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QNA relations between the two DOHA countries and ways of boosting them for the benefit Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin of the two countries and Hamad Al Thani held yesterday brotherly peoples, in addition a telephone conversation with to discussing a number of King Abdullah II bin Al Hussein topics of common interest. of the Hashemite Kingdom of The King invited H H the Jordan. Amir to visit Jordan, and His During the call, they Highness welcomed the reviewed the strong brotherly invitation. Drive launched to crack down on unlicensed

Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani received a written message from the Prime Minister of Malaysia Dr Mahathir Mohamad, nurseries inviting H H the Amir to attend the Kuala Lumpur Summit, which will be held in Malaysia from December 18-21. The message was delivered by Foreign Minister of Malaysia, Saifuddin bin Abdullah, when H H the Amir met him at the Amiri Diwan yesterday morning. ‘Ayalak Amanah’ aims at curbing the practice of unlicensed nurseries, educating the targeted people about the impact of erring nurseries on Visa on arrival their children and creating awareness among Qatar Visa Center to open in for Qatari them about the law for regulating nurseries. Manila this month: Official citizens in Iran SANAULLAH ATAULLAH She said that unlicensed QNA THE PENINSULA nurseries are prime target of the SIDI MOHAMED by Qatar Visa Centers abroad. simplified and quick process. DOHA campaign followed by the indi- THE PENINSULA “The procedures do not Al Meer said that the Min- The Ministry of Administrative viduals especially parents. exceed 24 to 48 hours, which istry has classified the The authorities in the Islamic Development, Labour and Social Speaking about the role of To simplify employment visa saved the effort and time for recruitment agencies which are Republic of Iran have decided Affairs yesterday launched the Ministry about regulating procedures and protect management and workers. As eligible to avail services from to grant holders of Qatari pass- three-month-long campaign to nurseries, Al Abdullah said: “The workers’ rights, a new Qatar well as it safeguards the rights QVCs abroad. ports tourist visas upon arrival curb the practice of unlicensed Ministry is the only authority to Visa Center (QVC) will be of employers because in the “The agencies must follow at Iranian airports, an official nurseries and check the viola- issue licenses for building nurs- opened in Manila, Philippines, past the worker came to Qatar the laws which include absence source at the Foreign Ministry’s tions of licensed nurseries in the eries and monitoring them. The this month, said senior official and then medical tests were of complaints against them, Department of Consular Affairs country with the help of coun- law for regulating nurseries stip- of the Ministry of Administrative conducted and in case of failure timely payment of wages, data said. trywide awareness programmes ulates double punishment — Development, Labour and in medical tests, employer used updating and quick response to The source added that Qatari and inspections drives. hefty fine and jail sentence — for Social Affairs. to bear significant financial the Ministry of Administrative nationals can obtain a single or The campaign which started establishing and running nurs- “We are gearing up to open losses. Development, Labour and Social multiple-entry visa by the yesterday will continue until eries without proper licenses.” a new Qatar Visa Center in Phil- “But now we have overcome Affairs in case of any complaints Embassy of the Islamic Republic December 1, 2019. Addressing the Regarding the monitoring of ippines this month in Manila. this issue by conducting medical from workers. of Iran in Doha, to avoid occa- press conference on the launch of nurseries, she said that inspection After that the second phase of tests in respective countries of He said that the recruitment sional delays at the arrival airport the countrywide campaign, Najat campaigns are regularly the initiative will start and new workers,” he added while agencies which do not comply in case of crowding of passengers Daham Al Abdullah, Director of launched on monthly basis to offices will be opened in speaking to a local TV channel. with these requirements are not at the visa office at the airport. Family Affairs Department at the ensure that the nurseries are Ethiopia, Morocco, Tunisia and A number of visa centers allowed to benefit from the Ministry said that the campaign complying with legal require- Kenya,” said Mohamed Ali Al have been opened in India, services of QVCs. ‘Ayalak Amanah’ (Your Children ments and rules, and staff are Meer, Representative of the Min- Pakistan, Nepal and Sri Lanka Regarding awareness drives Entrusted to Your Care )aims at qualified to care the children. istry of Administrative Devel- which enable government, for migrant workers on their Hezbollah, Israel curbing the practice of unlicensed “We have female inspectors opment, Labour and Social semi-government institutions, rights, he pointed out that exchange fire at nurseries, educating the targeted armed with judicial power con- Affairs at the QVC. private companies from Qatar several awareness campaigns people about the impact of erring ducting inspection campaigns Biometric data processing, and recruitment agencies from had been carried out for the Lebanon border nurseries on their children and cre- and we have chosen the female medical examinations and those countries to complete workers abroad. “We also visit ating awareness among them about because all the nursery workers signing employment contract are work visa procedures through and inspect recruitment AFP the law for regulating nurseries. are women.” `P4 the key services that are provided a single window ensuring a agencies,” he added. 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Israel and Hezbollah exchanged fire along the Lebanese border HIA’s ‘Summer in Qatar’ engaged over 7 million passengers yesterday after a week of rising tensions, sparking fears of an THE PENINSULA travellers to try on traditional Qatari escalation and prompting UN DOHA costumes, with these cherished calls for restraint. memories captured on Polaroid There were no casualties Hamad International Airport’s (HIA) photos given to the passengers. The reported and the violence sub- ‘Summer in Qatar’ programme, heritage zone also included Qatari sided in the early evening. which ran from July to August, traditional dance performances Israel said it responded with engaged more than seven million (Fraisa) and a calligraphy artist who around 100 artillery shells after passengers in the award-winning wrote passengers’ names in tradi- Hezbollah fired two or three terminal. tional Arabic calligraphy and gifted anti-tank missiles at a battalion During the summer peak them to the passengers. headquarters and military season, HIA focused its efforts on Other handicraft activities ambulance, hitting both. making travel as dynamic, inter- under the heritage zone included a After the exchange of fire active and entertaining as possible Henna body art activation and a began, Lebanon’s Prime Min- having partnered with Qatar netmaker. Travellers also enjoyed ister Saad Hariri contacted National Tourism Council (QNTC), Qatari hospitality by visiting the senior US and French officials Qatar Airways (QR), and Qatar Duty Gahwa (Arabic coffee) and dates to urge their countries and the Free (QDF) to deliver the biggest section. international community to ‘Summer in Qatar’ programme yet. Another popular activation intervene. ‘Summer in Qatar’ at HIA fea- area during the festival was the France’s foreign ministry tured a heritage zone, which engaged kids’ zone which provided kids later said it was engaged in passengers from all over the world with a variety of games such as a “multiple contacts” aimed at through more than 260 hours of cul- giant Lego experience and a averting an escalation. tural and traditional performances. painting wall where they were able The head of the UN peace- The performances included a ‘Tra- to play while waiting for their keeping force in Lebanon called Roaming performers during HIA's ‘Summer in Qatar’ programme. ditional Costume Op’ which allowed flights. `P3 for “maximum restraint”. 02 HOME MONDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2019

Permanent Representative FM meets Malaysian counterpart OFFICIAL NEWS in Geneva reaffirms Amir sends congratulations to Qatar’s commitment King of Malaysia to support UN Office DOHA: Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al QNA new Director-General of the UN Thani and Deputy Amir GENEVA Office at Geneva, Tatiana Val- H H Sheikh Abdullah bin ovaya. During the meeting, they Hamad Al Thani sent The Permanent Representative reviewed the cooperation rela- yesterday cables of con- of the State of Qatar to the tions between the State of Qatar gratulations to Sultan United Nations in Geneva, H E and the UN Office and ways of Abdullah Ri’ayatuddin Al Ali Khalfan Al Mansouri, enhancing them, in addition to Mustafa Billah Shah, King of affirmed the commitment of the topics of common interest. Malaysia, on the occasion of State of Qatar to continue to The Permanent Represent- his country’s Independence support the UN Office, especially ative of Qatar to the United Day. QNA in efforts and plans to renovate Nations congratulated Valovaya Amir greets and rehabilitate the UN building for her new position, stressing in accordance with the strategic that her extensive experience President of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Foreign Affairs, H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al heritage saving plan of the will enable her to manage the Thani, met yesterday with the Foreign Minister of Malaysia, Saifuddin bin Abdullah, who is on an Slovak Republic Geneva-based office. European headquarters of the This came during the visit of UN in the best way, wishing her official visit to Qatar. During the meeting, they reviewed bilateral cooperation relations, in addition DOHA: Amir H H Sheikh H E Ali Khalfan Al Mansouri to success in her duties. to topics of common interest. Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Deputy Amir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani sent yesterday cables of congratulations to the Pres- Regional conference on cultural diversity ident of the Slovak Republic, Zuzana Caputova, on the anniversary of her coun- starts today; global experts to attend try’s Constitution Day. The Prime Minister and Interior THE PENINSULA The Minister of Culture and of the Sultanate of Oman, will highlight prospective. The second session of day Minister, H E Sheikh Abdul- DOHA lah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Sports H E Salah bin Ghanem experience of the Sultanate of Oman. two will be on “Communication and On the second day, Dr. Jassim Sultan Rapprochement among Asian Cultures: Al Thani, also sent message The regional conference on Cultural Al Ali and the Secretary- will moderate the first session on “Com- Changes and Impacts”. to the Prime Minister of the Diversity, under the theme ‘Culture: General of ACD, Bundit munication and Rapprochement among Maha Al Mansouri, CEO of Mada Slovak Republic, Peter Pel- Bridges of Dialogue and Understanding’, Limschoon, will address the the Cultures of Asian Countries: Principles Center will be the first presenter on legrini. QNA will kick off today at Qatar National and Tools”. “impact of changes driven by infor- Museum under the patronage of H E Salah opening session at Darwish Professor Abdul Nasser Al Yafei will mation technology on cultural diversity”. Amir congratulates bin Ghanem Al Ali, Minister of Culture and Al Far Theater. speak on cultural diversity, human rights It will be followed by Dr. Mohammed Al Uzbekistan President Sports. and promoting community cohesion and Mukhtar Al Khalil, Director of Al Jazeera The two-day conference is organised Dr. Maha Mishari Al Sajari Director of the Center for Studies, on ‘media awareness DOHA: Amir H H Sheikh by the Ministry of Culture and Sports in cultural diversity in a country. Center for Gulf and Arabian Peninsula and increasing the ability of media users Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani cooperation with the Ministry of Foreign While Khosro Sahibzadeh, Ambas- Studies, will speak on culture as an eco- to evaluate contents critically’. and Deputy Amir H H Sheikh Affairs and the Asian Cooperation Dia- sador of Tajikistan, will discuss the nomic resource that stimulates creativity Turan Kaslakci, Director General of Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani logue (ACD) and will be held with the par- impacts of cultural diversity; and Fatima and innovation. TRT Arabic TV in Turkey, will underline sent cables of congratu- ticipation of senior officials and repre- Al Rumaihi, CEO of the Doha Film While Dr. Karim Mohamed Darwish, “Cultural Diplomacy in Societies; from lations to the President of sentatives of ACD countries. Institute, will speak about cultural Head of the of Arabic Language Tech- Formal to Informal”, Abdullatif KC, the Uzbekistan, Shavkat Mirzi- H E the Minister of Culture and Sports Diversity in Asia. nology team at Qatar Computing head of the Indian community in Qatar, yoyev, on the occasion of and the Secretary-General of ACD, Bundit The second session on experiences of Research Institute, will speak at the will conclude the session with discussion the anniversary of coun- Limschoon, will address the opening Asian countries in cultural diversity will same session on the role of technology on “diversity of communication means try’s Independence Day. The session at Darwish Al Far Theater. be chaired by Dr. Majid Al Ansari, and in promoting cultural dialogue and between traditional and technology for Prime Minister and Interior The first session of the event will Seiichi Otsuka, Ambassador of Japan to enhancing understanding between cultural dialogue”. Minister, H E Sheikh Abdul- witness discussion on cultural diversity Qatar, will underline his country’s expe- people. The Ministry of Culture and Sports lah bin Nasser bin Khalifa and its impact on Asian societies and will rience. It will be followed by a presen- Dr. Yeh Liang Ying, Associate Pro- put much emphasis on the importance Al Thani, also sent mes- be moderated by Dr. Majid Al Ansari and tation by Aisha Al Attiyah, Head of Cul- fessor at the University of Foreign of the conference, which comes to sage to the Prime Minister of Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar, former min- tural Years at Qatar Museums, on the Studies in Beijing, will present “Dialogue strengthen the role of the State of Qatar Uzbekistan, Abdulla Aripov. ister of foreign affairs of Malaysia, will experience of the State of Qatar and Aisha between Chinese and Arab civilizations”: as a reliable partner at the international Amir sends cable to speaks about the diversity of peoples and Al Darmaki, Chairman of the Cultural Club its foundation, achievements and level at the time it is chairing ACD. Kyrgyzstan President

DOHA: Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and Deputy Amir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani sent yesterday cables of congratulations to the Presi- dent of the Kyrgyz Republic, Sooronbay Jeenbekov, on the anniversary of his country’s Independence Day. The Prime Minister and Interior Minis- ter, H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, also sent message to the FROM LEFT: Aisha Al Attiyah, Head of Cultural Years at Qatar Museums; Aisha Al Darmaki, Chairman of the Cultural Club of the Sultanate of Oman; Khosro Sahibzadeh, Prime Minister of the Kyrgyz Ambassador of Tajikistan; Seiichi Otsuka, Ambassador of Japan to Qatar, and Datuk Seri Syed Hamid Albar, former minister of foreign affairs of Malaysia. Republic, Mukhammedkalyi Abylgaziev. QNA Amir greets President Justice Ministry qualifies Wrong sitting posture and heavy of Trinidad and Tobago Qatari legal trainers DOHA: Amir H H Sheikh school bags injurious to health Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani QNA Participants will be briefed and Deputy Amir H H Sheikh DOHA on several axes, including famil- FAZEENA SALEEM and with heavier ones towards Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani iarizing themselves with the THE PENINSULA the trunk. Length of the sent yesterday cables of The Center for Legal and Judicial basic concepts and objectives of backpack should be two inches congratulations to the Presi- Studies at the Ministry of Justice training and preparing partici- The number of young patients from the shoulder to the waist- dent of Trinidad and Tobago, yesterday resumed the legal and pants in the course to become visiting Orthopedic Clinics at the line of a child. Paula-Mae Weekes, on the judicial training programme for trained to a degree that qualifies Hamad General Hospital (HGH) “Straps should be wide and anniversary of her coun- 2019 after the summer vacation. them to undertake training work for back, neck and shoulder padded and worn on both try’s Independence Day. The About 73 trainees will in various legal disciplines. pain has increased recently. shoulders of the child to balance Prime Minister and Interior benefit from the training pro- During the course, partici- Most of them have weight or it will cause lower Minister, H E Sheikh Abdul- gramme divided into four pants will be provided with the developed complications due back pain. Straps of the lah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al groups, two for men and two for knowledge and skills that enable to wrong use of backpacks, fol- backpack should be tightened Thani, also sent message to women. The second phase of the them to prepare, implement and lowing wrong sitting posture as well as waist and chest straps Prime Minister of Trinidad and training programme will see the evaluate the training program. and less physical activity, said will give extra support for the Tobago, Dr Keith Rowley. QNA organisation of a number of spe- They will also be provided Dr. Omar Alnori (pictured) of child,” said Dr. Alnori. cialised courses in order to with the necessary knowledge Orthopaedic and Spine Surgery He also highlighted that Qatar condemns achieve the general and detailed to design programs and prepare at HGH. parents and teachers can play shooting in Texas goals and objectives of each the training package, including “More young patients are “To reduce back, neck, a major role in encouraging course for which the guide has training needs, develop training coming to our clinics com- shoulder pain and related com- children follow correct practices DOHA: Qatar expressed its been drafted, in particular to program objectives, choose plaining of back, neck and plications at the early age, and do physical activities. strong condemnation and provide members of legal training methods and methods, shoulder pain. Some even children should be encouraged “Parents should encourage denunciation of the shooting courses with the necessary legal and evaluate the effectiveness develop more complicated to do more sport activities and their children to be physically incidents in the cities of Mid- skills, in terms of legal writing of training programs. spine problems at young age. follow correct practices while active. We see young patients land and Odessa, in the state skills, legal analysis, legal con- To achieve these goals, the Such pain is common among using backpacks and sit on right with joint pains and it is because of Texas, USA. The Ministry versation, and legal work. curriculum of the course is older people but now we see position,” he added. they are not active. Also of Foreign Affairs reiterated The centre started its designed to include several axes even at young as 20 or less,” he A safe backpack weight teachers can play a role in cor- Qatar’s firm position on reject- training programme by organ- including theories of training said. should be within 10 or 15 recting children if they sit in a ing violence, terrorism and ising a specialised course for a and learning, training methods, According to Dr. Alnori percent of the child’s weight. wrong posture,” said Dr Alnori. criminal acts, whatever the number of researchers and legal skills of the trainer, programme some patients are present with “If the child is about 40kg In a correct sitting posture motives and reasons. The specialists aimed at preparing design and stages of preparation functional scoliosis and have weight, the bag should not arms should be resting parallel statement expressed Qatar’s legal trainers and developing and construction of the training mechanical back pain. Func- weigh more than 4kg to 5kg to the floor, legs should be in condolences to the families of their skills in the field of prac- bag. The programme will also tional scoliosis is when the spine with books,” said Dr Alnori. the same position and feet the victims, government and tical training in line with the include practical applications appears to be curved, but the An appropriate backpack should still be flat. Back should people of the US and wished objectives of Qatar National dealing with the art of using apparent curvature is actually should be light weight with mul- be against the chair, and the wounded a speedy recov- Vision 2030 in building and body language and the result of an irregularity else- tiple compartments. It should shoulders should be back (but ery. QNA qualifying human resources. communication. where in the body. be packed with essential books not lifted or hunched). MONDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2019 HOME 03 Al Muraikhi receives ambassadors of Mexico, Costa Rica and Guinea

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, H E Sultan bin Saad Al Muraikhi, received yesterday a copy of the credentials of the Ambassador of Mexico to Qatar, Graciela Gomez Garcia; Ambassador of Costa Rica to Qatar, Alvaro Mariano Segura Avila; and Ambassador of the Republic of Guinea to Qatar. H E the Minister wished the ambassadors success in their posts, reiterating that they will receive support to promote bilateral ties between the State of Qatar and their countries to closer cooperation on all fronts. Several officials at the Foreign Ministry attended the ceremony to hand over the copy of the credentials.

