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Aggressive driving Prime Minister of South Korea arrives declines; fatality rate to decrease further SANAULLAH ATAULLAH The Director-General of General THE PENINSULA Directorate of Traffic said that electronic gadgets which divert Decline in aggressive driving has helped in attention of motorists during reducing road traffic fatality rates significantly in the country thanks to strict traffic rules, Director- driving will be brought under General of General Directorate of Traffic, Major the preview of traffic law General Mohammed Saad Al Kharji, said. which is amended every two Al Kharji also said that the road traffic years to keep pace with fast fatality rate is expected to further decrease in coming time. “The cases of aggressive driving development of the country. have witnessed a sharp fall which is visible on the roads. Motorists have become more serious google glasses would be a violation because in complying with the traffic rules,” said Al they divert attention of motorists like reading Prime Minister of the Republic of Korea (South Korea), Lee Nak-yeon, arrived in Doha last evening on Kharji. while driving,” said Al Kharji. an official visit. The Prime Minister and his accompanying delegation were greeted upon arrival at Doha He added that the number of deaths in road The Director-General of General Direc- International Airport by Minister of State for Energy Affairs, H E Saad bin Sherida Al Kaabi, and Ambassador accidents has declined torate of Traffic hinted that fas- of the Republic of Korea to the State of Qatar, Kim Chang-mo. remarkably this year compered tening seat-belts for children in to the last year and it will backseats of car would be man- further decline as the positive datory in the new legislation. “I trend is expected to continue. want fasting of seat-belts for Speaking to The Peninsula children in backseat to be brought Iran detains British oil at a recent event, Al Kharji under the preview of the law said that adherence of because it is very necessary for motorists (citizens and expa- the safety of children,” said Al tanker in Strait of Hormuz triates) to the traffic rules was Kharji. According to the figures growing day-by-day as traffic released by the General Direc- REUTERS the situation following reports of Stena Impero was a British- police was receiving good torate of Traffic recently, the LONDON/DUBAI an incident in the Gulf,” a flagged vessel owned by Stena response from road users. cases of violations of overtaking spokesman for Britain’s Ministry Bulk. It showed the vessel’s des- Al Kharji said that elec- from right side have declined by Iran’s Revolutionary Guards said of Defence said yesterday. tination as the Saudi port of Jubail tronic gadgets which divert over 68 percent in 2018 com- yesterday they had detained a A person familiar with the on the Gulf. attention of motorists during Director-General of General pared to 2017. British-flagged oil tanker in the matter said a meeting of the British The map tracking the ship’s driving will be brought under Directorate of Traffic, Major Similarly, the cases of driving Gulf after Britain seized an Iranian government’s emergency com- course showed it veering off the preview of traffic law General Mohammed Saad Al without a licence recorded a vessel earlier this month, further mittee was being held. course with a sharp turn north which is amended every two Kharji decline of 16.1 percent while the raising tensions along a vital inter- Prime Minister Theresa May’s at about 1517 GMT yesterday and years to keep pace with fast violations of parking in places national oil shipping route. office declined to comment. heading towards the Iranian development of the country. reserved for people with special Britain said it was urgently Refinitiv data showed the coast. “For example, google glasses were not needs decreased by 22.4 percent during the study seeking information about the available when the law was amended last time. period. The General Directorate of Traffic Stena Impero after the tanker, So if anyone wears them, it is not a violation as launched recently ‘Accident-free Summer’ which had been heading to a port Iran, US differ over drone per the law. However, under new legislation, awareness campaign to make roads further safe. in Saudi Arabia, suddenly changed course after passing through the AP/WASHINGTON Strait of Hormuz at the mouth of the Gulf. Iran and the United States emphatically disagreed yesterday over The Revolutionary Guards said Washington’s claim that a US warship downed an Iranian drone they detained the tanker at the near the Gulf. American officials said they used electronic jamming request of Iranian maritime to bring down the unmanned aircraft, while Iran said it simply didn’t authorities for “not following happen. Neither side provided evidence to prove its claim. international maritime regula- At the White House yesterday, President Donald Trump said tions,” state television reported. flatly of the Iranian drone: “We shot it down.” Relations between Iran and But Pentagon and other officials have said repeatedly that the USS the West have been increasingly Boxer, a Navy ship in the Strait of Hormuz, actually jammed the drone’s strained since British naval forces signal, causing it to crash, and did not fire a missile. The officials spoke seized an Iranian tanker in on condition of anonymity to discuss sensitive technology. Gibraltar on July 4 on suspicion of Trump’s national security adviser, John Bolton, said: “There is smuggling oil to Syria in breach of no question this was an Iranian drone, and the USS Boxer took it out European Union sanctions. as the president announced yesterday because it posed a threat to Iran said it would retaliate and the ship and its crew. It’s entirely the right thing to do.” days later three Iranian vessels In Tehran, the Iranian military said all its drones had returned tried to block a British-owned safely to their bases and denied there was any confrontation with tanker passing through the Strait the USS Boxer, an amphibious assault ship. “We have not lost any Nearly 100 injured in Gaza border protests of Hormuz. But on that occasion, drone in the Strait of Hormuz nor anywhere else,” tweeted Deputy the Iranian vessels backed off Foreign Minister Abbas Araghchi. Iran’s Revolutionary Guard on its An injured Palestinian demonstrator is being moved away from the site after the intervention when confronted by a British website yesterday said the drone recorded three hours of video of of Israeli forces during a demonstration as part of the “Great March of Return” at Israel-Gaza Royal Navy warship. the USS Boxer and five other vessels on Thursday beginning when border in east of Khan Younis, Gaza, yesterday. Ninety-seven Palestinians were injured during “We are urgently seeking the ships first entered the Strait of Hormuz. `P4 ` protests, according to health ministry. P4 further information and assessing Arabic calligraphy works by Indian artists on show at Katara

RAYNALD C RIVERA Embassy in partnership with opening of the exhibition. look forward to more such the dozens of works on show general. It intends to showcase the THE PENINSULA India-based Radiant Arts— a He thanked the Dawoodi support in the coming months.” illustrate how Arabic calligraphy art of calligraphy as another aspect platform for Dawoodi Bohra Bohra Association and Radiant “We also have one more has been preserved and being of cultural exchange between Iconic cultural symbols and artists. Arts for their efforts in making event in calligraphy lined up in practised in India. India and Qatar. landmarks of Qatar immortalised “It is indeed a pleasure for us the show possible and bringing a couple of months. This will Quintessential cultural The exhibition launch was in the works of Indian artists are to welcome you today in this talented artists from India to have some real old manuscript symbols and landmarks of Qatar led by Kumaran and Saif Al among the pieces being show- 24th event that we are organ- Qatar some of whom were copies from two important such as the traditional dhow, the Dosari, Human Resources cased at an Arabic calligraphy izing as part of the India Qatar present for live paining and cal- museums in India,” the ambas- Museum of Islamic Art and the Director at Katara, with a exhibition which opened on Year of Culture. The talent we ligraphy demonstrations sador announced. Doha skyline are celebrated by number of ambassadors, digni- Thursday at Katara Cultural have in calligraphy represents yesterday. Art pieces by seven artists the artists through their works. taries, members of the diplo- Village as part of the Qatar India a facet of India’s composite The ambassador also including Samina Sachak, The exhibition is aimed at matic community, artists and art 2019 Year of Culture. culture and is also another thanked Katara “for standing Mohammed Moiny, Moiz Nag- promoting the beauty and enthusiasts in attendance. Titled “Multaqa Al-Qulub manifestation of the links that with us shoulder to shoulder in purwala, Aliasger Vaziri, Mazhar diversity of Indian culture with The exhibition will remain Wal-Funun: A Gathering of India has with the Arab world,” making so many of India Qatar Nizar, Juzer Burhani and Bur- specific focus on elements which open to the public from 10am to Hearts & Crafts,” the exhibition P Kumaran, Ambassador of Cultural Year events possible hanuddin Nagarwala are on have connection to Qatari culture 10pm until July 30 at Katara is presented by the Indian India to Qatar, said at the during the course of the year. We display at the show. Majority of in particular and Arab culture in Building 18 Gallery 2. `P2 02 HOME SATURDAY 20 JULY 2019

PRAYER TIMINGS MOI advises passengers IDLO welcomes Qatari envoy OFFICIAL NEWS FAJR 03. 28 AM SHOROOK 04. 55 AM against carrying Amir condoles with luggage of others Japan Emperor, ZUHR 11. 40 AM MAGHRIB 06. 27 PM Prime Minister ASR 03.06 PM ISHA 07. 57 PM SIDI MOHAMED DOHA: Amir H H Sheikh THE PENINSULA Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani WEATHER TODAY and Deputy Amir H H The Ministry of Interior (MOI) has advised passengers Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad not to carry the luggage of others without prior Al Thani have sent cables knowledge as they may be exposed to legal account- of condolences to Emperor ability if it contains something banned. Naruhito of Japan and “Remember that carrying luggage of others without Prime Minister Shinzo Abe knowledge of its contents may impede your travel pro- on the victims of the fire at cedures and expose you to legal accountability,” said an animation studio in west the Ministry on its Twitter account. Japan’s city of Kyoto, wish- The Ministry also urged travellers to adhere to ing the injured a speedy security and safety requirements and not carry any recovery. banned items specified at airline tickets or airline Prime Minister and Interior counter. Minister H E Sheikh Abdul- “The Airport Passports Department is working to lah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al facilitate the procedures for passengers and to Thani has also sent a cable overcome all the obstacles. To avoid any delay, pas- of condolences to Prime sengers have to check about the validity of the passport. Minister of Japan Shinzo It is important to make sure that all the passports and Abe on the victims of the tickets are with the passengers before leaving home,” fire at an animation stu- said the Ministry. dio in west Japan’s city of These tips came in time when many citizens and Kyoto, wishing the injured a residents are taking their summer vacation to spend speedy recovery. QNA holidays in another countries. o o In the first quarter of this year, Hamad Interna- Qatar condemns 31 C 39 C tional Airport (HIA) has reportedly served a total of two explosions The Director-General of the International Development Law 9.16 million passengers. It also handled 56,573 aircraft Minimum Maximum Organization (IDLO), Irene Khan, met yesterday with the Ambassador in Afghanistan movements and 505,581 tonnes of cargo in total from of the State of Qatar to the Italian Republic, Abdulaziz bin Relatively hot daytime with slight dust at January to March 2019. DOHA: The State of Qatar has places at times and some clouds, relative- HIA served 3.2 million passengers in January, 2.8 Ahmed Al Malki. The meeting took place at the IDLO’s permanent voiced strong condemnation ly humid at places by night. million in February and 3.15 million in March, which headquarters in Rome. During the meeting, Abdulaziz bin Ahmed and denunciation of the two include passengers arriving, departing and transferring Al Malki presented his credentials as Qatar’s representative to the explosions which took place

HIGH TIDE 05:29–18:52 LOW TIDE 02:25 – 12:26 International Development Law Organization (IDLO). through Qatar’s airport, signifying a 5.07 percent at a police centre in southern Courtesy: Qatar Meteorology Department increase from the previous year. Afghanistan and near Kabul university, leaving deaths and injuries. In a statement, the Ministry Arabic calligraphy works on show at Katara Doha Debates presents of Foreign Affairs reiterated the firm position of the State of Qatar on rejecting violence talk on globalisation and terrorism, regardless of motives and reasons. at TEDSummit The Ministry expressed the condolences of the State of THE PENINSULA Khalifa University, QF’s home- Qatar to the families of the DOHA grown university. Amjad Atallah, victims, and the government Managing Director of Doha and people of Afghanistan, Qatar Foundation’s (QF) Doha Debates, said, “Debates about wishing the injured a speedy Debates is presenting a debate globalization are taking place in recovery. QNA on the merits and future of countries all over the world, globalisation at the 2019 especially in Europe and the TEDSummit in Edinburgh, United States, where the fault Scotland, on July 24. lines don’t easily fall into ‘left’ and As the world grapples with ‘right’, and where the outcome of the risks and rewards of globali- these debates will have conse- sation, and the future of billions quences for the next generations of people at stake, the debate across the globe. Doha Debates brings together diverse perspec- is proud to host this timely debate tives and a consensus-building during TEDSummit.” expert in a session titled ‘Globali- TED is a nonprofit organi- Live coverage of zation: Our Future or Our zation devoted to ‘Ideas Worth Failure?’ Spreading’. Every few years, ‘Pacquiao vs The debate speakers include TEDSummit gathers more than Parag Khanna, an Indian- 1,000 members of its community Thurman’ on American CEO, international for five days of performances, P Kumaran, Ambassador of India to Qatar; Saif Al Dosari, Human Resources Director at Katara, and Ooredoo tv strategist, and author; Sisonke workshops, brainstorming, other officials and dignitaries at the launch of “Multaqa Al-Qulub Wal-Funun: A Gathering of Hearts Msimang, a South African writer outdoor activities, future-focused & Crafts” at Katara Building 18 Gallery 2 on Thursday.PIC: BAHER AMIN / THE PENINSULA whose work is focused on race, discussions and an eclectic THE PENINSULA gender, and equality; and Medea program of TED Talks. Attendees DOHA Benjamin, co-founder of the at TEDSummit include the most women-led American grassroots engaged TED friends, TED Ooredoo has announced that Bihar Foundation Chapter Qatar advocacy organisation Fellows, TED-Ed educators, TED its Ooredoo tv service will CODEPINK. Translators, and TEDx organizers, provide live coverage of the Joining the debate and as well as 150 past TED speakers. highly anticipated boxing elects new office bearers playing a key role in the unique Doha Debates is a production match Pacquiao vs. Thurman, solutions-focused ‘Majlis’ of QF, whose Education City delighting boxing fans across THE PENINSULA Foundation, Chapter Qatar. organisation had annual segment will be the debate’s hosted the first two editions of the Qatar. DOHA Bihar Foundation, Chapter meeting and new office bearers bridge-building ‘connector’ 2019 Doha Debates. Future live The 40-year old Pacquiao Qatar is planning to celebrate were elected. Sarfaraz Hussan, Govinda Clayton, a conflict res- 2019 Doha Debates are slated for is a Filipino professional Bihar Foundation is a single birth anniversary of mountain Aqueel Ahmed, Belal Khan and olution expert and researcher at September 10 in Cape Town, boxer and politician, currently window system of Bihar man of Bihar, late Dasrath Habibunabi were nominated as ETH Zurich university. South Africa; October 23 at QF’s a senator in the Philippines. government to interact with Manjhi and Bihar Divas in Qatar. executive advisers while other The debate’s moderator is Education City; and November 11 Pacquiao is the only eight- NRBs (non-resident Biharis) The motive of celebrations are office bearers are as follows: Ghida Fakhry; while Nelufar at the Paris Peace Forum, France. division world champion in around the world and other to make aware younger gener- Shakil Ahmed Kakvi, Chairman; Hedayat will be the digital host As part of the Doha Debates- the history of boxing and is hand to highlight achievements ation of the challenges of Gauhar Altaf, Vice-Chairman; for the debate which will be lives- TED partnership, Doha Debates also the first boxer in history and achievers of Bihar, to present Bihar and its glorious Mahfuz Hassan, General-Sec- treamed on Twitter. is providing four additional com- to win major titles in four of showcase Bihar’s culture, craft, past and get motivated to work retary; Ahmad Ashfaq, Joint- The debate’s audience at ponents at the 2019 TEDSummit. eight “glamour divisions” of cuisine and work together for together for better Bihar, Kakvi Secretary; Anwar Kareem, Sec- TEDSummit will include young Connector Govinda Clayton will boxing. Bihar Bonding, Branding & said. retary, Public Relation; Saket people from the Edinburgh area, lead a TEDSummit workshop on Pacquiao will be fighting Business, said Shakil Ahmed Bihar Foundation, Doha- Summan, Secretary (media); students from QF, and TED- ‘Negotiating Common Ground: Thurman, who is nicknamed Kakvi, Founder Chairman, Bihar Qatar and world Bihar Abdul Mannan, Treasurer. Summit participants from around How to engage in effective dis- “One Time” for his knockout the world. Debate attendees will cussion, negotiation and debate, power and considered one of be joined online by millions of whether in the home, the office the hardest punchers in the viewers globally via livestream, or the world at large’. welterweight division. including a special interactive Doha Debates and its partner The Manny Pacquiao vs. screening at Qatar National Shared Studios will provide a Keith Thurman boxing fight, Library. shipping container Portal for portrayed as Welterweight Remote audiences and those TEDSummit attendees to partic- Supremacy, is part of the WBA in Edinburgh will be invited to ipate in live life-size video chats Welterweight Championship join the conversation with ques- with inspiring young people in and will take place on at the tions and comments, as well as far-flung places around the MGM Grand Garden Arena in vote on the merits of solutions- world. Las Vegas. focused proposals from debate Finally, TEDSummit Customers can watch the speakers. attendees will be invited to post much-awaited fight which The student participants from notes on a massive Doha Debates will be aired tomorrow Qatar are part of a Doha Debates- wall explaining why they think (Sunday) at 4am Doha time sponsored #Doha2Edinburgh we should not settle for a divided and will be available for all educational and cultural world - a Doha Debates theme. Ooredoo tv customers on pay- exchange program, taking place On July 24, watch the globali- per-view channel 551 for just from July 22 to 26, and are from zation debate livestream on QR73. Georgetown University in Qatar, Twitter through the handle @ According to a statement Northwestern University in DohaDebates, starting at 2.15PM issued by Ooredoo Customers Qatar, Texas A&M University at in the UK, 4.15 PM in Qatar, and who do not yet have Ooredoo Qatar, and Weill Cornell Med- 9.15 AM in New York, US. Join the tv can visit any Ooredoo shop icine-Qatar – QF’s partner uni- conversation online using the around town to sign up and The new office bearers of Bihar Foundation Chapter Qatar. versities – as well as Hamad Bin hashtag #DearWorld collect their new set-top box. SATURDAY 20 JULY 2019 HOME 03 51 artists take part in 6th Colours of Desert expo RAYNALD C RIVERA Hundreds of art connoisseurs and enthusiasts THE PENINSULA ﬂocked to Katara Building 18 to marvel the In probably the biggest gathering stunning and diverse artworks that adorn the of artists in Doha for this year walls of both galleries at Katara Building 19 yet, the sixth edition of Colours which were products of the unique artistry of of Desert exhibition opened on the multicultural members of Middle East Art Thursday at Katara Cultural Village featuring 102 artworks and Silk Painters-MAPS International. by 51 contemporary artists. Hundreds of art connois- exhibition was attended by full-time versatile artist who seurs and enthusiasts flocked to Hamad Mohammed Al Marri, focuses on painting and Katara Building 18 to marvel the Director to Minister of Culture sculpture, says he considers stunning and diverse artworks and Sports, Saif Al Dosari, Qatar as his and his family’s that adorn the walls of both gal- Human Resources Director at second home. leries at Katara Building 19 Katara, ambassadors and For this exhibition, Chokli which were products of the members of diplomatic missions depicted the beauty of the unique artistry of the multicul- and dignitaries. Arabian horse with Souq Waqif tural members of Middle East Art The thematically diverse and in the backdrop. He believes his and Silk Painters-MAPS culturally rich pieces created by classic rendering of the image International. 22 Qatari and 29 Doha-based creates a link between people “During the time of the inau- artists from 18 nationalities offer and the beauty of Qatar as rep- guration, we were honored to a vista into the vibrancy of resented by two iconic cultural welcome over 400 guests. Eve- Qatar’s art scene. symbols namely the Arabian ryone appreciated the panorama “Through art we can show horse and Souq Waqif. Hamad Mohammed Al Marri (left), Director to the Minister of Culture and Sports; Saif Saeed Al Dosari of colours and we wish our art people around the world the On his view of the relevance (second left), Human Resources Department Manager at Katara, and Rashmi Agarwal (second right), touches the hearts and souls of culture of Qatar and that it is not of the show, he said: “This exhi- President and Founder of MAPS International, during the launch of Colours of Desert Series 6 exhibition many,” Rashmi Agarwal, founder only financially rich but also cul- bition promotes togetherness at Katara building 19 on Thursday. PIC: BAHER AMIN / THE PENINSULA and chairperson of MAPS Inter- turally wealthy,” said Prem among artists and an effective national, commented on the Chokli, one of the artists, who vehicle to attract people to Among the eye-catching series of abstract portraits, pieces using unique materials. exhibition launch which she has been taking part in the exhi- appreciate art. What you see pieces on display at the exhi- Richard Bentley’s digital art The exhibition is open for described as “amazing and bition multiple times. here are not just paintings; they bition are Qatari artist Fouad Al titled “Stream of Consciousness,” public viewing from 10am to heartfelt.” Having lived in Qatar for represent lots of efforts and hard Emadi’s highly imaginative and Nazish Hayyat Channa’s acrylic 10pm until August 1 at Katara The opening of the quarter century, Chokli, a work.” symbolic paintings, Shuaa Ali’s dot artworks and Dhiana Hijaz’s Building 19, Gallery 1 and 2. Seasonal views HBKU Press’s QScience publishes research on negative effects of mental health stigma in Qatar

