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Saturday 9 June 2018 | 24 Ramadan I 1439 www.thepeninsula.qa Volume 23 | Number 7552 | 2 Riyals

Qatar Summer Festival Qatar takes part in Nato Defence Ministers’ meeting to add more colours to Eid celebrations

Qatar Summer Festival and continue until the World Cup final (QSF) will kick off on June on Sunday, July 15. Entry to the Qatar Fan Zone is free, 14 and will continue till offering all residents and visitors an August 31. Held under opportunity to keep up with the excitement surrounding the month- the theme “Colour Your long Russia World Cup tournament in Summer”, the country’s an atmosphere that emulates the longest festival will start World Cup vibes.In addition to live screenings of all matches, the zone will its first week with special feature live entertainment and con- Eid Al Fitr celebrations. certs, a gaming and activation area, and more than 40 food stalls. Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Defence Affairs, H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah, during the Commenting on the Fan Zon, Nato meeting in Brussels, yesterday. THE PENINSULA Nasser Al Khater, Assistant Secretary- General at the Supreme Committee for QNA DOHA: As the holy month of Ramadan Delivery and Legacy, expressed required to fund the Afghan security reconciliation that supports Afghan- is nearing its end and preparations for pleasure for cooperation with QTA and BRUSSELS: Deputy Prime Minister forces until 2024, how to fill the gap in istan in its stability. Eid Al Fitr have already started in the the Ministry of Culture and Sports to and Minister of State for Defence the numbers of troops required to par- He added that the State of Qatar country, events to mark the festival establish Fan zone in Qatar, noting that Affairs, H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al ticipate in the Resolute Support mission would have been able to provide more have also been lined up. this is the second experience after the Attiyah, took part in the meeting of and reviewing the political and security that what it actually did, unless for the Apart from various small events Fan Zone established during the 2014 Defence Ministers of countries contrib- situation in Afghanistan, as well as for- illegal siege imposed on it. designed and announced by different World Cup. uting troops to Nato’s Resolute Support mulating common vision between the The meeting was attended by HE malls and entertainment setups, Qatar He hoped that the Fan Zone will mission in Afghanistan, which was held conflicting parties. Qatar’s Ambassador to Belgium and Tourism Authority’s upcoming fifth succeed to provide an exciting expe- in the headquarter of the North Atlantic Dr Al Attiyah delivered a speech Representative to EU and Nato, Abdul- edition of Qatar Summer Festival (QSF) rience for the fans, which will reflect Treaty Organization (Nato) in Brussels during the meeting in which he pointed rahman bin Mohammed Al Khulaifi; will offer special flavour to residents the atmosphere in the State of Qatar yesterday. out that the State of Qatar is still pro- HE Qatar Defence Attache in Belgium to mark Eid celebrations. during the 2022 World Cup. The meeting addressed the viding the ground for dialogue between and a number of Qatar Armed forces It will kick off on June 14 and will For his part, Advisor to the Min- extension of the financial commitments the conflicting parties to reach a senior officers. continue till August 31. Held under the ister of Culture and Sports for Sports theme “Colour Your Summer”, the Affairs Abdulrahman Al Dosari country’s longest festival will start its expressed the Ministry’s pleasure for first week with special Eid Al Fitr cel- cooperation with the Supreme Com- ebrations. Commenting on the event, mittee for Delivery and Legacy and Director of Festivals and Tourism Qatar Tourism Authority to benefit 60% of traffic violations Events at QTA Mashael Shahbik said from this international event, espe- that QSF has grown over the years to cially that Qatar will host the same become synonymous with family- event in 2022. are detected electronically friendly activities, entertainment, hos- He said that establishing a Fan pitality and shopping offers that bring Zone is part of the Ministry’s efforts to SIDI MOHAMED “The aim of these meetings and dia- color to everyone’s summer, QNA has raise the level of interest and THE PENINSULA logues is to strengthen the relations RAMADAN TIMING reported. “In its fifth edition, we are awareness of the importance of sports between the General Directorate of Todays Iftar: 6:26 pm particularly excited to add special in the community, and to upgrade it Traffic and all members of the com- Tomorrow’s Imsak: 03:04 am activities for sports fans to enjoy the to the point of excellence, in addition DOHA: About sixty percent of traffic munity and provide bridges of commu- worlds most anticipated football tour- to providing a family atmosphere that violations are seized electronically nication to exchange ideas and ideas and nament,” she added. allows all members of the family to through the cameras deployed on the listen to problems to find solutions,” he She said that the summer festiv- enjoy the experience of the World Cup. roads and at the main streets of all areas added. ities, which this year extend from Eid Chief Marketing and Promotion of the country. He also pointed out that the traffic Al Fitr to the end of August, form a key Officer at QTA Rashid Al Qurese under- “The 80% of the new roads will be patrols were constantly intensifying their part of our efforts to energize the lined that Qatar Tourism Authority is opened by the end of this year and they campaigns to limit the stopping of trucks tourism sector through diversifying always looking for new ways to boost will contribute to easing the congestion in residential areas due to their illegal Qatar welcomes Qatar’s events calendar and tourist the tourism movement in the country in many areas and reduce the time of movement, as well as they caused many source markets. during summer. He noted that the transportation,” said Colonel Mohammed problems for the residents of these areas. temporary truce As this years edition coincides with World Cup coincidence with Qatar Radhi Al Hajri, Director of Media and The Department in collaboration with the FIFA World Cup Russia 2018, QSF Summer Festival is a unique oppor- Traffic Awareness Department. Urban Planning Department at the Min- with Taliban has partnered with the Supreme Com- tunity for the festival to expand its Al Hajri was speaking at a symposium istry of Municipality and Environment is QNA mittee for Delivery and Legacy and offerings beyond its usual sectors of organised by the General Directorate of studying to provide parking for trucks in Ministry of Sports and Culture, to bring shopping, hospitality and enter- Traffic at Al Sailiya as part of Ramadan a number of areas including the city of Qatar Fan Zone to Ali Bin Hamad Al tainment to include sport. awareness campaign and attended by a Mawatr At Rawdat Rashid, Al Hajri DOHA: The State of Qatar Attiyah Arena. The Fan Zones activ- number of traffic officers and members mentioned. has welcomed Afghan Pres- ities will kick off on Thursday, June 14, →CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 of the Central Municipal Council (CMC). →CONTINUED ON PAGE 3 ident Mohammad Ashraf Ghan’s announcement of a temporary ceasefire with Taliban movement starting on the 27th of Ramadan until Qatar 2022 preparations under way at fast pace the fifth day of Eid Al Fitr. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs expressed Qatar’s hope IRFAN BUKHARI won prestigious international company Coastal and are cur- that Taliban would comply THE PENINSULA architectural accolade, Ras Abu rently being installed. immediately with the decla- Aboud Stadium’s main con- Al Thumama Stadium, a pro- ration. The statement voiced DOHA: As 2018 FIFA World Cup tractor was announced, Khalifa posed host venue for the 2022 Qatar’s hope that the is set to start in Russia from June International Stadium celebrated FIFA World Cup Qatar, received announcement would pave the 14, preparations for next football first anniversary among other the prestigious MIPIM/Architec- way for the Afghan gov- mega event – Qatar 2022 – are developments. tural Review Future Project ernment and Taliban to sit to moving forward at the fast pace The development of Al Award in the sport and stadiums the negotiating table in order in Qatar with Supreme Wakrah Stadium took a major category last month. The award to reach a comprehensive Committee for Delivery and step forward with the installation was received during a ceremony peaceful settlement that helps Legacy beating all odds created of the final piece of the roof in Cannes, France, by the sta- in achieving stability and by unjust blockade. structure. The SC announced on dium’s designer, and Chief restoring security to Afghanistan. The construction work at May 21 that main contractor Architect of Arab Engineering The statement reaffirmed various 2022 FIFA World Cup works at the 40,000 capacity Bureau (AEB), Ibrahim Qatar’s firm stance in calling for venues is in full swing while the venue, which will host matches Mohammed Jaidah, who a political solution in Afghan- Supreme Committee’s dedicated The construction work in full swing at Al Bayt Stadium-Al Khor city. up to the quarter-finals stage in attended on behalf of the istan, pointing in this regard to commitment is also making new 2022, are due to finish within the Supreme Committee for Delivery the Qatari mediation between marks regarding Qatar 2022 next 12 months. In addition, all & Legacy (SC). the government and the legacy. installed at Al Wakrah Stadium, structure installation began, Al the stadium’s seats have been movement, which aims to In the recent weeks, roof Al Rayyan Stadium’s roof Thumama Stadium manufactured by Qatari →CONTINUED ON PAGE 2 establish peace in Afghanistan. 02 HOME SATURDAY 9 JUNE 2018

Qatar Summer Al Attiyah meets French, Italian ministers Festival to add more colours to Eid celebrations

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From the first to the fifth day of Eid Al Fitr, the participating malls in the Qatar Summer Festival will be putting on special free entertainment shows for shoppers and families looking for some indoor fun. The shows will be per- formed three times a day on rotation at all participating malls. For a flavour of local tradition, the Qatari Ardha Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Defence Affairs H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah with the dance can also be enjoyed Minister of the Armed Forces in the French Republic, Florence Parly, in Brussels, yesterday. RIGHT: across malls this Eid. H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah with the Minister of Defence of the Italian Republic, Elisabetta The participating malls Trenta. H E the Minister also met the Minister of Defence of Iraq, Erfan Mahmoud Al Hayali. include Al Khor Mall, Al Mirqab Mall, B Square Mall, Doha Festival City, Gulf Mall, Hyatt Plaza, Landmark Mall and Mall of Qatar. Lagoona Mall is also partic- Qatari artists depict comprehensive image of siege ipating with special World Cup activities, allowing shoppers to watch the tour- THE PENINSULA Qatari cartoonist Abdulaziz Sadeq pointed out have made significant contri- Agency (QNA) that they wanted naments matches live. butions to this important issue. to give a concrete expression of The Entertainment City, DOHA : Qatari artists in all their that the content of the exhibition is unique Director of Katara Art the Qatari artists about their Qatar Summer Festival specialities were at the level of because it highlighted an important aspect Center (KAC) Tariq Al Jaidah, vision of the blockade a year family favourite, returns to the event and said their words of the Qatari reaction to the siege, and the said that the exhibition monitors later, and they wanted the art open its doors to the public from the first day of the the most prominent cartoons decoration to tell the public that on the first day of Eid blockade on the State of Qatar drawings have a sequence in the events and that came in response to and it was surrounded by wires in Al-Fitr. and they are continuing to are a daily document of the past period and the interact with the successive an artistic expression of the Spread out over the document these events a year positions and decisions expressed sarcastically events since the beginning of current situation, and each artist expansive ground floor of after the blockade, where they during his work. the unjust blockade on the State presents his style of expressing the Doha Exhibition and express their views and reject of Qatar and in response to the crisis, and this is an artist Convention Centre, the the blockade, while at the same slander and fabrication in the who had presented a series of Citys key features include time emphasising the cohesion media of the blockade coun- images of the country’s symbols the worlds largest bouncy of Qatari society behind the tries, pointing out that these in recognition of his loyalty to castle, an 18-hole mini-golf leadership of Amir H H Sheikh drawings represent a state of the wise leadership of HH the course, an ice skating rink, Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. reaction and condemnation of Amir, and another presented exciting rides, skill games, This is evident and reflected the Qatari street through the pictures of large projects that video games, as well as live in many art exhibitions, most caricatures that dealt with were held during this year, and entertainment shows. notably the 5/6 Exhibition, Car- events in a sarcastic manner, another presented artworks Visitors to the City will toons Documenting the but purposefully, and with a lot showing the map of Qatar and also be able to keep up with Blockade, currently being held of deep meanings, noting that the cohesion of its people. the World Cup excitement at Katara Art Center in Building the exhibition is not limited to Among the participating through while enjoying 5, with the participation of 6 the work of old and well known artists is Abdul Hameed Al food, beverage and Qatari painters. painters, but also included Siddiqi, who said that his par- shopping options. Indi- The three-week exhibition young painters. ticipation in the exhibition vidual game prices range presents cartoons that were Commenting on the design comes in order to confirm the from QR10 to QR35. published in the Qatari news- of the exhibition entrance, Al position of the Qatari people Meanwhile, retailers at papers over the course of a full Jaidah noted that the news- on supporting the leadership 11 participating malls will year, during which six Qatari papers published in the of H H the Amir. be offering up to 50 percent painters, Abdulaziz Sadeq, Saad blockade countries, which dealt He pointed out that he par- discounts and special pro- Al Mohannadi, Salman Al Malik, with false news, fabrications ticipated with seven paintings motions. For every QR200 Rashid Al Kuwari, Abdul Aziz and misinformation about the in which he used various mate- spent at any of the outlets Yousif and Mohammad Abdul- Various artworks by artists on siege. crisis in the form of car wash, rials, among them a picture in in Qatar Summer Festival’s latif, monitored the conse- have been suspended to sym- which he used a collection of participating malls, quences of the unjust blockade period and the positions and exhibition embraces drawings bolize the attempt to brainwash articles published in the news- shoppers can enter three on Qatar. decisions expressed sarcasti- which documented an and mislead the public opinion. papers about the first hundred raffle draws for a chance to Qatari cartoonist Abdulaziz cally during his work. important era of the history of On the other hand, the days of the blockade to form a win one of 27 exciting cash Sadeq expressed his delight at Sadeq added that the car- Qatar and exposed the lies of Youth Hobbies Center affiliated picture of H H the Amir Sheikh prizes worth QR2,000,000 such an exhibition, which brings toonists cut down several the blockade countries, adding to the Ministry of Culture and Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani. The or a car. together Qatari cartoonists for articles in one drawing with that the drawings presented Sports hosts “Al Ezz and Al exhibition also featured a All throughout the Qatar the first time under one roof, several symbols and meanings highlight the steadfastness of Khair” exhibition at its head- variety of art works, including Summer Festival, nearly 50 pointing out that the content of documented by history, so it is the State of Qatar and the soli- quarters in the 18th building in the works of the artist Hamad of Qatar’s five- and four- the exhibition is unique because very important to highlight darity of its people with the wise Katara, a youth initiative for Al Mutawa, who presented 5 art star hotels are providing a it highlighted an important these works and he is keen to leadership of H H the Amir more than 20 artists. works, and the artist Talib Al range of offers and dis- aspect of the Qatari reaction to spread these works through against the campaign launched Photographer Rawda Al Jamila, who presented five counts on brunches, beach the siege, and the drawings have social media and newspapers. by the blockading countries in Rasheed and one of the organ- works as well as pictures and and pool access, accommo- a sequence in the events and are For his part, Qatari painter various fields. Al Mohannadi izing team of the exhibition said artistic compositions that dation and spa a daily document of the past Saad Al Mohannadi said that the believes that cartoonists should in a statement to Qatar News express the blockade state. treatments. Qatar 2022 preparations under way at fast pace

CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 west of Doha, Al Rayyan Stadium will matches up to the quarter-finals in Another achievement recently host matches up to the quarter-finals 2022. Construction work at Edu- accomplished by the SC was the stage during the 2022 FIFA World cation City Stadium is also going in naming of a new construction Cup Qatar. Post-2022, almost half full swing and the Supreme Com- material after 2022 FIFA World Cup of the stadium’s 40,000 modular mittee announced last week that the Qatar stadium. The unique con- seats will be removed and given to construction of Education City struction fabric used in Al Bayt football development projects Stadium was on track following the Stadium will be named after the abroad. The smaller post-tour- recent installation of 44 V-shaped iconic 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar nament arena will enable popular columns. proposed venue. The state-of-the- QNB Stars League side Al Rayyan to The SC also announced last week art material made by Serge Ferrari maintain the intense passion its fans that construction at Lusail Stadium, Group in France will be known are famous for. the proposed host venue for both the across the world as Bayt Line. In another major development opening match and final of the 2022 On May 23, the SC also occurred recently, Qatari firm HBK FIFA World Cup Qatar, is progressing announced beginning of installation Contracting Company (HBK) was rapidly. of the roof at Al Rayyan Stadium. Al awarded the main works contract “Work on the substructure of the Rayyan Stadium will be the first for Ras Abu Aboud Stadium.The 80,000-seat stadium has surpassed building in Qatar to have a tensile- 40,000-seat venue will be built 75% and the west stand, which con- A click with falcon compression ring structure, and also using modular building blocks, tains the VVIP, VIP and media Kids take a picture with a royal falcon and its owner at Doha Festival City, yesterday, as features an inner perimeter with no making it the first fully demountable tribunes, among other elements, is part of the Eid Al Fitr preparations and festivities. In view of the festival, Doha Festival columns and no obstructions FIFA World Cup stadium in history. visibly rising up from the ground to between spectators and the field of Located in a 450,000m² water-front reach an imposing elevation of more City has come up with attractive offers on henna paintings and a chance to take pictures play. site with exceptional views over than 70 metres,” it announced with royal falcons. PIC: BAHER AMIN / THE PENINSULA Located approximately 20km Doha’s skyline, the stadium will host regarding Lusail Stadium. SATURDAY 9 JUNE 2018 HOME 03 Hifz Al Naema’s mission to reduce food wastage SIDI MOHAMED Hifz Al Naema squandered before it is con- among people who need it among these people daily. like hotels and also from public, THE PENINSULA centre collects and sumed by people. It is an excess through 24 distribution sites Recently the centre who organize wedding banquets distributes around in an age where almost a billion around the country. expanded its area of work to or other such functions. DOHA: To save food from people go hungry, and repre- He added that there is more include a section for furniture. Al Khulaifi emphasised on wastage and feed the needy 1,000 meals a day, sents a waste of labour, water, work during Ramadan as they Earlier the centre used to collect the need of spreading the culture people, Hifz Al Naema centre which is enough to energy, land and other inputs receive large number of calls only food. Qataris and residents of saving food. Regarding the collects and distributes around feed 6,000 people. that went into producing that daily from people who want to are keen to help the centre and challenges being faced by the 1,000 meals a day, which is food. donate food and sometimes the it is evident from the fact that in centre, he said that the main enough to feed 6,000 people. Speaking to one of the local centre is not in a position to a few days after its opening the challenge was the increasing As a lot of food is wasted and distribute it to people who channels recently, Youssef Al respond to all calls. new section received more than number of calls for donation of during the holy month of are in need. Khulaifi, Head of Public Rela- The centre also receives 600 calls from people who surplus food and furniture and Ramadan due to frequent ban- According to Food and Agri- tions of Hifz Al Naema Center, many calls from needy people wanted to donate their used it had forced the centre to prior- quets and Iftar gatherings, a culture Organisation of the said that the centre collects and Hifz Al Naema has made a furniture. itise receiving these donations social centre has stepped in and United Nations (FAO), up to one surplus food that is not con- priority list of these people and The centre receives surplus due to the limitation of vehicles is helping collect the surplus food third of all food is spoiled or sumed and distributes it quickly collects enough food to distribute food and furniture from entities at the centre.