HIA’s ‘Summer in QA Privilege Club announces partnership with ECGC Qatar’ engaged THE PENINSULA with the new Education City Golf Club members can choose from over 7 million DOHA Club. I’ve loved golf since I was signing up the ECGC experience 12 years old and I am awestruck for packages or one day pass for passengers Qatar Airways’ award-winning by these stunning courses and lessons.” Privilege Club launched FROM PAGE 1 Frequent Flyer programme, practice facilities right here in in 2000 as a form of appreci- Privilege Club, has partnered Doha. As golfers, both experi- ation to Qatar Airways’ loyal pas- with Education City Golf Club enced and new, discover Edu- sengers, offering them the The kids’ zone also dis- (ECGC), offering its valued cation City, these facilities will opportunity to earn Qmiles when tributed Eid greeting cards members the opportunity to gain undoubtedly earn a world-class travelling on Qatar Airways, one- during the Eid holidays. Fea- Qmiles through golf packages reputation, worthy of a stopover world® airlines, or any of the turing some edutainment fea- and day passes for lessons. in its own right. Privilege Club is airlines’ partners. tures, the kids’ zone held a This will incentivise both proud to partner our miles with ECGC is a landmark project nutrition activation which gave existing golfers in Qatar and sport to encourage our cus- for Qatar and the world of golf, away healthy snacks to kids. encourage those members keen tomers to get out and enjoy all offering a revolutionary and Back to school activities were to take up the sport to join and that Doha has to offer.” holistic approach to growing the yet another offering that helped gain Qmiles. Privilege Club Education City Golf Club, game. It comprises a range of engage kids and prepare them members also gain a bonus of General Manager, Michael short game formats, a learning for the spirits of the upcoming 10,000 Qmiles through the Braidwood, said: “Education City and practice facility housed in school season. referral programme for both Golf Club is pleased to partner the Centre of Excellence housed In addition to the heritage member and referred members with Privilege Club to encourage along with a TrackMan range, an and kids’ zones, HIA held 98 to enjoy golfing together at locals and residents to expe- 18-hole championship golf hours of diverse roaming per- The officials of Qatar Airways and Education City Golf Club at the club. ECGC. rience our golf course at Edu- course, a 6-hole championship formances. Passengers of all The partnership includes cation City. We are dedicated to course with 7 teeing ground ages laughed, danced and took corporate packages who will recreational activity in the sports Vice-President CRM and Loyalty, providing our customers with an options per hole for quick and selfies with the parading actors. obtain 40,000 Qmiles upon sector, with a new experience at Jake Miller, said: “We are very enhanced golfing experience and multi-generational golf and a These acts comprised unique joining. Privilege Club members the state-of-the art golf course excited to reward our Privilege the partnership with Privilege flood lit 9-hole par-3 course all and colourful shows with dis- and companies will get to enjoy while earning Qmiles. Club members, by accumulating Club members is of added value designed by two-time major tinctive costumes and living an opportunity to form a new Qatar Airways, Qmiles through our partnership to our customer base. Privilege winner Jose Maria Olazabal. statue acts that amused the crowd and received a large amount of interactions. Engr. Badr Mohammed Al IdeaCamp begins first workshop Speakers highlight Meer, COO at HIA, stated: “We are extremely proud of the importance of education efforts and success witnessed with 200 innovative ideas during our Summer in Qatar programme. Our collaboration THE PENINSULA which will begin later this year leaders. In the second edition of at Najah Qatari Festival with Qatar National Tourism DOHA to take their ideas to the next IdeaCamp 25 new startups were Council, Qatar Airways and level. incubated. The program QNA make a name for himself in the Qatar Duty Free, and the lively The third edition of the Digital As part of the Entrepre- mentors’ startups through the DOHA future and serve his country. entertainment that resulted Incubation Center’s (DIC) neurship Zone at QITCOM 2019, exchange of information and Dr. Yusuf Obaidan Fakhro from our collaboration, truly IdeaCamp workshop was held IdeaCamp features entrepre- knowledge to assist them in cre- The third edition of the “Najah spoke about education in Qatar, highlights our shared com- on Saturday at Hilton Hotel Doha neurs, developers, and designers, ating theoretical and practical Qatari” festival hosted on both in the past and now, noting mitment to promoting Qatar as with the shortlisted top 200 enabling them to harness pitches to be showcased at the Saturday evening the Statesmen the harmonious and loving a destination of choice and, innovative ideas, out of several emerging technologies. Partici- final stage. It is an excellent Forum at the Doha Convention society prevails between the making its hospitable culture hundreds of applications pants will create innovative chance for entrepreneurs to and Exhibition Center to discuss ruler and the ruled, adding that shine.” received, participating. products or services with a focus connect with potential busi- their experiences and success the determination of the people Al Meer added: “For many, IdeaCamp is a unique and on Advanced Analytics, Artificial nesses. IdeaCamp finalists will stories in order to boost the of Qatar and their solidarity and airports are associated with innovative programme held Intelligence (AI) and the Internet also be provided with technical nation and inspire and to set an were able to overcome the stress and pressure to be on under the Ministry of Transport of Things (IoT) to find contem- and operating support as well as example for the younger gener- problems and difficulties they time, check in, and board the and Communications (MoTC)’s porary digital solutions; simul- free workspace to transform ation. faced. The forum held this flight. However, HIA continu- DIC. During a course of five taneously, contribute to the their digital ideas into reality. Speakers underlined the evening, the last meeting of the ously strives for efficient and weeks, the camp offers candi- advancement of Qatar’s digital Under the theme “Safe, importance of education and “Businessmen Forum” where it hassle-free travel, particularly dates’ workshops, trainings and economy. Smart Cities”, QITCOM 2019 will raising the ceiling of ambitions, hosted a number of businessmen through our Smart Airport mentorship programmes by 20 Duha Ali Al Buhendi, DIC feature over 90 speakers, 300 overcoming difficulties and not and officials of the investment program. Therefore, we’re able global experts to incubate the Manager, said, “Following the technology exhibitors, 100 to stand for the pitfalls in order sector in the country, which was to process passengers smoothly best pitches. The first workshop success of the previous editions, startups and 300 innovators and to shape the future and achieve attended by Sheikh Mohammed and enable an entertaining witnessed entrepreneurs gener- we are excited to welcome this entrepreneur. The event will be the desired goals. bin Faisal bin Qassim Al Thani, airport experience like no other. ating business ideas with their year’s most innovative startup a one-stop-shop for participants In this regard, Sheikh Faisal Chief Executive Officer of Aamal Thousands of passengers mentors. The final ideas will be ideas from different sectors. Ide- to showcase disruptive smart bin Qassim Al Thani, CEO of and Vice Chairman of Al Faisal enjoyed and engaged in our pitched during the Qatar IT Con- aCamp is a unique programme technologies and exchange next- Aamal Company, during the Holding Company, who talked activities, participating enthu- ference and Exhibition (QITCOM that involves intense competi- generation knowledge. forum moderated by about his own experience in siastically and documenting 2019) from 29th October – 1st tions and training sessions to Entrepreneurship Zone is an Mohammed Al Ansari, praised trade and business. their experiences on social November 2019. identify the most exceptional integral part of QITCOM 2019 the value of community soli- It also hosted Yousef Al- media. We will continue to put During QITCOM 2019, a startup pitches.” and is divided into five primary darity of the people of Qatar, Jaidah, Chief Executive Officer HIA on the map as an airport panel of 10 judges along with IdeaCamp coincides with activities; Startup Hub, recalling that after coming out of the Qatar Financial Center with passenger experience like audience votes will select the 20 QITCOM’s mission to showcase CodeCamp, Make the Deal, Ide- of World War II, life was very (QFC), and Khamis Al none other, while shining a light most innovative business innovative technologies by cre- aCamp and Innovation Theatre, difficult and hard. Mohannadi, Chairman of the on Qatar as the preferred models, software solutions, and ating a platform for technology that work together in developing “However, because of soli- Technical Committee of the Min- tourism destination with world- prototypes. Successful ideas will providers, policymakers, the most innovative and dis- darity, determination, Qatar is isterial Group for the Promotion class experiences.” join the DIC “Startup Track,” industry experts, and thought ruptive technologies. now better than before and has of the Private Sector. HIA passengers with longer the best hospitals and schools in Saud Al Attiyah, owner of a transfer times were also treated the world and that would not factory, also talked about his to an array of digital activations. have been possible without toil experience, stressing that the HIA devised the ‘Complete Your and diligence.” needs in the industrial market Story’ Instagram activity where Sheikh Faisal called on the in Qatar saying that there are passengers were given a chal- youth to seize opportunities, many opportunities for citizens lenge to find the different pointing out that the prospects to enter the business field. ‘Summer in Qatar’ activities are open to them by the State’s Ahmed Ali Al Hammadi, taking place around the ter- encouragement, wondering that Director, Active Investments minal and share their expe- the vast majority of young Department, Qatar Investment rience on their Instagram people today were turning to the Authority (QIA), gave infor- stories. Participating passengers government sector. He noted mation on the State’s foreign were randomly selected to have that the biggest opportunities investment policy, which was their stories reposted to HIA’s are in the private sector, and that established through the estab- Instagram account and were the opportunities today are lishment of a sovereign fund in also awarded vouchers to favorable to them, adding that 2005, to avoid financial crises redeem at various food, bev- anyone who sees himself in the by investing in several interna- erage and retail outlets at the Participants during the third edition of DIC’s IdeaCamp workshop at Hilton Hotel Doha on Saturday. private sector has to break into, tional projects. airport. 04 HOME MONDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2019 Qatar attends preparatory meetings Attorney-General meets Gambia’s FM of Economic and Social Council QNA the social file of the Council of and a project for the protection CAIRO the Arab League at the next of women in the informal sector Arab Summit in its 31st session, “tea and food vendors” at the The State of Qatar participated which will be held in March. It request of Sudan. yesterday in the meeting of the will also follow up the imple- The Committee will review Social Committee of the mentation of the decisions of an initiative to empower unem- Economic and Social Council at the 103rd session of the Eco- ployed youth in the light of the General Secretariat of the nomic and Social Council and social protection and interna- Arab League. the activity of the General Sec- tional-Arab cooperation in the The Deputy Permanent retariat between the 103rd and social and developmental fields. Representative of Qatar to the 104th sessions of the Council in It will also deal with the reports Arab League, Ambassador the social and economic and decisions of ministerial Hassan bin Ahmed Al Mutawa, aspects. councils and committees. will represent the State of Qatar Additionally, the meeting Furthermore, the Com- in the preparatory meeting for will discuss a report on the mittee will review article on the the ministerial session of the follow-up to the implemen- draft Arab strategy for the eco- Economic and Social Council tation of the resolutions of the nomic and social empowerment (104), scheduled for Thursday Arab Development, Economic of women in rural areas at the under the chairmanship of Pal- and Social Summit at its fourth request of Tunisia, and another The Attorney-General, H E Dr. Ali bin Fetais Al Marri, met yesterday with the Minister of Foreign Affairs estine that will succeed the Sul- session held in Beirut last on the establishment of the and International Cooperation of the Republic of Gambia, Mamadou Tangara. During the meeting, tanate of Oman. January. It will also review the Arab center for economic The Social Committee will statute of the Arab Council for empowerment studies at the they exchanged views on a number of issues of mutual interest and ways of closer cooperation discuss several items, including Population and Development, request of Palestine. between the two friendly countries. Drive launched to crack down on unlicensed nurseries FROM PAGE 1 children and affect their safety transfer or change of their spec- “All nursery staff should be and security, we will shutdown ifications before obtaining the women for better care and pro- erring nurseries for three license,” said Mallhia. tection of children,” said Najat months until they remove the He said that the second type Al Abdullah. She added that the violation by rectifying the situ- of penalties was put in place to law suggests punishment in ation,” said Al Abdullah. deal with violations of a criminal accordance with the seriousness Speaking about the penalties nature, which are regulated by of offence. “Incomplete paper for those who violate the pro- article No. 20 of the law. It work is also included among vio- visions of Law No. 1 of 2014 for includes violation related to the lations. In such cases, the nurs- regulating nurseries after purpose of the license and con- eries will be given three to four obtaining the license, Ali Saeed ducting an activity other than days to produce the required Mallhia, Senior Legal Researcher running a nursery. Such viola- documents,” said Al Abdullah. at the Ministry, said that there tions will carry a penalty of However, she said, in case are two types of penalties; imprisonment and a fine of of minor violations related to administrative and criminal. QR100,000 or one of them by the health of children, the erring “The first type of penalties the competent court. nurseries will be given warnings are designed to deal with The conference was twice and afterwards a fine of administrative violations, which attended by Abdulaziz Rashid FROM LEFT: Ibrahim Ali Al Khaja, Social Programme Coordinator; Najat Daham Al Abdullah, Director, QR10,00 will be imposed. The are due to a violation of one of Al Kubaisi, Director of Public Family Affairs Department; Abdulaziz Rashed Al Kubaisi, Director Public Relations and Communications amount of fine is detected from the conditions that must be met Relations and Communications, Department, and Ali Saad Mallhia, Researcher of Legal and Administrative Affairs Department, during a the security money of erring by the applicant for the license, and Ibrahim Ali Al Khaja, Social press conference to launch a media campaign on unlicensed nurseries at the Ministry of Administrative nurseries. “In case of serious the establishment of nurseries, Programs Coordinator at the Development, Labour and Social Affairs, yesterday.PIC: BAHER AMIN / THE PENINSULA violations, which could harm the management of them, Ministry. 45 violations recorded during crackdown Hot air balloon from on illegal street vendors in Al Sheehaniya Qatar soars high THE PENINSULA in Europe carnival DOHA ANISHA BIJUKUMAR Al Sheehaniya Municipality in THE PENINSULA coordination with the Ministry of Commerce and Industry on Grabbing attention among Friday launched a joint varying sizes and shapes of hot inspection campaign against air balloons in parks of Europe illegal vendors and those was ‘Asfary’ of Qatar’s aviation violating the provisions of public veteran, Captain Hassan Al hygiene law in Al Sheehaniya. Mousawi. A total of 45 violations were Qatar’s first hot air balloon recorded against illegal vendors was, recently, part of the 20 col- under the campaign. The viola- ourful balloons flying high over tions of street vendors in these the London skyline that were areas varied by violations of the participating in the Oswestry law of public cleanliness and Balloon Carnival. encroachment on state property. “After a successful first In addition to the violation of the season and temperature rise in The hot air balloon, Asfary. trading of foodstuffs in unhealthy Qatar, Asfary balloon moved to conditions in accordance with participate in several events in them fly at our event. Built here Law No. 8 of 1990 on the regu- Europe. We were thrilled to fly in Oswestry, it returned home lation of food handling. The officials of Al Sheehaniya Municipality during an inspection in Al Sheehaniya as part of the Asfary balloon in the Sagrantino for the Carnival,” said the organ- The campaign was launched campaign to crack down on illegal vendors. Challenge Cup 2019 edition in isers on their social media page. in cooperation with the Italy in the first week of August “We are pleased to have inspectors of the Ministry of illegal street vendors causing violations of street vendors and This joint campaign and then now in England,” said introduced Qatar’s first hot air Commerce and Industry, the violations of health rules and public cleanliness and aims to eliminate the Mousawi. The travel and tourism balloon which allowed both res- security agencies of the Ministry hygiene and damage to the encroachment on state property. phenomenon of illegal company also plan to participate idents and visitors to enjoy a of Interior and the Internal environment. He pointed out that these street vendors causing in one more festival in a couple unique perspective of this great Security Force ‘Lekhwiya’. This comes within the campaigns will be carried out of weeks before returning home land while experiencing a Jaber Hassan Al Jaber, framework of the continuous regulatory until the elimination violations of health to Qatar in October. unique thrill, joy and adrenalin,” Director of Al Sheehaniya Munic- efforts of the Ministry of Munic- of this phenomenon, which has rules and hygiene The Oswestry festival, a said Mousawi, thanking Qatar ipality; Abdulaziz Al Sayed, ipality and Environment to negative effects on the envi- and damage to the charity event to help Nightingale National Tourism Council, Qatar Director of Municipal Monitoring reduce this phenomenon, in ronment and health. House hospice, saw partici- Civil Aviation Authority, Qatar Department; Mubarak Ali Al accordance with Law No. (18) of The violation of street environment. pation from international teams, Armed Forces and Qatar Air Hajri, Head of Health Control 2017 on public hygiene, other vendors falls within the juris- including Belgium and Canada. Sports Committee for playing an Section; and Abdullah Sultan Al than the health and environ- diction of the Ministry of Com- Environment is responsible for “As the only balloon flying in instrumental role in bringing his Nuaimi, Head of General Control mental damage it causes on the merce and Industry in public cleanliness violations in Qatar it was a delight to have dream to life. Section at the Municipality, were ground. accordance with Law No. (5) of accordance with Law No. (18) of present during the inspection Jaber Hassan Al Jaber said 2015 on the regulating similar 2017 on public cleanliness, and campaign. that the campaign aimed at industrial and public commercial violations of infringement on This joint campaign aims to developing a mechanism of shops and street vendors. While state property in accordance eliminate the phenomenon of action and a joint plan to control the Ministry of Municipality and with Law No. (10) of 1987. Ooredoo launches ‘Back To School’ promotion

THE PENINSULA at participating outlets of will then be able to spend their at Ooredoo, said: “Back To DOHA Nojoom partner Ansar Gallery 10,000 Nojoom points with one School is a busy time for many will get a ticket to enter the raffle of the many premium leisure, of our customers and this Ooredoo yesterday announced draw, with 200 lucky winners lifestyle and retail partners on exciting new promotion is a great an exciting ‘Back To School’ walking away with an amazing the Nojoom network. way for us to give something promotion whereby customers 10,000 Nojoom points each. Participating Ansar Gallery back to them. We wish everyone shopping with Nojoom partner One raffle entry will be given outlets are Barwa, City Centre, happy shopping and the best of outlet Ansar Gallery can win for every QR50 spent, and all Al Rawdha, Al Mansoura, Al Khor luck in the draw!” thousands of Nojoom points. entries will go into a grand draw and Al Rayyan, as well as New The promotion is valid from Customers who shop for to be held on September 30 at World and A&H Fashion. Manar August 29 until September 28 QR50 or more from Supermarket Ansar Gallery, Barwa, where the Khalifa Al Muraikhi, Director PR and terms and conditions can be The mayor and mayoress of Oswestry with Qatar’s aviation veteran and Department Store products 200 winners will be picked. They and Corporate Communications found at ooredoo.qa. Captain Hassan Al Mousawi. MONDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2019 HOME 05 Qatari Diar to develop US Embassy staff residential units in Dushanbe QNA Under the agreement, Qatari Diar Company is DUSHANBE to prepare plans and engineering designs for residential units for US Embassy staff provided that Qatari Diar signed a preliminary agreement to develop the resi- the development and construction agreement will dence of US Embassy staff in the be concluded later on a lease to own basis, where Tajik capital, Dushanbe, covering the US embassy will lease these units for five years 42 residential units. and then transfer ownership to them. Under the agreement, Qatari Diar Company is to prepare plans and engineering designs for resi- was attended by US Ambassador accredited partner and constitutes dential units provided that the to the Republic of Tajikistan John a qualitative addition to the development and construction Mark Pommersheim and several project, which Qatari Diar com- agreement will be concluded later members of the US government pleted its development and oper- on a lease to own basis, where the involved in the project. ation of the first phase in 2015. US embassy will lease these units The CEO of Qatari Diar, Eng. For his part, US Ambassador for five years and then transfer Abdullah bin Hamad Al Attiyah, said he is delighted to start the first ownership to them. said the signing of the agreement steps of the project. He also said From the Qatari side, the is an extension of the success of he was excited to work with Qatari signing ceremony was attended by the Dushanbe project in the Tajik Diar, which will provide the Ambassador of the State of Qatar capital. He expressed gratitude for embassy staff with international to the Republic of Tajikistan the US to select Qatar Diar and standards and high quality sought Ibrahim bin Mohammed Al Diar Dushanbe to develop the by the staff during their stay in the Abdullah and Qatari Diar’s Chief embassy staff residence, which first building of the project and Qatari Diar and US Embassy officials during the signing ceremony. Project Delivery Officer for Asia and confirms the comparative their satisfaction with the services Africa Dr. Abdulla Yaqoub Al Sayed. advantage of the project and the provided. buildings, 3 office buildings and The prestigious board once again is currently under construction, From the US side, the ceremony status of the company as a US Several US government rep- retail, 65 keys boutique hotel, 80 recognized the project in 2014 and Lusail already signifies Qatar’s resentatives also expressed their serviced apartments. presented Diar Dushanbe with the progress on a grand scale, reflecting desire to work with Qatari Diar as Architecturally, the design of “Highly-Commended Best Archi- the vision and quality that have a strategic partner in other Diar Dushanbe provides a luxu- tecture” award. Qatari Diar Real become synonymous with Qatari countries. rious traditional feel combined Estate Company was established Diar. As of January 2018, Qatari Diar Dushanbe is a unique with the highest specification in in 2005 by the Qatar Investment Diar has a shared capital of $8 development in Central Asia, sit- contemporary living. Also, its Authority, the sovereign wealth billion, with 60 investment projects uated just 5 kilometers from the advanced technological solutions fund of the State of Qatar. under development or held in 24 Tajikistan International Airport. are environment-friendly and The company’s flagship countries around the world, com- Overlooking the tranquil promote energy conservation, project, Lusail City, was launched bining a value of over $35bn. waters of Lake Javonon, Diar safety and security systems, in December 2005 and quickly Today, Qatari Diar has estab- Dushanbe comprises of all the including earthquake resistance went on to gain tremendous praise lished itself as one of the worlds essential elements of residential technology. The development won for its innovative approach to real most trusted and respected real luxury and modernity. Diar a five-star accolade at the Asia estate. The progressive self-con- estate companies because of its Dushanbe is the first mixed-use Pacific Property Awards for being tained city is the largest single commitment to quality, local com- development built in Tajikistan selected as the top mixed-use development to be undertaken in munity, partnership, and A graphic image of the residential units. comprising of 5 residential development project. the State of Qatar and although it sustainability. WISE encourages local community to Over 25,236 tonnes of waste removed in Umm Salal THE PENINSULA kinds in public places within the removed. register for flagship summit in Doha DOHA administrative boundaries of the The household waste, mixed Municipality of Umm Salal and random waste, damaged THE PENINSULA will be the key to building a good WISE Summit include then-US The Ministry of Municipality and during the second quarter (Q2) tires and dead animals, DOHA education that caters to the whole First Lady Michelle Obama; Environment, represented by the of this year. amounted as 12613 tonnes person and fosters lifelong former UK Prime Minister the Rt Municipality of Umm Salal, in During that period, a total of household waste, and 8,206 The World Innovation Summit for learning.” Hon Gordon Brown; former Aus- cooperation with the General 25,236 tonnes of random wastes tonnes of mixed waste. A total of Education (WISE) – an initiative Delegates will join 2,000 edu- tralian Prime Minister Julia Gillard; Cleanliness Department were removed across Umm Salal 3,680 tire wastes and 480 of Qatar Foundation (QF) – is cators, students, decision- and His Excellency António rendered a number of services Municipality. random throwing residues and inviting the local community to makers, and influential experts Guterres, Secretary-General of the in the field of cleaning and The areas were cleared and 257 dead animals were also register for its flagship summit from the public and private United Nations. removal of random wastes of all all types of wastes were removed. taking place in Doha from sectors, from over 100 countries. The summit will be preceded November 19 to 21. They will participate in engaging by Doha Learning Days, a week- This year, WISE aims to plenaries, dialogues, debates, long celebration of education, address pressing issues affected and tailored networking sessions being held from November 14 by rapid transformations in tech- to reimagine, and build the to19, in partnership with Exxon- nology and the environment future of education. Guest Mobil Qatar. This experiential through the theme: ‘UnLearn, speakers will include Fred learning festival will convene the Relearn: What it means to be Swaniker of the African Lead- local community in an exciting Human.’ It aims to drive discus- ership Group; Beth Yu of the Jack exploration of education through sions and debates on topics such Ma Foundation; and Jason Silva, a range of innovative and mean- as integrating well-being into host of National Geographic’s ingful activities co-curated with school, understanding our how Brain Games. local partners. Taking place at brains learn, what global citi- WISE will also debut its nine Education City’s Ceremonial zenship is and why it’s important research reports anticipating Court, Doha Learning Days invites for sustainable development, and future trends in education. They the local community to celebrate leveraging new technology for will be covering topics such as education and participate in better learning outcomes. inclusive language policies, inter- learning labs, enjoy wellness and Stavros Yiannouka, CEO of nationalization strategies in higher sporting activities, attend inter- WISE, said, “In the age of expo- education, learning ecosystems, active talks, grab coffee with QF nential technologies, such as Arti- athletes’ access to education, and alumni, and much more. ficial Intelligence, we need to using Artificial Intelligence for Interested participants could return to understanding what learning. register via : www.wise-qatar.org/ makes us uniquely human. This Past keynote speakers at the apply/ Texas A&M at Qatar welcomes new students

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The students and grad- uates of Texas A&M University are called “Aggies” and that tradition continues at Texas A&M’s branch campus in Doha. Aggie Life 101 is a series of seminars, workshops and activities designed to teach students about Texas A&M and its unique traditions, as well as what The students of Texas A&M at Qatar pose for a group photo. it takes to succeed at a world-renowned engi- neering institution. strive to become part of the rising generation of engi- The orientation also showcased the opportu- neering leaders who will drive the State of Qatar to nities Texas A&M at Qatar offers to students to help achieve its goals.” them become engineering leaders — from social clubs During the week, students were split into groups and activities to transformative educational experi- led by current students who served as ambassadors ences, such as international service-learning trips, of Texas A&M at Qatar and to answer any questions study abroad and undergraduate research. During the new students might have about college life. The this time, students registered for classes, attended groups also allowed new students the opportunity academic advising sessions, toured the Texas A&M to get to know one another as they begin this new Engineering Building, met with faculty and engaged experience together. with student leaders. The orientation leaders introduced the Aggie Core Dr Hazem Nounou, assistant dean for academic Values and the Aggie Code of Honor, two driving and student services, welcomed the new students, principles that set apart an Aggie education. At the including the freshmen of the Class of 2023. “I con- end of these sessions, orientation leaders quizzed gratulate all of our new students for joining Texas the new students on their knowledge of Texas A&M’s A&M University at Qatar, one of the most prestigious traditions, including the university’s official greeting engineering universities in the world,” Nounou said. (“Howdy!), its mascot (an American collie named “I wish our new students nothing but success as they Reveille) or its colors (maroon and white). 06 HOME MONDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2019 The Hamilton International School begins academic year THE PENINSULA Students were generation that has passion for DOHA received by the highest learning, realises its limitless potential, and appreciates The Hamilton International calibre of teachers in diversity.” School (Hamilton), a brand-new Doha, who showed Hamilton, part of Interna- school located in Mesaimeer, them around the tional Schools Partnership (ISP), Doha, welcomed yesterday the school, and conducted a UK-based owner and operator very first classes of primary of 40 schools globally, offers the students to kick off the new orientation and International Early Years (IEYC) academic year 2019/2020. introductory sessions. and International Primary Cur- Students were received by riculum (IPC), which is taught in the highest calibre of teachers in seating area for large sporting over 2,000 schools across 98 Doha, who showed them around events. For cooler months of the countries. Students at Hamilton the school, and conducted ori- year, the students will be able to will eventually graduate with entation and introductory ses- use the outdoor sports area, either an IB Diploma or a High sions. The school’s management which includes a professional School Diploma accredited by team was on a mission to ensure standard football pitch and an NEASC, a US accreditation that each child finds their class athletics track. organisation. and settle in smoothly. Terry Senior, Principal of During the first year of oper- The Hamilton International School welcomes students as it begins new academic year. New students got a chance Hamilton said: “This is the day ation, Hamilton will cater to stu- to enjoy Hamilton’s state of the we have been preparing for. We dents ages 3 to 10 years, and will art facilities, featuring the largest are so happy to see all these fan- then continue to grow and followed by a school theatre its first academic year beginning [email protected], or contact school theatre in Doha, indoor tastic students kicking off their expand to become a pre-KG launch in collaboration with Gotta August 2019. +974 3329 6569. You may also sports centre, full-sized bas- new academic year with us. It is through Grade 12 school. Sing! from West End London. To enrol your children at visit the Admissions Enquiry ketball court, two swimming going to be an exciting year, as Hamilton school campus was Hamilton is taking registra- Hamilton International School Centre at The Radisson Blu Hotel, pools, tennis courts, dance we embark on this journey inaugurated few weeks earlier tions for students from Pre-Kin- please visit: hamiltoninterna- New Wing, Third Floor, C Ring studios, fitness centre and a together towards nurturing a with a huge Community Fair, dergarten to Grade 5 (Year 6) for tionalschool.qa, or send email at Road. Qatari librarians share QNL’s achievements at world library congress in Athens

