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Census launched to Amir meets US Secretary of Commerce collect comprehensive and accurate data

MOHAMMED OSMAN The first phase of the In this census, households will THE PENINSULA Qatar Census 2020 be given an option to fill details in an online form by himself or by a The Planning and Statistics aims primarily to researcher who will visit the Authority (PSA) announced collect data which house. If he prefers to fill details yesterday the beginning of the includes number of himself online, he will be provided General Census of Population buildings, housing confidential password. 2020, which includes housing H E Dr. Al Nabit pointed out units and establishments in its units, establishments that there is an ongoing elec- first phase and will continue for and households, as tronic linking process between one month. the main aim of the PSA and various authorities rep- There are 368 field resenting data source and this researchers and 55 supervisors census is to create a census is being used as a catalyst selected and trained well to high-quality central to accelerate the linkages and conduct the survey. register of the overcome all technical obstacles The launch of the first phase population. in this regard. of the general census was The Head of the Department Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met yesterday with US Secretary of Commerce, Wilbur announced by H E Dr. Saleh bin of Censuses, Surveys and Statis- Ross, and his accompanying delegation, at the Amiri Diwan yesterday. The meeting discussed strategic Mohammed Al Nabit (pictured), agencies, and the use of modern tical Methods at PSA, Nasser Al cooperation relations, between the two friendly countries in trade, investment and economic fields President of Planning and Sta- techniques to verify and update Mahdi, pointed out that and means to develop them in addition to a host of topics of mutual interest. tistics Authority (PSA), during a data in coordination with researchers will wear badges press conference held at the various partners in the country. having name, photo, logo, QID headquarter of the authority and The first phase of the Qatar number and hotline number was attended by members of the Census 2020 aims primarily to (8000800) to contact the call Ashghal to develop three public parks Census Executive Committee collect a few data which includes center of the authority for and coordinators. number of buildings, housing enquiries. THE PENINSULA addition to developing the children of all ages including H E Dr. Al Nabit stressed the units, establishments and house- Field researchers will also DOHA Rawdat Al Khail Park, popularly children with special needs. importance of the general census holds, as the main aim of the use electronic devices for col- known as Al Muntaza Park. Rawdat Al Khail Park, popu- of population, housing and census is to create a high-quality lecting data and sending com- The Public Works Authority Eng. Al Hashemi explained larly known as Al Muntaza Park, establishments 2020, which he central register of population, pleted data to the authority’s (Ashghal) has announced that the designs of these parks is located in Rawdat Al Khail area said is a national project, which housing and establishment data. server each hour in a way that construction of three public parks ensure provision of social, envi- on C Ring Road. It is located on a seeks to obtain comprehensive ensures high security and con- including development of Rawdat ronmental and recreational ben- vast area of 140,000sqm covering and accurate data on individuals, fidentiality, Al Mahdi said. Al Khail Park (Al Muntaza Park), efits to the neighbourhood. The many facilities for the needs of families, and establishments that Al Mahdi added that and new parks in Al Gharafa and charming design will also attract visitors of all ages with a distinct support decision-makers. researchers will also distribute Umm Al Seneem. visitors and tourists to these green environment. The features Through this field survey, the leaflets to families with detailed Eng. Abdulhakeem Al areas because of the large spaces include green arena on 105000 Authority assesses the availa- information on the census Hashemi, Head of Public Projects allocated for green arena and sqmt, planting 1250 trees, pedes- bility of basic services for the process, highlighting its impor- Section at Ashghal has said that planting hundreds of trees in trian and bicycle paths along 1300 family, identify areas in need and tance for achieving the SDGs and there is increasing need for more reflection of the Qatari envi- meters, 401 car parking slots. prioritise plans, he added. being essential for conducting public parks and the pressure on ronment, with second grade Located at Hayr Al Zahra H E Dr. Al Nabit explained planning processes related to the existing public parks green building quality to ensure Street and Waab Lebarg Street that preparation for the 2020 population, housing and facil- network due to the escalation of for environment protection. in Umm Al Seneem on an area census began more than two ities, confirming the confidenti- population growth in Qatar. This The head of public projects of about 130,000 square meters, years ago and the census is ality of data, and urging families has necessitated Ashghal to section further said that the Umm Al Seneem Park includes adopting international to participate in the second implement these three parks in design include lanes for joggers many facilities for visitors of all standards, relying on adminis- phase of the census, which will wider lands at Al Gharrafa and and cyclists besides sports ages with a distinct green envi- trative records in government take place in March 2020. `P2 Umm Al Seneem areas in equipment and play areas for ronment. `P2 Rain makes weather pleasant, to continue today QNL to host first SANAULLAH ATAULLAH Mohamad Al Shamari from thunderstorms of varied intensity Simaysma and parts of the THE PENINSULA QMD said in a video message accompanied with strong dust- southeast coast of the country with edition of JLF Doha posted on social media site of the raising wind with visibility strong winds exceeding 30 knots, Most part of the country, including Department that thundery rain dropping below 1km in some causing dust and low visibility THE PENINSULA now Doha, recreating its magic Doha, received thundery rain with which began yesterday will con- areas. Please take extra care and sometimes less than 2km. DOHA across the world. different intensity and hailstorm tinue today. He said that rain follow safety tips,” QMD tweeted Ministry of Municipality and JLF Doha, sponsored by at places. According to Qatar today will be lighter compared yesterday. Environment, represented by the For the first time in the region, Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Meteorology Department (QMD), to yesterday. Thunderstorms were detected Joint Rainfall Emergency Com- Qatar National Library, in part- Affairs and Ooredoo Qatar, some parts of the country will “Doha and most of eastern, close to Doha and some central/ mittee, has announced its readiness nership with Teamwork Arts, will feature renowned literary witness rain today also, which central and southern areas of the southern areas. Thunderstorms to remove the water-logging from producer of the iconic annual figures from around the world may turn into thunderstorms. country are witnessing were also witnessed in Al Khor, roads and inside residential areas. Jaipur Literature Festival, will host who will take part in an inter- Residents can reach the a celebration of literature and the cultural global dialogue to Committee through contact power of dialogue from December share “each other’s stories.” number of control rooms set up 12 to 14. JLF Doha is the country’s The event will be an oppor- at the municipalities across the first international literature festival tunity for the people of Qatar country. The Ministry shared the of its kind, which will recreate the to attend a diverse line-up of emergency contact number on magnificent spirit of Jaipur’s literary events and for its social networking sites. annual literary carnival in Doha. emerging and established The 17-member Joint Rainfall The Jaipur Literature Fes- writers, poets and artists in Emergency Committee focuses tival in India is often called Qatar to share their achievements on the development of an inte- “the greatest literary show on and perspectives with the world. grated plan for the rainy season, Earth” and has, since its con- The Festival will feature dealing with any water-logging ception, transformed itself into prominent authors and thinkers with effective cooperation by the a global literary phenomenon, including: Anita Nair, author of Authorities Concerned. having hosted more than the much-loved novels The Better The work plan defined the 2,000 speakers and wel- Man, Ladies Coupé, Mistress, tasks that each member of the comed over a million book- Lessons in Forgetting, and Idris: committee will carry out accu- lovers from the world over. Keeper of the Light; Dr Amal rately. The Committee has set pri- With the Doha edition Mohammed Al Malki, Founding orities for dealing with communi- being the first JLF in the Middle Dean of the College of Human- cations so that the areas with large East, Teamwork Arts, the pro- ities and Social Sciences at Hamad water-logging will be responded ducer of the Festival, has since bin Khalifa University, Qatar quickly, at roads and tunnels in 2014 expanded its global reach Foundation; Buket Uzuner, order to maintain traffic flow, then with editions in London, New selected among the 75 Most Influ- hospitals emergency centres, York, Boulder, Houston, ential Women of the Republic of Vehicles manoeuvring their way through a water-logged road in Doha, yesterday. PIC: RAJAN schools and neighbourhoods. Adelaide, Toronto, Belfast and Turkey. `P2 02 HOME MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2019

OFFICIAL NEWS Qatar wins presidency PM meets US Secretary of Commerce Amir receives of Arab Federation message from President for Voluntary Activities of Guinea-Bissau QNA the efforts of volunteers and DOHA: Amir H H Sheikh ISTANBUL youth. At the General Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Assembly meeting in Turkey, has received a written mes- Qatar has won the presidency six committees were formed sage from the President of of the Arab Federation for as follows: program and activ- Guinea-Bissau, Jose Mario Voluntary Activities (AFVA) ities committee; training and Vaz, pertaining to bilat- and its General Secretariat development committee; eral relations and means of unanimously at the AFVA resource development com- boosting them. The message General Assembly, which was mittee; committee for the was received by the Secre- held recently in Istanbul, development of community tary-General of the Ministry of Turkey. service and international Foreign Affairs, Dr. Ahmad bin Dr. Yousef Ali Al Kathim cooperation; information and Hassan Al Hammadi, during his was named President of the documentation committee, meeting, yesterday, with the AFVA, and Yousef Rashed Al and research and studies com- Special Envoy of the President Suwaidi was appointed Sec- mittee. The meeting also The Prime Minister and Interior Minister, H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, met of the Republic of Guinea-Bis- retary-General of AFVA. agreed on activating the Arab with the Secretary of Commerce of the United States of America, Wilbur Ross, and his accompanying sau, Antonio Pedro Gomes The Arab Federation for observatory for volunteering Moreira Borges, who is cur- Voluntary Activities was and training centers in the delegation, on the occasion of their visit to the country, yesterday morning. During the meeting, they rently visiting Qatar. QNA established in 2003 at the ini- Arab countries to qualify vol- reviewed cooperation relations between the two countries and ways of developing them in various tiative of Qatar to benefit from unteers and youth. fields, as well as issues of mutual concern. Education Minister inaugurates new Cultural Attaché office in London

QNA Cultural Attaché job in looking participate in its construction in LONDON after them. various fields, stressing the min- The Minister of Education istry’s keenness to eliminate all The Minister of Education and and Higher Education also met the difficulties facing students Higher Education, H E Dr. with Qatari students studying in and solve them by appropriate Mohammed Abdul Wahed Al the United Kingdom, in order to means. Hammadi, inaugurated the new get acquainted with their condi- The ceremony and the stu- office of the Qatari Cultural tions and discuss their problems, dents meeting were attended by Attaché in London; to serve including administrative and Qatar’s Ambassador to the UK, Qatari students enrolled in educational difficulties. Yousef bin Ali Al Khater, and a British universities and educa- During the meeting, His line-up of officials in the tional institutions. Excellency stressed that the wise embassy and the Ministry of Edu- In remarks on the occasion, leadership of the country cation and Higher Education. H E Dr. Al Hammadi said that the attaches special importance to In addition, H E Dr. new office would contribute to education and considers it the Mohammed bin Abdul Wahed Al meeting the needs of the Qatari main pillar to development. He Hammadi held a series of students as a basic reference to pointed out in this context to the meetings with a number of The Minister of Education and Higher Education, H E Dr. Mohammed Abdul Wahed Al Hammadi, resolve all the challenges they contents of the speech of Amir senior officials from Cambridge speaking during the inauguration of the new office of the Qatari Cultural Attaché in London. might face during their stay in H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad University Press, the British the UK. Al Thani, during the opening of Council in London, and British He said that the number of the 48th session of the Shura the students to put more efforts Qatari identity and adhere to the develop their personal skills in universities that have cooper- Ministry of Education-sponsored Council, which emphasized to complete their studies and to religious and cultural founda- the best possible way and benefit ative relations with the Ministry. students in UK has reached 1000, attention to people and stipu- represent their country properly. tions on which they grew up,” he from the culture and heritage of The meetings discussed means pointing that opening the new lated many educational values. “Students must respect the con- said. He also called on them to the United Kingdom, and to to boost cooperation in the field office would facilitate the H E Dr. Al Hammadi urged stants of their personality and invest their years of study and return to their homeland to of education.

Qatar National QM to mark blockade anniversary with public art Library to host THE PENINSULA communities together, the first National Convention Centre encouraged to submit their break boundaries and shatter DOHA anniversary of the blockade (QNCC) through an ongoing cul- application on http://www. misconceptions. This is an first JLF Doha saw the unveiling of two key tural collaboration with Qatar qm.org.qa/en/56-open-call by incredible opportunity for FROM PAGE 1 Qatar Museums (QM) has public art pieces: The first was Foundation (QF). December 1, 2019. For any artists in Qatar to be part of our launched an open call for Martin Creed’s “1361” (Every- QM has now called on inquires, artists can contact: country’s history and partic- Sharmila Tagore, National Qatar-based artists to propose thing is Going to be Alright) artists to submit design pro- [email protected] ipate in engraving a moment Film Award-winning screen a permanent public artwork to installation, which was created posals that describe their inter- Commenting on the that has marked a veteran and gifted actor who has mark the third anniversary of in the context of the anni- pretations and reflections on announcement, Abdulrahman generation.” acted in over a 100 Bengali and the blockade of Qatar. versary of Qatar’s blockade and the Blockade, as the country Ahmad Al Ishaq Head of Public Public Art is a key pillar in Hindi films including several The air, land and sea is still on display on the façade heads towards the third anni- Art at QM stated: “Throughout QM’s mission to inspire local under the direction of Satyajit blockade that was imposed on of Al Riwaq Gallery. The second versary. Participating artists history, art has been used for talent and establish an organic Ray; Javed Akhtar, renowned Qatar on June 5, 2017, marked piece, “A Blessing in Disguise”, could be at any stage of their commentary on social and connection between art and the poet, lyricist and scriptwriter; a historic time of unprece- was a creative commentary by careers, but must possess political realities. The same has local community. The winning and Kim Pereira, actor, director, dented national solidarity. political ARToonist Ghada Al strong skills to execute the pro- been true for Qatar, where piece will join a diverse col- playwright, and author of August Since then, it has become a cat- Khater who generated praise posed project by May 5, 2020. artists have used their creativity lection of paintings and art- Wilson ana the African- alyst for a new expression of for her take on the blockade. For its part, QM would support and wit to rise above the works by local and interna- American Odyssey also will take public art across Qatar. The second anniversary saw the chosen artist by providing injustice. At Qatar Museums, we tional artists – all hand-picked part. Her Excellency Lolwah Al- In a true showcase of the the unveiling of an original part financial assistance to realise are proud to provide platforms for their immersive and Khater, Spokesperson for role of art in bringing of the Berlin Wall at Qatar the project. Artists are of self-expression that aim to thought-provoking nature. Qatar’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, will be among the speakers at the event. A full list of speakers will be announced Census launched to collect comprehensive and accurate data soon. Dr Sohair Wastawy, Exec- FROM PAGE 1 were reluctant to disclose family utive Director of the Library, related information with said, “Working with interna- “In the previous censuses, researchers. But now, he said, tional partners and experts, JLF we were conducting the census the awareness among residents Doha is one of the many ways through four phases using bigger about the census has increased. the Library is proudly bringing number of researchers, but now He added that families and indi- different cultures together. The there are less researchers in two viduals who are not available event serves as an incredible phases, and many questions during the first phase of the opportunity for the people of have been omitted, thanks to the census, will be revisited at the Qatar to meet writers, leading already accumulated data and second phase. literary figures and thought administrative sources available The Head of Information leaders from around the world, at different authorities,” Al Systems Department at the PSA while sharing and widening The President of Planning and Statistics Authority, H E Dr. Saleh bin Madhi stressed. Regarding chal- Mubarak Al Nabit, explained the their own interests and Mohammad Al Nabit, with the members of the Census Executive lenges, Al Mahdi told The preparations that has been made knowledge. As a one-of-a-kind Committee, during the press conference announcing the beginning Peninsula that in previous cen- for the census at the technical experience for Qatar, we are of General Census of Population 2020, at its headquarters. suses, there was a lack of coop- level and the electronic systems confident that the Festival will eration from respondents who used. encourage the expression of cre- ativity, and the deepening of understanding of the world of literature.” Ashghal starts development of three public parks Sanjoy K. Roy, Managing Director of Teamwork Arts, who FROM PAGE 1 facilities for visitors of all ages different age groups of 2-5 years visitors to use the parks during produce the Jaipur Literature as well as a distinct green envi- and 6-12 years, in consideration all seasons throughout the year. Festival, said, “We are looking The features include green ronment. The features include of children with special needs, The proposed three parks forward to bringing the first arena along 102,000 square green arena along 36,000 square promoting children’s healthy also warrant environmental pro- edition of JLF to Doha with an meters, planting 740 trees, meters, planting 307 trees, growth and development. tection through implementing array of speakers. We hope JLF building pedestrian and bicycle pedestrian and bicycle paths The parks encourage visitors the second grade quality of green Doha will create a platform to paths along 1200 meters, 378 car along 650 meters, 208 car to enhance physical activism building. The trees will be exchange ideas and celebrate parking slots. parking lots. with provision of sports planted in line with the Qatari diversity.” The Festival goes Al Gharafa Park, located at Each park includes two chil- equipment in two different areas environment including wild Eng. Abdulhakeem Al Hashemi hand-in-hand with the Library’s Umm Al Zuber Street in Al dren’s play areas where the new in each park, besides lanes for Ghaff, Samar, Sidra etc. These celebration of the Qatar-India Gharrafa and to be constructed design enhances the physical and joggers and bicycle riders, which trees will provide vast envi- as well as contribute in reducing 2019 Year of Culture, which fea- on an area of about 50, 000 mental wellbeing of children by shall suite healthy atmosphere ronment and contribute in con- temperature and air pollution in tures numerous other events in square meters will cover many providing play stuff for two for all ages and encourage trolling effects of winds and dust, the city. November and December. MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2019 HOME 03 Zakat Fund provides QR16.4m in Al Mahmoud meets Moroccan officials tuition fees for eligible families

QNA taken care of by the Fund is the basis of development and DOHA administration, since the construction of the individual beginning of the submission of and society, in addition to it is The Zakat Fund of the Ministry requests for assistance and the one of the things urged by Quran of Awqaf and Islamic Affairs required documents, and then and Sunnah. provided QR16.4m to help with study and examine their situ- He explained that the project tuition fees for eligible families, ation to ensure that they are of families’ aid in tuition fees who have students enrolled in entitled to help, pointing out that was adopted by the Zakat Fund various levels of education in this assistance includes only administration 23 years ago Qatar, for the 2019-2020 tuition fees, or part of it since the academic year (1996- academic year. according to the family’s need, 1997) with 125 students. The The Head of Zakat Banking in accordance the rules and reg- project developed year after Department, Faiz Moazzi Al ulations of Shariah. year and the number of benefi- Shammari, explained that this Al Shammari stressed that ciaries increased to several assistance is allocated only to this project has become one of thousand per academic year, he The Speaker of the Shura Council, H E Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid Al Mahmoud, met yesterday with families eligible for assistance the distinct strategic projects added. He pointed out that this the Vice-President of the Moroccan House of Representatives, Mohammed Ouzzine, and Council’s who have students enrolled in adopted by the Ministry of aid is in accordance with the private schools and universities Awqaf and Islamic Affairs rep- value of fees approved by the Office Member, Khalid El Boukarai, currently visiting Doha. The meeting discussed parliamentary for this year, as well as family resented by the administration Ministry of Education and relations between the Shura Council and the Moroccan House of Representatives and means to assistance in the rehabilitation of the Zakat Fund, adding that Higher Education, and controls boost these relations. The Deputy Speaker of the Shura Council, H E Mohammed bin Abdullah Al fees of their children students the ministry pays great attention in force in the administration of Sulaiti, and Shura Council Member and Chairman of Qatar-Arab Friendship Group, H E Saqr bin Fahd with special needs who are and priority to education, which the Zakat Fund. Al Muraikhi, attended the meeting. Labour Minister meets German rights official ARABOSAI Executive Board meeting begins QNA participating delegations. He the international and regional DOHA pointed out that the meetings of environment, and the sincere the Executive Board and the desire of the leadership of the The President of the State Audit General Assembly of the organization in the renewal and Bureau Sheikh Bandar bin ARABOSAI are an important development and keep pace with Mohamed bin Saud Al Thani opportunity to get acquainted developments at the interna- inaugurated yesterday the 58th with the achievements and tional level.’’ meeting of the Executive Council determine the future directions The President of State Audit of the Arab Organization of of the work of the organization, Bureau commended the efforts Supreme Audit Institutions and prospects for development exerted by the General Secre- (ARABOSAI), hosted by the State and advancement. tariat in managing the affairs of Audit Bureau for two days, with He said that “through the the ARABOSAI, coordinating its the participation of the heads of follow-up of the organization’s activities, publicising its achieve- supreme audit institutions of the activity, we have observed over ments at the regional and inter- Member States of ARABOSAI’s the past few years a significant national levels, enhancing the The Minister of Administrative Development, Labour and Social Affairs, H E Yousuf bin Mohamed Al Executive Board. development in its performance spirit of cooperation among the Othman Fakhroo, met yesterday with the German Federal Government Commissioner for Human At the outset of the meeting, thanks to the combination of member bodies, and proposing Rights Policy and Humanitarian Assistance , Barbel Kofler, who is currently visiting Doha. The meeting Sheikh Bandar bin Mohamed bin several factors, the most development initiatives and discussed aspects of joint cooperation and means to boost them. Saud Al Thani welcomed the important of which is the projects for the benefit of heads and members of the increasing openness to ARABOSAI. Qatar-British Festival 2019 to celebrate strong ties