THE PENINSULA diagnosis, and how mental DOHA illness and the stigma towards mental illness affects daily life. HBKU Press’s academic platform According to the research QScience.com has recently cited in the article, 36.6% of published a research article adults receiving healthcare from exploring the negative effects of Primary Health Care Centers in mental health stigma in Qatar Qatar met the diagnostic criteria revealing how stigmas hinder for at least one mental illness mental health patients from with depression being the most seeking help and treatment. commonly diagnosed disorder Launched in September at 13.5%, followed by anxiety 2011, QScience.com is a peer- disorders at 10.3%. Yet, many reviewed online publishing people do not receive the platform that offers a unique and treatment needed to manage collaborative research envi- mental illness due to the stigma ronment for academics and around the topic. In many cases, scholars in Qatar, the MENA and it is reported that the stigma is the rest of the world. seen as devastating as the illness QScience.com adopts the itself and a major barrier to suf- Open Access publishing model ferers seeking treatment. and hosts scholarly journals, The article differentiates conference proceedings, and between implicit and explicit ebooks to disseminate stigmas noting that implicit knowledge and understanding stigmas come in the form of neg- of scientific, social, political and ative comments or observations health- related subjects while about the behavior of a person adhering to the international with mental illness, while publishing standards. explicit stigma pertains to com- “The impact of publishing ments made directly about a Children pluck dates from a palm tree at a residential area in Doha yesterday. LEFT: Half-ripe dates at a residential area. this type of article is critical to person’s mental illness. PICS: SALIM MATRAMKOT /THE PENINSULA share the findings of less The article also explores addressed issues with the local how mental illness stigma is and global audience. We thrive avoided, to which many partic- to set our multidisciplinary ipants responded that they HEC Paris hosts module for Energy Major QScience Connect journal at the simply do not disclose infor- level where valid, ethical, and mation about their illness to impactful research is perceived others. However, not disclosing EMBA participants in Doha campus by the broadest possible one’s mental illness can act as a audience without barriers,” said barrier to seeking treatment as THE PENINSULA Dr. Rima J. Isaifan, the Head of social support from people who DOHA Academic and Journals Pub- are aware and supportive may lishing at HBKU Press. encourage mental wellness. The HEC Paris International Exec- This article, Stigma towards article reveals how psychiatric utive MBA (EMBA) participants mental disorders in Qatar: a patients who have strong social majoring in Energy, one of the qualitative study, written by support were significantly more eight specialisations from the researchers at the University of likely to comply with treatment. International Executive MBA, Calgary in Qatar and the Uni- The study concluded that the have successfully concluded an versity of New Brunswick, Fre- burdens created through stigma intensive five-day programme dericton: Bridget Stirling, Jason as well as the strategy of non- in Qatar to gain a comprehensive Hickey, Hanin Omar and Vahe disclosure about one’s mental understanding of crucial energy Kehyayan, investigates a previ- health often led to self-seclusion issues and the trends shaping the ously taboo subject matter that and anti-social behavior, which sector. is only just being openly dis- can subsequently exacerbate The 20 participants, coming cussed and explored in the symptoms and impede the from varied nationalities such as region. treatment-seeking process. France, India, Spain, Ivory Coast, “Mental health stigma has Researchers hope that this Belgium, Italy, Portugal, Britain been studied extensively in study will assist policy makers, and Norway, attended lectures Western countries, but has educators, and providers in on energy and oil market funda- received very little research developing an appropriate mentals, geo-economics and attention in the Middle East,” response to mental health geo-politics of energy, says Dr. Jason Hickey, Associate stigma. “In the future, I would renewable energy as well as Professor of Nursing at the Uni- like to see the State of Qatar financing and managing multi- The 20 participants, coming from varied nationalities, attended lectures on different areas of the versity of New Brunswick, Fre- develop programs that help stakeholder projects in the energy industry. dericton (PhD). “It is important people with mental illness dis- energy industry. to study mental illness stigma in cover the resources to achieve By being a part of this formation mechanisms. They Information Technology; and representative; and Darina Qatar in order to support the their goals, and celebrate their module, participants were able also had the opportunity to meet Yanick Latil, Managing Partner Revina, an HEC Paris alumna Ministry of Public Health in its strengths and resilience,” notes to acquire an in-depth under- executives from the energy of Y&S Consulting LLP Managing and Senior analyst at Nebras efforts to provide world-class Dr. Hickey. “What they want standing of the energy business world. Andrea Masini, HEC Paris Partner and HEC Paris Executive Power QSC, who shared their care to people in Qatar who more than anything is an oppor- environment, major industry Academic Director for the HEC MBA Alumnus, offered their knowledge and experience on suffer from mental illness.” tunity to contribute to their players and market drivers. Paris Energy major and Associate valued insights to the partici- renewable energy across the Through extensive inter- family and community.” Moreover, they were able to Dean of the MBA programs; pants through various path- region. Professor Masini said: views with several outpatients The article can be accessed understand the constraints and Jean-Michel Gauthier, HEC Paris breaking sessions. “Owing to its increasing signifi- from mental health clinics, the at QScience.com along with opportunities associated with Executive Director of the Energy In addition, the participants cance in the current economic research assesses how society thousands of other academic energy technologies and their & Finance Chair; Joseph Nehme, received a visit from Laurent- landscape globally, the Energy views people with mental journals, conference pro- potential impact on business HEC Paris Affiliate Professor of Rene Wolffsheim, Managing sector needs deserving attention illness, the experience of ceedings and books, available models, as well as price Operations Management and Director at Total E&P Group from academia.” receiving a mental illness free to the public. 04 MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA SATURDAY 20 JULY 2019 Tehran dismisses US claim of destroying Iranian drone

AFP TEHRAN Seizure of two naval Tehran yesterday denied the United States had downed one vessels ‘unacceptable’: UK of its drones, saying all Iranian aircraft were accounted for and jesting Washington may have AFP/LONDON accidentally hit their own machine. Britain yesterday said Iran had seized two ships in the Gulf, with The latest incident in the Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt condemning the incidents as strategic Strait of Hormuz comes “unacceptable” and saying he was “extremely concerned”. amid soaring tensions between “I’m extremely concerned by the seizure of two naval vessels the two foes, with Washington by Iranian authorities in the Strait of Hormuz,” he said in a already reeling from Iran statement. “These seizures are unacceptable.” shooting down one of its drones Britain confirmed that one of the boats seized was British last month. registered. The other was Liberian-flagged, but reported to be US President Donald Trump owned by British company Norbulk Shipping. said an American naval vessel The government was to hold an emergency ministerial downed an Iranian drone on meeting “to review what we know and what we can do to swiftly Thursday that threatened the secure the release of the two vessels”, Hunt said. ship as it was entering the Strait Britain’s ambassador in Tehran was in contact with Iranian This combination of image grabs created from a video broadcast by Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guard — a claim vehemently denied by authorities “to resolve the situation”, he added. Corps (IRGC), reportedly showing the footage obtained from an IRGC drone ﬂying above an aircraft Tehran. The government said it did not believe any British citizens Iran’s armed forces dis- were on board either ship, but called on Iran to let them go. carrier at an undisclosed location. The Revolutionary Guards released the video claiming it belies the missed Trump’s assertion as “It is essential that freedom of navigation is maintained and claim that the Boxer had downed an Iranian drone. “baseless and delusional” while that all ships can move safely and freely in the region,” said Hunt. admitting one of their drones Iran’s Revolutionary Guards announced earlier Friday they supertanker can be detained for seeking to “initiate a war” but mounting “psychological was flying near the US ship. had confiscated the British tanker Stena Impero, owned by 30 more days. would respond to hostilities. pressure” in the Gulf, Brigadier- “All of (Iran’s) drones... have Swedish shipping giant Stena Bulk, for breaking “international US officials believed the “If enemies make a mistake General Ali Fadavi was quoted safely returned to their bases,” maritime rules”. vessel was destined for Syria to in calculation, our defensive by Tasnim as saying. said armed forces spokesman Liberian-flagged tanker Mesdar, owned by British company deliver oil, in violation of sep- strategy and all our capacities The drone incident comes Brigadier General Abolfazl Norbulk Shipping, was then reported to have been seized after arate sets of European Union and will change to offensive,” said amid a threatened breakdown of Shekarchi. deviating sharply from its course in the same stretch of water. US sanctions. General Hossein Salami, quoted the 2015 Iran nuclear deal, with “There have been no reports Following the seizure Iran by Sepahnews. Washington steadily ratcheting of a confrontation with the branded the move “piracy” and, His comments came after the up economically debilitating American USS Boxer” naval Trump said on Thursday American surveillance drone it one week later, London said Guards said Thursday they had sanctions on Tehran a year after vessel, he added, quoted by the USS Boxer “took defensive said was flying in its airspace, a Iranian boats menaced a British seized a “foreign tanker” believed unilaterally quitting the deal. Tasnim news agency. action” against an Iranian air- claim denied by the United tanker in the Gulf before they to be the Panamanian-flagged Earlier this month, Tehran The Revolutionary Guards craft as it was “threatening the States. Trump said he called off were driven off by a Royal Navy vessel Riah and its crew. purposely surpassed the deal’s said they will “soon” publish safety” of the vessel and its retaliatory strikes at the last frigate. Iran’s Revolutionary Guards caps on uranium enrichment, photos taken by one of their crew. minute following the incident. That led to US calls for an accuse the ship of smuggling aiming to pressure the remaining drones of the USS Boxer. But Iran’s deputy foreign Iran has in turn refuted US international flotilla to escort Iranian fuel. parties to make good on their Images were transmitted to minister Abbas Araghchi accusations that it was behind a hydrocarbon-laden vessels from - ‘Psychological pressure’ - promises to support Iran base “before and even after the quipped that the United States series of recent tanker attacks Gulf oil fields through the Strait US Central Command chief economically. time Americans claim” the drone may have actually downed one off the United Arab Emirates of Hormuz. Kenneth McKenzie pledged Iran has repeatedly was destroyed, according to a of its own aircraft. coast and the Gulf of Oman. The incidents have raised Thursday to work “aggressively” threatened to close the Strait of statement on the force’s “I am worried that USS Boxer The tanker troubles further fears of a regional conflict with partners to ensure freedom Hormuz if Tehran’s oil exports Sepahnews website. has shot down their own (drone) intensified on July 4, when involving the US and its allies in of navigation in Gulf waters. are blocked through sanctions. The Pentagon said the ship by mistake!” Abbas Araghchi Gibraltar detained an Iranian the Gulf region, through which But the Guards’ deputy chief Last month Oil Minister Bijan “was in international waters” tweeted Friday. vessel with the help of British nearly a third of the world’s oil said the United States will soon Namdar Zanganeh said Iran was when a drone approached at - Iran detains tanker - The Royal Marines. is transported. realise “it is not in its interest at keeping up sales through “uncon- approximately 10:00 am local confrontation comes after Gibraltar’s Supreme Court The top commander of Iran’s all to stay in the region”. ventional” means to circumvent time (0530 GMT). Tehran in June shot down an ruled on Friday that the Grace 1 Guards said they were not US forces are under the US measures.

Tripoli parliament warns of airstrikes Nearly 100 injured in by Haftar’s allies Gaza border protests