THE PENINSULA into Lifelong Learners Through DOHA Collaborative Efforts and Partnerships.” Librarians and senior staff from Eiman Al Shamari, Infor- Qatar National Library (QNL) mation Services Librarian, shared their expertise and expe- shared insights about the cultural riences with their international diversity at the Library and its peers at the 85th World Library important role in promoting and Information Congress from excellence and innovation. GU-Q prepares students for a variety of careers by providing a four-year August 24 to 30, in Athens, Al Shamari said, “Through liberal arts education grounded in the fundamentals of international Greece. networking and the exchange of relations reflected in unique core curriculum. The librarians, from several ideas and new developments in different disciplines, discussed the field, I was not only able to best practices and the latest grow as a librarian, but I was also GU-Q announces innovations in information able to help my colleagues and services in a series of workshops, contribute to the profession by meetings and panel sessions with sharing my own experiences in five new minors their counterparts from more Qatar. I’m really looking forward than 110 countries. to putting what I’ve learned into THE PENINSULA explained Hill. The conference was spon- An official addressing the workshop at QNL. practice.” DOHA Before the launch of the sored by the International Fed- Dr Sohair Wastawy, Exec- minors, GU-Q students who eration of Library Associations more than 738,000 visitors and fellow librarians how the com- utive Director of the Library, Beginning this fall semester, wanted to complement their and Institutions. had more than 21,000 registered munity in Qatar has embraced who also attended the congress, Georgetown University in major field of study with The theme of this year’s con- attendees for its popular the Library as a public space to said: “Our team at the Library is Qatar’s (GU-Q) students of inter- coursework that deepens their gress, “Dialogue for Change,” program of events. engage in learning. We are espe- eager to continue developing national affairs can now choose understanding of a particular prompted discussions about re- Hind Al Khulaifi, Manager of cially proud of cultivating our professionally, and especially to from among five new minors: topic or region, had the option interpreting the role of libraries the Children’s and Young Adults’ younger readers, and the con- learn new ideas and skills that economics, government, history, of pursuing one of three certif- as promoters of change and how Library, and Virgilio Medina, gress was an opportunity to we can share with our visitors philosophy, and theology. icate programs in American libraries are responding to the Information Services Librarian, exchange valuable ideas on how and our colleagues.” Along with Arabic, the new Studies, Arab and Regional constantly changing needs of offered their perspective in a to continue doing so,” said Al “This was an excellent programmes bring the total Studies, or Media and Politics, their audiences. presentation, “Qatar National Khulaifi. opportunity for our young number of minors offered at the latter of which is offered in This context was particularly Library as a Hub for Community Ahmed Al Malki, Information librarians to experience dif- GU-Q to six, and are part of the conjunction with Northwestern appropriate following the Engagement for Young Learners: Services Librarian at the Library, ferent aspects of librarianship Washington, DC campus’ initi- University in Qatar. Library’s success since its official What Have We Achieved so Far showcased his poster presen- and learn from the experiences ative that offers students of the However, minors work dif- opening in April 2018 — in that as a New Public Library?” tation, “Transforming Qatar of practitioners from across the School of Foreign Service minors ferently from the multi-disci- time, the Library has welcomed “I was proud to share with National Library Young Learners world.” through Georgetown’s College plinary certificate programs, of Arts & Science. which denote a level of mastery “We specifically chose in a given academic discipline. minors that would complement Students can choose to Rodizio to celebrate Latin the majors we offer at GU-Q and pursue both a certificate and a that would capitalise on the tre- minor, or two minors, or two American Festival 2019 mendous talent of our faculty certificates. With the addition of and build on courses already minors, students will now have THE PENINSULA — the Business Park and their offered in support of the core the ability to structure a truly DOHA numerous food outlets. curriculum.” said Brendan Hill, unique degree reflecting their Their weekend launch night Senior Associate Dean for academic interests and Rodizio Brazilian Churrascaria, will be held on September 6 and Students. exploring disciplines in more one of the well-loved restaurants 7 which coincides with Brazil’s The expanded offerings depth. in Doha serving their famous National Day. allow students to tailor their GU-Q prepares students for churrasco, will be celebrating a The special event is expected education, as well as academic a variety of careers by pro- special Latin American Festival to be graced by media partners, experience, to their interests. viding a four year liberal arts from September 6 to 14. food bloggers, social media influ- “Now motivated students have education grounded in the fun- Diners during these dates encers and other special guests. the added option of expanding damentals of international rela- can get the chance to enter in a Bruno Hivon, General their degree credentials by tions reflected in GU-Q’s unique raffle draw. Customers can expe- Manager of Crowne Plaza Doha- A view of Rodizio Brazilian Churrascaria. applying some of their core curriculum and honed by rience the festivity while The Business Park said, “The coursework towards the single the selection of one of four enjoying good food and get the Latin American Festival is a cel- discipline of a minor degree that majors International Eco- chance to win QR5,000 worth ebration of the mouth-watering surely delight everybody’s Latin American community in is distinctive from their main nomics, International Politics, of vouchers that can be used for churrasco that Rodizio is known palate. Qatar and also for other nation- degree or the Certificates we Culture & Politics and Interna- Crowne Plaza Doha — The for, also featuring other His- This culinary extravaganza alities to experience this extraor- have traditionally offered,” tional History. Business Park, Holiday Inn Doha panic heritage cuisine that will is an opportunity to gather the dinary cuisine.” Style Set Free – Hyundai Motor’s vision for future mobility THE PENINSULA State of Qatar. freedom to design their cars in a He said that Style Set Free self-customising marketplace environment in which vehicles DOHA People already personalise way similar to how people design aims to provide a unique in-car similar to an app store. Here, operate. their living spaces with a mul- their homes, and shape their experience that no other auto- customers will have the freedom This will facilitate the wide- Once a simple means of transport titude of gadgets and different automobiles the way they do makers have offered so far, but to select software and hardware spread adoption of connected to allow people to get from one forms of technology. This is their lifestyles. The company one that customers have been for their vehicles to upgrade cars, further cementing place to another, the concept of something everyone does envisions that interiors will be looking for. them according to their needs. Hyundai’s role as a leader in the the car is rapidly changing as the according to their own tastes and customisable with organic Style Set Free is based on With Style Set Free, the company future mobility field. boundaries between our lives sensibilities. materials. future automotive developments, demonstrates its customer- Hyundai will showcase the and automobiles intertwine. Soon, the same will be done “In the future, self-driving like autonomous driving. It centric approach to future next steps of its Style Set Free Under the banner Style Set Free, with cars as well. Style Set Free technology in electrified vehicles allows users to fully customise mobility. concept, which anticipates the Hyundai Motor illustrates its is about creating a ‘perfect will eliminate the need for and upgrade their driving envi- Hyundai will leverage data revolution of the mobility expe- innovative vision of how cars of space’ inside one’s car, and asks drivers. This won’t be a luxury, ronment to create their own life generated from smart vehicles rience through full customi- the future will become individ- what it takes to create such a it will be an absolute necessity,” space inside their vehicle to launch an open ecosystem that sation, with interactive displays ualised living spaces. Skyline space. said Wonhong Cho, Executive through upgradeable products enables a host of ICT subsystems at the 2019 Frankfurt Interna- Automotive WLL is the official With Style Set Free, Hyundai Vice President and Chief Mar- and services. to create a structural flow of tional Motor Show (IAA). The distribution partner of the considers how future vehicles keting Officer at Hyundai Motor In the future, Hyundai public data transmission 2019 IAA will take place from Hyundai Motor Company in the will offer customers more Company. intends to build a between vehicles and the September 10 to 22. MONDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2019 HOME 07 HBKU’s TII announces professional workshops for translators, interpreters Participants will development and building receive hands-on capacity in Qatar and the region through continuing education training to work and professional development in accordance opportunities in translation and with international interpreting. standards in various Participants will be intro- duced to theoretical and prac- industries such as tical approaches that will focus business and finance, on building their skills with various practice sessions and medicine, media A senior citizen receiving treatment under QRCS health project exercises. and audiovisual in Gaza. Upon completion, partici- translation, as well pants will be well-versed in the as computer-assisted ability to assess and manage translation tools. the risks and identify the chal- QRCS assists Gaza’s lenges that surface during the THE PENINSULA translation process; make effective use of technological DOHA The workshops will be held at Penrose House (LAS Building), from health care sector tools and machine translation 4pm to 7pm, Sunday to Wednesday. platforms as assisting tools; and THE PENINSULA for Palestinian Physicians in In line with its mission to provide become more proficient in spe- DOHA Qatar, which has been super- the local community with a high- interpreters looking to improve translation to the art of dubbing, cific terminology used within vised by QRCS since 2003. quality education in translation, their skills. translating news and translating different specialised Qatar Red Crescent Society “Since my return, I have interpretation, and foreign Participants will receive specialised medical documents, industries. (QRCS) is implementing a mega worked to improve the services languages, the Translation and hands-on training to work in and more. With the exception of project at a cost of $1m to provided for the patients with Training Center at the Trans- accordance with international We have designed our pro- ‘Business Arabic Writing’ and enhance the health sector in respiratory diseases, particularly lation and Interpreting Institute standards in various industries grammes to engage our learners ‘Accessible Hospitality and Gaza, by providing medical in the southern, overpopulated (TII), part of the College of such as business and finance, and provide advancement Events’, all workshops will be expertise and training. The governorates of Gaza. Capital- Humanities and Social Sciences medicine, media and audiovisual training to industry profes- conducted in English and Arabic. multifaceted project involves ising on my practical experience (CHSS) at Hamad Bin Khalifa translation, interpretation, sionals. We welcome interested Due to limited seats, interested hiring consultants in pulmon- in Qatar, I have performed over University (HBKU), is offering revision and computer-assisted candidates and encourage them candidates are encouraged to ology, internal medicine, cardi- 150 endoscopies. I also con- several workshops for the 2019- translation (CAT) tools. to enrol for the workshops to register at the earliest. othoracic surgery, neonatology, tributed to building the capacity 2020 academic year. Nada Al Mahmeed, director build their skill sets and gain Details about the registration and urology. of local medical workers in The workshops, which are of Translation and Training expertise in the evolving fields process, and fees and discount Other capacity-building relation to bronchoscopy,” he open to the public, will be Center at TII, said, “TII’s Trans- of translation and policy can be found on the components of the programme added. delivered by qualified and expe- lation and Training Center is interpreting.” website. include MA in Mental Health at In addition, he diagnosed 75 rienced instructors, and are pleased to offer a number of The workshops by the Trans- The workshops will be held the Al-Quds University (Abu Dis patients with lung cancer and aimed at participants seeking to training workshops this year, lation and Training Center are at Penrose House (LAS Building), campus) and Diploma in referred them to the Department acquire skills in the field, as well which focus on different areas offered to advance TII’s aim of from 4pm to 7pm, Sunday to Anesthesia and Intensive Care of Oncology at the European as professional translators and including basics of professional promoting community Wednesday. at the Islamic University of Gaza Gaza Hospital. From the (IUG). beginning of 2019, he has “I felt over the moon when examined more than 1,200 cases I completed my study in the at the Nasser Medical Complex’s Cadillac revamps its best-selling XT5 for 2020 State of Qatar in the speciality outpatient clinics, as well as of internal medicine, allergy, and undertaken follow-up at the THE PENINSULA demand and sharpening its endoscopy. After seven years inpatient departments. DOHA position in the Cadillac abroad, I returned to my He added, “In the coming showroom. homeland to help the patients,” period, there are plans to Cadillac’s global best-selling XT5 The XT5 range starts with the said Dr. Saber Al Sarfandi, Con- develop the complex’s upper is revamped for 2020, with a well-equipped Luxury model, sultant of Internal and Respi- endoscopy department. QRCS new turbocharged engine, with Premium Luxury and Sport ratory Medicine at Nasser will procure interventional radi- enhanced technologies and models offering distinctive takes Medical Complex in the Gaza ology and pulmonary function revised design cues that coalesce on Cadillac design and driving Strip. testing (PFT) systems, to be used in distinctive trims that offer dynamics. Dr. Al Sarfandi is a graduate in examining pulmonary customers greater choice in An emphasis on bright trim of the Emiri Postgraduate Spe- embolism and other chronic matching this luxury crossover and contemporary décor defines cialist Medical Studies Program diseases.” to their personality. the Premium Luxury model, With over 40 updates the while a darker, more aggressive 2020 Cadillac XT5 raises the bar, appearance underscores the XT5 delivering an exhilarating driving Sport. The XT5 features a new, VCUarts Qatar launches fall experience paired with the sense bolder grille design, offered in of solidity and functionality of two textures that reflect the new art, design and craft classes an SUV. personas. A Platinum package, The XT5 joins the all-new delivering the pinnacle of tech- THE PENINSULA XT6 three-row crossover and the nology and most sophisticated DOHA The all-new 2020 Cadillac XT5 Premium Luxury recently launched, segment- interior in the lineup, is offered topping XT4, along with the with each trim level. Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar iconic Escalade, to give Cadillac Enhanced driving dynamics models. Additionally, the lower assistance technologies. The (VCUarts Qatar) in Education City has launched the 2019 edition of one of the industry’s freshest provide two distinctive expres- front and rear fascias have latest Cadillac user experience its fall art, design and craft classes. As summer wraps up, many in lineups of luxury crossovers and sions of the Cadillac driving been updated, while a new interface1 has enhanced con- Qatar are looking to expand their knowledge, become more creative SUVs. experience. The Luxury and 18-inch wheel design is nectivity and personalisation. and participate in something different, fun and interesting that they “Cadillac’s global Premium Luxury models are standard on Luxury and Next-generation rotary may have always wanted to try. momentum continues to accel- tailored for confidence- Premium Luxury and a new controller with new jog func- VCUarts Qatar offers an exciting and educational range of cre- erate with new and compelling inspiring control that keeps you 20-inch wheel design is tionality complements conven- ative pursuits that includes classes in pottery, sketching, fashion products such as the revamped connected to the road while available. 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A new director of NU-Q’s Liberal Arts Program along with seven additional faculty – specialising in fields that include digital media, cinematography, film- making, and communication – are joining Northwestern University in Qatar (NU-Q) this year. The newly-appointed professors bring a combination of experience and schol- arship from some of the top media oper- ations and educational institutions around the world, including Northwestern’s School New NU-Q faculty members (from LEFT) Eddy Borges-Ray, S Venus Jin, Spencer of Communication, New York Film Striker, Kathleen Hewett-Smith, Larissa Buchholz, and Marcela Pizarro. Academy, Al Jazeera Network, Harvard University, and Sejong University in South in media and communication,” said Communication programme will be Korea, among others. Together, they add Everette E. Dennis, Dean and CEO. “Stu- offered a larger variety of cinematography a new level of knowledge and mastery on dents – along with the whole community and directing classes due to new pro- contemporary media and communication, – benefit from this expertise in digital fessors in those fields. both in theory and in practice. “These new media design, filmmaking and cinematog- The new faculty join a cadre of media, members of our faculty bring distinguished raphy, as well as entrepreneurship and communication, and liberal arts profes- expertise and experience that enhances transmedia.” sionals to teach the nearly 400 under- our capacity for instruction and research Students enrolled in the graduate students enrolled at NU-Q. 08 VIEWS MONDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2019 Why Boris Johnson is eager ESTABLISHED IN 1996 to suspend Parliament CHAIRMAN SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DR. KHALID BIN MUBARAK AL-SHAFI [email protected]

DAVID ALLEN GREEN ACTING MANAGING EDITOR THE WASHINGTON POST MOHAMMED SALIM MOHAMED [email protected] he controversy in British pol- itics about the prorogation of DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR Parliament is unprecedented MOHAMMED OSMAN ALI Tand significant. The row is dif- [email protected] ferent from the usual and often con- fected accusations about improper use of political power: The issue at stake is a fundamental one, and it may mean the United Kingdom is moving toward a constitutional crisis. The background to this is, of EDITORIAL course, the departure of the United Demonstrators holding up placards at a protest against the move to suspend Kingdom from the European Union. Parliament in the final weeks before Brexit outside Downing Street in London. That exit, which has already been twice postponed, is set for Oct. 31. The being forced from office. where Parliament happens not to sit. Prompt humanitarian response departure is the default position. It is European leaders, on the other Here, Parliament will be prorogued for what will happen by automatic oper- hand, are adamant that this backstop five weeks in the crucial but short eeping the tradition alive, Qatar is the first country ation of law unless something stops it. insurance is necessary. They, too, have period before the Brexit date. which has come forward to help flood victims in The intention had been for this a point: The United Kingdom has The only reason for this is so that it KSudan by sending timely assistance to people in departure to be accompanied by a shown throughout the exit negotia- will be far more difficult for Par- distress. comprehensive withdrawal agreement tions a lack of seriousness and good liament to prevent a no-deal Brexit. The flash floods in Sudan were caused by heavy rainfall providing for a range of practical faith and so the European Union, on Other than by revoking the decision to last week and have had the worst effect on regions along issues, from residency rights for behalf of the Irish government, is leave or agreeing to the deal, the only the Nile river. The death toll from major flooding in dif- affected citizens to the applicable law insisting that the foreseeable conse- way a departure can be avoided now ferent parts of Sudan had reached 62, according to reports for ongoing transactions. In quence of there being no new trading is by the United Kingdom and the appeared on August 26. November, British and European agreement in time is set out in a legally European Union agreeing to a further The flooding which affected hundreds of villages not negotiators finalized a draft meaningful way. extension. only caused causalities but also injured many people as agreement, the so-called “deal.” That contradiction cannot easily be And in view of Johnson’s determi- well as displaced thousands others. Most of the damage The deal, however, has proved resolved. There have been efforts to nation that the United Kingdom must by flooding was noted in poor neighbourhoods, where unacceptable to Parliament, and it has show how “alternative arrangements” leave the European Union regardless basic amenities such as electricity and clean water were been rejected three times, including could address the Irish border issue, of a deal, this extension can only come badly hit. two of the heaviest government but few are convinced, and there is no through Parliament acting to remove Upon the directives of Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin defeats in British history. The main, concrete detail. It is unlikely that a res- the prime minister or enacting new Hamad Al Thani, Qatar’s first plane carrying 60 tonnes but not the olution can be found before the Brexit legislation, both of which would be of relief aid to flood-affected people arrived in Khartoum only, sticking deadline or, indeed, at any time. The difficult before Oct. 31 even without on Saturday. point is the problem may not actually have a the prorogation. This urgent response came in line with the essential “backstop” solution. This is why the prorogation is role played by the State of Qatar in helping and providing arrange- But Prime Minister Boris Johnson being seen, rightly, as a direct assault assistance to the needy in all ments has stated that, regardless of there not by the executive on the rightful powers regions and countries of the For Boris Johnson affecting the being a deal in place, the United of the legislature. And this is not the world. and his supporters, border Kingdom should leave the European view of liberal opponents but of many Ambassador of the State of the delay to Brexit between Union on Oct. 31. For him and his sup- senior Conservative politicians them- Qatar to the Republic of has been long Ireland and porters, the delay to Brexit has been selves. Lord George Young, the only Upon the Sudan, Abdulrahman bin Ali Northern long enough, and this is how the June surviving minister from the Margaret directives of Amir Al Kubaisi, considered this enough, and this is Ireland. This 2016 referendum result should be Thatcher era, has resigned on this H H Sheikh Tamim assistance a sincere how the June 2016 backstop honored: Departure is more important basis. Former prime minister Sir John bin Hamad Al expression of the interaction referendum result would mean than the terms governing it. Major, who succeeded Thatcher, is of the State of Qatar’s lead- should be honored: that if the Johnson and his government do even going to court to litigate against Thani, Qatar’s first ership, government and United not, however, control a working this constitutional imposition. plane carrying people with what happened to Departure is more Kingdom and majority of Parliament on that Fundamental attacks by one part 60 tonnes of brotherly Sudan due to the important than the the European question. And just as Parliament is of the state against another are rare in relief aid to floods and rains. The Ambas- terms governing it. Union fail to against the deal Johnson’s predecessor modern democracies or at least they sador noted that the State of agree on a negotiated, it is also against a “no deal” should be. Constitutional law should flood-affected Qatar is keen to respond new trading departure. The magnitude of the pre- be dull, not this exciting. A happy people arrived promptly to all urgent human- relationship after departure, then dicament that no deal would cause is political system does not have many in Khartoum on itarian needs all over the there would be continuity in cross- overwhelming: For example, supply constitutional cases. But the pro-Brexit world based on its vital role in border commercial activity. lines for items from medicines to auto- government of Johnson is desperate, Saturday. this regard. The implication of the backstop, mobiles will be disrupted if not and they have adopted this as a means Earlier on August 29, Qatar however, is that the United Kingdom destroyed, and millions of people to force through their policy against a Fund For Development (QFFD) may stay within the European Union’s would have uncertain legal positions. majority in parliament. had announced the provision of emergency relief single market and customs union And it is in this context that the sig- The ploy may not work: There are assistance to flood victims in Sudan worth $5m. longer after departure, which makes nificance of Johnson’s use of the pro- just enough days for a determined Meanwhile, the Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) leaving the European Union. pointless rogation device can be seen. Proroga- Parliament to ensure there is not the also initiated Phase 1 of its large-scale humanitarian in substance. Brexiteers who oppose tions usually are not controversial: disaster of a no-deal Brexit, but there response to the flash floods in Sudan. the backstop do have a point: It would They mean one parliamentary session is no guarantee they will succeed. Under the QRCS plan, a QR365,000 project is esti- be a Brexit in name only. This and will end and another begin. What will linger either way is the deep mated to benefit up to 15,000 victims. It involves a series other concerns have meant that many But this prorogation means Par- sense of wrongness, of the gov- of shelter, relief, and food aid interventions, to meet the members of Parliament are adamant liament cannot function: It is closed ernment attempting to unfairly game urgent needs that were identified by the field assessment that the deal cannot be endorsed. down as a means of scrutinizing the the constitution so as to prevent legit- done by QRCS’s relief workers in the White Nile state, one Failure to get a deal through led to the executive and cannot pass legislation. imate checks and balances. This will of the country’s worst-hit states. last prime minister, Theresa May, This is different from a mere recess not end well, whatever happens. Qatar Charity has also launched an urgent campaign to help flood victims in Sudan. Last week, Qatar Charity marched an aid convoy to those affected by floods in Conference should help boost support for growth of huge market in Africa Sudan’s White Nile state. The convoy benefited 20,000 people and the aid amounted to QR1m. JAPAN NEWS-YOMIURI sector. There is no denying that Japan is continent at graduate schools and com- Governor of the White Nile, Major General Haidar Al lagging. Japan’s direct investment stock in panies over the next six years. It hopes Turaifi praised the level of relations between the Qatari apan must make efforts to deepen Africa stands at $7.8 billion (about 830 that these people will serve as a bridge and Sudanese peoples. He pointed out that Qatar Charity cooperation and build a mutually billion yen), placing it outside the top 10 between Japan and Africa in the future. convoy is the first to reach the state, adding it reflects the beneficial relationship with rapidly list. This is because Japanese entities have China, which is pursuing its Belt and spirit of cooperation, integration, and brotherhood growing Africa. The public and kept their distance due to political uncer- Road Initiative to create a huge economic J zone, is also increasing its presence in between the two countries. private sectors need to work together to tainty and other factors. tackle this strategically. As part of TICAD, a business dialogue Africa. There are 3,700 Chinese com- The seventh Tokyo International session was held, in which people in the panies doing business in Africa - four Conference on African Development Japanese and African business commu- times the number of Japanese companies (TICAD), which brings together the nities, among others, participated. Those operating there. There are glaring leaders of Japan and Africa every three on the African side repeatedly expressed examples of countries that receive QUOTE OF THE DAY years, was held in Yokohama. It adopted the hope that Japanese companies would assistance from China falling into excess the Yokohama Declaration, which proactively move into Africa. debt. Abe has announced a plan to send The UN is on centers on expanding both Japanese Expectations are high for Japanese experts to developing countries to help companies’ business in Africa and private companies’ high technological capabil- them manage their debt. the side of the investment in the region. ities and generous services. What must not be forgotten is that Congolese people With a population of 1.3 billion, Africa The government set up a public- Japan should provide detailed assistance in the fight against is blessed with natural gas and mineral private business council in June to collect that is suited to each country’s stage of resources. In recent years, many countries information on African companies and development. Many of the poor in sub- extremism that is in the region have achieved remarkable link them with Japanese companies. It Saharan Africa live on less than $1.90 a threatening not only growth by taking advantage of the will also consider expanding trade day. Congo but Africa internet and other technological innova- insurance to cover incurred losses. Many countries are suffering from and the world. tions. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe stressed, It is essential to work with the gov- food shortages due to unstable gov- “We will do whatever it takes to assist the ernments of partner countries to develop ernance. Japan is urged to cooperate with advancement of Japanese companies into legal regulations and financial systems international and nongovernmental Antonio Guterres Africa.” It seems reasonable that Japan’s for investment. It is also crucial to organizations to continuously support UN Secretary-General diplomatic focus regarding Africa has nurture young people in Africa who can efforts such as enhancing water man- shifted from official aid to the promotion play a leading role. The government agement, improving sanitation and pre- of investment and trade by the private plans to accept 3,000 people from the venting infectious diseases. MONDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2019 OPINION 09 Kenya’s census and govt mass surveillance agenda

