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MONDAY 6 JULY 2015 • 19 Ramadan 1436 • Volume 20 Number 6483 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Govt entities Greeks say ‘No’ to EU bailout terms ATHENS: Greeks voted over- whelmingly yesterday to reject terms of a bailout, risking financial ruin in a show of defi- asked to cut ance that could splinter Europe. With nearly half of the votes counted, official figures showed 61 percent of Greeks rejecting the bailout offer. An official interior expenditure ministry projection confirmed the figure as close to the expected final tally. Ministry seeks budget estimates European Council President Donald Tusk called a euro zone DOHA: In a bid to control ris- projects have already started in summit for tomorrow to discuss ing expenditure, the Ministry preparation for the FIFA World the Greek debt crisis. of Finance has asked ministries Cup in 2022. The astonishingly strong vic- and government departments The Finance Ministry wants tory by the ‘No’ camp overturned not to include new projects in ministries to be efficient in pub- opinion polls that had predicted their budget proposals. lic expenditure saying that there an outcome too close to call. In a circular sent to the minis- should be balance between their It leaves Greece in uncharted tries, it said that only those new revenue and expenditure. It wants waters: risking financial and projects will be included in the the expenditure to be cut without political isolation within the euro budget proposals for next year’s affecting the services provided by zone and a banking collapse if budget that have earlier been them to the public. creditors refuse further aid. approved. Even the projects which The goal of the next budget will But for millions of Greeks have received approval should not be to support performance of non- the outcome was an angry mes- be carried out by government bod- hydrocarbon sector to diversify sage to creditors that Greece can ies if they can be undertaken the economy and reduce Qatar’s reli- longer accept repeated rounds of private sector, reports Al Sharq. ance on oil and gas and to increase austerity that, in five years, had ‘No’ supporters celebrate referendum results on a street in central Athens, Greece, yesterday. The Ministry has sent the the participation of private sector left one in four without a job. circular to prepare estimates in the economy. The budget will Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras for budget for the next financial aim to provide a conducive envi- has denounced the price paid for Officials from the Greek gov- negotiating card, to bring a deal now be on the point of losing its year starting from January 1, 2016 ronment to attract investment aid as “blackmail” and a national ernment, which had argued that which will open new ways.” first member with the risk of fur- and ending on December 31, 2016. in different sectors of economy “humiliation”. Hundreds of Greeks a ‘No’ vote would strengthen Many of Athens’ partners have ther unravelling to come. The Finance Ministry wants all and reduce dependence on pub- began pouring into the central its hand to secure a better deal warned over the past week that “I believe such a result can be departments to be efficient in lic expenditure and maintain the Syntagma Square in front of par- from international creditors after a ‘No’ vote would mean cutting used as a strong negotiating tool expenditure and requests for high credit rating of the country, liament to celebrate, after a week months of wrangling, immediately bridges with Europe and driving so that Europeans can under- increase in government expendi- said the circular. The Ministry in of building desperation as banks said they would try to restart Greece’s crippled financial system stand that we are not a colony,” ture will not be entertained. collaboration with Qatar Central were shut and cash withdrawals talks with European partners. into outright bankruptcy, dra- said Nefeli Dimou, a 23-year-old According to the circular, the Bank will work to keep inflation rationed to prevent a collapse of “I believe there is no Greek matically worsening the country’s student in Athens. government wants to increase under control. the Greek financial system. today who is not proud, because economic depression. Greek banks, which have been expenditure only on key projects The Finance Ministry has “This is an imprint of the will regardless of what he voted he The result also delivers a ham- closed all week and rationing in key sectors such as infra- asked ministries to prepare of the Greek people and now it’s showed that this country above mer blow to the European Union’s withdrawals from cash machines, structure, education and health. budget proposals for three years up to Europeans to show if they all respects democracy,” Labour grand single currency project. are expected to run out of money Focus of expenditure will be on having estimates of the future respect our opinion and want Minister Panos Skourletis said. Intended to be permanent and within days unless the European to complete the ongoing projects revenues and ceiling on public to help,” said Nikos Tarasis, a “The government now has unbreakable when it was created Central Bank provides an emer- and major projects. Most of these expenditure. THE PENINSULA 23-year-old student. a strong mandate, a strong 15 years ago, the euro zone could gency lifeline. REUTERS

CMC holds first meeting; Emir pardons prisoners Al Shafi elected chairman DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani DOHA: Mohammed bin Hammoud Al Shafi has been elected chair- issued yesterday an Emiri ges- man of the Central Municipal Council’s (CMC) fifth term. ture pardoning a number of Eng Hamad bin Lahdan Al Mohannadi has been elected vice-chair- prisoners on the occasion of the man. Both were members in the previous term and re-elected in general Holy Month of Ramadan. QNA elections held in May. The Minister of Municipality and Urban Planning H E Abdurrahman bin Khalifa Al Thani yesterday opened the first meeting of the new 63 militants CMC panel, which elected the new chairman and vice-chairman. The election was held through secret ballot. In the 29-member killed in Sinai Council, Al Shafi won 15 votes, while the other two candidates Saeed bin Rashid Al Hajri and Jassim Abdullah Al Malki got eight and six CAIRO: Egypt’s military votes, respectively. launched air strikes and ground Al Mohannadi was elected vice-chairman unopposed after Rabia Al operations that killed 63 Islamist Kaabi, who was in the fray, withdrew his candidacy before the elections, militants in North Sinai yester- the Qatar News Agency reported yesterday. day, security sources said, as Continued on page 5 The newly-elected CMC members with the Minister of Municipality and Urban Planning H E Abdulrahman bin the country grapples with an THE PENINSULA Khalifa bin Abdulaziz Al Thani in Doha yesterday. increasingly ambitious insur- gency based in the region. The Sinai has recently seen some of the heaviest fighting between security forces and Islamist militants since the army top- Spain alert over pled President Mohamed Mursi Tough choices for Iran: Kerry of Muslim Brotherhood in 2013. REUTERS terror threat VIENNA: An Iranian nuclear Foreign ministers from Britain, accused of making too many con- See also page 7 MADRID: Spain is facing its agreement is possible this week China, France, Germany and cessions by Republican members highest level of terror threat if Iran makes the “hard choices” Russia began arriving yesterday of Congress and by Israel, remains since 2004 because of the dan- necessary, but if not, the United evening as the major powers make ready to abandon the talks, Kerry RAMADAN ger posed by jihadists, said the States remains ready to walk a push to meet tomorrow’s dead- said. “If we don’t have a deal and TIMING country’s Interior Minister away from the negotiations, US line for a final agreement to end there is absolute intransigence Jorge Fernandez Diaz yesterday. Secretary of State John Kerry the 12-year-old dispute. Kerry and unwillingness to move on Ramadan Today’s Iftar: “We are at the maximum said yesterday. said negotiators were still aiming the things that are important for QUIZ 06:31pm alert level since the attacks of Speaking after his third meet- for that deadline, but other diplo- us, President Obama has always Answer a Simple Question March 11, 2004 in Madrid,” said ing of the day with Iranian Foreign mats have said the talks could slip said we’re prepared to walk away,” Win a Gold Coin everyday Tomorrow’s Imsak: Fernandez Diaz in an interview Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, to July 9, the date by which the he said. See page 15 03:10am published yesterday, referring to Kerry said they had made “genu- Obama administration must sub- European officials also said the the attacks that left 191 dead and ine progress” in talks over the last mit a deal to Congress in order to onus was on Iran to cut a deal. nearly 2,000 injured. few days but “several of the most get an expedited, 30-day review. After arriving in Vienna, French The minister said he did not difficult issues” remain. The agreement under discus- Foreign Minister Laurent Fabius want to incite panic, but “the level “If hard choices get made in the sion would require Iran to curb told reporters the main question 4 alert (out of a maximum of 5) next couple of days, made quickly, its most sensitive nuclear work was whether Iran would make corresponds to a reality”. we could get an agreement this for a decade or more in exchange “clear commitments” on unre- Some 116 people have left Spain week, but if they are not made for relief from sanctions that have solved issues. The top US and to fight alongside IS jihadists, we will not,” he said outside the slashed its oil exports and crip- Iranian diplomats met for a sixth with 16 people registered as hav- hotel where talks between Iran, pled its economy. consecutive day yesterday to try ing since returned. the United States and five other US President Barack Obama’s to resolve obstacles to a nuclear See page 4 AFP powers are being held. administration, which has been accord. REUTERS MONDAY 6 JULY 2015 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME PM meets Malaysia defence minister Youth exhibit artworks inspired by solar power DOHA: An exhibition-cum- workshop has opened at Katara as part of Shams Generation initiative of Qatar Solar Technologies (QSTec). Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Dr Khalid K Al Hajri, Al Thani yesterday met Malaysian Defence Minister Dato Seri Hishammuddin Chairman and CEO, QSTec, Hussein and his delegation. Talks dealt with means of enhancing relations, inaugurated the event which especially in the military fields, and regional and international issues. showcases over 200 solar arts developed by students in the age group 6-16 from Qatar Academy, Awsaj, Qatar Academy Sidra and Doha College. It is held daily after Hundreds visit ‘Miracles Iftar and runs until the end of Eid. The workshop for children in the age group 6-13 and their and Inventions’ expo families to learn how to build solar lanterns is open until DOHA: The Ramadan Festival The Calculation Summary of Baha Ramadan-end. ‘Miracles and Inventions’ at Katara Eddin Al-Amely. The exhibition stresses stu- Cultural Village is attracting hun- The exhibition gives visitors dents’ understanding of solar dreds of visitors from all walks of opportunity to learn about techni- power as Qatar’s primary life. cal secrets that enabled scholars to renewable energy technol- The event featuring an interactive invent such advanced machines in ogy and sustainability. The Officials at one of the stalls displaying artworks. book exhibition, a showcase of inven- the fields of engineering, medicine, workshop aims to reach out tions and camera obscura for Ibn Al astronomy and optics in the mid- to children in an engaging education called STEAM that interactive website that pro- youth and it gives me hope for Haytham runs until July 22. dle ages. Inventions are displayed and inspiring way and reflects combines science, technology, vides online learning tools based the future to see so many young Visitors explore Muslim scholars’ through hologram technology and QSTec’s vision and mission. engineering, arts and maths on three Shams Generation students taking such a deep accomplishments in an ingenious include the camera obscura of Ibn “QSTec has developed a and encourages students to levels of solar learning. Solar interest in solar technologies and first-of-its-kind interactive book Al Haytham, the astrolabe, surgi- solar energy education initia- draw on their academic skills kits were distributed to stu- and their applications. QSTec exhibition. Through an interactive cal tools, the turbine of Hassan Al tive encouraging development and work on projects that dents who designed innova- is proud to be supporting the touch platform and in a simple, prac- Jarrah, and water-raising machine of our next generation of solar inspire children to learn and tive artworks combining light, initiative.” tical way, digital books about scholars of Al Jazari. engineers and researchers encourage lifelong learning motion and solar energy. The workshop is held at 9pm and intellectuals and their accom- As for the camera obscura of Al through a greater understand- practices. “The enthusiasm young stu- at Building No 13, Qatar Fine plishments are on display. Haytham, Katara has displayed his ing of solar technologies, their In the first stage of the pilot dents have shown in learning Arts Society. Over 750 school- Visitors digitally flick through inventions which paved the way for applications and the need to programme, QSTec provided about solar energy and devel- children were involved in the books and manuscripts, including modern inventions. The three-minute protect the environment,” said solar learning kits for stu- oping solar-powered artworks pilot phase of the initiative The Chosen Letters of Jaber Bin presentation uses photographs and Dr Al Hajri. dents and teachers. Teachers is amazing,” said Dr Al Hajri. which will be extended to over Hayan and his three publications in voice over in Arabic and English. The initiative is based on an attended the workshop and “There is nothing more impor- 1,500 in the coming academic chemistry, and manuscripts such as THE PENINSULA interdisciplinary approach to were given access to the tant than the education of our year. THE PENINSULA QA to add six flights a week Ministry holds meeting on new central markets DOHA: The Ministry of The meeting discussed pro- Ministry representatives increasing consumer demand on Doha-Manila route Economy and Commerce held posals to help attract traders welcomed ideas and promised for vegetables, meat, livestock a meeting yesterday with to the new markets and make to study them. The ministry and poultry. DOHA: Qatar Airways (QA) will beyond Doha can also look forward wholesale traders (importers) them an attraction to people liv- and Manateq Economic Zones The facilities will also have add six flights per week between to flying on some of the world’s most of vegetables and fruits to seek ing in the areas. Company-Qatar signed last bank branches, administrative Doha and Manila from October 26 advanced aircraft, including A350 views and suggestions on the Importers gave proposals, March an agreement to set up buildings, commercial outlets following an expanded air service XWB,” he added. new central markets being set ideas and remarks to facilitate full-fledged central markets in and accommodations for work- agreement signed between Qatar QA currently operates eight up in Umm Salal, Al Sailiyah import and trade, said a minis- the three areas. ers employed there. and the Philippines. flights per week to Ninoy Aquino and Al Wakrah. try statement. The new markets aim to meet THE PENINSULA QA Group Chief Executive Akbar International Airport in Manila. Al Baker said: “The increase in flight With the increase in weekly flights, frequencies on the Doha–Manila QA will operate a full twice-daily The Peninsula-Quality Retail Group contest winners route serves to further strengthen service to Manila in addition to daily commercial and trade links between flights between Clark and Doha. Qatar attends our two countries and we are The Doha-Manila route is oper- delighted to be able to provide our ated by Boeing 777 aircraft, featuring GCC Customs Philippines-based passengers with 24 Business Class seats and 356 in greater connectivity options when Economy Class. Union meet they choose to fly with QA. Passengers travelling in Business “Now, more passengers will be Class can look forward to relax- DOHA: The General able to experience our award-win- ing in one of the most comfortable Authority of Customs is ning hospitality and state-of-the-art and high-tech, fully-flat beds with a taking part in the 12th Hamad International Airport when 78-inch seat pitch. QA’s premium meeting of GCC Customs transiting seamlessly onward to their passengers can also enjoy its five- Union which ends today final destination. star food and beverage service served in Jeddah. “Passengers travelling with QA ‘dine on demand’. THE PENINSULA Participants discussed minutes of the committee charged with reviewing the unified customs law with respect to modifications, deletions and addition of articles related to the law and its executive regula- tions as well as exemption of postal parcels, personal consignments of specified value, and commercial samples of quality as well as duties on tobacco and its derivatives and decided to submit a report to the Aboonavas Perumkadakkad (right), General Manager, Quality Retail Group, and Ali Wahba (left), Advertising relevant committees. QNA Manager, The Peninsula, with second week gift voucher winners of The Peninsula-Quality Retail Group contest, at the newspaper’s office yesterday. KAMMUTTY VP Lulu holds first mega draw for Audi cars DOHA: The first mega draw of Lulu Audi Car Promotion for three Audi A6 2.0 2015 cars was held yesterday at Lulu Hypermarket, D-Ring Road under the super- vision of Abdulla Al Bin Ali, Inspector from the Ministry of Economy and Commerce. Shaijan M O, Regional Director, Lulu Hypermarket Group was present. Qatari Jassim Hussain Al Jassim, Bangladeshi Mohammed Shohag and Indonesian Ade Mulyati won the cars. Second draw for two M H Z Abideen, Lulu Hypermarket, D-Ring Branch General Manager, Abdullah Al bin Ali from the Ministry of cars will be held at Lulu Economy and Commerce and other officials at the first draw yesterday. ABDUL BASIT Hypermarket, Al Gharrafa today; third draw for two cars at Lulu Hypermarket, draw for one car at Lulu Centre, fifth draw for two cars at Lulu Thursday. All draws will be held Al Khor, tomorrow, fourth Al Rayyan, on Wednesday and Hypermarket, Barwa City on at 10am. THE PENINSULA MONDAY 6 JULY 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03

Accident at new intersection Road opens after renovation

The road to Najma from Nuaija Intersection (near the Mall) was opened yesterday after renovation. The two-lane Al Fazaa and a traffic patrol regulate traffic following an accident at the new intersection near Woqod petrol road has been expanded to three lanes and the small roundabout near the Woqod petrol station converted to a station on Najma Street last evening. Two ambulances arrived at the spot and attended to the victims. Further signal-controlled intersection. The Public Works Authority (Ashghal) completed the project in less than a month, details were not available. BAHER AMIN about 20 days ahead of schedule. The road was closed on June 9. BAHER AMIN Leaders greet presidents Umrah pilgrims urged to take DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani yester- day sent cables of congratulations to Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika, Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Cape Verde President George Carlos Fonseca on their countries’ Independence Days. precautions against infections Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani also sent congratulatory cables to the presidents. DOHA: With many pilgrims soap and water, and avoiding hand includes people above 65, pregnant to do circumambulation (Tawaf) Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin travelling to Saudi Arabia for contact with the eyes, nose and women, children under 12 or any- in the evening or at night,” he said, Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani sent similar cables to the presidents. Umrah during Ramadan, Hamad mouth as much as possible can be one with chronic conditions such adding trauma and injury risks are Medical Corporation (HMC) has very useful,” he said, recommend- as cancer, diabetes, heart or kidney heightened with the influx of pil- reminded them to take steps ing urgent medical advice if pil- diseases, or those with respiratory grims to Makkah during Ramadan. FM meets Palestinian counterpart against infectious diseases. grims experience cough, fever and problems or immune deficiency,” Another important issue to be Dr Saad Al Nuaimi, Senior breathing problems. Dr Al Nuaimi said. aware of is ensuring that when men DOHA: Foreign Minister H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah Consultant, Emergency Medicine, He said precautions are key to While performing Umrah, it is shave their heads after Umrah, yesterday met his Palestinian counterpart Riyad Al Malki and stressed that pilgrims must take guarding against the Middle East important to remember that day- they use clean blades. reviewed relations between both countries, means of enhancing precautions prior to, during and at Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus time temperatures can be very Other precautions include carry- them and matters of joint interest. the end of the journey. (Mers-CoV), a major respiratory high, so loss of body fluid through ing medical/first aid kit containing Among the most common ill- illness concern in the region. “The excessive sweating (dehydration) plasters, dressings and painkillers nesses contracted during Umrah virus has been reported to spread and heat-related illnesses such as in case of emergency, a good sup- Qatar project launched in Belarus are respiratory ailments, said Dr from person to person through cramps, syncope, exhaustion and ply of regular medicines, copies of Al Nuaimi. “These include throat, extended close contact, so it is heat stroke can occur. prescriptions and a doctor’s letter MINSK: Minister of State for Defence Affairs and Cabinet Member upper respiratory tract and lung advisable to avoid direct contact “To avoid them, pilgrims should describing the pilgrim’s medical H E Major General Hamad bin Ali Al Attiyah said implementation infections usually caused by viruses with people who exhibit symptoms ensure they remain well hydrated, history in detail. of a large Qatari investment project in Minsk is an example for that spread rapidly among crowds.” such as coughing, sneezing, runny drink plenty of clean water during If upon return, a pilgrim devel- other Qatari investors. He was speaking at the launch of a project To protect against the infec- nose, vomiting and diarrhoea,” he Iftar and Suhoor, preferably bottled ops an illness and notices worsen- comprising a hotel and sports complex. It will work at full capacity tions, pilgrims should follow simple said. World Health Organisation or boiled and cooled water. Other ing symptoms, especially a fever in October. The Minister said he was pleased to visit Belarus to dis- ‘cough hygiene’ measures such as recommends that prior to travel, preventive steps include regular higher than 38 degrees Celsius, a cuss ways of enhancing cooperation between both countries. using tissue paper when coughing pilgrims should consult a health- use of high protection sunscreen cough or breathing problem, the Belarus president’s Assistant for National Security Affairs Viktor or sneezing and ensure that used care provider. (at least SPF 15), and carrying individual should seek immediate Lukashenko, Defence Minister Andrei Ravkov, senior officials and busi- tissues are disposed of carefully. “Certain people may postpone umbrellas to shade away sunlight. assistance from any urgent care nessmen attended the ceremony. The cost of the project has reached “Washing hands frequently with pilgrimage for their safety. This Whenever feasible, it is advisable centre. THE PENINSULA about $160m. Its implementation began in 2012. QNA MONDAY 6 JULY 2015 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Heart Hospital opens new advanced unit Home telemonitoring introduced for patients

DOHA: With the introduction clinic consultations, diagnostic Heart failure is a chronic, of a new technology, a health tools such as electrocardiography progressive condition where team at Heart Hospital will be and X-ray, assessment and re- the heart is unable to pump out able to monitor a patient’s vital assessment, short stay admission, enough oxygen-rich blood to signs and general condition pharmacy counselling, patient meet the body’s needs, resulting while the latter is at home. education, inpatient consultation in occasional fatigue, shortness of ‘Home telemonitoring’ has and education, and home telem- breath and other symptoms that been introduced as part of a new onitoring services. would prompt a hospital visit. Advanced Heart Failure Unit to He praised his team for the This can be caused by condi- provide specialised multi-discipli- development of the unit and said, tions such as coronary artery nary care for people living with “We had our soft opening this disease (narrowed arteries in the advanced heart failure at Heart March and are looking to further heart), high blood pressure, dia- Dr Amr Badr, Cardiology Consultant and Director, Advanced Heart Failure Programme, with the healthcare team Hospital. developing services to ensure we betes and obesity. at Advanced Heart Failure Unit. Home telemonitoring will also provide the best possible care Heart failure in its early reduce the need for hospital visits. for our increasing number of stages can often be managed Professor William McKenna, the hospital. of the unit. Marshall said, “The Dr Amr Badr, Cardiology patients.” with medication and a healthy CEO and Medical Director of Catherine Marshall, Director of unit plays a role in attending to Consultant and Director, He said the number of heart lifestyle. However, as the disease the hospital, said this highlights Nursing at the hospital, praised patients’ physical, emotional and Advanced Heart Failure failure patients seeking care at progresses, the heart becomes the need for advanced heart fail- the team behind the clinic, par- psychological needs, and bettering Programme, said the unit with the hospital increased from 68 in weaker, and treatment becomes ure care linked to an integrated ticularly nurses under the leader- their quality of life. state-of-the-art equipment offers 2012 to 1,278 last year. more complex. heart failure programme within ship of Hajer Abdulla, Head Nurse THE PENINSULA Mövenpick, Katara Hall host 400 clients for Ramadan DOHA: Mövenpick Hotel West international delicacies. The Bay Doha and Katara Hall famous Mövenpick ice cream hosted a Ramadan corporate was on the dessert menu and, as event for guests, suppliers and always, was a hit. supporters. Katara Hall was transformed The event for about 400 guests into a Ramadan paradise, with was held at Katara Hall in decorations for the event. Guests Cultural Village, which is man- were entertained with a tradi- aged by the hotel. tional tanoura performance and Organised to appreciate corpo- oriental tunes from a live band. rate clients, the event highlighted “We are privileged to welcome current upgrades and changes our clients to the event and the hotel has gone through and treat them to some first-class improvements in Katara Hall, entertainment and Suhoor as a along with a celebration of the thank you for their support,” said holy month. Ghada Sadek, General Manager, Guests enjoyed international Mövenpick Hotel West Bay Doha. dishes prepared by the hotel’s Lucky guests left with prizes chefs and live cooking stations from a raffle draw, including from all over the world, tak- electronic gadgets, hotel vouch- ing them on a culinary journey ers, and discounts from Gulf Air, Officials at the event. for Suhoor. The menu featured among others. oriental favourites and delicious THE PENINSULA Commercial Bank unveils new Internet banking website DOHA: Commercial Bank has and easier way to bank online. their shortcuts so that announced the launch of a new The website uses innovative tech- their favourite services Internet banking website. nologies to deliver the best online are always available from Featuring first-to-market tech- banking experience. Banking serv- any page quickly and nologies, the website aims to ices can be quickly found using an easily. enhance customers’ online experi- optimised navigation system and Managing accounts and ence when banking at home or on a new digital tips section helps making payments have the move. customers make the most of their never been easier with Customers who register for online journey. new payment reminders Internet banking receive a person- They can also personalise experi- that automatically remind alised platform that delivers a faster ence using quick links to manage customers of everyday or annual bills to be paid. Transfers using Internet banking have been enhanced, with local transfers completed online free for customers and, with a new ‘top trans- fers’ feature, customers’ frequent transfers can quickly be repeated with a click. A new ‘spend dis- tribution’ breakdown of customers’ credit card spending habits also makes managing personal finances easy. Internet banking cus- tomers automatically have access to the bank’s advanced mobile bank- ing app which provides services for a seamlessly convenient banking experience. Available on iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows smartphone, it is rated the best financial app in Qatar by users on app stores and profes- sionals by ranking service AppTweak. Abdulla Saleh Al Raisi, CEO of the bank, said: “In the current banking envi- ronment, the ability to compete with secure, easy to use and convenient dig- ital services is paramount. “The bank is proud to be the pioneers of Internet and mobile banking inno- vations in Qatar and our new website delivers the best online banking expe- rience in the region for our customers,” Al Raisi added. THE PENINSULA MONDAY 6 JULY 2015 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05

Qatar submits ratification instrument to WIPO GENEVA: Qatar yesterday adopted by the Diplomatic Nations and other interna- deposited at World Intellectual Conference on the Protection tional organisations in Geneva Property Organisation of Audiovisual Performances Faisal bin Abdullah Al Henzab (WIPO) the instrument of rat- in Beijing in June 2012. presented it to WIPO Director- ification of the Beijing Treaty Qatar’s Permanent General Francis Gurry. on Audiovisual Performances Representative to the United QNA THE One distributes Iftar packets to 1,500 workers

Officials and guests at the event. SAK hosts Iftar for staff Deputy CEO Al Najjar honours employees