AP ANATOLIA & REUTERS in March last year, nearly 270 CAIRO GAZA protesters have been martyred — and thousands more wounded Libya’s parliament based in the Ninety-seven Palestinians were — by Israeli troops deployed west says it has gathered intel- injured during protests along near the buffer zone. ligence warning of the use of Gaza border yesterday, Demonstrators demand an possible airstrikes on Tripoli by according to health ministry. end to Israel’s 12-year blockade allies of commander Khalifa The protesters converged of the Gaza Strip, which has Haftar, who launched a military near a security fence that sepa- shattered the coastal enclave’s offensive in April to capture the rates Gaza Strip from Israel to economy and deprived its two capital from the UN-backed demonstrate against Israel’s million inhabitants of many government. decades-long occupation of Pal- basic amenities. The Tripoli-based High estinian territories. Meanwhile, Israeli plans to Council of State issued a Of those injured, 47 were demolish Palestinian homes statement Thursday warning Smoke billows above buildings during a reported air strike by pro-regime forces on Khan Sheikhun harmed by live ammunition, near a military barrier on the that France, Egypt and the in the Syria’s Idlib province, yesterday. said the ministry. Among the outskirts of Jerusalem have United Arab Emirates were injured are two medical staff drawn international criticism, planning to “get more involved” and two journalists. amid Palestinian fears that a in backing Haftar’s self-style End Syria hospital attacks, Russia told at UN No further information has precedent would be set for other Libyan National Army, which been given about the state of the buildings along the barrier route. has “failed to achieve any AFP/UNITED NATIONS must stop,” he said. Russian and and which required unanimous injured protesters. The deadline for residents progress.” The statement also regime aircraft have since late April backing to be adopted, expressed Gaza’s National Authority for of Sur Baher to remove the warned that they would use Russia yesterday opposed a ramped up deadly bombardment “grave concern regarding the Return and Breaking the Siege buildings expired after Israel’s “specific weapons” without United Nations Security Council of the Idlib region of about three recent attacks on hospitals and (NARBS), which organises Supreme Court ruled in June that identifying their types. declaration calling for an end to million people in northwest Syria, other health facilities.” weekly rallies, called on Pales- the structures in question vio- The parliament did not attacks on health facilities in despite a deal to avert a massive Those included a July 10 tinians to attend demonstration lated a construction ban. reveal details of the purported Syria’s Idlib region, diplomats government assault. attack on Maarat National Hos- and affirm on their right to Sur Baher is a Palestinian intelligence and there was no said after the latest meeting over Kuwait, Germany and pital, one of the largest in the return to their villages in his- community that lies southeast immediate response from the violence in the country’s last Belgium asked for the hastily area whose coordinates had torical Palestine. of Jerusalem’s city centre in an three nations. major opposition bastion. called closed-door session, the been shared through the UN Earlier yesterday, the NARBS area that Israel captured and Libya sank into chaos after The outcome led to a rare latest of many they have sought “deconfliction mechanism” that warned Israel against any “esca- occupied in the 1967 Middle East Muammar Gaddafi’s 2011 ouster statement following the meeting since May in response to wors- aims to spare civilian targets. lation” against the Palestinian War. A sprawling village, it and is now divided between by the UN’s humanitarian chief, ening fighting in Syria’s northwest. Russia again denied bombing peaceful protestors. straddles the line between East two administrations. Mark Lowcock. “The carnage The draft text, given to journalists such facilities. Since the Gaza rallies began Jerusalem and the West Bank. South African President Ramaphosa dealt twin blows in anti-graft fight REUTERS a first full five-year term in nine years in power. He has aphosa’s credibility. apartheid he was privy to sen- me to uproot them I will,” Zuma JOHANNESBURG May. denied those allegations. “By being aggressively unco- sitive information which he has said, before leading the crowd But he has been constrained He complained that he was operative and engaging in legal threatened to use against former in renditions of struggle songs. South African President Cyril by factional battles in the gov- being questioned unfairly, but on technicalities, Zuma has under- comrades in the liberation Ramaphosa’s second Ramaphosa suffered two major erning African National Congress Friday he secured a deal mined the integrity of the struggle. headache came from an inves- setbacks yesterday, when he was (ANC), where a section of the whereby he will provide only inquiry. It is awfully embar- After the inquiry adjourned tigation report by an advocate accused of misleading party remains loyal to Zuma and written statements for now, rassing for Ramaphosa,” said yesterday, he made a rousing with powers enshrined in the parliament and his predecessor has launched a fightback against before returning later to give Ralph Mathekga, an author of speech to several hundred sup- constitution to probe civil Jacob Zuma won significant reforms which threaten their more public testimony. books on Zuma and porters in downtown Johan- servants’ conduct. concessions from a corruption influence. Political analysts say if the Ramaphosa. nesburg, saying spies had infil- Public Protector Busisiwe inquiry. Zuma has ducked and dived inquiry, which Zuma set up in his Zuma is a shrewd operator trated the ANC and that he was Mkhwebane said Ramaphosa Ramaphosa has staked his this week at the inquiry, which final weeks in office under who survived several no-confi- ready to expose them. had “deliberately misled” par- reputation on cleaning up South is testing allegations that he pressure from rivals including dence votes before being ousted “I know a lot about spies. liament about a 500,000 rand African politics since he allowed cronies to plunder Ramaphosa, fails to link the as president. That was my job in the ANC. I’ve ($35,955) donation he received replaced Zuma as head of state state resources and influence former president to serious As head of intelligence for never played around with that for his campaign to become in February 2018 and then won senior appointments during his wrongdoing it could dent Ram- the outlawed ANC under information, but if people want leader of the ANC in 2017. SATURDAY 20 JULY 2019 ASIA 05 Karnataka CM ignores Governor’s deadline; floor test on Monday IANS The Chief Minister BENGALURU H D Kumaraswamy and Law and Parliamentary Karnataka Chief Minister H D Affairs Minister Krishna Kumaraswamy (pictured), Byre Gowda appealed yesterday missed the second deadline of 6pm set by Governor to the Speaker to Vajubhai Vala to prove the extend the debate to Congress-JD(S)coalition govern- Monday, assuring him ment’s majority in the Assembly. to complete the “As the debate on the confidence motion moved by the floor test. All India Congress General Secretary Priyanka Gandhi Vadra (C) participates ia a sitting in protest Chief Minister on Thursday did at Narayanpur District, Mirzapur, after being stopped to meet the victims of a shooting which took not conclude in the Assembly, sought time till Monday. ruckus between the lawmakers Speaker K R Ramesh Kumar “The Chief Minister failed to of the ruling allies and the BJP, place over disputed patch of farmland in the northern Indian state of Uttar Pradesh. could not conduct the floor test prove majority in the Assembly Kumaraswamy said that it was by the 6pm deadline set by the by 1:30 p.m., the deadline set by for the Speaker to decide on the Governor for the second time,” the Governor on Thursday,” Governor’s order as to when he Priyanka detained in Uttar an official said. opposition BJP leader B S Yed- should prove the majority on the The Governor directed the dyurappa told the Speaker after floor of the House. “It is not for Chief Minister to prove the the first deadline lapsed. me to decide by when I should majority by 6pm after the 1:30 When the former three-time prove the majority. It is the Pradesh, refuses to leave pm deadline he set on Thursday BJP Chief Minister urged the Speaker who is the custodian of IANS have been made for food either. demanded Rs2.5m as compen- night lapsed, as the discussions Speaker to conduct the floor test the House and has the supreme MIRZAPUR, UTTAR PRADESH Priyanka was detained at the sation to each of the deceased on the motion did not conclude forthwith, Kumar said that he authority to decide how the Chunar Guest House here after family. Speaking to party sup- by then even as the Speaker would do it after the discussions session should be conducted,” Congress General Secretary she was stopped from going to porters at the guest house, Gandhi adjourned the House till 3pm. on the confidence motion were said Kumaraswamy. Priyanka Gandhi remained in Murtiya village in Sonebhadra said that atrocities were being In response to the demand completed by the treasury and Intervening in the debate, detention here yesterday, eight district. The police denied that carried out on the tribals in the of the ruling Congress and Janata the opposition members. Byre Gowda said the Governor hours after she was driven to a she had been arrested. state. “They were killed because Dal-Secular (JD-S) lawmakers “Voice vote on the confi- cannot give such an order on the guest house after she insisted on The Congress leader arrived they were demanding their to allow them to participate in dence motion only after discus- motion which was being debated proceeding to Sonebhadra district in Varanasi last morning and met rights, they were fighting for the discussions, the Speaker said sions on it by the treasury and by the ruling parties and the in Uttar Pradesh where 10 people the injured persons admitted to their land,” she said. that he would extend the ses- opposition members. Division opposition members. were killed in clashes over a land the Trauma Centre of the Priyanka added that three sion’s time for a couple of hours, of votes will be looked into if “We fail to understand how dispute on Wednesday. Banaras Hindu University. When days before Wednesday’s but pleaded with them to end the anyone demands for it after the the Governor could direct the She also described the she proceeded towards Soneb- incident, the villagers had debate by Friday and conclude voice vote,” said Kumar. Chief Minister to prove majority killings of members of the Gond hadra, her convoy was stopped informed the police about the the floor test. The opposition BJP In a letter issued on Thursday in a limited timeframe without tribe as “massacre”. on the Mirzapur border. A defiant brewing tension in the area. “But insisted on conducting the floor night, Vala had directed the Chief completing the debate by both According to party leaders, Priyanka then squatted on the the police did not pay heed to test by Friday night itself. Minister to prove majority by 1:30 sides and hearing the reply on it the Congress General Secretary ground with the Congress workers their complaints. They even did Kumaraswamy and Law and p.m. on Friday, a time set in by the Chief Minister as men- is firm on meeting the victims’ and was later taken away in a not take any action when such Parliamentary Affairs Minister response to BJP’s complaint to tioned in the rule book,” said families. Congress MLA Lalitesh government vehicle to Chunar. incidents were happening Krishna Byre Gowda appealed him on the dilatory tactics of the Gowda. A restive BJP told the Pati Tripathi said that Priyanka She told reporters: “I don’t there,” she said. She said that she to the Speaker to extend the ruling allies on the confidence Speaker not to allow the ruling was firm on going to the site know where are they taking me. wanted to meet the victims’ fam- debate to Monday, assuring him motion Kumaraswamy moved combine to further delay the where the killings took place in We are ready to go anywhere.” ilies to assure them that to complete the floor test. on Thursday. Resuming the floor test as there was no stay on the clash between Gonds and She asked the officials for someone was standing with Congress Legislature Party inconclusive debate on the it from the Supreme Court on the Gujjars. “Priyanka Gandhi was written orders as to why she was them in these difficult times. She (CLP) leader Siddaramaiah also motion, stalled six times due to trial of strength. asked to fill a bail bond of Rs being prevented from going to said, “Massacre is happening 50,000, which she rejected, Sonebhadra. “I just want to meet here. And I was going there to saying that even if she had to the families of the victims. I am show the entire country what Defence Minister to visit Jammu & Kashmir today stay here for 10 days, she shall willing to take only four people happened in Sonebhadra.” stay but she would not leave till with me because I do not want She later tweeted that the IANS/JAMMU review the preparedness of the deployed troops. the time she meets the family to defy the prohibitory orders state’s BJP government had He will also visit the Valley and review the members of the victims. There and yet the district adminis- failed to curb violence and was Union Defence Minister Rajnath Singh will visit security situation along the Line of Control (LoC) is no question of any bail,” Tri- tration is not allowing us,” she instead curbing her rights to Jammu and Kashmir on a day-long visit today. there. pathi said in a tweet. complained. stand up for the rights of the Defence sources said that Rajnath Singh will be “During his daylong schedule, Rajnath Singh According to the party At least 10 people, including victims. Even while she accompanied by the Chief of Army Staff, General will inaugurate two bridges in Samba and Kathua leaders, the district adminis- three women, died and over 24 remained under detention, Bipin Rawat, during his visit to all the three regions districts,” a statement issued on Friday said. tration has cut off the elec- were injured in a clash between scores of Congress workers and of the state. This will be Rajnath Singh’s first visit to Jammu tricity and water supply to the Gond and Gujjar communities local people gathered at the “The Defnce Minister will pay homage at the after he took over as the country’s Defence Min- guest house where Priyanka over a land dispute in Sonebhadra guest house to meet Priyanka War Memorial in Drass. He will visit the Line of ister. He had visited Ladakh and the Valley as the has been detained since the on Wednesday. Gandhi described with whom she held discussions Actual Control (LAC) in the Ladakh region to on June 3. afternoon. No arrangements the killings as a “massacre” and on several issues. Bill to check Judge asked to deliver Indian gets 10 illicit deposits Babri Mosque verdict years in prison introduced for murdering in nine months British teenager IANS NEW DELHI ANATOLIA AP/NEW DELHI NEW DELHI A Bill to tackle menace of illicit An Indian court yesterday deposits and another that India’s Supreme Court yesterday ordered a state sentenced a man to 10 years in provides a mechanism for government to extend the tenure for six months prison for the drugging and social, economic and educa- of the special judge hearing a case pertaining to killing of a 15-year-old British tional empowerment of trans- 1992 Babri Mosque demolition, local media girl whose body was found on genders were introduced in Lok reported. a Goa beach in 2008. Sabha yesterday. According to Press Trust of India, a local news Mumbai High Court Justices The Banning of Unregulated agency, the Apex Court directed the special judge of R D Dhanuka and Prithviraj Deposit Schemes Bill, 2019 was Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to examine all Chavan handed Samson introduced by Finance Minister evidence, as well as prosecution and defense wit- D’Souza the sentence for cul- Nirmala Sitharaman. nesses within six months and deliver the verdict pable homicide two days after The Bill will replace the within nine months. overturning his acquittal in the Banning of Unregulated Deposit S K Yadav, the special judge of CBI who is set to attack on Scarlett Keeling. But Schemes Ordinance, 2019 and retire on Sept. 30, had sought more time from the the court upheld the trial court’s seeks to help tackle the menace apex court to complete the trial in the case. acquittal of another suspect in of illicit deposit-taking activ- Earlier, the verdict was to be delivered on April her death. ities in the country, which have 2019. Vikram Varma, a lawyer been exploiting regulatory gaps In 1885, a Hindu religious body asked a court representing Keeling’s mother, and duping people of their hard for permission to construct a temple to honor the Fiona MacKeown, said in Panaji, Relatives of the victims of a mob lynching incident pleading to a police officer earned money. It has provisions Hindu deity Ram inside the premises of the Babri the capital of Goa state, he was as they mourn outside a hospital in Chapra, in the eastern Indian state of Bihar, for punishment and payment Mosque, said to have been built by Mughal Emperor happy with the court’s decision. of deposits in cases where such yesterday. Babur in 1526. Permission was denied. It has taken a lot of time, but schemes manage to raise In 1949, a group of Hindus entered the mosque justice has been done, he said. deposits illegally. premises and installed an idol of Ram there. The teenager’s death caused The Bill was passed earlier Three villagers lynched to death Declaring the area disputed land, the government outrage among the millions of this year by the previous Lok placed the premises under lockdown, with the idol tourists who throng the beaches Sabha but could not be passed IANS/PATNA police. “Four suspected cattle thieves remaining inside with one official and one Hindu of the resort city on India’s west by the Rajya Sabha. The Trans- were caught by villagers, three were appointed as stewards of grounds. coast. Police originally said gender Persons (Protection of In another case of street justice in a Bihar beaten badly and they died on the way In 1986, the local Faizabad administration Keeling had drowned after Rights) Bill, 2019 was introduced village, three men were allegedly to the hospital. One was seriously opened the premises to Hindus, allowing them to taking drugs, but changed their by Social Justice and Empow- thrashed to death and one critically injured and was admitted to a hospital. carry out their rituals. story after her mother com- erment Minister Thawar Chand injured by villagers over suspicion of Police have arrested the three accused In December 1992, thousands of activists plained. D’Souza’s sentencing Gehlot. The Bill intends to benefit cattle theft yesterday, police said. in the case, but it was not a case of mob from extremist Hindu groups and political parties comes after an 11-year battle for transgender persons, mitigate the The deceased were identified as lynching,” said Saran Superintendent of along with BJP leaders entered the mosque and justice by Scarlett’s mother. stigma, discrimination and abuse Naushad Quraishi, Raju Nut and Videsh Police Hari Kishore Rai. demolished it, erecting a Hindu temple in its A trial court acquitted both against the marginalised section Nut. The incident took place in Pithori Police have lodged a case of murder place. of the accused in 2016 saying and bring them into the main- Nandlal village under Baniyapur police against half-a-dozen unidentified The dispute has been languishing in India’s legal there was not enough evidence stream of the society. station in Saran district, according to the people. system for years with no final outcome in sight. to convict them. 06 ASIA SATURDAY 20 JULY 2019 PM Imran to meet Trump hoping to mend fences and attract investment REUTERS The Pakistan Prime ISLAMABAD Minister is expected to try to mend fences Pakistan Prime Minister Imran and attract much Khan (pictured) travels to the needed investment United States tomorrow hoping during his meeting with the arrest of a militant leader with a $10m US bounty on his US President Donald head and progress in Afghan Trump in exchange peace talks will help secure a for assurances of full favourable reception. cooperation in ending Khan is expected to try to the war in Afghanistan mend fences and attract much and fighting militant needed investment during his meeting with US President threats. Donald Trump in exchange for Security officials inspecting the scene of a bomb blast near Kabul University, yesterday. assurances of full cooperation General Qamar Javed Bajwa. killed in the four-day militant in ending the war in Afghanistan Analysts believe he will play a attacks. Saeed is designated a and fighting militant threats. key role in behind-the-scenes terrorist by the United States and Trump, a property developer discussions where much of the the United Nations. 8 dead and 33 wounded in turned reality TV star, and Khan, serious business of the visit will Trump said Saeed’s arrest World Cup-winning captain of take place, with the military “after a 10-year search”, was the the Pakistan cricket team, both looking to persuade Washington result of pressure from his came to office after achieving to restore aid and cooperation. administration on Pakistan to get blast near Kabul University fame away from politics and the “It’s a visit which is closely tougher on militants. personal chemistry between the being monitored by the military But Saeed has been in and AP released by the Health Ministry accept education for women but two may be decisive. which is in desperate need for out of Pakistan prisons for the KABUL spokesman, Dr. Wahidullah that it should be segregated. “A lot will depend on the money,” said author and analyst last decade and even addressed Mayar, who tweeted: “All the Massoud, an economics pro- kind of mood that President Ayesha Siddiqa. public rallies. As well as assur- A powerful bomb exploded wounded patients were evac- fessor at the university who like Trump and indeed Prime Min- Last year, Trump cut off hun- ances that it is cracking down on outside the gates of Kabul Uni- uated to our hospitals and have many Afghans uses only one ister Imran Khan find them- dreds of millions of dollars in militants, Khan is likely to stress versity in the Afghan capital yes- been receiving the required name, said that several lawyers selves in,” said Farzana Sheikh, security assistance to Pakistan, Pakistan’s role in bringing the terday, killing eight people and treatment.” were taking their exams to associate fellow at the Royal accusing Islamabad of offering Taliban to the negotiating table wounding 33, according to police After initial reports of six become judges when the Institute of International Affairs “nothing but lies and deceit” with the United States. and health officials. dead, Mayer said two people explosion occurred. It wasn’t in London. while giving safe haven to ter- Trump has made no secret Several of the wounded were died of their wounds and that the immediately clear if the lawyers “Neither of them is known rorists, a charge angrily rejected of his desire to end US military in critical condition, they said. number of wounded rose to 33, were the target. to be particularly predictable.” by Islamabad. involvement in Afghanistan and No group immediately claimed following reports from hospitals Taliban spokesman Zabi- Battling to stave off a balance But Khan will believe the Pakistan’s cooperation will be responsibility for the attack, the around the city. hullah Mujahid said he was of payments crisis and forced arrest on Wednesday of Hafiz essential to any deal to end the latest to target Kabul. The university compound not aware of any Taliban to seek a bailout from the Inter- Saeed, the alleged mastermind war and ensure the country does The early morning blast also houses several hostels where involvement in yesterday’s national Monetary Fund, of a four-day militant attack not become a base for militant set two vehicles ablaze although many students stay over the attack. Also, a roadside mine Pakistan is badly in need of on the Indian city of Mumbai groups like Islamic State. it wasn’t clear if the attack was summer, attending classes and killed five people who were foreign investment but security in 2008, will send the right “The United States, Russia carried out by a suicide bomber working on research projects. riding in a car in eastern Ghazni is likely to be the main focus of signals to Trump, who exuber- and China know that without or a remotely detonated bomb, The university is co-ed and has province. Their identities were the visit. antly welcomed the news on Pakistan’s co-operation, there said Kabul police spokesman women attending classes not immediately known. There Khan will be accompanied Twitter. can be no settlement in Afghan- Ferdous Faramarz. alongside men, something the was no claim of responsibility by the powerful Army chief, More than 160 people were istan,” Sheikh said. The casualty tolls were Taliban oppose, saying they for that attack. Court quashes Bangladesh rivers break their banks, 400,000 flee homes anti-graft plea REUTERS embankments, railway lines and against Maryam DHAKA highways, where traffic has come to a standstill. Aside from concern INTERNEWS Rain-swollen rivers in Bang- over crops, authorities are also ISLAMABAD ladesh broke through at least four worried that rising flood waters embankments, submerging could take a toll on livestock. The Accountability Court in dozens of villages and doubling South Asia receives monsoon Islamabad yesterday dismissed the number of people fleeing their rains between June and October the National Accountability homes overnight to 400,000 in that often lead to floods later in Bureau plea against Pakistan one of the worst floods in recent the season, but the intensity of the Muslim League-N Vice-Pres- years, officials said. deluge in Bangladesh is ident Maryam Nawaz in the Heavy rains and overflowing uncommon. “The severity of the ‘Avenfield reference’ case. rivers have swamped 23 districts flood of this year is worse com- Maryam reached the in northern and northwestern pared to recent years,” Ariful federal capital from Lahore Bangladesh, officials said. At least Islam, an executive engineer of yesterday to appear before the 30 people have been killed since Bangladesh Water Development accountability court. Earlier this the floods began last week. Board, said. month, the court’s judge “The government has opened The floods worsened after Mohammad Bashir issued more than 1,000 temporary three embankments on the Brah- summons for Maryam as the shelters but due to deep waters maputra river, which flows down NAB claimed that the trust and lack of communications, from the Himalayas, through deeds produced by her in the many people aren’t able to reach northeastern India and into Bang- case were bogus. The court dis- them,” Raihana Islam, an official ladesh, gave way on Thursday, missed the plea, declaring it in the flood-afflicted district of said Mohammad Moniruzzaman, People walk in floodwaters as they transport belongings on a makeshift raft following heavy monsoon inadmissible for hearing. Bogra, said. Islam said scores of an official in the federal agri- rains at a flood affected area of Gaibandha District, in Northern Bangladesh, yesterday Due to the former first people had instead camped on culture ministry. daughter’s appearance, strict security measures were put in place outside the judicial Islamabad aims to bring religious complex and unconcerned Pakistan’s tribal areas set to turn people were barred from entry. schools into mainstream PML-N workers chanted slogans in favour of their party REUTERS in exchange would have to the page with first-ever polls leader as police earlier arrested ISLAMABAD commit to ensuring that seven party workers. extremist teaching was not part ANATOLIA than 2.8 million registered voters Waziristan, had clinched both Pakistan has agreed on a plan of the curriculum. “There will be PESHAWAR — 1.7 million male and 1.13 National Assembly seats for the Pakistan’s former to overhaul instruction at no preaching of hate speech of million female — will be eligible two districts in 2018 elections. madrasas or religious schools to any kind against any religion or Over 2.8 million voters from to vote to elect 16 members of However, both parliamentarians finance minister bring the institutions closer into sect,” he said. Pakistan’s northwestern tribal the provincial assembly. — Ali Wazir and Mohsin Dawar gets a week’s bail line with conventional schools Prime Minister Imran Khan, region will go to the landmark A total of 285 candidates are — are currently in jail for and curb extremist teaching, facing heavy international polls today to elect their repre- contesting the elections, of allegedly attacking a military AP / KARACHI Education Minister Shafqat pressure to clamp down on mil- sentatives for the provincial which only two are women. checkpoint in North Waziristan Mahmood said yesterday. itant groups operating from assembly — the first time in the Awami National Party (ANP) and during a protest demonstration A defence lawyer in Pakistan The plan is the latest effort Pakistan territory, announced region’s history. Jamat-e-Islami have fielded the in May this year. said a former finance minister to address longstanding con- plans earlier this year to “main- Formerly known as Fed- two women candidates from Prime Minister Imran Khan’s has been granted a week’s bail cerns that the roughly 30,000 stream” the madrasas, often erally Administered Tribal Area Khyber and Kurram districts PTI — likely to win highest in a corruption case involving madrasas in Pakistan provide a associated with feeding radi- (FATA) — a conglomerate of respectively. number of seats — is the only natural gas imports. haven for extremist teaching calized youth to Islamist groups. seven semi-autonomous regions Major political parties taking party that has fielded candidates The development will delay with a rigid curriculum based Numerous similar attempts — is going to witness the first part in the polls are, the ruling for all the 16 constituencies. the expected detention of ex- around religious studies that have been made over the years, ever polls after being merged Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI), Jamaat-e-Islami is hopeful to minister Miftah Ismail who is fails to prepare students for going back to the time of former with the adjoining Khyber key opposition Pakistan Muslim clinch seats from Bajaur district sought by the National Account- employment after they graduate. President Pervez Musharraf Pakhtunkhawa (KP) province League (Nawaz), Center-left — its stronghold — whereas, the ability Bureau. Under the plan, agreed with almost two decades ago. in line with a constitutional Pakistan People’s Party (PPP), JUI — another mainstream reli- Nihal Hashmi says the High the madrasa umbrella organi- Mindful of the risk of backlash amendment by the parliament Jamaat-e-Islami, Jamiat Ulema gious party — is expected to Court in Sindh province granted zation, Wafaq-ul-madaris, reli- in a deeply conservative country, last year. Islam (JUI), ANP and Pashtun perform well in South Waziristan, Ismail bail yesterday. gious schools would be regis- Mahmood said the government Previously, the residents of Tahaffuz Movement (PTM) — an and Kurram districts. Meanwhile, a court in tered and helped to strengthen was not seeking confrontation the seven tribal agencies — now ethnic nationalist movement in In addition to 16 seats, there Islamabad gave the bureau 13 conventional teaching in sub- with the madrasas, which are districts — were allowed to take the country’s northwestern and are five reserved seats — four for days to investigate former prime jects like English, science and often the only form of education part only in the country’s lower southwestern Pashtun-popu- women and 1 for minorities — minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi mathematics. available to poor families. “We house — the National Assembly lated areas. which will be filled in line with who was arrested on Thursday They would remain respon- will not be taking over the — polls. According to the Election The PTM, which is popular the number of votes each party in the same case involving Ismail. sible for religious teaching and madrasas,” he said. Commission of Pakistan, more in restive North and South attains in the general polls. SATURDAY 20 JULY 2019 ASIA 07 Arson suspect had ‘grudge’ against anime studio

AP & REUTERS Witness accounts and 480km east of the ancient KYOTO reports suggested capital of Kyoto, was believed the man had a to have bought two 20-litre Police yesterday were investi- grudge against Kyoto cans at a hardware store and gating at the blackened, gutted prepared the petrol in a park building in Kyoto where a man Animation, but police near the studio, Nippon TV said. raging about theft set a fire that only have said the He travelled to the area by killed 33 people in a beloved ani- suspect Shinji Aoba, train, the broadcaster said. mation studio, crushing the 41, who is hospitalised NHK showed footage of him hearts of comic fans in Japan and lying on his back as he spoke to beyond. with severe burns and a police officer at the time of his Witness accounts and reports unable to talk, is from detention, shoeless and with suggested the man had a grudge near Tokyo and did not apparent burns on his right leg against Kyoto Animation, but below the knee. police only have said the suspect work for the studio. He had no connection with Shinji Aoba, 41, who is hospitalised Kyoto Animation, NHK said. with severe burns and unable to news said, adding that he had None of the victims’ identities talk, is from near Tokyo and did started the fire because he had been disclosed as of yes- not work for the studio. believed the studio had stolen his terday. There were 74 people Japanese broadcaster NHK novel. Police declined to inside the building when the fire and other media said Aoba spent comment. Aoba was under started, Kyodo said. three-and-a-half years in prison anaesthesia because of burns he Last month, Aoba had a for robbing a convenience store suffered and police were unable confrontation when he com- in 2012 and lived on government to question him, Nippon TV said. plained to a neighbour about support. The man told police that He “seemed to be discon- noise in the apartment building, he set the fire because he thought tented, he seemed to get angry, the Mainichi newspaper “(Kyoto Animation) stole novels,” shouting something about how reported. When the neighbour according to Japanese media. It he had been plagiarized”, a said the noise was coming from Japanese police officers inspecting the scene where over 30 people died in a ﬁre at the Kyoto Animation was unclear if he had contacted woman who saw him being another apartment, Aoba studio building, in Kyoto yesterday. the studio earlier. detained told reporters. grabbed the neighbour’s shirt Authorities said most of the The studio had about 160 and said: “Shut up, I’ll kill you,” dead were killed by carbon employees with an average the newspaper said. floor, bodies piled on top of each wasn’t put out until early yes- long knives laid out by police as dioxide inhalation. age of 33, according to its The fire that tore through other, Kyodo said, citing author- terday. Police investigators possible evidence outside the Aoba wheeled a trolley car- website. That makes it a rela- the building spread so fast not ities. Firefighters arriving soon searched the smouldering shell three-storey building. rying at least one bucket of petrol tively young company in only because it was fuelled by after the fire began found the of the building for evidence in an Kyoto Animation, in a quiet to the entrance of the building rapidly greying Japan. Tributes petrol, but because it was fun- door to the roof was shut but investigation that Kyodo said suburb about 20 minutes by train before dousing the area, shouting to the victims lit up social nelled up a spiral staircase and could be opened from the covered suspected arson, murder from the centre of Kyoto, pro- “die” and setting it ablaze on media, with world leaders and there were no sprinklers to outside, Kyodo said. and attempted murder. duces popular “anime” series Thursday, broadcaster Nippon Apple Inc’s chief executive douse it, experts said. The victims may have rushed Two petrol cans, a rucksack such as the “Sound! Euphonium”. TV said, citing police. offering condolences. Nineteen of the 33 who died up the stairs to escape the blaze and a trolley were found near the Its “Free! Road to the World - The “I did it,” Aoba told police Aoba, a resident of the were found on a staircase leading and found themselves unable to site, and television images Dream” movie is due for release when he was detained, Kyodo Tokyo suburb of Saitama, some up to the roof from the third open the door, it added. The fire showed what appeared to be five this month.