FAZEENA SALEEM This is a ground-breaking instal- “We would like to strengthen THE PENINSULA lation which blurs art and tech- the strong relations between nology. It is real-time digital Qatar and the UK through culture A unique display of poetry writing that takes data from its which we think is the best bridge written in real times based on position a city and turns it into a between countries,” said Dr events happening in the city will constantly changing poem about Khalid bin Ibrahim AI Sulaiti, be one of several interesting the location. The art by Naho General Manager of Katara Cul- things to look forward during the Matsuda will be on display at tural Village. ‘Qatar-British Festival 2019’ Katara Cultural village and Qatar The ‘Qatar British Festival which will begin on November National Library between during 2019’ will conclude with the 18, said organisers yesterday. the Festival. Qatar-UK Alumni Awards; a cel- The Qatar British Festival As part of the Festival, ‘The ebration of the enduring success 2019, under the theme ‘People Place I Call Home,’ a contem- cultural exchange can bring to and Place’ to celebrate the strong porary photography exhibition societies, through education. FROM LEFT: British Ambassador to Qatar, Ajay Sharma; General Manager of Katara Cultural Village and ongoing cultural relationship will explore the idea of ‘home,’ “Our birthplace, where and Foundation, Dr. Khalid bin Ibrahim Al Sulaiti, and Director of British Council Qatar, Sam Ayton, during between Qatar and the UK, was related to the experiences of how we are schooled and the officially launched at the Katara the official launch of the Sixth Annual Qatar-British Festival 2019 at Katara, yesterday. young people living in the region places we live, all make a lasting PIC: BAHER AMIN/THE PENINSULA Cultural village. and the UK at a time of rapid imprint on the people we are It was launched by British Festival is a visible embodiment are delighted that we are holding long-lasting, positive effects of change and social mobility. today. The theme of this year’s Ambassador to Qatar, Ajay of the strong relationship the Festival for its sixth year,” artistic exchange between the Another highlight of the Fes- festival seeks to explore the Sharma, together with Dr. Khalid between the UK and Qatar. The said Sharma. people of Qatar and the people tival will be award-winning intricate relationship between bin Ibrahim AI Sulaiti, General Festival is a celebration of our “Through the lens of public of the UK,” he added. concert violinist, Savitri Grier people and place and the Manager of Katara Cultural cultures and through the various art, photography, music and film, Among several new features perform two famous pieces by enduring legacy that comes from Village, and Sam Ayton, Director events on the programme it pro- it will examine the impact of of the 2019 Festival, ‘Every Thing Edward Elgar, Enigma Variations cultural exchange,” said Sam British Council Qatar, during a vides a unique and vibrant way place on us and in turn, our Every Time’ a public art instal- and Violin Concerto, with the Ayton, Director British Council press meet. “The Qatar British of bringing people together. We impact on place and the lation by ‘Future Everything’. Qatar Philharmonic Orchestra. Qatar. Al Wakrah, Umm Salal & Sailiyah to get central markets with auction grounds by year-end

SANAULLAH ATAULLAH the sidelines of a press con- panels. Addressing the press con- THE PENINSULA ference held yesterday at the ference, the Director of Food headquarters of the company on Security Department at the Min- Three central markets with the second edition of the Food istry of Municipality and Envi- auction grounds will open in Al Security Conference under the ronment, Masoud Jarallah Al Wakrah, Umm Salal and Sailiyah patronage of the Minister of Marri, said that these confer- by the end of this year. Municipality and Environment, ences and events enhance the “The markets will have H E Eng. Abdullah bin Abdulaziz implementation of projects in a mixed business activities as well bin Turki Al Subaie. way that is successful and FROM LEFT: Managing Director and CEO of Al Arab, Jaber Salem Al Harami, Chief Executive Officer of as wholesale businesses. For The Conference will be sustainable. Hassad Food, Mohamed bin Badr Al Sadah, and Director of Food Security Department at the Ministry example, Al Wakrah central organised by Dar Al Arab in Doha He added that the local pro- of Municipality and Environment, Masood Jarallah Al Marri, during a press conference to announce market will have livestock on November 26 to highlight the duction of vegetables jumped Food Security Conference at Hassad Food Headquarters, yesterday. PIC: BAHER AMIN/THE PENINSULA wholesale business, Al Sailiya national efforts in food security, from 24 percent to 28 percent, will deal with wholesale business in addition to reviewing the most which indicates that the plans by 2023. Mohamed Al Sadah, discuss the sector’s challenges Hassad, as it will add another of fruits and vegetables while prominent researches and and programmes have been Hassad’s CEO, said that sup- and propose effective solutions, dimension to the conference.” Umm Salal central market will studies conducted in the agricul- implemented successfully. porting the country in achieving given that local and international He said that it will discuss the have dedicated space for tural and animal fields in the He pointed out that the dairy food security constantly tops field experts will attend it”. company’s contribution to wholesale fish,” Mubarak Al country. sector reached the sufficiency Hassad’s strategic objectives. “The conference comes in support the food security efforts, Sahouti, Director Business Rela- H E the Minister will give the ratio and above, where it reached “It is our pleasure to the time were achieving food through its international and tions at Hassad Food, told The keynote speech at the opening 106 percent, in the field of fresh announce our strategic part- security is a top priority for the local investments during the Peninsula ceremony of the conference. poultry, the proportion of suffi- nership in the second edition of country in order to achieve self- conference panels. He said that Aswaq for food Key subjects like the national ciency reached 124 percent, the food security conference, as sufficiency in vegetables, dairy “Furthermore, we will facilities management, a sub- efforts to achieve food security while the proportion of suffi- we aim at all times to support in products and livestock,” said Al discuss the company’s efforts to sidiary of Hassad Food, will and some prominent researches ciency in the field of red meat developing the local agricultural Sadah. Jaber Salem Al Harami, support the local farmers to manage and operate the three conducted in the field of agricul- reached 18 percent, after it was sector,” said Al Sadah. Managing Director and CEO for increase and enhance their veg- central markets. tural and livestock will be dis- initially 15 percent and the target He said that the conference Dar Al Arab, said: “We appreciate etables’ production,” said Al Al Sahouti was speaking on cussed during the different currently is reaching 30 percent will establish a platform to the strategic partnership with Harami. 04 HOME MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2019 Health Minister visits mobile physiotherapy unit for older persons This initiative aims to H E Dr Hanan Mohamed Al During November and raise public awareness Kuwari, Minister of Public Health, December, the mobile unit will of the importance attended the opening of the con- visit the most vital areas in Qatar of physiotherapy ference. It was organised by that are attractive to the public Qatar’s Ministry of Public Health, during this season, such as public exercises for older and Hamad Medical Cooperation parks and heritage markets, as persons and to (HMC), in collaboration with The well as the governmental and promote this service. British Geriatrics Society (BGS). non-governmental institutions, in More than 600 people partici- order to offer physiotherapy pated in the conference. services for older persons and THE PENINSULA Al Kuwari praised the services inform their families with the DOHA offered by Elderly Empowerment importance of physical exercise and Care center for older persons for elders. Elderly Empowerment and Care in Qatar, and confirmed the impor- The mobile unit tours will Center has announced the launch tance of the cooperation between include Al Bidda Park, Aspire of a series of tours to introduce concerned bodies to provide a Park, Katara Cultural Village, Souq the public to the mobile physio- decent life for older persons, and Waqif, both Doha and Wakra therapy unit for older persons. The to maintain and commit to the branches, and Al-Henzab Holy unit was launched last month concept of “Healthy Aging” which Quran Center. The unit will be during a cheerful celebration is one of Qatar’s National Health located near Darb Al-Sa’ei next attended by many community Strategy (NHS) 2018-2022 prior- month to offer its services for leaders. ities. “Persons who are over 60 older persons attending the events H E Dr Hanan Mohamed Al Kuwari, Minister of Public Health, being briefed by the officials during her This initiative aims to raise years contribute in forming a rich of Qatar National Day. visit to the mobile facility. public awareness of the impor- social environment and everyone The mobile unit represents tance of physiotherapy exercises must acknowledge their value and one of the leading awareness ini- for older persons and to promote The physiotherapy therapy space at Ritz Carlton Hotel, coin- Geriatrics and Gerontology which recognize their changing health tiatives launched by Elderly this service. It will continue unit began its first tour by staying ciding with the events of Qatar was held from October 31 to needs,” Al Kuwari said on the Empowerment and Care Center through the coming month. for three days in a special parking International Conference on November 2. occasion. (Ehsan) for older persons in Qatar. ‘Breakfast Made in Italy’ to be showcased at Hospitality Qatar RAYNALD C RIVERA “moment,” BMII becomes a fundamental expe- “In the first six months of this year, trade THE PENINSULA rience and promotes the Italian lifestyle in the volume between Italy and Qatar increased by world. With this project CNA aims at creating 23 percent reaching a value of €1.4b and the Italy is poised to have a strong presence at the a format for the Breakfast sector to allow Italian food sector increased by 9 percent reaching Hospitality Qatar 2019, which opens tomorrow companies, even the smallest ones, to inter- €22m, so this is just a tangible expression of at Doha Exhibition and Convention Center nationalize and become an example for the our very positive relations,” said Rigano. (DECC), with a national pavilion highlighting entire sector. “As bilateral trade between Italy “Breakfast Made in Italy is an innovative the new Breakfast Made in Italy (BMII) concept and Qatar continues to grow, including in food- project mainly aiming at introducing and with the participation of 36 Italian companies. stuff and related services, we are confident that sharing all over the world a multi-sensorial “Thanks to the cooperation between the BMII will be a new business platform for con- experience based on the well-known concepts Italian Embassy, the Italian Trade Agency and necting hotel operators, HORECA suppliers and of Mediterranean diet. What we are presenting the Italian National Confederation of the Craft investors,” said Salzano. is not only final products but all the supply Sector and Small and Medium Enterprises “We invite companies and individuals to chain is embodied in this project such as ingre- (CNA), Italian companies specialised in Italian visit the Italian exhibition area at Hospitality dients, kitchen equipment, and furniture,” supplies will showcase in Doha a selection of Qatar and find their preferred options of explained Rigano. products, equipment and services for preparing “Italian breakfast set”, capable to recreate the The participating Italian companies will the authentic Italian morning breakfast,” Italian perfect experience of the Italian morning be looking to creating cooperation with Qatari Ambassador Pasquale Salzano said at a press breakfast, here in Qatar and everywhere,” companies at the event, he said. “During the conference held at his residence to announce added the ambassador. three-day exhibition we arranged several B2B the launch of BMII. Giosafat Rigano, Italian Trade Commis- meetings with F&B managers from five, six and H E Sultan bin Saad Al Muraikhi, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, Drawing inspiration from Italy’s tradition sioner to Qatar, echoed the same view on the seven-star hotels in Doha in order to give receiving a copy of the credentials of Cristian Tudor, Head of the and expertise in hospitality sector and variety growing bilateral trade between Qatar and Italy further boost to our commercial relations. More EU Delegation (non-resident) to the State of Qatar. of products that represent a new breakfast in which he also noted growth in food sector. than 50 meetings have already been arranged inside our BMII booth between CNA and the main players in the market,” said Rigano. Al Muraikhi receives credentials Antonio Franceschini, CNA’s Head of Inter- national Market and Trade Promotion Office, of Head of EU Delegation said CNA was established in 1946 and currently has more than 1,000 offices and over 700,000 QNA support to promote bilateral members. He said the brands taking part at the DOHA relations between Qatar and the exhibition comprise companies covering North EU to closer cooperation in all and South of Italy and offering wide-ranging The Minister of State for Foreign fields. He also met Ambassador products. Affairs, H E Sultan bin Saad Al of the Republic of Brazil to the Roberto Corbelli, Art Director of BMII, Muraikhi, received yesterday a State of Qatar, Roberto Abdalla, underlined the project also focuses on sustain- copy of the credentials of Head on the occasion of the end of the ability with the presence of companies offering of the European Union (EU) latter’s tenure in the country. organic food products such as jam and coffee, Delegation (non-resident) to the H E Al Muraikhi extended Pasquale Salzano (second left), Ambassador of Italy to Qatar; Giosafat Rigano (second as well as companies that involved in design State of Qatar, Cristian Tudor. thanks to the Brazilian Ambas- right), Italian Trade Commissioner to Qatar; Antonio Franceschini (left), Head of International and furniture to create an authentic Italian H E the Minister of State for sador for the efforts he exerted Market and Trade Promotion Office at Italian National Confederation of the Craft Sector breakfast moment. Breakfast Made in Italy can Foreign Affairs wished the Head in promoting the bilateral rela- and Small and Medium Enterprises (CNA); and Roberto Corbelli, Art Director of Breakfast be experienced at the Italian pavilion at DECC of EU Delegation success in his tions, and wished him success Made in Italy, at Italian Ambassador’s residence. PIC: ABDUL BASIT/THE PENINSULA Hall 2 from November 12 to 14 from 1pm to 9pm. mission, assuring him of all in his future duties. Qatar sees 59% rise in visitors from Qatar takes part in Germany, Austria and Switzerland SMIIC General THE PENINSULA important to Qatar, and we are Qatar. Forty journalists from Assembly meeting DOHA pleased to welcome Der Tour German speaking markets and members of the media for visited Qatar for the launch of QNA/DOHA Qatar witnessed a 59 percent the launch event of their seminal DER Touristik’s Summer 2020 increase in the number of brochure. We have witnessed a catalogue. The State of Qatar, represented by Qatar General visitors from Germany, Austria strong growth in the number of Held at Sharq Village & Spa, Organization for Standards and Metrology, took and Switzerland in the first three visitors from German markets, Doha the event was attended by part in the 14th meeting of the General Assembly quarters of 2019, as compared and we hope our strong partner- officials from QNTC, Der Tour- of the Standards and Metrology Institute for the to the same period last year, ships with entities such as DER istik as well as journalists from Islamic Countries (SMIIC), which was held in according to Qatar National Touristik continue this upward QNTC’s priority German Makkah Al Mukarramah in the Kingdom of Saudi Tourism Council (QNTC). trend,” said Rashed Al Qurese, speaking markets. Visiting jour- Arabia with the participation of 35 Islamic coun- A large part of this increase Chief Marketing Officer at Qatar nalists will enjoy a variety of cul- tries as well as representatives of a number of came from cruise visitors, with National Tourism Council tural and adventure experiences competent organisations and institutions. the 2018/19 season recording a (QNTC). to familiarize them with the Assistant of the Chairman of Qatar General 141 percent increase in German Al Qurese was commenting destination. Organization for Standards and Metrology, Eng. passengers over the previous on the sidelines of the visit of German speaking countries Nawaf Ibrahim Al Hamad Al Mana, represented the season, it said. leading European B2B tour con- are a prime source market of vis- State of Qatar to the meeting which discussed the “German markets are glomerate DER Touristik to itors for Qatar. In 2014, QNTC strategic plan of the Institute and the preparation opened its representative office and approval of the financial budget, and the achieve- in Munich, which has been ments of the Board of Directors of accreditation and working closely with interna- the Board of Directors of standardization. The State tional partners to build interest of Qatar joined the Standards and Metrology Institute in Qatar as a destination, for both for the Islamic Countries (SMIIC) in 2017, during the leisure and business events. 12th meeting of the General Assembly. “Qatar is an uprising desti- Established in 1998 and headquartered in nation”, says Dr. Ingo Burm- Istanbul, Turkey, SMIIC is one of the specialized ester, CEO DER Touristik organizations of the Organization of Islamic Coop- Central Europe. “Its significance eration (OIC) and one of the highest levels of will increase in the years to regional standardization organizations at the come.” DER Touristik has long Islamic and Arab level. It currently has 39 Islamic featured a large portfolio of countries represented in the national standards Qatar products via its brands bodies. The Institute aims at enhancing cooper- Dertour and Meiers Weltreisen ation and coordination among Islamic countries and with the FIFA World Cup in the field of standardization and the Halal product Qatar 2022 approaching, DER sector, as well as unifying standards to enable Touristik anticipates a strong member states to achieve the economic benefit growth in demand for the guaranteed by these standards, such as enhancing The DER Touristik event at Sharq Village & Spa Doha. destination. cooperation and trade exchange. MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2019 HOME 05 06 HOME MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2019

HBKU launches Master of Arts program in Intercultural Communication THE PENINSULA/DOHA The program provides research opportunities and a deep understanding admission requirements. Current The College of Humanities and students will also offer their per- Social Sciences (CHSS) at Hamad of the challenges spectives on the program and Bin Khalifa University (HBKU) is posed by changing overall learning experience. to host the Minister of State, H E intercultural settings Speaking ahead of the event, Dr Hamad bin Abdulaziz Al in Qatar and across Dr Amal Mohammed Al Malki, Kuwari who will deliver opening founding dean of CHSS , said: remarks on the impact of inter- the wider world. “We are delighted to have H E cultural communication on Dr. Al Kuwari open this infor- linguistics and diplomacy. evolving intercultural settings in mation session, and to launch This session coincides with Qatar, increased desire to our newest MA in Intercultural the launch of the newest Master achieve inclusive growth and Communication. His Excellency of Arts program in Intercultural wealth in the region and beyond, best understands the importance Communication (MAICC), and the use of digital technol- of offering a degree in this field. delivered by the college’s Trans- ogies in an inclusive society We’re confident that this lation and Interpreting Institute focusing on accessibility of all program will not only inspire (TII). social groups. students, but also reinforce The program provides a An information session will CHSS’ mission to nurture aca- Al Hammadi meets Chairman of Kuwait’s deep understanding of the chal- follow Dr. Al Kuwari’s opening demically grounded and socially lenges posed by changing inter- remarks where prospective stu- responsible global citizens.” National Bureau for Human Rights cultural settings in Qatar and dents and the public can learn The information session will across the wider world. The more about the innovative take place from 4pm to 6pm on The Secretary-General of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs H E Dr. Ahmed bin Hassan Al Hammadi met MAICC will offer a curriculum graduate programs offered by November 17 at Ballroom 1, yesterday with the Chairman of National Bureau for Human Rights of the State of Kuwait, Ambassador that is designed to give an CHSS. Faculty members will be Multaqa (Education City Student Jassim Mubarak Al Mubaraki, who is currently visiting Doha. During the meeting, they discussed cooperation answer to the changing career available to answer questions Center). The event will be held relations between the two countries in addition to matters of mutual interest. prospects of CHSS graduates: regarding course content, in English and Arabic. Ajyal to present 8 Indian short films Qatar takes part in Nato anniversary celebration

THE PENINSUL/DOHA concluded 2019 Jio MAMI Mumbai (2019) by Akshay Sarjerao Dan- Film Festival with Star. MAMI has avale, Hey Ram! (2019) by Yash- Promoting deeper cultural under- also nominated four Indian jurors wardhan Goswami, Vacancy standing and appreciation, the to participate in the 2019 Ajyal (2017) by Anurag B. Worlikar, and seventh edition of Ajyal Film Film Festival. The Thought of You (2014) by Festival, presented by the Doha Fatma Hassan Alremaihi, Fes- Ahmed Roy. Film Institute (DFI) from tival Director and Chief Executive In addition, Ajyal 2019 will November 18 to 23, marks the Officer of DFI, said: “The Qatar also present a special screening Qatar-India 2019 Year of Culture India 2019 Year of Culture recog- of acclaimed actor, director and with an exciting Made in India nises the contribution of the animator Gitanjali Rao’s Bombay programme of eight short films. Indian community to Qatar and Rose (India, France, UK, The films offer an insight into reinforces the significant cultural Qatar/2019), a DFI Grant pro- modern India and are a testament relationship between our nations. duction. The haunting musical to the country’s rich filmmaking Ajyal’s special programme shines romance set on the streets of heritage. Curated by the Institute’s a spotlight on our cultural part- Bombayunfolds through exquisite cultural partners, the Mumbai nership with India, one of the most hand-painted animation and sto- Academy of Moving Images prolific film producers in the rytelling techniques by Rao, who (MAMI), the special Made in India world. Using the medium of film will be in attendance. programme will screen on to find similarities and contextu- The film opened the pres- November 21 at 8.30pm at Katara alise culture through art, this care- tigious Critics Week programme Opera House and includes a fully curated selection of short at the 2019 Venice Film Festival selection of short narrative and films will promote dialogue and won the India Gold Silver documentary films by up-and- between our communities to find Gateway Award and the Manish coming Indian directors that a deeper understanding of Acharya Award for New Voices in present fascinating insight into the modern Indian cinema. Uniting Indian Cinema at the 2019 Mumbai country’s filmmaking trends, two cultures and countries International Film Festival. Abdulaziz bin Ahmed Al Malki, Qatar’s Ambassador to the Italian Republic, during the celebration of culture and people. through film allows us celebrate Tickets for Ajyal Film Festival the 10th anniversary of the establishment of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato), in Rome. A Qatar Museums initiative, and explore common values and 2019 are available for purchase at the Year of Culture is a year-long find new stories and talent.” the Ajyal Main Box Office located THE PENINSULA State of Qatar was represented officers from the Qatari Armed programme developed to deepen Short films screening in the in Katara Building 10 at the Ajyal DOHA in the ceremony by Qatar’s Forces. The event was attended understanding between nations Made in India programme are Box Office; at VOX Cinemas Doha Ambassador to the Italian by Commandant of Nato Defense through exchange of arts, culture, Grandfather (2018) by Uma-Gaiti, Festival City for screenings taking The State of Qatar participated Republic Abdulaziz bin Ahmed College Gen. Chris Whitecross, heritage and sport. As part of the Apna Apna Andaz (2017) by place at VOX Cinemas; and from in the celebration of the tenth Al Malki. the Alliance’s senior officers, initiative, a special Made in Qatar Avishkar Bharadwaj, Steam (2019) the Novo Cinemas Box Office for anniversary of the establishment The celebration included the ambassadors of foreign countries film showcase was successfully by Harsh Hudda, Mother Promise screenings at Novo Cinemas, The of the North Atlantic Treaty graduation of Nato’s 22nd session in Rome and Italian armed screened at the recently (2017) by Gautam Vaze, Batti Pearl. Organization (Nato) in Rome. The officers, among them three forces’ senior officers. Nespresso takes recycling up a gear with bicycle made from coffee capsules