60% of traffic violations are detected electronically CONTINUED FROM PAGE 1 issuance of disturbing sounds, in addition to speed and over- Major Jaber Mohamed taking from the right Rashid Odaiba, Assistant violations. Director of Media and Traffic He also pointed out that the Awareness Department said that vehicles of the violators are the General Directorate of seized in case of violating the Traffic during a campaign con- law and this confiscation of ducted by The Patrols and vehicle is for a maximum period Investigations Departments had of three months. “The pun- seized 1000 vehicles during ishment also included hefty Ramadan. fines which might reach up to About the details of drives, QR3,000,” he added. Colonel Mohammed Radhi Al Hajri, Director of Media and Traffic Awareness Department, with traffic officers and members of the Central Odaiba said that the campaign He said that the drive will Municipal Council during the event. seized 800 vehicles for reckless continue aimed to decrease driving and drifting in the resi- traffic violations and provide dential area, and about 200 maximum security and safety Al-Hajri, head of the Traffic bridge to connect the area of on both the southern and construction of the bridge in vehicles were seized for for all road users, whether Planning Section at the General Mbeirik and Al-Sailiya to northern sides. “The work is coordination with the Public installing full cooling films on drivers or pedestrians . For his Directorate of Traffic, revealed provide alternative entrances to currently underway to complete Works Authority (Ashghal),” he the car window glasses and the part, Captain Mohamed Mesfer the imminent construction of a the Sailiya and Abu Nakhla areas the procedures for the start of said. AZF signs MoU with SC for cooperation and knowledge exchange

THE PENINSULA In particular, AZF and the SC will employees. work together on projects and initi- The MoU was signed by Ahmed DOHA: As part of its efforts to develop atives planned for the 2022 FIFA Ibrahim Al Sulaiti, Chief Adminis- its human capital, Aspire Zone Foun- World Cup Qatar. tration Officer of Aspire Logistics, a dation (AZF) has signed a Memo- Employees of both organisations member of AZF, and Sami Mohammed randum of Understanding (MoU) with will also benefit from the training Al Shammari, Executive Director of the Supreme Committee for Delivery programmes, workshops and sem- Administration at the Supreme Com- & Legacy. inars that AZF organises for its mittee for Delivery & Legacy. The MoU establishes a framework for cooperation and knowledge NOTICE exchange Ahmed Ibrahim Al Sulaiti, Chief Administration Officer of Aspire Logistics, and Sami between the FGHIJ Mohammed Al Shammari, Executive Director of Administration at the Supreme two organisa- Committee for Delivery & Legacy, signing the MoU. tions in fields of KLMKLNOHPQKLMKLRSLNTHGGTI mutual interest. 11TO RJGTTORL

Iftar events for HKLOTHNT HGH patients, KLMKLRSLNT staff held KLNOTTNT DECC THE PENINSULA DOHA: In collaboration with

QRCS, Hamad Medical Corpora- HKLOTHNT tion’s (HMC) Social Services Department organised Iftar HKLOTHNT events on May 24 and 31 for patients and workers at Hamad OGTG General Hospital (HGH). LL The staff of HMC and Qatar Red Crescent Society during the Iftar Hayfa Al Hajri, Acting Exec- event. utive Director of HMC’s Department of Social Services, said volunteers from the Qatar May, joined by a delegation from community by supporting Red Crescent Society visited Deutsche Bank, and distributed labourers and other employees Hamad General Hospital on an additional 150 Iftar meals to and extending help to those in our ILJNT Thursday (May 24) and dis- inpatients on the Orthopedics, community who are less for- tributed 150 Iftar meals to hos- Trauma, and Surgery Wards, as tunate. We wanted to bring the pital workers who were on duty well as to the attending nursing joy and spirit of Ramadan to our KLMKLNOHPNT during that time. teams. “HMC, through cooper- employees, and at the same time The Qatar Red Crescent team ation with its key partners, is foster a culture of sharing among visited the hospital again on 31 doing its utmost to serve the local staff,” said Al Hajri.

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For more information or inquiries, Email: [email protected] Qatar Tec marks 10th anniversary The staff of Qatar Tec during the celebrations to mark its 10th anniversary and Iftar party at Banana Islands and Resorts. 04 MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA SATURDAY 9 JUNE 2018 Israeli troops shoot dead four Palestinians in Gaza

REUTERS The Palestinians killed yesterday were three adult men and a 15-year-old boy, medics GAZA: Israeli troops killed four said. Of 618 people wounded, 120 were from Palestinians and wounded hundreds of others yesterday live fire, they said. Among those wounded by with live fire or tear gas used gunfire was an AFP presse photographer and against protesters at the Gaza border, medics said, while Israel a 23-year-old man who was on life support said militants had attacked its after a tear gas canister penetrated his face, forces with guns and grenades. medics said. Organisers linked the protests to annual “Jerusalem Day” events in Iran, which like Gaza’s dom- by Hamas to breach its border, casualties from the more than inant Hamas Islamists preaches and says that its lethal tactics two months of confrontations Israel’s destruction and was have been necessary to prevent along the Gaza border. But Israel incensed by the US recognition that. At least 124 Palestinians have has lost swathes of farmland and in December of Jerusalem as the been killed by Israeli army fire, forests on its side of the border to Israeli capital. medics say. blazes set by coal- or fuel-laden A Palestinian protestor waves his national flag during a demonstration along the border with Israel “There is no such state called Yesterday, the army said in a Palestinian kites. east of Jabalia in the central Gaza Strip, yesterday. Israel that could have a capital statement it had repelled around Emmanuel Nahshon, called Jerusalem,” Hamas 10,000 Palestinians who con- spokesman for Israel’s Foreign spokesman Fawzi Barhoum said. verged on five points of the Ministry, described Gaza pro- gunfire was an Agence France- in a future Palestinian state. clamped down on Gaza’s He said the Gaza demonstra- border. Some of them threw rocks testers on Twitter as “hateful Presse photographer and a Statehood talks have been borders. tions, launched on March 30, and burned tyres. morons” and “Hamas Jugend”, the 23-year-old man who was on frozen since 2014. “We are not asking for the would continue until Palestinians At one location, at least two latter a play on “Hitler Youth” in life support after a tear gas can- Hamas seized Gaza from moon,” said Amer Abu Khalaf, achieve their demand for a right Palestinians fired guns at an army German. The Palestinians killed ister penetrated his face, medics Western-backed Palestinian a 20-year-old business admin- of return to ancestral lands lost post, while others threw grenades yesterday were three adult men said. authorities in 2007 and has istration student who took part to Israel in the 1948 war of its or used helium balloons and kites and a 15-year-old boy, medics Israel has long refused to fought three wars with Israel in yesterday’s protest, saying it creation. to fly explosives over the border, said. Of 618 people wounded, 120 admit Palestinian refugees from there. Two million Palestinians aimed to “break the siege and Israel, with US support, has the army said. were from live fire, they said. the 1948 war or their millions of have sunk into poverty as Israel have the world recognise our described the protests as a ploy There have been no Israeli Among those wounded by descendants, saying they belong and Egypt, citing security needs, right to return”.

Suspected Boko Hezbollah leader says to stay in Syria Haram militants REUTERS Over 50 civilians kill 6 in Cameroon BEIRUT: Lebanon’s Iran-backed dead in suspected AFP Hezbollah will remain in Syria as long as Syrian President Russian raids Bashar Al Assad wants it there, YAOUNDÉ: Six villagers the group’s leader said were killed overnight in yesterday, defying renewed US BEIRUT: Air strikes thought northern Cameroon in an and Israeli pressure to force to have been carried out by attack attributed to Nigeria’s Tehran and its allies to quit the Russian jets on a rebel-held Boko Haram jihadist group, country. residential area in north- a local leader said. “I will tell you that if the western syria have killed 51 The attack occurred in the whole world comes together to civilians, a Britain-based village of Mangave Foya, said force us to leave Syria, they will monitor said. Abdoulaye Yerima Bakari, the not be able to evict us,” Sayyed Nine children were among head of the Dogba adminis- Hassan Nasrallah said in a tele- those killed when the strikes trative region. vised address, adding that only hit the Zardana area of Idlib “They attacked the home the Syrian leadership could ask province late on Thursday, the of a district chief, whom they them to leave. syrian Observatory for Human shot, as well as two other Israel has repeatedly struck Rights said. people” who were in the Hezbollah and Iranian targets in building, he said. When the Syria, saying they must leave the Syrian children play among destroyed buildings in Kobane. neighbours came out to country, with which it shares a the country’s biggest cities and investigate the gunfire, the border. Washington has also reclaim swathes of the eastern as at US forces in a base near the Israel. Israeli strikes in Syria are Lebanon caused friction with assailants opened fire, killing demanded that Iran and forces deserts from Islamic State. Iraqi border. partly aimed at keeping Hez- Iran-backed forces there three of them, he said. it back quit. Russia has recently called Senior Syrian officials have bollah and other Iran-backed including Hezbollah, a rare case A local self-defence group Alongside Russia, Iran- for all non-Syrian forces to leave said they want to recapture the forces from its border. of Assads’ allies acting out of and the security forces, joined backed forces in Syria have southern Syria, a statement seen rebel-held areas in the This week, a Russian troop sync with each other, though it by some villagers, gave chase, helped Assad drive rebels from as partly aimed at Iran, as well southwest near the border with deployment near the border with was soon resolved. killing five attackers and arresting three others, he added. Since 2014, the group has killed 2,000 civilians and soldiers and kidnapped about ICC acquits DR Congo’s Ethiopia may build naval base at Kenyan Port 1,000 people in northern Cameroon, according to an analysis by the International BLOMBERG Bemba on appeal Abiy secured an agreement channeled, may be unsuitable Crisis Group (ICG) think tank. with Kenyan President Uhuru for an Ethiopian naval facility Cameroon, along with ADDIS ABABA: Ethiopia, land- Kenyatta last month to develop because it already hosts facil- Chad and Niger, has joined a AFP at the National Assembly, AFP locked since the secession of land at Lamu for “logistical facil- ities for global powers including military effort by Nigeria to reporters said. Eritrea a quarter century ago, itation.” The country relies on the largest U.S. military base in crush the insurgents. THE HAGUE: International In 2016, the ICC’s judges may consider building a naval Djibouti and Sudan for access Africa and the first such war crimes judges yesterday had unanimously found Bemba base in neighboring Kenya to to the sea. overseas post for China’s armed acquitted former Congolese — nicknamed “Miniature strengthen its military capa- Last year, Ethiopia agreed forces, Roba said. Kenyan rights groups vice president Jean-Pierre Mobutu” — guilty on five bilities, the head of the state to take a share in a joint venture Djibouti is “controlled by Bemba on appeal, overturning charges of war crimes and shipping company said. with DP World Ltd. to admin- naval forces that surround the urge end to police an 18-year sentence for war crimes against humanity for The facility could form part ister a port at Berbera, in the area,” he said. “We are afraid killings in slums crimes committed in the abuses committed by his troops of a port the Kenyan gov- semi-autonomous region of perhaps in the future that even Central African Republic (CAR). during a five-month rampage ernment is building at Lamu, Somaliland in northern Somalia, Djibouti may not have its own REUTERS “Mr Bemba cannot be held in the neighbouring CAR. said Roba Megerssa Akawak, which will host a United Arab say to really decide on its own criminally liable for the crimes The heavy-set leader had chief executive officer of the Emirates military airport and a fate. This is quite a threat to committed by his troops in the sent his militia, the Congolese state-owned Ethiopian Shipping naval base. Ethiopia.” NAIROBI: Kenyan human Central African Republic,” pre- Liberation Movement (MLC) -- & Logistics Services Enterprise. “Countries cooperate in Roba considers Lamu “an rights groups demanded siding judge Christine Van den a rebel force that Bemba later The 390bn-shilling ($3.87bn) naval activities and Ethiopia efficient” location to host an yesterday that the Wyngaert told the International transformed into a political harbor near the border with should really consider this,” Ethiopian base. “The distance government halt police Criminal Court in The Hague. organisation -- into the CAR in Somalia is part of the so-called Roba said in an interview in the from inland Ethiopia will be shootings of unarmed men in “The Appeals Chamber in October 2002 to quash a coup Lapsset project, a transport cor- Ethiopian capital Addis Ababa countered by other benefits,” some of Nairobi’s poorer this instant reverses the con- against the then president, ridor that envisions linking Wednesday. “The decision by he said, without areas, after 12 people were viction against Mr Bemba... and Ange-Felix Patasse. Ethiopia and South Sudan to the government to have naval elaborating. allegedly killed in the capital in relation to the remaining At his sentencing in 2016, Kenya. interests in cooperation with Ethiopia disbanded its navy in one month. criminal acts it enters an trial judges blamed Bemba for Information Minister Ahmed other countries or of its own is in 1996, three years after Eritrea Kenyan police face fre- acquittal,” Van den Wyngaert failing to stop a series of Shide said he was unaware of very important and crucial and gained independence after a quent allegations of brutality said. Bemba, 55, dressed in a “sadistic and cruel” rapes and any discussions between the two timely.” three-decade war. The secession and extrajudicial killings from blue-grey suit, light blue shirt murders as well as pillaging by countries, Ethiopia’s interest in A navy would be useful not deprived Ethiopia of 2,234 kil- civilians and rights groups, and dark blue tie showed little his soldiers. The trial was the Lamu is mainly economic and only in protecting ESLSE’s fleet ometers (1,388 miles) of but officers are rarely charged emotion as the judge read the first before the ICC to focus on that Roba isn’t in a position to of 11 civilian vessels, which sail coastline. In 2015, the gov- and almost never convicted. verdict, but his supporters sexual violence as a weapon of have knowledge about talks to the Indian subcontinent, the ernment adopted a logistics Six human rights groups exploded in cheers on the war. It was also the first to with Kenya’s government. Prime Far East and the Black Sea, but strategy to use multiple ports in in the Social Justice Network public gallery, prompting the determine whether a military Minister Abiy Ahmed’s call last in protecting the “very volatile” the region to improve its coalition said the government judge to call them to order. commander bore responsibility month for the establishment of Red Sea area where Ethiopia has external trade. should start investigations In the Democratic Republic for the conduct of troops under a naval force was “a future pos- other economic interests “and Kenyan Transport Principal after the spate of killings in of Congo (DRC) capital of Kin- his control. But in a scathing sibility,” the information min- there are conflicting political Secretary Paul Maringa said he Dandora, a low income shasa, Bemba’s supporters assessment, the Hague-based ister said. interests,” Roba said. wasn’t able to comment because neighbourhood in Nairobi’s erupted in joy as they watched ICC’s appeal judges said Bemba “We can only give infor- Neighboring Djibouti, he doesn’t have details of the east. Police have said the the announcement on live TV, was “erroneously” convicted for mation when we know the through which 90 percent of discussions with the Ethiopian shootings were directed at and cheering was even heard specific criminal acts. future plan.” Ethiopia’s inbound trade is government. suspected criminals. SATURDAY 9 JUNE 2018 ASIA 05 14,500 safety bunkers coming up in J&K border IANS Home Minister reservation for border residents. Rajnath Singh There will be two more women JAMMU: Nearly 14,500 safety announced battalions — one each for Jammu bunkers will be constructed in and the valley. This, besides Jammu and Kashmir border increase in financial boosting security, will also give areas for people to take shelter compensation to direct employment to nearly in the event of Pakistani shelling Rs500,000 from 7,000 young men and women in of civilian areas on this side, Rs100,000 for the state. Home Minister Rajnath Singh persons killed during Two of the battalions, the said yesterday, capping his cross-border firing minister said, would be deployed two-day trip to the state. to guard villages falling between The Home Minister said the on the International 0-10 km from forward posts. government would raise seven Boundary and the The minister also announced more India Reserve Battalions of Line of Control. financial assistance of Rs 5.5 lakh special armed police in the state. per family for west Pakistani ref- He announced increase in the safety of people living in ugees settled in the state since financial compensation to Rs5 border areas as Pakistani forces 1947. The decision will benefit lakh from Rs1 lakh for persons continue unprovoked firing and nearly 5,764 families who have killed during cross-border firing shelling to target Indian areas. no citizenship and voting rights on the International Boundary To ensure their safety, 13,029 in Jammu and Kashmir. and the Line of Control. The bunkers each with a capacity to These refugees cannot apply amount will be directly credited shelter 8-10 people and 1,431 for state government jobs and to the account of next of kin. This community bunkers each with a vote in Assembly elections. But removes the condition of a fixed capacity to house 40-50 people they are eligible to vote in par- deposit account to receive the would be constructed in the liamentary polls. Rajnath Singh financial assistance. areas near the borders. said the government had decided Policemen firing tear gas shells towards protestors during clashes after Friday prayers in downtown The minister said the gov- For this, he said, Rs 450 crore to increase to Rs13,000 from Srinagar. ernment has also decided to was sanctioned. The minister 10,000 the monthly financial increase to Rs 50,000 from Rs said five bullet-proof ambu- assistance for each Kashmiri 30,000 the compensation for lances would also be stationed migrant family living in Jammu Pakistan refugees settled in areas in Jammu. where the Home Minister, Chief each animal killed during the permanently on the border areas and other parts of the country. Jammu and Kashmir and the He also visited north Kashmir Minister Mehbooba Mufti and border firing. to tackle emergency situations. “Once I reach Delhi, an order (Kashmiri) migrants,” he said. Kupwara district hours after mil- MoS (PMO) Jitendra Singh met The Home Minister said the He said five IR battalions will be issued regarding the Earlier, Rajnath Singh visited itants attacked security forces people amid elaborate security government was concerned over would be raised with 60 per cent financial assistance to west R S Pora and Naushera borders some 20 km from the town arrangements.