8 children dead in Philippines Japan-South Korea truck crash row deepens as man

AP MANILA dies of immolation

A truck carrying more than two REUTERS government is doing now is dozen villagers, mostly ecstatic TOKYO/SEOUL equivalent to subverting the grade schoolers on their way to post-World War Two interna- a school festival, lost control Japanese Foreign Minister Taro tional order,” Kono said at the yesterday on a downhill road Kono summoned and admon- start of the meeting. and flipped on its side, leaving ished South Korea’s ambassador Nam responded that South eight students and an adult yesterday in a deepening diplo- Korea was working every day dead in the central Philippines, matic row over compensation to create an environment where police said. for Korean wartime forced the lawsuits could be dealt with Police investigator Nelson labour that threatens global in a way that would be Saquibal said 16 others, supply of memory chips and acceptable to both sides and not including the driver, were display screens. harm bilateral ties. brought to a hospital after the The dispute took a tragic The two diplomats accident in Boljoon town in turn yesterday when a South exchanged testy remarks in front Cebu province. The students Korean man set himself on fire of reporters, with Kono inter- from two village schools were Flooding in Chinese city in front of the Japanese Embassy rupting when Nam said South on their way to attend a cul- in Seoul in an apparent protest Korea had already proposed a A ﬂooded street in Dazhou City in China’s southwest Sichuan Province. Heavy rainfall from July 16 tural, health and sports festival and later died from his injuries. plan to resolve the issue. to18 caused ﬂooding in Dazhou, with more than 2,000 people forced to evacuate. in the town center, he said. South Korea’s ambassador “Hold on,” Kono said. “We’ve Saquibal said that some of to Japan, Nam Gwan-pyo, was already told the South Korean the students were pinned under summoned to meet Japanese side the South Korean proposal the truck while others were Foreign Minister Taro Kono a was totally unacceptable, and tossed off the vehicle by the Blast rocks China gas plant, 2 dead day after a midnight deadline set that that is not something that impact and retrieved by resi- by Japan for South Korea to would redress the situation dents, police and firefighters. AFP separation unit of the Henan Other images showed the accept third-country arbitration where international law is vio- BEIJING Coal Gas Group factory and not doors and windows of homes of the forced labour dispute lated. It is extremely impertinent China’s space in the gas tank areas, citing a blown out and shuttered shops passed. to propose it again by pretending A huge explosion rocked a gas source in the Yima city gov- with dented metal fronts. South Korea has rejected to not know that.” lab re-enters plant in central China yesterday, ernment. All production at the Deadly industrial accidents third-country arbitration and Neither official specified killing at least two people and plant has been stopped. are common in China. In March, Kono said Seoul must take swift what that plan was, but last atmosphere injuring another 18, state media “Many windows and doors a blast at a chemical plant in measures to correct what Japan month Japan rejected a South said. Another twelve people within a three-kilometre radius eastern Jiangsu province killed 78 says was an improper ruling last Korean proposal to form a joint QNA were missing after the blast, said were shattered, and some people and injured hundreds. year by South Korea’s Supreme fund with Japan to compensate BEIJING state broadcaster CCTV, which interior doors were also blown The explosion in the eastern Court ordering two Japanese South Korean plaintiffs. shattered windows and doors of out by the blast,” CCTV said on city of Yancheng toppled several firms to compensate the Later, South Korea’s foreign China’s space lab Tiangong-2 buildings in a 3km radius. its Twitter-like Weibo social buildings in the industrial park. wartime workers. Japan says the ministry rejected Japan’s call for reentered the earth’s atmos- Official news agency Xinhua media account. Authorities detained two dozen issue of compensation was third-party arbitration as arbi- phere under control at around had earlier said “many people” Local media showed people in connection with the settled under a 1965 treaty trary and said Japan must 9:06pm (Beijing time) yes- were injured by the explosion, amateur videos of a massive March 21 blast, which prompted which established diplomatic instead remember the wrongs terday, China Manned Space which happened at 5:50pm local column of black smoke billowing the government to order a relations between the two it committed during colonial rule Agency (CMSA) said. time (0950 GMT). Xinhua said from the factory and debris lit- nationwide inspection of nations post World War Two. and make efforts to heal the A small amount of the the blast occurred in the air tering the roads. chemical firms. “What the South Korean wound. spacecraft’s debris fell into the predetermined safe sea area in the South Pacific, according to the agency. Taiwan pledges help for HK protesters seeking sanctuary Tiangong-2’s controlled re- entry into the atmosphere AFP protesters who fear prosecution concerns”. “(We) can provide violent confrontations with communications, ramped up marks the successful com- TAIPEI for their involvement in the ran- necessary assistance to Hong police — sparked by a law that military exercises, poached dip- pletion of all the tasks in the sacking of the finance hub’s leg- Kong residents whose safety and would have allowed extraditions lomatic allies and ratcheted up space lab phase in China’s Taiwan’s government said yes- islature on July 1 have arrived in freedom are in urgent danger to mainland China and other economic pressure on the island. manned space program, Xinhua terday that it would provide Taiwan to seek shelter, Taiwan’s due to political reasons,” it said. countries. Taiwan’s history of Tsai has described the 2020 reported quoting Zhou Jianping, assistance to Hong Kongers Apple Daily said, citing sources. Taiwan’s President Tsai providing sanctuary to Chinese presidential election as a “fight chief designer of China’s seeking sanctuary after local The report said the activists Ing-wen added her support for dissidents has been mixed. The for freedom and democracy”, manned space program. media reported dozens of are staying in various locations such a move. “These friends from island still does not recognise the setting herself up as someone Efforts are being made to activists involved in an unprec- and that some are receiving Hong Kong will be treated in an legal concept of asylum but has, who can defend Taiwan from an step up preparations for con- edented storming of the city’s assistance from local NGOs. appropriate way on humani- on occasions, allowed dissidents increasingly assertive Beijing. structing China’s space station, parliament had fled to the island. The Mainland Affairs tarian grounds,” Taiwan’s to stay on long term visas. Her main opponent Han CMSA said. Tiangong-2, an The pledge risks infuriating Council, Taiwan’s top policy- Central News Agency quoted her Tsai’s offer comes as she is Kuo-yu — from the more China- improved version of Beijing but comes as Taiwan making body on China, did not as saying during a visit to the seeking a second term at Janu- friendly Kuomintang party — has Tiangong-1, is considered gears up for a presidential confirm whether any requests Caribbean island of Saint Lucia, ary’s election. Ties with Beijing advocated warmer ties with the China’s first space lab. election where a dominating for sanctuary had been made. one of Taiwan’s few remaining have soured since she came to mainland. Apple Daily said Launched on September 15, issue will be relations with the But it issued a statement yes- diplomatic allies. power in 2016 because her party around 30 more protesters are 2016, the space lab has worked mainland — which sees the self- terday saying it would handle Hong Kong has been rocked refuses to recognise the idea that planning to come to Taiwan later in orbit over 1,000 days, much ruled island as its own territory such cases “under the principle by more than a month of huge Taiwan is part of “one China”. hoping to stay long-term and longer than its 2-year designed and has vowed to seize it. of respecting human rights pro- and largely peaceful protests -- Since her landslide victory, follow the case set by Hong Kong lifespan. Over 30 Hong Kong tections and humanitarian as well as a series of separate Beijing has cut official bookseller Lam Wing-kee. 08 VIEWS SATURDAY 20 JULY 2019 Modern revamp threatens to raze ESTABLISHED IN 1996 riverfront in Mosul’s Old City CHAIRMAN SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DR. KHALID BIN MUBARAK AL-SHAFI

[email protected] ARWA IBRAHIM AND AZHAR AL RUBAIE AL JAZEERA ACTING MANAGING EDITOR MOHAMMED SALIM MOHAMED wo years after Iraqi forces cap- [email protected] tured Mosul from ISIL, residents say neighbourhoods Talong the riverfront of its Old DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR City risk losing their historical identity MOHAMMED OSMAN ALI due to a plan by local authorities to [email protected] transform the area into a “modern city”. Limited funding and an ill-equipped municipality have hampered efforts to rebuild the Old City following a fierce Mosul residents say neighbourhoods along riverfront of Old City risk losing historical nine-month military operation to root identity as local authorities plan to redevelop area into “modern city”. out ISIL fighters who had seized Mosul EDITORIAL in June 2014. 50-year-old labourer — believed to be Norwegian Refugee Council (NRC) have The battle left Mosul, Iraq’s second- the first to return to the Old City after said that simply repairing Mosul’s basic largest urban centre and capital of the declaration of victory against ISIL, infrastructure will cost about $1bn, Nineveh province, a dilapidated ghost told Al Jazeera. while the Iraqi government estimates Winning global laurels city, with many of its buildings in ruins “This land is our pride and destiny,” that double that amount will be needed. and hundreds of thousands of its resi- he added. “Even if it [Old Mosul] is just The estimates do not include a budget dents forced from their homes. a pile of dust, we will stay here.” for rebuilding homes or restoring her- he Ministry of Interior (MOI) has established exem- Despite the widespread destruction, Speaking to Al Jazeera, al-Mar’eed, itage sites. plary security and safety in Qatar due to its some of the displaced began returning the governor, said that local authorities But for Ihsan Fethi, an Iraqi pro- Texcellent, highly-professional performance as well shortly after the United States-backed “will be speaking with the families fessor of architecture and heritage con- as won laurels globally for its initiatives and operation against ISIL ended in July within the next month … to convince servation, the main obstacles facing achievements. 2017. them of the plan to build a modern city Mosul are not just financial. It was the effort of the Ministry of Interior that made And in the past few weeks, local in the neighbourhoods along the “There are too many agencies Qatar retain its global distinction according to the 2019 authorities have proposed to residents riverfront”. working separately without any coor- global security indicators by winning the first place in a plan aimed at revamping historic In a discussion with local commu- dination,” Fethi told Al Jazeera, adding the world in terms of security and safety among 118 coun- neighbourhoods along the west bank of nities last month, al-Mar’eed urged res- that without a single authority to lead tries and the first in Arab country, according to the the Tigris River — an area full of mostly idents in the historic al-Shahwan the efforts, the situation in the Old City annual report of 2019 crime index issued by ‘Numbeo’, ravaged souqs, medieval churches, neighbourhood to swap their destroyed risked becoming even more haphazard the world’s largest world database in January this year. centuries-old mosques, homes and properties with patches of land in East as families have also undertaken The report reflected the constant and outstanding schools — into a modern investment Mosul. rebuilding efforts. level of security and safety enjoyed by the country, and hub. His proposals, recorded by local Since victory was declared in July the significant decrease in the rates of crimes. The proposal, put together by Mosul journalists and widely circulated 2017, the majority of reconstruction Again making the country proud, the Ministry of Governor Mansour Al Mar’eed and uni- among Iraqis on June 19, created an projects in Mosul has been carried out the Interior, represented by the National Command dentified uproar among Mosul residents. by international bodies, including Center (NCC), received the Special Achievement in GIS investors, seeks As part of the proposal, al-Mar’eed NGOs and UN agencies, whose efforts (SAG) Award from the prestigious American company to create a “new last week called on Chinese companies have mainly focused on repairing basic in the field of Geographic Information System, ESRI, city” with to invest in Mosul’s redevelopment, infrastructure such as schools and winning over more than gleaming high noting that “soon competition will be health facilities. 25,000 participants from Limited funding rises, and large fierce because many world companies With 53,000 homes flattened and 136 countries and 336 and an ill-equipped supermarket are expected to come”. thousands more damaged in West largest global companies municipality have and restaurant A member of al-Mar’eed’s office Mosul alone, some 300,000 residents and institutions. hampered efforts chains. told Al Jazeera that the governor also remain displaced, according to the It is worth mentioning According to met with a French delegation last week NRC’s 2019 report. The Najm system that MOI worked to to rebuild the Old Mar’eed, Mosul’s to discuss investment opportunities in Located on the western bank of the of MOI is the introduce the science of City following a local gov- the city. Tigris River, the Old City dates back to most advanced GIS techniques in the field ﬁerce nine-month ernment already According to Mosul’s local author- the 7th century, spanning the Assyrian, and it aims to of security, and has pre- owns some of ities, the lack of financial assistance Abbasid and Ottoman empires. A major pared excellent and spe- military operation the areas along from Baghdad is the principal reason learning centre and strategic com- provide modern cialised national cadres in to root out ISIL the riverfront behind their redevelopment plan. mercial hub between East and West, it technological this field during the past ﬁghters who had and hopes to “With no aid from Baghdad, we has over the centuries housed systems to ensure ten years. seized Mosul in begin the rede- could do nothing,” al-Mar’eed told Al renowned schools, markets and reli- security through The various awards MOI velopment plan Jazeera, referring to the destroyed gious institutions. won underline its incessant June 2014. once private homes. “The government has not allo- Experts said the local authorities’ the rapid delivery and resolute efforts in the owners are con- cated a 2019 budget for the recon- plans disregarded the Old City’s del- of information. implementation of GIS tech- vinced to sell struction of the Old City,” he adds. icate architectural history and nology to deliver better their destroyed Echoing al-Mar’eed, provincial threatened to erase its identity and services. In fact, MOI was properties and plots of land. While still council member Ali Khudair said that diverse culture. presenting a new tool in a tech- a vision for now, local authorities have “the government doesn’t plan on com- “The provincial council doesn’t nologically advanced world to combat crime by linking already begun talks with residents to pensating families in Mosul”, adding understand the value of Mosul,” said security and crime with GIS effectively. convince them of the proposal, which, that it would be difficult to rebuild Fethi, who is also an independent con- The Najm system of MOI is the most advanced and they say, is the only way to redevelop homes or preserve the Old City without sultant for the UN’s cultural agency, it aims to provide modern technological systems to Mosul in the face of limited support any funding. UNESCO. ensure security through the rapid delivery of information. from the central government in Mosul’s previous administration “People know Mosul’s Old City by It connects all the departments of the Ministry related Baghdad. claimed to have received nothing of a its riverfront - it has some of the city’s with security and safety, Lekhwiya, and the ambulance Despite their difficult living condi- $400m fund established in 2015 to help most important historic features,” service under one system. tions, residents who spoke to Al Jazeera Iraq’s reconstruction, Reuters news Fethi added, referring to the city’s old This linking makes it successful in employing these said they would not sell or exchange agency reported in 2018. The city wall, the citadel, palaces and other techniques to raise the level of emergency response their properties. received only $252,000 in 2017 and in heritage sites along the Tigris’ west and reduce the crime rate through spatial analysis “If we sell our land, we sell our 2018, according to reports. bank. “It [the council] should aim to and prediction of the anticipated risks before they identity,” Nashwan Khairy, a The United Nations and the preserve Mosul’s heritage.” occur. MOI and its allied bodies have won several awards in the past too for excellence and it achieved bright success in the field of security awareness campaigns by Youth must use right to vote to help decide future of Japan producing various awareness means and participating in several festivals and contests, regionally and THE JAPAN NEWS whether they approve of them. scenes, such as people jeering mock poll, for which genuine internationally. Voters are called on to use the and interrupting speeches of voting booths and ballot boxes In 2013, Najm security system received an ‘A’ grade he low voter turnout upper house election as an stumping candidates, and were used. rating for the role of the Ministry in the using of GIS tech- among young people opportunity to compare the scuffles involving supporters There are also things niques in security systems in an ideal manner. is an issue that has pledges of individual political of the politicians trying to stop parents can do in regard to long been pointed out. parties and carefully consider the actions of the jeering agi- education to enhance the T awareness of young voters. The upcoming House of Coun- the differences among them. tators.Young voters are called cillors election is the third If you visit the websites of on to select information nec- According to a survey con- national election since the candidates, you will be able to essary for voting, without ducted by the Internal Affairs voting age was lowered to 18. see their profiles and details of being swayed by such posts. and Communications Ministry, Young people are called on to their policies. Looking at the The importance of edu- the voter turnout of young QUOTE OF THE DAY exercise their voting rights to campaign pledges of indication to enhance the people who had experience of decide Japan’s future course. vidual political parties, you awareness of young voters visiting polling stations with As a person, I have Many young people use will be able to discover their conducted at schools has been their parents in their child- social networking services as stances on such issues as social rising. Not a few teachers are hoods exceeded that of those a strong personal their primary means of security, the environment and unsure about how to deal with with no such experience by interest in my health communication. energy. Some online posts political themes. more than 20 percentage and, as I said, 2021 On the internet, people summarize and compare the Cooperation with election points. In the revised Public who agree with each other policy pledges of the political administration commissions Offices Election Law enacted is the conclusion of show a strong tendency to parties. But it is necessary to could be an effective way to in 2016, children under 18 my political work. share sympathetic opinions pay heed to posts that do not deal with the issue. In a class years old were permitted to with each other by repeatedly carry names or sources linked conducted by the Fukui Pre- accompany parents to polling Angela Merkel posting messages of a similar to the material cited. fectural Election Adminis- stations - prior to this only German Chancellor tone. They are also prone to It is easy for abusive tration Commission at a high “young infants” were not listening to those with dif- slander and inaccurate infor- school, mock voting was con- permitted. fering opinions. mation posted by anonymous ducted after students were It is hoped that parents An election is a process in users to circulate online. asked to read a campaign bul- and their children will go to which candidates present their Videos have appeared letin. The students’ interest polling stations together on own policies and voters decide online showing unsightly was likely aroused through the voting day. SATURDAY 20 JULY 2019 OPINION 09 How migrant detention became American policy

re the immigration detention these “Marielitos” remained in the general, William French Smith, stated the American Civil Liberties Union of centers on the border United States, living with family that the country had “lost control of [its] Florida called a “policy of Siberian becoming more like “concen- members or, if that was not possible, in borders” and would, without detention, exile.” tration camps”? Over 30 years government-run detention camps. “crumble under the burden of over- Although the policy began in the A whelming numbers.” ago, the Reagan administration Policymakers worried about an executive branch, it took congres- wrestled with the same question. In unending Caribbean refugee problem The administration was aware that sional cooperation to expand it. The SMITA GHOSH 1981, President Ronald Reagan created or, as one Reagan administrator called the policy would be controversial. It attorney general and the immi- THE WASHINGTON POST a detention policy for Haitian and it, a “Haitian flood.” This sense of catas- was careful to portray the policy as a gration agencies needed funding Cuban refugees, despite his own trophe reverberated in an anti-immi- strict enforcement of immigration laws from Congress to pay for increased administration’s fears that it would grant environment fueled by a combi- that had existed for years. The attorney detention. Although there was “create an appearance of ‘concentration nation of racism and economic insta- general pointed to a component of the resistance from some lawmakers, a camps’ filled largely by blacks.” bility. Haitians and Mariel Cubans were Immigration and Nationality Act (INA) majority complied. In 1985, Congress But then, as now, these inflam- predominantly single, working-class that said that arriving migrants without authorized funding for the con- matory labels - along with complaints black men. Although the migrants visas could be detained for further struction of a permanent immi- of overcrowding, mistreatment and claimed asylum from political perse- investigation. This provision had been gration detention facility, with a even death - didn’t change Reagan’s cution, many Americans believed that on the books since 1952, but the Immi- capacity to hold up to 6,000 people controversial detention policy. Instead, they were seeking jobs or welfare ben- gration Service had rarely detained (1,000 inside and another 5,000 to this crisis and the administration’s efits that rightfully belonged to migrants during this time. Instead, if be detained in “contingency space” extreme measures to resolve it pro- American citizens. immigration officials had questioned outdoors, if necessary) in Oakdale, w duced an enduring change to immi- Reports from media and gov- the validity of an arriving immigrant’s Louisiana. gration enforcement. Ultimately, the ernment officials alike perpetuated the visa, they would release the migrant on Congress also helped entrench once-controversial idea of detention sense that Haitians and Cubans were parole or bond until the issue was another innovation of Reagan’s became a staple of our immigration unable to assimilate. In 1980, State resolved. In other words, the Reagan administration: the use of private When Reagan took system. Department officials blamed an administration changed immigration prison companies. The detention office in January When Reagan took office in January uprising of detained Cubans in Fort policy, but portrayed its action as a policy launched an administrative 1981, he inherited 1981, he inherited what he and his Chaffee, Arkansas, on “some hardened return to congressional intent. collaboration with private con- administrators would call an immi- criminals exported to the United States Reagan’s immigration task force, tractors that would reshape practices what he and his gration crisis. Between 1972 and 1980, by Fidel Castro,” reflecting a popular which was chaired by the attorney of incarceration for all federal administrators would more than 40,000 Haitians had misconception that most of the Mari- general and his deputy, Rudy Giuliani, detainees. While a few state and local call an immigration migrated via boat to South Florida, elitos had criminal backgrounds. In noted in a report that the detention governments began working with crisis. Between 1972 fleeing political persecution and eco- 1983, the Centers for Disease Control policy “could create an appearance of private prison contractors in the nomic deprivation caused by the incorrectly identified Haitian migrants ‘concentration camps’ filled largely by 1970s, the federal government began and 1980, more than repressive regime of Jean-Claude “Baby as a group that could “be considered at blacks.” Still, the task force pushed using private contractors in the early 40,000 Haitians had Doc” Duvalier. increased risk of AIDS.” forward with this approach. 1980s. migrated via boat to Then, between April and October Reagan administration officials The detention policy began as an All of these early federal con- South Florida, ﬂeeing 1980, more than 100,000 Cubans came responded with harsh measures. Their executive branch project. To enforce tracts involved immigrant detainees. to the United States from Cuba’s Mariel solution? Detention of all arriving the detention mandate, the Immi- Consider, for example, the Correc- political persecution Harbor, also to escape increasing migrants, including asylum seekers. gration and Naturalization Service, the tions Corporation of America (CCA). and economic political repression. In the spring of Immigration officials would only predecessor to the current Department The CCA’s first facility was a 300-bed deprivation caused 1980, Cuban President Fidel Castro had release a migrant after they found that of Homeland Security, held migrants in immigration detention center in by the repressive decided to allow departures, which they met the legal definition of a a makeshift detention camp on Krome Houston, which opened in 1984. were usually restricted, from the port of refugee, a process that could take years. Avenue in Dade County, Florida. There, Now, the CCA - renamed as Core- regime of Jean- Mariel. Many dissident Cubans left According to administration offi- migrants slept under threadbare Civic - is one of the country’s largest Claude “Baby Doc” immediately, and many Cuban Amer- cials, the detention policy was nec- blankets and ate spoiled food. The immigration detention companies. Duvalier. icans sent boats to Mariel to retrieve essary to deter future immigration. former army barracks were infested Although members of Congress friends and family members. Most of Speaking before Congress, the attorney with mosquitoes and snakes. raised questions about empowering The state of Florida campaigned to private companies that profited from close the unsanitary detention site detaining immigrants, a majority of while human rights lawyers challenged lawmakers have continued to the legality of the detention policy. In support the practice. June 1982, a federal judge in Miami found that the government had not announced the procedure in accordance with the Administrative Procedure Act, which requires government agencies to give notice before changing policies. Judges on the US D-RING ROAD Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit POST BOX: 3488 later held that the policy violated the DOHA - QATAR Equal Protection Clause by discrimi- [email protected] nating against Haitians because of their race and nationality. These legal victories were short- EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OFFICE lived, though. In 1982, the government TEL: 4455 7741 / 767 gave proper notice of the policy. In FAX: +974 4455 7758 1985, the Supreme Court reversed the 11th Circuit’s decision about discrimi- MANAGING EDITOR nation. By that time, immigration TEL: 4462 7505 authorities had transferred the detainees to federal prisons across the DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR mainland United States, as well as to TEL: 4455 7769 Fort Allen in Puerto Rico, creating what Migrants gathered inside a fence of a makeshift detention center in El Paso. LOCAL NEWS SECTION TEL: 4455 7743

