made from low density polyethylene (number 4), supermarkets and many independ- of plastic food containers ent butchers and fruit and vegetable shops are still wrapping meat and fresh vegetables in cling wrap made from PVC. * Avoid using reusable plastic bottles with number 3 (or PVC), Storing or heating food in plastic containers can have negative health effects and number 7 (or PC). Instead look for product labels that read BPA-free. Keep in mind that heating and washing polycarbonate DOHA: Storing or heating food or drinks of chemicals used in the manufacturing of a bottles can increase the amount of BPA that leaches out. in containers made from plastic can have plastic from the product’s identification code. * Consider cutting down on your consumption of canned foods, negative health effects. Though food man- For instance, packaging with codes 1 (PET), as the tin lining can leach BPA directly into food. ufacturers generally do not use packaging 2 (high density polyethylene - HDPE), 4 (low * Don’t reuse plastics with the number 1 (used in water and soft from potentially harmful plastics, there density polyethylene — LDPE), 5 (PP) and 6 drink bottles) and throw away worn or scratched plastic contain- are certain products available in the mar- (PS) are generally nontoxic. Whenever possible ers. Hand-wash plastic containers instead of using a dishwasher in kets that are wrapped in harmful plastics, avoid packaging with the codes 3 (PVC) or 7 (a order to reduce wear and tear. warned an expert. catch-all for any other plastics that include poly- Professor Abou-Samra also cautions against the use of non-stick While advising residents to take precau- carbonate),” cautions Professor Abou-Samra. cookware. He says these pots and pans can release toxic chemicals, tions when using plastic containers to store Plastic identification codes are generally particularly when cooking at very high temperatures. or heat food, a senior internal medicine expert stamped or printed on the bottom of pack- “When using non-stick cookware, use the lowest temperature from Hamad Medical Corporation (HMC) aging and surrounded by the internation- possible to safely cook the food. Also, run the exhaust fan over the said yesterday: “Most food and drink is pack- ally used recycling symbol, which consists of stove when cooking on the stovetop. Where possible, opt for cook- aged in containers made from plastics. Soft arrows that form a rounded triangle. ware made from materials such as cast iron,” he advises. drink and bottled water containers are usually Professor Abou-Samra says ingesting harmful Anyone having health issues suspected of plastic chemical con- made from polyethylene terephthalate (PET), chemicals from plastic can negatively impact tamination should seek urgent professional medical advice. while yoghurt and margarine containers are one’s health. “When ingested, these chemi- usually made from polypropylene (PP). Food cals can disrupt the body’s endocrine (or hor- manufacturers generally do not use packaging mone) system and can cause conditions such as “While these compounds are undoubtedly hazardous at high levels or wrapping made from potentially harmful asthma, cancer, birth defects, immune system of exposure, scientific opinion is divided over the risk from the much plastics like polycarbonate or polyvinyl chlo- suppression, and developmental and reproduc- lower levels that we are exposed to every day in our food. There is, how- ride (PVC), however, there are products in the tive problems,” Professor Abou-Samra said. ever, growing scientific evidence that even at lower levels of exposure, supermarkets that do.” “Infants and the very young are most vul- phthalates and BPA may cause problems such as infertility, obesity, HMC’s Chairman of Internal Medicine, Professor Abdul-Badi Abou-Samra nerable to exposure because of their lower body breast cancer, prostate cancer, heart disease and diabetes,” he noted. Professor Abdul-Badi Abou-Samra says that weight and because their growth and develop- To limit exposure to potentially harmful chemicals, Professor Abou- storing or heating food or drinks in containers that it is wise to avoid heating or microwav- ment are strongly influenced by hormones; the Samra recommends eating more fresh foods and reducing consumption made from plastic can increase the amount ing food in plastic packaging even if the label negative effects on health can be lifelong. These of processed or fast foods. “Choosing fresh foods as part of a healthier of chemicals transferred to the food, some- indicates a container is microwave-safe. effects have been seen clearly and consistently in diet will not only help you avoid harmful chemicals used in the manu- thing he says can have negative health effects. It can be difficult to avoid using plastic experiments with animals and when people or facturing process of plastic containers, but it will also help in reduc- Instead, the expert suggests opting for glass food packaging but it is important to be cau- wildlife have been accidentally exposed to high ing the large amounts of sodium, fat and other unhealthy ingredients (such as Pyrex) or metal containers, adding tious, he said. “You can often identify the type levels of endocrine disruptors.” contained in processed or fast foods,” he said. THE PENINSULA

Ministry recalls GMC and Cadillac vehicles 36 outlets allowed to hold promotions DOHA: The Ministry of The recall decision is part of processes and will communi- Economy and Commerce the ministry’s decision to make cate with clients to ensure the DOHA: The Licensing and Market Monitoring Mamas and Papas (at The Villaggio) and Al Dar (MEC), in collaboration with sure the dealers are committed success of the recall campaign Department of the Ministry of Economy and Optics are among the above-cited outlets. Mannai Trading Company to follow up defects and repair as well as the implementation Commerce has allowed 36 outlets of different kinds Some 15 of these outlets launched promotions late WLL, the dealer of GMC them to protect consumers’ of the procedures to fix defects. to offer special promotions between July-end and last month and they are still on. Thirteen of them are and Cadillac in Qatar, has rights. The Ministry urged consum- October. ending in September—on various dates. announced the recall of GMC The Ministry has also ers to report any abuses or Most of the promotions are lined up for this Two end in October—one on October 5 (American Yukon & Sierra and Cadillac affirmed that it will coordinate irregularities to its department month, shows the list of all the 36 outlets issued by Furniture, Salwa Road), the other on October 25 Escalade 2011 -2012 models with Mannai Trading Company of consumer protection and the Ministry. (KFC and Hardees). due to defects in the ignition WLL to follow up the neces- commercial fraud combat. Lulu Hypermarkets, Qatar Apparels, KFC and At least 21 of these promotions end this month (on lock actuator. sary maintenance and repair THE PENINSULA Hardees, Warehouse, Debenhams, Salam Studios, various dates). THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME DIFI inks MoU with QF for Social Work Focus on promoting mutual cooperation and help meet family-related development goals in Qatar

DOHA: Doha International the fundamental group unit of as well as human development in especially Qatar National Vision Family Institute (DIFI), a society, but is also the fundamen- Qatar in line with QFSW vision 2030. member of Qatar Foundation tal agent for sustainable social, and mission in empowering and According to the MOU, the for Education, Science and economic, and cultural develop- developing civil society organisa- parties agree to annual action Community Development (QF) ment. The MOU, she added, will tions. It will also promote their plans outlining the conduct of has signed a Memorandum of guide both parties’ joint efforts at capacities and role in society in research and studies aimed at Understanding (MOU) with three strategic pillars: enriching such a manner that enables them assessing and implementing poli- Qatar Foundation for Social research on family-related issues to meet the goals for which they cies and programmes pertaining Work (QFSW) in an effort to in Qatar; ensuring that family- were established, while taking to families, women, children, and promote mutual cooperation related issues are a top priority into account the threats that fam- the elderly in Qatar; monitoring and help meet family-related for policy makers; and advancing ilies are facing amidst regional and studying the risks faced by development goals in Qatar. knowledge sharing and raising and global developments. Qatari families and vulnerable Commenting on the signing, community awareness of family- Al Mannai also noted that the groups and submitting relevant Noor Al Malki Al Jehani, DIFI related issues. signing of the Memorandum is recommendations accordingly; Executive Director, underlined Al Malki also maintained that a testament to the Foundation’s designing and implementing pro- the importance of the MOU in the MOU will enable DIFI to active contribution to the devel- grammes to raise society’s awareness promoting a common under- contribute to promoting Qatar opment movement and the pro- of the family’s role and issues, and standing to consolidate the insti- Foundation’s vision in leading motion of an integrated system of striving to build active partnerships tutional cooperation between the the efforts aimed at achieving Amal bint Abdullatif Al Mannai (left), CEO of Qatar Foundation for Social qualities and morals that ensure between governmental organisations two parties as a means to con- leadership in human, social, and Work and Noor Al Malki Al Jehani, DIFI Executive Director. complementary and united efforts and civil organisations focusing on tribute to the development goals economic development in Qatar. as well as collective performance, family-related issues, as well as any focusing on families and their Amal Bint Abdullatif Al which will in turn sustain the other activities deemed essential by members in Qatar. Mannai, CEO of Qatar Foundation hand with DIFI — as evidenced and develop social action, and progress achieved in social and the parties with a view to meeting According to Al Malki, DIFI for Social Work, said she was glad by the MOU — as an active and promote the sustainability of human development in line with their common goals. believes that family is not only to see QFSW working hand in effective partner, to help support family and community cohesion national reference standards, THE PENINSULA

Waste removed

The Beaches and Islands Section of the Ministry of Municipality & Urban Planning has cleaned Al ASafliyah island by removing waste, timber and plastic bags left by visitors. The ministry has appealed to all visi- tors to dispose waste in the specified con- tainers to preserve the aesthetic appear- ance of beaches and islands and main- Nakilat official with HMC staff during the blood donation campaign. tain a clean and tidy environment. Nakilat holds second blood donation campaign ‘Hospitality Qatar 2015’ in October DOHA: Nakilat in partner- Nakilat employees who took ship with Hamad Medical part in this event. it’s a noble Corporation (HMC), hosted cause, and we hope to partner DOHA: Hospitality Qatar 2015, allow franchise brands, hotel hotels and other tourism facili- hotel occupancy rate is expected its second blood donation drive with HMC in the future. Every the hospitality and HORECA groups, developers, banks and ties in Qatar, as the government to rise to 70.5 percent in 2018. event. Nakilat staff mem- year we endeavour to integrate (Hotels, Restaurants, cafes) consultants to network and has invested in transforming the Similarly, occupancy rate for bers came out to give blood our role as a corporate entity show of Qatar, will take place create new business opportuni- country into a luxury, sports and serviced apartments is expected as part of Corporate Social with our day-to-day business from 13 – 15 October at the ties with hotels and franchise business destination. to increase to 65.5 percent by Responsibilities initiatives. as we believe one enhances the Doha Exhibition Centre (DEC). investors. Also, the hosting of the 2022 2018. A fully equipped mobile blood other. Most of what we do goes The show, which is licensed by Hospitality Qatar 2015 is being FIFA World Cup has boosted The show has received support donation unit arrived from beyond corporate social respon- the Qatar Tourism Authority, launched at a time when Qatar is growth across the sector, with the and sponsorship from several HMC along with a team of med- sibility, we are driven by giving will be one of the premier emerging as a major player in the state expected to spend as much companies in Qatar including: Al ical professionals. They were back to society and helping our events to feature all aspects of hospitality and franchise invest- as $200bn in the build-up to the Sraiya Holding Group (Platinum assisted by Nakilat team. The community make a difference, the hotel and franchise market ment market in the GCC, due global event. The country plans Sponsor), Elegancia Hospitality coordinated campaign allowed in this instance, by donating in the Gulf region and repre- to the requirements of the 2022 to make significant additions to Group (Gold Sponsor), ASKAR team members to donate blood blood to saves lives.” sents an excellent platform for FIFA World Cup, in terms of Food hotel capacity from around 15,000 (Official Kitchen Sponsor), at their workplace. The event was a huge success local, regional and international and Beverage / HORECA supply to approximately 95,000 rooms by Boecker (Salon Culinaire and Rashid Al Marri, Nakilat as community support is vital to HORECA suppliers to meet and hotel construction. 2022. Official Hygiene Sponsor) and Administration Director, said: the local blood supply. hospitality professionals from The last few years have seen a According to a recent report many more. “I’m extremely proud of all the THE PENINSULA the entire region. It will also swift expansion in the number of released by Alpen Capital, the THE PENINSULA Swagath Restaurant opens

Swagath Restaurant at Old Ghanim Street in Doha is inau- gurated by Dhana Fathima Moosa Kurungot and Abdulla Khasim Kurungot. Ooredoo holds screening of Mission Impossible DOHA: Ooredoo celebrated World Friendship Day by hosting a special screening of the latest blockbuster “Mission Impossible: Rogue Nation” for 30 lucky winners and their best friends. The competition, which asked Ooredoo customers to share a picture of their happiest moment with their best friends, selected 30 winners at random to go to the screening with a friend at the new cinema, Novo in the Pearl. Fatima Sultan Al Kuwari, Director Community and Public Relations, Ooredoo, said: “We want to unite our customers and give back, and World Friendship Day was a perfect opportunity for us to do something fun. We love surprising our customers as part of our #OoredooWeekends initiative and we hope everyone enjoyed the screening.” Ooredoo organised the private screening of Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation on Thursday. The film, which has just been released, is the fifth instalment in the Mission: Impossible series and stars Tom Cruise, who reprises his role as IMF Agent Ethan Hunt. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05

Al Nusra Front Abadi urged to withdraws from frontline sack ministers against IS BEIRUT: Al Qaeda’s Syria affiliate Al Nusra Front has announced a surprise with- found ‘corrupt’ drawal from its front lines against its jihadist rival Islamic State in areas along Syria’s Speaker backs Iraq PM’s reform plan northern border with Turkey. It said the decision was being BAGHDAD: Iraq’s parliament degrees Celsius, protesters have taken to avoid cooperating with Speaker called yesterday for railed against the poor quality of a US-Turkish plan to create an Prime Minister Haider Al Abadi services, especially power out- IS-free zone in northern Aleppo to sack ministers found to be ages that leave just a few hours province, along the Turkish bor- negligent or corrupt as part of a of government-supplied electric- der. “We announce our with- wide-ranging reform drive. ity per day. drawal from our front lines with Abadi on Sunday proposed a Thousands of people have the khawarij (IS) in northern series of measures aimed at curb- turned out in Baghdad and vari- parts of Aleppo province,” the ing corruption, streamlining the ous cities in the Shia south to group said in an online statement government and improving serv- vent their anger at the authori- published on Sunday. ices after weeks of protests and ties. People have protested over It did not specify which parts a call from Iraq’s top Shia cleric services and corruption before, of the frontline with IS the group Grand Ayatollah Ali Al Sistani for but the demonstrations failed to Fighters from an alliance of insurgents known as the “Army of Fatah” (Islamic Conquest) work on a tank that would withdraw from. drastic change. bring about significant change. belonged to forces loyal to Syria’s President Bashar Al Assad in the village of Al Ziyara, after they took control of Al Nusra is a key opponent of Parliament speaker Salim Al Demonstrators’ demands the village, in Hama province, Syria, yesterday. IS in the northern province of Juburi urged MPs to approve were given a boost on Friday Aleppo along with its powerful Abadi’s measures and said even when Sistani, who is revered Islamist ally Ahrar Al Sham. more reforms were required. by millions, called for Abadi The group said it was withdraw- The legislature is to discuss the to take “drastic measures” Syria rights defender released ing in response to a US-Turkish reforms on Tuesday. against corruption, saying decision late last month to imple- “We asked the prime minister that the “minor steps” he had BEIRUT: Prominent Syrian Ghreir and Hani Al Zaitani were his “long overdue” release and ment an IS-free zone. to dismiss a number of ministers announced were not enough. rights defender Mazen Darwish released last month in an amnesty said charges against him and his “Al Nusra Front does not see who are clearly guilty of derelic- Abadi rolled out the reform has been released after more announced as a gesture for the colleagues should be dropped. entering this alliance, helping it, tion, negligence and corruption,” programme two days later. than three years in prison Muslim holiday of Eid Al Fitr. “Mazen Darwish and his col- or coordinating with it as legiti- Juburi said in televised remarks. One of the most drastic of pending a verdict in his case at Bader said Darwish, who is in leagues should never have been mate,” the statement read. Juburi did not name specific Abadi’s proposals, which were the end of this month, his wife his early 40s, was supposed to in jail in the first place,” said Said It said the decision to create ministers in his public statement. approved by the cabinet on said yesterday. benefit from the same amnesty, Boumedouha, acting director of the IS-free zone was “not a stra- But a parliamentary official Sunday, was the call for the posts “He has been freed ahead but his release was delayed. Amnesty’s Middle East and North tegic decision... made by the fight- said those responsible for electric- of vice president and deputy of a final verdict in his case on Both Amnesty International Africa Programme. ing groups, rather its primary ity and water resources were both prime minister to be eliminated August 31,” Darwish’s wife Yara and media watchdog Reporters “The Syrian authorities must goal is Turkey’s national security.” proposed for the chopping block “immediately”. Bader said. The leading journalist without Borders welcomed drop all charges against Mazen Turkey has agreed with in a meeting yesterday between The plan also calls for the and rights activist was arrested Darwish’s release. and his colleagues and end their Washington to work on expelling the speaker and political leaders. elimination of “political and sec- in February 2012 along with “We are relieved that Mazen relentless campaign to target IS from a swathe of territory in Juburi also called for MPs who tarian quotas” for senior officials, two colleagues from his Syrian Darwish is free again and we are anyone who dares to speak out northern Aleppo province. are absent for more than a third for increased oversight to prevent Centre for Media and Freedom now waiting for the court to find about the appalling human rights The Syrian Observatory for of the time to be removed. corruption, and for services to be of Expression. him innocent,” said the secretary violations in the country.” Human Rights monitoring group Absent MPs are a perennial improved, among other measures. The three were accused of general of Reporters Without Darwish has received multiple said Al Nusra had so far fully problem for the Iraqi legislature, Various parties and politi- “promoting terrorist acts” and Borders, Christophe Deloire. awards in acknowledgement of his withdrawn from the villages of which even failed to reach a quo- cians have sought to align them- held despite repeated calls from “Darwish is a leading symbol work, including Unesco’s annual Dalha and Harjaleh, which lie rum for an emergency session selves with the protesters’ calls media and rights groups for of resistance to a regime that has press freedom prize in May. His near the Turkish border. “There called in response to a sweeping for reforms — at least in their their release. They were moved constantly suppressed independ- wife accepted the award on his are other villages that they offi- offensive by the Islamic State rhetoric — to benefit from the between prisons several times, ently reported news and informa- behalf, saying it was dedicated to cially withdrew from, but they jihadist group in June 2014. movement and mitigate the risk and court dates in their case were tion and covered up human rights his children in the hope they would stayed in the hands of Nusra’s Amid a major heatwave that to themselves. regularly postponed. violations.” grow up in a free Syria. allies,” said Observatory head has seen temperatures top 50 AFP Darwish’s colleagues Hussein Amnesty International hailed AFP Rami Abdel Rahman. AFP Hamas summer camp

Palestinian girls exercise during a summer camp organised by Hamas in Rafah yesterday.

Force-feeding concerns after Israel transfers Palestinian hunger striker

JERUSALEM: Israel moved a a new law adopted last month On July 30, parliament Palestinian hunger striker who loosening restrictions on such approved a law allowing prison- has not eaten for over 50 days practices. ers on hunger strike facing death to a different hospital yesterday, He would be the first to be force to be force fed, sparking criticism officials said, sparking concern fed since the law was adopted. from rights groups and doctors. that authorities are preparing Hadas Ziv, ethics committee That vote came two weeks after to force feed him. coordinator for Physicians for Israel freed Islamic Jihad member Alleged Islamic Jihad activist Human Rights-Israel, said it Khader Adnan following a 56-day Mohammed Allaan, held with- appeared the transfer was made hunger strike that brought him out charge since November, was because doctors objected to treat- near death. moved after doctors at his hos- ing Allaan, who is in his early 30s. Separately yesterday, pital in Beersheva objected to Arab Israeli MP Basel Ghattas Palestinian legislator Khalida carrying out blood tests against said he wrote to the director Jarrar was denied bail by an his will, Physicians for Human of the medical centre where Israeli military court, which Rights-Israel said. Allaan was taken urging him not granted prosecutors two more The advocacy group put the to “turn Barzilai hospital into weeks to bring in witnesses, rights amount of days Allaan has been Guantanamo.” group Addameer said. on hunger strike at 54, though “Do not force your doctors to Jarrar is a senior member of different numbers have been pro- participate in torture,” Ghattas the leftist Popular Front for the vided. He has only been drinking said on his Facebook page. Liberation of Palestine, which water throughout that time. Allaan, a lawyer, is being held Israel considers to be a “terrorist A spokesman for the Israeli under a procedure allowing indef- organisation”. She is being held prison service confirmed the inite internment without charge. on 12 charges. transfer to Barzilai hospital in the Palestinians in Israeli prisons “She is arrested for her opin- city of Ashkelon for “medical rea- regularly go on hunger strike in ions,” her husband Ghassan sons” but gave no further details. protest at conditions, particularly Jarrar said outside the courtroom. Activists and others raised those who, like him, are held in “She is a political prisoner.” A new concerns that authorities were what Israel calls administrative hearing was set for August 24. preparing to force feed him, with detention. AFP TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST US reporter to get Iran verdict ‘in a week’ Washington Post reporter Jezan Rezaian in custody for more than a year

TEHRAN: Jailed Washington she had presented her defence fourth — was the first since Iran which usually presides over politi- Post reporter Jason Rezaian and a judgement would follow. struck a nuclear deal with the cal or national security cases. should learn his fate “within a “The verdict will be issued and leading powers in Vienna on July Rezaian, the Post’s Tehran cor- week” after his secretive trial communicated to us within a 14, and it centred on the report- respondent, was arrested with his on accusations of spying on Iran week,” she said. “I expect my cli- er’s rebuttal of the charges. wife Yeganeh Salehi, also a jour- ended yesterday, his lawyer said. ent to be acquitted, as he is com- He stands accused of “espio- nalist, at their Tehran home on His newspaper called the trial pletely innocent.” nage, collaboration with hostile July 22, 2014. Although Salehi was a “sick brew of farce and tragedy” Martin Baron, the Washington governments, gathering classi- released on bail after two and a and said it “has been anything but Post’s executive editor, said in a fied information and dissemi- half months in custody, she has transparent and just”. statement “it remains unclear nating propaganda against the not worked since and is barred The 39-year-old Iranian- even to Jason’s lawyer what might Islamic republic.” The charges from discussing the case. American has been in custody happen next”. “The process has are thought to carry a maximum A photographer arrested on more than a year and the alle- been anything but transparent penalty of 20 years in prison. the same day is also out on bail. gations were heard behind closed and just, and that pattern per- Iran and the United States said No charges have been disclosed doors, drawing condemnation sists. The only thing that is clear there was no linkage between against either but Ahsan said from his family, employer and is Jason’s innocence,” he said. Rezaian’s case and the nuclear she expected court action against press freedom groups. “Now is the time for Iran’s talks, but President Barack Salehi and the other accused after Outside the court Rezaian’s senior leaders to end this ‘judi- Obama and Secretary of State the Rezaian verdict. Salehi and mother read a defiant statement cial process’, with its sick brew John Kerry criticised the trial and Rezaian’s mother were at court defending her son, saying he was of farce and tragedy,” Baron said. called for his release. but not allowed inside. an innocent victim of bad diplo- The politically charged case Ahsan on July 28 said she hoped “This case is not about what matic relations between Iran and unfolded during nuclear talks the recent accord — in which Iran Jason did. This is a political the United States. between Iran and world pow- agreed to curb its nuclear pro- case, political issues between the The journalist, who has suf- ers including the United States, gramme in return for the lifting United States and Iran,” said his fered poor health in prison, was which have led to hope of a thaw of crippling sanctions imposed by mother, who was allowed to visit “paying the price of the suspicion, in ties after decades of strain. the West—would hasten her cli- him last week. the animosity, and the paranoia Iran and America broke off ent’s freedom. But repeated bail “He is very tired, he is very iso- between the two countries,” Mary diplomatic relations in 1980, fol- requests have been refused. lated. Jason’s rights as an Iranian Rezaian said. lowing the Islamic revolution the Iran has said the case is a mat- citizen have not been fulfilled Mary Rezaian (centre) mother of detained Washington Post Iranian- Confirming that yesterday’s previous year which led to a hos- ter for its judiciary and the ver- because he was kept in prison American correspondent Jason Rezaian, speaks with the media as Jason’s hearing was the last in the tage crisis at the US embassy in dict should not be pre-judged. more than one year and many wife Yeganeh Salehi (back) listens after a hearing in Jason’s trial at the case unless there is an appeal, Tehran. The accusations were heard in times his trial was delayed. Revolutionary Court in Tehran yesterday. Rezaian’s lawyer Leila Ahsan said Yesterday’s hearing — the trial’s private at a Revolutionary Court, AFP Saudi urged to free pro-reform writer Libya official vows Bomb injures four DUBAI: Human Rights Watch the New York-based HRW said. Middle East director at HRW. to probe ‘abuse’ yesterday urged the Saudi “Authorities apparently ques- Another Saudi writer, blogger Arabian authorities to free tioned him about his television Raef Badawi, is serving a 10-year of Gaddafi’s son a writer and commentator appearance, which had attracted sentence for “insulting Islam” and TRIPOLI: A Libyan offi- near Cairo court arrested after he called on tel- considerable attention on social was ordered to be flogged 1,000 cial visited a prison in rebel- evision for political reforms in media,” said the watchdog, adding times, a sentence that sparked held Tripoli yesterday to meet CAIRO: Four people, at least of their senior officers ... and a the kingdom. that his writings had previously worldwide outrage. detainees including a son three of whom were policemen, conscript,” the group’s media wing Zuhair Kutbi, 62, was detained earned him six similar arrests. His lawyer and rights activist of slain dictator Muammar were wounded yesterday when said on Twitter. on July 15 after an interview “If there is no evidence of crim- Waleed Abulkhair was also sen- Gadddafi, after claims that he a bomb exploded under a traffic A two-year-old insurgency in June in which he called for inal behaviour, the Saudi authori- tenced to 10 years in jail with five was ill-treated in jail. sentry post near a Cairo court, centred on the Sinai Peninsula reforms including “transforming ties should immediately release years suspended after being con- The visit by Mustafa Al Kulaib, security sources said. has killed hundreds of soldiers. the country into a constitutional Kutbi and compensate him for victed of charges including “incit- justice minister in the Tripoli- Bomb disposal experts defused Violence has also hit the capital. monarchy and combatting reli- the ordeal they have put him ing public opinion”. based government, comes after a second device they found inside Egypt’s top public prosecutor was gious and political repression”, through,” said Joe Stork, deputy AFP Human Rights Watch called for a black bag while searching the killed by a car bomb attack on a probe into reported abuse of area following the blast, state his convoy in late June, the most prisoners at Al Hadba prison. news agency MENA said. senior state official to die at the HRW made the request last Egyptian authorities have hands of militants in two years. week after an undated video pledged to end a wave of Islamist Separately, a court referred 10 posted on an Arab news web- militant violence that has swept people to Grand Mufti Shawqi site earlier this month showed across the country but sporadic Allam, Egypt’s most senior reli- prison guards and officials beat- attacks on high-profile locations in gious authority, a step required by ing up prisoners including Saadi Cairo and elsewhere have contin- law for convictions in capital cases, Kadhafi. ued. The explosion occurred in the in a trial involving the brother of Al “The situation does not really affluent northeastern Heliopolis Qaeda leader Ayman Al Zawahiri. reflect what people are saying,” district and wounded four people, Mohammad al Zawahiri was Kulaib said after touring Al the health ministry said not amongst those referred to the Hadba and speaking to detainees. It was claimed by Ajnad Misr, Mufti, meaning he escaped the Al Hadba is controlled by the a militant group that emerged in death penalty in this case, judi- Fajr Libya militia coalition which January 2014 and has targeted cial sources said. He and 67 others seized Tripoli last year. Kulaib security forces in and around are accused of forming a terrorist said he condemns ill-treatment of Cairo. “God Almighty made it pos- organisation with relations to Al detainees, but added that if such sible for a company of our heroes Qaeda and targeting state insti- cases exist they are only “isolated to target a gathering of criminal tutions, the military, police, and incidents”, promising to investi- security forces in the vicinity of Coptic Christians. The court will gate any abuse. Heliopolis Court with a bomb that issue a verdict on September 27. AFP led to the serious injury of two REUTERS

Jjihadist shot dead in Tunisia TUNIS: A suspected jihadist has been shot dead in western Tunisia near the Algerian border, a region where security forces have been hunt- ing militants since 2012, the interior ministry announced yesterday. It said “a terrorist was killed” in an ambush staged by police special forces on Sunday night on Mount Sammama in the Kasserine region. The dead man was being examined for identification while a second suspect was arrested on suspicion of providing support for “ter- rorist elements”, it said, using the official term for Islamist militants. A quantity of TNT, grenades, a Kalashnikov assault rifle and night- vision binoculars were seized during the opera- tion on Mount Sammama, located next to the main jihadist hideout of Mount Chaambi, the ministry said. Tunisia has since its 2011 revolution faced an upsurge in jihadist violence that has cost the lives of several dozen soldiers and police, with most attacks claimed by Al Qaeda’s North African branch. AFP TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 EUROPE www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07

