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TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 • 17 SHA’BAAN 1437 • Volume 21 • Number 6806 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar

Emir’s mediation helps resume Defeat attacks Yemen govt’s on schools: talks with rebels AFP

Sheikha Moza KUWAIT CITY: Yemen’s warring parties held their first face-to-face meeting in nearly a week yesterday after the government delegation schools and bring the perpetrators ended a boycott, the UN envoy to book. said. “Our schools are the “The destruction of schools are Yemen’s President Abdrabuh battlefield. It is time to not just ‘accidents’ of war. Educa- Mansur Hadi had agreed to end fight back,” H H Sheikha tion is under attack. Our schools the boycott after mediation by are the battlefield. It is time to fight the Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Moza told the World back,” Sheikha Moza told the World Hamad Al Thani and UN chief Ban Humanitarian Summit Humanitarian Summit which opened Ki-moon, the UN special envoy in Istanbul yesterday. in Istanbul yesterday. said. “What is missing are the mecha- “A joint meeting between the nisms and the political will to enforce two delegations to the Yemen (existing international laws). We must peace talks has started in the hold the perpetrators of these crimes H H Sheikha Moza bint Nasser at the special session “Education in Emergencies and Protracted Crises,” at morning,” Ismail Ould Cheikh The Peninsula responsible and accountable. Only Ahmed said on Twitter. the World Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, yesterday. Pic: A R Al Baker when the perpetrators are shamed The troubled negotiations and punished will we deter oth- which began on April 21 broke off ers from attacking education. Only bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani led Representatives of 175 countries, to better tackle the current situation on Tuesday when the government DOHA/ISTANBUL: H H Sheikha then, can we break this vicious cycle the Qatari delegation at the opening including 57 heads of states or govern- in the world, what the United Nations delegation suspended its participa- Moza bint Nasser, Chairperson of of building and destroying, building session of the summit at Istanbul Con- ments and more than 6,000 officials describes as the worst humanitarian tion accusing Iran-backed rebels Education Above All, yesterday called and destroying,” Sheikha Moza added. gress Center. and representatives of international crisis since World War II. who control the capital of failing on the international community to The Prime Minister and Inte- Turkish President Recep Tayyip bodies and civil society organisa- to keep their word. “fight back” to deter attacks against rior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah Erdogan opened the two-day summit. tions and media are discussing ways → Continued on page 2 The government demanded a written pledge from the Huthi Shiite rebels and their allies rec- ognising an April 2015 UN Security Council resolution calling for their withdrawal from the capital and Qatar gives US schools $115,000 to promote Arabic other territories they have over- ran since 2014, as well as the legitimacy of President Abdrabuh The Peninsula that is so often misunderstood in the International/Eastside Memorial High program in the fall. CFHS teacher relaunch of the Arabic language Mansur Hadi. US However, in-school programmes School. Anita Boumitri is both a French and program at the Chagrin Falls School Foreign Minister Abdulmalek have struggled to keep pace, QFI said The programme will start by Arabic teacher, and this grant will District and to provide opportunities Al Mikhlafi said on Twitter on yesterday. QFI has awarded a grant of offering level 1 Arabic at all three provide partial salary and teach- and access to critical language educa- Sunday that the government had DOHA: Qatar Foundation Interna- $100,000 to the Austin Independent schools, and increase the number of ing materials, as well as training for tion for young adults across the US,” agreed to give the peace talks a tional (QFI) has awarded two separate School District (AISD) to support their levels offered each year at the high Ms Boumitri, who will be attending the said Maggie Mitchell Salem, QFI’s “last chance.” grants – worth a total of $115,000 – to Arabic programming during 2016-2017 schools in response to student enroll- American Council on the Teaching of Executive Director. “We have fixed all the refer- schools in Austin, Texas and Chagrin and a grant worth $15,000 to Chagrin ments. The grant includes funding for Foreign Languages (ACTFL) convention “For the past seven years, QFI has ences. This is a first step on the Falls, Ohio as part of efforts to bridge Falls High School (CFHS) aimed at teacher salary, curriculum develop- through QFI’s support. “With this gen- partnered with a number of schools path for a real peace that leads the cultural gap between the US and expanding their Arabic programme. ment, and materials/resources. erous grant funding from QFI, we will across the US to advance access to to implementing Resolution 2216 the Arab world through language edu- With the grant award, AISD will Since the CFHS high school Arabic be able to grow Ms. Boumitri’s existing Arabic, a critical language in the US, beginning with withdrawals, cation and cultural-exchange. establish the first and only Arabic teacher retired last year, the school’s part-time teaching position to a full-time to K-12 public and public charter surrender of weapons and the Arabic has seen an explosion of program in the school district. The Arabic program was put on hold, as position in the 2016-17 school year,” said school students and we welcome the restoration of state institutions,” interest among American students grant supports two teachers who will no one qualified was found to take Director of Curriculum, Becky Quinn. great addition of Chagrin and Aus- he said. over the past decade, as many young teach at three schools: Burnet Mid- the position. Thanks to QFI’s sup- “We are pleased to support the tin Schools to our growing network,” people yearn to appreciate a culture dle School, Austin High School, and port, CFHS will re-start their Arabic launch of Arabic in Austin and the Salem added. → See also page 7 Nearly 150 dead as IS bombs Syrian cities Five traffic investigation offices at insurance firms Reuters

The Peninsula sections at Traffic Department’s serv- BEIRUT: Bomb blasts killed nearly 150 ice centres. people in Jableh and Tartous on Syria’s Med- Traffic investigators deployed at iterranean coast yesterday and wounded insurance companies will register the many others in the government-controlled DOHA: The Traffic Department has accident electronically using tablet PCs , territory that hosts Russian military bases, opened five traffic investigation offices take the picture of the vehicles and com- monitors and state media said. at insurance companies to simplify the municate directly with the insurance Islamic State (IS) claimed responsibil- procedures for motorists involved in companies. Meanwhile, the accident ity for the attacks in the cities that have up traffic accidents. victim will receive a text message with to now escaped the worst of the violence The new service is provided as part details of the case and he can approach in the five-year-old conflict, saying it was of the integrated link between Traffic the insurance company straight for targeting members of President Bashar Al Department and insurance companies repairing his vehicle. Assad’s Alawite minority. to help motorists complete all acci- Earlier, motorists involved in acci- The Britain-based Syrian Observatory dents-related procedures at one place, dents had to wait until the patrol police for Human Rights said 145 people were the Ministry of Interior said yesterday reaches the site or move to the traffic killed in attacks by at least five suicide on its Facebook account. investigation sections to register the inci- bombers and two devices planted in cars. Now the drivers involved in accidents dent and get a report to approach the State media said 78 people had been killed can directly go to the insurance company insurance companies. in what is Assad’s coastal heartland. of the party who caused the accident and Now, all phases of traffic inves- The attacks were the first of their kind approach the traffic investigation office tigation services are completed in Tartous, capital of Tartous province and there to register the incident. electronically, from registering the home to a Russian naval facility, and Jableh Once it is registered, the other party incident until issuing the report. The in Latakia province, near a Russian-oper- can approach the insurance company accident reports can also be printed from ated air base. The Kremlin said the bomb People inspecting the damage at the site of car bombing in a bus station in the Jableh city, staff to complete the procedures for MOI website or Metrash2 mobile app blasts underscored the need to press ahead Lattakia province in Syria, yesterday. repairing the vehicle. Motorists are no without approaching the traffic inves- with Geneva peace talks after a Feb. 27 more required to go to the investigation tigation sections as was the case before. ceasefire collapsed in April as violence process,” Kremlin spokesman Dmitry Peskov told station. The Tartous bombs also targeted a bus sta- intensified in a war that has killed at least a conference call with journalists. tion, the Observatory and state media reported. 250,000 people. Russian President Vladimir Putin reiterated Younes Hassan, a doctor working at the Jableh “This demonstrates yet again just how his readiness to fight with the Syrian government hospital, said he heard an explosion at the bus sta- Today’s edition includes a 12-page fragile the situation in Syria is. And this one against “the terrorist threat” sent his condolences tion, followed less than a minute later by the blast more time underscores the need for new to Assad, the Kremlin said. One of the four blasts at the hospital. “Everything went into emergency special supplement on Qatar Tourism. urgent steps to continue the negotiating in Jableh hit near a hospital and another at a bus mode, wounded people began arriving,” he said. 02 TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 HOME

Ministry begins survey to assess public satisfaction Leaders for reducing humanitarian disasters Continued from page 1 10 million will be at least 1.1 mil- with govt services lion Syrian refugees. “Money is not enough to fulfil UN Secretary General Ban Ki- our obligations to provide every moon called on world leaders to fix The Peninsula child with their right to educa- the gap in humanitarian funding tion that they deserve. Without and share the burden of helping protection and prevention, what people in need across the globe. we spend years building can In his opening remarks, Ban DOHA: The Ministry of Development Planning and Sta- be destroyed in minutes,” said called on world leaders to align tistics has started a field survey to measure satisfaction Sheikha Moza, speaking at a spe- themselves with the five core of recipients of services provided by ministries and other cial session, alongside Gordon responsibilities, such as preventing government agencies. Brown (UN Special Envoy for Glo- and ending conflicts and respect- The survey, which is being conducted under the bal Education), Julia Gillard (Chair, ing the rules of war. patronage of Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Global Partnership for Education) In 2014, the UN reported that Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani, started and Helle Thorning-Schmidt around $540m of the roughly on May 16 and will continue until June 2. (Chief Executive, Save the Chil- $135bn global aid budget was spent The aim of the survey, as stated by the ministry, is dren International). on decreasing disaster risk. to measure the level of public satisfaction with serv- She urged the international “I call on humanitarian organ- ices provided by ministries and government institutions community to take an approach isations to work more closer and collect feedback from recipients by listening to their based on provision, protection, together based on shared priori- views and evaluation of the services. and prevention so that education ties to meet the needs of millions The outcome of the survey is expected to help is placed at the heart of efforts of people in crisis,” Ban said. improve and develop services to come up with required to address humanitarian crises At the summit, at least 50 levels and meet public aspirations. It will also help over- around the world. heads of governments will come difficulties service recipients may face from Sheikha Moza also highlighted announce several commitments Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al government agencies, the Ministry said. the ongoing work of Education to reduce humanitarian disas- Thani with Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan in Istanbul. The survey methods include visits to service provi- Above All, noting its investment in ters. These include: preventing sion areas, public places and families. A survey-related “providing quality primary educa- and ending conflict; respecting web page has been launched on the Ministry’s website tion to almost seven million out of the rules of war; addressing forced Premier meets Turkey’s President (www.mdps.gov.qa) and websites of ministries and uni- school children.” displacement; achieving gender versities in the state. Several researchers have begun She added that Education equality; responding to climate ISTANBUL: Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip greetings to the Emir, wishing him good health to collect data by interviewing service recipients in Above All (EAA) remained on track change; ending the need for aid; Erdogan met Prime Minister and Interior Minis- and happiness and Qatar continued progress government agencies and are filling out an electronic to enrol 10 million out of school and investing in humanity, media ter H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa and prosperity. The Premier also attended a questionnaire on palm devices at every counter. The children in education programmes reports said. Al Thani at Istanbul Convention Center on the dinner banquet hosted by Erdogan in honour questionnaire is designed to evaluate the services pro- by the end of the year. The Prime Minister visited sidelines of the World Humanitarian Summit. of heads of delegations. Qatar and Organisation vided by ministries and government institutions. The EAA’s Educate A Child pro- the Qatari Pavilion at the sum- The Premier conveyed the greetings of of Islamic Cooperation signed a deal regarding Ministry called on citizens and residents to cooperate gramme has enrolled 3.3 million mit which hosts Qatar Computing Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani the headquarters of OIC’s humanitarian fund with the surveyors in the service areas to complete the children in education programmes Research Institute, Qatar Charity to ther President, wishing him and the peo- secretariat. It was signed by Foreign Minister H survey. It said data collected will be treated with full and has commitments in place to and Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah ple of Turkey further development and growth. E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani confidentiality and only for the purposes of improving reach its goal of 10 million children Foundation for Humanitarian Erdogan entrusted the Premier to convey his and OIC Secretary-General Iyad Ameen Madani. the quality of government services. by September 2016. Among these Services (RAF).

Akusztika Environmental Doha van launched Doha Forum concludes World Turtle Day marked The Peninsula particularly with regard to contain- ing security deterioration, terrorism, armed conflicts in different parts of the world and deterioration of oil By Sidi Mohamed DOHA: The 16th Doha Forum under prices and stressed team work to The Peninsula the theme ‘Stability and Prosperity achieve the 2030 Agenda for Sus- for All’ concluded yesterday. tainable Development. It was attended by high-level The closing session saw a pres- regional and international experts. entation on ideas and proposals DOHA: The Ministry of Munic- The three-day event discussed put forward during the plenary and ipality and Environment means of achieving regional stabil- special sessions. A large number of celebrated World Turtle Day at Al ity and global prosperity in light of heads of states and governments, Faisal Social Responsibility Center challenges in the areas of defence, ministers, politicians, decisionmak- headquarters yesterday, under the security, economy, energy and civil ers, businessmen and civil society theme ‘Sea turtles and efforts to society. activists from around the world took protect them’. Addressing the concluding ses- part. The annual event observed on sion, Assistant Foreign Minister for Dr Hassan bin Ibrahim Al May 23, was attended by directors Foreign Affairs H E Sultan bin Saad Mohannadi, Director, Diplomatic of several departments at the Min- Al Meraikhi said the sessions high- Institute at the Foreign Ministry, istry, residents and students from lighted participants’ keenness to hailed participation and said the Al Hekma International School. exchange ideas and visions and pro- event enriched debates on key issues. Khalaf Ajlan Al Anzi, Direc- pose solutions to meet political and Qatari economic expert Ahmed tor, Public Relations Department, Minister of Municipality and Environment H E Mohamed bin Abdullah Al Rumaihi (right) and Hungarian economic challenges and enhance Abdullah Al Kuwari presented a said through this occasion, Qatar Ambassador Istvan Elter (centre) cut the ribbon to inaugurate the new Monitoring Van of Akusztika collective cooperation to make our summary of the session on ‘Realising shows keenness to maintain envi- Environmental Doha W.L.L. in the presence of other officials at Katara yesterday. world safer and more stable, said Al the international agenda of sus- ronmental heritage and protect Pic: Kammutty VP / The Peninsula Meraikhi. tainable development in light of the natural resources, especially sea He praised the ideas presented, current global economic conditions. turtles. Mohsin Abdullah Al Yafei, former director of Environmental Studies Centre at Qatar University, said turtles have been present in One-month unlimited data ROTA to celebrate a decade Qatar for a long time and stressed that these species are endangered. He said Qatar has three for customers switching to types of sea turtles, and all have of its Ramadan Project environmental and economic importance. Shahry Smart 55 and above Waste left on the beach and the noise created by visitors drive By Raynald C Rivera the turtles away from the beach The Peninsula and the animals are forced to have The Peninsula of total revenue in Qatar, estab- nesting sites in unsuitable condi- lishing the company as one of the tions, said Al Yafei. leading operators in the data space. The Ministry is exerting efforts The success of products like Shahry DOHA: Reach Out To Asia (ROTA) by closing temporary turtle nests DOHA: Ooredoo has thanked its Smart has played a key role in this will mark a decade of its Ramadan areas to the public, transferring Shahry Smart customers for helping process. Project with activities to give back some nests to proper places and make the service the most successful To ensure that as many custom- to the community and promote vol- monitoring them and increas- post-paid communications solution ers as possible can enjoy Shahry unteerism. ing awareness about their in Qatar. Smart, the company is giving one Ramadan 2016 Project, ‘10 Years importance. Recent results have shown month of unlimited data for free to of Service’, will include activities for Al Yafei said there is a large that Shahry Smart is the top post- new customers who switch to Shahry construction workers, the elderly and number of turtle nests in Halul paid service in the country, with Smart 55 bundles or above. other local groups. Island and a small number in hundreds of thousands of people The promotion has been “This year we look forward to Shiraouh Island. enjoying the incredible value that designed to enable customers the giving back to the community in In its efforts to save threatened each pack offers with its bundle of chance to try the Ooredoo Super- Qatar. ROTA volunteers will again FROM LEFT: Hassan Al Malki, Deputy General Manager, Occidental sea turtles, Qatar has launched minutes, data and SMS every month. net on their smartphone, as well as reach out to groups to make a pos- Petroleum of Qatar Limited; Mohammed Al Naama, Acting Executive ‘Save Turtles’, an initiative in About the service, Yousuf encourage more people to try the itive and tangible impact in their Director, ROTA; and Steve Kelly, President and General Manager, collaboration with the Ministry, Abdulla Al Kubaisi, Chief Operat- number one postpaid service in the lives,” Mohammed Al Naama, Act- Oxy Qatar, at a press conference at Qatar Foundation yesterday. Pic: Qatar University and Qatar Petro- ing Officer, Ooredoo Qatar, said: country. ing Executive Director, ROTA, told a Kammutty VP / The Peninsula leum to implement projects and “Over the past few years, our Shahry Customers who want to keep press conference yesterday. programmes to save turtle. Smart plans have evolved to satisfy their old number can do so at any “Through their service, they will the changing needs our customers Ooredoo Shop, by simply filling out continue to demonstrate the value of expected to increase with more than support the project, as it is an impor- have for data, international minutes a Mobile Number Portability appli- volunteerism, which is a great source 10 days before Ramadan starts, Al tant part of our corporate social 250kg of sweets and more. cation and a Shahry 55 or above of pride for us.” Naama said, adding last year saw the responsibility programme. Oxy Qatar “When we launched Shahry Service Application form. The project will feature volun- participation of about 350 volunteers. has been working with ROTA for five destroyed Smart we designed it to be a one- The promotion is available now teer-led activities to contribute to Volunteers will share Iftar with years and we have seen the project stop-shop for everyone’s needs, and for all new Ooredoo customers community development. ROTA is residents of Qatar Foundation for grow and achieve impressive results. DOHA: Officials from the Health it is delivering great value for our switching to the network, as well collaborating with local partners, Elderly People Care; and Rumailah “Our employees have been part of Monitoring Section at Doha Munic- customers.” as existing Hala and Shahry stand- including Social Development Center, Hospital Residential Care Com- the volunteer programme, with new ipality destroyed 250kg of sweets Shahry Smart has proved to be ard customers upgrading to Shahry Hamad Medical Corporation, Qatar munity. ROTA will coordinate participants signing up every year,” found unfit for human consump- particularly successful as demand Smart 55 or above for the first time. Autism Center & Special Needs and similar events for construction said Stephen Kelly, President and tion. for mobile data has grown in recent For details, customers can visit Bangladesh MHM School & College. workers of Al Shamal and Al Khor General Manager, Occidental Petro- The stock was seized during years. As of April 2016, Ooredoo’s the Ooredoo website or any Oore- Over 200 people have signed municipalities. leum of Qatar (Oxy Qatar), which is an inspection campaign ahead of data revenue represented 51 percent doo shop. up to volunteer and the number is “Oxy Qatar is honoured to exclusive sponsor of the project. Ramadan. HOME TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 03

Fish length limit soon for catch to QM staff graduate from Qreation Generation 3 course protect reserves leaders of QM, Qatar and the region. The latest Qreation Generation 3 The Peninsula H E Sheikha Al programme involved employees from Mayassa bint Hamad departments, including National bin Khalifa Al Thani, Museum of Qatar; Mathaf Arab Museum of Modern Art; Orientalist DOHA: The Ministry of Munic- Chairperson, Qatar Museum; Archaeology; Marketing; ipality and Environment has Museums, presented and Finance. conducted biological tests on four The graduates, 13 of whom were species of fish to fix a minimum diplomas to 18 QM Qatari, were awarded two certif- length for catch to protect fish employees. icates: one by Center for Creative reserve in Qatar’s waters. A mini- Leadership, a renowned global pro- mum length limit means that fish vider of leadership development, and below it must be returned to the the other by QM. water unharmed immediately after The Peninsula Sheikha Al Mayassa said:“I would being caught. like to congratulate every single one The tests have been conducted of our talented employees that com- by the Fisheries Department at pleted this esteemed course with us. the Ministry. Samples of 201 fish DOHA: H E Sheikha Al Mayassa QM is a destination employer for eve- H E Sheikha Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Chairperson, Qatar Museums, with other officials were taken and test results will bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, ryone wishing to work in the creative be used to make rules for fish- Chairperson, Qatar Museums (QM), industries, and our future success at the graduation ceremony at Museum of Islamic Art. ing, said a monthly report issued presented 18 QM employees with requires new generations of leaders by the Ministry. The department diplomas during the graduation cer- with ambitious, bold ideas as well as Qreation Generation was initi- with international experts Gold- of individual work with leadership studied 12,549 fish of 25 species emony for the Qreation Generation the commitment and energy to help ated by Sheikha Al Mayassa in 2013 smiths University, London and The experts, advance one’s self-aware- to find the impact of fishing on programme at Museum of Islamic realise our country’s potential. and is overseen by QM’s Depart- Center for Creative Leadership from ness, while group discussions and fish reserve. Fish supply to the Art. “These successful and thriving ment of Education. The Master’s level Brussels. It covers arts management debates probe into the essence of local market was 1,548 tonnes The employees comprised the arts, heritage and museum pro- programme held every year, covers lectures, discussions, hands-on leadership efficiency. in March, including 1,386 tonnes third batch of graduates who com- fessionals are critical to helping us Management of Cultural Institutions workshops and case studies covering The two programmes comple- produced locally. Sheirii or span- pleted the high-level professional achieve our vision of promoting and and Leadership Studies curriculum, key issues facing cultural institutions ment each other, revolving around gled emperor, was caught in large development programme designed sustaining the cultural sector to the custom-tailored for QM. today. and addressing specific challenges quantities and accounted for 20.6 to shape the future arts and cultural highest standards.” It was created in consultation Leadership workshops, consisting and projects of QM. percent of local production, fol- lowed by kingfish (Chanad) at 10.3 percent and bakhsheena at 7.1 per- cent. Bakhsheena is commonly known as pinkear emperor and QRCS plans QR96m Ramadan projects in 15 countries looks like sheirii.

Open House at The Peninsula families in Syria, Lebanon (Syrian family support and health and social Indian Embassy and Palestinian refugees), Pales- awareness at a cost of QR85m, said tine, Jerusalem, Jordan, Yemen, Iraq, Al Mohannadi. Local post-Ramadan Afghanistan, Sudan, Somalia, Niger, projects include health, social, reha- DOHA: The Indian Embassy will DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent Society Chad, Central African Republic and bilitation and development initiatives hold Open House on Friday to (QRCS) is launching projects worth Ethiopia will benefit. at a cost of QR33m. Global year-round address any urgent consular and QR96m during and after Ramadan in Details were given by QRCS projects and programmes will be labour problems of Indian nation- 15 countries, including Qatar. officials during a press conference implemented in 15 countries at a cost als in Qatar. The Open House will QRCS has earmarked QR11m for yesterday. Saleh bin Ali Al Mohannadi, of over QR51.5m. be held from 5.30pm to 6.30pm. projects in and outside Qatar. Local Secretary-General, QRCS; Ahmed Ali Donations could be sent through Written information on issues/ Ramadan projects include ‘Iftar tents’; Al Khulaifi, Head, Resource Mobi- SMS, 92740 (QR1,000); 92770 QRCS officials at a press conference. cases proposed to be discussed ‘Eid clothing’; ‘This is My Wish’; and lisation; social and public media (QR500); and 92766 (QR100). Donors may be given from 5.30pm to 6pm. ‘Recite and Ascend’; among others at representatives and QRCS officials could specify charity sectors by Yemen projects, send ‘Yemen’. up at Villaggio; Landmark Mall; Gulf This will be followed by meeting a cost of over QR3.1m. and volunteers were present. sending SMS. For surface water well Hotlines are available on Mall; Ezdan Mall; The Mall; Meera with officials from 6pm to 6.30pm. Ramadan projects abroad include The year-round projects include digging projects, send ‘Charity’; for 44027700 – 44027883 – 44027875 – Stores; Lulu Hypermarket; Quality Salient information would be Iftar tents and distribution of food at shelter, healthcare, food and non-food health projects, send ‘Treatment’; for 66666364 – 66644822 for donations. Hypermarket, Hayatt Plaza; and Al sent to the media after the event. a cost of over QR7.8m. Some 126,130 aid, water and sanitation, education, Syria projects, send ‘Syria’; and for Donation collection booths are set Khor Mall. 04 TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 HOME

New guidelines to manage 57 graduate with UCQ nursing degrees diabetes during Ramadan

The Peninsula “Many people with diabetes Minister of Education are keen to fast during Ramadan. and Higher Education Awareness about diabetes man- Abdul Wahed Ali Al agement and structured diabetes DOHA: A group of expert organisa- education are essential for the Hammadi attends the tions has developed new guidelines management of the condition in 2016 Convocation. on diabetes management during preparation for the fasting period. Ramadan. Medical professionals, religious lead- The Diabetes and Ramadan ers and healthcare providers need International Alliance (DaR), in part- to work in harmony to ensure a safe nership with International Diabetes and healthy holy month for all,” said The Peninsula Federation (IDA) and Qatar Diabe- Dr Shaukat Sadikot, President, IDA. tes Association announced the ‘New IDF, in collaboration with DaR, Guidelines on Diabetes Management gathered 31 experts from across the during Ramadan’ during the fourth US, the UK, France, Turkey, Sudan, DOHA: Fifty-seven students from DaR International Alliance congress. Egypt, South Africa, Lebanon, Syria, University of Calgary in Qatar (UCQ) The updated guidelines are Jordan, Saudi Arabia, Kuwait, the obtained nursing degrees during the based on learning from previous UAE, Iran, Pakistan and Malaysia 2016 Convocation, attended by Minis- years, offering improved man- to combine their voluntary efforts ter of Education and Higher Education agement strategies and newer in creation of the guidelines. H E Dr Mohammed Abdul Wahed Ali evidence-based medicine to help “Qatar Diabetes Association is Al Hammadi on Sunday. people fast with minimal risk. endorsing the new guidelines to Professors, family, friends, and These will ensure effective com- ensure maximum uptake among the dignitaries from Qatar’s health and munication with and education of all healthcare community and people education spheres celebrated 52 Officials with some of the graduates at the convocation . those involved, including patients, living with the condition. Bachelor of Nursing (BN) and five religious leaders and the wider com- “With these guidelines, we aim to Master of Nursing (MN) graduates munity. Emphasis has been laid on ensure that people with diabetes are at UCQ’s seventh convocation. The continue their nursing careers in nursing education, UCQ has long representatives from Hamad Medical the importance of individualisation aided with the best tools to manage graduates will join the university’s Qatar, we have no doubt that they aimed to foster a true culture of serv- Corporation, Qatar University, Qatar within a diabetes management plan. their health throughout Ramadan,” growing alumni base in contributing will be exemplars of the Universi- ice that unites our students, faculty, Red Crescent Society and Sidra were For instance, the Ramadan Nutri- said Dr Abdullah Al Hamaq, Execu- to the health goals of Qatar National ty’s values of honesty, integrity and and staff in the spirit of Qatar’s goals. present. tion Plan aims to provide people with tive Director, QDA. Vision 2030. responsibility while advancing this I am proud to see 57 more graduates UCQ also honoured two graduates information to help them individual- Experts at the conference Dr Robert Thirsk, Chancellor, country’s goals,” he added. become active contributors to the with its highest academic distinction ise nutrition for people with diabetes stressed that the decision to fast UCQ, said, “Our University, with To date, 277 graduates have development of Qatar’s healthcare — the Gold and Silver medallions. during the holy month. must be taken while maintaining a the generous support of the State of earned BN degrees while 14 have sector,” said Dr Kim Critchley, Dean The Gold Medal for academic The conference also brought balance between the guidelines for Qatar, strives to provide our students graduated from MN programme. and CEO, UCQ. achievement in the BN, Regular Track forth key challenges associated religious exemptions and assessment with the knowledge and resources Qatari nationals make up 21 percent “Our graduates deserve this programme was awarded to Eve- with diabetes management during of the risks involved, in consultation necessary to become leaders in of the 291 graduates. The MN pro- recognition for their exceptional per- lyn Anna Edwards while Shaikhah the holy month, while raising aware- with healthcare providers. Following this honourable profession. This is gramme, first of its kind in Qatar, formance and hard work,” Critchley Mohsen Abdullah Al Keldi won the ness about the need for minimising a highly individualised management the beginning of a journey for our celebrated its second class of grad- added. Silver Medal for academic achieve- health risks through increased edu- plan and follow-up are essential to graduates. uates this year. University of Calgary leaders, dip- ment in the Post Diploma Bachelor cation and guidance. avoid development of complications. “As some initiate and others “As Qatar’s sole provider of lomats, academics, dignitaries and of Nursing programme. Qatar Airways hosts aviation conference QDF and Doha Bank reward customers with discounted The Peninsula conference and delivered the key- note address. “As one of the fastest summer shopping growing airlines in the world, QA has a responsibility to manage its grow- DOHA: Qatar Airways (QA) is lead- ing workforce in the most effective ing an aviation conference bringing manner, ensuring that we continue together experts from across aviation to attract and retain pilots and cabin and software fields to promote the use crew of the highest calibre. By utilising of operations research in the airline the very latest in operations research, industry. technical developments and innovative The Airline Group of the Inter- analytics, and by sharing knowledge national Federation of Operational both within and beyond the avia- Research Societies (AGIFORS) event tion industry, QA can ensure that it is is exploring the use of sophisticated implementing the latest state-of-the- mathematical methods found in sci- art practices as well as driving further ence, engineering, business, computer advancement for the benefit of both science, and within the aviation indus- Dr Hugh Dunleavy, Chief Commercial Officer, Qatar Airways, opens the our staff and our passengers.” try for improved efficiency and more AGIFORS aviation industry conference. Crew Management is one of spe- effective crew management. cific aviation working groups formed More than 80 conference delegates by AGIFORS and its partner airlines, representing eight international air- the latest concepts such as the bene- impact of industry changes on crew which together arrange forums to lines and leading software vendors fits of using applied mathematics to management. discuss reservations and yield man- from around the world, are meet- streamline operations, including man- Dr Hugh Dunleavy, Chief Commer- agement, strategic and schedule ing in Doha to discuss new ideas and power planning, crew rosters and the cial Officer, QA, officially opened the planning, cargo, and airline operations. A customer completing her purchases at Qatar Duty Free.