ver the past weekend, could reignite political violence. This could be used to identify individuals these premises to “provide rea- Kenya embarked on its time, much of the controversy has with anyone not directly involved in sonable access, connection, decennial count of how focused, not on the question of eth- the census. And since the statement linkage and integration … to Omany people call the nicity, but on the privacy and ano- read by Oguna stated that “during the security agencies”. country home. Over the loud objec- nymity of the data that Kenyans are time of analysis, personal identity Thus, the collection of personal tions of some, especially fans of the required to provide. shall be removed from the data so as identification data during the PATRICK GATHARA English Premier League, bars and On the eve of the exercise, the to achieve anonymity”, the question census fits squarely within this AL JAZEERA businesses were shut as teams of enu- government announced that people remains why the data is being col- pattern of government surveil- merators fanned out across the have to give out their national identity lected in the first place. lance. And it is important to note country to conduct the population card number and their passport It should also be kept in mind that that this is a one-way street. There census. However, these were not the number. According to a press the census follows closely on the heels is little talk, for example, of only voices of concern raised about statement read by the government of yet another controversial attempt cameras being placed in gov- Although the the exercise. spokesman, Cyrus Oguna, this is “to to hoover up citizens’ data. In April, ernment offices and police stations Censuses have a history of contro- establish the number of those who the government introduced a new to allow citizens to monitor what country’s constitution versy in Kenya. The last two counts, have actually acquired these system for registering residents and public officials are up to. specifically protects for example, asked people about their documents”. their property. Though there are cameras in the right to privacy, ethnic affiliations, which is hugely This explanation is highly suspect Despite concerns about privacy parliament and footage is streamed the state has turned contentious in a country where pol- given that it is the state itself that raised by citizens, many of whom online, they can be turned off at the itics has been historically conducted issues these documents and could pointed out the lack of a data pro- parliament speaker’s discretion. this on its head to along “tribal” lines. easily check its own databases. More tection law, as well as a court order The media too can be barred from assert privacy for The numbers associated with importantly, finding out how many declaring that registration with the certain sessions if the lawmakers itself and its officials particular ethnic groups are deemed people have been issued passports scheme was not compulsory, the are unhappy with the coverage while denying it to to determine the outcomes of elec- does not require that enumerators state nonetheless attempted to force they get. tions - which are themselves pre- write down passport numbers. Kenyans to take up the Huduma Routine declarations of wealth the citizens. Today, it sumed to be little more than ethnic The law governing the exercise, (Service) Number, threatening to ille- by public officials, which are is the people who are censuses. In fact, so controversial is the Statistics Act, passed 13 years ago, gally withhold services from those meant to help combat corruption, accountable to the the issue that the findings on the puts severe restrictions on the infor- who didn’t. State officials even are also kept secret as are the question in 1999 were never released mation that enumerators can disclose threatened arrest and deportation. “lifestyle audits” of public officials government, not the and a decade later, there were con- and to whom. In essence, they are not Further, the government has that President Kenyatta ordered other way around. cerns that even asking the question allowed to share any information that demonstrated a serious interest in last year. indiscriminate mass surveillance. In Although the country’s consti- 2013, under the guise of preventing tution specifically protects the right terrorist attacks, it sought to to privacy, the state has turned this encourage Kenyans to spy on one on its head to assert privacy for another on its behalf using a Nyumba itself and its officials while denying Kumi (ten houses) model which it to the citizens. Today, it is the encourages locals to interact, share people who are accountable to the information about each other and government, not the other way provide information to the local around. administration and security organs. And thus even an exercise as The system was borrowed from mundane as counting the number neighbouring Tanzania where it has of people living within the borders been historically used as a means of of the country has become fraught political control and to strengthen with risk and is conducted using one-party rule. threats of prosecution and impris- More recently, as President Uhuru onment if one fails to comply. It is a Kenyatta boasted in his annual reminder to Kenyans that the state address to parliament, the state has still views the people primarily as installed nearly 2,000 CCTV cameras subjects rather than citizens. in the capital Nairobi and in the coastal city of Mombasa “offering real time 24-hour security monitoring” of citizens. Not content with this, under a draft national CCTV policy, his administration is also seeking to make it mandatory for cameras to be D-RING ROAD installed in all public spaces POST BOX: 3488 including hotels, hospitals, clubs and DOHA - QATAR supermarkets, places of worship and [email protected] Kenyan census worker Janet Ngusilo records details of an Ogiek family participating in the census in Mau Forest in Kenya. apartment blocks, and for owners of

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AP fire after anti-tank missiles were vows of revenge. JERUSALEM launched at its territory from Israel considers Iran to be its Lebanon, raising fears of a greatest enemy, and Iran-backed The Israeli military yesterday serious escalation with Hez- Hezbollah to be its most imme- said that Lebanese militants fired bollah after a week of rising ten- diate military threat. Hezbollah a barrage of anti-tank missiles sions. The bitter enemies, which has an experienced army that has at army base, scoring a number fought a monthlong war in 2006 been fighting alongside the of direct hits on Israeli targets. that ended in a stalemate, have forces of Syrian President Bashar Israel responded with heavy appeared to be on a collision Assad in Syria’s civil war, and it artillery fire toward stargets in course in recent weeks amid a is believed to possess an arsenal southern Lebanon. series of covert and overt Israeli of some 130,000 missiles and Israel said it was returning military strikes and Hezbollah rockets. Throughout the Syrian war, Israel has acknowledged car- Hariri urges US, France to intervene rying out scores of airstrikes in Syria aimed at preventing alleged after escalation with Israel Iranian arms transfers to Hez- AFP/BEIRUT bollah. But in recent weeks, Israel is believed to have struck Lebanon’s prime minister yesterday urged the United States and Iranian or Hezbollah targets in France to “intervene” after the Hezbollah movement traded cross- Iraq and Lebanon as well. border fire with Israel. Prime Minister Saad Hariri contacted US Hezbollah has vowed to Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and French President Emmanuel avenge the deaths of a pair of Macron’s diplomatic advisor to ask for intervention by their coun- operatives it says were killed in tries “and the international community in facing the develop- an Israeli strike in Syria last Smoke rises from shells fired from Israel in Maroun Al Ras village, in southern Lebanon, yesterday. ments on the southern border,” Hariri’s office said in a statement. week. Hezbollah is also out to Hezbollah earlier said it had destroyed an Israeli military avenge an alleged Israeli drone vehicle across the border, prompting retaliatory fire from the strike in Beirut that Israeli media TV said yesterday, referring to army base and military vehicles was named after two operatives Israeli army. have said destroyed a sophisti- the Israeli airstrike in Syria and near the Lebanese border in who were killed in the Israeli air- cated piece of equipment needed drone strike in Beirut. In a northern Israel. It said it was strike on Syria on Aug. 24. It said Israel fired 40 rockets into S Lebanon to manufacture precision-guided speech yesterday, Israeli Prime responding with fire towards one of its units had destroyed an missiles. In response, Israel has Minister Benjamin Netanyahu “the sources of fire and targets Israeli military vehicle and AFP/BEIRUT bolstered its forces along the accused Iran of fomenting the in southern Lebanon.” wounded the people inside. northern border with Lebanon. violence. There was no word on cas- Earlier yesterday, the Leb- The Lebanese army said Israel fired 40 rockets into southern Hezbollah has denied it is pur- “A new empire has arisen, ualties. In Lebanon, the Israeli anese army had claimed an Lebanon yesterday after the Hezbollah movement claimed it suing a domestic missile-pro- the goal of which is to defeat us. shelling was concentrated on Israeli drone violated the coun- destroyed an Israeli military vehicle across the border. “The Israeli duction programme. “The They dispatch proxies,” he said. areas close to the border near the try’s airspace and dropped flam- occupation forces targeted areas outside Maroun Al Ras, Aitaroun Islamic Resistance carried out Yesterday’s fighting, the villages of Maroun el-Ras and mable material on fields, trig- and Yaroun with more than 40 cluster and incendiary rockets,” the secretary-general’s promise Israeli military statement Yaroun, triggering some fires. gering a fire that was extin- the army said in a statement. to retaliate for the two aggres- reported a “number of hits” by Hezbollah said the unit that guished shortly afterward by sions,” Hezbollah’s Al-Manar anti-tank missiles fired at an carried out the attack on Israel residents.

Amir of Kuwait Coalition bombs begins US visit today Yemen prison, AGENCIES/KUWAIT CITY Kuwait Amir H H Sheikh Sabah over 100 dead Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah is scheduled to depart to the REUTERS/DUBAI The Houthi health United states today. The Amir is heading to the US on a private Air strikes by a Saudi-led ministry said at least visit, then he will proceed to military coalition in southwest 60 bodies were pulled Washington for an official visit Yemen hit a prison complex, from the rubble at where he will hold official talks killing scores of people, Yemen’s with President Donald Trump Houthi movement and a Red the detention centre, on September 12, Thursday. Cross official said yesterday. which officials said The Sunni coalition, which housed 170 prisoners. 15 Kuwaiti naval has been battling the Iran- officers graduate aligned Houthis for over four years in Yemen, said it destroyed from Polish academy a site storing drones and mis- were prisoners that we had AGENCIES/KUWAIT CITY siles in Dhamar. visited in relation to the Franz Rauchenstein, head conflict.” The Polish Naval Academy has of the International Committee He said the Yemeni Red held a ceremony for graduation Searches are on for victims under the rubble of a destroyed building that was used as a detention of the Red Cross delegation in Crescent Society was still of 15 Kuwaiti officers who were centre by Yemen’s Houthi rebels which was hit by an air strike by the Saudi-led coalition, in Dhamar, Yemen, said after visiting the trying to retrieve bodies and part of academic studies at the south of capital Sana’a, yesterday. prison complex and hospitals that around 50 injured people academy. yesterday that a “safe pre- had been taken to hospital. Res- The Kuwaiti embassy in sumption is that over 100 had idents said there had been six The Western-backed alliance responded with strikes on Houthi exchange prisoners of war. Poland said that the ceremony, been killed”. air strikes. “The explosions were intervened in Yemen in March targets. “The crime of the The United Nations is trying which included performance of The Houthi health ministry strong and shook the city,” a res- 2015 against the Houthis after aggressors against prisoners is to ease tension in Yemen to the Kuwait National Anthem, earlier said at least 60 bodies ident said. “Afterwards ambu- they ousted the internationally additional proof that they are prepare for political negotiations also witnessed graduation of 10 were pulled from the rubble at lance sirens could be heard until recognised government from ready to violate all Yemenis, even to end the war that has killed tens officers from Qatar and 35 the detention centre, which offi- dawn.” power in the capital, Sanaa, in those loyal to them,” the Houthi- of thousands and pushed the others from Poland. cials said housed 170 prisoners. The coalition, which has late 2014. run Al Masirah TV quoted the long-impoverished country to Eighty-one Kuwaiti officers “There are three buildings hit come under criticism by inter- The movement, which holds group’s leader Abdul Malik al- the brink of famine. continue to receive academic and the building where the national rights groups for air most major population centres Houthi as saying. The conflict is widely seen studies at the academy in detainees were located, most of strikes that have killed civilians, in the Arabian Peninsula nation, The head of the Houthis’ in the region as a proxy war Poland. The ceremony was them or the majority has been said it had taken measures to has stepped up cross-border national committee for prisoner between Saudi Arabia and Iran. attended by the Kuwaiti killed,” Rauchenstein told protect civilians in Dhamar and missile and drone attacks on affairs, Abdul Qader Al Mortada, The Houthis, who deny being Ambassador to Poland, Khaled Reuters by telephone. the assault complied with inter- Saudi Arabia in recent months. said many of those held were due puppets of Tehran, say they are Al Fadhli and high ranking “The prisoners in that facility national law. The Saudi-led alliance has to be released in a local deal to fighting a corrupt system. Polish officers. Netanyahu renews pledge to annex settlements US strikes in Syria’s Idlib

AFP results left him unable to wrote on Twitter. “Enough David Friedman said in June JERUSALEM form a viable governing coa- impunity: There’s an interna- that Israel had the right to put ceasefire at risk: Russia lition and he opted for a fresh tional responsibility to impose annex at least part of the REUTERS linked to al-Qaeda in northwest Syria Israeli Prime Minister poll for September 17. sanctions on Israel after West Bank. MOSCOW in recent years. Benjamin Netanyahu Israel occupied the West decades of systematic crimes.” With the election nearing, The Syrian Observatory for Human yesterday renewed his Bank in the Six-Day War of The settlers are a major Netanyahu has again turned Russia’s military said the United States Rights said the air strikes had pounded pledge to annex all Jewish 1967. Israeli settlements are plank of support for Netan- to populism to energise had mounted air strikes in Syria’s Idlib bases belonging to jihadists near the settlements in the occupied viewed as illegal under inter- yahu’s government, viewed supporters. without forewarning Moscow or town of Maarat Misrin on Saturday. The West Bank as he sought to national law and as major as the most right-wing in At the weekend, he drew Ankara, endangering a ceasefire there, UK-based monitor said more than 40 shore up right-wing support obstacles to peace since they Israel’s history. outrage from journalists and Russian news agencies reported militants, including some commanders, ahead of a September 17 lie on land the Palestinians More than 400,000 free press advocates when he yesterday. were killed. election. see as part of their future Israelis live in West Bank set- took a fresh swipe at the The strikes without a heads-up in Interfax news agency cited Rus- Netanyahu and his Likud state. Annexation on a large- tlements, while a further Israeli media, which he reg- the “de-escalation zone” breached pre- sia’s military as saying the strikes had party have been working to scale could prove to be the 200,000 live in settlements ularly seeks to portray as vious agreements and caused several hit between Maarat Misrin and Kefraya maximise turnout and wrest death knell for their in occupied east Jerusalem being part of a leftist cam- casualties, TASS news agency cited the village. While artillery hit parts of Idlib votes from other right-wing statehood ambitions. over which Israel has already paign against him and his Russian defence ministry as saying. in the past 24 hours, there was a lull in parties close to the influential Saeb Erekat, secretary- unilaterally imposed full family. It said Russian and Syrian war- air strikes that had been pounding the settlement movement. general of the Palestine Lib- sovereignty. He is facing potential planes had fully suspended raids region in recent weeks, the Observ- “With the help of God we eration Organisation, called Israeli-Palestinian peace corruption charges in the against insurgents in Idlib province in atory, a rebel official and rescue will apply Jewish sovereignty on the international com- efforts have been at a stand- months ahead on allegations northwest Syria, after declaring a workers have said. to all communities, as part of munity to take action after still since 2014, when a drive of fraud, bribery and breach ceasefire that started on Saturday It was the second such ceasefire the (biblical) Land of Israel, Netanyahu’s comments. for a deal by Barack Obama’s of trust. morning. declared in the past month in Idlib, and as part of the state of “Those who claim administration collapsed. Netanyahu, the longest- On Saturday, the US Central which is in Syria’s northwest corner - Israel,” he told an audience concern after every Israeli set- President Donald serving premier in Israeli Command, part of the Department of the only big chunk of the country still at the West Bank settlement tlement announcement should Trump’s administration has history, denies all accusa- Defense, said U.S. forces struck an al- in rebel hands. A truce in early August of Elkana. He made the same face reality: Israel’s PM is swung White House policy tions and has labelled them Qaeda facility in Idlib in an attack collapsed three days in, after which promise ahead of the last announcing further annex- firmly in favour of Israel, and bids by his enemies to force aimed at the organisation’s leadership. the Russian-backed army pressed its election in April, but the ation of occupied territory,” he US ambassador to Israel him from office. U.S. air strikes have at times hit targets offensive and gained ground. MONDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2019 AFRICA 11 Tripoli shuts airport after strike by Haftar forces

AFP The rocket fire by forces loyal to strongman TRIPOLI Khalifa Haftar coincided with the arrival of Rocket fire by forces loyal to a Libyan plane inbound from Saudi Arabia, strongman Khalifa Haftar which was carrying Haj pilgrims on their way against the Libyan capital’s sole back from Makkah. Three pilgrims, including a functioning airport wounded four civilians overnight, the woman, were among four civilians wounded. UN-recognised government said. The strikes coincided with the arrival of a Libyan plane fighting in 2014. arriving, though no causalities inbound from Saudi Arabia, In a statement, the GNA were reported. which was carrying Haj pil- blamed what it called a “terrorist Haftar’s forces say they are grims on their way back from attack” on forces of Haftar and targeting “Turkish drones” that Makkah. urged the international com- they claim take off from the Three pilgrims, including a munity to assume “its responsi- airport to conduct strikes on woman, were among four bilities concerning the protection their troops in the south of civilians wounded, said Wedad of civilians”. Tripoli. United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres (right) is greeted by the Mwawi Kapupa, the head Abu Niran, a spokesman for the Haftar’s self-styled Libyan The UN mission in Libya of the traditional chiefs of Beni territory, upon his arrival at an Ebola treatment centre in Mangina, UN-recognised Government of National Army launched an said it is concerned by the National Accord’s health offensive on April 4 to conquer “growing frequency” of these North Kivu province of Congo, yesterday. ministry. Tripoli. The two sides have attacks, which have come close Airport director Lotfi al- since been embroiled in a to hitting civilian aircraft. Tabib said Mitiga’s runway was stalemate on the capital’s Since April, fighting between UN chief visits Congo region damaged and a Libyan Airlines southern outskirts and Haftar’s GNA and Haftar forces has killed plane was hit by shrapnel, forces have allegedly repeatedly at least 1,093 people and putting it out of service. Flights targeted Mitiga, accusing the wounded 5,752, while some hit by Ebola; pledges support have been suspended “until GNA of using it for “military 120,000 others have been dis- further notice”, Tabib added. ends”. placed, according to the World The Tripoli-based GNA con- A similar strike on Mitiga Health Organization. AP the people of Beni to know that MONUSCO but they arrive in the trols the former military airbase killed a guard and wounded Libya has been mired in BENI, CONGO we have heard their cries of dis- morning with cameras,” said east of the city, which has been several security agents on August chaos since a Nato-backed tress. The United Nations as a Nzanu Nzoli a former resident used by civilian traffic since 15. Last week, the airport closed uprising that toppled and killed The United Nations secretary whole is committed to sup- of the town of Eringeti who Tripoli international airport suf- temporarily due to a rocket dictator Muammar Gaddafi in general visited Congo’s eastern porting the Congolese author- traveled to Beni to flee the fered severe damage during strike that hit as two planes were 2011. city of Beni yesterday, pledging ities, local communities and civil attacks. “The visit of Antonio solidarity as the region faces an society actors in the fight against Guterres will not change the Ebola outbreak that has killed insecurity,” he said while in Beni, current state of our situation in nearly 2,000 people in a year and adding that he will discuss these Beni because before him we had ongoing insecurity that has resi- issues when he visits Kinshasa already received the promises dents skeptical of outside help. on Monday. of the Congolese government “I could not go to the DRC Guterres’ trip comes as Ebola and the U.N.... But it will soon be (Congo) without coming to meet cases are about the topple 3,000 five years without action.... the brave inhabitants of this along with nearly 2,000 deaths Nothing will change.” beautiful territory,” U.N. chief in eastern Congo since the out- Others in the area said a visit Antonio Guterres said. “There are break was declared a year ago. from the head of the U.N. could major concerns about health. Health authorities have faced boost military operations. There is measles, malaria, cholera major challenges trying to stem “I believe that with his visit... and now the terrible drama of the spread of the disease amid Antonio Guterres will learn Ebola. We are fully on the side of insecurity and mistrust from about the current situation of the the Congolese people to try to communities. rebels, and the evolution of meet all these challenges.” Traumatized by Ugandan Ebola. Often he receives reports Guterres also pledged the Allied Democratic Forces rebels but he will feel the situation, so UN peacekeeping forces’ support since October 2014, residents of I hope for a favorable outcome,” with the armed forces of Congo Beni say they do not trust the said Kambale Mundoleko, an in the fight against extremism U.N. peacekeepers, who they say Ebola survivor near Beni in “that is threatening not only have done little to protect them Mangina who lost her entire Congo but Africa and the world.” from rebel attacks. The region family. He is on a three-day trip to is home to numerous rebel Upon his arrival in Mangina, Congo. He stopped in Goma groups vying for control of the Guterres visited an Ebola earlier and on Monday will meet mineral-rich land. treatment center and also wit- with Congo’s President Felix “Imagine rebels attacking in nessed the unloading of four An interior of Mitiga airport terminal is seen empty, after an air strike on April 8, 2019. Tshisekedi. “It is important for the evening but we try to call Ebola patients. Sudan’s transition to civilian rule faces further delay Netanyahu looks to AFP transition which was supposed to commented on the delay. Amin said the delay in boost security tie-up KHARTOUM have been held yesterday. Sudan swore in a “sovereign announcing the cabinet would “cer- with Ethiopia Hamdok, who took the oath on council”, a joint civilian-military tainly have a negative impact” by Sudan’s hard-won transition to August 21, only received the nom- ruling body, to guide the country slowing down the transition. It is not AFP/JERUSALEM civilian rule fell further behind inees list from the Forces for Freedom through a three-year transitional the first hurdle thrown up in Sudan’s schedule yesterday, days after the and Change umbrella protest group period nearly two weeks ago. path out of decades of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu new prime minister delayed the on Tuesday and has been mulling the It is the result of a power-sharing authoritarianism. yesterday called for strengthened security formation of the first government candidates since then. “The FFC was deal formally signed on August 17 The line-up of Sudan’s cooperation with Ethiopia, during a meeting since veteran leader Omar Al Bashir late in submitting the list of nominees between the FFC and the military 11-member sovereign council was in Jerusalem with his Ethiopian counterpart was ousted. to the PM which has ultimately generals who seized power after held up for two days over differences Abiy Ahmed. “We believe that we can offer Prime Minister Abdalla Hamdok, delayed the unveiling of cabinet,” ousting Bashir in April. The deal stip- within the opposition camp, before some experience, some shared experience a seasoned UN economist who faces protest leader Amjed Farid said. ulates a legislative body should be it was finally revealed on August 21. that we have garnered because of our unfor- the daunting task of rescuing his Ibrahim Al Amin, another protest formed within 90 days of its signing. Hamdok, who built a career in tunate need to defend ourselves,” Netanyahu country’s moribund economy, was leader, said the delay “is entirely the The legislature should include continental and international organ- told Ahmed, according to a statement from supposed to unveil a cabinet on responsibility of the FFC” as there no more than 300 members, with 201 isations, most recently as deputy exec- Netanyahu’s office. Wednesday under a post-Bashir were “differences” within the group seats allotted to the FFC. utive secretary of the UN’s Economic He hailed the prime minister of the Horn roadmap. over the candidates. Under the deal, the cabinet Commission for Africa in Addis Ababa, of Africa country as “one of the most important But he is still considering the On Sunday, the FFC said it held should be largely selected by the last week confirmed receiving a list and influential leaders in Africa”. candidates, causing a knock-on delay “deep and constructive discussions” premier. Only the interior and of 49 candidates for 14 ministries. In the 1960s, some African nations dis- to the first meeting between the gov- with Hamdok the day before about defence ministers will be chosen by A source close to the premier said tanced themselves from Israel due to the ernment and the joint civilian-mil- the candidates of the transitional the military members of Sudan’s that “consultations are still under way Jewish state’s wars with its Arab neighbours itary ruling body overseeing the cabinet. The premier has not publicly ruling body. for the final list”. and its links with the apartheid regime in South Africa. Netanyahu has been looking to forge warmer ties with African nations, partly to garner support at international institutions Six Shabaab militants Somalia arrests regional minister where Israel is often criticised for its occu- pation of Palestinian territories. killed, villages liberated AFP 2014 and2015. “Yesterday, have refused to recognise the In 2016, he made the first visit of an Israeli MOGADISHU Somalia police forces arrested election results. head of government to Ethiopia, seat of the ANATOLIA/MOGADISHU Abdirashid Hassan Abdinur, Jubaland authorities had African Union. Daniel Benaim, a former A minister from Somalia’s who has been accused of series accused the federal gov- advisor to US president Barack Obama, said At least six militants belonging to insurgent group Al semi-autonomous Jubaland crimes,” Somalia police deputy ernment of trying to expand Israel is seeking “to deny Iran a foothold on Shabaab have been killed and nine others reportedly state has been arrested in chief Zakia Hussen tweeted, their power by ousting the the African side of the Red Sea from which it wounded, after Somali National Army (SNA) launched Mogadishu, Somalia police said saying the minister was under incumbent president, Madobe, could transship weapons into Gaza and a military operations, in Southern province of Lower yesterday, in a case under- investigation. and installing a loyalist in his beyond”. Jubba yesterday. scoring tensions with federal Jubaland’s administration place. Tensions over the poll For its part, “Ethiopia sees a potential An SNA radio broadcast claimed that the operations government. called the arrest “illegal” and a threatened to spill over, with security partner and source of investment and took place near the town of Jamame, Lower Jubba north Jubaland State Security “kidnapping”. Kenya backing its ally Madobe innovation”, he added. The second most pop- of the port city of Kismayo, the administrative capital Minister Abdirashid Hassan The minister’s arrest while Ethiopia was siding with ulous country on the continent, with some 100 of Jubaland province. During the operation several vil- Abdinur was arrested for comes at a time of rising ten- Mogadishu in trying to remove million inhabitants, Ethiopia boasts the most lages were liberated from the al-Shabaab, according to “serious crimes” arriving in sions between the Somalia him, analysts said. dynamic economy in East Africa while still being SNA radio. “Somali National Army killed six al-Shabaab Mogadishu from the Ethiopian federal government and the In a statement, the one of the poorest countries in the world. There militants and injured nine others, near Jamame town. capital Addis Ababa, police said government in Jubaland and Jubaland administration said are over 140,000 Israeli citizens with Ethiopian The troops also captured several villages in North of without giving details of the their respective foreign Sunday its security committee origins, more than 50,000 of them born in Israel. Kismayo town”, the SNA radio said. charges. backers. had met in emergency session These nationals “bring the culture of Last month, Somali Special Forces, backed by the But in a 2017 United Jubaland’s parliament last to discuss the arrest which it Ethiopia, the pride of Ethiopia to Israel, just African Union forces in Somalia (AMISOM) liberated the Nations report, the minister is month re-elected Ahmed deemed unlawful while adding as they maintain the culture of the Jewish strategic agricultural town of Awdhegle in Lower accused of ties to torture and Madobe as its president, though its concern for Abdinur’s people and the pride of the Jewish people in Shabelle region. human rights abuses between the central Somalia authorities wellbeing. Ethiopia,” Netanyahu said. 12 ASIA MONDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2019 Ayodhya case: Muslim parties to now contest Nirmohi Akhara claim IANS Senior advocate to visit it under police protection, NEW DELHI but there is no document to Rajeev Dhavan, who establish this claim,” said the The Supreme Court will today is representing the source in the Hindu body. begin hearing the arguments of Sunni Waqf Board, The Muslim side had in 1961 the Muslim parties in the Ram filed a suit seeking a decree to Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid in will today begin point- refer to the structure as a Ayodhya dispute. by-point rebuttal of “mosque”. The top court completed the arguments made The Muslim parties refused hearing the arguments of all the to comment on their strategy to Hindu parties, including the by the lawyers of the contest the Akhara claims. But it Nirmohi Akhara and Ram Lalla Nirmohi Akhara and is learnt that they will improvise Virajman, in the case, in 16 days. Ram Lalla Virajman in their arguments in the backdrop It initiated daily hearings in the of the Allahabad High Court case on August 6. the case. vedict. Australian MP in Amritsar Senior advocate Rajeev They were having a full- Australian Mayor and state Member of Parliament for Blacktown, Stephen Bali, holds flowers during Dhavan, who is representing the fledged meeting yetserday to a meeting at a hotel in Amritsar, yesterday. Sunni Waqf Board, will today filed by Ram Lalla Virajman. discuss various aspects of the begin point-by-point rebuttal of The turnaround by the case. “Monday is very crucial for the arguments made by the Nirmohi Akhara came after it us, as we get to begin our argu- lawyers of the Nirmohi Akhara was told by the Supreme Court ments in the Ayodhya title and Ram Lalla Virajman in the that its right as ‘shebait’ (devotee) dispute,” said a source on con- Kalyan Singh may face charges case. over the property can only stand dition of anonymity. Dhavan had initially if the lawsuit of ‘Ram Lalla During the hearing over the informed the apex court that he Virajman’ is allowed. past 16 days, senior advocate CS in Babri Masjid demolition case would take 20 days to wrap up According to a source in the Vaidyanathan, who represents his arguments, which means the Akhara, the Muslim parties will one of the Hindu parties, pleaded IANS plete his tenure as the Governor. On April 19, 2017, it had ordered daily hearings will technically be contest its presence on the dis- his case contextualising Hindu NEW DELHI “Kalyan Singh, being the Gov- the trial court to conduct day-to- over before the end of Sep- puted site for last 150 years and faith with references to historical ernor of Rajasthan, is entitled to day hearings and conclude the trial tember. This will give the apex also argue to establish that the texts and scientific evidence pub- Rajasthan Governor Kalyan Singh, immunity under Article 361 of the in the case within two years. court more than a month to pass idols were never inside the inner lished in reports by the Archae- who is going to complete his five- Constitution as long as he remains On July 19 this year, the top a judgment on the politically- courtyard, rather they were ological Survey of India (ASI). year tenure on September 3, will Governor of Rajasthan. The court court asked the Uttar Pradesh vexed issue. CJI Ranjan Gogoi, “placed there”. Vaidyanathan claimed the face criminal charges in the 1992 of Sessions will frame charges and government to find ways to who heads the SC bench hearing The Akhara’s counsel had Babri mosque was built on the Babri Masjid demolition case move against him as soon as he extend tenure of special judge the case, is set to retire on told the apex court that no ruins of a Hindu temple as per before a Uttar Pradesh court. ceases to be Governor,” the Apex hearing the case. November 17. namaz had been offered at the the ASI report. The Muslim On April 19, 2017, the Court had said in 2017. The Special Judge hearing In their arguments, the disputed site since 1934, but the parties are expected to a produce Supreme Court had revived Kalyan Singh took charge as the case was scheduled to retire Muslim parties are likely to Muslim parties are likely to tell solid arguments to contest this criminal charges against various Rajasthan Governor on Sep- on September 30 this year. contest the Nirmohi Akhara’s the court that the last namaz was claim. leaders in the case but granted tember 4, 2014. A frenzied Hindu mob razed claim on the disputed site. This offered there on December 16, The counsels of Ram Lalla immunity to Kalyan Singh as he The Apex Court had in 2017 the 16th century Babri mosque could be a crucial phase in the 1949. Virajman too made robust argu- was the Governor of Rajasthan. revived the conspiracy charges in Ayodhya on December 6, Ayodhya title dispute hearing, “They would probably claim ments establishing the essence However, the top court had against senior BJP leaders L K 1992. When this happened, especially after the Nirmohi that they continued to offer of Hindu faith and reverence of said the charges would be framed Advani, M M Joshi, Uma Bharti Advani, Joshi and other Akhara told the Supreme Court namaz twice every Friday at the the birthplace of Ram in Hindu against the former Uttar Pradesh and others in the Babri Masjid Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that it is not opposing the lawsuit disputed site and that they used culture and traditions. Chief Minister when he will com- demolition case. leaders were present at the spot.