DOHA: SAK Holding Group to securing three world-class and employees in all subsidiaries hosted annual Iftar banquet at accreditations for the group and because we believe it is important Ezdan Hotel for employees and employees of the month for their to entrench communications and their families. dedication, commitment and build the proper working environ- Engineer Hesham Al Sahtari, productivity. ment to boost production. CEO, SAK Holding Group, Abdul The children’s segment Al Najjar said: ““The annual Rahman Al Najjar, Deputy CEO, included games, face painting, Iftar is an opportunity for social managers of the Group’s subsidi- entertainment and other verities. and humanitarian convergence Workers queue up to collect Iftar packets. aries, guests and journalists were Al Sahtari said the Group is with our clients, stakeholders, present. committed to organising such business partners, affiliates, dig- Al Najjar presented certifi- gatherings to achieve coherence nitaries and government officials. DOHA: THE One Qatar team salary for the initiative. gathered to break fast with us. cates to staff who contributed and harmony between officials THE PENINSULA repeated its 2014 initiative of Together with THE One’s Qatar Men from different nationalities, reaching out to the community Restaurant, they planned, bought young and old, flooded through during Ramadan and distrib- and put together 1,500 packages our gates to receive Iftar pack- uted food packages to labourers containing juices, cakes, fruit, piz- ages. Many asked us why we were from nearby accommodations at zas and sandwiches. doing this. The answer is simple: Ministry ‘keen to support CMC work’ Iftar time. Gaby Salomé, General Manager, The One cares.” All staff donated one day’s THE One Qatar, said: “Thousands THE PENINSULA Continued from page 1 disseminate the culture of partici- as well as finding solutions for Addressing the opening ses- pation in municipal work to serve challenges which hinder its work, sion, the Minister greeted the citizens and achieve public ben- he added. On Thursday, Emir new members and stressed the efit. The Ministry of Municipality H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad importance of developing the and Urban Planning is keen to Al Thani issued Decree No. 38 for work of the CMC in line with the support the CMC through ongo- 2015 inviting the CMC to meet McDonald’s hosts children directives of the leadership to ing assessments and discussions yesterday. THE PENINSULA for Garangao at its branches DOHA: McDonald’s Qatar celebrated the traditional fes- tival of children — Garangao — by welcoming kids and their parents to enjoy festivities at its branches at Suhaim bin Hamad, Airport, Landmark Mall, Ras Abu Aboud, Rayyan 2, Muaither, Tebah, Woqood, Gharaffa, Lagoona Mall, Barwa, Al Meera, Mesaieed and Barwa City. The play area and drive- through was filled with cheers and Garangao songs by children dressed in traditional and colour- ful clothes. Qatari and expatriate Children with their goodies at one of McDonald’s branches. children enjoyed activities, includ- ing games and a workshop at the to children dressed in the best and Garangao captures the ethos branches as they walked around traditional clothes. of the holy month and our rich collecting bags packed with nuts Kamal Saleh Al Mana, cultural heritage. “We are com- and candies. McDonald’s char- Managing Director, Al Mana mitted to playing an active role in acters added to the festive appeal Restaurants & Food Co., the owner promoting community initiatives as they entertained and showered and operator of McDonald’s res- and raising awareness of noble children with surprises. taurants in Qatar, said: “Ramadan causes throughout Qatar.” Special gifts were distributed is the time for giving and sharing THE PENINSULA Babyshop offers Ramadan collection DOHA: Babyshop has announced its festive Ramadan collection, featuring embroider- ies and dresses and skirts for girls. Girls can also opt for flo- ral prints, sateen cotton fabrics and soft feminine pastels. The range includes full skirts and cap sleeves on tops and dresses. The assortment also features trending fabrics such as lace, with a palette of neutrals and metallic tones on necklines. Boys are offered an extensive range of smart and relaxed casual wear. A wide colour palette offer- ing classic cuts in neutral shades, navy, chambray, blue, beige and white are available. The same tones dominate the line of shirts and coordinated waistcoats. Santosh Pai, COO, Landmark Group Qatar, said: “Babyshop lev- erages the spirit of Ramadan to offer customers a unique ward- robe. As the holy month falls during the summer months, the collection integrates soft colours and comfort.” The collection provides mix- and-match options at affordable prices for children aged up to 16 Babyshop’s collection complements the season. years. THE PENINSULA MONDAY 6 JULY 2015 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MIDDLE EAST South Sudan Syria army enters last rebel bastion promises Intense clashes in Zabadani probe into BEIRUT: Syrian government and were also shelling it heavily, forces backed by fighters from said the Britain-based monitor- atrocities Lebanon’s Hezbollah entered ing group. At least 14 pro-govern- the town of Zabadani yester- ment and Hezbollah fighters had JUBA: South Sudan’s govern- day in a bid to take the last been killed in the past 24 hours, ment said yesterday that it was rebel-held bastion along the along with at least 12 rebels and investigating United Nations Lebanese border. a civilian, it added. allegations that its troops raped Elsewhere, at least 30 people, The official SANA news agency then burnt girls alive inside including six civilians, were killed said it had killed “dozens of ter- their homes during recent fight- in some of the heaviest US-led air rorists,” a term the regime uses ing in the country’s civil war. strikes yet on the Islamic State to describe its armed opponents. In a report released on (IS) group in Syria. And the jihad- Zabadani was one of the first Tuesday, rights investigators from ist group carried out a double car towns to fall into rebel hands, in the UN mission in South Sudan bomb attack that killed 11 people in early 2012, and is now the opposi- (UNMISS) said the 18-month-old northwestern Hasakeh city, where tion’s only remaining stronghold war had seen “new brutality and regime forces have been fighting to along the Lebanese border. intensity”, including gang rape, fend off an IS assault. The town is strategically torture and gruesome murders. Syrian state television and important for the regime in part “We have read the report and Hezbollah’s Al Manar station because of its proximity to the these egregious acts could only announced the advance into capital and the highway that runs have been carried out by egregious Zabadani yesterday, a day after a from Damascus to Beirut. individuals. Our army punishes major operation against it began. Zabadani has been under siege with impunity any acts that deviate “Heroic army forces in coopera- for more than a year, and most from the normal conducts of war,” tion with the Lebanese resistance of the civilians have already fled, South Sudan’s military spokesman took control of the Al Jamaiyat according to activists. Philip Aguer said in a statement. neighbourhood in western Alwan, an activist from “Our army was created to pro- Zabadani and the Al Sultana neigh- Zabadani who now lives outside Men walk amid the rubble and debris in the Qadi Askar district of Aleppo yesterday. tect our women and children, bourhood in the east of the city,” Syria, said there were still thou- ensure their safety and their state television said. “Operations sands of civilians in the east of the Observatory said the raids killed to manoeuvre,” coalition chief in the city of Palmyra. dignity. If in fact the UN report are continuing with dozens of ter- town and many wounded people. at least 30 people, among them six of staff Brigadier General Kevin The execution-style murders is accurate, then the few individu- rorists killed and wounded.” “I don’t know what their fate will civilians including a child. Killea said. “These strikes pro- had been reported earlier, in the als responsible for these heinous The Syrian Observatory for be,” he said. The town is in the The US-led coalition said the vide the forces on the ground days after IS seized the city from crimes have brought shame to the Human Rights said regime Qalamun region. strikes were some of its heaviest the opportunity to act decisively government forces on May 21, but SPLA and that will not be toler- forces and Hezbollah had entered Elsewhere in Syria, the US-led since it began bombing the IS in against Daesh.” the video was the first evidence of ated,” he added. The spokesman Zabadani and intense clashes were coalition said it carried out 18 Syria in September last year. The raids came after IS released the killings. More than 230,000 said “anyone deemed to have par- underway in its east and west. air strikes against IS’s de facto “The coalition conducted a video on Saturday showing boys people have been killed in Syria ticipated in these horrific crimes Army helicopters dropped at Syrian capital of Raqa, destroy- multiple air strikes in northern and teenagers killing 25 Syrian sol- since anti-government protests will be brought to justice before least 22 barrel bombs on the town ing vehicles and bridges. The Syria to deny Daesh’s freedom diers in the ancient amphitheatre erupted in March 2011. AFP our court system and before God”. Civil war began in December 2013 when President Salva Kiir accused his former deputy Riek Machar of planning a coup, set- Iran deploys home-built ting off a cycle of retaliatory kill- ings that have split the country along ethnic lines. long-range radar system The government side, the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA), launched a major offensive against DUBAI: Iran says it has deployed (MAV) ... is one of the special rebel forces in April, with fierce a new domestically built long- qualities of the Ghadir radar fighting in northern Unity state’s range radar system, signalling a system.” northern Mayom district. strengthening of its air defences Iran has taken steps to develop The UN report was based on as it holds what may be the final its air defences after US and horrific accounts from 115 victims days of talks on a nuclear deal Israeli officials warned of possi- and eyewitnesses. Investigators with world powers. ble military action to curtail its said they had collected at least Brigadier General Farzad nuclear programme, and is in nine separate incidents where Esmaili, commander of the discussions to buy the advanced “women and girls were burnt in Islamic Revolutionary Guards S-300 ground-to-air missile sys- tukuls (huts) after being gang- Corps’ (IRGC) air defence force, tem from Russia. raped” as well as scores of cases unveiled the Ghadir phased-array Top US commander General of sexual violence, which included radar in Ahwaz city in southwest- Martin Dempsey in April said numerous cases of mothers raped ern Khuzestan province near the the ‘military option’ against Iran in front of their children. Iraq border, state television said remains intact. The United States Others were simply “shot and late on Saturday. and Israel fear Iran is trying to killed” after being gang-raped, it Iran says the Ghadir unit obtain a nuclear weapon. Iran added. Rebel forces have also been is designed and manufactured says its nuclear programme is for accused of carrying out wide- entirely inside the country and peaceful purposes. spread atrocities, including rape, can detect a plane at 600km (373 Iran and world powers made killings and, like the government, miles) and a ballistic missile at progress in nuclear talks on the recruitment of armies of child 1,100km. Saturday, but remained divided soldiers. The rebels reported fresh In comments suggesting the on issues such as lifting United clashes in northern Upper Nile radar can also identify miniature Nations sanctions and the devel- State and a helicopter gunship had unmanned drone aircraft, Esmaili opment of advanced centrifuges. been shot down during an attempt was quoted by the Fars news Negotiators have given themselves by government troops to retake the agency as saying: “Discovering until July 7 to reach a deal. state capital of Malakal. and tracking micro aerial vehicles REUTERS AFP IS bombers strike in Iraqi refinery town BAGHDAD: Islamic Jabouri said there had been State suicide bombers a pattern of withdrawals and fighters attacked the by Islamic State fighters centre of Iraq’s north- in the town followed by ern oil refinery town of counter-offensives. Baiji overnight, forcing Army officers said the the army and Shia fight- army and Hashd groups ers to pull back, military were preparing a response. sources and the local “IS fighters are still hold- mayor said yesterday. ing positions in three The town of Baiji and its neighbourhoods in Baiji refinery — Iraq’s largest — and they are still receiv- have been a battlefront ing reinforcements,” said for more than a year. The one of the army colonels. hardline Islamists seized In Anbar province west the town in June 2014 as of Baghdad, witnesses said they swept through much two rockets hit a crowd in of northern Iraq towards the Islamic State-controlled the capital Baghdad. provincial capital Ramadi Control of Baiji neigh- on Saturday evening, kill- bourhoods has changed ing at least 18 people. hands many times dur- They said a group of peo- ing the conflict. The lat- ple had gathered after the est Islamic State offensive daily Ramadan fast to play comes after authorities said Muhaibis, a game where they controlled nearly the players have to identify a whole town and expected to member of the opposing drive insurgents from the team who is hiding a ring. refinery within days. “I heard a blast and saw The militants attacked fire coming from Dolphin around 1700 GMT on Square. I ran to the place Saturday with two sui- and saw vehicles carrying cide car bombings. The bodies and wounded cov- blasts were followed by ered with blood. They were fierce clashes that lasted innocent people playing a until midnight and drove ring game; they were not the army and mainly Shia making bombs,” said Haj Hashd Shaabi forces from Thamir Ahmed, a Ramadi the centre of town. resident who lives nearby. Baiji mayor Mahmoud Al REUTERS MONDAY 6 JULY 2015 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Egypt plans legal action over ‘false’ death tolls Press syndicate denounces new anti-terrorism law

CAIRO: Egypt may take legal action against journalists who 63 militants killed in North Sinai report “false” military death tolls in jihadist attacks that contra- CAIRO: Egypt’s military launched air strikes and ground opera- dict official statements, if a new tions that killed 63 Islamist militants in North Sinai yesterday, anti-terrorism law is approved, security sources said, as the country grapples with an increasingly officials said yesterday. ambitious insurgency based in the region. Security sources said President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, troops killed the 63 in villages between the towns of Sheikh Zuweid who called for tougher laws fol- and Rafah. The army found four militant hideouts and attacked lowing the assassination of his top them with Apache helicopters and ground troops. It also attacked prosecutor last week, is expected vehicles belonging to the militants, the security sources added. to approve the law within days. Egypt’s interior ministry said that it had arrested 12 Brotherhood The cabinet has already approved members who had formed three cells with the intention of carrying the draft law. The country’s press out attacks on policemen, soldiers and military and police bases. Also, syndicate has denounced the law, the prosecutors referred to trial 22 people charged with planting saying it amounted to censorship. bombs near targets including the high court and cabinet buildings, Article 33 of the draft law, pub- state news agency MENA reported. REUTERS lished in several Egyptian news- papers, stipulates a minimum United Nations Special Envoy for Yemen Ismail Ould Cheikh Ahmed (centre) arrives at the International Airport two-year sentence for “reporting Zind said such reports affected law. “This is a dangerous article of Sana’a yesterday. false information on terrorist the “morale” of the country. “There that violates the constitution,” the attacks that contradicts official was no choice but to impose some union said in a statement. statements”. The law also opens standards,” he said. “The govern- “It violates the reporter’s right up the possibility of deportation ment has the duty to defend citi- to seek information from various Fighting grips Aden as UN and house arrest. zens from wrong information. I sources... it allows the executive Two officials, including Justice hope no one interprets this as a authorities to act as censors, and Minister Ahmed Al Zind, con- restriction on media freedoms. the judges of truth,” it said. The firmed the wording of the law. It’s just about numbers (in death government has been accused of Zind said the law was prompted tolls),” he said. “If the army says stifling press freedoms over the envoy presses truce bid in part by coverage of Islamic 10 died, don’t report 20.” past two years. State group attacks on Egyptian The country has been fight- In a report last month, the ADEN: Fighting gripped March and has been a key bat- humanitarian truce” which could soldiers in the Sinai Peninsula ing a jihadist insurgency in Sinai Committee to Protect Journalists Yemen’s second city Aden yes- tleground ever since. pave the way for a “peaceful set- on July 1. since the army, then led by Sisi, said reporters faced “unprec- terday as the UN envoy arrived In neighbouring Lahj province, tlement of the crisis which has The military spokesman said 21 overthrew Islamist president edented threats” in Egypt, with in the rebel-held capital Sana’a to Hadi loyalists attacked a rebel turned into a catastrophe.” On soldiers and more than 100 mili- Mohamed Mursi in 2013. The a record number behind bars, press efforts to broker a ceasefire. gathering, killing 11, military Wednesday, the UN declared tants were killed in the attacks attacks have killed hundreds of mostly for links to Mursi’s black- Saudi-led warplanes bombed sources said. They also attacked Yemen a level three emergency, and ensuing clashes, after secu- policemen and soldiers, while listed Muslim Brotherhood. rebel positions, killing eight peo- the rebel-held Al Anad air base, the highest on its scale. rity officials said dozens more more than 1,400 people, mostly Two reporters in Egypt, includ- ple, while rebel rocket fire killed Yemen’s largest. Eight rebels and More than 21.1 million people — soldiers had been killed. Mursi supporters, have been ing Canadian Mohamed Fahmy, six, including a child, officials said. two Hadi loyalists were killed, the over 80 percent of Yemen’s popu- The government has accused killed in a crackdown on protests. are on trial for their work with The dead from the Katyusha sources said. lation — are in need of aid, with foreign media who reported the Much of the media in Egypt the Qatari broadcaster Al Jazeera. fire were Somali refugees who had UN envoy Ismail Ould Cheikh 13 million facing food shortages. higher death toll of exaggerating has been supportive of the gov- A third, Australian Peter Greste, sought shelter in a kindergarten, Ahmed arrived in Sana’a for talks More than 2,800 people have troop casualties. “The day of the ernment, but the country’s has been deported. They were all medics said. with the rebels and their allies been killed in the impoverished attack in Sinai some sites pub- Journalists Syndicate condemned initially sentenced to up to 10 years Aden was the last refuge of on his ceasefire plans. He told Arabian Peninsula country since lished 17, then 25, then 40, then what it called “new restrictions in prison but later won a retrial. President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi reporters at the airport that he March, according to UN figures. 100 dead,” Zind said. on press freedoms” in the draft AFP before he fled to Saudi Arabia in was hoping “rapidly to secure a AFP New details emerge about Tunisia gunman’s past TUNIS: The Tunisian jihadist behind a furled beach umbrella and went on a “I can’t believe it. Once there was a The attack on the beach and around Caid Essebsi declared a state of emer- last month’s massacre of foreigners at shooting spree outside a five-star hotel. mouse in the house and I asked Seifeddine the swimming pools of the Riu Imperial gency, saying the attack had left Tunisia a seaside resort had previously worked The attack at Port El Kantaoui, north to kill it and he refused saying, ‘I can’t Marhaba Hotel was claimed by the facing a “special type of war”. in tourism, officials said yesterday, as of Sousse, killed 30 Britons, three Irish kill anything’. Islamic State group. The measure, effective from Saturday his mother insisted the young man was nationals, two Germans, one Belgian, one “God bless the victims, all those people The authorities have admitted that the for a 30-day period, allows authorities “brainwashed”. Portuguese and a Russian. Rezgui was and their poor families, and I feel so sorry transformation of an apparently normal to bar strike action and public meetings In an interview, Prime Minister shot dead by police. Both the authori- but I want to tell them it wasn’t my son young man caused amazement in Tunisia. deemed dangerous to public order and to Habib Essid revealed more details about ties and relatives later described him as who did this, it was another Seifeddine,” Essid pledged to La Presse “substan- increase controls on the media. 23-year-old Seifeddine Rezgui, who having been an apparently normal young she said. tive work... on culture and education”, in “There is a real fear that declaring the gunned down 38 foreign tourists in the man who had been keen on breakdancing. She said he was “a victim like all the addition to economic reforms. “We now state of emergency will lead to the crimi- June 26 attack. “We know he was a mem- His mother Radhia Manai, 49, told others”. A resident near where his par- know what causes individuals to become nalisation of social protests,” said Hamza ber of a dance club and was familiar with Britain’s Sunday Times that her son must ents live in the town of Gaafour had involved in extremism, be it financial dif- Meddeb of the Carnegie Middle East the tourism sector, having worked in it have been “brainwashed” by extremists previously said that Rezgui worked “in ficulties or religious ideology,” he said. Centre. “The problem in Tunisia is the lack as an events organiser,” Essid told the as previously he would not have hurt a tourism in the area of Kantaoui”, where “We are also studying ways of ‘deradi- of a national anti-terrorism strategy that French-language newspaper La Presse. mouse. “When they told me my son had the attack is thought to have been calising’ our young people who return would put in place real intelligence gather- Tourists fled in horror as Rezgui pulled killed all these people I said no, it’s impos- planned, although there had been no from Syria.” On Saturday, eight days ing and control of sensitive sites,” he said. a Kalashnikov assault rifle from inside sible,” she said. confirmation of this from another source. after the deadly rampage, President Beji AFP Lion cubs relocated Kuwait mulls charging more from Gaza to Jordan than 40 over mosque bomb GAZA CITY: Two lions giving the animals to the KUWAIT CITY: Kuwait is con- of them or not,” the official said. The cubs were yesterday Jordanian sanctuary for sidering charging more than 40 Saudi bomber killed 26 people and taken from a Gaza Strip free. people in connection with a deadly wounded 227 in the June 26 attack refugee camp to Jordan, British animal welfare suicide bombing in a Shia mosque in the capital Kuwait City. their former owner said, group Four Paws, which claimed by the Islamic State group, Among the defendants are the after their maintenance facilitated the move, said a security official said yesterday. alleged driver of the bomber and the became too great a finan- last month it was seek- “More than 40 suspects, including a alleged owner of the house where cial burden. ing to rescue the cubs number of women, have been referred the driver stayed. Last month’s “We’re very sad. The two from their “hugely inap- to the public prosecution,” the official attack was the first in the emirate lions were like children to propriate situation” in said. “Now, it is up to the prosecution to be claimed by IS, which controls us,” Saadi Jamal said of which they were grow- whether to press charges against all swathes of Iraq and Syria. AFP the five-month old male ing to be a threat to their and female big cats named surroundings. Max and Mona. COGAT, the Israeli Jamal, a Palestinian defence ministry unit that Authority security coordinates with Gaza, employee who lives in the announced yesterday Rafah refugee camp in that it had coordinated southern Gaza and is a the transfer of Max and father to six, had planned Mona to Jordan through to make some money by Israel. leasing the lions out to In September, Four Paws amusement parks, seaside facilitated the transfer of resorts and restaurants. three lions from Al-Bisan Feeding them cost Jamal zoo in Gaza to Jordan after about 120 shekels ($32) a the zoo came under heavy day, he said, a tall order fire during the 50-day in Israeli-blockaded Gaza conflict which ended on where prices have soared August 26. since a devastating war Four Paws said Max and last summer with the Mona’s parents were most Jewish state. likely smuggled into Gaza He also failed to con- by underground tunnels vince the Hamas rulers from Egypt. It estimated of the Palestinian enclave there were currently 40 big to provide him land on cats in Gaza. which he could establish a Jamal said he had asked zoo for the lions and other Four Paws to help him visit animals. Max and Mona in Jordan. Jamal said he was AFP MONDAY 6 JULY 2015 08 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com EUROPE / AMERICAS

Peru declares Osborne zeroes emergency in 14 regions on in on £12bn El Nino worries

LIMA: Peru has declared a 60-day state of emergency in welfare cuts towns in 14 regions to brace for possible damage from the climate pattern El Nino in the rainy season, state media UK to present budget on Wednesday reported yesterday. Peru has forecast a “moderate LONDON: Chancellor George government spending. to strong” El Nino in the winter Osborne yesterday said he had But the opposition Labour season and has not ruled out an found all £12bn of welfare cuts Party warned against “self- extraordinary event in the sum- he needs as part of his plan defeating” spending cuts. mer, which begins in December to balance the current budget “On the deficit we need, of in the southern hemisphere. The by 2017-18, speaking ahead of course, sensible savings but I want phenomenon, a warming of Pacific his budget announcement on to see proper welfare reforms, sea-surface temperatures, has Wednesday. proper public services that aren’t wreaked havoc on local fishing in The budget is Prime Minister self-defeating, that aren’t going to Peru and triggered landslides in David Cameron’s Conservatives’ cost much more for the country years past. clearest chance in almost two in the long term,” Labour spokes- Britain’s Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge (second right), Britain’s Prince William, Duke of Cambridge (centre left) The emergency declaration decades to remould Britain into man Chris Leslie told the BBC. and their son Prince George of Cambridge (centre) arrive with Princess Charlotte of Cambridge, in her pram for orders authorities to take action a low-tax, small-state economy Economist Howard Archer at Charlotte’s Christening at St. Mary Magdalene Church in Sandringham, England, yesterday. to prepare for the “imminent after an unexpectedly decisive IHS Global Insight said Osborne’s danger” of El Nino and unusual election victory. political incentive to deliver the climate conditions, state news To meet his target, Osborne cuts straight after the election agency Andina said. says he needs to cut the annual was to give himself the fiscal room The regions placed under the welfare bill by £12bn ($18.69bn), to cut taxes or increase spending Britain’s Princess Charlotte state of emergency include several make £13bn of departmental before the next election, in 2020. key fishing and mining areas. spending reductions, and to raise Osborne said that households Unusually warm waters linked an extra £5bn by clamping down outside London would be subject christened in intimate ceremony to El Nino led catches of cold- on tax evasion and avoidance. to a lower cap than previously water anchovy to plummet last “We have found that £12bn of thought on the total amount of year, helping drag down economic savings in welfare that we said benefits they can receive. The LONDON: Britain’s Princess princess since she appeared on the crown jewels and pouring holy growth to the weakest pace in five we’d be able to find,” Osborne cap will be reduced to £23,000 Charlotte was christened in an the steps of a London hospital water from the River Jordan on years. Peru is the world’s top pro- said on BBC television, without for those in London, in line with intimate ceremony yesterday, after her birth on May 2. the baby’s head. The fourth-in- ducer of fishmeal — animal feed specifying full details. pre-election promises, but he did in the royal baby’s second pub- Charlotte arrived for the cer- line to the throne wore a replica made of ground-up anchovy — “We’ve got to have a welfare not set out the lower ceiling that lic appearance since her birth emony in a vintage pram used of the lace and satin christening and a major exporter of copper, system that is fair to those who would apply elsewhere. nine weeks ago to proud parents by Queen Elizabeth for her own gown made for queen Victoria’s gold and silver. REUTERS need it, but also fair to those who He said those on high incomes Prince William and Kate. children in the past, pushed by eldest daughter in 1841. Prince pay for it.” in subsidised local authority hous- Just 21 guests attended the her mother Kate, who wore an George, who turns two later this Signalling possible areas for ing would have to start paying low-key baptism held inside the elegant cream outfit and hat. month, wore red shorts and a cuts, he said tax credits, used to closer to the market rental rates. 16th century Church of St Mary “When I found out the chris- white embroidered shirt. Wildfire in top up earnings for the low-paid, The Sunday Times reported that Magdalene on the country estate tening was happening while we Three future kings — Charles, had become a “very, very expen- Osborne plans to launch a £650m of the baby’s great-grandmother were here I knew I just had to be William and George — attended northern Spain sive system” and that housing ben- raid on the BBC to help cover the Queen Elizabeth II, as crowds there,” said Laurie Spencer, 52, the ceremony, which was per- efits were a “major component” of country’s benefits bill. REUTERS waited outside. from Florida, who gave up a ticket formed using a font from MADRID: A wildfire in north- Overnight campers and early to the British Grand Prix to join Victoria’s reign. Other guests ern Spain’s Aragon region has risers, many wearing Union Jack- the crowds. included the 89-year-old queen ravaged around 19,700 acres of printed clothing, had braved wet Prime Minister David Cameron and her husband Prince Philip, pine and brush and forced some weather to get a prime spot on joined in the festivities, writing plus Kate’s parents, Carole and 1,500 people to evacuate their UK’s biggest union backs the paddock outside the church “My best wishes to the Duke and Michael Middleton. homes, local authorities said at Sandringham estate in Norfolk, Duchess of Cambridge on Princess The Duke and Duchess of yesterday. leftist to lead Labour Party eastern England, ahead of the Charlotte’s Christening today” on Cambridge have said they want About 500 rescue workers and 4:30 pm (1530 GMT) service. his Twitter page. their children to have relatively firefighters have been deployed to LONDON: The British Labour Party’s biggest financial backer, William and Kate walked to Archbishop of Canterbury normal upbringings and have fight the blaze, which broke out on trade union Unite, yesterday backed left-wing lawmaker Jeremy the service from a nearby royal Justin Welby, the spiritual head of closely guarded their privacy, Saturday, as well as 26 planes and Corbyn to be the party’s new leader. residence with Charlotte and her the world’s Anglicans, performed bringing them up in the secluded helicopters. Labour is searching for a new leader after Ed Miliband resigned brother George, giving the public the baptism, using the ornate sil- mansion Anmer Hall, close to the The flames have not yet been in May on the back of the party’s heaviest election defeat in dec- their second glimpse of the little ver gilt Lily Font that is part of church. AFP brought under control. AFP ades, when voters instead backed Prime Minister David Cameron’s centre-right Conservatives. Unite, Britain’s biggest trade union, donated around £20m to the party between the 2010 election and the 2015 vote. Its bosses have threatened to withdraw support if Labour moves too far towards the political centre ground. “The backing for Jeremy Corbyn was in Pope heads to Quito to begin S America tour recognition that his policies were most closely aligned with those of Unite,” the union said in a statement following a vote of its elected executive committee. QUITO: Pope Francis headed festival. The Catholic Church has in Ecuador. Embattled President and Paraguay’s President Horacio Corbyn, 66, is regarded as an outsider to win the leadership con- to Quito yesterday to begin his about 1.2 billion followers globally, Rafael Correa, an avowed admirer Cartes. test, the outcome of which will determine if the party continues a first South American trip in two and Latin America represents the of Francis who describes himself Since he was elected pope in shift to the political left started by Miliband, or moves back towards years, for an eight-day tour of biggest portion of that population. as a “humanist Catholic of the March 2013, Francis has become the centre ground from which it won three elections between 1997 Ecuador, Bolivia and Paraguay But the region has seen declin- left,” has faced weeks of protests an outspoken advocate for the and 2005 under Tony Blair. highlighting the plight of the ing numbers as more people turn demanding his resignation over poor and on social and environ- Corbyn has won support from Labour’s sizeable left wing with poor on his home continent. to Protestant churches. “I want his policies, including an initiative mental issues. his call to reject austerity and for Labour to become a “rejuvenated, The 78-year-old pontiff from to bear witness to the joy of the to increase inheritance taxes. Last month, he urged the democratic mass social movement.” Argentina, the first pope from Gospel and bring God’s tender- Correa did not let the demon- world to act quickly to prevent The former trade union official is one of four candidates vying his “beloved South America,” left ness and care,” the pope said strations overshadow his enthu- “extraordinary” climate change for the leadership which will be decided by a ballot of Labour law- Rome early yesterday and was before leaving for South America. siasm for the papal visit. “We from destroying the planet. makers, party members and union members. The new leader will due to land in Ecuador’s capital “Especially children in need, are filled with joy at the coming In his ninth trip abroad, the be announced on September 12. Quito at 3:00 pm (2000 GMT). the elderly, the sick, the impris- of Pope Francis, the first Latin three countries the pope is visit- The other candidates are Liz Kendall, Andy Burnham and Yvette Francis’s last visit to South oned, the poor, those who are vic- American pope,” Correa said in ing are predominantly Catholic Cooper. Unite said Burnham, the bookies’ favourite, was their sec- America was a triumphant trip tims of this throwaway culture.” his weekly address. “How the and have long struggled with ond-preference candidate. Miliband relied on union support to defeat to Brazil in 2013 that culminated Francis, who is the first Jesuit Church is changing! What a poverty and inequality, which his more centrist brother David for the party leadership in 2010, with some three million people pope, will give a Holy Mass to strong message you are bringing.” especially afflict indigenous popu- but then led reform of the complex electoral college system which gathering in Rio de Janeiro along be broadcast in eight languages Correa will meet with the pope lations. Francis is due to deliver helped him win, in order to trim the role of unions. REUTERS Copacabana beach for a mass today. The papal visit coincides late today. Francis will also meet no less than 22 speeches on this at the end of a Catholic youth with a time of political tension with Bolivian leader Evo Morales tour. AFP Tackling the heat

A municipal watering cart sprays water to cool the streets in Andrassy Avenue in Budapest, Hungary, yesterday, when the highest daytime temperature reached 33-36 degrees Celsius throughout the country. The Hungarian health authority has issued the highest degree heat alert until Wednesday. MONDAY 6 JULY 2015 ASIA / AFRICA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09