BUSINESS NEWS SECTION ALICE MCCOOL licencing requirements and biometric interviewed were aware the mineral TEL: 4462 7535 AL JAZEERA registration for miners. In May 2018, a has become their country’s largest new Mining and Mineral Policy was export. On the contrary, Namatovu’s SPORT NEWS SECTION here’s gold over there but approved by the cabinet, and an livelihood has suffered: she was one of TEL: 4455 7745 they don’t let us touch it,” accompanying law is in draft stage - an estimated 60,000 miners evicted says Jalia Namatovu, with public consultations expected this from Mubende mines in August 2017, ONLINE SECTION pointing to hills covered July. and has not successfully mined gold “T TEL: 4462 7501 in a thick layer of vibrant green forest in The new system recognises arti- since. [email protected] Mubende, Central Uganda. Here lie sanal miners as players and intends to The evictions were ordered by make working conditions safer and some of the country’s rich gold reserves, President Yoweri Museveni on the PUBLIC RELATIONS ensure the sector contributes to grounds that unregistered miners were TEL: 4455 7613 Uganda’s economic development, damaging the environment and illegally [email protected] although most of these benefits are yet “invading” gold deposits licenced to to be seen on the ground. AUC Mining - a locally-registered ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT Uganda is not famed for its gold company with Ugandan and British Uganda’s gold boom TEL: 4455 7837 / 780 reserves. But since 2016, gold exports owners, including long-time Presi- FAX: 4455 7870 have rocketed in the East African dential Adviser Gertrude Njuba. [email protected] leaves small-scale country: According to official data, gold “One morning we were preparing worth $514m was shipped last year - breakfast and getting ready to start CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT over 50 times what it was exporting a work at the mines, when soldiers came TEL: 4455 7857 miners behind decade ago. Yet Uganda is not pro- carrying guns,” remembers Namatovu. [email protected] ducing more gold itself, raising ques- Officers gave them six hours to leave, tions about its source. and people who resisted were forcibly SUBSCRIPTION & The answers may lie with the removed, she says. Namatovu had DISTRIBUTION which are increasingly being explored African Gold Refinery (AGR), a Belgian- worked at the mines for three years, TEL: 4455 7809 / 839 by Ugandan and foreign companies owned firm whose deal with the supporting her two children and elderly FAX: 44557819 alike. Ugandan government preceded the mother. [email protected] “It’s owned by a muzungu [white sharp export increase. The company “We quickly took what we could The new system person]. Villagers say the company put was recently alleged to have received but had to leave a lot of things behind,” recognises artisanal crocodiles in the river so we can’t get in. gold worth $300m from Venezuela, she says. Namatovu and her friends They get their water from somewhere surpassing US sanctions, and has also lived in temporary structures close to All thoughts and views miners as players else now,” she laughs darkly. Namatovu been accused of smuggling “conflict the mines, unable to afford daily and intends to make is a small-scale or artisanal gold miner - gold” from countries such as the Demo- transport from the nearest town. expressed in these columns working conditions although the mineral has not actually cratic Republic of Congo (DRC). “The evictions are a result of are those of the writers, safer and ensure the passed through the 39-year-old’s hands Uganda’s main anti-corruption body is demand for gold which has led bigger not of the newspaper. in nearly two years. “I’m hopeful we’ll investigating the company for money companies to start coming into the sector contributes to find gold soon because we have a laundering and tax evasion, according country and seek to commence oper- Uganda’s economic license now,” says Namatovu, chair- to Belgian newspaper De Standaard. ations,” explains Paul Bagabo, the All correspondence development, person of Mubende Women Gold AGR did not respond to Al Jazeera’s Uganda consultant for the Natural regarding Views and although most of Miners Association. multiple requests for comment over Resource Governance Institute. Opinion pages should be Artisanal gold miners in Mubende, two weeks. Rather than benefiting from the sent to editor-in-chief these beneﬁts are and across Uganda, have long been The benefits of Uganda’s increas- heightened demand, small-scalers are yet to be seen on the operating without licences. But in ingly profitable gold trade are not yet losing work as pits previously under office or mailed to the ground. recent years the government has begun seen by small-scale miners like Nam- their management are allocated to [email protected] formalising the sector, including stricter atovu, and none of the miners Al Jazeera companies. 10 EUROPE SATURDAY 20 JULY 2019 Kosovo PM quits Merkel planning to serve full term

REUTERS after war crimes BERLIN Germany’s Angela Merkel threw her weight behind her embattled court summons new defence minister and heir- apparent yesterday, while Ramush Haradinaj legal request. I will go there. I insisting she herself was fit to said he had agreed will defend myself as a fighter carry on serving as chancellor to be interviewed at of my country.” through to the end of her term Haradinaj urged Kosovo’s in 2021. the Kosovo Specialist president to call an early parlia- Merkel, who turned 65 on Chambers and mentary election. Wednesday and has been in Specialist Prosecutor’s The Kosovo Specialist office since 2005, has suffered Office next week Chambers and the Specialist several bouts of shaking at public Prosecutor’s Office were estab- ceremonies in recent weeks that and didn’t want to lished at the European Union’s have stirred speculation about appear there as prime urging after human rights body her health, though she has main- minister. the Council of Europe in 2011 tained she is fine. catalogued allegations of wide- On jovial form before taking AP spread war crimes committed a summer break, the conserv- PRISTINA by the separatist Kosovo Liber- ative chancellor said she under- ation Army. stood the questions about her Kosovo’s prime minister The court started ques- health, but told her annual news resigned yesterday after being tioning former Kosovo fighters conference: “I can carry out this German Chancellor Angela Merkel during her summer press conference at Federal Press Conference invited for questioning by a this year. Haradinaj was one of role.” in Berlin, yesterday. Hague-based court investigating the top KLA commanders during She has no history of serious crimes against ethnic Serbs the war. A United Nations tri- health issues. Her office has since 2005, is trying to stage- vision interview. will be chancellor candidate,” during and after the country’s bunal cleared him three times given no explanation for the manage a slow-motion exit from “BLA BLA BLAKK,” ran a she said, adding that her 1998-1999 war. of war crimes charges. shaking episodes. After one such politics and in December gave front-page headline in yester- Christian Democrats and their Ramush Haradinaj said he At the time of the war, bout, a government official said up the chair of her Christian day’s edition of the mass-circu- Bavarian sister party would do had agreed to be interviewed at Kosovo was a Serbian province that it was more a psychological Democrats to protegee Annegret lation daily Bild. this together. the Kosovo Specialist Chambers and KLA members mostly were issue as she tried desperately to Kramp-Karrenbauer. Merkel said she was con- Merkel’s “grand coalition” and Specialist Prosecutor’s ethnic Albanians. avoid a repeat. Despite a series of gaffes this fident her protegee would do a with the left-leaning Social Dem- Office next week and didn’t want A bloody Serb crackdown “As a person, I have a strong year, Kramp-Karrenbauer took good job with the defence port- ocrats (SPD) has come close to to appear there as prime against Kosovo Albanian sepa- personal interest in my health over as defence minister on folio, which has proven a poi- collapse on several occasions minister. ratists and civilians led Nato to and, as I said, 2021 is the con- Wednesday, entering the cabinet soned chalice for several recent since taking office last year, and “I considered that I cannot intervene by bombing Serbia in clusion of my political work,” in a move likely to make or break predecessors. SPD leader Andrea Nahles quit go to the questioning as head of spring 1999. Merkel told reporters, adding her chances of succeeding her “I am convinced she will do after setbacks at regional and the government,” Haradinaj said Kosovo eventually made a with a smile: “But then I hope mentor as Germany’s leader by that very well,” she said. European elections in May. during a news conference. unilateral declaration of inde- there will be another life (after 2021. But Merkel added she would But Merkel played down sug- Haradinaj, who took office pendence in the year 2008 and politics).” Kramp-Karrenbauer, known stay out of her conservative bloc’s gestions that the governing as prime minister in September it is recognised by the US and Asked how she was feeling, as AKK after her initials, was decision on who should run in her alliance was in trouble, saying 2017, said that while he thought most of the West, but not by Merkel added: “Good.” appointed with Merkel’s blessing place for chancellor at the next she had “very, very trustworthy” the summons was politically bad Serbia and its allies Russia and The chancellor, who has but immediately ran into trouble federal election in 2021. working relationships with the for Kosovo, “I will respect the China. loomed large on European stage after giving a lacklustre tele- “The party will decide who SPD’s interim leaders.

Dozens of migrants French court rejects damages claim in 1994 ferry disaster force entry into AFP companies. in April. whom it deemed to have held An admission by Sweden that Melilla enclave NANTERRE The Estonia ferry was sailing The 1,116 plaintiffs were admissable cases — to pay legal Russian military equipment had from Tallinn to Stockholm when seeking more than $45m in $7,850 to Bureau Veritas and been transported on board the AFP A court outside Paris yesterday it sank in bad weather in the damages from French certifi- $39,000 to Meyer Werft. ferry on at least two occasions MADRID rejected a compensation claim Baltic Sea off Finland in Sep- cation agency Bureau Veritas “This is too much, to say the in 1994 gave some credence to filed by survivors and relatives tember 1994, killing 852, from 17 and German shipbuilder Meyer least,” said Lombrez of the legal the theory. Around 50 migrants forced of victims of the 1994 sinking of different nationalities, of the 989 Werft. costs order. “After 22 years of But Estonian investigators their way into Spain’s North the Estonia ferry, the deadliest passengers and crew on board. The court said in a statement procedures, I think they could dismissed this explanation and African enclave of Melilla from accident involving a European An international probe con- that the plaintiffs were not able have spared the victims that.” authorities in Tallinn and Morocco yesterday by climbing ship since the Titanic. cluded in 1997 that the disaster to prove “the existence of a gross Swedish authorities have Stockholm have always rejected over a towering border fence, The court in Nanterre said was caused by a problem with or intentional fault attributable always opposed the ship being calls to reopen the case. Spanish authorities said. that plaintiffs had not proved the bow-door locking system. to the firm Bureau Veritas and/ refloated for further investi- Henning Witte, the Swedish About 200 migrants tried that the French certification Survivors and relatives were or Meyer Werft.” gation, prompting unsubstan- lawyer behind the lawsuit, said to storm the barbed wire fence agency and the German ship- swiftly compensated for material The ruling was “severe” and tiated conspiracy theories and in Stockholm that the court’s at dawn but Spanish and builder were at fault over the damages from the now-bankrupt “very disappointing”, said one of claims of a cover-up. ruling was “disappointing” and Moroccan security forces pre- ferry disaster. Estonian shipowner Estline. the lawyers of the plaintiffs, Some experts, politicians and insisted that many questions vented all but around 50 from Angering the lawyers of the But more than 1,000 sur- Francois Lombrez, adding the relatives in Estonia and Sweden were still unanswered. entering the coastal city, a survivors and relatives, it also vivors and relatives of the possibility of an appeal would be had claimed that the sinking The lawyer added that the spokesman for the Spanish gov- ruled that the plaintiffs should deceased battled for two decades examined. could have been caused by an best option now would be for a ernment’s representative in pay tens of thousands of euros for a court in Nanterre to hear The court also ordered the explosion from a secret cargo of truth commission where no legal Melilla said. towards the legal costs of the two the case, which finally opened plaintiffs — only around 500 of military equipment. penalty applied. One migrant suffered a fractured leg and was hospitalised and six Spanish police Russian suspect in tainted oil officers were “lightly” injured with bruises and cuts, he added. scam seeks asylum in Lithuania The only other mass attempt by migrants to enter REUTERS major disruption of supplies Melilla this year happened in VILNIUS from Russia, the world’s second May when roughly 50 migrants largest oil exporter. Buyers are managed to scale the border Roman Ruzhechko, a suspect in now seeking compensation fence and get across. a Russian probe into a major oil worth tens of millions of dollars. “There is not as much pipeline contamination earlier The contamination involved pressure on the border,” the this year, has asked for political high levels of organic chloride spokesman said. asylum in Lithuania, a Vilnius found in oil sent via the Druzhba Spain’s two North African district court spokesman said. (“Friendship”) pipeline and to enclaves, Melilla and Ceuta, Russian prosecutors have the Baltic port of Ust-Luga. have the European Union’s only charged Ruzhechko, an exec- Lithuania’s prosecutor land borders with Africa. utive at a small oil transport general office said Ruzhechko They are often used as entry firm, and several other people was detained in Lithuania on an points into Europe for African in a criminal conspiracy to Interpol warrant for 48 hours. migrants, who either climb over pollute the network, which is At a hearing, the Vilnius dis- their border fences or try to owned and operated by coun- trict court authorised a three- swim along the coast. try’s oil pipeline Transneft. month detention of Ruzhechko In May, 52 migrants got A lawyer for Ruzhechko has at the request of prosecutors, the over the Melilla fence in said there was nothing in the court spokesman said. another attempt. prosecutors’ files that proved his A country has 40 days to Spain’s Interior Ministry A partly demolished structure seen following an earthquake at the port of Piraeus, near Athens, yesterday. client’s guilt. present a request to extradite a said 2,397 migrants reached The contamination was dis- person, Lithuania’s prosecutors Melilla over land between Panic as strong quake rattles Athens covered in April and led to a spokesman said. January 1 and July 15.

REUTERS another compared it to a ‘strong structure collapsed. ATHENS bounce’ lasting about 15 seconds. The quake occurred at a Bulgaria seals deal to buy F-16 jets from US The Acropolis, a complex of depth of 15km in an area affected A magnitude 5.1 earthquake ancient Greek buildings by earthquakes in the past. AFP for F-16s — as the Nato mem- fighters — six of them single- rattled the Greek capital Athens including the Parthenon located Greece, along with Turkey, is SOFIA ber’s first such purchase and said seaters and two of them two-seat yesterday, briefly knocking out on a rocky hilltop overlooking among the most tremor-prone the government hoped for bigger jets — to replace the country’s power and telecommunications the capital, was intact, according regions of Europe. Bulgarian lawmakers yesterday discounts in the future. ageing, Soviet-built MiG-29s. in parts of the city and sending to the authorities. Seismologist Manolis Sko- ratified a hefty $1.3bn deal to buy “Bulgaria will be the first Lockheed Martin, the US people running from buildings Reuters correspondents saw rdilis said that, “the earthquake eight F-16 fighter jets from the Balkan country to have this manufacturer of the F-16s, said in panic. people evacuating buildings in was close to the surface, which US in the country’s biggest brand-new version of the air- the US fighters have technology The European Earthquake the sprawling city, and hundreds is why it was felt so much.” military equipment purchase craft,” he said. that features in more advanced Monitoring Centre recorded the crammed into Athens’s central A fire brigade official con- since the fall of communism The hefty outlay required the jets such as the F-35 and F-22. quake’s epicentre at a point Syntagma Square. firmed that there had been three decades ago. parliament to also vote to extend It boasted in a statement 22km northwest of the city. Its Two people were lightly several calls asking for help in Defence Minister Krasimir the country’s deficit to cover the they were “a proven, capable, website quoted a witness as injured by falling debris, health rescuing people trapped in ele- Karakachanov justified the big purchase. low-risk and cost effective saying the quake was “strong but ministry officials said. In the port vators, while some abandoned sum — significantly higher than The deal with the US is for solution for Bulgaria’s national fortunately not very long”, while city of Piraeus, an abandoned buildings were damaged. what other countries have paid eight F-16 Block 70 multi-role and Nato defence needs”. SATURDAY 20 JULY 2019 EUROPE / AMERICAS 11

Three dead in Austrian Alps Call to protect UK citizens in no-deal Brexit AP Conservative Brussels, said “if there’s no Britons’ rights, but only if the UK must ensure citizens’ rights are plane crash BRUSSELS lawmaker Alberto agreement, there’s no reciprocates. Britain said all EU upheld even if there is no Brexit AP Costa said that “if protection.” citizens living in the country can deal. BERLIN British lawmakers met the there’s no agreement, “British nationals will poten- stay, but has not enshrined that German Chancellor Angela European Union’s chief Brexit tially lose access to pension enti- right in law. Merkel yesterday reiterated the Austrian authorities said three negotiator yesterday, seeking an there’s no protection.” tlement, lose access to health “People assume it’s fine, eve- EU’s long-held stance that it will people have been killed in a iron-clad guarantee that the 1.3 care entitlement, lose access to rything’s dandy . citizens’ rights, not renegotiate the divorce small airplane crash in the Alps million UK citizens in the bloc agreement has been rejected by welfare entitlement and a whole of course they’re going to protect agreement it struck with out- near the German border. won’t have their rights removed Britain’s Parliament, raising the gamut of other issues,” he said. them, that goes without saying,” going British Prime Minister Austrian police told the dpa and their lives disrupted if Britain prospect of a no-deal Brexit. Talks between the British Costa said. “But we have no Theresa May. news agency yesterday that the leaves the EU without a deal. The UK is due to leave the government and the EU on guar- extraterritorial powers to pass “The withdrawal agreement identity of those killed in the The rights of UK citizens bloc on October 31, and both men anteeing citizens’ rights if the UK legislation to protect British cit- is the withdrawal agreement,” Thursday evening crash was living in the 27 other EU nations, vying to take over as prime min- crashes out of the bloc have izens in the EU. That can only be she said. still not clear. and those of the more than 3 ister next week, Boris Johnson failed to produce a done with an agreement with the “I trust very firmly that The plane went down at million EU citizens in Britain, are and Jeremy Hunt, say it’s imper- breakthrough. EU.” Britain will find its way,” May about 5:30pm local time (1530 one of the thorniest issues of the ative that Brexit happens, with EU leaders insist the with- The winner of the contest to said in Berlin at her annual GMT) in the mountains near the Brexit negotiations. or without a deal. drawal agreement can’t be become Britain’s next prime summer news conference. “It is town of Leutasch crashing into Their rights to live, work and Conservative lawmaker chopped into chunks — Britain minister — widely expected to a proud, great nation and it will a rock face at an altitude of study are protected under an Alberto Costa, who led the cross- must accept all of it or none. be Johnson — is due to be remain our partner even if about 2,300 metres. agreement struck between the party delegation that met EU Some EU member states announced on Tuesday. Britain is no longer a member of Authorities said the plane two sides — but the divorce negotiator Michel Barnier in have said they will preserve Costa said whoever wins the European Union.” burned completely after crashing and it was not immediately clear where it was registered or where it had been Ukraine leader offers heading. to swap film director ‘Smell’ on cabin forces evacuation for Russian journalist of Russian plane AFP politically motivated and last AFP KIEV year Sentsov staged a hunger MOSCOW strike and went 145 days without Ukraine’s President Volodymyr solid food. Two people were hospitalised Zelensky yesterday offered to Zelensky said yesterday that yesterday after an Armenia- hand Moscow a detained Kiev was ready to release bound plane was evacuated in Russian state media journalist 52-year-old Kyrylo Vyshynsky, Moscow following a strange in exchange for Ukrainian film a journalist working for Russia’s smell and smoke in the cabin, director Oleg Sentsov who is RIA Novosti state news agency, the airline and airport officials behind bars in a Russian Arctic in exchange for Sentsov. said. penal colony. Vyshynsky, who holds both The early morning flight Russia and Ukraine are in Ukrainian and Russian citi- operated by Russia’s Nordwind the midst of sensitive talks on a zenship, was detained by Kiev Airlines had to be aborted prisoner exchange following the in 2018 and is awaiting trial on during takeoff after a “foreign first-ever phone call between treason charges. smell” on board the Boeing 737, Zelensky and Russian President “If we are talking about the company said. Vladimir Putin last week. goodwill and want (a prisoner The crew used emergency Filmmaker Sentsov, swap) to happen in the nearest slides to evacuate the pas- Ukraine’s most famous political future, we are ready to exchange sengers — 162 adults and 11 Ice cave prisoner, is serving a 20-year Kyrylo Vyshynsky,” Zelensky children. People walk on footbridges as they visit “La Grotte de Glace” (Ice cave) on “Mer de Glace” (Sea of sentence in a Russian penal said. Five passengers sought Ice), in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, in the French Alps, eastern France, yesterday. At 7km long and 200 colony for planning “terrorist A Kiev court later extended medical help and two were hos- metres deep, the “Mer de Glace” (Sea of Ice) glacier, which is located on the northern slopes of the attacks” in Crimea, which was Vyshynsky’s detention for pitalised, Moscow’s Shereme- Mont Blanc massif, is France’s largest glacier. annexed by Russia in 2014. another two months, prompting tyevo Airport said. Kiev said the charges are condemnation from Moscow. Britain, Sweden agree to American IS ‘sniper’ charged in New York cooperate on fighter plans AFP years before he was captured by in charge of weapons training. did not know, was an informant NEW YORK the Syrian Democratic Forces He stayed in contact with for New York Police Department. REUTERS UK,” Defence Minister Peter and handed over to US custody, some people in the United States, “The United States is com- RAF FAIRFORD Hultqvist said at the Royal Inter- A naturalized American who was the department said. sending messages and photo- mitted to holding accountable national Air Tattoo, a major mil- a sniper for the IS militant group Asainov, 43, was brought graphs of himself from the those who have left this country Britain and Sweden agreed itary air show held in western has been charged in New York back to the United States on battlefield. in order to fight for ISIS,” yesterday to study air combat England. with material support for a terror Thursday. “We are the worst terrorist Assistant Attorney General John cooperation and opened the Britain’s defence ministry group after being captured in He fought for IS in Syria from organisation in the world that Demers said in a statement. door to other potential partners said the agreement called for a Syria and repatriated to the US, 2013 to 2018 as a sniper and a has ever existed,” one of his mes- “We hope countries around in a move that could see the joint combat air development the Justice Department weapons trainer for other sages from 2015 said, according the world, including our Scandinavian country join a and acquisition programme. announced yesterday. combatants. to court documents. European allies and partners, planned next-generation UK The study, which is expected Kazakhstan-born Ruslan Over time, he rose up Asainov also tried to recruit will likewise repatriate and pros- fighter project. to yield results by autumn 2020, Maratovich Asainov fought for through the ranks of the organ- another individual in the United ecute their own citizens for Britain last year unveiled “lays the foundations for collab- the IS group in Syria for five isation, and was named a chief, States to join the group, who, he traveling to support ISIS.” plans for a fighter plane and oration and invites others to cohort of drones named participate in our discussions,” Tempest, raising questions about Britain’s Defence Procurement Chicago cops fired the future of European defence Minister Stuart Andrew said. cooperation as France and Britain will remain a key over alleged fatal Germany pursue their own air partner for its European neigh- shooting cover-up combat programme to meet bours in Nato after leaving the growing threats. European Union, he said. AFP Tempest, meant to even- Britain and Sweden have CHICAGO tually replace the Eurofighter conducted joint exercises in the Typhoon from 2040, will be Baltic where Western officials say Four officers accused of lying developed and built by BAE Russia has stepped up probing about the circumstances Systems, Britain’s biggest flights and mock bomb runs near around the fatal shooting of a defence company, alongside UK Europe’s borders since 2013. black teen have been fired by engine maker Rolls-Royce, European nations face a the Chicago Police Board. Italian defence firm Leonardo combination of security threats The 2014 killing of 17-year- and European missile maker and budget constraints that have old Laquan McDonald, which MBDA. spurred competing alliances as was captured on police video Sweden’s Saab will not Europe’s fragmented defence camera, sparked months of immediately join the same industry vies for leadership and protests and became industrial team but will be a slice of future spending on any emblematic of longstanding involved in a broader tech- new pan-European fighter. police abuse in America’s third- nology study that sketches out Analysts said it is unclear largest city. Britain’s post-Brexit defence whether Europe can afford more A jury in October convicted partnerships and could lead to than one fighter programme in a white police officer, Jason Van further countries coming on future rather than the current Unrest in Puerto Rico enters 6th day Dyke, of second-degree murder board, officials said. three — the French Rafale, for firing 16 bullets into Demonstrators sit in front of a police barricade with the word “resign” taped over their mouths and “Brexit or not, Sweden has a Swedish Gripen and multina- McDonald, most of which displaying a sign that reads “the daughters of the crisis have had enough,” during the sixth day of strategic interest to further tional Eurofighter, which struck the teen after he fell to protest calling for the resignation of Governor Ricardo Rossello in San Juan, Puerto Rico, yesterday. deepen its relations with the includes Britain. the ground. The Police Board said that Sergeant Stephen Franko and three other officers had exag- US hits four Venezuelan military officers with sanctions gerated the threat posed by McDonald in order to cover for REUTERS according to the US Treasury Yesterday’s action would eight days after Acosta had been continue to hold individuals Van Dyke, according to a WASHINGTON Department. freeze any of the four military arrested for alleged participation accountable who are involved in decision. “Their conduct is anti- US officials last week sanc- officers’ assets under US-control in a coup plot. the former Maduro regime’s use thetical to that expected and The United States yesterday tioned the agency, known as the and block any US persons or Human rights organisations, of intimidation and repression required of a sworn law stepped up its response following General Directorate of Military entities from any transactions or political leaders and his family to target and silence political enforcement officer, who at all the death of a Venezuelan navy Counterintelligence (DGCIM), dealings with them. have accused the government of opponents, innocent civilians, times has a duty to act with captain, sanctioning four top freezing all its direct and indi- Venezuelan President torturing the navy captain to and members of the military,” honesty and integrity and to officials in Venezuela’s military rectly-owned assets in the wake Nicolas Maduro’s government death. US Treasury Secretary Steven accurately and completely counterintelligence agency, of Rafael Acosta’s death. confirmed the death on June 29, “The United States will Mnuchin said in a statement. report their observations.” 12 AMERICAS / CLASSIFIEDS SATURDAY 20 JULY 2019 US set to release 3,100 inmates under new law REUTERS The law, called the risk-assessment tool that will be WASHINGTON First Step Act, eases used to determine each inmate’s risk of becoming a repeat Roughly 3,100 US inmates, harsh sentencing offender. including many convicted of rules for non- The deadline for completing drug offenses, will be released violent offenders that tool was yesterday, early from federal prisons for and requires the prompting the early release of good behaviour under a criminal the more than 3,100 inmates justice reform law signed last Justice Department’s from federal prisons around the year by President Donald Trump, Bureau of Prisons United States, including people the Justice Department said to implement new serving time for drug and yesterday. programmes to help weapons offenses. Officials detailed the early The tool will assign each impact of the law, passed with reduce recidivism. inmate a risk category, based on bipartisan support in Congress how likely it is calculated that last December and championed requires the Justice Depart- they would commit new offenses by criminal justice advocates ment’s Bureau of Prisons to including violent crimes. Those US President Donald Trump and First Lady Melania Trump host Apollo 11 crew members Michael Collins across the political spectrum to implement new programmes to at a high risk of re-offending will (left); Buzz Aldrin (right); Neil Armstrong’s son, Rick (second left) during a ceremony commemorating help reduce sentencing dispar- help reduce recidivism. It also be steered into recidivism- ities for low-level offenses his- required the bureau to retroac- reduction programs. the 50th anniversary of the Moon landing, at the White House, in Washington, yesterday. torically with higher conviction tively recalculate good It also allows for inmates to rates for racial minorities. behaviour credits, a step that build up “earned time” credits In addition to the good reduces some sentences by up enabling them to be released Trump hosts Apollo 11 astronauts behaviour releases, officials said to 54 days per year. early into halfway houses. more than 1,691 inmates have Previously, inmates could In addition, Deputy Attorney- AFP/WASHINGTON Relatives of the late Neil President Donald Trump! We had their sentences reduced earn only up to 47 days per year General Jeffrey Rosen said the Armstrong, the first man to step discussed America’s future in after a provision in the law ret- toward early release for good department has allotted $75m in US President Donald Trump on the Moon on July 20, 1969, space, ways to address space roactively recalculated sen- behaviour. existing resources for fiscal year welcomed surviving Apollo 11 were also present, and Trump challenges, and the need to keep tences to reduce disparities Criminal justice advocates 2019, which ends September 30, crew members Buzz Aldrin and asked them to raise their hands. exploring beyond the horizon. between those who committed were under the impression the to expand opioid addiction treat- Michael Collins to the White The president hailed his “Keep America Great in crimes involving crack versus new calculation would apply ret- ments and educational programs House yesterday, on the eve of administration’s efforts to Space!!” powder cocaine. Those con- roactively when the law went in federal prisons under the First the 50th anniversary of the first relaunch crewed space flights With the Apollo 11 Moon victed for crack offenses histor- into effect. But a drafting error Step Act. That $75m is being Moon landing. with planned missions to the landing, the US achieved the ically have been more likely to in the legislation prevented the taken from other programs “Tomorrow is a very big Moon and Mars. “We are ultimate victory in the Space be a racial minority. Justice Department from imme- within the Bureau of Prisons, day... 50 years from the time we bringing the glamour back to it,” Race after losing the initial heats The law, called the First Step diately applying the new method though the department did not planted a beautiful American he said. to the Soviet Union, which was Act, eases harsh sentencing rules of calculating good-behaviour specify which programmes may flag on the moon,” Trump said Aldrin later tweeted: “Just first to put a satellite and then a for non-violent offenders and credits until it finalised a be affected. in the Oval Office. had an excellent meeting with man in space.