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DOHA: Qatar Duty Free and Doha Bank have united again to offer customers a special shopping promotion to enjoy across QDF’s exceptional selection of fashion, beauty and gourmet food boutiques at Hamad Inter- national Airport (HIA). Travellers holding a Doha Bank credit card will enjoy 10 percent savings when they shop at QDF stores between May 10 and July 31. Passengers will discover a tempting array of prod- ucts inside the departure terminal, from cosmetics to designer labels, all perfect purchases for those ventur- ing on summer vacations,and business travellers keen to benefit from the offer. QDF’s shopping emporium was recently announced as the world’s fifth ‘Best Airport for Shopping’ at the 2016 Skytrax World Airport Awards. The wide selection of luxury and affordable brands available, together with the competitive prices and the retailer’s outstanding customer service levels, were recognised. Luis Gasset, Senior Vice-President, QDF, said: “Sum- mer is a key time for travellers, and as such an important time for QDF to reward customers with an offer on one of the most extensive collections of brands and lux- ury boutiques available. As one of the world’s leading shopping airports, QDF is committed to offering our customers added value by working with partners to deliver generous promotions and the very best in qual- ity, service and variety.” Dr R Seetharaman, Group CEO, Doha Bank, said: “The bank and QDF have worked in partnership to deliver promotions for passengers at HIA over the years. While last year’s 10 percent cash back promo- tion was an immense success, we expect this year to be a greater success. Our loyal cardholders will be able to have convenient and privileged payment experiences and continue to enjoy loyalty points on these transac- tions, and what better way for travellers from Doha to embark on their summer vacations.” Passengers can choose from a wide variety of duty-free products at amazing prices, from Tiffany, Burberry, TAG Heuer, Cho- pard, Bulgari, Harrods, Michael Kors, Coach, perfumes, cosmetics and skincare, Godiva chocolates, Swarovski jewellery and gifts from Marmalade Market. HOME TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 05

Seminar to focus on right to access Deal to assess healthcare professionals information CMED student examination items The Peninsula bank, and conducting regional bench- The College of marking studies on test design. Medicine at Qatar The agreement was signed by Dr Egon Toft, Vice-President for Medical DOHA: Doha Centre for Media University signs Education, QU; and Dr Donald E Mel- Freedom (DCMF) will hold a deal with US-based nick, President, NBME. seminar on the right to access Dr Brownell Anderson, Vice-Pres- information, at its headquar- National Board of ident for International Programme, ters tomorrow. Local journalists, Medical Examiners to represented NBME. experts and lawyers will high- support the college in As a first step in what is aimed to light the importance of ensuring be a long-term collaboration, a team the right to access information and aligning its standards of specialized experts from NBME, its challenges at the event titled with those of the US. will engage CMED faculty and admin- ‘Right to access to information: istrators in various activities that aim Legal framework and challenges’. to further enhance medical educa- It is in line with this year’s tion and establish an assessment Unesco’s World Press Freedom system that maximizes the quality of Day’s theme ‘Access to informa- The Peninsula the College’s graduates. The college’s tion and fundamental freedoms: curriculum and current assessment This is your right’. It will focus on framework will also be reviewed by FROM LEFT: Dr Egon Toft, Vice-President for Medical Education, Qatar University; Dr Brownell Anderson, the safety of journalists and access the NBME team to ensure their align- Vice-President for International Programme, National Board of Medical Examiners; and Prof Hossam Hamdy, to information in three main areas ment with international standards. Associate Dean for Academic Affairs, College of Medicine, at the deal signing ceremony. — the right to media freedom as DOHA: The College of Medicine at College administrators will be pro- a fundamental human right; pro- Qatar University (CMED-QU) has vided with recommendations on the needs of CMED curriculum, and Dean for Academic Affairs, CMED, students for this and similar interna- tecting media from censorship collaborated with a US-based organ- a range of topics including possi- development of an item bank. said, “The College of Medicine’s focus tional licensing exams to ensure that and excessive surveillance; and isation which evaluates healthcare ble curriculum revision; timing and Recommendations will also be on quality, safe medical practice and the quality of its graduates is aligned ensuring the safety of journalists professionals. nature of locally-developed assess- made on development of faculty optimal patient care is in line with with the best international standards working online and offline. The National Board of Medi- ments; the most appropriate use of the expertise in teaching, curriculum NBME’s mission to “protect the health in medical practice. This agreement The right of access to informa- cal Examiners (NBME) will support portfolio of NBME assessment instru- design and design, construction, of the public through state of the art is an important step for the College’s tion is one of the most important CMED-QU in aligning its standards ments available to North American and interpretation of valid and reli- assessment of health professionals”. development and progress as Qatar’s pillars for sustainable development with those of the US by leveraging and International medical schools; able formative and summative Based on the US Medical Licensing first national medical college and its and an essential tool to advance CMED’s student assessment system, potential NBME assistance on the examinations. Examination (USMLE) introduced by stated ambitions towards a knowl- dialogue on the subject. supporting the establishment of a development of assessments to meet Prof Hossam Hamdy, Associate NBME in 1992, the College prepares its edge-based economy.” Sri Lankan mission seeks donations for flood victims Ministry hosts seminar on family disputes affecting kids By Fazeena Saleem Severe flooding in Sri Lanka has cash can be given to the embassy toilet cleaning tablets, water fil- The Peninsula forced half a million people to flee and a receipt will be issued,” a sen- ters, water purification tablets, homes across the country, officials ior official said. outboard motors (25.40hp), out- The Peninsula cross-border family disputes and said, as the death toll from days of Residents who wish to contrib- boats, tents for health service strengthen international legal coop- torrential rain and landslides rose ute dry food items and new clothes provision, emergency lamps, boots, eration, while taking into account DOHA: As thousands in Sri Lanka to more than 70, while at least 127 could hand them over to commu- raincoats, umbrellas, torches and the child’s best interests. are displaced from their homes in were reported missing. nity representatives appointed mobile water purification plants are DOHA: Doha International Family Noor Al Malki Al Jehani, Exec- the aftermath of floods and land- Around 300,000 people by the embassy. All goods will be required for post- flood relief work. Institute (DIFI) recently co-hosted a utive Director, DIFI, said, “Qatar slides, the Sri Lankan Embassy has have been moved to shelters and transported to Sri Lanka by ship. The worst-hit areas were comprehensive seminar discussing ratified the Convention on the Rights called on residents to send dona- 200,000 are staying with friends Members to collect mate- Colombo’s northeastern sub- the issue of family disputes affect- of the Child in 1995. Protecting the tions to help with the relief effort. or family. President Maithripala rial donations include Abdul urbs along the Kelani river. Three ing children. wellbeing of the child is recognised A list of ways to donate for the Sirisena urged people to pro- Rahman (55907867), Zaheer people have been killed in flood- ‘Protecting the Best Interests of by Qatar as a key issue, and guides victims of the floods has been issued vide shelter and donate cash or (33337935 ), Ranjith (50409246), related incidents in Colombo but the Child in Cross-Border Family the work of its institutions in terms by the mission. Residents can donate food. Residents intend to support Palitha (77441194 ) and Sriyantha the national toll stands at 71 dead Disputes’ was held in collaboration of taking into account the child’s best cash or items. Through a circular, with money are advised to hand (31008877) and many injured. The district of with the Ministry of Justice, Global interests in legal and institutional the Sri Lankan Ministry of Foreign over cash at a special counter at According to the ministry, Kegalle, about 100km northeast Affairs Canada and the Hague Con- procedures. Since the endorse- Affairs has directed its missions the embassy. The counter is open equipment such as generators, of the capital, has been worst-hit, ference on Private International Law. ment of the Convention, Qatar has to encourage monitory assistance between 8am and 4pm. emergency lights, life jackets, with the toll from two landslides It aimed to promote dia- amended legislation to provide rather than collecting materials. “Donation in financial terms or mobile toilets, tapeline, tents, rising to 34. logue and consolidate interaction greater protection for children, and among regional government offi- established entities that provide cials, judges, independent experts, services to protect them from vio- and other regional authorities and lence, abuse and exploitation.” stakeholders. Representatives from the GCC Hospital highlights breastfeeding benefits Participants explored the topic Ministries of Justice also partici- of children’s rights in cross-border pated in the seminar, along with family disputes, especially those that judges, law professors and those result in the illegal transfer of chil- concerned with family and child The Peninsula The public can visit the hospital’s Outpatient extra calories allowing them to lose pregnancy dren across international borders. protection issues. Department to ask experts questions and attend weight faster, reducing uterine bleeding after birth The event aimed to provide informa- Dr Christophe Bernasconi, Sec- educational workshops in English and Arabic that and lowering ther risk of suffering from breast and tion on child protection agreements retary-General, Hague Conference will outline the 10 steps to successful breastfeed- ovarian cancer. under the auspices of the Hague on Private International Law, said, DOHA: The Obstetrics and Gynaecology Depart- ing and highlight difficulties breastfeeding women “Breastfeeding will also lower the baby’s risk Conference on Private International “The seminar increased awareness ment at Al Wakra Hospital is running a campaign can face. of having asthma or allergies and babies breast- Law, and how it relates to countries of the Child Abduction Convention, until Thursday to raise awareness about the ben- “Breastfeeding creates a strong bond between fed exclusively for the first six months, without any in the GCC. the Child Protection Convention, and efits of breastfeeding. the mother and the child and holds significant formula, have fewer ear infections, respiratory ill- The seminar examined existing other relevant Hague conventions in The campaign is being held in collaboration health benefits for both,” said Dr Mohamed Alloub, nesses and diarrhoea. alternative means of dispute res- Qatar and the wider region. It also with the Mother and Child Education Clinic to Senior Managing Consultant in Obstetrics and “We hope members of the community will join olution, such as family mediation served to further strengthen the ties raise awareness about the importance of breast- Gynaecology at the hospital. us to learn more about the importance of breast- relating to the Shariah legal sys- between the region and the Hague feeding and how it can benefit future generations. “For mothers, these benefits include burning feeding and its benefits.” tem and how it can be used to solve Conference in general.”

Safari Group launches Mango Festival 2016 Katara Hospitality’s Le Royal Monceau-Raffles Paris welcomes France’s first Matsuhisa restaurant

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DOHA: Katara Hospitality, the lead- ing global hotel owner, developer and operator, marked the success- ful partnership between the world’s renowned Chef Nobu Matsuhisa and Le Royal Monceau — Raffles Paris, at an event at Matsuhisa Paris; a Japa- nese fine dining restaurant and the newest addition at Le Royal Monceau. Matsuhisa was the Guest of Hon- our at the ceremony, which welcomed 300 guests, including VIPs and culi- nary enthusiasts. The event was characterised by the sound of Jap- anese drums, floral décor with elaborate cherry trees by florist Bap- tiste Pitou, and a unique masterpiece titled “Wish on a Wing”, designed by Le Royal Monceau Raffles Paris - Matsuhisa Paris. TSUYU. Guests were entertained by a musical programme handled by French DJ The Avener. emblematic of Nobu’s excellence in Paris, owned by Katara Hospitality, Safari Hypermarket Group yesterday launched Mango Festival 2016 at its outlets across Qatar. The Matsuhisa Paris opened its doors creating bespoke Peruvian-Japanese is the European flagship of Raffles festival features over 60 varieties of the fruit from India, Pakistan, Brazil, Thailand, Ivory Coast, Sri in February at Le Royal Monceau — inspired signature and traditional Hotels & Resorts, having been an icon Lanka, Yemen, Sudan and Bangladesh as well as mango-based products which are bakery and hot Raffles Paris, just steps away from dishes, Paris’ newest Japanese fine in Europe’s most stylish capital since food items available at Safari Mall in Abu Hamour and Safari Hypermarket on Salwa Road. Aboobacker the iconic Champs Elysée and Arc dining restaurant exudes unique cos- 1928. Madappat, Managing Director, Safari Group, inaugurated the festival at Safari Mall in Abu Hamour by de Triomphe. Hosting hundreds mopolitan charm in the heart of one The hotel reopened in October cutting a cake in the presence of other officials from the Group. of guests who enjoyed a tantalis- of the world’s most remarkable cities. 2010, entirely transformed by French ing gastronomic encounter that is Le Royal Monceau — Raffles designer Philippe Starck. 06 TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 MIDDLE EAST Iraqi forces battle IS militants outside Fallujah

AP offensive would take, citing the ter- days of the Sunni-led insurgency fol- displacement from the city or sur- commanders the following morning. two people and wounding more than rain, the number of civilians in the lowing the 2003 US-led invasion that rounding areas, but the UN Refugee Addressing the military lead- 100. The offensive comes a week city and bombs planted by the mil- toppled Saddam Hussein, Fallujah Agency, UNHCR, said in a statement ers, he said the offensive achieved after Iraqi forces pushed IS out of the itants. Al-Saadi added that the first emerged as the main stronghold for that around 80 families are reported “more than what was planned for” western town of Rutba, located 240 BAGHDAD: Iraqi government forces phase aims to surround and bomb IS different militant groups opposed to to have fled Fallujah over the past few and hailed the “big successes” by the miles west of Baghdad, on the edge yesterday pushed Islamic State positions. American forces. The main group was days. UNHCR says it has emergency troops on the ground, without elab- of Anbar province. Last month, Iraqi (IS) militants out of some agricul- Federal police battalion com- Al Qaeda in Iraq, which later spawned stocks in Baghdad of 10,000 tents orating on the operation. He added forces cleared territory along Anbar’s tural areas outside Fallujah as they mander, 1st Lt Ahmed Mahdi Salih, IS. The city was also the site of two and 10,000 core relief items — such that the offensive had been planned Euphrates river valley after the pro- launched a military offensive to said ground fighting was taking place bloody battles against US forces in as sanitary kits and food and water to start more than two months ago, vincial capital Ramadi was declared recapture the city from the extrem- around the town of Garma, east of 2004. supplies — that can assist families. but was delayed due to the political fully liberated earlier this year. ists, officials said. Fallujah, which is considered the main Since August, Fallujah has been Flanked by senior military com- infighting and the deteriorating secu- IS extremists still control signif- Backed by US-led coalition air- supply line for the militants. IS holds under siege by government troops, manders, Iraqi Prime Minister Haider rity situation inside Baghdad. icant areas in northern and western strikes and paramilitary troops, Iraqi the center of Garma and some areas who have prevented the entry of food Al Abadi announced the beginning The Shia-led government has to Iraq, including the country’s sec- government forces launched the long- on its outskirts. and medicine into the city. Residents of military operations in a televised deal with deepening political and ond-largest city of Mosul. The group awaited military offensive late on Col Mahmoud al-Mardhi, who is seeking to flee the city have some- speech late Sunday night. He vowed social unrest in the capital over cor- declared an Islamic caliphate on the Sunday. The city, located about 40 miles in charge of paramilitary forces, said times found themselves trapped to “tear up the black banners of stran- ruption and lack of public services. On territory it holds in Iraq and Syria and west of Baghdad, has been under the his troops recaptured at least three by the militants, who aim to retain gers who usurped this city” and hoist Friday, clashes erupted between pro- at the height of its power was esti- militants’ control since January 2014. agricultural areas outside Garma. Fallujah’s civilian population as the Iraqi flag. Wearing the black uni- testers and Iraqi security forces inside mated to hold nearly a third of Iraqi The commander of the Fallujah Al Mardhi added that airstrikes and human shields against a full-scale form of Iraq’s counter-terrorism Baghdad’s highly fortified Green Zone, territory. Iraq’s Prime Minister says operation, Lt. General Abdul-Wahab artillery shelling intensified against government assault. As of yester- forces, Al Abadi visited the Fallujah home to key Iraqi government min- the group’s hold has since shrunk to Al Saadi, could not say how long the IS positions inside Fallujah. In the early day, there was no evidence of mass Operation Command and met with istries and foreign embassies, killing 14 percent of Iraq.

Israeli police India in deal to shoot dead Palestinian turn Iran port woman into trade hub AFP

JERUSALEM: A Palestinian understanding for the provision of a woman tried to stab an Israeli line of credit from India’s EXIM Bank border policeman at a check- Modi’s visit, the to develop Iran’s southern port of point north of Jerusalem first by an Indian Chabahar, on the Gulf of Oman. yesterday and was shot dead, Rowhani hailed the project, say- Israeli police said. premier to Iran in ing it could become a “great symbol of No injuries were reported 15 years, comes cooperation between Iran and India”. among the police in the incident Modi’s visit, the first by an Indian at the Biddu checkpoint. Bor- after international Iranian President Hassan Rowhani (centre), Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi (left), and Afghan President premier to Iran in 15 years, comes der police fired in the air before sanctions against after international sanctions against Ashraf Ghani during a trilateral meeting in Tehran, Iran, yesterday. shooting her when she continued Tehran were lifted in Tehran were lifted in mid-January to move toward them with a knife, following an agreement with world Chabahar, this port can turn into a office in Tehran, becoming the first and regional one” with a message of authorities said. mid-January. powers over its nuclear programme. great symbol of cooperation between South Korean lender to do so. regional opportunities for develop- A wave of such attacks have Since that long-awaited agree- Iran and India,” Rowhani said. Modi and Rowhani were joined by ment. He cautioned the agreement occurred since October, though ment was reached in July, officials India, China’s greatest eco- Afghan President Ashraf Ghani to sign was not against any other country, the violence has steadily declined from dozens of mainly Asian and nomic rival in Asia, is among the last a three-way transit accord. but to the benefit of “peace and sta- in recent weeks. AFP European countries have visited Iran regional powers to arrive in Iran. The deal, bypassing Pakistan to bility in the region”. Violence since October has to seek a share of its 80m strong mar- Chinese President Xi Jinping vis- connect Iran, India, and Afghanistan “Other countries too can join this killed 205 Palestinians and 28 ket. Rowhani said Iran and India had ited Iran only days after the sanctions to central Asia, would boost economic document of partnership in future.” Israelis. decided to transform their trading were lifted and pledged to expand growth in the region, Modi said. The volume of trade between Most of the Palestinians killed TEHRAN: India agreed yesterday to links to the level of “comprehensive trade to $600bn in the next 10 years. “We want to link to the world, but Iran and India in the past 11 months were carrying out knife, gun or finance the development of an Iranian economic relations”. Xi’s visit was in line with his sig- connectivity among ourselves is also reached $9bn, according to Iran’s offi- car-ramming attacks, Israeli port as a trading hub, as Prime Min- He and Modi witnessed the nature foreign policy initiative known a priority,” he said. cial Irna news agency. authorities say. ister Narendra Modi sought to revive signing of 12 memorandums of under- as “One Belt One Road”. The first train “The corridor would spur unhin- India is reportedly seeking to dou- Many analysts say Pales- economic ties with Tehran after the standing, two of them on Chabahar to connect China and Iran arrived in dered flow of commerce throughout ble its imports of oil from the Islamic tinian frustration with Israeli lifting of sanctions. port, on the Gulf of Oman. They Tehran in February loaded with Chi- the region. Inflow of capital and tech- republic. Tehran was New Delhi’s sec- occupation and settlement The Indian leader met Iranian include a deal between Iran’s Mar- nese goods, reviving the ancient trade nology could lead to new industrial ond largest oil supplier until 2011-12, building in the West Bank, the officials including supreme leader itime and Ports Organisation and route known as the Silk Road. infrastructure in Chabahar.” when the sanctions cut its depend- complete lack of progress in Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and Presi- India’s EXIM bank to work out the President Park Geun-Hye of South The port, “when linked with the ence on Iranian oil. India still owes peace efforts and their own dent Hassan Rowhani during a visit details of a line of credit to develop Korea visited Iran at the beginning of International North South Transport Iran $6.5bn that Tehran was unable to fractured leadership have fed that he said would mark “a new chap- Chabahar. “With India’s investment this month. Corridor, would touch South Asia at recover because of the international the recent unrest. ter in our strategic partnership”. in the development and equipping Iran and South Korea decided to one end and Europe at another.” sanctions. India has begun paying Israel says incitement by Pales- Modi and Rowhani oversaw of Chabahar port and also the cred- triple their annual trade volume to Rowhani said it was “not merely back the debt. In the evening, Khame- tinian leaders and media is a main the signing of a memorandum of its intended from this country for $18bn and Woori Bank opened an an economic document but a political nei received Modi. cause of the violence. Netanyahu rejects French peace initiative

AP Prime Minister Manuel Valls is vis- our fate and our security when countries, including Egypt, Saudi iting the region in a bid to rouse they have no direct stake.” Arabia and Jordan, as a first step support for the initiative. Netanyahu said he would be to discuss the peace process. Israel Speaking alongside Valls, willing to accept a French initiative and the Palestinians have not been JERUSALEM: Israel’s leader gave Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin that brought him and Palestin- invited. a cool reception yesterday to a Netanyahu said direct talks “are ian President Mahmoud Abbas The Palestinians have wel- French peace initiative, telling the the only way to proceed toward together in a room alone to dis- comed the French proposal. visiting French prime minister that peace.” cuss the conflict’s most intractable The most recent peace negoti- peace cannot be forged through “Peace just does not get issues. Valls said he would deliver ations, mediated by US Secretary international conferences but only achieved through international the message to the French presi- of State John Kerry, collapsed in through direct negotiations. conferences,” Netanyahu said. dent. “We support anything that April 2014, and the period since France is hosting an interna- “It doesn’t get to fruition through can contribute to peace and direct has been fraught with conflict, tional conference in Paris in June international dictates, committees negotiations,” Valls said. including a war in Gaza and an aimed at reviving the Israeli-Pal- from countries around the world On June 3, Paris plans to ongoing eight-month spell of estinian peace process. French who are sitting, seeking to decide host a ministerial meeting of 20 unrest.