South Korean official falls to Japan joins US-Aussie war games death in China BEIJING: An official dis- Forces challenge Chinese hegemony patched from Seoul to deal with the aftermath of a bus crash SYDNEY: The United States America are working very closely in China that killed 10 South and Australia kicked off a mas- together largely to account for Koreans was found dead early sive joint biennial military China,” John Lee, a China special- yesterday after falling from a exercise yesterday, with Japan ist at the University of Sydney, hotel, a local government said. taking part for the first time as said. The official, identified as Choi tensions with China over terri- “It’s definitely linked to the Doo-Yeong, was confirmed dead torial rows loom over the drills. notion that China is becoming after police were notified that a The two-week “Talisman more assertive and that it seems man had fallen from a four-storey Sabre” exercise in the Northern to be putting money into military hotel in the northeastern Chinese Territory and Queensland state capabilities to back up its assert- city of Jian, the city’s propaganda involves 30,000 personnel from iveness in the South China Sea in department said on its social the US and Australia practising particular.” media account. operations at sea, in the air and Beijing rejected US criticism The reason for the fall was on land. of its reclamation works in the under investigation, it said. Some 40 personnel from South China Sea during the Choi was president of the state- Japan’s army -- the Ground Self- annual Shangri-La Dialogue run Local Government Officials’ Defense Force (JGSDF) -- will meeting in May, saying it was just Development Institute and had join the American contingent, exercising its sovereignty. gone toChina after a bus carry- while more than 500 troops from The US has been pursuing a ing more than two dozen South New Zealand are also involved in foreign policy “pivot” towards Korean civil servants went off a the exercise, which concludes on Asia, which has rattled China, bridge in Jian on last Wednesday. July 21. and is rotating Marines through The crash killed 10 South “It is a very, very important northern Australia -- a move Koreans and their Chinese driver, alliance,” Prime Minister Tony announced by President Barack China’s state-run Xinhua news Abbott said in Sydney on board Obama in 2011. agency and South Korea’s Yonhap the USS Blue Ridge, which is tak- While Beijing would not be news agency reported. ing part in the exercise, referring pleased with Japan’s involvement The US and Australia kicked off a massive joint biennial military exercise yesterday with Japan taking part for the Xinhua said that Choi had to Australia-US ties. in the drills, it would also not be first time as tensions escalate with China over territorial waters in the Red sea. accompanied Chung Chae- “It’s a very important relation- surprised, experts said. Gun, vice minister at South ship and right now we are fac- Australia has stepped up deepening security relation- time, the US’s regional strategic “Undoubtedly it would be Korea’s Ministry of Government ing quite significant challenges its relationship with Japan in ship between Australia and relationships were evolving even received very well because all the Administration and Home Affairs, in many parts of the world but recent years and last July Abbott Japan,” Andrew Davies, a sen- before China’s recent actions, other countries are desperately to deal with the aftermath of the particularly in the Middle East.” described his counterpart Shinzo ior defence capability analyst at with a shift away from bilateral hoping that America and capable incident. The crash victims had The war games, being held for Abe as “a very, very close friend” the Australian Strategic Policy pacts towards multilateral alli- allies can actually work together been travelling on a training pro- the sixth time, come as China during a state visit to Canberra. Institute, said of Japan’s inclusion ances, Davies said. to counter China,” he said. Japan’s gramme organised by the insti- flexes its strategic and economic The Australian government is in the exercise. America’s other allies -- such involvement has in part also been tute, Yonhap said. muscle in the region. also considering buying Soryu- “It’s been a work in progress as Singapore, Malaysia, India, driven by domestic politics, Asian “It has not been confirmed “There’s subtle message going class submarines from Japan, for at least a decade now and it’s Vietnam and the Philippines -- security specialist Craig Snyder of whether Choi jumped from the out that at every level -- from which Lee said would be fully gathering pace, and Australia would be supportive of the exer- Deakin University said, as Abe’s hotel to his death or lost his foot- hardware to technical and stra- integrated with US weapons and Japan are looking for oppor- cise, as well as Australia and right-wing government tries to ing and fell,” said an official at the tegic expertise and cooperation systems. tunities to do things together in Japan’s activities in the region, increase Tokyo’s participation in South Korean ministry, according -- the main American allies and “It’s a continuation of a the military space.” At the same Lee added. regional security. AFP to Yonhap. Another government official quoted by Yonhap said that Choi “was known to have felt a heavy responsibility for the tragic acci- dent as the head of the institute”. Jian sits across the Yalu River 12 killed as dilapidated shoe Floods and blackout as from North Korea in Jilin prov- ince and is a popular destination for South Koreans visiting China Linfa storms Philippines as it hosts historical sites related factory collapses in China to an ancient kingdom that occu- MANILA: Floods inun- hampering communications. pied what is now the Korean dated towns in the northern The storm, packing maximum peninsula and northeast China. Philippines as Tropical Storm winds of 120 kilometres (75 miles) AFP Linfa struck the northern edge per hour, is moving northwest at of the archipelago, where relief nine kilometres per hour and is agencies were braced for disas- expected to curve northwards, ter yesterday. moving off Luzon by y evening. One more MERS The region’s civil defence chief National civil defence chief Chito Castro said that at least 11 Alexander Pama said “we have case in S Korea; coastal towns had been affected pre-positioned the items neces- by floodwaters and swelling riv- sary” in case the storm prompts tally rises to 186 ers as Linfa passed over the area. any massive evacuations. “The rain is strong, the wind is The disaster - plagued SEOUL: South Korea reported strong. Major roads are impassa- Philippines is hit by about 20 an additional case of Middle ble. Some houses are half-covered typhoons and storms each year, East Respiratory Syndrome (with water), some are completely many of them deadly. (MERS), bringing the total covered,” he told reporters. Among the worst in recent number of people diagnosed He said there were still no memory was Super Typhoon with the disease to 186. reports of casualties from the Haiyan, which struck the central The death toll from the viral storm, but this could be because Philippines in November 2013, respiratory disease stands at 33 the focus was on relief efforts. leaving more than 7,350 people as no fatalities have been reported Power has also been knocked dead or missing. over the past five days, the out in large areas of the north, AFP Ministry of Health and Welfare said. The latest case involved a 50-year-old woman whose hus- band had been infected with MERS while staying at the Malaysian opposition Samsung Medical Center on May 27 and 28. He was confirmed with the disease on June 12 and Rescue workers carry an injured man after a shoe factory building collapsed in Wenling, Zhejiang province, on released from the hospital last Saturday. for debate on graft Friday, the ministry said. The hospital run by Samsung BEIJING: Twelve people died a ‘bang’ and saw the building structures and facilities are old, KUALA LUMPUR: Two of minister over his handling of the Group has been responsible for after a shoe factory collapsed collapse.” safety procedures can be lax and Malaysia’s main opposition economy. nearly half of all infections here in eastern China, state media Yang added that water flowed rebuilding has not kept up with parties yesterday demanded However, the DAP and opposi- since the first outbreak on May reported Sunday, with more down from a large fishing pool the country’s remarkable eco- an emergency sitting of parlia- tion People’s Justice Party (PKR) 20. It is currently shut down than 40 escaping on their own on the roof of the building, while nomic growth. ment to discuss Prime Minister sought to stoke the furore, urg- indefinitely, said South Korean or being rescued. other employees said leaking China’s top safety watchdog in Najib Razak’s future as ten- ing the speaker of parliament’s Yonhap news agency. More than 50 people were water was reported before the May blamed poor construction sions mounted over a report lower house to call an emergency Out of the 186 people diagnosed in the four-storey building in building gave way, Xinhua said. and weak safety standards for a that linked him to probes into sitting. with MERS so far, 37 remain hos- the city of Wenling in Zhejiang A total of 53 fire trucks, 302 fire at a nursing home that left 38 alleged corruption involving DAP lawmaker Charles pitalized, while 12 of them are in province when it came down on rescuers and five rescue dogs people dead. state funds held with 1 Malaysia Santiago said he and 72 others, critical condition, according to Saturday afternoon, the official responded to the collapse, the In April, almost 30,000 people Development Berhad (1MDB). including representatives of polit- health officials. So far, 116 have Xinhua news agency reported. report said. were evacuated after a fire broke A Wall Street Journal (WSJ) ical parties and non-governmen- been discharged following com- Thirty-three suffered inju- Photos circulating on Chinese out in a Chinese chemical plant report published on last Friday tal organisations, had also lodged plete recoveries. ries, four of them serious, the social media showed a man being which blazed for nearly 50 hours said that investigators had traced a police report. The number of people under report said. Nine others escaped carried on a stretcher by what before the flames were finally nearly $700m to bank accounts 1MDB, whose advisory board quarantine measures for possible unharmed, it added. appeared to be police officers, extinguished. they believed belonged to the is chaired by Najib, has debt of contraction fell from 1,434 to 984, The cause of the collapse was while rescuers and other person- And in November, a fire at a prime minister. nearly $11.6bn. while a total of 15,158 have been being investigated. nel stood on top of the rubble. coal mine in northeastern China However, the pressure was Attorney-General Abdul Gani released from isolation, the min- “There was no premonition,” Building collapses and other killed 26 workers, in one of the back on him last Saturday after Patail said on last Saturday that istry said. the report quoted worker Yang industrial accidents are not country’s most highly accident- the attorney-general said he had a task force made up of members AGENCIES Zhongkun as saying. “I heard uncommon in China, where many prone industries. AFP received documents “connected of the anti-corruption commis- to allegations” that money was sion, police and central bank had transferred into Najib’s account. raided offices of three companiesv “With the attorney-general’s linked to the state investor. confirmation, the WSJ allega- The WSJ report said the two tion against Najib has assumed largest transactions, worth $620m Myanmar bomber convicted for 2013 hotel blast an even more serious character and $61m, were made in 2013 and import, sparking a politi- from a company registered in the YANGON: A Myanmar man appeared to target tourist spots. that he acted alone,” the news- of planting bombs, the Mirror cal and government crisis of British Virgin Islands via a Swiss has been sentenced to life in Yangon’s western district paper reported. The unnamed reported. the first magnitude never seen bank. Najib has accused former prison for planting a bomb that court on last Friday convicted American woman was taken to The 29-year-old was arrested in Malaysia’s 58-year history,” premier Mahathir Mohamad, an exploded two years ago inside Saw Myint Lwin of planting two hospital with wounds to her thigh days after the blast with police Lim Kit Siang, the opposition ally-turned-critic, of fanning alle- a luxury Yangon hotel wound- devices in the commercial hub, and her hand after the blast saying he stayed in the same room Democratic Action Party’s (DAP) gations he described as a lie. ing an American woman, state one of which was a small bomb ripped through a guest room in where the bomb was placed. parliamentary leader said. The home ministry has threat- media reported yesterday. that exploded inside the luxury the downtown hotel, which has But the the KNU leadership Members of Najib’s party, ened action against media pub- Myanmar was rattled by a Traders Hotel, the Mirror news- since been rebranded the Sule strenuously denied any involve- the United Malays National lishing inaccurate information series of small blasts across the paper reported. Shangri-La. ment in the blasts. Organisation (UMNO), have from unknown sources. country in October 2013 which “Saw Myint Lwin confessed Two other men were acquitted AFP closed ranks behind the prime REUTERS MONDAY 6 JULY 2015 10 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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GYPT is currently going through one of the worst periods of repression under President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi whose actions have invited criticism from Ehuman rights activists all over the world. Under the guise of protecting national security, his government Key issue in Iran N-talks could has been resorting to violent methods like the killing of political opponents. The latest is the cold-blooded murder of 13 Brotherhood activists, including a former MP, at a Cairo apartment. They were arrested at different locations and be resolved within months taken to the apartment, where they were shot dead. The crackdown, overseen by Sisi, initially targeted the BY KAREN DEYOUNG and his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad accord. Kerry and Zarif returned here supporters of the country’s first democratically-elected CAROL MORELLO Javad Zarif, were meeting in Vienna on a week ago for what officials have char- president Mohamed Mursi. Military actions against two Saturday, other ministers are expected acterised as the “endgame” of the talks. pro-Mursi camps, weeks after his overthrow in 2013, killed H head of the international to return today in hopes of meeting An initial deadline for completion thousands of innocent civilians. The crackdown later expanded nuclear watchdog group — tomorrow’s deadline. The United States of June 30 was extended to July 7, but to the jailing of secular activists who had not only revolted a day after returning from leads a six-member negotiating group negotiators hope that if agreement is Tehran — said that a report that includes Britain, France, Russia, to be reached it will come by Monday. against Mubarak but had backed Sisi in ousting Mursi. T documenting Iran’s past nuclear activi- China and Germany. Both President Obama and Kerry have Rights groups accuse the authorities of using the judiciary to ties could be completed by the end of Each element of a potential agree- said repeatedly that the United States suppress dissent. Mass death sentences pronounced by judges, the year. ment is being first hammered out by is prepared to walk away if a “good deal” making a mockery of the judicial system, has been widely The report is a key part of the agree- teams of experts before discussions on cannot be achieved. condemned by the international community. ment currently being negotiated here a political level. Under compromise legislation agreed Egypt’s North Sinai, bordering Israel, has become the between Iran and the United States “Even if and when issues get resolved with Congress, Obama has until July 10 and other world powers. While some at an experts level, there will remain to transmit to lawmakers the text of an epicentre of militancy where Ansar Bait Al Maqdis, which critics of the potential accord have said some open issues that can only be agreement and all annexes, along with has changed its name to Sinai Province after affiliating with Iran must specify its “possible military decided by ministers,” the official said. written assurance by Kerry that Iran the Islamic State (IS), is most active. Insurgency in the Sinai, dimensions” as part of a final deal, the Some key decisions will also have to be has verifiably stopped all work toward aimed at toppling the Cairo Obama administration has indicated sent back to capitals for final approval, developing a nuclear weapon. government, has intensified since it would be satisfied with whatever another US official said. The legislation allows Congress 30 The Egyptian the army ousted Mursi. Recently, arrangement is “We are trying to narrow the number days to review the documents — and reached between of issues that have to be dealt with by vote a resolution of disapproval if it government the group launched a coordinated Tehran and the ministers as far as we possibly can,” the so chooses — before any sanctions are assault on military checkpoints in International second official said. “There are literally lifted. If the documents arrive after July must redraw North Sinai, leading to a day-long Atomic Energy hundreds of small decisions that have 10, that period increases to 60 days. its strategy by fighting which left more than 100 Agency. to be made in the context of negotiating Purported leaks out of the highly- dead. Obama “Once an agree- agreement like this,” some of which have secret negotiations, and the responses ment on the joint already been approved at the highest they have drawn from critics in both the concentrating The government has been administration comprehensive levels. US and other officials discussed United States and Iran, have repeat- on terrorist accusing Muslim Brotherhood plan of action” is the closed-door negotiations on condi- edly plagued the talks. Among other of links to the Sinai attacks has indicated it reached, IAEA tion of anonymity. things, critics have focused on Iran’s outfits. and a Cairo bombing that killed would be satisfied Director General Kerry spent most of Saturday out- insistence that sanctions be lifted with Egypt’s top public prosecutor Yukiya Amano side the negotiating room in talks with the completion of the agreement. US last Monday. Brotherhood denies with whatever said, “the IAEA members of the US team, outside the officials have suggested that question is ready to imple- negotiating rooms, officials said. Kerry may be addressed by delaying the actual any involvement in the armed attacks by militant outfits and arrangement is ment the nuclear- and Zarif had an “impromptu discus- implementation date of provisions of the according to its leaders, the murder of activists was a ploy by related elements sion” Saturday afternoon at the Coburg accord until verification of Iranian com- Al Sisi regime to put the blame on the movement and justify reached between when requested.” Palace Hotel where the talks are going pliance on the nuclear side. its brutal crackdown. Tehran and the The statement on, and scheduled an additional, early Verification issues have been com- The presence of IS militants in Egypt is a source of concern by Amano, who evening session with Zarif. plicated by public statements in which for the entire region, especially its operation on the border International met on Thursday Separately, US Energy Secretary Iran has repeatedly said inspectors will with Iranian Ernest Moniz held more than three not be allowed to visit Iranian mili- with Israel. Two rockets were fired into Israel from Sinai last Atomic Energy President Hassan hours of talks with Ali Akbar Salehi, tary facilities or to interview nuclear Friday creating a potentially dangerous situation. Israel has Rowhani, came the head of the Atomic Energy scientists. accused Hamas of tying up with the IS, a charge which Hamas Agency. amid reports that Organization of Iran. They were joined IAEA head Amano said that “progress has denied. expert teams of by US Undersecretary of State Wendy . . . on the way forward” was made in The fact is that the IS in Gaza recently issued a statement negotiators have Sherman, and Iranian Foreign Ministry his meeting with Rowhani. Inspection agreed on key deputies Abbass Araqchi and Majid of military facilities is considered key accusing Hamas, the organisation that rules the territory, of parts of the accord, including sanctions Takht-Ravanchi, along with European to determining not only whether Iran being insufficiently stringent about religious enforcement and relief for Iran. A senior administration Union deputy foreign policy adviser is trying to cheat on a deal, but also the warned them that it will be ‘run over’ by militants very soon. official emphasised that no element of Helga Schmid. extent of its previous work on a nuclear The Egyptian government must redraw its strategy by the agreement will be complete until The current negotiations here have weapon. Iran denies its nuclear program concentrating on terrorist outfits. Targeting Palestinian it has been approved by foreign minis- been underway for three months, after has been for any purpose other than resistance movements and their allies will only help Israel to ters of all negotiating partners. While both sides had agreed to a political energy production. Secretary of State John F Kerry and framework that outlined major areas of WP-BLOOMBERG fish in the troubled waters. The other side Quote of A question of justice the day HE record settlement of $18.7 company, resulting in the settlement. on record who certified 10,000 deaths responsibility for all victims, now says billion that the oil company BP Yet, the impact of the oil spill pales in soon after the gas leak. What contrasts Rs.1,548 crore (about $258 million) has has arrived at in the Deepwater comparison with the magnitude of what the BP settlement with the Bhopal been awarded as original compensa- Horizon environmental disaster happened at the Union Carbide plant case is the role of the state and its tion in about half a million cases, a Tcase in the United States has naturally in Bhopal in 1984. The Narendra Modi readiness to pursue justice for citizens similar sum as pro rata compensation, All the cards are on revived the debate on the denial of government blandly told Parliament and remediation for the environment, and ex-gratia payments of about $100 justice to the victims of a far bigger recently that the Office of the Welfare with demonstrably errant commercial million for medical treatment. On the the table, the main catastrophe — the Bhopal gas leak. As Commissioner had recorded 22,151 entities. ground, some victims say they have question is to know industrial accidents go, the blowout in casualties in the gas leak under the The egregious neglect in securing received as little as Rs.35,000. Medical BP’s well in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 death category, but after scrutiny of compensation for the victims of Bhopal, facilities are grossly inadequate, and the whether the Iranians was staggering, killing 11 people and documents, medical records, affidavits who continue to suffer, is evident from Centre has brazenly neglected a fester- will accept making spectacularly devastating an already and so on, only 5,474 deaths were the fact that the original settlement of ing problem: the site of the leak with stressed marine ecosystem with millions acknowledged, while 6,809 claims were $470 million for tens of thousands of some 350 tonnes of chemical around clear commitments of barrels of oil. Five State governments rejected and the rest were treated as people absolved the Union Carbide has not been cleaned up. Under the on what until now has and the federal government of the U.S. cases of disability or injury. Independent Corporation of all future liabilities. The U.S. settlement, individual claims can have been vigorously pursuing penalties accounts, however, have maintained Centre, which adopted a paternalistic still be pursued. not been clarified. Laurent Fabius and compensation claims with the that there are medical professionals position on the issue and assumed THE HINDU French Foreign Minister MONDAY 6 JULY 2015 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Egypt after two bloody years

the past few decades. The revolution started against Hosni Mubarak because of rampant corruption and the suppres- sion of freedom, arrests, forging the will of the people. Today, in just two years, a far worse scenario is unfolding against the Egyptian people. Today, Egypt — this great state and its people — live in the grip of the presi- dent with absolute power. The country is ruled by a repressive regime that muzzles voices, runs executions and undertakes large arrest campaigns, and gives orders for hundreds to be executed in a single court session that does not even last 5 minutes. In just minutes, new laws are issued to annul current laws. The situation is like a scene from a comic film, though, it is a very saddening one. BY JABER AL HARAMI What happened two days ago in Sinai to innocent soldiers is a crime, a con- wish I could write this article while demnable and deprecating act of terror. Egypt is passing through better We affirm our solidarity with our beloved time. Egyptian people, and send our condo- I I wish I could write this article lences to the families of the soldiers killed while the Egyptian economy is prosper- for no reason by terrorist organisations. ous and stable, and the institutional work At the time when we are also con- of government is kicking into diverse demning these acts, we notice that the fields in all walks of life, the legisla- Egyptian regime and its clumsy policies tive and executive institutions are fully are leading to the destruction of Egypt, playing their roles, the “lofty” judici- tearing Egyptian people and society ary system is passing through pompous apart, and laying the ground for inter- days, and Egyptian people are secure, nal conflicts. Supporters of former Egyptian president Mohammed Mursi hold his portraits during a protest against an Egyptian court’s decision to reassured about their livelihood, living The crimes committed by this regime seek death sentence for the deposed President, in Istanbul, Turkey. their daily lives in a very relaxed atmos- against whoever objects or opposes the phere, breathing freedom and enjoying coup, even with words, are not acceptable self-dignity. by any means. issued in court sessions that took no more committed, lives lost, and dictatorial people’s homes, the destruction of soci- But… The cold-blooded assassination of 13 than a few minutes, which does not hap- practices implemented. ety, and repression and dictatorship of all Two years after the military coup leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood on pen in a court of the most repressive and Our permanent talk about Egypt styles and types. on the first civilian president, who the same day the soldiers were mar- dictatorial regimes. stems from our commitment to this Such acts supported by the nation’s was elected by official ballot led by the tyred is unacceptable, even if it was done Not to mention the cases of hundreds country, which represents the strength enemies have encouraged Al Sisi to move then-defence minister and the current through a court order. who were sentenced to life in prison. In of the Arabs. Without Egypt, Arabs on and act more repressively. President Abdel Fattah Al Sisi, the coun- Is the Egyptian judiciary going to addition, a large number of people were would not have power. Therefore, the This situation should not last very try is in a condition that is worse. implement its rules through exterminat- sentenced to 15 years in prison, and the safety of Egypt and its recovery are an long in Egypt. Surely an explosion will Al Sisi promised to lead only during a ing condemned persons in the streets and list goes on. Arab demand, but this can only come take place. Even though we do not hope transition period, declaring that he is not at their residences in such a brutal and The number of soldiers killed in the through rational policies and a system for that, we rather hope that wise peo- willing to rule the country. inhuman way? two years after the coup is up to 186. A that is based on a true democracy stem- ple in Egypt and in the Arab countries Unfortunately under his rule, the We saw Al Sisi meeting the judges at larger number have been wounded. The ming from people’s choices. Egypt is the will rush to curb Al Sisi’s clumsy policies, country is in a worse situation, which the funeral of the Attorney General — regime that came to rule for the sake backbone of the Arab and Muslim nation. and search for solutions to restore life can be characterised as extremely bad whose assassination is suspicious — and of saving lives, claiming that the civilian Its goodwill means the goodwill of this in Egypt, after it was paralysed through at every level. giving them an official order to execute president-elect is weak to rule the coun- nation, but what is happening today in oppression that is spreading all over it. The military coup, whose bloody and implement their agenda. Is this a try as he cannot protect the Egyptian Egypt is good news for our enemies. We hope that soon we would celebrate nature was revealed day- after-day, led “lofty” judicial system? people, is responsible for the killing of We saw how the Zionists support the the new Egypt. An Egypt, which is a lead- Egypt into a dark tunnel never experi- The judiciary issued within two years soldiers. policies pursued by Al Sisi, in the sup- ing model for Arabs, based on justice, enced in recent history, not even during 680 death sentences, some of which were During Al Sisi’s rule, crimes have been pression of freedoms, the looting of openness, dialogue and freedom. Wary of Russia, West backing away from Georgia Committee. The United States decimated Georgia’s military Part of the shift has tried to offer some consola- and led to Russia’s recognis- tion measures. US troops did ing the independence of South inside Georgia training exercises with Georgian Ossetia and Abkhazia. By 2012, soldiers in May, and Georgia’s many Georgians were ready to leaders present an upbeat face embrace the leadership of their came with about their westward efforts. nation’s wealthiest man, Bidzina “We don’t have time to be dis- Ivanishvili, who promised to the ousting appointed,” said David Bakradze, improve relations with Russia the state minister on European while maintaining ties to the and Euro-Atlantic Integration. West. of President “Our aspirations are irreversible.” The payoff for Georgia was But some Georgians feel they swift. Russia lifted a ban on Mikheil have little to show for their long imports of Georgian wine in 2013, westward push. Some of those and trade spiked. sacrifices have been made in “Those people who are trying to Saakashvili, blood in gruelling deployments help us, we just want to tell them, to Afghanistan, where they have ‘Stop meddling with Russia,’ “ the Western- been one of the top contributors said Jemal Veliashvili, who works of soldiers to the battle efforts per in a seed and fertilizer shop in trained lawyer capita, even though they are not Georgia’s Kakheti grape-growing Nato members. region, in the green shadow of the “More and more Georgians are Caucasus Mountains that form who ruled for a feeling they haven’t gotten any- the border with Russia. He said thing tangible from the West,” his business had tripled since the decade starting said Shorena Shaverdashvili, a ban was lifted. prominent Georgian journalist. Even though diplomatic rela- “There isn’t more love for Putin tions with the Kremlin remain in 2003. Georgia’s President Georgi Margvelashvili (left) and his Turkmenistan counterpart Kurbanguly Berdimuhamedow and Russia. It’s just a realisation tense, Russia’s presence inside that we’re left face-to-face with Georgia is strengthening. Just BY MICHAEL BIRNBAUM at a guard of honour in Tbilisi, Georgia. Russia and we have to deal with last month, Russia’s Sputnik of war that has deep Cold War between Russia and the West lies “Neither Ukraine nor Georgia it.” news agency opened new offices n this fiercely pro-Western resonance. in an EU offer of closer ties to are currently on a path to Nato Spurned by the West, Georgians in Tbilisi and started both a nation that fought a brief “Stability and security cannot Ukraine and Russian President membership. And there has not are starting to look elsewhere. Georgian and Russian-language war with Russia in 2008, be maintained with this para- Vladimir Putin’s infuriated reac- been any immediate plans for Support for signing the EU trade Georgian news service. Ifew thought the Kremlin digm, with Russia’s paradigm tion. EU membership for Ukraine expansion of Nato’s membership,” agreement is down to 68 percent “Georgia should be neutral, could ever regain a toehold. But of having special rights towards was always a long shot — but it Obama said last year. in April polls from the National and it should be militarily free,” with the West backing away from other countries,” said Georgian has become even less likely after Now support for pro-Rus- Democratic Institute, down from said Archil Chkoidze, the leader Georgia’s path to EU and Nato President Giorgi Margvelashvili, fighting that has killed more than sian politicians in Moldova and 80 percent immediately before the of Georgia’s Eurasian Choice, a membership after a year of con- in an interview in the presiden- 6,400 people, according to UN Georgia is growing, while Ukraine Ukraine crisis started. Support coalition of pro-Russian groups flict in Ukraine, pro-Russian sen- tial palace on a bluff overlooking estimates. is so consumed by conflict that it for Georgia’s joining the Russian- that says it has nearly 16,000 timents are on the rise. the old city of Tbilisi. The blue- EU leaders squabbled at a sum- has made little progress in insti- dominated Eurasian Economic members. The former Soviet nation’s lead- and-gold EU flag flies outside of mit in May about whether to offer tuting overhauls necessary for Union, meanwhile, is up to 31 For now, even some of Georgia’s ers are warning that Russia may the building, as it does at most even the faintest prospects for westward integration. Armenia, percent. most committed pro-Western pol- yet prevail if Georgia is shut out Georgian governmental build- membership to Georgia, Ukraine a fourth post-Soviet country that Part of the shift inside iticians say that their best hope is from Western clubs. Wary of fur- ings, as an emblem of the nation’s and Moldova, which have said had been in talks with EU leaders Georgia came with the ousting to hold tight to their goals but to ther provoking Russia, Western aspirations. they want to join. The EU leaders about a trade deal, last year aban- of President Mikheil Saakashvili, expect little from their partners politicians have quashed talk of “Russia is working pretty decided against it, and they also doned the discussions altogether, the Western-trained lawyer who for now. Nato and the European Union actively, not only in Georgia, but delayed plans to ease visa rules for allying itself with the Russian ruled the country for a decade “No one told us it was going expanding eastward any time all around the world,” to expand Georgian travellers, a bitter dis- camp. starting in 2003. Passionately to be easy,” said Irakli Alasania, soon. Russia has stepped into the its influence, he said. Despite appointment for Georgia’s leaders. Many here say that Russia anti-Russian and close to US the leader of the opposition Free vacuum, increasing its presence the growing Russian presence, The EU caution stemmed from has skillfully outmaneuvered the leaders, Saakashvili rarely Democrats. Alasania was defence by opening Georgian-language Georgia remains unshakably com- a desire not to inspire backlash West. missed a chance to jab at the minister until November, when outlets of its state-owned news mitted to eventual membership from Russia, diplomats involved “The Russians are working to Kremlin. he was ousted for being too pro- network and deepening invest- in Nato and the EU, he said. As a in the discussions say. dominate this part of the world. The biggest eruption came in West, he says. The possibility of ments in the energy industry and token of its devotion, Georgia has German Chancellor Angela They calculate, they plan, and August 2008, when Georgian sol- joining Nato “will only open up other key sectors. sent more soldiers to Afghanistan Merkel, who has taken the role they know this region much diers attacked Russian soldiers after Putin,” he said. Similar movements are hap- to fight alongside US troops in of the lead European interlocu- better than the Europeans and who were amassing in greater Putin is widely expected to pening in other former Eastern recent years than many nations tor with Putin, has played down Americans,” said Tedo Japaridze, numbers on breakaway territo- remain Russia’s leader until at bloc nations trapped between already in Nato. expansion prospects. So has the chairman of the Georgian ries of Georgia. least 2024. Russia and the West, in a tug The germ of the present conflict President Barack Obama. Parliament’s Foreign Relations The ensuing five-day war WP-BLOOMBERG MONDAY 6 JULY 2015 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN Seven Pakistani soldiers killed in Taliban attacks Probe into Taliban attack