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Leading the way with its commitment to recycling, Nespresso has partnered with Swedish lifestyle bike brand Vélosophy to produce a stylish bicycle made from recycled aluminium coffee capsules. The result is RE:CYCLE — a perfect Ashraf Abu Issa, Chairman of Abu Issa Holding Group; Fawaz Idrissi, Senior balance of sustainability and style, Vice-President of Abu Issa Holding; Edgar Dorig, Ambassador of Switzerland designed to illustrate the potential of to Qatar; and Iyad Sabarini, General Manager of High Trading International, recyclable aluminium and motivate the exclusive distributor of Nespresso during the launch ceremony. Nespresso fans to recycle their capsules. From Nespresso boutique at Doha Designed to highlight Nespresso capsules. By using recycled Festival City, the Swiss brand cele- the potential of recycling capsules to make beautiful bicycles, brated this constructive partnership Nespresso’s aluminium Vélosophy bring sustainability and and unveiled the Nespresso recycling capsules, the launch of style together to create a truly mean- bike. ingful experience, bringing to life the The ceremony was attended by RE:CYCLE is encouraging importance of recycling. We have been Ashraf Abu Issa, Chairman of Abu Issa consumers to consider inspired by working with Vélosophy, Holding Group; Fawaz Idrissi, Senior how they can make a and I hope the RE:CYCLE bicycle Vice-President of Abu Issa Holding, positive impact. inspires people to recycle.” Edgar Dorig Ambassador of Swit- Jimmy Östholm, CEO and Founder zerland to Qatar; and Iyad Sabarini, of Vélosophy said: “We created General Manager of High Trading potential of recycling Nespresso’s alu- Vélosophy with a clear purpose: to International, the exclusive distributor minium capsules, the launch of have a positive impact on the world. of Nespresso and a group of media RE:CYCLE is encouraging consumers This purpose drives everything we do, representative and lovers of the Swiss to consider how they can make a pos- from our promise to give a bike to a brand. itive impact. schoolgirl for every Vélosophy we sell, Aluminium is one of the world’s Jean-Marc Duvoisin, CEO of Nes- to producing our stylish city bikes from most valuable resources because it can presso, said: “Through our collabo- recycled aluminium. I see in Nespresso be re-melted and re-used infinitely, ration with Vélosophy, we’re illus- a strong commitment to sustainability, allowing craftsmen to give waste a trating to coffee lovers the potential which is why this has been the dream second life. Designed to highlight the of recycling their aluminium partnership.” MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2019 HOME 07 Al-Ahli Hospital surgeons perform rare orthopedic surgery THE PENINSULA stabilizes your forearm bones Dr Kivela also encouraged Imaging) lies between 60-80%. DOHA and wrist when you grasp some- individuals with TFCC tear to X-rays will usually look normal. thing with your hand or rotate consult an orthopedic surgeon “The Recovery time for a Surgeons at Al-Ahli Hospital’s your forearm,” he said. and get early treatment. TFCC tear depends on the type, Orthopedic and Traumatology “Athletes who regularly “Many people are not aware severity, and treatment Department have performed a rotate or put pressure on their that TFCC can be treated by non of the injury. Following minimal invasive surgery which wrists, like in gym exercise, surgical and surgical methods. surgery, you’ll need to wear a is rare one to be held in a private tennis, gymnastics have a higher If resting your wrist and physical cast to keep your wrist from hospital, for Triangular Fibro- risk of developing a TFCC tear. therapy don’t provide any relief, moving, usually for about six to cartilage Complex (TFCC) Tears. To treat the TFCC tear of this you may need surgery to repair eight weeks. Once your cast is TFCC tears are a common patients we conducted a mini- the tear,” he said. removed, you may need source of ulnar-sided wrist pain. mally invasive arthroscopy. Type 1 TFCC tear can be physical therapy before your A 35-year-old Qatari tennis During this procedure, we will caused by an injury. For wrist regains its previous player and coach was operated repair the damaged part of example, falling and landing on strength and function,” said Dr by Dr. Erkki Kivela, Consultant TFCC through a few small inci- an outstretched hand can Kivela. Orthopedic Surgeon, and team sions around your wrist. In some damage the cartilage, tendons, A case study suggests that for a TFCC tear, which is cases, doctors may need tradi- or ligaments in your TFCC. The TFCC tears that do not require common among athletes who tional open surgery,” he added. type 2 tear are caused by the surgery can take up to 12 weeks regularly rotate or put pressure Dr Kivela emphasized that slow breakdown of the cartilage to fully heal. Following surgery, on their wrists. minimally invasive arthroscopy in your TFCC, usually due to age a TFCC tear may take around 3 Four months after the surgery not commonly available or an underlying condition, such to 6 months to heal surgery the tennis player is at private hospitals in Qatar. as rheumatoid arthritis or gout. completely. recovering fast, according to Dr “We use modern equipment “You’re also at a higher risk Kivela. and up-to-date minimally if you’ve previously injured your “TFCC is an area between invasive surgical techniques to wrist,” said Dr Kivela. A Qatari tennis player and coach your ulna and wrist boes in the provide an extensive and fully Diagnosis of TFCC tear is was operated by Dr. Erkki Kivela, wrist. Your TFCC is made of inclusive service within the commonly done by clinical Consultant Orthopedic Surgeon, several ligaments and tendons, Orthopedic Department,” he examination. Accuracy of MRI and team for a TFCC tear. as well as cartilage cushion. It said. scans (Magnetic Resonance Global experts to discuss future of education at 2019 WISE summit MoCI recalls Mercedes-Benz THE PENINSULA The summit, taking place we work, and the way we DOHA from November 19 to interact with each other.” GLC, CLA 250 21, will see educators, Among the questions at the In the context of a rapidly experts, thought leaders, heart of the discussions are: model of 2019 evolving world with exponential and decision makers from Should schools teach students THE PENINSULA/DOHA technological changes, more around the globe gather how to be happy? Will artificial than 200 speakers and 150 intelligence make teachers sessions will drive conversations to reimagine the future obsolete? Can the latest discov- The Ministry of Commerce and to shape the future of education of education, discussing eries in neuroscience make our Industry, in cooperation with at the 2019 WISE Summit. the behaviors, skills, and kids smarter? Do students care Nasser Bin Khaled Automobiles, The summit, taking place traits we must unlearn about what they are learning? dealer of Mercedes Benz in from November 19 to 21, will see and relearn to flourish in Should schools get rid of grading Qatar, announced the recall of educators, experts, thought the 21st century around systems? Should students pledge Mercedes-Benz GLC, CLA 250 leaders, and decision makers a percentage of their future model of 2019 due to possible A panel discussion during the previous edition of WISE Summit. from around the globe gather to the theme UnLearn, salary to fund their higher defect in the driver’s airbags. reimagine the future of edu- Armenia, President of Armenia; Thani, Chairperson, INJAZ Qatar ReLearn: What it means education? The recall campaign comes cation, discussing the behaviors, physicist and computer scientist, and INJAZ Al Arab, Valerie to be Human. From discussing how to within the framework of the skills, and traits we must unlearn Eman Abdulla, Qatar, Head of Hannon, UK, Board Director, relearn the emotional skills we Ministry’s continuous efforts to and relearn to flourish in the 21st Schools, Qatar Children’s Innovation Unit, Dr Ger Graus Stavros Yiannouka, CEO, need in order to learn, to protect consumers. century around the theme Museum Project, Dr Asmaa Al- OBE, Global Director of Edu- WISE, said, “In education, we debating whether well-being The Ministry said that it will UnLearn, ReLearn: What it Fadala, Director of Research and cation, Kidzania and Mohamed naturally focus on what we should be taught in schools, to coordinate with the dealer to means to be Human. Content Development, WISE, Evren Tok, Qatar, Assistant Dean should learn. We also think uncovering global ed-tech trends follow up on the maintenance Among the speakers con- Mohammed Saadoun Al Kuwari, of Innovation and Community there’s an important role to play and their impact on innovation, and repair works and will com- firmed for the WISE Summit – Qatar, Supreme Committee for Development, College of Islamic in unlearning. We should chal- WISE 2019 will address the municate with customers to an initiative of Qatar Foundation Delivery & Legacy Ambassador, Studies, Hamad Bin Khalifa Uni- lenge some of our assumptions pressing issues and current ensure that the necessary repairs include Armen Sarkissian, Sheikha Hanadi bint Nasser Al versity, member of QF. about the way we live, the way trends facing education. are carried out. AAB – Toyota promoting healthy living through Hado game THE PENINSULA enabled by an AR device that more time in our Showroom but DOHA players wear on their heads and also helps them to lead a healthy a motion sensor the size of a living. Firas Mufti, Senior Mar- In an initiative aimed at smartphone worn on the wrist keting Manager, AAB, welcoming promoting Healthy Living, or forearm. Players are able to the guests added that Hado game Abdullah Abdulghani & Bros. Co. move unrestricted in the real not only promotes healthy living (AAB) & Toyota launched Hado environment while interacting but also helps in team building AR game in their Toyota with the digital items they can as well as the game is played Showroom at Al-Abdulghani see through the AR headset. between 2 team attacking each Tower in collaboration with The launch event held in the other through energy balls and Japanese start-up Meleap. AAB Toyota Showroom was attended each team will have to use their is the first Toyota distributor in by Media representatives, AAB skills and teamwork to win the the world to tie up & launch this Senior management and staff as game. technologically advanced AR well as representatives from Hado, the innovative Aug- game in their Showroom. Hado Japan. The opening game mented Reality (AR) sport, was Hado is an innovative Aug- was between Media represent- born in Japan in 2014 to turn mented Reality (AR) physical atives and AAB Staff. every child’s dream into reality. e-sport that uses augmented Speaking on the introduction Meleap CEO, Hiroshi Fukuda’s reality (AR) technology and of Hado game, R. K. Murugan, motivation to launch techno motion sensors without requiring ACEO, AAB, said that AAB is sports as a new business came the player to be bound to a happy to introduce the AR game from his own longing as a child gaming system, controllers, or in Qatar for our customers as it to shoot laser beams from his cables. The digital experience is not only helps them to spend hands. AAB and Hado officials during the launch event at Toyota Showroom.

QC hands over third house of ‘Renovation Challenge’ THE PENINSULA employees volunteered to ren- community cooperation among DOHA ovate the house. people in Qatar. The funding from the The Ideal Solutions Company The idea of the “Restoration Chal- company covered the complete participates in such community lenge” programme is mainly maintenance of the house activities as part of its corporate based on the competition belonging to a low-income social responsibility (CSR) between companies to carry out family. The maintenance includes strategy to give back to the the maintenance and renovation electricity, ceramics, coating, society in which it operates, of low-income families’ houses. plumbing and air conditioning, added the chairperson. During the holy month of as well as providing complete He further called on all com- Ramadan, Qatar Charity com- kitchen equipment such as refrig- panies to establish community pleted the renovation, mainte- erator, cooker, and cabinets. partnerships to ensure a dignified nance and furnishing of two Community Cooperation living for all, applauding Qatar homes. Eng. Mahmoud Amer, Charity for its efforts, assistance, Qatar Charity (QC) has Chairman of Ideal Solutions programs, and initiatives to handed over the third house, Company, expressed his pride in support low-income families. which was repaired as part of its completing the maintenance and He also noted that cooper- “Renovation Challenge” project restoration of the house. ation with Qatar Charity started that aims to rehabilitate the He praised the Renovation during the month of Ramadan by GAC participates in World Diabetes Day activities homes of low-income families Challenge programme, which participating in many of its events and improve their living aims to create a suitable living including “You Are Note Alone” conditions. environment for families with programme, printing children’s The General Authority of Customs (GAC) has participated in the activities of the World Diabetes Day The maintenance and fur- low income, improve their social books, and taking part in the in order to raise awareness of the dangers of the disease. The Authority participated in the event in nishing works were completed status, and bring the joy of living “Renovation Challenge” project, collaboration with the Qatar Diabetes Association. This participation aims to promote the concept of successfully with the funding a dignified life to them, in affirming the continuation of col- social responsibility through participation in such programs and awareness campaigns. from the Ideal Solutions addition to promoting the values laboration with Qatar Charity in Company, of which many of social solidarity and the future. 08 VIEWS MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2019 How Berlin Wall became a monument ESTABLISHED IN 1996 to American racial division

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DR. KHALID BIN MUBARAK AL-SHAFI PAUL M FARBER [email protected] AL JAZEERA

ACTING MANAGING EDITOR ost Americans know the MOHAMMED SALIM MOHAMED history of the Berlin Wall [email protected] as a story of triumph over Mdivision. Cold War struggle poured into concrete, dividing DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR Western freedom and Eastern MOHAMMED OSMAN ALI repression. [email protected] While the Wall divided Germany from 1961 to 1989, the US’s rela- tionship with Berlin resonated through landmark declarations including Pres- ident John F Kennedy’s 1963 phrase “Ich bin ein Berliner” and President A section of the Berlin Wall, designed as a letter from the Citizens of Berlin to US Ronald Reagan’s 1987 declaration EDITORIAL “Tear down this wall”. President Trump, being transported past the Capitol building in Washington, DC. Such words rang far beyond the allied American sector of West Berlin, newspapers, including the Chicago East German and American border Raising future leaders a militarised Cold War front line and Defender and Pittsburgh Courier, pub- guards alike recognised and embraced diplomatic hotspot pitted against a lished editorial cartoons and letters him as “Ambassador Satch”. In a press ever doubt that a small group of thoughtful, com- Soviet-supported East. Hollywood spy connecting Jim Crow segregation and conference, he shared: “I ain’t worried mitted citizens can change the world; indeed, it’s dramas, late-night variety shows and the Berlin Wall. about the wall”, disavowing the “Nthe only thing that ever has.” This famous quote pop music reinforced the idea that one In other instances, particular question. by Margaret Mead, an American cultural anthropologist, is side of the wall was free, the other racially segregated streets were Other critical Berlin stories can be highly relevant when you read it in line with the recently oppressed. singled out and characterised for their found in the writings and travels of held second Doha Forum: Youth Edition in Doha. This week, as we reach the 30th Berlin Wall-like effect: Peyton Road in Paul Robeson, Langston Hughes, Dick In fact, the Forum was shaping a group of youngsters in anniversary of the wall’s dismantling, Atlanta, Parker Street in Boston, Gregory, Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, addressing some of the most serious, burning global issues. the dominant story plays out across Alameda Road in Los Angeles and Adrian Piper, Stew, and many more. The 200 young men and women who attended the Forum the country in highlight reels of history South State Street in Chicago. Else- The divided city of Berlin, while the were honing up their skills and gaining wisdom needed to and cultural programmes across the where, in cities such as Birmingham, Wall was up and now in the decades face these challenges. US, including “mock Berlin Wall” Detroit, Philadelphia, Selma, St Louis, since, continues to be a place for By providing a dedicated and ideal platform for youth reenactments at high schools and Arlington, Newark, individuals called Americans to grasp transnational to engage and debate, the Forum brought the attention of universities. out the specific barriers along the racial justice. the world on issues associated with climate change and edu- But the other stories - those pro- “colour line”, such as pernicious The long-standing presence of cation. It is no secret that education has the power to change duced by African American activists, “common sense” boundaries that African American critical and creative the world. Qatar’s sustainability goals are highly linked to artists and writers who looked to divided redlined housing districts from voices at the Wall, registered through education and the Forum highlighted strongly the role of divided Berlin - are also integral to the other residential areas or hindered their own observations, can also be education in addressing global challenges. history of the mobility for black citizens. from the two to three million African The Forum was actually an eye-opener and it clearly Cold War. Back then, such rhetoric boomer- Americans (GIs, their families and showed how much the youth of today have to contribute to These narra- anged back and forth across the civilians employed by the military) thought leadership while engaging in the culture of tives have Atlantic, pushing white politicians to who lived in West Germany during the diplomacy, dialogue, and diversity. After all, the Forum always grapple with the parallels. The New Cold War, as well as the experiences of underlined Qatar leadership’s Generations of served a dual York Times, for example, reported on Afro-German, Turkish, and other commitment in investing in edu- engaged African purpose: Attorney General Robert Kennedy’s people of colour on both sides of the cation, knowledge, and resources American artists They chal- trip to divided Berlin in February 1962, Wall. for all segments of society in the and activists lenge easy a year before his brother’s visit to the By valuing their experiences, we country and beyond. narratives of city. Kennedy outlined how West and gain additional insights into post-Hol- “Through the Forum, “Through the Forum, young approached the a “right” or East Berlin configured into an aspira- ocaust Jewish trauma, the German young people people have applied their per- Berlin Wall as a site “wrong” side tional landscape of American student movement and other radical have applied their spectives, their experiences, and to think through, of history and democracy with a caveat: “For a political collectivities, global sites of perspectives, their their passion to some of the most over, and pivot shed light on hundred years, despite our protesta- apartheid, and, eventually, German important topics affecting and the founding tions of equality, we had, as you know, reunification in the face of a new- experiences, and towards other their passion to influencing our world today - paradox of a wall of our own - a wall of segre- world, post-Soviet order. topics through which the boundaries of American gation erected against Negroes. That Whether in the city as an expa- some of the most common thread of education freedom. freedom and wall is coming down.” triate or a visitor through networks of important topics runs,” said Mayan Zebeib, Chief racism. African American cultural figures official and unofficial cultural affecting and Communications Officer, Qatar In an era contemplated the dynamics of geopo- diplomacy, being on the ground in influencing our Foundation. of urgent debate and action about our litical division and sometimes chal- divided Berlin offered a close-up view world today - topics From broadening the vision own border walls and monuments, lenged existing power structures in the of the Wall’s complex geopolitics. The through which the of the youth to the importance of these narratives urge us to see border West. In 1964, on a state visit to West US did not build the Wall. But the con- sustainability and other global crises as arbitrarily constructed and Berlin, Dr Martin Luther King passed struction of a fortified border in common thread of concerns to steering them away that the walls we use to contain them through the border from West to East divided Berlin by East Germany not education runs,” said from radicalization and other will inevitably fall. Berlin to preach at the Marienkirche. only bisected the city but also ran Mayan Zebeib, Chief dangers through the virtues of In the autumn of 1961, within days US officials had confiscated his within footsteps of its occupied Communications education, the Forum put spot- of the Wall’s construction, public passport, so he used his American American sector and (symbolically, if Officer, Qatar light on an ideal way of speeches from prominent black Amer- Express Card. not politically) US soil. Foundation. addressing global issues. icans, such as State Department When jazz legend Louis “Satchmo” Generations of engaged African The Forum also highlighted official Carl Rowan and NAACP pres- Armstrong played a 1965 concert in American artists and activists the role of local, regional and ident Roy Wilkins, related civil rights East Berlin’s Friedrichstadt Plaza, he approached the Berlin Wall as a site to international forums, conferences, and institutions in bringing struggles to the construction of the managed to cross the border to West think through, over, and pivot towards about real global changes. Reiterating Qatar’s commitment Berlin Wall. African American Berlin without proper credentials after other boundaries of freedom. on global issues, Minister of Culture and Sports, H E Salah bin Ghanem Al Ali, said, at the forum, “The beginning must be from ourselves, If we want to change the world, let us start by ourselves,” adding that the real change in the major percep- Pressure grows on Britain to return its last African colony tions of societies starts from self and changes from within. He pointed out that the great transformations throughout history PAULINE BAX protected marine reserve in 2010. Only a rapidly as possible.” began from people and did not start from institutions, as many BLOOMBERG few people are allowed to visit briefly Then, in May, the UN General institutions were standing in the way of this real change, citing each year, and they can’t stay overnight. Assembly affirmed the ruling by an over- the example of the prophets, reformers, and revolutionaries rom a one-story house with “My mother died here, without ever whelming majority, with 116 member in various eras and societies. mustard-colored walls off a bus- having been back to her home,” Bancoult states voting in favor of a resolution The event is a precursor to the annual Doha Forum, an tling road in Mauritius, Olivier said in an interview. “I won’t let that setting a six-month deadline for the UK immersive two-day forum that will gather global leaders Bancoult is defying the UK by happen to me.” to withdraw. Only six members rejected F the proposal -- the U.S., Hungary, Israel for constructive dialogue, on December 14 and 15 this year. plotting a return to the tiny tropical At a time when politicians in Britain island where he was born. are evoking its imperial past as the UK and Australia among them. The deadline A 55-year-old native of the remote prepares to quit the European Union, the expires on Nov. 22. Chagos Islands in the Indian Ocean, Ban- country is under international pressure “A UN General Assembly resolution coult heads a group of mostly elderly to give up its last African colony, a sign of doesn’t mean you have to comply, but women who, like him, were expelled its diminished global importance when obviously it’s very embarrassing for QUOTE OF THE DAY shortly after Britain bought the archi- only 80 years ago it held sway over them,” said David Brewster, a senior pelago from its then-colony Mauritius in almost a quarter of the world’s research fellow at the National Security It would be a mistake 1965. His campaign has taken him to population. College in Canberra, Australia. “That’s London and the United Nations and “What Britain is facing today is what happens when you alienate your if we undermined secured him a meeting with Pope Francis. having to confront its colonial past, allies.” Nato. Without As a young boy, Bancoult and the whether it’s Chagos or Northern Ireland,” At the end of his September visit to the United States, other roughly 2,000 inhabitants of said Philippe Sands, a London-based Mauritius, Pope Francis chided the UK, Chagos were deported to the UK, Mau- lawyer who serves as Counsel for Mau- saying it needs to respect the wishes of neither Germany nor ritius and Seychelles. The new owners ritius. “It’s the story of its empire coming international institutions. Europe will be able then gassed the residents’ pets, closed the back to haunt it.” But things are unlikely to change to effectively protect coconut plantations and allowed the U.S. In February, the International Court overnight. themselves. to build a military base on the biggest of Justice ruled the 1965 excision of the The UK argues it can’t give up the island of Diego Garcia. With the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius Chagos Islands for security reasons. It exception of the air force base seen as unlawful because it wasn’t based on the doesn’t recognize Mauritius’s claim over Heiko Maas crucial for U.S. operations in the Middle free will of the people concerned. In an what it calls the British Indian Ocean German Foreign Minister East and Afghanistan, the UK has kept advisory opinion, the court stated that Island Territory, or BIOT, a spokesperson the islands free of inhabitants by the UK has an obligation to end its for the UK’s Foreign & Commonwealth declaring an area the size of France a administration of the archipelago “as Office said in an email. MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2019 HOME 09 Accessible Qatar delivers accessibility awareness training to NMoQ staff

THE PENINSULA The workshop together to make the museum DOHA more accessible to people with provided insights disabilities. NMoQ places people Continuing to promote about international at the heart of the museum’s awareness about accessibility, best practices, vision and development offering Sasol, the international inte- different models of multi-layered thematic exhibits, grated chemicals and energy interactive storytelling, and tours company, under its Accessible disability, including designed for people of all abil- Qatar initiative, delivered Acces- invisible disabilities ities to ensure that the heritage sibility Awareness Training to the such as autism and of Qatar is accessible to as many staff at the National Museum of Sensory Processing people as possible. Qatar (NMoQ) on November 5. Sahar Saad, Assistant Curator The one-day workshop Disorder, in addition at NMoQ, said: “We appreciate involved practical advice and to discussing the the help and support that Acces- information about how to assist barriers that prevent sible Qatar and Sensory Souk disabled guests and visitors. inclusion to people have given our staff and guides. Jennifer Stirling, Sasol’s This knowledge and insight will Accessibility Consultant led the with disabilities. empower them with the skills workshop to enable NMoQ staff needed to offer visitors of dif- The participants of the Accessibility Awareness Training at National Museum of Qatar. understand the key accessibility people with disabilities. ferent abilities an engaging expe- awareness that should be During the session, a special rience. We strive to be an acces- addressed when around disabled workshop on autism and related with real-life scenarios and chal- Public Affairs at Sasol said: It is highly commendable that the sible museum, offering assistive people. disorders was facilitated by lenges involving guests with dif- “Accessible Qatar aspires to build National Museum of Qatar is technology, multi-sensory fea- The workshop provided Raana Smith and Alison Saraf, ferent disabilities. The museum an inclusive society where dis- desirous to provide this training tures, and mobility aids that insights about international best cofounders of Sensory Souk, a representatives had to come up abled people can explore and to its staff in order to better serve ensure all visitors can interact practices, different models of locally-based company. The with practical solutions that enjoy more of Qatar without any the disabled community in with the history and culture of disability, including invisible dis- workshop aimed to develop a would assist these guests and limits. The training workshops Qatar.” Qatar. This continuous learning abilities such as autism and deeper understanding of this allow them to have a full and fun that we hold help promote the Earlier this year, Accessible and development further Sensory Processing Disorder, in form of disability. experience at the NMoQ. culture of inclusion and acces- Qatar conducted a physical enhance the museum’s respon- addition to discussing the bar- The workshop also included Commenting on the sibility and show its importance accessibility audit at the National siveness to all members of riers that prevent inclusion to interactive break-out sessions workshop, Jack Saba, GM of and benefits for the entire nation. Museum of Qatar and worked Qatar’s community.”