US hits Hezbollah operative with Trump blames ‘crazed’ media for rally taunt backlash sanctions over AFP of taunts targeting a Somali-born aimed at congresswoman Ilhan over the chant ‘send her back’ by “Mainstream Media, which WASHINGTON Democratic lawmaker during Omar, Trump accused the media a packed Arena.... but is totally has lost all credibility, has either 1994 terror attack one of his rallies, alleging of a “sick partnership” with his calm & accepting of the most vile officially or unofficially become a US President Donald Trump political bias against him. Democratic opponents. and disgusting statements made part of the Radical Left Democrat REUTERS yesterday slammed what he Facing a mounting backlash “It is amazing how the Fake by the three Radical Left Con- Party,” he continued. “It is a sick WASHINGTON called “crazed” media coverage over the cries of “Send her back” News Media became ‘crazed’ gresswomen,” Trump tweeted. partnership, so pathetic to watch!”

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The dollar steadied yesterday LNG tender but was still on the defensive after Federal Reserve officials REUTERS Pakistan is expected bolstered expectations of an LONDON/SINGAPORE: to be a signiﬁcant aggressive rate cut this month growth driver in to address weakening price Italian oil major Eni, China’s pressures. overseas energy unit PetroChina global LNG demand, At a central banking con- and two trading houses are vying with Wood Mackenzie ference on Thursday, New York to supply liquefied natural gas estimating the Fed President John Williams (LNG) to Pakistan in one of the argued for pre-emptive largest tenders ever worth country will need 25 measures to avoid having to billions of dollars, two sources million tonnes a year deal with too low inflation and familiar with the matter said as domestic supplies interest rates. yesterday. dwindle and its That sent the dollar down The 240-cargo 10-year economy grows. before it bounced slightly in early tender, which is likely to be G7 meet Asian trade, after a New York Fed worth from $5bn to $6bn representative subsequently said according to Reuters calculations The tender is keenly watched FROM LEFT: US Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin, philanthropist Melinda Gates, Co-Chair of the Bill Williams’ comments were aca- and the estimates of another due to its size and because and Melinda Gates Foundation, and World Bank President David Malpass attend a meeting during demic and not about immediate source based on current market Pakistan, gripped in an anti-cor- the G7 ﬁnance ministers and central bank governors meeting in Chantilly, near Paris, France. policy direction. conditions, was issued last month ruption drive under the gov- Still, investors took his and closed on Thursday. ernment of Prime Minister Imran remarks along with separate Pakistan is expected to be a Khan, is expected to publish the comments from Fed Vice Chair significant growth driver in lowest prices offered by the Richard Clarida as another global LNG demand, with Wood companies. BMW names Zipse as new CEO dovish signal from the central Mackenzie estimating the This will give valuable insight bank, which could be opening country will need 25 million into the opaque LNG market, AP cars, while tech companies the way for a big rate cut at the tonnes a year as domestic sup- which is characterised by closed FRANKFURT Waymo and Uber are working end of this month. plies dwindle and its economy bilateral trades, secret long-term on autonomous vehicles. BMW The dollar stood at 107.42 grows. That would make it a top- supply agreements and an over- BMW has named its top has joined its services busi- yen, up 0.2 percent from late five LNG buyer. the-counter spot market. production manager, Oliver nesses in a joint venture with US levels after having hit a Eni and PetroChina’s Sin- Commercial offers are Zipse (pictured), as CEO to lead competitor Daimler AG, maker three-week low of 107.21 the gapore unit were joined by the expected to be opened on August the luxury automaker through of Mercedes-Benz cars. Those previous day. trading arm of Azeri state oil 2, one of the sources said, when a shift to new ways of doing businesses include its Free Now The euro eased slightly to company SOCAR and commod- Pakistan LNG is likely to reveal business such as electric taxi-hailing and its Share Now $1.1266 from $1.1282. On the ities trader Trafigura in placing bids. Pakistan, like most Asian vehicles and offering cars on a car-sharing service. week, the dollar is down 0.4 offers, the sources said. buyers, purchases LNG priced per-use basis. BMW board chairman percent versus the yen and 0.1 Pakistan LNG, the state- against Brent crude oil expressed The company said Thursday Norbert Reithofer, who was percent on the euro. The dollar owned company that issued the as a price slope, or percentage of that Zipse, 55, would succeed Krueger’s predecessor as CEO, index, which hit a two-week low tender, declined to name any the oil contract. Harald Krueger on Aug. 16. said that Zipse “will provide the of 96.648, bounced to 96.792. bidders. In the last short-term tender, Krueger, 53, had said on July 5 BMW Group with fresh The greenback fell broadly “The technical bids for our Pakistan said the lowest offers he wouldn’t seek to renew his momentum in shaping the on Thursday after Williams’ long-term LNG supply tender came in at 7.13 percent and 8.54 contract when it expires next early edge in battery cars with mobility of the future.” remarks bolstered bets that the were received and opened yes- percent of Brent, or around $4.4 May. its i3 city car in 2013, but was BMW lost €310m on its Fed would cut interest rates by terday. Evaluations are to $5.3 per million British thermal The BMW board of directors slow to follow up with more automotive business in the first 50 basis points, rather than 25 underway,” it said. units at the prices of that day on made the decision during a battery models, choosing to quarter after the company was basis points. Williams said SOCAR Trading SA con- June 14. meeting at its plant in Spar- emphasize battery-internal hit by a €1.4bn ($1.6bn) charge when rates and inflation are firmed it had bid. Trafigura said But multi-year contracts in tanburg, South Carolina, where combustion hybrids while Cal- for an anti-trust case and by low, policymakers cannot it does not comment on tenders. the past year have tended to use it turns out SUVs for US cus- ifornia upstart Tesla seized higher upfront costs for new afford to keep their “powder A spokesperson noted Trafigura a higher price slope - around 11 tomers and for export. market share in premium technology. dry” and wait for potential eco- was a stakeholder in the terminal to 12 percent. That would place The company has been buf- battery cars. Even without the anti-trust nomic problems to due to receive the tendered LNG. the price tag for the 240 cargoes feted by the trade conflict Zipse, a mechanical charge, its once-fat profit materialise. “Trafigura owns 150 (million - over 15 million tonnes in total between the US and China and engineer who started at BMW margins shrank. Only the That is especially true with cubic feet a day) of LNG import - at between $5bn and $6bn. saw its weakest profitability in as a trainee in 1991, must now financial services and motor- neutral rates that would neither capacity in that facility, which is Pakistan LNG issued the a decade in the first quarter. steer the company through a cycle divisions pushed the restrict nor accelerate the US key to its plan to supply LNG and tender in early June to import 240 Krueger’s four-year tenure has shifting business environment company to a net profit of economy, he said. When gas to Pakistan’s private sector,” LNG cargoes of 140,000 cubic seen the company lose its in which software and services €588m. adjusted for inflation, the the spokesperson said. metres each for delivery over a global lead in luxury sales to are playing an increasing role. The company reports neutral rate is near the Fed’s PetroChina and Eni did not 10-year period for the country’s rival Mercedes. Tesla has challenged auto- second quarter earnings on current policy rate, which is in respond to requests for comment. second LNG terminal. The company gained an makers in the field of electric August 1. a range of 2.25-2.50 percent. Will ECB walk or just talk as rate circus comes to Europe? REUTERS its guidance, such as for rates to “Draghi has surprised us Unemployment in the quarter, set to be confirmed in BRUSSELS be at “present or lower levels” more often in terms of being eurozone is, at 7.5 percent, at its a first GDP estimate ahead, with a cut of the deposit ahead of the curve, of over- lowest level since July 2008, yesterday. The global march towards lower rate to an all-time low of -0.50 delivering, but it’s very hard to while industrial production and In Turkey, the case for interest rates reaches Europe percent at its September say. I think there will be a tough exports improved in May, albeit action is more clear-cut given a this week with the European meeting. discussion,” he said. after declines in April. recession-hit economy. Econo- Central Bank expected at least “I think for now, they’ll only If the Fed starts cutting rates In the United States, the case mists polled by Reuters expect to signal easier monetary policy, get to point where they consider and the ECB does not send out for a rate cut is ostensibly even the central bank under new gov- while Turkey’s new banking a rate cut is on the table and an extremely dovish message, thinner, with strong labour ernor Murat Uysal to reduce the chief is seen taking an axe to the then do it later. The ECB has a the euro could strengthen, markets despite US-China trade current 24 percent interest rate country’s rates. long history of moving very although at Friday’s level of $1.12 tensions and factory activity by an average 250 basis points. Slowing global growth, slowly,” said Capital Economics’ it is hardly near the pain barrier strong - at a year high in the It will follow Indonesian and increased protectionism and in senior Europe economist Jack for EU exporters. mid-Atlantic region. South Korean rate cuts on some cases weak domestic data Allen-Reynolds. Commerzbank is one bank Yet markets were by Thursday and the Reserve Bank have persuaded major central But some economists that predicts the ECB will act, Thursday expecting a half per- of Australia, which reduced banks to loosen monetary would remain at present levels believe the ECB will have to do cutting by 20 basis points centage point cut in US rates at interest rates in both June and policy, with a rate cut more or at least through the first half of more. “Maybe they want to prevent an the end of July, double the July. less inked in for the US Federal 2020 - an extension from pre- Carsten Brzeski (pictured), appreciation (of the euro) and, reduction they expected just a The trend leaves only the Reserve at the end of the month. vious period of until the end of chief economist for Germany at like the US, they want to prolong day earlier. The action has been Bank of Canada, buoyed by The ECB, whose Governing 2019. ING, says he thinks of the the upswing. The data though is sold as insurance against any higher oil exports and consumer Council meets on Wednesday Two-thirds of economists chances of just words as 51 not as bad as you might think,” negative development. US eco- spending, and the Bank of and Thursday, said last month polled by Reuters expect the percent, versus 49 percent for said economist Bernd nomic growth is expected to England as outliers, though the that eurozone interest rates ECB next week simply to change action. Weidensteiner. have cooled in the second latter could change. SATURDAY 20 JULY 2019 BUSINESS 15 Fed officials shake markets Microsoft cloud with rate cut comments growth beats BLOOMBERG of research. It was not about WASHINGTON potential policy actions at the expectations upcoming FOMC meeting.” Two senior Federal Reserve offi- Williams, answering WASHINGTON cials stressed the need to act audience questions after his AP quickly if the US economy speech, also voiced concern looked likely to stumble, rein- about low inflation expectations, Microsoft reported quarterly forcing bets the central bank calling it “somewhat worrisome profit of $13.2bn, powered in could cut interest rates by as given the otherwise-strong US large part by a steadily much as half a percentage point economy.” growing cloud computing later this month. “My concern is that inflation business that the company Fed Vice-Chairman Richard expectations can get anchored says now accounts for 30 Clarida and New York Fed chief too low, and we may be seeing percent of its total revenue. John Williams buoyed stocks that, have seen that in other The Redmond, Wash- with their dovish remarks Fed Vice-Chairman Richard New York Fed chief John Williams countries,” he said. ington-based company said it Thursday afternoon, in some of Clarida In a July 11 interview with had net income of $1.71 per the final comments from central Dow Jones published yesterday, share in the fiscal fourth bankers before they enter their US money markets comments a bit earlier in the day St. Louis Fed President James quarter, which ended June 30. blackout period ahead of a July priced in 41 basis from Williams, that have Bullard said he would support a Earnings, adjusted for non- 30-31 policy meeting. points of easing in cemented expectations for a rate quarter-point reduction. recurring gains, were $1.37 per The segment’s revenue Equities rose in Asia yes- cut. Investors, weighing their Not all Fed officials are on share. was $11.4bn, up 19 percent terday along with European July after the two words, increased bets Thursday board with even a decrease of The results exceeded Wall from a year ago. futures, buoyed by the prospect men spoke. Traders that the Fed will move by a half that size. Street expectations. The CEO Satya Nadella (pic- of a more aggressive policy move later wound that point at the gathering. Atlanta Fed President average estimate of 14 analysts tured) said on Thursday “it by the Fed. S&P 500 Index back after a New York While the US economy is “in Raphael Bostic, who has previ- surveyed by Zacks Investment was a record fiscal year for futures also gained, building on a good place,” Clarida said recent ously expressed skepticism of the Research was for earnings of Microsoft, a result of our the US gains seen late on Fed spokeswoman global economic data have been need to lower rates, underlined $1.21 per share. deep partnerships with Thursday, despite the New York said that Williams’s softer than expected. “We’ve had that view earlier Thursday in The increase in net income leading companies in every Fed trying to walk back the com- comments had been mixed data, but I do think the Tennessee. He rejected the was 49 percent but was industry.” In its latest cor- ments from Williams. in the context of an global data has been disap- notion that yields in Treasury affected by a one-time tax porate deal, the company US money markets priced in pointing on the downside,” he bonds provide a warning that benefit from transferring some announced Wednesday that 41 basis points of easing in July academic speech said. “Disinflationary pressures, should cause the Fed to cut. properties from foreign sub- it’s partnering with AT&T to after the two men spoke. Traders and were not about if anything, are more intense “It’s important for us to stay sidiaries to the US and Ireland. migrate some of AT&T’s later wound that back after a potential upcoming than I thought six weeks ago.” grounded in the real economy,” The software maker also sur- “non-network infra- New York Fed spokeswoman policy actions. Clarida, the No. 2 official at said Bostic, who doesn’t vote on passed forecasts by posting structure” onto Microsoft’s said that Williams’s comments the Fed, spoke not long after Wil- policy this year. Clarida and Wil- revenue of $33.7bn in the cloud platform. had been in the context of an liams appeared in New York liams are permanent voters. period, a 12 percent increase Microsoft shares have academic speech and were not economic research. “We need to saying that: “When you only Asked if the Fed can decide to over the same time last year. climbed 34 percent since the about potential upcoming policy make a decision based on where have so much stimulus at your leave rates unchanged this month, Eleven analysts surveyed by beginning of the year, while actions. Clarida was discussing we think the economy may be disposal, it pays to act quickly to Clarida replied, “We go into every Zacks expected $32.7bn. the Standard & Poor’s 500 the current economic outlook in heading and, importantly, where lower rates at the first sign of meeting looking at the range of The company’s fastest- index has climbed 19%. In a television interview. the risks to the economy are economic distress.” options available to us. I think our growing segment was what it the final minutes of trading “You don’t need to wait until lined up.” A New York Fed spokes- messaging has been quite clear calls the “intelligent cloud,” on Thursday, shares hit things get so bad to have a dra- Clarida’s remarks line up woman later clarified that Wil- that we want to put in place the which includes server $135.83, an increase of 29 matic series of rate cuts,” Clarida with testimony last week by Fed liams’s prepared remarks were appropriate policies to keep the products and its Azure cloud percent in the last 12 told Fox Business Network, citing Chairman Jerome Powell, and “an academic speech on 20 years economy in a good place.’’ computing platform. months. Kenya launches Africa’s Credit Suisse biggest wind farm hires Wiant to lead M&A AFP through a 428-kilometre power LAKE TURKANA, KENYA line. BLOOMBERG “Today, we again raise the NEW YORK Kenya yesterday inaugurated bar for the continent as we Africa’s biggest wind power unveil the single largest wind Credit Suisse Group AG has plant, a mammoth project in a farm,” said President Uhuru hired investment banker Jerry gusty stretch of remote Kenyatta, after touring the Wiant from Lazard Ltd, where wilderness that now provides project. he had a two-year stint as a nearly a fifth of the country’s “Kenya is without a doubt on managing director focused on energy needs. course to become a world leader banking institutions, according The $680-million (€600m) in renewable energy.” The to an internal company memo. project, a sprawling 365-turbine project lies in a natural corridor Wiant will join Credit Suisse’s wind farm on the eastern shores dubbed “the windiest place on global financial institutions group of Lake Turkana, is delivering earth” and promises to harness as a managing director and head 310 megawatts of renewable this endless power at low cost. of Americas banks’Over his power to the national grid of The nearly-50 metre tur- career, Jerry has originated and East Africa’s most dynamic bines were engineered to handle advised clients on numerous economy. the fierce gusts that tear through domestic and cross-border M&A The largest private the “Turkana Corridor”, a wind transactions with aggregate deal investment in Kenya’s history, tunnel that generates optimal value of over $100bn,’ Alejandro the Lake Turkana Wind Power conditions, year round. Przygoda, Credit Suisse’s global project was beset with delays The winds howling near head of financial institutions, said and took nearly a decade to rise constantly through the barren in the memoWiant will work from the arid landscape 600 kil- valley deliver double the load closely with Jim Spencer, the vice ometres (372 miles) north of capacity enjoyed by similar chairman of the Americas Nairobi. projects in America and Europe. financial institutions groupWiant Today the windmills -- scat- “It is unprecedented. This is was previously co-head of US tered across Turkana’s stark one of the most consistently Canada-EU Summit financial institutions at Royal lunar landscape and rocky hills windiest places in the world,” Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau (left) and European Commissioner for Trade, Cecilia Malmstrom,J Bank of Canada’s investment - deliver 15 percent of Kenya’s said Rizwan Fazal, the executive participate in a joint press conference during the Canada-EU Summit in Montreal . banking arm, RBC Capital entire installed capacity, con- director of the Lake Turkana Markets, before joining Lazard nected to the national grid Power Project. in 2017. India seeks to tap foreign lenders for loans to its small firms REUTERS lines to support small busi- they are having with banks, or country’s manufacturing and burdened with more than The government is NEW DELHI nesses’ solar power generation. identify all those they are services output, and must be $145bn in bad loans. in discussions with The talks were at an early stage, talking to, but said talks are at re-energised for Prime Minister This has led to a severe India’s government is in talks KfW said. a very early stage. Narendra Modi’s government credit squeeze for smaller multiple foreign with foreign lenders to provide The World Bank’s India India’s micro, small and to kick-start the economy. firms. They pay up to 17 percent lenders, including as much as $14.5bn in credit to spokesperson did not reply to medium enterprise(MSME) Gross domestic product annual interest on loans from Germany’s state- millions of its small firms, two an email seeking comment. ministry is discussing the pro- growth fell to a five-year low banks, while the shadow banks, owned development officials said, in a sign the coun- The official said the gov- posal to pull in foreign banks of 5.8 percent in the January- which are also known as non- try’s banking system may not ernment plans to source up to with the country’s ministry of March quarter, well below the banking financial companies bank KfW Group, be robust enough to do the job 1 trillion Indian rupees of loans finance, which will make a 8 percent-plus rates that the (NBFCS) can charge as much as the World Bank on its own. from foreign institutions final call, the second official government is targeting. 20 percent. and some Canadian The government is in dis- because Indian banks were not said. But credit availability for Last month, a study by a institutions to extend cussions with multiple foreign in a position to provide enough The push for foreign loans small and medium firms, which Reserve Bank of India panel lenders, including Germany’s capital for the small business comes on the heels of the also account for about 45 said the overall deficit in credit lines of credit to small state-owned development bank sector, which is seen as critical Indian government’s percent of India’s total exports, for the MSME sector is esti- enterprises. KfW Group, the World Bank to job creation. announcement earlier this has worsened due to a liquidity mated at about 20 trillion and some Canadian institutions “We are exploring, we are month that it plans to borrow crisis in the country’s shadow rupees to 25 trillion rupees. To mitigate such risks for to extend lines of credit to small having discussions with various about 700 billion rupees by banking industry that has seen But lending to such firms foreign banks, the loans would enterprises, one of the officials, funding agencies if something issuing overseas sovereign big lenders struggling to remain can be risky as some lack be given sovereign guarantees who did not want to be iden- can be done (for small and bonds. solvent. proper financial information, and be routed through Indian tified, told Reuters. medium firms),” the second India’s 63 million firms in State-owned banks, which such as historical cash flow government agencies such as KfW’s India office con- official said. the micro, small and medium dominate the sector, have not data, which makes challenging the Small Industries Devel- firmed the discussions, though The officials did not provide firm sector are responsible for been able to drive increased for banks to assess the credit opment Bank of India, the first the main focus was on credit full details of the discussions more than a quarter of the lending because they are risks. official said. 16 BUSINESS SATURDAY 20 JULY 2019

