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All-in-one card: Local data, Terms and Condition apply local and international calls. Qatar, Turkey and Friday prayers in Al Aqsa Iran to discuss new trade routes

Izmir, Turkey Anatolia “We’re thinking about nkara, Doha and Tehran want to alternatives for land discuss new trade routes on the Asidelines of the oath-taking cere- trade routes with Qatar mony of Iran’s president-elect Hassan but the easiest way is Rowhani today, Turkish Economy Min- ister Nihat Zeybekci said. passing through Iran,” “We’re thinking about alternatives says Turkish Economy for land trade routes with Qatar but the easiest way is passing through Iran,” Zey- Minister Nihat Zeybekci. bekci said in an exclusive interview. In early June, a handful of Arab states — led by Saudi Arabia — abruptly sev- cargo planes to carry products was not Palestinians performing Friday prayers near the Dome of the Rock mosque in the Al Aqsa mosque ered diplomatic relations with Qatar and sustainable. “We want to make the trans- compound in Jerusalem’s old city. imposed a blockade. Qatar blasted the portation economic, sustainable and blockade as unjustified and a violation reliable,” he added. of international law. Zeybekci said using “Shipment by sea will gain impor- tance. We foresee that at least four large tonnage ships would go to Qatar monthly but the land route is an alternative for Expats laud permanent residency carrying flexible and smaller packages,” Zeybekci added. “We want to meet all of Qatar’s needs. We want all goods providers in Turkey law as wise and landmark decision to sell products, including cleaning mate- rials, domestic appliances and textiles, Irfan Bukhari only Qatar has taken this great step in in Qatar,” Zeybekci stated. The Peninsula the Arab world so far,” said Malik Trade between Turkey and Qatar Qaiser Awan, Group GM of Ezdan Malls increased in June and July, Zeybekci said, he new law on a permanent res- while talking to The Peninsula. adding: “We have to make this increase idency identification card for “Qatar has given a very positive This decision will help in permanent.” Tnon-Qataris has been welcomed message to the world that it is open to Turkey’s exports to Qatar totaled by the expatriates who term the step integrate and accept foreigners. Now retaining the skilled mi- $52.4m in June 2017, while they reached a ‘landmark decision’. expats will invest in housing sector and grants required to achieve $36.2m in May 2017. Turkey’s imports According to the provisions of the other businesses. Since the announce- from Qatar amounted to $23.7m in June, draft law approved by the Cabinet, the ment was made, I have received Qatar National Vision Nihat Zeybekci compared to $19.6m in May. Interior Minister may grant a perma- dozens of calls from very competent nent residency ID to a non-Qatari if professionals and top entrepreneurs 2030 and will create a they meet the conditions specified in who want to relocate to Qatar,” Awan, very positive image in the the law. Also, a decision by the minis- who is a Pakistani national, added. ter may grant this ID to the children of He said that one of objectives of world community. a Qatari woman married to a non- the blockading countries was to scare Qatar beat UAE in Arab Youth Volleyball Qatari as well as those who offered expats residing in Qatar. “They were “valuable services” to the country and expecting that the migrant workforce “wise decision” of Qatar’s leadership. QATAR’S youth volleyball team defeated their Emirati counterpart yesterday at the people with “special capacities” that will leave Qatar and Qatar will not be “It is the part of the progress Qatar is Arab Youth Volleyball Championship held in the Jordanian capital Amman. Qatar the country needs. able to sustain its development. This passing through and will bring mas- secured the fifth place after winning the game 3-1 ( 25-23, 25-15, 13-25 and 25-17). “It is really a landmark decision step will unlock the blockade not only sive changes in Qatar’s economy,” he The head of the Qatari delegation Khalid Al Kaabi said the Qatari youth team is a which will help in retaining the skilled by retaining but attracting the great said, adding that the decision would nucleus for the future of Qatar’s volleyball. He added that the team includes many migrants required to achieve Qatar knowledge pool,” he concluded. attract tremendous investment in talented players and were participating for the first time on the regional level. National Vision 2030 and will create Muhammed Quthb Babu, an Indian Qatar by foreign businessmen. a very positive image for the State of expat living in Qatar for the last 25 Qatar in the world community because years, thinks that the new law is a → Continued on page 2

Turkish firm wins $200m contract to build highway in Qatar WTO reveals Qatar’s complaints against UAE, Bahrain and Saudi

Geneva severed diplomatic ties with import, export, sale, purchase, Agencies Qatar on June 5. The complaints license, transfer, receipt and relate to measures adopted by shipment of goods originating he World Trade Organiza- the three nations are restricting in, transiting through, to or from tion (WTO) said yesterday trade in goods and services, and Qatar. The documents said “the Tthat Qatar has requested it trade-related intellectual prop- coercive attempts at economic dispute consultations with the erty rights, the WTO said in a isolation” entail acts and omis- United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and statement. “The request for con- sions through which the UAE Saudi Arabia. The WTO revealed sultations formally initiates a bans Qatari nationals from trav- details of the complaints outlined dispute in the WTO. Consulta- elling to and remaining in the from the Doha delegation. tions allow the parties an UAE to provide services, as well Although Qatar filed its opportunity to discuss the com- as bans on the provision of serv- wide-ranging complaints at the plaint and to find a satisfactory ices by Qatari service suppliers Turkey’s Tekfen Holding has announced that its construction unit has won a $200m WTO on Monday to challenge solution without proceeding fur- established in the UAE. contract to build a highway in Qatar. “One of our subsidiaries, Tekfen Construction, won the trade boycott by Saudi Ara- ther with litigation. After 60 They include bans on the construction works for the Eastern Industrial Road from Ashghal,” the company said. bia, the UAE and Bahrain, the days, if consultations have failed supply of services from Qatar to The project is slated to be completed over a 27-month period. The ongoing projects of WTO had to allow relevant doc- to resolve the dispute, the com- consumers of the UAE as well as the company in Qatar reached a value of $2.5bn, according to the release. The picture uments to circulate before plainant may request prohibitions on nationals of the formally announcing the pro- adjudication by a WTO panel. UAE to travel to and remain in shows a rendering of $2.1bn Al Khor expressway, the largest contract in Tekfen’s history. cedure. The three boycotting Qatar said in documents that the Qatar in order to consume countries, along with Egypt, measures prohibit or restrict the Qatari services. 02 HOME / MIDDLE EAST SATURDAY 5 AUGUST 2017

Qatar’s envoy meets South Africa’s minister Muraikhi meets Serbia’s PM Emir greets President of Burkina Faso QNA

mir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Eyesterday sent a cable of congratulations to Presi- dent of Burkina Faso, Roch Marc Christian Kabore, on the occasion of his country’s National Day. Deputy Emir H H Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani and Prime Minister and Inte- rior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Kha- lifa Al Thani also sent similar messages.

Minister of State for Foreign Affairs H E Sultan bin Saad Al Muraikhi with the Emir congratulates Ambassador of the State of Qatar to South Africa, Abdulla Hussein Al Jaber, Prime Minister of the Republic of Serbia, Ana Brnabic, in Serbia yesterday. with the Minister of International Relations and Cooperation of the Republic of The meeting discussed bilateral relations and ways of supporting them, Governor-General South Africa, Maite Nkoana-Mashabane, in Pretoria, yesterday. Both discussed in addition to issues of common concern. The minister also met with the bilateral relations and ways of supporting and developing them, in addition Deputy speaker of the National Assembly, Veroljub Arsic, and First Deputy of Jamaica to issues of common concern. Prime Minister and Minister for Foreign Affairs, Ivica Dacic. QNA

mir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Eyesterday sent a cable of congratulations to Gover- nor-General of Jamaica, Concert by TOPi enthralls musicophiles Patrick Allen, on the occasion of his country’s National Day. Raynald C Rivera Bryan Ricafrente. Deputy Emir H H Sheikh The Peninsula The group staged excerpts Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani from a number of Broadway-hit and Prime Minister and Inte- ilipino theatre group Tang- musicals including Jekyll & Hyde, rior Minister H E Sheikh halang Overseas Pinoy Miss Saigon, Phantom of the Abdullah bin Nasser bin Kha- F(TOPi) enthralled lovers of Opera, Dreamgirls, Rent, All lifa Al Thani also sent similar musical plays with a rich reper- Shook Up, Bombshell, and The messages. toire of songs from well-known Boyz from Oz. musicals during a free concert A collection of popular songs last night at Grand Ballroom of from Disney movie musicals ‘Made-in-Qatar’ Gondolania in Villaggio Mall. including “Circle of Life” from The show titled “FUSION – “The Lion King”, “I see the Light” A Musical Celebration” served as from “Tangled”, “Love is an Open move defeats a promotional concert for TOPi’s Door” from “Frozen” and “Ever- upcoming show “Scenes from more” from the most recent Saudi-led siege the Stage: A Tribute to Original live-action remake of “Beauty Continued from page 1 Filipino Musicals” which will be and the Beast” entertained young held at Rotana, City Centre on audiences and the young at heart ith more invest- September 2. Presenting a wide who thronged to see the show. ments in Qatar, array of songs from Broadway It was also a celebration of “Wthe country will to Disney to Original Filipino original Filipino musical plays soon achieve targets of self- musicals, the concert was a stun- as the group performed songs reliance and self-sufficiency ning display of versatile talent of from “Alikabok” , “Katy! The Filipino theatre group Tanghalang Overseas Pinoy (TOPi) at a promotional concert last night in food and other “made-in- the 22-member ensemble which Musical”, “Magsimula Ka” and at Gondolonia in Villaggio Mall. Pic: Rovic Cruz Qatar” products. Qatar has is the only Filipino thespian “Noli Me Tangere” which pro- defeated impact of siege with group in Qatar. vided the audience a taste of They include “Katy,” “Magsimula The group was established and Next month’s concert, which this master-move,” Babu said, “This is a fun and enchant- what to expect in TOPi’s forth- Ka,” “Kenkoy Loves Rosing” and accredited by the Philippine is organised in cooperation with adding that the decision was ing musical evening filled with coming concert next month. “Alikabok” which have been Embassy in Doha 12 years ago. United Filipino Organisations in being praised by Indian com- songs that have captivated our “Scenes from the Stage”, well-applauded by Filipino the- Since then, TOPi has been pre- Qatar and Alliance of Filipino munity particularly hearts, performed by members which falls on Eid Al Adha, will atre lovers for decades. senting shows comprising mostly Journalists in Qatar and sup- businessmen who would now of TOPi who all have great pas- bring a slice of Filipino entertain- TOPi is a non-profit organi- Filipino musicals to bring Filipi- ported by the Philippine be able to invest in projects sion for the performing arts and ment through four famous zation composed of Overseas nos in Qatar closer to their Embassy, will help a number of without sponsors thus it with high regard for community musicals penned by acclaimed Filipino Workers in Qatar who country as well as extend help projects of Philippine Overseas would speed up process of service,” said TOPi President Filipino lyricists and musicians. take great interest in theater arts. to the needy. Labour Office and UFOQ. diversification of economy. Abdulaal, an Arab expat and lawyer by profession, welcomed the law saying that it would help attracting and Ruaa Summer Club holds events Yemenis & Iranians sue retaining the skilled migrants. “First time this law has been introduced in the Gulf while The Peninsula girls. For girls at the kindergar- all areas of public life. As for the US over visas delays it is normal in Europe and the ten level more than 26 preparatory and high school US. This law will attract ith the participation of workshops and activities were girls, the club has intensified its skilled expats as well as around 300 girls of conducted including educa- efforts to prepare this group to New York 90-day travel ban. In the law- investors. In current siege, Wdifferent ages and tional, ethical activities and play leading role in the society Reuters suit filed in the US District Court expats have also showed education levels (kindergarten, programmes aimed at develop- equipping with noble morals in Washington D.C., more than great love and solidarity with elementary, preparatory and ing life skills and conducts such emanating from Islamic religion. ozens of Yemenis and 90 Yemeni and Iranian lottery Qatar,” he said. secondary), Eid Women Center as teach ablution, prayer and The club organised more than Iranians who won the winners said the US govern- He said that Qatar had continues the activities of Ruaa respect of parents and elders. 18 workshops to promote the Dchance to immigrate to ment was refusing to issue their great infrastructure while its Summer Club. For primary, about 30 work- values of voluntary work and the United States sued the US visas - won under the “diver- population was not very big. The second season of the shops were organised during the humanitarian cooperation. State Department yesterday for sity visa” program - because of “By giving permanent resi- club’s activities are being held first week Ruaa Summer Club The educational, moral and not processing their visa appli- the travel ban. dency to some expats, Qatar in three branches of Eid Women activities at the tree branches of recreational aspect for girls, cations after President Donald “This isn’t right, fair, or law- will bring a balance in its pop- Centers in Al Wakrah, Al Khor the centre in Al-Wakrah, Mar- where the Ruaa organised three Trump’s temporary travel ban ful, and we are willing to do ulation as well as the step will and Hezam Al Markhiya under rakah and Al Khor. trips during the first week to was reinstated. what it takes — including going also help migrants to inte- the theme of “Be the owner of a The workshops offered areas including Villagio com- The ban, which was blocked to court — to fight for the rights grate in society and own the fingerprint”. range of educational activities plex, Department of Civil by lower courts before being of our clients,” said Esther Sung, country. It is a win-win law The centre said that the pro- including life skills, The Holy Defense, (fire brigade) to raise partially reinstated by the an attorney at National Immi- for all,” he noted. grammes and events of Ruaa Quranic verses, and prayer and safety awareness and a recrea- Supreme Court in June, tempo- gration Law Center, one of the A Sri Lankan expat, Pan- Summer Club began last week, importance of volunteer works tional camp was held at rarily bars citizens of Yemen, organizations representing the talion Parera, who is working where the different type of and the need for individual to Semaisema under the supervi- Iran and four other Muslim- lottery winners. in Qatar for the last 17 years, activities were provided young have voluntary experiences in sion of experienced teachers. majority countries with no The US State Department said that he was very happy “bona fide” US connections declined to comment on pend- over the decision. Parera, from travelling to the United ing litigation. In the lawsuit, the Director of Al Bateel Security, States. The Supreme Court rul- winners asked the government said that the new law would ing sharply limited the number to process their visa applica- attract investors to Qatar as of people affected by the ban. tions before Sept. 30, which is they would be able to launch However, thousands of citizens when their eligibility for green business ventures. of the six countries who won a cards expires. “A winning lot- “It will help Qatar’s econ- randomised US government tery spot is a rare and precious omy and will also create lottery last year to apply for a thing. If our clients do not goodwill for the country so-called green card - granting receive their visas by Septem- across the world,” he added. them permanent residence in ber 30, they lose what may be Expats and citizens are also the United States - were left in their only chance at becoming lauding the decision on social limbo. Americans,” said Omar Jadwat, media terming it a great step A recent email from the US a director at the American Civil in the right direction while the government to lottery winners Liberties Union. The ACLU is international media has given still awaiting their visas warned another of the groups that extensive coverage to the “it is plausible that your case brought the suit on behalf of the development calling it a A view of an activity at Ruaa Summer Club. will not be issuable” due to the winners. “game-changer”. SATURDAY 5 AUGUST 2017 MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA 03 20 Palestinians dead in recent Al Aqsa flare-up: NGO