DERA : Taliban ambushes to the media. Twenty-three Afghan policemen were killed, decapitated on Thursday and bombings killed at least The Pakistani Taliban claimed seven Pakistani soldiers in the responsibility for the attack, with GHAZNI: Kabul yesterday northwest as the military made spokesman Azam Tariq saying announced it would launch an a new push into the militants’ five soldiers were killed. investigation into the deaths of last major stronghold near the The intelligence officials added more than 20 policemen killed border with Afghanistan, intel- that troops moving from both in a battle with the Taliban, ligence officers said yesterday. the North and South Waziristan after relatives accused the gov- Pakistan began a major offen- sides into the Shawal Valley were ernment of failing to provide sive in North Waziristan last encountering tough resistance timely assistance. summer to drive out from militants. Hundreds of Taliban fighters Pakistani Taliban and The heavily forested ravines in launched a raid on several check other extremist Islamist the area are dotted with Taliban posts manned by local police in the militants who launch attacks on hideouts and the area is a key Jalrez district of eastern Wardak government and civilian targets. smuggling route into neighbour- province on late Thursday night, The army is meeting fierce ing Afghanistan. triggering a battle that lasted resistance as it moves further Two other attacks in the around 24 hours. into the lower-lying areas of northwest killed five more sol- Around 23 Afghan Local Police the Shawal Valley, the Taliban’s diers outside the Shawal Valley. -- a militia hired and controlled last stronghold, military officials The first, a remote-con- by the government -- were killed, said. trolled bomb attack on army officials said, with some of the Pakistan’s army chief, Gen vehicles in North Waziristan, dead bodies decapitated. Raheel Sharif, visited troops on killed three and injured six. President Ashraf Ghani termed last Friday and said the initial A second bomb attack the killings a “war crime” and phase around the surrounding on a military vehicle in called for an investigation, peaks of the Shawal Valley was South Waziristan killed two according to a statement by his successful and it was now time to others, the military officials said. office yesterday. Afghan National Army (ANA) soldiers stand guard beside flag-covered coffins of Afghan policemen killed in a begin a final push into the lower The Pakistani Taliban had Meanwhile, hundreds of fresh battle with the Taliban, in Kabul areas. controlled almost all of the forces who arrived in Jalrez on “We will not stop unless we northwestern region of North last Saturday took back terri- Jalrez but nobody cared... The he said goodbye and hung up. We series of brazen Taliban attacks achieve our end objective of a Waziristan before troops launched tory lost to the insurgents, but government is responsible for never heard from him again.” since the group began their terror-free Pakistan,” he said. their offensive last year. Many the families of the victims -- all their deaths,” Mohammad Aref, In Kabul over the weekend, annual spring offensive in April. Militants ambushed a mili- militants have fled to other from the Hazara ethnic minor- the nephew of one of the fallen several hundred people pro- Fighting on multiple fronts and tary convoy on last Saturday in parts of Pakistan, and some into ity -- said the government had commanders said. tested against the government’s facing record casualties, Afghan the valley’s Pir Ghr area, killing Afghanistan, complicating the failed to provide ammunition and He said his uncle, Mohammad, handling of the incident, which forces totalling 350,000 are strug- two soldiers and wounding three US-backed Kabul government’s reinforcements in time. “It is all also known as Sia, was in touch prominent Hazara politician gling to rein in militants following others, intelligence officials said fight against its own Taliban because of the government’s neg- with his family right before he Mohammad Mohaqiq called a the end of NATO’s combat mis- on condition of anonymity because insurgency. ligence, there were a lot of police died. “In his last call he told us “catastrophe”. Meanwhile, the sion last December. they were not authorised to speak REUTERS and army check posts around that he had only seven bullets left, Jalrez raid was the latest in a AFP Sindh, GB Army given charge of Islamabad’s LG Elections yet to map ISLAMABAD: Army is likely Punjab retired Justice Riaz Kiani of the recent LG polls in Khyber be deployed at sensitive areas significant demographic changes to be called in Islamabad on said. Pakhtunkhwa (KP). and at places where there are in Tarnol as a large number of the local government election He said the security issue can- Currently, the security plan has chances of clashes between vari- people from KP have settled madrassas day. However, the final deci- not be overlooked as 13,600 poll- been forwarded to the interior ous groups,” said an official of the there,” he said. A contingent of ISLAMABAD: Pakistani sion will be taken by the capital ing staff would be deployed on the ministry by the Islamabad police ICT administration. Rangers or the FC has also to be provinces of Sindh and Gilgit- territory administration after election duty and a large voter for a final approval and sources “Soon after the polling scheme deployed around some religious Baltistan (GB) have shown no the polling scheme is finalised turnout was also expected. There in the ministry said the IGP had is finalised, there will be a meet- seminaries, he added. interest in implementing key by the Election Commission of are 680,455 registered voters in suggested calling the police force ing between the chief commis- Incidentally, almost all the aspects of the revised anti-ter- Pakistan (ECP). Islamabad. from other provinces, including sioner, deputy commissioner and assistant commissioners have rorism policy adopted after the The ECP has also stated that The ECP has decided to set up AJK, to supplement the strength the IGP,” the official said. been assigned the duties of Peshawar school massacre last the deployment of the army about 800 polling stations in both of the Islamabad police. Though sensitive areas are returning or assistant returning December. troops was required at all the the rural and urban parts of the An official of the ICT admin- yet to be earmarked, an assist- officers. Islamabad has six admin- Officials associated with the polling stations. capital. istration said Rangers and the ant commissioner on the condi- istrative circles - Secretariat, National Action Plan (NAP), “After the security plan for With four booths in each poll- FC were already deployed for the tion of anonymity said there were City, Saddar, Rural, Shalimar and devised in January 2015 to clamp the elections is finalised and the ing station 3,200 booths would general security in the capital and chances of tension in the rural the Industrial area. down on militant outfits, say that polling scheme is issued, a formal have to accommodate the voters. the services of these two paramili- areas of Islamabad. Five assistant commission- the home departments of Sindh letter for the requisition of the The decision to establish poll- tary forces would also be utilised “Some areas such as Kuri, ers, except the AC City Kamran and G-B have yet to submit army will be written to the army ing stations with more booths was on the Election Day. Lehtrar etc., have a tradition of Cheema, have been assigned the actions taken reports under the authorities,” ECP member from taken in view of the experience “The civil armed forces would clashes whereas there have been election duties. INTERNEWS anti-terrorism plan. A letter written last week by the National Counter Terrorism Authority (Nacta) to Sindh and Afghan soldiers graduate G-B governments states that reports on implementation of Bilawal plans to overhaul key points of NAP, particularly the mapping of madrassas, is still awaited despite repeated requests. party in Punjab province Nacta Director-General Hamid Ali Khan said the two had not responded to Nacta since May 20 KARACHI: PPP Chairman had collected pieces of a shat- despite being sent three requests Bilawal Bhutto Zardari tered Pakistan in 1971, given it a by his office. informed his father and constitution, laid foundations of Officials said that Punjab Co-Chairman Asif Ali Zardari the country’s biggest industrial had completed geo-tagging of yesterday about his recent units and founded the nuclear madrassas a month ago after meetings with several top lead- programme to make its defence screening over 13,000 seminaries ers of the Punjab chapter and invincible. throughout the province. Around hinted that he would soon visit He introduced land reforms and 4,700 cases have been registered the province to reorganise the several projects to put the coun- against people on account of hate party. try on sound tracks. However, his speeches and more than 4,000 According to a PPP spokes- government was overthrown “in people arrested. man, Bhutto Zardari informed the darkness of night by a dicta- The Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa has the former president, who is in tor to put Pakistan on a regres- labelled 150 seminaries ‘sensitive’ London, that the leaders from sive path and uprooted democracy after mapping 3,010 madrassas Punjab had complained that the to deprive the people of their right in the terror-hit province. authorities in the province were to rule themselves”. Balochistan province has arrested pushing the party cadres to the The co-chairman in a separate over 400 people for hate speeches. wall. He said the Punjab PPP message said that ‘privatised Commenting on Sindh, Rustam leaders had sought the party jihad’ introduced in the country Shah Mahmood, member of the leadership’s guidance to force the after the 1977 military coup con- group of experts who had pre- provincial authorities to shun tac- tinued to haunt the nation, pos- pared the 20 points for NAP, said tics of victimisation. ing the existential threat to the lack of political will, bad govern- Afghan National Army soldiers at their graduation ceremony in Kabul, Afghanistan, yesterday. At least 18 The co-chairman advised country. ance and corruption were the policemen, two civilians and 30 rebels were killed in central Afghanistan during three days of fierce fighting. Bhutto Zardari to go to Punjab “July 5 is a black day in our main reasons behind this poor The clashes ended after security forces retook control of nine police checkpoints that had fallen to the rebels. and reorganise the party there national calendar as on this day performance. INTERNEWS immediately after Eidul Fitr. a dictator overthrew an elected The PPP chief also chaired a prime minister and later executed meeting of the party’s Karachi him, decimated the Constitution division at Bilawal House to dis- and began privatising cuss the law and order situation jihad, exploiting religion and Provinces refuse wheat in lieu of cash and devise a strategy for the com- fanning sectarianism for his ing local government elections in own personal political agenda,” ISLAMABAD: The provincial Sindh and Khyber Pakhtunkhwa,” items, and such a proposal would market. It could only manage to the city. he said. food departments have turned said an official from the Ministry be unacceptable to them. export 200,000 tons during the In his message on the eve of He said democratic forces had down a proposal by the Ministry of National Food Security and Despite opting for many mech- year. the 38th anniversary of July 5, largely restored the Constitution, of National Food Security and Research. anisms, the government has To encourage the export, 1977 when Gen Zia overthrew but “the mind-set of religious Research to provide wheat The ministry suggested giv- remained unsuccessful in dis- the ECC had approved a sub- his grandfather Zulfikar Ali extremism, privatised jihad and instead of a cash stipend to the ing wheat to BISP’s beneficiaries posing off around 3 million tons sidy package on the 1.2 million Bhutto’s government, the PPP sectarianism that the dictator’s beneficiaries of Benazir Income instead of cash on a monthly basis surplus wheat from the previous wheat export. Ministry officials chairman said the eggs laid by polices spawned continues to Support Programme (BISP) in and the funds to be transferred to stock. maintained that the continuous the dictator “have grown into full haunt the nation”. a bid to dispose of the surplus the provincial food departments Earlier, the Ministry of bumper wheat crops in the three monsters”. The PPP leader said peo- wheat stock. accordingly. The move was to help Industries accepted the idea consecutive seasons resulted in “The dictator’s eggs have grown ple had consistently refused to “This proposal was given by redress the issue of surplus wheat of purchasing 70,000 tons from the surplus stock into full monsters of terrorism, be suppressed by brute force the ministry to the provincial in the provinces. provinces and sell it at utility A similar situation has been extremism, dictatorial mindset, and seized their democratic authorities at a high level meet- However, the provincial depart- stores on a subsidised rate for seen in India, but they have given intolerance and poverty. rights back from dictators. ing held last week in Islamabad, ments refused to accept the idea Ramazan. huge subsidy on wheat products This is what tin-pot dictator “We must collectively fight attended by provincial food min- on grounds that BISP beneficiar- The government has been fac- and their prices are compara- Zia had inflicted on the country to the finish the pernicious isters of Punjab and Balochistan ies would not spend their monthly ing problems in exporting the tively lower than Pakistani wheat and Pakistan is continuously reel- mindset of religious fanaticism along with representatives from stipend of Rs1, 500 only on wheat surplus stock due to cheap rate in the international market. ing under miseries.” and extremism.” provincial food departments of bur rather on different household of wheat in the international INTERNEWS He said the late Z.A. Bhutto INTERNEWS MONDAY 6 JULY 2015 INDIA www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Opposition calls for CBI Pole vaulting probe into Vyapam scam MP dean helping state probe found dead in hotel

NEW DELHI: The Congress Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister were seen on his body,” he added. yesterday demanded a Supreme Shivraj Singh Chouhan and The body has been sent for Court-monitored CBI probe Governor Ram Naresh Yadav autopsy. “We will await for the into the deaths of more than should be sacked. autopsy report before we can 40 people connected with the “How can we expect a fair say what caused his death,” said Vyavsayik Pareeksha Mandal probe from the governor (who Sanjeev. (Vyapam) scandal in Madhya is overseeing the SIT) when his The Congress also accused Pradesh. own name is in the FIR of the Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister “A Supreme Court-monitored Vyapam scam?” asked the AAP Shivraj Singh Chouhan of “mis- Central Bureau of Investigation leader. leading the people and parroting (CBI) probe is needed (in the Meanwhile, Arun Sharma, his old line” on the demand to get matter),” Congress spokesperson the dean of a medical college in the case investigated by an impar- Randeep Surjewala said. Madhya Pradesh assisting the tial investigative agency. The Madhya Pradesh Police’s police probing the Vyapam scam, The admission and recruitment Special Investigating Team (SIT) was yesterday found dead in a racket in the Madhya Pradesh was not doing enough to unearth hotel room here, police said. Vyavsayik Pareeksha Mandal the truth and the case should now His body was found at Uppal (Vyapam) or the Madhya Pradesh be transferred to the CBI, he said. Hotel near the Indira Gandhi Professional Examination Board Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister International Airport. He was on apparently involves politicians, Shivraj Singh Chouhan yesterday his way to Tripura as a member of officials and businessmen. Boys practise “Malkhamb” (traditional gymnastics) for the upcoming annual 'Rath Yatra', or chariot procession said he would not recommend a an inspection team of the Medical More than 40 people associated in Ahmedabad, yesterday. Hindu devotees perform various stunts as part of the annual Rath Yatra celebra- CBI probe. Council of India. with the scam have died since tions to commemorate a journey by Hindu God Jagannath, his brother Balabhadra and sister Subhadra, in “My government is not above Sharma, 64, whose college is 2013. specially made chariots. the judiciary. When the high in Jabalpur, was assisting the The most high-profile death court has refused a CBI enquiry Special Task Force probing the was of Shailesh Yadav, son of into the matter, how can we order recruitment scam in the Madhya Madhya Pradesh Governor Ram it?” the chief minister said. Pradesh Vyavsayik Pareeksha Naresh Yadav. Shailesh, 50, was He said a Special Investigation Mandal (Vyapam) by provid- found dead at his father's resi- Team (SIT) is probing the scam ing documents on fake medical dence in the Uttar Pradesh capi- Karnataka speaker to decide under the supervision of the entrance examinees in the state- tal Lucknow on March 25. Madhya Pradesh High Court run college, police said. More than 40 people associ- and if the court feels it should be Delhi Police declined to com- ated with the scam have died investigated by any other agency, ment on Sharma’s death. “We since 2013 - either in mysterious on Lokayukta ouster: CM it is free to do that. have contacted his son. He said circumstances or have committed Earlier, the Aam Aadmi Party his father was a sugar patient. suicides. BENGALURU: The Congress Party and Janata Dal-Secular democracy. “As Rao failed to too demanded yesterday that the The family is on its way to Delhi,” “We want the truth to come government in Karnataka yes- legislators jointly submitted a prevent some Lokayukta officials Supreme Court oversee the SIT's said Deputy Commissioner of out. Justice should prevail. We all terday said it will wait for the memorandum to the speaker on and his son from being accused probe into the scam after a televi- Police R A Sanjeev. must join our heads and hands so legislative assembly speaker’s July 3 for Rao’s removal under the of taking bribes, he should step sion reporter covering the scam The officer said the victim that justice is served to the vic- ruling on opposition lawmakers' Karnataka Lokayukta Act, 1984, down till the probe is completed,” died in Madhya Pradesh under checked into Uppal Hotel last tims,” Surjewala said. move to oust the Lokayukta fol- which empowers the state legis- Shettar told reporters. mysterious circumstances. Saturday evening and wanted to The Congress leader also con- lowing a bribery charge against lature to do so. The state legislature’s 10-day “It is sad that one of our jour- be waken up yesterday morning. doled the death of Akshay Singh, his son. “We will abide by the speaker’s monsoon session is on since June nalist friends has died while When he did not respond to an Aaj Tak TV channel’s journal- “It is for Speaker Kogadu decision, as we are not protecting 29 at Belagavi, 510 km from reporting the Vyapam scam,” the wake up calls, the hotel staff ist, and Arun Sharma. Thimmappa to decide on the anyone and will allow the law to Bengaluru. Aam Aadmi Party spokesman suspected something was wrong “Supreme court and high court opposition move to remove take its course. As per the Act, According to the speaker’s Dilip Pandey told the media and called the police. are free to get the matter probed Lokayukta Justice Y Bhaskar Rao, the house only has the power to office, the business advisory com- here. “Vyapam is no longer a “The door to his suite was bro- by the agency they want to. We though we have set up a special remove the ombudsman. It is also mittee will decide today on the scam, it has become a ‘narsanhar’ ken into in the presence of police. don't have any problem,” the MP team to probe the graft charges up to Rao to decide whether to admission, discussion and ruling (massacre).” The dean was found on his bed,” CM said. against some officials in the insti- step down or not,” Siddaramaiah upon the opposition's plea. He said the Supreme Court the officer said. He added that no other matters tution and a `1 crore bribe charge said. Opposition leader Jagadish The opposition members had should oversee the probe pres- “Whiskey and some medicines in the country have been investi- against his son Ashwin Rao,”Chief Shettar of the BJP said corrup- also submitted a similar memo ently being conducted by a Special were found near his bed. Nothing gated the way Vyapam scam has Minister Siddaramaiah told tion charges against the very on June 2 to legislative council Investigation Team. had been visibly disturbed in the till date been. reporters yesterday. institution that was set up to Chairman D H Shankaramurthy Pandey also said that both room, and no external injuries IANS About 60 Bharatiya Janata check graft was a body blow to for Rao’s ouster. IANS

Probe into censor Parliamentarians say board leak of subsidy in canteens Malayalam film on track: Police can be done away with THIRUVANANTHA PURAM: The ongoing probe NEW DELHI: Under fire for Narendra Modi walked into one into the alleged leak of the cen- gorging on cheap food at the of them for a simple vegetarian sor copy of the hit Malayalam Parliament House canteen, lunch. film “Premam” is going in the many MPs feel the subsidy The low prices at which MPs right direction, said the Kerala being given can be done away and other designated people can Police chief. with as it was only creating a feed themselves have not been Director General of Police T “bad press”. revised since 2010 by an author- P Senkumar told reporters here An RTI query had recently ized committee headed by TRS yesterday that the anti-piracy revealed that the government MP Jithendra Reddy. cell of Kerala Police is doing its faced a loss of around `14 crore Reddy was not available for job to get to the bottom of the (over $2m) in 2013-14 because of comment. However, BJP MP truth. subsidy at the more than half-a- Arjun Ram Meghwal said: “The “There are lots of technical dozen canteens in the parliament prices are revised every three- aspects to be probed in this case complex. four years. We will discuss it in and hence it might take time, but Most members of parliament the committee and the govern- nevertheless, we expect to crack spoke to said an issue was being ment can take a decision.” the case,” said Senkumar. created out of nothing over the The subsidy has been in place “Premam” hit a rough patch subsidy as most government can- since 1952. The canteen facilities very soon after its release in teens provide similar benefits. are also availed of by the Rajya the last week of May, forcing “I think the amount of money Sabha secretariat, the Lok Sabha Muslims break their Ramadan fast with dates at the Jama Masjid, in New Delhi, yesterday. its producer Anwar Rasheed being spent on subsidizing the secretariat and the media. to quit his membership from food is creating much bad press. Privately, however, many MPs all the Malayalam film-based It is something which can be done maintain that the situation is organisations. away with,” Sikkim MP P D Rai much overrated. Meghwal said: Sumptuous dates from across The issue sent shockwaves (Sikkim Democratic Front) said. “Some of the MPs stay alone, they in the Malayalam film industry A policy decision should also be have to eat when parliament is in after it was found that the leaked taken to do away with all kinds session.” copy freely carried the water- of subsidies being given in gov- “In the public mind, only one the world flood Delhi markets mark of Central Board of Film ernment institutions across the category of MPs are there, those Certification (CBFC). board, he added. who are very rich. Fifty percent NEW DELHI: This Ramadan, vendors and shopkeepers. kg, are among the most revered The film, according to those in “This aspect has not been of MPs are like that, but some replenish your Iftar delicacies Mohammad Shadab is a fruit dates sold in the capital city this the know of things, was racing explored yet. There are numer- others like us are also there who with dates from almost all the vendor in Zakir Nagar near Ramadan. towards becoming the all-time ous Public Sector Undertakings are not rich,”Rajesh said, adding countries around the globe. Jamia Millia Islamia campus. Khan added that the sale of biggest grosser by crossing `30 (PSU) and other government that outside parliament, there are In the holy month of Ramadan, Every year ahead of Ramadan, dates soars many-fold in the holy crore mark in a month’s time institutions which offer subsidized many more richer people, who get a lot of seasonal products find he buys all varieties of dates month as not only Muslims but but suffered a setback with the food at their canteens,” he said. bigger subsidies. (An MP's salary their way to the streets of the from the Azadpur (wholesale) non-Muslims buy them as well. leaked copies making rounds and CPI-M member from Kerala M is `50,000 per month plus other capital city - but the sumptuous Mandi and decorates them at his According to Agro Products, a pulling the audiences back from B Rajesh said: “I don't know why perks.) dates are exceptionally cherished. shop. “Selling dates is profitable distribution company, dates are theatres. people are making such a hue and “There is a thinking that rates A small market in the bylanes because there is a huge demand in usually graded into three groups. The film stars Nivin Pauly, cry about it. It is not only the MPs at the parliament canteen are of South Delhi’s Okhla and Batla the Muslim holy month,” Shadab While soft dates like Barhee, billed as the rising star of the but also other people like journal- very cheap. But the fact is that house area sell the most exotic said. Even when the date prices Halawy, Khadrawy, Medjool have Malayalam film industry, who ists and parliament staff who eat quality is also like that (nothing dates. surged this year as compared to high moisture and low sugar starred in a string of hugely- at the canteen. If taking away to write home about),” he added. Most Muslims who fast in the the last, business is still profitable content, semi-dry varities like popular movies like “Bangalore this subsidy is the solution to all Many MPs claimed they don't month of Ramadan prefer to for most sellers. Dayri, Deglet Noor and Zahidin Days”, “Oru Vadekan Selfie”, issues, then it is ok.” eat at the parliament canteen end their fast with dates during Ashraf Khan is another date have firm flesh, low moisture and “Ivide” to name a few. “We are wasting our time on at all. “I only take lunch at the iftar (time to end fast). Different seller in the Batla House market. high sugar content. Dry dates like “It is now doubtful if the film silly issues,” he added. parliament canteen. All my other varieties of dates imported from He particularly likes the Ajwa Thoory have high sugar content. will complete 50 days in the An MP can at present have a meals are at home,” Rajesh said. Middle Eastern countries -- Iran, quality of dates - which Muslims During the month of Ramadan, theatres. Let this not happen to three-course lunch at the par- “There are more than 9,000 Iraq, Saudi Arabia and Palestine consider very nutritious and of Muslims are not supposed to eat any other film,” said Nivin Pauly liament canteen for a mere ` employees of parliament who ben- - to North African countries good medicinal value. Ajwa dates, or drink from dawn to dusk to while speaking at a function on 38. The canteens were much in efit from the canteen facilities,”the like Algeria and Tunisia are sold which arrive from Saudi Arabia “exercise resistance against mate- the piracy. news lately when Prime Minister MP said. IANS all across the market by street and are priced at `3,200 ($50) per rial desires”. IANS IANS MONDAY 6 JULY 2015 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com FEATURES

Stress hormone enhances memory retrieval Depression shrinks

he stress hormone cortisol strengthens memo- Stress Disorder, however, are affected by terrifying people’s brain: Study ries of scary experiences in life, researchers memories that haunt them again and again. Treport. If a person remembering a terrifying People suffering from anxiety or In the study, the subjects on the first day learned hronic and repeated episodes of depres- event has a high stress hormone level, the memory an association between specific geometric shapes and sion can shrink the hippocampus, an area of that specific event will be strongly reconsolidated Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, an unpleasant electric shock. Cof the brain responsible for memory and after each retrieval. On the second day, some of the participants were emotion, an international study has revealed. “The results may explain why certain undesir- however, are affected by given a cortisol pill, others a placebo. The results highlight the urgent need to treat able memories don’t fade, for example in anxiety Subsequently, they were shown one of the geo- depression in teenagers, the authors emphasised. and PTSD sufferers,” said Oliver Wolf from Ruhr terrifying memories that haunt metric shapes associated with the electric shock. On But with the treatment, the damage is revers- University Bochum, Germany. the third day, the memory for the geometric shapes ible, the study said. Studies have shown that the stress hormone corti- them again and again. was tested. “The more episodes of depression a person sol has a strengthening impact on the consolidation Participants who had taken cortisol remembered had, the greater the reduction in hippocampus of memories. the fear-associated shape particularly well, the study size,” said Hickie, from University of Sydney’s The researchers from Bochum have demonstrated persistence of strong emotional memories occur- found. brain and mind research institute and member that cortisol effects memories in humans also during ring in anxiety and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder This was evident in a heightened skin conduct- of the large study. the so-called reconsolidation, that is, the consolida- (PTSD). ance, which is an established measure for emo- The participants experienced their first tion of memories occurring after memory retrieval. Strong memories of stressful experiences occur tional arousal. The study appeared in the journal depressive episode when they had a normal hip- The stress hormone can enhance this process. frequently, but they usually fade away over time. Neuropsychopharmacology. pocampus size. The shrinking began afterward. They suggest that the results might explain the People suffering from anxiety or Post-Traumatic IANS For the study, 15 research institutes from across the world collaborated and examined the data of 8,927 people, 1,728 of whom had major depression and the rest of whom were healthy, the Guardian reported. The researchers found that 65 percent of the depressed participants had recurrent depres- sion and it was these people who had a smaller hippocampus. “Persistent depression does more harm to the hippocampus the more you leave it untreated. The damage to the brain comes from recurrent illness,” Hickie said. “Treating depression effectively does not just mean medicines. Social interventions are just as important,” the author said. IANS

BY J M HIRSCH side from the occasional pasta salad, the It’s time to move pasta beyond side salad favorite carb often takes a vacation during Asummer. It’s probably because we tend to associate it with more winter-friendly heavy and toss the tomatoes and zucchini with about hot sauces. 1 teaspoon of salt. Set aside to drain for 15 But pasta doesn’t have to be relegated to the minutes. salad bar when the heat is on, particularly since it’s Meanwhile, bring a large pot of salted water still one of the fastest and easiest ways to get din- to a boil. Add the pasta and cook according ner on the table. And that’s particularly important to package directions until just tender. Drain, on nights you’d rather be enjoying the great out- then return to the pot. doors more than labouring at the stove. Another While the pasta cooks, prepare the creme perk — pasta is a great way to take advantage of fraiche. In a small bowl, mix together the creme summer’s produce bounty. fraiche, garlic and lemon zest. Season with salt To make the point, I created this fast and fla- and pepper. Set aside. vourful pasta dinner that tosses whole-wheat Once the tomatoes and zucchini have drained penne with cooling diced tomatoes and zucchini, a for 15 minutes, gently tap the colander in the mess of fresh basil and a dollop of creme fraiche to sink to shake off any excess liquid. Add the veg- tie it all together. Of course, feel free to substitute etables to the pasta, tossing well. Add the lemon whatever fresh veggies inspire you. But since you’re juice, taste, then season with salt and pepper. serving them raw, be sure to finely chop them. Divide the pasta and vegetables between 4 serv- ing bowls. Top each serving with a quarter of the creme fraiche mixture, then sprinkle with Penne with Tomatoes, basil. AP Zucchini and Creme Fraiche

Start to finish: 25 minutes Ingredients: (Servings: 4) 2 large slicing tomatoes, cored and finely chopped 2 medium zucchini, finely chopped Kosher salt 12 ounces whole-wheat penne pasta 8-ounce container creme fraiche 2 cloves garlic, minced Zest and juice of 1 lemon Ground black pepper Handful torn fresh basil

Method: In a colander set over the sink or a large bowl,

Donna Karan, fashion’s greatest champion of women, steps down

BY ROBIN GIVHAN is so firmly grounded in luxury sportswear. There She had not wanted to hang out her own shingle; is no woman who aims to speak so directly to pro- she didn’t want to leave Anne Klein. But Karan was onna Karan (pictured) is leaving women fessionals, 9 to 5’ers and those whose lives are a nudged along by her original investors, Frank Mori on their own — to fend for themselves in busy, wonderful mess of children, board meetings, and Tomio Taki, who believed that she had some- Da fashion industry that all too often does yoga and a great detox. There is no other woman. thing important to say to modern women, some- not have their best interest at heart. And while there is nothing that says men cannot thing that was both unique and universal. Seventh Avenue’s greatest advocate for pro- speak just as intimately and profoundly to their Karan debuted her signature collection with her fessional women announced Tuesday that she is female customers on matters of aesthetics, they acclaimed Seven Easy Pieces. It wasn’t merely a leaving her signature collection to focus on phi- do not know what it is like to have size 12 hips in modern mix-and-match system of dressing — a way lanthropy, health care and cultural awareness an industry that calls them plus-size. They cannot of getting out the door in a flash. It was much more. through her Urban Zen Company and Foundation. serve as reassurance that, in fashion at least, the Using yards of cashmere and jersey, Karan acknowl- The fall 2015 and resort 2016 collections will be glass ceiling has been shattered. edged women’s curves; she celebrated femininity. the company’s last under Karan’s creative direc- Karan began her career at Anne Klein, where There was nothing else like them. And over the tion. It is, by at least one measure, bittersweet she was the sportswear designer’s young assistant, years, through financial ups and downs, the essence timing. Fall is her best collection in recent years, pregnant and questioning whether the fashion of the brand remained true. in which she celebrates a sophisticated and con- industry was for her. Klein schooled her in the “I don’t think I have ever, ever left who I am. I fident woman in an urban landscape dominated beauty of American style and the expanding role know what it is that makes a Donna Karan garment by black and gold. of women in the corporate world. When Klein different from everyone else’s. It is about the body,” Karan will have no successor. The Collection will travelling abroad, particularly to Haiti where she has died in 1974, Karan was asked to lead the company. Karan said in a 2003 interview. “That is always a be suspended while the company reorganises. worked to help artisans there build self-sustaining “I didn’t choose to be a designer. I was born a signature I try to stand by.” “I have made this decision after much soul-search- businesses beyond their borders. designer,” Karan once told The Washington Post. It Then first lady Hillary Clinton wore one of ing,” said Karan, 66, in a statement. “I have arrived But with Karan’s departure, there is no other was the family business: Her father was a garmento; Karan’s most famous designs in 1993 at a White at a point in my life where I need to spend more American woman of such stature to fill her place in her mother, a showroom model. House dinner. Karan had dubbed it the “cold-shoul- time to pursue my Urban Zen commitment to its the Seventh Avenue triumvirate known as Ralph, “I wanted to stay home and be a mom,” she said. der” dress and noted that she’d been inspired by the fullest potential.” Urban Zen has Karan frequently Calvin and Donna. There is no woman whose work “But that’s not what the world served me.” realization that a woman’s shoulders always look terrific — no matter her age or size. It was Karan, after all, who in 1992 commis- sioned an advertising campaign centered around the first female commander-in-chief. The series of photographs even included a swearing-in ceremony. The ads might have been drawn from pure fantasy, but they also looked believable. Karan was making clothes that one could imagine in the Oval Office. Since 2001, Donna Karan International has been part of the LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton luxury group. With Karan’s departure, LVMH will focus on the brand’s licensing business, as well as its less expensive DKNY division. Karan will have an advisory role. And DKNY will be overseen by Dao-Yi Chow and Maxwell Osbourne, who are also the designers of Public School. WP-BLOOMBERG

