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Amir exchanges Ramadan Amir meets Iraqi Oil Minister greetings with Arab and Islamic leaders QNA

Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani On the occasion of the holy month of Ramadan, I would like yesterday exchanged greetings on the occasion to extend my sincere congratulations to all citizens and resi- of the holy month of Ramadan in telephone dents of Qatar and all Arab and Islamic nations. May the conversations held last evening with a number Almighty Allah return this Holy month with blessings and of Their Majesties, Excellencies and Highnesses goodness. leaders of the sisterly Arab and Islamic coun- tries. The Amir exchanged greetings on the occasion with the Amir of the State of Kuwait, H H Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad Al Jaber Al Sabah; I would like to extend my heartiest congratulations on the H M King Mohammed VI of the Kingdom of occasion of the holy month of Ramadan. May Allah make this Morocco, H M King Abdullah II of the Hashemite month the month of goodness and blessings for our country Kingdom of and the President of the and all Muslim nations and accept our fasting and prayers Republic of Iraq, Dr. Barham Salih. The Amir and make it blessing for all. also exchanged greetings with President Beji Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met at the Amiri Diwan yesterday with Deputy Prime Minister Caid Essebsi of the Republic of Tunisia, Pres- H H the Amir, and Deputy Amir H H Sheikh for Energy Affairs and Oil Minister of the Republic of Iraq, Thamir Abbas Al Ghadhban, who called on to ident Mahmoud Abbas of Palestine, President Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani exchanged cables Recep Tayyip Erdogan of the Republic of of congratulations with a number of Their Maj- greet the Amir on the occasion of his visit. The Minister conveyed the greetings of President of Iraq, Dr. Turkey, and the Crown Prince of the State of esties, Excellencies, and Highnesses leaders of Barham Salih, to the Amir and his wishes to the Qatari people of further prosperity. The Amir entrusted Kuwait, H H Sheikh Nawaf Al Ahmad Al Jaber Arab and Islamic countries, on the month of the Minister to convey his greetings to the Iraqi President and his wishes to the brotherly Iraqi people of Al Sabah. Ramadan. `P3 continued progress and prosperity. They reviewed bilateral ties, especially in the field of energy.

Deputy PM discusses Gaza Al Wakrah Stadium project boosts Qatari economy developments THE PENINSULA companies—Midmac and been operational in Doha since railway construction of the Green Stadium at their state-of-the-art with Hamas Chief DOHA PORR Qatar—plus Belgian 2011. In addition to working on Line of Doha Metro. Engineering factory in Doha – a facility firm Sixco. Al Wakrah Stadium, the company specialists Coastal Qatar manu- capable of producing 500 seats QNA The construction of Al Wakrah Midmac has been involved in is involved in the tunnelling and factured the seats for Al Wakrah a day. `P4 DOHA Stadium has boosted Qatari a vast range of major infra- economy, with more than 50 structure projects since being Deputy Prime Minister and percent of the project budget established in Qatar in the 1960s. Minister of Foreign Affairs H E spent locally. The company has also contributed Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdul- A number of Qatari firms to the development of numerous rahman Al Thani has held a have been directly involved in Qatar 2022 stadiums, including telephone conversation with the construction of the FIFA Khalifa International Stadium, the Head of the Political Bureau World Cup Qatar 2022 stadium, which was inaugurated following of the Palestinian Islamic which will be inaugurated on a successful redevelopment in Resistance Movement (Hamas) May 16 when it hosts the 2019 2017, and Education City Stadium, Dr Ismail Haniyah. Amir Cup final. which is in the final stages of Discussions dealt with the The main contractor for Al construction. latest developments in the Gaza Wakrah Stadium was a joint PORR Qatar, a subsidiary of Strip, which has been subjected venture between two Qatari Austrian company PORR, has to brutal Israeli shelling since last Friday, resulting a number of martyrs and wounded MoI is only authority to issue people, as well as to review ways to protect the unarmed visas to enter Qatar: GCO Palestinian people from the ongoing Israeli aggression on QNA/DOHA the Gaza Strip in the shadow of The Government Communications Office (GCO) emphasised the international silence about the keenness of the State of Qatar on the coherence in societies and peoples crimes of the occupation. in different countries of the world and its constant endeavour to deepen The Deputy Prime Minister the bonds of love and the rejection of hatred among peoples. and Minister of Foreign Affairs In a statement, GCO said that the Ministry of Interior (MoI) of reiterated Qatar’s continued the State of Qatar (Expatriates Affairs Department) is the only support for the steadfastness authority authorised to issue the various types visas for entry into of the brotherly Palestinian the country, according to the approval of the competent author- people in order to achieve ities and in accordance with the laws and regulations governing their full legitimate rights. this, as well as the joint agreements with other countries. `P6 `P6 &10 1,942 scholarships offered for 2019-20

SANAULLAH ATAULLAH Expatriate students born in A total of 4,171 students ben- THE PENINSULA Qatar, children of Qatari women efited from the scholarship and those holding Qatari doc- program since it was launched in The Ministry of Education and ument are also entitled for the 2015. “The scholarship plan has Higher Education and the Ministry scholarships in medical spe- offered 1,942 scholarships for the of Administrative Development, cialised courses under certain academic year 2019-20,” said Al Labor and Social Affairs announced rules and regulations. The press Dosari. He said that the key spe- yesterday the government schol- conference was attended by a cialisations for the forthcoming arship plan and its conditions for number of officials from both the scholarships are supply chain man- 2019-20 at a joint press conference ministries. Assistant Undersec- agement, airport management, held at the headquarters of the retary of the Administrative aviation management, logistics Ministry of Education and Higher Affairs at the Ministry of Admin- management, airport and aviation Education. istrative Development, Labor and security, medicine, agriculture, Under the plan 1,942 schol- Social Affairs Abdullah Musallam livestock and fisheries, statistics arships in a number of specialised Al Dosari said that the gov- and vital statistics, veterinary med- courses have been offered to ernment scholarship program icine, education (teaching), com- Qatari citizens as per the current aims at proving specialized Qatari puter science, information, science, and future requirements of local workforce to meet the require- laboratory and standardisation. job market. ments of the job market. `P4 02 HOME MONDAY 6 MAY 2019 MONDAY 6 MAY 2019 HOME 03 Amir receives credentials of Iraqi & Armenian envoys

Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani received at the Amiri Diwan yesterday the credentials of the Ambassador of the Republic of Iraq, Omar Ahmed Karim Al Barazanchi (left), and the Ambassador of the Republic of Armenia, Gegham Gharibjanian. At the outset of the meeting, H H the Amir welcomed the new Ambassadors, wishing them success in their missions and the relations between the State of Qatar and their respective countries further progress and prosperity. For their part, the Ambassadors conveyed to H H the Amir greetings of their countries’ leaders and wishes of further progress and prosperity to the Qatari people. The Ambassadors were accorded earlier official reception ceremonies at the Amiri Diwan. Amir meets outgoing Ambassador of Nepal Amir to receive Ramadan well-wishers

FROM PAGE 1 holy month of Ramadan from serve the nation and the citizens. The Amiri Diwan also Speaker of the Shura Council H E also wished H H the Amir announced yesterday that the H E Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid good health, wellness, and pros- Amir will receive Their Excel- Al Mahmoud. perity to Qatar under His lencies the Sheikhs, the Min- In the cable, the Shura Highness’ wise leadership. isters, the Speaker and the Council Speaker congratulated H H the Amir responded in members of the Shura Council, H H the Amir for the occasion of a cable to His Excellency and the the Ministers and the citizens the holy month of Ramadan, on Shura Council members well-wishers on the Holy Month behalf of the Shura Council expressing his thanks for the of Ramadan at Al Wajba Palace members and himself. The cable, congratulating them on today and tomorrow, right after Speaker and Shura Council the advent of the month of prayers. members also reiterated their Ramadan, wishing them health H H the Amir also received loyalty to His Highness, and con- and further progress and a cable of congratulations on the firmed their determination to prosperity.

Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met at the Amiri Diwan yesterday with the Ambassador of the Federal Democratic Republic of Nepal, Ramesh Prasad Koirala, who called on H H the Amir to greet him on the occasion of the end of his tenure in the country. H H the Amir wished the Ambassador success in his future duties, and the relations between the two countries further development and growth. For his part, the Ambassador expressed thanks and gratitude for H H the Amir and the officials of the State for the cooperation accorded to him that contributed to the success of his tour of duty in the country. Ashghal continues refurbishment and upgrading works for four sewage pumping stations in Doha THE PENINSULA Station’s capacity DOHA will be increased by 161%, to pump The Public Works Authority around 4,700 ‘Ashghal’ continues to implement m3/day instead of the ‘Refurbishment and Upgrading the current 1,800 Works for Four Sewage Pumping m3/day. Eng. Al Stations’ Project, as part of its Anzi added the efforts to provide sustainable solu- upgrade works at tions to improve the country’s the fourth sewage networks according to the pumping station, best International standards. located in Al The pumping stations are Mansoura, located in vital areas within Doha, include the namely New Salata, Al Mansoura, odours in the surrounding areas. installation of new Al Messila, and Al Rayyan, said a Eng. Ali Al Anzi, from the equipment and constructing a statement.The project aims to Drainage Networks Projects new Odour Control Unit (OCU) to increase the capacity of the Department at Ashghal, stated that enable more efficient operations pumping stations by 62% to 211% three of the four pumping stations and to prevent bad odour at this in order to accommodate both will undergo a dramatic increase location. current and future sewage flows in their ability to accommodate In addition, the project within these important areas, and and pump the sewage flows, as includes the decommissioning of to cope with the future devel- opposed to the current capacity Ras Abu Abboud Pumping Station, opment and the expected popu- with the existing pumping stations to be replaced with a new gravity lation growth. and equipment. sewer line. The project is being Refurbishment works include The New Slata Pumping Sta- implemented by Contracting the installation of new equipment tion’s capacity will be increased Services & Trading Company to improve the pumping stations’ by approximately 62%, allowing (GEC), and is expected to be com- performance and functionality around 8,600 m3/day to be pleted in Q2, 2021. ‘Made in Qatar’ with the upgrade of pumping sta- pumped instead of the current materials are being used in this tions’ control systems, including 5,300 m3/day. The Al Messila project, such as concrete, rein- new telemetry systems, improved Pumping Station’s capacity will forced steel, precast manholes, fire alarm and suppression be increased by approximately GRP (glass reinforce plastic) pipes systems, new instrumentation, 211%, allowing 14,000 m3/day to and ducts, GRP tanks, UPVC among others. This is in addition be pumped instead of the current (unplasticised polyvinyl chloride) to improved odour control 4,500 m3/day. pipes and conduits, and RC jacking systems to prevent or reduce bad The Al Rayyan Pumping pipes (concrete pipes). 04 HOME MONDAY 6 MAY 2019