Palestine Vicious Cycle security forces. In mid-July, Agencies Israel imposed a raft of draco- According to the nian security measures at t least 20 Palestini- report, a total of 63 Jerusalem’s Al Aqsa Mosque ans were killed, Palestinians — complex after two Israeli police including five chil- including 15 children officers were killed at the site by dren, during a recent — had been killed by alleged Palestinian attackers. uptick in Israeli-Pal- Israeli forces since Israel later reversed the estinianA violence triggered by the beginning of this security measures — which had events related to Jerusalem’s year. included the installation of metal flashpoint Al Aqsa Mosque com- detectors — after Palestinian plex, according to a Palestinian The report also Muslims surrounded the area in NGO. states that the Israeli protest. In a report yesterday, the army detained over Yesterday, the Israeli army Abdullah Al Hourani Center for 600 Palestinians, arrested a Hamas member of the Research and Documentation including scores of Palestinian parliament at his (run by the Palestine Liberation home in the occupied West Bank minors, last month Organization) stated that 20 Pal- overnight, the Palestinian Pris- alone, while some estinians — from the West Bank, oners’ Club said yesterday . Jerusalem and the Gaza Strip -- 1,400 Palestinians Muhammed Abu Tir, 65, was had lost their lives during a were injured in arrested in a raid on his home Worshipers perform Friday prayer at Al Aqsa Mosque compound after lifting of Israeli restrictions flare-up of violence that first confrontations with near Ramallah, the group said, began in mid-July. Israeli security only two months ago after he in Jerusalem. According to the same report, forces. was released from a previous a total of 63 Palestinians — 17-month sentence. to be a terrorist group, as do the number of people from the parliament has not met since the including 15 children — had been 600 Palestinians, including The Israeli authorities, which United States and European 132-member Palestinian Legis- Islamist movement took over the killed by Israeli forces since the scores of minors, last month did not immediately respond to Union. Abu Tir is from east Jeru- lative Council currently jailed by Gaza coastal enclave in June beginning of this year. alone, while some 1,400 Pales- queries about the arrest, consider salem which he represents on the Israel, according to the Palestin- 2007, ousting Fatah forces loyal The report also states that the tinians were injured in the Islamist movement that has Palestinian Legislative Council. ian rights group Addameer. to Palestinian president Mahmud Israeli army detained more than confrontations with Israeli ruled the Gaza Strip since 2007 His arrest brings to 13 the The Hamas-dominated Abbas. Erdogan reopens historic mosque in Istanbul Rwanda counts votes as

Istanbul said, “Those who attack Turkey, Kagame eyes third-term Anatolia target our places of worship first.” “Allah willing, no one will Kigali his rebel army routed extrem- resident Recep Tayyip be able to silence the Muslim call AFP ist Hutu forces who slaughtered Erdogan reopened the his- to prayer,” he said. an estimated 800,000 people Ptoric Yildiz Hamidiye Erdogan said that Turkey wandan election officials -- mainly minority Tutsis -- and Mosque located in Istanbul’s was also building new monu- tallied votes yesterday seized Kigali. “He freed the Besiktas neighborhood ments, adding that it was Rfrom a presidential poll country, he stabilised the coun- yesterday. important to educate the com- expected to hand strongman try. Now we can walk anywhere During the opening cere- ing generations about religion, Paul Kagame a massive victory day or night without problems,” mony, Erdogan said that the culture and history. and third term at the helm of said Jean Baptiste Rutayisire, a Muslim civilisation in Iraq, Syria He said that the largest the east African nation. 54-year-old entrepreneur. and Jerusalem was under attack, mosque of Turkey, Istanbul’s “Kagame, Paul. Kagame, “He is an exceptional man. adding that it was important to Camlica Mosque will be com- Paul,” read out election officials You don’t change a winning protect the mosques and herit- pleted next year. from the vast majority of bal- team.” Like many other voters age left behind by our The restoration of the Yildiz lots at one polling station as AFP spoke to, Rutayisire didn’t ancestors. Hamidiye Mosque was carried counting began after a peace- know the names of the other “The legacy left behind by out by the Directorate General A supporter of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan takes ful day of voting across “the candidates, Frank Habineza of our ancestors has been inten- of Foundations at a total cost of a selfie with him during the re-opening of the Ottoman-era Land of a Thousand Hills.” the Democratic Green Party -- tionally destroyed,” he said. 27m Turkish liras. Yildiz Hamidiye mosque in Istanbul, yesterday. The electoral commission’s the only permitted critical Speaking about last sum- Adnan Ertem, Director-Gen- Charles Munyaneza said the opposition party -- and inde- mer’s defeated coup where eral of the foundation, said that years. The mosque was built 132 the Ottoman Sultan Abdulhamid process had seen “no major pendent candidate Philippe mosques were also targeted, he the mosque was restored in four years ago during the period of II. problems” and turnout had Mpayimana. Despite facing an been good among the 6.9 mil- unwinnable battle against Kag- lion registered voters taking ame in which opponents had part in the third election since only three weeks to campaign, Ethiopia lifts the end of the 1994 genocide. Habineza was upbeat after vot- Russian military police deploys in Homs Kagame, 59, is running against ing. “For the first time since 23 emergency two little-known candidates years an opposition party has Beirut truce was violated by govern- year. The deployment came seen as unlikely to pose any been in the ballot,” he told AFP thiopia yesterday lifted AP ment forces. hours after government forces threat to his Rwandan Patriotic by phone. Previously only inde- a state of emergency The truce that began on shelled the central town of Tal- Front’s (RPF) control. pendents and parties allied with Eimposed last October ussian military police Thursday and the deployment biseh just before midnight The lanky former guerilla Kagame fielded candidates. following months of protests deployed north of the are part of the third of four Thursday killing one person fighter cast his ballot at a school Habineza complained that that killed hundreds of Rcentral city of Homs yes- planned cease-fires reached in and wounding several others, in the capital just after midday, 100 of his 500 observers had people. terday, setting up checkpoints recent months under an agree- according to the Britain-based accompanied by his wife and not been allowed to enter poll- More than 29,000 people and observation points as part ment brokered by Russia, Iran Syrian Observatory for Human four children as loudspeakers ing stations for the first two were arrested during the of a cease-fire in a third safe and Turkey in May that aims to Rights and activist Mohammed blared music urging citizens to hours of voting. period and nearly 8,000 of zone in war-torn Syria, but “de-escalate” the violent Syr- Al Homsi who is based in Homs vote. Kagame was just 36 when them are on trial for taking opposition activists said the ian civil war, now in its sixth province. Voters at the school praised he became Rwanda’s de-facto part in the violence, Defence Kagame for his leadership since leader after the genocide. Minister Siraj Fegessa said. The unrest was provoked by a development scheme for the capital Addis Ababa and Artistic building turned into broader anti-gov- Former Netanyahu aide turns witness ernment demonstrations over politics and human rights abuses. It included attacks on Jerusalem Netanyahu himself. Harow has ThyssenKrupp and was arrested for businesses, many of them for- AFP already been supplying investiga- questioning last month before being eign-owned, including farms tors with information regarding two released. The investigations have growing flowers for export. sraeli Prime Minister Benjamin of the ongoing investigations into stirred Israeli politics and led to Netanyahu’s former chief of Netanyahu. One is based on suspi- speculation over whether Netan- staff who has been investi- cions that the premier unlawfully yahu will eventually be forced to Nine dead in gated in graft cases involving received gifts from wealthy sup- step down, which he is not formally the premier has agreed to turn porters, including Australian obliged to do even if testimony is Yemen air strike Istate witness, an official said billionaire James Packer and Hol- given against him. Netanyahu has yesterday. lywood producer Arnon Milchan. rejected any allegations of miscon- hree women and six Details of the agreement Also being probed is a suspicion duct in all the affairs, saying children from the same between Ari Harow and the pros- that Netanyahu sought a secret deal repeatedly that he is the target of a Tfamily were killed in an ecution have been placed under a with the publisher of top-selling campaign by political opponents. air strike on their home in gag order by a court, with an Israeli daily Yediot Aharonot. The 67-year-old has been northern Yemen yesterday, a official only confirming to AFP that The proposed deal, which is not prime minister since 2009 after a local health official said, the a deal has indeed been sealed. believed to have been finalised, first term in the years 1996-1999, latest in a series of attacks Harow, a US-born Israeli immi- would have seen Netanyahu receive and has seen legal troubles over since 2015. The head of the grant, worked for Netanyahu from positive coverage in return for him similar issues in earlier years. local health department, Dr 2009-10 and 2014-15, when he helping scale down the operations In 2000, prosecutors decided Abdel-Ilah Al Azzi, said the stepped down over allegations of of Israel Hayom, Yediot’s main there was insufficient evidence to attack at dawn on the family corruption. He has been under competitor. Netanyahu has been indict Netanyahu and his wife Sara home of Taha Al Dharafi in investigation for more than two questioned about both the cases. following an investigation. The Mahda district on the south- years on suspicion of bribery, Meanwhile, authorities were inves- probe then looked at whether they western outskirts of Saada breach of trust, conflict of interest tigating another affair involving unlawfully kept gifts presented to city, also injured three other and fraud, media reports said. alleged corruption around a deal to Netanyahu during his first term as people. “We are recording all It was not clear if under the buy submarines from Germany’s premier between 1996 and 1999. It the crimes of the enemy and state witness agreement, which ThyssenKrupp. also investigated whether the we will not forget them,” Azzi A graffiti mural on the wall of a building would secure Harow a lighter pun- Netanyahu himself is not a sus- Netanyahus had promised a Jeru- said. “All the criminals will be in Beirut’s downtown district depicting a ishment if he is convicted of the pect in the case, but his second salem contractor that he would be put on trial soon, God will- rhinoceros defaced with flowers and shrubs. alleged crimes, the former chief of cousin and family lawyer David paid out of the public purse for ing,” he added. staff would testify against Shimron represented work done on their residence. 04 ASIA SATURDAY 5 AUGUST 2017 Rahul’s car pelted with Kashmir protest stones in Gujarat town

Dhanera Dastardly act motorcade and injury to secu- IANS rity personnel clearly shows that The opposition it was a well-organised attack political slugfest broke out Congress called it a on Rahul Gandhi to harm him between the Congress “dastardly act by BJP physically.” and the ruling BJP after “We strongly condemn the A goons” and asked if Congress Vice President Rahul cult of violence for which the Gandhi’s car was yesterday Prime Minister BJP and its cadres are famous. stoned and windows broken by Narendra Modi could This is being deliberately done hostile black flag-waving answer the security by the BJP to create an atmos- crowds during his tour of a lapse in his home phere of fear in the state of flood-hit town in the state’s state. Gujarat just before the assem- Banaskantha district. bly elections. This is yet another The opposition Congress example of intolerance exhib- called it a “dastardly act by BJP spokesperson Randeep Singh ited by the BJP and its workers goons” and asked if Prime Min- Surjewala said: “Rahulji is an openly.” ister Narendra Modi could SPG protectee. An attack under As the Congress ridiculed answer the security lapse in his Gujarat BJP government’s watch Modi’s “sheer” aerial visit to the home state, while Deputy Chief reflects not only serious lapse flood-hit north Gujarat, the BJP Minister Nitin Patel claimed that but tacit complicity. Will the and Chief Minister Vijay Rupani Gandhi denied a bullet proof car Prime Minister answer?” asserted that Gandhi was milk- and kept on hopping from one Condemning the attack, ing a human tragedy for political Protestors clashing with government forces after the funeral procession of slain militant car to another in an “irrespon- Leader of Opposition in the ends and spent only a few min- Yawar Nissar at Shipora in Srinagar, yesterday. Two soldiers and two rebels were killed in sible” action. Rajya Sabha Ghulam Nabi Azad utes at affected places during his armed clashes on August 3, officials said. Congress national said: “The damage done to the tour.