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LIVERPOOL: In Liverpool’s Granby neighbourhood, proud residents and a group of architects have brought back to life the area’s four remaining Victorian streets, earning them a nom- ination for Britain’s prestigious Turner Prize for contemporary art. Once the vibrant heart of the city’s black community, “after the (1981) riots, the area was closed down,” explained Erika Rushton, Chair of Granby Four Streets Community Land Trust (CLT). With clubs and shops closing down, tenants being evicted and homeowners fleeing the area, its traditional Victorian houses were mostly demolished, to be replaced by ugly and discordant social housing. The last four blocks of terraced houses were saved in the 1990s thanks to a few dozen owners who refused to leave. But all successive renovation projects have failed and three quarters of the 200 remaining LEFT: Coloured pigeons adorn trees and derelict buildings houses were empty for over 20 years. “In on Ducie Street, part of the Granby Four Streets area in 2010-2011 the last of those schemes col- Liverpool, north west England. RIGHT: A workman walks lapsed,” said Theresa McDermott, resi- down Cairns Street, part of the Granby Four Streets area dent and manager of the local market in Liverpool. with husband Joe. “So we thought ‘what about a plan that says this is not about one big solution for the area, it’s about residents in 2011, the council agreed to hand over own- they put our vision into words and pictures,” said workmen. “It will be the best place to live in the city, lots of little solutions’.” ership of ten houses. Rushton. “For example, they saw the planting as an I’m convinced of it,” said Ann O’Byrne, deputy mayor A handful of residents began “guerrilla The CLT caught the eye of architectural firm ultimate priority that must be retained.” of Liverpool. gardener”, planting flowers in any spare Steinbeck Studios, whose founder Xanthe Hamilton “It was really good having a meeting of minds because “We’ve got a huge job to do now,” added Ronnie patch of land. They then painted the win- was looking for a project on behalf of an investor. we already had our vision quite firmly in place about Hughes, who writes a blog about Granby. “There are dows and doors of abandoned houses and The backer, who wishes to remain anonymous, “said ‘if not just getting the houses renovated but keeping going to be 200 families when there were 50, so we’re launched a monthly street market. residents invest their time and energy, I will invest my the community and trying to get people back,” added effectively grafting a new community onto the old own.” “That made us feel better but it money’,” explained Rushton. “Instead of seeing people as McDermott. Thanks to the investor’s interest-free For their part, Assemble members have kept a low also changed people perceptions,” said an obstacle to regeneration, he saw them as an asset.” £500,000 loan, the CLT was able to raise a further profile, even though they are now favourites to scoop McDermott, adding it was “the main rea- Steinbeck Studios also put the CLT in contact with £500,000 and begin renovating 10 houses, of which five the prestigious art prize at a ceremony on December 7. son why the council and investors started Assemble, a group of young architects specialising in are nearing completion. “They are very aware that though it’s they who have listening to us. “It made us seem much projects combining art, design and architecture, par- Others were soon attracted by the area’s dynamism, been nominated for the prize, the efforts of a lot of more resilient as a community.” ticularly in struggling communities. including local social housing groups. Two of the four people have made this happen,” said Rushton “It’s not As part of the CLT, founded by “Instead of coming with their own plans, they listened, streets are now full of scaffolding and swarming with their story, it’s everybody’s story.” AFP Hamburg’s port warehouses win UN world heritage nod

BERLIN: The UN cultural Opposite stands the agency designated Hamburg’s “Kontorhaus” office district in historic maritime warehouse Hamburg’s old town, built in the and business districts, boast- 1920s and 1930s, which UNESCO ing early 20th century German also listed at its meeting in the brick architecture, as World German city of Bonn. Heritage sites. It includes the “Chilehaus” The “Speicherstadt”, the world’s which resembles a ship’s bow and, largest historic warehouse com- according to UNESCO, “repre- plex, is a district of connecting sents the most significant artistic roads, canals and bridges dating and architectural achievement of from 1885 to 1927, lined with red- German Brick Expressionism”. brick office buildings. “It strongly influenced brick Covering 64 acres in the heart architecture of the 1920s and 1930s of the northern German city’s in Northern Europe and is also one bustling port area, its Gothic red- of Germany’s first high-rise build- Visitors walk at the entrance to the Alamo, the most-visited tourist site in the state, in San Antonio, Texas. brick warehouses once stored ings,” it said in a statement. high-value goods, such as coffee, The Chilehaus was built between spices and tobacco, UNESCO said. 1922 and 1924 by Fritz Hoeger. As well as its architecture, it has UNESCO’s World Heritage Alamo, Spanish missions in San more recently become a centre Committee said the two districts An aerial view over Speicherstadt for tourism in Germany’s second in the ‘HafenCity’ with the Elbe were examples that “illustrate sig- biggest city, as well as a draw for Philharmonic Hall in Hamburg. nificant stages in human history”. Antonio named World Heritage site innovative businesses or eateries. AFP

SAN ANTONIO: A UN agency delighted with UNESCO’s decision Visitors Bureau, said the listing named the Alamo and the four today and the recognition that our will prompt a full scale, interna- Science tunnel Spanish colonial Catholic mis- Spanish colonial missions are of tional tourism campaign. sions in San Antonio as a World outstanding value to the people of She estimated it will mean more Heritage site yesterday, the first the world,” Mayor Ivy Taylor said than 1,000 new jobs for the city’s place in Texas deemed to be of from Bonn, Germany, where the already robust tourism industry, “outstanding cultural or natural announcement was made. and a $100m annual boost for the importance to the common her- Sarah Gould, archivist at the region. But the designation has not itage of humanity.” Institute of Texan Cultures, said been entirely embraced in Texas, The decision caps a nine-year there are many reasons for the where the phrase “United Nations” campaign by San Antonio and listing of the four missions, which provokes suspicion among some. Texas to have the early 18th are still used as Catholic churches, The Texas Republican Party’s offi- Century missions listed alongside and the Alamo, a fortified church, cial platform includes opposing world treasures such Britain’s barracks and other buildings that “granting jurisdiction and sover- Stonehenge, the Taj Mahal in were the scene of the 1836 battle eignty over Texas’ cultural sites India, and Cambodia’s Angkor for Texas Independence. to any international body.” Wat. The missions are the 23rd “Other than the Alamo, which Matej said there was no way World Heritage Site in the United has had quite a bit of changes to that would happen, and noted States. it, the other four are in really that the United Nations exercises “The City of San Antonio is wonderful condition,” Gould said, no “sovereignty” over other U.S. “almost in as good a condition as World Heritage Sites, such as they were when they were built.” Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, As well as creating the basis or Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello for European settlement of what home in Virginia. is now the US Southwest, she said “The current management, how the missions were also important everything is managed, will stay in the formation of its early econ- the same,” she said. “This is a des- omy, for instance by introducing ignation that will draw visitors to Visitors stand in the so-called ‘Science tunnel’ featuring subjects from the universe and matter, life and complexity, cattle raising. our destination, and allow us to to the brain, health, energy and society, at the IdeenExpo 2015 on the fair ground in Hanover, Germany, yester- Casandra Matej, director of share our splendid missions with day. The ‘IdeenExpo 2015’ is Germany’s largest youth event for science and technology and runs until July 12. San Antonio’s Convention and the world.” REUTERS Monday 6 July 2015 19 Ramadan 1436 Volume 20 Number 6483 Price: QR2

Qatari bourse index drops 113.07 points

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Nice Grid meters Aramco lowers Qatar real estate August Arab Light crude sector value price to Asia

ABU DHABI: Saudi Arabia has cut the official selling price surges by 21pc (OSP) for its benchmark Arab Light crude to Asia in August, as expected, while raising the price to European customers. Growth momentum to continue: Report State oil company Aramco has lowered the August price for its DOHA: Qatar’s real estate sec- the apartments are the most in Arab Light grade for Asian cus- tor value soared by nearly 21 demand housing within Qatar tomers by 10 cents a barrel versus percent to QR12.50bn in the which accommodate households July, setting it at minus $0.10 to second quarter of 2015 (Q2, from low to high income brack- the Oman/Dubai average, it said 15). The sector is expected to ets. Doha Municipality remains on Sunday. maintain its growth momentum the most popular area for renting The top oil exporter raised its throughout the year. apartments. West Bay and The August OSP for its Arab Light Citing Al Asmakh’s quarterly Pearl are predominated by high– grade to northwest Europe by report, Al Sharq reported the end apartments for mass affluent 25 cents a barrel from the previ- price of primary construction households whereas areas around A man shows Linky electricity meters displayed for demonstration in the showroom of Nice Grid, a smart ous month at a discount of $2.65 materials fell by three percent in C-Ring Road offer mid-rental and solar district demonstration project, in Carros, southeastern France. a barrel to the Brent Weighted Q2, 15, compared to the previous Doha downtown offers low–rental Average. quarter. “Qatar’s real estate sector apartments. The Arab Light OSP to the has been witnessing strong growth “Ever since 2010, the apartment United States was unchanged for rate ever since the beginning of rental rate YoY increase is7-10 August from a month earlier, set the current year. The sector is percent, At present, we noticed Saudi planning local currency bonds at a premium of $1.55 a barrel expected to maintain the growth significant under-supply within to the Argus Sour Crude Index momentum”, the report said. residential real estate market (ASCI). The second quarter witnessed hence, we anticipate this upsurge DUBAI: Saudi Arabia, the of the world’s biggest oil exporter against rebels in Yemen. A Reuters survey on Wednesday a rise in the value of both real will continue for upcoming quar- country with the world’s lowest will widen to about 20 percent of Saudi Arabia in December fore- forecast a cut for medium and estate prices and rentals. The ters”, Al Asmakh report said. debt-to-GDP ratio, is evaluating economic output this year after cast the budget deficit to widen to heavy grades Aramco sells to rental values of residential units The preference of location is the sale of local currency bonds King Salman ordered a two- SR145bn ($39bn) this year from a Asia in August on weaker fuel oil are expected to rise by 10 percent purely based on the rental rates. to bridge a budget deficit after month bonus for public-sector projected SR54bn last year. The cracks, while keeping price for its in the fourth quarter of this year. Villas in Al Wakrah and Al Khor oil prices slumped, according to workers and pensioners. Brent 2015 budget probably assumed an flagship light crude little changed. There is a growing trend of are mostly taken by larger size three people with knowledge of crude has dropped 45 percent average oil price of $80 a barrel, The price cuts reflects lower landlords ‘holding’ the property household With budget constrains the plan. over the past year and closed down from $103 a barrel in the crude demand in Asia as refining expecting a better price in short whereas Al Waab and Duhail The sale of securities in Saudi at $60.32 a barrel on July 3. Oil previous year, John Sfakianakis, margins weakened. Opec’s supply term. The rentals of residential are typically chosen by small to riyals will be carried out through export income accounts for about a former chief economic adviser also weighed on the market. Opec villas are also expected t grow by medium size families with larger an auction process by the king- 90 percent of Saudi government to the Ministry of Finance, said supply rose in June to 31.60 mil- 10 to 12 percent. But the market rental budgets. dom’s Ministry of Finance this revenue. in December. lion barrels per day (bpd) from a is not expecting a similar growth The remaining areas such as year or early in 2016, said the The biggest Arab economy For now, the government is revised 31.30 million bpd in May in the rentals in commercial Abu Hamour, Madinath Khalifa, people, asking not to be identified hasn’t sold securities with a matu- financing its budget shortfall by because of record, or near-record, space, including shops and office. Gharrafa, Al Thumama, Nuiaja, because the information hasn’t rity of more than 12 months for drawing down its deposits at the output from Iraq and Saudi There is a huge glut in the rental and Al Hilal accommodate all seg- been made public. The sales are eight years as it used the wind- central bank, accelerating the Arabia, a Reuters survey found. market of commercial buildings. ments of occupiers. The supply of expected to be in small tranches, fall from crude exports to slash its decline in currency reserves. Net Saudi Arabia and other mem- The supply is fast exceeding the new villa compounds are limited they said. debt to gross-domestic-product foreign assets dropped more than bers of Opec left their group demand, the report said. which amplifies the demand YoY A spokesman for the Ministry ratio to less than two percent. The $6bn in May, taking their four- production target unchanged In its first quarter ‘Qatar basis on the rental rates. Bottom of Finance didn’t respond to government is also pressing ahead month decline to more than $54bn last month. The producing group residential rental rate survey line is the Qatar rental market phone calls, an e-mail and a fax with an investment program to — about eight percent of the total. chose to focus on building mar- report’ Al Asmakh noted major- has space to grow so the rental seeking comment. boost non-oil GDP growth, and Officials haven’t announced plans ket share rather than defending ity of the expatriates prefer to rates. The International Monetary military spending is likely to rise to tap the bond market. world oil prices. stay in apartments therefore, THE PENINSULA Fund estimates the budget deficit as the kingdom leads air strikes BLOOMBERG REUTERS

Australia to hold Luxury China Expo Mideast construction fire on rates as property dispute value hits $77m

DOHA: The total value of dis- 2014 in region were Arbitration, bubble looms putes relating to major con- Party to party negotiation and SYDNEY: Australia’s central struction projects in the Middle Mediation. Before the economic bank will keep its policy powder East surged to its highest level crisis, the construction projects dry tomorrow as property bub- since 2011. The combined value in the Middle East were becoming bles in the nation’s biggest cities of dispute-related mega projects bigger and better, each pushing raise financial stability risks. jumped to $76.7m in 2014, the boundaries in terms of build The Reserve Bank of Australia from$40.9m in 2013. This repre- complexity, time for completion will hold interest rates at a sents the highest value increase and cost. Obviously, against this record-low two percent, econo- in Middle East disputes since backdrop the contractors’ risk mists and markets predict, after 2011, when the value hit $112.5m. profile increased dramatically. quarter-point cuts in May and ARCADIS, leading global built “In 2014 we saw a number of February. Sydney and Melbourne asset design and consultancy high value claims being initiated house prices soared in June by the firm in its “Global Construction for projects that were undertaken most since regulators announced Report 2015” noted the amount of in 2008-09 due to money now plans to crack down on lending time taken to resolve disputes in being available to pursue those to investors. the region is creeping up with just claims. This would appear to be Australia’s response to the over a month in 2014. The average the main reason why the value of unwinding of its record min- time taken to resolve disputes in the claims has increased in the ing investment boom has fallen the region rose to 15.1 months, up region. Also, due to their complex- to the central bank as lawmak- Visitors chat beside a number of tapestry products at a booth displaying luxury tapestry at the Luxury China from just 8 months in 2010. ity, these claims have taken longer ers dismiss calls at home and Expo in Beijing. The expo showcases more than 300 high end brands from more than 20 countries. Citing five top causes of disputes to resolve. We predict this trend to abroad to speed up reform and in the Middle east construction continue throughout 2015 as more deploy stimulus to boost growth. projects in 2014, Allon Hill, head parties have the required liquidity Aside from rate cuts, the only of Contract Solutions, Middle East, to pursue their claims”, Allon said. aid Governor Glenn Stevens said a failure to properly adminis- Meanwhile, international can hope for is a decline in the Dana Gas wins favourable ruling ter the contract remained the most events such as Qatar’s 2022 World local dollar, which has remained common cause of dispute in the Cup and the 2020 Dubai World anchored as global investors buy region, followed by poorly drafted Expo are driving the sector’s Australian assets in their hunt DUBAI: Dana Gas, one of against the Kurdistan Regional The tribunal confirmed the or incomplete and unsubstantiated growth in the region, he added. for decent returns. the largest oil and gas inves- Government (KRG), seeking to consortium’s long-term rights claims which demonstrates the The report found that construc- “Developments in housing tors in Iraq’s semi-autonomous confirm its contract rights and to develop and produce gas and need to get the basics right. tion dispute values were the high- remain a key constraint,” said Kurdish region, said yesterday to obtain payments for products petroleum products from the One striking statistic from dis- est in Asia at $85.6mn where values Stephen Walters, chief economist that it had obtained a favour- which it had delivered. Khor Mor and Chemchemal fields putes in the Middle East was that more than doubled. However, in the for Australia at JPMorgan Chase able ruling from a London arbi- On July 2, the London Court for the duration of the contract, almost half of joint ventures ended North America and the UK, dis- & Co. “The RBA is in a holding tration tribunal in its dispute of International Arbitration or not less than 25 years, Dana up in dispute during the year, for pute values dipped to $29.6m and pattern as officials watch develop- with Kurdistan authorities. “handed down its partial final said. These rights had been dis- the second year running the high- $27 respectively. The transportation ments domestically and offshore, The Abu Dhabi-listed firm, award ruling confirming beyond puted by the KRG since May est of any region covered in the sector witnessed the largest number including the troubling events in which leads a consortium of any doubt the consortium’s con- 2009, preventing development of report. The three most common of disputes in 2014, followed by Europe.” investors, had filed an arbitration tractual rights”, Dana said in a the fields, the company added. methods of Alternative Dispute social infrastructure and real estate. BLOOMBERG case in London in October 2013 statement yesterday. REUTERS Resolution that were used during THE PENINSULA MONDAY 6 JULY 2015 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Anti-dumping Qatari bourse duties on Russian index drops aluminium foil

BRUSSELS: The European Union will impose anti-dumping duties on imports of Russian 113.07 points aluminium foil after an initial investigation showed the prod- uct was sold in the 28-nation EU Egypt closes 1.2 percent lower at below normal market prices, the EU’s Official Journal said. DOHA: Qatar Exchange index A purchasing managers’ sur- It said a provisional anti-dump- dropped 113.07 points, or 0.93 vey showed business activity in ing duty of 12.2 percent will be percent, when the bourse closed Egypt’s non-oil private sector levied from on imports of alu- trading yesterday at 12,008.01 grew slightly in June, ending five minium foil from Russia, which points. months of contraction. is all made by the Rusal group, The market capitalisation But other concerns that have the world’s largest aluminium decreased to QR639.112bn from weighed heavily on the market producer. QR645.392bn registered on in the past month — foreign “On the basis of the conclu- Thursday. exchange and energy shortages, sions reached by the (European) The traded valued dropped militants in the Sinai and the Commission ... provisional meas- to QR97.678m with a volume central bank’s decision to let the ures should be imposed to prevent 2,596,484 shares from 1,712 trans- Egyptian pound depreciate gradu- Dr R Seetharaman and Abdulaziz bin Nasser Al Khalifa signing the agreement. further injury being caused to the actions compared with QR299.26 ally — continued to fuel selling. Union industry by the dumped with a volume of 4,531,928 shares Emaar Misr, the Egyptian unit imports,” the notice in the jour- from 2,476 transactions registered of Emaar Properties, was the nal said. on Thursday. most heavily traded stock. Its vol- Doha Bank, QDB sign new Al The provisional duties last for Barring telecoms index, up ume weighted average price was six months, by which time the 0.22 percent to 1,165.73 points, 3.94 Egyptian pounds and its last EU’s executive Commission will indices of all other sectors fell trade was 3.75 pounds, against its Dhameen deal to boost SMEs have completed its investigation, today, with industries declining initial public offer price of 3.80 which may result in the imposi- the most, down 1.13 percent to pounds. tion of definitive duties normally 3,913.18 points. The IPO had been heavily over- DOHA: Qatar Development content took nearly two years of SMEs in Qatar which has been lasting five years. The Total Return Index dropped subscribed, and the IPO price was Bank (QDB) announced yes- close cooperation between QDB acknowledged and well received Rusal said in an emailed com- 0.93 percent to 18,664.73 points, Al well below fair value estimates of terday that its CEO Abdulaziz and partner banks to cater to all by all concerned. We appreci- ment that it would continue to Rayan Islamic Index dropped 0.65 4.73 pounds by MubasherTrade bin Nasser Al Khalifa and Dr needs and increase transparency. ate the critical role played by work with the Commission as it percent to 4,671.53 points and All and Grant Thornton’s 4.70 R Seetharaman, CEO of Doha Abdulaziz bin Nasser said: “Al QDB in promoting SMEs in completed its investigation. Share Index dropped 0.92 percent pounds. Investors’ keenness to Bank, signed a new Al Dhameen Dhameen programme is a prima- Qatar through the launch of It voiced hope that, at the to 3,210.84 points. take profits, and the failure of programme portfolio agree- rily aims at ensuring that Qatari ‘AlDhameen’ program.” end of the process, “when the Meanwhile, Egypt’s stock mar- much of the money tied up in ment sponsored by QDB, ena- SMEs are capable of overcoming QDB is augmenting that role Commission takes our arguments ket maintained its downtrend unfilled IPO subscriptions to bling further expansion of SME obstacles, guarantees and short by launching the ‘Portfolio Risk’ into account, the duties may be yesterday as a weak debut by return to the market so far, sig- financing in Qatar. credit history. It also facilitates offering which will further ben- decreased or cancelled.” Emaar Misr, the biggest listing nalled local investors’ gloom. With QR100m portfolio, the financing procedures some of the efit the SME sector. The ‘Portfolio The Commission launched its since 2007, further hurt senti- Saudi Arabia’s market edged up new product aim at facilitating most important sectors such as Risk’ will be provided for sectors investigation last October after ment. Regional bourses were 0.3 percent despite a purchasing and speeding up the approvals to industry, education, healthcare, such as Manufacturing, Health receiving a complaint from sev- mixed as the Greek debt crisis managers’ survey showing growth guaranty the value of the fund- and added-value services. The Care, Education and Tourism. eral European producers of alu- kept trading volumes modest. in Saudi Arabia’s non-oil private ing provided by the partner bank program is mainly targeting com- SME entities with a revenue minium foil. The Egyptian index rose slightly sector slowed in June to its low- to small and medium enterprises panies and start-ups, and we are turnover less than or equal to The aluminium market is suf- in early trade but closed 1.2 per- est level since the survey was lacking sufficient guarantees. QDB delighted with this partnership QAR 30 million will be eligible fering from oversupply, putting cent lower at 8,218 points, entering launched in August 2009. Alinma has prepared a special portfolio with Doha Bank, which asserts for this program. The ‘Portfolio downwards pressure on prices. a band of strong technical support Bank, the most heavily traded guide that describes the terms, that all banks operating in Qatar risk’ offering will help to reduce The EU’s relations with Russia between 8,125 and 8,261 points, the stock, added 1.6 percent. conditions, highest international to support and develop the SMEs the turnaround time by trimming are strained over the Ukraine December and May lows. Saudi Basic Industries climbed 1.4 standards, due diligence, credit sector, diversifying the private down the processing cycle. This crisis, which led the EU to Any break of this support percent despite weak oil prices when monitoring, applications and sector and build a knowledge- also allows Doha Bank to retain impose economic sanctions on would be very bearish, trigger- it announced a joint venture with guidelines development, to help based economy.” its leadership position in Qatar by Moscow and Russia to respond ing a triangle pointing down into South Korea’s SK Global Chemical Doha Bank to take the necessary Seetharaman said: “This cere- providing a quick financing solu- with a ban on most Western food the 6,800-point area in the longer Co to produce polyethylene products. decisions without referring to the mony underlines Doha Bank’s role tion to new and existing SMEs. imports. term. AGENCIES QDB. Developing the programme as a frontrunner in supporting THE PENINSULA REUTERS MONDAY 6 JULY 2015 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19

Egyptian pound Spain creates 0.5m jobs, to grow 2.9pc weakens to Govt data shows 92 percent of new positions temporary; moves to curb wage growth 7.73 at official

MADRID: Spain created about Naveiras, 36, and his girlfriend, are much less assured of a secure temporary employment can make reform can backfire if it doesn’t auction 500,000 jobs last year, more than Ester Mansilla, a 31-year-old future and therefore the develop- a country less attractive to pro- go far enough. The reforms Spain any eurozone country except cook, have bounced from one ment of a normal life,” said Laste, spective employers. Research by enacted in 2012 limited the power CAIRO: Egypt’s central bank Germany. With the economy trabajo basura to another, inter- a father of two. economists in Spain and elsewhere of unions and reduced manda- allowed the Egyptian pound to forecast to grow a healthy 2.9 spersed with stretches of unem- Even a bad job, presumably, is shows that temporary workers are tory payments to laid-off work- depreciate further yesterday, percent in 2015, Prime Minister ployment, since being laid off better than no job, especially in a less productive than those on long- ers, moves that were expected having let it weaken for the first Mariano Rajoy predicts another from long-term jobs in 2012. In country where unemployment is term contracts, in part because to curb wage growth and make time in five months last week. 500,000 jobs will be created by mid-June, Mansilla landed her at 22.7 percent, the highest rate they rarely get on-the-job train- it easier for employers to hire The bank said it offered $40m year’s end-evidence, his govern- tenth temporary gig, helping a in the eurozone after Greece. ing. Such training could make a and fire. But pay cuts were borne and sold $39.6m at a cut-off price ment says, that Spain is bene- Madrid restaurant with its busy “Nobody is saying that by hiring big difference in Spain, which has almost entirely by temporary of 7.7301 pounds per dollar at a fiting from reforms enacted in wedding season. Naveiras’s latest somebody part-time for ¤500, one of the highest dropout rates workers, whose average wages regular auction, sending the cur- 2012 to make its labour market contract, supervising mainte- you’re solving anybody’s prob- in Western Europe, with 45 per- plunged some 20 percent while rency to a new low since auctions more flexible and competitive. nance at an apartment complex lems,” said Javier Díaz-Giménez, cent of people 25 and over lacking those of long-term employees began in December 2012. But the bad news for work- for 16 hours a week, started a few an economics professor at the a high school diploma. barely budged. And while the cost The central bank had allowed ers is that nearly all these new days later. “You can have experi- IESE Business School in Madrid. Spain also lags its European of dismissing long-term workers the pound to weaken on Thursday jobs are short-term, low-paid, ence and good education, but it’s But “Spain needs 2.5 million jobs- neighbours in spending on has fallen, it’s still well above the to 7.6301 from the 7.5301 at which and dead-end-what the Spanish impossible to find fairly compen- good, bad, or average.” research and development that European average, said Federico it had held for five months. call trabajo basura, or garbage sated full-time work,” Mansilla Still, Spain is locking in place could lure better-paying jobs in Steinberg, an analyst at the non- “I think we are heading for work. Government data show said. Employers take advantage a system in which some work- industries such as pharmaceuti- partisan Real Instituto Elcano further devaluations; we still that 92 percent of the positions of temps by hiring, firing, and ers cling to long-term jobs with cals and information technology. think tank in Madrid. That leaves have two auctions this week and being created are temporary, with rehiring them on new short-term decent pay and generous protec- Spain “never had a big programme employers with a powerful incen- I think we are going to see weak- some lasting only a few days. One- contracts, she added. tions, while everyone else gets tra- of research and innovation,” said tive to put all new hires on short- ening in the pound at both,” said fourth of labour contracts signed University-educated Spaniards bajo basura. The situation is bad Irene Cortés, a critical-care doctor term contracts. Mohamed Abu Basha, an econo- during the first three months of haven’t been spared. Víctor Laste, not only for the temporary work- who left Madrid in 2012 to take a The bottom line: Spain is “one mist at EFG-Hermes in Cairo. 2015 were for one week or less. a 35-year-old veterinarian, wound ers, but also for the Spanish econ- research job at the US National of the least-friendly places, at The central bank holds foreign Spanish temps make an average up working as an exterminator omy-and it offers lessons worth Institutes of Health. But after the least in the developed world, to exchange auctions on Sunday, ¤12,000 ($13,300) annually, about in Madrid after he lost his job in pondering by other European 2008 financial crisis, R&D spend- create jobs,” said Gayle Allard, Tuesday and Thursday every half what’s earned by people with 2010 and couldn’t find work in countries as they struggle to kick- ing was slashed even further. an economics professor at IE week. long-term contracts. his field. He recently started his start growth and competitiveness. “Now, there’s nothing,” she said. Business School in Madrid. Allowing the pound to weaken Madrid electrician Alberto own pest-control business. “We One lesson is that boosting Another lesson is that labor BLOOMBERG in a controlled manner could boost exports and attract further investment, analysts said. At the same time, a weaker Waste recycling centre currency could raise Egypt’s large bill for imports, which many Egyptians rely on for fuel and Economic growth to food staples. “We have foreign-exchange shortages and one of the key ways boost pound gains to resolve this is to weaken the pound to a more ‘fair’ price from the point of view of investors,” LONDON: The pound, the June 26 to $1.5580. Abu Basha said. developed world’s best-per- The pound has strengthened “Whether this will attract forming currency over the past 5.8 percent in the past three capital or not will depend on how three months, may get another months, the best performer much [the central bank] weakens boost from signs of economic among 10 developed-nation cur- the pound.” strength. rencies tracked by Bloomberg As well as allowing the pound Even with the prospect of Correlation-Weighted Indexes. It’s to depreciate, Egypt has taken Chancellor of the Exchequer been supported by signs Britain’s steps to eliminate a once-thriving George Osborne announcing an economic recovery is gathering currency black market, including acceleration of austerity in his pace. The euro gained 2.2 percent a cap on dollar-denominated bank special budget on July 8, data and the dollar advanced 0.8 per- deposits. due next week from housing to cent, the indexes showed. One currency trader said the industrial production will point UK house prices climbed 0.3 pound was changing hands at to an economy that is gaining percent last month, rebounding 7.87 to the dollar, falling within momentum, analysts said. Among from a 0.1 percent drop in May, the band set by the central bank. the major currencies, sterling has mortgage lender Halifax, a divi- The central bank gave banks been supported by speculation sion of Lloyds Banking Group, permission in January to trade that the Bank of England, which will say next week, according to dollars up to 0.10 pounds more decides on monetary policy next a Bloomberg survey of econo- or less than the official rate, with week, will be the first major cen- mists. A government report on A new factory which is to be used for recycling waste is under construction at a government managed an extra 0.05 pounds for currency tral bank to raise interest rates July 7 will show that industrial area in the township of Guiyu in China’s southern Guangdong province. Guiyu is the economic power- exchange bureaus. after the Federal Reserve. production grew on an annual house of Guangdong province in China has long been known as one of the world’s largest electronic REUTERS “The market is still quite opti- basis in May by the most since waste dump sites. mistic for the pound,” said Jane November, according to a sepa- Foley, a senior currency strate- rate Bloomberg survey. gist at Rabobank International UK government bonds rose, in London. While there are with the 10-year gilt yield drop- “significant headwinds for the ping the most in more than three Gold prices quoted in India at deep discounts pound” the “more constructive months. outlook has been supportive. Benchmark 10-year yields fell That boils down to continued 19 basis points, or 0.19 percentage MUMBAI/SINGAPORE: more than three percent in a fort- From August onwards, jewel- were heading for their second appreciation of sterling against point, this week to 2 percent, the Gold prices in major consumer night, tracking losses in the global lers will start restocking for the straight weekly decline. the euro.” biggest decline since March 20. India were quoted at deep dis- market. “The price drop failed to peak festival season at year-end,” Premiums in Singapore were The pound fell this week for the The 5 percent bond due in March counts to the global benchmark lure customers,” said Bachhraj Bamalwa said. between 80 cents and $1.20 an first time since June 5 versus the 2025 rose 1.845, or 18.45 pounds this week on tepid demand and Bamalwa, director at the All For the moment, though, ounce, while in Hong Kong they euro, having touched the strong- per 1,000-pound face amount, to adequate levels of inventory, India Gems and Jewellery Trade inventory levels are more than were about 60 cents to $1. In est level in more than seven years, 126.29. dealers said. Federation. adequate, dealers said. China, premiums on the Shanghai as a survey showed Greece’s vot- BOE policy makers led by Prices were quoted at a dis- Two-thirds of India’s gold Strong imports earlier in the Gold Exchange held at about $2 ers were split before a referendum Governor Mark Carney will keep count of $8 to $15 an ounce over demand comes from rural areas year have kept stock levels high, an ounce. Sunday on whether to accept the interest rates at a record-low London prices, much wider than where jewellery is the traditional putting pressure on prices, they A tight trading range, expecta- terms of a European financial 0.5 percent, according to all 39 the $1 discount in mid-June, they store of wealth for those with said. “There is a bit of inven- tion of further price falls and a bailout. economists in a Bloomberg survey said. no access to formal banking. tory overhang due to higher seasonally quiet demand period Sterling weakened 0.5 percent before the decision is announced Persistent weakness in India, However, in the current monsoon imports in last few months,” said for bullion have kept consumers this week to 71.29 pence per euro on July 9. the world’s top consumer of gold season farmers in rural areas are a Mumbai-based bank dealer. away from gold. “It has been an as of 5.15pm London time on Officials will maintain their last year and the No. 2 buyer in spending on agriculture, leading “Inventory levels will come down exceptionally long quiet period Friday. It touched 69.89 pence asset- purchase program at the first quarter of this year, could to a decline in bullion demand. in next few weeks as banks and this year for physical demand,” on June 29, the strongest level 375 billion pounds, a separate add pressure on global prices, Lack of weddings and festivals others are making fewer overseas said a Singapore-based dealer. “In since November 2007. The pound Bloomberg survey of analysts which are currently just above a are also hurting gold demand, purchases.” some parts of the region there are dropped for a second week versus showed. 3-1/2 month low. dealers said. “Weak demand Elsewhere in Asia too, gold more sellers than buyers.” the dollar, falling 1.1 percent from BLOOMBERG Gold prices in India have fallen will remain for another month. buying was subdued though prices REUTERS