Embassy of HMC performs 65 life-saving stem cell transplants India, ICC to THE PENINSULA therapy and often the only hope conditioning regimen that specialized transplant expertise is DOHA for a cure, or for extending the life included intensive treatment with required for these advanced ther- hold community of a patient with blood cancer. The chemotherapy, or a combination apies and a total of 65 transplants festival An interdisciplinary team from procedure replaces disordered of chemotherapy and radiation with excellent outcomes is a sig- Hamad Medical Corporation’s bone marrow with healthy bone therapy, to destroy as many dis- nificant achievement. HMC is on (HMC) Bone Marrow Transplant marrow stem cells and is used to ordered cells as possible. They also par with other stem cell transplant THE PENINSULA Unit at the National Center for eliminate cancer or defective stem underwent a systematic evalu- centers across the world in terms DOHA Cancer Care and Research cells and restore a patient’s blood ation to determine their eligibility of our success rates,” said Dr (NCCCR) has successfully and immune systems,” added Dr for the stem cell transplant Gaziev. Embassy of India and Indian performed 53 autologous stem cell Gaziev. treatment. “Bone marrow transplantation Cultural Centre (ICC) are set to transplants since 2015 and 12 allo- Allogeneic stem cell trans- Dr Gaziev said a stem cell is highly specialized medicine and conduct ‘Passage To India’, an geneic blood stem cell transplants plantation involves the transfer of transplantation is a long and com- is one of the great advances in care Indian Community Festival at since 2017. stem cells from a genetically plicated process and that due to at NCCCR and HMC, as mandated MIA Park. Dr Javid Gaziev (pictured), similar healthy person (known as the time it takes to rebuild the by the National Cancer Strategy In line with the Qatar Head of the Bone Marrow Trans- transplant is a type of bone the donor), to a patient (known as immune system after a transplant, since 2011. Interdisciplinary expert India Year of Culture 2019, plant Program at NCCCR, said the marrow transplantation (BMT) – the recipient) following high- each patient requires several teams of transplant physicians, Embassy of India and Indian success of the transplant programs often called a stem cell or hemat- intensity chemotherapy or radi- months of close expert monitoring transplant nurses, transfusion Cultural Centre will be con- is an important milestone for HMC opoietic (meaning ‘blood- ation. It is used to eliminate cancer to help prevent complications. medicine, laboratory medicine, ducting the mega event, and the country and he notes that forming’) stem cell transplantation and restore a patient’s blood and “Stem cell transplant therapy and stem cell processing labo- ‘Indian Community Festival’ HMC’s Bone Marrow Transplant – and is the treatment of choice immune systems. An autologous is a life-saving treatment for many ratory professionals have invested under the theme ‘Passage to Program is comparable with some for many blood diseases, both transplant uses a person’s own patients with blood cancers and years of developmental work to India’ from December 12, said of the world’s leading programs malignant and non-malignant,” stem cells. some inherited benign blood dis- establish our cutting-edge blood a release. in terms of success rates. said Dr Gaziev. Each of the 12 allogeneic orders, like sickle cell disease and and marrow stem cell transplant Hemant Kumar Dwivedi, “An allogeneic stem cell “A BMT is a highly effective transplant patients underwent a thalassemia. Many years of service,” added Dr Gaziev. First Secretary (Culture & Education) at Embassy of India met Salem Abdulla Al InterContinental Aswad, Deputy Director Gulf CMS receives Learning and Outreach & Doha Open to Sarah Tose, Head of Aca- demic Programs for Museum be held on of Islamic Art and agreed to November 15-16 ISO certification organise the three day Indian Community Festival at Doha Golf Club THE PENINSULA Chairman Hassan Al Naimi ‘Passage To India’, as an DOHA said: “Gulf CMS is the first opening to the month long THE PENINSULA/DOHA company who started ‘India Market’ Event to com- Gulf CMS (Container Maintenance and introduced Container mence from December 12, The 18th InterContinental Doha Services) a Qatari owned Maintenance Services 2019. Open in association with Brand company, the official Container activities in the State of The meeting was also Expression will be held on Maintenance Services contractor attended by Manikantan AP November 15 and 16 at Doha Golf for Mwani Qatar is proud to Qatar. We believe it is our (President), Seenu Pillai Club. The tournament will start inform its official accreditation of responsibility to improve (General Secretary) and in the early morning of ISO 9001, ISO14001 and ISO the standards of our Nirmala Shanmuga Pandian November 15. 45001 certification after an audit quality in services as well (Cultural Coordinator) of Indian The tournament attracts 200 conducted by the Intertek in July Cultural Centre. as health & safety within Gulf CMS officials with the certificate of accreditation. top class amateur field golfers 2019. The Scope of certification our environment.” Salem Abdulla Al Aswad, (100 couples) from the region covers Container Maintenance assured that this event will the competing in a two-day golfing and Storage handling by Gulf CMS. for their hard work and achieve- Gulf CMS Qatar is delighted to first of its kind with highest agenda played in Greensomes The Chairman, Hassan Al of our quality in services as well ments to date. operate from the State of Qatar, grade and will be an oppor- format over the Championship Naimi, said: “Gulf CMS is the first as health & safety within our The General Manager Dileep one of the fastest growing tunity to appreciate the long- Course at the exclusive Doha Golf company who started and intro- environment.” Pillai said that the new accredi- economy in the MENA region and time Indian residents of Qatar Club. The annual event, a high- duced Container Maintenance Al Naimi thanked the Ports tation for Gulf CMS will help the Gulf CMS is committed to the who have contributed to the light on Doha Golf Club’s Services activities in the State of Authority Mwani Qatar, for the company to be recognized not highest standards and quality of country’s growth. The entire schedule, also allowed the golfers Qatar. We believe it is our respon- opportunity to service the State of only in the region but services through continual event will supported by Sea- to have the opportunity to play sibility to improve the standards Qatar and to the Gulf CMS team internationally. improvement. shore group. on a world-class, Peter Har- Hemant Kumar said that radine-designed Championship the various features of the Golf Course. Passage to India namely “As part of our responsible Jumbo Electronics’ technicians win ‘Grand Master’ & colorful cultural programs business, we organise a charity from Qatar and different auction on the awarding night ‘Master’ titles at LG MEA Service Skill Olympiad States of India, Erection / where the collected funds will be Display of life size monument donated to two important organ- THE PENINSULA from other countries. Their skills of India (Al Zubara Fort, Taj izations: the first one ‘IHG Giving DOHA were put to the test across Mahal, Red Fort), stalls/outlets for Good’ to support victims of various parameters that showcasing various customs/ natural disasters worldwide and Every year LG organises a measured accuracy, speed and features/materials from dif- the second organization is ‘Qatar service Skill Olympiad for the quality in completing the task at ferent states in India and food Cancer Society’ the society is one Middle East and Africa region hand. outlets, by licensed Indian of the leading humanitarian where top technicians from each Video Home & Electronic vendors, providing various organizations in Qatar which country are invited to partic- Center with one of the largest Indian delicacies from dif- pledges to work towards ipate in a skill competition that service centres in Qatar regu- ferent States of India, to the increasing public awareness about tests their technical knowledge larly undertakes training work- visitors. cancer and cancer prevention”, and skills of LG products. shops and skill upgradation pro- Manikantan said that said Andreas Pfister, Director of Two technicians from grams for its technicians and Indian Cultural Centre had Operations IHG Northern Gulf and Jumbo, Mohamed Zubair, who also participates in similar com- conducted the Indian Com- General Manager at InterConti- specializes in Residential Air petitions in the region organised munity Festival during 2012, nental Doha. He said that IHG is Conditioners and Khaleel Kalam by various brands. 2013, 2014 and 2016, the latest committed to the development who specializes in Information These trainings equip the one with the theme ‘Passage of sports in Qatar, we have dem- Display products won the ‘Grand service technicians with the to India’. Previous experiences onstrated this over the years by Master’ & ‘Master’ titles respec- latest technical knowhow have shown up to 10,000 vis- organising and sponsoring many tively at the 9th LG MEA Service which enables them to address itors to this event each day sporting events and competitions Skill Olympiad after fiercely any product complaint and we expect the same this in our host community Doha. Mohamed Zubair, receiving the Grand Master Award. competing amongst their peers promptly. year. 10 MIDDLE EAST MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2019 Turkey marks 81st death Former FBI agent still anniversary of Ataturk missing: Iran ANATOLIA important values of the nation. ANKARA Erdogan also said the Justice and REUTERS Development (AK) Party and the govern- TEHRAN The Turkish president commemorated ments under his presidency made “the yesterday the 81st anniversary of the greatest contribution” to the Republic. Iran’s Foreign Ministry said demise of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, the Those who wanted “to drown Turkey yesterday that the whereabouts founder of the Republic of Turkey. in blood and fire” by using the terrorist of former FBI agent Robert “Today is the 81st anniversary of organisations have not succeeded, he Levinson, missing since visiting demise of commander-in-chief of the War added. Iran’s Kish Island in 2007, of Independence, our first president and The president said there were also remain unknown, and it denied founder of the republic, Veteran Mustafa those who wanted to make Turkey return a report that Tehran had Kemal Ataturk. “to the old days” through a trap of opened a criminal case against “Therefore, I would like to express my “exchange rate, interest rate and inflation him. gratitude to Veteran Mustafa Kemal and triangle”. Within a short period of time, Levinson disappeared while all our heroes, veterans and martyrs who Turkey spoiled their game, taking nec- on a trip to the island in the have reached the heavens,” Recep Tayyip essary precautions and putting the Gulf. Iranian officials have Erdogan said at the Bestepe National Con- economy back on track, he said. repeatedly denied knowledge gress and Culture Center in the capital Erdogan said Turkey has also created of his disappearance or of his Ankara. the basis for the return of the Syrians in whereabouts. Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan makes a speech at the commemoration Erdogan stressed that the Turkish areas it cleared of terrorists, adding: “As “Levinson has a judicial ceremony to mark the 81st death anniversary of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder history should be taken in context of thou- of now, 365,000 Syrians have returned case in our country as he is sands of years of continuity, not in a to their homes and lands.” He stressed of the Republic of Turkey, at the Presidential Complex in Ankara, Turkey, yesterday. missing... This is based on century. Turkey would make the return of the humanitarian issues,” Foreign “In our opinion, those who try to Syrians to their homes and territories pos- legacy that we inherited from the Ottoman disappear into the infinite darkness, the Ministry spokesman Abbas ignore our entire history to glorify the sible either by organising an international Empire,” he said. same is true for societies,” he said. Mousavi said in remarks carried republic are ashamed of their own past,” donors meeting or through some model Turkish president added that the So far, no one has succeeded in on state television. he said. projects. republic was built on the existing admin- removing Turkish nation from its “history Mousavi was commenting Ataturk launched the War of Inde- Erdogan said the Turkish republic was istrative system taken over from the orbit,” he added. “Our task is to turn the on a Western media report that pendence a century ago, and opened a founded and grew on the “roots” of the Ottoman Empire. “Our history is our orbit. strengths of our ancestors into a light that Iran had told the United Nations new horizon for the Turkish nation, he Ottoman Empire. Just as a celestial body detached from orbit illuminates our own future,” Erdogan that Levinson was the subject said, adding that Ataturk is one of the most “We established our republic on the is doomed to get lost and possibly stressed. of an ongoing criminal case. In 2016, during President Barack Obama’s adminis- tration, senior US officials said Iran begins work they believed Levinson had died in captivity. But in January, a State Department spokesman said that was inaccurate and on second nuclear called on Iran to locate Lev- inson and return him home to his family. power reactor Tensions between Iran and the United States have risen sig- AP The planned reactor nificantly since US President BUSHEHR, IRAN will add over 1,000 Donald Trump withdrew from an international nuclear deal Iran began pouring concrete megawatts to Iran’s with Tehran last year and reim- yesterday for a second nuclear power grid, and is posed US sanctions that had reactor at its Bushehr power being built with the been lifted after the 2015 plant, a facility Tehran points to accord. as its reason to break the help of Russia. Several Americans have enrichment limit set by its unrav- been detained in Iran in recent elling 2015 nuclear deal with United Nations’ International years, and Trump warned in world powers. Atomic Energy Agency. However, 2017 that Tehran would face While celebrating the start Iran began 4.5% enrichment in “new and serious conse- of construction, the politics of the part to supply Bushehr despite quences” unless all unjustly moment weren’t lost on Iranian the deal limiting it to 3.67%. held US citizens were freed. officials as a US pressure cam- While that’s still nowhere Construction workers gather at the site of a second reactor in Iran’s Bushehr nuclear power plant, paign of sanctions blocks Tehran near weapons-grade levels of during an official ceremony to begin works at the facility, in Bushehr yesterday. from selling its crude oil abroad. 90%, nonproliferation experts Those sanctions took effect after warn Iran’s growing stockpile Bomb explodes President Donald Trump unilat- and increasing enrichment will into the prepared base of the “The security of this power Israel over allegations of nuclear erally withdrew America from begin to shave off time from the second reactor yesterday as jour- plant has been provided by the material being discovered at an in southeast the accord in May 2018, lighting estimated year Tehran would nalists watched in Bushehr, some armed forces and its safety has undeclared site outside of the fuse for the current tensions need to gather enough material 700km (440 miles) south from been endorsed by international Tehran. of Syrian now gripping the region. for an atomic bomb. Tehran. Bushehr’s working institutions,” he said. An IAEA meeting last week “It was not us who started Iran long has maintained its reactor stood behind it. That appeared to be in appeared to include discussions town, 8 dead breaking commitments, it was programme is for peaceful pur- Officials say the new reactor, response to concerns that over what Israeli Prime Minister them who did not keep to their poses, though the deal was and a third planned to be built, Bushehr was a risk to the wider Benjamin Netanyahu described REUTERS commitments and cannot accept designed to limit its enrichment will each add over 1,000 mega- region over earthquakes that in a United Nations speech in ISTANBUL the nuclear deal as a one-way programme in exchange for the watts to Iran’s power grid. It is routinely hit Iran. The facility 2018 as a “secret atomic roadmap,” said Ali Akbar Salehi, lifting of international sanctions. being built with the help of withstood earthquakes in the warehouse”. Eight people were killed the head of the Atomic Energy Those limits blocked its path to Russia, which helped finally put past and is built to resist damage “The Zionist regime and when a bomb exploded Organisation of Iran. being able to have enough Bushehr’s first reactor online in from a temblor. others are trying to re-open this yesterday in an area of Bushehr is fuelled by material for a bomb. 2011 after decades of delays. Meanwhile, Iran’s Foreign case. We don’t accept this and northeast Syria controlled by uranium produced in Russia, not Trucks with spinning con- Salehi, speaking to reporters, Ministry spokesman yesterday we condemn these efforts,” the Turkish troops and their Iran, and is monitored by the crete mixers poured their slurry praised the plant’s operations. rejected claims by the US and spokesman said. Syrian rebel allies, Turkey’s defence ministry and local emergency workers said. The ministry said the Jordan retakes lands leased by Israel in 1994 peace accord bombing, which it blamed on the Kurdish YPG militia, took AP Hebrew as Tsofar. They also said Baqura and Ghamr were place southeast of the Syrian AMMAN, JORDAN that Jordan would respect private leased to Jewish farmers early town of Tel Abyad which land ownership rights at Baqura, last century. Turkey captured in a military Jordan’s king announced or Naharayim in Hebrew. They became part of Jordan offensive that began one month yesterday that his country is But Jordan’s Foreign Ministry after the kingdom gained inde- ago. retaking “full sovereignty” over said farmers would require a visa pendence in 1946. Baqura, in the Turkey halted its military two pieces of land leased by and have to enter through the northern Jordan Valley, was cap- advance when it struck deals Israel, reflecting the cool rela- country through official border tured by Israel in 1950. Ghamr, with the United States and tions between the neighbouring crossings, instead of the former near the city of Aqaba in Russia calling for the YPG to be countries as they mark the 25th system in which they could southern Jordan, was seized in moved at least 30 km (20 miles) anniversary of their landmark simply enter the areas freely. the 1967 Mideast War. away from Syria’s border with peace deal. “Israel regrets Jordan’s Those leases were incorpo- Turkey. King Abdullah II had said last decision to terminate the rated into the October 26, 1994, The village of Suluk, where year that he wouldn’t renew the annexes,” the Israeli Foreign peace deal as symbols of peace the explosion took place yes- parts of the 1994 treaty that gave Ministry said. and friendship. terday, is around 10 km south Israel a 25-year lease of the two The announcement marked Baqura’s spot on the Jordan of the border. A small truck small areas, Baqura and Ghamr. a new blow to relations that, River had made it a popular exploded outside a bakery Even amid mistrust and a after the treaty, began with great tourist site for Israelis and there, an emergency worker looming deadline, Israel was optimism but have steadily dete- included a small park and picnic said. hoping a solution could be found. riorated. Jordan’s agreement is area as well as an “island of Turkish soldiers and Syrian But in a speech to par- only the second peace deal peace” in Jordanian territory that rebel fighters launched the liament, the king appeared to put between Israel and an Arab Israelis can visit. incursion to clear the border A picture taken from the Israeli side of the border shows Jordanian an end to that. country, following Egypt. But the site also has a painful region of the YPG, which soldiers raising the national flag ahead of a ceremony at the Jordan “Today, I announce the expi- The accord remains a vital history. In 1997, a Jordanian Ankara has designated a ter- ration of the Peace Treaty strategic asset for both countries, Valley site of Naharayim, also known as Baqura in Jordan, yesterday. soldier opened fire at an Israeli rorist group because of its ties annexes on Ghamr and al- which maintain tight security crowd, killing seven schoolgirls to Kurdish militants waging an Baqura and the imposition of our cooperation and joint economic the population are believed to of two Jordanians for suspected on a class trip. insurgency in southeast Turkey. full sovereignty over every inch projects. But Israel’s occupation be Palestinian refugees or their security offenses. The late King Hussein visited The Turkish president has of those lands,” he said. of the West Bank and its policies descendants, public opinion has They were released last week Israel shortly after the attack to said both Moscow and Wash- The Israeli and Jordanian in east Jerusalem, where Jordan remained largely against nor- after being held for two months. personally apologise to the fam- ington have failed to meet their foreign ministries announced has custodial rights over Muslim malised relations with Israel. They were detained while ilies of the victims. The king commitments under last that Israeli farmers would be holy sites, have repeatedly raised Just two weeks ago, Jordan entering the West Bank from remains a beloved figure in Israel month’s agreements for the allowed to harvest this season’s tensions over the years. recalled its ambassador to Israel Jordan through an Israeli-con- for what was seen as a coura- YPG to withdraw from the crops in Ghamr, known in In Jordan, where over half in protest against the detention trolled crossing. geous act. border. MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2019 MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA 11