Odisha loses keys Embattled Air India seeks urgent loan to 12th-century AFP loan of $148m “to meet urgent The government announced out. IndiGo, India’s biggest rivals in one of the world’s treasure temple working capital requirements”. in March that it planned to sell airline, wanted Air India’s inter- fastest-growing airline markets. AFP NEW DELHI: Air India has Air India has failed to pay up to 76 percent of Air India but national operations but the gov- Successive governments had announced it is seeking an staff their salaries on time for the a May 31 deadline passed without ernment refused to carve up the spent billions of dollars to keep urgent multi-million-dollar loan past three months, according to any suitors coming forward. carrier. it flying before Prime Minister NEW DELHI: Indian author- to maintain day-to-day opera- multiple news reports. Airlines and other investors Air India, founded in 1932, Narendra Modi’s cabinet last ities have launched an inves- tions, highlighting the wretched The plea for funds, made on were put off by some of the sale was once the country’s year gave the go-ahead for a tigation over missing keys to financial predicament of the Tuesday but only picked up by terms, forcing the government monopoly airline, known affec- sell-off. vaults in a 12th-century country’s debt-stricken national media late Thursday, came just to go back to the drawing board. tionately as the “Maharaja of the Air India is about $8 billion temple thought to contain carrier. days after the government said India’s Tata Group, Sin- skies”. in the red and reported losses of gold and gems worth tens of In a statement posted on its it had not received any bids in gapore Airlines (SIA) and IndiGo But it has been haemor- almost 58 billion rupees for the millions of dollars. website this week the airline said an auction for a majority stake were all linked to a takeover but rhaging money for years and it financial year ending March The keys’ absence it was looking for a short-term in the beleaguered airline. subsequently ruled themselves has lost market share to low-cost 2017. became apparent when experts came to assess the condition of the massive Jag- annath temple in the eastern state of Odisha in April. Jose K Mani to contest This prompted outrage among devotees toward local Rajya Sabha polls authorities and the temple management, and the gov- IANS While earlier in the day, Mani ernment on Monday ordered ruled himself out for the seat, he an investigation. PALA: After getting a windfall in also said that his “wish” is that The temple in the city of the form of a Rajya Sabha seat, his son Jose also does not get Puri is dedicated to Hindu Kerala Congress-Mani yesterday nominated. deity Lord Jagannath and night named party supremo K.M. But after a late night meeting draws millions of devotees Mani’s son Jose K Mani, the sitting of the top KC-M leadership at each year, especially at the Kottayam Lok Sabha member, Mani’s residence near here, the annual Rath Yatra festival. as its candidate. decision was made to field Jose Devotees offer nearly $7 “Our party leadership that for the Rajya Sabha seat. million every year in cash and met here yesterday night has Of the three seats that fall gold to the deity, adding to the decided to nominate Jose K.Mani vacant later this month, the treasures that have amassed to the Rajya Sabha. The party felt ruling Left alliance will win two over centuries. The stone that he was the most suitable and the Congress-led UDF one. strongrooms, fitted with iron candidate and hence his name Jose is a two-time Lok Sabha gates, were last accessed in was an unanimous choice,” P.J. member, though losing in his 1985. Joseph, the KC-M’s second in debut electoral contest in 2004. Last Friday prayer of Ramadan command told the media after Long time foe of Mani, Muslims praying during the last Friday of the Holy Month of Ramadan at the Jama Masjid in New Delhi. the meeting. veteran legislator P.C. George KC-M, after being an ally of said this is the most shameful RPF constable’s the Congress-led United Demo- episode witnessed in Kerala pol- cratic Front (UDF) for over four itics as everyone knows that Jose gun goes off in decades, in 2016 walked out of stands no chance of winning his Kolkata metro the grouping but returned yes- sitting Lok Sabha seat next year terday, after the top state Con- and hence Mani felt that the Congress to start helpline for women in Goa IANS gress leadership with the con- Rajya Sabha would be the best IANS currence of the party high bet for his son. “It is sad that women in Goa in distress,” All India Mahila command, decided to hand the “Since the law allows six have no one to protect them... Congress General Secretary KOLKATA: Three persons Rajya Sabha seat to Mani’s party, months time for an elected PANAJI: Claiming that women law and order in Goa is really Netta D’Souza told the reporters including a child got injured as a “gift” for his return. member to take oath, Jose will are not safe in Goa, the Congress slipping in the absence of the here. D’Souza, who is in charge after the rifle of a Railway The Congress decided to sac- wait for that time and after that, yesterday announced the launch Chief Minister, who also holds of the party’s Goa affairs, said Protection Force (RPF) rifice sitting Rajya Sabha member there will not be any time for within a fortnight of a toll-free the home portfolio. We are that her party was “forced to constable went off during and former Deputy Chairman P.J. conducting a by-election to the helpline for women in distress, going to launch a toll-free hel- step in” because there was no change of duty at the Dumdum Kurien, who was expecting to get Kottayam seat that he vacates,” including victims of sexual and pline operated by Goa Pradesh effective administration in place Metro railway station a fourth successive term. he claimed. domestic abuse. Mahila Congress to help women to protect women. premises here yesterday afternoon, police said. Kolkata Metro General Manager Ajay Vijayvargiya has ordered a “high level inquiry” into the incident and Portfolios allocated to Karnataka ministers promised stringent action against those found guilty, an IANS Bhavan in a communique. and second son of party supremo and Medical Education. - Horticulture. N H Shivashankara official said. According to the notification, H D Deve Gowda, got Public G T Devegowda (JD-S) - Reddy (Congress) - Agriculture. The incident happened at BENGALURU: Portfolios of the Kumaraswamy will hold 11 port- Works Department (PWD) Higher Education. S R Srinivas (JD-S) - Small Scale around 1.45pm near one of the ministers in the JD-S-Congress folios, including Finance, Energy, excluding Ports and Inland K J George (Congress) - Large Industries. R L Jarakiholi (Con- ticket counters at the metro coalition government in Textiles, Infrastructure Devel- Transport. & Medium Scale Industries and gress) - Municipalities and Local station when an RPF constable Karnataka were allocated opment, Public Enterprises, The portfolios allocated to IT, BT & Science and Technology. Bodies. was handing over his rifle to yesterday, two days after the Information and Public Rela- the other ministers are: D C Thammanna (JD-S) Meanwhile, Jarkiholi, an another as his duty got over. ministry was expanded. tions, and Personnel. R V Deshpande (Congress) - - Transport. AICC secretary, said he is con- “The rifle of an RPF con- “Governor Vajubhai Vala has Deputy Chief Minister G Par- Revenue excluding Muzrai and Krishna Byregowda (Con- templating resigning from the stable got accidentally allocated the portfolios to all the ameshwara has been allocated Skill Development, Entrepre- gress) - Rural Development & party post. Declaring that he and dropped on the ground while 27 cabinet ministers, including three portfolios -- Home, Ben- neurship and Livelihood. Panchayat Raj, Law, Justice and several other Congress MLAs changing hands inside the the Deputy Chief Minister of the galuru City Development and Bandeppa Khashempur Human Rights and Parlia- were unhappy over the Cabinet Dumdum Metro station Congress, on the advice of Janata Youth Empowerment and Sports. (JD-S) - Co-Operation. mentary Affairs and expansion and are holding talks, premises. The bullet Dal-Secular (JD-S) Chief Minister H D Revenna (JD-S), the D K Shivakumar (Congress) Legislation. Jarkiholi said they will meet rebounded from the floor of H D Kumaraswamy,” said Raj elder brother of Kumaraswamy - Major and Medium Irrigation MCManguli (JD-S) again on June 11. the station complex. 06 ASIA SATURDAY 9 JUNE 2018 Nato, US hope Afghan truce leads to peace breakthrough AFP supreme commander in Europe, gave targeting in particular security forces group of activists from Lashkar Gah in February and the ceasefire was a bid to an upbeat assessment of the struggle and police. Helmand province to Kabul. win it back. BRUSSELS: US generals and Nato offi- against the Taliban, ousted from power On Thursday, Ghani announced the The group, which numbers about “Nato and the US are trying to boost cials hoping for a peace breakthrough in a US led invasion in 2001. week-long ceasefire to coincide with eight but has been joined by more at the government and trying to show that with the Taliban after 16 years of war “I have dealt with this for quite a Eid Al Fitr, the holiday marking the end times on the route, is demanding both the government still has some initiative are touting a ceasefire announced by number of years and personally, I sense of the holy month of Ramadan. the Taliban and the Afghan government but this is not the reality unfortunately,” Kabul as potentially decisive and despite a different set of conditions today, and Ghani’s surprise ceasefire decla- lay down their arms. Mir said, pointing to the upcoming anni- scepticism in Afghanistan. perhaps more potential,” he told ration came on the heels of a fatwa The modest size of the march did versary of US President Donald Trump’s Attacks in Kabul — the most heavily reporters at a meeting of Nato defence issued by Afghanistan’s top clerics not stop General John Nicholson, com- new South Asia strategy as a key mile- defended city in the country — are mul- ministers in Brussels. branding suicide attacks “haram”, or mander of US and Nato forces in stone. “In August it will be one year and tiplying and a recent US government “They are under greater pressure forbidden, and after the Pentagon Afghanistan, from calling it a “grassroots everybody will talk about the achieve- watchdog report painted a grim picture and you see some splinter in their lead- announced that senior Taliban officials movement” and comparing the current ments of the US military in Afghanistan of the security situation, saying there ership and their cohesion. had been negotiating with Afghan situatoin in Afghanistan to the final (but) unfortunately despite the bombing were “few signs of progress”. “In the past, the Taliban has been authorities on a possible ceasefire. stages of the conflicts in Northern campaign and high casualties among But senior Nato and US military cohesive and one voice about this. Now “I have to tell you, for someone who Ireland and Colombia. the Taliban... there is no significant figures have warmly welcomed Afghan we are seeing indications that there a has been either in Afghanistan or “All wars end. And when you study change on the ground,” Mir said. President Ashraf Ghani’s ceasefire those who would like to talk.” working on Afghanistan for some years how wars end, there is usually a period Indeed the Pentagon’s own Office announcement, even though it is not at In February, Ghani unveiled a plan now, I am seeing things now that I where you are fighting and talking at of the Inspector General directly all clear that the Taliban have any plans to open peace talks with the Taliban, haven’t seen before,” one Nato official the same time. I think we are clearly in undercut claims the momentum of the to respect it. Nato chief Jens Stoltenberg including eventually recognising them told reporters on condition of that period,” he said. But the optimism war was shifting against the Taliban. hailed the announcement as a “positive as a political party. At the time he sug- anonymity. coming from Nato and the Pentagon has In a report in May the watchdog said step on the path to peace” and urged the gested a ceasefire would form part of Pressed for details, the official men- not reached observers in Afghanistan. there had been “little positive change” Taliban to come to talks the the plan. The insurgents did not offi- tioned the ruling by the clerics and Political analyst Haroon Mir, based in the first quarter of 2018, with just 65 government. cially respond, but attacks have prolif- “social movements for peace”, an in Kabul, said Ghani’s government had percent of Afghans living in areas under General Curtis Scaparrotti, Nato’s erated since then, especially in Kabul, apparent reference to a march by a small lost the initiative since the offer in government control or influence. Pakistan polls: Top leaders to contest on more than one seat

INTERNEWS PTI chairman nomination papers from NA-243 Imran Khan will be Karachi East. He had stated ISLAMABAD: Heads of the contesting on three recently that without uplifting country’s three largest parties - National Assembly of Karachi, Pakistan could not Pakistan Muslim League-Nawaz be developed. (PML-N), Pakistan Tehreek-i- seats from Punjab The decision of Khan to Insaf (PTI) and Pakistan Peoples and one each from contest the election from Bannu, Party (PPP) - have decided to Khyber Pakhtunkhwa which is generally considered a contest the elections on multiple and Sindh. stronghold of the Jamiat Ulema- National Assembly seats in the i-Islam (JUI-F), has made the July 25 elections, it was learnt contest very interesting. on Friday The JUI-F, which is con- PTI chairman Imran Khan contesting the election on an NA testing the July 25 elections from will be contesting on three seat from Lahore, Shahbaz the platform of Muttahida National Assembly seats from Sharif was also considering Majlis-i-Amal (MMA), has not yet Punjab and one each from filing the papers from NA-192 finalised the candidates, but it Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Dera Ghazi Khan. is believed that Khan will either Sindh. According to PTI’s infor- face JUI-F chief Maulana Fazlur A senior PPP office-bearer, mation secretary Fawad Rehman or former KP chief Pakistan marks Al Quds Day who remained a part of the Chaudhry, Imran Khan plans to minister Akram Durrani in this party’s parliamentary board contest the elections for the NA constituency. Pakistani girls hold toy guns during a rally against Israel and the United States to mark the Al Quds which finalised the tickets, said seats from Lahore, Rawalpindi The PTI’s information sec- Day (Jerusalem Day), during the holy month of Ramadan in Lahore, yesterday. that PPP chairman Bilawal and Mianwali, Bannu and retary said that it didn’t matter Bhutto-Zardari would contest Karachi. for the party whether Khan the election from Karachi and In the 2013 elections, he had faced Maulana Fazlur Rehman Larkana in Sindh and Malakand contested from Mianwali (NA- or Akram Durrani or any other in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. 71), Lahore (NA-122), Rawalpindi candidate. He said that former pres- (NA-56) and Peshawar (NA-1). He claimed that Khan this ident Asif Zardari also had a plan Khan had lost the Lahore time did not consider the option Maldives to hold presidential poll on Sept 23 to contest the NA seat from seat to former NA speaker Ayaz of contesting the elections from AFP Nawabshah, but so far he had Sadiq whereas he had Peshawar and opted to run for will be held Sept. 23 and nomi- won the country’s first free not made a final decision in this managed to win the other three the NA seat from Bannu under nations will be allowed from election in 2008, is seeking to regard. seats. a “planned strategy”. MALE: The Maldives elections July 15 to 25. President Yameen become a candidate while in When contacted, PML-N’s However, he later decided He claimed that the PTI was commission has announced that Abdul Gayoom, elected to office exile but faces legal hurdles acting secretary general Ahsan to retain his seat won from very strong in Peshawar and the country’s presidential election in 2013, is seeking a second five- because of a 13-year prison sen- Iqbal said that party president Rawalpindi and vacated the they were hopeful of winning will be held in September, as year term virtually unopposed tence. Given asylum by Britain Shahbaz Sharif had been other two seats. In the by-elec- all the seats from the city. He democratic freedoms decline in because all of his potential rivals when he went there for medical advised by the party members tions, the PTI, however, lost the said Khan had planned to the archipelago state 10 years are either jailed or in exile. treatment on leave from prison, that he should contest the elec- Peshawar seat to Ghulam contest from Bannu which was after the introduction of a multi- Maldives embraced a mul- Nasheed has already started his tions from multiple Ahmed Bilour of the Awami at the centre of KP so that he party system. tiparty democracy 10 years ago campaign, addressing his sup- constituencies. National Party. could lead a systematic The commission announced after decades of autocratic rule. porters regularly through video Sources said that besides Khan has already obtained movement in the province. Thursday night that the election Mohamed Nasheed, who conference.

Kamila Shamsie wins Myanmar army, govt hold rare meeting over Rohingya crisis UK’s prestigious AFP of its kind since Aung San Suu insurgents last August that the conditions. Pressure is also Rome Statute which underpins the Women’s Prize Kyi’s government took power in UN and US have called “ethnic mounting from the International ICC. The country has said it will INTERNEWS YANGON: Myanmar’s army and 2016 — follows a deal to allow the cleansing”. Criminal Court (ICC), which is establish its own independent civilian leadership held a rare UN to enter Rakhine to assess Until this week’s deal with due to discuss on June 20 probe to investigate human rights “national security” meeting when refugees may be able to the UN, Myanmar had dragged whether to launch an investi- abuses. Suu Kyi and Commander- KARACHI: British-Pakistani yesterday and discussed an return. Some 700,000 of the its feet for months over the repa- gation into the crackdown. in-Chief Min Aung Hlaing were author Kamila Shamsie has internal investigation into the Muslim minority have fled over triation of the stateless minority, Myanmar, which denies the among the 15 attendees at Friday’s been awarded UK’s pres- Rohingya crisis in Rakhine state, the border to Bangladesh after insisting the region is safe for ethnic cleansing allegations, has meeting in Naypyidaw, a tigious Women’s Prize for the president’s office said. the military launched a violent their return but refusing access dismissed the move, saying it is Facebook post by the office of Fiction 2018 for her seventh The meeting —only the third crackdown on Rohingya to outsiders to evaluate not a signatory or member of the President Win Myint said. novel Home Fire, reported The Guardian. Home Fire follows the story of Aneeka, a young Lon- Myanmar hardline monks vow to doner who falls in love with the son of a powerful British stay on Facebook despite ban Muslim politician, which she hopes to use in order to save REUTERS her missing brother who is Myanmar’s nationalist monks drawn towards religious YANGON: Myanmar’s hardline and activists, who have emerged extremism. monks will dodge bans on as a political force in recent years, Home Fire is about Facebook and keep using the have been sharing violent and identity, conflicting loyalties, social media giant to “tell the angry rhetoric on Facebook tar- love and politics, she added, truth”, they said yesterday, after geting the minority, seen by many recommending the it barred several Buddhist in the Buddhist-majority country “remarkable book”. nationalists for hate messages as illegal immigrants. “ Shamsie is funny and targeting Rohingya Muslims. “It is a violation of freedom exact about the Muslim expe- United Nations officials of expression,” Thuseitta, a rience, what it means to be investigating a possible genocide member of the Patriotic challenged on your identity, in Myanmar have said Facebook Myanmar Monks’ Union said what it means choosing had been a source of propaganda hours after Facebook identified between public and private Labourers at work against the minority in a country him as a “hate figure”. “We will Her nuance, her sympathies, where it has become a near-ubiq- keep using Facebook with dif- really make you challenge Labourers push a cart with food items to deliver near a main market in Colombo, Sri Lanka, yesterday. uitous communications tool as the ferent names and accounts to tell your own lazy thinking on all economy opens up. the truth to people.” this,” said Sands. SATURDAY 9 JUNE 2018 ASIA 07 Manila protests seizure of Filipinos’ fish catch AP The Philippines Former Philippine Foreign intends to raise its Secretary Albert del Rosario said MANILA: China’s coast guard concern again in the Philippines could draft a U.N. has continued to seize the another meeting resolution that would ask China catches of Filipino fishermen at and the international com- a disputed shoal in the South with China, possibly munity to abide by the arbi- China Sea despite a protest by in September, due to tration ruling. Del Rosario the Philippines following an continuing reports spearheaded the arbitration earlier incident, two officials of such incidents, complaint, which the Philip- said yesterday. pines largely won. The Philippines expressed including one Duterte has refused to concern to China in a meeting reportedly witnessed immediately demand Chinese in Manila in February after by a TV news crew on compliance with the ruling but Eid shopping receiving a report of Chinese board a fishing boat has repeatedly said he would Women shop carpets at a bazaar ahead of Eid Al Fitr festival, which marks the end of the holy month coast guard personnel boarding take up the arbitration decision of Ramadan, in Kuala Lumpur, yesterday. a Filipino fishing boat at Scar- at Scarborough, the with China at an unspecified borough Shoal and taking some officials said. future time during his of its catch, the officials said, presidency. adding that the Philippines Foreign Secretary Alan Peter sought compensation for the administration to do more to Cayetano has said that Duterte’s fishermen. protect Philippine interests in closer engagement with China Malaysia considering seeking return Chinese officials at the the disputed waters. has eased tensions in the dis- meeting “took note” of the con- After taking power nearly puted waters and produced pos- cerns and promised to look into two years ago, Duterte declared itive results, including the of Goldman Sachs’ 1MDB fees the reported incidents, said the he would chart a foreign policy resumption of fishing by Fili- REUTERS officials, who spoke on con- not overly oriented toward the pinos at Scarborough, where negotiated deals for 1MDB. and the DoJ were under way. dition of anonymity because of United States, the country’s they were previously blocked Malaysian authorities want How Kuala Lumpur would the sensitivity of the issue. China treaty ally. He took steps to from approaching by Chinese KUALA LUMPUR: Malaysia is to ask the DoJ, which is pursuing go about claiming the funds, and and the Philippines have agreed revive frosty ties with Beijing coast guard ships. The Philip- considering asking the US a corruption and money laun- the legal hurdles in the process to hold such meetings to discuss while seeking to boost Chinese pines under Duterte has quietly Department of Justice (DoJ) to get dering probe at 1MDB, to get were not immediately made their disputes in the South China trade, investment and infra- protested certain Chinese Goldman Sachs to return nearly Goldman to disgorge profits it clear by the sources. Sea. structure funds. actions in disputed areas and $600m in fees it earned from made from the sale of the bonds, A spokeswoman for Finance The Philippines intends to Antonio Carpio, a senior avoided noisy public protests to bonds raised for scandal-tainted after which Malaysia would claim Minister Lim Guan Eng said the raise its concern again in associate justice of the Supreme foster diplomatic talks, he said. 1Malaysia Development Berhad the money, the two sources minister had no comment on the another meeting with China, Court who has done extensive Critics and left-wing groups, (1MDB), two sources familiar with familiar with the matter said. matter. The DOJ and a possibly in September, due to studies of the territorial dis- however, have slammed Duterte the matter said yesterday. No formal request has been spokesman for Goldman Sachs continuing reports of such inci- putes, said the Philippines could for not publicly raising alarm Malaysia is scrambling to made to the DoJ on the Goldman declined to comment. The US dents, including one reportedly file a new case against China for over recent Chinese actions, bring home billions of dollars fees, but top officials are actively Embassy in Kuala Lumpur witnessed by a TV news crew violating a 2016 arbitration including the reported instal- allegedly siphoned off from discussing the plan within the directed Reuters to the DoJ for on board a fishing boat at Scar- ruling that invalidated Beijing’s lation of missile defense systems 1MDB, a state fund founded by government, they said. comment. Goldman raised nearly borough, the officials said. extensive territorial claims in on its newly constructed islands ex-premier Najib Razak, who “There have been no official $6.5bn in three bond sales Chinese Embassy officials in the South China sea. The ruling, and the landing of bomber air- lost a general election last requests yet, but this is being between 2012 and 2013 for 1MDB. Manila did not immediately which China has ignored, also craft capable of carrying nuclear month. His successor, Prime discussed,” said a Malaysian More than $2.5bn raised from issue any comment. said that China violated the weapons on its main base at Minister Mahathir Mohamad, government source. these bonds was misappropriated The Chinese coast guard’s rights of Filipinos who were pre- Woody Island in the Paracels. said Malaysia is also seeking to A financial industry source by high-level 1MDB officials, their reported actions against Filipino vented from fishing at Scar- They said Duterte’s soft arrest financier Low Taek Jho, in Malaysia, who is aware of the relatives and associates, fishermen sparked fresh calls for borough, a traditional Asian approach has further a central figure in the scandal discussions, said back channel according to DoJ civil lawsuits President Rodrigo Duterte’s fishing area. emboldened China. who advised on investments and talks between the government filed in a US court in 2016.