British boy gets 11 years in jail EU approves for stabbing teacher €2.4bn for LONDON: A 14-year-old boy was handed an 11-year sen- tence yesterday for stabbing his teacher in the stomach in a racially-motivated attack. migrant crisis The teenager, who cannot be named due to legal restric- tions, admitted causing griev- Largest share of fund goes to Italy ous bodily harm with intent to Vincent Uzomah at a school in BRUSSELS: The EU Greece will “soon” receive a first Bradford, northern England. announced yesterday that it instalment of ¤33m after it set up The boy used a racially- has approved ¤2.4bn ($2.6bn) an authority to manage the funds. offensive term before knifing of funding to help member The United Nations warned the 50-year-old teacher in a states over the next few years Friday that migrants landing pre-planned attack in June cope with the flood of migrants in Greece were facing “shame- before his classmates, then entering the bloc. ful” conditions as Greek Prime bragged about the attack on Officials said the money will Minister Alexis Tsipras claimed Facebook. help frontline states like Italy Athens was unable to cope with “What you have done is and debt-hit Greece — which the massive influx on its Aegean utterly shocking — deliber- complained last week it cannot islands. ately, callously stabbing him,” cope — build reception centres Some 124,000 people, almost judge Jonathan Durham Hall and integrate migrants. all of them fleeing war and per- said at Bradford Crown Court. The funds are also designed to secution in Syria, Afghanistan He sentenced the boy to six Police officers are seen in front of an Ikea store in Vasteras, central Sweden, where two people were killed and help member states better moni- and Iraq, have come ashore since years in custody and a further one seriously injured in a knife attack yesterday. tor their borders and boost pro- the beginning of the year — a five years on licence. The youth grammes to deport migrants who 750-percent increase from the is likely to serve half of the six are refused entry. same period last year, the UN years in detention. “We are now able to disburse refugee agency said. Around 20 minutes after the funding,” Natasha Bertaud, a attack, the boy posted a mes- Two shoppers killed in knife spokeswoman for the European Italian Church slams sage on Facebook which said Commission, told a press politicians Uzomah was “getin funny so I conference. Meanwhile, high-ranking stick the blade straight in his attack at Ikea store in Sweden “It will provide crucial support members of the Italian Church tummy”. Some 69 people said to frontline member states,” she yesterday slammed politicians they liked the post. added as the commission said it who peddle anti-immigrant ideas “It’s an appalling reflection STOCKHOLM: Two shop- criminal record, a police spokes- waiting at the bus stop. The had worked with member states to win votes — sparking a heated on a small microcosm of our pers were stabbed to death in man for the Vastmanland region, arrest happened really fast, the to ensure the funds are “released row with Italy’s right wing. society that within minutes or an attack at an Ikea store in Per Stromback, told the regional man didn’t put up a fight but he urgently”. “We here hear talk of the hours after posting, 69 people the central Swedish town of VLT paper. was loud. He was maybe 30 or 40 The commission, the execu- ‘unbearable’ number of asylum ‘liked’. How sick.” said judge Vasteras, over which a man “Police received a call about years old,” Fredrik Pikkuaho, who tive arm of the 28-nation EU, seekers, an attitude that is unfor- Hall. “You are a dangerous has been arrested, police said wounded people at Ikea ... around filmed the clip, told VLT. said Italy will receive ¤558m and tunately fed by these salesmen” young offender,” he added. yesterday. 1pm. A man and a woman with Police can be see pushing the Greece ¤478m in funds allocated who are merely pandering to vot- The teenager yawned and Several hours after the attack, stab wounds were found at the man to the ground but the sus- from 2014 to 2020. ers, Nunzio Galantino, secretary folded his arms as Hall passed in which a third shopper was scene, they later died of their pect’s face cannot be seen clearly. Spain will receive ¤521.8m, general of the Italian Bishops’ sentence. Prosecutor Jonathan seriously injured, police had yet injuries. Another person is seri- Police gave no information Sweden ¤154m, Hungary ¤61.4m, Conference (CEI), said in an Sharp said Uzomah had suf- to release any details about the ously injured. One man has been about the identities of the victims, Bulgaria ¤72.7m, Cyprus ¤74m, interview on Vatican Radio. fered serious physical and psy- suspected attacker’s identity or arrested suspected of murder,” a but were due to hold a press con- Austria ¤26.5m, Estonia ¤35.2m, The head of the anti-immi- chological injuries and it was motive. police statement said. ference later. Finland ¤52.9m and Ireland gration Northern League party, uncertain whether he will feel There was no indication the A shaky video clip filmed by VLT quoted store manager ¤9.2m. Matteo Salvini, was quick to able to return to teaching. attack was terrorism-related. a passerby that was published Mattias Johansson as saying the Lithuania was allocated ¤17.2m, lash out at the Roman Catholic Uzomah said outside court Swedish intelligence agency Sapo on VLT’s website showed police attack took place in the store’s Luxembourg ¤7.5m, Malta ¤74.6m, Church, saying “those who defend that he had forgiven his told AFP it had not been called in arresting the suspect at a bus stop kitchenware section and that Poland ¤69.3m, Portugal ¤38.6m, this illegal invasion, which is ruin- attacker through his Christian on the case. outside Ikea. the victims were were “ordinary Romania ¤98.4m, Slovakia ¤13m ing Italy, either don’t understand faith. AFP The suspect was not known “I saw police come running shoppers”. and Slovenia ¤41m. or are making money” from the to police and did not have a toward a man standing and AFP EU officials told AFP that migrant arrivals. AFP

Cop suspended for hitting migrant Polish heatwave cuts power supply to industry ATHENS: Greece’s police who is holding a knife, slap the department yesterday said it migrant outside the Kos police had suspended an officer serv- station. Scores of migrants are WARSAW: A heatwave has limiting energy consumption for about 90 percent of its electric- consumption for large energy ing on the Aegean island of Kos standing outside the station, forced Poland to sharply cut households. ity. The country has virtually no consumers — in excess of 300kW. after he was caught on camera waiting to be documented so electricity supply to industry Europe’s second largest copper solar energy generating capacity. “This is an extreme phe- allegedly striking a migrant. that they can sail on to Athens. for the first time in over a dec- miner, Poland’s KGHM, warned it Temperatures in Poland topped nomenon,” PSE’s head Henryk “An investigation has been Greece has been overwhelmed ade, pushing some companies to might have to curb output. The 30 degrees Celsius last week and Majszczak said. “We are record- ordered in relation to pictures by an influx of migrants and limit production. local unit of the world’s largest may reach 39 degrees this week, ing high air temperatures and a posted on websites and social refugees mainly from war-torn Prime Minister Ewa Kopacz steel maker ArcelorMittal halted according to Poland’s meteorology lack of wind, which could be used media, showing punishable acts Syria this year. Greek Prime called the situation “very seri- some of its operations. institute. by wind farms.” by a police officer,” the depart- Minister Alexis Tsipras last ous” as weather forecasts for the The heatwave and lack of rain The national grid operator PSE said the limits on energy ment said in a statement. week said the crisis “surpasses” coming days showed high tem- cut the amount of water needed Polskie Sieci Elektroenergetyczne consumption will be in place A video frame grab posted by his nation’s resources and called peratures will persist. She added to cool coal-fired power plants, (PSE) introduced the sharp- from 0800 GMT to 2000 GMT Greek media show the officer, for EU help. AFP that currently she saw no risk of from which Poland generates est possible limit on energy yesterday. REUTERS

Ukraine repels tank attack by pro-Russian rebels

KIEV: Ukraine yesterday reported it had repelled a rare tank assault by pro-Russian rebels that threat- ened to shatter a shaky ceasefire and dangerously escalate the 16-month war in its breakaway east. President Petro Poroshenko said “about 200 insurgents” had staged a pre-dawn raid on Novolaspa — a village half- way between the separatists’ de facto capital Donetsk and the Kiev-held southern port of Mariupol — that caught government soldiers off-guard. Chief of Staff General Viktor Muzhenko “informed the president that the Ukrainian forces gave a fitting rebuff and repelled all the attacks,” the presidency said. But the Defence Ministry later reported the militants mounting a second attack on the same village whose outcome was not immediately clear. AFP Russia opposition coalition barred from regional polls

MOSCOW: A Russian opposition coalition co-led by leading Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny has had nearly all its candidates barred from September regional and local elections, a representative told AFP yesterday. “We have been excluded from all the polls that we wanted to take part in,” said Sergei Davidis of the RPR- Parnas opposition coalition, which includes the party of slain Kremlin critic Boris Nemtsov. “This shows that the authorities are afraid of us. It shows we’re hitting them in a sensitive spot,” Davidis said. Navalny, a key figure in mass opposition protests against President Vladimir Putin who has twice been given suspended sentences for fraud and spent a year under house arrest, accused the authorities on Friday of trying to rig the local and regional elections planned in 11 regions on September 13. “If you are not cheaters, then why won’t you let us take part in the elections?”, he asked in a speech at the head- quarters of the central electoral commission on Friday. AFP TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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ITH A spate of attacks yesterday claiming nine lives, the situation in Turkey is worsening as the government scales up bombings of Islamic State Wand Kurdish targets. After years of reluctance, Turkey recently started allowing use of its bases by US forces to Why Trump shrugs so much launch attacks on IS. Joining the coalition against the militant group, Turkish fighter jets have also bombed IS and PKK BY JUSTIN W M MOYER “fat pigs, dogs, slobs, [and] disgusting south and west of the Second Avenue targets. Kurdish militant group PKK has been fighting the animals,” as Kelly put it. Such remarks, site weren’t too keen on having an 810- Turkish state since 1984. ore than a decade after Charles she said, weren’t just aimed at Trump’s foot tower parked in the neighbour- Yesterday’s attacks in its largest city Istanbul and in the Darwin gave the world “The longtime foe Rosie O’Donnell. hood,” the Chronicle reported. “Trump southeastern region will work to ratchet up tension in the MOrigin of Species,” he pub- “Trump’s response: A shrug,” The shrugged off their concerns. ‘We got lished a lesser-known tome that con- Washington Post’s Amber Phillips approved, and it’s a benefit to the country that straddles Asia and Europe on both sides of the nected the world of homo sapiens and reported. “‘Yes, I’m sure it was,’” he said neighbourhood.’” Bosphorus Strait. Turkey decided to participate in the war lesser species inhabiting Planet Earth: — later adding that Kelly “had blood Trump shrugged in 2002 as it became on IS after a suicide bomber in the town of Suruc killed 32 “The Expression of Emotions in Man coming out of her eyes, blood coming clear that the Central Park Five, con- people. Since then, a number of attacks mostly blamed on and Animals.” Therein, amid long dis- out of her wherever,” and refusing to victed of raping a jogger in Central Park the PKK have killed 20 members of the security forces. Some cussions of sneering, blushing and smil- apologise for the implication that Kelly’s in 1989, were not guilty. Trump had ing, Darwin tackled a gesture as well outburst was related to hormones. taken out ads calling for the return of civilians have also lost their lives. known to mobsters in Martin Scorsese Trump also shrugged during the the death penalty to punish the young The US Consulate situated on the European side of Istanbul movies as it is to parents of teenagers: debate when he said he would consider men. was fired upon by two women early yesterday. The attack, the shrug. a third-party run. “Mr Trump shrugged off the planned which led to the closure of the consulate, was claimed by a “As shrugging the shoulders generally “He was the only one, in fact,” protest,” according to the New York far-Left group called Revolutionary People’s Liberation Army- implies ‘I cannot do this or that,’ so by Phillips wrote. “The crowd booed (some Times. He said: “I don’t mind if they Front (DHKP-C). The organisation has been declared a a slight change, it sometimes implies ‘I had booed the question too). Trump picket. I like pickets.” won’t do it,’” Darwin wrote. “The move- shrugged.” His explanation, which gar- The Donald shrugged about the finan- terrorist group by the US and Ankara. ment then expresses a dogged determi- nered laughs: “If I’m the nominee, I will cial crisis in 2007. With mounting attacks, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan nation not to act.” pledge I will not run as an independent.” “Mr Trump shrugged off concerns and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoglu have declared an all-out Though the shrug existed millen- But all of Trump’s shrugs are not of that a crisis in US subprime mortgage assault on IS and PKK. The internal nia before Darwin described it — and recent vintage — this is a habit that goes lending, which caters to poor credit As attacks political situation in the country, many cabdrivers, airline ticket agents back decades. risks, would spread to the wider prop- however, remains unstable with and rebels with- Trump shrugged in 1988 when ques- erty market, including Mr Trump’s out a cause have tioned about donations made by some luxury buildings,” the Globe and Mail increase, the ruling AKP unable to muster deployed it since of his businesses to the campaign of a wrote. “‘I don’t see the subprime prob- the Turkish enough seats in June parliamentary — perhaps no New York City councilman. lems affecting the higher-end stuff,’ he elections to form a government. Trump has modern politi- “Why not just contribute in your own said. In fact, he is advising investors government AKP has been talking with other cian favours the name?” an official asked, as Newsday that there are now great deals in buy- political groups to strike a coalition shrugged off shrug more than reported. “Trump shrugged. Everyone ing subprime mortgages at a discount Donald Trump. knew where the money came from, he and repossessed houses at low prices.” should brace deal, however, a breakthrough questions In photographs, said, so there was certainly no effort That same year, Rolling Stone to deal with remains elusive. news reports and at concealment. ‘My attorneys basi- reported, in the book “Think BIG and A vehicle packed with explosives about his hiring one presidential cally said this was the proper way of Kick Ass in Business and Life,” Trump a burgeoning rammed into a police station on the practices and debate so far, the doing it.’” dismissed his “financial catastrophes security Asian side of Istanbul killing the Republican can- Trumped shrugged in 1990 as his with a snarl and a shrug.” attacker yesterday. Two others and criticism of illegal didate is often Atlantic City properties were running “I figured it was the bank’s problem, seen or described short of cash. not mine,” he wrote. “What the hell did challenge. a police officer died in the firefight immigrants, as “shrugging” “Mr Trump has shrugged off such I care? I actually told one bank, ‘I told that followed. There were two more — or, perhaps worries,” Canada’s Globe and Mail you you shouldn’t have loaned me that attacks in southeastern Turkey on the same day. as well as his more often, wrote. “Instead, he has emphasised the money. I told you the damn deal was Turkey has been caught in a spiral of violence since the criticism of John “shrugging off” upbeat, such as the excellent offers he no good.’” Suruc bombing that marked the turning point in Ankara’s — controversy. has received for some of his properties.” In 2011, as he seemed to be gearing stance on terrorism. McCain’s war In some ways, Trump shrugged in 1997 when up to run for president as a Republican, this “determina- asked why he had included so many Trump shrugged at reports that most Because of its rich history and scenic beauty, millions of record. And that’s tion not to act,” photographs of himself in his third of his political donations had been to tourists flock to Turkey. With internal security deteriorating as Darwin put it, autobiography. Democrats. and news of almost-daily attacks being highlighted by just in the past is Trump’s brand: “Asked why he included 54 pictures “Trump shrugged,” the Weekly international media, tourism revenue is likely to be hit. month. Unlike many oth- of himself in the new book, Trump Standard reported. “I’ve had a lot of Though it has been a late entrant to the war on IS, ers with their shrugged and said his publisher could friends who are Democrats, and a lot eyes on the White have printed plenty more,” the San of friends who are Republicans,” he said. Turkey’s decision to bomb the Islamist group cannot be House, he refuses to walk back, wiggle Francisco Chronicle reported. “‘I gave The shrugging didn’t end there, of questioned. However, its bombing of PKK targets along with around or even tread softly when chal- them a lot of pictures, and they just course. Trump has shrugged off ques- IS sites is complicating the situation. lenged on his outrageous statements. printed the ones they wanted.’” tions about his hiring practices and crit- The Turkish government needs to effectively deal with the Trump’s most recent shrugs came Trump shrugged in 2002 discussing icism of illegal immigrants, as well as his situation inside the country by further ratcheting up security, when moderator Megyn Kelly chal- the large profit he expected to make criticism of John McCain’s war record. boosting its intelligence network to preempt attacks and lenged him for allegedly offensive from New York’s Trump World Tower. And that’s just in the past month. remarks about women, who he’s called “The residents in the blocks north, WP-BLOOMBERG taking measures to keep the morale of its security forces high• The other side Quote of Manipur agitation for ILP raises worries about exclusivist agenda the day aanipur, which probably introduction of a similar permit in the Sapam Robinhood in police firing on By promising to introduce the ILP has more bandhs in a state and in the last few weeks pro- July 8. Bill, the Ibobi Singh government has year than all Indian states testers led by the Joint Committee on The protests are a result of the taken an easy — but a dangerous — put together, has been on Inner Line Permit System (JCILPS), an changing power dynamics in the way out of the situation, and has also Mthe boil for the past few weeks over umbrella organisation of 30 civil bod- Manipuri social structure: The Meiteis played into the hands of the Meitei Our wildlife, the contentious issue of the Inner Line ies and Meitei students’ organisations, are the most powerful community in community. This fear of being overrun Permit (ILP). have managed to push the state gov- the plains of Manipur and it has a by outsiders is not an irrational fear but all our animals, The ILP, which was introduced by ernment on the back foot. strong grip on the levers of power must not be overplayed like this so that the British government to protect their On July 15, they forced the Ibobi but the gradual improvement in the it looks like reverse discrimination of belong to us. commercial interests in the Northeast, Singh government to withdraw the status of the tribal communities sorts. is a special pass that is required to earlier Regulation of Visitors, Tenants has changed the power equations. Moreover, how will the NE become They should not enter Arunachal Pradesh, Nagaland and Migrant Workers Bill and promise Moreover, no outsider can buy the a commercial hub for India’s economic and Mizoram. This mechanism is now that it would introduce the ILP Bill within land of the tribals. engagement with the East if there is be shot with a essentially used to limit the expo- three months. The former does not pro- All this has made the Meiteis uneasy so much of fear of the entry of non- gun or with an sure of tribals and their cultures from vide the same protection as the ILP. The and they do not want a challenger (out- domiciled persons into the state as well onslaughts by outsiders. most unfortunate collateral damage of siders) on the horizon. And the Meiteis as frequent protests and bandhs? arrow. Robert Mugabe Now Manipuris are demanding the these protests has been the death of are also angling for ST status. THE HINDUSTAN TIMES Zimbabwe’s President TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Tunisia needs quick US help We need Tunisia as the example of the profound success that women and men working together in a democratic society and in a private, open inclusive economy can create in the region.

BY FRANK G WISNER and people, especially its youth. W BOWMAN CUTTER We think Tunisia can solve these prob- lems. But it lives in a rough neighbour- f there ever were a moment for the hood, with a long border with Libya, and it United States to anticipate events is facing a terrorist onslaught. Two major and act quickly and forcefully, it is attacks have been mounted in the past Ithe current one in Tunisia. three months, killing more than 50 peo- Tunisia is where the Arab Spring was ple. These attacks were clearly calculated born. And in contrast with the disap- to wreck the economy and undermine pointing and sometimes disastrous out- the morale of Tunisians, and the effort comes from that moment in history in may well succeed; current estimates are other nations, Tunisia has made major that Tunisia will lose more than 2 million progress and could still be a significant “tourist days” this year as a result. To success. Tunisia has written a modern be blunt, we do not believe Tunisia can constitution, seen the flowering of a solve its economic and security problems vibrant civil society, elected a functioning simultaneously without the United States government and created a truly competi- as a committed partner. tive politics. It is a 99 percent Muslim We have no quarrel with US policy to nation committed to a secular society date. But circumstances have changed. that respects all faiths. It is also the Arab Tunisia’s success has become far more Tunisian President Beji Caid Essebsi with his new government after a swearing-in ceremony at the Carthage Palace in Tunis. nation that has been most committed to fragile, and an intensified, higher-level the equality of women. policy is required. That policy should will help Tunisia develop a more-effec- of how close to impossible it can be to do The Arab world and Africa are watch- include the following pieces: tive counterterrorist capability; and we — We should design with Tunisia a anything new, or to do anything fast, or ing Tunisia. We need Tunisia as the will provide material counterterror and process to increase foreign and domes- to do anything at all that involves compli- example of the profound success that — Commitment: President Obama security-sector support. tic investment, the only real way to cated economic and security issues. The women and men working together in should phone President Beji Caid Essebsi improve the Tunisian economy. This inertial pressures weighing against action a democratic society and in a private, as soon as possible to state the United — Economics: Obama should convey could include increasing the Tunisian are enormous. But if we do not do more, open, inclusive economy can create in States’ clear commitment to a long-term that the United States will help Tunisia American Enterprise Fund, which was and do it quickly, 10 years from now the the region. We aren’t going to get such strategic partnership. Vice President Joe meet its economic challenges. This should established by Congress and the Obama United States will bitterly regret that it an example anywhere else. Biden and key Cabinet members, includ- not mean foreign aid, which Tunisia administration in 2012 (and is chaired by failed to act when it had the chance to At the same time, Tunisia faces ing the secretaries of state, defense, doesn’t need, but the following: one of us, W. Bowman Cutter), to further help Tunisia build an inclusive, prosper- enormous problems. Its civil society is homeland security and treasury, along invest in the private sector. ous and lasting democratic society. recovering from years of authoritarian, with top legislators, should make early — The United States should begin, WP-BLOOMBERG kleptocratic government, which presided visits. Each leader should make clear that immediately, formal negotiations toward — Together with our friends in the over major human rights abuses and a we look for Tunisia to continue a path to a US-Tunisian free-trade agreement. European Union, the United States Frank G Wisner is an international affairs disastrous economy. The state remains democracy, tolerance and equality. This would be of real consequence to the should convene official pledging and pri- adviser at the law firm Squire Patton Boggs way too large and too entangled in the Tunisian economy, providing the carrot vate investment conferences aimed at and former undersecretary of defense for private sector. Its regulatory processes — Security: Obama should convey to the for Tunisia to make the hard economic giving sustained, high-level attention to policy and undersecretary of state for inter- are complex beyond belief, seriously Tunisians that the United States stands decisions that it clearly must make, but Tunisia’s social and economic require- national security affairs. W Bowman Cutter inhibiting domestic and foreign invest- with them in meeting the terrorist chal- would have only a marginal impact on ments. These initiatives should be tied to is a senior fellow and director of the Next ment. As a result of all this, Tunisia is lenge. In practical terms, this can mean the United States. Tunisia’s economy is policies that will help produce a competi- American Economy Project at the Roosevelt struggling to escape a low-growth, low- three important steps: We will share 0.2 percent of the US economy, equivalent tive, free-market economy. Institute and a former deputy assistant to investment trap that prevents it from available intelligence regarding terrorist to about one month’s growth at our cur- Both of us have held multiple jobs in President Bill Clinton and former director of meeting the legitimate aspirations of its activities in Tunisia’s neighborhood; we rent low rate. the US government. We are well aware the National Economic Council. Clandestine mourning for Taliban leader Poster drive a setback

the young man said. “I am very sad that he is for Portugal’s Socialists In today’s Afghanistan, the undercurrent of religious gone, and I don’t care what the government says. We should mourn him because he was a BY ANDREI KHALIP man of good character who served Islam. He and ethnic loyalty inspired by Mullah Omar appears did not have bank accounts abroad like many billboard campaign designed to show Portugal’s main opposi- of the leaders today.” tion Socialist party as trustworthy has revealed its shiftier too threatening to allow public voice. Nearby, in a truck repair shop, a group side instead, damaging its standing as it gears up for a close- of men mumbled and fell silent when asked A fought parliamentary election in October. BY PAMELA CONSTABLE what they thought about the death of Omar. The centre-left party, whose last administration collapsed at the “psychological boost to the enemy. . . . A seri- But one, a government employee who gave height of the country’s economic crisis in 2011, used photographs of ous part of the problem is us.” his name only as Hotak, said the government voters to illustrate posters blaming the current government for the o most Afghans, the late Mohammad The official threats appear to have driven had no right to ban mourning ceremonies. high unemployment rate. They carried the campaign slogan ‘Don’t play Omar was an enemy of the state, a such ceremonies and pro-Omar sentiments “I cannot say if he was a good leader or with the numbers, respect the people’, and described the Socialists as religious fanatic who oversaw five underground. Although it is common to hear a good Muslim, but he was a Pashtun like ‘The Alternative you can Trust’. Tyears of repressive rule and then Afghans say they miss the security and free- me, and we should commemorate his life and But the men and women pictured were not unemployed as the post- launched a ruthless insurgent campaign that dom from corruption that prevailed under death,” Hotak said. He noted that several ers claimed, and they say they did not know they would appear on the has killed thousands of his countrymen and Taliban rule from 1996 to 2001, even former late militia leaders from other ethnic groups, billboards — prompting an apology fellow Muslims. Taliban officials here denied having attended known for abusive and cruel behavior dur- from the party and the resignation In an editorial, But in pockets of ethnic Pashtun culture, in any rites for him, and most people asked about ing the civil war of the 1990s, are officially of its campaign manager. scattered Sunni mosques, among some reli- his death nervously refused to comment. mourned as martyrs and have had public The faux pas comes as the centre- influential gious political parties and even in some cor- Maulvi Qalamuddin, the former Taliban monuments erected to them. right ruling coalition closes in on the centrist daily ridors of government, there is a soft spot for minister of religious enforcement who lives “These are men who drove nails through Socialists in opinion polls ahead of the Taliban founder, whose long-rumoured in Kabul, described Omar as a “humble and people’s heads and cut off women’s breasts, the October 4 ballot. Recent polls Publico said death two years ago was revealed in late July. virtuous man” who had “no ambitions for and they have been commemorated by the cur- show the rivals neck-and-neck and posters had As a result, the government of President power or financial gain, only a dream to see rent officials,” he said angrily. “In the Taliban both short of a full parliamentary landed the Ashraf Ghani, under siege from a protracted a peaceful and secure country with a strong time, we had peace and security. We should majority. Taliban offensive that has taken more than Islamic government.” have the right to mourn someone whose only “This doesn’t help the Socialist Socialist party in 3,300 civilian lives since January, has suddenly But Qalamuddin insisted that an event he aim was to bring Shariah to the country.” party, when their ratings are at an “unspeakable found itself faced with embarrassing reports of attended last week, which has been described At least one government official, former best steady around 37 percent,” said mess” that risks scattered mourning ceremonies or gatherings as a mourning ceremony for Omar, was noth- finance minister Omar Zakhilwal, has Antonio Costa Pinto, political ana- being held in Omar’s honour. ing of the sort. He said it was a meeting of the expressed similar views. Zakhilwal, now an lyst the University of Lisbon, though damaging it more Several such events, organised by the religious party that Omar was once part of, adviser to the president, wrote on Facebook he did not expect the party’s support than it imagined. Taliban, have been raided by Afghan secu- Harakat Inqilab-Islami, which is now promot- that he was “not delighted or sad” about to drop as a result. rity forces. In Ghazni Province, officials said ing peace talks and urging Taliban insurgents Omar’s death but was “utterly against” pre- One large black and white poster Taliban fighters blocked roads and ordered to seek reconciliation. The current party head venting people from participating in mourning of a young woman carried the quote: residents to slaughter animals for a mourning declined to be interviewed. ceremonies. “This goes against the traditions “I have been unemployed since 2012, I do not exist for the government. rite last week. Afghan forces attacked the site, At a large and ornate seminary on the out- of Afghans and our holy religion,” he wrote. There are more than 220,000 like me.” killing several insurgents. skirts of Kabul — founded by a former Taliban Zakhilwal added that Omar was only one But the online edition of daily O Observador said the 29-year-old But other commemorative gatherings diplomat, Abdul Salam Zaeef, after he was of the individuals responsible for the civil and woman in the picture, who it named as Maria Joao Pinto, was in fact reportedly drew prominent Pashtuns — the released from detention at the US base in religious conflict that devastated Afghanistan working for a district council led by the Socialists when she was pho- ethnic group that spawned the Taliban — Guantanamo, Cuba — academic officials said in recent years. Without naming names, he tographed late last month. including some government aides. Memorial they knew of no ceremonies for Omar and noted that “many controversial figures, some “This is not my story. That statement is false ... they cannot involve prayer services are a major religious and social could not comment about him. “We are just considered the main cause of Afghanistan’s me in this manner,” it quoted her as saying. institution in Afghan society, and war victims here to serve the people and teach religion,” tragedy and accused of war crimes, have their She said she had only agreed to have a picture taken for the party’s or heroes are honored as martyrs or “shahid.” said the headmaster, who gave his name as death anniversaries officially celebrated.” campaign, but had not been told how it would be used. In response, the government last week Noorullah. In neighbouring Pakistan, religious groups Local media said at least two other posters, one supposedly picturing ordered a ban on all such events and threat- Similarly, in an ethnic Pashtun area of openly organised numerous mourning prayer a man who had been forced to leave Portugal due to unemployment, ened to arrest anyone who attends. The Kabul where there was once strong support services for Omar last week, some attended by also carried factual errors. national intelligence police announced that for the Taliban, the head cleric at a local hundreds of people. Pakistan originally backed The Socialist government requested an international bailout in 2011 any ceremony for Omar would be a “legitimate mosque said he knew little about Omar and the Taliban and sheltered many of its leaders, that imposed painful belt-tightening measures on Portugal, but the target” for attack. The agency’s spokesman sought to avoid political controversy. “I try to including Omar, after the Islamist regime in administration that succeed it applied the austerity measures that said that Omar had been responsible for kill- teach the moral values of Islam, that people Kabul was overthrown in 2001 by Afghan and drove taxes to record highs and led to a three-year recession. ing thousands of Afghans and that honoring should be kind and compassionate,” he said in US forces. The economy returned to growth in 2014 and unemployment has him would be an “insult to the thousands of a brief interview. “We don’t have anything to But in today’s Afghanistan — even two years fallen to 11.9 percent from a peak above 17 percent in early 2013. martyrs of this nation.” do with politics.” after his death and amid a nationwide ter- In an editorial yesterday, influential centrist daily Publico said post- The government’s chief executive, Abdullah But in a mud-walled alley nearby, a young ror campaign by his armed followers — the ers had landed the Socialist party in an “unspeakable mess” that risks Abdullah, went further. At a cabinet meet- man who attends the mosque, speaking nerv- undercurrent of religious and ethnic loyalty damaging it more than it imagined. ing, he demanded that any officials who par- ously but forcefully, said that he admired inspired by Omar, a long-reclusive former vil- The party seems to have moved on already, however, replacing the ticipated in such events should be prosecuted. Omar and that Afghans should be allowed to lage mullah, appears too threatening to allow offending posters with pictures of its leader Antonio Costa carrying Such recognition, he added, would give a mourn him properly. “To me, he was king,” public voice. WP-BLOOMBERG the slogan “It’s Time for Trust”. REUTERS TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com AMERICAS Kirchner supporter ahead in Argentine primary Scioli favourite in October elections