Minister of Municipality honours workers Patrols on key IN SHORT Qatar attends Mena roads and near financial consultative working group meet supermarkets ISTANBUL: The State of Qatar participated in the 15th Financial Stability Council’s stepped up Regional Advisory Work- ing Group for the Middle SIDI MOHAMED of Ramadan awareness campaign East and North Africa meet- THE PENINSULA that will also be attended by a ing, which was chaired by number of traffic officers and the Governor of Qatar Central The General Directorate of Traffic members of the Central Municipal Bank, H E Sheikh Abdul- has stepped up patrols on key Council (CMC). lah bin Saoud Al Thani. The roads, near supermarkets and Last year, the Department meeting, which was held in commercial streets to ensure conducted symposiums in Al Istanbul, Turkey, discussed smooth traffic flow during Wakra and Al Sailiya and many the most important topics Ramadan specially pre-Iftar other areas, and its aim was to in the field of central banks. hours. strengthen the relations between It should be noted that the The Traffic Awareness the General Directorate of Traffic work of the meeting this year Department at the General Direc- and all members of the com- was chaired by Qatar Central torate of Traffic has announced munity and provide bridges of Bank and the Central Bank of the start of the Ramadan cam- communication to exchange ideas Turkey. QNA paign and according to the stra- and listen to people’s problems to Minister of Municipality and Environment H E Abdulla bin Abdulaziz bin Turki Al Subaie honouring Qatar invites Argentina tegic plan for traffic the patrols find solutions. the workers of Services Affairs Department at Al Rayyan Municipality in recognition of their hard will be deployed at peak times As for the measures of the to 19th Doha Forum work, especially during the last rainfall. In addition, 250 Ramadan bags were distributed by MAF near hypermarkets and com- General Directorate of Traffic to BUENOS AIRES: The Min- Hypermarkets Qatar WLL, Carrefour, in the framework of the Municipality’s cooperation with various mercial streets. celebrate Garangao, which falls ister of Foreign Affairs of the institutions in the country. The ceremony was attended by the Director of Al Rayyan Municipality, Many drivers tend to drive on the night of the middle of the Argentine Republic, Jorge Rashid Saeed Al Nuaimi, and a number of Ministry and Municipal officials. very fast to reach their destina- holy month, the Department is Faure, received a message tions before Iftar which is a major preparing gifts to distribute them from Deputy Prime Minister cause of accidents therefore the among children and families. and Minister of Foreign Affairs General Directorate of Traffic Among the Ramadan events H E Sheikh Mohamed bin usually distributes free Iftar meals that the General Directorate of Abdulrahman Al Thani, invit- Ooredoo announces new to motorists especially heavy Traffic is keen to maintain year ing him to participate in the vehicle drivers on highways. after year is visiting Iftar tents to 19th Doha Forum to be held The Department will also meet with the communities and from December 14 to 15. The promotion for Ramadan conduct awareness activities giving them several of traffic message was delivered by the during Ramadan as part of its safety tips. Ambassador of the State of THE PENINSULA Shop, customers will get to open year-round, and Ramadan is the awareness plan targeting all age Last year The Patrols and Qatar to the Argentine Repub- DOHA a Box of Joy via the Ooredoo app. ideal time for us to say thank you groups and different nationalities Investigations Departments at lic, Fahad bin Ibrahim Al Hamad Box of Joy gifts must be to our loyal customers for and cultures. Among its General Directorate of Traffic Al Mana, during his meeting Ooredoo announced yesterday opened within three days of the choosing us as their telecommu- awareness programs include seized 1,000 vehicles during with the Deputy Foreign Minis- an exciting new promotion for interaction with Ooredoo, and nications provider. We strive for organising seminars for commu- Ramadan among them 800 ter of the Argentine Republic, the holy month of Ramadan, each Box will contain one of a complete customer satisfaction nities and religious lectures and vehicles for reckless driving and Gustavo Zlauvinen. The meet- which will see customers selection of both telecoms and and we’re confident this new pro- conducting symposiums as part drifting in the residential area. ing also discussed bilateral rewarded with a raft of free gifts non-telecoms gifts including local motion, designed especially for relations and means of sup- each time they carry out a trans- calls, international calls, local the holy month of Ramadan, will Kahramaa launches Ramadan porting them and developing action or interact with Qatar’s data, Nojoom points and much show our customers we appre- them, in addition to matters of leading telecommunications more. Customers will need to use ciate their business and we are campaign ‘We Have Become Closer’ mutual interest. QNA company. the updated version of Ooredoo committed to offering them the The Box Of Joy promotion app to open and redeem their Box best value in the market. We hope QNA participate in the competition Qatar takes part in offers customers the chance to Of Joy gifts. they enjoy opening their Box Of DOHA through the announced numbers. GCC courts meeting open one Box Of Joy for each and Speaking of the new pro- Joy gifts and making the most of The campaign comprises every interaction with Ooredoo; motion, Manar Khalifa Al them!” Customers who do not yet Qatar General Electricity and several community and RIYADH: The State of Qatar whether a recharge, a bill Muraikhi – Director PR and Cor- have the Ooredoo app can Water Corporation (Kahramaa) awareness activities and events participated in the fourth payment, a credit transfer is done porate Communications at download it from the Apple Store launched the Ramadan campaign with the participation of a number meeting of the Supreme and via the Ooredoo App, or a Self Ooredoo – said: “Value for or Google Play, or via www. ‘We Have Become Closer’ in its of Kahramaa staff and volunteers Cassation Courts’ specialists in Service Machine or an Ooredoo money is a priority for all of us ooredoo.qa/app. second edition, which includes to reach all community segments GCC countries held in Riyadh. many awareness and educational and introduce Kahramaa role and The delegation of the State of activities during of Ramadan. efforts to achieve its mission of Qatar was chaired by Deputy Al Wakrah Stadium project boosts Qatari economy The campaign aims to providing high quality and sus- Head of the Court of Cassation, introduce healthy habits by fol- tainable electricity and water for Sheikh Dr Thuqail bin Sayer Al FROM PAGE 1 Qatar and overseas. It has SOLB26 has produced the lowing a number of tips and a better life in the State Qatar. Shammari. The meeting dis- Coastal Qatar will also partners across Europe and the structural steel for Al Wakrah instructions while presenting the The campaign includes visits cussed a number of issues on produce the seats for Al Bayt United States. The company has Stadium. The company has also efforts in various areas, particu- to a number of charities, human- the agenda, including the oper- Stadium – Al Khor City and Al worked on a number of key contributed to the development larly those with regard to pre- itarian and social centres in the ational plan for the strategic Rayyan Stadium. Coastal Qatar projects locally, including for of Al Bayt Stadium – Al Khor serving the environment and country, as Kahramaa believes plan of the Supreme Courts and was established in the 1970s and clients such as Hamad Interna- City. Past projects include Qatar implementing sustainability for a in the importance of social and the Courts of Cassation in the delivers a range of engineering, tional Airport, Qatar Foundation, National Library, Sidra Medical better life in conformity with charitable work and the impor- GCC countries, and the draft of galvanising, steel and manufac- Ashghal, Aspire Logistics and & Research Centre and Al Shaqab Qatar National Vision 2030. All tance of boosting it, particularly a unified law of the Supreme turing projects for projects in Qatar Olympic Committee. Equestrian Academy. citizens and residents can during Ramadan. and the Cassation Courts in the GCC States. The meeting also discussed topics related to the Scientific Committee 1,942 scholarships offered for 2019-20 on the sidelines of the regular meetings of the heads of the FROM PAGE 1 Higher Education, Dr Khalid Al Ali, said that Supreme Courts and Courts of “The specializations also include law the Ministry of Education and Higher Edu- Cassation, as well as the issues and international relations in Spanish, cation will guide and send the students on related to the website of the German, Italian, Turkish, Russian, French scholarships according to the plan. Supreme Courts and Courts of and Japanese languages, language and However, he said, that the Ministry of Cassation in the GCC. QNA translation and engineering,” said Assistant Administrative Development Labor and Supreme Judiciary Undersecretary of the Administrative Affairs Social Affairs will prepare general polices at the Ministry of Administrative Devel- of scholarship and coordinate with gov- Council’s new timing opment, Labor and Social Affairs Abdullah ernment institutions concerned in preparing DOHA: The Supreme Judi- Musallam Al Dosari. scholarship plan as per the need and then ciary Council announced that Speaking about the roles of two minis- send it to the Ministry of Education and during the holy month of Ram- tries to implement scholarship program, Higher Education. adan 1440H the working hours Acting Undersecretary for Higher Education Saleh Al Muftah, Director of Admission will be from 9am to 2pm. It Affairs at the Ministry of Education and and Registration at the Scholarship also announced that the work- Department said that registration ing hours of the family court FROM LEFT: Hassan Abdullah Al Mohammadi, Director of Public Relations and will be available from July 30, 2019, headquarters will start from Communication; Ali Abdullah Al Buainain, Director of Scholarship Department; and will continue throughout the 9am to 5pm and for the exter- academic year 2019-20. Khalid Abdullah Al Ali, Acting Undersecretary of the Ministry of Higher Education; nal centres the working hours “The application is available at and Abdullah Musallam Al Dosari, Assistant Undersecretary for Administrative will start from 9am to 2pm. The https://scholarship.edu.gov.qa/. The Development Affairs at the Ministry of Administrative Development, Labour and council said the working hours required documents must be Social Affairs; with other officials, during the press conference yesterday. of the criminal court will start attached electronically,” said Al PIC: BAHER AMIN / THE PENINSULA from 9am to 2pm. In addition, Muftah adding that details about the timings of the hearings in the specialized courses, accredited Education. He said the scholarships for specializations of medical and medial the court of first instance dur- universities and general conditions expatriate students born in Qatar, children assistance (general practitioner, pharmacy, ing the holy month of Ramadan are available at the website of the of Qatari women and those holding Qatari nursing, ambulance & medical care, will take place in the morning Ministry of Education and Higher document are available in the pharmacy and medical radiology). from 9:30am. QNA Qatari envoy gets highest award for advancing ties

QNA sadors and officials who provided During the ceremony, Argentina’s thanks to the Argentinian government BUENOS AIRES great services to develop relations Secretary of Foreign Affairs, Gustavo and people for their hospitality and between their countries and Zlauvinen, praised the efforts made preparedness to cooperate in order The government of Argentina granted Argentina. by Al Mana during his mission in to improve the relations with the State Ambassador of the State of Qatar to The announcement was made developing bilateral relations. He of Qatar. The ceremony was attended the Argentine Republic, Fahad bin during the farewell ceremony held added that his efforts resulted in by senior officials, heads of depart- Ibrahim Al Hamad Al Mana, the Order by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of achieving great relations and based ments at the Argentinian Foreign Min- of the Liberator General San Martin, the Argentine Republic, in honour of on that the government decided to istry, heads and representatives of the which is the highest decoration Qatar’s Ambassador to Argentina on grant him the Order of the Liberator Arab and foreign diplomatic missions awarded to foreign presidents, the occasion of ending his tenure in General San Martin. accredited to Argentina, as well as a government heads, ministers, ambas- the country. For his part, Al Mana expressed number of prominent public figures. MONDAY 6 MAY 2019 HOME 05 06 HOME MONDAY 6 MAY 2019

Al Khulaifi meets Ethiopian Police Commissioner

The Director of Public Security, Staff Major General Saad bin Jassim Al Khulaifi, met yesterday with Commissioner General of the Federal Police Commission in the Federal Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, Endeshaw Tassew, who is currently visiting Qatar. During the meeting, a number of issues of mutual Katara welcomes Ramadan interest were discussed. Streets and roundabouts in Katara illuminated for Ramadan. PIC: SALIM MATRAMKOT/THE PENINSULA PHCC advises healthy Suhoor meals UCL Qatar organises international THE PENINSULA during the meal to avoid with excess weight should eat conference on museums & big data DOHA feeling full quickly. Suhoor small amounts of course and THE PENINSULA representatives from the Swedish must be a complete meal con- after eating other foods.” she DOHA National Heritage Board, The Getty During Ramadan, Suhoor sisting of the whole carbohy- said. Finally, Al-Hajri recom- Research Institute, software companies meal is not less important drates necessary for the body mends eating kanafeh, man- UCL Qatar organised the 1st Interna- Dexibit and Ontotext, METALaw, and the than Iftar meal as it helps the including for example whole akish and croissant once a tional Conference on Museums and Big EU digital platform for cultural heritage body to fast and to endure the wheat bread, cheese and milk, week in suhoor for people Data last week as part of the university’s Europeana. The conference represents hardships of fasting, said a little olive oil, high-fat foods, with normal weight and ongoing initiatives of promoting research the ongoing partnership between UCL dieticians at the Primary vegetables, and a cup of milk. advised fasting persons to in Qatar. Qatar and Qatar Foundation, and Qatar’s Health Care Corporation It is also recommended to eat avoid soft drinks during Experts from across the world commitment to pioneering research, and (PHCC). fruits with its peel, especially suhoor as it causes bloating gathered at venues in Doha’s Education developing the cultural heritage sector Moudi Al-Hajri (pictured), those rich in fibre and and is certainly non-nutri- City, including Qatar National Library, at home and abroad. Dietetics Manager at PHCC, potassium such as peaches tious, and to avoid full-fat to discuss how information gathered by Dr Georgios Papaioannou, a Senior noted that some fasting and apples, and the ones foods as well. It is also rec- museums – from the objects they con- Lecturer in Museum Studies at UCL people do not care about which make you feel full, ommended to eat a half piece serve and display to their operational Qatar who helped organise the con- Suhoor meal, and are satisfied us, and deprive us of eating including bananas which give of avocado because it is rich activities and visitor activity – can be ference, said, “We are proud to be the with Iftar meal. Some just other foods. Therefore, you energy to the body, or two in saturated fats and a handful used to improve the cultural heritage organisers of the 1st International Con- cancel this meal thinking that should choose a healthy Iftar dates. of raw nuts. sector. ference on Museums and Big Data. Big cancelling it may reduce their and nutritious soup; drink “Bananas, dates and The doctor added that one The conference, the first of its kind Data comprise the next ‘Big Thing’ in weight, which she said was a enough water; keep away from honey are natural sources of should eat sweets only three in the world, was also used as an oppor- museums and heritage research, studies misconception. Suhoor meal foods that cause bloating, and sugar that do not turn into hours after Iftar and not with tunity to create a wider network between and practice. The fact that the first inter- is of great importance to the eat small and light meals.” She fats. They supply the body suhoor. It should be cooked professionals from Qatar’s museums, national conference on this specific body, providing the energy added. with sugar and do not lead to with low-fat milk, sugar libraries and heritage institutions and theme has been organised in Qatar dem- necessary to continue fasting “To enable the body to weight gain. In addition, it is ornament, diet sugar or their international equivalents. onstrates Qatar’s, QF’s and UCL Qatar’s the next day without fatigue, continue fasting for many preferable to keep away from natural honey with no Sector specialists from UCL Qatar interest in developing the museum and exhaustion and hunger, hours during the next day, it juices because they are full of addition of fat and ghee but and Qatar Museums were joined by their cultural heritage sector not just locally, according to a number of spe- is important in Suhoor to sugar and coloured materials, baked in the oven without any contemporaries from leading univer- but internationally.” cialists in nutrition. drink a lot of fluids that give and make the fasting person fat. It should not be eaten on sities such as, the University of Oxford, Dr Papaioannou added that the con- “During this period, we energy to the body. The most feel hungry the next day. Des- a daily basis but on a weekly Wayne State University, the University ference is organised as part of UCL have to choose the right food, important is water. It is better serts are not harmful during basis and can be replaced with of New England, and the Universities of Qatar’s own research on big data and stay away from foods that to drink water half an hour Suhoor for those who do not fruits, dates, natural juices and Malta, Graz, and Amsterdam. museums and that the aim is to host it make us feel full directly, harm before eating the meal and not have diabetes, while people nuts. Also taking part were at least every two years.