Ghannoushi reelected chairman of Ennahda

Anatolia and Mohamed Al Akrud, won 229 and 29 votes, respectively. The vote was held following a party congress that kicked off Fri- TUNIS: Rachid Ghannoushi, leader day in capital Tunis. of Tunisia’s Ennahda movement, Tunisia’s Ennahda movement was reelected as party chairman was founded in 1972. yesterday. Since its establishment, it “Ghannoushi was reelected by has held nine party congresses, a landslide,” Ali Al Arid, Ennahda including five secret ones secretary-general and a former between 1979 and 1991 — when prime minister, said shortly after it was banned by the authorities Tunisian Islamist Ennahda Party leader Rached Ghannouchi holds the vote. — and three held abroad between a press conference after being reelected as the head of the party, According to Al Arid, Ghan- 1995 and 2011. in Tunis, yesterday. noushi won 800 of the votes cast Its ninth congress was held by leading party members while in Tunisia in 2012, when it led after winning legislative polls in longstanding president, Zine Al the two runners-up, Fethi Ayadi a ruling government coalition late 2011 following the ouster of Abidine Ben Ali. MIDDLE EAST TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 07

Turkey-EU fight 45 dead in IS intensifies AP

bombings on ANKARA: German Chancellor Angela Merkel told Turkey’s pres- ident yesterday that Ankara must fulfill all the European Union’s conditions to secure visa-free Yemeni forces travel for its citizens, but Turkey responded that it would suspend agreements with the EU if the bloc does not keep its promises. President Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi are The EU says Turkey must battling both Sunni extremists and narrow its definition of “terror- A suicide bomber Iran-backed Shia rebels. ist” and “terrorist act.” The bloc killed 38 people In the first attack, a suicide is concerned that journalists and bomber killed 38 people queueing to political dissenters could be tar- at a recruitment enlist at a recruitment centre near the geted. But Turkish president Recep centre near the Badr Badr base in Aden’s Khormaksar dis- Tayyip Erdogan has said that is out base in Aden and a trict, said Brigadier General Nasser of the question. Speaking to report- Al Sarei, the commander of Yemen’s ers after a meeting with Erdogan on subsequent explosion special security forces. the sidelines of the World Humani- inside the base killed A subsequent explosion inside the tarian Summit meeting in Istanbul, base killed seven soldiers, he said. In Merkel said that she doesn’t expect Yemenis inspect the site of a suicide bombing targeting a gathering of young men seeking to join the army seven soldiers. a statement posted online, IS said one the visa waiver to be implemented of its fighters detonated an explo- in the southern port city of Aden, yesterday. at the beginning of July as was orig- sives belt among “apostate soldiers” inally hoped. at a recruitment centre, followed by the area, television footage showed. country — and IS have exploited the month, 47 police were killed in a Merkel, who is facing pressure the bombing at a gate of the Badr Aden resident Ramzi Al Fadhli power vacuum created by the con- series of bombings near Mukalla. at home to be tough with Erdogan, AFP base. The militant group, which has said “wailing filled the air” as women flict to expand their zones of control UN-sponsored peace talks also expressed concern about a seized control of large parts of Syria identified the remains of relatives at in the south and southeast. between the government and rebels move to strip legislators in Turkey and Iraq, also claimed responsibil- Al Jumhuriyah Hospital, where at least Over the past two months, gov- resumed yesterday in Kuwait after of their immunity from prosecu- ity yesterday for a wave of bombings 32 bodies were taken. ernment and coalition forces have hit they had broken off a week ago. tion. The EU has offered Turkey a ADEN: Twin bombings claimed by in Syrian coastal cities that killed Aden has seen a wave of attacks back, driving Al Qaeda militants out The government had demanded visa waiver as incentive — along the Islamic State (IS) group hit Yem- more than 100 people. A local resi- in recent months claimed by Al Qaeda of the Hadramawt provincial capital a written pledge from the rebels and with up to ¤6bn ($6.8bn) for Syr- eni forces in Aden yesterday, killing at dent in Aden described the scene of or its rival IS after government forces of Mukalla, which they had control- their allies recognising an April 2015 ian refugees and fast-track EU least 45 people in the latest of a spate the Badr explosions as “horrible”, say- drove Shia Houthi rebels out of the led for a year. But attacks on security UN Security Council resolution calling membership talks — to get it to of attacks in the southern city. ing body parts had been blown dozens port city in July with support from the forces have left scores dead. for their withdrawal from the capital stop migrants leaving for Europe. The attacks in Aden — which of metres away. Saudi-led coalition. On May 1, four guards were killed and other territories, as well as the As part of the agreement, is serving as the temporary gov- “They came to complete the The coalition launched operations in a bombing that targeted the convoy legitimacy of Hadi. the EU planned to accelerate the ernment headquarters after rebels procedure of their recruitment and in Yemen in March last year after the of Aden’s police chief General Shallal Fighting since the coalition inter- introduction of visa-free entry for forced authorities from the capital receive their first salary,” he said, rebels seized control of Sana’a and Shayae, in the second such attack on vention in March 2015 has killed more Turks, with a target date of June 30 — follow a major military operation speaking of the young men who had other parts of the country, forcing him in a week. Several attacks have than 6,400 people, displaced about Turkey has fulfilled most of 72 against militants in parts of southern gathered outside the army centre. Hadi’s government to flee the capital also targeted troops in Hadramawt 2.8 million and left 82 percent of conditions but Erdogan’s refusal and southeastern Yemen. Backed by Abandoned slippers and sandals, Sana’a. Al Qaeda — which has a long since government forces ended Al Yemen’s population in need of aid, to revise anti-terror laws has a Saudi-led coalition, forces loyal to apparently from the victims, covered presence in the Arabian Peninsula Qaeda rule in Mukalla. Earlier this the United Nations says. emerged as a stumbling block.. UN launches $3.8bn fund for schools in war zones EgyptAir pilot requested emergency landing

Reuters Education is one of the items on a broad agenda for government and busi- Anatolia ness leaders, aid groups and donors gathered in Istanbul for the two-day ISTANBUL: A crisis fund has been summit. They want to try to develop launched to raise $3.8bn to help mil- a more coherent response to what PARIS: The pilot of EgyptAir flight MS804, which went down in the lions of children missing out on school UN chief Ban Ki-moon has called the Mediterranean Sea last Thursday with 66 people aboard, requested because of war or natural disas- worst humanitarian situation since an emergency landing from Egyptian air-traffic controllers moments ters, UN special envoy Gordon Brown World War Two, with 130 million peo- before it crashed, France’s air accident investigation agency (BEA) announced yesterday at the first ever ple affected by war or natural disaster. announced. A BEA official told France’s M6 television channel that World Humanitarian Summit. Nobel peace laureate Malala pilot Mohamed Said Shoukair had complained of smoke in the cock- Nearly 75 million children living in Yousafzai urged world leaders ahead pit before asking to make an emergency landing. areas affected by war or natural disas- of the conference to match their On Saturday, BEA spokesman Sebastien Barthe had said that data ter had their education disrupted last words with action. “I call on world transmissions from the plane had revealed the presence of smoke in year, leaving them prey to child labour, leaders in Istanbul to be generous the flight cabin. The smoke, the cause of which remains unknown, trafficking and extremism, according and back up their words with politi- may have been indicative of fire, Barthe added. to research published in March. cal will,” she said. On Thursday, EgyptAir flight MS804 -- flying from Paris to The fund aims to help more than “They must deliver on each and Cairo with 66 people on board -- disappeared shortly after enter- 13 million children and young people every commitment they make, includ- ing Egyptian airspace. On Friday morning, Egyptian state television over the next five years, and 75 million Azerbaijan’s President Ilham Aliyev (front row L-R), Turkish President ing fully funding the new Education announced that the army had found the wreckage of the plane in by 2030. “For the first time, we have a Recep Tayyip Erdogan, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and Kuwait Cannot Wait initiative.” the eastern Mediterranean. humanitarian fund targeting educa- Emir H H Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmed Al Jaber Al Sabah at a family photo An average of four schools or tion,” said Brown, the former British session during UN Humanitarian Summit in Istanbul, yesterday. hospitals are attacked prime minister and now U.N. Special or occupied by armed Envoy for Global Education. groups every day, the U.N “A fund that plans - not just for cent of global humanitarian appeals caught up in emergencies are at risk children’s agency (Unicef) weeks or months - but for years in sup- are dedicated to education. Despite of becoming the youngest labour- said ahead of the summit. port of a child’s development. And a growing needs, funding for education ers in the field, the youngest brides at In Syria alone, more than fund with a contingency reserve allow- in emergencies has almost halved since the alter, the youngest soldiers in the 6,000 schools are out of use ing us to act when a crisis hits ensuring 2010, according to the London-based trench, and in some cases, the youngest - attacked, occupied by the no begging bowl has to be circulated,” Overseas Development Institute (ODI). recruits vulnerable to extremism and military or taken over as he added. On average, only two per “Without school, young children radicalisation,” Brown said. an emergency shelter.

Libya coastguard intercepts 850 migrants at sea

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TRIPOLI: Libyan coast- guards intercepted about 850 migrants off the coast near the western city of Sabratha, a spokesman said. Ayoub Qassem said the migrants were from vari- ous African countries and among them were 69 women, including 11 who were preg- nant, as well as 11 children. They were travelling in inflatable rubber boats, he said. Libya is a major depar- ture point for mainly sub-Saharan African migrants trying to reach Europe through cross- ings arranged by people smugglers. Migrants are often given flimsy boats that are ill- equipped for travelling across the Mediterranean. 08 TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 ASIA

Britain grants 17 girls dead in refugee status to Nasheed fire at Thailand Reuters

COLOMBO: Britain has granted school for poor refugee status to Mohamed Nash- eed, the former president of the Maldives who was jailed in 2015 “The fire broke out at 11pm on after a trial that drew international Sunday. Seventeen girls were killed, criticism, his lawyer said yesterday. The fire started with five injured,” Colonel Prayad Nasheed, the Maldives’ first late Sunday night, Singsin of the police in the town of democratically elected president, Chiang Rai said. was allowed to go to Britain in Jan- meaning many of the Two of the injured are in a serious uary for medical treatment after children at the school condition, he said, but initial fears President Abdulla Yameen came that two more girls were missing under international pressure to let run by a Christian had been discounted after rescuers him leave. charity were asleep. picked through the charred debris. Nasheed was jailed for 13 years The school in Wiang Pa Pao dist- on terrorism charges in after ille- trict is home to girls aged between gally ordering the arrest of a judge six and 13. Those in the dormitory in a trial that put a spotlight on AFP on Sunday night were drawn mainly instability in the Indian Ocean Yupin Saw-wa, (left) cries as she holds a picture of her daughter, who died after a fire swept through the from the deprived local hill tribes, archipelago known as a paradise who live too far away to travel to Christian Pitakiatwittaya School in the northern province of Chiang Rai, in Thailand, yesterday. for wealthy tourists. school every day. Television inter- “Nasheed has been granted BANGKOK: Seventeen girls died viewed one girl aged around 10 who Arkom Sukapan said, confirming the of hill tribes who mainly live in the drug gangs who pay them to smug- political refugee status in the UK,” after a fire swept through the dor- escaped with several friends. death toll. “But others were asleep and remote northern area bordering Laos gle narcotics -- including heroin and Hasan Latheef, Nasheed’s lawyer, mitory of a school for children of hill “I woke up and saw a lot of could not escape, resulting in the large and Myanmar. Many are descend- amphetamines -- across the zone, told Reuters from the capital, Male. tribes in northern Thailand, offi- smoke. It was dark. The fire had number of casualties.”Photographs on ants of refugees from Myanmar or known as the “Golden Triangle”. A British High Commission cials said yesterday, with a survivor broken out downstairs so I called to the school’s Facebook page showed China and exist within subsistence Thai security forces frequently official in the Sri Lankan capital describing fleeing as flames engulfed my friends” she said, describing her firefighters struggling to douse the farming communities with their own engage in deadly gunbattles with hill Colombo said it did not comment the building. flight. But those who did not wake flames as they tore through the distinctive dialects and rituals. They tribe drug mules. That link engenders on individual asylum cases. The fire started late Sunday night, up in time died. building. mostly live beyond the reach of state prejudice among many Thais and hill Yameen, whose half-brother meaning many of the children at the “There were 38 students inside Thai media showed a fire truck resources, meaning hill tribe chil- tribes are often portrayed negatively. lost power to Nasheed in 2008, school run by a Christian charity the dormitory when the fire broke spraying water onto the blaze as the dren suffer at school as well as in Chiang Rai town and the surrounding has rejected accusations Nasheed’s were asleep as flames spread through out. Some were not yet asleep so they upper storey was consumed by the their health and development. Pov- hills are popular with foreign tourists trial was politically motivated and the two-storey wooden building. escaped,” deputy provincial governor fire. Thailand is home to a patchwork erty means adults are easy prey for for hiking and adventure sports. said the legal process was fair.

Enjoying Autumn Hong Kong axes provocative art Plan to end of MH370 installation search worries kin

AFP AFP from Kuala Lumpur to Beijing, with 239 people -- including 152 from China -- aboard. HONG KONG: A new art instal- The cause of the disappearance lation on Hong Kong’s tallest KUALA LUMPUR: An international of Flight MH370 is still unknown and building highlighting growing network of MH370 next-of-kin said it remains one of the greatest mys- fears about the city’s freedoms yesterday that it was “gravely con- teries in aviation history. under Beijing has been cancelled, cerned” that the search for the Australia, Malaysia and China authorities announced, saying the missing jet could end by August, call- have said their joint search would artists showed “disrespect”. ing instead for it to be extended and likely be abandoned if nothing is The artwork was a giant dig- expanded. found in the current designated zone. ital countdown to 2047, the year The grouping, known as Many family members still sus- an agreement guaranteeing Hong Voice370, appealed to countries pect a cover-up in the mystery and Kong’s semi-autonomous status, involved in the expensive opera- have repeatedly called for the most made when Britain handed the city tion, aircraft manufacturer Boeing expensive search operation in his- back to China in 1997, will come and the International Civil Aviation tory to continue until something to an end. Organisation to commit resources is found. Authorities have said the “We regret to announce that to continue the search in the south- cost of the search could be up to $130 the work... would no longer be part ern Indian Ocean. million. of the exhibition,” the Hong Kong “We are gravely concerned Five pieces of debris which have Arts Development Council said in about the impending completion of been identified as either definitely a statement the search in the current targeted or probably from the jet have been Tourists visit Mount Wilson to see autumn leaves along the road in the Blue Mountains region, yesterday. It was added that the display area,” the group said in a statement. discovered thousands of kilome- “demonstrated disrespect”. “It has always been, and still tres from the search zone -- in South The artwork had run down the remains, in everyone’s best interest Africa, Mauritius, Mozambique, sides of the 484-metre tall Inter- that this plane is found.” Mauritius and the island of Reun- Tajik president national Commerce Centre, which Australian Transport Safety ion -- likely swept there by currents. occupies a prime harbour front Bureau chief Martin Dolan, who is Voice370 said it was “appalled” ‘can’ rule for location, each night for around a in charge of the search, said last at the lack of a concerted interna- minute since it opened Tuesday. week that deep-sea sonar scan- tional effort to round up more such The display coincided with ning of a designated 120,000-sq-km debris and piece together what life a highly charged three-day trip (46,332-sq-mile) area was likely to happened. by Zhang Dejiang, a top Chinese finish by early August. “A highly concerted effort must Reuters official who chairs China’s com- In comments to The Australian be made to find more pieces if the munist-controlled legislature. newspaper, he added there was no authorities are interested to solve the Zhang stayed at a waterfront indication the search zone would be mystery,” it said. ALMATY: Tajikistan’s pres- hotel diagonally opposite the ICC enlarged. “The biggest, most unprece- ident Imomali Rakhmon tower, on the other side of the city’s The Malaysia Airlines Boeing 777 dented aviation mystery of all time will be able to run for an famous Victoria Harbour. vanished on March 8, 2014 en route warrants unprecedented action.” unlimited number of terms after a series of constitu- tional amendments were backed in a weekend ref- erendum. The changes won support of 94.5 percent of Villages in ashes after deadly voters, Central Election Commission chairman Bakhtiyor Khudoyorzoda said citing preliminary Indonesia volcano eruption results, adding that turn- out was 92 percent. “May 22 became a his- AFP livestock blackened and peeling. the government warning the area is torical date in the country’s Agustatius Sitepu, the head of the still dangerous. political life,” he said. local military in Karo district where “If I don’t blow off the ashes, it The amendments will the volcano is situated, arrived to will get thicker and thicker and will allow Rakhmon, head of INDONESIA: Indonesian rescuers scenes of chaos as rescue crews raced eventually damage my oranges. If state since 1992 and pres- searched for survivors in scorched to reach those left alive. “The villag- that happens, I wouldn’t be able to ident since 1994, to run villages and devastated farmlands ers who managed to survive were sell my crops and make a living for again when his current yesterday after a volcano erupted in running around in panic, trying to my family,” Putera explained. term ends in 2020.The clouds of searing ash and gas, killing save themselves,” he said. Those worst affected were all minimum age for pres- seven and leaving others fighting life- “There were only a few dozen. farming within the “red zone” -- an idential candidates was threatening burns. They were terrified. They were cov- area four kilometres from Sinabung also lowered, so Rakhmon’s Witnesses have described sheer ered in ash.” declared off limits by authorities -- elder son Rustam could panic as waves of gas and fine The eruptions were so violent when the volcano erupted. also run at that time. rock were unleashed from Mount that townships as far away as 12km Six bodies were recovered Sun- Rakhmon enjoys sweeping Sinabung on Sumatra island on Sat- were covered in thick layers of ash, day, with three others rushed to powers amid a flourishing urday, consuming farmers trying to he added. hospital suffering horrific burns. personality cult, and few flee the slopes of the highly active Villagers are trying to recover One of the victims succumbed to doubted that referendum volcano. from Saturday’s eruption. their wounds by nightfall, taking results would show land- The fast-moving flows -- reach- Abdi Putera, an orange farmer, the official toll to seven, local dis- slide popular support for ing temperatures of up to 700 degrees was busy getting rid of the volcanic aster mitigation agency chief Nata the proposed amendments. Celsius -- incinerated homes and left ash which covers his oranges, despite Nail said. ASIA / PHILIPPINES TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 09 I will defy Church with three-child policy: Duterte

Reuters three of whom conceded defeat. On Saturday, he criticised the we fail to do that, if we close our eyes, Duterte assumes office on June 30. Church as the “most hypocritical if we close our lips, we close our ears, I only want three Duterte’s often outrageous com- institution”, meddling in government what will be the role of the Church?” ments have won him huge support and policies and said some bishops were he said.Political analysts said they children for every MANILA: Philippine President-elect his tirades about killing criminals and enriching themselves at the expense were not surprised at Duterte’s state- family. I’m a realist Rodrigo Duterte (pictured) said he a joke about a murdered victim do not of the poor. ments because some bishops spoke will defy the Roman Catholic Church appear to have dented his popularity “Monsignor Oliver Mendoza, out against him during the election so we have to do and seek to impose a three-child pol- in the largely Catholic country. spokesman for the Archdiocese of campaign. something with our icy, putting him on a new collision “I only want three children for Lingayen, whose head is the president “Like most liberal, secular politi- course with the bishops. every family,” Duterte said yester- of the Catholic Bishops Conference cians, Duterte is a deist,” said Joselito overpopulation. I will The southern mayor has yet to be day in Davao City. “I’m a Christian, but of the Philippines, said the Church Zulueta of the University of Santo defy the belief of the declared the May 9 poll winner, but I’m a realist so we have to do some- About 80 percent of the Philip- respected Duterte’s opinion but that Tomas. “This in itself is a self-serving Church: Duterte an unofficial vote count by an elec- thing with our overpopulation. I will pines’ 100 million population are it would continue to speak against position conceived out of human con- tion commission-accredited watchdog defy the opinion or the belief of the Catholics, the largest concentration government policies that are con- ceit. He will do as he pleases except showed him ahead over his four rivals, Church.” of any Asian country. trary to Church teaching. “Because if when he’s stopped by public criticism.”

Hostages beg for help in ‘final’ video Blazing beasts

Anatolia a Filipina woman and fellow Cana- “Please try to help us. Contact dian John Ridsdel (later killed by the this group through ‘June’ at the Cana- group) — accuses the Canadian gov- dian embassy and try to negotiate ernment of abandoning him and his with this group. We will be executed ZAMBOANGA CITY: A Daesh- family during the ordeal, and asks on June 13 at 3 o’clock [0700GMT], affiliated group that one month ago Duterte to “negotiate or communi- unless there is an agreement made beheaded a Canadian hostage in cate with them” through the embassy with this group.” the jungles of the southern Philip- intermediary he names as “June”. The group had earlier demanded pines has released a “final” video of He describes a humiliating, fear- a 300m pesos ransom ($6.37m) for the man’s traveling companions, in filled daily existence. each of the victims to be paid by which they beg President-elect Rod- “We live like this every day, go April 25. rigo Duterte to save them. to bed like this. We have 100 people But after beheading Ridsdel, the The video uploaded late yester- heavily armed around us all the time group raised the amount to 600 mil- day to the SITE Intelligence group that dictate to us and talk to us like lion pesos and reset the deadline to website, shows Canadian Robert children,” he says. June 13. Hall requesting Duterte’s assistance “One of us has already been mur- The Abu Sayyaf is believed to still in saving him and two other hostages dered. We hope that you can work be holding several other captives, before a June 13 deadline, adding on our behalf as soon as possible to including a Dutch birdwatcher and that the Philippine government can get us out of here. Please, the sooner four Malaysians believed to be held communicate with his Abu Sayyaf the better. We’re three-quarters dead captive in the jungles of Sulu. kidnappers through a woman at the right now.” Since 1991, the group -- armed Canadian Embassy. Hall goes on to thank his family with mostly improvised explosive “I came into your beautiful coun- and friends for their efforts to free devices, mortars and automatic rifles try in good faith and in peace and him and apologises for the “mess” he — has carried out bombings, kidnap- here I am,” Hall says. “We hope that got them in. pings, assassinations and extortions you can work on our behalf as soon Norwegian hostage, Sekkingstad in a self-determined fight for an inde- as possible to get us out of here, and — like Hall clad in an orange T-shirt pendent province in the Philippines. Stuffed Sumatran tigers, ivory and other wildlife trophies seized during recent raids are set on fire by please, the sooner the better.” — appeals to his own government, It is notorious for beheading vic- Hall -- abducted last September the Canadian and Filipino govern- tims after ransoms have failed to be Indonesian officials in Banda Aceh, yesterday. with Norwegian Kjartan Sekkingstad, ments and Duterte. paid for their release. Duterte to allow burial of Marcos at heroes’ cemetery

Reuters heroes’ cemetery, despite strong office on June 30. “I will allow Marcos following a popular revolt. He had The government has recovered Filipinos, including the victims of opposition. burial in Libingan ng Mga Bayani, not ruled the Philippines for 20 years, less than $5bn in cash, stocks, real human rights abuses under his rule The southern mayor has yet to be because he was a hero but because he during which time his family amassed estate, artworks and jewellery from and their families. declared winner of the May 9 election, was a Filipino soldier,” Duterte said in an estimated $10bn. the Marcoses and their cronies. Earl Parreno, analyst at the Insti- MANILA: Philippine President-elect but an official vote count by an elec- Davao City, referring to the 142-hec- He died in exile in 1989 and his Past governments have refused tute of Political and Electoral Reforms, Rodrigo Duterte said yesterday that he tion commission-accredited watchdog tare cemetery in Manila where some embalmed body is currently on dis- to allow Marcos’ family to bury him said Duterte’s decision to bury Mar- would allow the burial of late dictator showed him six million votes ahead of of the country’s leaders are buried. play in a mausoleum in his hometown at the heroes’ cemetery, amid oppo- cos at the heroes’ cemetery would be Ferdinand Marcos at the Philippine his closest rival. He is due to assume Marcos fled to Hawaii in 1986 in the northern Philippines. sition from tens of thousands of divisive. China plans base station in Spratly Islands Taiwan indicts No apology for A-bomb man over child’s Reuters political commissar of the ship, which ship will be based, but China has on Hiroshima visit: Obama is under the South China Sea Rescue carried out land reclamation and beheading Bureau of the Ministry of Transport, construction on several islands in according to the official China Daily. the Spratly Archipelago, parts of BEIJING: A Chinese government The civilian bureau has 31 ships which are also claimed by the Phil- AFP AFP later this week. He will visit Hiro- bureau is planning a base station and four helicopters conducting res- ippines, Vietnam, Brunei, Malaysia shima after attending the Group of for an advanced rescue ship in the cue missions in the South China Sea, and Taiwan. Seven summit hosted by Japan. “My disputed Spratly Islands, state media and officials from the department China claims most of the South purpose is not to simply revisit the reported yesterday, as China contin- told the China Daily they work with China Sea, through which $5 trillion TAIPEI: Taiwanese prosecu- TOKYO: Barack Obama will not past, but to affirm that innocent peo- ues its push to develop civilian and the military on such efforts. in ship-borne trade passes every tors indicted a man yesterday for apologise for the atomic bombing ple die in a war, on all sides, that we military infrastructure in the con- Officials said the rescue ship base year. Washington has accused Bei- murder over the public decapita- of Hiroshima when he this week should do everything we can to try to tentious region. station would enable rescue forces jing of militarising the South China tion of a four-year-old girl, saying becomes the first sitting US presi- promote peace and dialogue around The ship, which would carry to aid fishing boats in trouble, and Sea after creating artificial islands, they would seek the death penalty dent to visit the city, he told Japanese the world, that we should continue drones and underwater robots, is shorten the distance they need to while Beijing, in turn, has criticized for the “extremely cold-blooded” television. The comments are the to strive for a world without nuclear set to be deployed in the second half travel. increased US naval patrols and exer- attack. clearest yet from his administration weapons,” Obama said in the inter- of the year, said Chen Xingguang, It is unclear on which island the cises in Asia. Wang Ching-yu, 33, is accused over an issue that raises hackles in view with NHK, aired Sunday. US of overpowering the mother of the the United States and has been the officials have consistently said in child near a metro station in cen- subject of heated debate for decades. the weeks leading up to the visit that tral Taipei, and beheading the Asked if an apology would be there would be no apology. young girl with a kitchen knife. included in remarks he plans to Obama’s upcoming visit has Close companion The mother and a number of make, he said: “No, because I think reignited an emotive debate over bystanders tried to intervene but that it’s important to recognise that former US president Harry Truman’s were pushed away and unable to in the midst of war, leaders make all epoch-making decision to drop the save the child, who police have kinds of decisions. atomic bombs. identified only by the surname Liu. “It’s a job of historians to ask The speed, circumstances and Prosecutors at the Shihlin Dis- questions and examine them, but I repercussions of Truman’s deci- trict Court in Taipei said that it was know as somebody who has now sat sion remain contentious. In Japan, an “extremely cold-blooded” crime in this position for the last seven and a majority believe the mass bomb- which had deeply shocked the gen- a half years, that every leader makes ing of civilians was unnecessary and erally peaceful island. very difficult decisions, particularly perhaps even a crime. Many Ameri- “It has caused indelible pain during war time.” cans believe that it avoided an even to her mother, who witnessed American airmen launched the bloodier ground invasion of Japan. the cruelty,” prosecutors said in world’s first atomic strike on Hiro- Nearly 80 percent of survivors of the a statement at the close of their shima on August 6, 1945, causing the atomic bombings are not seeking an investigation, which took less than deaths of about 140,000 people. apology from Obama, as opposed two months. Tens of thousands were killed by to 16 percent who want one during “The suspect has never the fireball that the powerful nuclear Obama’s visit, according to a Kyodo repented... so we suggest the court blast generated, with many more News survey of 115 people. sentence him to death,” they said, succumbing to injuries or illnesses Some thought it best that Japan adding that capital punishment caused by radiation in the weeks, not seek an apology for fear it would in this instance was important months and years afterwards. be an obstacle to Obama making the to maintain society’s faith in law The southern city of Nagasaki trip to Hiroshima, Kyodo said. and justice. Taiwan resumed cap- was hit by a second bomb three days But Terumi Tanaka, the head of a ital punishment in 2010 after a later, killing 74,000 people, in one of survivors’ group, said that survivors five-year hiatus. Executions are the final acts of World War II. want an apology from Obama “to A woman carries her pet white cockatoo on a pier after sunset in Hong Kong, China, yesterday. reserved for serious crimes such Obama travelled to Vietnam at those who died, bereaved families as aggravated murder. the weekend and is due in Japan and parents who lost their children”. 10 TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 VIEWS