BUENOS AIRES: Daniel challenges within their own parties. Scioli, the candidate supported Macri, the mayor of Buenos by Argentina’s ruling coalition, Aires, is nearly guaranteed to emerged from the presiden- win the nomination for the Let’s tial primaries as the favourite Change coalition. to succeed President Cristina The third-place candidate, Kirchner in the October Massa — a center-right congress- elections. man — is likewise a virtual shoo- Early results after about 30 in for his coalition, United for a percent of ballots were counted New Alternative (UNA). in the primary election, showed The results were not final, but Scioli with nearly 37 percent of Scioli nonetheless welcomed the the vote, ahead of conservative news. “I feel I have arrived at Mauricio Macri (31 percent) and this really special day after years Sergio Massa, a dissident from of hard work and experience Kirchner’s political movement, earned,” he said. who garnered almost 22 percent. No matter who wins or loses, All 32 million eligible voters the primaries mark the beginning were required to cast ballots in of the end of the 12-year Kirchner one of an array of competing dynasty — eight under Cristina party primaries that will shape and four under her late husband, the political landscape ahead of Nestor. Kirchner is entering the the October 25 presidential elec- final stretch of her presidency LEFT: Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner casts her vote at a polling station in Rio Gallegos. RIGHT: Daniel Scioli, Buenos Aires’ province tions. It was not immediately with more than 50 percent sup- governor and presidential candidate, speaks next to his wife Karina Rabolini in Buenos Aires. clear if Scioli had enough support port, despite a laundry list of woes to avoid a run-off. in Latin America’s third-largest The peculiarly Argentine proc- economy that includes a sliding The economy has been alter- Rouvier said. The polls opened Argentina introduced prima- to pick their candidates as they ess is less about parties picking currency and a messy legal bat- nating between stagnation and across the country at 8:00 am ries in 2009 in a bid to make can- always have: through opaque candidates than showing which tle over defaulted debt from the weak growth. Unemployment (1100 GMT), as many areas were didate selection more democratic internal processes in which the candidates can garner enough country’s 2001 economic crisis. is a manageable 7.1 percent, but battered by stormy weather. They and revitalise a party system gut- general public plays no part. votes to become Argentina’s next Barred from running again by inflation is running at 20 percent. closed at 2100 GMT. ted by the cataclysmic fallout of The primaries are also designed leader. Scioli, 58, the governor of term limits, the 62-year-old is not “Undoubtedly the markets’ Voters will also be electing the economic crisis, when the to winnow out hopeless also-rans. Buenos Aires province, is the only standing for any post. biggest ‘friend’ is Macri, and the Argentine members of a regional country churned through five Parties must attract at least 1.5 candidate for Kirchner’s Front for Argentine newspapers noted candidate closest to the state is parliamentary group, Parlasur, presidents in two weeks. percent of primary voters to be Victory (FPV). His two top com- the deep uncertainty about the Scioli. But both agree on the need and candidates for gubernatorial But despite the new system, eligible for the general election. petitors are facing largely symbolic future as the polls opened. for investment,” pollster Ricardo and other local elected offices. parties have largely continued AFP

Nurses’ union Ferguson rallies turn to violence, gunfire Pentagon still endorses searching for FERGUSON: Prosecutors yes- terday charged an 18-year-old Sanders’ run man with assault on police offic- its lost WWII NEW YORK: National ers after an exchange of gunfire Nurses United, the largest Sunday night on the anniver- veterans organisation of nurses in sary of the shooting of unarmed the US, endorsed Vermont black man Michael Brown by WASHINGTON: Long dead Senator Bernie Sanders for a white officer in the St Louis but little forgotten, US soldiers the 2016 presidential race, suburb of Ferguson. who disappeared across the a blow to Hillary Clinton as The man, Tyrone Harris, was globe during World War II are the Democratic front-runner critically wounded and is being being reunited with their loved seeks to court key labour treated in hospital, officials said. ones in a dogged push to find voters. St Louis County prosecutors said and bring home their bodies. Sanders “aligns completely in a statement that Harris was From the forests of Germany to with the nurses’ values,” said charged on four counts, including the jungles of Papua New Guinea, RoseAnn DeMoro, the group’s “assault on law enforcement” and US experts employed by the executive director, citing issues shooting at a motor vehicle. Defense POW/MIA Accounting such as healthcare and trade. Demonstrators rallied in Agency — among them historians, The NNU is the first Missouri on a day of civil disobe- archeologists and forensic experts national union to endorse dience, hours after Sunday night’s — are the main sleuths. Sanders, who has been build- shooting. In St Louis, clergy and When recovery of a body is ing momentum among more civil rights activists led more than possible, the Pentagon special- progressive Democrats. 100 people in a rally through city ists turn the remains over to an Last month Clinton picked streets, shouting “This is what ultra-modern lab in Hawaii for up an endorsement from democracy looks like” and “Black identification and then wait for the American Federation of lives matter.” the ultimate reward: bringing the Teachers. The split between On Sunday night, volleys of Police collect evidence yesterday after looting broke out and gunfire erupted along West Florrisant Street during bereaved back together with their the two unions — both part of gunshots rang out as police in riot long-lost relatives. a demonstration to mark the first anniversary of the shooting of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri. the larger AFL-CIO — under- gear tried to disperse demonstra- Stephen Johnson, a historian- scores the uphill battle facing tors blocking traffic and smash- investigator, recalled how a Clinton as she looks to build ing storefront windows along a these efforts can continue to move gained momentum from other the police vehicle and was badly delighted woman, whose father a broad coalition within her street that was a flashpoint of the region in a positive direction,” high-profile killings of unarmed wounded in the ensuing foot chase had been found in a German for- party to avoid a bloody pri- riots last year after Brown, 18, he said. The death of Brown and minorities by white police in cit- and exchange of gunshots with est, exclaimed: “You gave me back mary battle. was shot dead. Missouri Governor a grand jury’s decision to spare ies such as New York, Baltimore, the four detectives, police said. my daddy.” “I think of her when The AFL-CIO did not endorse Jay Nixon called Sunday’s violence the officer, Darren Wilson, from Los Angeles, Cincinnati and most St Louis County Police Chief I work on a case,” Johnson said. anyone for the November 2016 “a sad turn of events” carried out criminal charges led to a wave of recently Arlington, Texas. Jon Belmar said the man was The woman, now a mother presidential race after its exec- by a criminal element Nixon, who demonstrations that boiled over In Ferguson on Sunday night, hospitalised in critical condition. and grandmother, “had come utive council met recently. The had deployed the National Guard into rioting and arson at times police said the gunfire began with Belmar said that police esti- to peace” after finding out the nurses’ union polled its mem- to quell violence last year, did not and spawned sympathy rallies two groups of agitators appar- mated more than 40 rounds had exact fate of her father, who died bers three times to ensure a make any mention of additional across the United States. ently shooting at each other been fired. The shooters “were when she was 18 months old, large number of responses, said security for rallies on Monday Brown’s death also prompted before one gunman darted across criminals; they weren’t protest- Johnson said. DeMoro, who said the support planned in and around Ferguson. greater scrutiny of racial bias a parking lot and was confronted ers,” he said. “We can’t sustain Sandi Jones, who lives in for Sanders was “overwhelm- “For the sake of all, it is my within the US criminal justice by four officers who pulled up in this as a community,” he said add- Montana, said she felt immense ing.” REUTERS hope and expectation that today’s system, giving rise to the “Black an unmarked vehicle. ing, “We can’t afford to have this joy when the agency called her in events will be peaceful so that Lives Matter” movement that The suspect then opened fire on kind of violence”. REUTERS June 2014 to say that her uncle had been found 70 years after his plane went down in the jungles of Papua New Guinea. “I was flabbergasted,” the 60-year-old said. The uncle, whose photo Jones Trump’s Republican support holds strong post-debate kept even though her grandpar- ents refused to speak of him, was WASHINGTON: Donald been under intense criticism for his brash style is needed to shake Republican candidates such as buried near the family ranch with Trump (pictured) continued to caustic comments about Fox up an overly cautious political Bush, Florida Senator Marco honors in the presence of US Air defy the laws of political grav- News anchor Megyn Kelly dur- system and that his vast wealth Rubio and Texas Senator Ted Force officials. ity yesterday as a Reuters/ ing and after the debate, and would help him resist corrupting Cruz by similar margins. The agency also gave the fam- Ipsos poll found the real estate was disinvited from a weekend influences. The debate did little to change ily his Masonic ring, which was mogul holding onto a wide lead gathering of conservative activ- “They want someone who’s Republican voters’ opinions of discovered among the crew and among Republicans in the US ists in Georgia after he said Kelly, an outsider, who can upset the Trump, the poll found. One-third deduced to be his since he was the presidential race despite an who helped moderate the debate, applecart,” said Craig Robinson, said they liked him more after only member of a Masonic Lodge. acerbic debate and a feud with had “blood coming out of her a former political director of the the debate, one-third said they Johnson said the willingness to a female television anchor wherever.” Iowa Republican Party. “They’re liked him less, and the remaining return a soldier at any cost dates that have bolstered charges of Trump has been a focus of willing to deal with a less-than- third said their opinions had not back to the nation’s birth. sexism. controversy since June, when perfect candidate if they believe changed. President George Washington, Trump led the party’s he entered the race for the it will actually change things in Other candidates fared better. the first head of the US military, 17-strong 2016 presidential field Republican nomination in the Washington.” Voters were more likely to say the thought that “the allegiance of the with the backing of 24 percent November 2016 election. The online poll of 278 self- debate had improved their opin- Army to the nation was directly of Republican voters, unchanged Harsh comments about identified Republicans has a cred- ions of Rubio, Cruz, former tech- tied to the allegiance of the nation from before Thursday’s televised Mexican immigrants drew ibility interval of 6.7 percentage nology executive Carly Fiorina, to the Army,” he said. debate. widespread condemnation and points. retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson, “You don’t stop being a member His closest rival, former prompted some business partners Despite Trump’s outsider Wisconsin Governor Scott of the US military because you Florida Governor Jeb Bush, trails to sever ties, while his feud with appeal, he fares no better against Walker and former Arkansas die,” he added. at 12 percent, down from 17 per- Arizona Senator John McCain, Democratic front-runner Hillary Governor Mike Huckabee. It is this logic that has driven cent before the debate. No other the party’s 2008 presidential Clinton than other Republican Only Kentucky Senator Rand the POW/MIA agency to take on a candidate earned more than 8 nominee, has angered many candidates. Paul appears to have been hurt, project to exhume 388 sailors and percent in the online poll, con- party officials. But the drama has In a head-to-head match-up, as 8 percent said their opinion of Marines who were killed aboard ducted between the end of the done little so far to dent Trump’s Clinton would beat Trump by 43 him improved while 22 percent the battleship USS Oklahoma at debate and Sunday. appeal among less affluent, con- percent to 29 percent, the poll said they felt more negative. Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941. The reality television star has servative-leaning voters who say found. Clinton would beat other REUTERS AFP TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 ASIA / AFRICA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 No military flights Mali militants suspected of over south sea: China links to FLM

BEIJING: China hit back yes- Kerry also criticised “restric- BAMAKO: Telephone num- terday at US criticism that it tions” put in place in recent bers and addresses found on the restricts navigation and over- months by China, saying the US bodies of four “terrorists” killed flights in the South China Sea would not accept any restrictions in a deadly hotel hostage siege amid a festering marine terri- on freedom of navigation and in Mali point towards a jihadist torial dispute with some of its overflights. group, officials said yesterday. neighbours. China claims most China has warned Philippine Investigators said there is of the South China Sea, even military aircraft away from the “strong suspicion” the hostage- as the Philippines, Vietnam, artificial islands in the Spratly takers were from the Macina Malaysia, Taiwan and Brunei archipelago of the South China Liberation Front (FLM), an have overlapping claims. Sea, Philippine military officials Islamist extremist group drawn “Freedom of overflights and have said. from the Fulani people from the navigation doesn’t mean allowing The Chinese navy also issued centre of the country. foreign warships and military jets eight warnings to the crew of a “An identity card found on one to violate other countries’ sover- US P8-A Poseidon surveillance of them has the name Tamboura eignty and security,” the Foreign aircraft when it conducted over- and showed he was born in Ministry said yesterday, after flights in the area in May. In June, Tenenkou, a village in the Macina the US Secretary of State John China said it would soon com- area,” she added. Kerry accused China of restrict- plete a phase of its reclamation The Malian government ing such movements in the region projects. said four Malian soldiers, five last week. Ongoing reclamation activities Residents sit inside boats outside flood-affected homes in the village of Kyouk Ye, near the town of Hinthada in UN workers and four “terror- Kerry told a meeting of regional in the Spratly Islands include Myanmar’s Irrawaddy region yesterday. ists” were killed. The casual- leaders in Kuala Lumpur last civilian facilities for the “public ties included two Ukrainians, a week that China’s construction good” including hospitals, mari- Nepalese and a South African, of facilities on man-made islands time research institutes, light- according to the UN mission in for “military purposes” was rais- houses and search and rescue Mali (MINUSMA). ing tension and risked “militari- facilities, the Foreign Ministry The FLM has claimed a number sation” by other claimant states. said. REUTERS 100 dead, one million of attacks, including some target- ing security forces in central Mali. It is linked to Ansar Dine -- Arabic for Defenders of Faith -- which was placed on a US terror Boko Haram kills four hit by Myanmar floods blacklist for Al-Qaeda links. The deadly siege began early Friday when gunmen burst President Sein for quick relief as elections loom into the hotel frequented by on Nigeria highway expatriates. HINTHADA: The death toll nationwide by the inundations. The country is set for a The Malian army -- along with KANO: Boko Haram Islamists on the attack we went to the from severe flooding across More than 1.2 million acres general election in November foreign special forces, according shot dead four people and scene and recovered four dead Myanmar has topped 100, state (486,000 hectares) of rice fields and the floods have taken on to a Malian military source -- abducted five others in an bodies and three people who sus- media reported yesterday, are currently under water, a political dimension, with stormed the building, bringing the ambush on a highway in north- tained injuries from gunshots,” with nearly one million people with more than 430,000 acres both the quasi-civilian govern- siege to an end nearly 24 hours eastern Nigeria, local vigilantes Saleh said. affected as fears intensify for destroyed by the floods, the paper ment and opposition -- led by later. said on yesterday. The victims had been travel- the country’s crucial rice bowl added. Aung San Suu Kyi -- at pains to Meanwhile, a South African Several gunmen opened fire on ling to Biu from Damboa, which region. Four regions have been des- show they are reacting speedily rescue worker killed in the week- a bus and a car near Nwajurko troops liberated from a nine- Floods from a heavy monsoon ignated disaster zones, with the to the floods. end’s Mali hostage siege messaged village in Borno State on Sunday, month occupation by Boko Haram season have cut through swathes cyclone-battered western state President Thein Sein was pic- his family on WhatsApp for hours killing four passengers and seiz- in April, the vigilantes said. of South and Southeast Asia in of Rakhine particularly hard hit. tured visiting relief efforts on last about the “warzone” outside the ing survivors who tried to flee, Boko Haram’s insurgency in recent weeks, claiming hundreds In recent days fears have Sunday in the Irrawaddy region hotel bathroom where he was according to witnesses. Nigeria has left more than 15,000 of lives and displacing millions. grown for rising waters in the as army chief Min Aung Hlaing hiding. Roelof “Jaco” Janse van “The gunmen who hid inside people dead since 2009 and has Myanmar, one of Asia’s most more downstream areas of the made trips to the western states Rensburg, 39, was killed in the homes along the road emerged increasingly spread across the impoverished countries, has been Irrawaddy basin and its delta, two of Sagaing and Chin. Hotel Byblos siege. and opened fire on a car as it country’s borders, with Chad and hit particularly hard by weeks key agricultural areas close to the But many of those hit by the “He was saying it like a warzone approached, killing one person Cameroon suffering deadly sui- of torrential rain with 12 out of commercial hub Yangon. flooding appear not to be relying out there,” Janse van Rensburg’s while the rest fled into the bush,” cide bombings in recent months. 14 states and regions suffering The weather bureau said river on government help, either try- brother-in-law Cobus Smal said said Yuram Bura, a member of a The extremist group, whose flooding. levels had dropped slightly on last ing to cope alone or turning to yesterday. “Everybody was hid- vigilante group battling the jihad- name roughly translates as International aid has been Sunday but “still remained above local monasteries or community ing, they were trapped in their ists alongside the military. “Western education is forbid- stepped up in recent days follow- their designated danger levels”. groups. rooms.” The messages continued “The attackers also fired shots den”, has carried on its campaign ing an official government request Myanmar’s previous junta gov- Authorities have insisted that until about 1800 GMT that night, on a bus moments later, killing of attacks on security forces, sui- for help. ernment was accused of indiffer- the election set for November 8 when Janse van Rensburg’s phone three people and seizing five oth- cide bombings and bloody raids Myanmar yesterday gave ence in its sluggish response to will go ahead despite the floods, battery died. “It’s obviously very ers. Three more passengers were on villages across Nigeria’s north updated government figures, of Cyclone Nargis in May 2008, a even as they try to assess the difficult for my sister and the injured.” and eastern borders. “more than 100” dead and “nearly crisis which at least 138,000 peo- scale of the damage. kids,” said Smal. “When we received information AFP one million” people affected ple dead or missing. AFP AFP

Philippines gets aerial fire-power Burundi security chief’s killers Malaysia PM has killed are identified democracy: Mahathir BUJUMBURA: Burundi’s prosecutor last Sunday said KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia’s instruments,” Mahathir said. the killers of a powerful gen- former leader Mahathir Najib has blamed Mahathir for eral loyal to President Pierre Mohamad launched a scathing being behind corruption allega- Nkurunziza had been identified, attack on Prime Minister Najib tions made against him, which while a rights activist shot in a Razak yesterday, saying democ- he says are unfounded. Mahathir, “reprisal” attack for his mur- racy in the country is dead and Malaysia’s longest-serving prime der was allowed to leave the that he should be questioned minister, withdrew support to country. by police about the country’s him last year after the ruling General Adolphe troubled state fund 1 Malaysia Barisan Nasional (BN) coalition Nshimirimana, widely seen as Development Berhad. Najib has lost a popular vote. Burundi’s de-facto internal secu- been under growing pressure The 90-year-old, who was once rity chief, was killed in a rocket over accusations of financial Najib’s patron and remains highly attack on August 2. mismanagement at the fund, influential in the country, has “The identities of the perpetra- known as 1MDB, and his lead- called for the prime minister to tors are now known,” a statement ership of Malaysia’s faltering step down over the 1MDB furore. issued by the prosecutor’s office economy. Mahathir said, “The people are said. Last month he sacked his dep- at a loss as to what to do. The “A certain number have been uty, Muhyiddin Yassin, replaced prospect of Najib continuing to arrested. The rest of them and the the country’s attorney general rule this country is depressing.” masterminds are being sought.” and transferred officers involved Najib denied taking any money The arrests came as human in an investigation into 1MDB. for personal gain. Malaysia’s anti- rights activist Pierre-Claver He has also suspended two of the graft unit said last week that it Mbonimpa was allowed to leave country’s newspapers and blocked would ask Najib to explain a 2.6bn the capital Bujumbura for access to a website. ringgit donation that was depos- Belgium last Sunday after he Philippines President Benigno Aquino III inspects newly aquired AgustaWestland 109 helicopters during the “Democracy is dead. It is dead ited into his private bank account, survived an assassination attempt change-of-command ceremonies at the Philippine Navy headquarters in Manila, yesterday. Defence Secretary because an elected leader chooses adding that the sum was given by last week, his family said. Voltaire Gazmin said Armed Forces of the Philippines have acquired four brand new AW109E Power helicopters to subvert the institutions of a donor from the Middle East. Mbonimpa -- who has long amid tensions over the South China Sea. government and make them his REUTERS criticised the murders of oppo- sition figures -- was shot in the face on August 3 by an unknown gunman on a motorbike. His daughter Amandine Nasagarare said his family was Chinese ex-military official gets death for corruption relieved he was allowed to go. Several diplomats, including BEIJING: A Chinese mili- A former lieutenant general “The military court determined of the elite Central Military military, part of a broader cam- the US ambassador and France’s tary court sentenced former who had been deputy director of the amount of bribes Gu Junshan Commission who the govern- paign against corruption, comes charge d’affaires, visited the activ- senior officer Gu Junshan to the military’s powerful logistics accepted was huge, the harmful ment said had confessed to tak- as Xi steps up efforts to mod- ist -- who won the Henri Dunant death with a two-year reprieve department, Gu was sentenced for consequences especially grave, the ing “massive” bribes in exchange ernise forces that are projecting human rights prize in 2011 -- in for corruption, the Defense crimes including bribery, abuse of amount of misappropriated public for help in promotions. Xu died power across the disputed waters hospital in Bujumbura. Ministry said yesterday, the lat- power and misuse of public funds, funds immense, and the details in March. of the East and South China Seas. The attempt on his life was est official to fall in President Xi the ministry said in a statement of his abuse of power especially “This trial was a contest deter- China banned the People’s widely seen as a reprisal for the Jinping’s crackdown on graft in on its website. serious,” an unnamed military mining whether justice or evil will Liberation Army from engaging killing of Nshimirimana the day the armed forces. The reprieve usually means the court official said in a separate triumph,” the ministry’s website in business. before and had given rise to fears Xi has made weeding out cor- death sentence is commuted to statement. said. “For leading cadres at all lev- The crackdown has felled that the crisis in Burundi could ruption in the military a top goal, life imprisonment after two years’ The case was heard behind els, this is a profound warning to several senior military officers, be escalating. with serving and retired officers good behaviour. closed doors to safeguard “mili- remember that the ‘perks’ given including Guo Boxiong, also once Nkurunziza has given the secu- warning that graft is so pervasive Gu was charged in 2014 on tary secrets”, the official said. to you today are just the ‘bomb’ a vice chairman of the Central rity forces a week to catch the it could undermine China’s ability suspicion of selling hundreds of Gu’s case was linked to that of Xu that will destroy you tomorrow.” Military Commission. general’s killers. AFP to wage war. military positions. Caihou, a former vice chairman The anti-graft drive in the REUTERS TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN Taliban car bomb blast kills five in Kabul Surge in attacks seen as an attempt by new Taliban leader to distract attention from crisis in the group

KABUL: At least five peo- ple were killed yesterday when a Taliban suicide car bomber struck near the entrance of Kabul’s international airport, the latest in a wave of lethal bombings in the Afghan capital. The Taliban, which claimed responsibility for the blast, have stepped up attacks amid a bitter leadership transition following the announcement of the death of their leader Mullah Omar. Observers say the upsurge in violence represents a bid by new leader Mullah Akhtar Mansour to distract attention from the crisis roiling the militant movement as planned peace talks falter. “The incident took place when a suicide car bomber struck the front gate of the airport,” said Kabul police spokesman Ebadullah Karimi. “Five civilians were killed and Afghan policemen take charge as smoke and flames rise from the site of a huge blast near the entrance of Kabul’s international airport, yesterday. 16 others wounded including chil- dren,” he said, with the interior ministry confirming the toll. The Taliban are known to rou- capital Kabul that killed at least political capital in the process, in suffered a fatal truck bombing last insurgency, including Omar’s Smoke billowed from the scene tinely exaggerate the impact of 56 people. hopes Islamabad will persuade the Friday. At least five people were son and brother, have refused to of the explosion, which occurred their attacks. “The last few days have shown Taliban to come to the negotiating killed yesterday when a Taliban pledge allegiance to Mansour, say- during the busy lunchtime period. The NATO mission in that suicide bomber training table. But his comments yester- suicide car bomber struck near ing the process to select him was Some saw pieces of charred flesh Afghanistan has not yet com- camps and bomb-producing day are the strongest yet against the entrance of Kabul’s interna- rushed and even biased. littered around the checkpoint, mented on the bombing, which factories which are killing our the neighbouring country. tional airport. Tayeb Agha, the head of the where passengers undergo the the Afghan interior ministry people are as active as before in “In my telephone call with The attack follows a barrage of Qatar political office set up in first round of body checks before denounced as a “heinous acts Pakistan,” Ghani said. Pakistan prime minister (last deadly bombings in the Afghan 2013 to facilitate talks with Kabul, entering the airport. (that goes) against the values of “We hoped for peace but we are Sunday), I told Pakistan to see capital last Friday, which struck resigned last week in protest at Ambulances with wailing sirens humanity”. receiving messages of war from terrorism in Afghanistan the close to an army complex, a police Mansour’s appointment and two rushed to the site and were seen The attack follows a barrage of Pakistan.” same way it sees terrorism in academy and a US special forces more members followed suit. The removing bodies from the area, deadly bombings in the Afghan Pakistan has historically sup- Pakistan,” he said, referring to base and killed at least 51 people. wave of violence underscores which was strewn with the capital last Friday, which struck ported the Taliban insurgents and Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif. They were the first major Afghanistan’s volatile security twisted and mangled wreckage close to an army complex, a police many Afghans accuse it of nur- “I ask the Pakistani govern- attacks since Mullah Akhtar situation amid a flailing peace of burning vehicles. academy and a US special forces turing militant sanctuaries on its ment if the mass killings of Mansour was named as the new process. The first face-to-face Taliban spokesman Zabiullah base and killed at least 51 people. soil in the hope of maintaining Shah Shaheed had happened Taliban chief in an acrimonious talks aimed at ending the 14-year Mujahid said two vehicles belong- Afghan President Ashraf influence in Afghanistan. in Islamabad and the perpetra- power transition after the insur- insurgency took place last month ing to foreign coalition forces were Ghani lambasted neighbouring Since coming to power last year tors were in Afghanistan, what gents confirmed the death of long- between the Afghan government the target of the attack, claiming Pakistan yesterday over a recent Ghani has courted the Pakistanis, would you do?” he said, referring time leader Mullah Omar. and the Taliban in Pakistani hill that all people aboard were killed. wave of insurgent attacks in the expending substantial domestic to a Kabul neighbourhood that Some top leaders of the Islamist town of Murree. AFP

Extrajudicial killings on rise in Karachi Taliban silent over

KARACHI: Some senior cur- by 50 percent over the 12 months NGO United Human Rights since January this year. rent and former Karachi police through July, while no new kid- Commission of Pakistan filed a A senior policeman, who Mullah Omar’s death officials say extrajudicial kill- napping for ransom cases were court case in May for alleged extra- declined to be named, put the fig- ings by the force are happening reported over that period, Nisar judicial killings, said suspects were ure at 1,000, saying a majority of PESHAWAR: Many Islamist Many of the otherwise acces- as part of a crackdown on crime said. sometimes handed over to police by the deaths were extrajudicial kill- militants and their sympathis- sible TTP commanders have not in the city, in a stark admis- According to political lead- Rangers and intelligence officials to ings. Three other serving officials ers, especially in Afghanistan been available on their mobile sion of the practice by Pakistani ers, human rights activists and be “dealt with”. confirmed the assessment. and Pakistan, are recover- phones or through email. authorities. families of victims, however, the But he added that most of the The inspector general’s office ing from the shock of Mullah When eventually contacted, Karachi, a metropolis of 20 mil- crackdown has been accompanied killings were as a result of police declined comment on the figure. Omar’s death and struggling to some attributed the lapse and lion that hosts the stock exchange by allegations of extortion and clashes with criminals. Neither the intelligence services spin a new narrative when con- subsequent delays to the latest and central bank, is beset by killings by the police in staged When asked whether he thinks nor Rangers answered requests fronted with difficult questions offensive on both sides of the armed violence, and many of its encounters - a practice where innocent people were also killed, for comment. While police by opponents. Durand Line which has hampered sprawling slums are no-go areas police claim the victim was killed Anwar said, “This is a state of acknowledge that the crack- Why was Omar’s death kept their lines of communication. for outsiders. in a gunfight though they were war. There are always grey areas down has resulted in excesses on a secret? Was he merely a sym- However, they are adamant that Two years ago, the military, executed. in such matters. And when the the margins, they say police are bolic figure, held hostage by some Omar’s death is not going to have with help from police, paramili- In interviews, half a dozen serv- justice system fails to convict sus- also often victims of attacks by powerful Taliban figures close to a major impact on their overall tary Rangers and intelligence ing and former police officials said pects then these things happen,” criminals. Pakistan’s security establishment? movement. agencies, unleashed a campaign such extra-judicial killings were he said. More than 150 police have been Should the latest official state- One of the newly appointed against armed gangs and sus- being used as a policing technique The United Human Rights killed since the start of the opera- ments by Taliban denying the deputies of Mansoor is Sirajuddin pected militants in the city. and a way to release the burden Commission alleged in the case tion, police said. According to the internal rifts and power tussle Haqqani, one of the most wanted Murders are down to 202 so far on courts. Accusations of abuses against Anwar that he killed 60 families of six alleged victims, be considered reliable?As ques- militants who the US accuses of in 2015, compared with 2,507 in by Pakistan’s military and police people in staged encounters. The identified by Reuters through tions reverberate in jihadi circles harming the US and her allies in 2013, police records show. are not new, but the acknowledg- Sindh High Court will hear the cases filed in the Supreme Court in the region, the Tehrik Taliban Afghanistan. “The efforts made by govern- ment by officials marks an unu- case next month. and high courts, security forces Pakistan (TTP) and Al Qaeda In addition to running the ment have resulted in a marked sual admission in a country with Ghulam Qadir Thebo, the have carried out mass arrests, and remained largely silent, lead- Haqqani Network, Sirajuddin decrease in crimes,” Interior a poor human rights record. inspector general for Karachi some of those detained have faced ing many of their foot-soldiers is also in Al Qaeda’s innermost Minister Chaudhry Nisar said. Rao Anwar, a senior Karachi until July, said police had killed a stark choice: pay or be killed. to speculate and draw their own circles. Murders in Karachi decreased police official against whom the 234 criminals in police clashes REUTERS conclusions. INTERNEWS Floods destroy homes, Police accused of helping child abusers