NIA raids Kerala Aadhaar number not mandatory for registering deaths engineer’s home New Delhi “It is not mandatory,” the fraud or obviate the need for for the purpose of establishing “an offence as per the provisions on suspicion of IANS release said. producing multiple documents the identity of the deceased for of the Aadhaar Act, 2016, and Earlier, in a statement, the to prove his or her identity. The the purpose of death registra- also Registration of Birth and IS links he government said late government had said the Aad- Registrar General of India, under tion,” it added. Death Act, 1969,” it said. yesterday that use of Aad- haar number will be required for the Home Ministry, has issued It also said that an applicant The government has already Alappuzha Thaar number for the purpose of establishing the directions to states to ensure who is not aware of the made Aadhaar mandatory for fil- IANS registration of death of an indi- identity of the deceased for the compliance by registration deceased’s Aadhaar number or ing Income Tax returns and vidual is not mandatory. In a purpose of death registration authorities, the statement said. Enrolment ID Number will have provided for linking of PAN with National Investigation clarification issued in the night, from October 1. It said relatives “The RGI, in exercise of pow- to submit a certificate that the Aadhaar to curb tax evasion Agency team has raided it said reports that Aadhaar applying for a person’s death ers conferred under Section 3(3) deceased person did not possess through use of multiple PAN Aa Kerala engineer’s number was mandatory for reg- certificate will be required to of the Registration of Birth and Aadhaar number. cards. Aadhaar is also linked home near here while pursu- istration of death of an individual provide the dead person’s Aad- Death Act, 1969, directed that the If the applicant gives false with bank accounts for welfare ing a terror trail with Islamic were “totally incorrect”. haar number to prevent identity Aadhaar number will be required declaration, it will be treated as schemes or otherwise. State (IS) links, a top intelli- gence official said yesterday. Speaking on condition of anonymity, the official said the NIA team arrived on Thursday Vice-president poll today; Bastar airport to be made operational shortly night at the house the engineer, who was identified as a New Delhi regional connectivity scheme,” air connectivity, power, education, 24-year-old Muslim. result to be out by 7pm IANS an official statement said. health and banking sectors. “He was brought from The statement said the gov- “(Some) 4,433 km roads Kochi and according to our he Jagdalpur airport in res- ernment has a plan to connect have been constructed which information, they have been New Delhi tive Bastar region of Jeypore airstrip in Odisha under include 1,504 km road con- able to take possession of IANS TChhattisgarh will be made the scheme called UDAN -- “Ude structed during the last three mobile phones and laptops,” fully operational at the earliest Desh Ka Aam Nagrik” -- which years in the most difficult areas,” the official said. he stage is set for the vice under the central government’s was launched by Prime Minis- the statement said. After the raid, he was taken presidential election “common man flies” scheme. ter Narendra Modi in April from The Home Minister asked back to Kochi and his parents Ttoday, with numbers in This was disclosed on Jubbarhatti, an airport on the the officials to expedite the have been asked to appear favour of ruling NDA candidate Wednesday at a meeting called outskirts of Shimla. remaining roads at the earliest before the NIA team, he said. M Venkaiah Naidu (pictured) to review the status of develop- During the meeting yester- and expressed his concern over The NIA is following a lead who is most likely to become ment projects and security day, Rajnath Singh said the delay in submission of Detailed based on a case registered in the second person with RSS related issues in the Left Wing multipronged strategy compris- Project Reports (DPRs) by the March against eight IS support- background to occupy the sec- Extremism (LWE) affected ing of security, development, state governments. ers who held a secret meeting ond most important states. The meeting was chaired ensuring rights and entitlements Regarding electrification, in Kanakamala near Kannur. constitutional post. by Home Minister Rajnath Singh of local communities should be the meeting was informed that Barring one, the rest have been Naidu is pitted against two vacancies, while the Rajya here. vigorously pursued to defeat the the “remaining 717 villages” in arrested. According to those in opposition candidate Sabha has one vacancy. “Regarding air connectivity, left wing extremism. the left wing extremism affected the know of things, apart from Gopalkrishna Gandhi in the According to BJP officials, it was mentioned that the Jag- The meeting reviewed differ- areas will be covered under the raid in Alappuzha, the NIA election that will take place in apart from the NDA’s 81 Rajya dalpur airport will be ent development projects, intense electrification scheme LAO raidED two places at Parliament House with the elec- Sabha members and 338 Lok operationalised shortly under the including road requirement plan, shortly. Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu. toral college comprising 790 Sabha members, members of members of both the houses. both houses - of the AIADMK The ruling combine made last (50), YSR Congress (10) and the minute arrangements to muster Telangana Rashtra Samithi (14) maximum support, with Prime will also vote in favour of Naidu. Sushma Swaraj to attend Bimstec meeting in Nepal Minister Narendra Modi giving a With around support of 493 pep talk to MPs, including those members, Naidu is all set to from parties outside the NDA, at cross the magic figure of 394. New Delhi would discuss progress on the of Bengal Initiative for Multi-Sec- and southeast Asian countries a dinner hosted by him. The BJP leaders are hopeful of IANS implementation of the agenda of toral Technical and Economic along the rim of the Bay of In an effective electoral col- crossing the mark of 500. action agreed at the leaders’ Cooperation (Bimstec) compris- Bengal. lege of 787 members, Naidu Mahatma Gandhi’s grand- xternal Affairs Minister retreat and on all other agreed ing Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, With the South Asian Associ- seems to be in a comfortable son Gopalkrishna Gandhi, a Sushma Swaraj will travel areas of cooperation in the run- Myanmar, Nepal, Sri Lanka and ation for Regional Cooperation position as the NDA has a clear former West Bengal Governor Eto Nepal next week to up to the 4th Bimstec Summit to Thailand was held in Goa in (Saarc) virtually rendered inef- majority in the Lok Sabha and and a diplomat, has support of attend the 15th Bimstec Foreign be hosted by Bimstec chair, October last year on the margins fective as a bloc, largely due to has support of some political the Congress, the Left parties, Minister’s meeting to be held in Nepal, later this year, External of the BRICS (Brazil, Russia, India, non-cooperation on the part of parties from the south. Nationalist Congress Party, Kathmandu, it was announced Affairs Ministry spokesperson China South Africa) Summit. Pakistan in a number of areas, The Lok Sabha currently has DMK, Trinamool Congress, yesterday. Gopal Baglay said in his final The main objective of Bim- India has been giving more 543 members and the Rajya Bahujan Samaj Party and The meeting of the Bimstec weekly media briefing here. stec is technical and economic importance to Bimstec in recent Sabha 244. The Lok Sabha has National Conference. Foreign Ministers on August 10-11 The leaders’ retreat of the Bay cooperation among south Asian times. Darjeeling unrest threatens tea shortage

Darjeeling kilos of tea sold a year -- most of There have been predictions “almost 50 percent of the estates AFP which goes to Europe. that prices could rise more than will close down for at least two to But with a showdown 20 percent and some Darjeeling three years”. he world faces a shortage of between native Gorkas, who pro- tea gardens could take years to Tea Board India, the govern- prized Darjeeling tea vide the majority of plantation recover. “This year’s harvest is ment regulatory body, said only Tbecause of deadly unrest in workers, and the West Bengal gov- lost,” Sanjay Mittal, director of 140,000 kilograms (154 US tons) the idyllic Indian Himalayan foot- ernment now 50 days old, Ambiok Tea estate, told AFP, add- of tea was produced in June, a hills where it is grown. production fell by 90 percent in ing that “if the stalemate ends we plunge from 1.33 million kilos in In the dozens of lush green June. Tourism has also been badly hope to return next year”. the same month last year. plantations across the picturesque hit by the dispute in which the But Ankit Lochan, president The history and distinctive hill station, the June-August har- main Gorka group has halted har- of the Siliguri Tea Traders Associ- taste have made Darjeeling one of A supporter of a Gorkhaland state throwing a projectile at vest season normally provides the vesting and called for a shutdown ation, said that if the strike the world’s most recognised food bulk of the nearly eight million of the tea industry. continues for another few months, names. police during an indefinite strike at Darjeeling village, yesterday. SATURDAY 5 AUGUST 2017 ASIA 05

Troops retake Duterte makes Paktia district from Taliban Kabul education free Reuters AFGHAN security forces retook a district centre in the eastern province of Paktia yes- in varsities terday, following a sequence of fighting with Taliban insur- Manila Tuition fees to go gents that has seen control over AFP a series of strongpoints change The bill will spare all hands in recent days. resident Rodrigo students at Paktia police chief Tory- Duterte has signed a government-run alai Abdiani said that the law making educa- colleges and security forces took back tion at all state universities from control of Jani Khil district universities free, a paying tuition and and killed dozens of Taliban Ppalace official said yesterday, other fees: Official fighters. despite warnings from his eco- Jani Khil district centre, nomic advisors that the which sits on a major road Philippines cannot afford it. Economic officials from Pakistan into eastern Foreign ministers of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean) before the start of Duterte, who is known for had warned Duterte Afghanistan, fell to the Tali- the meeting of the executive committee of the ‘Southeast Asia Nuclear Weapon-Free Zone’, his populist leanings, believes not to approve the ban last month. in Manila, yesterday. the long-term benefits of the measure, which they The movement’s main measure outweigh the short- argue will cost some spokesman, Zabihullah Muja- term budgetary challenges, said $2bn a year and will hid, denied that it had lost Deputy Presidential Executive mainly benefit Philippines seeks Asean consensus control of the town. Secretary Menardo Guevarra. Abdiani said the troops wealthier students. “Free tertiary education in were advancing with caution state universities and colleges on North Korea response: Minister because of risk of roadside is a very strong pillar or corner- “Everyone including the bombs. stone of the president’s social economic managers will have Manila with the already isolated state. it’s a very hard decision.” Also yesterday, Afghan development policy,” he said. to focus their attention on this Reuters As the chairman of Asean, North Korea is determined forces battled Taliban fight- The bill will spare all stu- particular aspect: funding for the Philippines in the next few to develop a nuclear-tipped ers in Greshk district where dents at government-run this programme,” he added. he Philippines will seek days will host meetings of for- missile capable of hitting the the insurgents have control colleges and universities from Congressman Salvador agreement in Southeast eign ministers from 27 countries United States and officials in of nine of 14 districts, accord- paying tuition and other fees, Belaro, one of the authors of the TAsia on ways to engage that include Australia, China, Washington say its latest test last ing to US figures. he added. bill for free state college tuition, with North Korea, following India, Japan, Russia, North and Saturday showed it may be able Economic officials had warned it could cost some 500 pressure from the United States South Korea and the United to reach most of the country. warned Duterte not to approve billion pesos to fund the pro- to isolate Pyongyang over its States, at which Pyongyang’s China has urged calm and Students protest the measure, which they argue gram through to 2022. missile tests, Manila’s foreign missile tests are expected to take restraint from all countries will cost some $2bn a year and The Philippines has 114 minister said yesterday. centre stage. involved in the standoff. against Sri Lanka will mainly benefit wealthier state universities and colleges. The United States is “It’s a consensus-based It is unclear whether Asean students. Under Duterte’s proposed expected to press the Associa- organisation, so what I can do will take a tougher line on North medical varsity Guevarra said that now the budget for 2018, these institu- tion of South East Asian Nations is after the dinner tonight, in a Korea, as advocated by the measure had been signed, eve- tions have a total allocation of (Asean) and other Asian coun- huddle, consult the other mem- United States, or stick to its posi- Colombo ryone needed to work together 64.6 billion pesos. tries to take tougher action bers,” Foreign Minister Alan tion of calling for calm and AP to solve the key problem fac- This is out of a total educa- against North Korea, such as Peter Cayetano said. “I predict adherence to UN Security Coun- ing the new bill: funding. tion budget of 691.1bn pesos. “drastically” reducing dealings there will be two sides to it. So, cil resolutions. THOUSANDS of students from state-run universities finished a five-day march across Sri Lanka yesterday, demanding the government shut a private New members of Pakistan Cabinet sworn in medical university that they say could jeopardize the coun- try’s tradition of state-funded Islamabad job was often handled by one of Abbasi’s government issued education. AP his advisers, Sartaj Aziz. portfolios to the new ministers The students arrived in Abbasi named a young law- hours after Pakistani President Abbasi backs harassment the capital, Colombo, accom- akistan yesterday swore maker, Khuram Dastgir, as Mamnoon Hussain administered panied by trade union and in a new Cabinet, follow- defense minister. The move was the oath of office to the minis- probe against Imran Khan rights activists and opposition Ping a week of turmoil that seen as an effort by Abbasi to ters — all considered Sharif politicians, and rallied in front included the election of a new avoid confrontation with the loyalists — at a ceremony Islamabad of the main railroad station. prime minister after the resig- military. attended by diplomats, bureau- Reuters The issue has sparked nation of his predecessor, who Among those included in the crats and military officials. months of demonstrations was dismissed from office by the Cabinet was Ishaq Dar, a close Earlier this week, Abbasi akistan’s new prime minister called yesterday for an inves- in the island nation, with country’s Supreme Court for relative of Sharif who previously replaced Sharif, who was disqual- tigation into allegations that opposition leader Imran Khan doctors and students urging concealing family assets. served as finance minister. His ified by the country’s top court for Pharassed a woman lawmaker, charges Khan dismisses as the government to shut Prime Minister Shahid inclusion came as a surprise concealing assets, specifically that revenge for his role in the ouster of then-premier Nawaz Sharif. down the private South Khaqan Abbasi’s 43-member because of a Supreme Court his son’s Dubai-based company A furious social media backlash threatening violence against Asian Institute of Technol- Cabinet includes Foreign Min- order that he be charged with listed a monthly salary for him. Khan’s accuser, lawmaker Ayesha Gulalai, has also exposed raw ogy and Medicine, the only ister Khawaja Mohammad Asif, corruption. Sharif claimed he never received nerves about the treatment of women in Pakistan. private university training who served as Defence Minis- Sharif’s interior minister, any of that money. The case has been splashed across domestic media, at times medical students. ter in the government of former Chaudhry Nisar Ali Khan, was Sharif’s removal has been eclipsing the installation of a new cabinet led by Sharif’s ally, Sha- Rathkarawwe Jinar- Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif not in the new Cabinet — he had criticised by legal experts, who hid Khaqan Abbasi, as prime minister. athana, a Buddhist monk and until yesterday, when Sharif was resigned earlier this month over say the Supreme Court judges Abbasi told the National Assembly he wanted a special panel student leader, said the gov- disqualified by the court. disagreements with Sharif. Khan were influenced by the coun- to investigate the allegations. “We respect the person who has ernment wants to privatize Since coming into power in was replaced by Ahsan Iqbal, try’s powerful military, which made the accusation, but we also respect the accused, and it is education and weaken state- 2013, Sharif’s government had who was minister for planning has had a rocky relation with their right to be able to contest these allegations,” he said. funded education and health no foreign minister, though the and development. Sharif. services. Thailand fruit carving competition kicks off Public support for Abe rises