Tunisia party Amnesty calls for urgent end to unrest in Iraq wants leader AP Since the unrest began BAGHDAD last month, more than to be House 260 protesters have Iraqi security forces put up Speaker concrete barriers in central died as the security Baghdad yesterday, trying to forces have used live AFP hamper and block protesters’ ammunition, rubber TUNIS movements a day after forcefully clearing three flashpoint bridges bullets and tear gas in Tunisia’s Ennahdha party, in a security operation that killed an effort to quell the which last month came top in six anti-government protesters protests. legislative polls, put forward its and left more than 100 wounded. leader Rached Ghannouchi Since the unrest began last yesterday to head the next month, more than 260 protesters social media sites several times parliament. have been killed by security amid the demonstrations. Ennahdha, which won 52 forces who have used live The leaderless, economically out of 217 seats in October’s ammunition, rubber bullets and driven protests are targeting parliamentary election — well tear gas in an effort to quell the Iraq’s entire political class and short of the 109 needed to protests. calling for the overhaul of the govern — also insisted that the Amnesty International called sectarian system established new prime minister of Tunisia it a “bloodbath” and said Iraqi after the 2003 US-led invasion. should be selected from the authorities should immediately More immediately, they are party. rein in security forces. calling for the resignation of Ghannouchi, a veteran “The government of Iraq has Prime Minister Adel Abdul- leader of Ennahdha, was pro- a duty to protect its people’s right Mahdi’s government, who has posed as candidate for speaker to life, as well as to gather and held the post for just over a year. of parliament by the party’s express their views. This He has refused to step down. Shura Council, according to bloodbath must stop now, and “All government promises of council chief Abdelkarim Demonstrators take part during the ongoing anti-government protests in Baghdad, Iraq, yesterday. those responsible for it must be reforms or investigations ring Harouni. brought to justice,” said Heba hollow while security forces con- Ghannouchi has led Morayef, Amnesty International’s tinue to shoot and kill pro- Nasiriyah, security and medical nymity in line with regulations. with regulations. Ennahdha since it was founded Middle East and North Africa testers,” Morayef added. officials said 31 people were On Saturday, Iraqi security The deaths occurred as the almost 40 years ago, carrying Director. Security forces closed roads injured in confrontations outside forces killed six anti-government protests intensified in the the movement to victory in a The widening security near the Khilani Square with the education directorate as protesters and wounded more afternoon, when demonstrators 2011 election, just months after crackdown reflects government one-meter high concrete barriers security forces tear-gassed pro- than 100 others, pushing them tried to reach the three bridges the party reemerged from intransigence and narrowing yesterday, trying to block pro- testers trying to block employees back from three flashpoint spanning the Tigris River to the underground following the rev- options for protesters who have testers from reaching Baghdad’s from reaching the building in the bridges in central Baghdad, heavily fortified Green Zone, the olution that ousted autocrat been on the streets of Baghdad landmark Tahrir Square, the epi- city centre. medical and security officials seat of government. Zine El Abidine Ben Ali. and the southern cities for centre of the protests, and the Among those wounded were said. Protesters have tried to force He has never run for office weeks. Authorities shut down Sanak bridge. two school students, they said, The Iraqi officials spoke on their way across on an almost but won a parliamentary seat Internet access and blocked In the southern city of speaking on condition of ano- condition of anonymity in line daily basis. in Tunis in the October 6 legis- lative polls. Harouni yesterday reit- Guinea erated that Ennahdha wants DR Congo army says Hutu militia leader dead one of its own figures to head parliament the new government in the REUTERS and military pressure from Dem- in a row over ranks and money its mountain gorillas in which North African country. elections on KINSHASA ocratic Republic of Congo’s in 2007, said Christoph Vogel, a eight people died. The party has until Friday armed forces, the FARDC, and researcher at the conflict “This is an act of justice,” he to announce its candidate for February 16 Congolese forces have killed the other militias. The army “neu- research programme hosted by told Reuters by telephone. the premiership. leader of an offshoot of a Hutu tralised another radical leader the London School of Economics “This is the confirmation of Ennahdha has been holding AFP militia in the restive east of the of the FDLR on Saturday the and Ghent University. the resolve of (Congolese) Pres- negotiations with other political CONAKRY country, the army said yesterday, ninth of November at 14:00,” “Compared with ident Félix Tshisekedi and the groups to form a new gov- two months after killing the said Guillaume Njike, a Con- Mudacumura, (Musabimana) is FARDC to eradicate armed ernment. But Harouni said Guinea’s electoral commission leader of the main faction. golese army spokesman. a small fish so I doubt this is as groups and terrorist organisa- “certain parties want to deprive has announced a long-delayed Juvenal Musabimana led a Musabimana, who was also significant, but it shows that dif- tions in eastern Congo. We thank the winner of the legislative parliamentary election will be splinter group of the Democratic known by his nom de guerre ferent actors seem to be con- them for that.” election” from heading the held in February next year, with Forces for the Liberation of Jean-Michel Africa, was killed verging on a more coordinated The FDLR has also been a cabinet. Tunisia’s new par- tensions high after deadly Rwanda (FDLR), a group founded alongside four of his bodyguards push against FDLR and anything source of friction between liament is expected to hold its clashes during opposition by Hutu officials who fled following an intense firefight in they define as such.” Rwanda and Uganda in the last first full session on Wednesday. protests. Rwanda after orchestrating the Binza, North Kivu, near the Rwanda’s foreign affairs year. Rwanda accused Uganda The legislative polls were The poor West African 1994 genocide. Ugandan border, Njike added. minister Olivier Nduhungirehe in March of supporting the FDLR held between the first and nation has been shaken by vio- His killing is the latest blow Congolese forces killed the said Musabimana’s fighters were and another Congo-based rebel second round of Tunisia’s pres- lence during weeks of demon- to the FDLR, which has been leader of the main branch of the responsible for a deadly cross- group opposed to the Rwandan idential election which was strations over opposition sus- weakened in recent years by FDLR, Sylvestre Mudacumura, border attack in October in a government. Uganda denied the won by political outsider Kais picions that President Alpha arrests of several of its leaders on September 18. The group split mountainous region famous for allegations. Saied, an academic. Conde is seeking to prolong his rule. The head of the country’s Two Ugandans die in Rwanda electoral commission, Amadou Salif Kebe, said in a statement amid border tensions on Saturday that a parlia- mentary election would go AP Rwanda for burial. ahead on February 16, 2020. KAMPALA, UGANDA The political tension But uncertainty remained between the two countries cli- over whether the poll would go Uganda’s police said yesterday maxed in February when ahead on that date after pre- that two Ugandans had been Rwanda closed its border and vious delays and lingering con- killed by Rwandan security blocked all goods from cerns over the electoral roll. forces in an incident that may Uganda. In September the com- escalate the border tension As a result of the closed mission head had proposed the between the two East African border, communities near the parliamentary vote be held on countries. border have resorted to December 28, a date the oppo- Elly Maate, police smuggling. sition condemned as unrealistic spokesman of Uganda’s Kigezi Last week, one Rwandan and in the interest of Conde region, which borders was killed and another injured seeking a constitutionally- Rwanda, said the victims had by the Rwandan police after banned third term in office next smuggled tobacco to Rwanda. they crossed the border to buy year. “These two Ugandans food in Uganda. The International Organi- were shot dead on November Maate warned Ugandans sation of Francophonie, which 9th at around 20:00 hours at to stop using unofficial border is helping implement recom- Tabagwe village in Nyagatare points to enter Rwanda. mendations for auditing the district in Rwanda by “I want to caution our electoral roll, said the Rwandan security forces on people along the border to December 28 date needed “to allegations that they were stop doing things that put their be reconsidered”. Lebanon protests continue smuggling tobacco into lives at risk by entering the The current parliament Rwanda,” said Maate. country through porous Lebanese demonstrators wave national flags during the continuing anti-government protests in the started its five-year term in He said Uganda’s border border points because our heart of Beirut, yesterday. Arabic slogan on fist in the background reads: “Revolution”. A nationwide January 2014 and an election security officials were working security forces can’t protect had been due in late 2018 or protest movement over poor services, economic woes and official corruption enters its fourth week. to repatriate the bodies from you,” he said. earlier this year. But the vote was delayed after heated debates between the government and opposition. Cameroon to hold parliamentary elections on February 9 In January Conde extended the current parliament’s term AFP The last parliamentary elec- challenging that result. Released which he announced the release he said. The main opposition indefinitely. DOUALA tions took place in 2013 for a in October, he has since tried of 333 detainees linked to the party in parliament is still the The electorial commission mandate of five years, but Pres- three times to hold marches, but separatist crisis. Social Democratic Front (SDF), said on Saturday it had unani- Cameroon’s presidency ident Biya, who has ruled Cam- was denied permission each He also ordered the release even though its candidate in last mously approved the February announced yesterday that parlia- eroon for 37 years, has twice time. of 102 opposition activists year’s presidential election gar- date. Commission head Salif mentary elections will be held postponed fresh polls. The West African country arrested in 2018 during protests nered only 3.35 percent of the Kebe said a review of the elec- on February 9, in the latest sign Biya, 86, was re-elected last was for years considered rela- over his re-election. vote, coming in fourth. toral roll had begun and the that veteran ruler Paul Biya is year, but the result was contested tively stable, but it has been MRC general secretary Chris- The party was not immedi- results were “very seeking to end a long-running by his main opposition rival in shaken by a two-year-old sep- topher Ndong said the party ately willing to say whether it comforting”. political crisis. the vote, Maurice Kamto of the aratist uprising in the west as needed time to evaluate the would take part in next year’s Conde, 81, became Guinea’s Opposition parties reacted Movement for the Rebirth of well as attacks by the militant news of fresh elections before elections. Washington first democratically-elected cautiously to the presidential Cameroon (MRC). group Boko Haram in the north. responding. announced last month it was president in 2010, but critics say decree, with one spokesman The 65-year-old Kamto was Biya, under international “We have asked that certain stripping Cameroon of its pref- his rule has been marred by a urging a reform of the electoral jailed in January after his party pressure, held a national peace preconditions be met, such as the erential trade status because of growing crackdown on dissent. code before the vote. staged several peaceful marches dialogue last month during revision of the electoral code,” its poor rights record. 12 ASIA MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2019 BJP opts out of race to form Maharashtra govt, wishes Sena ‘the best’ IANS Congress in-charge state,” said Congress leader MUMBAI in Maharashtra Hussain Dalwai. In a reconciliation of sorts In a stunning political devel- Mallikarjun Kharge therefore and to pave the way opment, the Bharatiya Janata yesterday held a for a dialogue, the Shiv Sena, in Party yesterday conceded its meeting with the an editorial in its mouthpiece inability to form the government party’s 44 MLAs. Saamna, has said that the Con- in Maharashtra despite having gress is not an enemy of the the public mandate for its Sources said most state. pre-poll alliance. MLAs are not averse to All eyes, in the meantime, BJP State President Chan- the Congress offering are on NCP Chief Sharad Pawar, drakant Patil said that party’s who is meeting his party MLAs stand has been conveyed to Gov- conditional support on Tuesday. “We will take a call ernor BS Koshyari last evening to a Shiv Sena-led on the matter the same day,” said after a series of marathon government. NCP leader Nawab Malik. meetings of the party’s state core “If the BJP-Shiv Sena form Book chronicles Malabar Gold & Diamonds evolution committee since morning. government, we will sit in Oppo- “The Shiv Sena has insulted persons. sition. Otherwise we will explore Bollywood actor Anil Kapoor releases a coffee table book chronicling the journey of Malabar Gold the public mandate... If it is in a Congress in-charge in options for an alternate gov- & Diamonds into its current success. M P Ahammed, Chiarman – Malabar Group; Abdul Salam KP, position to form the government Maharashtra Mallikarjun Kharge ernment,” said Malik. Group Executive Director of Malabar Group, Prakash D’ Sooza, and Asher O, Managing Director - India along with the support of the yesterday held a meeting with Political activity gathered Operations, Malabar Gold & Diamonds, were also present. Congress-Nationalist Congress the party’s 44 MLAs, who are speed after Governor Koshyari Party, our best wishes are with lodged in a Jaipur resort, to find took the reins in his hands and them,” said Patil, who was out their views on the state’s late on Saturday invited the BJP flanked by his former minister current political situation. to indicate its willingness to form DMK to oppose changing basic colleagues like Ashish Shelar, The meeting was also the next government, barely four Sudhir Mungantiwar, Vinod attended by state Congress Chief hours before the tenure of the Tawde, Pankaja Munde and Balasahab Thorat and former state Assembly expired at structure of Constitution Girish Mahajan, at the brief chief ministers Ashok Chavan midnight. media interaction on the lawns and Prithviraj Chavan. Kharge Besides the 105 members, IANS states and districts and urged to in proportional representation; of Raj Bhavan. will now meet the Congress high the BJP had claimed the support CHENNAI drop any such move. allow states to enact laws under Outgoing Chief Minister command in Delhi to apprise it of several independents and The DMK President MK the Residuary Powers men- Devendra Fadnavis, who has of the feedback. smaller parties, though the exact The Dravida Munnetra Stalin moved this as a special tioned in the Constitution and confidently proclaimed till Sat- Sources said most MLAs are figures are not clear, and Kazhagam (DMK) yesterday said resolution taking the total the central government should urday that the BJP would form not averse to the Congress whether these would be suffi- it would not allow changing the number of resolutions to be not act like a big brother. the government, was con- offering conditional support to cient to achieve the simple basic structure of Constitution passed at the meeting to 21. The party demanded from spicuous by his absence. a Shiv Sena-led government in majority of 145 in the 288- and condemned the BJP-led The party said it is the idea the central government to Reacting to the development, the state. member assembly. central government for moving of Rashtriya Swayamsevak amend the Constitution without NCP’s national spokesperson But the party will only con- Earlier yesterday, Sena Pres- towards 200 ‘janpaths’, abol- Sangh (RSS) to dismantle the changing its basic structure. Nawab Malik said that there is no sider a dialogue with the Shiv ident Uddhav Thackeray met his ishing the existing states and existing governance structure The DMK also passed res- formal proposal from the Sena Sena after it announces leaving legislators, all secured in The district structure. and have single structure with olutions condemning the ruling on the government formation. the BJP-led National Democratic Retreat, a five-star hotel in The DMK in its General 200 ‘Janpaths’. Tamil Nadu government for “However, our national Alliance (NDA) and its lone min- Madh, Malad (north-west Council meeting held here citing The DMK also resolved that inaction on several counts; President will clear the party’s ister Arvind Sawant resigns from Mumbai) and boosted their reports, resolved that it would the Constitution should be extending support to the stand at our party legislators’ the Union Cabinet, sources said. morale by assuring that a Shiv oppose the central government’s amended so that all the 22 central government schemes meeting scheduled in Mumbai “Congress should explore all Sena CM would soon be plans to have 200 ‘Janpaths’ national languages should be and worsening of law and on Tuesday,” Malik told media the options available in the sworn-in. while abolishing the existing made official languages; bring order.

Cyclone: 7 dead, 2.73 lakh affected in Bengal Ayodhya verdict: Social IANS from Basirhat sub-division in Disaster Management Min- Food and Supplies Minister Jyo- KOLKATA North 24 Parganas district, while ister Javed Khan said 2.73 lakh tipriyo Mullick, as many as 3,100 media posts, celebrations South 24 Parganas and East Mid- people were affected, while 1.78 houses collapsed in the worst-hit Severe Cyclone Bulbul has taken napore districts recorded one lakh persons were sheltered in Basirhat sub-division alone. land dozens in jail a toll of seven lives in three West death each in the storm which 471 relief camps. Mullick, who toured the Bengal districts, and affected 2.73 crossed the Bengal coast close to The state government was Bulbul-hit areas in Basirhat yes- REUTERS Before Saturday’s verdict, lakh people, senior ministers Sundarban Dhanchi forest operating 373 group kitchens. terday, said the condition of LUCKNOW / AYODHYA the government deployed said yesterday. between 8.30pm and 11.30pm While Khan said 2,470 houses Sandeshkhali was “very bad”. thousands of members of par- Five deaths were reported on Saturday. were damaged, according to state “There has been massive Dozens of people in India have amilitary forces and police in damage to agricultural land. We been detained on suspicion of Ayodhya and other sensitive have to meet the crisis on a war publishing inflammatory social places. Hindu groups told footing,” he said. media posts and setting off members not to celebrate Briefing media persons in celebratory firecrackers after publicly. Kolkata, Khan said six teams of the Supreme Court ruled to give The court’s decision paves National Disaster Response a disputed religious site to the way for the construction Force and four State Disaster Hindus, police said yesterday. of a Hindu temple on the site, Response Force teams were car- The Supreme Court a proposal long supported by rying out rescue operations in awarded the bitterly contested Prime Minister Narendra the affected areas. site in the northern town of Modi’s ruling Hindu-nation- Meanwhile, Chief Minister Ayodhya to Hindus on alist party. Mamata Banerjee will make an Saturday. Hindus believe the site is aerial survey of the severe In 1992, a Hindu mob the birthplace of Ram and say cyclone-hit areas around Nam- destroyed the 16th-century the site was holy for Hindus khana and Bakkhali in South 24 Babri Masjid on the site, trig- long before the Mughals, Parganas district today, she gering riots in which about India’s most prominent Islamic announced on twitter. 2,000 people, most of them rulers, built the Babri Masjid Banerjee said due to the Muslims, were killed, but no there in 1528. storm, she has decided to major violence was reported The Supreme Court called postpone her trip to North after the court ruling on Sat- the 1992 demolition of the Bengal in the coming week. urday or yesterday. About 37 mosque illegal but handed the “Instead, tomorrow people were arrested and 12 plot of 2.77 acres, about the (Monday) I would make an aerial cases were registered in Uttar size of a soccer field, to a survey of the affected areas Pradesh, India’s most populous Hindu group. It directed that around Namkh ana and state and the site of the con- another plot of five acres in An aerial view of a destroyed house after cyclone Bulbul hit the area in Koyra, some 100km from Bakkhali,” the chief minister tested land, state police said. Ayodhya be provided to a Khulna in West Bengal, yesterday. posted on her twitter handle. At least one person was Muslim group that contested arrested in the state capital of the case. Lucknow for making “inap- Some legal scholars and propriate remarks” on social Muslim activists saw the Air pollution may drive upcoming Delhi polls media and using threatening judgement as unfair, particu- language. larly given that the 1992 razing IANS Authority (EPCA) had declared a control pollution. taken to prevent pollution in “Police are appealing to of the mosque was deemed NEW DELHI public health emergency in the Delhi Pradesh Congress Delhi, adding the “BJP gov- residents to not misuse social illegal. Delhi-NCR and had advised Committee President Subhash ernment at Centre should have media,” Kalanidhi Naithani, “Why has the 2.77 acres While the ruling Aam Aadmi people, especially children and the Chopra has blamed both the BJP also sprung into action to deal senior superintendent of police been gifted to the very ele- Party (AAP) was earlier confident aged, to limit their exposure to the at the Centre and the AAP in with the crisis.” in Lucknow, said late on ments who were party to that their work in the city in the environment. Delhi for the pollution. The Congress has already hit Saturday. this?,” Syeda Hameed, the areas of health and education While the AAP has blamed He said air pollution is a the streets and has started pro- In another part of the state, president of the Muslim would be the driving force in the the stubble burning in neigh- 365-day problem, which is tests against the BJP and the AAP at least seven men were Women’s Forum, wrote in the capital’s upcoming assembly bouring states for the high tox- becoming a major public health for air pollution. They held a arrested for setting off fire- Hindustan Times, referring to polls, with the Delhi air quality icity in the air, the opposition has emergency. demonstration outside the resi- crackers or creating distur- the mosque’s destruction. deteriorating sharply, however, blamed the ruling party for not “The time has come when we dence of Delhi Chief Minister bances while distributing Muslim leaders have called the opposition BJP and the taking concrete steps to control have to fix accountability for this Arvind Kejriwal as well, saying sweets in celebration, police for peace between majority Congress hope to make election the air pollution. kind of situation which has the severe pollution in Delhi is said. Hindus and Muslims, who con- capital out of the pollution issue. The Delhi unit of the Con- arisen and is destroying right to due to the inaction and failure of The Home Ministry did not stitute 14% of its 1.3 billion people. The air pollution in the city gress party is reminding the life itself,” he said. the AAP government and the BJP immediately respond to a Some seemed to have became so toxic after Diwali fet- people the steps taken by the Chopra also said that the AAP Government at the Centre and request for information on resigned themselves to the ivities that the Environmental Pol- previous Sheila Dikshit-led gov- should come clean and inform in the Municipal Corporations of arrests. decision. lution (Prevention and Control) ernment in her 15-year term to the people about the steps it has Delhi. MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2019 ASIA 13