GCO: MoI only authority to issue visas to Qatar FROM PAGE 1 The GCO said that the position of Qatar has always been clear that people should not be involved in the differ- ences that arise between coun- tries, pointing out that the states will continue to derive their strength from the cohesion of their peoples and societies. In response to the remarks made during the past few days, GCO pointed out that any remarks Lulu launches car promotion out of those legal frameworks, do not represent the policy in with 12 Mercedes Benz cars force in the Ministry of Interior. THE PENINSULA/DOHA available and on display. “This is The GCO stressed that the State one of the mega promotions that of Qatar welcomes all the Lulu Hypermarket Qatar has is being organised, keeping in view peoples of the world and that launched a mega car promotion the increasing customer demand the various activities between with 12 Mercedes Benz E200 2019- as the Holy month of Ramadan peoples, whether cultural, model cars, along with 40 Conso- draws near,” a LuLu spokesperson sports, tourism, economic and lation Prizes by way of gift said. The promotion entitles the others, are among the means of vouchers for a total sum of customers to get back QR50 bringing people together QR300,000. vouchers instantly when they buy regardless of the differences The management stated that any of the above items worth between countries. GCO the promotion will continue until QR150. Another ongoing pro- pointed out that any remarks August 18, 2019 and will culminate motion namely ‘Lulu Summer out of those legal frameworks, in 7 mega draws, which will be Deals’ with a variety of offers and do not represent the policy in held between August 19 and better prices on electronics, refrig- force in the Ministry of Interior. August 26 at Al-Gharafa branch, erators, air-conditioners, splash Al Messila, Barwa City, D-Ring pools, frame pools, mobiles, tele- Qatar strongly Road, Al-Khor branch, Lulu Centre visions, laptops, home appliances, and B-Ring Road branches respec- electronics, IT products, cameras condemns Israeli tively. The customers will be and grocery ranges will continue entitled to get a coupon on every throughout the holy month of bombing of Gaza purchase of items worth QR50 to Ramadan. FROM PAGE 1 win the prizes. Cleartrip in co-ordination with LuLu outlets have launched LuLu Hypermarket has organised Dr Ismail Haniyah expressed simultaneously another unique another promotion on super- his thanks and appreciation to offer under title “QR 50 Gift market products, which will con- the State of Qatar for its firm Voucher” promotion at tinue until May 31 at all Lulu positions in supporting the Pal- Department Store, which will run outlets. Customers will have the estinian cause. The State of until May 11. A wide range of inter- opportunity to participate in the Qatar expressed its strong national brands of menswear, e-raffle draw to win 15 flight tickets denunciation and condemnation ladieswear including churidars, when they buy any of the super- of Israeli shelling of Gaza Strip saris, children’s clothing, baby market items worth QR100. in which a number of Pales- accessories, footwear, and ladies’ Also they are entitled to get a tinians were martyred, consid- bags are covered under this gift voucher worth QR50 on every ering it a crime against humanity promotion. purchase of supermarket items and a flagrant violation of inter- Latest collections of leading worth QR100, which could be national conventions and laws. international brands such as Crocs, redeemed while booking flight The Ministry of Foreign Affairs Sketchers, Reebok, Louis Philippe, tickets through Cleartrip Website. called on the international com- Arrow, Van Heusen, Allen Solly, The e-raffle draw will be held on munity to act urgently to provide Peter England, Oxemberg, Sero, June 18 at LuLu Hypermarket, protection to the Palestinian Hush Puppies, Dickies, are D-Ring Road branch. people. MONDAY 6 MAY 2019 HOME 07 Thailand sees surge in tourists from Qatar SANAULLAH ATAULLAH The year 2018 saw, service institutes and tourism- world-class wellness retreats, fas- THE PENINSULA as many as 35,838 related agencies from the private cinating culture and the famous tourists from Qatar sector attended the roadshow, Thai gastronomy, Thailand offers Qatar ranks one among the top each highlighting the unique something unique and exciting for five countries in the visiting Thailand, offerings available across the every type of visitor from across with the highest number of which was a 27.45 diverse nation. the region. “This year, we want visitors to Thailand. percent increase from The ‘Open to the New Shaded’ people to discover the incredible The year 2018 saw, as many the previous year. campaign by TAT showcases the family-friendly hotels and activ- as 35,838 tourists from Qatar vis- diversity of Thailand and its many ities on offer throughout Thailand, iting Thailand, which was a 27.45 unique and undiscovered as well as uncover the hidden percent increase from the pre- Authority of Thailand (TAT) offerings for travellers. It com- gems that are yet to be fully vious year. This generated an during a programme at the prises of five pillars: shades of discovered.” income of over $101,920,815, a Crowne Plaza in Doha to Thai gastronomy, shades of “We have recently launched substantial 24.21 percent promote its new ‘Open to the nature and beach, shades of arts a landmark ‘Go Local’ campaign increase from 2017. New Shades’ campaign as part and crafts, shades of culture and to promote Thailand’s emerging In 2018, Thailand welcomed of its post-Arabian Travel Market shades of the way of life. generation of secondary desti- 38.2 million visitors, bringing in (ATM) 2019, roadshow event. Nathapol Khantahiran, Ambassador of Thailand to Qatar, during the Srisuda Wanapinyosak, TAT nations which offers a new and $63bn in terms of tourism Nathapol Khantahiran, Ambas- Amazing Thailand Road Show 2019 to Qatar by Tourism Authority Deputy Governor for International exciting travel experience to revenue, a 7.5 percent increase sador of Thailand to Qatar, of Thailand at Crowne Plaza Hotel Doha on Saturday. Marketing (Europe, Africa, Middle tourists. We are truly pleased to over the previous year. Of those attended the event. PIC: ABDUL BASIT / THE PENINSULA East and Americas), said: “The be back in Qatar to showcase our visitors, more than 550,000 The roadshow, which took Middle East is a key market for us offerings to this unique market were from the Middle East; gen- place from May 2 to 4, covered Kuwait on May 2, with the team offerings to the travel industry and we are incredibly excited to and look forward to welcoming erating an income of more than two countries, both of which are finishing the tour on May 4 in in the Middle East region. see continued growth in visitors more visitors to the Land of $1.4bn. The figures were given key markets for TAT. The post- Qatar. The roadshow serves to This year multiple Thai from the region.” She said that Smiles throughout the year,” said by the officials of Tourism ATM roadshow has seen TAT visit highlight Thailand’s many hotels, tour operators, medical from white sand beaches to Wanapinyosak. Pakistan envoy greets W Doha’s ‘Ramadan Tent’ offers fresh vibe THE PENINSULA to its covered outdoor terrace. people on Ramadan DOHA An a la carte + suhoor set menu will be served from 8PM until THE PENINSULA W Doha Hotel & Residences is 2AM daily during the holy DOHA transforming the ‘Great Room’ month. yet again for another year of the Guests can book a private On the occasion of the advent of famous ‘Ramadan Tent’ for the iftar at the venue by directly the holy month of Ramadan, Paki- holy month of Ramadan. reserving with the hotel. stan’s Ambassador to Qatar, Syed W Doha will bring a new and For non-fasting guests, W Ahsan Raza Shah (pictured), has fresh vibe to the tent for guests Doha will continue offering its extended his heartiest greetings to to relish in the traditions and selection of unique restaurants people in the State of Qatar. experience the rich flavours and during Ramadan with Market by “I join my brothers and sisters sounds of the holy month. The Jean-Georges serving its in Qatar in praying for peace and Iftar package will be available breakfast from 6am-11am, a la harmony for all, during this period from sunset to 8:15pm at QR255 carte and express lunch from of fasting and introspection.” per person, and Sohour from 12pm-4pm as well as supper The holy month, the Ambas- 9:15pm to 2:00am at QR295 per club and a la carte dinner from W Doha will bring a new and fresh vibe to the tent for guests to sador said in a statement, provides person, both of which will 5pm to 11:30pm. relish in the traditions and experience the rich flavours and sounds us with the opportunity to thank require prior booking to get the Spice Market and La Spiga of the holy month. Allah Subnanahu Wa Ta’allah for Allah Subnanahu Wa Ta’allah best seat in the house. by Paper Moon will also open all His Blessings. “It is time for spir- accept our fasting, prayers and Food enthusiasts will be with friends and family. With 12 any sweet tooth. their doors for the popular itual contemplation, compassion, good deeds, and give us the taken through a bold and an live stations featuring Japanese, W Doha guests and food express lunch, dinner gratitude and generosity; and pro- strength to seize the opportunity unforgettable culinary journey Italian, Indian, , Turkish, lovers can enjoy many of the throughout the month. In vides us with the opportunity to of this spiritual time to reflect on of a lavish buffet set up of a Asian, European and a host of hotel’s other hotspots like addition, W Café’s selection of spread the message of peace and the year gone by, to observe self- variety of cuisines taking them other cuisines, to the even richer WAHM- the hotel’s poolside delicious baked goods, cupcakes brotherhood in the spirit of social sacrifice, and to be compassionate around the world all while beverages and a vast array of lounge which will bring unfor- and quick bites will be available justice, fairness and equality. May to those who are less fortunate.” enjoying the Ramadan vibes decadent sweets that will satisfy gettable moments of Ramadan from 6am-11pm daily. Texas A&M at Qatar hosts experts for petroleum engineering workshop THE PENINSULA Multiphase flow is the simul- issues, what works and doesn’t DOHA taneous flow of liquids, solids work in Qatar, and the current and gases in oil and gas recovery state of research on multiphase The Petroleum Engineering lines, which can have a negative flow. Program at Texas A&M effect on production. The inter- Workshop chair and Texas University at Qatar recently action of these phases in tight A&M at Qatar assistant professor hosted an inaugural research spaces and additional variables Dr. Aziz Rahman said, “The planning workshop, “Current such as extreme temperature or workshop agenda placed an Advancements and Challenges pressure changes are not fully emphasis on advanced experi- in Multiphase Flow,” to address understood and are open chal- mental and computational mod- a major challenge in the oil and lenges in the oil and gas industry. eling to recreate scenarios from gas industry. A research breakthrough would the nanoscale up to the field The workshop addressed the be an economic boon to the level. latest research and design in industry. The keynote speakers and improving the conditions of mul- Industry experts and aca- panel discussions all addressed Participants at the inaugural research planning workshop. tiphase flow in subsurfaces, well- demics from around the world how to enhance hydrocarbon bores and pipelines, which attended the workshop, recovery and at the same time would enhance hydrocarbon including head of Texas A&M mitigate the risks.” sector and stressed on the need workshop—gave a talk on aspects of the oil and gas sector, resources in the oil and gas University’s Harold Vance On the opening day of the for collaboration between potential EOR methods for Qatari especially women in energy. industry. The workshop also Department of Petroleum Engi- workshop, Thierry Charles, industry and academia. Dr. carbonate reservoirs. Lastly, the workshop ini- established a consensus among neering Dr. Jeff Spath and Cono- North Oil Company (NOC) vice Mayur Pal—who is NOC Jassim Al-Khori, asset tiated new collaborations and industry representatives and key coPhillips Qatar President J. Todd president in the reservoir and enhanced oil recovery (EOR) manager at NOC and SPE Qatar research specific to Qatar’s needs stakeholders for a center in Qatar Creeger. The workshop dis- geosciences division, delivered team lead, Society of Petroleum deputy chair gave a closing talk and in doing so, exposed students to provide long-term expertise cussed how the State of Qatar a keynote on the challenges and Engineers Qatar section chair stressing the importance of to current research in this field. approaches multiphase flow development in the oil and gas and co-chair of the diversity and inclusion in all opportunities.

Registration for Katara Open HMC cautions about risk of dehydration Chess Tournament ends on May 9 THE PENINSULA if left untreated, heat cramps may just complain of dis- DOHA or heat exhaustion can lead to comfort and uneasiness. They THE PENINSULA nationalities and ages, and it will heat stroke, which is the most may experience excessive DOHA be based on the Swiss system The people who fast during the serious heat-related illness and sweating, a throbbing within the so-called classic holy month of Ramadan have can be fatal. headache, and dizziness – all The Cultural Village, Katara has chess, where the competition been urged to be aware of the “During Ramadan, people of which are a result of the announced the continuance of will extend to 7 rounds, as one warning signs of dehydration, abstain from drinking and body’s temperature rising the registration for the Katara round will take more than an heat exhaustion, and other eating for a long period of time rapidly and the sweating mech- Open Chess Tournament, which hour. forms of heat-related illness. and dehydration can occur. anism failing. Essentially, the is organised in cooperation with While last year’s tournament Dr. Muayad Kassim Khalid, However, the risk of dehy- body loses its ability to cool the Qatar Chess Federation, until was local for 3 days and the Senior Consultant, Emergency dration is heightened when down. May 9. round was fast. He also added Medicine at Hamad Medical you add factors that can Heat stroke can cause death The Tournament will be held that the level of the tournament Corporation (HMC), said that increase water loss, such as or permanent disability if from May 13 to 21 at the hall of this year will be more Dr. Muayad Kassim Khalid while mild to moderate dehy- exposure to hot weather and emergency medical treatment building 15, Katara. In this professional. dration can normally be excessive sweating,” said Dr is not received,” said Dr. Khalid. context, Hussein Aziz, tour- As for the prizes, the tour- reversed by drinking more conditions can become worse Khalid. Individuals most at risk of nament manager, said that the nament manager explained that fluids, severe cases of dehy- and lead to dehydration, heat “Prolonged exposure to a dehydration and heat-related tournament of this year is dis- the total value of the prizes is dration and heat-related illness exhaustion, and even heat hot environment and increased illnesses during Ramadan tinguished its international char- estimated at 28 thousand Qatari are medical emergencies and stroke,” said Dr Khalid. physical activity can then cause include those with chronic ill- acter, as it will be subject to the riyals for the first ten winners in require immediate treatment. He said that the first signs heat cramps and heat nesses including diabetes and rules and conditions of the Inter- the overall ranking, as the first “While thirst and of heat-related illness typically exhaustion and if those condi- kidney diseases, those over the national Chess Federation, winner will receive 6 thousand exhaustion can be expected as include skin redness and tions continue, this can lead to age of 65, patients with heart which is a golden opportunity Qatari riyals along with the a result of fasting during warmth, dizziness, nausea, heat stroke. disease, and those taking mul- for amateurs to get an interna- prizes categories. The regis- Ramadan, particularly when vomiting, tiredness, muscles People with heat exhaustion tiple medications such as diu- tional rating. tration for the tournament is by the Holy Month falls during the cramps, difficulty breathing, will often not realise the retics, which increase the pro- He pointed out that the tour- calling to this number: hot summer months, these and a racing heart rate. He says severity of their condition and duction of urine. nament will be open to all 30006260. 08 VIEWS MONDAY 6 MAY 2019 Why the ‘one percent’ in the US is worried