LAHORE: A lawyer for the vic- of the abuse. He said the case was crops in Sindh: Report tims of a major child sex abuse an old one, dragged up by a group scandal in Pakistan yesterday of villagers as a tactic in a land accused police of protecting the dispute. KARACHI: The ongoing flood flood-affected, which are home to culprits, as activists warned The gang allegedly attempted in Pakistan has so far destroyed some 95,000 people. the case was only the tip of the to extort money from parents of standing crops over more than The flood has hit Khairpur iceberg. victims, selling clips of the vid- 350,000 acres and over 7,000 district hard where it destroyed At least 280 children were eos locally for 40 Pakistan rupees houses in the southern Sindh crops on more than 130,000 acres. filmed being sexually abused by each (around 40 US cents) if they province, particularly in some In Sukkur district, crop losses a gang of 25 men who used the did not pay up. of its northern districts, says a are calculated on 126,625 acres hundreds of videos they produced “They made the video of my son report prepared by the provin- while the same in Ghotki is on to blackmail the youngsters’ par- in 2011 and we have been paying cial government. more than 95,000 acres. ents, according to Latif Ahmed the blackmailers since then,” the The report compiled by senior Most houses (3,027) have Sara, a lawyer and activist rep- mother of one of the victims, who functionaries focused mainly on been damaged in Khairpur while resenting the victims. did not want to be named, said. the districts of Sukkur, Khairpur 2,090 houses have been damaged Shahbaz Sharif, the chief min- “I have seen the videos, they are and Ghotki in Sukkur division in Sukkur and 2,155 houses in ister of Punjab province, where disgusting,” she said. which, it said, had been the worst Ghotki district. the abuse took place, has ordered Activists working to fight child affected thus far. The report said seven people an independent judicial probe and sex abuse said the problem was The estimates for other riv- had died in Khairpur because of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has widespread in Pakistan but dif- erine districts which were also devastation caused by flood and vowed stern action against those ficult to quantify because victims somewhat affected by the floods rains while another death was responsible. were often unwilling to speak out. A mother whose child was sexually abused by a gang waits at a house in were yet to be compiled, said reported from Ghotki district. But there are suggestions of a The concept of family “honour” the village of Hussain Khanwala in the Kasur district of Punjab province, officials. Officials said that most live- politically-influenced cover up. is very important in Pakistani The report compiled last week stock had been safely evacuated The village at the heart of the Pakistan, yesterday. society and many people would shows Khairpur as the badly from the affected districts, yet scandal, Hussain Khanwala, lies be afraid of the “shame” it would affected district where floods have 95 of them perished in Khairpur, in the ruling Pakistan Muslim them and have provided them an of the provincial government bring to admit being the victim of affected four talukas encompass- 89 in Ghotki and 34 in Sukkur League-N (PML-N) party’s opportunity to escape the village,” described the allegations as “base- a sexual assault. ing 13 union councils - 380 villages district. Punjab stronghold. Police have Sara told reporters. less”, a conclusion immediately Mumtaz Hussain from Sahil, - with the population of 157,490. The report said more than arrested at least seven people The head of Punjab’s Child rejected by local media and rights Pakistan’s leading campaign In Sukkur, three talukas 11 200,000 people had been evacuated over the allegations but Sara Protection Bureau, Saba Sadiq, activists. group working against child union councils comprising 251 from the three most affected dis- accused them of dragging their described the case as “the largest District police chief Rai Baber abuse, there were more than 3,500 villages and 123,045 population tricts with 76,165 from Khairpur feet -- some of the videos date child abuse scandal in Pakistan’s Saeed said officers were doing registered cases last year . are affected, while a total of district, 64,769 from Sukkur and back to 2007. history”. their best to catch those respon- But he said the true figure was 295 villages of nine union coun- 60,000 from Ghotki district. “The police are protecting the But an initial police probe, car- sible, but accused activists and far higher, perhaps as many as cils in Ghotki’s two talukas are INTERNEWS criminals, they are supporting ried out last week at the behest media of exaggerating the scale 10,000. AFP TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 11 killed, 50 hurt in Jharkhand stampede PM condoles deaths; Government announces `2 lakh each compensation to victims’ families

RANCHI: At least 11 peo- of a “large crowd”. Union Home thousands tried to jump a queue ple were killed and 50 oth- Minister Rajnath Singh said, “My that stretched for kilometres dur- ers injured in a stampede at a heartfelt condolences to the fami- ing a holy Hindu month, a police temple in Jharkhand’s Deoghar lies of those killed in the stam- officer said. town early yesterday, police pede at Deoghar in Jharkhand. Authorities said devotees who said. Prime Minister Narendra I pray for speedy recovery of the had massed outside overnight had Modi said he was “pained at loss injured.” rushed towards the Baidyanath of lives”. He said Chief Minister Das Jyotirlinga temple complex in Over 100,000 people were in a apprised him of the situation in Jharkhand state after news circu- queue, many waiting since last Deoghar and “asked for extra lated that the gates were opening. Sunday night to get into the RAF deployment”. Several devotees still sleeping in famous Baidyanath Temple, when The minister said one extra the enormous queue, more than the stampede took place. Deoghar Rapid Action Force (RAF) bat- six kilometres (four miles) long, is 300 km from here. talion will be sent to Deoghar were trampled in the crush over A senior police official said 11 for “better crowd and security a kilometre from the main gate people were killed and 50 others management”. between 4:00 and 4:30am, said SN injured. The Jharkhand government Pradhan, additional director gen- During ‘Shravan’ month of the has announced a compensation eral of police in Jharkhand. Hindu calendar, more than 30 of `2 lakh each to the kin of vic- A particularly large crowd of lakh people offer prayers at the tims and `50,000 to injured, an pilgrims had gathered before Baidyanath temple. yesterday, official said. dawn yesterday, considered an the number goes up substantially Raghubar Das has ordered a auspicious date to visit the com- and around two lakh people offer high level probe into the incident. plex during the month of Shravan, prayers. “The government would initi- which includes a main temple and Prime Minister Modi condoled ate action against officials found 21 smaller ones devoted to Shiva, the deaths in the stampede. responsible for the incident,” Das the Hindu god of destruction. “Pained at loss of lives due to told the media in Ranchi. “The first prayer ceremony is the stampede in Jharkhand. My Leader of opposition Hemant conducted by the temple priests thoughts and prayers are with Soren blamed mismanagement by and then the doors of the tem- the families of the deceased in local authorities for the incident. ple are opened for the devotees,” this hour of grief. I pray that the While Deoghar Lok Sabha MP Pradhan said. “Many tried to rush injured recover quickly,” Modi and BJP leader Nishikant Dubey to the head of the queue which said on Twitter. blamed the successive state gov- led to chaos and as some of them “I spoke to Chief Minister ernments for such incident. fell, the devotees got trampled,” A man injured in the stampede is rushed to a hospital in Ranchi, Jharkhand, yesterday. Raghubar Das on the incident.” The Jharkhand government Pradhan said. The stampede in Jharkhand appointed a special deputy com- “Eleven people have now been others being bandaged outside. foot to demonstrate their reli- often overwhelmed by the sheer took place less than a month missioner and a superintendent confirmed dead after one more “Our initial estimates are that gious devotion. size of the crowds. after a stampede in Rajahmundry, of police for Deoghar district for person succumbed to his injuries there were around 100,000 to “By the time many people reach A stampede on the banks of a Andhra Pradesh. At least 27 pil- ‘Shravan’ month in the wake of in the hospital. Initial reports 150,000 devotees there,” Pradhan the city, some after having walked holy river killed at least 27 pil- grims were killed and over 60 the stampede. suggest most of around 20 others said. over 60 miles on foot, many are grims last month in Rajahmundry, injured on July 14 in the stampede “Rahul Purwar will be special who were injured in the stampede Nishikant Dubey, a lawmaker very restless while having to stand on the border of the southern at the start of the Godavari ‘Maha deputy commissioner and M L are out of danger.” whose constituency includes in such a long queue,” Dubey said. twin states of Andhra Pradesh Pushkaralu’ -- the Kumbh Mela Meena will be special superin- Photos showed the bodies of the temple, said there were not Pradhan said additional police and Telangana. of the south. tendent of police of Deoghar till kanwarias, devotees to Lord Shiva enough facilities to manage the and other security were being Prime Minister Narendra Deputy Commissioner Amit ‘Shravan’ month,” the govern- dressed in saffron rags, laying on crowds, despite the fact it has deployed to the area around the Modi said on Twitter that he was Kumar said all the injured have ment said in a statement. a concrete slab. long drawn thousands of pilgrims. complex to cope with the crowds. “pained” by the loss of lives and he been admitted to Sadar hospital A stampede outside a temple Pilgrims were seen being taken Dubey said pilgrims were anx- Stampedes are not uncommon prayed that “the injured recover in Deoghar for treatment and killed at least 11 pilgrims in east- on stretchers into a hospital while ious to get into the complex after at India’s religious festivals, where quickly”. added the stampede was a result ern Indiaearly yesterday after television footage also showed trekking for long distances on police and volunteer stewards are AGENCIES Nitish campaigns against Drunk lawyer charged with homicide MUMBAI: Police here yester- metropolitan magistrate’s court, five years in prison — plus other from Bhiwandi in adjoining Thane Modi’s DNA remark day filed a voluminous charge the charge sheet also contains sections of the Motor Vehicles district. sheet, invoking the dreaded Gadkar’s medical reports, autopsy Act. Among the injured members PATNA: A day after Prime your words) campaign, at least charge of ‘culpable homicide not reports of the victims, forensic Gadkar, who was released on of the Sabuwala family were wife Minister Narendra Modi 50 lakh people of Bihar will join amounting to murder’ against reports, CCTV footage details, bail on August 5 by the Mumbai Hafiza, 40, daughter Salma, 22, failed to comply with Bihar a signature campaign and send 35-year-old corporate law- statements of doctors and her Sessions Court, was present in the Sadia, 20 and son Noman, 16, who Chief Minister Nitish Kumar’s their samples to Modiji for a DNA yer Jahnvi Gadkar, who was friends, besides other evidence. court yesterday. were returning home after cel- request to take back his “DNA” test”. arrested on June 10 for drunk Among others, Gadkar has In the early morning of June ebrating Numan’s success in the remark, the Janata Dal-United The participants will offer driving and killing two people. been charged under Indian 10, Gadkar’s speeding car, on SSC exams in which he scored leader yesterday announced he samples of their DNA and sign Running into around 560 pages, Penal Code section 304 II (cul- the wrong side of the Mumbai over 90 percent marks. would launch a ‘Shabdwapsi’ a petition saying that the prime the charge sheet includes state- pable homicide not amounting to Eastern Freeway, rammed into a Previously, two bail pleas by the drive to protest the remark. minister’s comments crossed the ments of 57 witnesses, besides the murder, attracting a maximum taxi killing its driver Mohammed corporate lawyer were rejected The drive, meant to protest the line. 14 witnesses whose statements punishment of 10 years in jail A Sayyed and his passenger by the metropolitan magistrate’s prime minister’s July 25 remark “PM Modi hasn’t retracted his have already been recorded by a — the same section slapped on Mohammed S Sabuwala, and court after which she moved the about Nitish Kumar’s DNA, is derogatory remarks on our DNA, court. Bollywood actor Salman Khan injuring four other people. sessions court. scheduled to commence today we’ll take the battle to people Filed before the Kurla for which he was sentenced to The ill-fated cab was coming IANS (August 11) with sit-ins across now,” Nitish Kumar said.. Bihar. It will collect signatures Alok said the rally would be of 50 lakh people and send their jointly addressed by Nitish Kumar blood samples to Modi for a DNA and Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) CPI-M protests price hike in Kerala Rape is more test. chief Lalu Prasad. Janata Dal-United (JD-U) “It will kickstart the joint rally spokesperson Ajay Alok said the campaign by the grand alliance THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: “The hour long protest will then go towards Manjesweram, heinous than party would stage sit-ins across of JD-U, RJD, Congress and Nearly two million CPI-M activ- begin at 4pm when our party bordering Karnataka,” CPI-M the state on the issue today and National Congress Party to coun- ists will squat on roads across workers and supporters will legislator Raju Abraham said. hold a ‘Swabhiman’ rally on Aug ter the Bharatiya Janata Party- Kerala today to protest price line up on one side of the road The CPI-M plans to reinvigor- murder: HC 29 here. led National Democratic Alliance rise and the anti-people policies starting from the official resi- ate its cadre as civic polls are to SHIMLA: Rape is a more hei- Nitish Kumar recently tweeted: ahead of next assembly polls,” he of both the state and central dence of the Kerala governor in be held in October and assembly nous offence than murder, the “In this shabdwapsi (take back said. IANS governments. Thiruvananthapuram and will polls in April next year. IANS Himachal Pradesh High Court has observed while dismissing a bail petition by four people who allegedly gang-raped a married Protest against land bill woman. “A murderer destroys the phys- FIR against AAP MLA ical body of a victim, while a rap- ist degrades the very soul of the helpless female. Such an offence transgresses the right of privacy for razing shops and sanctity of a female,” Justice Tarlok Singh Chauhan said in his NEW DELHI: An FIR was and obstructing public servant in order, which was provided to the registered against Aam Aadmi discharging duty. media yesterday. Party (AAP) legislator Alka She reportedly had a heated “The rape victim develops a Lamba yesterday for allegedly argument with some shopkeep- fractured personality and leaves vandalising some shops along ers and hawkers in Kashmiri Gate physiological and physical harm with her party supporters dur- over encroachment on the road in that process,” said the judge. ing her anti-drugs drive last and pavements. Observing that the accused do Sunday. Lamba suffered injuries after not have a right to make succes- Police filed the case a day a teenager, worker at a sweet sive bail applications, he said the after receiving seven complaints shop in the area Shiv Mishthan court entertaining such subse- against Lamba by some shopkeep- Bhandar hurled a stone at her. quent applications has a duty to ers and hawkers in north Delhi’s He was later arrested and sent consider the reasons and grounds Kashmere Gate area. to judicial custody. on which the earlier bail applica- “We have registered an FIR Hours after the incident, a tions were rejected. against Alka Lamba yesterday CCTV clip went viral, showing “In such case, the court also has following seven complaints made Lamba and one of her support- a duty to record what are the suf- by some Kashmiri Gate shop- ers pushing the cash resister ficient grounds which persuade it keepers and hawkers,” Deputy of the shop, allegedly owned by to take a different view from the Commissioner of Police Madhur Bharatiya Janata Party legislator one taken in the earlier applica- Verma said. O P Sharma. tion,” Justice Chauhan said. Lamba, the legislator from The footage shows Lamba going “The petitioner is accused of Chandni Chowk constituency, to the cash counter of the shop serious and heinous offence and has been booked under several and throwing away things. his liberty at this stage cannot be Farmers from the newly-formed Swaraj Abhiyan group protest against the land acquisition bill in New Delhi, Indian Penal Code (IPC) sections Clarifying the incident, Lamba placed at a high pedestal,” he said. yesterday. Farmers from all over India staged a protest over the land bill that eases rules for acquiring farm- — including disposal of property, yesterday said the CCTV footage The petitioner had sought ers’ land for large projects. mischief causing damage, assault actually shows the incident that grant of regular bail in the case or criminal force to deter public took place after she was attacked. registered at Barmana in Bilaspur servant from discharge of his duty IANS district on May 28. IANS TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

Kalam’s statue at Hyderabad SP won’t disrupt Lok Sabha research centre Mulayam Singh assures Speaker Mahajan of help as logjam continues in both houses HYDERABAD: A statue of former president A P J Abdul NEW DELHI: The Samajwadi Party Samajwadi Party wants trooped into the well of was taken into confidence,” the Congress Kalam, who died last month, yesterday assured Speaker Sumitra the house to function the house shouting slo- leader said. was unveiled at the Research Mahajan that it would not join the pro- and it won’t support the gans against the gov- Finance Minister Arun Jaitley, leader of Centre Imarat (RCI) here tests led by the Congress in the Lok Congress protests. ernment and displaying the house, denied the opposition allegations. yesterday. Sabha. He also said the house placards. Soon after Jaitley stood up to speak, Kalam had established RCI, SP chief Mulayam Singh Yadav conveyed cannot function accord- Amid the din, Kurien Congress members trooped into the well a premier defence laboratory this to the speaker during a meeting after ing to the whims and adjourned the house for of the house and shouted slogans against under the Defence Research the first adjournment of the Lok Sabha in fancies of the Congress the day. the Narendra Modi government. and Development Organisation the morning. leadership. When the house met Amid the din, Jaitley said: “I strongly (DRDO). Mahajan called the meeting with rep- Meanwhile, The Rajya in the morning, Kurien refute the charges levelled by the leader The statue was unveiled at the resentatives of all political parties in the Sabha yesterday wit- allowed papers to be of the opposition. We tried several times residential campus of RCI near Lok Sabha to find a way out of the logjam nessed heated arguments tabled and then permitted to break the logjam but the Congress the Faculty House where he used in the lower house. between opposition and Leader of the Opposition, has decided it will not allow the house to to stay when he was the DRDO In the Lok Sabha, when it became clear treasury benches over the ongoing logjam Ghulam Nabi Azad, to speak. Azad accused function.” director. that the house would not be able to func- in both houses of parliament with both the government of not making any attempt “Their chief ministers welcomed the Distinguished scientists, tion for yet another day as opposition mem- sides sticking to their stands. to end the logjam for the last three weeks. Naga peace accord through their tweets including NITI Aayog member V bers protested near the speaker’s podium The Rajya Sabha, which was adjourned “An impression is being created outside that were deleted after pressure from their K Saraswat, scientific advisor to with placards and shouted slogans, Yadav twice till 2pm., was finally adjourned for the house that the government has reached leadership,” he said. the defence minister G Satheesh suggested that the speaker hold a meeting the day after an uproar in the post-lunch out to the opposition members to break the After Jaitley spoke, Kurien allowed Reddy and DRDO’s Director with MPs to find a way out. session. ongoing logjam, which is far from true,” Janata Dal-United member K C Tyagi to General (Missiles) and Chief “You have to ensure that the house func- The Congress, supported by some other Azad said. speak. As he stood up, Congress members Controller Satish Kumar, were tions. This is happening because you have opposition parties, has been demand- “No one from the government has ever stopped shouting slogans and went back present. not spoken to anybody,” Mulayam Singh ing the resignations of External Affairs met any of the Congress leaders to break to their seats. The DRDO organised a meeting Yadav said. Mahajan said she had already Minister Sushma Swaraj and Rajasthan the logjam. In fact, we have received phone Jaitley objected to this behaviour of the in memory of the late president. spoken to the members of various parties Chief Minister Vasundhara Raje over their calls from the government and that too on Congress members. D Balasubramanian of L V and was still ready to do so immediately if association with the former Indian Premier the suspension of the 25 Congress members “The government was not allowed to Prasad Eye Institute and sci- they agreed. League chairman Lalit Modi, while Madhya from the Lok Sabha and not on the stale- speak by the Congress members. This is the entists, including R N Agarwal, “You just ask them (Congress) whether Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh mate in parliament,” he added. selective approach of the Congress. Is this Prahlada, S K Salwan, and oth- they are ready. I will adjourn the house Chouhan is embroiled in the Vyapam scam Azad criticised Prime Minister Narendra the way to conduct the house,” the finance ers who had close association with immediately and call you,” Mahajan controversy. Modi for not taking into confidence the minister asked. Kurien responded by say- Kalam paid floral tributes. said. Amid the ruckus, the speaker then When the house reassembled at 2 pm chief ministers of different states before ing: “Selective blocking is not acceptable. I “My mind is filled with so many adjourned the house till noon. Deputy Chairman P J Kurien allowed taking any decision regarding these states. have never seen such practice.” memories and so many interac- The meeting was attended by Yadav, his Janata Dal-United member K C Tyagi to Azad said that the government was making Amidst heated arguments between tions with Dr Kalam right from nephew and party colleague Dharmendra raise a matter under rule 267. a mockery of cooperative federalism. opposition and treasury benches, Congress the 1980s. He is the man who Yadav, Rashtriya Janata Dal’s Jai Prakash Tyagi said the union government “When the Naga peace accord was signed, leader from Andhra Pradesh, J Seelam, the established Research Centre Narayan Yadav, Aam Aadmi Party’s appointed Ram Nath Kovind as the Bihar none of the chief ministers concerned were trooped into the well and stood in front of Imarat (RCI) and has seen its Bhagwant Mann, Trinamool Congress and governor but did not take Chief Minister taken into confidence. Two days back, gov- Jaitley. He along with other Congress mem- transcendence. He is the man who Nationalist Congress Party. Nitish Kumar into confidence. ernors for Bihar and Himachal Pradesh bers from Andhra Pradesh was demanding formulated the Integrated Missile According to sources, Yadav said the Soon after, the Congress members again were appointed but neither chief minister a special status for the state. IANS Programme of the country and made India emerge as a missile power,” said Satheesh Reddy. “The great visionary’s remi- Tricolours for Independence Day niscence and inspirational words will always remain green in hearts Summons to godwoman in and will keep motivating the sci- entific fraternity to aspire for greater heights and to set new dowry harassment case benchmarks in the years to come,” he said. Reddy said the greatest tribute MUMBAI: Summons have police station against Radhe Maa to Kalam would be to fulfill his been served on self-styled god- for obscenity, running a business dreams and realise his vision for woman Sukhwinder Kaur alias disguised as religion and mislead- the country. Mamtamai Shri Radhe Guru ing the people. IANS Maa in connection with a dowry Claiming to be a fan of harassment case and other actor and ex-porn star Sunny issues and her statement is Leone, Radhe Maa’s pictures in likely to be recorded last Friday, short dresses and gyrating to Maran has only police said here yesterday. Bollywood tunes with her devo- “The summons were served at tees during ‘satsangs’ (religious three days to her residence last Sunday. Her discourses) have gone viral on statement is likely to be recorded the social media in the past few surrender to CBI next Friday,” a Mumbai police days. said. Recently, Radhe Maa, 50, shot CHENNAI: In a setback to Radhe Maa rubbished the into the limelight when she - former communications min- dowry charges levelled against along with a couple of other god- ister Dayanidhi Maran, the her by a woman from Kandivali men - was banned from going to Madras High Court yesterday and said she had nothing to do Nashik for the ongoing Kumbh cancelled his anticipatory bail with her family dispute. mela and taking part in the ‘shahi and asked him to surrender In her complaint last week, snan’ (royal bath). before the CBI in three days. the 32-year-old woman alleged Born Sukhvinder Kaur, she The Central Bureau of that Radhe Maa instigated her hails from an affluent family of Workers prepare national flags ahead of the forthcoming Independence Day celebrations at a workshop in Investigation (CBI) had filed a husband and in-laws to demand Gurdaspur and her father was a Ahmedabad, yesterday. India marks its 68th Independence Day on August 15. petition seeking to cancel the dowry from her, though she government servant in Punjab. anticipatory bail granted to had given them jewellery worth Educated upto senior secondary Maran on grounds that the DMK over `102cr at the time of her level, she dropped out of school leader did not cooperate with the marriage. and got married at the age of 18 investigation. She said Radhe Maa asked to a businessman, Mohan Singh, Challenge SC’s Ayodhya order: Owaisi The court accepted CBI’s her in-laws, to make more dowry of Hoshiarpur and the couple has argument and cancelled the bail demands on her later and caused three children. HYDERABAD: AIMIM chief allowed repairs to covers and some facilities can be made avail- granted earlier. “mental and physical torture”. However, she renounced the Asaduddin Owaisi yester- providing other facilities on the able, do it.” Uttar Pradesh govern- The CBI case relates to the The action follows registration world at the age of 23 and was day said the All India Muslim disputed Babri Masjid-Rama ment, however, said that all the installation of over 300 high speed of an FIR against Radhe Maa and initiated as a ‘sadhvi’ by Mahant Personal Law Board must chal- Janmabhoomi site. The court facilities were being made avail- data lines at his Boat Club Road seven others, including the wom- Ramdin Das 1008 of Paramhans lenge the Supreme Court order directed the district collector of able to the pilgrims and none of residence to benefit Sun TV group an’s in-laws, in the matter, charg- Bagh Dera, in Hoshiarpur. allowing repair of facilities at Faizabad to execute the same. them were aggrieved. promoted by his elder brother ing them under the Indian Penal Since the past few years, the makeshift Ramlala Temple The apex court last Friday Uttar Pradesh Advocate Kalanithi Maran. Code and the Dowry Prohibition Radhe Maa has made Borivali at Ayodhya. asked the central and Uttar General V B Singh had told The CBI latter said the number Act. her home where a devotee “AIMPLB must appeal against Pradesh governments to extend the court that only the peti- of phone lines installed is over 700 Last week, activist lawyer donated a building to her for her or implead itself,” tweeted the MP facilities to pilgrims going to tioner (BJP leader Subramanian at his Boat Club Road residence Falguni Brahmbhatt lodged a religious work. from Hyderabad. Ayodhya to offer prayers. Swamy) is aggrieved. and another residence in Delhi. separate complaint in Borivali IANS The Supreme Court yesterday Justice Anil R Dave said “If IANS IANS

Sowing time Begin mining or face government order to start operations: Goa CM

PANAJI: Mining companies The ban was eventually lifted to restart mining and Vedanta in Goa should resume opera- last year, but mining did not surprised me by reopening two tions as soon as possible, failing restart. From the 80-plus min- months earlier,” he said. which they would be compelled ing leases, which were renewed “I know prices of iron ore have to commence mining, Goa Chief by the state government, Vedanta decreased in international market Minister Laxmikant Parsekar Resource’s Sesa Iron ore min- and as a result the government said yesterday. ing company is the first outfit to has reduced export duty from 30 “I appeal to mine owners to restart operations. percent to 10 percent.” start mining this year itself. The Resumption of mining in Goa, Chief executive officer of Sesa government will give full support. Parsekar said, was akin to the Iron Ore R Kishor Kumar, who If they still fail, I will order them arrival of the ‘Achche Din’ or was present at the function, said: to do so,” Parsekar said. ‘Good Days’ promised by Prime “Due to a fall in iron ore prices Mining in Goa was stopped Minister Narendra Modi. “I feel in international market, doubts both by the state government as achche din have started. Mining were raised whether mining will well as the central government activities were stopped for nearly resume in Goa or not. We want to in 2012 following a `35,000 crore three years in Goa.” put end to these doubts.” illegal mining scam which was “The government tried to give “The resumption of mining unearthed by a judicial commis- some relief to truck owners by will resume employment for sion appointed by the union mines giving the (financial) packages many mining-dependent people, ministry, before the Supreme and also mediated with banks to the government will benefit from Court eventually banned all min- give some relief as far as loans increased revenues and communi- A farmer ploughs his agricultural field in the Assam-Arunachal Pradesh border region, in northeast India, ing activity and instituted a probe were concerned,” Parsekar said. ties will be empowered,” Kumar yesterday. Sufficient rains have brought increasing hopes of a good crop for the farmers in the region. by its Empowered Committee. “I had given a date of October said. IANS TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 FEATURES www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 15