Pakistan Navy US hails opening ship arrives in of Kartarpur Turkey for drill ANATOLIA Corridor ANKARA Pakistan Navy ship Alamgir INTERNEWS Sikhs expressed arrived in Turkey for a 12-day WASHINGTON their gratitude, multinational maritime exercise. The United States has welcomed saying Pakistan is In a statement, Pakistan the opening of the Kartarpur the only country Navy said the ship reached the Corridor for Indian Sikhs by where followers Aknaz Naval Base in the Aegean Pakistan, saying that it sees the Sea off Mugla’s coast on initiative as a positive example. of every religion Saturday. Prime Minister Imran Khan have complete It will participate in the on Saturday formally inaugu- freedom without any Dogu Akdeniz-19 (Eastern Med- rated the historic corridor for discrimination on the iterranean) drill which will run Indian Sikh pilgrims to Gurdwara through November 20, Capt. Darbar Sahib, situated in Kar- basis of colour, creed Muhammad Akram said. tarpur, the second holiest place and religion. The aim of the exercise is to Villagers gather on a road after Cyclone Bulbul hit the area in Bakkhali, yesterday. for the Sikh community, within operate in a multi-threat envi- Pakistani territory. Ortagus said. ronment while providing “The US welcomes the Sikhs from all over the world advance training opportunities opening of a new border crossing expressed their gratitude to Cyclone Bulbul: Six dead, to the participants, it added. between India and Pakistan, the Pakistan for opening the Kar- The naval forces of the US, Kartarpur Corridor,” US State tarpur Corridor, saying Pakistan Turkey, Pakistan, Canada, Bul- Department Spokesperson is the only country where fol- garia, Romania, Italy, Greece Morgan Ortagus said in a video lowers of every religion have 36 missing in Bangladesh and Spain are also participating posted on her official twitter complete freedom without any in the drill. “The ship will also handle over the weekend. discrimination on the basis of REUTERS 60-year old fisherman, had flooded. participate in Operation Med- “The newly opened corridor colour, creed and religion. DHAKA refused to evacuate. Wind speeds have now come iterranean Shield which is an is a step towards promoting These views were expressed Two fishing boats have not down to between 70 and 80 kph ongoing operation in East Med- greater religious freedom,” she by Sikh pilgrims coming to visit Cyclone Bulbul lashed Bang- yet returned and relatives have (43 to 50 mph), authorities said. iterranean Sea conducted said. The official also sent her Gurdwara Darbar Sahib in Kar- ladesh overnight, killing six been unable to contact the men “It may take couple of days jointly by various regional best wishes to the pilgrims tarpur for the 550th birth anni- people and leaving relatives in on board, said Anwar Uddin, a to get a normal situation,” Allied navies headed by Turkish crossing the border for the 550th versary of Baba Guru Nanak. a desperate search for 36 missing local public representative in the Enamur Rahman, junior minister Navy,” said the statement. birth anniversary of the founder When the yatrees saw the cor- fishermen, though prompt evac- southern Bhola district. for disaster management and Turkish navy vessels also of Sikhism Guru Nanak Dev. ridor, they got emotional and uations saved many lives and the No major damage was relief, told Reuters. participate in drills hosted by “It allows Indian Sikh pil- embraced each other. worst was over, officials said immediately reported in camps About 1,200 predominantly Pakistan. “Turkish Navy ships grims to visit Gurdwara Kar- The pilgrims from various yesterday. in southeast Bangladesh where domestic tourists were stuck at are actively participating in tarpur Sahib, an important Sikh countries, including India, Some 30 people were hundreds of thousands of ref- the Saint Martin island in the AMAN series of exercises hosted house of worship just inside the Canada, the US and UAE, per- injured and around 6,000 homes ugees from neighbouring Cox’s Bazar district, Rahman by Pakistan Navy,” the captain Pakistan border. This impressive formed their religious rites at the were partially or fully damaged, Myanmar are living. said. said. project will transform a remote gurdwara. They bowed their authorities said. Some 2 million people from “All of them will be rescued,” three-acre site across a sensitive heads before the samadhi of Five of the six victims were all of Bangladesh’s 13 coastal dis- he said. international boundary,” Ortagus Guru Nanak, sprinkled flower killed by falling trees, including tricts huddled in about 5,558 The cyclone season in the Turkey sets up said. “Congratulations to Pakistan petals, laid sheets and gifts. They a 52-year old woman who had shelters on Saturday night. Bay of Bengal can last from April on this initiative, and our best greeted each other on the spent the night in a shelter. She Outside, wind speeds rose to to December. In 1999, a super- water filtration wishes to the pilgrims making the opening of the corridor, danced returned home on Sunday and between 100 and 120 km per cyclone battered the coast of crossing for the 550th anni- to drumbeat and distributed was killed when a tree crashed hour (62 to 75 mph) and some India’s Odisha state for 30 hours, facilities in versary of Guru Nanak’s birth,” sweets among themselves. on her house. Another victim, a low-lying coastal areas were killing 10,000 people. Pakistan Sharif to be allowed to travel abroad for treatment ANATOLIA/KARACHI Turkey’s state aid agency has AFP suffered a minor heart attack last as doctors had said that medical League-Nawaz said the former infrastructure, but inherited set up four water filtration facil- ISLAMABAD month, his party said, while his treatment abroad was needed to leader would now likely fly to sagging finances and a stifling ities in Pakistan’s southern doctor claimed on Twitter that save his life. “The government London in the coming days. energy crisis when he was Sindh province to provide clean Pakistan will allow ailing former the ex-leader was “fighting for has given importance to the Sharif, known as the “Lion of elected for the third time in 2013. water to around one million prime minister Nawaz Sharif to his life”. doctors’ opinion,” Qureshi said Punjab”, is a political survivor He earned a reputation for people. travel abroad for urgent medical Sharif was bailed for health in the central city of Multan, days who has repeatedly roared back combativeness during his two The reverse osmosis water treatment, the country’s foreign reasons and remains at a hos- after Sharif’s relatives petitioned to the country’s top office, under- previous terms as prime min- filtration facilities have been set minister said yesterday. pital in the eastern city of Lahore, Pakistan’s interior ministry for scoring the unpredictable nature ister, from 1990 to 1993 — when up in the less developed areas Sharif, Pakistan’s longest- but a travel ban prevented him the travel ban to be lifted. of Pakistani politics. he was sacked, also on cor- of the port city of Karachi and serving premier, was ousted from leaving the country. “We pray to God for his A hugely wealthy steel ruption charges — and from 1997 Hyderabad in collaboration from his third term in office in Foreign minister Shah Mehmood recovery, so that he returns with tycoon from Punjab, Pakistan’s to 1999, when he was deposed with Al-Khidmat Foundation, 2017 and later jailed on cor- Qureshi said yesterday that a good health and take part in wealthiest province, the by the powerful military. Sharif the country’s one of the largest ruption charges. His health dete- “legal obstacles” to Sharif’s politics,” he added. A source in 69-year-old was considered blamed the security estab- non-governmental organiza- riorated while in prison and he departure were being removed Sharif’s Pakistan Muslim strong on the economy and lishment for targeting him. tions (NGO), said a statement by the Turkish Cooperation and Coordination Agency (TIKA). Outrage as Sri Lanka President Kamil Kolabas, advisor to Turkish minister of culture and pardons killer of Swedish teen tourism, and TIKA’s Karachi Coordinator Ibrahim Katirci on AFP Saturday inaugurated a water COLOMBO who was holidaying in Sri filtration facility in western Lanka, was beaten to death at a Orangi town of Karachi. Sri Lanka’s President has high-rise apartment in Colombo Kolabas, in his remarks at pardoned a death-row prisoner in 2005 after she and Jayamaha the inaugural ceremony, said who murdered a Swedish had an argument. that TIKA aimed to help provide teenager just a week before he The court had been told her clean and safe drinking water leaves office, officials said skull was fractured into 64 to the citizens of Oragni town yesterday, in a move that pieces. Jayamaha was initially through this project. sparked national outrage. sentenced to 12 years in prison. Also, he said, similar Convicted killer Jude He appealed to a higher court, projects were being launched Jayamaha, from a wealthy, high- which rejected his plea and in other parts of the country to profile family, walked out of instead sentenced him to death, help citizens have access to the Welikada prison on Saturday which was reaffirmed by the potable water. Katirci said the following the highly unusual Supreme Court in 2014. agency wanted to help Paki- amnesty granted by President Jonsson’s sister Caroline stanis in their fight against Maithripala Sirisena. wrote in a Facebook post about waterborne diseases through Sirisena, who is stepping her concerns over Jayamaha’s installation of reverse osmosis Afghanistan’s presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah (centre) arrives to attend a gathering with down after Saturday’s presi- pardon before the amnesty water filtration plants across his supporters in Kabul, Afghanistan, yesterday. dential election at which he is announcement. the country. Salem Azhar, the not a candidate, announced last “He showed and continues chief executive officer of Al- month he was considering a to show absolutely no remorse Khidmat Fountaion Karachi, for Call to halt Afghan election recount request to grant Jayamaha a for what he has done,” she his part, thanked the Turkish pardon. Victim Yvonne Jonsson, wrote. government and TIKA. AFP/KABUL Abdullah said at a rally of his supposed to stop people from supporters in Kabul. voting more than once. Afghanistan’s Chief Executive “A fraud-marred election But nearly a million of the Abdullah Abdullah called will not be accepted. The result initial votes were purged owing IS ‘defeated’ in key Afghan province: Official yesterday for a halt to a recount should be based on the clean to irregularities, meaning the AFP near the Pakistan border. In the operations against the jihadists. of the recent presidential votes of our people,” he added. election saw by far the lowest JALALABAD years since, they have claimed “We will soon destroy their election, saying he would not Abdullah, who unsuccess- turnout of any Afghan poll, with responsibility for a string of hor- last centres. With the people’s accept “fraud-marked” results. fully ran in the previous two only about 1.8 million votes from The Islamic State group’s Afghan rific bombings across Afghan- help, we will completely elim- The move adds a fresh layer presidential elections and is a total of 9.6 million registered branch has been “defeated” in istan, including at a wedding hall inate them. Some of their smaller of uncertainty following the Sep- fighting for his political future, voters in a population of around one of the key eastern provinces in Kabul, and have been contin- groups are surrendering, other tember 28 poll, which already has repeatedly raised questions 37 million people. Abdullah has where it first sought to establish ually attacked by US, Afghan and small groups will be eliminated has been marred by record-low about the validity of hundreds said problems remain with about a stronghold, a top Afghan even Taliban forces. in other provinces.” He went on turnout and continued bickering of thousands of votes. 300,000 of these high-tech security official said yesterday. IS “were defeated in Nan- to say that IS were being “com- between Abdullah and his rival, The election was meant to votes, claiming various issues The claim comes after the garhar, their centres were pletely defeated” in Afghanistan. President Ashraf Ghani. be the cleanest yet in Afghani- including that photos attached militants first burst into Afghan- destroyed”, acting interior min- US Forces-Afghanistan, which “The recounting should be stan’s young democracy, with a to some ballots had been taken istan’s conflict in 2015, when ister Massoud Andarabi said in closely monitors the IS footprint stopped. We are trying to save German firm supplying bio- from fake identity cards, and not they overran large parts of Nan- Jalalabad, the Nangarhar pro- in Afghanistan, declined to the process from fraudsters,” metric machines that were actual voters. garhar and Kunar provinces, vincial capital, amid ongoing comment. 14 ASIA MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2019 HK protesters vandalise subway station, storm mall AP A government statement Activists are demanding the HONG KONG resignation of the semi-auton- said one person who omous Chinese territory’s leader, Police fired tear gas and protesters was arrested at Kowloon Chief Executive Carrie Lam. broke windows at a shopping mall Tong escaped from The protests have added to yesterday in anti-government police due to clamour downward pressure on Hong demonstrations across Hong Kong Kong’s economy. It already was amid anger over a student activ- caused by protesters. struggling with declining global ist’s death and the arrest of pro- economic growth and the US- democracy lawmakers. Reporters saw police arrest three Chinese tariff war. Hong Kong is in the sixth men at a residential complex else- The territory of 7.5 million month of protests that began in where in Sha Tin but the reason people tumbled into its first June over a proposed extradition wasn’t clear. recession since the global financial law and have expanded to include In Tuen Mun in the northwest, crisis after economic activity demands for greater democracy about three dozen people dressed shrank 3.2% in the quarter ending and other grievances. Activists in black, the symbolic colour of the in September. complain the government is protests, stormed through a On Saturday, police Protesters vandalise a restaurant during an anti-government demonstration at a shopping mall eroding the autonomy and shopping mall. announced the arrest of six law- in Tsuen Wan, Hong Kong, yesterday. Western-style civil liberties Most were peaceful but one makers on charges of obstructing promised when this former British used a club to smash windows the local assembly during a colony returned to China in 1997. while others overturned tables in raucous May 11 meeting over the China for tough security laws to end HK turmoil Police in green fatigues with a restaurant. extradition bill. All were freed on riot helmets and shields fired tear Inside the Festival Walk bail. Meanwhile, protesters AFP Kong and Macau Affairs Office, government to introduce tough gas to clear streets in Tsuen Wan shopping mall in Kowloon Tong, mourned the death Friday death BEIJING acknowledged that gov- security laws in 2003 caused in the northwest after chasing pro- reporters saw a man lying on a of a university student, Chow Tsz- ernance in the semi-auton- major protests before being testers in the district’s Citywalk public walkway beside a small pool Lok, who fell from a parking China has said the lack of omous city must be improved, shelved. shopping mall. Officers walked up of blood with police standing over garage when police fired tear gas tough security laws in Hong saying factors such as high The lack of such legislation a four-lane thoroughfare shoulder him. His condition and the reason at protesters. Kong is a key reason for housing costs and a growing “is one of the main reasons for to shoulder firing volleys of tear for possible injuries were unclear. The circumstances of the months of increasingly violent wealth gap had contributed to the intensification of activities gas ahead of them. There were brief shoving death are unclear, but many pro-democracy demonstra- the unrest. of local radical separatist Protesters started a small fire matches between police and accuse police of using heavy- tions and that the enactment But Zhang also backed a forces”, Zhang said. with debris in the street. The shoppers, some of whom thrust handed tactics, including wide- of such legislation is an “urgent firmer hand, saying laws out- “The need to safeguard newspaper Apple Daily reported their fists in the air in a gesture of spread use of tear gas and pepper task”. lawing subversion and other national security and four men and one woman sus- defiance. Police released pepper spray. Police denied pushing the The call came in a lengthy challenges to Chinese central strengthen law enforcement pected of vandalising shops in spray inside the mall. 22-year-old student during last statement issued late Saturday government control were have become prominent issues Tsuen Wan were taken away. A government statement said Monday’s incident or delaying by the head of the Chinese gov- needed, and stressed that the and urgent tasks facing the In Sha Tin in the northeast, one person who was arrested at emergency treatment. ernment department that territory’s leader and legis- government of the Hong Kong authorities closed a subway station Kowloon Tong escaped from police The territory is preparing for oversees Hong Kong. lature must be “patriots” loyal Special Administrative Region after protesters broke windows due to clamour caused by November 24 district council The statement by Zhang to Beijing. Efforts by Hong and people from all walks of and damaged a ticket machine. protesters. elections. Xiaoming, director of the Hong Kong’s Beijing-controlled life.” Australia battles US ‘very actively’ urging North Korea to return to talks ‘catastrophic’ REUTERS States a year-end deadline to various contingency plans if the North Korea have stalled, so Relations between the bush fires SEOUL show more flexibility in their deadline passes without any pos- have efforts to improve ties important US allies have sunk to denuclearisation talks, and North itive outcome, Chung said, between the two Koreas, despite their worst state in decades after REUTERS United States is “very actively” Korean officials have warned the without elaborating. efforts by the South Koreans to South Korea’s top court ordered MELBOURNE trying to persuade North Korea United States not to ignore that “Only if talks between high- nudge them forward. Japanese firms to compensate to come back to negotiations, date. rank officials happen and lead In the latest sign of strained wartime forced labourers. Australian firefighters raced South Korea’s national security The window of opportunity to substantial progress, will the ties on the peninsula, the North Japan imposed export curbs yesterday to contain wide- adviser said yesterday, as a for progress in dialogue with the third North Korea-United States Korea leader Kim ordered the on high-tech materials bound for spread bush fires that have left year-end North Korean deadline United States was getting summit be possible,” Chung told removal of “shabby”, “capitalist” South Korea. three people dead, and warned for US flexibility approaches. smaller, a senior North Korean a news conference to mark the facilities the South built in the In response, South Korea of “catastrophic” fire conditions South Korea was taking diplomat said on Friday, adding half-way point of President North’s Mount Kumgang resort. decided not to renew an intelli- ahead, including around the North Korea’s deadline “very that Pyongyang expects recip- Moon Jae-in’s five-year term. North Korea has also rejected gence-sharing pact with Japan, country’s biggest city of Sydney. seriously”, the adviser, Chung rocal steps from Washington by “As you know, the North side a South Korean offer of talks, due to expire later this month. Authorities upgraded the Eui-yong, told reporters, at a the end of the year. has shown the year-end proposing that communication Chung said South Korea forecast for the greater Sydney time when efforts to improve US-North Korea nuclear deadline, considering that be limited to exchanges of would be willing to reconsider region to catastrophic fire inter-Korean relations have negotiations have been dead- position of the North Korean documents. its decision to walk away from danger on Tuesday, the first stalled. locked with working-level talks side, we are closely coordinating South Korean President the pact if ties with Japan were time the city has been rated at North Korean leader Kim in October ending fruitlessly. with the US side.” As the talks Moon also faces diplomatic normalised. But he blamed Japan that level since new fire danger Jong Un in April gave the United South Korea has set up between the United States and tension with Japan. for the worsening relations. ratings were introduced in 2009. “High temperatures, strong winds and low humidity are Cambodian oppn figure forecast, making conditions dangerous,” the New South freed from house arrest Wales state Rural Fire Service said in a statement. AFP give more details on his plans Conditions on Tuesday in PHNOM PENH later. the greater Hunter region north The decision comes as of Sydney were also rated as Cambodia has freed a prominent Sokha’s political partner Sam catastrophic, the highest level opposition figure from house Rainsy is waylaid in Malaysia of bush fire danger, while arrest more than two years after with other CNRP officials after extreme or severe conditions he was charged with treason, a attempting a highly-publicised were predicted for other parts court spokesperson said comeback on November 9, of the state. yesterday, after attempts by his Cambodia’s independence day. “If a fire starts and takes colleagues to return to the Rainsy, who has lived in hold during catastrophic fire country were thwarted. France since 2015 to avoid jail danger conditions, lives and Kem Sokha was arrested in for convictions he says are polit- homes will be at risk,” the 2017 and accused of plotting to ically motivated, had promised statement said. overthrow the government of a dramatic return. Australia is suffering one of strongman Hun Sen, who has But after being barred in its worst bush fire seasons, ruled since 1985. Paris on Thursday from getting which is occurring even before He was sent to a remote on a flight to Thailand, Rainsy the start of the Southern Hem- prison, then confined to his boarded a plane a day later and isphere summer, with parts of house and the surrounding block arrived in Kuala Lumpur. the country crippled by severe and prohibited from talking to It is unclear how he will get drought. Three people have the media. back to the country and for now Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and Empress Masako ride in a car during their royal parade to mark the died in New South Wales since But “he can travel he plans to meet with Malaysian enthronement of the Emperor, in Tokyo yesterday. Friday, when a record number nationwide now”, Y Rin, a MPs this week. of emergency-level fires were Phnom Penh municipal court Rainsy said that the release declared in the state, and at spokesman, said. of Sokha from house arrest was least 150 homes have been Over 100,000 greet Japan’s imperial Sokha is the co-founder of a small step in the right direction destroyed. the banned Cambodia National but also called for the treason Five people were listed by couple at enthronement parade Rescue Party, which was dis- charge against his opposition authorities as missing on Sat- solved ahead of controversial colleague to be dismissed. urday afternoon, but local AP banners — and even shouting — stick with pacifism and stay close elections swept by Hun Sen last Dozens of activists have media said Sunday they had TOKYO were not allowed inside the to the people. Under Japan’s year. The new court ruling, been rounded up in recent now been accounted for. restricted zone. Residents in postwar constitution, the which cited health concerns, weeks in Cambodia, while Hun By the afternoon yesterday, Japan’s Emperor Naruhito and high-rise apartment buildings emperor has no political power forbids the 66-year-old from Sen has called on fellow about half of the more than 70 Empress Masako waved and along the road were advised not and is limited to ceremonial leaving Cambodia or joining members of the Association of fires burning in New South smiled from an open car in a to look down from their roles. political activities. Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Wales were still not under parade yesterday marking windows or balconies. The parade started from the Rights groups say Cambo- to arrest Rainsy in what the control, with two burning at an Naruhito’s enthronement as Naruhito succeeded his Imperial Palace, with the dia’s legal system is controlled strongman has described as an emergency level. more than 100,000 delighted father, Akihito, on May 1 fol- Kimigayo national anthem by Hun Sen’s government. attempted coup. Education authorities said well-wishers cheered, waved lowing his abdication, and for- played by a marching band. Sokha said on Sunday that But Hun Sen is also under more than 40 schools in New small flags and took photos from mally ascended the Chrysan- Naruhito, wearing a tail coat he was innocent and demanded international pressure to ease South Wales would be shut packed sidewalks. themum Throne in a palace cer- decorated with medals and car- the charges be dropped. restrictions on dissent as the today due to the fires. Security was extremely tight, emony last month. rying a brimmed hat, and “I miss Khmer people so European Union considers Further north in with police setting up 40 check- He’s pledged to follow his Masako, in an off-white long much and I will visit people in revoking a duty-free tariff Queensland, more than 50 fires points leading to the parade father’s example to fulfil his dress and a tiara, waved from a the very near future,” he wrote scheme for Cambodia’s lucrative were burning yesterday. area. Selfie sticks, bottles and responsibilities as a state symbol, Toyota Century convertible. on Facebook, adding he would garment sector. MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2019 EUROPE 15