Malaysia seizes over 600 protected Australia softens foreign interference animals in series of raids REUTERS rift over Prime Minister Malcolm government said the Foreign organisations,” Australian Turnbull’s comments about Influence Transparency Scheme Attorney General Christian KUALA LUMPUR: More than 600 protected animals, including SYDNEY: Australia yesterday Beijing meddling in Canberra’s would now not require execu- Porter told reporters in Western geckos, snakes and tarantulas, have been seized in a series of raids softened proposed foreign inter- domestic affairs. tives and lobbyists connected to Australia state. in Malaysia, officials said yesterday. ference laws to secure parlia- Late last year Turnbull cited private multinational companies Andrew Hastie, chairman of Tropical Malaysia is home to a kaleidoscope of exotic animals, mentary support for legislation “disturbing reports of Chinese to register as foreign agents. parliament’s joint intelligence and but the illegal wildlife trade remains a major problem as many of that threatens to further strain ties meddling” as justification for the “We’ve narrowed the focus security committee, said foreign the creatures fetch a high price on the black market. with major trading partner China. new tougher legislation, though of the bill with this drafting to interference laws must be The seizures from late May to early June netted live animals, Less than a year ago, trade the bill stalled amid political companies, particularly, who tightened as authoritarian regimes as well as eggs and bones, worth an estimated 200,000 ringgit was riding high at a record opposition to several elements. show and exhibit a degree of look to steal US secrets through ($50,000), said wildlife department chief Abdul Kadir Abu Hashim. A$170bn ($130bn) last year, but is Keen to push through the control on the part of foreign Canberra’s membership of the Three people were arrested in the raids. Some of the animals now threatened by a diplomatic bill, Australia’s centre-right governments or foreign political “Five Eyes” intelligence alliance. were destined to be sold as pets while others were to be eaten, said Abdul Kadir. In the first raid, over 240 animals were found in a house in the northern city of Ipoh. They included geckos, tarantulas, tor- Four villagers toises, iguanas and scorpions. Malaysia may commute cop’s death sentence A second raid in Selangor state saw 385 live animals, mostly shot dead in frogs and snakes, and 30 eggs seized. KUALA LUMPUR: The death people” to murder the Mongolian loss at last month’s elections, A gibbon and two civet cats were seized from a man in the southern Thailand sentence of a former policeman woman, Altantuya Shaariibuu, in Sirul has reportedly said he is state of Negeri Sembilan in a third raid. People caught illegally convicted of killing a young 2006. Altantuya was killed and willing to assist any new gov- keeping protected animals face a maximum jail term of three years AP woman in a scandal linked to her body blown up with military- ernment investigation into the and a maximum fine of 100,000 ringgit. the country’s disgraced grade explosives. scandal, a potential major HAT YAI, THAILAND: Four ex-premier may be commuted Her murder was the most breakthrough in the case. villagers were shot dead in to allow his return from shocking aspect in a scandal Prime Minister Mahathir Two S Korean media staff arrested at Thailand’s south in another Australia, Malaysia’s leader said involving allegations that an Mohamad said Friday that Sirul case of violence in the insur- yesterday. associate of recently ousted could not currently be sent back N Korean envoy’s home in Singapore gency-wracked region, police Sirul Azhar Umar is in Aus- premier Najib Razak arranged to Malaysia as “Australia doesn’t said. tralian custody after fleeing huge kickbacks for the purchase allow people who may be hung SINGAPORE: Two South Korean media staff have been arrested Police Maj. Gen Manas Malaysia in 2015 and maintains of French submarines in 2002. to death to return to their for trespassing at the home of the North Korean ambassador to Siksamat, police chief of Nar- he was ordered by “important Since Najib’s shock election country”. Singapore, police said, just days before a high-stakes summit athiwat province, said the between the US and North Korean leaders in the city-state. killings happened on Police said the men arrested on Thursday were from the Thursday while the victims Korean Broadcasting System News (KBS News), while a third man were gold panning at a river from the broadcaster and a fourth who was acting as a guide and running through a rubber interpreter were also under investigation. plantation. “Two South Korean men, aged 42 and 45, who were repre- He said the victims, all senting the Korean Broadcasting System News (KBS), were male, were discovered arrested,” police said in a Facebook post. Thursday night and their KBS said in an emailed statement it was ready to take any bodies were riddled with action Singapore authorities deemed necessary. bullet wounds. “We do not know exactly what the situation is or whether it Thailand’s three south- is illegal. We will respect the results of the investigation by the ernmost provinces of Nar- local police and will take necessary measures as soon as the results athiwat, Yala and Pattani come out,” KBS said. KBS is the national public broadcaster of have been plagued by a South Korea and operates radio, television and onlines services. Muslim separatist insurgency When asked about the arrests, a spokesman for South Korea’s that has claimed the lives of presidential Blue House said it would use “utmost diplomatic more than 6,500 people since effort to prevent such troubles” and urged journalists to be cau- the violence escalated in tious and prudent. International media are flocking to Sin- 2004. gapore, which is playing host to the first ever meeting between The victims had Muslim a sitting US president, Donald Trump, and a North Korean leader, names and one was 16 years Kim Jong Un. old. The June 12 talks are expected to centre on ending the North’s Police said they are inves- Photocopier recycling plant nuclear weapons programmes in return for diplomatic and eco- tigating whether the violence nomic incentives. More than 3,000 foreign journalists are expected A worker pulls a sack loaded with Xerox photocopier machines parts at the Fuji Xerox Eco-Manufacturing stemmed from personal con- to fly in to cover the summit. plant, where consumer products are recycled and reassembled, in Chonburi, Thailand, yesterday. flict or was connected to the Under Singapore law, criminal trespass may be punished with insurgency. imprisonment of up to three months, or a fine of up to S$1,500. 08 EUROPE SATURDAY 9 JUNE 2018 Brace for a possible ‘Brexit meltdown’, says Johnson REUTERS Johnson’s comments were secretly LONDON: Britain’s Foreign recorded at a dinner Minister Boris Johnson on Wednesday (pictured) warned there could be a Brexit meltdown but it will evening and released be “all right in the end” and said on Thursday by the that US President Trump would news website, just take a tougher stance were he hours after ministers leading the talks, according to BuzzFeed. found a compromise Johnson’s comments were on a backstop Brexit secretly recorded at a dinner on plan for the Irish Wednesday evening and released on Thursday by the border. news website, just hours after Britain’s Queen Elizabeth, accompanied by gardener Alan Titchmarsh, attend the opening of “The ministers found a compromise Trump, who is locked in a battle on Brexit but so do I,” she told Queen’s Diamond Jubilee Galleries” at Westminster Abbey in London, yesterday. on a backstop Brexit plan for the over metal tariffs with European Channel 4 news during an Irish border. allies including Britain, would interview at the G7 summit in Johnson said Prime Minister take a stronger approach if he Canada. Earlier a spokes- Theresa May was beginning to were in charge of the woman for May had said the Queen underwent cataract surgery in May take a harder line but that there negotiations. Prime Minister has confidence AFP would be a need for level-head- “Imagine Trump doing in Johnson. patches, over time growing and lens with an artificial one. Cat- edness as talks became more Brexit,” said Johnson. “The PM believes that her causing blurry, misted vision aract surgery typically takes just difficult in the months ahead. “He’d go in bloody hard... cabinet and her government LONDON: Britain’s 92-year-old and even blindness if left 30 to 45 minutes under local “I think Theresa is going to There’d be all sorts of break- are working hard to deliver on Queen Elizabeth II underwent untreated. In recent weeks the anaesthetic, but it can take an go into a phase where we are downs, all sorts of chaos. Eve- the will of the people and eye surgery to remove a cataract British monarch has been seen individual four to six weeks to much more combative with ryone would think he’d gone working hard to take back in May, Buckingham Palace said wearing sunglasses at a number fully recover. Brussels,” Johnson was recorded mad. But actually you might control of our money, laws and yesterday. of events, including the Royal Although she turned 92 in saying. get somewhere. It’s a very, very our borders,” she said. “I can confirm that the Windsor Horse Show and Buck- April, the queen traditionally “You’ve got to face the fact good thought.” May reacted Johnson also appeared to queen successfully underwent ingham Palace garden parties. holds an official birthday on the there may now be a meltdown defiantly to Johnson’s com- criticise finance minister Philip a short, planned procedure to Normally an impeccable second Saturday of June — this OK? I don’t want anybody to ments, stressing that he was Hammond, who is regarded as treat a cataract last month,” a observer of decorum, it is weekend — to enjoy more panic during the meltdown. No not the only one with strong one of the most pro-European palace spokesman said. thought the queen donned the favourable weather. panic. Pro bono publico, no views on Brexit. members of May’s cabinet and Cataracts occur when the shades on the advice of doctors Her husband Prince Philip bloody panic. It’s going to be all “These are complex nego- has drawn criticism from lens, a small transparent disc whilst one eye recovers from will then celebrate his 97th right in the end.” Johnson said tiations. Boris has strong views eurosceptics. inside the eye, develops cloudy surgery to replace the cloudy birthday on Sunday.

Celebrity Campaign aims 2nd Brexit referendum Swedish PM testifies chef Anthony ANATOLIA The Best For Britain group be talking to people on the plans to secure a second refer- doorstep about how Brexit is in court over war Bourdain LONDON: A new campaign for endum via an amendment to the affecting them.” If the majority a second referendum on the EU Withdrawal Agreement and of MPs vote for the amendment, UK’s exit from the EU, which is Implementation Bill, which will the government will have to give jets sale in Brazil found dead allegedly partly sponsored by US be discussed and voted in the a green light for a referendum AFP billionaire George Soros, has House of Commons in autumn. on the deal with the EU before Rousseff in South Africa in been launched in London “A people’s vote will be held March 29, 2019, the formal date December 2013 on the sidelines yesterday. before the end of March 2019. of Britain’s exit from the EU. STOCKHOLM: Sweden’s Prime of a tribute paid to the late Pres- The campaign, Best For We believe this is the right thing “After March 29, 2019, our Minister Stefan Lofven testified ident Nelson Mandela. Britain, is urging British law- to do so that everyone’s voice option to stay in will disappear,” in court yesterday, at the He also denied knowing makers to force a referendum can be heard,” Eloise Todd, the the group said. request of a Brazilian judge, Mauro Marcondes, an alleged on the deal — which is still to be chief executive of the campaign, “It is only right that the over a suspected corruption intermediary between Saab and secured by Prime Minister said in the launch ceremony. people get to decide whether to case in Brazil involving the sale Lula. The hearing lasted less Theresa May with the EU offi- “But this cannot be a debate forfeit our current deal after of Swedish fighter aircraft at the than five minutes, according to cials — before the country for- fought out solely within the having the opportunity to expense of their French coun- Aftonbladet. mally leaves the bloc. walls of Westminster. We will compare it to the Brexit deal. terpart Rafale. At the end of December Former Brazilian President 2013, Brazil ended more than a Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is decade of negotiations and being investigated for money reports and chose the Swedish laundering and influence ped- Gripen jets for a $4.5 billion AP dling as prosecutors accuse him contract at the expense of of having received 2.25m reais France’s Rafale and the PARIS: Anthony Bourdain ($1.04m at the current rate). American Boeing’s Super (pictured), the celebrity chef Lula is suspected of having Hornet. and citizen of the world who received the money in the pur- Brazil and Sweden inked inspired millions to share his chase of Swedish aircraft man- the deal for 36 fighter jets in delight in food and the bonds ufacturer Saab’s Jas Gripen October 2014, a few months it created, was found dead in fighter jets through his son Luis after Lofven became the head his hotel room yesterday in Claudio’s company to bribe of state. France while working on his Dilma Rousseff, who succeeded Saab Chairman Marcus CNN series on culinary tradi- him as the nation’s leader in Wallenberg and President and tions. He was 61. 2011. After arriving to the CEO Hakan Buskhe were also CNN confirmed the death, Stockholm district court early questioned in court. Both said saying that Bourdain was Friday, Lofven denied having they do not know Mauro Mar- found unresponsive Friday any knowledge of bribes related condes, according to the TT morning by friend and chef to the arms deal but admitted news agency. Eric Ripert in the French city to having promoted the sale of The 72-year-old Lula, who of Haut-Rhin. It called his the Swedish aircraft before he was jailed in early April, is death a suicide. Bourdain’s became prime minister. serving a 12-year sentence for assistant Laurie Woolever “I’m a working-class man. taking an apartment as a bribe, would not comment when It’s obvious that I would help a a case he describes as politically reached by The Associated Swedish company and make motivated. Press. Giant kites on air sure to create jobs in Sweden,” The former president is Widely loved and rarely he told the daily Aftonbladet. charged in six additional cases A man flies his giant kites at the beach on Bull Island on a sunny day near Dublin, Ireland, yesterday. afraid to speak his mind, Lofven denied before a in which he claims he’s Bourdain achieved celebrity judge that he had met Lula and innocent. status after the publication in 2000 of his best-selling “Kitchen Confidential: Adven- tures in the Culinary Under- Russia ordered to destroy Gulag records: Researcher belly.” The book created a sensation by combining frank AFP details of his life and career “I found out absolutely by entering camps, moving between told RIA Novosti news agency the state archive agency. It is with behind-the-scenes chance the record cards were them and what happened to that destruction of such cards unclear how many cards have observations on the culinary MOSCOW: A Russian researcher destroyed,” said Prudovsky, a them — whether they died or would be “barbarism”, but that been destroyed, he added. industry. Bourdain’s fame said yesterday he has discovered researcher who specialises in were released, researchers said. he hoped in this case “simply “It’s impossible to under- rose higher thanks to his CNN that Moscow had ordered the camps in Far Eastern Russia. Under President Vladimir some mistake happened.” He stand the scale of what hap- series “Parts Unknown.” Col- destruction of prison records “I submitted a request. I was Putin, a former spy, Russian promised to raise the question pened,” he said.“They could have leagues, friends and admirers including those relating to the interested in the fate of one authorities have moved to with officials. Alexei Makarov, a acted to fulfil it in a half-hearted shared their grief Friday. CNN Soviet Gulag, alarming historians person, whether he had survived downplay the horrors of Soviet researcher at Memorial, the way.... Unfortunately we don’t chief executive Jeff Zucker and prompting a rights body to in the camps. I found out that imprisonment of millions, country’s top rights group that know how bad the picture is.” If sent a company letter calling intervene. there exists an order for internal including political dissidents in helps honour the victims of the destruction has happened on Bourdain “an exceptional Researcher Sergei Prudovsky use.” The reply from the local prison camps. Soviet repression, said the news a mass scale, “this will make our talent. A storyteller. A gifted said he discovered the matter interior ministry, which Pru- Prudovsky passed the letter came as a surprise. work more difficult,” he added. writer. A world traveler. An when he had contacted author- dovsky posted on Facebook, says from the interior ministry to “We heard about this from A researcher at the Gulag adventurer.” Bourdain’s death ities in far eastern Magadan, record cards are only stored for Moscow’s Gulag Museum, which Sergei Prudovsky when he Museum, Alexander Makeyev came three days after fashion where Soviet prisoners once a limited time under an order then contacted the Presidential received the letter. This is an told Interfax news agency that designer Kate Spade com- mined gold, and was told a pris- given to the ministry, the FSB Rights Council, an influential order for internal use, not pub- so far the problem has only been mitted suicide in her Park oner’s record card had been security service and other bodies advisory body. lished, which doesn’t get dis- found in Magadan and the Avenue apartment in New destroyed under an “official with Soviet-era archives. The head of the presidential cussed with the public or with museum wants to find out if it York. order” from 2014. The cards record prisoners rights council Mikhail Fedotov Rosarkhiv,” he said, referring to affects other regions. SATURDAY 9 JUNE 2018 EUROPE 09

Poland’s Spain govt lifts Kaczynski leaves hospital financial curbs AP POLAND: The head of a Warsaw hospital said yesterday that the leader of on Catalonia Poland’s ruling party, Jaroslaw Kaczynski, has been discharged following AFP From now on, the treatment that has “stabilised Catalan government his health condition.” The MADRID: Spain’s new Socialist will simply have to 68-year-old Kaczynski government said yesterday it suffers from a knee problem would lift financial controls on provide a monthly and was seen limping and Catalonia as a “gesture of spending report using crutches before he was normalisation” towards the to the central admitted to the military separatist-minded region, but government. hospital in Warsaw in early insisted an independence refer- May. His long hospitalization endum was still “out of the had raised questions about his question.” Rajoy’s conservative gov- health and control over Polish Education Minister and ernment dismissed Catalonia’s politics. His conservative Law The Russian delegation of top army officials with General Valery Gerasimov on stairs arrives at the government spokeswoman government after the regional and Justice party has a Helsinki-Vantaa Airport, Finland, yesterday. Isabel Celaa said that banks parliament on October 27 majority in parliament and would be “instructed to allow declared independence fol- single-handedly runs the the government of Catalonia to lowing the banned government. Although he is make payments” without the referendum. only a lawmaker and keeps a supervision of Spain’s finance The referendum was boy- US, Russian military leaders meet in Finland low profile, Kaczynski is ministry. cotted by the opposition and considered to be Poland’s AP The financial controls had declared illegal by Spanish Valery Gerasimov, took place in Foreign Minister Timo Soini told most powerful politician and been put in place by the pre- courts. Konigstedt Manor, a Finnish Finnish broadcaster YLE. the architect of its politics. vious conservative government Opinion polls show Cat- DENMARK: The top US military state-owned venue used for “Finland is known for being able The head of the hospital, of Mariano Rajoy in September alans are split on the issue of chief met yesterday with his meetings, negotiations and to organize and contribute to Grzegorz Gielerak, said in a 2017 to prevent the separatist independence, but a large Russian counterpart in Finland receptions north of the capital, such discussions.” FNB said statement that Kaczynski will regional government of Cata- majority want to vote in a legit- to exchange views on US-Russia Helsinki. Finland hosted a similar a continue his treatment as an lonia from financing a banned imate referendum to settle the military relations, Syria and the No news conference or meeting in 2008. outpatient. The team that independence referendum on matter. current international security statement was planned. In April, Nato’s top military treated Kaczynski concluded October 1. Catalonia’s ousted pres- situation. On Thursday, Dunford met officer, US Army Gen. Curtis that the hospitalization But from now on, the ident Carles Puigdemont, for his Finnish news agency FNB separately with Finland’s mil- Scaparrotti, met with Gerasimov served to establish a diagnosis Catalan government will simply part, appeared to be open to a said the meeting between Gen. itary chief, Gen. Jarmo Lindberg. in Baku, Azerbaijan. It was the and for “conservative medical have to provide a monthly softer position during an Joseph Dunford, current “It is really good that the first such encounter since rela- procedures that have brought spending report to the central interview with Catalan radio chairman of the Joint Chiefs of United States and Russian have tions between Moscow and the an improvement and have government. Rac1 on Friday. Staff, and Russia’s chief of the a dialogue in a tense interna- alliance sank to post-Cold War stabilized his health con- Speaking after the first “The referendum is the military’s General Staff, Gen. tional environment,” Finnish lows over the Ukrainian crisis. dition,” the statement said. cabinet meeting since Prime expression of the right which Minister Pedro Sanchez came the people of Catalonia have to to power, Celaa said the new self-determination. If the premier would meet with Spanish government believes Spain’s 17 regional government that this right can be exercised France calls for more German ambition on euro zone heads, including Catalonia’s in another way, we have always new separatist president Quim said that we are willing to REUTERS reform proposals sketched out never,” Le Maire added. He should be limited in size to the Torra. listen,” he said. by Chancellor Angela Merkel in received warm applause from “low double-digit billions of Catalan separatist forma- Puigdemont is in Germany BERLIN: France called a weekend newspaper interview. the crowd of executives after euros”, far smaller than what tions had been among a string pending the outcome of a yesterday for more ambition He welcomed her support declaring: “France is back”. Macron has been seeking. of smaller parties to back the request by Spain for him to be from Germany in reforming the for the idea of a euro zone Alongside his domestic Merkel has also voiced no-confidence motion that extradited and stand trial over euro zone, saying Europe faced investment budget, one of reform push, Macron has support for a strengthening of ousted Rajoy. his role in Catalonia’s separatist a “now or never” moment with French President Emmanuel sketched out a far-reaching the euro zone’s ESM bailout Asked whether the gov- drive.He picked Torra to be rising external threats from the Macron’s key demands, but said vision for Europe in a series of mechanism, but her suggestions ernment would be willing to Catalonia’s next leader after United States and China. France and Germany had “a way speeches over the past year. But that it could assume economic discuss the possibility of Cata- separatist parties kept their French Finance Minister to go” to reach a common until Sunday, Merkel had not surveillance responsibilities lonia holding an independence absolute majority in regional Bruno Le Maire, speaking in position that was truly offered a detailed response. from the European Commission referendum as demanded by elections in December and German to a business conference ambitious. She has now backed and oversee debt restructurings Catalan separatists, Celaa said remains influential among in Berlin, offered the first official “Our European future is at Macron’s idea for a euro zone are unlikely to be welcomed in this was “out of the question”. Catalan separatists. response from Paris to European stake. We must act, it is now or budget, but made clear that it Paris. Romanian court Bus on school trip crashes postpones verdict in Poland, in leader’s graft trial 49 injured AP REUTERS said a second criminal con- viction for Dragnea could POLAND: A bus taking BUCHAREST: Romania’s top prompt Social Democrat rivals students home from a school court postponed yesterday a to move against him. trip collided with two other verdict in the trial in which the “We may see some internal vehicles yesterday in leader of the ruling Social wars in the party... a fresh con- southern Poland, injuring 49 Democrats stands accused of viction would be a wonderful people, many of them inciting other public servants opportunity for some to say the children, officials said. to commit abuse of office, current PSD leader has eroded Thirty-four people were saying it needed more time to his legitimacy too much to taken to the hospital after process details. govern the biggest party,” he the crash in the town of A fresh criminal conviction added. Tenczyn, four of them in for Liviu Dragnea, who is Dragnea is also under serious condition, including already barred from becoming investigation in Brazil on sus- the drivers of the bus and a prime minister because of a picion of money laundering, truck, said Joanna Sieradzka, previous conviction for vote- and in a separate case in a spokeswoman for the Horsey session rigging, could weaken his grip Romania on suspicion of regional ambulance service. on the country’s biggest party forming a “criminal group” to She said no one had life- A child caresses a horse in front of the ancient Pantheon in Rome, Italy, yesterday. and the five-month old siphon off cash from state threatening injuries. government. projects, some of them funded The bus collided with the Dragnea is accused of by the European Union. truck and a car Friday keeping two women on the But the former regional morning on a narrow, payroll of a state agency in development minister, who winding and busy road that 2006-2013 even though they created a funding programme leads from the mountain Paris attack victims sue over soldiers’ inaction were employed by his party. He for local infrastructure projects resort of Zakopane to was a county council chief at that has disbursed billions of Warsaw, the Polish capital. AP was responsible in the French interior ministries didn’t the time. euros since 2013 with limited Television footage government for their actions. respond to requests for Dragnea denies the charges. government oversight, has the showed the bus in a ditch PARIS: Survivors and families It is now up to the Paris pros- comment on the legal com- The court said on Friday it support of powerful provincial with its front damaged. of victims of the 2015 attack on ecutor’s office to study the plaint. After the 2015 attack, the will make a preliminary ruling leaders. At the start of 2017, Another image showed the Paris’ Bataclan concert hall complaint and decide whether French government clarified on June 21. A final verdict may attempts by Dragnea’s coalition front of both the bus and the filed a legal complaint to pursue a full-fledged the rules of engagement for take months, analysts say. government to weaken anti- truck in the ditch. yesterday to find out why investigation. military in similar situations. Arguments about how to corruption legislation triggered Police spokesman soldiers stationed nearby were Maktouf, representing the The soldiers were part of fight corruption in one of the country’s biggest protests Marian Rokosz said the stu- ordered not to intervene when victims, said eight soldiers Operation Sentinelle, a unit Europe’s most graft-prone in decades. dents, all around 13 years Islamic State gunmen stormed standing nearby were ordered created for internal security. states have dominated Roma- Romania has been dogged old, had been on their way the venue. not to use their weapons or The IS attack on the nia’s politics since it joined the by political instability since back to Warsaw. Lawyer Samia Maktouf told even help administer first aid Bataclan and other Paris European Union just over a shedding Communist rule in According to an official, The Associated Press the com- to the many victims shot in the venues on November 13, 2015, decade ago. Adrian Basaraba, 1989, but investors have largely police and prosecutors have plaint is not aimed at punishing attack. killed 130 people and wounded a political science professor at shrugged off the corruption opened investigation into the soldiers, but exposing who France’s defense and hundreds. the University of Timisoara, cases so far. the cause of the crash. 10 VIEWS SATURDAY 9 JUNE 2018 New dynamics, threats ESTABLISHED IN 1996