Bangkok started hundreds years ago. after Cabinet reshuffle AFP Thailand is rich with arts and Bloomberg his administration to fend off crafts. It’s like a very beautiful Tokyo challenges in a party leadership t is a royal tradition that has treasure that we have,” said election expected within a year. proved bountiful through the Araya Arunanondchai, the upport for Japanese Prime Abe brought two politicians Iages and one that Thailand’s event’s organiser. Minister Shinzo Abe recov- known for their criticism of his fruit carvers are determined to “In the old days, it was done Sered some ground in the administration into his cabinet, keep alive -- even as young peo- in the royal palaces for the royal first two opinion polls con- and endorsed the relatively ple peel away from the unique family,” she added. ducted after he reshuffled his dovish former foreign minister art form. Dozens of Thai artists com- cabinet this week and apolo- Fumio Kishida as a future party From beetroots carved into peted in the famous fruit and gised for the scandals that have leader. roses to fruity floats made from vegetable carving competition, tarnished his image. He also said the economy papayas and melons, the most which was organized in honour Kyodo news found support would be his top priority and important fruit carving compe- of Queen Sirikit, who turns 85 for Abe up 8.6 percentage softened his line on a divisive tition in Thailand took place in on August 12. points to 44.4 percent, while the plan to change the pacifist con- Bangkok yesterday. More than 20 teams carved Mainichi newspaper put sup- stitution -- saying the revisions But for competitor Piyanat anything from owls to elephants port for the prime minister at would not need to be completed Thiwato, carving is about more or intricate Thai designs onto 35 percent, up nine percentage by a fixed date. than just winning. fruits including taros, melons, points on the previous poll. Sixty-two percent of “Carving can improve our and papaya. Abe reshuffled his cabinet respondents to the Kyodo poll mind because it requires con- Fruit carving is still popular on Thursday in a bid to halt a said they had high expectations centration and enhances our as an offering in temples or as a nosedive in public approval for Seiko Noda, the new inter- imagination, it’s a way to relax,” decoration for weddings. Fine sparked by allegations of cro- nal affairs minister, who is he said. arts students can still choose to Thai man helps put together an elaborate decoration with nyism involving one of his close already reported to have said The tradition has been learn it at university, as they carved fruits and vegetables, during a fruit and vegetable friends, as well as gaffes and she will challenge Abe for the traced back to Thailand’s royal would take painting lessons. But carving competition, in Bangkok, yesterday. missteps by several ministers. leadership next year. Sukhothai dynasty, in the 14th the tradition is fading away. While his job is not in Fifty-six percent said they century. “Not so many young people who studied it in art schools can- Manirat Svastiwat na Ayutthaya, immediate danger, Abe needs had high expectations for For- “The art of food carving are interested in it or the ones not make a living out of it”, food carving expert said. to restore faith in eign Minister Taro Kono. 06 EUROPE SATURDAY 5 AUGUST 2017 SPD lose majority in Lower Saxony

Berlin Political turmoil state assembly of one of Germa- Reuters ny’s most important states. If the SPD loses power Lower Saxony hosts power- ne of Germany’s last in yet another state so ful companies such as centre-left coali- close to the election, it Volkswagen as well as one of tions composed of would hurt the party’s Germany’s richest agricultural the Social Demo- image nationwide and areas. crats (SPD) and be an unexpected Elke Twesten, a member of OGreens lost its one-seat major- boost for Merkel. the state assembly for the Greens ity in the Lower Saxony state since 2008, told a news confer- assembly yesterday when Greens ence at the state capital in deputy quit the party, a state SPD Some polls suggest Hanover she would join Merkel’s leader said. that the conservatives Christian Democrats (CDU). The surprise move is a and Greens would be “I see my political future with potential stumbling block for the able to muster enough the CDU,” she said, standing next SPD ahead of the September 24 support to form a to a conservative leader in Lower federal election, in which Chan- Saxony. She added she was a governing coalition Social Democrat Party (SPD) Minister President of Lower Saxony Stephan Weil during a press cellor Angela Merkel is seeking proponent of CDU-Greens coa- after September’s conference, in Hannover, yesterday. a fourth term. Her conservatives litions that are disputed in her hold a double-digit lead over the national election. party, especially in Lower SPD in national opinion polls. Saxony. Wuerttemberg and Hesse. 69 seats together in Lower Sax- leaders are calling for new If the SPD loses power in yet - Schleswig-Holstein and North “It wasn’t an easy step, but a Some polls suggest that the ony’s state assembly. The CDU elections. another state so close to the elec- Rhine-Westphalia. necessary one.” conservatives and Greens would now has 54 seats and Free Dem- There are only three SPD- tion, it would hurt the party’s It was not immediately clear The CDU and Greens were be able to muster enough sup- ocrats (FDP) have 14. Greens coalitions in Germany’s image nationwide and be an what would happen to Lower fierce adversaries decades ago port to form a governing The next election in Lower 16 federal states: Lower Saxony, unexpected boost for Merkel. Saxony’s SPD-Greens govern- at opposite ends of the political coalition after September’s Saxony is scheduled for 2018. Bremen and Hamburg. An SPD- The CDU has already toppled ment led by Stephan Weil. spectrum. national election. The SPD-Greens government Greens coalition ruled the two SPD-led governments in The SPD and Greens would They now rule together in Twesten’s move would mean there could try to continue with federal government from 1998 state elections this year have only 68 seats in the 137-seat several states including Baden- the two opposition parties have a minority government. CDU to 2005. Three dead as European fugitives get Switzerland plane crashes postcards from police Geneva The Hague Behind the humourous AFP AFP campaign though is a serious aim to drive people to the A plane crash at a Swiss sum- uropean police forces are Europol website in the hope of mer camp yesterday killed two sending a series of cheeky tracking down criminals 14-year-old campers and the E“wish you were here” wanted for serious, violent pilot, while leaving a third postcards this summer in a bid crimes or offences. teenager seriously injured, to track down 21 of the conti- “While most of us are police said. nent’s most wanted criminals. enjoying a well-deserved sum- The ride in the single- “Dear Artur, Belgian fries mer break, criminals are not engine plane was organised are the best and we know you taking time off from crime,” at the Aero-Club of Switzer- miss them. Come back to enjoy Europol said in a statement. land camp in the canton of them - we’ll have a nice sur- “Holiday destinations have Graubunden, police said, add- prise in store for you,” says one proven to be popular hiding ing that an investigation had postcard from Belgian police. places for criminals on the run.” been opened into the cause Complete with a cartoon of Since the launch of the of the crash in the mountain- the Manneken Pis, a bunch of “most wanted” list on www. People queue at the airport's control area during security staff strike at Terminal 1 of ous region. fries and a glass of beer, the eumostwanted.eu in January “My world has collapsed”, Barcelona-El Prat Airport, in Barcelona, yesterday. card is addressed to Artur 2016, a total of 36 people have Yves Burkhardt of the Aero- Nawrocki, who is on the run been found and arrested -- 11 Club said. after being convicted of drugs of them as a direct result of He said the flight was Chaos at Barcelona airport amid strike trafficking by a Brussels court information passed to Europol. meant to be the highlight in 2014. After a similar “advent cal- activity at the end of the Madrid Barcelona-based newspa- representatives of the workers The summer postcard cam- endar” campaign, three people week-long camp and that the AP per La Vanguardia reported to try to find a solution. paign by the European police were arrested, one of them a club had been operating queues of more than an hour Passengers flying from agency, Europol, was unveiled Brit who was recognised as a youth summer activities for ecurity workers checking long at what is the beginning of Barcelona have been suffering Friday as part of its ongoing ini- server in an Amsterdam bar, 35 years. carry-on luggage at Barce- one of Spain’s peak summer hol- delays of several hours to tiative to hunt down Europe’s Europol press officer Tine Hol- The aircraft was identi- Slona’s airport began partial iday weekends. reach the boarding area in most wanted criminals. levoet said. fied as a Piper PA28, a light strikes yesterday, threatening Government-ordered min- recent weeks because of the “Cher Farouk, You must “Dutch people saw the plane sometimes used for more queuing chaos for passen- imum services of 90 percent dispute, which centres on know that life is best in la douce advent calendar, they went to the training. gers at one of Europe’s most during the strike hours reduced demands for more staff and France. We hope you will return website, noticed the fugitive, and popular airports. the effect of the stoppages. better salaries. to us soon,” says the card from recognised him as somebody Spain’s airport authority, The workers’ union called The workers plan an indef- the French police, adding in working in the sports bar. Two Bear mauls Orsa AENA, said that during the first the periodic stoppages for Fri- inite strike as of August 14 if French “we miss you!” days later he was arrested,” she of four strike hours, passengers day, Sunday and Monday after their demands are not accepted. He was sentenced in absen- said. “And that’s exactly what we Park zookeeper had to queue for some 40 min- talks failed to end the dispute The association of Spanish tia in 2009 to 20 years in jail want with this campaign.” utes to get through the security with the private company, airline companies, ACETA, said for several violent, armed bank Even criminals like to go on filter but that this dropped to 20 Eulen, which runs the service at some 1,000 people have missed robberies and is believed to holiday where “life is good... to death minutes when the stoppage El Prat airport. their flights since July 24 have lived in France, Belgium good weather, beaches, good ended. AENA officials met with the because of the dispute. and The Netherlands. food,” she added. Stockholm AFP

A zookeeper died after he was savaged by a bear yesterday at Nine missing in Russia’s Europe’s biggest predator park, Swedish police said. The 19-year-old man was diamond mining accident cleaning inside an enclosed area at Orsa Predator Park in Moscow equivalent of 120 Olympic-size the central county of Dalarna AFP swimming pools, the emergency “when the bear most likely situations ministry said. managed to dig through the escuers at one of Russia’s Russian television said the fence and attacked” him, largest diamond mines rescue operation at the mine in police said in a statement. Rwere searching yesterday the Sakha region some 4,160 km The man later died from for 9 miners still unaccounted east of Moscow was hindered by his injuries, they said. for after water leaked into an a power cut that stopped the lift Swedish public broad- underground shaft with more system from working. caster SVT said the animal, a than 100 workers inside. Alrosa said that 133 people young brown bear, was put Alrosa, Russia’s largest dia- had been evacuated from the down after the attack. mond producer, said in a mine named Mir, or peace in The Orsa park says it statement that “nine people are Russian, while nine people includes large northern-hem- being searched for” after water remained unaccounted for. The rescue operation at the Mir diamond mine in the Sakha region some 4,160km east of isphere predators, including broke through into the mine at It corrected a previous Moscow, yesterday, polar bears. around 0730 GMT. number of 151 miners inside, say- In 2012, a 30-year-old The water leaked into one of ing that nine of those people had the accident, his spokesman said in a statement that it was the Sakha region’s governor zookeeper died after she was the mine’s pumping stations out in fact not entered the shaft. Dmitry Peskov said. carrying out a check into possi- Yegor Borisov, who brought attacked in a wolf enclosure of a flooded disused crater that Russian President Vladimir The Sakha region’s branch ble safety violations at the mine. additional backup including sur- at Kolmarden Zoo in central contained some 300,000 cubic Putin, who visited Siberia this of the Investigative Committee, Alrosa’s president Sergei geons and doctors specialising Sweden. metres of water, or the morning, has been briefed about which probes serious crimes, Ivanov flew to the scene as did in emergency medicine. SATURDAY 5 AUGUST 2017 EUROPE 07 Irish PM calls for end to Brexit logjam