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EDITORIAL Fat fracas Istanbul summit a edentary and dietary are two overused and abused words that pop up in lifestyle and health literature as frequently as the bulge shows up on a midsection. SYears of discourse on the obesity epidemic has lent positive first step itself to numerous diet theories and ways of slimming down. From Atkins to a Mediterranean diet and lifting weights to swinging ropes, number of prescriptions on cutting down flab complicated than feel-good logis- problem.” to see these populations putting only rival the number of ways of fighting terrorism. tics operations after a flood. The next most important thing down roots. Ironically, there is evi- So with more people and more is the reform of the international dence that putting refugees to work Fat in the diet has been a vexed issue. Theories over the calamities costing more money - humanitarian system itself. The col- increases economic growth and much reviled lipid has hovered around more fat, less fat or no what’s the UN to do? Well, call a lection of UN agencies and NGOs decreases criminality and other fat at all. A fat-free diet has been promoted internationally with conference, of course. This week, that sprung up over the last half- problems that arise from forced big corporations not only making low-fat products but also the first-ever World Humanitar- century was largely created to idleness and an identity in limbo. propagating a diet low in fat. The low-fat epidemic spawns milk, ian Summit takes place in Istanbul, provide short-term emergency One of the best ways to do this is cheese, and even potato chips that are purportedly baked and close to the action. Turkey is cur- assistance, usually after a natu- to take some of the lessons from the rently hosting more than 3 million ral disaster, to keep people alive big development changes of the last not fried. refugees and asylum-seekers until they could get back home few decades - like using public funds Now, UK’s National Obesity Forum and Public Health from Syria and Iraq, the most of and rebuild. And this line of busi- to attract private investment - and Collaborative have come out with By Alex Thier any country in the world, accord- ness has been largely successful. apply them in humanitarian con- results of a research that supports the The Washington Post ing to the UN refugee agency. And Investment in logistics, coordi- texts. For example, the World Bank theory sometimes put forward: eating that number is likely to rise fol- nation, rapid deployment, and recently announced a $100 million British fat does not make you fat. lowing a deal with the European fundraising has made for very investment to create 100,000 jobs Taking from the truism ‘you Union to stop further out-migra- effective responses. Even more in Jordan, split between Jordanian campaign tion through Turkey. importantly, huge advances in job-seekers and Syrian refugees. Or groups’ are what you eat’, one realises the he global humanitarian sys- The summit has big ambitions: reducing the risk of disaster in take Hamdi Ulukaya, the founder of importance of a balanced diet, which tem is cracking under the a global recommitment of basic developing countries have been yogurt giant Chobani and an out- research on is supposed to include some fat and weight of perpetual crisis. humanitarian principles (i.e., don’t transformational in some places. spoken humanitarian activist, who eating more carbohydrates — both food groups There are some 125 million bomb hospitals); more predictable In Bangladesh, in 1970, an average has advocated for a jobs-focused Tpeople in need of humanitarian funding goals to respond to crises; of 35,000 people died every year agenda to address the displacement fat skims much reviled for contributing to piling up the pounds on the human body. aid this year, a staggering scale of and more investment in early warn- from storms and floods. Today, that crisis. He also hires refugees to work the obesity misery on the edge of survivabil- ing and risk analysis. And those number is approaching zero. A con- in his own factories. When it comes to food debate. ity. Of those in need, 60 million are the easy ones. sistent, long-term investment in risk The second is to make the consumption, it is satiety that matters. have been displaced by conflict and These are noble goals. But as reduction by the United States and humanitarian community itself But so less has been said about satiety. oppression. And the average length it stands, the summit is more con- the UN, combined with the political more effective, more subject to trans- Dieticians and other experts harp more of “displacement” for a refugee is fab than treaty convention, likely will and commitment to reform by parency, and better coordinated. on the type of food being consumed now 17 years. It’s a multi-genera- resulting in some great voluntary the Bangladeshi government, has There have long been concerns about than talk about satiety, which is a function of the brain. Eating tional catastrophe. commitments but no real bind- shown what is possible over time. competition among the UN agencies and feeling full is related to neurology as much as it is to the There are currently more “Level ing agenda for change. And that’s But the international humani- and NGOs in emergency settings: 3” humanitarian emergencies causing some frustration. Doctors tarian system is not really built for that needs assessments and costs digestive system. A frugal diet rich in fruits, vegetables and low - the UN’s most severe designa- Without Borders - a leading medical what it is mostly called on to do of delivering aid vary enormously, fat products can’t keep one full for long. Fat in the form of full tion - than at any one time ever emergency organization - pulled out today - address long, slow, man- sowing distrust and confusion. In fat milk, cheese and butter can go a long way in bringing about before. But those headline-grab- in advance because the conference made crises. Can we really continue exchange for these improvements, satiety so that snacking in-between meals is prevented. bers (Iraq, South Sudan, Syria, and didn’t have enough real member- to think of Afghan or Somali refu- the donor community may be more The report — Eat fat, cut the carbs and avoid snacking to Yemen) account for just a fraction of state commitments. In a statement gees sitting in dusty border camps inclined to allow for longer-term reverse obesity and Type 2 diabetes — says low fat and lower those in need. There are hundreds noting that 75 of its medical facili- in Pakistan, Iran, and Kenya for planning and staffing of complex of thousands of people displaced by ties were bombed last year - a gross several decades as a primarily operations, rather than dribbling cholesterol messages have had harmful consequences on health. conflict in Ukraine, Central Afri- violation of international human- humanitarian problem? We need out funding commitments for only The low fat and fat free diet also has health consequences for can Republic, and Somalia - and itarian law - it called the summit to think about these populations as urgent necessities. This so-called many among the younger generation who aim to look emaciated Ethiopia is facing its worst drought “a fig-leaf of good intentions.” And a longer-term development chal- “grand bargain” - proposed by the than healthy. in 50 years due to El Niño, putting on the other side of the spectrum, lenge. For hundreds of thousands of High-Level Panel on Humanitarian It is proven that the so-called good fat that contains nearly 20 million people in need Russia’s Vladimir Putin isn’t going children who want an education, a Financing - would bring the rigor of unsaturated fatty acids works to bring down harmful fat with of food and other aid. because he argues those pesky NGOs job, or any semblance of a life with evidence-based decision-making saturated fatty acids. The report by the British groups, though The costs of crisis are, needless have too much say - and therefore dignity - these camps are the only and evaluation that has transformed to say, escalating rapidly as well. The might prevent UN member states life they’ve ever known. For every the traditional development sector unconventional, seems accurate. The public — usually quarter international donor community is from watering down the outcome. Syrian refugee who has made the in recent years. Given that most of baked on issues about health — needs to be better educated on spending 12 times on humanitar- So is there anything real to be perilous journey to Europe, there the money comes from a few donors, dietary guidelines. ian assistance today than it did in achieved in Istanbul? The biggest are another nine who are refugees and most of the implementation is 2000, but overall foreign aid has difference anyone could make in in poorer neighbouring countries done by a few large organizations, not even doubled in the last 15 years. the lives of the millions of peo- and millions more inside Syria who an agreement among key actors No wonder the UN says there was ple forced from their homes by will have a rough road to recovery could go a long way. a $15 billion funding shortfall to savagery is to stop intentionally if the war ever ends. But let’s be real. There will be cover current humanitarian need bombing and starving civilians and There are two big changes no peace agreements signed in across the globe last year. let them return and rebuild. But being discussed in Istanbul that Istanbul this week. The countries There has long been an admi- that won’t come out of a voluntary could really make a difference intentionally bombing civilians Quote of the day rable consensus among public and summit. The humanitarian expense - and that the assembled NGOs, aren’t showing up to announce private donors that humanitarian of keeping refugee and internally donors, and states could actually they will stop. In the months to The sudden (EU border) crises require robust responses - displaced people camps on life do something about. The first is to come, the number of displaced closure and the action wherever they occur. Typhoon in support not only diverts resource increase resources while shifting people worldwide is likely to go pre-transition Myanmar? Send in spending from long-term develop- more of the spending toward help- up, not down. And the root causes by unilateral states was rescue boats. Earthquake in Iran? ment, but also drives the costs of ing people help themselves. There of these global catastrophes will inhumane vis-a-vis many George W. Bush sent Air Force cargo lost infrastructure and economic remains a vast need for rapid, life- not be pruned at the summit. vulnerable people. planes to deliver hundreds of thou- growth into the trillions of dol- sustaining action - but once people But there is more money going sands of pounds of relief supplies lars. While the summit will raise are out of immediate harm’s way, from more organizations to more into the so-called “axis of evil.” But these issues, it is unlikely to make they need to get on with life. That people in need than ever before in 80 percent of the humanitarian any progress in resolving them. As means ensuring quality education history, and preparation for the Melissa Fleming need is for man-made crises, not David Miliband, president of the and health care, access to training World Humanitarian Summit has natural disasters, and that’s where International Rescue Committee and work, and decent housing. This forged a consensus that the inter- UNHCR Spokeswoman things get tricky. Violent conflicts and a former British foreign minis- is particularly a political challenge national community can, and must, with millions of civilians caught ter, said recently, “There is never a for the countries hosting refugees, do better. It’s not a cure-all, but an in the crossfire are a little more bureaucratic answer to a political as they are almost always reluctant important first step.

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military affairs commenta- tor interrupts his broadcast to deliver a monologue: I’m alarmed by what’s happening in Israel, he Asays, I think my children should leave. Former Prime Minister Ehud Barak warns of “the seeds of fascism”. Moshe Arens, who served as defence minister three times, sees it as a turning point in Israeli politics and expects it to cause a “political earthquake”. The past five days have produced tumult in Israeli politics, since conserv- ative Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu unexpectedly turned his back on a deal to bring the center-left into his coalition and instead joined hands with far-right nationalist Avigdor Lieberman, one of his most virulent critics. Lieberman, a West Bank settler, wants to be defence minister. So on Friday, Netan- yahu’s former ally and confidant, Defence Minister Moshe Yaalon, resigned and quit Netanyahu’s Likud party in disgust. After a weekend to digest the develop- ments, which are expected to be finalised in an agreement between Netanyahu and Lieberman on Monday to form the most right-wing government in Israel’s 68-year- old history, commentators have tried to put it in perspective and found themselves A partial view shows the east Jerusalem Israeli settlement of Har Homa (top) from the biblical West Bank town of Bethlehem, in het occupied West Bank. alarmed. Arens, who has served as defence minister, foreign minister and ambassador to the United States, and is one of Netan- yahu’s early political mentors, said the because it is a place that is not nice to be takeover of the Israeli government by would offer “fresh thinking” as defence min- who is regarded as a stalwart of the right, machinations would have far-reaching in,” he said in his monologue, going on to dangerous elements,” Ehud Barak, Isra- ister, but the focus of commentary was on something has changed fundamentally. repercussions. name a number of far-right politicians. el’s most decorated soldier and a former the broader direction that Israel is taking. “It’s over. I will not persuade my chil- “Yaalon’s ouster is likely to be a turning By bringing the Yisrael Beitenu (Israel defence minister following his spell as head Netanyahu has held power for more dren. They will decide where they want to point in Israel’s political history,” he wrote Our Home) party into the fold, Netanyahu of government, told Channel 10 TV. than 10 years, spread over four terms. In live. But if that once looked like a terrible in the left-leaning Haaretz newspaper. “A strengthens his coalition from 61 to 67 seats Israel has been “infected by the seeds that time, politics has moved steadily to tragedy to me, today it doesn’t,” he said. political earthquake is in the offing. It may in the 120-member parliament. of fascism”, he said, adding that it should the right, with his coalition now hinging take a little time, but it is coming. The law Lieberman’s brand of politics -- pro- be “a red light for all of us regarding what’s on support from Orthodox religious and of unforeseen consequences is at work.” settlement, wary of peace negotiations, going on in the government.” ultra-nationalist parties. The decision to jettison Yaalon in favour tough on the Palestinians -- sits far more Netanyahu sought to quell the rising There has been no progress in efforts to of Lieberman was all too much for Roni comfortably with Netanyahu and his right- criticism at a new conference on Sunday, negotiate peace with the Palestinians, with Daniel, a veteran military affairs com- wing partners than the center-left does. describing himself as in charge and as hav- Netanyahu saying Palestinian President mentator on Channel 2. But it means there is no countervailing ing the nation’s interests at heart. Mahmoud Abbas is not the right partner “I cannot urge my children to stay here, voice in the government, and the person in “I’m looking out for the country’s future. because he rejects Israel’s demand to rec- charge of defence -- the most important I have proved that as prime minister. I hear ognize it as a Jewish state. portfolio in Israel after the prime minister -- a lot of voices; many things are said in pol- At the same time, the building of Israeli is a civilian with little military experience. itics,” he said. settlements in the West Bank and East A political earthquake At a time when the command of the “Ultimately, it’s the prime minister who Jerusalem, which the Palestinians seek is in the offing. It Israel has been “infected by the Israel Defence Forces is already at odds directs everything together with the defence for their own state together with Gaza, may take a little time, seeds of fascism”, he said, adding with the government over policies it feels minister, with the chief of staff, and appar- continues apace. are too hard-line, Lieberman’s appoint- ently I haven’t done such a bad job during Ties between Israel and the United but it is coming. The that it should be “a red light for all of ment risks creating more tension between my years as prime minister -- that’s the States, its closest ally, have become law of unforeseen us regarding what’s going on in the the political leadership and the military. way it is going to be now.” strained, with Vice President Joe Biden Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank Some allies leapt to Netanyahu’s saying last month that the US adminis- consequences is at government.” are on edge too. defence, saying the appointment of Lie- tration felt “overwhelming frustration” work. “What has happened is a hostile berman was a sound decision and that he with the Israeli government. For Daniel, Obama’s fatal fatalism in the Middle East

a generation,” as Obama described it not a fixed deadline, as the goal. “This is a historic moment.A war is is right, too, that other regions, such in his State of the Union address this That is an approach that has ending. A new day is upon us,” he as the Pacific, are more important to year, “rooted in conflicts that date back worked before. In Korea, the United said in 2011.”People throughout the the global economy and more cen- millennia”? States forged an intimate alliance region will see a new Iraq that’s deter- tral to U.S. strategy. Even setting aside the offensiveness more than a half- century ago, and mining its own destiny - a country in But against all that wisdom stands of such a sweeping dismissal of Arab today U.S. soldiers and diplomats are which people from different religious one stubborn fact, again proved by potential, the formulation is wrong still present. U.S. support deterred an sects and ethnicities can resolve their Obama’s re-escalation: The United on two counts, one prescriptive and external foe while -- and people for- differences peacefully through the States does not have a choice. The one analytical. get this, given South Korea’s stability democratic process.” unraveling doesn’t stay put, but The United States It offers no plausible path for today - helping steady a society torn It does not require hindsight to spreads to Syria and Paris and Brussels has tried them all, Obama’s successor -- who, as Obama’s by civil war as its people gradually appreciate the recklessness of his and the skies over the Mediterranean own fitful, reluctant re-escalation built a democracy. decision. True, few foretold just how and, eventually, the United States. his administration By Fred Hiatt shows, will not be able to ignore the Obama came into office deter- completely the nation would fall apart, Under conditions far more difficult argues: Massive The Washington Post region. Instead, it invites the kind of mined to avoid this approach. In with a vicious caliphate occupying than they might have been, the presi- demagogic promises we have heard Afghanistan, he set a timetable for much of the country and a return of dent finds himself unleashing bombers invasion, in during the campaign, to “carpet bomb” troop withdrawal, untethered to condi- frequent bombings in Baghdad. But The over Syria and dispatching soldiers Iraq; Surgical Islamic militants until we find out tions. In Libya, he bombed the Gaddafi Post’s editorial page was not alone in into Iraq. intervention, in urveying the wreckage of the Mid- whether “sand can glow in the dark,” as regime out of power but did not stay warning at the time that “a complete He cannot acknowledge, maybe dle East and the fraying of Europe, Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, threatened, or, to help a new government get on its withdrawal sharply increases the risk even to himself, that disengagement Libya; Studied SPresident Obama understand- in Donald Trump’s words, to “quickly, feet. In Iraq, he overrode his civilian that painfully won security gains in was a mistake. That is why, even as aloofness, in Syria. ably would like us to believe that no quickly””knock the hell out of” the and military advisers and declined Iraq will come undone.” Americans are, once again, being killed other policy could have worked better. Islamic State and then “come back to keep in the country the 15,000 or I understand why Obama and so in Iraq, Obama insists that no service Three approaches, The United States has tried them here and rebuild our country.” 20,000 troops that might have helped many other Americans reject persist- members are in combat. same result: Chaos all, his administration argues: massive More fundamentally, the admin- preserve the stability the U.S. surge ent engagement, often derisively called But it would be healthy for the invasion, in Iraq; surgical interven- istration’s fatalism ignores a fourth had helped achieve. “nation-building.” It is difficult, and the country, and the next president, to and destruction. tion, in Libya; studied aloofness, in policy option that Obama, from the The president did not defend that United States often does it badly and move beyond make-believe. There is Syria. Three approaches, same result: beginning, was determined not to try: withdrawal because millennia-old sometimes doesn’t succeed; Americans no “quickly, quickly” defeating Islam- chaos and destruction. patient, open-ended engagement using hatreds made Iraq a hopeless case. can’t impose democracy; we often end ist terrorism - and there is no safe way So why bother? Why get sucked into all U.S. tools - diplomatic as well as Just the reverse, in fact: Success had up doing work that we wish the locals to retreat from the challenge of com- “a transformation that will play out for military -- with a positive outcome, made a U.S. presence unnecessary. or their neighbors would do. Obama bating it for the long term.

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China mulls US lifts arms new ways to control video embargo on websites

AFP

BEIJING: Chinese authorities are Vietnam exploring new ways of impos- ing controls on the Internet, state-run media cited experts as made a strategic ‘rebalance’ towards saying yesterday, after reports said Asia a centrepiece of his foreign state-owned enterprises may be The decision to policy. encouraged to take stakes in video lift the ban was Vietnam, a neighbour of China, is streaming websites. a key part of that strategy amid wor- The Communist country based on our ries about Beijing’s assertiveness and restricts access to foreign web- Supporters of Kenya’s opposition Coalition for Reforms and Democracy (CORD) run away after riot police desire to complete sovereignty claims to 80 percent of sites including Google, Facebook the South China Sea. lobbed tear gas canisters to disperse them during a protest in Nairobi, yesterday. and Twitter with a vast control net- what has been a The decision to lift the arms work dubbed the Great Firewall lengthy process of trade ban, which followed intense of China, and under President Xi moving towards debate within the Obama admin- Jinping it has tightened its grip on istration, suggested such concerns Kenyan police break up protests broadcast, print and online media. normalisation with outweighed arguments that Vietnam Content deemed politically Vietnam: Obama had not done enough to improve its sensitive, violent or morally human rights record and Washing- against election body; seven held “unhealthy” is regularly blocked. ton would lose leverage for reforms. New regulations being con- Obama told a joint news con- sidered by China’s censorship ference with Vietnamese President Reuters (CORD) are now in their fourth week. opposition disputed the outcome in authority would allow a select list Reuters Tran Dai Quang that disputes in the In similar previous protests in the 2013. of SOEs to buy “special manage- South China Sea should be resolved capital Nairobi, police have used CORD, led by Raila Odinga who ment stakes” of up to 10 percent peacefully and not by whoever tear-gas and water cannon against lost the 2013 vote and unsuccess- in the country’s popular video “throws their weight around”. But he KENYA: Kenyan police fired tea gas stone-throwing crowds. fully challenged the result in court, streaming websites, giving them HANOI: The United States insisted the arms embargo move was yesterday to disperse hundreds of “The demonstrations are illegal has accused the IEBC of bias and said the right to oversee production and announced a end to its embargo on not linked to China. protesters in Nairobi and the port city and the organisers have been clearly its members should quit. IEBC offi- decision-making, respected busi- sales of lethal arms to Vietnam yes- “The decision to lift the ban was of Mombasa who were demonstrat- warned. If they insist on rioting, they cials have dismissed the charge and ness magazine Caixin reported. terday, an historic step that draws not based on China or any other ing against an electoral body which will meet us there,” Lucas Ogara, say they will stay. The Chinese-language report a line under the two countries’ old considerations. It was based on our opposition parties say is biased. Mombasa’s police chief, told Reuters. The government has called on was later removed from Caixin’s enmity and underscores their shared desire to complete what has been a The police said they had arrested Some protesters re-grouped after the opposition not to stage street own website, although the text was concerns about Beijing’s growing lengthy process of moving towards seven people in Mombasa while busi- they had been dispersed, and were protests against the IEBC and asked widely reposted elsewhere. military clout. normalisation with Vietnam,” he nesses in the city stayed closed for led by Mombasa County Governor Ali them to pursue other peaceful means The move showed that the gov- The move came during President said. Obama later added his visit fear of looting, a witness said. Hassan Joho to the local IEBC office to bring about change. But CORD on ernment hopes to tighten its grip Barack Obama’s first visit to Hanoi, to a former foe showed “hearts can About three hundred protesters where they handed over a petition Sunday vowed to keep up the protests on websites—mostly privately which his welcoming hosts described change and peace is possible”. demonstrated with placards reading peacefully. Kenya’s next presidential in Nairobi and other regions. “Ken- run—over which they have had as the arrival of a warm spring and The sale of arms, Obama said, “IEBC must go home now”, a refer- and parliamentary polls are not due yans will be doing this, as we have “little influence” in the past, the a new chapter in relations between would depend on Vietnam’s human ence to the Independent Electoral and until August 2017. But politicians are done in the past, in exercise of their state-run Global Times newspa- two countries that were at war four rights commitments, and would be Boundaries Commission. already trying to galvanise their sup- right to assemble peaceably and to per on Monday cited Xiang Ligang, decades ago. made on a case-by-case basis. Protests called by the opposition porters in a nation where violence direct the widest possible attention CEO of telecommunication indus- Obama, the third US president Human Rights Watch reacted Coalition for Reforms and Democracy erupted after the 2007 vote and the to a great national issue,” it said try portal cctime.com, as saying. to visit Vietnam since diplomatic with dismay to Washington’s deci- relations were restored in 1995, has sion . S Africa to appeal ruling on Zuma’s graft charges

AFP scandals and as the country battles justified dropping the case by saying appeal court.”The tapped phone falling economic growth and record that tapped phone calls between offi- recordings, which became known as unemployment. cials in then-president Thabo Mbeki’s the “spy tapes”, were kept secret until National Prosecuting Author- administration showed undue inter- they were released in 2014 after a PRETORIA: South African state ity (NPA) director Shaun Abrahams ference. But the Pretoria High Court legal battle fought by the main oppo- prosecutors said yesterday that they announced the decision to challenge last month dismissed the decision sition party, the Democratic Alliance would appeal against a court ruling a High Court order to reinstate 783 to discontinue the charges as “irra- (DA). The DA dismissed the prosecu- that President Jacob Zuma should face charges against Zuma, but denied any tional” and said it should be reviewed tors’ appeal bid as “a blatant delaying almost 800 corruption charges, trig- political pressure. The charges, relat- by the NPA. tactic to shield Jacob Zuma”. gering accusations that he was being ing to a multi-billion dollar arms deal, “The judgement affects... the dis- “Abrahams is preoccupied with protected from justice. were dropped in 2009, clearing the cretionary powers of the prosecutor,” protecting president Zuma at all Zuma has endured months of crit- way for Zuma to be elected president Abrahams told a press conference costs... The DA will not let this mat- US President Barack Obama (left) with Vietnam’s Communist Party icism and growing calls for him to just weeks later. yesterday. “It is so important that ter rest. President Zuma will face General-Secretary Nguyen Phu Trong in Hanoi, Vietnam, yesterday. step down after a series of corruption At the time, state prosecutors I believe it needs a decision of an justice,” it said. Ex-top cop held Flood-hit Sri Lankans S Korea rejects North’s talks proposal over murder Reuters lacked a plan to end the North’s briefing. “Proposing dialogue with- in Colombo face uncertain future nuclear programme. out an expression of its position on “The dialogue proposed by the denuclearisation is a bogus peace AFP North does not mention its nuclear offensive for bogus peace that lacks AFP far known to have died across the SEOUL: South Korea dismissed yes- programme, which is the fun- sincerity.” Moon said the South had island, although that number could terday a North Korean proposal for damental issue for peace on the sent a message over a military hotline COLOMBO: The ex-police chief rise with more reported missing, the military talks as “a bogus peace Korean peninsula and South-North on Monday expressing regret over the in the Sri Lankan capital was national Disaster Management Cen- offensive” and said it was formally ties,” South Korean Defence Ministry North’s proposal and asking it to state arrested yesterday amid allega- COLOMBO: Sri Lankans camped tre said. rejecting the overture because it spokesman Moon Sang-gyun told a its position on denuclearisation. tions that he suppressed evidence out in shelters in the capital face The government called a special in a murder case to protect mem- an uncertain future after massive session of parliament for Wednes- bers of the former government. flooding from torrential rain struck day to discuss how best to respond Anura Senanayake was the island, forcing them to flee their to the floods, which the finance min- remanded into custody until inundated homes. istry estimates has caused $2 billion Giant replica tomorrow pending further inves- Water levels in Colombo are worth of damage. tigations into the May 2012 killing slowly falling after the Kelani river The government has promised of national rugby skipper Wasim running through the city of 650,000 compensation to those affected in Thajudeen. The Criminal Investi- burst its banks early last week, and 22 of Sri Lanka’s 25 districts, but no gations Department told Colombo a cleanup is under way. details have yet been announced. judge Nishantha Peiris it had evi- But many of the 100,000-odd Most people outside Colombo have dence to suggest Senanayake, who residents still sheltering in schools already returned home. retired last year, had conspired to and other relief centres in Colombo Joyce Patricia told AFP waters suppress the investigation. say they have lost everything and are raced through the small shop that Police initially said Thaju- unsure how to rebuild. she owns with her family and they deen had died in a road accident “We have no shortage of food, have no money to restart the busi- after his charred body was found but the issue is how do we go back ness. Fareena Shahul, a travelling inside his car in Colombo. The home?” said single mother Dine- saleswoman, voiced similar con- body was exhumed in August sha Devi, who has spent five days cerns, saying her entire stock of last year, seven months after the camped in a classroom at the clothing had been destroyed. new government came to power, Vidyawardena school on the city’s “I used to sell clothes, but today I and forensic experts ruled he had outskirts. am left with what I am wearing and I been tortured and killed. Thaju- “We have lost everything we have to ask for clothes from others,” deen’s body was exhumed after had. I don’t even have any change the 45-year-old said as she also shel- new evidence emerged that he of clothes for Nilakshan let alone for tered at the Vidyawardena school in had been abducted in a car owned myself,” Devi said of her 21-month- a poor Colombo suburb. by the Sri Lanka Red Cross Soci- old toddler. Housewife Sanuja Ratnayake, 37, ety, police told a court last year. Devi was one of thousands who said she had tried to return home but The Red Cross said the Land Rover clambered onto rubber dinghies and found it filled with about two feet of Defender belonged to the organi- makeshift rafts after the rains hit, stinking black sludge. An elephant statue stands next to the Kerio View, a hotel and training camp mostly used for foreign sation, but it was being used at the triggering huge landslides north- “We will not be able to do the time by a charity of the then-first east of the capital that buried two cleanup ourselves,” she said at the athletes training in Iten, western Kenya. lady, Shiranthi Rajapakse. villages. More than 90 people are so school. “We will need a lot of help.” PAKISTAN TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 13 Top Taliban meet to regroup after leader’s death

Obama, on a three-day visit to opportunity to pursue the only real Vietnam, reiterated support for the path for ending this long conflict — One senior member Western-backed government in Kabul joining the Afghan government in a of the Shura said the and Afghan security forces, and called reconciliation process that leads to on the Taliban to join stalled peace lasting peace and stability,” he said. choice for the next talks. The president authorised the However, he stressed that the leader appeared to drone strike that killed Mansour in operation against Mansour did not be shaping around a remote region just on the Pakistani represent a shift in US strategy in side of the border with Afghanistan Afghanistan or a return to active Mansour’s deputy, on Saturday. engagement in fighting, following Sirajuddin Haqqani, Pakistani authorities have said the end of the international coali- the drone strike was a violation of tion’s main combat mission in 2014. or a member of the the country’s sovereignty and an offi- The US currently has 9,800 troops family of Mullah cial from the foreign ministry told the in Afghanistan, divided between a US ambassador in Islamabad that the Nato-led mission to train and advise Omar, such as his son, attack could “adversely impact” peace local forces and a separate counter- Mullah Mohammad talks. But reaction from Islamabad has terrorism mission fighting militant otherwise been relatively muted and groups such as Islamic State and Al Yaqoob. a number of questions remain over Qaeda. what exactly happened. A decision is expected later this An undamaged Pakistani pass- year on whether to stick with a time- Reuters port in the name of Wali Muhammad, table that would see the number of which Pakistani authorities said con- troops cut to 5,500 by the start of 2017. tained a visa for Iran, was recovered The Taliban, which have previ- next to the burned-out car at the ously rejected ouvertures to join talks KABUL/HANOI: Senior Afghan Tal- scene of the attack and is believed to with President Ashraf Ghani’s gov- iban figures met yesterday to agree have belonged to Mansour. ernment, have been pushing Afghan on a successor to Mullah Akhtar But it is unclear what he may have security forces hard since the launch Mansour, the leader of the militant been doing in Iran and why he was of their spring offensive in April. movement who US President Barack apparently travelling in Pakistan The attack on Mansour has Pakistani civil society activists shout slogans during a demonstration in Multan yesterday, against the US Obama confirmed had been killed in without a security detail. thrown the movement into disar- drone strike in Balochistan. an American air strike at the week- A spokesman for the Iranian for- ray at least temporarily, but Afghan end. eign ministry was quoted on state authorities have braced for an upsurge careful because one wrong step could founder, had been dead for two years, Sirajuddin Haqqani, or a member of The Taliban have so far made no media denying that such an individ- in violence as rival candidates posi- divide the group into many parties leaving his deputy Mansour in effec- the family of Mullah Omar, such as official statement on the fate of Man- ual had crossed the border from Iran tion themselves to succeed him. like former mujahideen,” one Taliban tive charge of the movement and his son, Mullah Mohammad Yaqoob. sour, who assumed the leadership to Pakistan at the time in question. Although some individual Taliban official from the eastern province of open to accusations he deceived his Haqqani, leader of an affiliated only last year. But senior members Calling the death “an important members have been quoted in media Nangarhar said, referring to guerrilla commanders. network blamed for a series of high- have confirmed that their main shura, milestone”, Obama said Mansour had reports saying that Mansour was leaders who fought the Soviets in the One senior member of the Shura, profile suicide attacks in Kabul, had or leadership council, has been meet- rejected peace talks and had “con- killed, the group’s leadership, keenly 1980s before splitting into warring which is based in the western Paki- the backing of Pakistan, while Yaqoob ing to discuss the succession in a bid tinued to plot against and unleash aware of the need to limit splits, has factions. Serious divisions emerged stani city of Quetta, said that the had support among members of the to prevent factional splits from frag- attacks on American and Coalition not issued its own confirmation. last year when it was confirmed that choice for the next leader appeared to Afghan Taliban, the shura member menting the movement. forces”. “The Taliban should seize the “The leadership is being very Mullah Mohammad Omar, the group’s be shaping around Mansour’s deputy, said.