CHAIRMAN in war-torn Syria SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI

EDITOR-IN-CHIEF DR. KHALID BIN MUBARAK AL SHAFI [email protected]

OYTUN ORHAN ACTING MANAGING EDITOR ANATOLIA MOHAMMED SALIM MOHAMED [email protected] he Syrian crisis has entered a new phase following recent DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR military developments. MOHAMMED OSMAN ALI TFirstly, the race between the [email protected] Bashar Al Assad regime and US forces has ended in eastern Syria, creating a new status quo based on the bound- aries of the Euphrates River. Secondly, Damascus has managed to capture opposition strongholds in Syria’s central Hama and Homs prov- EDITORIAL inces. And thirdly, Turkey has managed to gain full control of Syria’s northern city of Afrin, thus increasing The laudable acts its influence in the region. The most serious potential consequence of these atar’s contribution to humanitarian causes around the world developments is that the proxy war has always been generous and a source of honour for the nation now underway in Syria could turn into Qand country. Along Qatar government which contributes to a conflict between regional — even global aid and relief efforts through the Qatar Fund for Development international — powers. (QFFD) and Qatar Charity, various charity organizations operating in Any major military venture carried -- including Iran -- should eventually The regime, for its part, has Qatar under the supervision of Regulatory Authority for Charitable out by the regime and its allies could withdraw. Iranian officials countered warned the US that it would face an Activities have also played pivotal role in minimizing sufferings of illicit a reaction -- not just by the YPG by saying that “no country can “unsafe environment” in the event that people caught in famines, ward and other natural catastrophes like terrorist group but from the foreign pressure us to withdraw from Syria”. it did not withdraw from the country. earthquakes etc. powers that stand behind it. Russia has not yet persuaded Iran Idlib is also on the regime’s radar. Now Qatari charity organizations have joined hands to raise over Russia-Iran On the southern front, to leave the war-torn country. But it But Idlib is of crucial importance to QR60m to support people fighting for survival in Somalia due to human- the opposition-held Daraa province has ensured that pro-Iranian militias Turkey, and any unilateral moves in itarian crises caused by famine which has affected nearly half of the near the border with Jordan was des- will remain between 70 and 80 kilom- the region could draw Turkish retali- population of the country. A joint campaign to support Somalia will be ignated a “de-escalation zone” fol- eters from Israel’s borders. ation. Turkey has placed military launched in Qatar on Sunday by four Qatari humanitarian organisa- lowing an agreement between Wash- Nor has Iran participated in any assets in Idlib within the context of an tions including Qatar Red Crescent Society, Qatar Charity, Silatech and ington and Amman. military activity along the southern agreement between Russia and Iran. Education Above All Foundation under the supervision of Regulatory Having seized opposition-held front. Should Russia secure an Iranian Turkey has also set up 12 obser- Authority for Charitable Activities and supported by Qatar Fund for parts of Damascus, the Syrian regime commitment to withdraw, the US vation posts in Idlib, while Russia and Development. has turned its would leave the Al Tanf airbase near Iran have stepped up efforts to The campaign aims to raise more than QR60m to meet the human- attention Jordan’s border while armed oppo- establish their own observation posts. itarian and development needs of the Somali people and provide south, sition groups would hand areas under While Turkey’s observation posts water, health, education and economic empowerment services, as recently dis- their control over to the Jordanian do not represent a military deterrent, well as humanitarian intervention in flood-affected areas to provide patching authorities. the fact that Turkey remains in contact shelter, food and medical supplies. large Once the southern front is secured, with both Russia and Iran will likely The money will be spent on drilling Turkey would numbers of two other regions will come under discourage any regime offenses in and rehabilitation of wells and water prefer to deal troops to scrutiny: Idlib, which became a zone Idlib. Manbij The outcome of US- systems, establishment of income gen- with the US -- Daraa. of influence for Turkey after the latter Turkey talks over Manbij will likely eration projects, support to the agri- both in Manbij This has established a series of observation influence the regime’s next moves. cultural sector, creating educational led to indirect posts in the region; and YPG-held According to a Turkish-US Qatari charity opportunities, building and renovation and east of the talks between areas under US protection. “roadmap”, the YPG should withdraw organizations of schools and health centers, Euphrates. But if the US, Israel, ‘Diplomacy or force’ Speaking to from the region, while Turkish and US have joined treatment of patients, distribution of Turkey does not the Syrian Russian media recently, Assad warned forces fill the vacuum. hands to raise food baskets, establishment of social see any concrete regime and that YPG-held areas would be retaken Should the model prove a success, centers, and road development. Iran. The “by diplomacy or by force”. Turkey will push for a similar over QR60m Last month, Qatar Fund for Devel- steps in Manbij, presence of US forces reportedly killed more arrangement in eastern Syria. to support opment (QFFD) and Qatar Charity had its cooperation Hezbollah than 100 Syrian troops, Iran-backed If the Manbij model is successfully people fighting signed an agreement worth $8.8m with with Russia and and other militiamen and Russian mercenaries implemented, eastern Syria could for survival in United Nations High Commissioner for pro-Iran when the latter attempted to move east eventually become a joint US-Turkish Refugees (UNCHR) to provide Rohingya Iran will likely militia groups of the Euphrates. zone of influence. Somalia due to refugees in Bangladesh with basic deepen further. is the greatest With this in mind, Russia is unlikely In this scenario, however, Turkish humanitarian services. danger for to make any moves east of the river cooperation with Russia and Iran crises caused by The cooperation aims to implement Israel, which has already carried out a that could lead to escalations with the would be mitigated. a number of life-saving projects such number of airstrikes on Iranian targets US. It is unrealistic to expect Iran to Deepening US-Turkish cooper- famine which as disaster risk reduction and response inside Syria. launch any major military operations in ation could prompt Russian, Iranian has affected programmes in Kutupalong refugee Iran, meanwhile, has been put in a areas under US protection. The Syrian and Syrian retaliation against the nearly half of the camp, and provide basic needs and corner by the recent US decision to regime, meanwhile, may eventually Turkish presence in Idlib. population of the services to refugees in Bangladesh. Sep- withdraw from the landmark 2015 return to southern Syria by striking a In a second possible scenario, the arately, Qatar Fund for Development nuclear deal between Tehran and the deal with the YPG. US may just try to buy time on Manbij, country. (QFFD) and Qatar Red Crescent Society P5+1 group of nations. If talks break down, however, the making token gestures in hopes of (QRCS) signed a $12m funding What’s more, the Russia-Iran regime could wage a “war of attrition” reducing pressure from Ankara. agreement to support the displaced communities in Syria, as well as alliance appears to have recently against US forces. Notably, tribal Turkey would prefer to deal with the Syrian refugees in neighbouring countries, under the umbrella come under strain. leaders in Aleppo, Raqqah and Al the US -- both in Manbij and east of of the UN. Targeting a total of 5.6 million beneficiaries in Syria, Russian President Vladimir Putin Hasakah recently announced the for- the Euphrates. But if Turkey does not Lebanon, and Jordan, this contribution comes under the Syria Human- recently hosted Bashar Al Assad in mation of a new force ostensibly see any concrete steps in Manbij, its itarian Response Plan adopted by the United Nations Office for the Sochi, where he announced that all tasked with “purging eastern Syria of cooperation with Russia and Iran will Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) and the United Nations foreign powers currently in Syria foreign powers”. likely deepen further. High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Qatar Fund for Development (QFFD) and Qatar Red Crescent Society (QRCS) also signed an agreement in May 2108 to finance the projects worth $8m to address the humanitarian and medical needs of more than 623,000 beneficiaries in Libya. Earlier in April 2108, the Qatar A successful summit is a smart one Fund for Development had signed a $3m agreement with the World CHRISTOPHER R HIL Food Program (WFP) to help displaced people in Iraq. Current circumstances could open be the only secure and permanent way QFFD had also signed a $2m agreement with the United Nations THE WASHINGTON POST the door to bringing about goals the to achieve that main goal. (UN) Humanitarian Coordinator to support emergency relief efforts key participants have said they wish to Second, a freeze in missile and for some of Afghanistan’s most needy communities. he on-again, off-again US- achieve. North Korea’s leadership nuclear-weapons testing is clearly North Korea summit is too appears to wants a more secure and needed, certainly for as long as con- important to play games with. productive relationship with its versations continue on the main goals TBoth Kim Jong Un and Pres- neighbors and with the broader global of peace and denuclearization. The ident Donald Trump are right to assure community, especially the United United States has shown it is prepared QUOTE OF THE DAY that they will indeed meet June 12 in States. to demonstrate that its regular joint Singapore. The planning now finally South Korea wants a stable and exercises with South Korea are being put in place at meetings in Pan- peaceful relationship with its northern defensive in nature, do not envision munjom and at the White House is a neighbor that offers opportunities for the use of nuclear weapons and are If we’re unable to key to success and must be taken seri- development of the peninsula. The not an attempt to decapitate the North make a deal we’ll ously and used smartly. There is much United States needs to see an end to Korean leadership. terminate Nafta. to do, the time is short, and the trail is North Korea’s experiment with Third, it is necessary to begin With that being complex and tricky. nuclear weapons and intercontinental moving down the more difficult road We welcome the efforts to open delivery vehicles. of eliminating the production of fissile said I think we’ll communications between the United What can this summit achieve? material for weapons use. North Korea probably easily States and North Korea facilitated by First and foremost, it must produce should reaffirm its September 2005 make a deal. the diplomatic efforts of South Korea. an agreed-upon statement committing commitment to the Six-Party We also recognize that one meeting - the parties not only to a permanent end agreement by abandoning all nuclear even a summit - cannot be expected to to hostilities but to the complete, irre- weapons and existing nuclear pro- Donald Trump produce an immediate solution to the versible, full and verifiable denucleari- grams and returning, at an early date, US President decades-old North Korean nuclear zation of the peninsula. Those who see to the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation problem. This is just the beginning of a this as a measure to be taken in one of Nuclear Weapons, and to safe- long process that will require per- leap must also see the hard reality. As guards established by the Interna- sistence and patience to succeed. Trump has noted, steps and stages may tional Atomic Energy Agency. SATURDAY 9 JUNE 2018 OPINION 11 Ethiopia offers an olive branch to Eritrea

t has been 18 years since Ethiopia fundamental political and economic and antagonism within the country. including the fate of the population and Eritrea signed the Algiers anxieties and hegemonic aspirations, Since assuming power, Ahmed there. Peace Accord that officially acting as a byword for brutality, linked the political, social and eco- The ball is now in Eritrea’s ended the 1998-2000 war, which anguish, guilt, shame, fear, and pride. nomic transformations in Ethiopia to court and Asmara can no longer I regional dynamics, particularly claim Ethiopia’s occupation of its killed an estimated 100,000, dis- In 2002, the Eritrea-Ethiopia placed more than a million, and splin- Boundary Commission (EEBC) issued Eritrea, with which Ethiopia has territory as an excuse for inaction. AWOL K ALLO tered thousands of families. its final and binding ruling on the closer security, economic, and social Ethiopia’s call is genuine, and AL JAZEERA The Accord, brokered by the border between the two countries, ties. Eritrea stands to benefit as much, if African Union, the United Nations and which awarded Badme to Eritrea. During his inaugural address, the not more, from a rapprochement the United States, was not designed Ethiopia refused to withdraw from the prime minister directly addressed with its western neighbour. By nor- merely to end one of the most contested territory, effectively Eritrea, expressing his readiness for malising relations, Eritrea can senseless and deadliest conflicts in the blocking the demarcation of the dialogue and engagement. He urged eliminate the biggest security world. It was also meant to iron out border. The international community, his Eritrean counterpart to recip- threat it has been facing; it can end the underlying issues and pave the which brokered the peace deal, failed rocate his efforts to find a negotiated the compulsory recruitment of its way for peaceful co-existence to hold Ethiopia accountable for settlement to the conflict and to forge youth into the military, and gain between the two nations. Nearly two flouting the EEBC ruling. a mutually beneficial relationship for access to the largest market in the decades on, however, the two coun- Consequently the two countries the sake of “the common blood rela- region. tries are still at loggerheads and see remained on a war footing and tions between the peoples of the two While there will be some each other as the number one geopo- engaged in hostile activities against countries”. resistance to the prime minister’s litical threat that they face. each other, spawning proxy wars in Two months after making this move to return the flashpoint town On June 5, the Ethiopian gov- neighbouring Somalia, and further commitment, he followed up with a of Badme to Eritrea, Ahmed has an ernment announced its readiness to destabilising an already unstable decisive announcement committing unprecedented opportunity to close fully comply and implement the region. Ethiopia used its relatively Ethiopia to a full compliance with the this dark chapter in the history of Algiers Peace Accord, an agreement it stronger regional sway and diplo- Algiers Agreement. In a speech after the two countries. He was elected refused to comply with for 18 years. It matic clout to isolate Eritrea, which the announcement, Ahmed said, at a critical moment for Ethiopia’s also said that it will accept the was subjected to international “Putting an end to this situation and history with a strong mandate from The Accord, brokered outcome of a 2002 border com- sanctions. finding peace is necessary beyond his party. He has created sub- by the African Union, mission ruling, which awarded dis- The political anxieties that led to anything else not just for Ethiopia but stantial excitement and optimism puted territories, including the town the war were compounded by the also for the wider Horn of Africa”. about the direction of the country. the United Nations of Badme, to Eritrea. anxieties that resulted from the war, The prime minister rejected the He has the vision, the determi- and the United States, Why now and what does this creating the intractable predicament characterisation of relations between nation, and, above all, the political was not designed mean for the future of the two coun- that made dialogue between the two the two countries as a “no war no capital, necessary to commit merely to end one of tries and the region? parties almost impossible. peace” situation, arguing that the psy- Ethiopia to the deal. In 1998, Ethiopia and Eritrea went Ethiopia’s change of heart towards chological burden and the endless The political landscape in the most senseless to war over Badme, a desolate piece Eritrea is genuine, and is directly tied antagonism means that we are still in Eritrea remains the same. While a and deadliest conflicts of land very few Ethiopians or Eri- to the momentous changes taking a state of war. rapprochement with Ethiopia may in the world. It was treans had ever heard of. Although place domestically. Since coming to Ahmed said, “Every Ethiopian bring its own political risks for the also meant to iron out Badme was a mere pretext to start a office a little over two months ago, should realise that it is expected of us regime in Eritrea, these are conflict fuelled by much deeper Ethiopia’s new Prime Minister Abiy to be a responsible government that minuscule compared with the sig- the underlying issues political problems, it has since been Ahmed has reconfigured the Ethi- ensures stability in our region, one nificant social, political, and eco- and pave the way for etched into the imagination of many opian political landscape and its stra- that takes the initiative to connect the nomic advantages. peaceful co-existence Ethiopians and Eritreans and has tegic direction, moving with brotherly peoples of both countries The Ethiopia-Eritrean conflict is between the two taken on a deeper meaning. incredible speed to drive changes and expands trains, buses, and eco- one of the most important latent Today, the name Badme con- aimed at widening the political space nomic ties between Asmara and Addis conflicts in the region, with serious nations. denses within itself a series of and narrowing the social divisions Ababa.” consequences for regional and While subsequent Ethiopian global security. The international leaders have expressed their read- community, particularly the West, iness to resolve the crisis with Eritrea, has ignored the dispute for long. no previous Ethiopian leader has expressed the desire to end the stalemate with the determination, clarity and sense of purpose as Ahmed has. However, Ethiopia needs a responsible partner on the Eritrean side to resolve the dispute. So far, D-RING ROAD Eritrea has not yet replied to Ethio- POST BOX: 3488 pia’s call. The Eritrean government DOHA - QATAR has consistently demanded Ethiopia’s [email protected] full compliance with the EEBC’s decision before normalising relations. However, the insistence on uni- EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OFFICE lateral withdrawal as a condition for TEL: 4455 7741 / 767 normalising relations is not tenable, FAX: +974 4455 7758 not least because Badme was under Ethiopian rule before the EBBC’s MANAGING EDITOR ruling and continues to be under the TEL: 4462 7505 effective control of the Ethiopian gov- ernment. 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AFP In the hours before he boarded Air Force One, Trump QUEBEC CITY: Donald Trump seemed to be relishing the idea came to the G7 summityesterday of a punching match more and as an outcast among allies, more. arriving last, leaving first and He called out the Canadian loving every minute of the fight. and French leaders by name, It sounds bad, a US president railing against “massive trade lobbing Twitter barbs at Amer- tariffs” that are “killing” American ica’s oldest allies before meeting farms and threatening to “more them for what was meant to be a than match” them. cozy familial retreat on the banks There was even a call for of Canada’s glittering Saint Law- Russia to be readmitted to the G7, rence River. with Trump pointedly saying Even weeks before the G7 “they” had thrown Moscow out summit in Charlevoix, Trump had of the club in the first place even seemed more at ease, and more though it was a decision reached interested, in another summit - by all the members -- including the one in Singapore on June 12 the US. with his onetime nemesis, North Until the last moment, White FROM LEFT: European Union Council President Donald Tusk, British Prime Minister Theresa May, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, US Korea’s Kim Jong Un. House officials nervously joked President Donald Trump, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, French President Emmanuel Macron, Japan Prime Minister Shinzo In the days before his that they could not be sure Trump Abe, Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte and European Union Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker pose for the media on the departure, he groused about his would even get on the plane to sidelines of G7 Summit, in La Malbaie, Canada, yesterday. allies’ unfair trade practices and Canada. After all, the 71-year-old, seemed to bristle at the return fire not known for this thick skin, has promise to be unpalatable. out of a summit with Latin Prime Minister Justin Trudeau Americans in general, support from some ostensible friends. a habit of cancelling events that Earlier this year, he pulled American leaders at the last and the White House flirting with free trade, but it needs to be minute, purportedly to deal with cancelling a bilateral meeting reciprocal,” said Lotter. air strikes against Syria, but it was with French President Emmanuel “They don’t like that despite no secret he was unhappy at the Macron, not everyone in the what we call ‘free trade’, Canada Anti-G7 protest thwarted by rogue balloon cam prospect of facing criticism and White House was worried about levies a 270 percent tariff on US AFP protests. harming relationships that have dairy and the EU charges four ferrying in leaders of Britain, “The camera was last seen Just this week, he canceled a shaped the world for the better times the tariff on US cars going LA MALBAIE: Canadian Canada, France, Germany, Italy, floating toward the G7 summit White House visit by the NFL part of a century. to Europe than the US charges on anti-G7 activists were yesterday Japan and the United States. site at an altitude of approxi- champion Philadelphia Eagles “The president campaigned cars coming here. “People see the reduced to appealing to author- And, as back-up and to mately 500 meters,” said the because embarrassingly few on standing up for American president’s leadership on the ities or bystanders to return provide footage to publicize group’s regional organizer Mark players wanted to go. workers and against unfair trade issue is correct and working.” their camera after they lost their stunt, they also wanted Calzavara. Hours before his arrival, deals that ship our jobs and None of this will be good contact with a balloon deployed aerial footage, despite dra- “The drifting camera poses White House Press Secretary wealth overseas,” said Marc news to foreign diplomats in to hoist it aloft. conian rules banning private no danger to the public, unlike Sarah Sanders announced that Lotter, a former aide to Vice Pres- Washington, who have long The left-leaning environ- drones from the summit area. the G7 itself,” he said. “If anyone Trump would be leaving the ident Mike Pence. worried about anti-Trump sen- mental group Council of Cana- Their solution was to rig a finds our camera, we would summit early. This is a fight that some in the timent turning into anti-American dians set up a 50 by 35-meter GoPro action camera to helium appreciate getting it back.” So when Trump left the White House -- including the sentiment and doing permanent banner on ground nine miles balloons. The plan hit an imme- The group would like to White House yesterday morning president -- are perfectly happy damage. from the Quebec golf resort diate snag. see the G7 disbanded. It said and boarded Marine One, late to have, one that paints the pres- Still, Trudeau, Macron or any hosting the G7 summit. Organizers lost control of they have notified Canadian there was a palpable sense of ident as a champion of America. of the other G7 leaders may look They hoped the sign, a the camera rig when strong national security officials relief among staff who worried Few of Trump’s supporters on the bright side too -- they are crossed out G7 logo, would be winds snagged it in a tree, about their wayward camera. about offending America’s closest will lose sleep about the ensuing likely to lose any votes at home visible from the helicopters snapping two retention lines. allies. Still, despite the barbs diplomatic demolition derby. by confronting a deeply against “indignant” Canadian “The President, and I believe unpopular US President.