Internet addiction the internet on people’s health those people who did not report treat lung cancer. of the machines, bought for cognitive skills that keep their was independent of a range of excessive use of the internet. The innovation has allowed about £1.2m (about $1m) each brains sharp. may weaken your other factors, like depression, Previous research has shown patients to leave hospital within two years ago, is also using them It has been designed to help sleep deprivation, and loneliness, that people who spend more two days of surgery, suffering to operate on prostate, gynaeco- deal with symptoms such as immune system which are associated with high time on the internet experi- only minimal post-operative logical, liver, ENT and colorectal paranoia and hallucinations, and pending too much time levels of internet use and also ence greater sleep deprivation, pain, Daily Mail reported. cancer patients. has been paired with the popular online can damage your with poor health,” Reed noted in have worse eating habits and The robot, called da Vinci, is The da Vinci gives surgeons a brain-training app, Peak. Simmune function, warns a a statement released by Swansea less healthy diets, engage in less activated by a doctor who oper- high-definition view of a patient’s “In conjunction with medi- new study. University. exercise, and also tend to smoke ates a camera and a surgeon who organs in 3D via a screen inside cation and current psychologi- People with greater levels of The study also suggested that and drink alcohol more. manipulates the robot’s arms the control console. cal therapies, (Wizard) could internet addiction problems are those who are addicted to the These behaviours too can from a console using a joystick During the past two years, it help people with schizophrenia 30 percent more likely to catch internet may suffer from great harm their immune system and foot pedals. has become a favoured option in minimise the impact of their ill- colds and flu than those who are stress when they are discon- and increase vulnerability to The machine locates and Britain for removing prostate ness in their everyday life,” The less addicted to the internet, the nected from the net, and this diseases. removes tumours without press- tumours, which are difficult to Guardian quoted a research findings showed. cycle of stress and relief associ- “It does not seem to matter ing on patients’ ribs as it reaches eliminate using traditional key- team member as saying. “Those who spend a long time ated with internet addiction may what you use it for, if you use and grabs the tumour. hole surgery. The study found that 22 alone on the internet experi- lead to altered levels of cortisol - it too much, you are more sus- This pressing is the major Intuitive Surgical, da Vinci’s patients who played the memory ence reduced immune function a hormone that impacts immune ceptible to illness. However, the cause of operative pain in tradi- California-based manufacturer, game committed fewer errors as a result of simply not having function. mechanisms responsible for you tional laparoscopic or keyhole, has reportedly sold 3,317 of the and needed less effort to remem- enough contact with others and Researchers evaluated 500 getting ill may differ, depending lung surgery. robots worldwide to date. ber the location of different pat- their germs,” explained one of people aged 18 to 101 years old. on how you use the net,” profes- “This is a huge advance in terns of specific tests. the researchers Phil Reed, pro- Those who reported prob- sor Roberto Truzoli from Milan lung-cancer treatment with a Improvements in memory fessor at Swansea University in lems with over-using the inter- University in Italy who was part clear advantage for patients,” App helps reduce retention, remembering dates Wales, Britain. net also reported having more of the new study noted. cardiothoracic consultant Sasha and times and understanding “We found that the impact of cold and flu symptoms than Stamenkovic from Newcastle schizophrenia the context, conversation and Hospital Trust, England, was other forms of communication Smart ‘da Vinci’ quoted as saying. symptoms are all categories that improved Stamenkovic’s team has when patients used the game on Previous research has shown that people who robot helps treat performed 30 lung operations esearchers at Cambridge a regular basis. spend more time on the internet experience using the robot in the past University have devel- Wizard is currently available lung cancer year and will present its find- Roped a smartphone game for iOS platform only, and soon greater sleep deprivation, have worse eating ings at the World Congress of that can help reduce symptoms it would be available for Android. four-armed surgeon robot Cardiothoracic Surgeons in of schizophrenia. The study was published in habits and less healthy diets, engage in less first developed to treat September. The game, called Wizard, Philosophical Transactions of Aprostate disease is now He said the Newcastle helps those diagnosed with schiz- the Royal Society. exercise, and also tend to smoke more. being widely used in England to Hospital Trust, which has two ophrenia practice day-to-day AGENCIES So cool: A summer soup that’s as easy as a salad

By Ellie Krieger and a kick of feta cheese. You can keep 1 scallion, thinly sliced on the diago- it in the refrigerator for a couple of nal (white and green parts) t’s a weekly summer ritual I relish: days, so you barely have to lift a finger 1 tablespoon chopped fresh dill fronds visiting my local farmers market, to have a revitalizing snack, a lunch 1 tablespoon chopped fresh mint where I go hopelessly overboard (along with some pita and hummus, 1/8 teaspoon salt Iand buy way too much because I perhaps) or a starter at dinnertime. In 1/4 teaspoon freshly ground black can’t resist the variety of perfectly ripe the depths of August, I can’t imagine a pepper produce. Then I head home with my better, or cooler, way to use those sum- 1/3 cup crumbled feta cheese bounty and, without touching a stove, mer vegetables. 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil, for oven or grill, whip up a great big batch garnish of . . . soup. I bet you were thinking salad. Yogurt Soup With Method Sure, I make salads, too. But it is Whisk together the buttermilk and chilled soup that really sustains and Summer Vegetables, yogurt in a mixing bowl until smooth. refreshes me during the dog days. Stir in the tomato, cucumber, rad- I regularly riff on gazpacho, mak- ishes, scallion, dill, mint, salt and pep- ing the classic red version as well as Herbs and Feta per, then add the feta cheese. Cover and green cucumber and yellow tomato refrigerate for at least 1 hour (and up varieties, and I relish a subtly sweet 4 servings (makes 5 cups) to 2 days). melon or berry soup as well. But one MAKE AHEAD: The soup needs to Divide among individual bowls; driz- of my absolute favourite summer soups be refrigerated for at least 1 hour and zle each portion with 1/2 teaspoon of puts garden vegetables and herbs in a up to 2 days. the oil just before serving. creamy yogurt-and-buttermilk base. It Nutrition | Per serving: 140 calories, 11 is cool and light but utterly satisfying, Ingredients g protein, 13 g carbohydrates, 5 g fat, 3 g thanks to the protein-rich dairy, and 2 1/2 cups low-fat buttermilk saturated fat, 20 mg cholesterol, 500 mg it’s as easy to make as a salad. In fact, 2/3 cup plain, low-fat Greek yogurt sodium, 0 g dietary fiber, 11 g sugar like gazpacho, it basically is a salad you 1 large tomato, seeded and diced Krieger’s most recent cookbook is can slurp up with a spoon. 1/2 (seedless) English cucumber, cut Weeknight Wonders: Delicious Healthy This version takes its flavour cues into small dice Dinners in 30 Minutes or Less (Houghton from a Greek salad, with cool chunks 2 medium radishes, cut into small Mifflin Harcourt, 2013). of cucumber, juicy tomato, fresh herbs dice WP-BLOOMBERG

or flawless make-up, moisturise your skin well before applying the products and use fixtures to get a refreshed look. F Here are some tips by make-up artist Kanikka Gauraav Tandon for keeping your make-up perfect always: * Moisturise: Moisturise your skin before applying make-up, but be sure that the moisturiser is oil-free to make the make-up stick to its place. Besides that, use a primer. Go for mineral powder foundation which works great for oily skin. Apply it with foundation applicator brush. * Eyes: Before applying eyeliner to your bottom lashes, dust a brush over some baby powder and apply it on the lower lash line which will soak the extra moisture from the area, making it easier for the eyeliner to stay in place for longer. Also, avoid putting eye cream directly on your lids and apply primer specifically made for your eyes. * Lips: Try to get rid of extra skin from your lips with the help of sugar scrub. Apply foundation to your lips to make your lipstick last longer. Line and fill the lip with neutral lip pencil. Apply one coat of lipstick and then blot, and finish with a light layer lip gloss. * Blush: Use powdered blush-on in natural earthy shades or apply Fashion not important, the blush on in a dotted format on your cheeks and rub it gently with Easy tips for your ring finger. They are also known as flushed cheeks. For blush- on, you can use colours like ruby, strawberry, orchid lilac colours. says Akshara Haasan * Refresh your make-up: Fixtures are generally used to give ctress Akshara Haasan, who donned a your make-up a refreshed look. It is basically a misty spray which smudge free Abride’s look for an ongoing fashion extrav- is sprayed on the face. After spraying it let it settle for approxi- aganza in New Delhi, believes comfort with mately six to seven seconds. Get ready with a fresh face on a hot one’s own self is more important than being and sweaty day. fashionable. IANS make-up “It is not really that important because at the end of the day you should be comfortable with what you are wearing and more than that you should be comfortable with who you are,” Akshara said on being asked about the impor- tance of fashion for her as a celebrity. The actress, who is the daughter of veteran actors Kamal Haasan and Sarika, was seen as the showstopper for Rina Dhaka’s latest collec- tion at the BMW India Bridal Fashion Week 2015 and believes that clothes and brands do not matter for making a fashion statement. “It does not matter what you are wearing... who you are as a person makes a statement in itself. So fashion for me is to ‘be yourself’,” she added. IANS TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 16 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MORNING BREAK

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First bite of Flower parade space-grown lettuce is ‘awesome’

MIAMI: Astronauts living at the International Space Station took their first bites of space- grown lettuce yesterday, in what scientists described as another step toward enabling human missions to Mars. “That’s awesome,” exclaimed Nasa astronaut Kjell Lindgren, after he ate a piece of red romaine lettuce that was grown in a special box aboard the orbiting outpost. “Tastes good,” agreed astro- naut Scott Kelly, who is spending one year at the research outpost. “Kind of like arugula,” Kelly added, then used a small bottle to spread olive oil and balsamic vinegar on his leaf. If space explorers can grow their own food while they are away from the Earth, Nasa says they are more likely to survive the rigors of deep space exploration A man and a woman (right) wearing a floral arrangement on their back take part in the annual flower parade, in which flower growers known as “silleteros” present their floral arrangements, lasting months or even years. in Medellin, Colombia, late on Sunday. With no way to resupply a spacecraft making a long journey to and from Mars, the ability to cultivate food during the trip will be key to survival, said Kelly. The red romaine lettuce was Italian mother grown in a special plant-growing box called Veg-01 that was built Butterflies on the brink: Study by Orbital Sciences and was reunited with flown to space aboard the SpaceX PARIS: Only aggressive efforts Fahrenheit) cap on global warm- hot-and-dry spells are predicted hotter and drier, the impacts Dragon cargo ship. The seeds are to rein in global warming cou- ing would boost their odds to to become more common as global of drought may be much more contained in rooting pillows, com- pled with a rethinking of the about 50 percent, the research- warming sets in. severe,” said Oliver. WWII baby plete with soil and fertilizer. British countryside will save ers said. More than a fifth of the species, The significance of the findings Since water cannot be poured many native species of butterfly, The two-degree target, bench- they found, experienced major goes beyond the intrinsic beauty after 71 years in space, a special irrigation sys- according to a study published marked to pre-industrial times, population collapses during that of butterflies and their value as tem delivers moisture to the plant yesterday. has been embraced by the period. Among those hit hardest part of Earth’s natural heritage. pillows from below. The seeds “Widespread, drought-sensitive 195-nation UN forum tasked with were the Ringlet, the Speckled Butterflies are frequently used as ROME: A 92-year-old Italian has were “activated” by Kelly on July butterfly population extinction delivering a climate-saving pact in Wood and the Large Skipper. a “canary-in-the-coal-mine” indi- been reunited with her daughter 8, and grew for 33 days. could occur as early as 2050,” Paris in December. Nowhere, per- As critical, the researchers cator for other types of insects. after she was taken from her at Wearing blue gloves, Lindgren scientists reported in the journal haps, have butterflies been more discovered a direct link between If warming-enhanced drought birth 71 years ago, Italian media harvested the lettuce with tongs Nature Climate Change. intensely scrutinised over the last landscape and recovery: the more has a similar impact on other spe- reported yesterday. and then placed the leaves on a Under a business-as-usual sce- century than in Britain. fragmented the habitat, the longer cies such as bees, dragonflies and The elderly woman, originally tray. He cleaned them with citric nario of continued greenhouse gas Scientists led by Tom Oliver it took for populations to revive. beetles, Oliver said, a significant from Novellara, a small village in acid-based, food safe sanitizing emissions, the odds that certain of the NERC Centre of Ecology “Conservationists increasingly slice of our biodiversity could be northern Italy, was working in wipes before handing them, in a British Isles species will make it and Hydrology in Britain exam- recognise the importance of under threat. Germany during World War II, Ziploc bag, to Kelly and Japanese beyond mid-century are “around ined some of the resulting data reducing fragmentation of natu- “Many of these other species when she became pregnant by a astronaut Kimiya Yui. zero,” the study concludes. from 129 sites to see how 28 ral habitats rather than simply provide essential functions for married German soldier. They saved a couple of leaves Protecting wilderness areas species responded to a severe managing protected ‘islands’ in humans such as pollinating crops, After she gave birth, the for Russian cosmonauts Mikhail — and especially reducing the drought in 1995. a hostile landscape of intensive eating pests, and decomposing father’s family took the baby — Kornienko and Gennady Padalka, fragmentation of natural habi- The researches suspected farming,” Oliver said. waste.” The three other butterfly named as Margot Bachmann in who were outside the station tats — would give some of these that occasional bouts of drought Butterflies in other countries species that experienced popu- the media reports — and raised doing a spacewalk. A previous gossamer creatures at least a slim were at least as devastating to with a high degree of industrial lation collapse in 1995 were the it in Germany. crop of lettuce was grown in chance of survival. some species as gradually ris- farming that face similar climate Small and Large Cabbage Whites, The girl had been told her birth space last year but was not eaten Such measures combined with ing temperatures. While 1995 change scenarios may also be in along with the Green-veined mother was Italian, but that she by astronauts. AFP a two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees was the worst on record, such danger. In areas “that are already White. AFP had died during the war. But when her father died last year, Bachmann, now 71, decided to look for her mother through the International Tracing Service (ITS), a German centre for WWII documentation. Ocean threat from Hong Kong’s taste for seafood With the help of the Italian Red Cross, the ITS discovered HONG KONG: A seafood on the city’s famous Peak, which that Bachmann’s mother was still lunch in Hong Kong is enjoyed serves a wide range of seafood. alive and the two were reunited at by locals and visitors alike, but “If you tell me what I am eat- the weekend. “When I began to with threatened species on the ing is not sustainable I will try to look into the whereabouts of my menu and fishing practices that avoid it,” she added. mother to find out a little more, I endanger marine life, cam- Cafe Deco has opted to provide never imagined that I would one paigners want to change the an alternative sustainable menu day be able to hug her,” Bachmann city’s appetite. as part of the WWF push — told Il Quotidiano newspaper. Hong Kong is the second- shunning the controversial deli- “My father had forbidden me largest consumer of seafood per cacy shark fin, for example. from looking for her, but after his capita in Asia — an average resi- “You can’t necessarily tell the death and thanks to the wonder- dent consumes 71.2kg of seafood difference (in flavour)... if you don’t ful help of my own daughter, I each year, more than four times use shark fin to make dumplings,” have found her.” AFP the global average, according to senior chef William Chang said the World Wide Fund for Nature as he put the finishing touches to Hong Kong. ocean trout-stuffed ravioli, a dish Comet 67P Yet the city of seven million has on the sustainable menu. been forced to become one of the Chang says restaurants should biggest seafood importers in the “take the first step” to change nears Sun world as local waters are depleted people’s eating habits. Some sup- of fish stocks. Whether in high- pliers are also trying to help. PARIS: A comet streaking end restaurants or waterside Banker-turned-fish farmer through space with a European eateries, seafood is ubiquitous in Mark Kwok hopes that by farm- robot lab riding piggyback will the southern Chinese city, where ing groupers, which are on the skirt the Sun this week, set- customers often choose their fish decline in the ocean, he can help ting another landmark in an live from a tank. stem the crisis. His farm in the extraordinary quest to unravel Baked lobster with noodles in northern hillside town of Yuen the origins of life on Earth. cheese and deep-fried prawns in Long was accredited as sustain- Scientists hope the heat of peri- salted egg yolk are among local A worker holding a fish from an aquaculture fish farm in the Lau Fau Shan district in Yuen Long. able by the WWF in 2013. helion — when the comet comes favourites. But a “fish tank index” “We have about 35,000 fish. closest to the Sun in its orbit — compiled by WWF Hong Kong “Overfishing is driving the col- wild sea cucumber and hump- his meal — steamed grouper and Even if you were to eat all of will cause the enigmatic traveller found that more than 50 percent lapse of the world’s ocean fish head wrasse — a coral reef fish. shrimps — could pose a threat to them, it wouldn’t make a dent in to shed more of its icy crust. If so, of the species available in the stocks and edging many types of The WWF has launched a new the ocean. “We’re just trying to the ecosystem because these are it could spew out pristine particles city’s traditional restaurant tanks fish towards extinction, yet they online seafood guide for Hong see what it’s like here. We are farmed fish that have never seen left from the Solar System’s birth were from “highly unsustainable” are still on our menus,” WWF Kong detailing which types are probably not too keen on know- the ocean,” he said. 4.6 billion years ago, they believe. sources. Hong Kong conservation direc- deemed unsustainable. It also ing what kind of fish it is,” he Environmentalists in the And if Comet 67P/Churyumov- tor Gavin Edwards said. recently held a “Sustainable said, sitting metres away from Philippines say stocks of grouper Gerasimenko undergoes this dra- “Hong Kong has a special Seafood Week” asking restaurants tanks packed with live crabs and are dwindling near the island of matic change, Europe’s Rosetta responsibility to turn the tide to provide ocean-friendly options. reef fish. Palawan, a major source for Hong spacecraft will be orbiting nearby, as one of the biggest consumers But there is still a way to go to Hong Konger Janice Fung said Kong. “We have fishermen who ready to pounce on any clues of of seafood.” Unsustainable fish change consumer habits. restaurants rarely gave informa- say they used to catch them near how our star system came into include those caught by controver- Visiting Hong Kong for a post- tion on sourcing. “If you go to an the coast. But now, they have to being. The celestial voyager will sial fishing practices, such as using graduation trip, Japanese student expensive restaurant or a special- go further out to sea,” said Melo reach its closest point to our star cyanide poison, or from overfishing Ted Machizawa, 22, has just fin- ised seafood shop they might tell Ponce De Leon, spokeswoman of — some 186 million kilometres — already depleted species. ished lunch in the coastal town of you. Otherwise the information is the government’s Palawan Council at about 0200 GMT on Thursday, Popular, threatened seafood Sai Kung, famous for its seafood. not comprehensive,” she said as for Sustainable Development. before embarking on another 6.5- in Hong Kong include grouper, He says he had no idea whether she waited for a meal at Cafe Deco AFP year egg-shaped orbit. AFP Tuesday 11 August 2015 26 Shawwal 1436 Volume 20 Number 6519 Price: QR2

Recession-hit Russian GDP shinks 4.6pc

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 US move puts Gazprom-Shell plans in jeopardy Washington adds one of Russian giant’s biggest gas fields to sanctions list over Moscow’s role in Ukraine

MOSCOW: Royal Dutch Shell’s penalties imposed since 2014 over decade from 10 million currently. plans to build a strategic alli- Moscow’s involvement in Ukraine Shell is the only foreign investor ance with Russia’s Gazprom — would target new projects, not to have expressed interest so far. could be in jeopardy after the existing supplies as that could Alexander Kornilov, energy United States added one of cause a spike in global energy analyst at Alfa Bank in Moscow, Gazprom’s biggest gas fields prices. “It is clear that this is a said Gazprom would have to post- to its list of Russian sanctions signal to Shell — don’t go into new pone development of Yuzhno- on Friday. Shell and Gazprom projects, deal with existing ones,” Kirinskoye and the planned signed an agreement in June an executive at a Russian energy expansion of Sakhalin-2 as both to develop a strategic alliance company who works on projects would require Western drilling in the gas sector, ranging from in Sakhalin said, on condition of and liquefaction technologies, upstream — exploration and anonymity. which Russia is lacking. production — to sales, including Last year, Washington slapped “New sanctions is a surgical possible asset swaps. sanctions on an Arctic project strike aimed at slowing down Development of the Yuzhno- that state-owned Russian oil Gazprom’s LNG projects in Asia. Kirinskoye field on the island of major Rosneft planned to develop It will be impossible for Gazprom Sakhalin in the Pacific, a project with US oil major ExxonMobil, to develop Yuzhno-Kirinskoye known as Sakhalin-3, has been effectively forcing the two com- without partners,” he said citing seen as central to that alliance panies to suspend drilling despite difficult drilling conditions. as it would allow the two compa- the discovery of oil. Sakhalin is one of the most nies to expand their sole existing Sanctions have also affected important regions in Russia LNG venture, Sakhalin-2, located Russian energy firms’ ability to for foreign investment due to nearby. State-owned Gazprom raise long-term funding and plans its offshore deposits. Yuzhno- was believed to be considering to develop shale and deep-water Kirinskoye has reserves of 640 selling a stake in Sakhalin-3 to oil resources. However, this is the billion cubic metres — enough to People in front of the Gazprom company building in Moscow yesterday. Shell, which confirmed only last first time natural gas production supply Japan for five years — and week that it was interested in has been targeted and Russian 97 million tonnes of gas conden- buying a share, possibly through President Vladimir Putin’s sate, a by-product similar to oil. an asset swap, according to spokesman, Dmitry Peskov, said Shell and Gazprom have Bloomberg. It may now have to on Friday that new US sanctions invested more than $20bn in Gazprom net profit jumps 71 percent rethink those plans. would further damage bilateral Sakhalin-2, one of the world’s The US government said it was relations. Several sources at largest liquefaction plants and MOSCOW: Russian gas giant prices in ruble terms”. Most of analysts’ predictions averaging restricting exports, re-exports Gazprom said its lawyers were Japan Mitsui and Mitsubishi Corp Gazprom said yesterday its net Gazprom’s costs are in the bat- 347bn rubles for the January- and transfers of technology studying the impact of the US are also investors. profit surged 71 percent in the tered Russian currency, while to-March period, Interfax news and equipment to the Yuzhno- decision. Executives at the com- Shell said it was engaging with first quarter as a weak ruble most of its revenues are in dollars agency reported. But while sales Kirinskoye field. pany, which announced a 71 per- the relevant authorities and tak- compensated for declining sales or euros. The ruble lost nearly revenues were up, Gazprom’s Shell, with considerable assets cent jump in first-quarter net ing action to ensure it complies and lower energy prices. half its value in 2014 but slightly operating profits dropped by 3.0 in the United States, would face profit yesterday, told a conference with all applicable sanctions or The net profit of 382bn rubles recovered after energy prices sta- percent to 459bn rubles and sales consequences if it went against call it was too early to say how the related measures. ($5.9bn) compared with 223bn bilised. A recent slump in energy volume was down 10 percent to the sanction, as would other decision could affect the project. “Shell remains committed to rubles in the first quarter of 2014, prices, however, last week saw the 132.3 billion of cubic meters (bcm). potential foreign investors. Gazprom wants Sakhalin-3 to working in Russia and we value the company said in a statement. Russian currency hit its weak- Gazprom has recently encoun- US officials have repeatedly provide gas to expand capacity working with our Russian part- Gazprom acknowledged that est level against the dollar since tered difficulties with some of its said that sanctions on Russia’s at Sakhalin-2 to as much as 15 ners and colleagues,” a Shell the result was partly attribut- February. partners, including conflict-hit energy sector — part of broader million tonnes a year by the next spokeswoman said. REUTERS able to the “increase in average The profit figure exceeded Ukraine. AFP

Germany puts strict conditions before Greek bailout Opec not to hold

BERLIN: Germany pressed An accord for up to €86bn in — to fix the size of the first as Greece and international any accord to review the results yesterday for strict conditions fresh loans to the debt-stricken payment tranche to the extent creditors sought to put final of the talks, which would subse- early meeting to be attached to a new bail- nation must be in place by of the reforms implemented,” touches on a multi-billion bail- quently be put to a parliamen- out accord for Greece, arguing August 20, when a debt repay- Finance Ministry spokesman out accord to keep the country tary vote. “We are ready to do ALGIERS/LONDON: Opec oil exporters for aid payments to be tied to ment to the European Central Juerg Weissgerber told a regular financially afloat. this examination quickly this have no plans for an emergency meeting to Athens’ reform progress and Bank is due. government news conference. Greek ministers and repre- week if necessary, but quality discuss the drop in oil prices before a next holding out the possibility of a But Germany stressed its “That means strict condition- sentatives of European insti- comes before speed,” he said. scheduled gathering in December, two Opec delayed final deal. wish for “quality before speed” ality for financial help,” he said, tutions and the International Greek officials have pre- delegates said yesterday. The hard line from Berlin in the negotiations and held out adding that Germany wants a Monetary Fund resumed talks viously said they expect the Algerian Energy Minister Salah Khebri said reflected popular misgivings in — as it has before — the pos- deal that includes an ambitious earlier yesterday after a mara- bailout to be agreed in time to discussions about potentially holding such a Germany about funnelling yet sibility of a temporary bridge budget plan, a credible privati- thon session that ended in the allow a first disbursement of meeting were ongoing, state news agency APS more aid to Athens and poli- financing arrangement if a suf- sation strategy, and sustainable pre-dawn hours. Stressing that aid from the European Stability reported yesterday as oil prices LCOc1 fell cymakers’ loss of trust in the ficiently thorough bailout agree- pension reform. Germany is not involved in the Mechanism in time to allow towards $48 a barrel, their lowest since January. Greek government of left-wing ment is not reached in time. “It The call from Berlin for a negotiations, Weissgerber said Athens to make its debt pay- Algeria is one of the Organisation of the Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras. is sensible — that is our belief measured, strict approach came Berlin would need time after ment to the ECB. REUTERS Petroleum Exporting Countries members which had misgivings about its 2014 shift in policy to defend market share rather than prop up prices, and has been seeking supply cuts. Saudi Arabia and the Gulf members which drove the change of tack have shown no sign of softening their stance. Berkshire to buy Precision Castparts for $37bn While Opec countries are in touch with each other to discuss developments in the market, NEW YORK: US invest- said in a statement. Precision giants Geico and General Re, “there is no proposal for an emergency meet- ment guru Warren Buffett’s Castparts manufactures com- chemicals group Lubrizol, ing,” one of the Opec delegates said. Another Berkshire Hathaway has plex metal components and Coca-Cola, IBM, American said there was no suggestion of a meeting before agreed to buy Precision products for the aerospace Express, Wells Fargo Bank the December 4 gathering. Castparts, a leading supplier industry, including aircraft and dozens of other companies. Opec kept output policy unchanged at its to the aerospace industry, makers Boeing and Airbus, The company’s long-term last meeting held in June, despite lobbying for $37.2bn, in the largest and also products for chemi- gains have made Buffet the by Khebri for a production cut. Oil’s collapse acquisition in the conglom- cal processing and the oil and world’s third wealthiest per- from over $100 in June 2014 is more painful erate’s 50-year history. gas industry. son, with net worth of $72.7bn, for African Opec countries like Algeria than Berkshire Hathaway will It had more than $10bn in according to Forbes. for Gulf members. pay $235 per share in cash revenue in its fiscal 2015 year Buffett suggested the deal “Consultations are ongoing to take a deci- for all of PCC’s outstanding that ended in March, with net would be Berkshire’s biggest sion,” APS cited Khebri as saying, when asked shares, a 21 percent premium profit of $1.53bn. Buffett, 84, for at least a year, although about a possible Opec extraordinary meeting. on PCC’s closing price of has become a legend for the smaller deals were likely in He did not give further details. $193.88 on Friday, the compa- performance of Berkshire, the next six months. Despite the drop in prices since the last Opec nies said in a joint statement earning him the nickname “This takes us out of the meeting, officials including Secretary-General yesterday. the “Sage of Omaha” for his market for an elephant,” Abdullah al-Badri have downplayed the pros- Including Precision’s debt, investment savvy. Buffett said in an interview pect of the group cutting output and said they the deal is valued at about His Buffett Partnership on CNBC television. expect rising demand to support prices. Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffett at a function in Texas. $37.2bn, eclipsing Berkshire’s took control of Berkshire “We’ll be left with over Algeria, heavily dependent on oil income, has 2010 acquisition of rail opera- Hathaway, at the time a textile $40 billion probably of cash foreign exchange reserves as a cushion against tor Burlington Northern which currently owns about “I’ve admired PCC’s opera- manufacturer, in May 1965. when we get all through (with any economic fallout, but the central bank Santa Fe in a cash-and-debt 3.0 percent of its stock. tion for a long time. For good Now the sprawling PCC),” he said. “But I like to director has warned those reserves may swiftly deal valued at $36.5bn. The deal is subject to reasons, it is the supplier of Berkshire conglomerate, based have a lot of cash at all times. diminish if oil remains low for a long period. Precision Castparts will approval by PCC holders of choice for the world’s aero- in Omaha, Nebraska, has a This means we have to reload Its foreign exchange reserves dropped by keep its name and its head- the outstanding shares and space industry, one of the large number of majority and over the next 12 months or so.” $19.02bn to $159.9bn in the first quarter of 2015 quarters in Portland, Oregon, by regulators, and is expected largest sources of American minority stakes in everything Berkshire ended its fiscal due to the collapse in global crude oil prices. as a wholly owned subsidiary to be completed in the first exports,” Buffett, Berkshire’s from small jewelry and fur- second quarter on June 30 REUTERS of Buffett’s holding company, quarter of 2016. chairman and chief executive, niture retailers to insurance with $66.6bn in cash. AFP TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS Banking Recession-hit system ‘in a safe place’: Russian GDP Central bank MOSCOW: Russia’s central bank chief insisted yesterday that the country’s beleaguered banking shrinks 4.6pc system is out of danger after being battered by the economic crisis rocking the country. “The situation in the banking system Economy contracts most in 6 years is by and large a mirror for what is happening in the economy,” MOSCOW: Russia’s recession six years as authorities struggle bank head Elvira Nabiullina told worsened in the second quar- with one of the worst downturns President Vladimir Putin at a ter as gross domestic product in President Vladimir Putin’s 15 meeting. “Of course, external shrank by 4.6 percent compared years in charge. events have had an impact on the with a year earlier, battered by “We hope that Q2 of this year development of the banking sys- lower oil prices and Western could mark the bottom of the cur- tem. But in general, indicators sanctions over Ukraine, official rent cycle, and (second half of show that it is in a safe place, that statistics showed yesterday. 2015) numbers could look some- the banking system is stable.” The preliminary estimate from what better,” Oleg Kouzmin, an Nabiullina said that after several the official Rosstat agency marks economist at Renaissance Capital, months of losses the banking sector a steep drop from the 2.2 percent said in a note. “We expect GDP as a whole had returned profits of contraction in the first quarter growth to fall by 3.6 percent in a Russia’s President Vladimir Putin speaks with the Central Bank Governor Elvira Nabiullina during their meeting some 51bn rubles ($794m) in the of 2015, and is worse than an whole of 2015, but that requires first half of 2015. The figure is way at the Kremlin in Moscow yesterday. earlier government forecast of $60 per barrel of oil, so the fall down on the profits of 600bn rubles 4.4 percent. A sharp contraction could be closer to 4 percent if oil ($9bn) in the 12 months of last year, had been widely expected, with stays at current levels.” against the dollar since February. prospects for the coming quar- percentage point rate cut in July. and 1 trillion rubles ($15.5bn) in Russian officials saying that the Russia’s ruble lost around half Some analysts said that the ters look pretty grim too,” Capital The World Bank in June 2013. The banking sector profited country’s economic crisis has of its value last year as oil prices fresh drop in the oil price meant Economics said in a note. pedicted that Russia’s economy from a rebound in the ruble in the reached its nadir. plunged and Western sanctions the outlook for Russia’s economy Russia’s central bank was would shrink by 2.7 percent this spring that allowed the central bank But a new fall in crude oil bit but rebounded over the spring was looking increasingly dark, forced to drastically hike inter- year but return to growth of 0.7 to cut back its rates and moved offi- prices has sparked a fresh drop as energy prices stabilised. especially as industry has failed ests in December as it battled to percent in 2016. cials claim the worst of the crisis in the ruble in recent months and A recent decline again in the to take advantage of the added stop the ruble plunging, but has The International Monetary had past. A recent renewed slump thrown assertions that the coun- price of oil to under $50 per bar- competitiveness caused by the cut back the rate this year. Fund estimates that Western in the ruble on the back of falling try has shuffled off the worst of rel has, however, seen the Russian ruble’s fall. “Russia’s recession However with the ruble tum- sanctions imposed on Moscow oil prices has seen the currency fall the crisis into doubt. currency lose about 20 percent deepened in Q2 of this year and bling again, there are fresh over its meddling in Ukraine to its lowest point against the dol- The drop in GDP is Russia’s of its value since mid-May as it with oil prices having since taken fears over inflation and the cen- could cost Russia some 9 percent lar since February, highlighting how sharpest quarterly contraction in slipped back to its lowest level another leg down, the economic tral bank limited itself to a 0.5 of GDP in the medium-term. AFP fragile the situation remains. AFP Back to the future: Nokia prepares for mobile comeback