Toyota launches new-look Camry

DOHA: Toyota has raised the North Africa Representative Reliability). The car has estab- bar yet again in the mid-size Office, Toyota Motor Corporation, lished an unshakeable presence in sedan segment with a bold, said: “The new Toyota Camry the standard mid-size sedan mar- bumper-to-bumper redesign of blends an evolution of the car’s ket – both in the Middle East and the new Toyota Camry. With a values – such as comfort, effi- around the globe – selling more striking new design, new model ciency, reliability and safety – than 15 million units worldwide. grades, and more dynamic han- with a more appealing design For its latest upgrade, Toyota dling, the new Camry which is and engaging driving experience. designers and engineers re-imag- being introduced in the Middle With its striking hood lines and ined nearly every exterior sur- East, is Toyota’s best ever Camry. statement-making front grille, face of the car, with only the roof According to the car’s Chief the car is designed for those who remaining unchanged. The new, Engineer Masato Katsumata, dare to be bold, and combines upscale interior features premium, the new-look Camry was devel- refinement and performance like soft-touch materials throughout oped for customers who want a never before. I would like to thank the spacious cabin, and advanced car with more emotional styling our customers in the region for instrumentation with intuitive and greater driving enjoyment. their loyalty and support over the controls helps keep the driver’s “We wanted to produce a Camry years. The new Camry is our way eyes safely on the road ahead. that appeals to its traditional of repaying their trust by making The new Camry is offered in customers as well as to younger a truly special vehicle for them.” the Middle East in four variants buyers,” he said. As a result, the Since its debut in 1982 and sub- – the GL, GLX, SE and the sporty latest Camry is the boldest-look- sequent evolution over six gen- XSE. It is available in 10 colours, ing Camry ever. The car is more erations, Camry has come to be including two new colours - Dark expressive, more athletic and embraced by people around the Blue, and Light Blue. Four inte- more confident.” world for its excellent perform- rior colours are also available: Takayuki Yoshitsugu, Chief ance, ride quality and its high level Ivory, Gray, Black, Gray & Black. AAB and Toyota officials during the launch of the new Camry model in Doha. Representative, Middle East and of QDR (Quality, Durability and THE PENINSULA MONDAY 6 JULY 2015 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Syrian central bank denies inflation reports Chrysler to Philippines may face sanctions, says top US sell $750m auto regulator

WASHINGTON: Fiat Chrysler will be punished soon for failing global bonds to follow the law in 23 recalls involving more than 11 million vehicles, the nation’s top auto Plan to borrow $16.6bn next year safety regulator said. But Mark Rosekind, adminis- MANILA: The Philippines borrowing may drop by six per- trator of the National Highway may offer about $750m of global cent from 111bn pesos, according Traffic Safety Administration, bonds in 2016 while seeking to to Tan. wouldn’t say what action the keep domestic funding elevated. “The environment is chang- agency will take until after a The Asian nation plans to bor- ing and there are potential risks, public comment period closes on row 747bn pesos ($16.6bn) next such as threats of an El Nino and July 17. year, and will probably sell 33bn rising US rates,” BDO Unibank Rosekind spoke after a pesos of global bonds, Treasurer Inc market strategist Jonathan two-hour public hearing in Roberto Tan said in a July 4 inter- Ravelas said. “It makes sense to Washington on Fiat Chrysler’s view at the Clark economic zone borrow now to prefund next year’s recall performance that fea- in Pampanga, a province north of requirement.” tured agency officials detailing Manila. About 643bn pesos, or 86 The Philippines sold $2bn Central Bank of Syria (CBS) Governor Adib Mayaleh speaks during a press conference in Damascus, Syria, an alarming litany of failures to percent, will be raised locally as worth of 25-year notes in January yesterday. Mayaleh denied media reports about a rise in inflation rates in the country and stressed that the notify customers of recalls, delays the market remains very liquid, at a record-low coupon for the new bank notes were simply replacing the older ones. in making and distributing repair Tan said. country’s similar-dated overseas parts, and in some cases failing to The Philippines has increased debt, using $1.5bn to finance the come up with repairs that fix the reliance on the local market to purchase of shorter-dated secu- problems. fund its budget as money sup- rities to extend maturity. The Some of the recalls date to ply almost doubled in the five nation is looking out for the pos- Aetna’s Humana deal to bring 2013, and Rosekind said more years under President Benigno sibility of a similar debt exchange, allegations against the company Aquino. A steady flow of remit- as well as opportunities for sell- could be added. tance by overseas workers and ing overseas debt earlier than its “The evidence seems very revenue from the outsourcing typical schedule at the start of the scrutiny on other tie-ups straightforward,” Rosekind said. industry boosted liquidity to 7.6 year, Tan said. “There’s a pattern that’s been trillion pesos in May, compared The government wants to hold a NEW YORK: Aetna Inc’s in a healthcare system that has authorities along with the Aetna- going on for some time.” with about 4 trillion pesos at peso-denominated debt exchange $37bn (£24bn) deal to buy seen major consolidation among Humana deal. Cigna declined to Rosekind said a number of end-2009. this quarter, probably offering smaller health insurer Humana hospitals and doctor practices, as comment about the Aetna-Humana options for agency action are “The government has cut for- longer-dated bonds including a Inc will face rigorous scrutiny well as mergers between medical deal. Anthem said it had nothing to “on the table,” including fines eign debt component to 34 per- 25-year tenor in exchange for from US regulators, which anti- device makers and other suppli- say about other potential mergers. against the company and requir- cent of the total, reducing our shorter, illiquid debt, Tan said. It trust experts said could also ers. The cost of new drugs has Regulators “should be exceed- ing it to buy back vehicles sub- vulnerability to fluctuations in the also wants to start an interbank make other large-scale mergers soared, and President Barack ingly skeptical of this deal” ject to recall. foreign currency,” Tan said in a Specials Repo program this year in the sector more difficult. Obama’s healthcare law has made between Aetna and Humana, NHTSA can fine automak- speech at an event by the National that will allow more efficient pric- The Aetna-Humana tie-up it harder for insurers to pass on said Diana Moss, president of the ers a maximum of $35m per Association of Securities Broker ing for government securities. would be the largest such deal higher costs to customers. American Antritrust Institute. infraction, so Chrysler could Salesmen Inc. “Ample domestic The Philippines is keeping a among health insurers. Friday’s Last month, Anthem offered “Depending on who merges and face millions in penalties. It’s liquidity has allowed government close watch on the developments announcement starts the clock to buy Cigna for $47bn. The com- the change to the market struc- unlikely, though, that the com- to source majority of its financing in Greece, as well as the actions of on an examination by regulators bined company would have sur- ture, that affects the concerns pany would face the top fine in requirement locally.” the US Federal Reserve, Tan said. of whether consumers will be passed UnitedHealth to become about the competition.” all 23 recalls. Of the 104bn pesos the nation The nation’s trade with Greece hurt by diminished competition. the single largest US health Aetna said it is ready to address Rosekind told reporters that plans to raise internationally in accounts for 0.01 percent of total Competition regulators include insurer. Cigna, which had also regulatory concerns.“Obviously Fiat Chrysler needed to fol- 2016, 71bn pesos will probably exports and remittances make up the Department of Justice and considered purchasing Humana, this is something that we expect low the law, meeting deadlines come from official development 1.38 percent, the finance depart- various state-level agencies. has so far rejected the buyout will get a thorough and careful to notify owners and distribute loans, Tan said, citing preliminary ment said on July 3. The deal follows weeks of approach. Some industry watchers review,” Shawn Guertin, Aetna’s parts. When it doesn’t, that data pending approval from the “We have to really monitor intense discussions about poten- expect a potential buyout of Cigna chief financial officer, said in an puts people at risk, he said. The economic team. how market conditions pan out tial combinations among the five to be revived after Aetna’s deal. interview. “We’ve spent a lot of time agency said it likely would act by In 2016, local debt sales may and see if there are opportunities biggest US health insurers: Aetna, Industry sources said Cigna looking at this at a fairly detailed the end of July. increase by nine percent to 643bn for us,” including liability manage- Humana, Cigna Corp, Anthem Inc and Anthem may have just a few level, and we certainly think that’s The company, in testimony pesos, compared with 590bn ment, the treasurer said. and UnitedHealth Group. months to sign a deal if they want a manageable situation.” Thursday, didn’t dispute any pesos this year, while external BLOOMBERG Insurers want more leverage it to be considered by antitrust REUTERS of NHTSA’s allegations. Scott Kunselman, Fiat Chrysler’s recently appointed head of vehi- cle safety, said it is changing the way it manages safety to follow the industry’s best practices. Iron ore tumbles on supply jump as Goldman, Citi prove right The safety system, he said, has been reorganized with added personnel. NEW YORK: Iron ore capped 12-year low. Iron ore’s decline record shipments in June through Citigroup in Hong Kong, said by Shanghai Steelhome Information He now reports directly to CEO the biggest weekly loss since eroded gains seen in the second Port Hedland, the world’s largest phone. “Just like the weakness Technology Co showed. Australia & Sergio Marchionne. Previously April as shipments surged and quarter, when prices rebounded bulk-export terminal. “Clearly, in exports were the main reason New Zealand Banking Group Ltd the person in his position was data showed the slowdown in from a decade-low as shipments that’s bad for prices, there’s no for the rally, now the recovery is said last month that the declining three rungs down the organisa- China’s steel industry deep- missed expectations. The top sup- way that could be interpreted likely to drive it lower.” trend in inventories would soon tion chart from the chief execu- ened, vindicating banks from pliers, including Rio in Australia positively.” The purchasing managers’ reverse and lead to lower prices. tive, he said. Goldman Sachs Group Inc to and Brazil’s Vale SA remain intent Exports from the port that han- index for China’s steel industry, Shipments from Australia may “We have learned from our Citigroup Inc that had forecast on increasing supply as they seek dles cargoes from BHP Billiton which has contracted for more surge 10 percent next year, more mistakes and missteps,” he told declines. to boost volumes and reduce costs Ltd and Fortescue Metals Group than a year, extended its decline than twice the pace forecast for the agency. Ore with 62 percent content per ton, expanding a glut even as Ltd jumped to a record 38.4 mil- in June to about a seven-year low 2015, the government said on Much of the testimony in the delivered to Qingdao lost 0.7 per- demand in China slows. Goldman lion tonnes last month, according of 37.4, government data compiled Tuesday. The outlook cited expan- hearing focused on a recall of 1.56 cent to $55.26 a dry metric ton on and Citigroup said the gains in to data on Thursday. Shipments by Bloomberg showed. New orders sions by producers including Rio million older-model Jeeps with Friday, falling for a seventh day, April and May wouldn’t last as from Brazil, the biggest exporter slumped to 27.9 from 37.6 in May. as well as supplies from billion- gas tanks mounted behind the according to Metal Bulletin Ltd. low-cost production was set to after Australia, surged to 32 mil- A reading below 50 indicates con- aire Gina Rinehart’s Roy Hill rear axles. Prices lost 11 percent this week increase further while demand lion tonnes last month from 29.55 traction. China is the world’s larg- mine, which are set to commence The tanks are vulnerable to to the lowest level since April. growth slowed in China. million a year earlier, the govern- est buyer of seaborne iron ore. this half. The global surplus will being punctured in a rear crash. Producers’ shares sank, with “The majors are continuing to ment said. Iron ore holdings at Chinese expand to 151 million tonnes in At least 75 people have died in Rio Tinto Group dropping to the push the tons,” Paul Gait, an ana- “We’ll still see prices dropping ports rose 2.8 percent this week 2018 from 34 million tons this fires involving the Jeeps, accord- lowest since 2009 in London and lyst at Sanford C. Bernstein & Co below $40,” Ivan Szpakowski, to 81.6 million tonnes, the first year, according to UBS Group AG. ing to NHTSA Anglo American Plc falling to a in London, said after data showed a commodities strategist at increase since April, data from BLOOMBERG AP

Indonesian inflation rising Concerns over US winter wheat likely to boost low crop prices

WICHITA, Kansas: Market as $4.50 a bushel last month but caused by an El Nino weather pat- concerns about the quantity and have risen to about $5.50 a bushel. tern, O’Brien said. Global wheat quality of the US winter wheat “And that, in my opinion, was a production is moderately lower than crop being harvested and the gift from God — it will certainly was expected two or three months dry conditions in other wheat- help a lot more people get into the ago, causing prices to rise. producing nations have sparked break-even range,” he said. “That What is far more difficult to an unexpected run up in recent will help a lot.” predict is how all these forces weeks to wheat prices. The reasons behind this year’s will affect domestic wheat prices Normally, the flood of new low wheat prices and the more in the future. That is due in part grain coming in at harvest time recent price bump, however, prob- because the outlook for US wheat drives down crop prices, and ably have less to do with divine is intertwined with the strength with prices already low when the intervention than with global of the US dollar, O’Brien said. A harvest began, farmers in Texas, grain markets. high US dollar in comparison to Oklahoma and Kansas were A weak market for US wheat other currencies makes US wheat worried. exports has driven down prices more expensive for other coun- That hasn’t happened this year, this year. On July 1 of last year, tries to buy — which in turn drives though, and wheat prices have central Kansas elevator terminals down domestic wheat prices. actually risen since mid-June, said around Hutchinson were paying Given the global economic Dan O’Brien, an extension spe- cash prices of between $6.80 and uncertainties caused by Greece’s cialist in grain markets at Kansas $7.04 a bushel for wheat, O’Brien debt crisis, and its potential impact State University. This is welcome said. As of Wednesday, they were on the strength of the US dollar, news for those farmers still bring- paying $5.68 to $5.82 per bushel. farmers have difficult decisions to ing in their crops. The recent price hike — gener- make: Should they sell now while Wheat grower Vance Ehmke ally 60 to 80 cents since mid-June they can still make a modest profit, Indonesian customers visit the textile, leather and shoes exhibition in Jakarta yesterday. Inflation in Indonesia, said cash prices at his local eleva- — reflects market concerns about US or hold on to their crop in anticipa- Southeast Asia’s biggest economy, has been edging up in recent months due mainly to higher fuel costs. tor in the western Kansas com- wheat production and dry conditions tion prices will go up further? munity of Dighton dipped as low in other wheat-producing countries WP-BLOOMBERG MONDAY 6 JULY 2015 MARKET www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 21

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ECB primes European tranquilliser as Greece faces bank chaos

BY JEFF BLACK and euro area are relatively small, the untested Outright Monetary according to people familiar — what to do with the Emergency itself, those conditions are in SCOTT HAMILTON though some of the more vulner- Transactions programmes. with the situation. That would Liquidity Assistance that has kept doubt. able countries may lie in Eastern Executive Board member help limit contagion in countries Greek lenders afloat through five Greece might need emergency he European Central Europe and to help there is defi- Benoit Coeure said this week with a relatively high exposure months of crisis. loans, European Parliament Bank claims it can nitely in the ECB’s remit,” said that the ECB could develop “new to Greece. The ECB and the The Governing Council President Martin Schulz said in calm any regional James Nixon, chief European instruments” to rein in market Bulgarian central bank declined capped the aid, provided by the an interview with German news- market turmoil that economist at Oxford Economics volatility, without saying what to comment. Greek central bank but need- paper Welt am Sonntag. One way follows Greece’s ref- in London. “None of that helps they might be. “The ECB is by far the most ing ECB approval, after Greek would be to use ¤1.9bn ($2.1bn) of Terendum yesterday. Saving the Greece though. We’re in deep, The central bank also main- flexible and powerful source of Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras profits earned by national central country’s banking system will be deep water there.” tains a “full allotment” policy in policy support in the event of walked away from negotiations banks from the ECB’s Securities harder. The ECB’s Governing Council its liquidity operations, so any major financial contagion,” ana- last week. The immediate con- Market Programme, the newspa- With two asset-buying pro- is due to discuss liquidity sup- bank with adequate collateral lysts including Guillaume Menuet sequence was that banks shut per said, though the cost of recap- grammes, international swap port for Greek banks today. Vice- can borrow as much as it needs. and Antonio Montilla at Citigroup and the government imposed italizing Greek lenders would be lines, backstops for eastern President Vitor Constancio said That’s of little use to Greek banks Inc said in a note. “We have lit- capital controls, restricting at least 10 billion euros, according Europe and cash tenders in place, on Friday that “the only thing though, as Greek debt isn’t rated tle doubt that the ECB would transactions and withdrawals to an estimate it cited from an the ECB has a wide range of tools that matters” is the chance of highly enough to qualify. intervene.” from ATMs. With lenders now undentified official. at hand should bond yields surge a deal between Greece and its Policy makers are willing to Mark Carney, Governor of the running low on cash, the ECB When Greek Finance Minister or money markets freeze after creditors. reach beyond both the euro Bank of England, said this week will have to decide if they should Yanis Varoufakis claimed in an the vote. That’s a possible out- In the meantime, officials and the euro area. Swap lines that finance ministries and cen- get more. interview with Bloomberg on come if voters reject the terms have prepared for the worst. between six of the world’s major tral banks are in touch with each There is no easy answer. A Thursday that the banks will be of a European Union-led bailout. The ECB now has more instru- central banks that were set up other over contingency plans. “no” vote in the referendum, open by July 7, he may have been Yet even if the Greek people ments at its disposal to contain during the early years of the sov- “Those contingencies could be rejecting the EU proposal, would unjustifiably optimistic. back the EU offer, the nation’s ripples that threaten the sta- ereign debt crisis were made per- put in place if necessary,” Carney leave Greece without a bailout “If it’s ‘no’ you’re back to the lenders, which have been shut and bility of other banks, as well as manent in 2013, meaning lenders said in an interview with Sky programme and no obvious pros- negotiating table, if it’s ‘yes’ you’re under capital controls for the past legal backing from the European can access dollars, pounds, yen, News broadcast on Wednesday. pect of one. A “yes” vote would back to the negotiating table,” said week, won’t be able to reopen soon Court of Justice to use them as Swiss francs and Canadian dol- “Quite frankly, they haven’t been only open the door to new talks, Marchel Alexandrovich, senior unless the ECB approves more it sees fit, and has said it’s ready lars if needed. necessary because we haven’t perhaps with a new government, European economist at Jefferies liquidity. To do that, monetary- to do so. The ECB will provide Bulgaria seen this spillover of the risks which may require time the banks International Ltd. in London. “I policy officials would have to take With no room left for interest- with access to refinancing oper- in Greece into broader financial don’t have. don’t think things will be decided a leap of faith that the govern- rate cuts, the central bank’s most ations, offering euros to the markets or into broader Europe.” To extend ELA, the ECB very quickly. 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Five Classic All- Williams Matches Big four take centre stage LONDON: Serena and Venus Williams will meet in the Wimbledon fourth round Djokovic, Federer, Wawrinka and Murray remain on course for semi-finals today. Here are the five of the most memorable clashes between the American siblings: LONDON: Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Stan Wawrinka 2009 Wimbledon final and Andy Murray remain on Serena ended Venus’s two-year reign as course for the Wimbledon semi- Wimbledon champion with a 7-6 (7/3), 6-2 finals ahead of ‘manic Monday’ victory that secured her a third All England when the last-16 takes place. Serbia’s Novak Djokovic Club crown. Six of the top 10 seeds are safely and Jelena Jankovic It was the fourth time the sisters had met in into the business end of the tour- (right) pose for a selfie a Wimbledon final, with Serena, who now nament after a first week which with junior players at held the Wimbledon, Australian and US Open saw seventh seed Milos Raonic the All England Lawn crowns, winning three of those showpiece and 10th-seeded Rafael Nadal Tennis & Croquet Club, showdowns. defeated on court. Wimbledon, England The 27-year-old’s 11th career win over her sibling regained the Wimbledon title she won Fifth seed Kei Nishikori with- yesterday. Bottom: in 2002 and 2003, and shattered five-time drew before the second round Maria Sharapova of with a calf injury while eighth- champion Venus’s hopes of lifting the trophy Russia in action dur- for a third successive year. seeded David Ferrer pulled out ing a training session before the first round. 2009 Dubai Championship semi-final on the eve of the fourth Defending Djokovic will face Venus beat top ranked Serena 6-1, 2-6, 7-6 round of the Wimbledon South African 14th seed Kevin (7/3) to take a 10-9 lead in the sibling rivalry. Championships at Anderson in the fourth round, It was Venus’s fifth win in their last seven defending a 4-1 career lead. the All England Lawn meetings but Serena earned plenty of Anderson won their first meet- Tennis Club, in London, plaudits as well for defying the pain of a knee ing in 2008 but since then it’s been yesterday. injury that had forced her to retire from a the world number one who has tournament the previous week. been on top winning the next four It was only the second time a set had gone without dropping a set, including all the way to a tie-break in their 19 career a straight sets win at Wimbledon meetings to that point. in the second round four years 2008 US Open quarter-final ago. Down 5-3 in the first set and 5-2 in the “I think he is probably play- 39-year-old Jimmy Connors at Kudla is the lowest ranked player second, Serena refused to let Venus cross ing the tennis of his life,” said the 1991 US Open. left in the tournament. the finish line in a marathon New York Djokovic who hasn’t dropped a set “It’s a great feeling. I really like The world number 105 was encounter. so far at the tournament so far what I do. I’m just having fun. So winning a second-tier Challenger Serena saved two set points in the first set and also captured the 2011 title. if I’m able to do this at my age, it tournament at Ilkley in Yorkshire, and eight in the second, all in the two tie- “He’s reached the highest rank- is unbelievable still,” said Karlovic northern England on the eve of breakers that she eventually won to secure ing now in his career. He keeps on who has rained down 136 aces in Wimbledon. a 7-6 (8/6), 7-6 (9/7) victory in front of a going forward. three matches. Kudla is also the lone American capacity crowd, including celebrities Diana “It will be a match of very small Murray needed treatment on standing but faces a stiff test Ross, Spike Lee and Robert Redford, on margins that will be decided by a his right shoulder in his four- against US Open champion Arthur Ashe Stadium. few points. So I need to be able to set win over Andreas Seppi on Marin Cilic if he is to get to the 2008 Wimbledon final get as many returns back in play.” Saturday but then reeled off the quarter-finals. The other last 16 Federer, 33, chasing a record last six games of the match. matches feature Australia’s Nick Venus clinched her fifth Wimbledon title with eighth Wimbledon and 18th He will takes a 5-0 career Kyrgios, who knocked out Nadal a 7-5, 6-4 win in one of the few really high- major, has dropped just one set lead into today’s clash with in the fourth round last year on quality clashes between the pair at the All so far, in his third round win over Karlovic. his way to a maiden quarter-final, England Club. Sam Groth. “It will be a very different up against France’s 2007 semi- Venus, 28, defied blustery conditions to The Swiss, playing his 17th suc- match from Seppi. Ivo is going to finalist Richard Gasquet. become one of only four players to lift the cessive Wimbledon, faces Spanish be coming to the net a lot,” said Vasek Pospisil, the world trophy five times or more in the modern era. 20th seed Roberto Bautista Agut Murray. number 56, is only the fourth She sealed the historic victory when Serena who was voted the most improved “He’s served very well, so the Canadian man to reach the last fired a backhand wide, but her celebrations player of 2014. He is in the fourth returns will have to be on if I 16 and he faces Serbia’s 22nd seed were muted as she hugged her sister at the round for the first time. want to get through that one.” Viktor Troicki. net. However, he has lost both of his Fourth seed and French Troicki has reached the fourth 2003 Australian Open final matches against Federer without Open champion Wawrinka faces round of a Slam for the first time One of the most dramatic finals between the winning a set including a fourth Belgian 16th seed David Goffin since returning from a one-year sisters came in the heat of Melbourne when round loss to the Swiss at the who has made the fourth round doping ban in July 2014. Serena clinched the last Grand Slam title to 2014 US Open. at Wimbledon for the first time, Czech sixth seed Tomas elude her with a tension-filled 7-6 (7/4), 3-6, Murray, the 2013 champion equalling his previous best at a Berdych, the 2010 runner-up, 6-4 victory. tackles 36-year-old Ivo Karlovic, major when he came out of quali- takes on Gilles Simon, the French It was only the sixth time a woman had held the oldest man to make the fourth fying to reach the French Open 12th seed who saw off compatriot all four of Grand Slams at the same time, and round at the All England Club last 16 in 2012. Gael Monfils on Saturday in a the first since Steffi Graf in 1994. since compatriot Niki Pilic in Wawrinka has a 2-0 lead over match which began on Court One Venus made unwanted history as the first 1976. Goffin with both wins coming on but was played to a conclusion woman to lose four straight Grand Slam The 23rd seed is also the old- the hard courts of Chennai in 2011 under the lights of the Centre finals. est to reach the last-16 of any and 2015. Court roof as darkness fell. of the four Grand Slams since American wildcard Denis AFP Williams sisters renew rivalry in last-16 clash