Trump attacks Asia’s biggest EMs, and Fed, demands rate cut Africa, join easing tide AFP WASHINGTON: BLOOMBERG for a seventh straight month in HONG KONG/SEOUL/JAKARTA June. Singapore’s shipments President Donald Trump plunged to the second-worst attacked the independent US Central banks across key rate since the global financial Federal Reserve yesterday, emerging markets (EMs) finally crisis, in line with weakening demanding the central bank joined the tide of monetary world trade. Manufacturing reverse course and cut interest policy easing Thursday as the purchasing managers’ indexes rates -- something it is widely world economy slows. have been softer across Asia and expected to do this month. South Africa, Indonesia and in other regions. In another Twitter out- South Korea, initially slow to “Many Asian economies are burst, Trump called on the Fed follow peers in lowering bor- at the leading edge of the global to “Correct!” its overreach. rowing costs, all announced a industrial cycle and policy rate “We are in a World com- quarter-point cut in interest cuts across the region reveals petition, & winning big,... but rates. In Latin America, Chile expectations that the current it is no thanks to the Federal kept its key rate unchanged export malaise will endure,” Reserve,” he said. after last month’s shock half- The biggest culprits said Frederic Neumann (pic- “Had they not acted so fast point reduction. dragging down the tured), co-head of Asian eco- and ‘so much,’ we would be The move by two of Asia’s world economy are the nomics research at HSBC doing even better than we are biggest emerging markets and US-China trade war, a Holdings Plc in Hong Kong. doing right now. This is our Africa’s most-industrialized What Bloomberg’s Econo- chance to build unparalleled economy demonstrates that fading technology boom mists Say “The Bank of Korea wealth and success for the US, even those reluctant to cut are and a soggy global and Bank Indonesia were GROWTH... Don’t blow it!” now being forced to respond as autos market. China among the last major central Recent comments from global risks worsen. They had banks in Asia to join the easing Fed officials seemed to held off on easing too quickly: data this week showed club. Their cuts show that the confirm the signal that poli- South Korea had worries about second-quarter growth policy focus has turned firmly cymakers are prepared to act financial stability due to high was the weakest since to supporting growth, over- to sustain US growth in the levels of household debt, Indo- the early 1990s while riding earlier concerns over face of a slowing global nesia needs higher yields to financial stability risk and cur- economy and persistent trade attract foreign investors to fund business and consumer rency pressures. The widely tensions with China. a current-account deficit and conﬁdence globally is expected rate cuts by the “You don’t need to wait South Africa wants inflation depressed. Federal Reserve also makes until things get so bad to have expectations at the midpoint of monetary easing easier to pull a dramatic series of rate cuts,” its target range. albeit not rapidly, but the risks off for Asian central banks.”- Fed Vice Chairman Richard Their decision to cut is an to the outlook are growing.” He Chang Shu, chief Asian econ- Clarida told Fox Business indication of pronounced fears projects global growth of 3.4 omist In Seoul, the Bank of Network on Thursday. of a deepening downturn and percent this year, down from 3.8 Korea cut the seven-day repur- That comment echoed a demonstrates the policy space percent in 2018. chase rate to 1.5 percent from statement earlier Thursday that’s opened up since the The biggest culprits 1.75 percent. It now expects the from John Williams, the influ- Federal Reserve’s dovish tilt. dragging down the world economy to grow 2.2 percent ential vice chairman of the Central banks in Australia, India economy are the US-China this year, versus 2.5 percent Fed’s policy committee, who and Russia are among those that trade war, a fading technology projected in April, and inflation talked about the need to vac- have recently cut. Nigeria sur- boom and a soggy global autos to rise 0.7 percent, versus 1.1 cinate when rates are very prised in March with the first market. China data this week percent previously. low. reduction in more than three showed second-quarter growth With the benchmark rate “When you only have so years. was the weakest since the early now only a quarter percentage much stimulus at your dis- “Dovish surprises remain 1990s while business and con- point above a record low, and posal, it pays to act quickly to the trend at this point,” said sumer confidence globally is financial stability still a lower rates at the first sign of David Mann, chief economist for depressed. concern, BOK Governor Lee economic distress,” said Wil- Standard Chartered Plc in Sin- In Asia, there’s almost daily Ju-yeol said the central bank liams, who is president of the gapore. “Inflation is low and evidence of economic pain. still has room to act again — New York Federal Reserve growth is clearly decelerating, Japan said Thursday exports fell but not much. Bank.

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TODAY’S Fluminense Cunha clinches third Sun under fire, US stars straight 25km open set to shine at Worlds water race in Gwangju AP Alessio Occhipinti of Italy AFP GWANGJU earned the bronze medal, 3.30 GWANGJU seconds behind Reymond. Ana Marcela Cunha keeps Another Italian, Simon As the cream of world swimming setting the bar higher in open- Ruffini, was fourth, 8.70 seconds limbers up for the World Cham- water swimming at the World behind. Australian Kai Edwards pionships, explosive doping alle- Swimming Championships. took fifth, 11 seconds behind gations against Chinese giant Sun The 27-year-old Brazilian Reymond. The top Americans in Yang that refuse to go away won an unprecedented third the men’s race were David could overshadow events in the consecutive 25-kilometer race Heron in 14th place, 4 minutes, pool. yesterday and her second gold 05.60 seconds behind the Boasting unparallelled medal of the Gwangju titles after winner, and Brennan Gravley, strength in depth, Americans are A Caeleb winning the 5-kilometer race on who finished right behind Heron expected to dominate the medals Dressel’s Wednesday. in 15th, 6:11.30 behind. once again with swimming glit- ﬁle photo. It was also her fifth gold American Erica Sullivan was terati Caeleb Dressel and Katie INSET: Katie medal and 11th overall at the fifth in the women’s race, 3 Ledecky leading their charge for Ledecky speaks world championships since 2011. minutes, 20.20 seconds behind gold in South Korea. during a press Cunha finished in 5 hours, 8 Cunha, while teammate Katy “It’s all about racing now, conference minutes, 03.00 seconds, 8.60 Campbell finished in ninth place, about staying positive and really in Gwangju, seconds ahead of second-place 3:56.60 behind the winner. just rolling with it,” Dressel said yesterday. finisher Finnia Wunram of Only two of the 24 starters yesterday. Germany. Lara Grangeon of failed the complete the men’s “I’ve never been very public France claimed the bronze, race, while five of 21 women did about goals but the point of this 18.20 seconds behind Cunha. not finish their race. meet is really just getting your In the men’s race, Axel The 25-kilometer races hand on the wall first.” “drug cheat” over a prior three- storm enveloping swimming’s men’s blue riband event and Reymond dueled with Russian ended the seven-event open However, the spectre of month suspension for using a enfant terrible will be looking to some sizzling performances in Kirill Belyaev over the final water program at the worlds. another damaging doping banned stimulant. build confidence at these world the run-in that suggest he could meters before the Frenchman Only two open-water events will scandal looms after a leaked The bombshell revelations in championships in a dress even threaten Brazilian Cesar lunged ahead for a three-tenths be held at the Tokyo Olympics FINA doping panel report the FINA report have stirred a rehearsal for the 2020 Tokyo Cielo’s 10-year-old world record of a second victory. next year - the men’s and appeared to confirm rumours hornet’s nest likely to trigger Olympics. of 46.91sec. Reymond finished the men’s women’s 10-kilometer races - that the sport’s pantomime more salty reaction from athletes “I feel really good about my Australia flopped at the 2017 race in a time of 4:51.6.20 while and the top 10 finishes here villain smashed blood samples when they bump into Sun over preparation,” said Ledecky. world championships, finishing Belyaev clocked 4:51.06.50. qualified for those events. with a hammer after testers the next week. “Let’s see where we are eighth in the medal table but visited him last September. “Hopefully there will be no against the best in the world so have brought a leaner, meaner Sun, a nine-time world problems,” said FINA executive we can make adjustments going team to Korea led by Chalmers champion and the only swimmer director Cornel Marculescu. into 2020.” and Cate Campbell, who is to win Olympic gold over 200m, “It’s difficult to say but I don’t American swimmers plun- chasing a freestyle sprint double. 400m and 1,500 metres free- think it’s going to have an dered 18 gold, 10 silver and 10 Swedish star Sarah Sjostrom, style, clashed with rival Mack influence on the swimmers.” bronze medals in 2017 with reigning world and Olympic Horton at Rio in 2016 -- when After World Anti-Doping Britain (4-1-2) a distant second champion in the 100m butterfly the Australian labelled him a Agency (WADA) appealed to the and Russia (3-3-4) third. and world record holder over Court of Arbitration for Sport, Dressel ruled the pool in one and two laps of free, will Sun faces a possible lifetime ban Budapest, becoming only the have a say in the shake-down if found guilty at a hearing set to second swimmer to capture for medals. convene in September. seven gold medals at a single Elsewhere, Britain’s Adam Let’s see where we Any public row in Korea World Championships after Peaty takes aim at his own world would further embarrass FINA Michael Phelps achieved the feat record in the 100m breaststroke are against the best at a world championships whose in 2007. as he tries to extend a five-year Brazil’s Ana in the world so we slogan “Dive into Peace” runs The 100 metres butterfly title unbeaten run over two laps in Marcela Cunha can make adjustments alongside posters of disgraced appears Dressel’s to lose but the major competitions. celebrates during going into 2020: Katie South Korean swimmer Park tattooed pin-up will find his “The world record is my the medals Tae-hwan -- who himself has 100m freestyle crown harder to main motivation now,” he said. Ledecky ceremony, served a lengthy doping ban. cling to. Olympic champion Kyle “How to get below that magic 57 yesterday. Those not caught up in the Chalmers looks a good bet in the seconds.” US Open to be richest Pacquiao battles age, hungry Slam in history: USTA Thurman in title showdown AFP The US Tennis NEW YORK Association says the AFP for the naturally bigger Thurman. winners of the men’s LAS VEGAS Roach, who expects This year’s US Open will be and women’s singles Thurman to enter the ring at the richest Grand Slam tennis titles at the tournament Twenty-four years after first around 160 pounds once he has tournament in history after climbing into a professional rehydrated after yesterday’s will receive a record organisers yesterday boxing ring, Manny Pacquiao will weigh-in, is bracing for an early announced prize money for payday of $3.85m while attempt to defy the march of onslaught. the event had been increased the men’s and women’s time here today when he battles “I feel he’s going to try and to $57m. doubles champions undefeated American Keith come for Manny and try to prove The US Tennis Association would receive Thurman for the WBA welter- that he’s the bigger, stronger said the winners of the men’s $740,000. weight crown. man,” said Roach. and women’s singles titles at The 40-year-old Filipino “He will come forward. He’s the tournament will receive a icon clashes with Thurman at the a pretty good puncher but record payday of $3.85m and WTA Tour to help fund MGM Grand in Las Vegas in what Manny’s footwork should keep while the men’s and women’s transition programmes for is arguably his most challenging him out of trouble. doubles champions would players leaving the sport. assignment since losing to Floyd “I would love a collision receive $740,000. “We strive to be inno- Mayweather in 2015’s money- Manny Pacquiao (left) and Keith Thurman pose during their ﬁnal because Manny will beat him to The purse is an eight vative, and feel that our new spinning “Fight of the Century”. press conference in Las Vegas on Wednesday. the punch every time. One guy percent increase over 2018 contribution of $500,000 to Pacquiao, who has managed is fast, one guy is slow. Thurman prize money, and enables the both the ATP’s pension plan to successfully juggle a political opportunity to destroy a legend,” Pacquiao said. “Our job is to hits hard but he has no speed at US Open offer the highest and the WTA Tour’s transition career in the Philippines while Thurman declared, placing Pac- fight. He has to prove something, all. I don’t see him being able to payouts for each round of any programs for players will go continuing to box at a high level, quiao in the boxing pantheon and I have to prove something. get close to Manny because of of the four tennis majors. a long way toward the long- looked sharp in his last outing in alongside some of the sport’s It’s easy to say things. But it’s not his speed.” Over the past four years, term financial well-being of January, a unanimous decision greatest practitioners. so easy to do it in the ring.” Yet Roach acknowledges payouts for first round losers all of our sport’s athletes,” against Adrien Broner. “It’s as if I’m fighting Sugar Pacquiao’s preparations for that for all Pacquiao’s impressive have increased by 47 percent, Galbraith added. But the eight-division world Ray Robinson or Roberto the fight have followed a familiar form in training, the acid test will while players eliminated in the This year’s US Open takes champion is facing an altogether Duran,” Thurman said. routine. come under the bright lights of second round of the 2019 US place at Flushing Meadows in higher-calibre opponent in the “This is Manny Pacquiao. It’s After spending the first part the MGM Grand’s Garden Arena Open will receive $100,000. New York from August 23. shape of Thurman, renowned as a tremendous feeling, and it’s of his training camp in the Phil- today. Boxing history is littered “The US Open prides itself Meanwhile, Anna one of the hardest punchers in going to feel even greater when ippines, he relocated to Los with veterans who needed one on offering the best tennis Tatishvili, who was stripped the welterweight division with my hand is raised at the end of Angeles to work under the fight too many to realise they are players in the world the of her entire 46,000-euro 22 knockouts in 30 fights. the night.” guidance of long-time trainer shot. richest total prize money in ($52,000) prize money at Thurman, who at 30 years Pacquiao (61-7-2, 39 Freddie Roach at his Wild Card “This is true,” Roach said. our sport,” USTA Chairman Roland Garros for “not playing old is a full decade younger than knockouts) has shrugged off gym in Hollywood. “Usually it doesn’t show up Patrick Galbraith said. at a professional standard”, Pacquiao, sees today as an Thurman’s blood-curdling Roach maintains that Pac- in the gym. It only shows up in The US Open is also to has had her punishment over- attempt to build his legacy, and pledges of destruction, insisting quiao has shown no sign of the fight. And I’m very aware of make a $1m contribution, split turned, the player announced has bluntly vowed to send the he harbours no animosity decline during gruelling sparring, that. And if it does show in the evenly between the ATP Tour on Twitter, yesterday. Filipino into retirement. towards the brash American. and is confident that his speed fight I’ll be the first one to stop “This is a once in a lifetime “For me nothing is personal,” and mobility will cause problems the fight if need be.” 18 SPORT SATURDAY 20 JULY 2019 Alaphilippe wins time trial, extends lead

REUTERS Bernal lost ground as the PAU, FRANCE TOUR DE FRANCE Colombian finished 22nd, 1:36 off the pace and slipped from Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe Team Ineos’ sole leader, by 1:26 third to fifth in the general continued to amaze as he and Dutchman Steven Kruijswijk classification. claimed an impressive victory in by 2:12. Frenchman Thibaut Pinot, the Stage 13 of the Tour de Today’s 14th stage is a who lost considerable ground France, a 27.2-km individual 117.5-km mountain trek from when caught at the wrong end time trial, to extend his overall Tarbes ending at top of the Col of a bunch split last Monday, lead yesterday. du Tourmalet, where the pre- moved up to seventh thanks to The Deceuninck-Quick Step race favourites will show their a solid performance that kept rider clocked 35 minutes over the hands. him within two minutes of lumpy course to beat defending “I knew on that kind of Thomas and took him to 30 champion Geraint Thomas by 14 course I could perform but I seconds behind Bernal. seconds and Belgian Thomas De didn’t think I could win. The Alaphilippe’s team mate Gendt by 36 seconds. route suited me so I told myself Enric Mac also had good day as Following his second stage ‘give everything, you have the Spaniard moved up to fourth Frenchman Julian Alaphilippe win this year, Alaphilippe leads nothing to lose’,” said world overall and snatched the white (left) poses with former French Thomas, who is emerging as number one Alaphilippe, winner jersey for the best Under-25 rider champion Bernard Hinault as he of the Milan San Remo classic from Bernal. celebrates his overall leader’s Following his second this season. Today’s Pyrenean stage is yellow jersey on the podium of stage win this year, “I pushed my limits, it was expected to be a major test for the thirteenth stage, yesterday. Alaphilippe leads crazy with the crowds, I don’t the GC riders, and all eyes will Thomas, who is emerging realise yet.” be on Thomas, who will be as Team Ineos’ sole Alaphilippe is the first expected to start gaining time on hope I won’t crack. I will cer- “I didn’t really expect that, Adam Yates, who slid down to leader, by 1:26 and Frenchman to win an individual Alaphilippe. tainly not give up.” Thomas He’s obviously going incredibly 10th in the GC after losing 2:08 time trial - prologues, which are “It’s not going to be like any- remained calm. well, so he’s certainly the on Alaphilippe. Dutchman Steven shorter, excluded - since Jean- thing we’ve seen so far during “There’s a long way to go and favourite and the one to watch No Frenchman has won the Kruijswijk by 2:12. Francois Bernard in 1987. this Tour,” the Frenchman said. a lot of hard stages to come at the minute.” The time trial was Tour since Bernard Hinault in Thomas’s team-mate Egan “I will give my best and I now,” the Briton said.. a sobering moment for Briton 1985. ICC approves concussion substitutes