UN refugee chief urges India India slams ‘incorrect’ foreign media reports on NRC IANS “not an executive-driven process”. India, state government of Assam, included in the list on the basis of up a campaign that the NRC to ensure no one NEW DELHI “The process is being moni- the All Assam Students Union having documentation to prove process is targeted at Muslims. tored by the Supreme Court (AASU) and the All Assam Gan lineage from an entitled person, It said that “anyone excluded left stateless Slamming the commentaries in directly and the government is Sangram Parishad (AAGSP),” the ie a person who was a resident of from the list at this stage has a right foreign media about the National acting in accordance with the statement said, adding: “The apex Assam as on March 24, 1971.” to file an appeal within 120 days AP Register of Citizens (NRC) as directives issued by the court,” court mandated the government It described the NRC process of receiving a notification of BERLIN “incorrect”, India yesterday said the statement by MEA spokes- to deliver on the commitment in as a “non-discriminatory exclusion to the designated Tri- that NRC is a “statutory, trans- person Raveesh Kumar said. 2013, which led to the process of process, which leaves no room bunal. All appeals and excluded The top UN refugee official has parent, legal process” mandated Giving the background, the updating the National Register of for bias and injustice.” “As can cases will be examined by this Tri- urged India to ensure that no one by the Supreme Court and a statement said that the NRC Citizens in Assam in 2015.” be seen from the application bunal ie a judicial process. This is left stateless by the exclusion “non-discriminatory process, stems from the Assam Accord of “NRC is a fair process based form for data entry in NRC, there judicial process will commence of nearly two million people from which leaves no room for bias 1985 “with the promise to take on scientific methods. Inclusion was no column in the application only after the appellate period is a citizenship list in Assam. and injustice.” care of the interests of the cit- in the NRC is a unique process, as asking for the religion of the over. Thereafter, anyone still Filippo Grandi, the UN High In a statement, the Ministry of izens of Assam.” it is based on ‘application’ rather applicant,” the statement said, aggrieved by any decision of being Commissioner for Refugees, External Affairs said the NRC appli- “NRC aims to give effect to the than ‘house to house enumer- dismissing claims by the foreign excluded will have the right to voiced his concern in a statement cation form does not ask for the Assam Accord signed in 1985 ation.’ It means that any person media, especially Pakistani and approach the high court of Assam issued yesterday in Geneva. He religion of the applicant and it is between the Government of in Assam could have sought to be western media, trying to drum and then the Supreme Court.” said that “any process that could leave large numbers of people without a nationality would be an enormous blow to global President appoints efforts to eradicate statelessness.” He urged India to ensure no one ends up stateless, “including by five new governors ensuring adequate access to information, legal aid, and legal IANS states even after Andhra Pradesh recourse in accordance with the NEW DELHI was bifurcated until mid-July this highest standards of due year when the state got a new process.” In a reshuffle yesterday, Pres- Governor, Odisha BJP leader ident Ram Nath Kovind Biswa Bhushan Harichandan. Chandrayaan-2 announced the appointment of Kalraj Mishra, who was the five new Governors in the states Governor of Himachal Pradesh, gets closer of Rajasthan, Maharashtra, has now been appointed as Gov- Himachal Pradesh, Kerala and ernor of Rajasthan, where he to the Moon Telangana. replaces incumbent Kalyan Prominent Muslim face and Singh. IANS/CHENNAI former Congress leader Arif The senior BJP leader was Mohammed Khan has been earlier given the charge of the The Indian space agency last appointed the new Kerala Gov- Himachal Pradesh Governor evening successfully completed ernor, replacing P Sathasivam. replacing Acharya Devvrat. the fifth and final lunar bound Tamil Nadu BJP president Bandaru Dattatreya replaces orbit change for the Chan- Tamilisai Soundararajan has Mishra in Himachal Pradesh. drayaan-2 spacecraft. been appointed as the Governor Besides, BJP leaders from According to Indian Space Curbs remain in Kashmir of Telangana, replacing ESL Uttarakhand Bhagat Singh Research Organisation (Isro), the A Kashmiri man walks on a bridge during restrictions after scrapping of the special constitutional Narasimhan. Koshyari has been appointed the spacecraft’s manoeuvre began status for Jammu and Kashmir, in Srinagar, yesterday. Narasimhan served as the new Governor of Maharashtra, at 6.21pm using its onboard pro- Governor of both the Telegu replacing Vidyasagar Rao. pulsion system for 52 seconds. The orbit achieved is 119km x 127km. All spacecraft param- eters are normal. The next Manmohan blames govt policies for economic slowdown crucial operation is the sepa- ration of Vikram, the lander, IANS the country. detailed statement, primarily is a great healer. But unfortu- shared Singh’s statement on its from the spacecraft scheduled NEW DELHI “India has the potential to blamed the Modi government’s nately, in the case of demoneti- official Twitter handle indicating on September 2 at 12.45pm grow at a much faster rate, but decision of demonetisation and sation, the scars and wounds of that it was the party’s position as -1.45pm. Days after the Finance Ministry the all-round mismanagement a “hastily implemented GST” for demonetisation are only getting well. After Vikram’s separation, reported contraction in the GDP by the Modi government has the current state of economy. more visible with time,” he had The Congress leader said there will be two de-orbital growth, former Prime Minister resulted in this slowdown,” said Even last year, on second said in a statement. more than 3.5 lakh jobs had been operations on September 3 and Manmohan Singh yesterday Singh, who is also an eminent year of demonitisation, Singh Even then, he had called the lost in the automobile sector 4 so that it could soft land on slammed the Narendra Modi economist. had hit out at the government for move an “economic alone and he claimed similar the Moon’s south pole on Sep- government blaming its policies Calling the slowdown a the ‘wounds’ of currency ban misadventures”. large-scale job losses in the tember 7 at 1.30am- 2.30am. for the economic slowdown in “man-made crisis”, Singh, in a move. “It is often said that time The Congress yesterday informal sector. MONDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2019 ASIA 13 Imran, US Senator call attention to ‘unacceptable actions’ in J&K

INTERNEWS to annex Kashmir as Prime Minister Imran ISLAMABAD “unacceptable”. Khan says Jammu and “I am also deeply concerned Kashmir is a disputed Prime Minister Imran Khan and about the situation in Kashmir US Senator Bernie Sanders where the Indian government territory and its future yesterday raised the plight of has revoked Kashmiri autonomy, is to be decided by its Kashmiris, who have been living cracked down on dissent and own people through a under a lockdown for four weeks instituted a communications in Indian-administered Kashmir, blackout. The crackdown in the plebiscite. while separately addressing the name of security is also denying 56th Convention of Islamic the Kashmiri people access to the life-saving care that patients Society of North America (ISNA). medical care. Even many need,” Sanders said. Speaking at the event, respected doctors in India have “The communications Sanders, a Democratic presi- acknowledged that the Indian blockade must be lifted imme- dential hopeful for the US Elec- government-imposed restric- diately, and the United States tions 2020, termed India’s move tions on travel are threatening government must speak out boldly in support of international humanitarian law and in support Supporters of Jamaat-e-Islami political party protest against Indian government’s decision to strip of a UN-backed peaceful reso- OIC calls for immediate end the Indian-administered Kashmir of its special autonomy, in Karachi yesterday. lution that respects the will of the to curfew in Kashmir Kashmiri people,” the senator stated. were involved in suicide bomb the name of terrorism,” Imran Kashmir. We will give a befitting INTERNEWS The organisation recog- In his address to the con- attacks. Terrorism is not related said. “Kashmir is a disputed ter- response to India if it launched ISLAMABAD nised the centrality of the issue vention in Houston via video to any religion. After 9/11, India ritory and its future is to be any aggression against us.” of Jammu and Kashmir dispute link, Prime Minister Imran Khan named the Kashmiris’s fight for decided by a plebiscite of its The Prime Minister said The Organization of Islamic between Pakistan and India said terrorism has nothing to do independence as terrorism. To people,” Imran said. Pakistan would continue to strive Cooperation (OIC) has called for and the need for seeking its with religion and that Islam is a express the right of freedom does “The Modi government for peace around the world. immediate lifting of curfew, durable and just solution religion of peace. not mean that someone’s reli- wants to change the demography The Prime Minister further restoration of communication according to the UN Security He said Islam teaches to live gious rights should be curtailed,” of Kashmir. They have detained cautioned that the conflict and respect for fundamental Council resolutions. with peace and the act of one he asserted. Kashmiri leadership. The world between two nuclear-armed rights of people in Indian- The OIC General Secretariat person cannot be attributed to Speaking about the pre- should see what is happening in countries would not be limited administered Kashmir. stressed the need for the whole community. vailing situation in Indian- occupied Kashmir. Thousands of and could have dangerous In a statement published in resumption of dialogue process “Terrorism has nothing to do administered Kashmir, the Prime people have been arrested in consequences. media yesterday, the OIC has between Pakistan and India, with religion. Why are Muslims Minister said the people of the Kashmir.” “I have spoken to the heads reaffirmed the internationally which is a prerequisite for always considered as suspects? valley have been under siege for He continued, “India might of Muslim states. I hope the inter- recognized status of Jammu and development, peace and sta- Muslim places of worship were the last 28 days. resort to attacking Pakistan to try national community will play its Kashmir dispute. bility in South Asia. also attacked in Europe,” he said. “India has suppressed and divert the world’s attention role when it comes to the issue “Before 9/11, the Tamil Tigers Muslims in occupied Kashmir in from its human rights abuses in in Kashmir,” PM Imran added. Taliban attack second Afghan city as peace deal nears Two Bangladesh AP policemen hurt KABUL, AFGHANISTAN Some critics warn that the province to the north and killed Taliban are merely waiting out at least 25 people and wounded in IS attack the US and that another US goal 85. The interior ministry yes- The Taliban attacked a second in the talks, a cease-fire, likely terday said the Taliban had been AP Afghan city in as many days will not happen as foreign troops cleared from Kunduz. DHAKA, BANGLADESH yesterday, killing several leave. The Afghan interior ministry civilians and security forces, offi- Provincial council member said four civilians and two Two Bangladeshi policemen in cials said, even as Washington’s Mabobullah Ghafari said he had members of the security forces the capital were injured in a peace envoy said the US and the seen the bodies of at least six were killed in the attack yes- crude bomb attack that has Taliban are “at the threshold of members of the security forces terday, with 20 civilians and two been claimed by the Islamic an agreement” to end America’s and that the situation was wors- security forces wounded. It said State group. longest war. ening by the hour. Gunfire could three Taliban fighters were dead. Dhaka Metropolitan Police The attack on the capital of be heard late into the afternoon Elsewhere yesterday, at least chief Asaduzzaman Mia said the Baghlan province came hours in parts of the city, home to more eight civilians were killed when attack happened on late Sat- after US envoy Zalmay Khalilzad than 220,000 people. Some were their vehicle hit a roadside bomb urday night when a car carrying said he warned the Taliban trying to flee. in northern Balkh province, said a Cabinet minister was passing during talks in Qatar that “vio- “I’m afraid the city will col- Munir Ahmad Farhad, through Dhaka’s busy Dhan- lence like this must stop.” lapse if we don’t get reinforce- spokesman for the governor. mondi area. A policeman from But he appeared determined ments soon,” he said, adding that Another vehicle struck a roadside his security team and a traffic to move forward on a deal that the Taliban had occupied some bomb in western Farah province, officer were both injured in the Afghan security forces take positions during a battle with the plans the withdrawal of some checkpoints with no resistance killing six civilians, said explosion. Taliban in Kunduz province, yesterday. 14,000 remaining US troops in from security forces. Mohibullah Mohib, spokesman Local Government and exchange for Taliban guarantees Taliban fighters had taken for the provincial police chief. Rural Development Minister that Afghanistan will not be used confirmed the latest round of The attacks are seen as shelter in some homes, Ghafari About 20,000 US and NATO Tazul Islam escaped unhurt. as a launch pad for global talks had ended. “We are on the strengthening the negotiating said. troops are still in the country. The Islamic State group said attacks. verge of ending the invasion and position of the Taliban, who The assault on Puli Khumri, The remaining US troops train in a statement posted late Sat- Khalilzad was visiting Kabul reaching a peaceful solution for control or hold sway over about 230km north of Kabul, and support Afghan forces but urday on an IS-affiliate website yesterday to brief the Afghan Afghanistan,” said a Taliban roughly half of Afghanistan and came a day after the Taliban also come to their aid with air- that two traffic police officers government on a deal that is not spokesman, with technical issues are at their strongest since their attacked Kunduz, one of Afghan- strikes and counterterror were severely wounded when yet final. Both he and the Taliban still under discussion. 2001 defeat by a US-led invasion. istan’s largest cities, in the operations. a “security detachment from the soldiers of the Caliphate” detonated an explosive device Myanmar holding court martial Fourth Rohingya in a Dhaka street targeting the two officers. after Rohingya atrocities probe refugee shot dead The policemen were being treated in a hospital and their AFP them with acid. over Bangladesh injuries were not life YANGON Estimates from survivors in threatening. Bangladesh put the death toll in murder fallout The IS has claimed similar Myanmar said its military was the hundreds, the report said. attacks on police in the past. conducting a rare court martial Security forces claimed they AFP following a probe into alleged were under attack by some 500 DHAKA mass graves in crisis-hit Rakhine villagers, and that they had acted state, two years after a bloody “in self-defence”, according to A fourth Rohingya refugee was Sri Lanka bans crackdown drove some 740,000 state-run media last year. shot dead, Bangladesh police Rohingya into Bangladesh. UN investigators want said yesterday, amid growing protests against In February 2018, an Asso- Myanmar generals prosecuted fallout over the murder of a Bohra event ciated Press report alleged at for genocide for overseeing the ruling party official that sparked least five mass graves of brutal crackdown in Rakhine a violent backlash from locals. AFP/COLOMBO Rohingya in Rakhine’s Gu Dar state. There has been an outbreak Pyin village — a claim denied by The army staunchly denies of violence in recent weeks at A Sri Lankan court yesterday the government, which said the the allegation, calling the 2017 refugee camps in southeast banned two ultra-nationalist A file picture shows the Kutupalong Rohingya refugee camp in bodies were those of operation a proportionate Bangladesh, where nearly one Buddhist organisations from Bangladesh’s Ukhia district. “terrorists”. response to deadly militant million Rohingya live after demonstrating against the gath- But the military’s official attacks on police posts. fleeing crackdowns in Myanmar. ering of a Shia sect. website said on Saturday that an Rights groups say the mil- At least five Rohingya men Local officials say locals living near Jadimura camp Police spokesman Ruwan investigation had found itary has done little to hold have died in clashes in the set- Mohammad was a drug traf- stormed the settlement after Gunasekera said Colombo Mag- “weakness in following instruc- anyone accountable for tlements — allegedly over gang ficking kingpin involved in using Faruk’s murder, looting and van- istrate’s court issued restraining tions” in Gu Dar Pyin, and that atrocities. violence — while an Awami refugees to smuggle yaba, a dalising scores of Rohingya orders against the two groups a court martial would “proceed It previously admitted that League official was shot in the popular methamphetamine pill, shops and houses. led by Buddhist monks who in accordance with the proce- members of the security forces head in late August at Jadimura from across the Myanmar Police said they have planned to disrupt a gathering dures of Military Justice.” Mil- had helped kill 10 Rohingya in camp in the border town of border. stepped up security in the camp, in Colombo of Dawoodi Bohra, itary spokesman Zaw Min Tun a different Rakhine village in Teknaf. “He was arrested over but the European Commission a Shia sect. confirmed the probe yesterday, September 2017. Police blamed Omar Faruk’s Faruk’s murder on Saturday. We said some refugees have fled An estimated 25,000 and said the report of mass Four officers and three sol- death on Rohingya hitmen, and took him to find out his weapons Jadimura and were taking adherents from around the graves “is just an allegation”. diers were sentenced to 10 years have shot dead three refugees in a hill when his accomplices shelter at other sites following world have been meeting in But “detailed information in prison with hard labour, but over the past week in connection fired on police (yesterday),” the violence. Colombo since Saturday for a cannot be released yet”, he said. a prison official said in May that with the incident. police spokesman Ikbal Hossain Humanitarian work by aid 10-day religious event culmi- The report described grisly they were “no longer in The latest to die was said. agencies has also been disrupted, nating with Ashura. Gunasekera violence at the hands of soldiers detention”. 36-year-old Nur Mohammad, “We fired back and later affecting some 100,000 people, said police had information that and Buddhist vigilantes, who Conflict-scarred Rakhine who officers allege was a found Mohammad’s bullet- the commission said. two nationalist groups were allegedly attacked villagers with state is virtually sealed off to Rohingya gang leader who riddled body.” Rights groups Rohingya leader Mohammad planning to disrupt the event in guns, knives, rocket launchers media, and has in recent months arrived in Bangladesh in 1992 have previously accused Bang- Noor said there was a “tense” the capital, where police and and grenades before dumping been the site of fierce battles and was operating in the hills ladesh police of extrajudicial atmosphere in the camps and troops have stepped up bodies into pits and dousing between the military and rebels. around the refugee camps. killings. Hundreds of enraged refugees were “living in panic”. security. 14 ASIA MONDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2019