Belfast ‘Unique solutions’ between the Republic of Ireland Reuters and Northern Ireland, but he did Varadkar said a not say where they should be rish Prime Minister Leo bilateral customs placed instead. Varadkar called yesterday union could be based There have been no customs for the European Union and on one the EU or immigration checks on the Britain to find “unique solu- currently has with 500km border since the Euro- tions” to their Brexit logjam, Turkey. “If we have pean single market came into Iincluding a bespoke customs one with Turkey. effect in 1993. About 30,000 union. That would solve the Surely we can have people cross every day without problem of a hard border in Ire- one with the United any border checks. land once Britain has left the EU, The future of that border is Kingdom?” something that is of great con- one of three issues—along with cern to Dublin . EU citizens’ rights and British Varadkar, a new face at EU He also suggested that budget payments to the EU -- on summits since taking office in the EU may be which Brussels says there must June, also suggested Brussels considering be “significant progress” before may accede to Britain’s insist- compromise on its talks can begin on the free-trade ence that a post-Brexit body insistence that the deal London wants. other than the European Court European Court of Varadkar also suggested that of Justice oversee bilateral issues, Justice (ECJ) oversee the EU may be considering com- such as citizens rights and avia- promise on its insistence that the key elements of any tion regulation. European Court of Justice (ECJ) future relationship. He said, however, that all oversee key elements of any these “practical solutions” would future relationship, such as citi- need to be asked for and would Ireland's Prime Minister Leo Varadkar during a press conference at Queen's University, in zens’ rights to live in the United not be offered. allowed,” he told students at the Belfast, yesterday. Kingdom and the oversight of Varadkar was speaking in Great Hall at Queen’s University regulation of sectors like avia- the British province of Northern in Belfast . British Prime Minister British membership of the The issue of how the Repub- tion and nuclear power. Ireland as part of a drive to find In a wide-ranging speech Theresa May has said Britain will European Free Trade Agreement lic and Northern Ireland will fare May’s opposition to any a compromise that would avoid during his first visit to Northern leave the EU’s customs union was also an option, or failing is particularly sensitive given the oversight by the ECJ has been a a hugely damaging hard border Ireland as Irish prime minister, when it leaves the bloc in order that, Britain could remain in the decades of violence in the prov- key stumbling block in talks. being erected across the island Varadkar made several propos- to pursue its own trade agree- single market and the customs ince over whether it should be “At the moment the mecha- of Ireland. als to try to break the Brexit ments with countries around the union during a transition phase, part of Britain or Ireland. nism by which most European Dublin is hoping compromise logjam. world. he said. Around 3,600 people were agreements are upheld is can be reached ahead of a key He said a bilateral customs A bilateral customs union Ireland, which after Brexit killed before the 1998 peace through the European Court of Brexit summit in October, which union could be based on one the would appear to imply that both will have the EU’s only land bor- agreement. Justice and the United Kingdom Varadkar described as a “historic EU currently has with Turkey. “If sides would be free to strike der with the United Kingdom, is Varadkar last week said his has indicated it no longer wishes meeting for this island.” we have one with Turkey. Surely deals with third parties, though widely seen as the EU country government would oppose any to be part of. So we would need “Time is running out and I we can have one with the United Varadkar did not provide detail most exposed to the fall-out from customs posts or immigration to develop some other mecha- fear there will be no extra time Kingdom?” he said. of the proposal. Britain’s leaving. checks on the land border nism,” Varadkar said. Romania to impose cap on military pensions EU imposes new

Bucharest European Union member state wages and there will come a for the retiring personnel from Reuters will miss its fiscal deficit target moment when the budget could intelligence agencies, the Russia sanctions of 3.0 percent of gross domestic not afford that,” Defence Minis- defence and interior ministries, omania’s Social Democrat- product. ter Adrian Tutuianu said. aviation and lawmakers. Brussels led government said Pay deals granted to several The average military special It did not say how many spe- AFP “The EU has added Ryesterday it would cap areas of the bloated public pension stands at $856.98 per cial pensioners it has. The plan three Russian special pensions for the military administration including the month, Tutuianu said. In com- to cap their pensions has led to he EU expanded its Rus- and secret services to keep army, secret services, police and parison, the average pension for a wave of requests for early sia sanctions blacklist nationals and three spending in check. lawmakers mean their pensions the 5.2 million state pensioners retirement in the military over Tyesterday, targeting three companies involved A number of wage increases get hiked in line with special stands at a little under $260.32. the last few weeks. people and three companies in the transfer of and tax cuts have raised con- wage rises in their sectors even The government plans to Also yesterday, the govern- involved in diverting gas tur- gas turbines to cerns with the European after retirement. approve an emergency decree ment will approve a decree that bines sold by German firm Commission and the Interna- “We are in a situation where that raises special pensions only caps pay for maternity leave at Siemens to Ukraine’s Russian- Crimea to the list of tional Monetary Fund that the some pensions are higher than in line with inflation $2,137.68 per month. annexed Crimea region. persons subject to The three individuals, restrictive measures including Russia’s deputy energy minister, will immedi- in respect of actions UK lifts laptop ately be subject to an asset undermining freeze and a travel ban, the Ukraine’s territorial ban on flights 28-nation European Union said integrity, sovereignty in a statement. and independence.” from Jordan The measures come despite the fact that the EU just days Amman ago bitterly criticised the United AFP States over fresh sanctions tar- had now been targeted by indi- geting Russia for election vidual sanctions against BRITAIN lifted a ban on per- meddling, on the grounds that Russia. sonal electronic devices for it could harm European energy Siemens said last month it flights from Amman’s Queen firms. was scaling back its Russian Alia International Airport to “The EU has added three operations after finding out that the UK the national carrier Russian nationals and three the four turbines had been “ille- Royal Jordanian said. companies involved in the gally” modified and moved to “Effective August 4, 2017, transfer of gas turbines to Cri- Crimea, which Russia annexed Royal Jordanian passengers mea to the list of persons in March 2014. are allowed to carry these subject to restrictive measures The new sanctions target electronic devices in the in respect of actions undermin- Russia’s vice energy minister cabin,” the airline said in a ing Ukraine’s territorial Andrey Cherezov, a senior statement. integrity, sovereignty and inde- energy ministry official respon- The US instituted the lap- pendence,” the EU statement sible for electricity projects in top ban in March for eight said. Crimea, and the head of a Rus- North African and Middle East The European Union -- sian company who led countries based on intelli- which has a strict policy of negotiations with Siemens over gence that the IS group was refusing to recognise Moscow’s the original import of the tur- A file photo of Denmark's Queen Margrethe and Prince Henrik during Queen Margrethe's working to build a bomb into annexation of Crimea -- said bines, according to the EU’s 76th birthday celebration at Amalienborg Palace, in Copenhagen, Denmark on April 16, 2016. a tablet or laptop. 153 people and 40 companies official legal journal. Prince Henrik refuses burial beside Queen Copenhagen Hovbakke Soerensen, an expert relation to his spouse,” Balleby Aldi stops selling eggs amid pesticide scare AP in Danish history. was quoted as saying. Lene Balleby, the spokes- “Any man who is not equal Frankfurt the temporary shut-down of state authorities were working he husband of Denmark’s woman for Denmark’s royal to his spouse is not worthy to be Reuters some poultry farms and to to examine all egg supplies and Queen Margrethe is caus- house,said that the France-born buried in the same grave,” Hen- supermarkets halting the sale determine where they origi- Ting a stir in one of the Henrik has “for years been dis- rik said yesterday, according to iscount supermarket of eggs from the Netherlands. nated or were processed. world’s oldest monarchies. satisfied with his role and the the Ekstra Bladet tabloid. chain Aldi is withdraw- Fipronil is considered by “The situation is under Prince Henrik has title.” A change to the Danish Con- Ding all eggs from sale at the World Health Organization control, but we cannot give the announced he won’t be buried Margrethe acceded to the stitution in 1953 allowed female its more than 4,000 stores in to be moderately toxic, with all-clear signal yet ... We are next to Margrethe in the throne in 1972 and became Den- succession, paving the way for Germany as a precaution, it high doses leading to feelings taking this very seriously,” Roskilde cathedral, where Dan- mark’s first female monarch in Margrethe to become the mon- said yesterday, as a scare over of nausea and dizziness. Very Schmidt told the Straubinger ish royals have been buried centuries. The 83-year-old arch. Even before that, Henrik the possible contamination of large quantities can cause Tagblatt/Landshuter Zeitung since 1559. She has had a spe- prince has long complained that wouldn’t have become king. eggs with insecticide spreads. damage to the internal organs. newspaper group. He urged cially designed sarcophagus he didn’t become king instead. “This is the culmination of Traces of insecticide German Agriculture Minis- consumers to check any made for the couple there. “The decision not to be bur- his grumbling in the past...a way fipronil were found in eggs in ter Christian Schmidt said the already purchased eggs against “Traditions are important to ied beside the queen is the to say to Danes and Denmark, Belgium and the Netherlands likelihood of a health hazard lists of affected supplies that all monarchies so this is felt natural consequence of not hav- ‘Thanks, but no thanks,’” Hov- last month, which has led to was very unlikely, but German were available online. pretty violently,” said Lars ing been treated equally in bakke Soerensen said. 08 VIEWS SATURDAY 5 AUGUST 2017