Police information PPP to seek disqualification of PM and his four relatives network launched

Internews in parliament. He did not speak the minister and his four relatives did in KP province truth about his own assets and those not meet the criteria laid down of his family members abroad, thus under Articles 62 and 63 of the Con- PESHAWAR: The Khyber misleading parliamentarians as well stitution. Therefore, the Election Pakhtunkhwa province police LAHORE: Unwilling to provide res- as the people of Pakistan,” he said. Commission of Pakistan should dis- have established an incentive- pite to the ruling party on Panama The former attorney general said qualify them from holding public based Police Information Network Papers, the Pakistan Peoples Party the premier’s loyalty to the state had office forthwith. (PIN) to serve as a platform for the (PPP) plans to submit an application become questionable because he had In response to a question about citizens to win significant amounts to the Election Commission of Paki- transferred his own wealth and that the PML-N’s efforts to persuade the of cash reward for sharing cred- stan (ECP) seeking disqualification of his family abroad. The premier also PPP not to take a tough stance on the ible information about terrorists of Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif (pic- did not give full tax on the income of Panama leaks, Khosa said: “There will and their facilitators. tured) and four of his relatives under his family. be no compromise on investigations The network is initially being Articles 62 and 63 of the Constitution. “Similarly, Finance Minister Dar, into corruption scandals, particu- launched in Peshawar and will PPP Secretary General and former CM Sharif, MNA Safdar and MNA larly Panamagate. Bhutto-Zardari has later be extended to other parts of Punjab governor Sardar Latif Khosa Hamza Shahbazwilfully concealed made it clear that there is no sacred the province. With the launch of said yesterday that a legal team of his their assets both inside the country cow and the country cannot have two PIN, citizens of Peshawar will be party had formulated a draft of the and abroad in their declarations to sets of laws - one for the influential able to earn up to Rs100,000 with- application on the instructions of its the ECP. There has also been a con- and another for the poor.” out compromising their identities chairman, Bilawal Bhutto-Zardari. fessional statement from Dar about According to a source in the PPP, as reward for informing police The decision to move the ECP to money laundering,” Khosa said. the PML-N leadership has requested about terrorists, extortionists, tar- disqualify the premier shows that He said the PPP would attach to Zardari to stop Bhutto-Zardari from get killers and their facilitators. Bhutto-Zardari is in no mood to con- its application a letter written to the issuing harsh statements about PM According to a statement tinue the reconciliation policy of his late Benazir Bhutto by the prime min- Sharif over Panamagate. issued here on Monday, the deci- father (Asif Ali Zardari) towards the ister’s cousin, Khalid Siraj, in which In his public statements, the young sion to launch PIN was taken at a PML-N, according to analysts. Finance Minister Ishaq Dar, MNA “Nawaz Sharif has not only con- he had divulged details of the Shar- PPP chairman has not only called for high-level meeting held here the The application seeking the dis- Muhammad Safdar and MNA Hamza cealed his assets in a declaration ifs’ wealth abroad. the premier’s resignation but also other day chaired by IGP Nasir qualification of Nawaz Sharif, Punjab Shahbaz would be filed with the ECP (submitted) to the ECP but also com- In its application the PPP would described the latter as a friend of Khan Durrani. Chief Minister Shahbaz Sharif, federal this week, Khosa said. mitted perjury during an address be taking the plea that the prime Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi. It was decided that a lot of valuable intelligence could be obtained from the citizens pro- vided they were confident that their identities would remain con- Panel on Panama fidential. The meeting also chalked Afghan governor sees out the SOP for the working of PIN. Leaks waiting for notification more fighting and Nishtar nominated as WHO head Internews attacks in coming weeks ISLAMABAD: Pakistan has nom- inated Dr. Sania Nishtar as its candidate for the post of World ISLAMABAD: The Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) Reuters recently seen a marked pick up in fighting, Health Organisation (WHO) direc- of the Parliament members of the divide to determine and, for the first time, the appearance of tor general (DG). appropriate forum to probe Panama Papers and cor- fighters claiming allegiance to the militant According to an official state- ruption of serious nature would start function once its Islamic State movement, once confined to ment issued yesterday, National official notification is issued. KABUL: Power struggles among the Taliban the eastern province of Nangarhar. Health Services (NHS) Minister Federal Finance Minister Senator Muhammad Ishaq following the death of their leader Mullah The killing of Mansour in a US drone Saira Afzal Tarar introduced and Dar who would be part of the committee on behalf of Akhtar Mansour will probably lead to more strike on Saturday appears to have dashed solicited support for Dr. Nishar, the government is hopeful that the committee would fighting and suicide attacks in the coming any hopes of a quick resumption in stalled who was also present during a start its working within this week while Federal Min- weeks, a powerful Afghan provincial gov- peace talks which the United States, Paki- meeting of the health ministers ister for Law and Justice Zahid Hamid who is viewed as ernor said yesterday. stan and China had been attempting to of the Commonwealth in Geneva. the legal brain of the government has declared agree- Atta Mohammad Noor, governor of the broker. Dr. Nishtar has extensive ment of the two sides as an achievement since the two northern Balkh province, said authorities Noor, a former commander in the anti- experience in public healthcare have consented the terms of reference (TORs) for the JPC. had to brace for a surge in violence as rival Soviet “mujahideen” resistance movement including working on government He said Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif has approved candidates established their claims to the who later fought against the Taliban, was initiatives. the list of members of the JPC on behalf of the treas- leadership of the insurgency. critical of President Ashraf Ghani’s handling She has also had a career as a ury and he is keen to see the initiation of the scrutiny He pointed to a spate of suicide bomb- of what he called a “failed” peace process. civil society leader and founded as soon possible. In a brief chat with on Monday late ings as well as the intense fighting that led But he said there was scope for the gov- the non-governmental organisa- evening, the minister said that he hasn’t been informed to the temporary fall of the northern city of ernment to exploit a likely fracturing in the tionHeartFile in 1999. as yet about being designated as ex-officio member of Kunduz last year as Mansour looked to con- insurgency. An official at the NHS ministry the Joint Parliamentary Committee. “I am fully pre- solidate his newly won position. Already, a potential split in the Taliban Atta Mohammad Noor, governor of said that elections for WHO head pared to contribute for the committee provided I was “Fighting may well pick up in some parts is developing between supporters of Sira- the Balkh province, speaks during an will be held by May 2017 and that asked by leadership,” he said. He maintained that Prime of the country after the killing of the Tali- juddin Haqqani, leader of the notorious interview in Kabul, yesterday. campaigning for the elections has Minister Nawaz Sharif has asked his team to not permit ban leader, with suicide and bomb attacks network blamed for a spate of bombings in started. any delay in choreographing TORsfor the commission. (used) as a means of downplaying the impor- Kabul, and supporters of Mullah Moham- He explained that the WHO Meanwhile, the Opposition leadership is fac- tance of losing their leader,” he told Reuters mad Yaqoob, son of the movement’s founder rival militant groups such as Islamic State Constitution required the DG be ing resistance from smaller groups which have been in an interview. Mullah Mohammad Omar. or the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan. “If appointed by the World Health ignored by the opposition leadership for the member- Balkh, a province previously considered Unless the leadership issue is resolved the government works well, some of them Assembly on nomination by the ship of the JPC. one of the most secure in Afghanistan, has quickly, some fighters could drift away to might surrender,” said Noor. WHO Executive Board. 14 TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 INDIA

Press council team Three policemen visits Chatra over dead in Kashmir scribe’s murder IANS shoot & run attack RANCHI: A three-member team of the Press Council of India (PCI) visited Jharkhand’s Chatra district area, some 10km from the city centre yesterday to probe the murder of a Lal Chowk. The crossing leads to the TV journalist on May 12. Two motorcycle-borne only multispecialty hospital, SKIMS, The team members met the assailants opened fire of Srinagar and is usually crowded district administration officials throughout the day. and representative of a journal- from a point-blank Assistant sub-inspector Nazir ists association to enquire about range at “unarmed” Ahmed and Head Constable Bashir the murder. The cause of the mur- Ahmed were shot in their heads. They der is turning into a mystery. policemen in the old were taken to the hospital where Akhilesh Singh alias Indradeo Srinagar City. they were declared brought dead, the Yadav, a local TV journalist, was sources said. shot dead on May 12. In another Barely an hour later, militants development, a Maoist organisa- struck again and shot dead a police- tion Tritiya Prastuti Committee IANS man in the upscale Tengpora area, (TPC) has denied its role in the some five km from the city centre. murder, saying that the police The attackers ran away with the was wrongly implicating its dead cop’s service rifle, a police officer cadre in the crime. Police on May ARRAYSRINAGAR: Three Kashmir said. 17 arrested three people, includ- Jammu and Kashmir Chief Minister Mehbooba Mufti lays a wreath on the coffin of a police officer during policemen were killed by suspected The policeman, who was guard- ing an aide of ruling BJP legislator Hizbul Mujahideen militants in two ing an unnamed politician, received a ceremony in Srinagar, yesterday. Ganesh Ganjhu. separate shoot-and-run terror attacks severe gunshot wounds and was taken Police claimed that Rs.7 lakh yesterday, tearing through a lull in Sri- to a hospital where he succumbed, the was demanded from the scribe as nagar that last witnessed such a strike officer said. Chowk. Hizbul Mujahideen spokes- coalition government in the state agencies are fully prepared. We won’t one of his relatives was involved three years ago. The Hizbul Mujahideen that has person Burhanuddin called a local last month. let these terrorists succeed,” Satish in construction work. The denial Police sources said that two motor- terror bases in Pakistan-administered news agency and said the outfit had Security officials said they had Dua, GOC 15 Corps, told the media of levy led to the killing. BJP legis- cycle-borne assailants opened fire Kashmir claimed responsibility for the carried out the attacks on Monday. intelligence inputs that militants here. lator from Simria, Ganesh Ganjhu, from a point-blank range at “unarmed” twin attacks that comes nearly three The attacks in Srinagar city are were planning to strike in Srinagar Dua described the deaths of has demanded a CBI probe into the policemen in the old Srinagar City. years after militants killed two police- the first major strikes carried out by in the wake of increasing incursion policemen as “unfortunate” and killing. Of the five accused, Suraj The policemen, the sources said, men on June 22, 2013, at the crowded militants after the Mehbooba Mufti- attempts from across the border dur- sought “to assure that the army, Sao, representative of Ganjhu, and were regulating traffic at a busy Hari Singh High Street market - the led Peoples Democratic Party and ing summer months in the Kashmir police, and CRPF are ready to face Jhaman Sao and Birabal Sao have crossing near the crowded Zadibal city’s main business hub near Lal Bharatiya Janata Party formed a Valley .“(The) army, police, and other such threats”. been arrested.

Historic day Probe into BJP and AAP spar over bug droppings on Taj Mahal funding of rallies in Goa

AFP IANS Defence Minister Manohar Parri- kar in December 2015. “Last 15 days, around 1,000 AAP’s workers were moving around LUCKNOW: Its gleaming white PANAJI: The Bharatiya Janata Party Goa, speaking in Hindi. Where have marble walls have for years been (BJP) and the Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) they collected thousands of rupees yellowed by India’s air pollution yesterday crossed swords over fund- from and who has given the money and now the Taj Mahal faces a ing of their public meetings and (to organise the public meeting on fresh threat -- from green insect events, and demanded details about Sunday). First, they (AAP) should excrement. the money they have spent on these come clean on this before com- Authorities have ordered an in recent past. menting on the Goa government,” investigation after green-tinged BJP St. Andre legislator Vishnu Tendulkar told a press conference patches began appearing on the Wagh had questioned the source here. back wall of the monument to love, of money used for AAP convener On Sunday, the AAP organised which stands on the banks of the and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind a meeting which was addressed heavily polluted Yamuna river. Kejriwal’s public meeting in Pan- by Kejriwal. Around 8,000 peo- Environmentalists believe the aji on Sunday. On Monday, the AAP ple attended. Tendulkar said that pollutants in the river have caused retorted by demanding that the BJP when it comes to a public meeting, a rise in levels of algae, which has disclose all its expenditure and the the BJP spends around Rs.15 to Rs.20 Tibetans living-in-exile in India gather after concluding the cycle rally which began from Dehradun in turn led to a surge in the num- Goa government can investigate the per person in attendance. on May 17 to commemorate the day when spiritual leader the Panchen Lama was allegedly abducted bers of the insects which feed on it. AAP’s accounts. But he refused to respond to by China, in New Delhi, yesterday. India’s National Green Tribu- “AAP challenges the Bharaitya questions from the media about nal, which hears cases related to Janata Party to come on a pub- the money spent by the party to environmental protection, raised lic platform with its accounts and organise the ‘Vijay Sankalp’ rally of the issue last week. Now the state expenditure. We will come with Narendra Modi, then a prime minis- government of Uttar Pradesh, our accounts. We also challenge the terial aspirant, in January 2014 and home to the world’s most famous BJP government to investigate our Defence Minister Manohar Parrikar’s Pilots grounded for mistaking road for runway tomb, has ordered an inquiry. accounts,” AAP state co-ordinator public felicitation on his birthday in “The state government is Valmiki Naik said. December 2015. extremely concerned about this Aiming to counter the AAP When specifically asked about AFP Rajasthan was close to touching expanding aviation sector, happened issue. People can rest assured charge, BJP state unit president Vinay the cost incurred by the BJP and the down until the pilots were alerted on February 27 but has only just come that we will let no harm come to Tendulkar later reiterated the par- mode of funding for the Modi rally, by a “too low terrain” warning in the to light in Indian media. The Hindus- the Taj Mahal,” the chief minister’s ty’s demand that the AAP must come Tendulkar said: “I don’t know. Peo- cockpit, IndiGo said in a statement. tan Times quoted an aviation official spokesman Rajendra Chaudhary clean on the funding of its meeting ple came on their own. We spent but MUMBAI: An Indian airline has “The captain in command imme- as saying the plane was at an altitude told AFP on Monday in the state here held on Sunday. I don’t remember. You are asking me grounded two pilots for attempting diately took a precautionary measure of around 900 feet and 90 seconds capital Lucknow. However, when queried, Ten- after several years.” to land their plane on a road which and carried a go-around. The air- away from landing on a road run- He said the chief minister, dulkar refused to share financial About the cost incurred on Par- they mistook for a runway, the airline craft landed safely on subsequent ning parallel to the runway. IndiGo Akhilesh Yadav, had ordered offi- details about the mammoth pub- rikar’s public felicitation, Tendulkar and reports said yesterday. approach,” added the statement. said the pilots were made aware of cials to find urgent solutions. lic meetings of Narendra Modi, said: “The birthday rally was not The IndiGo flight from Ahmeda- The incident, the latest to high- their mistake by an enhanced ground The alert was sounded by then an aspiring prime minister, organised by the party. People had bad in Gujarat state to Jaipur in light safety concerns in India’s rapidly proximity warning system. environmental activist DK Joshi. in 2014 hosted by the party, and organised it”. Mountaineer dies on Everest and two others missing

AFP and helped them descend to Camp 3, but the deaths, frostbite and rescues as it brings whereabouts of the remaining two climbers into focus the danger of climbing Everest,” are still unknown. said veteran mountaineer and blogger Alan “Sunita has been rescued and brought to Arnette. KATHMANDU: An Indian mountaineer has a hospital in Kathmandu for treatment. We “However, there is a sense of relief that in died on Mount Everest and two of his team- still don’t have any update on the missing many ways, it was a ‘normal’ season.” mates are missing, expedition organisers said two,” said Sherpa. Another Indian climber A tourism official said more than 30 yesterday, as the death toll from the Hima- died after falling ill while descending from climbers had been rescued this season after layan climbing season rose to five. Mount Dhaulagiri in the Himalayas. suffering altitude sickness or frostbite. Subhash Pal reached the 8,848-metre On Thursday a Nepali guide was killed More than 350 climbers including 140 (29,029-foot) summit on Saturday but col- when he slipped and fell 2,000 metres down foreigners have successfully scaled Everest lapsed while descending the Hillary Step ice Mount Lhotse, the world’s fourth-highest this season after two consecutive years of wall and died the following day. peak. deadly disasters that led to almost all attempts He was the third to die on Everest in The number of deaths brings the dangers being abandoned. Since the first summit of recent days, after an Australian and a Dutch into focus but is not unusual -- according to the world’s highest peak in 1953 more than climber succumbed to altitude sickness. the authoritative Himalayan Database, 34 300 people have died on Everest and Lhotse, Another two climbers have died on other people died on Everest in the five years to which share the same route until Camp 3 at peaks. 2013. As climbers ascend above 8,000 metres, 7,200 metres. “He died while the guides were bringing they enter the “death zone” -- notorious for The last year in which no deaths were him down,” said Loben Sherpa of Trekking its difficult terrain and thin air -- where oxy- recorded on the mountain was 1977. Camp Nepal, which organised the Indian gen supplies fall to dangerously low levels Despite the risks and recent disasters, team’s expedition to Mount Everest. and make mountaineers susceptible to alti- Everest’s allure remains undimmed, with Expedition officials made contact with tude sickness. Nepal issuing 289 permits to foreigners for A view of Mount Everest in the Kumbh region of northeastern Nepal. Pal and teammate Sunita Hazra on Sunday “There are mixed feelings with the recent this year’s spring climbing season. INDIA TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 15 Reusable launch vehicle tested Supreme Court to

worked over the years is exceptional and very inspiring.” hear Italian govt’s The sleek 1.7-tonne The sleek 1.7-tonne RLV was RLV was latched on latched on top of a 15-tonne rocket with a booster for lift-off from the top of a 15-tonne spaceport here in Andhra Pradesh, rocket with a booster about 80km north of Chennai, off plea on marine for lift-off from the the Bay of Bengal coast. “We started the countdown for spaceport here in lift-off at 11 p.m. on Sunday and the IANS Sergeant Girone so as to give effect Andhra Pradesh off rocket blasted off at 7am, as the wind to the concept of consideration of and weather conditions were good humanity, so that Sergeant Girone, the Bay of Bengal for launching the vehicle,” ISRO’s while remaining under the author- coast. Vikram Sarabhai Space Centre (VSS) NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court ity of Supreme Court of India, may director K. Sivan told IANS later. will hear on Thursday the Italian return to Italy during the present After 91.1 seconds into the flight, government’s plea for relaxation of Annex VII arbitration,” Annex VII the burn out occurred while the bail conditions of its marine, Ser- arbitral tribunal had said in its April rocket along its vehicle coasted to geant Major Salvatore Girone, so that 29 order. IANS an altitude of 56km and separated he can return to his country. The tribunal had also said that to ascend to 65km above the earth Girone is held in India, being one Italy was under obligation to return in sub-orbital space. of the two Italian marines who are Girone to India in case it holds that From 65km height, the vehicle accused of killing in 2012 two Indian India has jurisdiction over him in SRIHARIKOTA: India yesterday began its descent followed by atmos- fishermen off the Kerala coast. respect of the Enrica Lexie incident. successfully tested its home-grown pheric re-entry at Mach 5 (five times Chief Master Sergeant Mas- The international arbitral tri- winged reusable launch vehicle speed of sound). similiano Latorre and Sergeant bunal has been established under (RLV), demonstrating its space tech- “Navigation, guidance and con- Major Girone were then serving as Annex VII of the United Nations nology prowess and joining an elite trol system steered the vehicle for security personnel on an Italian oil Convention on Law of the Sea (UNC- club of space-faring nations like the safe descent to the defined landing tanker MT Enrica Lexie crossing the LOS) for adjudicating on the dispute US, Russia and France. spot over the Bay of Bengal, about Indian Ocean. between India and Italy over their “We have successfully tested the 450km from Sriharikota on the east An apex court vacation bench jurisdiction to try Latorre and first delta-winged-body aerospace coast,” the statement said. of Justice Prafulla C. Pant and Jus- Girone. vehicle operating in hypersonic The entire flight duration from tice D.Y. Chandrachud agreed to hear India and Italy are engaged in flight regime,” the Indian Space launch to landing in the sea was 13.3 the plea. compulsory and binding arbitra- Research Organisation (ISRO) said minutes. It was after Additional Solici- tion proceedings over the dispute of in a statement after accomplishing Critical technologies such as tor General Pinki Anand supported jurisdiction to try the Italian marines the mission as a technology demon- autonomous navigation, guidance the plea by the Italian government under the provisions of the UNCLOS. strator (RLV-TD). and control, reusable thermal pro- for relaxing the bail conditions The April 29 order of the arbi- “We have successfully accom- tection system and re-entry mission so that Girone can travel to Italy tral tribunal came on an application plished the RLV-TD mission. The management have been validated. while remaining under the court’s by Italy. lift-off was at 7am from the first The vehicle was tracked during authority. The proceedings in the matter launch pad here,” ISRO director Devi its flight from ground stations at Sri- The Italian government sought in both the countries have been put Prasad Karnik said after the shuttle harikota and a ship-borne terminal. the relaxation of bail conditions in on hold following an ITLOS order of returned to the Earth. “We have located the place the wake of April 29 order of the August 24, 2015. President Pranab Mukherjee and where the vehicle is floating. The International Tribunal for the Law The ITLOS is holding an inter- Prime Minister Narendra Modi con- landing was soft as the vehicle of the Sea (ITLOS) asking India and national arbitration to decide the The Reusable Launch Vehicle (RLV)-TD taking off from Sriharikota, Andhra gratulated the Indian scientists. was intact and did not break up on Italy to cooperate in relaxing the question of jurisdiction between Mukherjee, in a message, said: impact,” Sivan claimed. Pradesh, yesterday. bail conditions so that Girone could India and Italy as to who will try the “Heartiest congratulations to ISRO The Indian Coast Guard and return to his country during the pen- two Italian marines for killing two Team on successful launch of India’s National Institute of Ocean Tech- (Istrac) centre in Bengaluru recorded India to enter the elite club of space- dency of the arbitration proceedings Indian fishermen off Kerala coast first indigenous space shuttle RLV-T.” nology extended support for the the data of the vehicle’s hypersonic faring nations like the US (NASA), before it. in February 2012 mistaking them as Modi said in a tweet: “The dyna- mid-sea wind measurement and speed, autonomous landing and pow- Russia (Roscosmos), France (Euro- “Italy and India shall cooperate, sea pirates. mism and dedication with which ship-borne telemetry in the mission. ered cruise flight using air-breathing pean Space Agency) and Japan (Jaxa), including in proceedings before the Latorre is already in Italy on the our scientists and ISRO (Indian The space agency’s telemetry, propulsion. which developed and used RLVs for Supreme Court of India, to achieve grounds of indifferent health and Space Research Organisation) have tracking and command network The maiden mission has qualified their space missions over the years. a relaxation of bail conditions of treatment. CPI-M names Parts of country brace for more heat ministers; after temperatures break records trouble Reuters exceed 40 Celsius in the run-up to rising temperatures ranged from the monsoon rains, but the severity global warming to greater urbani- breaks out of the heat this year has caught many sation, leading to taller buildings and off guard. increased pollution, Yadav added. NEW DELHI: India was bracing yes- “There are usually thunderstorms The heat wave has struck as India IANS terday for another bout of extreme this time of year, but these rains grapples with a major drought, wors- heat after temperatures smashed have not been occurring,” said B.P. ening water shortages that have hit records in some parts of the coun- Yadav, head of the national weather an estimated 330 million people. THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The try, while weather officials warned forecasting centre of the India Mete- “We are praying to the gods for CPI-M ministers in Kerala Chief against more frequent heat waves. orological Department. an early monsoon so that people get Minister-designate Pinarayi Vijay- Temperatures in parts of the “Hot winds have been blowing in some relief, as the heat has taken an’s cabinet ministers were named western region breached 50 Celsius from Afghanistan and Pakistan, lead- a toll on our bodies,” said Neeraj without much problem, but the (122°F) last week, causing a spike in ing to these extreme temperatures.” Kumar, a resident of the northern process was more difficult in the cases of people suffering dehydration The mercury hit a record 51 industrial city of Kanpur. Asiatic lion ‘Ambar’ inside an open enclosure at the Kamla Nehru CPI and two other constituents of and heatstroke, and triggering wide- degrees Celsius last week in Pha- “We are not even able to do our the Left Democratic Front. Zoological Garden in Ahmedabad. spread power cuts as surging demand lodi, a city in the western desert daily chores properly.” It was decided on Sunday that overwhelmed supply grids. state of Rajasthan, beating a previous The number of heat waves had the Vijayan cabinet would have 19 Television channels in Gujarat national high of 50.6 degrees in 1956. nearly doubled in the 10 years to 2010 members (including the chief min- state showed residents struggling to The heat should ease with the from earlier decades, the meteoro- ister) and the Communist Party of cross a street as their shoes became arrival of clouds and light showers logical office said. India-Marxist will have 12 berths, 13 endangered lions stuck in what appeared to be the this week, Yadav said, but his office The number in the last six years the Communist Party of India 4 melting surface of a road. May and forecast a return to elevated temper- had also risen from prior to the year and three other LDF constituents June are typically India’s hottest atures in late May or early June. 2000, but identifying clear trends - the Janata Dal-S, the Nationalist months, when temperatures regularly Possible reasons for the requires more data. Congress Party and the Congress- caged in Gujarat S - would get one each. The CPI-M named its min- isters, including three - Thomas AFP which includes testing the animals’ Issac, A.K.Balan and G.Sudhakran faeces for human tissues, chemi- - who were ministers in the cal analysis of their blood and even V.S.Achuthanandan cabi- genetic analysis,” he said. net (2006-11), while new faces AHMEDABAD: Thirteen endangered The cats, slightly smaller than are E.P.Jayarajan, K.K.Shailaja, Asiatic lions that only live in a forest their African cousins and with a fold A.C.Moideen, Kadakampally in western India have been caught of skin along their bellies, have been Surendran, T.P.Ramakrishnan, and caged after three villagers were increasing in numbers in Gir, with C.Raveendranath, J.Mercykutty killed in recent months, a wildlife 523 recorded in the latest census. Amma and K.T.Jaleel (who won official said, yesterday. Conservationists have sug- as a CPI-M-backed Independent). The pride of lions has been gested some of the lions be relocated However it was high drama at rounded up from Gir sanctuary in to a different sanctuary, to reduce the state party headquarters of the Gujarat state after at least one of the human-animal conflict and avoid CPI when the party leaders met to animals last week dragged a teen- being wiped out by disease or nat- select their four ministers. ager from his village while he was ural disaster. C.Divakaran and Mullakara sleeping and killed him. In the latest attack, the 14-year- Ratnakaran, who were part of Gujarat’s chief conservator old boy was dragged from his the Achuthanandan cabinet, of forests, J A Khan, said the lions sleeping spot in a mango orchid in tried their level best to get a sec- were captured in recent days from Ambardi village near the forest on ond term, but it was shot down by an eastern part of the protected for- May 20. His father was also injured the party state secretary Kanam est in a bid to find the “man-eaters” while trying to scare the animal Rajendran, who instead nom- responsible. Khan said it was unclear away. A lion also killed a 50-year- inated E.Chandrasekheran, why or how many of the cats had old woman on April 10 in a nearby P.Thilothaman, V.S.Sunil Kumar ventured outside of the sanctuary, village as she slept in an open field. and P.Raju. “Like in 2006, we their last remaining natural habitat, At least one of the predators dragged selected new faces for the post of to find prey, describing the attacks as and killed a 60-year-old man as he minister, this time also, we have rare. “Lions that have preyed upon slept in his hut in Ambardi village followed that,” Rajendran told humans will be analysed in detail, on March 19. The Asiatic lion was reporters while announcing their while the rest will be slowly intro- listed as endangered in 2008, up ministers. The new cabinet would duced back into the wild,” Khan said. from critically endangered in 2000, Vendors sell bottles of drinking water to passengers at a bus stop on a hot day in Allahabad yesterday. be sworn in tomorrow. “We will be doing a scat analysis after numbers improved in the forest. 16 TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 EUROPE / UK Brexit: Cameron warns of recession