All nine aboard Protesters block roads near HK airport dead as light AP At least 26 flights plane crashes HONG KONG from Hong Kong and 17 to the city had been in Philippines Anti-government protesters cancelled by 8pm local blocked roads near Hong Kong’s AP airport with burning barricades time. MANILA and damaged a train station yesterday after a night of violent police in riot helmets kept them All nine people on-board a clashes with police. out of the terminal. small medical evacuation plane Train and some bus service The government said some were killed yesterday when the to the airport on the outlying protesters threw objects at aircraft crashed into a resort island of Chek Lap Kok were sus- police. It also said iron poles, area south of the Philippine pended. Some passengers bricks and rocks were thrown capital and exploded in flames, walked to the airport, one of onto tracks of the airport train. officials said. Asia’s busiest, carrying their At least 26 flights from Hong The light plane crashed into luggage. Kong and 17 to the city had been a resort compound in Pansol Hong Kong has been the cancelled as of 7:55pm, the South village in Laguna province near scene of tense anti-government China Morning Post newspaper the foothills of Mount Makiling. protests for nearly three months. reported, citing information from Police and rescuers retrieved The demonstrations began in the airport. nine bodies from the wreckage, response to a proposed extra- After protesters began to police said. Two people on the dition law and have expanded to stream away from the airport in ground were injured and include other grievances and the late afternoon, some attacked brought to a hospital. demands for more democracy a train station in the adjacent Eric Apolonio, a spokesman and the resignation of the semi- Tung Chung area. They used of the Civil Aviation Authority Pro-democracy protesters occupy a road leading to Hong Kong International Airport, yesterday. autonomous Chinese territory’s metal bars to smash lights and of the Philippines, said the light leader. broke open a fire hose valve, plane was on a medical evac- The protesters complain sending water gushing across the were picking up protesters to stormed a subway car and hit to China. About 200 people uation flight from southern Beijing and the government of floor. help them avoid arrest. passengers with clubs and waved British flags and chanted Dipolog city in Zamboanga del Hong Kong Chief Executive Protesters set up barricades Passengers arriving pepper spray. “Equal rights now!” and “Stand Norte province and disap- Carrie Lam are eroding the on two adjacent streets and set downtown on a ferry from A total of 63 people were with Hong Kong!” A saxophonist peared from radar for unknown autonomy and civil liberties fire to some of them. Firefighters Lantau Island, where Tung arrested at the Mong Kok, Yau in dark glasses played “God Save reasons as it flew over Laguna, promised when the former arrived a few minutes later to Chung is located, were being Ma Tei and Prince Edward the Queen,” the British national about 60km south of the British colony was returned to douse the blaze. searched by police and asked for subway stations, police anthem. capital. The plane was supposed China in 1997. Protesters left the area after identity cards, the newspaper announced. The youngest was a Many wanted Britain to grant to land in Manila. The MTR Corp. suspended busloads of riot police in green said. 13-year-old boy accused of pos- citizenship to people born in The nine on board the plane train service to the airport yes- fatigues with black helmets and The protests followed a night sessing two gasoline bombs. Hong Kong before 1997. Instead included two pilots, two nurses, terday after several hundred riot shields flooded into the train of violent clashes between pro- Demonstrators outside the of citizenship, London gave Hong a doctor, a patient, the patient’s protesters gathered there fol- station. testers and police. British Consulate yesterday also Kong people “British National wife and two other people, lowing calls online to disrupt The Post reported that On Saturday, protesters called on London to grant citi- Overseas” passports that can be police said. transportation. They blocked drivers of taxis and private cars threw gasoline bombs at gov- zenship to people born before used for travel but not to settle Videos posted online by buses arriving at the airport but on the toll road from the airport ernment headquarters. Police the former colony was returned in the United Kingdom. witnesses showed flames and black smoke billowing from the private resort compound in Ghosn’s lawyer Pansol, a district popular for its N Korea denies amassing $2bn through cyberattacks hot springs and swimming says Tokyo pools. Firefighters and an REUTERS mass destruction programmes. sanctions and pressure campaign Pyongyang has been blamed ambulance can be seen near the prosecutor lacks SEOUL “The United States and other against the DPRK,” the statement in recent years for a series of scene of the crash as local offi- hostile forces are now spreading said. online attacks, mostly on financial cials asked villagers to step impartiality North Korea has denied allega- ill-hearted rumors,” North Korea’s Washington has made scant networks, in the United States, back to a safe distance. tions that it had obtained $2bn state-run KCNA news agency progress towards its goal of getting South Korea and over a dozen The crash happened during AFP through cyberattacks on banks reported, citing a statement from North Korea to give up its nuclear other countries, as experts say the monsoon season, when PARIS and cryptocurrency exchanges, the spokesperson for the National weapons programme, despite such cyber activities generate hard fewer people visit Pansol’s and accused the United States for Coordination Committee of the three meetings between US Pres- currency for the regime. resorts compared to the hot The French lawyer of former spreading rumours. DPRK for Anti-Money Laundering ident Donald Trump and North The crux of the allegations summer months that ended in auto titan Carlos Ghosn, A United Nations report last and Countering the Financing of Korean leader Kim Jong Un. North against North Korea is its con- June. currently under house arrest in month said North Korea had used Terrorism. Korea’s vice-foreign minister said nection to a hacking group called Tokyo, has attacked Japanese “widespread and increasingly “Such a fabrication by the on Saturday that hopes for talks Lazarus that is linked to $81m prosecutors for an alleged lack sophisticated” cyberattacks to hostile forces is nothing but a sort with Washington were fading, and cyber heist at the Bangladesh Another female of impartiality and questioned steal from banks and cryptocur- of a nasty game aimed at tar- criticised Mike Pompeo’s recent central bank in 2016 and a 2014 how his client can receive a fair rency exchanges, amassing $2bn nishing the image of our Republic comments about “North Korea’s attack on Sony’s Hollywood jockey dies trial. which it used to fund weapons of and finding justification for rogue behaviour”. studio. “It is time to condemn the in Australia human rights violations of which the Tokyo prosecutor is AP guilty,” Francois Zimeray, wrote Australians rally against DARWIN, AUSTRALIA in France’s Journal du Dimanche, adding that there Tamil family deportation A female jockey died on had been “serious breaches of Saturday during a race at a the duty of impartiality such as AFP gathered in cities and towns track in Darwin, the second staggering collusion with SYDNEY across the country to oppose rider to die on consecutive days Nissan and the political their deportation, many of them in Australia. authorities”. Hundreds of Australians joined chanting “let them stay”. Melanie Tyndall, 32, had “Everything seems to be rallies yesterday urging the In Melbourne, where the been riding at the Fannie Bay permissable for the Japanese government not to deport a family spent almost 18 months track in Darwin when her horse prosecutor for whom the game Tamil family of four — including in detention, up to a thousand fell during the third race. She is as much not to lose face as to two Australian-born toddlers — people turned out, while in died later in hospital. sabotage the French influence whose case has become a new central Sydney police estimated Thoroughbred Racing NT on Nissan by protecting its flashpoint over immigration the crowd size at approximately and the Darwin Turf Club con- current management with policy. 600 people. firmed Tyndall’s death: “Mela- whom he has reached a secret The family — who are The family has received nie’s mount Restless appeared deal,” Zimeray charged. fighting to remain in Australia broad public support, led by their to clip the heels of another because they fear persecution in neighbours in a small rural runner, she became unbalanced Sri Lanka — were moved to the Queensland town, including and was dislodged near the Protesters hold placards during a rally in support of a Tamil refugee Christmas Island detention unexpected backing from some 300-meter mark.” Trainee pilot family, in Melbourne, yesterday. facility overnight on Saturday right-wing commentators and On Friday, 22-year-old makes landing after a judge blocked a gov- politicians. female apprentice jockey ernment attempt to deport them. Opposition leader Anthony “listen to what the community policies include turning away Mikaela Claridge was killed after teacher With an injunction on further Albanese said he had raised the are saying and saying so refugees arriving by boat and de after falling from her horse government action due to expire case directly with Prime Minister strongly”. The conservative gov- facto offshore detention, both during track work at Cran- falls ill Wednesday, Australians Scott Morrison, urging him to ernment’s hardline immigration measures condemned by the UN. bourne near Melbourne.

AP/CANBERRA, AUSTRALIA CFC to complete relocation A trainee pilot in Australia who Many arrested after violent Papua riots was having his first lesson behind outside Seoul by 2021 the controls of an aircraft had to AFP That came a day after a remote Deiyai, where a clash make an emergency landing JAKARTA deadly clash in another part of between protesters and Indo- QNA Humphreys, a sprawling US mil- after his instructor fell uncon- the island region, which shares nesian security forces left at least SEOUL itary complex in Pyeongtaek, scious. Dozens have been arrested over a border with independent one soldier and two demon- 70km south of Seoul. Max Sylvester called air rioting in the capital of Indone- Papua New Guinea. strators dead, according to South Korea and the United The two sides tentatively set traffic control in Western Aus- sia’s Papua region, police said Police said Sunday they had officials. States are pushing to complete the target time frame for the tralia state on Saturday after his yesterday, following nearly two rounded up several dozen There have been uncon- the relocation of their Combined relocation as 2021, with the plan instructor collapsed during the weeks of mass protests in the people who had taken part in the firmed reports that security Forces Command (CFC) head- to be finally approved by their flight. “He’s leaning over my easternmost territory of the riots and charged 28 of them forces gunned down six quarters out of Seoul by 2021, defence chiefs during their shoulder, I’m trying to keep him Southeast Asian archipelago. over looting and carrying protesters. defence ministry officials said planned talks later this year in up but he keeps falling down,” The announcement came as weapons. The unrest across Papua yesterday. Seoul. Sylvester told the controller from Indonesia said it would deploy “They’re now in jail pending appears to have been triggered The envisioned relocation is As part of preparations to the plane. “Do you know how to some 2,500 more police and further investigation,” said by the mid-August arrest of expected to be followed by host the CFC, the US plans to set operate the airplane?” the con- troops to Papua, adding to about Papua police spokesman Ahmad dozens of Papuan students in South Korea retaking wartime up the so-called Operation troller asked. 1,200 personnel it had already Kamal. Java, who were also racially operational control (OPCON) Center at Camp Humphreys by “This is my first lesson,” Syl- sent after unrest sparked by Two students were also abused. over its forces from the US as the the end of next year, they added. vester replied. anger over racism and calls for arrested in Indonesia’s capital Jakarta took control of the allies are eying 2022, or there- The centre will serve as a brain The controller then guided independence. Jakarta at the weekend for former Dutch colony in the abouts, as a target date for the of the CFC and will be connected Sylvester through the landing. On Thursday, more than a alleged crimes against state 1960s after an independence ref- OPCON transfer. to the US Indo-Pacific Command Sylvester landed the plane thousand demonstrators hurled security, including owning erendum. The region has been In June, Seoul and Wash- in Hawaii and the US military safely at Jandakot Airport. The stones and set fire to shops and clothing with the image of the scene of a low-level insur- ington agreed to relocate the base in Japan’s Okinawa through instructor was taken to a hospital an assembly building in the pro- Papua’s banned flag. gency against Indonesia’s rule CFC headquarters from Seoul’s the “C4I” military communica- in serious but stable condition. vincial capital Jayapura. This week, violence flared in for decades. Yongsan Garrison to Camp tions systems. MONDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2019 EUROPE 15 Merkel allies weather far-right surge in German regional polls REUTERS Merkel’s Christian party in Brandenburg. The party BERLIN Democrats (CDU) sank into turmoil after its worst remained the largest performance in European elec- Chancellor Angela Merkel’s tions in May, is polling close to conservatives and her Social party in Saxony with record lows and is still searching Democrat (SPD) coalition 32% of vote share, for a leader. partners held off a surge in far while the Chancellor’s Many SPD rank-and-file right support in two state elec- members want to quit a ruling tions in eastern Germany coalition partner SPD national alliance that has sup- yesterday, averting an imme- remained on top in ported Merkel for 10 of her 14 diate crisis for the ruling alliance. Brandenburg. The far- years in power and rebuild in Merkel’s Christian Demo- right Alternative for opposition. Thorsten Schaefer- crats (CDU) remained the largest Guembel, one of the SPD’s care- party in Saxony but saw their Germany (AfD) came taker leaders, said the coalition vote share drop by 7.4 points second in both states, was working constructively. from the last election in 2014 to preliminary results “There is no question there 32%, with the far-right Alter- showed. are differences on substance... native for Germany (AfD) coming but it is clear that this coalition second, preliminary results will carry on,” he told ZDF tele- People protest against Germany’s far-right Alternative for Germany (AfD) party before the first exit showed. were not as major as feared and vision, adding the parties were polls for the Brandenburg state election in Werder, Germany, yesterday. The AfD harnessed voter the results alleviate some focusing on issues such as an anger over refugees and the pressure on the national coalition ambitious climate protection planned closure of coal mines in led by Merkel, who has loomed package. federal party, have ruled this out. Brinkhaus, leader of the CDU’s balanced budget policy and raise the formerly communist eastern large on the European stage since CDU and SPD leaders were The next few months will be group in the national investment but Merkel’s conserv- states, casting itself as the heir of 2005, and could reassure a relieved at holding off the AfD. crucial if the already rocky parliament. atives say it is an “indispensable the demonstrators who brought European Union unnerved by “We have done it. This is a national coalition is to survive Voters went to the polls in principle” for them. about the fall of the Berlin Wall Brexit. message that goes out from until a federal election due in Brandenburg and Saxony against A coalition collapse could three decades ago. “The results are a reminder Saxony. The friendly Saxony has 2021, with the eastern votes, the backdrop of a growing risk trigger a snap election or result In Brandenburg, which sur- of how little CDU and SPD would won,” Michael Kretschmer, CDU including a third in Thuringia in of recession in Germany — a in a minority government. rounds Berlin, the left-leaning stand to gain from new elections state premier of Saxony, told October, and the direction of threat that is raising tensions National polls put the conserv- SPD clung on to first place in a right now. That might help sta- supporters to loud applause. policy both critical. between the CDU and SPD as atives first ahead of the Greens, state they have run since German bilise Merkel’s position, at least “This is a really good day for The parties are due to review they argue over whether to shift with the SPD trailing neck and reunification in 1990, winning for now,” said Carsten Nickel, our state.” Some members of the the coalition, weakened by rows to a more expansive fiscal policy. neck with the AfD. 27.2% of the vote — ahead of the managing director at Teneo, a CDU, currently in coalition with over migrant policy, tax and pen- Social Democrats, who Heavy losses in state votes AfD on 22.8%, preliminary results consultancy. the SPD in Saxony, have flirted sions, by the year’s end. control the finance ministry, last year led Merkel to quit as CDU showed. Much depends on the SPD, with the idea of cooperating with “Now we need to deliver in want to abandon the govern- leader and announce this would The ruling parties’ setbacks which rules with the radical Left the AfD, but Kretschmer, and the the autumn,” said Ralph ment’s so-called “black zero” be her last term as chancellor. Italy’s Salvini Conte to unveil coalition Cabinet by Wednesday Former Spanish issues new skier Fernandez AFP Conte and his new ministers given the deputy prime minister respect one another”. As far as Ochoa missing ROME would then be expected to be job — but Conte said yesterday the cabinet posts go, Conte said migrant ban sworn in on Thursday, before he was concentrated on policies he would invite the M5S and PD REUTERS Italy’s premier-designate facing a parliament vote on rather than posts. to give him suggestions — rather REUTERS MADRID ABOARD THE ALAN KURDI Giuseppe Conte said yesterday Friday. Di Maio was given a rare than make demands — “so I can he intended to present his new After public spats between public ticking off Saturday by the choose the best team”. coalition Cabinet by Wednesday the parties — who until recently Movement’s founder, comic He insisted the coalition Spanish Olympic medallist Italy’s outgoing interior at the latest, as he races to were sworn enemies — there Beppe Grillo, who said he was would have a “single shared pro- Blanca Fernandez Ochoa has minister, Matteo Salvini, has resolve the political crisis in the was now a “good working “exhausted” by the talk of who- gramme” where it would be dif- been reported missing for over banned another migrant-rescue eurozone’s third largest atmosphere”, Conte told the gets-what and the M5S’s ficult to distinguish which a week, the national police said. ship from docking in the economy. Fatto Quotidiano daily via video insistence that its 20-point plan measures were championed by A statement from Spain’s country, using the issue of “At the start of next week — link. be respected by the PD. which party — a bipolarity which police force on Saturday said immigration to pile pressure on not Monday, but Tuesday or The Five Star Movement He lamented “this ago- plagued the outgoing League- former alpine skier Fernandez his main two political rivals as Wednesday at the latest — we (M5S) and Democratic Party (PD) nising... this lack of humour, of M5S coalition. Ochoa, 56, was last seen on they seek to form a new need to be able to finish” nego- have agreed to form a new coa- fun, of exhilaration”, urging the Conte also denied he was the August 23 in the district of government. tiations between the anti-estab- lition to stave off new elections parties in a video on his blog to Movement’s man, insisting he Aravaca in Madrid. Salvini, who leads the lishment Five Star Movement after hardline Matteo Salvini, “sit down at a table and be elated was neutral. Fernandez Ochoa com- League party, issued a decree and the centre-left Democratic head of the far-right League, because (you) belong to this “I am not a member of the peted in four Winter Olympic banning the Alan Kurdi ship, Party, he said. pulled the plug on the gov- extraordinary moment of Five Star Movement, I do not games between 1980 and 1992 operated by the German At that point Conte will ernment earlier this month. change”. participate in meetings of the and became the first Spanish Sea-Eye NGO, with 13 migrants present his cabinet line-up and There have been persistent Conte said he “shared” leadership group, I have never woman to win a medal at the abroad, from entering Italian government programme to reports that M5S head Luigi Di Grillo’s feelings, while PD leader met the parliamentary groups, Winter Games when she earned waters, the second time in a Italy’s President Sergio Miao has threatened to renege Nicola Zingaretti agreed, saying to call me M5S seems inappro- bronze in the slalom in week that he has acted to Mattarella. on the deal should he not be “let’s change everything, and priate to me,” he said. Albertville, France in 1992. prevent rescue ships bringing migrants ashore. Italy’s coalition government between Salvini’s right-wing Lyon knife attack not being League and 5-Star Movement broke down last month, when probed as act of terrorism in a sudden move Salvini declared it dead and called for AFP years’ old, prosecutor Nicolas elections. LYON Jacquet told a press conference Another ship, the Mare in Lyon yesterday. Jonio is stuck in sight of the An Afghan asylum seeker who He said that the case was Italian southern island of killed a man and stabbed several being treated as a criminal, rather Lampedusa with 34 migrants others in the French city of Lyon than terrorist, incident. left on board out of around 100 sparked a row about immigration Jacquet paid tribute to three that were rescued on yesterday as new details emerged bus drivers and other members Wednesday off Libya. about his rampage. of the public who had succeeded Investigators said the killer in cornering the man and per- appeared to have psychological suading him to drop his knife and Strike by KLM problems and had smoked large a meat skewer before the police quantities of cannabis before arrived on the scene. ground staff to stabbing a 19-year-old to death Prosecutor Jacquet said the and injuring eight others on Sat- knifeman had been first regis- disrupt flights urday afternoon at a bus station tered in France in 2009 as a in the Villeurbanne suburb. minor, but he then travelled to BLOOMBERG He was found in public Germany, Norway, Britain and AMSTERDAM records with two identities and Italy before returning to France French police officers and soldiers stand near the scene of a knife attack in Villeurbanne on the three different dates of birth, in 2016 where he was granted A strike by KLM ground staff outskirts of Lyon, south-eastern France, on Saturday. making him either 33, 31 or 27 temporary residency rights. today is set to disrupt flights at Amsterdam’s Schiphol Airport, one of Europe’s busiest travel hubs. UK lawmakers plan legislation to stop no-deal Brexit The airline said the two- hour strike starting at 8am is REUTERS — and several from his own Con- coordinating no-deal contingency “breathtaking” for ministers not national interest has to come “very likely” to cause disruption LONDON servatives — want to push plans, said he believed a majority to confirm the government would first,” he told Sky News. “But I for carriers that are part of its through legislation to rule out of lawmakers would back the comply with legislation passed hope it doesn’t come to that.” SkyTeam alliance, including Air British lawmakers opposed to no-deal before parliament is sus- prime minister and defeat the lawfully. “No government is Johnson told the Sunday Times France, Transavia and Delta Air no-deal Brexit will attempt to pended in just over a week’s time. attempt. above the law,” he said on that those backing the opposition Lines Inc. It advised travellers pass a law this week to stop Prime Starmer said the plan, which “We know the prime minister Twitter. David Gauke, a former to no-deal risked there being no to monitor its website closely Minister Boris Johnson allowing will be published on Tuesday, had is making progress with our British justice secretary and a Brexit at all. for more information. Britain to crash out of the one “very simple” aim: to stop European friends and allies in Johnson critic, said he would “Are you going to side with KLM’s 15,000 ground staff European Union on October 31, Johnson taking Britain out of the attempting to secure a deal, and meet the prime minister today to those who want to scrub the dem- are seeking a 4% pay rise, more the opposition Labour Party’s European Union without a deal. I don’t believe that people will hear his plan to deliver a Brexit ocratic verdict of the people — fixed contracts and more Brexit spokesman Keir Starmer “Obviously, if we are at the want to erect a roadblock in his deal he could support. and plunge this country into favourable shift patterns, said said. 31st of October, that will require way,” he said. But Gauke said he was pre- chaos?” he said. Dutch trade union FNV. The Senior minister Michael Gove, an extension,” Starmer told the Asked whether the gov- pared to disobey Conservative “Or are you going to side with union has been negotiating with however, refused to guarantee BBC’s Andrew Marr on Sunday. ernment would abide by any leg- discipline and be expelled by the those of us who want to get on, management for months over the government would abide by “But I think this should be a islation passed to prevent no-deal party if he was not persuaded. deliver on the mandate of the a new collective labour any such legislation. very short, simple exercise Brexit on October 31, Gove said: “Sometimes there is a point people and focus with absolute, agreement. The company has Johnson has pledged to designed to ensure we don’t crash “Let’s see what the legislation is where you have to judge between laser-like precision on the offered a 2% pay rise, which the deliver Brexit with or without a out without a deal.” Gove, one of that (Starmer) puts forward.” your own personal interests and domestic agenda? That’s the union says is not enough. deal, but opposition lawmakers Johnson’s key ministers who is Starmer later said it was the national interest, and the choice.” 16 EUROPE MONDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2019 Poland calls for redress during WWII anniversary We need to talk about those losses, we German President need to remember, we need to demand truth and demand asks for forgiveness compensation: Prime AFP calling them things of the past, Minister Mateusz WIELUN or claiming that the vile rule of Morawiecki terror of the National Socialists German President Frank- in Europe was a mere footnote Walter Steinmeier yesterday of German history, is passing REUTERS asked Poland’s forgiveness for judgement on him or herself,” WARSAW history’s bloodiest conflict Steinmeier added in the during a ceremony in the Polish presence of his Polish coun- German Chancellor Angela city of Wielun, where the first terpart. “As Germany’s Federal Merkel and US Vice-President World War II bombs fell 80 President, let me assure you Mike Pence joined local leaders years ago. that we will not forget.” yesterday to commemorate 80 “I bow before the victims “We want to, and we will, years since the start of World of the attack on Wielun. I bow remember. And we will bear World leaders and officials attending a commemorative ceremony to mark the 80th anniversary of War II in Poland, where the before the Polish victims of the responsibility that our the outbreak of World War II in Warsaw, Poland, yesterday. conflict is still a live political German tyranny. And I ask your history imposes upon us.” issue. forgiveness,” Steinmeier said Polish President Andrzej Poland’s biggest trade partners in some papers consisting of a “We look forward to cele- Few places saw death and in both German and Polish. Duda for his part denounced and a fellow member of the copy of their front pages from brating the extraordinary char- destruction on the scale of Poland suffered some of the Nazi Germany’s attack on European Union and Nato. Berlin September 2, 1939, that high- acter and courage and resilience poland. It lost about a fifth of its worst horrors of World War II: Poland, calling it “an act of bar- says all financial claims linked lighted the German army’s attack and dedication to freedom of the population, including the vast nearly six million Poles died in barity” and “a war crime.” to World War II have been on Poland. Polish people and it will be my majority of its 3 million Jewish the conflict that killed more “I am convinced that this settled. Wartime remembrance has great honour to be able to speak citizens. than 50 million people overall. ceremony will go down in the Critics said the party’s become a campaign theme to them,” Pence said. After the war, its shattered “It was Germans who com- history of Polish-German ambition is to fan nationalism ahead of a national election due The cancellation of Trump’s capital of Warsaw had to rise mitted these crimes against friendship,” he added, thanking among voters at a time when on October 13, with PiS accusing visit is a disappointment to the again from ruins and poland humanity in Poland. Anyone Steinmeier for his presence. populists around the world are the opposition of failing to PiS government, which is seen remained under Soviet domi- tapping into historical revi- protect Poland’s image. as one of Washington’s closest nation until 1989. Commission deputy chief Frans iecki said. sionism. PiS says the country’s “Often, we are faced with allies in Europe. Polish and US Ceremonies began at 4:30am Timmermans, were held in the For Poland’s ruling Law and standing on the global stage and substantial ignorance when it officials have said another visit (0230 GMT) in the small town of coastal city of Gdansk, site of one Justice (PiS) party, the memory national security are at stake. comes to historical policy ... or could be scheduled in the near Wielun, site of one of the first of the first battles of the war. of the war is a major plank of its Articles paid for by a foun- simply ill will,” Jaroslaw Sellin, future. bombings of the war on Sep- Morawiecki spoke of the “historical politics”, aiming to dation funded by state com- deputy culture minister, said. For PiS, a high-profile visit tember 1, 1939, with speeches by huge material, spiritual, eco- counteract what it calls the panies, showing Poland’s expe- Merkel and Pence, who by Trump would serve as a coun- Polish President Andrzej Duda nomic and financial losses West’s lack of appreciation for rience in the war, appeared in arrived yesterday after President terargument to critics who say and his German counterpart, Poland suffered in the war. Polish suffering and bravery major newspapers across Europe Donald Trump abruptly can- the country is increasingly iso- Frank-Walter Steinmeier. “We need to talk about those under Nazi occupation. and the United States over the celled a planned trip due to a lated under its rule because of Parallel events, attended by losses, we need to remember, we PiS politicians have also weekend. hurricane, called it an honour to accusations by Western EU Polish Prime Minister Mateusz need to demand truth and repeatedly called for war repa- The Polish National Foun- participate in events later in the members that it is breaching Morawiecki and European demand compensation,” Moraw- rations from Germany, one of dation also paid for supplements day in Warsaw. democratic norms.