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recisely two months into the blockade, Qatar has proved beyond doubt that the capricious “June 5 Siege” slapped on the country by the PSaudi-led bloc was a farce. As a confident Qatar marches ahead with resolute, the siege countries look drifted and confused. The outcome of their latest meeting in Manama explains how confused the Saudi- In the UAE, US finds an led bloc is. As Qatar’s Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani has succinctly put it ‘the meeting of the foreign ministers of the blockading countries in Bahrain has added ally and a headache contradictions to previous contradictions’. The fact is that, 60 days after the Saudi-led coun- tries had laid the siege to Qatar, the bloc is on a back In the years that followed, the UAE militants. That support violated a United foot. It has failed to convince international community Kareem Fahim & Missy Ryan began sending troops to Western-backed Nations arms embargo. on its reasons. Thanks to Qatar’s well-calibrated public The Washington Post conflicts, including the 1991 Persian Gulf US officials also saw Hifter as an diplomacy. A high-voltage global media campaign War, Somalia, the Balkans and Afghani- obstacle to a political solution. The last unleashed against Qatar has also fallen flat. stan. The kingdom is building out a series straw was a major shipment from the UAE Political pundits believe that ‘Saudi bit more than it As a vicious civil war erupted in of bases in Africa that will give it even of armoured and other vehicles to Hifter could chew’. When the blockading countries Yemen two years ago and triggered greater military reach. The Emiratis have that drew a stern response from the announced the erratic decision, they would have international alarm, the United States also embarked on an extended spending administration of Barack Obama. hardly imagined that things would go this way. They warned the combatants to step back. spree. In addition to obtaining F-16s, they “What we want in Libya is a stable, thought a blockade can shake the economic founda- But its efforts were quietly under- were the first US ally to acquire a THAAD, secular government,” Otaiba said. “It’s the tion of Qatar and the country would soon capitulate minedA by one of the most trusted US regional a sophisticated missile defence system. same thing we want in Syria; it’s the same under the Saudi and Emirati pressure. Qatar’s political allies: the United Arab Emirates. They are now hoping to buy F-35 Joint thing we want in Yemen. Secular.” leadership was wise enough to realise that the block- Hundreds of people had died in battles and Strike Fighters, the Pentagon’s most Within days of his May 2015 visit, ade was nothing but a direct challenge to the country’s airstrikes. But the UAE, part of a Saudi Arabia-led advanced fighter aircraft, which cost Kerry was able to secure a pause in the sovereignty and the fundamentals of international military coalition that is supported by the United $100m apiece. fighting in Yemen. But like other cease- relations. Qatar pulled no punches in its efforts to send States, encouraged its partners to resist then- Andrew Exum, who served as the sen- fires since, it crumbled after a few days. the message that ‘no one Secretary of State John Kerry’s appeals for peace ior Pentagon official for Middle Eastern More than two years later, thousands should expect it to swallow talks or a cease-fire. issues until this year, said sophisticated have been killed by coalition airstrikes, the bitter fruit that is “Yemenis should be firm, as the secretary is a weaponry is not the UAE’s biggest military artillery shelling and gunfights. Millions of Siege countries harmful to its sovereignty.’ persuasive speaker,” Mohammed bin Zayed Al asset. “What distinguishes them is the dili- Yemenis are threatened by starvation and must realise that In a month’s time, Nahyan, a senior Emirati leader, told Yemen’s gence with which they have gone about disease. in this world Qatar tore the sham; and prime minister as Kerry headed to the region in investing in all of the unsexy things” Talk of a political solution has grown of matured exposed the fallacy of the May 2015. The Arab Gulf states also should needed to build a capable military, he faint. The UAE joined the Saudi-led coali- blockade. Official data “stand firm,” the prince said, according to a said, including logistics and training. tion after a Shia rebel group known as the geopolitics, there proves that the blockade meeting summary that was part of leaked Emir- Emirati officials say it was the per- Houthis ousted Yemen’s government. The is no place for has failed to influence the ati diplomatic emails shared with The ceived threat from Iran that jump-started UAE, like its Saudi partners, viewed the bullying other country’s economic and Washington Post. The meeting hinted at the their drive to build a modern military and Houthis as an Iranian proxy force - a nations. financial market funda- UAE’s drive for influence across the Middle East, test their forces beyond their borders. characterisation that American officials at mentals. The figures using military power, diplomacy and covert They also have seen the need to counter the outset of the war said was exagger- released by the Ministry of means to bolster allies and counter rivals. Its role the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood and any ated. Some in the Obama administration Development Planning and in Yemen and other recent actions has caused political or armed groups they see as an also warned their gulf allies that the inter- Statistics (MDPS) suggest Qatar’s exports of LNG were friction with the United States, complicating their extension of that movement. vention was ill-conceived, according to not hurt during the blockade. June exports of petro- decades-long military relationship. “It really has to do with geography Robert Malley, the former White House leum gases and other gaseous hydrocarbons climbed Already, the UAE’s rise as a top-tier US mili- and the threats we grew up with from day coordinator for the Middle East, North 15.8 percent, from a year earlier. tary ally had set it apart from other Arab nations, one,” said Yousef Al Otaiba, the UAE’s Africa and the gulf. Eager to smooth things Despite the blockade, analysts are projecting a enhancing its outsized ambitions and regional ambassador to the United States and a over with gulf nations angered by brighter outlook for Qatari economy. National Bank of clout. Now, the two nations appear poised to central figure in the country’s successful Obama’s nuclear negotiations with Iran, Kuwait (NBK) in its economic update on Qatar, noted expand their partnership even further under US lobbying efforts. Otaiba, a tireless pro- administration officials decided to give the country’s growth is expected to pick up to 2.5 per- President Donald Trump, as his administration’s moter of the view that the UAE is a the Saudi-led effort military support, but cent in 2017 from 2.2 percent in 2016. The growth is “America First” doctrine translates into a more stabilising force in the Middle East, has hoped to minimise US involvement and expected to accelerate to 3.1 percent in 2018. The Qatar aggressive stance against Iran and an expanded made inroads with key Trump adminis- accelerate a political settlement, he said. stock market staged a remarkable turnaround in July campaign against Al Qaeda militants on the Ara- tration officials, including Jared Kushner, Privately, Emirati officials seemed to emerge as the second best performing market in the bian peninsula. Admiring U.S. generals, including the president’s son-in-law and adviser. worried, too. With Western media cover- GCC. Secretary of Defence Jim Mattis, refer to the UAE But the Emirati view of stability, its age “primarily” focused on Yemen’s But Qatari resistance to the blockade is not without as “Little Sparta” and call it a model for how critics say, has included a troubling humanitarian crisis, the UAE was “losing any pain. Private companies, public institutions and regional allies could reduce the counterterrorism embrace of autocratic leaders who share the moral high ground fast,” Otaiba wrote individuals have lost billions of dollars. Qatar has burden on the United States. its antipathy to Iran or Islamists and its to a colleague in July 2015, according to announced the formation of a committee to pursue But tensions in the alliance were brought to intolerance of any political dissent. hacked emails distributed by a group. compensation. the fore last month when American intelligence That stance has created headaches for A feud between UAE-backed southern The blockading forces may play more cards. But officials said that the UAE had orchestrated the the United States, including in Libya. separatists and the Yemeni government, they must realise that in this world of matured geopoli- hacking of a Qatari government website - a While Emirati pilots played a central role which is based in Saudi Arabia, may com- tics, there is no place for bullying other nations; and the move that inflamed a longtime rift between in the 2011 intervention that toppled plicate a settlement of the war. The UAE Saudi-led bloc is not going to achieve its goals. America’s Gulf allies and thrust the White House Moammar Gaddafi, US officials grew frus- has also supported ultraconservative Sun- into the uncomfortable role of mediator. trated in the years that followed as the nis known as Salafis, undermining its talk UAE and American interests have also UAE, along with Egypt, of a “secular” region. diverged in Libya, where US officials com- quietly provided military Reports by the Associated Press and plained that the UAE was thwarting peace and financial support to Human Rights Watch in June alleged that efforts. Yemen’s brutal conflict has exposed the Gen. Khalifa Hifter, a the UAE or forces loyal to it maintained a QUOTE OF THE DAY United States to accusations of complicity in powerful figure who led a network of secret prisons in southern war crimes because of its support for the UAE violent campaign against Yemen. Witnesses told the AP that in at and its Gulf allies. “The danger of creating an Islamist forces, including least one of the facilities, where detainees independent military capability is that you cre- were being tortured, US forces were The UN has been ate an independent military capability,” a present. Emirati officials denied they former senior US official said. “It’s great that we Tensions in the alliance maintained secret detention centres or involved since its have a partner in the Emiratis, but we don’t were brought to the fore tortured prisoners. US officials told the AP inception with the always see eye to eye.” last month when American that military leaders looked into the alle- question of Palestine and In 1981, just a decade after the UAE became intelligence officials said that gations and were satisfied that US forces will remain involved until independent, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, were not present when any abuses now the crown prince of Abu Dhabi, flew to the UAE had orchestrated occurred. the question is resolved Washington with grand ambitions of buying US the hacking of a Qatari Ryan Goodman, a former Pentagon in all its aspects on the fighter jets that would bolster the military capa- government website, that official who teaches law at New York Uni- basis of international law. bilities of the oil-rich monarchy and transform versity, co-authored a recent report that his country into a global power. Instead, he “felt thrust the White House into concluded the United States, because of that he was laughed out of town,” a former US the uncomfortable role of its support for UAE operations in Yemen, Riyad Mansour diplomat said. “No one knew about the UAE. mediator. may hold legal responsibility for illegal Palestinian Ambassador to UN Who was this kid?” detention practices. SATURDAY 5 AUGUST 2017 OPINION 09 Perception operations of mainstream media and facts

vehicles of municipalities while anti-coup generals the Presidential or half-presidential Harun Yahya and citizens destroyed airport runways. Mean- system -used in many countries of while, the announcement by the rest of the Turkish The July 15th coup was the world- which has been adapted armed forces stating they rejected the coup caused staged by 171 generals to the conditions of Turkey. In the the failure of the coup. many times more than the new constitution, there is not a par- If these unanticipated incidents, unseen in pre- number of generals who ticular article related to Mr. Erdoğan. vious coups, did not occur, it would not be possible Whoever wins the elections will be for such a powerfully orchestrated coup to fail. commanded previous coups the President and they will have the or the last five years in particular, Turkey has The slander that Turkey does not struggle in Turkey. The impossibility authority specified in the Constitu- been, on one side, tackling with the indirect against ISIS, and even supports it of convincing so many tion. Turkey is one of the countries effects of the disasters that have enveloped When ISIS was included in the terror organiza- high-ranking people in in the world with the safest election its neighbours Syria and Iraq. On the other tion list of Turkey in 2013, it was not in the list of environment where turnout is the hand, she struggles against serious challenges any other country at that time. Britain, Russia, Jor- the military to play a highest. Yet it seems those who Fsuch as coups, uprisings, the PKK terror group and the dan, Israel, Italy, France, Saudi Arabia, Egypt and “coup theatre” is obvious. could not have find a reasonable FETO parallel state structure. In this multi-dimensional many other countries only subsequently pro- Furthermore, this coup pretext for claims of dictatorship for struggle, it could not have received some of its Western claimed ISIS as a terror organisation. Mr. Erdoğan hope for help from the allies’ support she anticipated. Meanwhile she is pre- ISIS has carried out around 10 wide-scale, was the first one in Turkish referendum results. sented to the international public as the guilty party, bloody terror acts in Turkey and the organization history in which aircraft and The media in question inten- even regarding the issues that she is most right about. issued a death fatwa against Mr. Erdoğan. Similarly ships were used. sively uses many similar unfounded In this organised perception operation, the main- the anti-ISIS coalition is deployed from Incirlik claims with a “mud-slinging” stream Western media plays a leading role as always. airbase in Turkey and the Turkish army purged the rationale. However, such defama- At every opportunity, a cruel perception operation is Syrian city al-Bab from ISIS. While this is the case, curbed because of the state of emergency: tion may be influential over people carried out by means of this media in order to erode it is obvious that the claims of Turkey supporting Although so far Turkey has faced many coup in different parts of the world who Turkey and foment a worldwide negative perception ISIS are only speculative at best. Meanwhile, eve- attempts and terror acts which were more brutal do not have enough information of Turkey. Some prominent American media institu- rybody is well aware that such accusations are than those in European countries, and although about the region and Turkey. tions, think tanks and a major part of the European familiar tactics employed to create pressure on they’ve occurred on a more frequent basis, it has Recently it can be seen that press support this campaign, which is led and orches- countries or to intensify black propaganda. an emergency state environment, which is more such perception operations - with trated by some mainstream British media organs. Unfounded news suggesting there exists no free than the one in France. While armed soldiers similar purposes and slanders - are The question is: Is Turkey really a country of disasters freedom of thought and freedom of press and that started to patrol London streets following only a becoming widespread in some as presented by these circles or does she face a giant democracy does not function in Turkey: single terror act in Britain, citizens in Turkey do Islamic countries. All these are the campaign of defamation? To have a better grasp of this It is true that there are some journalists and not even notice the state of emergency. Even tour- part of the plot designed to weaken issue, we need to look at the primary claims and related deputies are in Turkish prisons, though the number ists are aware that the daily life in Turkey is not the powerful countries of the justifications put forth by the institutions in question: The is not as many as claimed. Too much speculation is affected by the state of emergency. Islamic world and then to set them claim that July 15th coup attempt was a “controlled coup”, made on this issue and perception is generated as if The state of emergency in Turkey only brings against one another; the ultimate a fiction staged by Mr Erdoğan and his followers: these people have been put in jails because of their regulations that limit the mobility of terror organi- goal is to destroy the entire Islamic The July 15th coup was staged by 171 generals many thoughts. However, these people were not arrested zations and coup plotters. The reason why some world. Against this insidious plot, times more than the number of generals who com- because of their personal views or political identi- media uses the state of emergency as a pretext is there is no way out other than an manded previous coups in Turkey. The impossibility of ties. They were convicted because of their verified to irritate European countries and find a guise for alliance of the Islamic world. convincing so many high-ranking people in the mili- direct or organic links to terror organizations such the slander “the freedoms are being curbed.” The writer has authored some tary to play a “coup theatre” is obvious. Furthermore, as the PKK, FETÖ, DHKP-C, KCK and MLKP. Today The Claim that the Referendum of April 16th 300 books in 73 languages on politi- this coup was the first one in Turkish history in which in the US, Britain or the European countries, let made Mr. Erdoğan a dictator: cal, faith-related and scientific issues aircraft and ships were used. 35 aircraft, 37 helicopters, alone advocating a terror organization’s views The new constitutional referendum held in which have been read by millions of 246 tanks and armored cars and three ships were used openly, even implying it is a cause for immediate Turkey on April 16th was concluded with the “yes” people, exerting considerable influ- in the coup. arrest and maltreatment of that person no matter campaign prevailing. Following this outcome some ence on both Muslims and It was certainly the bloodiest coup in Turkish his- what his identity might be. European media organs resorted to outright hate non-Muslims all over the world. tory. 248 people, many of them civilians, were Surely we hope that these people are released speech. Some examples are as follows: martyred while more than 1500 people were injured. by the courts pending trial, and these arrests no The Economist: “Turkey is sliding into dictator- F-16s bombed the Police Special Operations Center, longer become a pretext for any terror provoca- ship “... The Financial Times: “A bitter victory for the Turkish Parliament, the Presidential Palace, the tions. However, when we consider Turkey’s Turkey’s new sultan “... The Independent: “Erdog- MIT complex and many other official and private current situation, taking extra precautions in many an’s ‘rigged referendum’ will make Turkey prey for institutions. Despite all this, some conditions which issues would seem rightful. the country’s many enemies “... Bild: “German were unseen in previous coups caused the failure of Some of these journalists and politicians were Turks voted for a despot “... Spiegel Online: “ Turks D-RING ROAD the coup. The real reason why the coup failed was the convicted of disclosing state intelligence secrets to have voted to give their autocratic president even POST BOX: 3488 thousands of citizens who took to the streets upon Mr. the public. Not only in Turkey but in all countries more power “... Frankfurter Allgemeine: “Through Erdoğan’s call and the resistance they showed against of the world, this is treason, which is an offense. the wild Erdoğanistan “... DOHA - QATAR the coup plotter soldiers. The entrances of barracks The claim that the state of emergency in Tur- However, the constitutional proposal accepted [email protected] and routes of tanks were blocked by trucks and heavy key is unnecessary and that people’s freedoms are by the referendum is simply a version of