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EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DAVID A LOVE DR. KHALID BIN MUBARAK AL-SHAFI AL JAZEERA [email protected] nequality in the United States has reached such levels lately that ACTING MANAGING EDITOR even members of the “one MOHAMMED SALIM MOHAMED Ipercent” have started worrying. [email protected] Ray Dalio, founder of Bridgewater Associates hedge fund who is ranked 57th wealthiest person in the world by DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR Forbes magazine, quipped in a recent MOHAMMED OSMAN ALI interview that capitalism is denying [email protected] “equal opportunity for the American dream”. He said that he was “a But in reality, many more Amer- Unsurprisingly, the stop-gap fixes byproduct of capitalism when it also icans struggle to secure a dignified life that people like Gates, Dimon, Schultz gave equal opportunity”, adding “I was for themselves and their families. A and Dalio are proposing are unlikely very lucky to live the American dream damning report published by the UN to work because they are designed to by having the proper care and the in 2018 found that: “High child and maintain the current system in place proper public school education … A youth poverty rates perpetuate the so they can continue to accumulate EDITORIAL number of things have changed.” intergenerational transmission of wealth unrestrained.. Former Starbucks CEO and pro- poverty very effectively, and ensure There is an increasing number of spective presidential candidate that the American dream is rapidly dramatic proposals for economic Howard Schultz, who prefers to be becoming the American illusion. The justice that look promising. These Qatar’s exceptional hospitality called a “person of means” rather than equality of opportunity, which is so include Congresswoman Alexandria a billionaire (ranked 617th by Forbes), prized in theory, is in practice a myth, Ocasio-Cortez’s Green New Deal, atar’s tourism got yet another boost yesterday with recently observed that “the vast especially for minorities and women, which envisions a national mobili- launch of country’s biggest ever ‘Summer in Qatar’. majority of Americans are living pay- but also for many middle-class White sation to eliminate carbon emissions QThe festival will attract tourists from all over the check to paycheck” and declared that workers.” and transform the US economy, world and will make their visit to Qatar unforgettable. the next US president must urgently Perhaps parts of the American boosting economic growth and job The programme will offer opportunity for residents address inequality. “one percent” are finally ready to creation, while seeking economic and and tourists to avail discounts on Qatar Airways flights, CEO of JP Morgan Chase Jamie admit that socioeconomic inequality racial justice for vulnerable commu- hotels and malls and chance to win millions in raffle draws. Dimon (ranked 1,717th) also noted has reached unprecedented levels and nities. Ocasio-Cortez has also called Along with this grand initiative Qatar announced to earlier this year that: “A big chunk of that the current status quo is unsus- for a 70 percent marginal tax rate on allow residents to invite and bring their friends and rel- [Americans] have been left behind […] tainable because just like South earnings above $10m. atives in Qatar visa free during summer. Forty percent of Americans make less African billionaire Johann Rupert, the Although conservatives attack pro- This announcement means that the citizens of the than $15 an hour. Forty percent can’t prospect of the poor masses rebelling posals promoting economic justice country who are not on the list of countries, which are afford a $400 bill, whether it’s medical is keeping them “awake at night”. and equity as dangerous because they allowed visa-on-arrival facility by Qatar, can avail visa or fixing their car. Fifteen percent of They are now saying that capitalism could lead to a totalitarian socialist free entry into Qatar. Americans make minimum wages, “needs work” and are proposing system, such policies have long been a Qatar National Tourism Council (QNTC) on Saturday 70,000 die from opioids.” various “fixes” - mainly “trickle-down part of the US system. After all, the announced a season of summer experiences, retail offers Indeed, the growing impover- philanthropy”. Some have gone as far Green New Deal is named after the and entertainment, that will run from June 4 to August 16. ishment and as suggesting that social provision New Deal, which was introduced This year’s ‘Summer in Qatar’ introduces a wide range of despair that should be enhanced and that the during the Great Depression to protect exciting indoor and outdoor experiences, along with enter- are plaguing wealthy should be taxed. the poor, strengthen labour rights and tainment programs featuring local, regional and inter- our country Yet all of them are quick to out- impose strict regulation on the national artists, edutainment, summer and sports camps are hard to right reject “socialist policies”. In a financial system. as well as special promotions miss. The US recent interview for NBC, Melinda At the same time, Americans are on inbound travel, hospitality Economic growth also has the Gates, cochair of the Bill and Melinda increasingly in favour of a major and shopping. now only “uplifts” highest rate Gates Foundation and wife of the overhaul of the system, due to the To deliver the program the rich, who are of income second richest man in the world, problematic and corruptive nature of QNTC has brought together able to control inequality echoed the thoughts of many of the the current one. Existing and proposed more than 30 partners from among super-rich, saying that: “What I know government programmes of economic Summer in Qatar the public and private sectors, the distribution Western to be true is I would far rather live in a redistribution and equity are popular. program will including the Ministry of Com- of wealth by nations, with capitalistic society than a socialist Socialism is also gaining popularity, further strengthen merce & Industry, Ministry of influencing the the top one society.” even surpassing capitalism among Qatar’s position Municipality & Environment, government and percent But Gates is wrong. The current Democrats, particularly millennials. Qatar Museums, Qatar claiming 40 system in place in the US is not capi- Such policies, which translate into as the most open Airways, Katara Cultural making sure percent of US talism, but rather “socialism for the more democratic ownership and country in the Village, Qatar Foundation, it serves their wealth in rich” which favours the “one percent” control over the government and region. Last year Private Engineering Office, interests and 2016, in con- by granting it ever-increasing sub- greater public accountability, most in September, Katara Hospitality, Al Rayyan trast to a 25 sidies, exorbitant tax breaks, deregu- certainly frighten the wealthy for their Hospitality, Marriott Interna- maintain their to 30 percent lation and executive bonuses. The rest effectiveness and political popularity. Qatar became the tional hotels, nine partici- power. Through share in the of the population lives in an unfair If members of the “one percent” most open country pating malls, and other event the US system of 1980s. system of inequality and segregation, truly care about the widening wealth in the Middle partners. legalised corruption, According to struggling to make ends meet under gap, they should not resist the imple- Summer in Qatar program the rather severe austerity and erosion of labour mentation of these policies. An East and the 8th will further strengthen Qatar’s the wealthy funnel conservative rights. It is a system of “survival of the overhaul of the system might make most open in the position as the most open billions of dollars estimates of fittest”, which privileges some over the them less wealthy, but ultimately will world in terms of country in the region. Last year in donations to the US others based on race and gender. not be to their detriment. A profit can visa facilitation in September, Qatar became election campaigns. Census Economic growth now only still be made if workers are paid dig- the most open country in the Bureau, “uplifts” the rich, who are able to nified salaries, provided proper according to Middle East and the 8th most around 14 control the distribution of wealth by healthcare, and granted social and UNWTO visa open in the world in terms of percent of the influencing the government and labour rights. openness rankings. visa facilitation according to population or 45 million live in making sure it serves their interests Indeed the choice of the “one The World Tourism Organi- poverty. According to the UN, 8.5 and maintain their power. Through the percent” is reduced to either living in a zation’s (UNWTO) visa million of them face extreme poverty US system of legalised corruption, the more equal and just society or facing openness rankings. and 5.3 million suffer in “Third World wealthy funnel billions of dollars in the wrath of angry impoverished The high ranking reflects a string of visa facilitation conditions of absolute poverty”. donations to election campaigns. masses. measures introduced by Qatar, including allowing nationals of several countries to enter Qatar visa-free and free-of-charge. As a result, Qatar’s openness score Trump’s latest favour to an Arab dictator defies law - and common sense leapt by 71.3 points since 2014, when it ranked 177th. Early this year, Qatar made to The New York Times THE WASHINGTON POST would be found illegal by US courts and designated by the State Department as ‘52 Places to Go in 2019’ list, showing that the city has would greatly complicate relations with terrorist organizations. Meanwhile, become a must go destination for travellers around the resident Donald Trump has half a dozen countries where Broth- Brotherhood-linked parties have partic- world. Last year Doha was ranked among the ‘Top 100 shown a disturbing willingness erhood groups participate in parlia- ipated in elections and joined the parlia- City Destinations’ worldwide by Euromonitor 2018. to adopt measures pushed on ments or government. ments of Jordan, Morocco, Iraq and The new measures taken by the authorities will further him by his favorite Arab dic- That Trump is nevertheless Kuwait, and one formed the first demo- P cratic government in Tunisia. The record develop Qatar as a year-round tourism destination for tators, even when they contradict pressing ahead only reflects how tourist all over the world. standing US policies and the judgment greatly his view of Middle Eastern of its affiliates in respecting democratic of seasoned national security profes- affairs has been skewed by his predi- norms once in office has been mixed, sionals. At the urging of Saudi Arabia’s lection to swallow the nostrums including in . But that underlines Mohammed bin Salman, he tweeted his peddled to him by Sissi and the Saudi the point about the movement: It is not a backing in 2017 for a boycott of Qatar, a crown prince. They claim the Broth- monolith that can be sweepingly key US ally that hosts a huge US air erhood, which was founded in Egypt in categorised. QUOTE OF THE DAY base. More recently, he signaled 1928, is essentially indistinguishable The real objection of the Egyptians The era of immunity is support for Libyan warlord Khalifa from Al Qaida, the Islamic State and and Saudis to the Muslim Brotherhood Hifter, who is trying to topple the UN- other violent jihadist organizations. In is this affinity for democracy. Broth- over. We are now entering backed government in Tripoli - and fact, as George Washington University erhood parties embrace elections a period of accountability. was opposed by the United States until scholar Marc Lynch recently pointed because they have a good chance of We will fight with every Trump was lobbied by Egyptian out in a Washington Post analysis success, and democracy would be needs at our disposal strongman Abdel-Fattah Al Sissi. article, “almost all academics and ana- unworkable in any Arab country today to ensure those who Now the White House has disclosed lysts, even those critical of the Broth- without the participation of peaceful occupied positions of that it is seeking to implement another erhood, agree that it is not a terrorist Islamist movements. As Jamal one of Sissi’s asks: the designation of organization.” Khashoggi, the Saudi journalist and authority serve only the the Muslim Brotherhood as a terrorist The Brotherhood has radical goals, Washington Post contributor murdered public interest, not their organization. Sissi, who in 2013 led a including the creation of Islamic gov- by the order of Mohammed bin Salman, own pockets and not coup against a democratically elected ernments that follow sharia law, but it wrote in one of his final columns, “the themselves. Muslim Brotherhood government, has swore off violence in the 1960s. Some of eradication of the Muslim Brotherhood been seeking such a US action for its many offshoots throughout the is nothing less than an abolition of Cyril Ramaphosa years. He has been rebuffed until now Middle East have taken up arms, democracy and a guarantee that Arabs South African President for good reason: Such a designation, including the Palestinian Hamas will continue living under authoritarian especially if broadly cast, probably movement, but these have already been and corrupt regimes.” MONDAY 6 MAY 2019 OPINION 09 Clash of civilisations has no place in US foreign policy

t isn’t often that high-ranking that, with the collapse of com- But critics of the Trump adminis- That Asians have more in US diplomats publicly invoke munism, ideological rivalries would tration will hear talk of a civilisa- common with each other than the ideas of ivory-tower aca- no longer drive global affairs. tional conflict as an echo of the idea, they do with the US, and that Idemics. But earlier this week, Rather, conflict would occur promoted by the controversial Washington should therefore the director of policy planning at the between groups defined by culture, former Trump adviser Steve leave Asia to the Asians — State Department, Kiron Skinner, religion and identity. Among the Bannon, that the world has reached meaning that it should allow HAL BRANDS used a controversial concept created clashing groups would be a Western a confrontation pitting the Christian China to dominate that part of the BLOOMBERG by Harvard professor Samuel Hunt- civilisation in Europe and North West against the rest. And even world. This argument provides an ington to describe America’s America, and a “Sinic” civilization leaving that loaded issue aside, the intellectual underpinning for eve- unfolding rivalry with China. made up of China and many of its concept is ideologically and geopo- rything Beijing is doing to push Speaking at a Washington think Asian neighbors. litically counterproductive. the US out of the Western Pacific: tank, Skinner said that China’s rise The clash thesis gained popu- For one thing, “clash” rhetoric Undermining US alliances, constitutes a generational challenge larity amid bloody struggles sacrifices the moral high ground in building up its military, and that will require a generational between Muslim and Christian com- the US-China competition. America weaving webs of economic response. She also argued that the munities in the former Yugoslavia, has long claimed that democratic dependence around its neighbors. rivalry represents a great “clash of and particularly after the eruption of values and human rights are not dis- The idea of drawing sharp civilisations,” the term Huntington, the war on terror after 9/11. tinctly Western ideas. Instead, they boundaries between East and The idea of drawing who died in 2008, coined in pre- The US government always are universal ideas that people eve- West is thus critical to China’s sharp boundaries dicting what would take place after rejected Huntington’s framing, rywhere deserve to enjoy — and that strategy — and it is lethal to between East and the end of the Cold War. though: the George W. Bush admin- no government has a right to deny America’s. To counter China, the West is thus critical The Trump administration is istration argued that the war on its people. US will need to rally a coalition undoubtedly right that competition terror was a product of a clash This argument, although some- that cuts across civilisations. This to China’s strategy with China will be a decades-long within a civilisation — between the times selectively applied, represents includes, but is not limited to, the — and it is lethal to affair. Yet the Clash of Civilisations tolerant and intolerant parts of the a fundamental foreign policy democracies of the Western Hem- America’s. To counter model won’t help the US win that Muslim world — rather than a clash strength because it allows the US to isphere and Europe and an array China, the US will need competition, because it actually sup- between the Muslim world and the identify itself with the aspirations of of Asian countries that are ports Beijing’s strategy better than West. people around the world — even in troubled by China’s rise. Yet to rally a coalition America’s. Today, there are profound cul- countries that are controlled by talking about civilisational that cuts across Huntington introduced the clash tural differences between the US hostile regimes. clashes merely highlights the cul- civilisations. thesis in a famous Foreign Affairs and China, in addition to myriad Moreover, US officials have used tural and racial differences essay written in 1993. He argued economic and geopolitical strains. the idea that human rights and dem- between the US and Vietnam or ocratic values are universal as an India, at precisely the moment ideological bludgeon against author- when common geopolitical itarian governments, as it did to interests need to be brought to the great effect against the Soviet Union fore. during the Cold War. Holding together a diverse The Chinese government, by balancing coalition against an contrast, has embraced the concept ambitious China will be hard of civilisational difference as a enough. American diplomats means of autocratic self-protection. shouldn’t make that task any more Beijing has long rejected the idea challenging than it has to be. that it should liberalise its political system — or simply stop throwing The author is a Bloomberg dissidents in jail — on grounds that Opinion columnist, the Henry “Western” concepts of democracy Kissinger Distinguished Professor and individual rights are incom- at Johns Hopkins University’s patible with the traditions of China’s School of Advanced International unique civilisation. Studies, and senior fellow at the The US should not be supporting Center for Strategic and Budgetary this idea, even implicitly; it should Assessments. not be affirming the civilisational wall the Chinese regime has sought to build between its citizens and the democratic world. The clash thesis is also geopoliti- cally dangerous, because here, too, it plays into China’s hands. The D-RING ROAD Chinese government has long POST BOX: 3488 A file photo showing US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping shaking hands during a joint argued that the world should, in fact, DOHA - QATAR statement to members of the media at the Great Hall of the People, in Beijing, China. be divided along civilizational lines: [email protected]

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M5S wants to form a new bathrooms in,” and bring Internet CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT Harnwell, a close associate of grouping to wrest power from the access to the sprawling hermitage, TEL: 4455 7857 former Trump White House adviser traditional left and right, but has which is currently home to 40 feral [email protected] Steve Bannon, founded the Dignitatis failed so far to get the numbers cats. But Harnwell, who kneels Humanae Institute that will run the needed through its overtures to small and crosses himself before the altar SUBSCRIPTION & school and aims to create new parties in Croatia, Finland, Greece every time he passes through the DISTRIBUTION leaders through “hardcore” person- and Poland. chapel to a corridor hidden behind TEL: 4455 7809 / 839 ality formation. Salvini, an ally of Marine Le Pen a secret door, may not get the FAX: 44557819 “It’ll be a case of sticking your from France’s National Rally party, chance. [email protected] hand, your fist into the soul of the has called on nationalist parties to The culture ministry, currently man and dragging it out,” he said. join forces and has been busy run by the Five Star Movement, said Attempts to “Everything that’s of this world wooing Hungary’s anti-immigration it has launched a probe into the we’ll leave to the side, and everything Prime Minister Viktor Orban and tender following an Italian investi- All thoughts and views transform the that’s good can be reworked.” Dutch Freedom Party leader Geert gative report which suggested the sprawling Certosa The “threats” the school aims to Wilders. Institute may not have won it fair and expressed in these columns di Trisulti into a counter from among its sculpted In August, Salvini signed up to square. are those of the writers, far-right political hedgerows and cobbled paths are Bannon’s group “The Movement”, Harnwell brushes off the allega- not of the newspaper. militant secularism within the West, founded to spark a populist revolt in tions, saying the school is “caught in boot camp risk jihadist Islamism, exploitation of the the EU vote. a crossfire between the League and falling foul of a ordinary man by powerful elites and The League leader has said he M5S” as their electoral campaigns for All correspondence bitter fight between illegal immigration. expects a new populist bloc to be the EU vote enter the feverish final regarding Views and Italy’s populist Bannon, who since being ousted the largest in the parliament -- stretch. Opinion pages should be from the White House spends his though he and his would-be bed- “The left is trying to suggest sent to editor-in-chief parties ahead of the days fomenting right-wing populism fellows disagree on several key we’re part of some money-laun- European elections in Europe, has pledged one million points, such as who across Europe dering effort with the Russians, or the office or mailed to the later this month. dollars to the project -- but appears takes how many of the refugees Mafia,” he says, dismissing such sug- [email protected] to be the only benefactor to have landing in Italy. gestions as total rubbish. 10 MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA MONDAY 6 MAY 2019 Israeli brutality continues in Gaza; toll rises to 9 The new escalation follows Friday clashes along the Gaza border that were the most violent in weeks. Four Palestinians, including two Hamas fighters, were killed in a shooting during weekly protests on the frontier.