German allies Romania’s Iohannis takes avoid crisis big lead in vote: Exit polls over pensions AFP AFP Two exit polls showed Iohannis with 39 percent BERLIN BUCHAREST of the vote and indicated that in the second The German coalition parties Romania’s pro-Europe President round of the election he would likely face yesterday reached a deal on Klaus Iohannis took a big lead in former Social Democrat prime minister Viorica pension reform, thus avoiding the first round of the country’s Dancila, on 22.5 percent. a political crisis which presidential election yesterday, threatened to collapse the according to two exit polls. government of Chancellor The exit polls, issued shortly tailed off towards the evening reporters as he cast his ballot at Angela Merkel. after voting ended at 1900 GMT, and was estimated at 48 percent, a school in the capital Bucharest. After difficult talks, Merkel’s showed Iohannis with 39 percent compared to 52 percent five By 3pm (1300 GMT) 30 conservative CDU and its of the vote and indicated that in years ago. percent of the 18.2 million reg- Bavarian partner the CSU the second round of the election Iohannis of the centre-right istered voters had cast their agreed with the centre-left he would likely face former National Liberal Party (PNL) ballots, more than at the same Social Democrats (SPD) on a Social Democrat prime minister repeatedly clashed with the stage in previous elections. deal on topping up the basic Viorica Dancila, on 22.5 percent. beleaguered government of the After casting her own ballot, pension for low-income recip- Romanian President Klaus Iohannis casts his ballot at a polling “We have beaten the Social left-wing Social Democrat (PSD) Dancila told supporters she ients who have worked all their station in Bucharest, Romania, yesterday. Democrats”, 60-year-old party, which collapsed last voted “for a safe and dignified lives. Iohannis told cheering sup- month. Romania”. He has made rule of “We have found a good and porters in front of his campaign His main rival in the presi- law a central plank of his cam- less present in Romanian politics European polls added to a series defendable solution for the CDU headquarters. dential vote, the PSD’s Viorica paign which has mirrored that than in Hungary or Poland, the of travails for Dancila’s gov- on this difficult subject,” CDU “But the war is not over, we Dancila, served as prime min- of Slovakian anti-corruption PSD had tried to frame its clashes ernment which eventually saw president Annegret Kramp- have to take another step ister for the government which activist Zuzana Caputova, who with EU institutions as evidence it brought down by parliament Karrenbauer told a joint news forward to take in two weeks,” took power in 2016. won the presidential election in that the party was standing up in a no-confidence vote last conference with the CSU and he said, referring to the second The PSD’s government had that country in March. for Romania. However, as the month. Respected 103-year-old SPD leaders. round. engaged in a long battle with In Hungary too, the nation- German magazine Osteuropa philosopher Mihai Sora, who has Interim SPD leader Malu The third candidate, Dan Brussels — and Iohannis — over alist government of Prime Min- pointed out in a recent editorial, a large social media following, Dreyer spoke of the com- Barna from the newly-formed allegations it was trying to push ister Viktor Orban suffered a rare at May’s European elections warned online that “we are not promise deal as “an important pro-European Union Save through controversial judicial setback last month when centre- “while Fidesz and (Poland’s just electing a man, we are socio-political step”. Romania (USR) was estimated to reforms in order to neuter the left candidate Gergely Karacsony ruling) PiS party won on the back electing our future”. The two camps in the ruling have 16 percent — although the judiciary and benefit PSD united the opposition to wrest of anti-Brussels campaigns, Iohannis was first elected in coalition have been at logger- exit polls do not include votes politicians. the mayoralty of the capital Romanian voters punished the 2014 and is widely expected to heads over the pensions issue cast abroad. “Today Romanians are Budapest from Orban’s Fidesz government and sent a pro- win a second five-year term in in a country confronted by an After starting strongly at the deciding on the future of their party. European signal”. the run-off vote on November ageing population. beginning of the day, turnout country,” Iohannis, 60, told While nationalism has been The heavy losses in the 24. A major political crisis had loomed among the government partners who also face internal party problems. UK political parties attack rival Germany on Saturday marked 30 years since the fall of the Berlin Wall that ushered spending plans in election feud in the end of communism and national reunification. AP to invest more money in health uncertainty is destabilising the But a new political chasm LONDON care, police and infrastructure. country, credit rating agency is opening up in Germany with The party says it can loosen the Moody’s downgraded Britain’s the far-right gaining a strong Britain’s biggest political parties purse-strings because the outlook from stable to negative foothold in the former com- traded allegations of financial economy is finally stable, 11 on Friday. munist states. recklessness yesterday as they years after the 2008 global Moody’s said Brexit had Last month Merkel’s centre- vied to win voters’ trust on the financial crisis — a claim dis- caused “inertia and, at times, right Christian Democrats were economy ahead of the country’s puted by opponents. paralysis” that had undermined beaten into third place by the December 12 election. “We’ve changed the fiscal Britain’s institutional strength, populist, far-right AfD in state The main opposition Labour rules,” Javid told the BBC. and advised that the UK elections in the ex-communist Party accused the governing “Because of the hard work of the economy could be “more sus- eastern state of Thuringia. Conservatives of spreading fake British people over the last 10 ceptible to shocks than previ- Popular state premier Bodo news with an eye-catching claim years, our economy is much ously assumed.” Johnson pushed Ramelow’s far-left Die Linke that Labour spending pledges stronger. We now are looking for the December election in party easily won the state race. French President Emmanuel Macron and German President Frank- will cost £1.2 trillion ($1.5 trillion) forward to a decade of renewal hopes of breaking Britain’s This was just one example Walter Steinmeier (right) shake hands after signing the guest book over five years. and as we do that we can afford political impasse over Brexit. of the squeeze being put on the at the presidential Bellevue Palace in Berlin, yesterday. The figure is based on to invest more.” All 650 seats in the House of traditional parties in or near the assuming a Labour government Many economists warn that Commons are up for grabs. political centre. Germany warns France against would implement every policy having Britain leave the Johnson says that if voters give The junior coalition it has adopted in principle. European Union, no matter what the Conservatives a majority he partners, the centre-left SPD, undermining Nato alliance Labour says not all those pledges the divorce terms, will dampen will “get Brexit done” and take are fighting for political survival will be in its official election UK economic growth because it the UK out of the European and are expected to decide next REUTERS / BERLIN Donald Trump. “It would be a platform. will bring new obstacles to trade Union by the new January 31 month whether to remain in the mistake if we undermined Nato. Labour economy spokesman with the bloc, which is Britain’s deadline. government or change direction German Foreign Minister Heiko Without the United States, John McDonnell said the Con- biggest trading partner. Labour says it will negotiate and trigger early elections. Maas warned yesterday against neither Germany nor Europe servative figure was “an incom- More than three years after a new divorce deal with the EU On Sunday at least there undermining Nato, in Berlin’s will be able to effectively protect petent mish-mash of debunked Britons narrowly voted to leave and then let voters decide was agreement in the coalition strongest response to date to themselves,” Maas wrote in a estimates and bad maths”. the EU, the date and terms of its between leaving on those terms that the award of the new French President Emmanuel column published online by Der Treasury chief Sajid Javid departure are still up in the air. and remaining in the bloc. topped-up pension would be Macron’s critical remarks about Spiegel magazine. stood by the estimate, saying With British politicians dead- The centrist Liberal Demo- means-tested, a point the security alliance. Maas supported Macron’s Labour’s proposals were “abso- locked, the EU has set a new crats, who want to cancel Brexit, demanded by the CDU. Macron told The Economist call to strengthen Europe’s lutely reckless”. Brexit deadline of Jan. 31, with and the Brexit Party, which this week that Nato was experi- defence capabilities. The Conservatives, for their some EU officials warning this advocates leaving without a deal, encing “brain death”, citing a Chancellor Angela Merkel part, have abandoned a decade- could be their last Brexit are trying to win voters on British rocker lack of coordination and US was scheduled to meet Macron long commitment to trimming extension. opposite sides of the Brexit unpredictability under President in Berlin later yesterday. government spending, promising In the latest sign that Brexit divide. Doherty held again in Paris Britain detains Teen dead, another wounded in Sweden shooting 22 migrants AFP AP Explosions and shootings in PARIS AFP HELSINKI the past few years in Malmo, LONDON Sweden’s third-largest city, have French police arrested British A 15-year-old boy was killed and been linked mainly to organised rocker Pete Doherty after a The UK Border Force inter- another teenager was in critical crime and feuding gangs. drunken brawl in Paris cepted a boat yesterday condition after a shooting in a Ulf Kristersson, leader of the yesterday, a day after they carrying 22 migrants as public busy square in the southern city center-right opposition Mod- released him following cocaine attention refocused on people of Malmo, Swedish police said erate Party, urged Social Dem- bust, prosecutors and his smuggling following the death yesterday. Similar incidents and ocrat Prime Minister Stefan lawyer said. of 39 Vietnamese nationals in explosions in Malmo recently Lofven to act quickly to curb the Doherty, 40, the front man a truck near London. have alarmed politicians and violence. of the Libertines, was arrested Britain’s interior ministry residents. Local resident Jacob Bjor- for assaulting a man while said the operation brought to Malmo police said the slain kander told Swedish newspaper drunk, said the Paris prose- 44 the number of people picked boy was one of two people hit Sydsvenskan that he had been cutors’ office. His lawyer Arash up in the English Channel since after unknown assailants opened cycling near the pizza parlor with Derambarsh said Doherty was Friday. No information about fire into a pizza parlour at about his two young children the night arrested after a fight with their nationalities or ages and 9pm on Saturday. Witnesses saw Police forensics examine the crime scene where a 15-year-old was of the shooting. another man who was also gender were revealed. the attackers flee on bicycles. fatally hit and another severely wounded when attackers opened “It’s regrettable, absolutely drunk, who had filed a com- Hundreds of migrants try to The shooting took place just awful, and lacking in any plaint for assault against him. fire on a pizzeria in Malmo, Sweden. enter Britain annually through minutes after an explosion in respect,” Bjorkander told Syds- After being released on Sat- the world’s busiest waterway another Malmo district where a venskan “This should be the end urday from custody following using unsafe boats. bomb set under a car detonated, broadcaster SVT she was con- said, adding that Swedish police of it. It’s gone too far. People an arrest for possession of The role human traffickers destroying the vehicle and dam- cerned Saturday’s events would consider many similar incidents should be out on the streets cocaine, Doherty “went home play in such operations came aging other cars. escalate the spiral of violence in the past to be linked and showing what they think, that we then went out again to have a under new scrutiny after the Police couldn’t say yet if the seen in past years in Malmo, a gang-related. don’t want this in our town.” drink”, the lawyer added. Vietnamese tragedy. The two incidents were linked and city of some 320,000 “We’ve been in this situation Swedish news agency TT said But because of the detox victims’ bodies were discovered did not yet identify suspects in residents. before with similar events. This five fatal shootings and 29 explo- treatment he has been fol- in a refrigerated truck near either case. “It is every parent’s is what the police have warned sions have taken place in Malmo lowing for a month he cannot London. The British driver has Katrin Stjernfeldt Jammeh, nightmare to lose a child. It’s about, namely an escalation of this year, figures substantially hold his drink, said Deram- been charged with man- chairwoman of local munici- been a heavy and black night in cruel and reckless violence in lower than during all of 2018, barsh. Doherty was first slaughter and other offences. pality council, told Swedish Malmo,” Stjernfeldt Jammeh Malmo,” she said. according to police statistics. arrested on Friday. 16 EUROPE MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2019

France probes Russian professor admits drug packages washing up on murdering young partner Atlantic coast

AFP “He has admitted his part in historical re-enactments AFP SAINT PETERSBURG RENNES guilt,” Oleg Sokolov’s of Napoleonic wars. Both he and his partner A prominent Saint Petersburg- lawyer Alexander studied French history and liked French prosecutors said based Napoleon expert has Pochuev said, adding to wear period costumes, with yesterday that they had opened confessed to murdering his he regretted what he Sokolov dressing up as Napoleon. an investigation after finding a young partner and former had done and was Students described Sokolov “significant amount” of cocaine student and dismembering her as both a talented lecturer who and other drugs on beaches all body in a grisly crime that sent now cooperating. could impersonate the French along the Atlantic coast since shock waves across Russia. emperor and his generals and a last month. Oleg Sokolov, a 63-year-old mater, and was close to the “freak” who called his partner The cocaine is particularly history lecturer who received Russian authorities. “Josephine” and liked to be pure and therefore dangerous, France’s Legion d’Honneur in He told investigators that he addressed as “Sire”. according to the prosecutor’s 2003, was arrested on Saturday shot and killed his partner during “What happened is simply office in the western city of on suspicion of murder after he an argument and then sawed off monstrous,” a Saint Petersburg Rennes, urging people who was hauled out of the icy Moika her head, arms and legs, local State University lecturer said. come across the packages not River with a backpack containing media reported. Speaking on condition of to touch them. a woman’s arms. Pochuev suggested Sokolov anonymity, he said Sokolov was “Suspect packages have “He has admitted his guilt,” may have been under stress or dedicated to his work but was been found on all beaches... Sokolov’s lawyer Alexander emotionally disturbed. also emotionally unstable and from the Loire Atlantique Pochuev said, adding he “He is an elderly person,” he abused alcohol. department down to the Landes regretted what he had done and said, adding he was being treated Many expressed dismay, department” — more than was now cooperating. for hypothermia in a hospital. saying Sokolov had long been Russian Emergency rescuers and police investigators conduct searches 500km (300 miles) — the office Sokolov was reportedly Police discovered the decap- known for his hostile behaviour following the murder of a woman that implicates Russian historian said in a statement. drunk and fell in as he tried to itated body of Anastasia Yesh- but officials had ignored Oleg Sokolov, on the Moika River, in Saint Petersburg, yesterday. A “very significant number” dispose of body parts. chenko, 24, with whom Sokolov complaints. of packages have been found, After disposing of the corpse had co-authored a number of Vasily Kunin, who studied threatened to kill another from the controversy. it said, without detailing the he reportedly planned to commit works, and a blood-stained saw with the victim, blamed the uni- woman in 2008 but was never Sokolov was also a member amount. suicide at the Peter and Paul For- at his home. versity management. charged. of Lyon-based Institute of Social The Sud-Ouest newspaper tress, one of the former imperial The historian, who also “They did not pay attention Sokolov was a senior member Science, Economics and Politics reported that the two people capital’s most famous land- taught at Sorbonne University, to certain things,” he said. “There of the Russian Military-Historical (ISSEP). discovered two packages on marks, dressed as Napoleon. is the author of books on French was a certain policy of hushing Society headed by Culture Min- On Saturday, the society the beach at Arcachon, Sokolov teaches history at emperor Napoleon Bonaparte. things up.” ister Vladimir Medinsky. announced that he had been southwest of Bordeaux, on Saint Petersburg State University, He acted as a historical con- Media reports said that The organisation immedi- stripped of his position on its sci- Friday containing a total of President Vladimir Putin’s alma sultant on several films and took Sokolov also beat up and ately sought to distance itself entific committee. three kilograms (6.6 pounds) of cocaine. It said some of the packages were marked “Diamante” or Malta in deal with Libya coastguard over migrant interceptions “Brillante,” which were also reported to have washed up in REUTERS years and always operated face torture and abuse in the to investigate any illegal activity in September a shipment of Florida during hurricane Dorian VALLETTA within the law. lawless north African country. departing from their coast,” the unofficial Libyan currency in September. Under the terms of the deal, The Malta deal appears to go Maltese government said. believed to have been destined A source close to the inquiry Malta’s armed forces have when a migrant boat is spotted a step further by encouraging the Malta has taken in several for rebel military strongman said that tides started washing started cooperating with Libya’s sailing towards Malta, the Libyan coastguard to intervene hundred migrants in recent Khalifa Haftar. up the packages a month ago coastguard to turn back migrant island’s armed forces seek the beyond its own coastal waters, months, but almost always from Two containers packed full on beaches stretching from boats heading into Malta’s search intervention of the Libyan coast- which extend some 22.2 km from charity rescue ships that had of the recently introduced cur- Nantes as far south as the resort and rescue zone, a newspaper guard to intercept them before its shore, and into the broad picked them up in the central rency, printed in Russia, were town of Biarritz. reported yesterday, citing a they enter Malta’s territorial search-and-rescue zone Mediterranean. There have been discovered when the ship car- In February, authorities secret government deal. waters, the paper said. operated by Malta. few reports of migrant boats rying the money stopped in seized more than three tonnes The government declined to Non-governmental organi- “Search and rescue areas are reaching the island Malta, local media reported of cocaine and arrested 11 comment directly on the report sations have denounced previous not areas where the coastal state autonomously. earlier this month. people off Portugal’s Atlantic in the Sunday Times of Malta, but deals by which Italy has directed exercises sovereignty or has In a sign of growing cooper- The Customs Department did coast, dismantling a drug smug- said that the Mediterranean state the Libyan coastguard to pick up jurisdiction, but areas forming ation between Valletta and the not announce the find at the time gling gang that operated across had been working with the migrant boats in Libyan terri- part of high seas where foreign Tripoli-based Libyan gov- and has made no subsequent international waters from a Libyan coastguard for many torial waters, saying refugees military assets have every right ernment, Malta seized comment on the operation. cargo vessel. Russia releases Austrian Greens approve last of captured coalition talks with Kurz’s beluga whales

REUTERS conservative party MOSCOW REUTERS VIENNA Russian authorities said they had completed the release of Austria’s Greens said yesterday dozens of captured beluga that they are willing to enter whales whose plight sparked formal coalition talks with an appeal by Hollywood celeb- former Chancellor Sebastian rities and the intervention of Kurz’s conservative party, President Vladimir Putin. opening the door to negotiations The mammals, caught last that could bring them into year to be sold to marine parks national government for the first or aquariums in China, were time. being kept in cramped condi- Kurz’s conservatives won tions in a bay near the Pacific the September 29 parliamentary The left-wing Greens and port of Nakhodka along with 11 election — held in the aftermath Kurz’s OVP have declined to orcas. Russian media dubbed of a video sting scandal that comment on the details of their their enclosures a “whale jail.” ended his coalition government talks, but they will have to “An operation on the with the far right — by a clear bridge a yawning political divide People queue to cast their votes inside a polling station during general election in Barcelona, yesterday. release of the sea mammals to margin. But he needs a coalition against a backdrop of growing their natural habitat in (the partner to control parliament. calls worldwide for urgent region of) Primorye has been Despite their starkly dif- action on limiting climate completed,” the Russian Spain votes in repeat general election ferent political programmes, change. Research Institute for Fisheries Kurz’s party and the Greens, The Greens have called for and Oceanology said in a AFP fewer seats than the 123 they The election comes as Spain who finished fourth in the Sep- an overhaul of Austria’s tax statement. “All the remaining MADRID picked up in April, while the main finds itself increasingly polarised tember ballot, held several system to reflect the environ- belugas were released in the opposition conservative Popular by the Catalan crisis, which has weeks of preliminary talks that mental impact of goods. Kurz, Bay of Assumption ... on Spain voted yesterday in its Party (PP) may strengthen its par- deepened in recent weeks. finished on Friday. whose typical supporters Sunday, November 10.” fourth general election in as liamentary presence. Less than a month ago, the Failure to move on to formal include big business and The plight of the orcas, many years amid heightened But the most striking devel- Supreme Court sentenced nine talks would mean Kurz would farmers, has said he does not which were being held with 87 tensions over the separatist push opment could be the rise of the Catalan separatist leaders to need to turn to either the Social believe environmental measures beluga whales, triggered an in Catalonia that has fuelled a far-right Vox party, which could lengthy jail terms over their role Democrats, with whom he has should create extra costs for the international outcry and celeb- surge in support for upstart far- even jump to third-largest in in a failed 2017 independence had difficult relations, or again Austrian public at large, and rities including Leonardo DiC- right party Vox. parliament, according to polling. bid, sparking days of angry street to a far right still reeling from notably car owners. aprio supported a petition that The repeat polls were called After casting his ballot in protests in Barcelona and other the sting, in which its leader was The parties also have starkly drew nearly 1.5 million signa- after Prime Minister Pedro Madrid, Sanchez urged Span- Catalan cities that sometimes filmed offering to fix gov- different views on immigration, tures calling for their return to Sanchez failed to secure support iards to head to the polls, saying turned violent. ernment contracts at a dinner on which Kurz has overseen a the ocean. from other parties following an “it is very important that we all More than 600 people were party, and renewing that alliance hard line including cutting ben- The Kremlin had ordered inconclusive election in April participate to strengthen our injured in the protests, which could hurt Kurz’s image. efits for new arrivals and local authorities in the Russian which saw his Socialist party win democracy” and that the country saw demonstrators torching bar- As a last resort, Kurz could warning of Muslim “parallel Far East to intervene and offi- the most votes, but no working “have the needed stability to be ricades and throwing stones and also attempt to set up a minority societies” that would undermine cials started releasing them in majority in parliament. able to form a government”. Molotov cocktails at police. government. mainstream Austrian culture. batches in late June. However, opinion polls The last election produced a During a TV election debate “The Austrian Greens want Kurz will likely want any deal The way the animals were suggest this new election will fail near-record 76% turnout, which PP leader Pablo Casado called to enter concrete government to reflect the parties’ respective released had been criticised by to break the deadlock. Neither helped Sanchez who had mobi- for a “real government that will talks with the Austrian People’s levels of support. The OVP won Greenpeace and international the left nor the right look likely lised left-leaning voters to put order in Catalonia”. Party (OVP),” Greens leader 37.5% of the vote in September scientists who have said it had to win a ruling majority in oppose Vox but analysts warn But the toughest line against Werner Kogler (pictured) told and the Greens 13.9%. He is been rushed, was conducted in Spain’s 350-seat parliament. the numbers will likely drop this the Catalan separatists has come a news conference, adding his expected to make a statement secret and may have put the The Socialists are on track to time, as Spaniards suffer election from Vox leader Santiago party’s leadership had reached formal talks with the Greens after animals at risk of dying. finish top again, but with slightly fatigue. Abascal. the decision unanimously. consulting party allies. MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2019 AMERICAS 17 Haley says Tillerson, Kelly sought to undermine Trump

BLOOMBERG “Kelly and Tillerson confided in me that when due to be published today. “To undermine a president called Trump’s “moral equiva- WASHINGTON they resisted the President, they weren’t Kelly said that if providing is really a very dangerous thing,” lence” in response to a white the president “with the best and Haley, who served as ambas- supremacist march in Char- Former Secretary of State Rex being insubordinate, they were trying to save most open, legal and ethical sador to the United Nations, told lottesville, Virginia, that summer Tillerson and former White the country,” Haley said, according to the staffing advice from across the CBS. “And it goes against the that left a protester dead. House Chief of Staff John Kelly Washington Post. [government] so he could make Constitution, and it goes against Trump’s reaction — that both tried to undermine Donald an informed decision is ‘working what the American people want. sides had been to blame — was Trump’s decisions because they against Trump,’ then guilty as And it was offensive.” painful, Haley wrote. said the president didn’t know according to the Washington work around Trump, but she charged.” Haley wrote about two dis- “A leader’s words matter in what he was doing, former US Post. refused. Haley, in an interview yes- agreements she had with Trump these situations. And the presi- ambassador Nikki Haley said in “It was their decisions, not Tillerson was “exhausting” terday with CBS News, said she while in his cabinet. dent’s words had been hurtful excerpts of a new book. the president’s, that were in the and imperious, and Kelly was told Tillerson and Kelly they She said she went privately and dangerous,” Haley wrote. “I “Kelly and Tillerson confided best interests of America, they suspicious of her access to the should be talking to the president to him with her concern that he picked up the phone and called in me that when they resisted the said. The president didn’t know president, Haley, a former South about their disagreements, not had ceded authority to Russian the president.” president, they weren’t being what he was doing,” Haley wrote. Carolina governor who quit the “asking me to join them in their President Vladimir Putin after Haley said in a tweet that the insubordinate, they were trying She said Tillerson and Kelly tried Trump administration last year, sidebar plan” to thwart his the two leaders met in Helsinki book is about “my experience in to save the country,” Haley said, to enlist her in their effort to wrote in “With All Due Respect,” policies. in 2017, and objected to what she life and government.” Trump to host Nato chief as alliance faces strains AFP is Norwegian, will also discuss Macron was speaking ahead WASHINGTON counterterrorism, cyber-security of a Nato summit meeting and protecting critical scheduled for December 3 and US President Donald Trump will infrastructure. 4 in London. host Natochief Jens Stoltenberg The Thursday meeting will But German Chancellor in Washington at a time of severe come a week after Nato came in Angela Merkel, speaking strain within the Atlantic for cutting criticism from French alongside Stoltenberg in Berlin alliance, the White House president Emmanuel Macron, after the Macron interview came announced yesterday. who told The Economist mag- out, defended Nato as The two leaders will discuss azine that “what we are cur- “indispensable.” Nato allies’ “progress on rently experiencing is the brain Macron “used drastic increasing defence spending and death of Nato.” words,” she said, adding, “that ensuring more equitable Macron cited a general lack is not my view of cooperation in burden-sharing,” the White of coordination between the US Nato.” House statement said. and Europe and the recent uni- In Washington, the Nato Trump has been a frequent lateral incursion by Turkey, a chief will also confer on critic of alliance members, key member of the 70-year-old Thursday with Secretary of State notably Germany, complaining military alliance, into northern Mike Pompeo and members of that many have not met their Syria. Congress, the alliance said. goal of devoting two percent of “Strategically and politi- That same day, he will attend economic output to defense cally,” Macron said, “we need to a ministerial-level meeting of a President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump attending the game between the LSU Tigers spending. recognise that we have a broad international coalition and the Alabama Crimson Tide at Bryant-Denny Stadium, in Tuscaloosa, Alabama, yesterday. Trump and Stoltenberg, who problem.” against the IS militant group.