an issue for voters, something the Recent opinion polls “Out” campaign has sought to coun- ter by stressing that only leaving the have shown voters EU can slow high levels of migration are leaning towards and avoid future economic stagnation. A new analysis of short-term risks an “In” decision on from the referendum published by the June 23. finance ministry yesterday said the London metro economy could be as much as 6 per- cent smaller two years after a Brexit vote than if it the country decides to to run all night Reuters stay in the EU. Osborne said Britain would lose at least half a million jobs at weekends within two years of a vote to leave and a fall in the value of the pound EASTLEIGH, ENGLAND: Leaving the of between 12 and 15 percent would European Union would be economic push up inflation sharply. Reuters self-destruction for Britain, shatter- The campaign backing a British EU ing stability, Prime Minister David exit said the Treasury had consistently Cameron said yesterday , presenting produced flawed reports and the latest LONDON: Trains will run all night a finance ministry report warning of analysis was biased as it provided noth- at the weekend from August 19 on recession, a tumble in the pound, and ing on the upside of leaving the bloc, nor two lines of the London Under- half a million job losses. on the potential negatives caused by a ground metro network in what Cameron and finance minister crisis in the euro zone. new Mayor Sadiq Khan (pictured) George Osborne, who are campaign- “What they’ve done is they said yesterday would be a boost ing for Britain to stay in the EU in the assumed a disaster and then spelled to the British capital’s night-time June 23 referendum, have warned out the details,” Nigel Lawson, a economy. that households would be hurt by a finance minister under the late Con- Plans to introduce all-night fall in the value of their homes and servative Prime Minister Margaret services on the Tube, as Lon- British Chancellor of Exchequer George Osborne (right) listens as Prime Minister David Cameron delivers face costlier foreign holidays if they Thatcher in the 1980s, told BBC TV. doners call the Underground, a speech on the economic impact of the UK leaving the European Union, at a B&Q Store Support Office in voted “Out”. “They’ve done this in order to were one of the main causes of “It would be a DIY recession,” Cam- Chandler’s Ford, southern England, yesterday. scare the pants off the British people a long-running dispute between eron said in a speech at the offices of because they can’t find anything posi- the management and the RMT the B&Q retail chain, a popular centre would jeopardise Britain’s recovery the cliff edge. It is the self-destruct the outcome remains too close to call. tive to say about the European Union.” rail workers’ union that involved for do-it-yourself home improvement, from the economic damage caused option,” Cameron said. Betting odds indicate 80-85 percent Osborne defended the credibility of several strikes. in Eastleigh in southern England. by the world financial crisis. Recent opinion polls have shown probability of an “In” vote. the report, saying it had been reviewed “The Night Tube is absolutely Speaking a month before the vote, “It would be like surviving a fall voters are leaning towards an “In” Some polls have also shown the by Charlie Bean, a former deputy gov- vital to my plans to support and Cameron said that leaving the EU and then running straight back to decision on June 23, but pollsters say economy growing in importance as ernor of the Bank of England. grow London’s night-time econ- omy, creating more jobs and opportunities for all London- ers,” Khan, who was elected mayor earlier this month, said Belgian unions call mass in a statement. Unions dig in heels to disrupt The RMT said there were still unresolved issues concerning the protest over work hours Tube’s engineers and it urged man- agement to move quickly to reach fuel supply in France a settlement with that group of AFP general strikes on June 24, Septem- workers that did not leave them ber 29 and October 7. The FGTB, CSC disadvantaged on conditions and Reuters running at minimum output. Exxon’s Fos refineries on the south- and CGSLB unions oppose proposed pensions. Rival ExxonMobil said the strike ern coast. They also supply Total’s reforms from Employment Minister “All parties have to be clear has not affected output at its two Feyzin; Varo’s Cressier in Switzerland BRUSSELS: Belgian trade unions Kris Peeters allowing employers to that Night Tube, a development refineries but striking workers had and the MiRO refinery in Karlsruhe, have called for mass protests today impose 45-hour work weeks. that RMT supports, cannot be PARIS: France’s hardline CGT and blockaded the oil terminal at Fos-sur- Germany, via pipelines. against government’s proposed “Everybody will be hurt very delivered on the cheap,” the RMT’s FO unions launched a 24-hour strike Mer in Southern France. A similar prolonged strike at work reforms as they plan rallies much by the abandonment of General Secretary Mick Cash said at the Fos-Lavera oil terminals and Oil sector workers in the CGT, French refineries in 2010 led to a glut of and strikes over the next few months. the 38-hour week, the increased in a statement. blockaded a fuel depot in the south- which is France’s biggest trade union, crude in Europe because it could not be The unions claim the rally will recourse to temporary workers, The 24-hour weekend serv- ern port city of Marseille yesterday as and at the third biggest FO, said yes- delivered, and a spike in refined prod- draw more than 100,000 people who the absence of coordination, the ices will start on the Central and they toughened their stance against terday they planned to intensify the uct prices due to low output. protested in November 2014 against under-financing of (public services) Victoria lines, with the Piccadilly, labour market reforms. action until the government with- The French government has austerity policies of Prime Minister or pensions,” FGTB official Michel Jubilee and Northern lines to fol- The rolling strikes, which began draws a labour reform law, because moved to reassure the public that Charles Michel’s government, which Meyer told Le Soir newspaper. low in the autumn. in March have disrupted fuel supplies they say it will hurt workers. France was not running out of fuel had come to power a month earlier. A month after the mass anti- The statement from Khan’s in France since Friday with protest- As part of efforts to force the gov- after shortages at hundreds of petrol However, organisers expect tens austerity protest in November 2014, office said hundreds of thou- ing workers blockading petrol depots ernment to withdraw the bill, the stations in several regions sparked of thousands of people to rally in the trade unions brought Belgium to sands of late-night revellers and and halting production at refineries. union launched a strike at the Fos- panic buying. capital Brussels today morning. a standstill as the biggest general shift workers would benefit, with French oil and gas company Lavera oil terminals yesterday. Finance Minister Michel Sapin It is designed to pave the way strike in years grounded flights, journeys cut by an average of 20 Total, which operates five of the eight “No ship is operating at the instal- accused CGT of holding France hos- for a mass public services rally and cut international rail links and minutes and some by more than refineries in France, has started the lations,” Pascal Galéoté, CGT Secretary tage, saying the government would a rail strike on May 31, as well as shut ports. an hour. process of shutting down three —at General at Marseille port said. take the necessary action to end the Normandy, Donges and Feyzin — The terminals supply PetroI- blockades and restart production at while its Grandpuits refinery was neos Lavera, Total’s La Mede and refineries. Jolie to teach at London School of Economics

Reuters women’s rights and end impunity for by Jolie’s 2011 directorial debut “In crimes that disproportionately affect the Land of Blood and Honey” that women, such as physical violence in was set against the backdrop of conflict,” Jolie, a special envoy for the the 1992-95 Bosnian war in which LONDON: Hollywood actress Ange- UN refugee agency (UNHCR), said an estimated 20,000 women were lina Jolie is to join the London School in a statement issued to the media believed to have been raped. of Economics (LSE) as a visiting pro- yesterday. The pair co-founded the Pre- fessor on a new masters course on “I am looking forward to teach- venting Sexual Violence in Conflict women, peace and security, the ing and to learning from the students, Initiative in 2012 to rally global action school announced yesterday. as well as to sharing my own expe- on such crimes, increase the numbers The LSE said the course, which riences of working alongside of perpetrators brought to justice and starts next year, is the first of its kind governments and the United Nations.” ensure better support for survivors. globally and will be run by the LSE Hague will also be joining LSE as They co-hosted the first global Centre for Women, Peace and Secu- a visiting professor. conference on the issue in London rity which was launched last year by The Oscar-winning actress and in 2014. Jolie and Britain’s former foreign sec- Hague have become an unlikely dou- Hague said the new course would retary, William Hague. ble-act on campaigning to end sexual help underpin their work by develop- Striking workers pile debris to block access to an oil depot near the Total refinery of Donges, western “It is vital that we broaden violence against women in conflict. ing research to help tackle the culture France, yesterday. the discussion on how to advance The partnership was sparked of impunity. Flower show bemoans gardening ‘lost generation’

AFP and 40 percent of children, accord- performance with mechanical buzz- ing to a survey conducted by the RHS ings and whirrings, a tower that erects, in 2011. box balls that bob up and down and This year’s Chelsea Flower Show conical bay trees that begin to twirl,” LONDON: Britain has a “lost genera- in London features a “modern slav- the RHS said. tion” with no gardening skills, the Royal ery garden” by the show’s first black The RHS is using the Chel- Horticultural Society (RHS) warned yes- designer, Juliet Sargeant, as well as a sea Flower Show to promote its terday, as its sprawling Chelsea Flower garden watered, lit and heated with “Greening Grey Britain” campaign, Show got under way with an inaugura- a mobile phone app and an “acous- warning that too many gardens tion by Queen Elizabeth II. tic garden” which plays musical notes are being paved over by Britons to “The lost generation are the ones to visitors. make car parking spaces or patios from their mid-twenties to forties,” RHS A field of some 300,000 knitted red for barbecues. director-general Sue Biggs was quoted as poppies was also unveiled as a tribute to The number of traditional front saying in The Times newspaper. Britain’s war dead, along with interlock- gardens that have no vegetation has “For a lot of them, their parents just ing portraits of the queen made using trebled in the past decade to five mil- didn’t teach them gardening and we lost 10,000 flowers in purples, pinks and lion, the RHS said. a lot of the skills.” oranges. “What happened to our nation of Fewer than one percent of parents One of the most talked-about gardeners?” Biggs asked. were taught gardening at school, com- gardens was the “Harrods Eccen- Some 160,000 visitors are expected pared with 55 percent of grandparents tric British Garden” that “puts on a at the Chelsea Flower Show this year. Water drops off a floral design garden sculpture at the Chelsea Flower Show in London, yesterday. EUROPE TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 17 EU claims deal legal; cites asylum seeker’s appeal

and migrants who use people-smug- interviews, individual assessment and gling gangs to reach Greek islands by rights of appeal so there will be no Rights groups boat from the nearby Turkish coast. blanket, no automatic return of asy- criticised the March Should more asylum seekers lum seekers. This is happening,” he said. secure similar decisions, it would Schinas said 51 people who did migration deal as undercut the rationale behind the not apply for asylum in Greece were immoral and against EU pact with Turkey, meant to deter sent back to Turkey on Friday, raising people from risking the sea voyage the total of returns under the March humanitarian law to Greece by showing they have lit- agreement to 441. that bans arbitrary, tle chance of being allowed to stay. He added that Germany took in Rights groups criticised the March 103 Syrians directly from Turkey on mass deportation of migration deal as immoral and last Thursday under a provision of the asylum-seekers. against humanitarian law that bans pact obliging EU states to resettle one arbitrary, mass deportation of asy- Syrian for every Syrian sent back. So lum-seekers and says everyone must far 280 Syrians have been brought have an effective chance to have their into the EU under the clause. Reuters requests individually assessed. Among the most important goals Despite that criticism, EU lead- of the pact is to deter migrants from ers—under heavy pressure from paying human traffickers for boats to grassroots anti-migration sentiment take them from Turkey to Greece, as BRUSSELS/ATHENS: The European growing across the bloc after some hundreds of thousands did during a Union said yesterday a Syrian asy- 1.3 million people entered the Euro- mass influx last year. lum seeker’s successful appeal against pean continent last year— pushed that Greek authorities have not dis- deportation to Turkey proved the deal through. Arrivals on the Greek closed details of the appeal. The bloc’s deal with Ankara to limit migra- islands near Turkey have since slowed government’s spokesman for migra- tion was legal, while rights groups to a trickle. tion, Giorgos Kyritsis, said each case said the ruling exposed its “funda- Margaritis Schinas, spokesman for was assessed individually. “A positive (FROM LEFT): Polish Foreign Minister Witold Waszczykowski, Slovak Foreign Minister Miroslav Lajcak, and mental flaws”. the executive European Commission, or a negative decision does not pre- Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto at the EU Foreign Affairs Council meeting in Brussels, yesterday. A Syrian national last week said the successful appeal proved the judge the decision regarding another won the second and final appeal to migration accord did not flout the law. individual,” he said. Greece’s asylum committee, which “We made it very clear that all asy- But Amnesty International said “Turkey is not safe for refugees, Gulik, AI’s deputy director for Europe. sent back under this deal. Instead, ruled the person would not be safe if lum applications would be treated on it highlighted “fundamental flaws” it does not offer them full protection, “Until Turkey ends all violations Europe should focus on its part of the returned to Turkey under an accord a case-by-case basis.” of the EU’s migration collaboration and assurances on paper are sim- against refugees and guarantees them deal by accepting refugees for reset- obliging Ankara to take back refugees “In all cases there are individual with Ankara. ply not good enough,” said Gauri van full protection, nobody else should be tlement from Turkey.” Greece to step up Idomeni Far-right candidate loses Austrian presidential vote border camp evacuation Reuters Party rival Norbert Hofer and into the under threat from populist parties and the conservative People’s Party ceremonial post of president. that have profited from concerns - that have dominated politics since The Interior Ministry gave van about the region’s refugee crisis the end of World War II. der Bellen 50.3 percent of the vote, and years of weak growth and high Sunday’s provisional result, which AFP “In the last two weeks, there VIENNA: Austria has elected a compared to 49.7 percent for Hofer, unemployment. did not include the postal ballots, has been a ‘mild’ evacuation 72-year-old former leader of the Greens who had run on an anti-immigration “It’s a relief to see the Austrians showed Hofer ahead with 51.9 per- effort (through persuasion) that party to be its next president, narrowly platform. Hofer conceded defeat in a reject populism and extremism,” cent to van der Bellen’s 48.1 percent. has already seen 2,500 people avoiding becoming the first country in post on his Facebook page, thanking French Prime Minister Manuel Valls But the SORA institute, a poll- ATHENS: Greece this week will “step move out... this will continue,” the the European Union to vote in a far- his supporters and telling them not to said in a Twitter post. “Everyone in ster, had said that mail-in ballots up” evacuation efforts at the squalid officer said. right candidate as head of state. be despondent. “Of course I am sad Europe must draw lessons from this.” were likely to favour van der Bellen Idomeni border camp, officials said Thousands of migrants flee- After an election on Sunday that today,” he said. “I would have liked Austria is a relatively prosper- because they are traditionally used by yesterday as police were reportedly ing war, persecution and poverty in was too close to call, Austrian offi- to take care of our wonderful coun- ous country, but it has been at the more educated voters. The institute’s gearing up for a major operation. the Middle East and Asia have found cials spent most of yesterday counting try for you as president.” centre of a record influx of migrants election-day polling showed 81 per- “The transfer of refugees trapped themselves stranded at Idomeni after hundreds of thousands of postal Hofer’s defeat averts an embar- from the Middle East, fanning public cent of voters with a university degree at Idomeni to hospitality areas prob- Macedonia and other Balkan states ballots which ended up vaulting Alex- rassing setback for Europe’s political resentment towards the two centrist had backed van der Bellen and 86 ably begins tomorrow (Tuesday),” denied them passage to northern ander van der Bellen past Freedom establishment, which is increasingly parties - the Social Democrats (SPO) percent of workers voted for Hofer. Yiorgos Kyritsis, the government’s Europe. migration spokesman, said. They spent a miserable winter Former industrial facilities near in the freezing rain and mud, with Thessaloniki will be utilised for the aid groups struggling to keep them purpose and the operation should fed and healthy, prompting several Bovine protest World’s longest be over in ten days, Kyritsis added. attempts to force their way across A government source earlier the border. railway tunnel told reporters: “We will carry out Last month, some 260 people a broader transfer operation as were injured when Macedonian a boon for we have 6,000 available places in police fired tear gas in a bid to pre- reception centres,” adding that the vent a large group from storming the operation would be gradual and that border. Europe: Official authorities hoped to avoid the use of Doctors at the scene said rub- force. “There will be a police pres- ber bullets were also used, but the ence and we will be persuasive, but Macedonian authorities denied this. AFP we do not foresee pervasive use of Local authorities and farmers force to make all these people leave have been for weeks pressing the in one go,” the official said, indicat- leftist government of Prime Min- GENEVA: The new Gotthard Base ing that there are currently 8,400 ister Alexis Tsipras to evacuate the Tunnel (GBT), set to become the people at the camp. camp, pointing to an alleged rise in world’s longest railway tunnel Another government source said petty crime. when it opens on June 1, is a boon loudspeakers were already warning The governor of central Macedo- for Europe”, EU transport com- camp residents to prepare to leave. nia region Apostolos Tzitzikostas last missioner Violeta Bulc told Swiss State television ERT yesterday week filed a complaint over the issue media yesterday. said additional translators were also with judicial authorities, accusing The 57-km tunnel, which runs being dispatched to Idomeni to assist the government of allowing the area under the Alps, was first conceived the operation. to descend into lawlessness. in sketch-form in 1947 but con- Over the past two weeks, some The government was also crit- struction began 17 years ago. 2,500 people have left Idomeni fol- icised as the camp’s sprawling size Since then, some 28.2 million lowing efforts to persuade them to had effectively put of action Greece’s tonnes of mountain rock have been relocate to more organised camps main commercial rail link through excavated and an estimated $12 bn in the Greek interior, many of them Macedonia, forcing companies to Farmers demonstrate with their cows against the government’s agriculture policy in the centre of (€10.6bn) spent to construct a tun- converted former army bases, a reroute their goods via neighbour- Budapest, Hungary, yesterday. nel that should trim travel times police source said. ing Bulgaria at higher cost. through the heart of Europe. The GBT “will be a vital link connecting Rotterdam (and) Antwerp with the ports of the Adriatic,” Bulc said. It will make Cyprus far right enters parliament EU and Poland in talks north-south travel more fluid, curb air pollution and “will be a driver of growth in Europe,” he said. German Chancellor Angela AFP creditors, took 30 percent of the vote Democracy (EDEK), the leftwing pop- to settle top court row Merkel, French President Fran- and 18 seats in the 56-seat parlia- ulist Citizens Alliance (SYPOL) and cois Hollande and Italian Prime ment, down two on the last election the Ecological and Environmental Minister Matteo Renzi, along with in 2011. Alliance (KOP) all also won seats. Half AFP Timmermans has been empowered Swiss officials, are due to attend NICOSIA: Cypriots disaffected by The main opposition communist of the new members of the House of to adopt an “opinion” on the state the grand opening next week. three years of economic downturn party AKEL fared worse, taking just Representatives are first-time law- of the rule of law if Warsaw fails to A series of test runs are sched- have protested at the polls, stay- 25 percent of the vote and 16 seats, a makers, and the number of women make progress. uled for the coming months, with ing away in droves and electing two loss of three, as a protest vote hit both MPs has jumped from four to 11. BRUSSELS: The EU said yester- Although it would be an unprece- full service starting in December. far-right lawmakers in an echo of the the major parties. The president had issued a poll- day it was in “ongoing” talks with dented step, issuing opinion would be Among other benefits, the GBT populist wave sweeping Europe. An unprecedented eight parties ing day plea for voters to turn out, Poland’s rightwing government to just one aspect of a long and drawn- aims to save travel time between Final results released yesterday won seats in the new parliament, mak- insisting the economic austerity of try to reverse an overhaul of the top out procedure which could eventually Zurich and Milan down to two showed that 3.7 percent of voters ing it potentially the most fractious ever three years had been worth it to res- Polish court that critics say endan- see Warsaw having its voting rights hours and forty minutes, roughly backed the National Popular Front and posing a major challenge for the cue the island’s economy. “I believe ger its independence. suspended in European council of an hour quicker than the trip cur- (ELAM), a party which defends the president in pushing through unpopu- that the decision of much of the elec- The European Commission had ministers. rently takes by rail. Athens-inspired coup of 1974 that lar reforms promised to lenders. torate abstaining from the elections set yesterday’s deadline for War- However, Poland’s regional ally The GBT will displace Japan’s triggered a Turkish invasion that The centre-right Democratic should trouble everyone,” he said. saw to make “significant progress” Hungary is likely to torpedo any pos- 53.9-km Seikan tunnel as the has left the island divided to this day. Party (DIKO), which gave key back- His party leader Averof Neo- on rolling back legislation that has sible sanctions, which would require world’s longest train tunnel, and Turnout in Sunday’s election was a ing to Anastasiades on the reforms phytou was more upbeat. “We are paralysed the constitutional court or the unanimous approval of all 28 EU bump the 50.5-km Channel Tun- record low of 67 percent on an island demanded by the European Central the only governing party in Europe face unspecified EU action. But there members. Poland’s ruling Law and nel that links England and France where voting is in theory compulsory. Bank and the International Monetary that introduced the toughest bailout was no sign such action was imminent. Justice (PiS) party plunged the country into third place. Austria’s delayed The rightwing Democratic Rally Fund, won an unchanged nine seats. programme and we are still the first “Talks are ongoing with a view to into political crisis in December when Brenner Tunnel could however slot (DISY) of President Nicos Anastasi- The right-wing Solidarity Move- party,” he said, while also acknowl- still finding a solution,” a Commis- it pushed through legislation that has into second place when it opens ades, who negotiated a 2013 bailout ment (KA) took three. edging that politicians needed “to win sion spokesperson said. paralysed the constitutional court by in about a decade at an estimated for the island with international The Movement for Social back the trust of the voters”. Commission vice president Frans modifying its decision-making rules. length of 55km. 18 TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 AMERICAS