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Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has ordered “massive strikes” on the Gaza Strip after a two-day escalation that killed nine Palestinians. Warplanes and gunboats continued to target the Gaza Strip as fighters in the besieged Smoke billows from a targeted neighbourhood in Gaza City during an Israeli airstrike on the Hamas-run Palestinian enclave, yesterday. RIGHT: A member of Palestinian enclave fired a barrage of rockets Civil Defence extinguishes a fire in the car of a Hamas commander who was killed in the airstrike. into southern Israel. Three people were killed in Gaza rocket strikes on southern killed in Gaza on Saturday. The Israeli army said its the other building housed Hamas with Gaza for people and goods, The United States said it fully Israel yesterday. One was con- Israeli Prime Minister Ben- tanks and planes hit some 260 and Islamic Jihad offices. as well the fishing zone off the supported Israel’s “right to self- firmed as Israeli, but police had jamin Netanyahu said he targets in Gaz. Targets included The Gaza health ministry enclave’s shore, until further defence against these abhorrent not released the nationalities for instructed the military “to con- an Islamic Jihad attack tunnel said the dead from the Israeli notice. Egyptian and UN offi- attacks.” Jordan, one of only two the other two. tinue its massive strikes on terror that stretched from southern strikes included a 14-month-old cials held talks to calm the sit- Arab countries with a peace The Palestinian dead elements in the Gaza Strip.” Gaza into Israeli territory, it baby and a pregnant woman, 37. uation, as they have done treaty with Israel, urged it to “end included a commander for He said he had also ordered said. Two multi-storey It first identified the woman as repeatedly in the past, while the its aggression against the Gaza Hamas’s armed wing who Israel “tanks, artillery and infantry buildings in Gaza City were also the baby’s mother, but the family European Union called for an Strip and respect international said it targeted due to his role in forces” to reinforce troops destroyed. clarified that she was the aunt. immediate halt to rocket fire humanitarian law.” transferring money from Iran to already deployed near Gaza. Israel said one of the Islamic Jihad’s armed wing from Gaza. The escalation follows Friday militant groups in the Gaza Strip. The flare-up came as Hamas, buildings included Hamas mil- distributed a video showing The UN envoy for the Israeli- clashes along the Gaza border He was the fifth Palestinian the Islamist movement that rules itary intelligence and security fighters handling rockets and Palestinian conflict, Nickolay that were the most violent in reported killed yesterday. Other the blockaded enclave, sought offices. Turkey said its state news threatening key Israeli sites, Mladenov, called on “all parties weeks. Four Palestinians, Palestinian victims included a further concessions from Israel agency Anadolu had an office in including Ben-Gurion interna- to immediately de-escalate and including two Hamas fighters, pregnant woman and her one- under a fragile months-old the building, and strongly tional airport near Tel Aviv. return to the understandings of were killed in a shooting during year-old niece, who were both ceasefire. denounced the strike. Israel said Israel closed its crossings the past few months.” weekly protests on the frontier. Ruling on Istanbul poll Tunisian forces kill 3 militants