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LOCAL NEWS SECTION ew York property developer TEL: 4455 7743 Mike Angeliades has wanted to create a golf resort in his native BUSINESS NEWS SECTION Greece for quarter of a cen- TEL: 4462 7535 tury. But just when the plan Nseemed within reach, the past caught up SPORT NEWS SECTION with him. Three years ago Angeliades won TEL: 4455 7745 a state-sanctioned competition to develop a beachfront property on Rhodes, the ONLINE SECTION Aegean island he left as a teenager. Then TEL: 4462 7501 last year the authorities dropped a [email protected] bombshell. “The then culture minister ... declared PUBLIC RELATIONS the whole area an archaeological site,” he told Reuters. Now the project to invest up TEL: 4455 7613 to 400 million euros ($470m) is stalled. [email protected] “We are still waiting for an answer from the ministry on what they plan to do.” ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Angeliades, who emigrated to the TEL: 4455 7837 / 780 United States in 1960, is among a number Tourists walk outside the entrance to the Acropolis Museum in Athens, yesterday. FAX: 4455 7870 of foreign investors ready to plough large [email protected] sums into a country just emerging from economic depression, only to wonder if beautiful coastline from excess development, how- on its ideological rejection of privatisation and accepted the CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT they’re really welcome. ever pressing the need to raise cash. Publicly, the development under a third international bailout deal for TEL: 4455 7857 Conflicts between development and Greek state says it is actively pursuing investments. Greece. [email protected] conservation affect many countries. But in But the track record seems to tell a different story But the problems weren’t over. Greek authorities delayed Greece concerns for the environment and sometimes, especially in the case of a waterfront decisions on whether part of the old airport buildings should SUBSCRIPTION & DISTRIBUTION antiquities are combining with labyrin- property that was once the site of Athens airport. be classified as historic, and on the course of action should TEL: 4455 7809 / 839 thine laws, zealous officialdom and hostile For the past 16 years the old Hellenikon termi- antiquities be found. Then the forestry department declared FAX: 44557819 political ideology to create hurdles that nals have stood abandoned on a sprawling 3.7 hectares of eucalyptus, cypress and olive trees on the even investors familiar with the country wasteland three times the size of Monaco, along estate as protected woodland. [email protected] cannot understand. with derelict water sport venues used for the Athens The Lamda consortium, which includes Chinese con- Greece’s recovery depends largely on 2004 Olympics. glomerate Fosun and Abu Dhabi-based developer Eagle Hills, foreign investment. Seven years ago it Backed by Chinese and Gulf investors, Greek had hoped to start work by June. All thoughts and views embarked on a privatisation programme developer Lamda came up with an 8 billion euro However, the archaeological and forestry issues have expressed in these columns to raise 50 billion euros for the near-bank- plan to build one of Europe’s biggest coastal resorts, delayed the submission of the plan and the start of a licensing rupt state. To date it has brought in just 4.4 covering 620 hectares (1,532 acres). process, a spokesman for Lamda told Reuters. The process is are those of the writers, not billion, and government critics say exces- The project was to be a game-changer for estimated to take about nine months, Lamda CEO Odisseas of the newspaper. sive red-tape is a major reason for the Greece, bringing in hundreds of thousands of tour- Athanassiou said, so now the firm cannot set foot on the plot dismal performance. ists and creating 75,000 jobs in a country where before April next year. Since 2011, privatisation generally has All correspondence For frustrated developers, the suspi- unemployment is still over 20 percent. made slow progress under a variety of centre-left, centre- regarding Views and cion is that Greece is biting the hand that Syriza strongly objected to granting a 99-year right and technocrat-led governments. But the Syriza-led Opinion pages should be feeds it. But many Greeks feel bound to lease on the state-owned site while it was in opposi- administration, which was dragged kicking and screaming protect their country’s 3,500 year-old cul- tion, keen to turn the area into a public park. Then into the 2015 bailout, has sent particularly mixed signals mailed to the tural heritage and some of Europe’s most after winning power in 2015, it was forced to relent about Hellenikon. [email protected] 10 AMERICAS SATURDAY 5 AUGUST 2017 Venezuela’s new assembly holds first session

Caracas New powers he said would operate for years. AFP The body is being challenged The Constituent on several fronts. Backing oppo- controversial new Assembly was elected sition allegations of fraud, Venezuelan assem- last weekend in Smartmatic, a British-based bly packed with allies balloting marred by company involved in the vote of unpopular Presi- violence and technology behind the election dent Nicolas Maduro last Sunday, said the official allegations of fraud. It heldA its first session yesterday, turnout figure had been tam- has powers to dissolve deepening a rift with the oppo- pered with and exaggerated by sition, and with a group of the National Assembly, at least a million voters. nations led by the US that are if it wishes. Although brushed off by calling it illegitimate. Maduro as part of a plot by “the Its 500-plus-members, The Constituent Assembly, international enemy,” Venezue- which has supreme powers over who include Maduro’s lan Attorney General Luisa all branches of government as it wife and son, are led Ortega — a thorn in the presi- sees through its task of rewrit- by Delcy Rodriguez, dent’s side — ordered an ing the 1999 constitution, was Maduro’s former investigation. She said prosecu- elected last weekend in ballot- foreign minister. tors had lodged court cases ing marred by violence and seeking to have the Constituent allegations of fraud. Assembly annulled, though few Its 500-plus-members, who “dictatorship.” The assembly’s in Venezuela believed that would include Maduro’s wife and son, members were accompanied to happen — and the new assem- are led by Delcy Rodriguez, the palace by Maduro and thou- bly could also fire her as one of Maduro’s former foreign minis- sands of supporters carrying its first actions. ter. They took their seats in an portraits of late president Hugo Using his daily appearances Supporters of President Nicolas Maduro demonstrate outside Palacio Federal Legislativo during ornate oval chamber under a Chavez. “The people today are on state television, Maduro has golden dome in the 145-year-old going back to the assembly the National Constituent Assembly’s first session, in Caracas, yesterday. lashed out at several of the 40 Legislative Palace — in the same building and will never leave,” countries that admonished him building where the opposition- said one supporter, 72-year-old held, saying it contributed to “a jail back to house arrest, his fam- are political prisoners. for seeing through the creation dominated National Assembly is Euclides Vivas. climate of tension” in Venezuela. ily said. The Constituent Assembly of the new assembly. located, albeit in a different room. The opposition staged pro- It also appealed for Venezuelan Ledezma and another oppo- marks a new stage in Venezue- After being hit directly with The Constituent Assembly tests in the capital on Friday, but security forces to show restraint. sition figure, Leopoldo Lopez, la’s rule. Maduro claims the US sanctions and called a dicta- has powers to dissolve the there were no signs of the street Just hours ahead of the had been taken from their homes revised charter it will work on tor by US President Donald National Assembly, if it wishes. violence of the past four months assembly’s inaugural session, to military prison on Tuesday, will yank Venezuela out of its Trump, Maduro said defiantly Such a move, however, would that has left a death toll of more Venezuela’s intelligence service reversing earlier home deten- political and economic crisis, that he was standing up to fuel criticism of it as a rubber- than 125. unexpectedly transferred a high- tions. Lopez remains though he has not detailed how. “imperialism”. The Venezuelan stamp body for Maduro, who The Vatican had urged that profile opposition figure, Caracas incarcerated, one of hundreds of Nor has he given an end date for leader slammed Mexico, Chile critics say is building a the assembly’s session not be mayor Antonio Ledezma, from people who the opposition says the Constituent Assembly, which and Peru as American vassals.

Immigration woes US warns against ‘staggering’ Two dead in natural gas leaks and vows crackdown explosion Washington With Trump desperate to Mueller has impaneled a grand AFP control the message emanating jury to investigate Russia’s inter- at US school from the Oval Office, Sessions ference with the 2016 S Attorney General Jeff said he would bolster a task presidential election. Sessions yesterday force created during Barack Grand jury proceedings are Chicago Uvowed to crack down on Obama’s administration aimed typically secret, and the expo- AFP leakers who reveal classified or at apprehending leakers. “We sure only highlighted the leaky sensitive national security infor- will not allow rogue anonymous sieve that Washington has ederal authorities joined mation, branding such actions sources with security clearances become. A prominent civil rights the investigation into a a betrayal of the country. to sell out our country,” he said. group warned that clamping Fnatural gas explosion at President Donald Trump has Moves to crack down on down on leakers signaled a a US school that killed two repeatedly fumed about “illegal damaging leaks did not origi- crackdown against democracy adults and sent students flee- leaks” and even lashed out pub- nate with Trump’s itself. “Every American should ing as a building partially A group of people who claimed to be from Haiti walk licly at Sessions last week for administration. The Obama be concerned about the Trump collapsed. down Roxham road in Champlain, New York as they taking what he called a “very administration prosecuted administration’s threat to step The blast early Wednes- prepare to cross the border into Canada illegally weak” position on the issue. whistleblowers and leakers who up its efforts against whistle- day killed a janitor and a yesterday. Migrants have been crossing the border in Under pressure, and with talked to journalists, and its Jus- blowers and journalists,” said receptionist at Minnehaha greater numbers in recent weeks. some saying his job could be on tice Department issued Ben Wizner of the American Academy, a Minnesota private the line, Sessions responded. “I subpoenas to reporters to com- Civil Liberties Union. Christian school for grades strongly agree with the presi- pel them to reveal their sources. Director of National Intelli- kindergarten through 12. Nine dent and condemn in the In what could signal an omi- gence Dan Coats, joining people were injured. strongest terms the staggering nous turn, Sessions said his Sessions, issued his own tough All students at the school’s ‘El Chapo’ seeks release from prison number of leaks undermining Justice Department was review- warning to would-be leakers campus in the city of Minne- the ability of our government to ing policies affecting “media and described such revelations apolis were accounted for, New York cartel — one of the world’s big- protect this country,” Sessions subpoenas.” While the admin- as betraying the American peo- some fleeing the school build- AFP gest drug empires — was told a press conference. istration has respect for the ple. “If you improperly disclose ing just moments before the extradited to New York on Jan- Four people have already press, “it is not unlimited,” he classified information, we will blast. Two of those injured exican drug lord uary 19, and is being held in been charged with “unlawfully said. “They cannot place lives at find you,” he said. “We will remained in the hospital, one Joaquin “El Chapo” solitary confinement in Man- disclosing” classified material risk with impunity,” he added. investigate you, we will prose- in critical but stable condition, MGuzman, one of the hattan pending trial next April. or concealing contacts with fed- “We must balance the press’s cute you to the fullest extent of according to the Hennepin world’s most notorious crimi- But in a new court filing, his eral officers, he said. Active leak role with protecting our national the law.” County Medical Center. nals, is claiming his extradition public defender lawyers say his investigations this year have tri- security.” The announcement follows The National Transporta- to the United States was illegal extradition violated the terms pled compared with the number His remarks came just hours a torrent of damaging revela- tion Safety Board (NTSB), and wants a US judge to dismiss of Mexico’s initial agreement to before Trump took office, Ses- after yet another stunning rev- tions to the media, following six known for investigating plane his case. send Guzman to either Texas sions added. “We are taking a elation leaked to the media: a months of political intrigue and and train crashes, but also The 60-year-old kingpin, or California, and violated the stand. This culture of leaking report by the Wall Street Jour- open feuding in the White charged with probing pipeline accused of running the Sinaloa Mexico-US extradition treaty. must stop,” he said. nal that special counsel Robert House. accidents, sent an investigative team to the school. The NTSB’s Christopher Hart told a news conference that his investigators will US woman to serve 15 months over boyfriend’s suicide begin work Friday, and would likely be at the scene for five New York his plan to kill himself and con- expected appeals. Roy’s father, her own,” the prosecutor told the In convicting Carter, Moniz to seven days. AFP ceal it from his parents. also named Conrad Roy, accused court. “She has not accepted said it was her instruction to Roy A final determination as The defence argued that Carter of exploiting his son’s bat- responsibility,” she said. “She has to get back into the vehicle—dur- to what caused the natural judge sentenced a Carter, who was 17 years old at tle with depression for her own shown no remorse.” ing a telephone call after he gas explosion is not expected 20-year-old Massachu- the time, was racked with self-aggrandizement. Carter’s lawyer urged the stepped out—and her failure to for some time. “Typically, we Asetts woman to depressive disorders, on anti- “How could Michelle Carter judge for leniency, saying his cli- sound the alarm that was cru- look at a year or so to com- two-and-a-half years, with 15 depressants and suffered from behave so viciously and encour- ent, dressed in red pants and a cial to the guilty verdict. plete a final report,” Hart said. months to be served behind bars, eating disorders, all of which age my son to end his life? cream blouse, hoped to build a Prosecutors said Carter The explosion occurred for encouraging her teenage swayed her judgment. She had Where was her humanity?” he career in real estate after grad- stayed on the telephone listen- Wednesday morning in the boyfriend to make good on plans faced up to 20 years in prison at asked. “I pray that his death will uating from high school, was still ing to her boyfriend as he died center part of one of the school to kill himself. her sentencing in a juvenile court save lives one day,” Roy’s mother in counseling and was not a dan- in the truck. “She called no one,” buildings, where a construc- A tearful Michelle Carter in Taunton, south of Boston. said in a statement read out by ger to the public. Moniz said in June, despite Carter tion crew was working. stood with hands clasped and But Judge Lawrence Moniz, the prosecution, calling for “This is a terrible, terrible knowing where Roy was and hav- The blast pushed part of eyes cast down to hear her fate who convicted Carter of invol- changes in the law to guard tragedy and she very much ing his family’s telephone the building’s wall outwards, over the death of Conrad Roy, untary manslaughter in June, against other families enduring regrets this,” said Joseph Cataldo, numbers. “And finally, she did not causing the roof to collapse who died from carbon monox- said it was important to balance the same torment. requesting five years of super- issue a simple additional instruc- and pancaking two floors into ide poisoning in July 2014. punishment and rehabilitation The prosecution had recom- vised probation attached to tion: ‘Get out of the truck.’” rubble, according to fire chief In an extraordinary case for her role in Roy’s death in his mended a sentence of between conditions such as mental health He rejected a theory of invol- John Fruetel. seen as breaking new ground in pickup truck in a parking lot. seven and 12 years, accusing counseling. untary intoxication raised by Rescuers pulled the body a state with no law against Moniz said that after 15 Carter of deliberately engineer- But the case has divided legal psychiatrist Peter Breggin, a of the final missing person encouraging suicide, Carter months behind bars, the balance ing Roy’s death in a bid to seek opinion on whether Carter’s defense witness who testified from the rubble late Wednes- swapped hundreds of text mes- of her sentence would be sus- attention and sympathy. actions were even enough to that Carter’s own medication day. School receptionist Ruth sages with Roy, repeatedly pended until August 1, 2022. The “Her actions killed Conrad secure a conviction under invol- would have hindered her state Berg and janitor John Carlson urging him to follow through on sentence was stayed pending Roy. She ended his life to better untary manslaughter. of mind. were killed. SATURDAY 5 AUGUST 2017 CLASSIFIEDS 13