FRANKFURT/HELSINKI: Nokia Z Launcher, which organises content on retained after selling its handset business. only through such licensing agreements. It competitors more than a decade ago. is hiring software experts, testing new smartphones. It does not want to waste such resources, will not fall back on the “traditional” meth- But given the crop of newcomers like products and seeking sales partners as it Meanwhile its technologies division has built up with tens of billions of euros of ods, said the CEO, who took the helm last China’s Xiaomi and India’s Micromax, it plots its return to the mobile phone and advertised on LinkedIn dozens of jobs in investment over the past two decades. May and has turned it into a slimmed down, may not be possible for Nokia to reproduce consumer tech arena it abandoned with California, many in product development, It will also get an injection of talent more profitable company. He sold off its even the minor successes that Philips and the sale of its handset business. including Android engineers specialising when it completes the $17bn acquisition of mapping business a week ago. Alcatel were able to achieve by renting out Once the world’s biggest maker of mobile in the operating software Nokia mobile Alcatel-Lucent, announced in April, in the Such brand-licensing deals — as Nokia their brand. phones, the Finnish firm was wrongfooted devices will use. Nokia had also planned form of Bell Labs — a US research cen- has struck for the N1 tablet — are less The strength of the Nokia brand — cru- by the rise of smartphones and eclipsed to lay off about 70 people at the division, tre whose scientists have won eight Nobel profitable than manufacturing and sell- cial to the success of such licensing deals — by Apple and Samsung. It sold its handset according to a May announcement, but a prizes. It says it will not repeat the mistakes ing its own products, but also less risky. is also open to debate. The company says its business to Microsoft in late 2013 and has company source said that the figure had of the past of missing technology trends, They can add a tidy sum of revenue for brand is recognised by four billion people. since focused squarely on making telecoms since been halved. Nokia itself is not giving being saddled with high costs, and react- little investment for the company, which But, after being consistently ranked as one network equipment. much away about its preparations, beyond ing too slowly to changing consumer tastes. generates the bulk of income from selling of the world’s top-five brands in the decade Now Nokia boss Rajeev Suri is planning saying some staff at the 600-strong tech- To blunt such risks, it is seeking partners telecoms network equipment to operators up to 2009 according to market researcher a comeback. He must wait until late 2016 nologies division are working on designs for for “brand-licensing” deals whereby Nokia like Vodafone and T-Mobile. “They want Interbrand, it has since nose-dived and now before he can consider re-entering the new consumer products, including phones, will design new phones, bearing its brand, to be innovative and seen as a company looks set to disappear from top 100 lists. handset business — after a non-compete as well as in digital video and health. but — in exchange for royalties — will then with long-term vision in the (tech) industry “A brand is quickly forgotten if it is deal with Microsoft expires — but prepara- But it will not be easy to claw its way allow other firms to mass-manufacture, and having a foot in devices plays into this absent from the consumer business,” said tions are underway. back to relevance in the fast-changing, market and sell the devices. impression, even if it’s not bringing massive former Nokia executive Anssi Vanjoki, The company has already dipped its toe competitive mobile business where Apple This is stark contrast to its previ- revenue at the outset,” said Gartner analyst a professor at Finland’s Lappeenranta into the consumer market; it has launched has been scooping up nearly 90 percent of ous handset business which in its heyday Sylvain Fabre. University of Technology. an Android tablet, the N1, which went industry profits, nor for it to carve out a manufactured more phones than any other Brand-licensing models are not new in “The brand will not help much if the on sale in January in China and days ago place in electronics. company in the world and employed tens the industry; European companies like product is similar to what is already being unveiled a “virtual-reality camera” — One ace that Nokia holds is ownership of of thousands. Philips and Alcatel have made money sold out there. But if there is something heralding it as the “rebirth of Nokia”. It one of the mobile industry’s biggest troves Suri said last month that Nokia aimed from consumer electronics by licensing new and interesting to it, the old heritage has also launched an Android app called of intellectual property, including patents it to re-enter the mobile phone business, but out their brand after capitulating to Asian may be helpful.” REUTERS

Netherlands flower exports under scanner Americans Alibaba to take $4.6bn expect to tighten purse strings stake in retailer Suning NEW YORK: Americans last SHANGHAI: Chinese Internet Suning, headquartered in the month said they expected to giant Alibaba is to pay 28.3bn eastern city of Nanjing, operates tighten their purse strings in yuan ($4.6bn) for a near-20 per- 1,600 stores in more than 280 the coming year, according to cent stake in consumer elec- cities nationwide, the statement a Federal Reserve of New York tronics retailer Suning, the two said, and also has its own e-com- survey that also found home companies said in a statement merce business. and petrol prices were expected yesterday. At the same time Alibaba’s founder and executive to weaken. the Chinese shopping chain will chairman Jack Ma said: “Over the The New York Fed’s survey of invest up to 14bn yuan for just past two decades, e-commerce has consumer expectations, released over one percent of Alibaba, the become an inextricable part of the yesterday, found median one- statement said, bringing the lives of Chinese consumers, and and three-year ahead inflation total value of the deal to nearly this new alliance brings forth a expectations remained stable at $7bn. new commerce model that fully 3 percent. But over the coming It will make Alibaba the integrates online and offline.” year, household spending growth second-largest shareholder in The two companies will also expectations plunged to 3.5 per- Suning, the statement said, add- work together on logistics and cent in July, from 4.3 percent ing the two firms would embark suggested that “in the near the previous month, hitting the on a “strategic collaboration” that future” customers could receive An employee pushes trolleys with flowers at the auction FloraHolland in Aalsmeer, the Netherlands, yesterday. lowest since the survey began in would “bring benefits to hundreds orders as quickly as two hours Russia’s agricultural watchdog, Rosselkhoznadzor, said that over the past week, 17 of the 27 instances of mid-2013. REUTERS of millions of Chinese consumers” after they were placed. imported flowers being found to be contaminated with parasites or disease had originated in the Netherlands. and marked “a milestone that Suning Chairman Zhang signals the further integration of Jindong said it would “help trans- digital and offline retail”. form China’s manufacturing Suning is one of China’s biggest industry and broaden the global consumer electronics retailers, horizons of Chinese brands”. Germany saves €100bn from Europe debt crisis while Alibaba’s Tmall.com site is The deal is the latest in a string believed to command more than of acquisitions by Alibaba as Ma BERLIN: Germany has saved than 3 percent of gross domestic flashpoints in the eurozone debt pattern since 2010, an estimated half the Chinese market for busi- tries to diversify. The New York- €100bn since 2010 because its product, the Halle-based Leibniz crisis and fluctuations in the €100bn, far outweigh the costs of ness-to-consumer transactions. listed company faces domestic borrowing costs have fallen institute for economic research interest rate on German govern- the eurozone crisis to the German Its Taobao platform holds more competition from Internet giants during Europe’s debt crisis — said. The institute created a ment bonds. economy, even if Greece were to than 90 percent of the country’s Baidu and Tencent, and remains savings that outweigh the cost model of a fictitious “normal” Interest on German govern- prove completely unable service consumer-to-consumer market. relatively little known outside of the crisis to the German situation, without the crisis, to ment bonds fell sharply when its debts, the institute said. Alibaba made its name — China. Two weeks ago Alibaba economy, an economic think establish what German interest markets saw bad news out of Government bonds in other and its fortune — by enabling announced it would invest $1.0 tank reported yesterday. rates would have been, based on Greece, such as Greek Prime countries — including France, transactions online, challenging billion in its cloud computing Investors have fled instability inflation and slack in the economy. Minister Alexis Tsipras’ decision the United States and the traditional bricks-and-mortar arm to expand its international in the eurozone for the safety of Part of the model determined how in late June to hold a referendum Netherlands — have also benefited retailers. But as the market presence. In June it launched an German bonds since 2010, push- many extra bonds Germany sold on reforms demanded by its credi- in the same way from the crisis, matures it is developing its opera- Internet bank aimed at serving ing down interest rates on those because of the patience. tors. Similarly, rates rose on good the report suggested, but on a tions in areas such as payments small businesses which often bonds. Paying less interest has The report observed a close news from Greece. smaller scale. and logistics, creating potential struggle to obtain credit from helped the government save more connection between political The total savings from this REUTERS synergies with former rivals. large banks. AFP TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 US Fed close Jakarta Stock Exchange turns 38 StanChart backs off to hiking rates, Australian coal project says Lockhart LONDON: Standard Chartered will not advise or help finance the multi-billion US economy returns to near normal dollar Carmichael coal mine in Australia, marking the second ATLANTA: Economic condi- employment growth. Four of the big bank to walk away from the tions in the United States have current 10 voting members of the project in a week. largely returned to normal and Fed’s policy-setting committee Environmental groups have a Federal Reserve decision to have publicly put September in been campaigning against raise interest rates should come play — Lockhart, Fed Governor the mine, being developed in soon, Atlanta Fed President Jerome Powell, San Francisco Queensland by Indian conglom- Denn is L ock ha r t sa id yesterday. Fed President John Williams and erate Adani Mining. “I think the point of ‘liftoff’ is Richmond Fed President Jeffrey “As a result of this ongoing close,” Lockhart said in prepared Lacker. review by Standard Chartered remarks for an address to the Chicago Fed President Charles and the delays experienced by Atlanta Press Club. “The econ- Evans is the only committee Adani in receipt of its project omy has made great gains and is member to have taken a pub- approvals, both parties have approaching an acceptable nor- lic stand against a September agreed to end the bank’s role in mal ... conditions are no longer increase, though others like New the Carmichael project,” Standard extraordinary.” York Fed President William Indonesian bankers, traders and financial regulators stand at the Jakarta Stock Exchange trading floor Chartered said yesterday. Lockhart, regarded as a cen- Dudley and Fed board member for the arrival of Indonesia’s President Joko Widodo to attend a ceremony to commemorate 38 years of Commonwealth Bank of trist on the US central bank’s Lael Brainard have cited overseas capital market reactivation yesterday. Australia last week said it had policy-setting committee, did not risks and other issues that they ended its role as financial adviser in his prepared remarks repeat feel could slow the U.S. recovery. on the project. recent comments in which he said Fed Chair Janet Yellen has “We confirm that our advi- he is ready to vote for a rate hike said she feels a rate hike will be sory role has concluded. Due next month. But he made clear he appropriate later this year, with- to client confidentiality we are feels the economy has cleared the out indicating a preference. Oil rebounds, Brent up 4pc unable to comment further,” a major hurdles that he saw earlier But Lockhart said he agreed Commonwealth Bank of Australia in the year. with Yellen and many others NEW YORK: Crude oil prices heading for its largest daily gain Powerhouse, an energy-special- spokesman said last week. Risks from abroad, whether a that the rate hike path should be jumped as much 4 percent yes- in a month, after BP Plc’s 240,000 ised commodities broker. The two banks’ retreat follows Greek exit from the eurozone or a gradual once an initial increase terday after a rally in US pet- barrel per day crude distillation “A reduction in refinery activ- a court decision revoking the meltdown in China, have receded, is approved. The Fed’s overnight rol and diesel due to a refinery unit at its Whiting, Indiana, refin- ity should logically decrease the Australian government’s envi- he said. While oil prices have lending rate has been near zero outage helped crude futures ery, was shut by a malfunction. demand for crude, all things being ronmental approval for the coal made it difficult to gauge infla- since 2008. Lockhart said rates advance from multi-month lows Futures of ultra low sulfur equal. But the strong link between mine, which at an estimated cost tion, he said the US economy is should rise slowly to nurse the US earlier in the session. diesel rose more than 3 percent, refined products and crude in the of up to $16bn is one of the world’s now arguably “just a shade” from recovery along. “Policy will likely The dollar’s drop to a near rebounding from last week’s six- instance of a refinery issue creates biggest under construction. full employment, putting the Fed transition from being aggressively two-week low also made oil and year lows. the dynamic where the increased Environmentalists have said in reach off one of its key goals. stimulative toward merely stimu- other commodities denominated Brent crude settled up $1.80 at demand for the now, temporar- the proposed mine could threaten Lockhart said he is confident lative,” he said. in the greenback more affordable $50.41 a barrel. It hit a six-month ily scarce gasoline outweighs the the Great Barrier Reef, as well inflation will rise in the coming Meanwhile, US inflation is only to holders of the euro and other low of $48.24 earlier in the ses- lessened demand for crude.” as turning out one of the most months as the economy contin- temporarily “very low” due in part currencies. sion. US crude settled $1.09 up at Refining margins hit a one- carbon-producing fuels. ues to strengthen. “Compared to to commodity prices, while the Hedge funds and other big $44.96 a barrel. week high for gasoline and 2-1/2 “Getting anywhere near this earlier in the year, we know a lot US economy has nearly achieved speculators raised their bullish It plumbed a 4-1/2 month of month peak for diesel. Refined controversial project is now a more and can shelve some con- full employment, Federal Reserve exposure to US crude for the $43.35 in Asian trading. oil products usually rally during massive reputational risk even for cerns,” Lockhart said. “We are Vice Chairman Stanley Fischer first time in seven weeks, trade Both benchmarks had fallen in the summer in the United States, some of the world’s most powerful getting closer and closer to what said yesterday. “A large part of the data on Friday showed, even as the past six weeks, hampered by when driving activity peaks. This banks,” Sebastian Bock, a cam- feels like a healed state.” current inflation is temporary. It most traders and investors feared a supply glut. year, the run-up in gasoline came paigner for environmental activ- Since May, Lockhart has has to do with the decline in the weaker demand and higher sup- “The strength in refined prod- as early as April but lost steam ist group Greenpeace, said after pointed to a likely September price of oil; it has to do with the plies ahead. ucts is pulling crude prices higher lately as some traders and inves- Standard Chartered’s statement. rate hike, and his comments have decline in the price of raw materi- In yesterday’s session, gasoline today,” said David Thompson, tors deemed the market had A spokesman for Adani firmed alongside continued strong als,” he said. REUTERS futures jumped almost 4 percent, executive vice-president at gotten ahead of itself. REUTERS declined to comment. REUTERS TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS VIEWS

No cost of living adjustment, a Does new tech make us serious concern for retirees BY MARK MILLER efficiently productive? etirees are facing a double whammy next year: no infla- tion adjustment in their Social Security benefits and a whopping 52 percent jump in certain Medicare premiums BY NOAH SMITH Traditionally, when econo- IT industries contributed a lot Profit margins — not a measure R he Medicare premium hikes will hit only 30 percent of mists wanted to figure out how to the productivity boom in the of productivity, to be sure, but an beneficiaries: those who are not protected from a “hold-harmless” ne of the key debates productive technology makes our late ‘90s and early ‘00s. But then indicator of companies’ overall provision in federal law that prohibits any premium hike that pro- about economics is economy, they just netted out IT-related productivity slowed health — have also risen. duces a net reduction in Social Security benefits. But the increases whether new tech- the contributions of “factors of dramatically. Productivity What could be going on? Is the suggest strongly that the recent trend of moderate healthcare nology is making production” such as labor and growth for companies that market overvaluing tech com- inflation is ending. us more productive. capital, and whatever is left over make IT boomed spectacularly panies, or are they more pro- OThis is very important, since — called total factor productivity in the ‘90s, but experienced ductive than Fernald’s numbers SOCIAL SECURITY CHANGES productivity has been the key — was regarded as technology’s a smaller upswing in the ‘00s, suggest? Hatzius and Dawsey Final figures for 2016 will not be available until the fall, but the to the vast increases in human contribution. Fernald realised and then fell to a more modest suspect that national economic recent annual report of Social Security’s trustees projects that living standards in developed that this was an oversimplifi- rate of growth. Though these statistics themselves are to there will not be any cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) next year. countries during the past two cation, since it didn’t take into industries are still getting more blame. They note that it’s very The COLA is determined by averaging together third-quarter centuries. There was a scare account other factors — like how productive at a steady clip, it’s difficult to measure the quality inflation as measured by the Consumer Price Index for Urban Wage from the early 1970s through intensively capital was used. He no longer fast enough to power of IT products. Earners and Clerical Workers (CPI-W). Inflation has been flat due the early 1990s, when productiv- carefully “purified” the measure- rapid productivity growth in the If quality increases while to collapsing oil prices. ity slowed dramatically, only to ment of technological productiv- wider economy. prices and sales stay the same, The forecast underscores the need for a better gauge of the zoom ahead in the late ‘90s and ity, and came up with numbers The red line represents com- productivity has gone up, but healthcare inflation that disproportionately affects seniors. early 2000s. Now the numbers that were very different from panies that use a lot of IT but official statistics won’t record Advocates have argued for years that an alternative, the are slowing again, and econo- what economists were using. don’t produce it themselves. the increase. Consumer Price Index for the Elderly (CPI-E), would do just that. mists are worried. How does the Now, Fernald’s numbers are con- These companies experienced But economists measure infla- If the CPI-E had been in place from 1985 to 2014, Social Security tech industry fit into all this as sidered the gold standard. a productivity boom in the ‘00s, tion by measuring changes in benefits last year would have been 6.5 percent higher than they are the economy returns to some- In 2014, Fernald wrote a but those gains have mostly prices for the samegoods, so they today, according to an analysis by J.P. Morgan Asset Management. thing resembling normality? In paper titled “Productivity and petered out. As for other com- will miss this kind of change, and terms of productivity, is tech our Potential Output Before, During, panies — the green line on the end up overstating inflation — THE HEALTHCARE FRONT salvation, or a false hope? and After the Great Recession.” graph — their productivity is which understates productivity. Healthcare inflation has been quiet lately — annual growth in On one side of the debate, we The paper confirms that since now crawling along. A burst of innovation could total Medicare spending averaged 4.1 percent from 2010 to 2014, have John Fernald of the Federal about 2003 — well before the Fernald’s data is very worry- therefore be causing official IT compared with 9 percent from 2000 to 2010 — even though the Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Great Recession — measured ing — if he’s right, it suggests productivity growth numbers to number of enrolled beneficiaries rose. an expert on measuring tech- productivity growth had slowed that the IT boom was a short plummet, even as it increases But renewed cost pressures are pointing toward much higher nological productivity. On the down. But Fernald also looked hiccup in a long-term slowdown. true productivity by improving Medicare premiums starting next year, according to the Medicare other side, we have the econom- specifically at industries that But economists Jan Hatzius quality and introducing new trustees’ annual report. ics research team of Goldman either produce information and Kris Dawsey of Goldman goods. Consider the monthly premium for Part B (outpatient serv- Sachs, one of the most respected and communication technolo- Sachs are skeptical of Fernald’s If the official statistics are ices), which has stayed at $104.90 for the past three years. The in the private sector. The qual- gies , or use these technologies finding. They note that the biased, then even the meticulous, Medicare trustees projected that the premium will jump 52 percent, ity of our future could hinge on intensively — in other words, IT stock prices of tech companies brilliant Fernald won’t be able to to $159.30 for beneficiaries who are not protected by the hold- which one of these heavyweights industries. are high, meaning that investors get meaningful results from the harmless provision. is right. What Fernald found was that expect big things in the sector. data. BLOOMBERG That would include anyone enrolled in Medicare who is not yet taking Social Security benefits due to a decision to delay enrollment. It also would include new enrollees in Medicare next year. (The increase also would be applied to low-income beneficiaries whose premiums are paid by state Medicaid programs). High-income retirees — another group that is not protected by the hold-harmless provision — also will be hit hard if the trustee projections hold. Affluent seniors already pay more for Medicare Part B and also Part D for prescription-drug coverage. This year, for example, higher-income seniors pay between $146.90 and $335.70 monthly for Part B, depending on their income, rather than $104.90. The Medicare trustees now project that to jump even more. “When you combine it all, it’s looking pretty ugly,” says Sharon Carson, a retirement strategist at J P Morgan Asset Management. Higher costs for the affluent look like a trend that could accel- erate further. The recently passed “doc fix” legislation (which corrects long-standing problems with reimbursement rates to physicians) shifts a higher percentage of costs to higher-income seniors starting in 2018. Seniors with incomes of $133,000 to $160,000 would pay 65 per- cent of total premium costs, rather than 50 percent today. Seniors with incomes between $160,000 and $214,000 would pay 80 percent, as they do today. “Congress will probably go back to that well again,” predicts Carson, and she thinks one possible outcome will be lower income thresholds.

MORE IMPACT Medicare premiums are not the only area where seniors may feel the impact of impending healthcare inflation. The median healthcare cost for a 65-year-old in 2014 was $4,400, according to recent J P Morgan research; the firm expects those costs to rise at an annual rate of 6.1 percent over the next 20 years, to $17,000 at age 85 (the costs include Medicare Part B, Part D, and Medigap premiums, out-of-pocket expenses, and vision and dental services.) If you want to be prudent in your retirement planning, Carson advises assuming inflation of 7 percent going forward. Coping strat- egies include keeping at least some portion of your portfolio in equities well into retirement, and taking steps to minimize ordi- nary income, with an aim to stay out of the high-income premium surcharge brackets. REUTERS Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate

SEC’s legal challenge will set precedent for justice

BY BOB VAN VORIS and At stake is a pillar of SEC method for appointing the SEC step could call into question past tool. In fiscal 2009, the year before regulatory proceeding violated his MATT ROBINSON enforcement and, with it, many judges ultimately violates the decisions by the court, as well Dodd-Frank, the SEC filed 53 rights. of the victories the agency Constitution. as rulings by judges in other percent of its enforcement actions o the top cop on Wall has won. Confronting a host Berman last week refused to agencies. in-house. RISKY POOLS Street, it’s a power- of legal challenges, SEC Chair dismiss a challenge by a former In a letter from Justice Defense lawyers complain the The SEC has beaten back ful court of justice. To Mary Jo White has indicated executive at Standard & Poor’s Department lawyers to Berman SEC system is unfair, particu- other challenges to its in-house Tthe accused it can seem the possibility of routing fewer who is subject to an internal on Monday, the SEC declined his larly in complex cases. Compared forum. Lynn Tilton, the so-called like something darker: a parallel cases to its five judges, accord- SEC action. The regulator has invitation to announce a change to federal courts, deadlines Diva of Distressed, failed in June American judiciary, separate and ing to a person familiar with the claimed the former executive, in its process by the deadline. are tight and defendants have to block an SEC case claim- unequal, that strains the highest matter. Barbara Duka, pushed to change The agency is concerned about fewer legal protections and less ing she and her firm, Patriarch laws of the land. “This is a fight the SEC never credit ratings to help S&P win creating problems with current access to potential evidence. Partners, misled investors about After decades in the shadows, anticipated,” said Peter Henning, business. Duka, who denies the cases, according to a person “Decades of fairness and reason- the value of risky pools of corporate the in-house court system of who teaches law at Wayne State allegations, has countered that familiar with the matter, who ableness have been jettisoned for loans. Another Manhattan judge the US Securities and Exchange University in Detroit. “It’s a land- any judgment would be invalid spoke on the condition of ano- aggressiveness and a win-at- said Tilton had to go through the Commission — a crucial tool of mine that could blow sky-high.” because SEC judges are appointed nymity because the deliberations all-costs mindset,” said Jacob SEC’s process before appealing to securities law enforcement — is through normal agency hir- are private. Frenkel, a former SEC enforce- a federal court. being thrust into an uncomfort- BROAD IMPLICATIONS ing practices, rather than by ment lawyer who now represents The SEC in-house watchdog is able public spotlight. The repercussions could be its commissioners. That, her NEW TOOL defendants. probing allegations that agency For the first time, the SEC felt across Washington. Many lawyers say, makes the system The regulator began holding Frenkel was one of the first to judges are biased. In an interim is confronting a multipronged federal agencies rely on similar unconstitutional. administrative hearings shortly sue in federal court on behalf of report released last Friday, attack on its use of what are in-house courts, so what hap- A US judge in Atlanta has after its creation in 1934. The a client trying to have his case Inspector General Carl Hoecker known as administrative law pens at the SEC could have broad blocked two SEC proceedings on Dodd-Frank law, enacted in 2010, heard there, rather than in the told White that his office “has not judges, to whom it directs hun- implications. similar grounds. expanded the agency’s jurisdiction SEC. The case was settled before developed any evidence to sup- dreds of cases a year. The issue gained new urgency beyond brokers and investment a ruling was made. port” such claims. The SEC says its system, in use last week when a federal judge ‘EASY FIX’ advisers and empowered its judges In another case, the SEC agreed Whatever changes might be since the Depression, is fair, cheap in New York ruled against the Berman gave the SEC until to issue orders and levy fines that in 2011 to drop an administrative in store, many defendants, and and efficient. But critics, former SEC in a closely watched case. Monday to decide whether to previously had been available only action against Goldman Sachs their lawyers, will almost cer- SEC lawyers and federal judges US District Judge Richard adopt what he called the “easy in federal court. Group Inc. director Rajat Gupta tainly remain suspicious of the among them, question whether Berman may now rule as early fix”: having the judge appointed The SEC’s Enforcement for passing insider tips and sued in SEC court. defendants get a lawful hearing. as Monday on whether the by its commissioners. But such a Division has embraced the new federal court after he claimed the BLOOMBERG TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 MARKET www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

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Kei Nishikori of Japan returns a shot to John Isner of the US in the singles final during the Citi Open at Rock Creek Park Tennis Center in Washington, DC.