Election to give New Mexico district its first congresswoman Nicaraguan AP President meets said. “Women of color are a sig- broadband service in rural New nificant portion of this growth.” Mexico. Torres Small said she Bishops for new ALBUQUERQUE: Female candi- For example, Yale-educated hopes she can at least do her part dates are slated to make history attorney Stacey Abrams of to tone down the partisan crisis talks in November in a closely Georgia is seeking to become the bickering. watched congressional race in first black woman elected gov- “It’s not against something, AFP New Mexico, pointing to the ernor in US history. She easily it’s for something,” Torres Small growing political power of won the Democratic nomination said. “You learn growing up in a women in the American for Georgia’s highest seat last small community to work MANAGUA: President Daniel Southwest and a draw of talent month. together, and you don’t start Ortega met Nicaragua’s that is helping reshape one of the Former state Rep. Paulette working together by throwing Catholic bishops to discuss nation’s poorest districts. Jordan recently won the Demo- insults at each other across the resuming church-mediated Democrats and Republicans cratic primary for Idaho gov- playground.” Herrell, who won talks on ending a political Xochitl Torres Small (left), and Yvette Herrell nominated women this week to ernor. If she wins the general the endorsement of the NRA and crisis and protest violence compete for the open seat rep- election, Jordan would not only is a strong Trump supporter, said that has left more than 120 resenting a region along the US- women in the open central New Whatever happens, New be the first woman to serve as she will focus on showing voters people dead, the bishops’ Mexico border. A woman has Mexico seat that encompasses Mexico’s three-member US Idaho governor but also the first she endorses Trump’s policies conference said. never held the seat. Albuquerque. Women won big House delegation likely will be Native American woman to serve such as the U.S.-Mexico border The bishops called off the The race is pitting water primary victories for governor majority female next year, said in that position in any state. wall and tax cuts. peace talks after a crackdown attorney Xochitl Torres Small and other races in the state and Christine Marie Sierra, a retired Torres Small, who’s running Her candidacy has galva- last week on a protest led by against GOP state lawmaker nationwide this week. University of New Mexico for the southern New Mexico nized social conservatives who victims’ mothers left at least Yvette Herrell in a general Republican state lawmaker political science professor and seat and is the granddaughter of hope she can replace outgoing 16 more people dead. election campaign expected to Janice Arnold-Jones is trying to co-author of “Contested Trans- Mexican immigrants, said she Republican US Rep. Steve But the Nicaraguan Epis- center around President Donald recapture a central New Mexico formation: Race, Gender, and believes her “candidacy is at the Pearce, who is stepping down to copal Conference said Trump, immigration and the seat for the GOP after years of Political Leadership in 21st right time” as more women seek run for New Mexico governor. Wednesday in a statement North American Free Trade Democratic control. Her Century America.” office. Herrell said she hasn’t that after listening to “various Agreement. The unpredictable opponent, former state Demo- That’s because strong female Her campaign has excited focused too much on the historic sectors” both in Nicaragua district that has leaned Repub- cratic Party chairwoman Deb candidates have emerged in both Latina voters in the most His- nature of her candidacy but and abroad, the bishops had lican in recent years will help Haaland, is seeking to become parties after years of training, panic congressional district in acknowledges it.“I think it’s great proposed the new meeting determine which party controls the first Native American woman education and organising. the nation’s most Hispanic state. that this district will finally be and the president had the US House of elected to Congress. “It’s a phenomenon that’s But she said she is focusing on represented by a woman,” said accepted. Representatives. Lloyd Princeton also is occurring not just in New Mexico matters like economic devel- Herrell, a real estate agent. “I just “We asked the pres- Both parties also nominated running as a Libertarian. but across the country,” Sierra opment and increasing hope it’s me.” ident... for an audience to discuss the essential and urgent issues of our country, justice and democracy, which peace depends upon, with the Hurricane Aletta goal of evaluating the via- US approves ex-Panama bility of continuing the dia- logue,” the statement said. strengthens in the Nicaragua has been president’s extradition swept by eight weeks of vehement protests against Ortega, the man who has AFP eastern Pacific people, including journalists and been incarcerated in Miami since dominated the Central politicians. He is under investi- then. Having exhausted his American country’s politics AFP It formed on Wednesday as a MIAMI: The United States gation in Panama in about 20 appeals, his fate was left in the for four decades. tropical storm but by yesterday yesterday approved the extra- other cases of corruption, but hands of the US government. What started as relatively MIAMI: Hurricane Aletta had intensified into a Category dition to Panama of former pres- those are not referred to in the On May 15, his lawyers sub- small protests over a much- strengthened to a Category Four Four hurricane, one notch below ident Ricardo Martinelli, who extradition request. mitted a 430-page document to hated pension reform met storm in the eastern Pacific the most dangerous storms on faces charges of spying on jour- Under a 1905 extradition the State Department in which with a bloody crackdown, yesterday, generating swells that the five-point Saffir-Simpson nalists and political opponents treaty, he can only be tried in they asked Secretary of State fueling outrage against the could produce life-threatening wind scale. in his homeland, his lawyers said. Panama for the crimes alleged Mike Pompeo to exercise his dis- leftist president. surf in Mexico’s Baja California “Swells generated by Aletta The lawyers told AFP the US in the request. cretion and deny Panama’s Ortega’s government had peninsula, US weather fore- will begin to affect portions of the State Department had signed off In Panama, President Juan “politically motivated” extra- urged its opponents to return casters said. coast of west-central mainland on the extradition after rejecting Carlos Varela confirmed his gov- dition request. Martinelli argued to the negotiating table. Though packing fierce Mexico and the west coast of Baja Martinelli’s argument that he ernment had been notified of the he was the victim of a “vendetta” In suspending the talks winds of 220km per hour, Aletta California Sur later today and faced a risk of being tortured if State Department action and by Varela, his former vice pres- last week, the church had was more than 500 miles from will continue through the returned to Panama. pledged “everything will be ident. In an open letter that his said dialogue was impossible Manzanillo, Mexico and was on weekend,” the hurricane center Martinelli, who served as managed on the basis of the pro- lawyers made public last month, as long as “the people con- a northwesterly track away from said. “These swells are likely to president from 2009 to 2014, ceedings, laws and constitution Martinelli cited occasions when tinue to be repressed and the mainland, the Miami-based cause life-threatening surf and was accused of spying on the tel- of the country.” Martinelli was he had done favors for the United killed” by “groups close to the National Hurricane Center said. rip current conditions.” ephone calls of more than 150 detained in June last year and has States. government.” SATURDAY 9 JUNE 2018 CLASSIFIEDS/ AMERICAS 13

US pulls 2 workers UN Security from Cuba amid new potential Council picks 5 health cases new members AP AFP the UN Security Council, WASHINGTON: The United including the five permanent States has pulled two more of UNITED NATIONS: The UN ones -- Britain, China, France, its workers out of Cuba and General Assembly elected Russia and the United States -- are testing them for possible Belgium, the Dominican and 10 non-permanent brain injury, three US officials Republic, Germany, Indonesia members, half of which are said yesterday, amid concerns and South Africa yesterday to elected each year. they may have been affected serve as non-permanent Each candidate country by the mysterious health inci- members on the Security needed to secure two thirds of dents harming US diplomats Council for two years starting the votes in order to clinch a in Cuba and China. in January. seat. The Dominican Republic The two individuals are All but three of the 193 UN will take its first turn on the considered “potentially new member states cast paper Security Council, while the cases” but have not yet been ballots. Germany and the other nations chosen have “medically confirmed,” a Dominican Republic each served before. State Department official said. obtained 184 votes. South Africa Belgium and Germany Two other officials said the got 183 votes, Belgium 181 and obtained the two seats for the individuals have been 144 went to Indonesia. Western Europe and Others brought for testing to the Uni- “Belgium will make sure to Group after Israel dropped out versity of Pennsylvania, be a constructive, reliable and of the competition. The Mal- where doctors have been open partner during its dives, with only 46 votes, lost evaluating, treating and mandate at the council and for out to Indonesia for the Asia studying Americans affected the international community as Pacific regional group’s seat. in Cuba last year as well as a whole,” Belgian Foreign Min- The African Union made a new potential cases from a US ister Didier Reynders said in a deal to see that South Africa consulate in China. statement. was elected, while the So far there are 24 con- The Belgian government Dominican Republic took up firmed patients affected by said it was joining the council Latin America’s spot after a the bizarre incidents, first dis- at a “pivotal moment.” similar consensus in that closed last year, that have “It’s a period when multi- regional group. been deemed “specific lateralism no longer seems The five new members will attacks” by the US gov- obvious to all, with some even replace Bolivia, Ethiopia, Kaza- ernment. The United States questioning it, even as the khstan, the Netherlands and has said it doesn’t know who planet is confronted with mul- Sweden on the council. is behind it, but has argued tiple global challenges, Just before taking up their Cuba is responsible for pro- including climate change, the duties, the elected states get tecting all diplomats on its (UN) Sustainable Development intense training about Security soil. Goals, the fight against ter- Council protocol and customs. Until yesterday, the most rorism and illegal migration.” The ambassadors will each recent suspicious incidents South African President preside over the council for a disclosed by the US had been Cyril Ramaphosa said his month during their mandate. in August 2017, leading many country was “humbled and Each regional bloc has its to suspect they had stopped. honored by the confidence the own process for Security The two new individuals international community has Council candidates. For some, removed from Cuba were demonstrated in our capability “it’s first come, first served,” medically evaluated in just to contribute to the resolution and countries often seek a seat the past few weeks, two offi- of global challenges.” very early on, a diplomat said, cials said. He also expressed concerns speaking on condition of The confirmed Cuba about “the emergence of uni- anonymity. patients have been found to lateralism and its attendant “You can put forward your have a range of symptoms threat to the international candidacy for 10 years,” the and diagnoses including mild rules-based system.” diplomat added, though others traumatic brain injury, also There are 15 members on can challenge that spot. known as concussions.

The Fuego Volcano continues to release ash and smoke, as seen from the village of San Miguel Los Lotes, in Escuintla department, about 35km southwest of Guatemala City, yesterday. Lava flows at Guatemala volcano prompt fresh evacuations REUTERS including fine particles similar the ravaged landscape, which is to cement, two- to three-meter coated in ash. EL RODEO: Dangerous flows diameter rocks and tree trunks The US government said it of lava, ash and toxic gases dragged out by the current,” the was sending emergency aid at poured down several canyons statement added. The flows Guatemala’s request, while below the crater of Guatemala’s sparked panic among rescue Mexican authorities sent doctors Fuego volcano yesterday, workers still in the area, as well to help survivors with severe prompting a new round of evac- as volunteers and police. burns, at least seven of whom, uations of rescue workers and Search and rescue efforts in critical condition, were trans- nearby villages. were formally suspended on ferred across the border into At least 109 people have Thursday due to hazardous con- Mexico. already died in a series of erup- ditions, though authorities said The death toll from Fuego, tions that began with a massive they could resume if the situ- which means “fire” in Spanish, blast on Sunday and since then ation improves. is expected to rise further as have showered ash over a vast Along a closed highway that more bodies are found. area, spewing deadly, fast- connects the towns of El Rodeo “If the search is not going to moving pyroclastic flows. and San Miguel los Lotes, around be continued (authorities) In two of the canyons where 25 people, many with picks and should send us help because flows have accumulated, shovels, waited to resume the even if it’s just bones, we want columns of ash rose as high as search for the missing. our families back,” said Eufemia 6,000 meters, according to a The death toll from Fuego’s Garcia, a 47-year-old housewife Friday morning statement from most violent eruption in four who estimated 50 members of Guatemala’s volcanic institute. decades has been gradually her extended family are still “The (flows) carry hot vapor, rising as rescue teams scoured missing. 14 CLASSIFIEDS SATURDAY 9 JUNE 2018

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Ant Financial raises $14bn in world’s Fed & ECB to tighten largest-ever policy in tandem REUTERS single fundraising The ECB has already said the ¤2.55trillion asset purchase REUTERS FRANKFURT: Tightening programme’s fate will be on the policy by a notch just one day agenda on Thursday but ECB SHANGHAI/BEIJING: Ant apart, the world’s top two President Mario Draghi must Financial Services Group, central banks will hope to signal decide whether to declare the operator of China’s biggest confidence in global economic end or wait until policymakers online payment platform, growth, despite risks of a trade next meet in July. It is expected yesterday said it raised war, currency swings and to opt for a formula that spec- around $14bn in what market political turbulence. ifies steady rates for several watchers called the biggest- The US Federal Reserve is quarters and for as long rates ever single fundraising almost certain to raise rates are consistent with its near 2 globally by a private again on Wednesday, inching percent inflation target. company. closer to a neutral policy stance, But with growth slowing The cash will boost Ant’s while the European Central and yields on the periphery firepower ahead of a widely Bank is likely to signal on rising due to fears of political expected initial public Thursday that its ¤2.55trillion instability in Italy, downside offering (IPO) in Hong Kong bond purchase scheme will end risks appear to be increasing, and mainland China as early this year, a key move in dis- suggesting to some that the ECB as next year - though the mantling crisis-era stimulus. may try to get out early to avoid company has neither publicly Ralph Lauren Corp marks 50th Anniversary of founding Though largely a coinci- being dragged into politics. set a timetable nor chosen a dence, their twin steps suggest For the Fed, raising rates by likely stock exchange. Ralph Lauren (left), Executive Chairman and Chief Creative Officer, Ralph Lauren Corporation; with the era of cheap central bank 25 basis points to a range of 1.75 The exercise amounted to the NYSE President Stacey Cunningham (right) rings the closing bell to celebrate 50 years at the cash will soon be over. That percent to 2 percent appears an the largest confirmed single Dow Industrial Average at the New York Stock Exchange, in New York. indicates major economies are easy call. The US central bank fundraising round in history, strong enough to stand on their is meeting both of its objectives, according to data provider own but also that central banks its preferred inflation rate is at Crunchbase. are keen to replenish their 2 percent and the economy is In a statement, Ant said policy firepower before the next at full employment. the funding included both US downturn. The question is whether its dollar and Chinese yuan Airbus deal with Bombardier set for take-off For the ECB, the next step rate hike projections, three moves tranches. The dollar share is likely to be another in a series both this year and next, move up AFP made up over $10bn, said The C Series is a state-of- arch-rival, had successfully peti- of incremental moves, as poli- and whether it expects to hit the people with knowledge of the the-art narrow-body aircraft tioned President Donald Trump’s cymakers seek to avoid any so-called neutral interest rate matter. PARIS: Aviation giants Airbus largely built from composite administration to impose potential backtracking, mindful quicker than earlier thought. “The Canada Pension Plan and Canada’s Bombardier materials. It complements financial penalties on Bom- of their two disastrous rate domestic risks facing the US Investment Board said in a yesterday said they have Airbus’ medium-range carrier, bardier to keep it from selling its hikes in 2011, which exacer- economy are arguably tilted to statement that it will invest finalised a partnership deal on the A320, which can carry some C Series planes in the massive US bated the euro zone’s debt the upside,” ABN Amro economist about $600m in Ant Finan- the C Series airliner programme, 140 passengers. market. crisis. Bill Diviney said. cial’s unit, Ant International the latest move in a long-running Airbus and Bombardier said Boeing had accused Bom- The euro zone economy has An overheating labour Co. battle for the skies against US their partnership, first bardier of manufacturing its been growing for over five market would argue for quicker Participants in the yuan behemoth Boeing. announced in October last year, 100-150 seat planes with years, employment is at a tightening but inflation is tranche were mainly existing The partnership will see has cleared all regulatory Canadian public subsidies and record high, wage inflation is expected to stabilise around shareholders, Ant said. European aviation mammoth approvals and is ready for take- selling them at a loss. Heeding increasingly clear and bond target and the Fed is likely to “Now, with the help of our Airbus acquire a majority stake off. Under the deal, the two com- Boeing’s call, Washington purchases have done all they be careful in any move above partners, we are going to in the C Series programme in a panies will use an assembly line slapped duties on Bombardier could to cut borrowing costs, the neutral rate, which neither accelerate our strategy,” said deal effective July 1, the two com- in Alabama to build aircraft for CS100 and CS300 aircraft making ending the scheme the stimulates not cools the Ant Chief Executive Eric Jing. panies said in a statement. US customers. Boeing, Airbus’s imported into the US. logical next step. economy. 16 BUSINESS SATURDAY 9 JUNE 2018