Hillary email probe Sanders steps in final stages up feud with AP WASHINGTON: FBI agents prob- ing whether Hillary Clinton’s use of a private email server imperiled government secrets appear close to completing their work, a process party leaders experts say will probably culminate in a sit-down with her. the former sec- retary of state. interviews, Sanders remained defi- The FBI has already spoken with ant despite what he acknowledged Huma Abedin, a Clinton confidant who The Democratic was an uphill fight to overtake front- was among the Democratic presidential Party is about runner Clinton. Clinton has said she front runner’s closest aides at the State already considers herself the de facto Department. Former chief of staff Cheryl running around to nominee and is increasingly turning D Mills is also cooperating with the rich people’s homes her attention to Donald Trump, say- investigation, according to her lawyer. and raising obscene ing that the rhetoric of presumptive That signals that agents will prob- Republican nominee was dangerous. ably seek to interview Clinton soon, sums of money from Sanders told ABC’s This Week if they haven’t already, former Jus- wealthy people, the programme that Americans should tice Department officials said. The not have to choose between “the FBI’s standard practice is to save Vermont Senator lesser of two evils” in the Novem- questioning the person at centre of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders shakes hands with a supporter after a campaign rally in said. ber 8 election. an investigation for last, once it has Sanders said that if he won the Irvine, California, early yesterday. gathered available facts from others. White House, he would not reappoint “With a person like Clinton, the FBI US Representative Debbie Wasser- wealthy people. What we need to do well as Democrats and independents, until the party’s July 25-28 nominat- probably assumes they are going to get Reuters man Schultz as DNC chairwoman. is to say to working-class people - we to start to believe that this is a normal ing convention in Philadelphia despite one chance to interview her, not only He also endorsed law professor Tim are on your side,” he said. candidacy,” she said. “It isn’t.” Clinton’s nearly insurmountable lead because she is a prominent person but Canova, who is challenging the Flor- The defiant tone by Sanders, a US. Trump has gained ground in opin- in pledged convention delegates who because she is busy with presidential ida congresswoman in the August Senator from Vermont, has worried ion polls as Republicans begin to rally will choose the nominee. campaign,” said David Deitch, a former WASHINGTON: Democratic pres- Democratic primary. some Democrats anxious to see Clin- around his candidacy. A Washington He said he wanted to do away with Justice Department prosecutor. “It makes idential candidate Bernie Sanders “Do I think she is the kind of ton begin to unify the party and turn Post-ABC News showed Trump with superdelegates—party leaders who are sense they would defer interviewing her cranked up his fight with party chair that the Democratic Party her attention to an election showdown a 2-point lead over Clinton, within free to support any candidate. Their until late in their investigation.” leaders, backing a challenger to the needs? No, I don’t,” Sanders told CBS’ with Trump. the margin of error. In early March, rush to back Clinton even before votes On CBS’s “Face the Nation” , Clin- Democratic National Committee’s Face the Nation. Clinton painted Trump as a risk of Clinton led Trump by 9 points in the had been cast amounted to “an anoint- ton said the FBI had not yet reached chairwoman and accusing the party’s “Frankly, what the Democratic the sort voters had not seen before in same poll. ment process,” Sanders said. out to her, but she was “more than establishment of trying to anoint Hil- Party is about is running around an interview. But Sanders has ignored growing He promised to influence party ready to talk to anybody, anytime.” lary Clinton as nominee for president. to rich people’s homes and rais- “I do not want Americans, and, you Democratic calls to step aside and platform and party rules even if he “I hope that this is close to being In a series of television ing obscene sums of money from know, good-thinking Republicans, as repeated his vow to stay in the race was not the nominee. wrapped up,” she said. Five dead and Colombian authorities search for missing Spanish journalist one kidnapped Reuters newspapers, was last seen on Sat- Forces of Colombia (FARC) and until all ELN hostages are freed. in Mexico urday in the town of El Tarra in the the National Liberation Army The 2,000-strong ELN has northeastern province, along the bor- (ELN) have presences in Norte de increased oil pipeline bombings in der with Venezuela, the ministry said Santander. The ELN has continued recent months and continued kid- AFP BOGOTA: Colombian military and in a statement. taking people hostage even while nappings in what many see as an police forces are searching for a “I order priority and dedication it seeks to begin peace talks with attempt to pressure the government Spanish journalist who disappeared from the armed forces in estab- the government. into beginning talks. VERACRUZ: Gunmen in Mexico’s while reporting a story in Norte de lishing where the journalist Salud The armed forces and the police Inspired by Cuba’s 1959 revo- Veracruz state shot dead four men Santander province, the Defence Min- Hernandez is,” President Juan are working with local authorities lution, the ELN has battled a dozen hours after police killed an alleged istry said in a statement. Manuel Santos said from his Twit- and intelligence officials to find Colombian governments since it was criminal elsewhere in the region Military sources and local media ter account yesterday. Hernandez, the Defense Ministry founded by radical Catholic priests and another man was kidnapped feared Salud Hernandez (pictured), Hernandez reportedly was work- the statement said. in 1964. at church, authorities said. 59, who has worked in the country ing on a story on illegal drugs and had The country has been in peace While many Colombians are Three armed men stormed into for almost two decades, could be been in the area for about 20 days. talks with bigger rebel group the FARC suspicious of peace talks with both a nightclub called in the regional in the custody of Marxist rebels kidnapping and called it a “pos- She is known for opinion columns since the end of 2012 and recently groups, they are tired of the violence capital Xalapa early yesterday, operating in the area but the sible disappearance.” highly critical of Colombia’s insur- agreed to start negotiations with the that has killed more than 220,000 shooting four victims at a table Colombian government would Hernandez, a journalist gent groups. ELN. people and displaced millions over inside. “Four elderly men were not say whether the case was a with Spain’s El Mundo and local Both the Revolutionary Armed Santos has said no talks will begin more than half a century. killed,” the state government said. Several more were injured, an offi- cial said. Local media reported that the attack injured 12 people. Xalapa, a city of 525,000 res- Mosquito menace US top court rules for idents, lies 290km east of Mexico City near the Gulf of Mexico. A group of armed and masked men entered a church in the port black death row inmate of Veracruz, west of Xalapa, dur- ing a religious ceremony and dragged away a man before flee- Reuters word “black” next to the race ques- ing in two vehicles. The church was tion on juror questionnaires. packed with families gathered for The prosecution gave reasons the confirmation of several chil- for excluding potential black jurors dren, including the daughter of the WASHINGTON: The US Supreme including that they “did not make kidnapped man, whom officials Court yesterday effectively over- enough eye contact” during ques- named as Agustin Urena Estrada. turned a black man’s 1987 conviction tioning and were “bewildered,” Security forces are working to for murdering a white woman, “hostile,” “defensive,” “nervous” and find him, Veracruz Governor Javier rebuking Georgia prosecutors for “impudent.” Duarte tweeted. unlawfully excluding black poten- Roberts said prosecutors “were Authorities believe he belongs tial jurors in picking an all-white motivated in substantial part by to an organised criminal group and jury that condemned him to death. race” when two of the potential is nicknamed El Chango, security The 7-1 ruling handed a major jurors were excluded. Two such officials said. victory to Timothy Foster, who is 48 strikes based on race “are two more Moreover, yesterday morning, now and was 18 at the time of the than the Constitution allows,” Rob- police killed another member of 1986 killing of Queen Madge White, erts added. an organised criminal group dur- a 79-year-old retired schoolteacher, The Supreme Court ruled in ing a clash in a hotel in the city A Greater Los Angeles County Vector Control District worker searches for mosquitoes in a backyard in Rome, Georgia. Prosecutors, how- 1986, the same year as this murder, of Orizaba, south of Xalapa, the in Los Angeles, California, where increasing numbers of mosquitoes have tested positive for West ever, still could seek a new trial. that it is unconstitutional to take race Veracruz government said in a Nile virus. Black convicts make up a dis- into account when excluding poten- separate statement. proportionately high percentage tial jurors. of death row inmates in the United Prosecutors said Foster broke States. Opponents of capital pun- into the elderly woman’s home in the ishment assert that the American middle of the night, broke White’s jaw, criminal justice system discrimi- beat and strangled her, and stole items Garcia Marquez’s ashes laid to rest in Cartagena nates against black defendants. from her house. Foster later confessed During jury selection, all four to killing White. black members of the pool of potential At the time of trial, Foster’s argu- AFP Huge yellow butterflies, a symbol recent days from France and the The family placed the ashes inside jurors were “struck” by prosecutors, ments regarding jury selection failed. of magical realism—the genre Garcia United States. Edgar Parra Chacon, stonework under the bust earlier dur- meaning they were removed from But in 2006 his lawyers obtained Marquez helped make famous— president of the University of Carta- ing a private ceremony. consideration. Prosecutors gave access to prosecution’s jury selec- graced the cloister’s trees for the gena, to which the cloister is attached, Only a portion of Garcia Mar- reasons not related to race for their tion notes, which showed the race CARTAGENA, COLOMBIA: The ceremony, which was attended by his expressed what he said was a “great quez’s ashes are being held in decisions to exclude them. of the black potential jurors was ashes of Nobel literature laureate widow and some 400 guests, most honour to receive ‘Gabo,’” the affec- Cartagena, however. The rest will Chief Justice John Roberts, who highlighted, indicating “an explicit Gabriel Garcia Marquez were laid dressed in white. tionate nickname given to the writer. remain in Mexico, where he lived wrote the ruling, said prosecution reliance on race,” according to Fos- to rest in Cartagena, the jewel of “It’s an honour for the city of The Claustro de la Merced, or since the 1980s. notes introduced into evidence ter’s attorneys. colonial architecture on Colombia’s Cartagena to host such an event,” Cloister of Mercy, is about 100 meters President Juan Manuel Santos, that shed light on the jury selection According to court documents, Caribbean coast, following a tribute Gonzalo Garcia Barcha, a son of the from the family’s seafront home. who once saluted Garcia Marquez as “plainly belie the state’s claim that it the lead prosecutor said of his exclu- to the author. “There is joy mingled celebrated Colombian writer, said. Garcia Marquez’s two sons, Gar- “the greatest Colombian of all times,” exercised its strikes in a ‘color blind’ sion of potential black jurors: “All I with sadness,” his 85-year-old sister Garcia Marquez, author of One cia Barcha, a designer who lives in was absent from the funeral, despite manner. The sheer number of refer- have to do is have a race-neutral rea- Rosa Aida Garcia Marquez, one of the Hundred Years of Solitude, died at 87 Paris, and Rodrigo Garcia Barcha, being on the invitation list. ences to race in that file is arresting.” son, and all of these reasons that I have author’s ten siblings, told reporters. on April 17, 2014 in Mexico, where he a US-based filmmaker, unveiled a Garcia Marquez earned wide- The notes showed that prosecu- given the court are racially neutral.” His ashes will be kept in a former lived with his wife Mercedes Barcha. bronze bust of the author by British spread admiration for his fervent tion marked the names of the black Foster’s lawyer, Stephen Bright said the convent near the home where he liked “The family is here,” Garcia Bar- sculptor Katie Murray, which stands defence of the rights of victims of prospective jurors with a “B,” high- legal challenge would not have suc- to stay. cha said; relatives had arrived in in the courtyard. Latin American dictatorships. lighted them in green and circled the ceeded without the notes. AMERICAS TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 1917 Corruption scandal rocks Brazil’s interim govt

have been caught up in the corrup- The senior member of Rousseff’s tion probe. Workers’ Party in the lower house of A newspaper In the conversations, Juca allegedly Congress, Afonso Florence, claimed published ‘secretly calls for a “national pact” to stop the the scandal could “lead to the cancel- tapped conversations’ probe, known as Operation Car Wash, lation” of the impeachment process. in which dozens of top ranking poli- But Juca—a key figure in the new between Planning ticians and business executives have cabinet set up by acting President Minister Romero Juca been charged or already convicted for Michel Temer after the suspension participation in a giant bribery and May 12 of Rousseff—denied that his and an ex-official embezzlement scheme centered on comments referred to halting Oper- of an oil company, state oil company Petrobras. ation Car Wash. Transcripts of the conversations He did not deny the authenticity of both of whom have show him urging impeachment of the recording but said his comments been caught up in Rousseff, saying “we need to change had been in reference to stopping the government to stop this bleeding.” the “bleeding” of Brazil’s recession- corruption probe In comments immediately taken up struck economy. In a hastily called by Rousseff supporters as evidence for press conference, Juca said he backed her claim that the impeachment proc- the Car Wash probe and said that AFP ess is a coup in disguise, Juca says: “I Folha had taken “isolated phrases” am talking to the generals, the military out of context. “I consider Car Wash commanders. They are fine with this, as bringing positive change to Brazil- they said they will guarantee it.” ian politics,” he said. BRASÍLIA: Brazil’s interim govern- According to transcripts, he also says “There is nothing wrong in being ment was rocked yesterday by a new that he has been clearing his plans with investigated—there’s something corruption scandal in which a key justices on the Supreme Court, which wrong in being convicted,” he said. “I Members of the group Movement of Workers Without Shelter protest against the interim of government minister allegedly discusses using oversees impeachment proceedings. have never done anything that could impeachment of president Dilma Ricardo Berzoini, a former Rous- complicate an investigation.” Brazilian President Michel Temer, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, yesterday. Rousseff to halt a massive probe into seff minister, said the revelations The report meant fresh scandal embezzlement. “show the true reason for the coup for Temer, who took power 10 days rival, automatically took over. suspected of obstruction of justice, of setbacks including an uproar over Folha newspaper published what against democracy and against Dilma ago after the Senate voted to suspend In his first reaction, Temer told a although she has not been accused of his naming of a cabinet composed it said were excerpts of secretly taped Rousseff’s legitimate mandate.” Rousseff for six months pending her columnist at O Globo newspaper that corruption for personal gain. entirely of white men. He has rowed conversations in March between Plan- “The object was to halt Car Wash impeachment trial on charges of Juca “has a right to defend himself.” Temer has promised a fresh start back on an initial decision to axe ning Minister Romero Juca and Sergio and push the investigations under the breaking government accounting The Petrobras probe has seen pros- for Brazil after growing economic culture ministry, reinstating the post Machado, an ex-president of Trans- carpet,” he said in a post on the sus- rules. Temer, a vice president who ecutors go after many of Brazil’s most and political paralysis under Rouss- after an outcry from several of Bra- petro oil company, both of whom pended president’s Facebook page. had already broken ranks and turned powerful figures. Rousseff herself is eff. However, he has suffered a series zil’s best known actors and singers. Eight shuttered work camps reopen in Canada Baltimore cop acquitted

Reuters camps to operations may begin The inferno in northern Alberta, the municipality lifted the evacu- immediately,” the Regional Munic- which by Sunday evening was more ation orders on Suncor Energy Inc in Freddie Gray’s death ipality of Wood Buffalo, which than 500,000 hectares, has caused and Syncrude oil sites and some oversees Fort McMurray, said in the evacuation of Fort McMurray’s nearby work camps north of Fort TORONTO: Authorities in Canada a statement. entire population of nearly 90,000 McMurray. Reuters have announced the reopening of The municipality is also reo- since it began early this month. It is unclear when either will eight shuttered work camps south of pening camps near Enbridge Inc’s It also caused the evacuation of resume full production, though Sun- the wildfire-ravaged oil town of Fort Cheecham terminal, which the com- oil facilities and work camps around cor has said a limited number of staff McMurray, paving the way for energy pany has said was returning to full the city and triggered a prolonged will be back at some of its sites on BALTIMORE: Baltimore police firms to restart production. Municipal service. shutdown that has cut Canadian oil Monday at the earliest and that all will officer Edward Nero (pictured) was authorities announced early yester- It is not immediately clear when output by a million barrels a day. return “in a phased manner over the acquitted yesterday of all charges day morning a “phased re-entry” for any of the oil facilities themselves will Producers have since signaled a next few weeks”. in the 2015 death of black detainee camps near Nexen’s Long Lake and be fully operational. A ConocoPhil- gradual increase in operations as rain Some of the evacuees from Fort Freddie Gray, an incident that trig- ConocoPhillips’s Surmont facilities, lips spokesman said the company and cold weather helped firefighters McMurray may be allowed to return gered rioting and protests and fueled both of which have stopped produc- does not yet have a timeline. Nexen beat back the flames. as soon as June 1, if air quality the Black Lives Matter movement. tion due to the fire. and Enbridge did not immediately The announced re-opening of improves and other safety condi- Baltimore City Circuit Court “Assessment work to return ... respond to requests for comment. the work camps came two days after tions are met. Judge Barry Williams, who heard the case in a bench trial, issued the verdict before a packed courtroom. Nero, 30, had faced misdemeanor charges of second-degree assault, majority black city of 620,000 peo- Police fatally AyyayayayayayayyyyMissing souls reckless endangerment and two ple. The case helped stoke the Black counts of misconduct in office. Lives Matter movement and national shoot alleged There were no initial signs of debate over policing in minority rioting after the verdict but a group communities. of protesters chased members of Nero was among six officers Florida car Nero’s family into a parking garage, charged in Gray’s death and the sec- yelling, “No justice, no peace.” ond to go to trial. The trial of the first Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake officer to be tried, William Porter, burglar issued a statement urging calm and ended in a hung jury in December. said Nero would face an administra- Nero’s lawyers had argued that tive review by the police department. Gray’s arrest was justified and that AP “In the case of any disturbance in the officer had little to do with it. He the city, we are prepared to respond,” never touched Gray except when he she said. tried to help him find an asthma HALLANDALE, FLORIDA: A Nero had been charged with inhaler and helped lift him into the police officer fatally shot a man arresting Gray, 25, without justifi- van once he was shackled, they said. who was trying to flee from cation in April 2015 and failing to The hashtag #FreddieGray began authorities who were investigat- secure him in a police van, where trending on Twitter in the United ing reports of car burglaries in the he suffered a fatal spine injury. States after news of Nero’s acquittal South Florida community of Hal- Williams said prosecutors had and some black activists on Twit- landale Beach, authorities said failed to prove their case. During a ter expressed their disappointment. yesterday. 25-reading of his decision, he said “#FreddieGray should be alive Police were called after reports that Nero acted as a “similarly situ- today,” wrote DeRay Mckesson, a of possible car break-ins and a sus- ated” officer would. key figure in the Black Lives Mat- picious person looking into cars in He said Nero’s partner, Garrett ter movement who unsuccessfully a residential neighbourhood filled Miller, had testified that Nero had ran for mayor of Baltimore in April. with condos. Police found two men not handcuffed Gray. “With yet another clearance of sitting in a car. Major Sonia Qui- FatherPeople Emirlook Hat H footprints Sheikh Hamad as shoes bin of Khalifa relatives Al Thani of missing witnessed people last with evening messages the arrival printed of on Fath their Al Kheirsoles Gray’s death a week after an officer in the death of #FreddieG- nones, a police spokeswoman, says hang2 at Katara from the Cultural roof of village the “Casa beach. de Thela Memoria event was Indomita” also attended museum by during H H Sheikh the opening Jassem of binthe Hamad“Huellas Al his arrest sparked a day of riot- ray - the justice system completely the driver, 27-year-old Michael deThani, La Memoria”Representative (Memory of the Tracks) Emir. exhibition Pic: Qassim/The in Mexico Peninsula City. → See also page 26 ing in which nearly 400 buildings fails us,” tweeted Shaun King, a col- Eugene Wilson, attempted to speed were damaged or destroyed in the umnist for the New York Daily News. away and the officer fired at least one round. Wilson later was pro- nounced dead at the hospital. Quinones said the officer feared for his life and was forced Peru’s Fujimori widens lead over Kuczynski despite scandal to fire his weapon. The Sun Senti- nel reports that Wilson’s car had several bullet holes in the driver’s Reuters Enforcement Administration (DEA). before a presidential debate in which door and that spray-painted mark- A man identified as a DEA inform- she confidently attacked Kuczynski as ings on the street indicated at least ant in the report said he had recorded “elitist” and uncommitted to helping eight shots were fired. audio of Ramirez affirming that Rami- the country’s poor. The second suspect, 23-year- LIMA: Peruvian presidential con- rez laundered $15m for Fujimori in 2011. Kuczynski, a 77-year-old former old Tyler Shuman, jumped out of tender Keiko Fujimori widened her “One would have thought that World Bank economist, narrowly the car, but was caught hours later lead over rival Pedro Pablo Kuczyn- as a consequence...there would be a moved onto the second-round after a manhunt involving several ski in an Ipsos poll, despite a scandal spike in mistrust of Keiko Fujimori. election after coming in second to police agencies and a helicopter. involving Fujimori’s top aide. That didn’t happen,” Alfredo Torres, Fujimori ahead of a leftist rival. Police said Wilson was black Fujimori was seen winning 52.6 the head of Ipsos in Peru, said. “Kuczynski’s plan is made for and the officer involved in shoot- percent of valid votes in the June 5 Fujimori, the 40-year-old daugh- defending the interests of big busi- ing, Corey Clark, also is black. run-off election compared to Kuc- ter of imprisoned ex-president Alberto nessmen,” Fujimori said in her closing Clark will be placed on admin- zynski’s 47.4 percent, according to Fujimori, has denied any wrongdoing comments in the televised debate. istrative leave with pay while the the results of a mock voting exercise and portrayed herself as the victim of “His vision...belongs to the transna- investigation continues. by Ipsos broadcast on local television a smear campaign. tional corporation.” According to court records, show Cuarto Poder. Ramirez, who has also denied Kuczynski, who tends to shy away Wilson had an extensive crimi- The poll was conducted May 19 wrongdoing, offered his resignation from direct confrontation, pointed to nal history including grand theft and 20, a few days after Univision letter to keep the scandal from hurt- widespread corruption in the 1990- and aggravated assault. Shuman and Cuarto Poder reported that the ing her campaign. 2000 government of Fujimori’s father Peruvian presidential candidates Pedro Pablo Kuczynski (left) of is in custody and faces criminal secretary general of Fujimori’s center- The results of the Ipsos survey, and urged Peruvians to vote for a charges. Police said they found right party, Joaquin Ramirez, was which showed Fujimori climbed 2.4 candidate without any links to drug “Peruanos por el Kambio” and Keiko Fujimori of Fuerza Popular shake evidence of several car break-ins. under investigation by the US Drug points in a week, were broadcast just trafficking. hands after a televised nation-wide debate in the northern city of Piura.

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5 most realistic forward targets 1 for Arsenal this summer RATON: For years, the Shuler The- atre in this once-booming New Registering accidents simplified as traffic Mexico mining town sat empty in 2 department opens offices at insurance companies a desolate downtown. It had long passed its heyday as a hot spot for Iraqi forces retake 12 districts of Fallujah Italian immigrants and Hispanic 3 from Islamic State workers who visited to take in a travelling show or a newly released movie. But today the 101-year-old TWEET OF THE DAY Raton venue again is attracting audiences from as far as Trini- dad, Colorado just across the state line for variety shows and will soon be ready to screen any Star Wars movie. That change comes Seven-year-old Chantal (left) and five-year-old Sarah (right) have medical student Paula Tannert as New Mexico is joining other (centre) examine their stuffed animals at the teddy bear clinic of the university hospital in Halle/ states in pushing an initiative to Saale, Germany, yesterday. The project is aimed at helping children aged 3 to 8 overcome their fear revitalise downtown districts in of visiting physicians by allowing them to see a consultation from a doctor’s perspective. isolated, small towns by rehabili- tating aging, historic theatres. Disney’s memorabilia up for auction

Reuters $3m. Among the items on sale, which A set of furniture from Disney’s feature fare. The auction is centered are coming from the collections of office, designed by Kem Weber, is on the history of the Disney stu- private owners, is one of the first dolls estimated to fetch between $60,000 dio, Van Eaton said. The items will ever made of the anthropomorphic and $80,000, while an original score be exhibited ahead of the sale from LOS ANGELES: From Walt Disney’s Mickey Mouse, one foot signed by Dis- of the first ever song written about tomorrow through June 17 at the Van Follow us on hand-signed Mickey Mouse doll to his ney and given as a gift to a woman, Mickey Mouse is expected to fetch Eaton Galleries. “It wasn’t the films Snapchat animator’s desk and chairs, a trove estimated to fetch between $50,000 between $15,000 and $20,000. that made the studio so much, it was of the late animation entrepreneur’s and $70,000, said gallery owner Mike Disney co-founded an animation the merchandise, the marketing of Open Snapchat and memorabilia will go up for auction Van Eaton. studio in 1923, which eventually grew the characters that really made Dis- next month and offers a glimpse into “This particular doll was given to into a feature film production studio ney what it is today and that’s what scan the Snapcode the origins of the “mouse house.” woman that he drove an ambulance with films such as “Snow White and we’re trying to show in this auction,” to add The Peninsula The “Collecting Disney” auction, with in 1917 in World War One. A life- the Seven Dwarfs,” “Bambi” and “Cin- Van Eaton said. account. held by Van Eaton Galleries on June long friend of his, he gave her one of derella.” He died in 1966 aged 65. Other highlights from the 18 in Los Angeles, will offer more than his most cherished possessions and he The Walt Disney Company is sale include early original draw- 700 lots from the Disney archives, signed it on the bottom in French ded- now one of Hollywood’s top players, ings of the first two Mickey Mouse expected to fetch between $2m and icated to her,” Van Eaton said. producing live action and animated cartoons.