Computer glitch EU court to hear case on jailing MPs over air pollution in France delays AFP of Chancellor Angela Merkel’s ban for diesel-fuelled vehicles. Philipp Reimer, a professor of to implement the measures hundreds of flights FRANKFURT ruling Christian Democrats. Yet both activists and the public law at the University of demanded by the court. “Anyone In a legal tug-of-war judiciary have claimed the gov- Bonn, said. “I don’t know of any threatened with prison has the AP The European Court of Justice stretching back to 2012, environ- ernment is flagrantly ignoring precedent in German law.” keys to their own handcuffs in PARIS will this week examine whether mental group Deutsche the 2014 ruling. Even if the ECJ rules that pol- their pocket.” German judges can impose Umwelthilfe (DUH) is attempting In November last year, the iticians could be handed prison For Bavaria’s governing A computer breakdown briefly prison sentences on politicians to force the Bavarian gov- Bavarian higher administrative sentences, it would remain up to Christian Social Union, a diesel disrupted all air traffic in France for failing to enforce inner-city ernment to implement measures court referred the case to the ECJ, the Bavarian courts to decide ban in Munich, the city which is and caused a cascade of bans on polluting vehicles. against air pollution in the state saying that “high-ranking whether or not to do so. home to BMW, remains out of the delayed flights in multiple In a case starting tomorrow, capital Munich. political figures” had “made it “If the ECJ says that European question. countries yesterday, the last day the court will advise in a long- “We are asking that air pol- clear, both publicly and to the law allows for imprisonment, “Driving bans are a bad of European summer holidays. standing dispute between envi- lution limits be respected,” DUH court, that they would not fulfil then I can imagine it will be solution,” a spokesperson for the Hundreds of flights were ronmental activists and the state chairman Juergen Resch said. their responsibilities.” tried,” Reimer said, adding that state environment ministry said. delayed at airports from Britain government of Bavaria, just one Nitrogen dioxide levels have The court said that a $4,433 such a measure would “shift the “The air quality in Bavaria is to Morocco and beyond. Hours battle in a furious national debate long exceeded EU limits in the fine had proved “inefficient”, and goalposts in terms of the division improving, so the measures after the problem with a French over diesel and driving bans. southern German city, and fol- asked the magistrates in Luxem- of powers”. taken so far are working,” said automatic flight plan system The ECJ’s opinion, though not lowing a final decision in 2014, bourg to advise on the legality of Yet DUH chairman Resch the ministry, pointing to was fixed, schedules still lagged legally binding, could have a Munich court demanded a plan threatening lawmakers with insisted that no politicians would investment in software updates elsewhere. implications for leading politi- of action from the state gov- imprisonment. be sent to prison, because the and cycling and public transport A spokesman for French civil cians in the Bavarian sister-party ernment which included a city “It is quite a spectacular case,” threat alone would force them infrastructure. aviation authority DGAC said the cause of the morning breakdown was being investigated. The problem had “no Helicopter crash in Norway impact on flight security” and was fixed before midday, leaves six people dead allowing traffic to resume, the spokesman said. He wasn’t REUTERS operated by Norwegian authorised to be publicly OSLO company Helitrans, which said named under authority’s rules. on its website that it could not But DGAC temporarily All six people on board the comment on the circumstances halted all air traffic under civilian helicopter that crashed of the accident. French control, which included in northern Norway on Saturday Norwegian authorities planes flying over France. The afternoon have died, the police launched an investigation yes- directive covered planes going said yesterday. terday into the cause of the in and out of Paris from Charles There were five passengers crash, which was not immedi- de Gaulle. from Norway, all in their early ately clear. Passengers traveling from twenties, plus a Swedish pilot. Norway’s Accident Investi- neighbouring countries such as One survivor found at the crash gation Board (AIBN) official told Britain were particularly hard- site southwest of Alta has since Norwegian daily paper VG that hit as air traffic authorities died in hospital. investigators from France and struggled to re-direct flights The rescue service said the Airbus were expected to arrive through Europe’s crowded air Airbus AS350 helicopter was to Norway today. space. Migrants standing outside the official refugee camp of Moria on the Greek island of Lesbos. Beslan massacre survivors demand fair probe Greece to increase border patrols AFP building three days later fol- worried that not everything has BESLAN lowing fruitless negotiations. been done, because there is no REUTERS in three years. rejected asylum seekers who The European Court of objective investigation.” ATHENS The increase in arrivals has have remained in the country. Relatives of victims killed in the Human Rights ruled in 2017 that “We are afraid that this can piled additional pressure on It also plans to cut back a 2004 Beslan siege said they are Russia’s handling of the siege had repeat itself,” she said. Greece is to step up border Greece’s overcrowded island lengthy asylum process, which still waiting for an “objective “serious failings” in prevention “We will once again appeal patrols, move asylum-seekers camps, all of which are operating can take several months to con- probe” from Russian authorities, and using excessive lethal force. to the investigative agencies for from its islands to the mainland at least twice their capacity. clude, by abolishing the second warning that the tragedy could It called on Moscow to take a new launch of the probe into and speed up deportations in an Arrivals have picked up over stage of appeals when an appli- repeat itself. measures to establish the truth the Beslan attack,” she said. effort to deal with a resurgence the summer, and August saw the cation is rejected, and deporting Yesterday marked the 15th and condemn the violations. A ceremony was held on the in migrant flows from neigh- highest number of monthly the applicant either to Turkey or anniversary of the school mas- “Unfortunately, not a single anniversary at the school gym- bouring Turkey. landings in three years. to their country of origin. sacre in the town of Beslan in the point from the decision of the nasium, now converted into a The government’s Council On Saturday, the gov- “The asylum process in our Russian Caucasus. Chechen mil- European court is being fol- memorial. for Foreign Affairs and Defence ernment said it would move country was the longest, the itants took the school hostage, lowed, and this is very sad,” The ECHR decision said that convened on Saturday for an asylum-seekers to mainland most time consuming and, in the herding over 1,100 people into a Susanna Dudiyeva, who heads Russian authorities had infor- emergency session after the facilities, increase border sur- end, the most ineffective in gymnasium, and rigged the the Mothers of Beslan group, mation about the planned attack arrival on Thursday of more than veillance together with the EU’s Europe,” Greece’s deputy citizen building with explosives. said. “We return again and again but failed not only to prevent it a dozen migrant boats carrying border patrol agency Frontex protection minister responsible A total of 184 children were to the 1-3 of September 2004, but to boost security or warn the around 600 people, the first and Nato, and boost police for migration policy, Giorgos among the 334 dead after because there are still blanks, public. It said the security oper- simultaneous arrival of its kind patrols across Greece to identify Koumoutsakos, said. security forces stormed the there are still questions... we are ation lacked leadership. MONDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2019 AMERICAS 17

Mass shootings Mass shooting ‘absolutely’ a security threat, in Texas leaves says DHS Chief BLOOMBERG seven dead WASHINGTON Mass shootings in the US “abso- AP Two other police lutely are a homeland security MIDLAND officers were shot threat” that are getting before the suspect increasing attention within the The death toll in a West Texas federal government, acting shooting rampage increased to was killed. Secretary of Homeland Security seven yesterday as authorities (DHS) Kevin McAleenan said. investigated why a man stopped tried pulling over a gold car mid- McAleenan spoke on ABC’s by state troopers for failing to Saturday afternoon on Interstate “This Week” on Sunday, a day signal a left turn opened fire on 20 for failing to signal a left turn, after a gunman in Texas killed them and fled, shooting more Texas Department of Public seven people and wounded at than 20 people as he drove Safety spokeswoman Katherine least 21 more after a traffic stop before being killed by officers Cesinger said. gone wrong. outside a movie theater. Before the vehicle came to a “They absolutely are a home- Odessa police spokesman complete stop, the driver land security threat,” McAleenan Steve LeSueur said that at least “pointed a rifle toward the rear said of such mass shooters. “In one of the shooting victims window of his car and fired A Texas state trooper and other emergency personnel monitor the scene at a local car dealership our counterterrorism strategy and remained in life-threatening several shots” toward the patrol following a shooting in Odessa, Texas, yesterday. approach, domestic terrorism has condition. The gunman has been car stopping him. The gunshots taken a front line focus for us.” identified as a white male in his struck one of two troopers inside we got a little ahead of him and Since April, he said, the 30s, but police have not released the patrol car, Cesinger said, then for whatever reason the Background checks would not have agency has set up a new office a name or possible motive. after which the gunman fled and cars in front of me kind of to target violence and terror- The shooting began on Sat- continued shooting. Two other parted,” she said sobbing. She prevented gun violence: Trump ism prevention, with an explicit urday afternoon with an inter- police officers were shot before said she heard three more shots focus and balance on domestic state traffic stop where gunfire the suspect was killed. as she sped away. REUTERS/WASHINGTON a lot of thinking to do frankly. terrorism — including racially was exchanged with police, Gerke said there were at Gerke did not go into detail They’ve been doing a lot of motivated violent extremism. setting off a chaotic rampage least 21 civilian shooting victims. about the chase, but the movie As the United States grappled work,” Trump said. “I think Still, regarding the West during which the suspect Shauna Saxton was one of the theater where the suspect was with yet another mass shooting you’re going to see some inter- Texas shooter, Texas Attorney hijacked a mail carrier truck and terrified drivers who said she killed is more than 16 km from event yesterday, President esting things coming along.” General Ken Paxton said that fired at random as he drove in encountered the gunman during where state troopers originally Donald Trump said that back- Earlier this year, the Dem- it was hard to identify a motive the area of Odessa and Midland, his rampage, during which mul- pulled over the gunman. ground checks on gun ocratic-controlled US House of because the suspect is now dead. two cities in the heart of Texas tiple witnesses described gunfire The shooting comes just four purchasers would not have Representatives passed a bill Lawmakers’ response to the oil country more than 483km near shopping plazas and in busy weeks after a gunman in the prevented recent gun violence that calls for background checks Texas shooting fell along pre- west of Dallas. intersections. Saxton was driving Texas border city of El Paso in the country. on every gun purchase, includ- dictable lines, with Democrats Police initially reported pos- with her husband and grandson in killed 22 people after opening Trump made the remarks ing sales at gun shows, which calling for gun-control measures sible multiple shooters, but Odessa and had paused at a stop- fire at a Walmart. to reporters at the White House are currently exempted. But the and Republicans pushing back. Odessa police Chief Michael light when they heard loud pops. Texas Gov. Greg Abbott this after returning to Washington measure has failed to receive “If we’re not able to speak Gerke later said there was only “I looked over my shoulder week held two meetings with from Camp David. The presi- a vote in the Senate. clearly, if we’re not able to act one male suspect. to the left and the gold car pulled lawmakers about how to prevent dent said he would be working Trump said at the White decisively, then we’ll continue The suspect shot “at innocent up and the man was there and more mass shootings in Texas. with Democrats and Republi- House that “for the most part, as to have this kind of bloodshed civilians all over Odessa,” he had a very large gun and it The Saturday shooting brings cans on gun legislation when strong as you make your back- in America, and I cannot accept according to a statement from was pointing at me,” she said. the number of mass killings in Congress returns this month. ground checks, they would not that,” said Beto O’Rourke, a 2020 Odessa police, which did not Saxton said she was trapped the US so far this year to 25, “I think Congress has got have stopped any of it.” Democratic presidential candi- name the man or offer motive. because there were two cars in matching the number in all of date who briefly suspended his The terrifying chain of events front of her. “I started honking 2018, according to The AP/USA- mass murder database. The has already reached 142, sur- campaign after the mass killing began when Texas state troopers my horn. I started swerving and TODAY/Northeastern University number of victims for this year passing all last year. in El Paso in early August. US names envoy Battleground state Ohio to host October’s Democratic debate to integrate BLOOMBERG qualify, the event will be held on A Quinnipiac University poll chairman. “Well, Democrats here Democratic field is winnowed Western Balkans WASHINGTON two nights, October 15 and 16. released this week had Demo- and nationally know it too, and from about two dozen hopefuls. Ohio has the best track cratic front-runner Joe Biden we’re thrilled to host the debate But the Ohio debate could AFP Ohio, the ultimate bellwether record of predicting the presi- beating Trump in Ohio, 50 so Ohioans can hear from can- see additional candidates, WASHINGTON state, will host the top Demo- dential winner of any state since percent to 42 percent. Senators didates who will keep their because the deadline for quali- cratic contenders for president 1896, including voting for the Bernie Sanders of Vermont and promises and fight for them.” fication will be extended until The United States named a at a debate on October 15, the victor in each election since 1964. Elizabeth Warren of Massachu- The criteria for inclusion in October 1 and will be the same veteran diplomat, Matthew state’s Democratic Party said. No Republican has ever won setts were also leading Trump in the October debate will be the as for the September event. Palmer, as special represent- The exact location and the the presidency without Ohio. Pres- the state, but more narrowly. same as September’s. That means any candidate ative for the Western Balkans television network to carry the ident Donald Trump handily beat “Trump knows he’s in That debate, on September who raises $130,000 and reaches tasked with helping integrate event haven’t been determined. Democrat Hillary Clinton there in trouble here,” said David Pepper, 12 in Houston, will feature 10 2 percent support in four quali- the area with the West. If more than 10 candidates 2016, 51.7 percent to 43.6 percent. the Ohio Democratic Party candidates on one night as the fying polls will be included. Palmer “will lead our efforts to strengthen US diplomatic engagement in support of peace, stability and prosperity Venezuelan govt has proof of Bernie Sanders teases in the region,” Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said in a proposal to write off statement. He will “focus on anti-Maduro plot in Colombia integration of the Western Balkan countries into Western AP $81bn in medical debt institutions,” he said. CARACAS The United States has his- BLOOMBERG bankruptcy reform law, and torically supported the inte- The Venezuelan government WASHINGTON allow other existing and future gration of the Western Balkans, presented evidence of what it medical debt to be discharged. which include much of the called paramilitary training Senator Bernie Sanders is The plan also would ensure former Yugoslavia and Albania, camps in neighboring proposing to cancel an esti- that unpaid medical bills didn’t into institutions such as the Colombia to plot violent mated $81bn in past-due hurt people’s credit scores. European Union and Nato. attacks to undermine President medical debt owed by Amer- The 2005 bankruptcy bill Nicolás Maduro. icans as he vies for the 2020 “trapped families with medi- Communications Minis- Democratic presidential nomi- cal debt in long-term poverty, ter Jorge Rodríguez appeared nation using a platform focused mandated that they pay for credit Journalist shot on state television to accuse on health care. counseling before filing for bank- dead in Honduras Colombian President Iván The plan is still being formu- ruptcy, and increased the need Duque of doing nothing to stop lated and details — including how for expensive legal services AFP/TEGUCIGALPA the aggression against Vene- it would be financed — weren’t when filing a case for medical zuela — or even supporting it. addressed in an emailed release bankruptcy,” the Sanders cam- A journalist was shot dead in Rodríguez showed satellite from the Sanders campaign paign said. northwest Honduras yesterday, images and coordinates that he yesterday. Sanders teased the idea the 79th killed since 2001 in the said prove the existence of three Venezuela’s Communications and Information Minister, Jorge Rodriguez, The full proposal will be in remarks to reporters while Central American country, paramilitary camps along the at Miraflores Palace in Caracas, yesterday. announced within a month. campaigning in Florence, South according to a human rights border inside Colombia. They announced in a video that he have the protection and support “Your financial life and Carolina, on Friday. group. are used to train 200 armed men, would take up arms, alleging the of Nicolás Maduro’s dictatorship,” future should not be destroyed He’ll hold events Sunday and Edgar Joel Aguilar, a corre- he said, at times directly address- Colombian government has failed Duque said in a televised address. because you or a member of Monday in New Hampshire and spondent for HCH TV was shot ing Duque. to uphold a 2016 peace accord Duque did not directly your family gets sick,” the Maine. dead in the city of Copan around “If you brought this kind of and accusing it of standing by as address comments from Maduro’s Vermont senator said in a Runner-up to Hillary Clin- 200km northwest of the Teguci- evidence to Venezuela, we would hundreds of social leaders have administration. But speaking on statement. ton for the party’s nomination in galpa, the Honduras National act immediately,” Rodríguez said. been slain in rural areas where Saturday in Medillin, the Colom- “I am sick and tired of see- 2016, Sanders is running second Commissioner for Human Rights “We are sure you won’t do any- the rebels long dominated. bian leader said he would take ing over 500,000 Americans or third in most national polls said in a statement. thing, because you are complicit Duque, who quickly reached his case to the Organization of declare bankruptcy each year for 2020, with 17.1% support, Local media reported that with these terrorists.” out to Guaidó, has accused Vene- American States and the United because they cannot pay off according to the RealClearPol- Aguilar had received death The accusation comes amid zuela’s government of harboring Nations, accusing Maduro of the outrageous cost of a medi- itics average. threats from unknown sources. mounting tensions between the Colombian guerrillas. For both sponsoring and protecting cal emergency or a hospital stay.” The signature proposal of “Each time a journalist is two South American nations as leaders, the video was further terrorists. Under Sanders’ plan, the his campaign is the creation of killed is an assault on the right Colombia’s government backs a proof that the rebels — desig- Rodríguez also said Vene- federal government would a Medicare for All system that to life and the right to freedom campaign by Venezuelan oppo- nated by the US a terrorist group zuelan security forces thwarted negotiate and pay off past-due would provide health insurance of expression,” Commissioner sition leader Juan Guaidó to oust — are plotting attacks from Ven- a terrorist plot to detonate explo- medical bills in collections that to every American, replacing Roberto Herrera Caceres said. Maduro’s socialist government. ezuelan soil. sions targeting the headquarters have been reported to credit private insurance with a gov- According to the statement, The tensions spiked on “We’re not witnessing the of two FAES special police units agencies. ernment-run system. 91 percent of crimes against Thursday when the former chief birth of a new guerrilla army, and the Palace of Justice. All three Sanders proposes to repeal Health care premiums, journalists and media workers in negotiator for the Revolution- but rather the criminal threats locations are in densely popu- what his campaign termed deductibles and co-pays would Honduras remain unpunished. ary Armed Forces of Colombia of a band of narco-terrorists who lated Caracas. “the worst elements” of a 2005 end, offset by higher taxes. 18 AMERICAS MONDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2019

US President Donald Trump receives a briefing at the Federal Emergency Management Administration on Hurricane Dorian in Washington, DC, yesterday. RIGHT: Sea conditions seen in Marsh Harbour, Bahamas, yesterday. Category 5 Hurricane Dorian hammers Bahamas

REUTERS FEMA acting Bahamas residents reported 23-foot (7-meter) storm surges. sustained winds. Allen in 1980 with the Federal Emergency TITUSVILLE Administrator Peter trees snapping and docks being “The other day the prime was the most powerful with Management Agency (FEMA). Gaynor said: When it destroyed before the brunt of the minister came out and said eve- 190mph winds, the NHC said. “This looks like it could be larger Hurricane Dorian crashed into comes to response, we storm arrived. rybody in Abaco should leave,” Dorian is the strongest hur- than all of them.” the Bahamas yesterday as the The pummeling was Creenan said by phone. “But ricane on record to hit the north- FEMA is moving food, water second strongest Atlantic storm are more than ready expected to last for hours as the there’s no place to go.” western Bahamas. and generators into the south- on record and inched closer to to deal with anything hurricane may slow to just 1 mph, “This is the strongest hur- Florida was taking no eastern United States, said acting the United States, with parts of that Dorian delivers us “prolonging its catastrophic ricane that’s ever hit in the chances with Dorian and four Administrator Peter Gaynor. Florida evacuating and Georgia this year, or any other effects,” the NHC said. Bahamas,” Creenan said. “I grew Florida counties, including Palm “When it comes to response, and the Carolinas bracing for On Great Guana Cay, just off up in Florida, so I’ve been Beach County, issued mandatory we are more than ready to deal wind and flooding. storm that may come Great Abaco Island, waves began through Andrew.” evacuations for some residents, with anything that Dorian The US National Hurricane this season. washing over low-lying parts of Hurricane Andrew slammed including those in mobile homes, delivers us this year, or any other Center (NHC) said Dorian made the tiny 14km strand of land that into eastern Florida in 1992 as a on barrier islands and in low- storm that may come this landfall on Elbow Cay in the Dorian avoids a US landfall and is only about a quarter-mile wide category 5 storm on the five-step lying areas. Other coastal season,” he said. Abaco Islands as a Category 5 veers north into the Atlantic by mid-morning, resident Tom Saffir-Simpson Wind Scale, oblit- counties have announced vol- Meanwhile, a new tropical storm yesterday with maximum Ocean. Even a glancing blow Creenan said. erating the town of untary evacuations. storm has formed southwest of sustained winds of 295kph and from one of the strongest storms Although some residents left Homestead. US President Donald Trump Mexico and is expected to gusts of more than354kph. It ever to menace Florida could for Nassau and elsewhere days With winds at 185mph, said yesterday that the storm become a hurricane today. made a second landfall on Great bring torrential rains and dam- ago, some 200 to 300 are riding Dorian ties with Gilbert (1988), would likely impact the eastern Tropical Storm Juliette is 735 Abaco Island near Marsh Harbor. aging winds, and “a Florida out the storm on Great Guana Wilma (2005) and the 1935 Labor seaboard from Florida to North km from Manzanillo, Mexico, Millions of people landfall is still a distinct possi- Cay, where power was already Day hurricane for the second Carolina. with maximum sustained winds from Florida to North Carolina bility,” the Miami-based NHC out and forecasters are pre- strongest Atlantic hurricane on “This looks monstrous,” of 75 kph, the NHC said were bracing to see whether warned. dicting up to 2 feet of rain and record based on maximum Trump said during a briefing yesterday. Fires in Brazil’s Amazon Brazil leader to undergo surgery basin keep surging again next week