Japan’s economy MarketWatch IMF agrees to $50bn deal to shrank in Q1 on weak spending help Argentina’s economy QSE FTSE100 DOW BRENT AP 9,242.30 7,681.07 25,274.89 $65.47 AP -85.47 PTS −23.33 PTS +33.48 PTS -0.48 TOKYO: Japan’s economy 0.92 0.30% 0.14% Dow & Brent before going to press WASHINGTON: Argentina and declined in the first quarter on the International Monetary Fund weak consumer spending, agreed Thursday on a three- revised data showed year $50bn stand-by financing yesterday. The Cabinet Office deal aimed at strengthening the said the gross domestic Business needs to prepare for South American country’s product or GDP, the total value economy and helping it fight of a nation’s goods and worst-case on Brexit: Scholz inflation. services - shrank at an annu- The IMF said the staff-level alized rate of 0.6 percent in REUTERS agreement will be subject to the January-March period. approval by the international The data were unchanged body’s executive board, which from preliminary data FRANKFURT: German Finance will consider Argentina’s eco- released in May that reflected Minister Olaf Scholz (pictured) nomic plan in the coming days. weak domestic demand, said yesterday that businesses In Argentina, where many including consumer spending readying for Brexit should Argentina’s Central Bank Governor Federico Sturzenegger (left) have criticized the government and residential investment. prepare for a worst-case and Argentina’s Finance Minister Nicolas Dujovne addressing the for turning to the IMF, Finance Analysts said the decline scenario even though there was Minister Nicolas Dujovne said media in Buenos Aires, Argentina. was broadly in line with “no guarantee” of a final deal the funds would be available expectations but they are being reached between Britain after the executive board meets announced in May that his gov- thousands of layoffs, a lower concerned about the decline and European Union. June 20. “The package includes ernment was seeking a financing budget for health and education, in consumer spending. A tentative deal to manage an immediate withdrawal of 30 deal with the IMF following a belt-tightening for the retired “Gradually we expect that Britain’s transition out of the percent, or $15bn, and then we sharp devaluation of Argentina’s and labor reform. In short, a it will pick up, but customers common market had been Thursday, in which he said will see,” he said at a news currency and a tough global series of measures against the are still worried about trade reached in March, but this still there could be a Brexit conference. economic outlook. people,” said leftist lawmaker friction and oil prices, so it’s hinges on a final overall meltdown but that it would be Terms of the arrangement That decision rekindled bad Nicolas del Cano. difficult to see when con- agreement being reached with “all right in the end”. include the goals of reducing the memories for Argentines who IMF officials said Argentine sumer spending will pick up,” the EU, Scholz warned. He said Prime Minister Argentine government’s budget blame the IMF’s austerity pol- authorities have pledged to Harumi Taguchi, at IHS “There is no guarantee that Theresa May was beginning to deficit by 2020 and of bringing icies then for the country’s worst maintain a floor under social Markit, said. this overall agreement will be take a harder line but that there down inflation to 17 percent by economic crisis in 2001, when assistance spending during the Trade friction with the US reached, though we are would be a need for level-head- 2019, 13 percent by 2020 and 9 one out of every five Argentines three-year duration of the as Trump administration working hard on it, as there are edness as talks became more percent by 2021, Dujovne said. were jobless and millions were program. attempts to trim the US per- still open questions, including difficult in the months ahead. Argentina’s consumer prices thrown into poverty. Thousands Macri said the deal is needed ennial trade deficit has raised the question of a custom border Scholz backed EU proposals have been rising an estimated have joined in protests against to avoid another economic concerns for Japan’s export- between Ireland and Northern that could require some 25 percent a year, one of the Macri’s move to get IMF implosion. The financing reliant economy. Japan’s Ireland, that need to be solved,” financial businesses to move world’s highest inflation rates. financing as well as his govern- arrangement “is a very export levels are still lower Scholz told a Goldman Sachs out of London if financial sta- “I am pleased that we can ment’s belt-tightening important starting point,” he than the fourth quarter of last conference in Frankfurt, bility was put at risk, particu- contribute to this effort by pro- measures, including the elimi- told reporters several hours year, but Taguchi says she Germany. larly in the case of euro- viding our financial support, nation of subsidies for utility before the deal was announced. doesn’t expect a trade war or “Companies are well denominated clearing. which will bolster market con- rates.Critics of the deal asked Macri has said the IMF a harsh export decline. advised to prepare for the “Financial stability consid- fidence, allowing the (Argentine) how the government will meet money will allow Argentina to She forecasts that the worst-case scenario as well,” erations may even require a authorities time to address a deficit-reduction goals without avoid another economic economy will rebound next Scholz said. relocation of business from the range of long-standing vulner- making cuts to social assistance, implosion and promises the deal quarter with growth between His choice come after UK into the EU 27. This is espe- abilities,” said Christine Lagarde, subsidies and employment. will not harm the estimated one- 1 percent and 1.2 percent and remarks by Britain’s foreign cially relevant for the clearing the IMF’s managing director. “The goals of the agreement third of Argentines who are expects a 1.1 percent annual minister Boris Johnson, of euro derivatives,” Scholz told President Mauricio Macri with the IMF will mean poor. growth for 2018. reported by Buzzfeed on the conference.

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Kaala is a 2018 Indian Tamil-language action drama film written and directed by Pa. Ranjith and produced by Dhanush under his banner Wunderbar Films. SPORT Saturday 9 June 2018 PAGE | 18 PAGE | 19 Bad boys of Australia novices Football excite Finch ahead World Cup of World Cup Saifeldin, Ibrahim win gold for Qatar in Japan

CHINTHANA WASALA competition. Saifeldin made it to yester- add another medal to his name when THE PENINSULA day’s final after easily outplaying all his he competes in the 3000 metres steeple opponents in the heats on the opening chase final at the Nagaragawa Stadium. GIFU, JAPAN: Middle distance runner day of the Championship, clocking a There will be high hopes for another Saife Saifeldin and shot putter Moaaz time of 3:38.99. medal or two for Qatar in the 110 metres Ibrahim won gold medals for Qatar during In the boys’ shot put final, Ibrahim hurdles final in which Saoud Abdulaziz the 18th Asian Junior Athletics Champi- won Qatar’s second medal of the day Al Humaidi and Owaab Barrow will take onship at Nagaragawa Stadium in Gifu, when he cleared a distance of 18.57 part. The duo is also expected to be part Japan yesterday. metres. It was also a new personal best of the Qatari team in the boys 4x100 Saifeldin cruised to victory in the boys’ for the Qatari youngster. meters final later on. 1,500 metres final, clocking a time of South Korea’s Jinseong Yeo made Awad Bassem Mohamed will compete 3:49.30 as home favourite Reito Hanzawa 18.25 metres to secure the silver medal in the first round of boys 400 metres finished second with a time of 3:49.66. while India’s Ashish Bhalothia, with a hurdles in the morning session. Iraq’s Hussein Lafta completed the top personal best of 18.22 metres, completed Salim Mohamed and Jaber Hilal Al Qatar’s Saife Saifeldin celebrates his win in the Boys’ 1500 metres final of the three with a time of 3:49.75 in the the podium. Mmamri will take part in the boys 200 18th Asian Junior Athletics Championship in Gifu, Japan yesterday. afternoon session of the second day of the Today, Saifeldin will be looking to metres heats. Nadal crushes Del Potro, sets up Thiem final

AFP against just two losses after weathering impossible without hard work and going He suffered a worrying power cut in a big-hitting opening from 2009 US Open through tough moments. the second set, slipping to 5-0 down on PARIS: Ten-time champion Rafael Nadal winner Del Potro to win 6-4, 6-1, 6-2. “You have to be focussed and keep a double break, wasting his seventh reached his 11th French Open final In his 24th Grand Slam final, Nadal your passion for the game. I never break point out of seven on the way. yesterday when he demolished Juan will face Thiem who ended Marco Cecch- dreamed in 2005 when I played my first Nadal tightened his grip, going to Martin del Potro in straight sets, setting inato’s French Open fairytale, reaching final here that I would be in another 5-1 on another double break in the third up a title showdown with Dominic Thiem, his first major final with a 7-5, 7-6 one.” set and sealed the match when Del Potro the only man to defeat him on clay in the (12/10), 6-1 victory. Thiem is the only man to beat Nadal hit a backhand long. last two years. Seventh seed Thiem is the first Aus- on clay in the last two seasons -- in “I had a lot of break points. I couldn’t Nadal, a 16-time Grand Slam trian to make a final at the majors since Madrid this year and Rome in 2017. make it,” said Del Potro. champion, claimed his 85th win in Paris Thomas Muster was champion in Paris But the Spaniard was impressive on “Rafa served well and he made me in 1995. Friday, finishing with 35 winners and 19 run a lot. The intensity was too high the “It was a very difficult first set and unforced errors to Del Potro’s analysis whole match, and I couldn’t stay there. Juan Martin had lots of opportunities. of 20 and 32. He deserved to win.” He was a little unfortunate,” said Nadal “Thiem is an amazing player. He beat World 72 Cecchinato had knocked who reeled off 14 of the last 17 games, me in Madrid, he has big power so I have out three seeded players to reach the having seen Del Potro fail to convert any to be at my best and improve,” said semi-finals, including 12-time major of his seven break points. Nadal. winner Novak Djokovic in the Nadal is now just the “But I believe I will be ready for the quarter-finals. second man to reach 11 final.” But Thiem, 24, was too strong and finals at the same World number one Nadal went into now believes he has a particularly pow- Slam, equalling Friday’s clash with a 9-5 career record erful weapon on his side for the final Roger Federer’s against Del Potro, including all three -- breakfast. mark at meetings on clay. “I need to regenerate and have a Wimbledon. However, it was Del Potro who was good breakfast to keep up my good level. “It’s in the ascendancy in the rallies in the “Full power on Sunday.” first set. Thiem, who was playing in his third The fifth seed, playing in his first successive French Open semi-final, Roland Garros semi-final in nine years, admitted the second set had been a had three break points in the third game nervy encounter after needing five set and three more in the ninth. points to get through it. However, the 29-year-old was “The big key was the second set,” unable to capitalise and Nadal made him he said. pay in the 10th game when he claimed “It was a really close tiebreak and I the opener off a netted backhand. didn’t want that especially after I missed Del Potro had required the doctor an easy volley at 6/4. early in the first set after appearing to “That was not a nice feeling.” jar his ankle in the red clay. Cecchinato had never won a Grand Slam match before this year’s Roland Garros but made the semis with a string of stunning wins. FRENCH OPEN RESULTS He put out seeded players Pablo Carreno Busta and David Goffin before MEN the seismic shock of knocking out 2016 SEMI-FINALS champion Djokovic in the Rafael Nadal (ESP x1) bt Juan Martin del quarter-finals. Potro (ARG x5) 6-4, 6-1, 6-2 “Today, all day, on Philippe Chatrier, Dominic Thiem (AUT x7) bt Marco the fans said ‘Forza, Marco’, so I think Cecchinato (ITA) 7-5, 7-6 (12/10), 6-1 Spain’s Rafael Nadal in action during his 2018 French Open semi-final match against Argentina’s this is the best moment for me,” said Juan Martin Del Potro yesterday. Cecchinato. Verstappen tops Canada practice REUTERS qualifying, offered the promise of behind the Dutchman but in front Another Finn, Kimi Raikkonen, He got his first taste off whatwhat it something much better in Montreal, of the other Red Bull of Monaco was sixth for Ferrari in front of is like to take part in a Grandand Prix MONTREAL: Red Bull’s Max taking full advantage of an winner Australian Daniel Ricciardo. McLaren’s Fernando Alonso, who is weekend, sitting in for Sergiogio Perez Verstappen, under pressure to clean upgraded power unit to clock a pol- German former world champion entered in his landmark 300th Grand in the Force India for tthehe firstfirst up his act after a string of crashes ished one minute, 13.302 seconds Sebastian Vettel was fourth Prix. The home crowd had very little practice. and costly errors, kept his nose around the 2.7 mile (4.34 km) sun- quickest as Ferrari also used to get excited about as Williams’ The 22-year-old, wasas 19t19thh clean yesterday to clock the fastest splashed Circuit Gilles Villeneuve. opening practice to break in their Lance Stroll continued his struggles, fastest ahead of only NiNicoco time in opening practice for the Mercedes’ Lewis Hamilton, upgraded engine. posting only the 18th best effort. Hulkenberg, who interruptedted Canadian Grand Prix. chasing a record equalling seventh Finland’s Valtteri Bottas was Right behind Stroll was fellow the session for nearly 15 Verstappen, who started from Canadian Grand Prix win, once fifth best in a Mercedes that will run Canadian Nicholas Latifi, whose minutes when his Renaultult the rear of grid at the Monaco again figured near the top of the with an old power unit that will be father recently purchased a 10 coasted to a stop with sus-s- Grand Prix after a crash in time sheets, just.088 seconds on its seventh race. percent stake in McLaren. pected gearbox problems.. Max Verstappen 18 SPORT SATURDAY 9 JUNE 2018 Rashford shines Bad boys of World Cup as England cruise AFP French midfielder Zinedine Zidane (left) past Costa Rica PARIS: From Luis Suarez’s teeth to gesturing after head- AFP Roy Keane storming out on the butting Italian defender Republic of Ireland and Toni Schu- Marco Materazzi during macher pole-axing Patrick Battiston the World Cup 2006 LEEDS: England manager Gareth Southgate in ‘82, here are 11 bad boys in World final at Berlin’s Olympic admitted Marcus Rashford had given him a Cup history: Stadium in this July 09, difficult decision to make ahead of the World 2006 file photo. Cup with a stunning strike in a 2-0 friendly TONI SCHUMACHER victory over Costa Rica on Thursday. (WEST GERMANY) In England’s last match before their tour- Battiston lost two teeth, cracked nament opener against Tunisia in 11 days time, three ribs and was left unconscious Manchester United’s Rashford was the star of after Schumacher’s hip smashed into a much-changed side in Leeds. his face in the semi-final of the 1982 Danny Welbeck was also on target as tournament in Spain. England extended their unbeaten run to 10 The German, who to this day games, stretching back nearly a year. insists he was going for the ball and is Rashford made the most of the absence still an unpopular name in France, of England captain Harry Kane as he started escaped a booking and showed no up front alongside Jamie Vardy, and showed remorse as West Germany won the what he is capable of with a fiercely struck match 5-4 on penalties, as it had fin- shot from 25 yards that dipped perfectly into ished 3-3 after extra-time. the top corner. Rashford endured a difficult end to the KHALID BOULAHROUZ season at United, scoring just four times in (NETHERLANDS) 2018 at club level, and suffering some stinging A record four red and 16 yellow criticism from Jose Mourinho. cards were shown during ‘the Battle However, Southgate insisted the 20-year- of Nuremberg’ when Portugal beat the old needs to express himself and feel the Netherlands 1-0 in the Round of 16 at freedom to make mistakes. the 2006 World Cup. Rashford caught the eye from the off with Boulahrouz was booked for a studs a sublime piece of skill down the left that up tackle on Cristiano Ronaldo, which differ as to what Materazzi actually the first time in his career, but the after scoring against Greece was forced a corner from which his United team- forced the Portugal superstar off, and said that triggered the attack and saw replays showed Blanc had barely repeatedly shown after it was dis- mate Phil Jones saw a looping header turned was sent off for a second yellow in the the French legend sent off on 110 touched Bilic. covered he had taken a stimulant. onto the bar by Keylor Navas. second half. minutes in his last international ‘Les Bleus’ held on with 10 men to Real Madrid goalkeeper Navas was com- Amidst the carnage, Giovanni van appearance. win, but despite clear evidence, FIFA LUIS SUAREZ (URUGUAY) pletely caught out moments later, though, as Bronckhorst, plus Portugal’s Deco and Italy won the final 5-3 on penalties refused to lift Blanc’s suspension for Sent off for a deliberate handball Rashford unleashed a powerful drive from 25 Costinha all received double yellow after the match finished 1-1 as Zidane’s the World Cup final in Paris which in Uruguay’s quarter-final win over yards for his third international goal. cards while Luis Figo was booked for seventh-minute penalty was cancelled France won 3-0 against Brazil. Ghana in South Africa 2010, Suarez Navas was Costa Rica’s hero of an head butting Marc van Bommel. out by Materazzi’s first-half header. was banned for four months for biting incredible run to the World Cup quarter-finals ROY KEANE Italy defender Giorgio Chiellini on the four years ago in Brazil, helping to knock NIGEL DE JONG (NETHERLANDS) DAVID BECKHAM (ENGLAND) (REPUBLIC OF IRELAND) shoulder four years later in Brazil. England out of the group stages on the way. De Jong’s flying kick landed on Beckham was sent off for a pet- Issues with the equipment and With the Italians protesting to the However, there was a gulf in class even Xabi Alonso’s chest in the 2010 World ulant kick aimed at Argentina captain pitch at Ireland’s pre-World Cup referee for not penalising Suarez, between Southgate’s largely second string Cup final, dubbed the ‘Battle of Johan- Diego Simeone, who had just clattered training camp in Saipan saw the Uruguay won a corner and scored to line-up and the Central Americans as England nesburg’, earned the Dutchman a England’s midfield ace, early in the tough-tackling Manchester United boil eliminate Italy with a 1-0 victory in dominated. yellow card and warning from English second-half of the quarter-final defeat over with rage as Keane stormed out the group stages. FIFA’s Disciplinary Navas kept his side in the game by denying ref Howard Webb in another bad-tem- in the 1998 finals. on the Irish before the 2002 finals Committee handed Suarez a nine- Vardy from point-blank range as he latched pered display by the ‘Oranje’. It finished 2-2 after extra time even started. A foul-mouthed tirade match ban, ruling him out for the rest onto Leicester team-mate Harry Maguire’s The kung-fu kick set the tone for before England lost 4-3 on penalties, at the Republic’s manager Mick of the tournament and the 2-0 defeat knockdown. a brutal final as the Dutch earned nine but for Beckham the ordeal was just McCarthy was his parting shot as to Colombia in the Round of 16. Costa Rica face tournament favourites yellow cards, including a pair shown beginning. Keane-less Ireland went onto to lose Brazil as well as Serbia and Switzerland in to John Heitinga, who was sent off in The Manchester United star bore to Spain in the last 16. JURGEN KLINSMANN Group E, and will need to show far more extra time. The Spanish, themselves the brunt of a national outcry on his (WEST GERMANY) ambition once they get to Russia if they are to no angels with five yellow cards, took return to England and “God Forgives DIEGO MARADONA (ARGENTINA) Klinsmann had earned his repu- replicate their heroics of four years ago. the trophy when Andres Iniesta Even David Beckham” appeared on a The midfield maestro made World tation for diving, but his most outra- Southgate held off making any changes slammed home the extra-time winner. poster outside a church in Nottingham, Cup folklore with his ‘Hand of God’ geous tumble came in the final of Italy until the hour mark and left Kane in reserve appealing for clemency on his behalf. goal against England in the last eight 1990 when he threw himself over for the full 90 minutes as his side continued ZINEDINE ZIDANE (FRANCE), of the 1986 finals, then moments later Pedro Monzon’s tackle and convulsed to control the game after the break. MARCO MATERAZZI (ITALY) SLAVEN BILIC (CROATIA) beat five defenders on a mazy run for on the floor, earning the Argentinian England’s rhythm was then stunted by five The key moment of the 2006 Hosts France were 2-1 up against his second as Argentina went onto win a straight red card on 65 minutes. quickfire substitutions, including a debut for World Cup final came in extra time Croatia in the semi-final of the 1998 the title. However, Maradona finished Replays showed it was a blatant Burnley’s Nick Pope in goal. when Zidane’s sudden head butt tournament, when Bilic theatrically his World Cup career in disgrace after dive and playing against 10 men, the However, Welbeck also justified his floored Materazzi. went down clutching his head after a failing a drugs test in the 1994 finals Germans won the final in Rome when inclusion in Southgate’s squad by coming off Zidane was apparently retaliating scuffle with Laurent Blanc in the area. held in the USA. His primal scream into Andreas Brehme converted a penalty the bench to seal the win 14 minutes from time for a verbal provocation. But reports The Frenchman was sent off, for the television cameras, eyes bulging, five minutes from time. as he headed home Dele Alli’s cross. Uruguay cruise to 3-0 win over Uzbekistan

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MONTEVIDEO: Uruguay will head to the World Cup on a winning note after beating Uzbekistan 3-0 in a chilly warmup in front of their own fans on Thursday. Portuguese forward Goncalo Guedes (second left) celebrates The win, against a side with team-mates after scoring a goal during their friendly ranked 81 places below them match against Algeria at the Luz stadium in Lisbon on Thursday. at 95th in the world, was the third in a row for the South Americans and they have lost just once in their last nine Portugal beat Algeria games. Uruguay got the break- through after 31 minutes in final warm-up when Giorgian De Arrascaeta fired home from 15 meters AP following good work from in the 18th minute with a shot Edinson Cavani and Luis from inside the area by Goncalo Suarez. LISBON: With Cristiano Guedes after a nice head-pass Suarez doubled their lead Ronaldo back in action, by Bernardo Silva. Bruno Fern- eight minutes into the second Portugal cruised to a 3-0 win andes added to the lead in the half when he slotted home a over Algeria in its final warmup 37th with a close-range header penalty and Jose Maria match before traveling to after a well-placed left-footed Gimenez headed home a Russia for the World Cup. cross by Ronaldo, and Guedes corner in 72 minutes to make Ronaldo, who hadn’t played netted his second goal early in it 3-0. since leading Real Madrid to a the second half with a header Uzbekistan were then third straight Champions after a cross by Raphael Guer- reduced to 10 men when League title last month, set up reiro from the left side. Komilov Akromjon was sent one of Portugal’s goals at the Portugal scored another off. Stadium of Light. He also had goal near the end but it was Uruguay, who won the one disallowed for offside called off by video review World Cup in 1930 and 1950, before being substituted in the because of a hand-ball by kick off their World Cup cam- 75th minute. Guedes. paign on June 15 against Ronaldo joined Portugal’s Portugal, which will travel Egypt, play Saudi Arabia five squad on Monday, later than the to Russia today, had already days later before rounding rest of the squad, because of the played two other warm-up out their Group A fixtures Champions League final. matches, drawing Tunisia 2-2 against hosts Russia. Portugal opened the scoring and Belgium 0-0. SATURDAY 9 JUNE 2018 SPORT 19