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REUTERS Board) has examined our party’s Tunisian security forces have ANKARA and the MHP’s objections to the killed three suspected militants Istanbul election results. I from an Islamic State (IS) group Turkey’s High Election Board believe it will make a decision affiliate in the centre of the will rule today on an appeal by tomorrow,” AKP candidate and country, the interior ministry President Tayyip Erdogan’s AK former prime minister Binali said yesterday. Party (AKP) calling for a rerun Yildirim told reporters. A statement said “three of of the Istanbul local elections On Saturday, Erdogan sig- the most dangerous terrorists” that the party narrowly lost, the nalled he favours a re-run of the from the Jund al-Khilafa (Sol- AKP’s mayoral candidate in the Istanbul elections, which he said diers of the Caliphate) group city said. were marred by controversy, were “eliminated” Saturday The main opposition Repub- and added that renewing the evening near the town of Sidi lican People’s Party (CHP) won vote would allow the YSK to Ali Ben Oun, 230km southwest control of the capital Ankara and “clear its name”. of Tunis. It identified the men Istanbul, the country’s biggest AKP Deputy Chairman Ali as Hatem ben Aid Basdouri, 40, city, for the first time in 25 years Ihsan Yavuz later on Sunday told Mohamed ben Ibrahim in the March 31 local elections, broadcaster A Para that the party Basdouri, 35, and Montassar in a major electoral setback for was preparing to file criminal ben Khraief Ghozlani, 31. Sudanese protesters, waving national flag, taking part in a sit-in outside the Army Headquarters in the president. complaints on the irregularities, Security forces seized weapons, Khartoum, yesterday. Erdogan’s ruling AKP and but that it would wait for the ammunition, explosives and its nationalist MHP allies have YSK’s ruling. suicide vests, the authorities since called for the results in “With this many illegalities, said. In an earlier statement Istanbul to be annulled and the the prosecutors won’t be able to the ministry said it also had Sudan’s military council to present election to be re-run, citing what rest. We formed a team to file managed to “thwart terrorist they say are irregularities that criminal complaints,” Yavuz projects” planned for the holy its vision for transition today affected the outcome. said. month Ramadan after arresting While those appeals have Yavuz also said the AKP another suspected militant. REUTERS the features of a transitional would sit on it. It also outlines been pending for weeks, the would file a new appeal to the government. the responsibilities of the cabinet High Election Board (YSK) YSK to block individuals dis- The Declaration of Freedom and a 120-member legislature. ordered partial and full recounts missed through government 5 soldiers dead in Sudan’s Transitional Military and Change Forces (DFCF,) an Lieutenant General Shams across Istanbul. Istanbul’s new decrees after a July 2016 coup Boko Haram attack Council (TMC) said it would alliance of activists and oppo- El Din Kabbashi, a spokesman CHP mayor, Ekrem Imamoglu, attempt from being able to vote. publish its views for the coun- sition groups, sent the military for the military council, said the took office last month as the The YSK rejected a previous AFP / LAGOS try’s transitional period today, council a draft constitutional document was “good”, adding recounts were completed. appeal by the AKP on the same its latest move in negotiations document on Thursday con- that while the council agreed on However, in its interim issue. Five Nigerian soldiers were with opposition factions after the taining its vision for the transi- some of its points, it had its res- ruling on the objections, the The state-run Anadolu news killed when Boko Haram ouster of former President Omar tional period. The DFCF was ervations on others. YSK ordered district electoral agency said yesterday that overran a military base in the Hassan Al Bashir. expecting a response in order for The military removed Bashir officials to inspect their authorities had found 43 polling restive northeast two days ago, Protesters and activists have negotiations to proceed. on April 11 after months of dem- respective polling station offi- station officials had links to the the army said yesterday. been negotiating with the TMC The constitutional draft, onstrations against his 30-year cials. Prosecutors also network of US-based cleric A column of fighters from to form a joint civilian-military seen by Reuters, outlines the rule. He was questioned for the launched probes into the Fethullah Gulen, blamed by the IS-affiliated Islamic State body to oversee the country until duties of a sovereign transitional first time on Sunday over sus- alleged irregularities, calling Ankara for orchestrating the West Africa Province (ISWAP) elections. But the parties are council which the opposition pected money laundering and 100 polling station workers in failed coup, as a result of the in trucks and on motorcycles deadlocked over who would groups hope will replace the financing terrorism, the general for questioning as suspects. investigations into alleged stormed into the base in the control the new council and over TMC, but does not specify who prosecutor said in a statement. “The YSK (High Election election irregularities. town of Magumeri, 50km from the Borno state capital Maid- uguri late Friday. Mozambique leader Army spokesman Ezindu Warplanes strike hospital in rebel-held Idlib Idima said in a statement gov- endorsed as candidate ernment troops “had a fierce AFP / MAPUTO AP country’s last major rebel stronghold. The Observatory said that since the encounter” with the insurgents BEIRUT Attacks on hospitals and clinics in the early hours of yesterday, Russian war- who came in numbers to loot Mozambique’s ruling party yesterday past have preceded major government planes carried out more than 50 airstrikes food items and other valuables. endorsed President Filipe Nyusi as its Warplanes struck a hospital in Syria’s offensives on rebel-held areas, including on Idlib and nearby Hama province. It “The indefatigable troops effec- candidate for presidential elections in northwestern Idlib province yesterday, the 2016 attack on rebel-held parts of the said government and Russia bom- tively thwarted the terrorists’ October, after a three-day meeting of its knocking it out of service, as government northern city of Aleppo and last year’s bardment killed at least six people on plan through superior fire top officials in Maputo. forces continued to bombard the rebel- offensive on eastern suburbs of the capital, Sunday in different rebel-held areas. power,” he said. “However, “The Frelimo Central Committee is held region following insurgent attacks Damascus. Turkey’s Defence Ministry meanwhile during the encounter the ter- taking a positive view of the govern- last week. The Britain-based Syrian Observatory said that two Turkish soldiers were rorists suffered heavy losses/ ment’s five-year programme, which has The latest fighting has killed dozens for Human Rights said Russian warplanes wounded on Saturday when mortar casualty. Unfortunately, five resulted in several achievements such of people and displaced tens of thou- were behind the attack on the main hos- shells fell near one of their positions in soldiers paid the supreme as expanding the drinking water network, sands in Idlib and nearby rebel-held pital in the rebel-held village of Hass. The Hama province. Turkey and Russia, who price,” he said. The jihadists education and transportation,” said areas, who fled to safer regions further opposition-run activist collective Baladi back opposite sides in Syria’s eight-year were said to have arrived in the Edson Macuacua, a party spokesman. north. It’s the heaviest fighting in months, News also reported the airstrike on the conflict, brokered a truce in September town around 5:00 pm (1600 “The government comes to the end and has raised fears the government may hospital, adding that it was not clear if that averted a government offensive on GMT) and engaged troops in an of its tenure with victories,” he added. launch a wider offensive to retake the there were casualties. Idlib. hour-long fight. MONDAY 6 MAY 2019 ASIA 11 51 constituencies Cyclone Fani toll rises to 42 in India, Bangladesh AFP in 7 states vote in NEW DELHI The death toll from a cyclone that battered India and Bang- fifth phase today ladesh rose to 42 yesterday as emergency teams raced to fix IANS UPA Chairperson water supplies and roads devas- NEW DELHI Sonia Gandhi is tated by the storm. Twenty-nine of the dead A total of 51 seats spread across contesting from were in eastern India’s Odisha seven states are scheduled to Rae Bareli, while state and 13 in Bangladesh, offi- vote in the fifth phase today, Congress President cials in the two countries said - with Rae Bareli and Amethi seats Rahul Gandhi will a fraction of the casualty in Uttar Pradesh among the most numbers seen in past cyclones. watched contests. again face Union Cyclone Fani barrelled into Of the seats going to polls on Minister Smriti Irani in Odisha on Friday, packing winds today, 14 are in Uttar Pradesh, Amethi. up to 200 kilometres (125 miles) 12 in Rajasthan, seven each in an hour before losing intensity West Bengal and Madhya as it headed towards Pradesh, five in Bihar, four in Progressive Alliance (UPA) Bangladesh. Jharkhand and two in Jammu Chairperson Sonia Gandhi, who Twenty-one deaths were and Kashmir, including has held the seat from 2004, will reported in the Hindu pilgrimage Anantnag, where the third and face former Congress leader city of Puri, said Odisha special Villagers block the national highway connecting Puri to Bhubaneswar as they demand relief materials, final phase of polling will be Dinesh Pratap Singh of the BJP. relief commissioner Bishnupada on the outskirts of Puri, yesterday. held. In Amethi, Congress President Sethi. “We are trying to confirm In the 2014 elections, the BJP Rahul Gandhi will again face the identity of the victims but had won 39 of these 51 seats - Union Minister Smriti Irani. since communication lines have now gone three days without Bengal coast in 43 years and only life. Improved forecasting all 12 in Rajasthan, 12 of 14 in Among other prominent been hit, it is taking time,” Sethi power. Odisha state Chief Min- the third in the past 150 years, models, public awareness cam- Uttar Pradesh, all seven in candidates in the fray are Union said. The toll in Bangladesh ister Naveen Patnaik has the chief minister said. Normally paigns and well-drilled evacu- Madhya Pradesh, three of five Ministers Rajnath Singh included six people struck by announced cash and rice the storms hit around October ation plans - backed up by an in Bihar, all four in Jharkhand (Lucknow), Jayant Sinha (Haz- lightning, disaster management handouts for victims in need. He and November. army of responders and volun- and one of two in Jammu and aribagh) and Rajyavardhan official Golam Mostofa said. said cooked food would be sup- India has earned praise from teers - saw Odisha’s inhabitants Kashmir. Singh Rathore (Jaipur Rural). Thousands of trees and plied to some communities for the UN and other experts for the spared the worst of Fani’s fury. In West Bengal, all seven In Uttar Pradesh, the fifth mobile phone towers were 15 days. speedy evacuation of 1.2 million In 1999 Odisha was hit by a seats were won by the Tri- phase will include most of the uprooted and roofs were torn off Fani was the first summer people in the powerful storm’s super-cyclone that left nearly namool Congress, in Bihar, one seats where the BJP performed by the storm. Many homes have cyclone to hit India’s Bay of path and minimising the loss of 10,000 dead. was won by BJP ally Lok Jan- credibly in 2014 but face a strong shakti Party and one by then ally challenge from the Samajwadi Rashtriya Lok Samta Party, and Party-Bahujan Samaj Party Rahul slams Modi in Jammu and Kashmir, one seat combine this time. 850 Indians freed from Saudi jails: PM was won by Peoples Democratic In Bihar, the political equa- IANS the prisoners before Ramadan power, you find the ambulance for calling Rajiv Party. The Congress had only tions have changed from the LUCKNOW and he accepted my proposal,” scam and NRHM scam. When Gandhi corrupt bagged Amethi and Rae Bareli. last Lok Sabha elections. Then Modi said while speaking at a we get power, we use it to serve This phase will see voting in the ruling Janata Dal-United Prime Minister Narendra Modi rally in Bhadohi district in Uttar the people and initiate schemes IANS many high-profile seats. In Uttar was then opposed to the BJP but yesterday said that it was on his Pradesh. like Ayushman Bharat that NEW DELHI Pradesh, both Rae Bareli and this time, it is a constituent of request that Saudi Arabia The Prime Minister put the benefit the poorest of the poor,” Amethi, which are traditional the NDA, facing the challenge released 850 Indian lodged in SP-BSP alliance in the dock and he said. A day after Prime Minister Congress strongholds, will from its erstwhile ally, the its jails on the eve of the month said that the ‘mahamilavati’ He further said change can Narendra Modi called Rajiv witness a heated contest Rashtriya Janata Dal along with of Ramadan. “When the Crown people have used power to earn be brought in only when those Gandhi a “corrupt” politician, between Congress and BJP. the Congress and some smaller Prince of Saudi Arabia was in money. in power put the nation before Congress President Rahul In Rae Bareli, United parties. India, I requested him to release “When such elements get themselves. Gandhi yesterday criticised him for attacking his father and former Prime Minister who Modi slams Congress over alleged submarine scam sacrificed his life for the country. IANS The Prime Minister further with a strong strategy. The “Modiji, the battle is over. SAGAR, MADHYA PRADESH said since the submarine scam ‘chowkidar’ is alert. Now it’s Your karma awaits you. Pro- came into light, ‘naamdaar’ and clear to terrorists the ‘new India’ jecting your inner beliefs about Prime Minister Narendra Modi all his colleagues had gone into would retort at their turfs,” he yourself onto my father won’t here yesterday launched a the ‘kop bhawan’ (a place where said. protect you. All my love and a scathing attack on the Congress an angry or anguished person Taking a jibe at the Congress, huge hug,” Gandhi tweeted. saying first it was Bofors, then hides). “Bofors guns then heli- Modi said, “In 2004, the Con- Later, Congress General helicopter and now the copter and now submarines. gress government suddenly Secretary Priyanka Gandhi also submarine scam has been Micheal ‘mama’ (uncle) is still came to power and the ‘raj- slammed Modi on Twitter: “The unearthed. revealing the secrets. The kumar’ was not capable to Prime Minister who insults Addressing an election rally, meaning of Congress is only lie, handle it. Even the family was martyrs by seeking vote in the the Prime Minister said, conspiracy and cheating,” Modi not sure. They made a plan to name of their sacrifices yes- “’naamdaar’ had established a said. Talking about the action in place a watchman like ‘night terday crossed his limits by company in England named Pakistan’s Balakot and the recent watchman in cricket’.” “They insulting the sacrifice of a noble ‘Backups’. The company’s name ban on Masood Azhar, he said: spent 10 years in the wait to ‘raj- man who gave his life for the matches with its style of working “It was because of the Congress kumar’ to mature. He was given country. “The people of Amethi that’s working behind the policies that terrorists were training also. But everything will reply as Rajiv Gandhi sac- A polling officer checks a polling station list before collecting election curtain. This company was shut coming in our country to do went in the vain. They have rificed his life for them. materials at a distribution centre in Howrah, Kolkata, yesterday. in 2009. Now it has come to light explosions and threaten India. spoiled 10 years of the country Rahul and Priyanka Gan- that partners of ‘naamdaar’ Thereafter, the ‘strong gov- in this process. The remote of dhi’s remarks came a day after secured a contract from the belonged to him (Rahul Gandhi), partners only had the experience ernment’ of India used to cry in acting Prime Minister was some- Modi, at a rally in Uttar Pradesh’s Indian government in 2011 to owner of the company was also of brokerage and liaisoning, why front of the whole world”. where else, hence, he continued Pratapgarh, attacked their father manufacture submarines,” Modi his friend. Now the people is did you opt to manufacture sub- “On the other hand, the to bother about his ‘chair’ only,” calling him “Bhrashtachari No1” said. He said: “Once the company asking ‘naamdaar’ you and your marines. Who gave the chance”. BJP-led NDA government came said Modi. (Corrupt No1). Suspected training camp of Sri Lankan militants unearthed SC denies two judges met AGENCIES in-house committee members KATTANKUDY/COLOMBO IANS Gogoi of sexual harassment, in Sri Lankan police yesterday discovered a NEW DELHI a statement said she would no 10-acre camp in the eastern town of more appear before the com- Kattankudy, where Islamist militants linked The Supreme Court yesterday mittee set up by the apex court to the deadly Easter attacks are believed to issued a statement where it as she felt that she was “not have practiced shooting and bomb-making. denied that Justices DY Chandr- likely to get justice”. The walled terrain is nestled in a poor achud and Rohinton Nariman The woman said she felt residential area on the outskirts of the home met members of an in-house “quite intimidated and nervous” town of Zahran Hashim, who is believed to committee probing the sexual in the presence of the three have been a key player in plotting the April harassment allegations against judges of the Supreme Court. 21 attacks. Islamic State has claimed respon- Chief Justice of India, Ranjan In a statement to the media, sibility for the church and hotel bombings Gogoi. she expressed serious reserva- that killed more than 250 people. According to a media report, tions over the panel, saying it The narrow, sandy plot is dotted with a it was claimed that Chandrachud was “an in-house committee of cinderblock four-storey watchtower, as well and Nariman met the committee sitting judges junior to the Chief as mango trees, a chicken coop and a goat members - Justices SA Bobde, Justice and not an external com- shed. Indira Banerjee and Indu Mal- mittee as I had requested...” The “They wanted to show this place was hotra - on the evening of May 3 woman said during the panel’s normal. If someone comes to see, it looks to register their concerns to con- hearing on April 26, the judges like a farm. But what they were doing is ter- tinue the investigations into the told her that it was neither an rorism,” said a senior police officer in the allegations in the absence of the in-house committee proceeding Batticaloa area, asking to remain anonymous complainant. nor a proceeding under the Police officers stand inside a training camp allegedly linked to militants, in Kattankudy because he was not authorised to speak to In the statement, Supreme Vishakha Guidelines and that it near Batticaloa, Sri Lanka, yesterday. media. Court Secretary General Sanjeev was an informal proceeding. Police found bullet holes in the wall on Kalgaonkar said: “This is wholly “I was asked to narrate my one side of the grounds, as well as long tubes of violence after attacks occurred in there was no disruption to airport traffic. incorrect.” “The in-house com- account which I did to the best suspected of holding bombs, the officer said. Negombo - north of Colombo - where over The officer said an investigation was mittee which is deliberating on of my ability even though I felt Two owners of the plot of land have been 100 people died in a church bombing. underway into the clashes, the first violence the issue concerning honourable quite intimidated and nervous in arrested, the officer said. “About two motorcycles and a three- between Muslims and Christians since the Chief Justice of India deliberates the presence of three honourable Meanwhile, A city near Sri Lanka’s capital wheel taxi had been damaged in the clashes,” Easter Sunday attacks targeting three on its own without any input Judges of the Supreme Court and was placed under curfew by police yesterday, the police officer said. “We declared a curfew churches and three luxury hotels in the from any other honourable without having a lawyer or following clashes between Muslim and till 7.00am (0130 GMT) to contain the unrest.” country. judge of this court.” support person with me.” The Christian mobs. There were no immediate reports of casu- The government has blamed the suicide On April 30, a former committee was formed after the A senior police officer said the restric- alties. The country’s main international attacks on a local militant group which employee of the Supreme Court woman, on April 19, levelled alle- tions were imposed to prevent an escalation airport is located in the area, but police said pledged allegiance to the Islamic State. who has accused Chief Justice gations against Gogoi. 12 ASIA MONDAY 6 MAY 2019 Claims of China mulling bases in Pakistan baseless: Qureshi INTERNEWS The Foreign Minister’s abandon the chairmanship of ISLAMABAD statement came the parliament’s key accounta- following a Pentagon bility forum. Pakistan’s Foreign Minister Shah “It is interesting how he Mehmood Qureshi has refuted report which claimed [Shehbaz] decided to step down reports that Beijing is mulling China was seeking to from the PAC chairmanship setting up military bases in set up military bases overnight,” he said, adding that Pakistan. in some countries even PML-N leaders had no idea “The baseless claims are that the PAC Chairman would being spread by the enemies of to protect its BRI be replaced. Pakistan, including India,” investments. The Foreign Minister said Foreign Minister Qureshi said the government would raise the while speaking to the media in issue in the National Assembly Multan. Meanwhile, commenting on on May 6. The Minister said that New Pashtun Tahafuz Movement “We have heard that this Delhi had also failed to link the (PTM), Qureshi said no one ‘gang of four’ doesn’t even take Pulwama incident with the could cast doubts on patriotism the parliamentary members on United Nations Security Council of residents of erstwhile FATA, board before taking decisions,” resolution to list Jaish-e- who he added, had always been Qureshi said. Afghan special forces arrive at the site of an attack in Baghlan province, Afghanistan, yesterday. Muhammad (JeM) chief Masood a part of Pakistan. He questioned the reasoning Azhar as a global terrorist. “[However] our security given on Shehbaz’s decision, On Thursday, the United agencies have evidence against saying, “If his health does not Taliban attack Afghan police HQ, 13 dead States Defence Department had certain individuals for receiving allow him to continue, then why stated that China was seeking to funding from Afghan and Indian he isn’t relinquishing the post AFP massive blast at the police Interior Ministry Spokesman establish military bases around intelligence agencies … they of the Opposition Leader … if he KUNDUZ facility in Pul-i-Khumri, about Nasrat Rahimi said 13 police the world to protect its invest- want to destabilise the country.” is healthy enough to serve on 250 kilometres (155 miles) north officers were killed in the attack, ments in its ambitious One Belt Commenting on domestic that post then why not as the At least 13 people died and of Kabul, sending a huge plume with another 35 wounded. One Road (BRI) global infra- politics, Qureshi said that a PAC Chairman too.” dozens more were wounded of smoke into the sky. Eight attackers were also structure programme. “gang of four” was taking all Qureshi asked how the after a Taliban suicide bomber The explosion was followed killed, Rahimi said in a The Pentagon report said decisions in Pakistan Muslim PML-N leader decided to leave and several gunmen attacked a up by gunmen storming the statement, adding 20 civilians China will seek to establish League-Nawaz (PML-N) after the post after fighting so hard police headquarters in northern police compound, according to were wounded. Faisal Sami, a additional military bases in Leader of the Opposition in the to head the committee. Afghanistan yesterday. Taliban spokesman Zabihullah Senator from Baghlan province, countries with which it has a National Assembly Shehbaz The Foreign Minister went The deadly assault occurred Mujahid. put the toll at 12 killed and 60 longstanding friendly rela- Sharif stepped down as the on to say that even the Pakistan two days after President Ashraf In a tweet, he said a suicide wounded. The current round of tionship and similar strategic Public Accounts Committee Peoples Party (PPP) leadership Ghani offered the Taliban a bomber had detonated a bomb talks between the Taliban and interests, such as Pakistan, and (PAC) Chairman. was not taken on board on ceasefire during the holy month inside an armoured personnel US peace envoy Zalmay Kha- in which there is a precedent for Earlier on May 2, Shehbaz nomination of Rana Tanveer for of Ramadan. carrier, “flattening most of the lilzad entered their fourth day hosting foreign militaries. decided to the now vacant post. The attack started with a building”. yesterday. Opposition slams Imran for N Korea confirms tests of ‘tactical guided weapons’ changing economic team AFP “the iron truth that genuine SEOUL peace and security are ensured INTERNEWS in Lahore. Iqbal, who had served and guaranteed only by powerful ISLAMABAD as planning and development North Korea’s state media said strength”, KCNA said. minister in the previous PML-N yesterday that leader Kim Jong The state-run Rodong Pakistan’s main opposition government, said it had never Un had overseen a rocket and Sinmun newspaper yesterday party, Pakistan Muslim League- happened in the country’s tactical guided weapons test, carried 16 photos of the weapons Nawaz (PML-N), has alleged that history that changes in the eco- after the drill on Saturday raised test on its front page, including the government was changing nomic team had been linked to concerns Pyongyang was esca- a picture of Kim clutching his its economic team at the behest the IMF bailout package. lating provocations with US binoculars in an observation post of the International Monetary Rana Sanaullah, another nuclear negotiations deadlocked. as well as several images of pro- Fund (IMF) and has threatened PML-N leader, said the SBP gov- The North last carried out a jectiles shooting skywards. a “strong protest” in the National ernor’s office had a constitu- missile test in November 2017, The Saturday drill followed Assembly over the move. tional cover and was a tenured before a rapid diplomatic rap- last month’s test-firing of very The PML-N leaders alleged post, but the government on the prochement saw tensions ease short-range tactical weapons, that the finance minister, the directives of the IMF had forced on the peninsula and a series of and came days after a senior governor of the State Bank of Tariq Bajwa to submit his resig- summits. North Korean diplomat chastised Pakistan (SBP) and the chairman nation. “How is the country A return to missile launches US Secretary of State Mike This picture released from North Korea’s official Korean Central of the Federal Board of Revenue being run? The servants of the would be likely to infuriate US Pompeo for making “foolish and News Agency (KCNA) yesterday shows rocket launchers firing (FBR) had been removed at the IMF are being imposed on the President Donald Trump, but the dangerous” comments during dictates of the IMF and they country’s economy,” Sanaullah North’s official KCNA news during a test of weapons in an undisclosed location in North Korea. nuclear talks. Earlier this week, were now being replaced by the added. In a sudden move, the agency shied away from the term North Korean Vice Foreign Min- “representatives of the Fund”. government removed SBP Gov- in its report, saying Kim had tested “240-mm and 300-mm North Korea, & will do nothing ister Choe Son Hui warned “Pakistan has been made a ernor Tariq Bajwa and FBR ordered a “strike drill” involving multiple rocket launchers and a to interfere or end it,” Trump Washington of an “unwanted colony of the IMF. I am forced Chairman Jahanzeb Khan on “long-range multiple rocket new type of tactical guided tweeted. outcome” if it did not adjust its to say that unfortunately the Friday night at a time when the launchers” - which are not tar- weapons with a range of around “He also knows that I am stance on economic sanctions. country’s sovereignty has been two officials were busy in talks geted by UN sanctions resolu- 70 to 240 kilometres” (45 to 150 with him & does not want to The North Korean drill sold out and we will lodge a with the IMF team in Islamabad. tions - and unspecified “tactical miles). Trump has insisted that break his promise to me. Deal comes just days before US strong protest in the National The changes came two guided weapons”. a breakthrough on N Korea will happen!” The US leader did special representative Stephen Assembly over it,” said the weeks after PM Imran Khan Seoul’s Defence Ministry said denuclearisation was still pos- not elaborate on Kim’s promise. Biegun is to visit Japan and South PML-N’s senior leader Ahsan appointed Dr Abdul Hafeez yesterday an analysis of the sible. “Kim Jong Un fully realizes During Saturday’s drill Kim Korea for talks on Pyongyang’s Iqbal while talking to reporters Shaikh as his adviser on finance. launch indicated Pyongyang had the great economic potential of urged his troops to remember nuclear arsenal. Panel to end Punjab province dissolves local bodies Australian opposition leader moon-sighting INTERNEWS campaigns on health, climate LAHORE stands abolished. Lists are being will have deputy commissioners controversies prepared for the posting of com- working as administrators. Nine Around 58,000 local bodies missioners and deputy commis- divisions will have commis- AP and the other half just don’t CANBERRA INTERNEWS representatives in Punjab were sioners as administrators. The sioners performing these duties. care.” Curbing greenhouse gases ISLAMABAD sent packing after the governor names are expected to be Under the new bill, the new is a divisive issue in a country signed the Punjab Local announced in a few days. municipal system will consist of Australia’s opposition party offi- that is the world’s biggest Pakistan’s Science and Tech- Government Bill 2019. The Punjab government will two categories which include cially launched its election exporter of coal and liquefied nology Minister Fawad According to a government conduct fresh local government municipal and mohalla councils campaign yesterday, putting natural gas. Former Prime Min- Chaudhry yesterday said a new notification, the former local elections within a year. Until in urban areas, and tehsil and health care and climate change ister Malcolm Turnbull was committee of experts has been bodies system now then, 27 districts of the province village councils in rural areas. at the forefront of its bid for overthrown by hard right established which would election within two weeks. wingers in his own party in determine moon sighting for Centre-left Labor Party August in part because of his key dates and months in the leader Bill Shorten promised to energy policy that would have Islamic calendar for the next 10 spend billions of dollars pro- increased electricity prices to years. viding free dental care for pen- reduce emissions. The five-member com- sioners, reducing waiting times Turnbull was replaced as mittee will comprise science at hospital emergency depart- prime minister by Scott Mor- and technology experts from ments and eliminating costs for rison, who has attacked Pakistan’s space agency, cancer patients. Shorten’s lack of detail on how SUPARCO, and the MET Office, “Cancer makes you sick. But much Labor’s emissions Chaudhry wrote in a Twitter in a rich country like ours, it reduction target would cost the post. shouldn’t make you poor,” economy. Shorten argues that The committee will prepare Shorten told supporters at a con- failure to act on climate change an Islamic calendar of vention centre in Brisbane city. also carries an economic cost. important dates and months for Shorten also highlighted “He doesn’t know the price the next 10 years including Labor’s pledge to reduce Aus- of anything because he’s not the Ramdan, Eid, and Muharram, tralia’s greenhouse gas emis- one who is going to have to pay which will put an end to the sions by 45% below 2005 levels for it,” Morrison told a Liberal moon-sighting controversies by 2030. The conservative coa- Party rally on Sunday. “You’re that arise every year, the Min- lition government has com- the ones who are going to have ister added. The Central Ruet- mitted to reduce emissions by to pay for it right across Aus- e-Hilal Committee with Mufti 26% to 28% in the same time tralia.” Morrison said his gov- Munib-ur-Rehman in the chair frame and warns that Labor’s ernment would reduce taxes for met in Karachi yesterday for the Indonesians share food to welcome Ramadan more ambitious target would all if it is elected on May 18 for a sighting of the crescent of Indonesians carrying baskets of food on their heads as part of the Nyadran festival to welcome wreck the economy. third three-year term. Ramadan, and announced that the holy month of Ramadan in Temanggung, Central Java, Indonesia. Traditionally, Indonesians eat Shorten said half the Liberal Most opinion polls since the Ramadan will begin in Pakistan together to welcome the holy month. Party-led coalition “simply don’t 2016 election have put Labor on Tuesday. believe climate change is real ahead of the government. MONDAY 6 MAY 2019 EUROPE 13 Let’s make a Brexit deal, May tells oppn AP The prospect of a cross-party compromise LONDON has alarmed many Conservatives, however, Britain’s Conservative and even May said it was “not what I wanted, government and opposition either.” “But we have to find a way to break the Labour Party have a duty to strike deadlock — and I believe the results of the local a compromise Brexit agreement elections give fresh urgency to this,” she wrote. to end months of political deadlock over Britain’s exit from the European Union, Prime date and terms of Brexit remain deliver Brexit. Many party Minister Theresa May said uncertain. The UK’s departure members and lawmakers want yesterday. Writing in the Mail on date has been postponed from Labour to support a new, second Sunday newspaper, May told March 29 until October 31 because referendum on Britain’s EU mem- Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn: May has been unable to get British bership that could reverse voters’ “Let’s do a deal.” lawmakers to approve her 2016 decision to leave. The prospect of a cross-party divorce deal with the EU. They point to big gains in the compromise has alarmed many But suggestions that May’s local elections for the anti-Brexit Conservatives, however, and even government might make a deal Liberal Democrats and Greens May said it was “not what I that accepts Labour’s demand for parties as evidence the public wanted, either.” “But we have to close economic ties with the EU would welcome a second refer- find a way to break the deadlock have infuriated pro-Brexit Con- endum. Labour economy — and I believe the results of the servatives, who are demanding spokesman John McDonnell said local elections give fresh urgency May’s resignation. “We have to that the party would try to “come to this,” she wrote. make a change,” former Conserv- to an agreement if we can” with The Conservatives are des- ative leader Iain Duncan Smith the Conservatives. But he said perate to move forward after told LBC radio. “The message was Labour would only agree to a losing hundreds of positions in loud and clear that, since March Brexit deal that included a per- last week’s local authority elec- 29, people have decided they are manent customs union with the tions. Labour also suffered losses absolutely furious with the EU to avoid barriers to trade. The as voters punished both main political class.” Labour Party pol- government wants a looser rela- parties for the Brexit impasse. iticians are wary about making a tionship with the bloc that would Britain’s Prime Minister Theresa May and her husband Philip arrive at a church, as Brexit turmoil Almost three years after deal that could be seen as helping let UK strike new deals around continues, in Sonning, Britain, yesterday. Britain voted to leave the EU, the the archrival Conservatives the world.