AFP gesture, some analysts say. AFP SAO PAULO Deforestation has surged SAO PAULO this year as agencies tasked with The number of fires in Brazil’s monitoring illegal activities were Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro Amazon basin is still on the rise, weakened by right-wing Pres- will undergo surgery to correct even though the government has ident Jair Bolsonaro. an incisional hernia, his fourth banned burning, officials said. Often called the Trump of operation since he was stabbed In the first 48 hours since the the Tropics, Bolsonaro has ques- nearly a year ago during his ban was issued, satellite data tioned climate change, and presidential campaign, his from the National Space argues farmers sometimes need office said yesterday. Research Institute (INPE) the land for their livelihood. A statement from the pres- showed 3,859 new outbreaks of Since the weekend thou- ident’s office said the problem fire, of which some 2,000 were sands of troops, firefighters, and resulted from previous concentrated in the Amazon aircraft have been deployed, and surgeries. region. the defense ministry says the Bolsonaro tweeted a pho- From January to the end of fires are under control. tograph of himself flanked by August, 51.9 percent of Brazil’s Bolsonaro claimed in a live his doctors in Sao Paulo. “Eve- recorded 88,816 fires were in the Facebook broadcast Thursday rything indicates I will ‘enjoy’ rainforest, according to the “this year’s fires are below the some 10 days vacation with INPE, a number experts call a average of recent years.” them shortly,” he said. dramatic, direct consequence of Deforestation for farming is The G1 website said it would farmers’ widespread one of the most serious threats be performed September 8. His deforestation. to the rainforest and is a Malabar Gold & Diamonds opens store in New Jersey doctor Antonio Luiz Macedo Brazil’s Amazon region is in problem present in Bolivia, said the hernia developed The Malabar Gold & Diamonds brand new store at Iselin, New Jersey, in the US was inaugurated its dry season, but experts note Brazil, Colombia, Ecuador, because the area had been by John McCormac, Mayor of Woodbridge Township, New Jersey in the presence of MP Ahammed, that 2019 has been wetter than French Guiana, Guyana, Peru, opened three times. Chairman, Malabar Group; Dr. PA Ibrahim Haji, Co-Chairman, Malabar Group; Mr. Shamlal Ahamed, previous years — they also stress Suriname and Venezuela. Managing Director – International Operations, Malabar Gold & Diamonds; Mr. Abdul Salam KP, Group that there are no natural fires in Farmers Brazil, Peru, the Amazon. Ecuador and Bolivia commonly Executive Director, Malabar Group; Mr. Asher O, Managing Director — India Operations, Malabar Gold & LatAm activists The no-burn decree may set fires in the dry season to Diamonds; Mr. Joseph Eapen, President – US Operations, Malabar Gold & Diamonds; other directors, have been too little too late, and clear the undergrowth in defor- management team members, media and well-wishers on 31st August. The new showroom is located converge in Chile more of a political than practical ested areas. at 1348 Oak Tree Road, Iselin, New Jersey. REUTERS/SAN JOSE DE MAIPO

Inspired by Swedish teen- Mexico President delivers first State of the Nation address climate activist Greta Thunberg, a group of young activists from AFP trafficking. of social and economic ine- elite ruling class of the past -- several Latin American coun- MEXICO CITY In his first annual “Gov- quality, of the violence from and most appear willing to wait tries have converged in Chile ernment Report,” the leader which we suffer.” for him to deliver concrete to exchange ideas on how to Mexican President Andres known as “AMLO” briefly In a sign of the polarising results. battle climate change. Manuel Lopez Obrador brushed acknowledged that “the nature of his presidency, some The question is how long. In a mountainous area on off problems including a economy is growing little,” and 2,500 protesters marched down Latin America’s second- the outskirts of Santiago, rep- stagnant economy and spiralling that “we still suffer from inse- Mexico City’s main avenue, largest economy shrank by 0.2 resentatives of Argentina, violence to insist yesterday in his curity and violence.” Paseo de la Reforma, chanting percent in the first quarter of Bolivia, Chile, Costa Rica, first State of the Nation Address But he devoted much of his “Get out, Lopez Obrador!” 2019, and registered zero growth Colombia, Ecuador, Mexico, that he is delivering the “trans- address to rehashing his cam- But the opposition remains in the second — far from Lopez Peru, Paraguay and Uruguay formation” he promised. paign stump speech, heavy on badly fragmented from the July Obrador’s pledge to deliver two- exchanged ideas for actions to Elected last year in a swell of anti-corruption, austerity-cru- 2018 elections, which Lopez percent growth this year and an pressure changes in their coun- anti-establishment sentiment, sading rhetoric and finger- Obrador and his upstart party, average of four percent across tries’ policies. the left-wing populist has radi- pointing at the leaders of the past. Morena, won in a landslide. his six-year term. “Our goal here is to enable cally changed the style of the “The essence of our Nine months in, the pres- And the number of people them so that they have more presidency — ditching the pres- approach is to turn honesty and ident remains overwhelmingly murdered — a closely watched tools, more possibility of Mexico’s President Andres Manuel idential mansion, guards and jet austerity into a way of life and a popular: recent polls put his indicator of the violence from the making a stronger movement, Lopez Obrador before delivering — but has struggled to deliver on form of government,” he said. approval rating around 65 country’s “drug war” — appears a movement with more impact his first State of the Nation address key promises, including eco- “Nothing has harmed Mexico percent. on track to set a new record this to contain the climate crisis,” at National Palace in Mexico City, nomic growth and an end to worse than the dishonesty of its Many Mexicans like his year, with 20,135 homicides so Ilan Zugman of the 350.org yesterday. rampant violence fueled by drug leaders. That is the main cause folksy style — a break with the far. organisation said. MONDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2019 HOME 19 New faculty members enrich HBKU’s academic community

THE PENINSULA benefit greatly from evidence- DOHA based skill development and practice in areas such as policy In recent years, Hamad Bin analysis, design and evaluation, Khalifa University (HBKU) has ethics, economics, statistics or continued to draw exceptional comparative and global studies.” academic staff with global expe- “Our program focuses on rience who are committed to interdisciplinary and problem- scholarly excellence and focused based approaches and toolsets on developing solutions to to effectively address grand chal- address problems faced by Qatar lenges such as social, family and and the world. health issues, migration, or Dr Andreas Rechkemmer Dr Damilola S Olawuyi Dr Amine Bermak Dr Steven Wright This year once again, several climate, energy and broader sus- new faculty members from tainability challenges. We look diverse academic backgrounds forward to providing excellence ready to become global leaders the inaugural batch to its PhD in us achieve our goal of achieving it can help Qatar diversify its will be joining different colleges in training for qualified graduate in various career paths. With Humanities and Social Sciences relevant research and education, carbon-based economy and across HBKU. students from Qatar and abroad.” world-class faculty of excep- program. Dr Steven Wright, asso- which is guided by, and aligned develop it as a regional and Dr Andreas Rechkemmer is For its part, HBKU College of tional depth and diversity, HBKU ciate dean and associate pro- to, the needs of Qatar,” Dr. global sport hub. Whereas, the a professor and program director Law (CL) is rolling out two new CL is an extraordinary place to fessor at CHSS, explained that the Wright said. MISHM responds to an ever- for the Master of Public Policy programs: the LLM in Interna- study law.” new PhD program received Two new programs have increasing reliance on IT in (MPP) program, which receives tional Law and Foreign Affairs, “The extensive course several applications from highly been launched by the College of healthcare with a fast its first cohort after HBKU and LLM in International Eco- offerings will allow students to qualified prospective students Science and Engineering (CSE): deployment of computers and launched the College of Public nomic and Business Law. Com- acquire deep specializations in which made the selection pro- the Master of Science in Sport information systems in Policy (CPP) this fall. He said: “It menting on the significance of areas that are of great signifi- cedure quite difficult. and Entertainment Management healthcare sector that is pro- is a distinct honour and privilege these programs, Dr Damilola S cance for Qatar, the region, and “With a diverse range of (MSEM) and Master of Infor- jected to exponentially grow to join HBKU’s new College of Olawuyi, associate professor and the world. Students will also be topics that the admitted students mation Systems in Health Man- soon.” Public Policy as a member of its chair of graduate programs at CL, encouraged to explore their are seeking to focus on, we are agement (MISHM). More than 60 faculty founding faculty. Public policy is said, “Our new programs have own research ideas related to very optimistic that they will Dr Amine Bermak, a pro- members currently work across an equally fascinating and crucial been carefully designed to their topics that can advance innovate, discover, and offer new fessor at CSE, said, “The MSEM six colleges and three research field of study and inquiry in empower students with ana- the human development goals perspectives on a wide range of aims to train the next gener- institutes to advance HBKU’s today’s world of complexity and lytical and comparative legal of the Qatar National Vision contemporary issues. A signif- ation of experts in sports man- remit of delivering a globally rel- interdependence in the public skills needed to understand the 2030. I cannot imagine a better icant number of our students are agement and is in line with the evant educational experience. space. Public administration and diverse legal systems – civil, group of students to launch the bringing valuable professional aspirations of the Qatar The university draws on in- management, agency service common and Shariah – that LLM programs,” Olawuyi experience with them and will National Vision 2030, which house expertise to advance grad- delivery, advanced policy formu- govern complex events and added. be engaging on topics that relate emphasizes human and eco- uate-level education, and con- lation and implementation, transactions, both in the region Similarly, HBKU’s College of specifically to Qatar’s social, nomic development. Sport will tinue to be recognised as a foreign and international service and globally. At the end of the Humanities and Social Sciences political, cultural, and profes- certainly help build and sustain knowledge hub within Education and non-profit management, all program, our students will be (CHSS) is preparing to welcome sional needs, and therefore help an active and healthy society as City, Qatar, and beyond. Good oral health key to better academic performance at school, says expert

THE PENINSULA food choices play an important DOHA role in preventing tooth decay and gum disease so parents must Good oral health and regular encourage their children to eat dental care can improve a child’s a balanced diet that includes overall physical health and also vegetables, fruit, whole grains, lead to better academic lean protein such as fish or performance at school,” said Dr beans, and dairy. Eating a variety Mohammed Sultan Al Darwish, of healthy foods helps ensure Consultant, Public Health children get the nutrients they Dentistry at Hamad Medical need to be healthy and to Corporation (HMC). maintain good oral health,” said He said that being in pain Dr Mohammed Sultan Al Darwish Dr Al Darwish. and discomfort from oral health “Limit your child’s con- problems can make it harder for sumption of saturated fats, salt, Toastmasters International District 116 members at the 2019 Convention held at the Gaylord Rockies children to focus on school work Dr Al Darwish said sugary snacks, soft drinks and Resort Denver. and can also cause them to miss that being in pain juice, and encourage them to classes to receive dental and discomfort from drink plenty of water, preferably treatment. oral health problems water that contains fluoride. Toastmasters District 116-Qatar bags Dr Al Darwish also said that Drinking water after eating parents play an important role can make it harder sugary or acidic drinks helps to top recognition at Denver Convention in both educating their children for children to focus rinse out the mouth and dilutes about good oral health and also on school work the sugar and acid in these foods THE PENINSULA now a spectacular district that with her speech titled ‘First in modelling behaviours that will and can also cause and beverages. After drinking DOHA has become the cynosure of all Impressions’ and Kwong Yue help prevent tooth decay and sugary or acidic beverages, eyes. This recognition at the Yang from China, with his gum disease, the two main types them to miss classes children should be taught to Toastmasters International global stage is a result of col- speech, ‘Less and More’. of dental disease seen in to receive dental avoid brushing their teeth right District 116-Qatar was recog- lective efforts. Even though as Speakers delivered five-to children. treatment. away. Waiting at least one hour nised at the 2019 Convention Director, I was destined to seven-minute speeches on wide- “Parents play an important will allow time for their teeth to held at the Gaylord Rockies receive the honour with all ranging topics and were judged role in teaching their children recover and the enamel to re- Resort Denver, the USA as the humility, it belongs to all of us. on content, organisation, and the right way to care for their He said parents should help harden,” added Dr Al Darwish. Number-1 District in the world I’m sure this is only the delivery. teeth and also in ensuring they their child get into the habit of Dr Al Darwish says the best amongst 116 districts from 141 beginning. Our best is yet to Jia Jiang, who specialises in have regular cleaning and using mouthwash and brushing way to avoid tooth decay and countries for the year 2018-19. come,” said Rajeswar. ‘rejection therapy’, is the 2019 check-ups with a dentist,” said with a fluoride toothpaste three gum disease is to prevent them The District trio Sundaresan The convention this year had recipient of Toastmasters’ most Dr. Al Darwish. times a day. Also children should from happening in the first Rajeswar, Raghavan Menon and 12 inspiring speaking sessions prestigious award — the Golden “Every meal and snack be encouraged to rinse their place. He says parents should Thayalan K had exclusive with world-class presenters who Gavel. Presented annually since expose our teeth to friction and mouth with water after every not hesitate to take their child honour and recognition to carry entertained, and educated 1959, the award recognises an the creation of bacteria in the meal and snack and to use dental to the dentist if they notice any Toastmasters International flag audience, as well as top 14 who individual distinguished in the mouth, which can lead to tooth floss at least once a day. He also symptoms of tooth decay or at the Parade of Flags in the competed for the most coveted fields of communication and decay and gum disease. If recommends parents replace trauma, including bleeding from inaugural ceremony, lead the title as The World Champion of leadership. parents teach their children their child’s toothbrush every the gums while brushing, and Hall of fame segment and a Public Speaking. Through his company, Wuju about good oral hygiene while three months. he said children should visit monumental recognition at Seven speakers also earned (meaning ‘fearless’ in ancient they are young, they will develop “Oral conditions have an their dentist regularly for a Golden Gavel luncheon event the Accredited Speaker desig- Chinese), Jiang teaches indi- healthy habits as adults,” added impact on overall health and check-up, ideally every six where Qatar was prominently nation, which recognises profes- viduals and organisations that Dr Al Darwish. disease. Our eating patterns and months. presented amidst 2,100 sional speakers who combine the fear of rejection is almost attendees. expert knowledge in a particular always more damaging than the It is a watershed moment in subject and mastery of the experience. He believes that the 22 years’ history of Toast- spoken word. looking at rejection with open- masters in the State of Qatar. Aaron Beverly won the minded curiosity can be an Looking back, Qatar’s demar- Toastmasters’ 2019 World impressive catalyst for success. cation as a separate district hap- Championship of Public ‘Fearless organisations and indi- pened for a purpose, as they say, Speaking title with a suspenseful viduals can sell more, think nothing is done before it is time. and entertaining speech titled bigger and achieve higher,” said Toastmasters in Qatar has ‘An Unbelievable Story’. Beverly, Jiang. become for others to use as a along with other final con- Deepak Menon, a chartered comparison, a benchmark, and testants, reached the champi- accountant from India, is the a touchstone. onship level after several elim- new International President of The Board also approved full inating rounds that began more Toastmasters. Menon served as District status from ‘provisional’ than six months ago with the Chief Coordinator for the in the very first year of district 30,000 participants from 143 Toastmasters’ Youth Leadership formation. countries. His winning speech programme that helped build “The way the change befell was about acceptance despite communication and leadership on us, it was a test of our char- difference and told the story of skills for approximately 700 acter. I am proud of how each his humorous adventure as the underprivileged children in six member embraced and only African-American in cities in India. respected the leadership attendance at his friend’s “Toastmasters has taught guidance, and progressed dili- wedding in India. me skills that no school, college IIS students excel in Inter-school essay writing contest gently towards the goals and for Beverly said: “I picked this or university can teach. It has the greater good. topic because I wanted to honour helped me evolve from a being The Principal of Ideal Indian School, Syed Shoukath Ali, and Head of Hindi Department, Aminul Qadir, Members, while doing their my friend who got married in a lone-player to a being a with the winners of essay writing competition. The students excelled in the Inter-school essay writing very best, aspired for and India and tell the experience of team-player; from being led to competition organised by Birla Public School in connection with Vishwa Hindi Diwas (World Hindi Day ) achieved much more. The result, both families embracing me. being a leader; from the recently. Adi Arora, a student of Class 6 secured second position in the junior category while Aisha Siddiqa Qatar is not a mere speck in the Second- and third-place winners problem to being the solution,” of Class 11 placed third in the senior category. global Toastmasters map; we are were Luisa Montalvo from Texas, said Menon. 20 MORNING BREAK MONDAY 2 SEPTEMBER 2019

PRAYER TIMINGS FAJR 03. 55 AM Hollywood’s summer ends 2% SHOROOK 05. 13 AM

ZUHR 11. 35 AM MAGHRIB 05. 57 PM down despite Disney dominance ASR 03.04 PM ISHA 07. 27 PM AP “Avengers: Endgame” ($2.796 billion) Dark”), the studio’s “John Wick: Chapter NEW YORK opened in late April, just before the 3 - Parabellum” was, with $170.9 WEATHER TODAY summer began. “Toy Story 4” and million, one of the summer’s biggest Never before has one studio so domi- “Aladdin” both easily cleared $1 billion. successes. nated summer at the movies. The Walt The only non-Disney film in the sum- “For me it’s important to dispel that Disney Co. accounted for about half of mer’s top four was Sony’s “Spider-Man: audiences are only going to see Marvel Tech making all ticket sales in U.S. and Canada Far From Home,” and that film was pro- and Pixar and the big tentpole,” said theaters on the season, which came to duced by Disney’s Marvel Studios. David Spitz, president of domestic dis- ‘our brains a close Sunday with the Gerard Butler Disney has been the market leader tribution for Lionsgate. “Movies like action thriller “Angel Has Fallen” for the last four years in Hollywood as ‘Scary Stories’ and ‘Good Boys’ and explode’, says topping the box office for the second its high-priced acquisitions - Lucasfilm, ‘Angel Has Fallen’ prove that there is an Penelope Cruz weekend. Pixar, Marvel, and now Fox - have given audience for that. ‘Good Boys’ was very Summer ticket sales finished 2% the studio the intellectual property fire- encouraging because prior to that it was: AFP/VENICE behind last year, according to data firm power for a movie world increasingly ‘Comedies are dead. They’re just for Comscore, a slight downturn that came focused on franchises. streaming.’ And that’s not the case.” Hollywood star Penelope Cruz despite an unprecedented display by Only one original film this summer Universal’s “Good Boys,” the first (pictured), warned yesterday Disney. The studio’s approximate $2.2bn ranked among the top 10, and it came R-rated comedy to land No. 1 in more that technology was driving high in domestic summer box office is greater in 10th. Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon than three years, proved that conven- anxiety that would one day than that of all the major studios a Time... in Hollywood” will have made tional wisdom is sometimes wrong. But make “all our brains explode”. combined. an estimated $130.8 million through other acclaimed comedies that were The Spanish mother-of-two said Summer, which for Hollywood runs Monday domestically, plus sizable ticket expected to pop - such as Amazon’s she was worried about how chil- from the first weekend in May to Labor sales abroad. It, along with “Spider- “Late Night,” United Artists’ dren’s mental health and devel- Day, traditionally ends with a whimper Man,” helped lead Sony to its best “Booksmart” and Lionsgate’s “Long opment were being affected by as few new releases seek to draw audi- summer since 2006 - but a distant No. Shot” - didn’t. the ubiquity of tech. ences over the holiday weekend. That 2 to Disney. Counterprogramming often simply “I have my personal war was especially true this weekend as Disney’s success has been a didn’t work. And neither did gloomy- with it,” she told reporters at the nothing new dented the top 10. Lions- welcome dose of reliability for theater looking critically panned movies such Venice film festival. “I wish we gate’s “Angel Has Fallen” came on top owners in need of sure-hits amid wide- as “Godzilla: King of the Monsters” and could have lived in the 1990s for o o again with an estimated $11.6 million. spread anxiety over the rise of “Dark Phoenix.” They were among the a little longer. For mental health 32 C 39 C The final numbers on Hollywood’s streaming. And it has prompted fears season’s biggest flops. issues that would have helped a Minimum Maximum summer didn’t add up to the box-office of cultural monopoly. Music continued to fuel modest hits, lot, because I think things are bonanza that some predicted. Instead, “For the industry, I think it’s a point including Paramount’s “Rocketman” going at a speed that we are Misty at some places by early morning be- the main storyline on the summer came of stress, to put it mildly. Other studios and Universal’s “Yesterday.” But by the unprepared for,” said the actress. comes relatively hot daytime and some to be the yawning gap between Disney are now strategizing around Disney. end of summer, as the lackluster per- Cruz, 45, who is starring in clouds, humid by night. and the rest of the industry. Disney That’s what you have to do,” said Paul formance of Warner Bros.’ Bruce “Wasp Network”, a thriller about

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HIGH TIDE 05:48 – 18:24 LOW TIDE 01:34 – 13:22 20th Century Fox in March, but it was for Comscore. “But lest we think Disney Light” showed, that trend may be who became heroes for infil- Courtesy: Qatar Meteorology Department the studio’s own offerings that propelled was the only game in town, there were waning, too. trating radical exile networks in its market dominance. other studios that found opportunities Dergarabedian noted, though, that Florida, said tech was coming to Five of Disney’s films crossed $1 within the calendar.” the summer season isn’t quite what it utterly dominate children’s lives, billion this summer, including the sea- Lionsgate was among those that used to be. Studios now spread their hogging their time and son’s biggest hit, “The Lion King.” It cur- eked out some breathing room. Along biggest movies around the calendar imaginations. rently ranks seventh all-time globally with its August successes (“Angel Has more freely. Add “Endgame” to the “This might seem like an with $1.56 billion in ticket sales. Fallen,” ‘’Scary Stories to Tell in the totals and the summer looks a lot better. exaggeration to other people, but I am convinced that we were raised with a different relationships with tech- French director nology,” she said. “Right now children and teenagers are in Costa-Gavras contact so much with elec- tronics and it takes the time honoured in Venice away from children to learn to play, to have conversations, REUTERS/VENICE to be at a table having dinner talking to their family, or to Greek-born French director Costa-Gavras be bored -- which is some- has been recognised for his “particularly thing important we all should original contribution to innovation in contem- learn as children.” porary cinema” at the Venice Film Festival, Cruz, who has an eight- where the Oscar winner also presented his year-old son and six-year-old new movie about the Greek debt crisis. daughter with fellow Spanish The 86-year-old filmmaker, known for star Javier Bardem, said our “Z” and “Missing”, was presented with the lives were being swallowed up Jaeger-LeCoultre Glory to the Filmmaker by it. Tech’s daily dominance award late on Saturday. was “not only affecting While in Venice, he also presented “Adults French director Costa-Gavras and his wife producer Michele Ray-Gavras children, but all of us.... It is in the Room”, which is adapted from the book during the 76th Venice Film Festival in Venice, yesterday. something that is creating a lot by former Greek finance minister Yanis Var- of general anxiety and I wonder oufakis and follows Greece’s bailout nego- one day, not in the way it’s been conference, citing concerns over if this continues all of our tiations in 2015. “There’s a lot of muddled clearing itself up over the past few rising populism. “I hope that all of brains are just going to politics in Europe, it has to clear itself up years,” Costa-Gravas told a news that will change.” explode,” said the actress.

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