New Ukraine call transcript to be released Argentine President-elect joins leftist Pentagon gets a leaders for ‘Puebla Group’ summit BLOOMBERG I’d gladly give it.” a second transcript because I fix for F-35 bug WASHINGTON Trump floated the idea of actually had two calls with the REUTERS/BUENOS AIRES Latin America with all of you,” releasing a transcript of that call, president of Ukraine. So you’ll Fernandez said at the opening of in pilot helmets President Donald Trump said which hasn’t been made public, read the second call. And you’ll Argentine President-elect Alberto the meeting, adding that the he’s prepared to release the tran- while talking to reporters on tell me if you think there’s any- Fernandez joined the inaugural region has endured difficult times BLOOMBERG script sought by House Demo- Friday. It’s of interest to House thing wrong with it.” meeting of the so-called Puebla as a result of “conservatism.” WASHINGTON crats of his first phone call with Democrats leading the inquiry. Trump added that he was Group in Buenos Aires, a Fernandez and the other Ukraine’s president, in April, as Trump previously released a releasing the transcript to be conference of left-leaning attendees of the meeting cele- The US military may have soon as tomorrow. transcript of his July 25 call with more transparent, then repeated regional political leaders. brated the release from prison finally found a way to fix a “We’ll probably give it to you Ukrainian President Volodymyr his complaint about the House Fernandez has maintained on Friday of Brazil’s leftist former glitch with the world’s most on Tuesday, Monday being a Zelenskiy, which is at issue in the inquiry. close ties with some of the President Luiz Inacio Lula da hi-tech helmet used by pilots holiday,” Trump said as he pre- House impeachment “This is a witch hunt at the region’s left and centre-left Silva, a strong rival of right-wing flying the most expensive pared to board Air Force One. proceedings. highest level and it’s so bad for leaders, including Mexico’s Pres- Brazilian President Jair Bol- fighter jet in history. “We have another transcript “Read the transcript. You’ll our country,” he said. “It’s a ident Andres Manuel Lopez sonaro, with whom Fernandez A bug in the $400,000 coming out, which is very see the call,” Trump said of the witch hunt and it should never Obrador. has openly sparred. Lula sent a helmet display screen used by important. They asked for it. And April conversation. “I’ll give you happen to another president.” “We are going to stand up recorded greeting to the summit. F-35 aviators caused a green glow when flying in very low- light conditions and is now expected to be overcome by Mormons fleeing Mexico using a different type of semi- conductor illumination. violence arrive in Arizona The distracting green glow was deemed so critical that AP along with two of her sons, ages restrictions were imposed on TUCSON 11 and 2. She is survived by 11 some night landings on aircraft children and her husband, Bryce carriers, and the fault was clas- An 18-vehicle caravan carrying Langford told the newspaper. sified as a “Priority One” fix by about 100 members of Mormon Of the children who escaped, the Pentagon’s test office. Jittery families escaping after a violent one was shot in the face, another lines were also visible to some attack in Mexico arrived in in the foot. One girl suffered pilots. Arizona yesterday. gunshot wounds to her back and Lockheed Martin Corp has The families came nearly a foot. Another of Langford’s been contracted by the F-35 week after an attack last Monday brothers hid six children in Joint Program Office for the in which nine women and brush and walked back to La redesign, modifying headpieces children were killed by what Mora to get help. by installing new organic light- authorities said were people “We’re very proud of him,” emitting diodes to replace tra- from drug cartels. Langford told the newspaper. ditional liquid crystal displays. Yesterday, families went in “To be able to make those kind “In partnership with the and out of a gas station in of decisions under those circum- F-35 Joint Program Office and Douglas near the port of entry stances is something not a lot of our US Navy customer, we’ve as the sun began to set, the people can say they can do.” been working to transition the Arizona Daily Star reported. A girl, who was initially helmet technology from a tra- They filled up on gas, put air listed as missing, walked off in ditional LCD to an Organic LED Smoke rises from a wildfire in the Hollywood Hills area, behind the iconic sign in Los Angeles, yesterday. in their tires and got food before another direction, despite her system,” Program Manager Jim getting back on the road on their gunshot wounds, to get help. Gigliotti said by e-mail. way to Tucson and Phoenix. Langford said the com- OLED technology can Their trucks were loaded with munity has learned more about Los Angeles fire hits Hollywood Hills area provide a number of manufac- boxes, bicycles, spare tires and cartel hit men in the area in turing and user benefits over bags, all their belongings packed recent months, and people had BLOOMBERG of the still active wildfire, for Bros, which was on “total older LCD alternatives, as they left the communities in been considering moving. LOS ANGELES which the containment goal lockdown.” including the use of flexible Mexico that their families have After Monday’s ambush, remains.” Smoke could be seen right screens, improved picture called home since the 1950s. they decided it was something A brush fire broke out in Califor- The wildfire was 15 percent behind the city’s iconic “Hol- quality and quicker response The families had lived in two they had to do for their own nia’s Hollywood Hills, burning a contained as of 6:25pm local lywood” sign. times, and are used in flat-panel hamlets in Mexico’s Sonora safety. 34-acre area close to Los Angeles time, the fire department said It was a lighter moment for TVs, smartphones and digital state: La Mora and Colonia Having to move so suddenly tourist spots such as the yesterday. theme-park visitors, who wristwatches. OLED benefits, LeBaron. Other residents of the feels like something he’s seen in Universal Studios and Griffith “No structures were tweeted photos of the smoke, however, may come at the cost hamlets planned to depart in the the movies but he never thought Park. damaged. Five helicopters and with a local blogger calling the of shorter screen lifespans. coming days. would happen to his family, “The forward progress of the two aircraft were deployed, fire “the most popular attraction The contract announcement Bryce Langford, whose Langford said. fire has been stopped,” Los along with 236 fire personnel. at Universal Studios right now.” for new helmet displays comes mother was one of the women “Most of the families are Angeles Fire Department One firefighter hurt his arm.” Local DJ Lisa Foxx said she just days before a joint hearing killed, told the Daily Star that he traveling to Phoenix, and others spokesman Brian Humphrey Authorities are still investi- could see and smell the smoke of House Armed Services Com- was on his way to visit his are heading to Tucson. They are said in a post on the organisa- gating the cause of the fire. from the balcony of her radio mittee panels into the troubled brother at a hospital in Tucson. not sure where they will settle tion’s website. Christopher Drake, a music com- station in Burbank, an area $406bn F-35 programme, the Langford’s mother, Dawna down in the long term, Langford “Ground and air crew will poser for films, said he evac- where a number of studios are most expensive weapon project Ray Langford, 43, was killed said. continue to battle the perimeter uated from his studio at Warner located. in history. 18 AMERICAS MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2019 OAS finds irregularities in disputed Bolivia vote

REUETRS anti-government protests and LA PAZ the military said it would not “confront the people” over the The Organization of American The international body issue. States (OAS) recommended Bolivia’s Defense Minister yesterday that Bolivia hold new said its audit of the Javier Zabaleta played down the elections, saying it had identified October 20 election police protests, saying a “police serious irregularities in the last had found “clear mutiny occurred in a few vote that called into question the regions,” while Gen Williams victory of President Evo Morales. manipulations” of the Kaliman, the military chief, said The international body said voting system and it that the armed forces had no its audit of the October 20 could not verify the plans to intervene. election had found “clear manip- result. We’ll never confront the ulations” of the voting system people among whom we live,” and it could not verify the result. Kaliman said. “This is a political “The manipulations to the to take place, including a newly problem, and it should be computer system are of such composed electoral body,” the resolved within that realm.” Bolivian President Evo Morales (centre) holding a press conference in El Alto, yesterday. magnitude that they must be OAS said in a press release. Morales and his government deeply investigated by the Morales was declared the have decried a “coup” against Bolivian State to get to the winner of the October election him by what they called “violent Morales calls for new elections bottom of and assign responsi- with a lead of just over 10 points groups,” prompting a number of bility in this serious case,” the over his rival Carlos Mesa, giving fellow leftist leaders in the AP and called for a new election. won two more elections amid preliminary report said. him an outright win. region, including Venezuelan LA PAZ Without mentioning the OAS more than a decade of a com- The OAS said it was not sta- But there have been wide- President Nicolas Maduro, to report, Morales said he would modities-fed economic boom in tistically likely that Morales had spread protests since against the rally around him and call for a Under mounting pressure, replace the country’s electoral South America’s poorest country. secured the 10 percentage point result after a near 24-hour halt peaceful resolution to the crisis. Bolivian President Evo Morales body and urged all political He paved roads, sent Bolivia’s margin of victory needed to win in the count. Morales’ opponents, called for new elections parties and all sectors to help first satellite into space and outright and recommended Morales, who came to power including Mesa and Luis yesterday following deadly bring peace to the Andean nation curbed inflation. Bolivia use new electoral author- in 2006 as Bolivia’s first indig- Fernando Camacho, a civic nationwide protests ignited by after protests in which three But he has faced growing ities for any new vote. enous leader, has defended his leader from the eastern city of a disputed vote that he claimed people have been killed and dissatisfaction because he ran “The first round of the elec- election win but has said he Santa Cruz who has become a to have won. hundreds injured. for a fourth term after refusing tions held on October 20 must would adhere to the findings of symbol of the opposition, have The leftist leader made the “We all have to pacify to abide by the results of a ref- be annulled and the electoral the OAS audit. repeatedly called for him to step announcement after a prelim- Bolivia,” he told reporters. erendum that upheld term limits process must begin again, with The weeks-long standoff down. Camacho said he plans inary report by the Organization Morales, 60, a native Aymara for the president. the first round taking place as over the disputed election esca- to march to the government of American States cited a “heap from Bolivia’s highlands, became Bolivia’s constitutional court soon as there are new conditions lated over the weekend as police palace with a pre-written resig- of observed irregularities” in the the country’ first indigenous then ruled term limits violated that give new guarantees for it forces were seen joining nation letter for Morales to sign. October 20 presidential contest president in 2006 and easily his rights. Nicaraguan President accuses businessmen of conspiring against government

AFP/MANAGUA mushroomed into a popular Ortega was talking about part of two opposition alliances 2006, winning elections in 2011 comply with the established uprising that left more than 300 representatives of the Higher — formed after the April protests and 2016 in processes challenged norms” and “do not come with Nicaraguan businessmen are people dead and 2,000 Council of Private Enterprise — that want to resume talks with by the opposition — has refused the story that political dialogue financing an opposition wounded, according to rights (Cosep) who supported last the government to resolve the to move the elections forward. must be made, that elections “conspiracy” against the groups, after a brutal crackdown. year’s opposition protests, dis- crisis, as well as bringing forward He argued the opposition’s must be advanced.” government in the wake of the There are businessmen “who tancing themselves from the the date of the next election to demands are promoted by the Ortega’s remarks following deadly 2018 protests, President are still in the conspiracy, who president following his orders to shorten Ortega’s rule. “small groups of terrorists (oppo- Washington and now the Daniel Ortega claimed. continue to finance the con- violently repress the But Ortega — who ruled in nents) that are fed by European Union’s decision to Last year’s demonstrations spiracy,” 73-year-old Ortega said demonstrators. the 80s during the revolution businessmen.” approve sanctions over human over planned cuts to welfare during an event in Managua . The business union is now before returning to power in Adding businessmen “must rights abuses and repression. MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2019 HOME 19 QU Health Interprofessional Education Committee organises activity on diabetes

Participants of Interprofessional Education Activity on Diabetes pose for a group photo.

THE PENINSULA four colleges competed against each part of the IPE initiatives.” public health professionals to be con- DOHA other and presented their proposed CMED student Kamel Abou- trolled and managed.” patient-centred care plans for a case Jabal said, “IPE continues to shed CPH student Shahd Elamin said, The Qatar University (QU) Health study on a hypothetical diabetic light on the stigma that members “The IPE event this year was bene- Interprofessional Education patient. The teams were judged of the health care team have about ficial in many ways but to me, the Committee (IPEC) in Qatar, which based on their ability to satisfy the each other and does a fantastic job interactions between the students consists of representatives from all IPE competencies including collab- in breaking that stigma at an early were the most remarkable. I know healthcare schools in Qatar, oration, interprofessional commu- stage of our education.” the orchestra analogy will stick with organized its second activity titled nication, patient-centredness, team CHS Public Health student me for a very long time… the most ‘Interprofessional Education (IPE) functioning and role clarification. Montaha Khalid said, “By working in important point to remember is, in Activity on Diabetes’. The event was CPH Teaching Assistant Myriam a team with different student health the grand scheme of things, the attended by 18 facilitators, with 123 Jihad El Jaam said, “It is great to see professionals, I learned more about members of this orchestra will keep students including QU’s College of all the different professions working how diabetes can be addressed from playing their music, not for them- Pharmacy (CPH), College of Health together and learn from each other. different perspectives. Doctors, nurses selves, and not for each other - but Sciences (CHS) and College of A few years back I was a student and pharmacists work in a direct rela- for the audience.” UCQ student Medicine (CMED) alongside their who participated in an IPE activity tionship with diabetic patients. Suaad Al-Haddad said, “IPE is a very peers from University of Calgary in related to diabetes. At the time, it However, public health professionals useful approach for multidisci- Qatar (UCQ). The activity tackled was only pharmacy and nursing work in an indirect relationship with plinary team work to enhance four professions: public health, and we were about 60 students in diabetic patients. Diabetes is a global patient care. It improves our confi- pharmacy, nursing, and medicine. total so it is great to see this activity issue that requires the collaboration dence and competency in dealing During the activity, teams from growing. I hope to continue to be of doctors, nurses, pharmacists and with patients now and in the future.” QRCS builds relations with Red Cross Red Crescent partners

THE PENINSULA/DOHA Secretary-General, and Dr. Fawzi Liguita, the President of the Red were invited to Doha, to attend the Oussedik, Head of International Cross of Chad, who is currently Disaster Management Camp (DMC) A high-profile delegation from Relations. being treated at a hospital. Another to be held in March 2020. Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) During its four-day stay in meeting was held with the repre- During a field tour of some has visited Chad, Cameroon, and Chad, the delegation visited the Red sentative of the International Com- operations of CRCS, potential Kenya to communicate with fellow Cross of Chad and some humani- mittee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in humanitarian projects were pro- National Societies and build mutual tarian projects for the vulnerable Chad. posed to meet the needs of the local relations with the components of communities. The two parties After that, the delegation trav- community. the Red Cross Red Crescent agreed to hold another meeting in elled to Cameroon, where they held A series of meetings were held Movement, with a special focus on Algeria, with a view to more under- talks with Cameroon Red Cross with the President, board members, Africa. standing, in the form of a Society (CRCS). In order to push and international relations director QRCS’s delegation comprised framework cooperation agreement. mutual relations forward, the top of CRCS, as well as the IRCS repre- Ali bin Hassan Al Hammadi, They visited Yaya Mahamat officials of the host National Society sentative in Cameroon.

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Years following the events of “The Shining,” a now-adult Dan Torrance meets a young girl with similar powers as he tries to protect her from a cult known as The True Knot who prey on children with powers to remain immortal. 20 MORNING BREAK MONDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2019

PRAYER TIMINGS FAJR 04. 29 AM ‘League of Legends’ SHOROOK 05. 48 AM crowns Chinese team ZUHR 11. 18 AM MAGHRIB 04. 50 PM ASR 02.25 PM ISHA 06. 20 PM as world champions WEATHER TODAY AP just a few years took another step PARIS forward when thousands of gaming fans packed a Paris arena yesterday for the Just like athletes, the champions got a biggest esports event of the year, the big shiny trophy. Their most ardent world championship finals of the fans screamed with delight over their ‘League of Legends’ video game. crushing victory, while the vanquished The Chinese team FunPlus Phoenix opponents had the bitterness of defeat (FPX) was crowned champions, wiping written all over their young faces. the floor with European outfit G2 Esports still have some way to go Esports with a 3-0 shutout to secure before winning mainstream acceptance. the Summoner’s Cup Trophy. The Chinese team FPX celebrates with the trophy after winning the “League of Legends” But the growing business that’s gone packed 20,000-seat AccorHotels video game world championship final at the AccorHotels Arena in Paris, yesterday. from niche to global phenomenon in Arena throbbed with excitement. Some fans came dressed as characters from Our initial business plan said 20,000 the game. concurrent users. Now we have mil- Pitting two teams of five players lions. We never anticipated that,” he against each other in a fantasy world, said. “The first few years, it was a League of Legends is marking its 10th struggle. We always said, ‘We’re kind anniversary this year. French fan Jodie of building the plane while in the air.’” Germaneau, 27, was an early convert Now, the plane is soaring, much to and came dressed for the finals in a the chagrin of some parents who don’t costume that her mum helped her like to see their kids glued to screens. make, with red hair, pointy gold ears Laurent is convinced such reservations and yellow contact lenses. will pass. “Video games are a universe where “I’m sure 50 years ago my parents o o we can forget everything, our problems, were fighting their parents about rock 25 C 30 C our sadness and just let go,” she said. ‘n’ roll,” he said. “It’s the same story Minimum Maximum Nicolo Laurent, CEO of Riot Games, every generation ... A new enter- the game developer, said he couldn’t tainment form comes, and the old gen- Partly cloudy to cloudy at times with imagine in 2009 that they’d grow so eration doesn’t believe it. And then they chance of scattered rain maybe thundery fast, with gamers spending billions of move on, they age, they die, and now at places and blowing dust at times. hours in their fantasy universe. it’s part of our lives. I think exactly the

Team G2 Esports battle against FunPlus Phoenix during the first game of the “We had very humble ambitions same will happen with gaming, at a

HIGH TIDE 04:32 – 15:02 LOW TIDE 10:43 – 22:47 League of Legends (LOL) World Championship Finals. when we started League of Legends. much faster speed.” Courtesy: Qatar Meteorology Department ‘Midway’ defeats ‘Doctor Sleep’ in surprise Box Office upset in North America

REUTERS/LOS ANGELES prize, but the R-rated sequel to positioned its release to take Older males represented 60% of “Playing With Fire” scored third landed at No. 4 with $11.6m from 1980’s “The Shining” debuted at advantage of Veterans Day and “Midway’s” opening weekend place, arriving ahead of expecta- 3,448 screens. Though slightly In a surprise box office win, No. 2 with a slumbering $14.1 m expects “Midway” to collect crowd. tions with $12m from 3,125 venues. below projections, that figure Roland Emmerich’s World War from 3,855 venues, nearly half $20.05m from 3,242 North Mike Flanagan (Netflix’s “The The PG-film, which was produced represents a solid start given its I epic “Midway” took down the of studio projections. American locations through its Haunting of Hill House”) wrote for a modest $30 m, stars John $30m price tag. Paul Feig competition in North America to Though “Midway” arrived first four days in theaters. and directed “Doctor Sleep,” Cena as an elite firefighter who (“Bridesmaids,” “A Simple land in first place with $17.5m ahead of tracking, the $100m Emmerich’s tale enlisted Ed which sees Ewan McGregor take prepares his crew for their most Favour”) directed the feel-good Heading into the weekend, film still has a long and arduous Skrein, Patrick Wilson, Luke on the role of Danny Torrance, challenging job yet: babysitting. film inspired by George Michael’s Warner Bros.’ Stephen King journey ahead to achieve prof- Evans and Nick Jonas to bring the a man with psychic abilities who Fellow new release, Univer- music, which features Emilia adaptation “Doctor Sleep” was itability. Lionsgate, the studio Battle of Midway to the big struggles with childhood trauma. sal’s “Last Christmas,” ushered Clarke, Henry Golding and widely expected to take the top distributing the movie, screen for a new generation. Paramount’s family comedy in the holiday season early and Emma Thompson. Iceland students see chilling reality of melting glacier

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Icelandic seventh-grader Lilja Einarsdottir is on an unusual field trip with her class: they’re meas- uring the Solheimajokull glacier to see how much it has shrunk in the past year, witnessing climate change first-hand. “It is very beautiful but at the same time it is very sad to see how much it has melted,” says Lilja, bundled up against the autumn chill in a blue pompom hat. Each October since 2010, now-retired school- teacher Jon Stefansson has brought students aged around 13 from a school in Hvolsvollur to the glacier to record its evolution. The results are chilling: nestled between two moss-covered mountain slopes, Solheimajokull An ice floe floating on a lake in front of the has shrunk by an average of 40 metres per year Solheimajokull glacier where the ice is retreating. in the past decade, according to the students’ measurements. island’s 400-plus glaciers could be gone by 2200. On this blustery October day, the youngsters Solheimajokull, about 10km long and two kil- — armed with a GPS, a measuring tape and two ometres wide, is an outlet glacier of Myrdalsjokull, yellow flags — calculate the distances on foot from the country’s fourth-biggest ice cap. various spots, struggling against strong winds. Under the ice here lies Katla, one of Iceland’s Once done, some of the students hop in a most powerful volcanoes, which last erupted in dinghy and cross a lake of brown meltwater to 1901 and is long overdue to do so again, scientists reach an imposing wall of ice, the so-called ter- say. minus, or front of the glacier. The glacier receded by 11 metres in 2019, a sig- Here, they determine the gap between the ter- nificant amount but far from the record 110 metres minus and a handpainted sign at the end of a registered last year. footpath, where previous students have recorded “It depends more or less on the weather (and) their measurements over the years. how the glacier is breaking,” explains teacher Ste- The numbers on the sign, pitched in black sand fansson. “Sometimes you get a big cliff falling into and steadied at the base by a pile of stones, indicate the water and then you get a very, very big how many metres of ice have disappeared over measurement.” the past years: “24”, “50”, “110”. Since the school started its measurements, the “When (the first students) started here, you glacier has shrunk by 380 metres in almost a decade. couldn’t see any water. So it (the glacier) was very “When we see this, it’s like proof (of global big at first,” says Lilja. warming). If we thought that we were maybe Glaciers cover about 11 percent of Iceland’s wrong, this is proof we weren’t,” says 12-year-old surface, including Vatnajokull, the largest ice cap Birna Bjornsdottir. in Europe. But they have lost about 250 cubic kil- The measurements are neither scientifically ometres of ice in the past 25 years, or the equiv- exact nor official but they do indicate the changes alent of seven percent of their total volume. underway and their acceleration in recent years. “Now we have lakes that are forming in front Official measurements from the Iceland Geo- of many of them,” says glaciologist Hrafnhildur logical Society show Solheimajokull shrank by Hannesdottir of the Icelandic Meteorological Office. around 200 metres in 2018, putting it among the Iceland in August unveiled a plaque commem- country’s top three glacier shrinkages. It has been orating the country’s Okjokull glacier, the first to receding every summer since 1996. be stripped of its glacier status in 2014. The melting can be observed with the naked The plaque was meant as a wake-up call on eye, with drops of water dripping from the ice, the effects of global warming as scientists fear the sometimes running into little streams.