G7 environment ministers meet At least 41 dead in Moscow plane fire to discuss AFP confirm the death of 41 people, as huge black columns of take-off. “It attempted an Russia. It said initial findings climate crisis MOSCOW two of them children,’ said a smoke billowed into the sky. emergency landing but did not suggested an electrical fault report. Dramatic footage shared The Russian-made Sukhoi succeed the first time, and on might have caused the blaze. In AFP At least 41 people died on social media showed the Superjet-100 carrying 73 pas- the second time the landing a statement, Aeroflot said the METZ, FRANCE yesterday after a passenger Aeroflot-owned aircraft sengers and five crew members gear hit (the ground), then the motors were likely to have plane on fire attempted an engulfed in flames as it landed had just left Sheremetyevo, on nose did, and it caught fire,” a caught fire mid-air. Investi- Environment ministers of the emergency landing at Moscow’s on the tarmac at Sheremetyevo, a domestic route, when the source told Interfax news gators have opened a criminal G7 nations met in France busiest airport as flames and Moscow’s busiest airport. crew issued a distress signal, agency. probe into a possible breach of yesterday, a day ahead of the thick black smoke poured from In the videos, passengers officials said. Data from According to the Ria security rules. Prime Minister release of what is expected to the fuselage, Russian news could be seen leaping onto an tracking website Flightradar24 Novosti news agency, the plane Dmitry Medvedev has also be another alarming report on agencies reported. inflatable slide at the front and indicates the emergency hap- had been headed to the far ordered a special committee to the state of the planet. “For the moment, we running from the blazing plane pened around 30 minutes after northwest city of Murmansk in investigate the disaster. Ministers from Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the United States gathered for the two-day Cyprus police find meeting in the northeastern city of Metz. They were due to discuss measures to tackle fifth victim of deforestation, plastic pollution and the degradation of coral reefs and try to form alliances suspected serial killer between nations to act on them. Joining the ministers were REUTERS delegations from the European NICOSIA ‘Serial killer’ Union as well as Chile, Egypt, the Fiji Islands, Gabon, India, Police in Cyprus found a body appears Indonesia, Mexico, Niger and in a lake yesterday that they Norway. believe to be the fifth victim of in court “We need to come out of a suspected serial killer who NICOSIA: The Cypriot army this G7... with some very con- preyed on foreign women for officer who has allegedly crete things that go beyond almost three years without confessed to killing seven speeches,” said France’s junior detection. Divers retrieved the foreign women and girls minister for ecological tran- body from a lake west of the over nearly three years sition, Brune Poirson, as the capital Nicosia, the same appeared in court yesterday, meeting opened. location where a woman was where police accused him Today, the UN will publish found dead in a submerged of abusing a teenager. North Macedonia’s biggest opposition party VMRO-DPMNE presidential candidate Gordana Siljanovska- an executive summary of a suitcase a week ago. Captain Nicos Metaxas, Davkova talks to the media after casting her ballot during the presidential election in Skopje, North 1,800-page tome crafted by “A body has been found 35, has not yet been for- more than 400 experts — the Macedonia, yesterday. decomposed. It is not identi- mally charged over the first UN global assessment of fiable and is being taken to the murders — dubbed the Med- the natural world in 15 years. mortuary now for further iterranean island’s ‘first North Macedonia holds run-off inquiries,” a police official said. serial killings’,. At the Italy accuses The latest body was also in a hearing yesterday the suitcase, another official on the suspect — first arrested on US man for vote to choose new president scene said. April 18 —was remanded in A 35-year-old career army custody for a further eight death of fashion AP each received about 42% in the to the future of the country,” said captain has been in custody days. The police chief told SKOPJE, NORTH MACEDONIA first round of voting on April 21. Ali Ahmeti, a leader of the ethnic since late April on suspicion of the court that the suspect store owner They took opposing positions in Albanian Democratic Union for killing five adult women and the denied the allegation when North Macedonia held a compet- the campaign on the govern- Integration, a junior partner in young daughters of two of the questioned about it. AP itive run-off election yesterday ment’s deal with Greece to the current government. victims. Four of those killed are Metaxas appeared in ITALY VITERBO to choose a new president, a vote rename the country in exchange At 1pm local time turnout thought to be from the Philip- court without a lawyer and seen as a test of the centre-left for Nato membership. was 20.5%, slightly higher than pines, including a mother and told the judge he had “no Italian police have arrested a government’s pro-West policies The run-off took place in at the same time two weeks ago, her six-year-old daughter. A objections” to being 22-year-old US man and despite the largely ceremonial rainy weather, and a key State Electoral Commission said. woman from Romania and her remanded. Police said they accused him of killing a duties of the country’s head of question is whether turnout will The turnout for the first round eight-year-old daughter and a were receiving a “deluge of 74-year-old Italian owner of a state. The two candidates, Stevo reach the 40% threshold needed was 41.8% . North Macedonia further victim from Nepal were information” about the sus- clothing store in Viterbo, a city Pendarovski of the ruling Social for the election to be valid. If too previously was known as Mac- also killed. Authorities using pect’s activities with 350 near Rome. Democratic Union, and Gordana few ballots are cast, the two- edonia. The name change took sonar to scan a man-made lake witness statements taken Police arrested Michael Siljanovska Davkova, who was round contest would be effect in February as part of an in the bowl of an abandoned and another 150 to be Aaron Pang on Saturday and backed by the conservative repeated. “This is not a day to agreement to end a decades- copper mine discovered the processed. allege that he killed the store- opposition VMRO-DPMNE party, stay at home, but to contribute long dispute with Greece. body yesterday afternoon. keeper by striking him with a stool. The body of Norveo Fedeli was found inside his store on Friday, Lt. Col. Austrian far-right leader ramps up anti-immigration rhetoric Guglielmo Trombetta told The Associated Press Trombetta REUTERS -chancellor, also insisted he (SPO) in second place. “There is has compared anti-immigrant country on their way to other EU said Pang, who was born in ZURICH would not stop referring to a creeping Islamisation, a pop- posters created by the FPO’s states such as Sweden and South Korea, is a graphic immigration as “population dis- ulation change, or a population youth wing of party to Nazi prop- Germany. Many of them were designer from Kansas City who The head of Austrian junior placement”, a term used by far displacement,” Strache told Aus- aganda, while the vice-mayor of Syrian war refugees. Austria took arrived in Italy about two coalition partner and far-right right groups in Austria who want trian newspaper OE.24. the Austrian town where Adolf in asylum seekers numbering the months ago. Trombetta said it Freedom (FPO) party pledged to reverse the inflow of new- Critics counter this view with Hitler was born resigned from equivalent of around 1 percent was unclear why Pang was in yesterday to fight “creeping comers into the country. government data on immi- the party after writing a poem of its population during the 2015 Italy. He said the suspect has Islamisation”, doubling down on Most polls in Austria showed gration, which shows that in comparing migrants with rats. crisis. “It is our goal to correct not spoken yet with his anti-immigration stance the Freedom party was in third 2018, roughly 16 percent of Aus- Anti-immigration sentiment the legacy of the previous gov- detectives. ahead of European elections on place, with its senior coalition tria’s population has foreign cit- in Austria was stoked by the 2015 ernment’s immigration policy Pang’s lawyer did not May 23. partner, the Conservative Aus- izenship, up from 10 percent a during Europe’s migration crisis, and to stop immigration from immediately reply to a message Heinz-Christian Strache, trian People’s Party in first and decade earlier. during which thousands of Islamic countries and promote yesterday. who serves as Austria’s vice the opposition Social Democrats Austria’s public broadcaster migrants passed through the integration,” Strache said. 14 AMERICAS MONDAY 6 MAY 2019

Cause of US, Russia butt heads over Venezuela Venezuelan AFP The top level contacts copter crash WASHINGTON follow the failure of under probe The US Secretary of State, Mike a US-backed uprising Pompeo, pressed yesterday for this week aimed at AP Russia to get out of Venezuela, ousting Venezuela’s CARACAS, VENEZUELA while his Russian counterpart, President Nicolas Sergei Lavrov, called on Wash- Venezuelan authorities are ington to “abandon its irrespon- Maduro, which investigating the cause of a heli- sible plans” in the crisis- Pompeo has blamed copter crash that killed seven wracked country. on Russia. military officers while they The push and shove set the were while heading to a state stage for a Pompeo meeting where President Nicolás with Lavrov in Finland this Trump undercut Pompeo’s Maduro was visiting troops. week, and belied the concili- position on Friday, telling The crash of the Cougar atory tone taken by US President reporters that Putin had assured helicopter on the southeastern Donald Trump on Friday after him “he is not looking to get outskirts of Caracas on Sat- what he said was “a very good involved in Venezuela other urday followed days of conversation” with Russian than he’d like to see something upheaval during which oppo- President Vladimir Putin. positive happen for Venezuela.” sition leader Juan Guaidó called The top level contacts follow “And I feel the same way,” in vain for a military uprising the failure of a US-backed Trump added. to overthrow Maduro, and five uprising this week aimed at Asked about those com- people were killed in clashes ousting Venezuela’s President ments, Pompeo said, “I didn’t between protesters and police. Nicolas Maduro, which Pompeo see the full context of those The armed forces said the has blamed on Russia. quotes.” In Moscow, Lavrov met Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov (right) meets with Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Jorge Arreaza chopper was heading to San The secretary has said with Venezuelan Foreign Min- in Moscow, yesterday. Carlos in Cojedes state, near a Maduro had been ready to flee ister Jorge Arreaza and pushed military base where Maduro to Havana but the Russians, who back against Washington. recognised by the US and 50 He has tried to keep up the four weeks” to remove Maduro. addressed cadets on Saturday. had flown military advisers to “We call on the Americans, other countries as Venezuela’s pressure with massive street “But Maduro can’t feel good. The statement didn’t say if the Caracas to shore up his socialist and all those supporting them, legitimate interim president, protests, but his latest call for He’s ruling for the moment but aircraft was part of the presi- government, talked him out of to abandon their irresponsible acknowledged on Saturday in demonstrations Saturday drew he can’t govern,” Pompeo said. dential delegation. it. “The Russians must get out,” plans and to act exclusively an interview with the Wash- only several hundred people. “This is someone who cannot be In late April, a Venezuelan Pompeo said in an interview within the boundaries of inter- ington Post that he fell short. The attempted uprising set part of Venezuela’s future.” National Guard general and a with ABC’s “This Week.” “I’m national law,” Lavrov said. “Maybe because we still off two days of violent clashes Maduro, meanwhile, appeared pilot died in a police helicopter going to meet with Foreign Min- Washington has given full- need more soldiers, and maybe between security forces and at a military exercise on Sat- crash in the city of Maracaibo. ister Lavrov in recent days. It’s throated backing to opposition we need more officials of the protesters that left four dead, urday with Defence Minister Two other people were injured. very clear, we want the Russians leader Juan Guaido, who tried regime to be willing to support dozens injured and more 150 Vladimir Padrino, who top US Meanwhile the Venezuelan out, we want the Iranians out, but ultimately failed to ignite a it, to back the constitution,” people arrested. Pompeo officials had said was in on the opposition planned a memorial we want the Cubans out. It’s military uprising against Maduro Guaido said. “I think the vari- admitted to “bumpy roads” and attempted uprising but backed service for those killed in street very clear,” he said. on April 30. Guaido, who is ables are obvious at this point.” said it could take “two weeks, out. fighting over the past week. Trump taps former border Mueller testimony to US Congress patrol chief as ICE Director on May 15