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NOVO — Pearl SHOWING AT VILLAGGIO & CITY CENTER Jawab Leteqal (2D/Arabic) 10:00am, 12:20, 2:40, 5:00, 7:20, 9:40pm & 12:00midnight 6 Days (2D/Action) 1:30, 5:30 & 9:30pm The Dark Tower (2D/Action) 11:00am, 1:30, 2:30, 3:30, 5:30, 7:00, 7:30, 9:30 & 11:30pm Atomic Blonde (2D/Thriller) 10:00am, 2:40, 7:20pm & 12:00midnight Baby Driver (2D/Action) 12:20, 5:00 & 9:40pm First Kill (2D/Action) 11:30am, 3:30, 7:30 & 11:30pm Mamnoun Min El Ektirab (2D/Arabic) 10:00am, 2:40, 7:20pm & 12:00midnight Bling (2D/Animation) 10:00am, 12:50, 2:40 & 4:30pm War For The Planet of The Apes (2D/Action) 6:40, 9:40 & 11:40pm Jab Harry Met Sejal (2D/Hindi) 10:00am, 3:10 & 8:20pm Baywatch (2D/Comedy) 12:50, 6:00 & 11:20pm Boyka: Undisputed (2D/Action) 10:00am, 12:00noon, 2:00, 4:00, 6:00, 8:00, 10:00pm & 12:00midnight The Big Sick (2D/Comedy) 12:10, 4:50 & 9:30pm Dunkirk (2D IMAX/Action) 11:00am, 1:10, 3:20, 5:30, 7:40, 9:50pm & 12:00midnight Boyka: Undisputed (2D/Action) 2:30, 7:00 & 11:30pm

Yesterday's answer MALL Bling (2D/Animation) 2:30 & 4:00pm Jab Harry Met Sejal (2D/Hindi) 2:15, 7:00 & 11:15pm 6 Days (2D/Action) 3:00 & 5:30pm The Dark Tower (2D/Action) 3:00, 9:30 & 11:45pm The Big Sick (2D/Comedy) 5:00pm Mamnoun Min El Ektirab (2D/Arabic) 5:00 & 9:30pm Finally Found Someone (2D/Tagalog) 5:30, 7:15 & 9:30pm First Kill (2D/Action) 7:45 & 11:30pm

LANDMARK Mamnoun Min El Ektirab (2D/Arabic) 2:45 & 9:30pm The Big Sick (2D/Comedy) 2:30 & 5:00pm Bling (2D/Animation) 3:00 & 4:30pm Finally Found Someone (2D/Tagalog) 5:00 & 8:45pm Jab Harry Met Sejal (2D/Hindi) 6:00 & 11:00pm Huroob Ezterari (2D/Arabic) 7:30 First Kill (2D/Action) 7:30 & 11:30pm The Dark Tower (2D/Action) 9:30 & 11:30pm 6 Days (2D/Action) 9:30pm ROYAL PLAZA Bling (2D/Animation) 2:00, 3:30 & 5:30pm The Big Sick (2D/Comedy) 2:30 & 6:30pm 6 Days (2D/Action) 3:00 & 5:30pm Mamnoun Min El Ektirab (2D/Arabic) 4:30 & 9:30pm Jab Harry Met Sejal (2D/Hindi) 8:45 & 11:15pm First Kill (2D/Action) 2:30, 7:30 & 11:30pm Finally Found Someone (2D/Tagalog) 5:00 & 7:30pm Yesterday’s answer The Dark Tower (2D/Action) 9:45 & 11:30pm ALL IN THE MIND ASIAN TOWN Jab Harry Met Sejal (Hindi) 12:00noon, 3:00, 3:15, 3:45, 6:00, 6:30, 8:45, 9:00, 9:15, 11:30pm Thondi Muthal (2D/Malayalam) 1:00pm Fidaa (2D/Telugu) 12:30pm Goutham Nanda (2D/Telugu) 1:00pm Sunday Holiday (2D/Malayalam) 3:45, 9:15pm ACCELERATE, BRAKE, Vikram Vedha (2D/Tamil) 6:30pm CHAMPION, CHICANE, CIRCUIT, COCKPIT, AL KHOR COMPETE, CORNER, Jab Harry Met Sejal (Hindi) 11:15am, 2:15, 5:15, 8:15 & 11:15pm DISTANCE, DRIVER, ENGINE, Dark Tower (2D/Action) 2:30, 7:00, 9:15 & 11:30pm Bling 11:45am & 1:30pm EXHAUST, FLAG, FUEL, Finally Found Someone (Tagalog) 3:45, 9:00 & 11:30pm GEAR, LAPS, MACHINE, Dunkirk (2D/Thriller) 12:15 & 4:45pm Sunday Holiday (Malayalam) 6:15pm MOTORBIKE, MOTORCYCLE, OVERTAKE, PIT STOP, POSITION, RACING CAR, ROXY RALLY, RECORD, SPEED, Chunkzz (Animation) 12:00noon, 3:00 & 6:00pm SPEEDWAY, STOCK CAR, The Dark Tower 5:00, 7:00, 9:00, 11:00pm & 01:00am STRAIGHT, THROTTLE, First Kill (Thriller) 12:00noon, 2:20, 4:30, 6:50, 9:00 & 11:10pm WHEEL, WINNER. Jab Harry Met Sejal (Hindi) 12:00noon, 2:50, 5:40, 8:30 & 11:20pm Dunkirk (2D/Thriller) 9:00 & 11:15pm Atomic Blonde 12:00noon & 2:30pm 20 MORNING BREAK SATURDAY 5 AUGUST 2017

PRAYER TIMINGS 11 teams compete at 3x3 Basketball tourney FAJR 03.39 am SHOROOK 05.03 am Amna Pervaiz Rao The Peninsula The first day witnessed the presence of a

ZUHR 11.40 am MAGHRIB 06.19 pm large number of Qatari families and other ASR 03.08 pm ISHA 07.49 pm round 11 women teams with a flavour of residents. The team, that comes first, will AQatar’s top-notch grab a prize money worth QR5000, second WEATHER TODAY players participated in 3x3 place will be 5 free gold passes to QSF Basketball Tournament ‘QSF and the third place will be 5 free passes to o o Mall Jam ‘ hosted by Q-Sports and Qatar Basketball Feder- Aqua Park. 34 C 44 C ation yesterday at (DECC). Minimum Maximum The first day witnessed with my three team members Heroes’ last year’s champi- the presence of a large to play 2 games. Two of our ons were present with their number of Qatari families, members are from Qatar team to participate and make residents and families. Sev- Women’s national basketball it to the finals. This year par- eral players competed eleven team. We have named our ticipating in three games. teams to make it to the finals. team ‘Tamim Al Majd B’ to Pamela Barrozo, Global Members of the Qatar show support towards our Heroes team player said: Women’s Sports Committee country.” “This year we are four team were keen to follow up on the Another member of members two belong to first day with Assistant Sec- national team ‘Tamim Al Egypt and two from Philip- retary, Maha Abdul Jabbar Majd B’, Ala said: “Four teams pines.Werecently and Team manager, Al Anoud have members of national participated in Aspire Dia- Al Misnad. team this year. We are play- mond League. Witnessing The team, that comes ing friendly match to practice that only few games are first, will grab a prize money and gain more experience in played here by women, we worth QR5000, second place order to prepare ourselves get excited to play whenever will be 5 free gold passes to for world cup.” we get a chance.” The 3-day QSF and third place will be 5 “We are going to play tourney is open to public. free passes to Aqua Park. three games today and if we There will be three divisions: Talking to The Peninsula win we will be able to make Men’s Open, Men’s Classic Mona Saad, member of Qatar it to the finals and semi-finals and Women. Each team will Girls in action during the 3x3 basketball tournament, women women’s national basketball which is going to held tomor- have 5 accreditation, 4 for team said: “Today I am here row,” she added. ‘Global players and 1 for a coach. classic division, at DECC yesterday. Pic:Kammutty VP / The Peninsula 80 tonnes of dates sold; rise in visitors seen

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Venues at the second Local Dates Festival.

The Peninsula Environment has sold 10.7 another week by taking into tonnes of different types of account the high demand and n the eighth day of the dates on Thursday. The public interest. second Local Dates number of visitors reached The total quantity of OFestival being organ- around 5000 on the same dates, which has been sold ised by the Ministry of day. Meanwhile the Ministry since the inauguration on July Municipality and extended the festival for 27, has reached 80 tonnes. ‘Little Pompeii’ discovered in France Norman Rockwell’s

Colombe has revealed luxury homes, fire,” said lead archaeologist family opposes to Reuters mosaics and items of furniture Benjamin Clement. “It’s rare to that date back to the 1st century discover such a well preserved rench archaeologists have AD. site.” sale of artist’s work unearthed the ruins of a Ash from the fires helped Found among the ruins was FRoman settlement in preserve the ruins, just as the a near-complete mosaic show- Pittsfield southern France that was Roman city of Pompeii was ing Thalia, the muse and patron AP deserted by its inhabitants after largely preserved after being of comedy, being kidnapped by fires that ultimately helped pre- buried in volcanic ash from the god of the satyrs, Pan. embers of Norman Rockwell’s family are serve the site now being dubbed Mount Vesuvius. The remains will be meas- the latest to speak out against a Massa- “Little Pompeii”. “The two fires fossilized, ured, photographed and drawn. Mchusetts museum’s plan to sell the The site on the banks of the solidified the entirety of the Some will then be removed from illustrator’s works. Rhone near the town of Vienne, remains ... in every space we the Sainte-Colombe site and sent The family in a letter published in yesterday’s discovered on land earmarked found furniture left by the to the Gallo-Roman museum in print edition of The Berkshire Eagle (http://bit. for a new apartment complex, inhabitants who had to flee the Vienne for restoration. ly/2we1dsI ) asked the Berkshire Museum in Pitts- field not to auction “Shuffleton’s Barbershop.” The museum is selling 40 artworks, including two by Rockwell, to build endowment funds and finance renovations. The letter, signed by Rock- Having fun well’s three sons and three of his grandsons, says they fear it will go to a private collector at auc- tion, and will no longer be available to the public. “We believe that this painting is one of Norman Rockwell’s finest and should stay at a public insti- tution, so that it can be seen,” the letter said. The letter doesn’t mention the other Rockwell piece on the auction block, “Blacksmith’s Boy- Heel and Toe” also known as “Shaftsbury Blacksmith Shop.” But Margaret Rockwell, man- ager of the Norman Rockwell Family Agency, tells the paper the family opposes the sale of that one as well. Both were created for The Saturday Evening Post. Both oil paintings were gifts to the museum from the artist. Rockwell lived in nearby Stockbridge for the last 25 years of his life. The sale of all 40 works has been denounced by two national museum organizations that said selling pieces of a collection to pay bills violates a cardinal rule of the museum industry. Local art- ists have also spoken out against the sale. The Berkshire Museum, founded in 1903, said Children playing at the venue of Qatar Summer Festival at DECC yesterday. it hopes the sale will raise $40m for its endow- Pic: Kammutty VP / The Peninsula ment and $20m for renovations as it refocuses its mission on science and natural history.