REUTERS The rule has been included in the governing body’s Nicholson said. Discussions on LONDON playing conditions and will be effective starting concussion and player safety August 1 when the Ashes series between England intensified after former Australia Men’s and women’s teams and Australia begins at Edgbaston. Test batsman Phillip Hughes across all formats of interna- died in 2014, having been fatally tional and first class cricket will hit on the head by a bouncer in be allowed to replace concussed allowed to bat and bowl, must season while the England and a first class match. players during matches be deemed a “like for like” Wales Cricket Board adopted the Afghanistan’s Hashmatullah Sri Lankan coach Chandika Hathurusingha (centre) talks with following a two-year trial in the replacement approved by the regulations for its four profes- Shahidi ignored medical advice Dasun Shanaka (left) as Lasith Malinga looks on during a training domestic game, the Interna- match referee. sional domestic competitions in and continued batting after being session in Dubai, in this September 14, 2018 file photo. tional Cricket Council (ICC) has “Following a two-year trial... 2018. Cricket Australia (CA) and hit on the head by a bouncer in a said. in domestic cricket, the ICC the Australian Cricketers’ Asso- World Cup clash with England last The rule has been included approved concussion player ciation (ACA) welcomed the month, prompting demands that in the governing body’s playing replacements in all formats of ICC’s move to expand the rule players should not take those Sri Lanka to sack conditions and will be effective men’s and women’s interna- to cover international cricket. calls. starting August 1 when the Ashes tional cricket and for first class “Creating an environment CA sports science manager series between England and cricket worldwide,” the ICC said where players feel comfortable Alex Kountouris said the new coaches over World Australia begins at Edgbaston. in a statement following their in dealing with concussion... and rule would allow players to Decisions on concussion will annual conference in London. are able to be appropriately declare symptoms of concussion be made by the team’s medical Concussion substitutes have accessed, is vital for their long- that could occur well after the Cup failure: Officials representative while the been on trial in Australia’s term health and wellbeing,” ACA incident, knowing their team incoming player, who will be domestic game since the 2016-17 chief executive Alistair would not be disadvantaged. AFP contract runs out.” Hathurus- COLOMBO ingha also acknowledged that team management had to Sri Lanka’s sports minister has “accept responsibility for what ordered the sacking of the happened.” national cricket coach after a Bangladesh arrive in Sri Tamim to lead Bangladesh in SL lacklustre World Cup campaign Lanka today to become the first that saw just three wins from foreign sports team to visit the AFP replacements for Mashrafe and nine games, officials said island since the April 21 suicide DHAKA Saifuddin. yesterday. bombings that killed 258 people. Bangladesh will play three Chandika Hathurusingha The series starts on July 26 Bangladesh yesterday named one-day internationals in Sri and his assistants would be fired and ends on August 1 at the opener Tamim Iqbal as interim Lanka respectively on July 26, after Sri Lanka’s upcoming Premadasa Stadium in captain for the upcoming Sri 28 and 31. one-day series against Bang- Colombo. Lanka tour after regular skipper All the matches are ladesh, said a Sri Lanka Cricket. The contracts of fielding Mashrafe Mortaza was ruled out scheduled in R Premadasa Sports minister Harin coach Steve Rixon, batting coach with a hamstring injury. Stadium in Colombo. Fernando has ordered the Jon Lewis and fast bowling Mashrafe picked up the Mashrafe earlier at the press coaches “should go after the coach Rumesh Ratnayake will injury during a training session conference refused to confirm if Bangladesh tournament,” the also not be renewed when they shortly after he attended Bang- he would retire after the Sri official said, adding that end, according to Sri Lanka ladesh team’s formal press con- Lanka series and likened his sit- Fernando had wanted to make Cricket officials. ference in Mirpur ahead of the uation to former India captain the changes before the World Sri Lanka cricket was in tour. MS Dhoni. Cup. crisis when Hathurusingha was “Mortaza (Mashrafe) injured Tamim Iqbal (left) and Mushfiqur Rahim during Mashrafe and Dhoni both Under-pressure Hathurus- appointed in December 2017, his left hamstring during training Bangladesh’s training session in this file photo. were expected to clear their ingha had insisted last week he after a successful three-year today. He received immediate retirement plan after the recent would stay to see out his spell in charge of Bangladesh. MSK ultrasound examination Therefore, he is ruled out from All-rounder Mohammad World Cup in England in which contract. They had just been ham- which has revealed a grade 1 participation in sporting activity Saifuddin was also ruled out for they struggled with individual “I have another 16 months,” mered in Tests by India at home injury,” Bangladesh Cricket for a month,” he added. the series after he aggravated an form. he told reporters after returning and away, and played poorly in Board senior physician Debashis BCB named Tamim as old back injury, said BCB cricket While Dhoni, who made a to Colombo from the tour- one-day internationals. Under Chowdhury said in a statement. interim captain in Mashrafe’s operations chief Akram Khan. fifty in India’s losing semi-final nament where Sri Lanka fin- Hathurusingha, Sri Lanka “It is a recurrent injury that absence as regular vice-captain Pace bowler Taskin Ahmed to New Zealand, remained silent ished a disappointing sixth. notched up Test wins against could take around three to four Shakib Al Hasan was rested for and all-rounder Farhad Reza on his future, Mashrafe chose to “I hope to remain until my England and Australia. weeks to recover from. the series. were immediately recalled as continue as team captain. Stokes nominated for New Zealander of the Year award: Report

REUTERS Stokes was born in New WELLINGTON disappointment at Lord’s but response from the awards Zealand but grew up in throughout the tournament, organisers when contacted. England when his father resonated powerfully with Kiwis Nominations for the award Ben Stokes After ripping the heart out of Gerard moved there from all walks of life,” the only opened on July 1 and close New Zealand’s bleary-eyed to take a rugby league award’s chief judge Cameron on September 15. cricket fans on Sunday with a Bennett told the New Zealand A shortlist is confirmed in man-of-the-match performance coaching job. Herald yesterday. December with the winner in the Cricket World Cup final, “Interesting to see some named next February. England all-rounder Ben Stokes 84 not out in the final that character having a bob each The award is typically given has now been nominated for helped his side to their maiden way: we also received nomi- to prominent members of the the New Zealander of the Year 50-over World Cup title at nations for England’s... Ben community with comedian Mike award. Lord’s on Sunday. Stokes. King, who has become a mental The 28-year-old Stokes was His exploits in the final “He might not have been health and suicide prevention born in New Zealand but grew earned some early nominations playing for the Black Caps but, advocate, the most recent to up in England when his father for the awards, as did New having been born in receive the award. Gerard moved there to take a Zealand captain Kane Wil- Christchurch, where his parents The last sportsman to win it rugby league coaching job. liamson, local media reported now live, and with Maori was former All Blacks captain Stokes remained in England yesterday. ancestry, there’s clearly a few Richie McCaw in 2016 after he when his parents returned “The way he (Williamson) Kiwis about who think we can led the side to their second suc- home and carved out a suc- conducted himself, not only in still claim him.” cessive Rugby World Cup title cessful cricketing career, scoring the face of such devastating There was no immediate in late 2015. SATURDAY 20 JULY 2019 SPORT 19 Girona FC edge Al Arabi in Spain friendly Lampard

THE PENINSULA hoping to rely on youngsters Girona FC beat Al Arabi 2-1 in their first friendly match played in Spain on Thursday. Zouma, Mount The Qatari side is currently holding a pre-season training camp in Spain, in preparation for the new season. REUTERS Al Arabi took the lead in the 15th minute before the YOKOHAMA home team equalised in the 22nd minute and produced a second goal in the 43rd minute. Frank Lampard knows he will have Al Arabi started the match with Gomez to guard the to rely on youth during his first goal, Abdul Rahman Bilal Yassin Yacoub, Jasser Yahya, season as Chelsea manager, but the Fahad Shanein, Hossam Kamal, Abdullah Marafih, Abdul former midfielder is excited about Rahman Anad, Youssef Abdul Razak, Fahd Khalfan and working with two of his young German Lasuga. charges in particular - Kurt Zouma The Al Arabi coach brought in a number of players and Mason Mount. in the second half to give the opportunity to all players Following Chelsea’s 1-0 pre- to participate in the friendly. The replacements included season friendly loss to Japanese Al Arabi and Girona FC players in action during their friendly match played in Spain, on Thursday. Jassim Jaber, Mohammed Assem, Khalifa Al Maliki and champions Kawasaki Frontale in Mahmoud Abundi. Yokohama yesterday, Lampard praised Zouma, 24, and Mount, 20. French defender Zouma spent last season on loan at Everton, where Coach Sanchez visits Al Sadd’s pre-season training camp he impressed so much that the Mer- seyside club’s manager Marco Silva Qatar national wants him back. Lampard, however, team coach Felix wants to keep his man at Stamford Sanchez (centre) shakes hands Bridge. with Al Sadd’s “He is a very good defender for Qatari defender us. A very good person, professional Abdelkarim Hassan and I want him here. Simple as that,” as his coach, said Lampard. Xavi Hernandez “We are competitive with the (left) looks on centre backs we have in the team and during their pre- he had a very good season at Everton season training - I understand why they want him - session in Olot, but he is a Chelsea player. I want him Spain, yesterday. and I want him to be happy.” The Wolves will Zouma played alongside David conclude the Luiz at centre back during the first training camp on half against Kawasaki and the Bra- July 29. RIGHT: zilian wants to make that a per- Al Sadd players manent partnership this season. in action during a “He is a great player and a great training session. friend of mine so it was amazing to be with him again,” said Luiz. “I hope he can stay because he Eriksen will help us a lot.” Another player to return to trains alone Chelsea this campaign is midfielder United’s Lukaku still Mount, who played under Lampard on loan at Derby County last season. during Spurs’ He signed a five-year contract earlier this month and Lampard is Singapore tour happy to throw the Chelsea academy not fit to face Inter product into the first team REUTERS immediately. SINGAPORE REUTERS Pogba, who joined United from “It is time for him,” said Lampard. SINGAPORE Juventus in 2016 for a then-world “His qualities will improve, even Tottenham Hotspur midfielder record fee of £89.3m ($110.83m) and more with the quality around him Christian Eriksen trained on his Manchester United manager Ole has been linked with a move away and everybody knows the hopes I own yesterday ahead of a pre- Gunnar Solskjaer said Romelu Lukaku from the club. have for Mason. season match against Juventus was not fit to play against Inter Milan “I’m looking to get all the players “He showed today just a start, a in Singapore, adding to specu- in Singapore today, as the Italian side back to the form that we were on little glimmer in early pre-season of lation the Real Madrid and reiterated their desire to lure the striker when I first came in. It’s not about just what we might see this year and Barcelona target could leave the to Serie A. Paul Pogba getting back to that form. going forward.” London club. Speaking to media yesterday It’s every one of us,” Solskjaer said. Chelsea have enjoyed success at Eriksen is entering the final ahead of the match at Singapore’s “Everyone has been spot on pre- academy level, winning seven FA year of his contract at Tot- National Stadium in the International season and the games they’ve played. Youth Cups between 2009-2018, but tenham and could leave for free Champions Cup, Solskjaer said: “He is When they are out on the pitch, I can’t few of those players have gone on to next summer. not fit, so he won’t be able to play.” fault anyone. When we have got play regularly for their first team. Last month, the Denmark Asked if Lukaku would still be a meetings, they are more Yet with the club under a FIFA international said he was ready United player at the start of the season, proactive...I’ve been very transfer ban for the next two to take on a new challenge. he added: “I don’t have any updates.” encouraged.” windows, Lampard may have to rely Argentine manager Mauricio Lukaku is yet to feature on the pre- United have pledged to invest in more heavily on youth. Pochettino told reporters season trip to Australia, Singapore and their squad in the close-season fol- Captain Cesar Azpilicueta Eriksen trained alone due to a China after taking a knock in training lowing a disappointing sixth-placed believes Lampard is the best man to “minor surgery” the playmaker earlier this week. finish in the Premier League, 32 points bring through young talent. underwent after Tottenham lost The Belgium international, who behind champions Manchester City. “We are very lucky; we have the 2-0 in the Champions League joined United two years ago, has been They have so far signed defender best academy in England,” said the final to Liverpool in June. targeted by Inter Milan, but talks Aaron Wan-Bissaka from Crystal defender. “It’s difficult for me to between the two clubs have stalled Palace and Wales winger Daniel “We know we have the manager comment for the player,” recently, according to British media James from Championship side and his staff that have worked with a Pochettino said when asked reports. Swansea City. Solskjaer said the club lot of young players during the last about Eriksen’s desire to leave Inter Milan coach Antonio Conte, is working on “one or two” more seasons and in a very successful way.” the club. who also spoke to media on Friday, targets before the transfer window Chelsea were second best against “Because he got a small, little did not hide his desire to secure a deal closes. Kawasaki and the raucous home minor surgery after the final... for Lukaku. Solskjaer has already said the crowd got what they wanted when that is why today rather to train “I like this player and I consider team would need a “miraculous Brazilian striker Leandro Damiao alone. him an important player for us to have season” to mount a challenge in the took advantage of some sloppy “We give the option to stay a good improvement. We will see what next campaign because of how much Chelsea defending to head the in London but the medical staff will happen but now, for sure, Lukaku their rivals have improved. winner four minutes from fulltime. they decide that he can be is a United player,” Conte said. United kick off their new league Romelu Chelsea are in action again on available to play, maybe, and Solskjaer was also pressed on the season against Chelsea at Old Trafford Lukaku Tuesday, when they play Barcelona that is why he’s here.” focus and form of midfielder Paul on Aug. 11. in Saitama, just north of Tokyo. De Ligt not fazed by price tag after Juventus move

Dutch defender AP Ajax to the semi-finals. On want to do that. It’s important you want to be a good player, time Fabio Cannavaro was a Matthijs de Ligt TURIN Thursday, Juventus signed the to work hard every day and to you have to deal with it. defender that I admired,” he Netherlands defender. learn, and I hope to become a “It’s not a big deal for me. said. “I always had a good If you can’t beat them, buy Juventus is an over- better player.” I’ll just play my game, work feeling about Juventus and I’ve them. That appears to be whelming favorite to win a De Ligt became the most hard and show it on the pitch. always been a fan.” Juventus’ philosophy as it record-extending ninth expensive defender in Serie A In the end, everyone will see Another reason De Ligt continues its quest for the straight Serie A title but it is history when he completed a how I deal with it, but it’s not chose Juventus was because Champions League title. desperate to end its long wait €75m ($85m) transfer from going to be a problem.” of new coach Maurizio Sarri, In 2018, Cristiano Ronaldo for European success. Ajax. A photo emerged during who replaced Massimiliano scored for Real Madrid against Since Juventus’ last title in But the teen is not fazed at the week of De Ligt wearing a Allegri at the end of the season. Juventus to eliminate the Serie 1996, it has finished runner- the price tag. Juventus shirt as a child and “I spoke to Sarri on the A champion from Europe’s up five times in the Champions “Of course, when a club he admitted he grew up idol- phone before coming, just to premier club competition. A League. buys you for a big amount of izing Juventus defender Fabio get to know each other,” De few months later Juventus “We want to win them all: money, there’s a lot of Cannavaro, who captained Ligt said. “He was one of the signed him. this is the mentality of pressure, but pressure is Italy to World Cup success in reasons that I wanted to join This year Matthijs de Ligt Juventus,” said De Ligt at his normal in football,” De Ligt 2006. here, I’ve heard a lot of good scored the goal that eliminated first news conference as a said. “The photo of me in a things about him and I like his Juventus from the Champions Juventus player yesterday. “I’m “I think pressure is the Juventus shirt was taken when footballing philosophy and League in April as he captained 19, I can still improve and I most important thing and if I was about six or seven, at that how he prepares his defense.” SATURDAY 20 JULY 2019 20

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THE PENINSULA The 2017 World Athlete In the women’s 400m, Salwa Eid European champion. British fans will DOHA of the Year will join Naser will start as favourite to also be delighted to see sprinter compatriot Abderrahman capture her eighth 400m victory of James Ellington return to the track Star high jumper Mutaz Essa Samba and 19 reigning the season, and 12th straight over the two and a half years after surviving Barshim, the 2017 World Athlete of distance. a serious motorcycle accident. the Year, will be under the spotlight world champions at the Thirteen days ago, the 21-year- World leader Elaine Thompson when the 28-year-old Qatari makes two-day Muller Anniversary old scorched to a 49.17 win in (22.00) is the class of the field in the his first IAAF Diamond League Games in London. Lausanne, the second fastest of her women’s 200m while Karsten appearance in 13 months tomorrow career. But she was chased to the line Warholm returns to action in the in London. current world leader Ilya Ivanyuk there by Aminatou Seyni, the 400m hurdles for the first time since Barshim will join compatriot who topped 2.33m in Szekesfe- 22-year-oldold from Niger who clipped his European record run of 47.33 in Abderrahman Samba and 19 reigning hervar, Hungary nine days ago. more thann a secosecondnd ffromrom heherr llifetimeifetime OOsloslo in June. AnotherAnother world champions as the British Syria’s Majd Eddin Ghazal, who took best in thathat race, finishinfinishingg jjustust 0.02 worldworld chamchampion,pion, capital welcomes some of the top bronze at the IAAF World Champi- behind thee Bahraini. She’ll be looking Omar McLeoMcLeodd athletes in the world at the Muller onships London 2017, where to better ttimeime hherer ffinishinish on SaturSaturday.day. headsheads tthehe fieldfield Anniversary Games which begin Barshim won the gold, is also on the Jamaica’ss Olympic bronze medallist inin thethe 110m today at the London Stadium. slate. Sherickaa JacJackson,kson, wwhoho cclockedlocked a hhurdles,urdles, takingtaking The reigning world champion Meanwhile, the men’s 400m will 49.78 lifetimeetime best in Kingston a onon Briton Andy and the two-time Olympic medallist, see a wide open contest. One-lap month ago,go, is alsoalso in tthehe line-up.line-up. PozziPozzi anandd AsianAsian Barshim, who was sidelined due to hurdles speciallist Abderrahman The mmen’sen’s 100m will round out championchampion Xie an injury which he suffered during Samba will be contesting the flat the first day’say’s action on tthehe DiamonDiamondd Wenjun of an attempt on a would-be world after his runner-up finish in that League programme.rogramme. The favourites China. record of 2.46m in Szekesfehervar Monaco race. include AfricanAfrican championchampion Akani last year, resumed training in April Jonathan Jones of Barbados will Simbine, OlympicOlympic 100m before making a roaring return to line up with hopes for a bit of bronze mmedallistedallist action, leaping to 2.27m to win at redemption after last Friday’s fiasco Andre Dee GGrasserasse Sopot Grand Prix Athletics in Sopot, during which he ran the entire lap and Greatat BritBrit-- Poland, in June. after not hearing the recall gun that ain’s ZZharnelharnel In London, he will be up against sounded an apparent false start. Hughes,, thethe Abderrahman Samba Mutaz Essa Barshim Holmes, Lowry on Qatari officials attend FINA General Congress the charge at Open

REUTERS Three-time champion two American heavyweights Fleetwood grew up PORTRUSH, N IRELAND Tiger Woods and Phil have both appeared that playing links golf at neither survived for the Southport and delighted the Ireland’s Shane Lowry Mickelson miss the cut. weekend. crowd with a birdie on the proved master of the Lowry, given loud 18th. Westwood, 46, has had Dunluce links for the second It is the ﬁrst time in support by the packed gal- to wait a lot longer for his successive day to move into the 83 majors in which leries, opened with three first major, having had 18 a share of the halfway lead successive birdies, made top-10 finishes but never a with American J B Holmes at the two American another at the fifth and victory. the British Open yesterday. heavyweights have another at the eighth to But with his girlfriend on A flurry of birdies early both appeared that move into the lead his bag, he rolled back the in a sizzling outward nine of neither survived for outright. years with a brilliant round, 31 looked like giving the When his ball, sporting including a 65-foot birdie at 32-year-old from across the the weekend. the four-leafed clover the 16th. border the outright lead but emblem, disappeared after Koepka suffered a cool a bogey at the 18th left him a monster putt on the 10th day with the putter but was Secretary General of Qatar Olympic Committee, Jassim Al Buenain and President on eight under after suc- Smith, who scored a 66, and he held a two-shot lead but happy to be in the pack. of Qatar Swimming Association, Khaleel Al Jabir, pose for a photograph with the cessive rounds of 67. England’s Justin Rose after a three-putted the 14th. A “Right where I want to be President of the International Swimming Federation (FINA), Julio Maglione, and Holmes, the overnight 67. super par-save at the 17th and close enough to make a other officials during the FINA General Congress and gala dinner held in Gwangju, leader, had the better of the South Africa’s Dylan Frit- kept him ahead but he paid run this weekend,” the four- South Korea, yesterday. weather earlier in the day telli, who only secured his for an aggressive chip on the time major winner said. and consolidated his chal- place last week, was also on last and missed a 12-foot par Late in the day all eyes lenge with a 68. six under after his charge putt. turned to local favourite They will play together was tempered by a double- “I’m disappointed with Rory McIlroy who produced in the last group today in bogey at the 17th. the bogey but I’m where I a thrilling counter-attack in what promises to be a battle Holmes left several other want to be and happy with a bid to make the cut after of the beards. bigger-name Americans in my two days’ work,” said his nightmare 79 on Once again the par-71 the shade again although Lowry, from County Offaly Thursday. layout on the Antrim coast Brooks Koepka, the world in Ireland. “I knew the rain After 12 holes McIlroy proved tough terrain for the number one, and 2017 was coming so I wanted to was five under for his round world’s best golfers, although winner Jordan Spieth, are get a fast start. I’m very, very and just two shots of the one- there were some low well-placed to challenge on excited for over cut mark. numbers on a congested five under. There will be no tomorrow. leaderboard. trademark Tiger Woods English duo Tommy charge on Saturday, Fleetwood and Lee however, after he missed the Westwood, both looking for cut. their first majors, made hay Woods looked more like with rounds of 68 moving a 15-time major champion them to seven under while yesterday after his opening- South African Justin Hard- round 78 but his one-under ing’s posted the lowest round 70 was in vain. of the day, six birdies and an Phil Mickelson was also eagle helping him to a six- cut, meaning it is the under 65 to move three off first time in the 83 the lead. Alongside Harding majors in are Aus- tralian which Cameron the Qatar’s Cherif, Tijan advance in Espinho Qatar’s Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan in action during the FIVB World Tour Four- star event in Espinho, Portugal, yesterday. The reigning Asian champions defeated their Italian counterparts Tiziano Andreatta and Andrea Abbiati 2-0 (21-16, 21-14) in their ﬁrst Main Draw - Pool F match before going down to Spanish duo Pablo Herrera Allepuz and Adrián Gavira Collado 0-2 (19-21, 23-25) in the second match. US golfer J B Holmes tees off on the 18th hole during The Qatari duo, ranked fourth in the world, advanced to the knockout round and will the second round of the British Open at Royal Portrush meet Canadians Sam Pedlow and Sam Schachter in round 2 today. golf club in Northern Ireland, yesterday.