Kerber outlasts Pliskova to win Nishikori downs Isner to Stanford title STANFORD: Germany’s Angelique Kerber claimed her fourth title of 2015 by outlast- ing rising star Karolina Pliskova in a three-set marathon final at pocket Washington title the WTA Tour’s Stanford tour- nament on Sunday. Kerber, who was seeded fifth, I have been returning really well this week, says Kei Nishikori needed two hours and seven min- utes to post a 6-3, 5-7, 6-4 victory over Czech Pliskova who ended WASHINGTON: Japan’s Kei the match on a forehand error. Nishikori took a big step on “We always have tough battles his road back to the US Open LEFT: Anastasia when we play each other,” Kerber final on Sunday by rallying to Pavlyuchenkova said of facing Pliskova. defeat John Isner and win the (left) and Sloan Kerber hammered 27 winners Washington Open title. Stephens pose with and made just 14 unforced errors The 25-year-old Asian number their trophies after as she was able to overcome the one, last year’s US Open runner- the singles final at more powerful and much taller up, defeated American John Isner the 2015 Citi Open (1.86 metre) Pliskova. 4-6, 6-4, 6-4 to capture his 10th at Rock Creek Kerber now has four WTA career title at the combined ATP Park Tennis Center. Tour titles this season with one and WTA hardcourt event, a Stephens won each on red clay, green clay, hard- warm-up for the US Open fort- 6-1, 6-2. RIGHT: court and grass. That ties her night that starts in three weeks. Angelique Kerber with American Serena Williams “I’m sure this win will help me of Germany holds for the most wins in 2015. a lot. It’s important for me to up the trophy after Pliskova, who made 52 unforced play good tennis this summer,” errors against Kerber, will break she beat Karolina Nishikori said. “I’m looking for- into the top 10 for the first time Pliskova of the ward to playing again in the US when the new rankings come out Open. I’m excited to play again on Czech Republic in the next few days. the big stage.” in the final of Pliskova joked afterwards Nishikori, who will rise one the Bank of the about losing her second career spot today to match his career West Classic at final to Kerber. high ranking of fourth in the Stanford University “I actually just told her that I world, won his third crown of Taube Family don’t want to play her anymore the season after defending titles Tennis Stadium in in finals. She’s 2-0 against me in at Memphis and Barcelona. Stanford, California. finals now, so hopefully next time Nishikori became the first I can play against somebody else,” Asian singles winner in the tour- she said. REUTERS nament’s 47-year history despite connecting on only 59 percent of skilled. He knows what he’s doing Washington final after falling to his first serves. He managed to with the ball. He’s gifted with Andy Roddick in 2007 and Juan Stephens beats win 42 of his 46 first-serve points talent and he works his tail off. Martin Del Potro in 2013. despite only five aces to Isner’s 18. He’s a great player and a great “Getting to the finals three Pavlyuchenkova “I returned really well,” champion.” times and not breaking through Nishikori said. “I had to guess In the women’s final, American is disappointing, but I haven’t lost Japan’s Kei to lift Tour title sometimes but I was there all the Sloane Stephens won her first to any slouches,” Isner said. Nishikori time and it was a great winning WTA title, defeating Russian “Getting to the final is a good WASHINGTON: In a women’s celebrates percentage on my first serve. Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova 6-1, achievement but losing stinks,” final in the hardcourt run-up to “I’ve been returning really well 6-2. he said. after the US Open, American Sloane this week and winning a lot of Stephens, ranked five spots Isner took the only break of the defeating Stephens won her first career matches like this. It’s never easy ahead of her rival at 35th, had first set in the last game with a USA’s John WTA title with a 6-1 6-2 vic- gainst these big servers but I’m been the highest-ranked player service return forehand winner Isner during tory over Russian Anastasia playing well against these guys.” never to reach a WTA final before down the line. Nishikori began the the finals Pavlyuchenkova at the Citi Open Isner found himself foiled by doing so this week in her 84th second set with a break, as Isner at the Citi in Washington, D.C. Nishikori’s first serves and the tour event. hit a forehand wide on break Open in Sloane, ranked 35th in the baseline game with which he “It has been an amazing week point, and held serve five times Washington, world, was the only player in the backstopped them. and something I will never for- to force a third set. DC. top-40 who had not reached a “I just didn’t make enough get,” Stephens said. “That was a big turning point Nishikori WTA final in her career. But that inroads on his first serves,” Isner Isner, who won his only prior for sure,” Isner said. “He got up won 4-6, changed when she upset the tour- said. meeting with Nishikori in April’s an early break and that gave him 6-4, 6-4. nament’s second seed Samantha “He put a decent number of Miami quarter-finals, will jump some momentum and confidence.” Stosur of Australia on Saturday. first serves in and from there he from 18th to 12th in today’s Nishikori jumped on a second “Nothing was stopping me is arguably the best in the world rankings. serve for a return winner to break today,” Stephens said later. from the baseline. “I’m playing with a lot of confi- Isner, then held at love in three “I told myself, ‘Just play every “His backhand is world class. dence,” Isner said. of his final four service games for point, you’ll be fine.’ I had to focus He’s very talented and very It was Isner’s third loss in a the triumph. REUTERS my butt off today.” REUTERS Retirement not on Nadal radar Murray ‘happy and lucky’ to be father

MONTREAL: Rafael Nadal MONTREAL: Andy Murray Murray said he was hoping for he lost his opening match in insisted yesterday that retire- said he is feeling “happy and the chance to face world number Washington last week. But his exit ment is not on his mind despite a lucky” at becoming a father after one Djokovic in the closing stages at the hands of Russian Teimuraz year in which he was dethroned he and wife Kim announced of the Montreal Masters as tries Gabashvili was still encouraging as French Open champion and they will become parents for the to put his hardcourt game into for the world number three. saw his ranking slip to its lowest first time. gear ahead of the US Open which “I came very close and I had in a decade. The 28-year-old world number starts in three weeks’ time. a chance to close it out when I The 29-year-old former world three and Olympic champion will “Players have competed this served for it in the third set,” number one and 14-time major be the latest member of the top season with Novak (48-3 this sea- Murray said of his Washington winner said that he will hang up 10 to be a dad when the couple’s son with six titles),” said Murray. setback. “I feel OK, it just takes his racquet only when he has lost first child is born, believed to be “He’s just been that little bit bet- time to get used to the hardcourts. the thrill of playing the sport. February next year. ter. That’s why he’s number one “You need to get used to them “For sure, there is more behind Roger Federer, Novak Djokovic in the world. He’s won some close again, My match was two and a than in front in my career. I’m and Stan Wawrinka are already matches in the big events. He’s half hours long, so that’s a positive sure of that,” Nadal said on the well-versed in juggling the obviously the favourite here. He in some ways.” eve of the Montreal Masters -- a demands of family and tennis. definitely deserves to be the best With Munich, Madrid and major tune-up for the US Open, “I’m not thinking what the in the world, though guys have London Queen’s club titles to which starts in three weeks. impact (of becoming a father) will pushed him very close as well. hand in 2015, Murray is not “But I don’t think about retire- have on my career,” said Murray, a “It should be an interesting lacking in confidence. But an ment. Day by day is my way to former Wimbledon and US Open week. Hopefully I can play some Australian Open final and semis work. In 2005, I was aged 19 and champion. We are both extremely good tennis and get the opportu- in Paris and Wimbledon have left I’m sure that I won’t be playing excited, happy and we feel lucky. nity to play against him.” him hungry to take a big step at tennis until 39. I have motiva- But this is also private news and The Scot is seeded to make the a major once again. tion to keep going so it’s difficult stuff we want to keep close to our final in Montreal where Djokovic, “My consistency has been bet- to think about not playing. But family and friends.” who has not touched a racquet ter this year than in 2014, my when it comes, I will know. When Murray and longtime girlfriend since beating Federer for his game has improved,” he said I wake up without motivation to Kim Sears, 27, married in April third Wimbledon title a month prior to a Montreal second-round improve, that will be the end. I’m and since then his form on tour ago, should be waiting. Murray, start against one of two Spaniards here and enjoying it.” has been impressive with a 27-4 by contrast, helped Britain into -- Feliciano Lopez or Tommy Nadal slumped to number 10 in winning record. the Davis Cup semi-finals the Robredo. “I’ve played good tennis the world in June after he lost his Montreal Impact midfielder Ignacio Piatti and Rafael Nadal of Spain shake In that time, he won his first week after play concluded at the at most of big events this year. French Open title and then went hands after an exhibition tennis match ahead of this week’s Rogers Cup ever titles on clay and reached the All England Club. He then made I’ve given myself opportunities in on to suffer a second round exit at Uniprix Stadium in Montreal, Quebec. semi-finals at the French Open a stuttering start to the North almost every event I’ve played.” at Wimbledon. REUTERS and Wimbledon. Meanwhile, American hardcourt swing as REUTERS TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT India eye rare series win against hosts Sri Lanka Batting star Kumar Sangakkara prepares for his last two Tests

GALLE: India hope to end a by Mohammad Azharuddin’s men 22-year wait for a Test series in 1993. India opener win in Sri Lanka when the India have played four series three-match rubber marking on the island since, losing in 2001 Indian cricket Kumar Sangakkara’s farewell and 2008 while drawing in 1997 team captain Vijay to miss opens in Galle tomorrow. and 2010. Virat Kohli looks The Sri Lankan batting great, The five-year gap since their on during the Galle test whose 12,305 runs make him Test last series means that 11 of the 15 second day of cricket’s leading scorer among tourists, including skipper Kohli, the three-day those still playing, is due to quit have not played a Test match on warm-up match with injury international cricket after playing Sri Lankan soil before. the first two Tests. Opening batsman Murali Vijay between Sri COLOMBO: India opener Indian captain Virat Kohli said and bowlers, Harbhajan Singh, Lanka Board Murali Vijay (pictured) will his team plans to give 37-year-old Ishant Sharma and Amit Mishra, President’s XI miss the first test against Sri Sangakkara a fond farewell -- but are the exceptions, although sev- and India at the Lanka with a hamstring injury, also make sure they do not allow eral others in the squad have R Premadasa team director Ravi Shastri said the prolific left-hander to pile up played limited-overs games in International yesterday. big scores. Sri Lanka. Cricket Stadium The 31-year-old sustained the “Great man and a great Kohli, regarded as one of the in Colombo niggle in Zimbabwe during India’s cricketer, he deserves a very most accomplished batsmen in this August recent limited over series there good farewell and we will pre- in the modern game, is deter- 7, 2015, file and did not bat in either innings pare accordingly,” Kohli said of mined to make a winning start photo. India will of India’s only warm-up match Sangakkara. in his first full series as India play three Test ahead of the Galle Test starting “But hopefully we will also get Test captain after taking over Series in Sri tomorrow. him out cheaply.” from Mahendra Singh Dhoni in Lanka starting “Murali Vijay will not be fit The tourists will not be Australia last year. tomorrow. for the first test. He has not fully distracted by the hype over India will be relieved at playing recovered and we don’t want to Sangakkara’s farewell series as Test cricket in familiar sub-con- take a chance, especially with they bid to end a barren phase in tinental conditions after losing weather like this, slippery outfield Sri Lanka since the 1-0 victory four series in a row in South and things like that,” Shastri told reporters. Africa, New Zealand, England Sri Lanka were undone by “It’s unfair to measure these In his absence, Shikhar Dhawan Squads, Schedule for India-Sri Lanka and Australia. Pakistani leg-spinner Yasir Shah youngsters against the likes of is set to open the innings with the “We are here to play good during the recent home series Mahela and Sangakkara. 23-year-old Lokesh Rahul who Test Series cricket,” Kohli said, downplay- where his 24 wickets in three “We have to be patient with has played only two tests. GALLE: The squads and match schedule for the three-Test series ing India’s poor overseas record. matches fashioned a 2-1 win for this side. The best farewell we “It’s a big blow,” Shastri said of between India and Sri Lanka starting in Galle tomorrow: “History and records are sidelined the tourists. can give Sanga is by being com- the injury to Vijay, who averages India: Virat Kohli (capt), Murali Vijay, Shikhar Dhawan, Lokesh when the focus is on playing good Yasir’s success prompted the petitive and playing to the best of 41.75 after 32 Tests and is one of Rahul, Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit Sharma, cricket. Indian selectors to recall leggie our abilities. India’s most consistent batsmen Wriddhiman Saha, Ravichandran Ashwin, Harbhajan Singh, Amit “For us, every series is part of Amit Mishra after a four-year “The results will take care of in recent times. He is the in-form Mishra, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav, Varun Aaron, Ishant the plan to build a really strong absence to bolster a spin attack themselves.” player, had a fabulous run in test Sharma. unit that will continue to play for that comprises two seasoned off- The first Test at the Galle cricket. He has the ability to play Sri Lanka: Angelo Mathews (capt), Lahiru Thirimanne, Kaushal a long time. The prime focus is spinners in Ravichandran Ashwin International Stadium and the the long innings as he has shown. Silva, Dimuth Karunaratne, Kumar Sangakkara, Dinesh Chandimal, to back ourselves to execute our and Harbhajan Singh. second at the P Sara Oval in He will be missed.” Upul Tharanga, Jehan Mubarak, Kusal Perera, Rangana Herath, skills and have a really competi- Sri Lanka captain Angelo Colombo from August 20 will Shastri was coy about the Dilruwan Perera, Tharindu Kaushal, Nuwan Pradeep, Dhammika tive side.” Mathews acknowledged Yasir be played on either side of Sri chances of Cheteshwar Puajra. Prasad, Vishwa Fernando, Dushmantha Chameera. Like India, Sri Lanka too are as making the difference for Lanka’s parliamentary elections “We will have to play the best Schedule: rebuilding following the retire- Pakistan, but hoped his team was on August 17. five batsmen, if he fits into that ment of greats such as Muttiah prepared to face what the Indians The third and final Test of the five, he plays, if he doesn’t, he August 12-16: First Test, Galle Muralitharan and Mahela had in store. series will be held at the Sinhalese doesn’t play,” the former India August 20-24: Second Test, P. Sara Oval, Colombo Jayawardene, leaving Sangakkara “Ours is a young side and learn- Sports Club in Colombo from Test player told reporters. Auguat 28-September 1: Third Test, Sinhalese Sports Club, Colombo to hold fort in his last two Tests. ing all the time,” he said. August 28. AFP REUTERS South African team laid low Clarke rubbishes team disunity claims by tummy bug, SYDNEY: Australia captain Haddin after time off for family bar, although he ended the night overcome me -- I’ve done too Michael Clarke (pictured) reasons did not go down well. drowning his sorrows with former much crying over the years.” angrily denied yesterday claims “There is no disharmony is this teammate Shane Warne rather Clarke, one of the best batsmen borrow fielders that the disastrous England tour group whatsoever. The players are than any of the current side.” of his generation but plagued by has been plagued by off-field as tight as any team I’ve been a Cricket Australia chief execu- injuries, knew the time was right CAPE TOWN: Ten South dramas, saying it was “absolute part of,” Clarke told Sydney radio tive James Sutherland has vowed to go, having reached 25 just six African cricketers on tour in garbage”. station Triple M. a full review of the tour, and times in his last 30 Test innings. India were hospitalised at the Clarke, 34, announced he was “Travelling in different cars. Clarke said the players had to He added that he was proud weekend following food poi- retiring after England com- What a load of s***. accept blame. that “right up to the last day of soning, three of them during a pleted a crushing innings and “Wives and girlfriends being on “At the end of the day the play- my career I can look myself in match on Sunday in which the 78-run victory in the fourth Test tour is a distraction? What a load ers are the ones who walk onto the mirror and say that I have tourists had to borrow a fielder at Trent Bridge on Saturday to of s***. That’s absolute garbage,” the field, we have to perform left nothing in the tank in terms from their opponents, Cricket take an unbeatable 3-1 lead in the he added. and we haven’t performed well of my work ethic and trying my South Africa said yesterday. five-match Ashes series. “I’ll give back 10 of my Test enough,” he said. best”. As a result of the players being He will play the final Test at 100s if it wasn’t for my beautiful In a column for the Sydney Meanwhile, cricketers Ben laid low, South Africa’s A team The Oval on August 20 before the wife.” Daily Telegraph yesterday, Clarke Cutting and former Test star have had a their next match in curtain comes down on a distin- The newspaper had claimed it revealed it was a tough decision Ryan Harris took to Twitter to the ODI series, against Australia guished career. was “the year-long disintegra- to walk away from Test cricket. slam yesterday’s edition of the A, put back by 24 hours to today. But his departure was met by tion in the off-field relationship “My entire life has been about Brisbane Courier Mail over a Half the team reported ill on rumblings of off-field unrest in between Clarke and the rest of cricket. I’ve thought about the damning “From loner to loser” Saturday night, South Africa the Australian media yesterday, the team” that hindered any great game every day for as long front page headline on Clarke. were forced to field an ill-bal- with the Sydney Daily Telegraph chance of Ashes success. as I can remember,” he said. “Today’s front page of the @ anced line-up against the hosts claiming there was a long-run- “He often chooses to travel by “Definitely telling my grandfa- couriermail is the most dis- in their second game of the tri- ning feud between the wives of private car instead of the team ther was perhaps the hardest part tastefully poor timed page in a series in Chennai. two senior players which caused bus and rarely attends team get- and he was very emotional. Pop’s long time,” said Queensland all- Reeza Hendricks, Mthokozisi distractions. togethers,” it said. made it clear to me over the past rounder Cutting. Shezi and Khaya Zondo had to It also claimed Clarke refused to “On the night that he made his 10 years that watching me play Harris agreed: “Well said play despite being sick because travel on the team bus or socialise decision to step down, team mem- cricket is a big part of what keeps Cuttsy, couldn’t have put it bet- nobody else was available but all with teammates, while the sack- bers were stunned when he joined him going. ter myself! #norespect”. three were hospitalised during ing of popular vice-captain Brad them for a rare drink in the hotel “I tried not to let emotion REUTERS the course of the match. Frontline bowler Zondo got through four overs before being overcome by stomach trouble and taken to hospital. South Africa Ashes agony fuels Root’s rise to No.1 had to send their video analyst, Hendrikus Coertzen, on to help NOTTINGHAM: Joe Root International Cricket Council’s has been bril- “That’s something that has on home soil. “There have been field and later borrowed a fielder (pictured) said the pain of being Test rankings published Sunday liant, and it’s always been in the back of my times when we haven’t backed from their opponents to make up dropped from the side during saw Root on top of the bat- shown by the mind. It’s definitely one of the him up, but thankfully this series the numbers. England’s humiliating 5-0 Ashes ting standings after displacing performances reasons why this is so enjoyable.” we have -- and we hope that will Quinton de Kock, dropped from whitewash in Australia some Australia’s Steven Smith -- out we’ve put in Root has long been tipped as continue.” South Africa’s Test team, who 18 months ago lay behind rise for six and five in Nottingham -- on the field.” a future England captain, but he While the rankings say Root is had only flown in last afternoon, to the top of the Test batting who dropped down to third place. “That was remains happy to serve under the world’s leading batsman, the was thrust into the XI to face rankings. Root’s current figures are a a tough tour current skipper Alastair Cook. player himself said he was far India A today. The 24-year-old Yorkshireman far cry from a meagre return of -- so when “As far as captaincy is con- from the finished article. He managed a gritty century struck a superb 130, his second 192 in eight innings during the you get into cerned, Cooky has done excep- “My game is nowhere near in conditions he has a history hundred of the series, in England’s 2013/14 Ashes in Australia which a position of tionally well,” said Root. perfect,” he said. “I have a lot of of struggling in - slow, turning innings and 78-run win in the culminated in him being dropped strength out “He’s just won the Ashes for the things I want to work on ... (but) pitches. But as well as he coped fourth Test at Trent Bridge on from the final Test in Sydney. in the middle second time in three attempts, so you don’t get a better feeling than with the challenge from under- Saturday. “I can’t speak for other people, and you know I hope he’ll be in charge of us for this. foot, the overhead conditions Victory, completed inside three but personally that was the inspi- what it’s like to be on the wrong a long time. “You have personal goals. But it became a little too much. He did days, gave England an unbeatable ration,” said Root as he savoured side of it, you want to make sure “He has been a fantastic cap- is nowhere near the front of my not keep wicket, but even fielding 3-1 lead in the five-match series. England’s victory at Trent Bridge. you drive it home,” added Root, tain throughout the series and mind. It’s about having days like on a severely hot afternoon took Root has scored 443 runs in the “Knowing what we went who made 134 in England’s 169- throughout this summer, as he this and being part of something its toll. series, with two hundreds and two through there -- all that hurt run win in the first Test of this was before that,” added Root of as special as this with this group India won by eight wickets with half-centuries, at an average of and pain, all the stuff we’ve had to Ashes in Cardiff. Cook, just the third English cap- of players. It’s been such a com- more than 12 overs to spare. 71.79. overcome since then -- I think the “You want to make sure you’re tain, after W G Grace and Mike plete team performance.” REUTERS The latest edition of the way we have handled ourselves not in that position again. Brearley, to twice win the Ashes REUTERS TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 Phelps sets fastest time of the year Shane Lowry holds the Gary Player Olympian reigns supreme at 200m medley Cup after winning the Bridgestone SAN ANTONIO: Michael Invitational at Phelps continued his brilliant Firestone Country comeback when he swam the Club - South fastest time in the world this Course, in Akron, year to win the 200m individual US on Sunday. medley (IM) at the US cham- pionships in San Antonio on Sunday. The most decorated Olympian of all-time was ahead of world record pace after 150m, before fading slightly over the final 50m of freestyle. He clocked one minute 54.75 seconds, significantly faster than fellow American Ryan Lochte swam to win the world cham- pionships in Russia in 1:55.81 on Thursday. Lochte holds the world record of 1:54.00 from 2011. Lowry ends title drought with “I feel so old it’s kind of wild,” Phelps, 30, said in a pool side interview as the large crowd roared in approval. Michael Phelps poses on the podium after winning the men’s 200m WGC-Bridgestone triumph “I’ve been away from the sport individual medley (IM) final during the Phillips 66 National Championships for a while and I feel like I’m kind at Northside Swim Center in San Antonio on Sunday. of back where I used to be. It’s AKRON, US: Ireland’s Shane felt even more confident about my good to be here.” Lowry shot a bogey-free four- WGC-Bridgestone game than right now .... but that After winning the 200m and to race, so I’m looking forward breaststroke legs. But his exer- under 66 on Sunday to come can change in a couple days,” he 100m butterfly in 2015-world to getting back in and compet- tions caught up with him in from behind and beat Bubba Invitational Scores said. leading times on Friday and ing with him.” Either Phelps or the freestyle and he settled for Watson by two strokes to Lowry began his final round AKRON, United States: Saturday, respectively, there was Lochte has held the world record a world-leading time.Phelps is claim the WGC-Bridgestone two shots off the pace set by third Leading scores from the fourth no doubt that Phelps was back since 2003. swimming at the US nationals Invitational on Sunday. round leaders Rose and Furyk. round of the $9.25 million near his best form. Phelps, who has three Olympic instead of the world champion- It marked the first victory He wiped out that gap with WGC-Bridgestone Invitational His Sunday performance was golds in the event and whose best ships because he was banned from for Lowry since winning the birdies on the No. 2 and No. 8 and at Firestone Country Club further confirmation that in Rio time of 1:54.23 came at the 2008 the US team after his drink driv- European Tour’s Portugal Masters then took a two-shot lead with here Sunday (USA unless next year he could add to his Beijing Games, said the event ing arrest last year. in 2012 and his maiden win on US another birdie after the turn at stated): record 18 Olympic golds. would probably be in his 2016 He is under supervised pro- soil. No. 10. “Ryan and I have been pretty Olympic plans. Phelps made a bation for 18 months and under “I can’t believe I am standing 269 Shane Lowry (IRL) 70-66-67-66 Lowry held onto his two shot dominant in that race from since great start on Sunday in the first orders from the judge who ruled here as champion,” Lowry said. 271 Bubba Watson 70-66-69-66 lead with a brilliant par save from we started racing back in 2004,” 50m in his signature stroke of in his case to abstain from alcohol “I played as good of golf as I have 273 Jim Furyk 66-66-69-72, Justin Rose 20 feet on the 14th after finding Phelps said of the 200m IM. butterfly to turn in world record for that period, something he has ever played the last four days. (ENG) 67-71-63-72 a fairway bunker with his drive. “He’s such a big part that I love pace, and stayed ahead of the vowed to do until after the Rio “I managed to hole a few putts 274 Robert Streb 68-70-68-68 Lowry moved to 11-under par having in the pool when we get mark after the backstroke and Games. REUTERS and get a bit of luck.” 275 Brooks Koepka 69-69-68-69, Danny when he sank his birdie putt at The 28-year-old Lowry sank Lee (NZL) 65-72-70-68, Henrik the last to win his first WGC title. four birdies including a 10-foot Stenson (SWE) 68-69-68-70, David Lowry follows Northern FROM LEFT: putt on the 72nd hole to fin- Lingmerth (SWE) 70-71-66-68 Irishman Rory McIlroy in winning ish with an 11-under 269 total the WGC-Bridgestone but seemed Australia’s third in the final tune-up before the for third place, four strokes back nonplussed about two Ireland placed Bronte PGA Championship at Whistling of Lowry. players going back-to-back. Campbell, Emma Straits. Reigning US Open and Masters “I don’t care really who won it McKeon, Taylor Two-time major winner Watson champion Jordan Spieth closed last year,” Lowry said. McKeown and matched Lowry’s 66 on Sunday with his best round of the tour- Robert Streb (66) came in Emily Seebohm but finished two strokes back with nament by shooting a score of fifth at 274. Brooks Koepka (69), pose with a nine-under 271. four-under 66. Sweden’s Henrik Stenson (70) medals after It was another disappointing Spieth rolled in six birdies and David Lingmerth (68), and the women’s finish at the Firestone Country Sunday and said he even though New Zealand’s Danny Lee (68) 4x100m medley Club for American Jim Furyk who he is not playing his best golf right tied for sixth at 275. relay final in finished in the top 10 for the 10th now he is ready for the challenge Spieth tied Rickie Fowler (67) Kazan, on time but is still seeking his first of trying to win his third major of for 10th place. Sunday. WGC-Bridgestone victory. the season in Wisconsin. British Open champion Zach Furyk fired a two-over 72 and “Going into the US Open and Johnson closed with a 71 and tied tied England’s Justin Rose (72) going into the Masters, I maybe for 33rd place at 282. AFP World Rankings Australia cheers Kazan haul, but 1. (1) Rory McIlroy (Britain) 12.55 McIlroy declares himself 2. (2) Jordan Spieth (US) 11.48 3. (3) Bubba Watson (US) 8.42 work to do before Rio Games 4. (6) Jim Furyk (US) 7.08 fit ahead of PGA event 5. (4) Jason Day (Australia) 7.01 6. (8) Justin Rose (Britain) 6.83 AKRON, US: World number layout, McIlroy told the Milwaukee MELBOURNE: Head coach week, we’ve seen a fantastic team, individual title at London and one Rory McIlroy (pictured) Journal Sentinel his ankle was 7. (5) Rickie Fowler (US) 6.77 Jacco Verhaeren praised the great performances,” Dutchman slumped to their lowest medals effectively declared himself “good” before he headed off to the Australian swim team’s “phe- Verhaeren, former mentor to tally in 20 years. 8. (7) Dustin Johnson (US) 6.48 fit for his title defence in next parking lot. nomenal” results at the world Olympic champions Pieter van A review of the flop would later 9. (9) Henrik Stenson (Sweden) 6.18 week’s PGA Championship “Obviously, getting around a championships after landing den Hoogenband and Inge de plunge the team into further acri- 10. (10) Sergio Garcia (Spain) 5.56 at Whistling Straits saying golf course like this, playing 18 their biggest medals haul in Bruijn, told Australian media mony, revealing management fail- 11. (11) Adam Scott (Australia) 5.12 that his rehabili- holes, it felt fine,” the eight years, but his enthusiasm upon arrival. ures and the abuse of prescription 12. (12) Zach Johnson (US) 4.96 tated left ankle was a four-times major win- is certain to be tempered by “There are still some young- drugs by the men’s 100 metres 13. (13) Louis Oosthuizen (South Africa) 4.85 “non-issue”. ner said. “I’ve come a some notable flops at Kazan. sters who need to learn, and we freestyle relay team. The Northern long way in five weeks.” 14. (14) Jimmy Walker (US) 4.71 Australia scooped seven gold, will give them the opportunity to Verhaeren, who has said the Irishman, out of action McIlroy, 26, does not 15. (15) Hideki Matsuyama (Japan) 4.28 three silver and six bronze medals do so, but overall the outcome is team’s culture problems have since he ruptured a have to commit to the to finish the meet second behind phenomenal.” been dealt with, warned his swim- 16. (16) Matt Kuchar (US) 4.21 ligament in his ankle PGA Championship, the United States, who managed a The team’s haul was their big- mers not to get too complacent 17. (17) J.B. Holmes (US) 4.08 while playing soccer which starts on total of 23 medals, including eight gest since the 2007 world champi- about the Kazan medal tally. 18. (18) Patrick Reed (US) 4.07 with friends on July 4, Thursday, until his gold, despite the absence of some onships in Melbourne when they “I think we should be careful 19. (48) Shane Lowry (Ireland) 3.89 spoke after playing 18 official tee time for the of their top swimmers. took nine gold, seven silver and getting ahead of ourselves,” he 20. (23) Brooks Koepka (US) 3.85 holes of practice for a second day opening round. Six of Australia’s titles came five bronze medals, and contin- said. 21. (19) Martin Kaymer (Germany) 3.79 in a row at the venue in Kohler, He has been grouped with from three individuals, Emily ues an upward trajectory since “We are still learning, there Wisconsin. Masters and US Open cham- 22. (21) Billy Horschel (US) 3.71 Seebohm, Bronte Campbell and the depths of the 2012 London were great performances but we After his first practice round pion Jordan Spieth and British Mitch Larkin, who each took two Olympics. still have a lot to do to make it 23. (20) Phil Mickelson (US) 3.68 at Whistling Straits on Saturday, Open winner Zach Johnson for golds. Proud swimming nation happen on an Olympic stage as 24. (22) Chris Kirk (US) 3.63 where he was seen scampering the first two rounds of the PGA. “It was a big week, a fantastic Australia failed to win a single well.” REUTERS 25. (24) Danny Willett (Britain) 3.62 up the hills on the undulating REUTERS

Baseball Results Toronto 2 NY Yankees 0 Blue Jays complete sweep at Yankee Stadium Boston 7 Detroit 2 Tampa Bay 4 NY Mets 3 NEW YORK: Josh Donaldson Cubs 2, Giants 0 Rays 4, Mets 3 Cleveland 8 Minnesota 1 Toronto Blue and Jose Bautista homered as Right-hander Jake Arrieta Richie Shaffer hit the go-ahead Colorado 6 Washington 4 Jays’ third the Toronto Blue Jays completed tossed 7 2/3 innings of four-hit home run in the bottom of the baseman Josh Kansas City 5 Chi White Sox 4 their first sweep at Yankee shutout ball as Chicago beat San seventh inning and scored three Milwaukee 5 St Louis 4 Donaldson Stadium in over 12 years with Francisco 2-0 to complete a four- runs to lead Tampa Bay to a 4-3 Chicago Cubs 2 San Francisco 0 rounds the bases a 2-0 victory over New York on game series sweep. win over the New York Mets that after hitting a Sunday. The sweep was the Cubs’ first of got the Rays back to .500 for the LA Angels 5 Baltimore 4 home run during Right-hander Marco Estrada the Giants at Wrigley Field since season. Oakland 5 Houston 4 the first inning (10-6) made the home runs stand June 9-12, 1977. The Cubs claimed Rays starter Chris Archer Seattle 4 Texas 2 against the New up, allowing three singles in 6 1/3 their fourth straight victory and settled down after a wild second Arizona 4 Cincinnati 3 York Yankees at innings, doing so after left-hander moved 3 1/2 games ahead of the inning and gave up three runs Philadelphia 5 San Diego 3 David Price allowed three hits in Giants in the race for a second and four hits over six frames. He Yankee Stadium, Miami 4 Atlanta 1 on Sunday. seven innings in Saturday’s 6-0 National League wild-card playoff struck out 11 but walked four – all win. berth. in the second inning. AGENCIES Pittsburgh 13 LA Dodgers 6 TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Action from Sunday night’s Youth World Championship clash between Qatar and Switzerland in the Russian city of Yekaterinburg. RIGHT: The Qatari side sing the national anthem ahead of the match. Qataris leave Swiss in the dust Maroons storm to 29:19 victory in the 2015 IHF Men’s Youth World Championship