AP when Trump withdrew Ron AFP WASHINGTON Vitiello’s nomination to lead US WASHINGTON Immigration and Customs President Donald Trump’s latest Enforcement midway through Robert Mueller, the man who choice to lead US Immigration the confirmation process. DHS led the nearly two-year inves- and Customs Enforcement is a Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen then tigation into Russian meddling former border patrol chief under resigned, along with Undersec- in the 2016 US presidential the Obama administration who retary for Management Claire election, has been asked to has publicly backed the presi- Grady, who was in line to be her testify to Congress on May 15, a dent’s border wall. successor. lawmaker said yesterday. Trump tweeted yesterday Morgan, who was named the David Cicilline, a Democrat that Mark Morgan “will be head of the US Border Patrol in and member of the House Judi- joining the Trump Adminis- 2016, was ousted early in ciary Committee, told “Fox tration as the head of our hard Trump’s presidency. It was not News Sunday” that Mueller’s working men and women of immediately clear if he had been representatives had tentatively ICE.” He added: “Mark is a true formally nominated for the new agreed to the May 15 date, but believer and American Patriot. role, which will require Senate later clarified in a Tweet that Presidential candidate Laurentino Cortizo, of the Democratic Revolutionary Party (PRD), gestures He will do a great job!” The confirmation. A former FBI “nothing has been agreed to as he arrives with his wife Yazmin Colon at a polling station during the general election in Panama announcement follows a shake- agent, Morgan was the first and yet.” “That’s the date the Com- City, Panama yesterday. up at the Department of so far the only outsider to lead mittee has proposed, and we Homeland Security triggered by the Border Patrol. He clashed hope the Special Counsel will the president’s frustration with with its union, which has a agree to it. Sorry for the con- Panama votes to elect new president the increasing number of strong relationship with Trump. fusion,” he wrote. Cicilline said migrants at the border. The Since he left, he has defended that there is no guarantee that AFP Carlos Varela, who is unable to Cortizo, a 66-year-old shakeup started last month, Trump’s immigration policies. Robert Mueller would testify. PANAMA CITY stand for re-election as Pan- former agriculture minister ama’s constitution limits presi- known popularly as “Nito,” said Panamanians went to the polls dents to a single five-year term. he wanted to “rescue and yesterday to elect a new pres- Corruption scandals played transform Panama” and “leave Biden offers a nickname for Trump ident after a campaign domi- a significant role in election a legacy” untainted by nated by concerns about campaigning in a country strug- corruption. AFP presidential aspirants, has gotta throw a nickname back.” corruption. gling to shed its image as a “I’m leaning towards Nito WASHINGTON dubbed Trump a “clown”. Biden Biden drew laughter when he “Voting begins,” Panama’s money-laundering paradise fol- Cortizo because of his ability, — or “Sleepy Joe” as Trump calls replied: “There’s so many nick- Electoral Tribunal tweeted. lowing the Panama Papers experience and knowledge, and President Donald Trump has him — offered the new nickname names I’m inclined to give this Some 2.7 million people are eli- scandal three years ago. I think he has all the tools and been quick to cook up derisive in response to a question raised guy. You can just start with gible to vote. Equally damaging was the structure to carry out a large part nicknames for his Democratic at a small fundraising event in clown.” Biden, a veteran of Social Democrat Laurentino admission by Brazilian con- of what he has proposed,” Miguel critics and rivals: “Crooked” Columbia, South Carolina, decades of political wars, said Cortizo was favored to win, with struction giant Odebrecht that it Carrio, an insurance salesman, Hillary Clinton, “Goofy” Eliz- according to a pool report and a he would never shy from pre-election polls giving him a had paid $59m in bribes in said. abeth Warren and “Crazy” readout from the Biden responding to Trump’s attacks, 10-point lead over his closest Panama between 2010 and 2014 The surprise candidate in the Bernie Sanders, among others. campaign. but did not want to let the pres- challenger, former foreign min- to secure major public works race, lawyer and journalist Now one of them has A supporter in the room ident use them to turn attention ister Romulo Roux of the Dem- contracts. Panama is home to the Lombana, has surged in the polls returned the favour. asked Biden how he would from serious issues. “On every ocratic Change party. Inde- strategic canal that links the on an anti-corruption ticket, gar- Former vice-president Joe respond to Trump’s often single issue and on every pendent Ricardo Lombana was Atlantic and Pacific oceans, nering almost 20 percent of Biden, hitting the campaign trail insulting language, saying, “I demeaning thing he says about a close third in the polls. Sun- making it a key conduit in the voter intentions, compared to for the first time since joining a want you to fight back; once he other people, I have no problem day’s winner will succeed Juan global maritime trading system. Cortizo’s 36 percent. crowded Democratic field of throws a nickname at you, you responding directly,” Biden said. Uncertain future for ‘super’ seaweed after court ruling AP decade, industry members said. property boundaries can be ill- attorney representing the group valued at a little less than $1m at popular to feed to cows because PORTLAND The state’s highest court defined, he said. of landowners, said one of their the docks last year. But the total of possible environmental ruled last month that permission “You can’t put a pin in the motivators was conservation. economic impact seaweed has benefits. Maine’s seaweed business has from coastal landowners is mud, and you certainly can’t put Rockweed has been harvested on the state is around $20m per But the property owners grown like a weed in recent needed for harvesting rockweed, a pin in the water,” Seaver said. at an accelerated rate in recent year, said Trey Angera, a have their own environmental years, with proponents touting a type of seaweed that’s critical “One of the fundamental things years, causing some in coastal member of the Maine Seaweed concerns, arguing in the lawsuit it as both a “superfood” and an to the industry. The Maine about the court case is who owns Maine to question its Council. they “think that rockweed is a economic generator for the rural Seaweed Council, an industry the intertidal zone.” The Maine sustainability. And these days, edible sea- vital cornerstone of the Gulf of state - but the industry is now advocacy group, has called the Supreme Judicial Court’s ruling The harvest of seaweed in weeds — which also include Maine food web, and other facing sticky new restrictions. ruling “a disappointing setback” was an outgrowth of a lawsuit Maine reached its highest point dulse, sugar kelp, Irish moss and species depend on it,” Smith said. Maine has a long tradition of that will force harvesters to involving Acadian Seaplants, a in recent recorded history in others — have cachet in Maine Jean-Paul Deveau, president seaweed harvesting, in which the adjust. Canadian company that has har- 2018, at more than £22m, and beyond. Saturday was the of Acadian Seaplants, said in a algae is gathered for a wide The court’s decision could vesting operations in rural according to the Maine final day of Maine’s first statement last month the ruling variety of commercial uses, mandate the implementation of Maine. The court ruled that Department of Marine “Seaweed Week,” which put a is “extremely unfortunate” for an including some popular food rules that are difficult to enforce, rockweed grown in the intertidal Resources. The harvest in the focus on restaurants that use the industry he believes is at the products. Now, a recent court said George Seaver, a vice pres- zone is the private property of 2,000s was frequently less than product. Part of the driving force forefront of “creating sustainable ruling could dramatically change ident of Waldoboro firm Ocean upland land owners. That means £10m, before interest began to behind the seaweed industry’s and environmentally friendly the nature of the business in Organics who has been involved it “cannot be harvested by shoot up in the early part of this boom is the accompanying wave products.” Seaver said he thinks Maine, which has seen the in processing rockweed for 40 members of the public as a decade. Rockweed typically of interest in health foods, “neu- the ruling creates “impossible harvest of the gooey stuff grow years. Rockweed is harvested matter of right,” the justices makes up most of the state’s traceuticals” and nutritional sup- problems” for harvesters and by leaps and bounds in the last from tidal mudflats where ruled. Gordon Smith, a Portland seaweed harvest, which was plements. It’s also become more landowners. MONDAY 6 MAY 2019 HOME 15

Specially-abled scientists showcase talents PRAYER TIMINGS FAJR 03. 32 AM The visitors to the pavilion Chairperson at Qatar Museums, was the SHOROOK were treated to a variety chief guest. After inaugurating the exhi- 04. 55 AM of exhibits that were then bition, visiting the displays, and inter- ZUHR 11. 31 AM MAGHRIB 06. 10 PM explained and demonstrated acting with the students and their parents, Aisha said that she was ASR 02. 59 PM ISHA 07. 40 PM by the differently-abled extremely impressed by the display by students of HOPE Qatar Centre the students, and the efforts of the which provides a near school teachers and team at HOPE Qatar. “The WEATHER TODAY environment to the students dedication of the team at HOPE Qatar enrolled at the centre. Centre for Special Needs can be seen in the confidence displayed by the stu- THE PENINSULA dents,” said Aisha Ghanem Al Attiya. DOHA Dr Rajeev Thomas, the Founder and Managing Director of HOPE, said that Over thirty specially-abled scientists the impact that HOPE has had in Qatar showcased their talents and knowledge over the last thirteen years is amazing, to hundreds of people during the Annual and is evidenced by the ability of their Science Exhibition of HOPE Qatar students to contribute actively to the The visitors during the Annual Science Exhibition of HOPE Qatar Centre for the Centre for the Special Needs in Doha on society they live in. Special Needs. May 3. He introduced to the audience one Held under the theme ‘Nature Our The visitors to the pavilion were the students to demonstrate their under- of their students Zuhair Bin Tahla who Friend’, this year’s exhibition was held treated to a variety of exhibits that were standing of the concepts and principles had just been selected for internship at at the premises of the centre and then explained and demonstrated by of science which they learn in their a leading NGO in Qatar, with the possi- included exhibits classified under the the differently-abled students of HOPE classrooms over the year. Each year the bility of employment and placement. different areas of science. These Qatar Centre which provides a near exhibition is held under a different Three of HOPE Qatar’s alumni had flown included exhibits and working models school environment to the students theme and this year was related to the in from India for the event and one of related to plants, grains, botany, biology, enrolled at the centre. nature. them even participated in the exhibition zoology, mammals, insects and the Science exhibitions are conducted Aisha Ghanem Al Attiya, Head of by demonstrating the principles of human anatomy. each year and provide a platform for Year of Culture at the office of the reflection at one of the exhibit stalls. Doha Academy hosts 28oC 40oC Al Dosari & Afif during Minimum Maximum

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Champions League. HIGH TIDE 04:20 –18:07 LOW TIDE 00:27 – 12:14 DOHA A fantastic variety of entertainment Courtesy: Qatar Meteorology Department and holistic activities were offered on Doha Academy Al Waab held a Cele- the sidelines including watching bration Day, on May 5, celebrating Al movies, playing board games, face Faleh’s Group two decades of educa- painting, henna painting, balloon tional excellence in the presence of popping, table tennis, bouncy castle and Sheikh Faleh bin Nawaf Al Thani. so on. The Celebration Day gave students Dr Sheikha Aisha bint Faleh Al a chance to enjoy a fun day with various Thani, Chairperson and Founder of Al Akram Afif playing football at Doha Academy Al Waab. activities breaking up the routine of Faleh Educational Holding, which school and examinations. includes Doha Academy said, “We aim Doha Academy proudly hosted Saad to make every day a valuable learning intellectually and physically.’’ “The day was further enhanced by Al Dosari and Akram Afif, stars of Qatar experience, not just by delivering an Graeme M Garrett, Head of Doha the arrival of two footballers from the National Football team during the cel- excellent education to students, but also Academy Schools and Principal, said: very successful Qatari national team. ebration, where students had the by encouraging them to participate fully “The Celebration Day was an excellent Our community is most grateful to our chance to meet them and show their in the life of the academy. Students and example of the community spirit here Chairperson for arranging their football tricks and talents with their staff have earned this celebration for at the Academy with students and staff attendance. Thank you to all our staff favourite sports players. their hard work in this academic year. coming together to celebrate the for the hard-work and diligence they The students also received an invi- We believe that schools should be achievements of our students. It was have shown in arranging the day to tation to attend tomorrow’s football happy, purposeful communities where wonderful to see students and staff ensure all our students had a wonderful match between Al Sadd Sports Club children are encouraged to achieve interacting away from the normal experience,” he added. and Al Ahli Saudi as part of the AFC their best spiritually, morally, socially, classroom experience.”

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In celebration of the holy month of Ramadan, Saleh Al Hamad Al Mana Co, the authorised Under the first-of-its-kind offer, customers will benefit from maximum distributor of Nissan in Qatar, savings on the brand-new Pathfinder, X-Trail, Kicks, Altima and Maxima, has announced the launch of its with QR30,000 in savings upon their purchase of the 2019 Patrol XE. exclusive retail offer on a wide line-up of its vehicles. announce 7 lucky winners who will of gifts; 50 participants will win Under this first-of-its-kind go on an all-expense paid trip to Harvey Nichols vouchers, worth offer, customers will benefit from watch the UEFA Champions League QR3,000 each, and 50 others maximum savings on the brand- (UCL) final match on June 1 – which will take home the new Samsung new Pathfinder, X-Trail, Kicks, will take place at Madrid’s Wanda Galaxy S10, one of the most in- Altima and Maxima, with QR30,000 Metropolitano Stadium. Seven all- demand smartphones on the in savings upon their purchase of inclusive packages, each package market today. the 2019 Patrol XE. New customers accommodates two people, will offer Announcing the offer, Martin will also be eligible to partake in two winners an exclusive luxury Cham- Aherne, General Manager, Auto- lucky draws, where 114 winners will pions League experience, including motive at Saleh Al Hamad Al walk away with a variety of prizes, Qatar Airways business class tickets Mana Co, said: “We will be BPS participates in Bharat Utsav including fully covered trips to to Madrid, transport, and hotel offering our proud Nissan cus- attend the UEFA Champions League accommodation for the trip duration tomers wide-ranging special Birla Public School (BPS) participated in ‘Bharat Utsav’ a journey through festive celebration of India, final in Madrid, Harvey Nichols between May 31 and June 2. deals and benefits, and, most conducted on April 12, 2019 at Al Majlis, Sheraton Grand Doha Hotel, organised by Indian Cultural Center. vouchers, and new Samsung Galaxy The second draw, which will excitingly of all, the chance to ICC conducted felicitation event, for artistes and supporters and volunteers of Bharat Utsav 2019 as a S10 smartphones. take place on June 16, will offer experience the UCL final match token of appreciation on April 28. All student participants of the school received certificates. The first draw on May 8 will 100 lucky winners a wide variety with like-minded football fans”. Hyatt Plaza Mall hosts photography contest ‘Capture Qatar’ THE PENINSULA The Peninsula newspapers, the opportunity for all photography DOHA photo exhibition is one of the enthusiasts to showcase their competitions that aims to talent and creativity. The closing With a huge number of partici- embody the beauty, present, ceremony of Capture Qatar hon- pants, Hyatt Plaza Mall history and heritage of the State oured the first 10 winners with concluded the photo exhibition of Qatar. top range cameras as gifts and about the first edition of ‘Capture Mohammed Al Hawamdeh, an exclusive Hyatt Plaza VIP Qatar’ contest, which aimed at Head of Marketing at Hyatt Plaza Card. In addition, the remaining highlighting the most beautiful Mall, said “Being a family 100 participants get the certifi- scenes and images in Qatar. shopping destination, we are cates of appreciation in Capture Hyatt Plaza Mall’s team said always keen to offer activities Qatar in honour of their efforts that the photo exhibition held in and event to all citizens and in making this event a success. the mall from April 25 to May 4, expatriates to give them the Top ten winners are 2019 contained the best 100 pic- opportunity to express their love Abdelaziz Aben Youjil, Sebastian tures out of the 1,200 entries in to Qatar. In addition, we are Krzyżanowski, Toh Leng, Sinlin the contest. always aiming to engage com- Moothandassery, Ahmed Herz, Organised by Hyatt Plaza munity in Mall activations”. Ahmed Karem, Ali Gad, Ali Al Shopping Mall and Youth Al Hawamdeh said that the Naimi, Madonna Macalma and Hobbies Center, Al Sharq and competition gave the Mervat Ahmed. The winners with their prizes at the award ceremony. 16 HOME MONDAY 6 MAY 2019