Fury wants NHL: Capitals edge Knights to to be mental health capture first Stanley Cup title champion AFP AFP we fight through it and we get teams in the late 1960s. “They’re results.” The title ends decades disappointed and dejected,” said LONDON: Britain’s Tyson LAS VEGAS: The Washington of heartbreak not only for the Vegas coach Gerard Gallant. Fury returns to the ring today Capitals ended 44 years of NHL team but for the city of “We had an outstanding year, hoping his boxing comeback playoff frustration on Thursday, Washington, as it had been over but it doesn’t feel like it right can inspire other people who beating the expansion Vegas 26 years since a major sports now. Obviously, we’ll get to that have been suffering from Golden Knights 4-3 to claim team from the US capital had in a few days’ time.” Czech mental health problems. their first Stanley Cup title in won a championship. forward Jakub Vrana had the The unbeaten former franchise history. “You can never imagine how other Capitals goal as he opened world heavyweight champion Lars Eller and Devante this feels. This is one of the best the scoring in a five-goal second takes on Albania’s Sefer Seferi Smith-Pelly scored third period feelings ever,” said American period after the teams failed to in Manchester today. goals just 2:31 apart as the Cap- forward TJ Oshie. It also marks produce a goal in a tight- Fury outweighs Seferi by itals came from behind to win the first Stanley Cup title for checking first period. more than four stone, a point the National Hockey League Russian star Ovechkin, who Denmark’s Eller scored the he jokingly emphasised at championship series in five scored his 15th playoff goal in winning goal with 7:37 left in the Friday’s weigh-in by picking games -- and end the fairy-tale the second period and was third period in front of a crowd of up his opponent and cradling run of the Golden Knights’ first named Most Valuable Player of 18,500 at Las Vegas’ T-Mobile him in his arms. season. the 2018 playoffs. Ovechkin was Arena. “It is amazing,” said Cap- But Fury’s time away “It means everything. I think the league-leader in goals itals goaltender Braden Holtby, away from boxing has been this moment, we waiting a long, during the playoffs and finished who finished with 28 saves. “We far from a laughing matter. long time,” said forward Alex second overall in scoring with have a lot of different personal- He hasn’t fought since Ovechkin. “This organization 27 points. ities on this team but we meshed a shock defeat of Wladimir wanted it so bad. The Capitals won their 10th like crazy.” Capitals coach Barry Klitschko in November “It’s nice to be part of it. It’s game on the road in the posts- Trotz said they had the right 2015 saw Fury win the nice to be in this organization eason to equal the league record combination of skill, toughness world title. all 13, 14 years, whatever. It just which had been set four times and desire to get the job done. Since then, though, his was a joy. Was tough time, but previously, most recently by the You can get pushed out of a career started to unravel and 2012 Los Angeles Kings. series if you have skill and you Fury was stripped of his Washington, who entered don’t have the will,” said Trotz. boxing licence as he contested the league as an expansion team “You got to have the heart and a ban over a failed drugs test. in 1974, ended the miraculous will first and once that base is Meanwhile, the Briton It means everything. season of the Knights, who are there the skill comes out. gained weight at an alarming I think this moment, just the third NHL team in “This team just had a rate while battling depression league history to reach the finals calmness about it. I don’t think and made a series of highly we waiting a long, in their inaugural campaign. I have ever been so calm controversial, and to some long time. This They join the Toronto throughout a playoff run. We offensive, statements about organization wanted Arenas and St. Louis Blues, but had pretty good clarity about social issues. it so bad. Was tough the Golden Knights had a much how we wanted to play.” The But the 29-year-old is more difficult road to get there. Capitals had never won the confident he is now in good Alex Ovechkin (8) of the Washington Capitals poses with his team- time, but we fight The Arenas did it in the Stanley Cup but made it to the shape, both mentally and mates for the team photo after their 4-3 win over the Vegas Golden through it and we get league’s first ever postseason final once before, in 1998, and physically, as he looks to Knights to win the Stanley Cup in Game Five at T-Mobile Arena in results: Ovechkin and Blues were part of a division lost to the Detroit Red Wings in regain the world heavyweight comprised of all expansion four straight games. Las Vegas, Nevada on Thursday. crown. Woods to play with World Power shoots 5-under 65 No. 1 and 2 at US Open for opening lead at St Jude AP AP with President Donald Trump ST JUDE CLASSIC SCORES in a bogey-free round on the day after Thanksgiving last Leading first-round scores on Thursday in the Thursday and capped his day (pictured) MIAMI: Tiger Woods year. MEMPHIS: Phil Mickelson got US PGA Tour FedEx St. Jude Classic in Mem- chipping in from 34 feet for his will play the opening two rounds Woods and Thomas have the strong finish he wanted. phis, Tennessee (USA unless noted, par-70): fourth birdie. He has two top-25 of the US Open with Justin played together only once in Steve Stricker is having too finishes in seven tournaments 65 - Seamus Power (IRL) Thomas and Dustin Johnson, competition, at Riviera in the much fun to just stick to the on the PGA Tour this season, and 66 - Troy Merritt, Wesley Bryan, Fabián Gómez which feels like a grouping of Genesis Open, the only cut senior circuit. Stricker said he wants to show Nos. 1-2-3 in the world ranking. Woods has missed this year. But Mickelson and Stricker shot (ARG), BrooksaKoepka, Phil Mickelson, Chris he can finish off an event. Except that Woods is No. 80. they play occasionally at home 4-under 66 on Thursday in the Kirk, Michael Kim, Brandon Harkins, Steve “I still feel like I should play The USGA released its tee in south Florida. St. Jude Classic, leaving them in Stricker, Mackenzie Hughes (CAN), Stuart Ap- out here. I belong out here. I’m times on Thursday for the US Mickelson gets his third an 11-player tie for second - a pleby (AUS) trying to stick with that,” said Open next week at Shinnecock crack at Shinnecock Hills, where stroke behind Seamus Power of 67 - Matt Jones (AUS), C.T. Pan (TPE), An Stricker, a two-time winner this Hills, and it offered two stacked he was in position to win in 1995 Ireland. Mickelson matched his Byeong-hun (KOR), Chez Reavie, Dustin John- year on the PGA Tour

groups for the morning and and in 2004. In his first best opening round in relation son, Dominic Bozzelli, Scott Stallings, Retief Champions. afternoon. appearance, Mickelson played to par this season. Goosen (RSA), Ryan Blaum, Andrew Putnam Koepka is preparing for his Phil Mickelson, Jordan for most of the past two years the par-5 16th in 6 over for the “Oh, it was a great start for US Open title defense next week Spieth and Rory McIlroy tee off recovering from back surgeries, week and finished four shots me,” Mickelson said. at Shinnecock Hills. together in the morning of the and his world ranking fell as low behind Corey Pavin. The next “I ended up finishing off the his final hole for the lead over Second-ranked Dustin first round. Woods, Johnson and as No. 1,199 until returning to time, he briefly had a one-shot round. I had a nice little stretch Mickelson, Stricker, US Open Johnson was at 67 with Retief Thomas are together in the competition last December. In lead with two holes to play when there in the middle where I went champion Brooks Koepka and Goosen, Scott Stallings and afternoon. nine PGA Tour events, he has a he made double bogey on the birdie, eagle, and I was able to others. He went to No. 18 tied seven others. This is the 10-year anni- pair of top 10s and had missed 71st hole and lost by two shots finish it off with some pars after with seven others atop the lea- Two-time defending champ versary of the USGA first putting the cut only one time. to Retief Goosen. some poor tee shots. derboard and took the lead Daniel Berger bogeyed three of together the Nos. 1-2-3 players It will be the first time The U.S. Open is the only “It’s a good start. It’s not like himself with his second birdie his first five holes and finished in the world at Torrey Pines - Woods and Johnson have played major Mickelson lacks for the you’re trying to win the tour- over his final three holes. with five bogeys and five birdies Woods, Mickelson and Adam together in a major, and their career Grand Slam. McIlroy and nament on Thursday. But it’s The 51-year-old Stricker had for a 70. Mickelson won in Scott. first time in the same group Spieth also have three legs of the nice not to put myself too far a long day on Monday qualifying March in Mexico for his 43rd Woods is playing the US since the opening two rounds of career Slam, with McIlroy behind so I’m playing catch-up. nearby for the US Open. He career victory, and he has tied Open for the first time since he Torrey Pines in 2017 when both missing the Masters and Spieth So another good round played only six holes on Tuesday for second at the TPC Southwind missed the cut at Chambers Bay missed the cut. That doesn’t lacking the PGA tomorrow will put me right in it and a nine-hole pro-am twice with a tie for third since in 2015. He has been out of golf include the round they played Championship. for the weekend.” Power birdied Wednesday to rest up. He turned 2013. Australia novices excite Finch ahead of World Cup AFP since a controversial tour of World Cup final but it is England great over the last 18 months to South Africa, which ended with who are now number one in the two years, so who knows, if we LONDON: Aaron Finch a 3-1 Test series loss. men’s ODI standings. By con- give these young guys a few (pictured) believes a new-look More significant, however, trast, Australia have lost their opportunities, they can do some Australia have everything to was the ball-tampering scandal last three bilateral ODI series -- wonderful things,” he explained. gain and little to lose when they during the third Test in Cape against New Zealand, India and Meanwhile, Finch said that face 2019 World Cup hosts Town. England -- as well as suffering while Justin Langer, on his first England in an upcoming Former Australia captain an early exit from last year’s tour as Australia coach, may one-day international series. Steve Smith and his deputy 50-over Champions Trophy ODI have been all smiles as he joked The opening batsman made David Warner received year- tournament. about being “sledged” by his a solid 78 as Australia were long bans for their roles in one But opening batsman Finch, daughter at Lord’s earlier this forced to work hard before of Australian cricket’s most a veteran of 88 ODIs and now week, the former Test opener beating Sussex by 57 runs in humiliating episodes, while vice-captain in the absence of was not a man to be crossed. their tour opener at Hove, one Cameron Bancroft -- who frontline fast-bowling trio of their first or second tour, it Warner, believes the injection “You don’t want to be in his of two warm-up fixtures before applied sandpaper to the ball in Mitchell Starc, Pat Cummins and brings a lot of energy around the of fresh talent such as bowlers glare!”, said Finch. “I’ve been the reigning world champions a clear breach of cricket’s Josh Hazlewood, as well as side- group,” Finch told reporters at Jhye Richardson and Kane Rich- there before, not on this tour. face England in a five-match rulebook -- was suspended for lined all-rounder Mitchell Lord’s on Friday ahead of their ardson can only do Australia “There were some easy ODI contest that gets underway nine months. Marsh. warm-up match at the ‘home of good ahead of the 2019 World comments you could make to at The Oval on Wednesday. In addition to Smith and “There’s a lot of excitement cricket’ against Middlesex on Cup. him when he was coach of The Sussex match was Aus- Warner, Australia have arrived around, any time you bring Saturday. - Langer’s ‘glare’ - “Our Western Australia. It was easy tralia’s first as a national team in England without their injured young guys into the squad for Australia won the 2015 one-day cricket hadn’t been that to wind him up,” he added. 20 MORNING BREAK SATURDAY 9 JUNE 2018

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PARIS: For football fans, the World Cup should be a WEATHER TODAY time of fun with family and friends. But beware, experts say, it can also sicken or even kill you. Research has pointed to a long list of hazards ranging from heart attacks and strokes, to accidents, suicides, and a spike in domestic abuse. “It is not just a game,” warned a 2010 study in the American Journal of Medicine which said major sporting events “can acutely increase cardiovascular event and death rates.” Most at risk are patients with known coronary artery disease, it said, or those who find themselves in particularly stressful circumstances: “a passionate fan, a high-stakes game, a high-intensity game, a loss, and a loss played at home.” Many a football fan may have shouted at the TV that they “nearly had a heart attack” when their team missed a shot at goal or let an opposing player through to score. Mass migration But this is not something to joke about. An underwater camera shows pearl mullets, an only fish species found in Van Lake as they migrate, Research has repeatedly shown that psychological moving the opposite direction of the water flow, from carbonated and salty water through freshwater triggers such as stress, anxiety, and anger — emotions any sports fan can relate to — can bring on a heart during its spawning period from April 15 to July 15, in the eastern province of Van, Turkey. attack. “We know that this is an exciting time but don’t forget about your heart health,” advises Julie Ward, a senior cardiac nurse at the British Heart Foundation. Measures to reduce risk include using blood-thinning aspirin, meditation, and avoiding activities such as o o smoking, eating artery-clogging, fatty foods, or binging Dolphins ‘name’ friends 34 C 47 C on alcohol or drugs. Though not within the control of fans, winning or losing makes a difference too, to recognise them Minimum Maximum according to one study in New Zealand. IANS It found a 50 percent increase in hospital admis- retain unique signature Hot daytime with blowing dust at places. sions for heart failure, particularly among women, whistles. According to the study after a semi-final loss in the 2003 rugby World Cup. SYDNEY: Dolphins may be led Stephanie King of the Uni-

HIGH TIDE 00:00 – 14:30 LOW TIDE 07:45 – 19:00 By contrast, hospitalisations were lower after the more akin to humans than versity of Western Australia Courtesy: Qatar Meteorology Department country’s 2011 semi-final win. believed, said a study released (UWA), no other non-human It is not only our hearts we should watch. yesterday, confirming that the animal has ever been found to One study noted an explosion during the 2014 marine mammals use indi- do this, even when forming Honeybees World Cup in cases of “retinal vein occlusion” — a vidual “names” to identify long-term cooperative blockage of small veins in the eye that is also known friends and rivals among social partnerships. understand as an “eye stroke”. networks. “When two groups meet A common cause of vision loss, it is more common While parrots, bats, ele- each other they will exchange in people with cardiovascular disease. Researchers phants and primates are also their signature whistles so that concept of compared the number of cases treated at a German known to make vocal calls, they they know who’s present,” the university eye clinic during and four weeks afer the are very similar to one another. Evolutionary Biologist told zero: Study 2014 World Cup with the same period in 2013. Dolphins, however, are able to Xinhua new agency. IANS

WASHINGTON: Australian Nasa finds organic matter on Mars and French scientists have discovered that honeybees ANATOLIA Organic molecules, which can also in the top five centimeres of rock that can understand the concept include elements like oxygen and was deposited when Mars may have of zero, making them into the SAN FRANCISCO: Nasa announced that nitrogen, are often associated with the been habitable, bodes well for us to learn ranks of an elite club of clever it has discovered organic molecules on rise of life on Earth, although they can the story of organic molecules on Mars animals including dolphins, the surface of Mars that suggest the exist on planets devoid of life as well. with future missions that will drill parrots, primates and conditions for life existed on the planet. Earlier research has led scientists to deeper.” preschool kids that can grasp The molecules, containing carbon believe that liquid water pooled on the The studies were conducted using the abstract mathematical and hydrogen, are locked in rocks that ancient surface of Mars, meaning that evidence collected by Nasa's Curi- notion of nothing. are 3 billion years old. Scientists also dis- Earth’s planetary neighbour had some osity rover, which is currently rolling The findings reported on covered that the amount of methane gas very similar ingredients for life billions around the Martian surface. Thursday in the journal in the Martian atmosphere changes with of years ago. Curiosity observed that the amount Science demonstrated even the seasons, although the cause of these “The Martian surface is exposed to of methane gas in the planet’s atmos- tiny brains can comprehend fluctuations was not clear. radiation from space. Both radiation and phere increased in the summer and complex, abstract concepts “While not necessarily evidence of harsh chemicals break down organic decreased in the summer. Although no and opened up possibilities life itself, these findings are a good sign matter,” said Jen Eigenbrode, a Nasa sci- direct signs of life have been found on for new, simpler approaches for future missions exploring the planet’s entists who was the lead author of two Mars, Nasa researchers said that the to developing Artificial Intel- surface and subsurface,” Nasa said in papers detailing the latest findings, in a changing methane content could be ligence, Xinhua reported. the announcement. The findings were statement. caused by microbes living somewhere The number zero is the published in the journal Science. “Finding ancient organic molecules on Mars. backbone of modern maths and technological advance- ments, according to Adrian Dyer, associate professor from the Royal Melbourne South African fossils rewrite early history of life on land Institute of Technology (RMIT). “Zero is a difficult concept to understand and a REUTERS African Anglican cleric and mathematical skill that human rights activist Desmond doesn’t come easily. It takes WASHINGTON: Fossils of two Tutu. children a few years to learn,” amphibians that lived within They were among the early said Dyer, the paper’s corre- the Antarctic circle 360 million wave of tetrapods, a group sponding author. years ago are forcing scientists including all land-living verte- Previous research to rethink the origins of land brates. The first tetrapods showed honeybees can learn vertebrates, including where evolved from fish during the intricate skills from other these pioneers first appeared Devonian. Until now, it had bees and even understand and the climatic conditions that been thought that this evolution abstract concepts like spawned them. revolution occurred in warm sameness and difference. Scientists said on Thursday climes because the fossils of all But bee brains have fewer they have unearthed partial the earliest-known amphibians, than 1 million neurons, com- remains of primitive Devonian as well as their fish forerunners, pared with the 86 billion Period amphibians named had been found in places that neurons of a human brain, Tutusius umlambo and were tropical or subtropical at and little was known about Umzantsia amazana at a site the time. how insect brains would cope called Waterloo Farm near Gra- Africa during the Devonian with being tested on such a hamstown, South Africa. was part of a super-continent numeric skill. While the fossils are frag- called Gondwana that also RMIT researcher Scarlett mentary, the researchers said encompassed South America, Howard, the paper’s first Tutusius and Umzantsia most India, Australia and Antarctica. author, and colleagues likely shared the four-legged, The Waterloo Farm site was trained the honeybees to alligator-crossed-with-a-fish within the Arctic circle. choose an image with the body plan of the earliest “So we now know that lowest number of elements amphibians, eating small fish tetrapods, by the end of the A handout photo released by the Centre of Excellence in Palaeosciences of the University of the in order to receive a reward while in the water and perhaps Devonian, lived all over the Witwatersrand shows a full reconstruction of a Waterloo Farm including Tutusius and Umzantsia. of sugar solution. small invertebrates while on world, from the tropics to the They were lured to a wall land. Antarctic circle,” said paleon- originated anywhere and that centered at the University of the Uppsala in Sweden. containing white squares Umzantsia was about 28 tologist Robert Gess, based at they could have moved onto Witwatersrand. The Waterloo “There would certainly have each with a different number inches long (70 cm) with a long, the Albany Museum in Graham- land anywhere. It really Farm site was a river-mouth been several months of winter of black shapes. For instance, slender lower jaw, apparently stown as part of the South broadens the scope of possibil- environment, a tidal estuary darkness, as well as midnight the bees were encouraged to armed with small pointed teeth. African Centre of Excellence in ities,” said paleontologist Robert opening onto the sea, and likely sun in the summer,” Ahlberg choose three elements when Tutusius, known from a single Palaeosciences, centered at the Gess, based at the Albany had a cold climate akin to said, adding that it probably presented with three or four. shoulder girdle bone, was about University of the Museum in Grahamstown as northern Norway’s Atlantic snowed in wintertime. If they chose the square with a yard (meter) long. It was Witwatersrand. part of the South African Centre coast, said paleontologist Per The research was published “smaller” number, they would named in honor of South “So it’s possible that they of Excellence in Palaeosciences, Ahlberg of the University of in the journal Science. be rewarded with food.