YEKATERINBURG, Russia: (5-1) at which point Swiss coach in the 19th minute it seemed the very happy of course for the win, led 13-12 at half-time which con- Denmark finished the day for Qatar defeated Switzerland Michael Suter was forced to call European team may have reached but most important (thing) is the firms that the result could have the group, picking up two points 29:19 in a Group C second-round a time-out. the point of no return. level of my players coming back. gone in either team’s favour. with their second win of the tour- match to post their first win at Switzerland’s key left-back But the Swiss started off well If we lost today we would be in a “We were surprisingly patient nament against Algeria (33-19, the 2015 IHF Men’s Youth World Albin Alili, who was injured in after the break, opening with a little crisis now, but the position is today in the key moments of half-time 15-7). Championship at the Palace of their first match against Croatia, 4:5 run that took the score to better to play the next matches. I the match. However, there are Denmark lead Group C with Sports Stadium here on Sunday was substituted on. But Qatari 18:10 at the 40-minute mark, think it is normal when we work some details we have to improve four points, same as Russia, but night. goalkeeper Ahmed Abdelrhem’s but it was impossible for them to with young players that they are in the upcoming matches,” said occupy the first position on better Qatar dominated right from brilliance kept the Swiss at bay. recover from the nine-goal deficit up and down.” Russia head coach Alexander goal difference (+22), compared to the start with Moustafa Heiba Alili, who scored a total of nine at half-time. The second match of the day Alekseev. Russia’s +12. Qatar are third with opening the scoring. Simon Schild goals on Sunday night, finally Qatar finished with a 10-goal was fiercely contested between Croatia line player Ante Babic 2 points, ahead of Switzerland (2) scored the first goal for the Swiss broke through in the 14th minute lead, with Abdelfattah and Gueis hosts Russia and Croatia. said their closing minutes were on goal difference. Croatia are but the Europeans went quiet — taking the score to 8:2. scoring six goals each. Backed by around 2,000 fans, not good enough. “We made fifth and Algeria last. after this success. The situation only got worse for Speaking after the match, the Russia scored the winner (30-29) many individual mistakes, both in Qatar are scheduled to take on Qatar hustled to create a four- Switzerland from there and when coach of Qatar’s youth team, in the last minute after a pulsat- attack and defence, particularly Algeria in their next match today. goal lead after 10 minutes of play Qatar hit an advantage of 10 goals Julian Ruiz Gomez, said: “I am ing hour of action. The winners at the end of the match,” he said. QNA West salvages three points as Simon puts up gutsy show

INDIANAPOLIS: QMMF the opening lap and battled with thing I can do is to keep pushing. Racing Team rider Anthony the front runners for almost four Hopefully we can have an even West rode to a strong 13th place laps before losing the front and better result next week in Brno,” at the Indianpolis Grand Prix on crashing. West said. Sunday night and was happy to Determined to save the best- His team-mate Simon said: QMMF score three Moto2 world cham- possible result, he jumped back “I had a good start and I had Racing pionship points after a string of on and started to hunt the pack the advantage to be on an out- Team’s difficult races. once again, but three laps later, he side position, which allowed me Spanish On a track that was partially slid off the track one more time to overtake many of my rivals. rider Julian damp after a light rain shower, and his battle was finally over. I went faster and faster until I Simon (left) the 34-year-old Australian But even though he missed out found myself in third place, where rounds the showed his skills in tricky condi- on a possible top result, Simon I was able to run with Sam Lowes bend during tions, recovering nine positions on was still happy with the improve- and Dominique Aegerter and to the Moto2 the opening lap after a start from ments on his Speed Up bike and keep their pace for a while, which race of the 23rd place on the grid. his own performance, that looked felt great. I then noticed strange Indianapolis With a set-up that was much promising for the next races to vibrations from the front wheel, Grand better than on the practice come. and soon after, the front closed Prix at the days, he was able to fight close “I am happy to finally get some and I crashed.” Indianapolis to and within the point rank- points. There were quite a few “Since the bike wasn’t dam- Motor ings throughout the entire race, races where I didn’t score any, aged, I was able to get back on Speedway before crossing the line at the so I guess this is a success. But and continue, but I was trying on Sunday world-famous “brickyard” just 17 it’s about the only positive thing I too hard to catch up and to get seconds behind race winner Alex can pull out of this weekend. The back into striking distance, made night. Rins from Spain. team worked hard and I want to a mistake and fell a second time. His team-mate Julian Simon thank them for their efforts try- I’m sorry for the team because seemed set for an even better ing to improve the bike. But it’s they would have deserved a good result. With a fantastic start, he tough and we are still far from result,” he added. shot from 17th to third place on where we want to be. The only THE PENINSULA

Ismail ‘signs’ Prince Ali says fans want Blatter out new deal with PARIS: Football fans around “I also believe that you have 10-person task force. Francois in there and he has been part of is not yet decided even if FIFA Al Rayyan the globe want FIFA leader to have a real independent task Carrard, a former International that system.” observers say he wants to enter. Sepp Blatter to quit now and force come in and help the situa- Olympic Committee director gen- The prince said he had listened “Honestly right now I am just DOHA: Influential winger let an independent commission tion and help implement it.” eral, has been approached but to Platini’s proposals but did not talking with colleagues, listen- Hamid Ismail has reportedly reform world football’s scandal- Prince Ali said quick reforms he has not yet given an answer. consider it strong enough to ing to them, hearing their opin- signed a four-year deal with tainted governing body, Prince are crucial but was adamant that Critics say the task force will lack change FIFA. ions and seeing where they want Qatar Stars League (QSL) Ali bin Al Hussein, who could Blatter, engulfed in the storm credibility as the other members The prince and Platini have things to go. It is never about who giants Al Rayyan. run for President, said. over bribery charges in the United will all be named by FIFA’s six both called for the publication is president it is about getting the The 27-year-old was seen pos- The Jordanian prince, a former States against seven FIFA offi- member confederations. of Michael Garcia’s report into right people in who can do the ing with club chairman Sheikh FIFA Vice-president, remains a cials and seven sports business French football legend Platini bidding for the 2018 and 2022 job.” Saud bin Khalid Al Thani, Al Kass fierce opponent of UEFA boss executives, must leave now. is considered favourite to win World Cups, awarded to Russia He stood against Blatter on showed on Sunday. Michel Platini’s FIFA candi- “I don’t think that anyone who the FIFA election, but the prince and Qatar. a platform of reform and giv- Al Rayyan, after spending a dacy. But he is still sounding has been involved in the past said he was the wrong person He said the secrecy surround- ing more resources to national year in the second division, won out football leaders before should remain. They cannot be a to change world football. “The ing the report was “emblem- federations. QSL promotion at the end of the deciding whether to launch a new part of that process,” the prince practice of backroom, under-the- atic of the problems within the “You can’t have an organisation 2014-15 season that concluded last bid. said by telephone from Amman. table deals must end,” the prince organisation”. which governs the most popular April. Blatter has said he will stand Following the allegations that said in a strongly worded state- The malaise has spread to key sport in the world that has the The news was first flashed on down when an election is held more than $150m was given ment when Platini announced his sponsors such as Coca-Cola, Visa reputation that it has right now. social media Twitter on Sunday. on February 26, but Prince Ali in bribes “people have to take campaign. and McDonalds who were to hold That clearly has to change and Ismail joined Al Rayyan in the said the FIFA leader’s proposed responsibility and they have to “I have total respect for him a summit with FIFA in August. “I then from there we have to do a 2009 winter transfer window. He reform task force, mainly named step aside”. as a player and also as UEFA have talked to sponsors and heard lot more in terms of listening to has been used mostly as a utility by regional confederations, is “You need to have new blood, President,” the princesaid. from them, just as everybody else national associations,” he said. player, usually playing as a right- doomed. new ideas. That’s a given and “I worked with him, we had our who cares for the game, I think The prince said FIFA should be back but has also started some “It has to be done with a new that’s clearly a demand of the agreements, disagreements. It is everybody is concerned about the spending up to 80 per cent of the matches as a winger, midfielder president. I don’t think that entire world, from football fans nothing personal at all, but I don’t situation” the prince said. five billion dollars-plus it earns and striker. In 2011, he renewed they can do it in such a short across the globe.” believe that he is the right person Prince Ali stood against Blatter every four years on stadiums and his contract with Al Rayyan for period of time,” said the 39-year- FIFA has said an independent to do the reforms for FIFA right in an election this year. He said equipment for the 209 member three years despite interest from old prince. personality will head the proposed now. You have to have fresh people his role in the looming election federations. AFP El Jaish SC. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 11 AUGUST 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27

FROM LEFT: Barcelona’s Spanish Can’t think of losing midfielder Andres Iniesta, Pedro, says Iniesta Spanish defender TBILISI: Barcelona mid- a new two-year deal with the Gerard fielder Andres Iniesta doesn’t European champions and said Pique, want to consider the possibil- he would understand if Pedro Brazilian ity that Spanish international was tempted by a lucrative offer defender teammate Pedro Rodriguez from the free-spending Premier Dani (pictured) could be entering League side. Alves and his final days as a Barca player. “It is a decision for him and Argentinian Pedro has been heavily linked what his heart feels,” added the forward with a move to Manchester Brazilian. Lionel Messi United before the transfer win- “If he stays we will be attend a dow closes at the end of the delighted and if he leaves we training month after seeing his first- have to respect that decision.” team opportunities squeezed by Whether the World Cup and session at the arrivals of Neymar and Luis European Championship winner the Boris Suarez in the past two summers. stays or goes, with Barca unable Paichadze Yet, the 28-year-old looks to register any new players until Dinamo set to start as Barca January, Barca boss Arena attempt to add the Luis Enrique is just in Tbilisi UEFA Super Cup to keen for the window to yesterday, their trophy haul of close. on the eve Champions League, “Like any coach I of the UEFA La Liga and Copa del would like to have all Super Cup Rey from last sea- my players for the match son against Sevilla on whole season,” he said. between Tuesday after Neymar “We have already Barcelona was ruled out for two spoken about Pedro a and Sevilla. weeks after contracting lot and there will be a the mumps. solution shortly because “As of today we are the market will close.” not thinking that we could lose Barca will also be without left- him,” Iniesta said ahead of the back Jordi Alba through injury match in the Georgian capital as they look to stay on course to Tbilisi. match the historic achievement Barca begin six-trophy “He continues to be our of Pep Guardiola’s Barca side in teammate and he is here to win 2009 by winning six trophies in the first title (of the season). a calendar year. Hopefully, as a team-mate and Sevilla have even more severe a player he can continue with injury problems, though, as new us because he is a world-class signing Steven N´Zonzi, Daniel chase without Neymar player.” Carrico and Dani Pareja are out, Dani Alves turned down the whilst centre-backs Adil Rami chance to make the move from and Timothee Kolodziejczak are Barcelona to Old Trafford ear- doubts due to a bout of gastro- Pedro likely to replace Brazilian striker ill with mumps lier in the summer after signing enteritis. AFP

TBILISI: Barcelona open their Argentina to the Copa America win than us. We want to con- nice,” said Emery after his side campaign with the chance to final. tinue making history and win were held 1-1 by AEK Athens in Sevilla FC’s build on an impressive trophy Manchester United target all six trophies, but we will go their final warm-up game. Gael Kakuta haul from last season when they Pedro Rodriguez is expected to step-by-step.” “It excites us and motivates (right) speaks face Sevilla in the UEFA Super take Neymar’s place. A ban on registering new play- us, but it is also true that we to a team- Cup in Tbilisi today. Having equalled the club’s most ers means that there will be no are confronted with adverse However, they will have to do successful ever campaign with new faces in the Barca team circumstances. mate during without one of their star triumvi- the treble of La Liga, Copa del despite the signings of Arda “We know the opponent we are a training rate up front as Brazilian forward Rey and Champions League last Turan from Atletico Madrid and facing will demand a lot of us. We session at Neymar has been ruled out for season, the Catalans can now another buy from Sevilla in the will prepare the team for that the Boris two weeks after contracting the repeat the feat of Pep Guardiola’s form of Aleix Vidal. and, despite the adverse circum- Paichadze mumps. side six years ago that won six The latter wasn’t the only key stances that we have, we cannot Dinamo The 23-year-old had only just trophies in a calendar year by player to depart the Sanchez give up.” Arena returned to action after a dis- adding both the European and Pizjuan over the close season with Emery has particular problems in Tbilisi appointing Copa America, but Spanish Super Cups to the Club top scorer for the past two years at centre-back with Nico Pareja yesterday, he and Lionel Messi’s presence World Cup. Carlos Bacca moving to AC Milan. definitely ruled out, whilst new on the eve sparked Barca into life after a bad And former Sevilla midfielder Their absence has been com- recruit Adil Rami, Timothee of the UEFA run of pre-season results as both Ivan Rakitic insists Barca’s hun- pensated by the arrival of nine Kolodziejczak and Daniel Carrico Super Cup scored in a 3-0 win over Roma ger for more trophies has not new players including Ukranian are all doubts. match in their final friendly outing last been eased by their success last star Yevhen Konoplyanka, but “I think you can make a case between FC week. season. Unai Emery’s men have also we can play a good game, but if we Barcelona Messi will be fit to start along- “There is nothing better than endured a torrid pre-season and can recover some of those for that and Sevilla side Luis Suarez in attack hav- starting the season with a title,” are plagued with injuries. position then I think we will have FC. ing returned a week early from said the Croatian. “The truth is that having a final a better chance,” added Emery. his summer break after guiding “No one has more desire to in the midst of pre-season is very AFP Coach Wenger asks Arsenal flops to shape up

LONDON: Arsene Wenger Wenger admitted the result have enough experience at the Criticised for fielding a weak- has warned his shell-shocked was a significant blow to Arsenal’s back. We are guilty to give them ened team when West Ham bowed Arsenal stars they must improve pre-season optimism, but he a goal as soft as that, but it was a out of the Europa League in mid- Arsenal’s quickly to avoid being cast adrift called on them to bounce back at collective lapse. week, Bilic’s decision to keep his French in the Premier League title race. Crystal Palace next Sunday and “There are many things to say senior stars fresh was rewarded manager Feted as serious title contend- avoid a repeat of last season’s slow about that. I knew we were in with his club’s first win over their Arsene ers after last season’s FA Cup start. trouble even before the free-kick London rivals for eight years. Wenger final rout of Aston Villa and their “It is difficult (to recover) but was taken. “It’s really a great start,” he recent Community Shield victory it is part of our job,” Wenger said. “I can’t see many convincing said. “The players will always say reacts over league champions Chelsea, “In any successful team it is individual performances. It’s dif- they believe in you and your tac- during the Wenger’s side came crashing how you respond to setbacks that ficult to see beyond that.” tics, but the best thing is when English down to earth on Sunday as West matters. Cech has been Wenger’s only you have a great result like this. Premier Ham clinched a shock 2-0 win at “It is never a clear motor- major signing since the end of last Then they know it works.” League the Emirates Stadium. way. We have to respond quickly season and, earlier in the week, he One of the keys to West Ham’s match A calamitous misjudgement because we have a difficult start. was keen to distance himself from victory was the remarkably between from Petr Cech allowed Cheikhou Crystal Palace are a good team.” links with Real Madrid striker mature Premier League debut of the Kouyate to net West Ham’s Cech’s dismal debut was espe- Karim Benzema. 16-year-old Reece Oxford, who Gunners opener and the Arsenal goal- cially galling after he was hailed Asked if he had changed his shone in a midfield holding role and West keeper’s slow reaction was also as the solution to Arsenal’s long- mind after the lacklustre efforts just weeks after the Londoner Ham partially to blame when Mauro standing goalkeeping problems. of France forward Olivier Giroud became the club’s youngster ever United Zarate bagged the second goal Instead, Wenger must have felt against West Ham, Wenger said: player. at the after pouncing on a careless pass a depressing sense of deja vu as he “If an exceptional solution turns “He did a great job. He has a Emirates from Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain. trod a delicate line between back- up we do it, but it’s important not presence, he is a very cool guy, Stadium It was a familiar story for ing his keeper and making clear to think we must take a solution he was not fazed or impressed in London Arsenal, whose age-old inad- his unhappiness at such a costly from outside.” by playing at the Emirates,” Bilic on equacies were on display as they mistake. While Arsenal struggle to come said. failed to turn territorial domi- “When you concede the goal to terms with a catastrophic start, “He is still 16, just a boy, but Sunday. nance into goals, then found before half-time, with the expe- new West Ham manager Slaven he is definitely going to be a big themselves outmuscled by more rience in our team, it was difficult Bilic revelled in a result he hopes player. We have to manage him off physical opponents who punished to understand,” he said. will convince his players to trust the pitch as well to make sure he their defensive flaws. “It is not only him (Cech), we his methods. can progress.” AFP Ligue 1: Saint-Etienne, Bordeaux lose as Lorient hold Lyon

PARIS: Bordeaux and Saint- were 10 minutes from victory was a bit lucky, to kill off the Saint-Etienne a 17th minute lead Lyon ran into an inspired goal- words between the Argentine and Etienne both suffered Ligue 1 before Nicolas De Preville can- match,” added the former French before the home side turned mat- keeper in the form of Lorient’s his former employers. opening day defeats on Sunday celled out Wahbi Khazri’s 41st international defender. ters around. Parisian Benjamin Lecomte who Marseille accused the as French football was still minute opener and Theoson “It’s sad because it was the first Martin Braithwaite levelled the defied Hubert Fournier’s side time Argentine of trying to hold them suffering the shockwaves of Jordan Siebatcheu grabbed a match of the season at home and match 10 minutes after Perrin’s and time again. hostage over his new contract. Marcelo Bielsa’s resignation as dramatic 88th minute winner for we start with a defeat but we’re opener before star striker Wissam On another down note for Lyon, A strongly-worded club state- Marseille coach. Reims. just going to have to work hard Ben Yedder put away the winner, star striker Alexandre Lacazette ment claimed: “Marseille possess In the weekend’s final match, “It was above all two terrible this week and get ready for Saint- eight minutes into the second was substituted in the second half a sufficiently rich history to refuse last season’s runners-up Lyon defensive errors that cost us the Etienne with what I hope will be half. with what appeared to be a back to surrender to the rule of one were held to a 0-0 draw by points today,” said Sagnol. more desire from the players to Toulouse finished the match problem. man”. The French giants insisted Brittany side Lorient at their “I saw a team who were flat, try and get a result at their sta- with 10 men when Aleksandar Meanwhile, Bielsa’s shock exit they wouldn’t be “held prisoner Stade Gerland. who didn’t want to get forward dium which is never easy,” added Pesic was shown a straight red at Marseille after Saturday’s by a man who places his personal At the Nouveau Stade de and who didn’t have the desire, Sagnol. card with four minutes left. opening 1-0 defeat at home to interests high above those of the Bordeaux, Willy Sagnol’s men after the first goal for us which At Toulouse, Loic Perrin gave In the weekend’s final match, Caen sparked a bitter war of club”. AFP Tuesday 11 August 2015 26 Shawwal 1436 Volume 20 Number 6519 Sport Price: QR2 Nishikori wins Phelps sets Washington fastest time of

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Indianapolis Grand Prix Results Marquez claims his third INDIANAPOLIS: Indianapolis motorcy- cling Grand Prix results on Sunday at Indianapolis Motor Speedway: MotoGP 1. Marc Marquez (ESP/Honda) 41min Indianapolis win in a row 55.371sec, 2. Jorge Lorenzo (ESP/Yamaha) at 0.688, 3. Valentino Rossi (ITA/Yamaha), 42:01.337, 4. Dani Pedrosa (ESP/Honda) 42:01.518, 5. Andrea Iannone (ITA/Ducati) Rossi finishes third as Lorenzo takes second spot; Rins excels in Moto2 42:16.899, 6. Bradley Smith (GBR/Yamaha) 42:17.122, 7. Pol Espargaro (ESP/Yamaha) INDIANAPOLIS: Two-time 42:25.749, 8. Cal Crutchlow (GBR/Honda) defending world champion Marc 42:26.978, 9. Andrea Dovizioso (ITA/ Marquez overtook countryman Ducati) 42:28.192, 10. Danilo Petrucci Jorge Lorenzo with fewer than (ITA/Ducati) 42:29.888, 11. Maverick three laps remaining to claim his Vinales (ESP/Suzuki) 42:34.381, 12. Yonny third consecutive Indianapolis Hernandez (COL/Ducati) 42:37.186, 13. MotoGP victory on Sunday. Scott Redding (GBR/Honda) 42:45.580, 14. Spanish Honda rider Marquez Aleix Espargaro (ESP/Suzuki) 42:5.836, 15. covered the 27-lap, 112.6 kilome- Hector Barbera (ESP/Ducati) 42:59.518. tre Indianapolis Motor Speedway World Championship standings course in 41 minutes, 55.371 sec- (after 10 of 18 races) onds with Yamaha’s Lorenzo, 1. Valentino Ross (ITA/Yamaha) 195, 2. 0.688 seconds behind. Jorge Lorenzo (ESP/Yamaha) 186, 3. Marc Italian superstar Valentino Marquez (ESP/Honda) 139, 4. Andrea Rossi finished third. Iannone (ITA/Ducati) 129, 5. Bradley Smith Rossi retains his lead in the (GBR/Yamaha) 97, 6. Andrea Dovizioso (ITA/ world championship standings Ducati) 94, 7. Dani Pedrosa (ESP/Honda) 80, with a nine-point advantage over 8. Cal Crutchlow (GBR/Honda) 74, 9. Pol Yamaha team-mate Lorenzo, Espargaro (ESP/Yamaha) 73, 10. Maverick 195-186. Vinales (ESP/Suzuki) 62, 11. Danilo Petrucci Rossi edged out Dani Pedrosa (ITA/Ducati) 57, 12. Aleix Espargaro (ESP/ in a tight battle for third place, Suzuki) 46, 13. Yonny Hernandez (COL/ just slipping past the Spanish Ducati) 36, 14. Scott Redding (GBR/Honda) Honda rider with one lap left to 33, 15. Hector Barbera (ESP/Ducati) 20. reach the podium. Moto2 Lorenzo led for much of the 1. Alex Rins (ESP/Kalex), 41min 18.866sec; race, with Marquez right on his 2. Johann Zarco (FRA/Kalex), at 0.482sec, 3. tail. Franco Morbidelli (ITA/Kalex), 41:19.754; 4. “I saw that Jorge was strong Spanish MotoGP rider Marc Marquez of Repsol Dominique Aegerter (SUI/Kalex), 41:20.585; and I was not able to go in front Honda celebrates on the podium after his win at 5. Tito Rabat (ESP/Kalex), 41:1.829. and to open a gap,” said Marquez. the Indianapolis Motorcycling Grand Prix at the World Championship standings “So I decided to stay behind him Indianapolis Motor Speedway in Indianapolis, 1. Johann Zarco (FRA/Kalex) 199pts, 2. Alex and try to attack in the end. Indiana, USA, on Sunday. RIGHT: Marquez Rins (ESP/Kalex) 128, 3. Tito Rabat (ESP/ “In the beginning I was able to rounds the bend during the race. Kalex) 125, 4. Thomas Luthi (SUI/Kalex) 109, follow him, but then mid-race I 5. Sam Lowes (GBR/Speed Up) 107. was struggling a little bit. “I was a half-second, six-tenths the Indianapolis MotoGP. He’s he has never finished below fourth Johann Zarco of France and and took over the lead with 19 Moto3 behind him. But then I saw that also won the last two MotoGP and Sunday’s trip to the podium Italy’s Franco Morbidelli passed laps remaining. 1. Livio Loi (BEL/Honda) 40min 50.747sec; was the only chance to try to races in Austin, Texas, as well as was his sixth this season. Aegerter to finish second and Right behind Loi was Great 2. John McPhee (GBR/Honda) at 38.860; attack with two laps to try to last year’s race in Laguna Seca, Rossi has finished on the third. Britain’s John McPhee and 3, Philipp Oettl (GER/KTM) 41:48.528; 4. surprise him .... I pushed a lot on California. podium in all ten of his MotoGP Rins’s margin over victory over Germany’s Philipp Oettl. Romano Fenati (ITAS/KTM), 42:06.043; 5. the last lap.” Sunday’s victory was also the races this season. Zarco was 0.482 of a second. Loi, mounted on a Honda, cov- Isaac Vinales (ESP/KTM) 41:10.561. Counting 2011 and 2012 wins 22nd for Marquez in 46 MotoGP In the Moto2 race, pole sitter Aegerter settled for fourth ered the 23-lap course in 40:50.747 World Championship standings in the Moto2 category, Marquez starts. Alex Rins of Spain pulled ahead of place, with Spain’s Tito Rabat and finished ahead of McPhee by 1. Danny Kent (GBR/Honda) 190pts, 2. Enea has won five times in a row at the Lorenzo was the runner-up at Switzerland’s Dominique Aegerter coming in fifth. Sunday’s races got 38.860 seconds. Bastianini (ITA/Honda) 134, 3. Romano Indianapolis Motor Speedway. this race for the second consecu- with less than two laps remaining underway with Livio Loi’s win in The 18-year-old Belgian won Fenati (ITA/KTM) 112, 4. Miguel Oliveira Sunday’s victory made him tive year. and rode his Kalex to the finish the Moto3 race. for the first time in his 34th (POR/KTM) 103, 5. Efren Vazquez (ESP/ the first three-time winner in In eight starts at Indianapolis, in 41:18.866. Loi started on the ninth row Moto3 start. AFP Honda) 96. Japan PM apologises for stadium fiasco Modi reveals plans for breakaway TOKYO: Japanese Prime which the bill for the showpiece Minister Shinzo Abe yester- venue nearly doubled, largely day apologised for squandering due to rising labour and mate- billions of yen in public funds rial costs. governing body to rival the ICC on plans for the 2020 Tokyo Hadid’s office denied the high Olympic Stadium. cost of the stadium was due to SYDNEY: Former cricket boss Mumbai at the request of India’s Japan faces a bill for around the design. Lalit Modi admitted yester- economic intelligence agency, the 6.2bn yen ($49.8m) after Abe To put the inflated price day his involvement in a plot to Former IPL Enforcement Directorate, which ordered the original plans to be tag in context, London spent overthrow the sport’s establish- chairman is investigating allegations of torn up amid mounting public around $680m on 2012 Olympic ment, aiming to create a new Lalit money laundering. anger over costs. Stadium, while Beijing’s “Bird’s world governing body affiliated Modi has Modi has not been charged and “As a result of the decision to Nest” venue cost some $500m for with the Olympic movement. revealed a denies all the allegations. go back to the drawing board, the 2008 Games. The ex-Indian Premier League blueprint of His blueprint foresees a new precious public funds have The decision to ditch Hadid’s (IPL) chairman, who is wanted by breakaway cricketing world body affiliated been spent,” Abe told in the plans meant organisers of the police over allegations of money governing with the Olympic movement and parliament. 2019 Rugby World Cup, also to laundering linked to a lucrative body to a rival calendar of events to the “I apologise deeply to the peo- be staged in Japan, must now television deal, said a detailed plan ICC’s, based on Test matches and rival the ple of Japan.” find a new venue for the final – had been years in the making. T20s with 50-over one-day inter- International Japan pulled the plug on likely to be the Nissan Stadium “We’re talking about another nationals dumped. Iraqi-British architect Zaha in Yokohama, which hosted the cricketing system. There is a Cricket “The plan conceives only of Hadid’s design after the price final of the 2002 football World blueprint out there, it’s got my Council. Test cricket and T20; it doesn’t tag ballooned to more than $2bn, Cup. rubber stamp on it,” he told take into account one-day at all. putting it on course to become Construction on the Olympic the Australian Broadcasting I think that is completely redun- the most expensive sports sta- Stadium had been set to begin Corporation in an interview. dant in today’s day and age.” dium in the world. in October and was going to be “I have been involved in it. I years and years in the making,” he believed he could spearhead an He added that an affiliation Abe rejected opposition calls completed by May 2019, just in say it for the first time, I’ve been he said. alternative. with the Olympic movement, for him to sack Sports Minister time for the Rugby World Cup. involved in putting that (blue) Modi, who lives in London after “We could take on the exist- amid growing calls for T20 to Hakubun Shimomura over the As the row over financing the print together.” fleeing India in 2010 when tax and ing establishment, no problem.It be played at the world’s biggest scandal, however, saying: “We project escalated, senior offi- In the past, while acknowledg- financial crime authorities raided requires a few billion dollars.” sporting event, was part of plan. will fulfil our responsibilities by cials sought to distance them- ing involvement in discussions to his premises, has long been criti- Modi was fired from his job as “I have been proposing that. making sure the Olympics are a selves from the blame, Tokyo set up a new governing body, Modi cal of the International Cricket IPL commissioner in 2010. In 2013 The ICC will never agree to that; success.” 2020 President Yoshiro Mori had insisted he had walked away Council’s governance structure he was banned for life from play- never means never,” he said. Olympics Minister Toshiaki pointing the finger at the sports from the project. and financial model. ing any role in cricket administra- “That means they would have Endo heads a panel tasked with ministry, with many calling for “The plan that I have put He has voiced concern at tion by the Board of Control for to do away with the ICC. It is a reviewing the stadium plan fol- Shimomura’s resignation on the together is a very detailed plan, the control exercised by India, Cricket in India. plan that one day, if I ever imple- lowing a damaging scandal in saga. AFP it’s not a plan that’s come off the England and Australia over the Last week a warrant for his ment it, will rewrite history in cuff, it’s been taking years and way world cricket is run and said arrest was issued by a court in sport.” AFP