LONDON: Tennis titans Serena Ivanovic, Ekaterina Makarova, think that’s a unique relationship, half of the draw and the former and Venus Williams clash in the Carla Suarez Navarro and that is pretty rare in sport, that world number one faces Spanish Wimbledon last 16 today, while Angelique Kerber all failed to get she and I share.” 20th seed Garbine Muguruza in Maria Sharapova and Caroline past the first week. Serena holds the US, Australian the fourth round. Wozniacki will fancy their title While one of the Williams and French Open titles but reck- With the men’s and wom- chances as two of the four top 10 sisters could face Sharapova or ons Venus is in better form. en’s last 16 all taking place players still standing. Safarova in the semi-finals -- “It will be a really good match. Monday, Wozniacki, chasing The 26th clash between the both face unseeded opposition I’m practicing next to her every a maiden Grand Slam title, is Williams sisters, who have won on Monday -- Wozniacki cannot day and I’m in awe of how she’s looking forward to a bumper the Wimbledon title five times meet any of them before the final doing,” she said. day of tennis. each over the last 15 years, will be and only has lower-ranked play- Fourth seed Sharapova, a five- “It’s unique because you get the first at the All England Club ers in her way. time Grand Slam champion, faces the top players playing tough since the 2009 final. Venus said she and her 33-year- Zarina Diyas of Kazakhstan for a matches,” she said. And with either world number old sister knew each other’s game spot in the quarter-finals. “For sure, some of them are one Serena or 16th-seeded Venus inside out. The Russian won Wimbledon in going to be on outside courts. certain to fall, the second week at “There’s no easy points against 2004 but since has only made it Also people who come here and Wimbledon is looking appetising Serena,” the 35-year-old said. past the fourth round once since watch it live will have a field day. for the other silverware contend- “Competing with each other 2006. It’s going to be great.” Venus Williams of the USA changes ers in southwest London. has nothing to do with whether “I’ll definitely go out there and The dearth of remaining top 10 ends during her match against Serena, Sharapova, Wozniacki we’re close or not. try to change that result around,” players means sixth seed Lucie Aleksandra Krunic of Serbia at the and Lucie Safarova are the only “Just knowing what the other the world’s highest-earning Safarova, who ghosted through US player Serena Williams of USA Wimbledon Tennis Championships top 10 seeds remaining in the one goes through. If I see her in sportswoman said. the first week, is now also look- celebrates after beating Britain’s in London, on Saurday draw after defending champion a match in a tight spot, I know Danish fifth seed Wozniacki is ing like a serious contender. Heather Watson on Saturday. Petra Kvitova, Simona Halep, Ana exactly what that feels like. I the biggest name remaining in her AFP

Katara Beach Volleyball Championship Baseball Results Mariners bats go cold Washington 9 San Francisco 3 NY Yankees 3 Tampa Bay 2 Team Katara, win- Detroit 8 Toronto 3 ners of the Katara again in 2-0 loss to A’s Boston 6 Houston 1 Beach Volleyball Chicago White Sox 3 Baltimore 2 Championship pose OAKLAND, California: Felix manager Lloyd McClendon said. a for a picture during St Louis 2 San Diego 1 Hernandez turned in another “He was up in the zone a little bit. the victory ceremony. Oakland 2 Seattle 0 quality start despite not hav- But he limited the damage pretty Team Katara defeated ing his best stuff. He still lost a good and gave us a chance to win.” Pittsburgh 1 Cleveland 0 North in an exciting second straight decision for the Hernandez, who struck out six Minnesota 5 Kansas City 3 final at the Cultural first time this season. and walked two, had gone 13 con- Chicago Cubs 7 Miami 2 Village Beach. The Oakland rookie Kendall secutive starts without losing at Milwaukee 7 Cincinnati 3 winners pocketed QR Graveman did King Felix one the Coliseum, matching the long- Atlanta 9 Philadelphia 5 30,000 for their efforts. better yesterday, tossing seven est streak by an opposing pitcher. LA Dodgers 4 NY Mets 3 Dr Khalid bin Ibrahim innings as the Athletics beat the The loss — his first in Oakland Al Sulaiti, General Seattle Mariners 2-0, Hernandez’s since Sept. 19, 2008 — was just his LA Angels 13 Texas 0 first loss here in nearly seven third in 21 career starts at this Arizona 7 Colorado 3 Manager of Katara years. aging facility. “He’s just handed it Cultural Village, was The A’s only scored twice off to us here at home,” A’s manager against him with no outs in the present at the final. The Hernandez (10-5) but peppered Bob Melvin said. “It’s not like he second and Hernandez stranded runners-up received him for 10 hits — the most he has pitched poorly. He didn’t have his all three. The A’s left runners in QR 20,000. allowed this season. best stuff and wiggled out of some scoring position in three other “He battled all day,” Mariners jams.” The A’s loaded the bases innings. AGENCIES MONDAY 6 JULY 2015 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Mercedes AMG Petronas F1 Team’s British driver Lewis Hamilton races during the British Formula One Grand Prix at the Silverstone Circuit in Silverstone yesterday. RIGHT: Hamilton celebrates his win after the race with the fans. Happy Hamilton a home winner again British Grand Prix: One-two for Mercedes at Silverstone, Vettel finishes third

British Grand Prix SILVERSTONE, United well-timed stop to switch to regained second. Behind them, Kingdom: Reigning world intermediate tyres during the on a tumultuous opening lap, a Results champion Lewis Hamilton won showers to finish third. Hamilton multiple crash at the Village loop Silverstone, Great Britain: Results from his second successive British “Thank you everyone for com- (right) hugs corner saw the two Lotuses collide British Formula One Grand Prix at Grand Prix on Sunday to extend ing out today and making my his mother and the two McLaren Hondas do Silverstone yesterday: his lead in the championship weekend,” said Hamilton, prais- after win- the same. 1. Lewis Hamilton (GBR/Mercedes) 1hr standings over Mercedes team- ing the fans. ning the Of the four, only Alonso sur- 31:27.729, 2. Nico Rosberg (GER/Mercedes) mate Nico Rosberg. “I really wanted to do it for you British vived and, following a lengthy pit at 10.956sec, 3. Sebastian Vettel (GER/ Hamilton -- the first British guys. I am so thankful for all the Formula stop, he re-joined the fray and Ferrari) 25.443, 4. Felipe Massa (BRA/ driver since David Coulthard support. I could see all the fans on One Grand eventually finished 10th. Williams) 36.839, 5. Valtteri Bottas (FIN/ in 1999/2000 to post successive every lap in the corner of my eye Prix at the “There was nothing Fernando Williams) 1min 03.194sec, 6. Daniil wins in the race -- came home and they spurred me on. could do, he didn’t drive into me,” Silverstone Kvyat (RUS/Red Bull) 1:03.955, 7. Nico 10 seconds clear of Rosberg in “My clutch was good this time! said Button. Circuit. Hulkenberg (GER/Force India) 1:18.744, yet another Mercedes 1-2, with But we had quite poor grip at the “He was taking avoiding 8. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN/Ferrari) at 1 lap, 9. Ferrari’s Sebastian Vettel in third. start -- the same for Nico, but action.” Sergio Perez (MEX/Force India) 1 lap, 10. Hamilton -- whose victory was it made the race more exciting. Hamilton assumed control Fernando Alonso (ESP/McLaren) 1 lap, 11. watched by 140,000 people the I just kept pushing and, for the English weather conditions had removed both Lotus cars and when the three drivers ahead of Marcus Ericsson (SWE/Sauber AG) 1 lap, 12. Roberto Merhi (ESP/Marussia) 3 laps, 13. largest attendance since 1992 -- first time in my career, I made the played in his favour. Fernando Alonso’s luckless team- him pitted, after laps 20 and 21. Will Stevens (GBR/Marussia) 3 laps took his points tally to 194 and a perfect choice tyre-wise! “Without the rain, we would mate Briton Jenson Button. The Englishman swiftly opened Overall Standings lead of 17 over Rosberg, who had “How do I feel? I am so elated not be on the podium. We kept The grid was busy with British up a four seconds lead ahead of narrowed the gap to 10 prior to you cannot imagine. I felt tears our head down and were patient royalty and celebrities, including Massa and took control while Drivers this weekend. on the last lap, I was just hop- enough until the rain poured three of former pop sensations Australian Daniel Ricciardo, a 1. Lewis Hamilton (GBR) 194pts, 2. Nico Recovering after losing his pole ing I could do it for all the guys. down,” said Vettel. The Spice Girls -- one of whom frustrated figure this year, com- Rosberg (GER) 177, 3. Sebastian Vettel position advantage at the start, Thanks for all the support. Now “That is England for you! We Geri Halliwell is married to Red pleted a miserable weekend by (GER) 135, 4. Valtteri Bottas (FIN) 77, 5. Hamilton stormed back into let’s party...” made the right choices and the Bull boss Christian Horner -- retiring his Red Bull. Kimi Raikkonen (FIN) 76, 6. Felipe Massa contention and regained the lead Rosberg accepted his defeat team did a great job.” Brazilian before the start. Hamilton’s move meant, too, (BRA) 74, 7. Daniel Ricciardo (AUS) 36, 8. with a superbly-executed pit-stop gracefully. Felipe Massa, who had led from When the lights went out, that he was leading for an 18th Daniil Kvyat (RUS) 27, 9. Nico Hülkenberg to win by 10.956 seconds. “I was pushing hard to try and the start until lap 20, ended up Massa made an astonishing start race in succession, breaking a (GER) 24, 10. Romain Grosjean (FRA) 17, 11. Felipe Nasr (BRA) 16, 12. Sergio Perez It was his third win in his home catch Lewis under difficult condi- finishing fourth ahead of his from third, his Williams streak- 45-year-old record previously (MEX) 15, 13. Pastor Maldonado (VEN) 12, race, his fifth win this year and tions,” he said. Williams team-mate Finn Valtteri ing between the two Mercedes held by Jackie Stewart. 14. Max Verstappen (NED) 10, 15. Carlos the 38th win of his career. “But he made the better call Bottas. men to take the lead. Bottas In masterly fashion, he drew Sainz Jr (ESP) 9, 16. Marcus Ericsson Four-time champion Vettel and that is where I lost it. Fair The race was punctuated by followed, but Hamilton resisted clear by six seconds by lap 34 and (SWE) 5, 17. Jenson Button (GBR) 4, 18. took full advantage of the chang- play to him.” a Safety Car on the opening lap and, after a scrap through the was rarely under pressure after Fernando Alonso (ESP) 1 ing conditions with an equally Vettel admitted the typically after a multiple collision that opening corners, the champion that. AFP

Tour de France Zeeland, Netherlands: Results from the 2nd German Greipel wins stage of the Tour de France, a 166km ride from Utrecht to Zeeland yesterday: 1. André Greipel (GER/LOT) 3h29min 03sec (average: 47.6 km/h) 2. Peter Sagan (SVK/TIN) at 0:00. second stage of Tour 3. Fabian Cancellara (SUI/TRE) 0:00. 4. Mark Cavendish (GBR/ETI) 0:00. ZEELAND, Netherlands: “I was able to stay on his wheel manpower to close the gap. 5. Daniel Oss (ITA/BMC) 0:00. Andre Greipel won the second and time the sprint the right way. At the front Etixx-Quick 6. Greg Van Avermaet (BEL/BMC) 0:00. stage of the Tour de France “It’s the first time I’m wearing Step were driving the peloton yesterday as reigning cham- the green jersey in the Tour de in the hope of setting up Mark 7. Chris Froome (GBR/SKY) 0:00. pion Vincenzo Nibali and fellow France and I will enjoy it.” Cavendish for a 26th Tour stage 8. Tom Dumoulin (NED/GIA) 0:00. favourite Nairo Quintana lost But it was crashes and cross- win. With around 35km left and 9. Tony Martin (GER/ETI) 0:00. time. winds in driving rain that made clearing skies, Nibali’s group 10. Warren Barguil (FRA/GIA) 0:00. Greipel edged out Peter Sagan the real difference as Chris was caught by Quintana’s and 11. Tejay Van Garderen (USA/BMC) 0:04. by a fraction of a wheel length Froome, the 2013 champion, and then their Astana and Movistar 12. Geraint Thomas (GBR/SKY) 0:04. at the end of the 166km stage twice winner Alberto Contador teams, along with some help from 13. Alberto Contador (ESP/TIN) 0:04. from Utrecht to Zeeland in the put significant time into Nibali French hope Thibaut Pinot’s FDJ Netherlands. and Quintana. teammates, led the chase. 14. Rigoberto Uran (COL/ETI) 0:04. Fabian Cancellara took third, After a four-man breakaway of Dennis was caught in this 15. Tony Gallopin (FRA/LOT) 0:04. and four bonus seconds, inches Czech Jan Barta, Stef Clement of group and with his BMC team 16. Mark Renshaw (AUS/ETI) 0:04. ahead of Mark Cavendish to snare the Netherlands and Frenchmen leader Tejay Van Garderen in the 17. Marcel Sieberg (GER/LOT) 0:04. the yellow jersey off Australia’s Perrig Quemeneur and Armindo lead bunch, he could count on no 18. Roman Kreuziger (CZE/TIN) 0:04. Rohan Dennis. Fonseca was reeled in within the help to close the gap. 19. Michael Schär (SUI/BMC) 0:08. “I’m really happy because that’s first 100km, the next 10km saw But up front there were riders 20. Michael Rogers (AUS/TIN) 0:08. 29 days now in this jersey, it’s the main drama take place. pushing the pace with the stage nice,” said Cancellara, who’s won Already 60km into the race the win in mind while Froome and Overall Standings eight Tour stages in his career. crosswinds created the first split Contador’s teammates helped out Overall standings after the 2nd stage of the “The high numbers (many days in the peloton, with former world from time to time to ensure they Tour de France, a 166km ride from Utrecht to in yellow) are special but also champion Rui Costa of Portugal profited most from the situation. Zeeland yesterday: being back in the jersey after 11 and former Vuelta a Espana win- Italian Nibali’s nightmare day 1. Fabian Cancellara (SUI/TRE) 3h 44min 01sec years (racing the Tour). I said ner Alejandro Valverde caught continued as he punctured 25km 2. Tony Martin (GER/ETI) at 0:03. before the start this is my last out. from home but the 30-year-old 3. Tom Dumoulin (NED/GIA) 0:06. Tour. They got back up to the front quickly fought his way back up to 4. Peter Sagan (SVK/TIN) 0:33. “Reaching yellow, everything to group but crashes, a searing pace the chase group, with a little help 5. Geraint Thomas (GBR/SKY) 0:35. come now is a bonus.” and the inclement weather from from the slipstream of the team Tony Martin, who started the 60km to 50km to go saw first cars.It all left Froome in 10th 6. Daniel Oss (ITA/BMC) 0:42. day in second, one place and one Quintana and then Nibali also overall, 48sec behind Cancellara 7. Rigoberto Uran (COL/ETI) 0:42. second ahead of Cancellara, could left behind. and 12sec ahead of Contador in 8. Tejay Van Garderen (USA/BMC) 0:44. only finish ninth and now trails “I was held up by Alan Hansen’s 14th. Nibali, who started the day 9. Greg Van Avermaet (BEL/BMC) 0:48. the Swiss Trek rider by three sec- crash. I was a hair’s breath away 7sec up on Froome, is now 33rd 10. Chris Froome (GBR/SKY) 0:48. onds, with Tom Dumoulin third from the lead group but we were 1min 21sec behind with 44th 11. Michael Rogers (AUS/TIN) 0:53. overall at 6sec. disorganised and we didn’t man- placed Quintana another 18sec “I think Mark Renshaw age to close the gap immediately,” further adrift. Pinot and Jean- 12. Zdenek Stybar (CZE/ETI) 0:54. (Cavendish’s lead-out man) went moaned Nibali. Christophe Peraud, the other two 13. André Greipel (GER/LOT) 0:59. a bit too early so Cavendish too “That’s cycling, you have to podium finishers from last year, 14. Alberto Contador (ESP/TIN) 1:00. was forced to launch his sprint accept the bad days. There’s still also lost time, along with another 15. Tony Gallopin (FRA/LOT) 1:00. early,” said Greipel, who won his a long way to go in the Tour.” overall contender Romain Bardet. 16. Roman Kreuziger (CZE/TIN) 1:08. 10th Tour stage and got the green Quintana’s group quickly lost a Monday’s third stage takes the 17. Marcel Sieberg (GER/LOT) 1:12. points jersey. minute while Nibali was caught peloton 157km from Antwerp in Lotto-Soudal rider Andre Greipel of Germany celebrates as he wins 18. Manuel Quinziato (ITA/BMC) 1:13. “But he also won many stages in no-man’s land in a small group Belgium to the brutal uphill finish the 166-km (103.15 miles) second stage of the 102nd Tour de France 19. Michal Kwiatkowski (POL/ETI) 1:19. this way because he can hold his that, while just 20sec off the at the Mur de Huy, where a few cycling race from Utrecht to Zeeland yesterday. speed for a long time. front peloton, didn’t have enough seconds could be gained. AFP 20. Ian Stannard (GBR/SKY) 1:20. MONDAY 6 JULY 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25

‘New’ England Mathews puts Sri Lanka on top face Ashes acid test Hosts gain first innings lead of 63 runs on a rain-interrupted third day LONDON: England will face the ultimate test of their stated PALLEKELE, Sri Lanka: against the wall, but vowed to desire to play bold and aggres- Skipper Angelo Mathews bat- fight until the end. “It’s going to sive cricket as they bid to regain tled his way to an unbeaten 77 be tough from here, but we are the Ashes from Australia in a as Sri Lanka seized the advan- going to fight and not let it go eas- five-match series that starts in tage in the series-deciding third ily,” the former fast bowler said. Cardiff on Wednesday. and final Test against Pakistan “We will try and slow down the With their new Australian in Pallekele yesterday. game, fight hard to get some more coach, Trevor Bayliss, telling The hosts gained a first innings wickets and then see how it goes. them the only way they can lead of 63 runs and then recov- This pitch is still good for bat- defeat the Aussies is to “fight fire ered from 35-3 in their second ting and we should try and make with fire”, England have certainly knock to post 228-5 by stumps on a game of it. talked a good game as they look a rain-interrupted, but absorbing, “The reason why we are in this to turn the tables on an Australia third day’s play. position is because we did not bat side who beat their arch-rivals Mathews led from the front well in our first innings. And then 5-0 during the last Ashes series against a tiring Pakistani attack, it became tough to control the ‘Down Under’ in 2013/14. adding 45 for the fourth wicket game from there.” But can England match the with Upul Tharanga (48) and 81 The tourists added six runs aggression of Australia and will for the fifth with Jehan Mubarak to their overnight score of 209-9 they have to if they are to win (35). before they were all out for 215 the series? Mubarak marked his recall to in the day’s second over in reply On paper, at least, Australia -- the Test side after almost eight to Sri Lanka’s first innings total even after Ryan Harris’s injury- years with a gutsy 35 before he of 278. induced retirement on Saturday was caught at short-leg off Yasir When Sri Lanka batted a sec- -- have quicker bowlers in the Shah in the final session. ond time, left-arm seamer Rahat likes of left-armers Mitchell Dinesh Chandimal returned to Ali grabbed two quick wickets and Johnson and Mitchell Starc than form with 39 not out, helping his new ball partner Ehsan Adil took Sri Lankan captain Angelo Mathews plays a shot during the third day of the third and final Test match against England’s new-ball duo of James captain put on 67 for the sixth one to leave the hosts tottering in Pakistan at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in Pallekele yesterday. Anderson and Stuart Broad. wicket before bad light ended the the morning session. And with their top order boast- day’s play early. Rahat bowled first innings cen- ing the likes of dynamic opener Sri Lanka will begin the tury-maker Dimuth Karunaratne keeping the hard-working ground Scoreboard David Warner, Steven Smith, fourth day with a commanding for 10 and yorked Lahiru staff on their toes as they rushed now the number one ranked bats- overall lead of 291 runs with five Thirimanne for no score in an in the covers to guard both the Sri Lanka (I innings): ...... 278 14-1-64-0 (nb-2); N Pradeep 15-5-29-3; A man in Test cricket, and captain wickets in hand, having a clear inspired eight-over opening spell. wicket and the outfield. Pakistan (I innings): Mathews 4-1-3-0; T Kaushal 14-1-37-3. Michael Clarke, Australia also advantage on the wearing pitch In between, Ehsan Adil had Pakistan’s six runs in the morn- S Masood lbw Prasad...... 13 Sri Lanka (II innings): appear to have a faster scoring to break the 1-1 deadlock in the Kaushal Silva caught in the slips ing all came off the bat of Sarfraz A Shehzad c Chandimal b Pradeep ...... 21 D Karunaratne b R Ali ...... 10 top order than England’s leading series. by a diving Misbah-ul Haq for Ahmed, who remained unbeaten Az Ali c Karunaratne b Pradeep ...... 52 K Silva c Misbah-ul-Haq b Adil ...... 3 quartet of Adam Lyth, skipper “We need to bat one more ses- three. on 78. Y Khan (run out-K Silva) ...... 3 U Tharanga c Az Ali b Shah ...... 48 Alastair Cook, Gary Ballance and sion to push Pakistan out of the Tharanga and Mathews Last man Imran Khan, who A Shafiq lbw Prasad ...... 15 L Thirimanne b R Ali ...... 0 Ian Bell, who have been accused of game,” said Mubarak. repaired the early damage on had not faced a ball in four pre- S Ahmed (not out) ...... 78 A Mathews (batting) ...... 77 being ‘one-paced’ batsmen. “The new ball is due in 10 overs either side of lunch before Yasir vious Tests, survived for seven Misbah-ul-Haq lbw Pradeep ...... 6 J Mubarak c Az Ali b Shah ...... 35 Nevertheless number five and if we can survive that, we can broke the partnership. deliveries before he was bowled E Adil lbw Kaushal...... 0 D Chandimal (batting) ...... 39 Joe Root has often shown he’s get a lead of about 380. Having had a leg-before by off-spinner Tharindu Kaushal Y Shah c Chandimal b Prasad ...... 18 Extras (B-4, LB-9, W-3) ...... 16 comfortable upping the tempo “There are two more days left review turned down by the TV for zero. R Ali lbw Kaushal ...... 2 Total (for 5 wkts) ...... 228 -- something for which England and there will be a result either umpire off the previous ball, the Kaushal, Dhammika Prasad I Khan b Kaushal ...... 0 Fall of wickets: 1-12, 2-22, 3-35, 4-80, 5-161. should be grateful given Kevin way. Something like 380 will be leg-spinner forced Tharanga to and Nuwan Pradeep finished with Extras (LB-4, NB-2, W-1) ...... 7 To bat: D Prasad, T Kaushal, S Lakmal, N Pra- Pietersen’s ongoing exile. a good target, I think. It will edge the next delivery to Azhar three wickets each. Total (all out) ...... 215 deep. England were much praised help us to attack the Pakistan Ali at short-leg. Pakistan won the first Test in Fall of wickets: 1-32, 2-40, 3-45, 4-91, Bowling: R Ali 15-3-58-2 (w-1); E Adil 14-4- for the attacking manner they batsmen.” Play was held up twice by pass- Galle by 10 wickets and Sri Lanka 5-135, 6-151, 7-152, 8-197, 9-202, 10-215. 46-1 (w-1); I Khan 10.4-2-27-0 (w-1); Y Shah displayed during a recent 3-2 Pakistan coach Waqar Younis ing showers in the morning ses- took the second in Colombo by Bowling: D Prasad 19-1-78-3 (w-1); S Lakmal 25-4-70-2; Az Ali 5-1-14-0. one-day series victory over New admitted his team had their backs sion and once again before tea, seven wickets. AFP Zealand, a series Cook missed. Former Sri Lanka and New South Wales coach Bayliss insisted England had to take their white-ball approach into the Test Du Plessis sets up big arena. “The way the game has been played over the last five or 10 years you could argue that maybe we haven’t kept up to date as win for South Africa some of the other teams,” he said. “Whether you like it or not the DHAKA: Skipper Faf du Scoreboard T20 format and the one-day for- Plessis scored an unbeaten half mat do have a bearing on the way century to set up a crushing SOUTH AFRICA Shakib Al Hasan c Parnell b Wiese ...... 26 the game is played at Test level. 52-run win for South Africa A de Villiers c Mortaza b Sunny ...... 2 Mushfiqur Rahim c Miller b Duminy ...... 17 It’s that philosophy of being posi- over Bangladesh in the first Q de Kock c Das b Nasir ...... 12 Sabbir Rahman c de Kock b Duminy ...... 4 tive and aggressive.” Twenty20 international in F du Plessis (not out) ...... 79 Nasir Hossain c Rossouw b Phangiso ...... 1 Bayliss, however, said this was Dhaka yesterday. J Duminy c Nasir b Sunny ...... 18 Litton Das c de Villiers b Weise ...... 22 not the same thing as being reck- Du Plessis helped the visitors D Miller lbw Shakib ...... 1 Mashrafe Mortaza c de Villiers b Rabada ...... 5 less, a point echoed by England recover from a shaky start with R Rossouw (not out) ...... 31 Sohag Gazi (run out) ...... 3 all-rounder Ben Stokes, who said an unbeaten 79 off 61 balls, his Extras (LB-2, W-2, NB-1) ...... 5 Arafat Sunny (not out) ...... 1 Thursday: “It’s not all about hitting sixth half-century in Twenty20 Total (for 4 wkts in 20 overs) ...... 148 Mustafizur Rahman b Parnell ...... 1 fours and sixes, it’s about having internationals, which included Fall of wickets: 1-2, 2-31, 3-77, 4-90. Extras (LB-2, W-2) ...... 4 intent in everything you do.” eight fours. Bowling: Sunny 3-0-19-2; Nasir 4-0-37- Total (all out in 18.5 overs) ...... 96 During England’s 124-run win Off-spinner JP Duminy (2-11), 1(w2); Shakib 4-0-24-1; Mustafizur 4-0-30-0 Fall of wickets: 1-7, 2-13, 3-50, 4-56, 5-57, over New Zealand in the first Test medium pacer David Wiese (2-12) (nb1); Gazi 2-0-16-0; Mortaza 3-0-20-0. 6-71, 7-86, 8-93, 9-94, 10-96. at Lord’s in May, contrasting sec- and fast bowler Kagiso Rabada BANGLADESH Bowling: Abbott 2-0-10-1(w1); Rabada 3-0- ond innings hundreds from Cook (2-28) then put in a combined Tamim Iqbal c de Kock b Abbott ...... 5 28-2; Parnell 2.5-0-12-1; Wiese 3-0-12- and Stokes laid the platform for effort to dismiss Bangladesh for Soumya Sarkar c Duminy b Rabada ...... 7 2(w1); Phangiso 4-0-21-1; Duminy 4-0-11-2. victory with the captain batting 96 runs on a slow wicket at the in classic opening fashion to make Sher-e-Bangla National Stadium. 162 off 345 balls while Stokes Shakib Al Hasan was the only for one as Bangladesh collapsed Mashrafee Mortaza at cover in blasted 101 off 92. batsman to offer some kind of from 2-50 to 5-57. the last ball of the over. Cook is often portrayed as an resistance with 26 off 30 balls Earlier, opting to bat first, Quinton de Kock tried to break inherently cautious captain, cer- while debutante Litton Das made South Africa struggled to keep the shackle with a six off Nasir tainly when compared to Clarke, 22 off 33 balls. the scoreboard rolling. over cover but soon became a and even faced flak when England Bangladesh lost both their Bangladesh started with spin- catch of Das off the same bowler won the 2013 Ashes 3-0. Australia openers for 13 runs but seemed ners from both ends and struck at point for 12. all-rounder Shane Watson ques- to have recovered when Shakib almost immediately with left-arm Sunny returned for his sec- tioned the England skipper’s and Mushfiqur Rahim (17) put 37 spinner Arafat Sunny dismissing ond spell to break a 46-run third capacity to be proactive in the runs for the second wicket. AB de Villiers in the very first wicket partnership between du field, saying: “I’m not sure if that’s The game decisively swung over for two. Plessis and Duminy as Nasir took exactly in Alastair Cook’s DNA the Proteas’ way when Duminy De Villiers opened the a well-judged catch at the deep to to be really able to put a game dismissed Rahim and Sabbir innings for only the second dismiss the latter for 18. on the line.” But Broad made the Rahman (4) in his successive time in his Twenty20 inter- Du Plessis said he was happy to South African captain Faf du Plessis plays a shot during the first T20 valid point that captaincy style overs and left-arm spinner Aaron national career and conceded play the match-winning knock on match against Bangladesh at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket was often heavily influenced by Phangiso removed Nasir Hossain four dots before he picked up a difficult wicket. AFP Stadium in Dhaka yesterday. the make-up of a side. AFP Joker Smith eager to have last Ashes laugh LONDON: When Steven Smith But roll on a few years and the situa- views now.” Certainly the type of criti- a bit of success there against West Indies “When I played the Ashes in 2010-11, made his Ashes debut in Perth dur- tion is very different. Smith is now the cism Smith has faced in the lead-up to but over here will be a bigger challenge,” my technique probably wasn’t up to it, ing England’s victorious 2010/11 tour of world’s number one ranked Test bats- this Ashes has altered. added Smith, who scored 199 and 54 in I was probably playing at balls I didn’t Australia he was, following prompting man, with five hundreds in his last six England paceman Stuart Broad, his most recent Test -- Australia’s 277- need to be,” the 26-year-old said. from then captain Ricky Ponting, clear Tests at an average of 131.5. while acknowledging the Australian’s run win in Jamaica last month. “I looked at a bit of footage, what on his role in the team. Now the task of for Smith, who as the recent run of form, questioned whether “(England) is probably one of the I needed to improve. Since then my “I’ve been told that I’ve got to come son of an English mother was courted Smith could continue to make big harder places in the world to bat against technique has tightened up a lot and into the side and be fun,” Smith said. by county side Surrey with the aim of scores in a relatively new position of the new ball and I’m going to have to my general mindset around batting “For me, it’s about having energy in becoming England qualified, is much No 3 in English conditions, which tend make sure my game is ready to go,” and batting long periods has certainly the field and making sure I’m having fun more straightforward: it is to score runs to assist swing, and against a Dukes ball added Smith ahead of the first Test changed. and making sure everyone else around is and plenty of them as Australia bid to which is reputed to move more than against England in Cardiff starting on “I got rid of a tap that I used to have, having fun, whether it be telling a joke win their first Ashes series in England other brands. Wednesday. just before the bowler bowled to me. I or something like that.” in 14 years. “It’s the pre-Ashes when guys come Smith’s batting style at the crease, was getting myself too high, my balance It seemed an extraordinary thing for “I remember Kevin Pietersen and Ian out and say a lot of things,” said Smith complete with a large trigger movement was out, my stroke-play was out, every- him to say in public. His words didn’t Bell getting into me quite a bit,” Smith, of Broad’s comments. “I’m just going to across the stumps and a wafting blade, thing was out of sync, so I am a lot more seem to offer much hope of a lengthy now Australia’s vice-captain, told report- try to go out there and do the things I’ve which seems to have little hope of com- still at the crease now. career for a leg-spinning all-rounder, ers as he recalled his first experience of been doing for the last 12 or 13 months ing down straight, will never appeal to “I know I have got an attacking game particularly one with an unorthodox bat- playing against England. and score runs. I’d just like my bat to do cricket purists. and as long as my defence is in order, I ting technique, and were duly mocked “I don’t think they really rated the the talking. But he insisted he had refined his am pretty confident I can score runs,” by England. way I played... Maybe I’ve changed their “I’ve enjoyed batting at three and had method over the years. Smith said. AFP MONDAY 6 JULY 2015 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

French, German Presidents tried New Al Rayyan coach to to influence World Cup votes, says Blatter take it one game at a time BERLIN: The embattled President of FIFA, the gov- erning body for world soccer, told a German newspaper We have to be ready when the first game comes, says Jorge Fossati the Presidents of France and Germany tried to exert politi- DOHA: New Al Rayyan coach cal pressure before the World Jorge Fossati is in no mood Cup was awarded to Russia to get ahead of himself in the and Qatar. Qatar Stars League (QSL) Sepp Blatter (pictured) has season, saying his team would become entangled in a corrup- adopt a “game-by-game” phi- tion investigation of the sport’s losophy when the season starts governing body, which involves in September. the decision to hold the World The Uruguayan was roped in Cup in the two countries. as coach at the end of last month Blatter has not been accused to manage newly-promoted of any wrongdoing, but he has Al Rayyan in the 2015-16 QSL retained an attorney. season. In a story published yes- “We have to be ready when the terday, the newspaper Welt first game time comes. We will am Sonntag quoted Blatter as continue to work game by game saying: “Before the World Cup and I think the toughest game was awarded to Russia and will be our first QSL match in Qatar, there were two political the new season,” Fossati said in interventions. his first news conference after “Mr (Nicolas) Sarkozy and being unveiled as Al Rayyan’s (Christian) Wulff tried to influ- new coach. ence their voting representa- Fossati, a former Qatar national tives. Therefore, we now have a team coach and Al Sadd manager, World Cup in Qatar. The people was joined by Espanyol star Sergio who decided this should also Garcia who also signed a two-year take responsibility,” he added. contract with Al Rayyan. No one was immediately Both arrived in Doha on available at Sarkozy’s office or Thursday night. Wulff’s office to comment. Welt “We will continue to work with am Sonntag reported, however, the young players and the new that Wulff had denied trying to names that will join us,” Fossati influence the vote in his book. said. In May, Swiss authorities When asked about the over- arrested seven FIFA officials as seas players in Al Rayyan ranks, part of an investigation into a Fossati was to the point when he global bribery scandal. The US said: “We do not care for names Department of Justice has now but it is important to agree on asked that Switzerland extra- players that optimize the team’s dite the seven to the United performances. And it was obvi- Al Rayyan’s new coach Jorge Fossati (third from left) of Uruguay attends a press conference in Doha last week. States. ous that everyone was in agree- Also in May, US prosecutors ment when they sought out Sergio course the fans. I am sure we Fossati said Al Rayyan will Fossati became manager of the Fossati said seeing Al Sadd announced they had indicted Garcia.” will put together a great perform- be playing as a unit in the new Uruguayan national team in 2004. achieve glory under him makes nine current and former FIFA The 62-year-old said he was ance for the fans,” Fossati said. “I season. The Uruguayan coached Al Sadd him believe that other teams can officials and impressed with Al Rayyan’s am eager to get started with Al “I always speak as ‘we’ and not in 2006-07 and after winning all do well too with planning and five sports desire to be build strong base for Rayyan.” as an individual. That is because four domestic titles with them, he dedication. marketing future glory. “The discussions (with the in football nobody works alone,” was unveiled as the new Qatari “It will be a great challenge in businessmen “Al Rayyan are one of the most club) began sometime back. I Fossati said. national team manager in 2007. front of us when the new season in connec- popular and well supported clubs met the club officials over several He quashed claims that the In late 2008, it was announced starts. But let me remind you tion with a in the country,” he said. meetings and had lengthy discus- Lions would struggle next sea- that he would undergo surgery. nothing is impossible,” he said. corruption Al Rayyan were demoted at the sions on their future plans,” the son. “A number of players in the Subsequently, the Qatar Football Meanwhile, Al Rayyan’s Vice- investiga- end of the 2013-14 QSL season former Qatar national team and squad have had previous experi- Association (QFA) ended their president Rashed Al Khalifa said: tion. but the former national champi- Al Sadd coach said. ence of the Qatar Stars League. cooperation with Fossati, who “We have great confidence in Welt am ons quickly regrouped and topped “One of the reasons I said yes In addition I have coached in it reportedly needed to recover from Jorge Fassti’s abilities as a coach. Sonntag the second division to win QSL was because of my knowledge for a number of years. We will do surgery. We are confident he can guide us quoted promotion this April. about Al Rayyan. I have fair well,” he said. After being put in charge of Al to success in the new season. He Blatter as “The reason I accepted the Al knowledge on the Qatar Stars “We all know that QSL contin- Sadd for a second time between has the experience and hopefully saying the German football fed- Rayyan offer was because I have League. I am confident that ues to develop and move forward 2010 to 2012, Fossati guided the he will do well with his staff. We eration, DFB, had “received a confidence in the club’s manage- we can get Al Rayyan where it in many respects. It is a much club to AFC Champions League have outstanding players.” recommendation (from Wulff) ment team, the players and of deserves to be,” he said. improved league.” title in 2011. THE PENINSULA that Germany should vote for Qatar for economic interests”. FIFA said Blatter was cor- Ace midfielder rectly quoted. Europe soccer chief Michel Williams seals bronze for England Lami to leave Platini has repeatedly said that nobody had asked him to vote EDMONTON: A 108th-minute Forward Ellen White headed Al Gharafa for Qatar. “Neither Sarkozy nor penalty kick by Fara Williams over the bar after 26 minutes, and anyone,” he told the newspaper gave England their first ever win Germany’s Sara Daebritz missed DOHA: Experienced midfielder L’Equipe a year ago. However, over top ranked Germany and a a chance to break the deadlock Adel Lami (pictured) is no the head of UEFA also said that third place finish at the Women’s just before halftime but Potter longer playing for Qatar Stars he and Sarkozy had a lunch World Cup on Saturday. blocked her shot. League (QSL) team Al Gharafa, with Qataris. The 1-0 victory after 120 min- After the break Germany had the 29-year-old said in a Twitter “It’s true that, when I was utes of gritty battle at Edmonton’s the best scoring chance on 53 announcement. invited for a lunch in private Commonwealth Stadium gave minutes when Sasic crossed to The Al Gharafa stalwart said with the President and I found the sixth-ranked ‘Lionesses’ Daebritz whose volley was kept he would not continue for an myself with Qataris, I under- their first win over the European out by a diving Bardsley. additional season. Lami said he stood that there was a sublim- champions on their 21st attempt. Eniola Aluko came off the “won’t be going to renew his con- inal message. But I’ve never It also helped bury the heart- bench on 61 minutes and had tract for the next season”. been asked to vote for them,” ache of the injury time own-goal a solo run towards goal three Lami thanked his mother for Platini told L’Equipe. by defender Laura Bassett which minutes from time but Angerer support. He also thanked club Blatter announced on June 2 had ended their title bid during recovered the ball. President Sheikh Hamad bin he would step down as FIFA’s a 2-1 semi-final loss to defending But England continued to push Thamer Al Thani and the club president after an election that champions Japan. with Jill Scott failing to finish management for their “support”. is likely to happen this year or “It feels a lot better to be sit- with only Angerer to beat, while Al Gharafa finished seventh early next. ting here after that than it did Williams saw her goal-bound last season. Blatter also told the paper the other day,” said England coach effort cleared by a defender. Meanwhile, new Moroccan he needed a “recovery phase” Mark Sampson. But the game was finally striker Mouhcine Iajour arrived and said he was limiting his “To bounce back from what decided with the clocking ticking yesterday evening. Before being travel plans because of the was a real, real blow for us, it’s when was Kemme was judged presented to the media, the player investigation. an incredible result for the team. to have pulled down substitute will have to undergo a medical “I won’t take any travel “We knew the challenge we Sanderson, and Williams scored test, club officials said. risks until everything has been faced today from a world class from the spot. Qatar SC now has four for- cleared up,” he said. Germany team. A Sophie Schmidt header and eign signings as per the QFA’s He did, however, say he “I’m just incredibly proud of all Anja Mittag freekick failed to three plus one rule. Tunisian would go to Moscow at the the players and staff, to achieve England’s Fara Williams celebrates after scoring a goal against Germany grab an equaliser for Germany striker Hamdi Harboui, Korean end of July for the draw on the a third place finish, to go home during the FIFA Women’s World Cup third-place match in Edmonton on in the final World Cup game for Han Kook-Young and Ismail qualification games for the 2018 as the top European nation, to Saturday. illustrious coach Neid, who lead Belmaalem make up the other World Cup are held. “I will go finally beat Germany, it was a real Germany to the 2007 title, three three. there,” he said. big statement for us today. dived the wrong way. scored twice. European championships and an Qatar SC finished fourth A US-based layer said last “It’s something that these “It didn’t surprise me as we England skipper Steph Olympic bronze. last season behind champions week Blatter would not travel players will be remembered for have seen what England could Houghton did well to back clear She had been criticised for her Lekhwiya, Al Sadd and El Jaish. to Canada for Sunday’s final forever.” do over the course of this tour- a goal-ward bound shot after campaign but blamed injuries The new QSL season starts in of the women’s World Cup The third place play-off had nament,” said Germany coach just nine minutes in an evenly before the tournament for dis- September. THE PENINSULA for personal reasons. Reuters gone into extra time after the Silvia Neid. matched first half. rupting their preparations. was unable to determine why teams were locked 0-0 at the end “They really wanted it today, The defender, who had just “I don’t know why there was Blatter had decided not to of 90 minutes. they were very clever in their received treatment for a painful this constant criticism when we attend the final in Vancouver. But England were awarded game.” ankle knock, lunged to clear after were in a match for third place,” Some lawyers with experi- a penalty just minutes into the Germany, winners in 2003 and Jo Potter headed past her own said the 51-year-old. ence in international crimi- second period of extra time after 2007, lost 2-0 to the United States goalkeeper Karen Bardsley fol- “The players were in a cata- nal cases have said Blatter Lianne Sanderson was pulled in their semi-final. lowing a Bianca Schmidt header strophic state before the tourna- would be ill-advised to travel down by Tabea Kemme. England had never gotten past across goal. ment, we had a lot of injuries. after the US indictments were And Williams slotted in past Germany with their most recent Within a minute Sasic had a “I’m quite happy we came this announced. Blatter said he did former world goalkeeper of the loss a 3-0 drubbing at Wembley chance to extend her tournament far. “Next year we’ll have the not mind criticism but “tirades year Nadine Angerer, who play- Stadium last year during which leading six goals but her weak Olympics games and were look- of hate hurt”. REUTERS ing her final match for Germany, World Cup top scorer Celia Sasic shot was held by Bardsley. ing forward to that.” AFP MONDAY 6 JULY 2015 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27 Chile stun Argentina to win first Copa International title continues to elude Messi as cheeky Sanchez penalty seals victory

SANTIAGO: Chile wrecked that little bit of luck that you Lionel Messi’s dream of a first sometimes need to have to win in international title with a dra- finals. Is it karma? I don’t know.” matic penalty shoot-out vic- Argentina coach Gerardo tory over Argentina to end their Martino meanwhile lamented his 99-year wait for a Copa America side’s failure to take chances. crown here on Saturday night. “They were very clear chances Arsenal star Alexis Sanchez that should have changed the out- cheekily struck the winning come of the game,” Martino said. spot-kick for Chile, as the hosts Earlier, Chile had begun the clinched a 4-1 shoot-out victory final at a ferocious pace before when the game ended goalless Argentina gradually managed to after extra time. gain a foothold in the game. Sanchez chipped the decisive While Chile pressed forward penalty down the middle past relentlessly and launched a series Sergio Romero to spark wild of forays into Argentinian ter- celebrations in front of a 45,000 ritory, it was the tournament capacity crowd at the Estadio favourites who had the better Nacional in Santiago. chances in the first half. Chile took control of the shoot- Argentina almost grabbed an out when Gonzalo Higuain blazed opener in the 20th minute when his penalty over the bar before Sergio Aguero met a Messi free- Chile goalkeeper Claudio Bravo kick with a close range header saved Ever Banega’s spot-kick. that Bravo parried away. Argentina captain Messi, aim- On the stroke of half-time ing to inspire the South American Argentina probed again and giants to a first international title Javier Pastore set up Ezequiel in 22 years, could only look on dis- Lavezzi whose shot was blocked traught as Chile celebrated. by Bravo. The four-time world footballer The second half followed a of the year had repeatedly spo- similar pattern, with clear-cut ken of his desperation to win a chances thin on the ground as title with Argentina after win- defences remained on top. ning everything at club level with Sanchez went close for Chile on Barcelona. 82 minutes but hooked his volley But the 28-year-old superstar just wide of the post. was to suffer more disappoint- Argentina almost snatched ment, only 12 months after endur- a dramatic victory in the dying ing another agonising extra-time seconds with a well-worked defeat in last year’s World Cup move that began after Messi final against Germany in Brazil. skipped clear of the Chile defence Chile’s win was their first ever and released Lavezzi on the left victory over Argentina in the Chile’s Alexis Sanchez (centre) holds up the winners’ trophy and celebrates with his team-mates after beating Argentina in the final of the Copa America flank. Copa America. at the Estadio Nacional Julio Martinez Pradanos in Santiago de Chile on Saturday night. Lavezzi found Higuain — on “It is a dream come true. We for Aguero — at the far post but have worked so hard for this,” said that we were going to win the “We had to play a great game Argentina’s players meanwhile the team beaten in the World Cup the Napoli striker couldn’t finish Chile star Arturo Vidal. Copa America,” Sanchez said. against one of the world’s best were left pondering another final. from a tight angle and shot into The midfielder said Chile had “This is really a great genera- teams for the quality of players,” heartbreaking loss. “Three Copa America finals, the side netting as Chile escaped. been determined to win the Copa tion, we deserve this.” Sampaoli said. Midfielder Javier Mascherano three defeats ... I can’t explain In extra-time Sanchez America after exiting the World Chile’s Argentina-born coach “We should have won in 90 has now played in three losing the losing streak,” a dejected almost punished a rare slip by Cup last year on penalties. Jorge Sampaoli said his side had minutes, but ended up getting Argentina teams in Copa America Mascherano said. Mascherano but shot over the bar. “We talked about it in Brazil deserved to win. justice.” finals, and was also a member of “We just didn’t seem to have AFP Loss reignites Messi versus Maradona debate again

SANTIAGO: Another tourna- Saturday’s defeat will reignite Messi has won three European against England and Belgium ment, another shattering defeat, the debate about where Messi Cups with Barcelona; the famous along the way. and another round of unfa- deserves to be ranked in the pan- trophy is conspicuously absent Even in the 1986 final, when he vourable comparisons to Diego theon of the very greatest players from Maradona’s CV. was well-shackled by Germany’s Maradona. to have graced the sport. Messi has been named world Lothar Matthaus, Maradona was Lionel Messi was left reflecting For many, his extraordinary footballer of the year four times; able to prove a decisive influence, Argentinian on another bitterly familiar fail- achievements at club level with Maradona earned the accolade supplying the sublime first time striker Lionel ure here on Saturday night after Barcelona over the past decade only once. pass to set up the game’s winning Messi reacts Argentina suffered an agonizing have already guaranteed him a Yet the arguments invariably goal. during penalty shoot-out defeat to Chile place alongside Pele and Diego circle back to trophies at inter- Messi can justifiably reflect, the Copa in the Copa America final. Maradona. national level. however, that the margins are America final It was the second time in 12 Others insist that his failure to Although Messi played a key impossibly fine. at the Estadio months Messi had finished on lead his country to international role in Argentina reaching the In both last year’s World Nacional the losing side in a major final glory puts him just behind Pele final of last year’s World Cup in Cup final and this year’s Copa following Argentina’s extra-time and Maradona, who won four Brazil, his achievements at inter- America final, ace forward Messi Julio Martinez loss to Germany at the World Cup World Cups between them. national level have not seared had helped create gilt-edged Pradanos last year. Statistically at least, Messi out- themselves in the memory in the chances for Gonzalo Higuain that in Santiago “This generation is desperate scores Maradona in almost every way that Maradona’s did during the striker squandered on each de Chile on to win a title with the national department, with 46 goals in 103 his displays in the 1986 World occasion. Saturday team,” Messi had said before this international appearances com- Cup. Had either of those gone in — night. year’s Copa America. pared to Maradona’s 34 goals in Maradona is largely credited and helped Argentina to victory “As a team, we deserve to win 91 games. with single-handedly guiding instead of defeat — Messi’s right something and it would mean so At club level Messi has amassed Argentina to that World Cup to be bracketed with Maradona much after the World Cup where 412 goals in 482 games, compared title in Mexico, scoring a series and Pele would not be in doubt. we came so close.” to Maradona’s 312 in 588 matches. of memorable individual goals AFP Carlos joins LA Galaxy welcome Gerrard Delhi team in Chile image burnished after Indian league staging successful Copa NEW DELHI: Former Brazil and Real Madrid defender SANTIAGO: A well-organised poke of Uruguay’s Edinson Cavani Journalists complained of a Roberto Carlos will manage soccer tournament where the earned him a two-match ban and high level of robberies of cameras Delhi Dynamos in this year’s stadiums were largely com- unleashed a wave of Internet and other expensive equipment Indian Super League (ISL), the pleted on time and the fans memes, while Arturo Vidal from supposedly secure areas. club announced yesterday. behaved — Chile’s hosting of the pranged his Ferrari after driving A corruption scandal envelop- “I’m coming to you and into the Copa America has burnished its drunk. ing world governing body FIFA club which is mine now... I want credentials as Latin America’s An anti-discrimination cam- also threatened to overshadow the to win together,” the 42-year-old can-do country. paign which asked supporters tournament, although with offi- said in a brief video message to Their players on the pitch also not to jeer opponents’ national cials keeping a low profile or sim- the club’s fans. took away the trophy for good anthems was mostly respected, ply not showing up, fans seemed The league got off to a rous- measure. even during the clashes between to shrug it off. ing start last year with Brazilian With 12 nations taking part, Chile, Peru and Bolivia, which The friendly atmosphere did Zico headlining the manag- holding the South American have been ensnared in acrimoni- crack a little when Chile played ers’ list while marquee players competition is not on the scale of ous border disputes. and won the final against neigh- included Italian duo Alessandro the World Cup, but still provided Chile, one of the region’s most bours and bitter rivals Argentina Del Piero and Marco Materazzi, logistical difficulties in a region developed countries known on Saturday. and Frenchman Nicholas Anelka. where hooliganism has often for its strong rule of law, also Some booed the Argentine Zico has returned for his sec- dogged games. banned many elements used in anthem and local media reported ond year at the helm of FC Goa, But there was little of the prob- the past to create a colourful that the family of Argentina star who also signed Carlos’ 2002 lems and protests that plagued and noisy atmosphere at Latin Lionel Messi suffered aggression World Cup-winning teammate some host cities for 2014 World American matches, such as at the hands of Chileans and had and former Bayern Munich Cup in Brazil or Africa’s Nations drums, large banners, fireworks to be moved to a safer spot in the defender Lucio as their marquee Cup earlier this year. and flares. Alcohol was also stadium. player. Efforts to link up with other forbidden. But there were no serious Anelka also returned to competing nations to keep out Peru’s manager Ricardo Gareca clashes, as some had feared in the Mumbai City FC, this time as troublemakers seems to have praised Chile’s fans and called the run up to the game. player-cum-coach. Carlos, famous worked, with no reports of sig- organisation “impeccable” after Former senior FIFA official and for his free-kick prowess dur- New Los Angeles Galaxy midfielder Steven Gerrard is introduced to nificant violence — at least off the his team lost Tuesday’s semi-final. head of Chilean soccer, Harold ing his playing days, replaces fans at halftime during an MLS game between Galaxy and Toronto FC pitch. Not all was perfect. Mayne Nicholls, called the organi- Dutchman Harm van Veldhoven, on Saturday night. The former Liverpool captain is scheduled to play his The Chilean players were not The remodelling of one stadium sation “first class” and said there under whom Delhi finished at first MLS match on Friday against the San Jose Earthquakes. always so well behaved. — in second city Concepcion — had been no big issues or com- fifth spot last year. REUTERS Defender Gonzalo Jara’s bottom slipped in its schedule. plaints from teams. REUTERS Monday 6 July 2015 19 Ramadan 1436 Volume 20 Number 6483 Sport Price: QR2

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www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 New signing Garcia eyes glory with Al Rayyan DOHA: Al Rayyan’s new sign- “I wish I can put Al Rayyan replicate the same kind of suc- The 32-year-old, who began ing Sergio Garcia is aiming to where it belongs — at the top of cess that he had here.” his career with Barcelona, joined help his new employers reach the Qatar Stars League with good Raul, the Real Madrid giant Espanyol from Betis in 2010 the top in the Qatar Stars performances,” the 32-year-old and Schalke 04 stalwart, played and has been a key player for League (QSL), the seasoned added. two seasons for Al Sadd, helping them, scoring 14 league goals last striker said. “I knew about QSL and had the side win the QSL title in the season. In his first media chat after prior knowledge before I signed 2012-13 season. Garcia, who has also appeared being unveiled as an Al Rayyan the deal. I did talk to many play- Meanwhile, Al Rayyan Vice- for Levante and Zaragoza, was player, the former Espanyol ers before I reach my decision,” president Rashed Al Khalifa said: part of the Spain squad that won striker said he would also try to he said. “We have an obligation towards Euro 2008. On May 31, 2008, he outdo “friend” Xavi Hernandez, “I will help the young players our fans in the new season. We made his debut for the national who will be playing for Doha in Al Rayyan. That’s been my role want to be successful and we will side, coming on as an 83rd- giants Al Sadd in the new season. wherever I have played,” he said. do everything we can to reach our minute substitute for David Silva “I am happy to sign this con- “Xavi is a close friend of mine. goals.” in a 2–1 friendly win against Peru tract,” Garcia said in his first I am happy that he is also here “We have with us Sergio in Huelva. media chat alongside new coach playing for Al Sadd. But I hope Garcia. He is a great player with Garcia is set to become the Jorge Fossati. The seasoned to do better than him in the new huge success in La Liga. He second La Liga player after Xavi Uruguayan coach also joined Al season since we are rivals now.” will definitely add to our team. to move to Qatar for the 2015- Rayyan at the end of last month. Garcia said his contract with Obviously we want every player to 16 season that will commence on “The warm welcome and the Al Rayyan is for two years with a give his best in the new season,” September 11. attention I have received is amaz- possibility of extending to a third he added. Al Rayyan, who were dropped ing. I will be trying my best to year if both parties agreed. Garcia has spent the past five to the second division at the end Former Espanyol skipper Sergio Garcia (right) holds his new Al Rayyan match their support for me by “I have followed Qatar Stars years at Espanyol and helped of 2013-14 season, were promoted playing quality football in the new League and how Raul played them to a 10th-place finish in La to QSL at the end of the 2014-15 jersey during a press conference in Doha. season,” Garcia said. here,” he said. “I would like to Liga last season. season. THE PENINSULA

Six of the best from week one at Wimbledon Six highlights from the first week at the Wimbledon tennis championships: 1. Nadal downed by dreadlocked Dustin German qualifier Dustin Brown set the tournament alight when he knocked out two-time champion Rafael Nadal in the second round on Thursday. Brown, who has not had a haircut since 1996 and used to drive around the European tennis circuit in a campervan, is the world number 102 and had never even set foot on Centre Court before. Great Britain’s But his totally unorthodox serve-and-volley style caught out the baseline-loving former world number Andy Murray one. takes a break Brown’s unpredictable tennis could not get him past the solidly dependable Viktor Troicki in the fol- during a lowing round. practice at the 2. Serena given shock by British home crowd heroine All England Five-time champion Serena Williams was given the shock of her life on Friday when she was pushed Tennis Club in all the way by British number 59 Heather Watson in a thriller on Centre Court. Wimbledon, Playing the match of her life, Watson already had the 15,000-strong delirious when she took the London, second set then things went wild as she raced into a 3-0 lead. Watson served for the match at 5-4 yesterday. up but Williams drew on every ounce of her experience to survive the test. Williams looked utterly shaken as she shook hands at the net. 3. Kyrgios’s colourful antics Nick Kyrgios divided the All England Club between those who lap up his colourful antics and others who find him petulant and disrespectful. The fiery 20-year-old Australian faces a fine after shouting “dirty scum” following a row with an umpire; in the next round he ranted at a line judge and an umpire, snapping: “Does it feel good to be in the chair up there? Do you feel strong up there?” In round three he angrily bounced a racket into the crowd, got in trouble for wearing a coloured headband, told a barracking spectator to be quiet and took advice from a fan in a Batman t-shirt. 4. Kvitova leads fall of women’s seeds Serena, Maria Sharapova, Caroline Wozniacki and Lucie Safarova are the only top 10 seeds still standing after a bruising first week for the big guns. Defending champion Petra Kvitova, Simona Halep, Ana Ivanovic, Ekaterina Makarova, Carla Suarez Navarro and Angelique Kerber all failed to get into week two. Kvitova has now bowed out of the last four Grand Slams before the quarter-finals. “It’s tennis. I’m still human. I’m not a robot,” she explained. Tomic axed from Davis 5. Hewitt bids farewell It was all set up perfectly: wildcard Lleyton Hewitt, the 2002 champion playing one last Wimbledon before retirement, gets past Jarkko Nieminen to set up a Centre Court swansong against world number one Novak Djokovic. But his Finnish first round opponent had other ideas, edging out the 34-year-old 11-9 in the final set. However, Hewitt will still be around the second week. He remains in the men’s doubles with Thanasi Cup squad after rant Kokkinakis and the mixed with Casey Dellacqua. 6. Hottest Wimbledon on record Wimbledon sweltered in the hottest day’s play ever recorded at the Championships, when temperatures hit 35.7 degrees Celsius (96.3 degrees Fahrenheit) on Wednesday. Player had launched scathing attack on Tennis Australia A ball boy passed out, while 170 people were treated by first aiders, with five taken to hospital. An All England Club spokesman confirmed: “It’s quite hot.” SYDNEY: Tennis Australia Tomic also complained about have reacted to Bernard Tomic’s a lack of financial support from extraordinary tirade at the Bernard Tennis Australia, but his latest organisation by dumping him Tomic antics may have cost him any from this month’s Davis Cup serves chance of future funding. home quarter-final against during “He’s enjoyed great support Kazakhstan, reports said his match from the organisation from the yesterday. age of 11-12,” Tiley told reporters. against Tomic was knocked out of “The organisation, through its Novak Wimbledon by defending cham- support and funding, really helped pion Novak Djokovic on Friday Djokovic at him get to where he is today. but most of his post-match news Wimbledon “He himself has got himself conference was consumed by a in London there but we, as an organisation, lengthy rant which accused Tennis on Friday. have been a really key partner in Australia of penny-pinching and all of that. claimed he had been charged for “It’s a simple decision off the practising on their courts. into a meeting with Tennis “Playing for our country is an back of the comments Bernie The 22-year-old also insulted Australia chief executive Craig absolute privilege, and with that made last night... It will really be former Davis Cup captain Pat Tiley and president Stephen privilege comes an obligation to up to Bernard. Rafter, one of the country’s sports Healy at Wimbledon on Saturday. behave appropriately. He didn’t. “If he chooses one path that is icons. “Pat is a nice guy. If the During that meeting Tomic was “The allegations are misin- destructive, that’ll be unfortu- Australian public don’t know Pat, informed of his punishment for formed and untrue and he pub- nate and it’s not going to benefit he’s a good actor, he’s well?spoken, what Tennis Australia described licly derided some outstanding him. If he chooses another path of always prepared and knows what as “disparaging and disrespectful people. taking it on the chin and accept to say,” Tomic said at the media comments”. “We are trying to build a strong what he’s done is in error and not conference. “His behaviour was unaccept- culture underpinned by a philoso- acceptable, we can move on.” “He’s prepped by Tennis able,” Healy told reporters after phy of opportunity, not entitle- Australia play Kazakhstan in Russia’s Maria Sharapova trains at the All England Tennis Club in London Australia to know what to say.” the meeting, Fairfax Media and ment. This behaviour is just not Darwin beginning on July 17. yesterday. Reports said Tomic was called other Australian outlets said. on.” AFP