Former Yugoslavia’s iconic What you missed at the Billboard Music Awards film star Zivojinovic is dead

The Washington Post activism, sported a T-shirt in support of the transgender community with a sparkly, gender-inclusive bathroom AP symbol as she performed her hit “Cool for the Summer.” LAS VEGAS: R&B star the Weeknd was the big winner at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday night, taking 5) Nick Jonas being a very supportive brother BELGRADE: home eight awards out of a field-leading 16 nominations. Nick played the part of Very Serious Singer as he Velimir Bata Zivo- However, following in the proud tradition of music award crooned his solemn duet “Close” with Tove Lo. But when jinovic (pictured), shows everywhere, no one really cared about the winners. his big brother Joe’s band DNCE performed “Cake By the former Yugoslavia’s As usual, it was all about the performances and poten- Ocean,” Nick had a full-out dance party in the audience. best known film tial viral moments — here are 10 moments you missed. star who was also 6) Pink singing from a trapeze popular in China, 1) Kesha’s must-discussed song As she tends to do at award shows, Pink defied gravity has died, Serbian “You may have heard a lot of stories this past week with some terrifying aerial stunts, courtesy of her new sin- state television about whether or not our next artist would perform on this gle “Just Like Fire.” Reaction from some viewers: Bor-ing! reported yester- show,” host Ludacris informed the audience, just before day. He was 82. Kesha appeared to sing an emotional cover of Bob Dylan’s 7) Rihanna’s show-stopper Zivojinovic died “It Ain’t Me, Babe.” Rihanna didn’t need any fancy choreography or late on Sunday in a It’s true: First, it was announced that the Billboard back-up performers for “Love on the Brain,” a ballad that Belgrade hospital, Music Awards would feature Kesha in her first televised showcased the star’s powerful voice as she was surrounded according to state performance since her lawsuit against uber-producer by a set that looked like a haunted cave. TV. He was suffering from several chronic conditions Dr Luke went public. (She alleges he drugged and assaulted and recently had a leg amputated. her; he’s denied all allegations and countersued.) 8) Questlove and Madonna’s Prince tribute Top Serbian officials expressed condolences over Then, word got out from Billboard that her Dr Luke- Before Madonna took the stage, Questlove, drummer Zivojinovic’s death, describing the famous actor as owned record label wouldn’t allow her to perform because for the Roots, gave a touching monologue about Prince, a “legend.” President Tomislav Nikolic said it was of rumours she might make a statement about the legal who died almost exactly a month ago. “No matter our race, “unthinkable that titans such as Bata, are mortal after fight. our colour, our creed, orientation, all of us live in the land all.” The news of Zivojinovic’s death also resonated in Finally, after Kesha promised she just wanted to sing a of music. And his departure from it was an earthquake,” other former Yugoslav republics that were part of the tribute to Dylan, Dr Luke “allowed” her to perform again. Questlove said. Communist-run multi-ethnic federation, but are now And so she did, with a big standing ovation at the end. “But his departure leaves behind so much work still to independent states. do: We can follow his example, we can be fierce, we can Zivojinovic is said to have played the biggest number 2) Celine Dion’s emotional speech be uncompromising, we can be experimental. We can also of film roles in the ex-federation, mostly portraying The powerhouse singer belted out Queen’s “The Show listen to all those songs that he left for us.” partisan fighters battling the German Nazi occupation Must Go On” before producers presented her with the Icon Cue Madonna sitting on a purple throne, as she belted during World War II. Award. And who did they enlist to carry out the trophy? out “Nothing Compares 2 U.” Afterwards, Stevie Wonder His most famous movie, “Walter Defends Sarajevo,” Dion’s 15-year-old son, René-Charles, which meant Dion joined her on stage for a rendition of “Purple Rain.” made Zivojinovic a star in China. The 1972 film about broke down crying on stage. partisan resistance in the city was one of few foreign Dion, whose husband and brother both died within 9) Ariana Grande’s “Dangerous Woman” films shown in China at the time, offering a glimpse days of each other this year after battling cancer, pro- Grande is hit or miss during awards, but she looked into the outside world. ceeded with a very emotional speech as her son stood like she was having a blast during her set of “Dangerous Iconic “Walter” was seen by hundreds of millions next to her. She thanked her late husband, René Ange- Woman” and new single “Into You” — and her energy was of people in China, turning Zivojinovic into a nation- lil, “who I know will continue to watch over me from up Internet personality Josh Ostrovsky attends the 2016 infectious. wide star. Each time Zivojinovic visited the country, above.” “René, this one’s for you,” she said. Billboard Music Awards at T-Mobile Arena in Las fans turned out in large numbers to greet him. 10) The Britney Spears medley Zivojinovic also appeared in Chinese commercials Vegas, Nevada, late on Sunday. 3) Ludacris’ crack about the Oscars. The highly hyped show opening featured Spears and on posters and was offered Chinese citizenship. Ludacris, who co-hosted with Ciara, boasted about the going rapid-fire through her multiple hits, from “Circus” Years later, when Chinese investors started building a show’s prestige. “The Billboard awards is like the Oscars of quite know how to react to that one. to “Toxic”. Curiously, there was no sign of “... Baby, One bridge over the Danube in Belgrade, Zivojinovic was music,” he started. “Except, unlike the Oscars, we actually 4) Demi Lovato’s shirt More Time” or “Oops! ... I Did It Again,” the two hits that greeted with joy as he went to see the Chinese work- have black nominees this evening.” The audience didn’t The 23-year-old pop star, known for her social launched her to pop superstardom back in the day. ers at the site. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 22 QE 9,681.54 +43.28 PTS PAGE | 25 DOW 17,537.82 +36.88 PTS Qatar Airways Cargo FTSE100 6,136.43 -19.89 PTS Too low rates marks 10 years of for too long ‘risky’: BRENT $47.95 -$0.46 Kenya service Bullard

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Doha Forum energy session calls for diversification

The Peninsula limitations in influencing the market to keep crude oil in reserves and energy on a large scale. However, we was anticipating the fall in oil prices. price, he added. move forward in using various types are not in favour of launching giant It was taking this reality into account Global energy market The session was chaired by Paki- of renewable energy resources-such projects due to lack of vast lands to that the country launched its ambi- witnessing volatility stan’s Ambassador and Permanent as wind and solar energy. In fact, the be used for this purpose. tious National Vision 2030. DOHA: H E Abdullah bin Hamad Al Representative to the World Trade country is in the process of diversi- Bangladesh relies on natural gas, Director-General of the Opec Attiyah, Chairman of Abdullah Bin over the past 40 Organization (WTO) in Geneva, Dr. fying its energy portfolio, Dr Antonio which reserves are running out, he Fund for International Development Hamad Al Attiyah Foundation for years and supply and Syed Tauqir Shah. said. explained, noting that the decline (OFID) in Vienna, Suleiman J Al-Her- Energy and Sustainable Development, demand have been Dr Antonio Isa Conde, Minister of The Dominican Republic has also in oil prices helps some economies bish, said oil will continue to remain has called on countries that rely on oil Energy and Mines of the Dominican developed a legal framework to open at the expenses of other, a fact that the primary source of global energy. and gas revenues to accelerate their dictating prices. Republic, said his country is increas- the way for new investment oppor- must be taken into consideration by In 2011, Opec agreed to allo- economic diversification process. ingly reducing its dependency on oil tunities along with other reform Opec. cate $1bn for the distribution of Addressing the keynote session on revenues. The decision is part of the measures, he added. He stressed the need to put in energy among the world’s poor in ‘Energy: Global Status and Challenges’ government’s ambitious sustainable The Minister For Power, Energy place a new global renewable energy 134 countries through a number of at the Doha Forum here yesterday, Al supply and demand have always been development programme. and Mineral Resources of Bangla- system and urged the Petroleum rehabilitation of electricity distri- Attiyah pointed out that the global dictating the market prices. With Opec The drop in oil prices has forced desh, Nasrul Hamid, said that relying Exporting Countries to support it. bution, hydro power projects and energy market has been witnessing controlling just 30 percent of global oil the Dominican Republic not only to on ‘free’ solar energy is the future. The Dr. Ibrahim al Ibrahim, Economic distribution of solar lamps in Afri- volatility over the past 40 years. The production, the oil cartel has its own diversify its energy sources but also country uses this clean and renewable Adviser to the Emiri Diwan, said Qatar can countries. QBIC incubates 52 start-ups in two years GCC Finance Ministers meet in Riyadh today By Mohammad Shoeb The Peninsula The Peninsula recommendations of the joint meet- ing of the Finance Undersecretaries, Customs Union and the committee DOHA: Qatar Business Incubation of heads of tax bodies, Qatar News Centre (QBIC), a joint initiative of DOHA: The Financial and Economic Agency reproted. Qatar Development Bank (QDB) and Cooperation Committee (Finance The meeting will also discuss Social Development Centre (SDC), has Ministers) in the Gulf Cooperation the recommendations related to the successfully incubated and supported Council (GCC) will hold an extraor- establishment of a tax information over 52 startups within two years dinary meeting at the GCC General centre in the GCC General Secretar- since its inception, and is committed Secretariat headquarters in Riyadh iat, in addition to some proposals to play a proactive role in developing today. submitted by the Member States on the local private sector and SMEs in The meeting will address a activating economic cooperation Qatar to diversify the economy. number of topics including the and integration. This was announced by Abdulaziz bin Nasser Al Khalifa, CEO, QDB, who is also the Chairman of QBIC, yester- day at its sixth wave of LeanStartup winners, marking their two-year suc- Kaspersky Lab expands cess in a celebratory, special edition Demo Day. Abdulaziz bin Nasser Al Khalifa (centre), Chief Executive Officer of Qatar Development Bank, and Chairman product portfolio in Qatar In addition to highlighting some of QBIC, Aysha Al Mudahka, and other officials at the Demo Day Special Edition celebrating two years of of the QBIC entrepreneurs’ most success at the QNCC yesterday. Pic: Baher A/The Peninsula prominent success stories, 16 star- tups pitched to a panel of judges, The Peninsula ever before,” he added. investors and key partners yester- entrepreneurs with tourism-related entrepreneur’s in Qatar by hosting Day commenced. We’re thrilled and The Middle East as a whole has day at the Qatar National Convention business ideas specialised support to regular Speaker Series sessions, open proud to be expanding as a leading faced numerous targeted attacks, Centre (QNCC). Under the sponsor- develop products and services that days, trade fairs, and common pur- entrepreneurial hub in Qatar and the including those advanced persist- ship of QNB for the third consecutive enhance the Qatar tourism experi- pose programs, aligning itself with region, responsible for the growth and DOHA: Kaspersky Lab has ent threats discovered by Kaspersky time QBIC incubated eight start- ence, by providing them with unique Qatar’s wider national development.” development of the private sector. We announced expansion of its enter- Lab. ups, two of which will be incubated business development tools and The celebratory event offered a anticipate that soon, entrepreneur- prise security product portfolio in Conventional protection under the specialised QBIC Tourism access to insight and guidance from space to existing QBIC startups in an ship will be comfortably viewed as Qatar with a solution designed to technologies are very good at incubator. QTA decision-makers. effort to maximise their exposure and a legitimate career-choice amongst detect targeted attacks. The Kasper- preventing generic threats and Demo Day marks the end of the Al Khalifa said: “We’re pleased for network opportunities. Emerging com- many Qataris of all ages, bringing us sky Anti Targeted Attack Platform attacks from breaching the cor- 10-week LeanStartup Programme, not only announcing brand new incu- panies showcased their products and one step closer to achieving our mis- is a premium solution based on porate perimeter. giving successful entrepreneurs a batees who successfully completed our services in a trade fair to visitors and sion of developing the next QR100m the most advanced technology to Although the number of such chance to be further supported and renowned LeanStartup Programme, passers-by. It also gave the podium to companies in Qatar.” date that draws on Kaspersky Lab’s threats is still growing, businesses incubated at QBIC. but for being able to share the success of some of the most successful, existing Khalid Majed Al Naemi , AGM SME expertise in the detection and analy- are becoming more concerned about The event witnessed busi- our existing entrepreneurs in this spe- entrepreneurs who shared their per- Banking Group Corporate and Insti- sis of the world’s most sophisticated targeted attacks and advanced ness ideas varying from tourism to cial celebration of Demo Day.” sonal experiences and entrepreneurial tutional Banking at QNB said: “We’re threats. cyber-weapons used for the pur- technology, IT, fashion and educa- He added: “QBIC’s pivotal and journeys with the audience. always pleased to be the official spon- “Nowadays businesses need poses of cyber-espionage or the tion from competing entrepreneurs. encompassing role proves that it is Aysha Al Mudahka, QBIC CEO, sors of QBIC’s Demo Days; after our to overcome many cyber threats, disruption of business activity. Specialised incubator, QBIC Tourism, greater than a center that provides said: “It’s an overwhelming feeling participation in three consecutive including some of the most While these threats represent which was established in partner- specialised incubation services; QBIC to witness the successes achieved Demo Days, it’s not surprising to see advanced ones, for which they a tiny fraction (less than one per- ship with QTA, officially launched in stands as an educational platform, by QBIC startups throughout the the range of ideas evolve to better need knowledge of possible attack cent) of the entire landscape, they January this year, continues to offer actively involved in enlightening two short years since our first Demo serve our local economy.” vectors, indicators of compromise, present the highest risk to compa- and the ability to distinguish nor- nies worldwide. mal operations from malicious The number of such attacks is activity,” said said Ovanes Mikhay- growing steadily, and the price-per- lov, Managing Director in the attack is diminishing. Ministry finalises process for IT Awards nominations Middle East, Kaspersky Lab. Solving the “one percent” prob- “This requires strong security lem requires advanced technology expertise combined with technology and proper security intelligence that The Peninsula ners are to be unveiled by the end of talent, but also the local accomplish- and encouraged entrepreneurs in that is capable of spotting a criminal has either been accumulated within this month at a special event. ments, in addition to the key objective the ICT sector, as well as invigorat- act in the avalanche of daily activity the company or requested from a The Awards reflect the Ministry’s of supporting innovation in that field. ing and enabling the breakthrough in a large corporation, This challenge security vendor. DOHA: The Ministry of Transport commitment to honouring the busi- The awards will be sponsored by Qatar innovations that reflect positively on is being addressed with the Kasper- The Kaspersky Anti Targeted and Communications has finalised nesses that have added a significant Development Bank (QDB), Vodafone all sections and segments of the soci- sky Anti Targeted Attack Platform, Attack Platform is designed to iden- the assessment and arbitration proc- value to Qatari ICT market. The aim is Qatar, the Qatar Railways Company ety,” said Reem Al Mansoori, Assistant together with the security services tify and highlight unusual actions ess for the Qatar IT Business Awards to recognise not only businesses’ unre- (Qatar Rail) and Microsoft Qatar. Undersecretary for Digital Society aimed at sharing security intelli- that constitute strong evidence of 2016 nominations. Results and win- mitting efforts to attract local promising “The Ministry always supported Development at the Ministry. gence with our customers faster than malicious intent. 22 TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 BUSINESS Qatar Airways Cargo marks 10 years of Kenya service

belly-hold cargo on 21 passenger air- Entebbe, Johannesburg, Khartoum, craft to Nairobi each week, offering Lagos and Nairobi) and provides Qatar Airways Cargo a total capacity of 232 tonnes into belly-hold cargo capacity to 23 cities operates seven Airbus Nairobi and 362 tonnes out of Nai- in the world’s second largest conti- A330 freighters and robi each week. Over the past decade, nent. Perishables such as flowers, Qatar Airways Cargo has established fruits, vegetables and meat remain transports belly- itself as a trusted air freight service the top exports from Nairobi, des- hold cargo on 21 provider in Kenya, connecting the city tined mainly for Europe and Middle of Nairobi to a global network of more Eastern countries. passenger aircraft to than 150 destinations on its young Kenya is among the top three Nairobi every week. and modern fleet. The cargo carrier largest flower exporters in the world is constantly innovating and introduc- and the highest exporter of flowers ing effective air transport solutions to in Africa. Qatar Airways Cargo’s QR meet its customer and market needs Fresh solution provides a seamless The Peninsula in the East Africa region. cool chain service for perishables Ulrich Ogiermann, Qatar Airways from the origin airport through to Chief Officer Cargo said: “We are proud the final destination via its fully- DOHA: Qatar Airways Cargo, the to have completed 10 successful years automated hub in Doha. The use of world’s third largest international of freighter operations to and from Nai- refrigerated trucks at the carrier’s cargo carrier, recently celebrated robi. Kenya is an important market for cargo terminal in Doha ensures the its 10 years of services in Kenya. A us, and we are a great partner with cool chain is unbroken. gala reception to commemorate this the businesses that need high quality, QR Charter utilises the cargo car- milestone achievement was held on reliable cargo services. We anticipate rier’s most modern freighter fleet in 19 May and attended by the cargo continuous growth as we begin our sec- the sky, comprising Boeing 777 and carrier’s customers and business part- ond decade of freighter operations into Airbus A330 freighters as well as the ners, including Ibrahim Mohamed the country. We owe our success to our popular Boeing B747-400BCF nose Al-Abdulla, Qatar’s Ambassador to customers, business partners and local loader freighter. It offers quality, reli- FROM RIGHT: Peter Penseel, SVP Cargo Sales & Network Planning; Ibrahim Mohamed Al Abdulla, Qatar’s Kenya, and Yatich Kangugo, Acting stakeholders for their tremendous sup- able and cost-effective global charter Ambassador to Kenya; Mohd Azim, Senior Manager Cargo Business Support and Nicolas Danton, Regional Managing Director of Kenya Airport. port over the years.” solutions through the cargo carrier’s Cargo Manager for African Region, cutting a cake to mark the occasion. Qatar Airways Cargo commenced Qatar Airways Cargo has seen extensive network of more than 150 services to Nairobi in 2006 with two remarkable expansion to its opera- passenger and over 50 dedicated deliver airport-to-airport air freight of specialist services and products. the Year event and the International Airbus A330 freighters. Today, Qatar tions in the African continent. Today, freighter destinations. service for time-critical shipments. The cargo carrier recently won Award for Excellence in Air Cargo at Airways Cargo operates seven Air- the cargo carrier operates freighters In April this year, the cargo carrier QR Express is the latest addition to the prestigious All-Cargo Carrier the Air Cargo India 2016 exhibition bus A330 freighters and transports to seven destinations (Accra, Djibouti, introduced QR Express, a solution to the cargo airline’s expanding portfolio award at the 33rd Cargo Airline of and conference. BAM and AGPCA sign agreement RasGas Offshore achieves safety milestone

The Peninsula per day of natural gas and the drilling significant milestone is a testament to The Peninsula Dr Khalid Al-Sulayti, the vice Islamic Financial Institutions. of over 150 offshore gas production our focus on accident prevention and chairman of BAM’s Board of Direc- Mohana bin Khalid Al-Ghanim, wells. Company’s Chief Operations our commitment to maintaining an tors, said that the MoU is part Managing Partner AGPCA, said that Officer, Fahad Mohammed Al Khater, injury-free workplace,” he said. of BAM’s endeavours towards the organisation strives hard to DOHA: RasGas Company Limit- praised the Offshore Production Al Khater also congratulated the DOHA: A Memorandum of Under- improving its products and work offer the best and authentic services ed’s (RasGas) Offshore Production Department’s success. company’s contractor workforce for standing (MoU) has been signed mechanism besides extending coop- related to all the accounting streams, Department (Shorebase) has com- “I am extremely proud that we playing a critical role in ensuring recently between Bait Al-Mashura eration and coordination with Qatari feasibility studies as well as internal pleted 19 years of operations without continue to demonstrate RasGas’ safety is a priority and maintaining a Finance Consultations (BAM) and organizations. and external auditing. a Lost-Time Incident. industry-leading safety perform- secure work environment in all Ras- Ahmed Khaled Al-Ghanim & Part- The MoU aims at upgrading the AGPCA is a newly established RasGas Shorebase has served as ance. RasGas has a long-established Gas locations. “These accomplishments ner Chartered Accountants (AGPCA). audit operations in line with the Qatari company applying the best a hub supporting the offshore gas culture of safety awareness, and our demonstrate that working together as It was the first of its kind in international standards, as well as standards, as it has gathered pro- production operations and drilling rigorous and systematic approach to a team and embedding safety as a core the domain of coordination within harmonizing them with the Sha- fessional expertise and accumulated operations. Its contribution towards reducing and eliminating workplace value in everything we do, brings Ras- the fields of financial and Shari’ah riah-based audit review standards scientific experience of international supporting the logistics involved with risk has made the company an indus- Gas closer to our goal where ‘Nobody auditing. and financial standards related to entities. the production of 9 billion cubic feet try leader in safety performance. This Gets Hurt’,” said Al Khater. BUSINESS TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 23 GCC countries Qatar delegation attends GCC Post and Telecom meet need structural The Peninsula DOHA: A high-level delegation rep- resenting Qatar is participating in 27th Meeting of GCC Committee for Under-Secretaries of Post and Tele- reforms: Experts communications in Riyadh. The Qatar delegation is headed by Mohammed Ali Al Mannai, President of the Communications Regulatory that stop GCC countries from being Authority (CRA). pegged to the US currency only, The Qatar delegation comprises Gulf nations need which has been appreciating over Khalid N Sadiq Al Hashmi, Assistant both revenue the last three years by 20 per Under-Secretary of Cyber Secu- and economic cent. GCC countries need to move rity Sector, Ministry of Transport & towards a “basket of currencies”, Communications, Ali Al Suwaidi, diversification and which include the US dollar, Euro, IT Section Head, CRA and Faisal to achieve this Yen and Renminbi. This will enable Al Shuaibi, Institutional Relations each country to have a more flexi- Officer, CRA. economic policy has ble exchange-rate system, they said. During the meeting, the GCC to change. Michael Armstrong, FCA and Under-Secretaries Committee will ICAEW Regional Director for the discuss several topics related to Middle East, Africa and South Asia the developing of postal and tele- (MEASA), said: “GCC countries have communications sectors in the GCC The Peninsula started making fiscal reforms, such member states and means of boost- The meeting of GCC Committee for Under-Secretaries of Post and Telecommunications held in Riyadh. as introducing taxes and reduc- ing cooperation. ing subsidies. However, in order to The meeting agenda includes DOHA: GCC economies must go for get greater buy-in from the private discussions about the recom- Chief Officers, Telecommunication Legislations and Regulations. The The decision on the date and structural reforms to successfully sector and attract foreign inves- mendations by several other Legislations and Regulations Com- Committee will also discuss matters location of the 28th Meeting of GCC end their reliance on oil, according tors, there must be more structural committees and working groups mittee, Roaming Working Group, GCC related to cooperation between GCC Committee for Under-Secretaries of to accountancy and finance body reforms which include initiatives including Committee Meeting Technical Office of Technical Com- countries and the Hashemite King- Post and Telecommunications will ICAEW. like 100 per cent foreign ownership, for Posts Under-Secretaries and mittee, and the Working Group of OTT dom of Jordan. also be taken at the Riyadh meeting. The GCC countries need both long-term residency, investment revenue and economic diversifi- frameworks, PPP frameworks, and cation, but in order to achieve this improved transparency and corpo- economic policy has to change. This rate governance. If these reforms are would require greater private sec- made GCC countries will build and Domasco delivers ‘Honda tor participation and retention of retain their human capital within human capital within the region in the region.” Africa Twin’ motorbikes order to ensure long-term sustaina- According to the experts the cen- ble growth prospects and economic tral economic challenge facing the development. This was the outcome countries in the region is job cre- of ICAEW’s ‘Corporate finance fac- ation. The region requires 6-7 per The Peninsula distinctive feel and character all of ulty roundtable on the GCC’s capital cent economic growth just to keep its own. funding needs’ held in Dubai. unemployment rates where they are Wrapped in a steel double-cra- ICAEW members and experts now. By 2020 the region will have to dle frame, the engine’s compact discussed whether private sector create around 130 million new jobs. DOHA: Domasco, the authorized dimensions allow other compo- investment pools can bridge the gap Failure to do so risks more extrem- distributor for Honda in Qatar,has nents to be mounted closer to the in the GCC’s capital funding needs. ism and poverty. Speakers agreed made the first delivery of the new center of machine; centralizing The panellists and invited guests dis- countries must invest in infra- ‘Honda Africa Twin’ motorbikes the mass and lowering the center- cussed what GCC countries could do structure projects as these create a recently. of-gravity. With a class leading to diversify their economies away substantial number of jobs. The much anticipated new 250mm ground clearance for off- from oil. According to the experts, Speakers included Dr Nasser Honda CRF1000L Africa Twin road excursions, riding this bike economic policy in the GCC coun- Saidi, President & Founder of Nasser meets the extraordinarily high feels like second nature. tries must move to countercyclical Saidi & Associates, and Former Chief expectations set by adventure rid- Greig Roffey, Head of Sales & A Domasco official launching the new motorbike. fiscal policy and countercyclical Economist at the DIFC; Richard Dal- ing enthusiasts. The strong 1000cc Marketing for Domasco Honda wel- monetary policy. The former policy las, Senior Managing Director at Gulf parallel twin has 4-valve Unicam comed the customers at the Honda could include removing subsidies, Capital; Martin Jacobs, UK Partner, head design. It delivers handfuls showroom said: “The Africa Twin The new Honda CRF1000L Africa purchased the DCT (Dual Clutch privatization, public–private part- Head of Corporate Finance Privati- of torque so satisfying and addic- is a bike that’s as impressive as the Twin will revolutionize the way we Transmission) version, said “This is nerships (PPP), and structural sation at PwC; Sanjay Vig, Managing tive, it will tempt riders to break desert itself. This unique, light and look at motorcycles and specifically the bike that I have been long await- reforms to remove current invest- Director of Alpen Capital and Philip free from the tarmac at the earliest agile combination of power and those with off-road capabilities. We ing. The automatic version with DCT ment barriers and make the private McCrum, Director Economic Advi- opportunity.Dual spark plugs per handling sets new standards for are delighted to make our first deliv- does have the option to do man- sector more active. sory at EY. The discussion was cylinder, a lightweight camshaft adventure bikes.” ery to our passionate customers that ual shifts via paddle switches or At the same time, these efforts moderated by Chris Hawley, Man- – made from the same material Commenting on the occasion, seek the true spirit of adventure and an optional electronic gear lever. It must be supported by countercy- aging Director and Head of Middle proven in the Fireblade – and a 270° Faisal Sharif, Managing Director at the ability to go anywhere.” offers a drive mode with three addi- clical monetary policy changes East at Rothschild. phased crankshaft, give this bike a Domasco said: “The legend lives on! Frank Grobler, who has tional sport modes.” Know-your-customer check must be ‘an ongoing process’

By Sachin Kumar The Peninsula

DOHA: Know-your-customer (KYC) check of a customer by banks should be an ongoing process and not just one time exercise, said Gary Collyer, Managing Director, Collyer Consult- ing Global -a banking consultancy firm speaking at a workshop in bank- ing. KYC is the process, used in many industries including banking, of a business verifying the identity of its clients. International Chamber of Com- The Commercial and Industrial Division of AAB’s and other officials at the meeting. merce (ICC), Qatar Chapter yesterday organised a workshop on ‘Documen- tary Credits in Today’s Challenging Environment’. AAB division holds customers meet Addressing the participants, Col- lyer shed light on confirmation and amendment of documents, issuance, letters of credit, documentary credit The Peninsula field of Material Handling and Stor- with comprehensive warehous- financing and document manage- age Solutions. ing solutions and to be the partner ment by banks. AAB’s Annual Customers Meet of choice for all their warehousing Speaking about the impact of Gary Collyer, Managing Director, Collyer Consulting Global, giving Event was attended by leading requirements.” financial crime and anti-money a presentation at a workshop on “Documentary Credits in Today’s DOHA: The Commercial and Indus- companies from a wide spectrum of Toyota Material Handling Inter- laundering, he said there are a Challenging Environment” at the Grand Hyatt Hotel in Doha yesterday. trial Division of Abdullah Abdulghani industries, ranging from manufactur- national, Godrej Storage Solutions, number of techniques that are used Pic: Salim M/The Peninsula & Bros Co (AAB) held its Annual Cus- ing and distribution to warehousing Kardex Material Handling &Endress by money launderers to achieve tomers Meet at the Sheraton Hotel and logistics. Generators provided the attendees of their goal of defrauding one or more receiving multiple payments. In distinct phases to the act of money Doha recently. The occasion wit- Serdar Toktamis, CEO, Abdullah the event with a presentation to dem- banks. These include over-invoicing, case of short-shipping, the shipping laundering- placement, layering and nessed the launch of the Toyota 8FBE Abdulghani & Bros. Co. said: “We onstrate their background and history, under-invoicing, multiple-invoic- is less than the stated on the invoice integration. Placement is the initial Series, 3 Wheel Electric Counter- thank our customers for their trust capabilities and product ranges. ing, short-shipping, over-shipping, while in over-shipping, shipping is entry of the ‘dirty’ money or proceeds balance Forklift along with Godrej’s and support and we assure them Yazan Mustafa, COO of the Com- phantom-shipping and deliberate more than invoiced to avoid tariffs of crime into the financial system, Mobile Shelving systems. our commitment to provide supe- mercial and Industrial Division of ambiguity in describing (or hiding) or taxes. Under phantom shipping, exchanging for clean money. Layer- During the event, AAB also rior products and services. Also, AAB, said: “Our success started with the intended type of goods. false documentation with no actual ing is electronic movement of funds announced its partnership with we are very proud to be partnering Toyota forklifts where we are now Under the over-invoicing, money underlying shipment is done. In case in multiple constant transaction in KardexRemstar (automated storage with world renowned companies. holding a very strong leadership launderers fraudulently increase the of deliberate ambiguity in describing order to obscure the audit trail and solutions), Switzerland & Endress Our relationship with Toyota Mate- position. We appreciate our cus- price of goods, services or perform- the intended type of goods, money cut the link with original crime. In Industrial Generators, Germany. rial Handling Company goes back tomer trust and support during the ance while in under-invoicing they launderers disguise information in Integration, funds are invested or AAB has consistently focused on to around 5 decades and we have last years. Our key focus and fun- attempt to reduce applicable tariffs order to hide the true nature of the merged in legitimate non-criminal providing effective solutions to its been successful in achieving mar- damental principle today that guide or taxes, he said. goods, added Collyer. activities and subsequently re-redi- customers by delivering the latest ket leadership in the Qatari Market. our activities is to maintain and Multiple-invoicing has aim of He said that there are three rected back to the criminal as clean. technological advancements in the Our focus is to provide our clients strengthen this trust.” 24 TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 BUSINESS

Iran carpet industry revival AXA becomes Oil discoveries first major insurer to cut lowest in 2015: tobacco ties AFP

PARIS: The AXA group yesterday Morgan Stanley became the first global insurer to cut ties with the tobacco industry, saying it would sell about €1.8bn $168bn two years earlier, accord- worth of investments in the sec- ing to Morgan Stanley. Despite a tor, to cheers from anti-smoking Oil discoveries are big increase in exploration spend- campaigners. vital to replace ing since the start of the decade, “This decision has a cost for resources, meet still- when oil demand rapidly rose, us, but the case for divestment is there have been few major hydro- clear: the human cost of tobacco is growing demand and carbon discoveries, such as Statoil’s tragic; its economic cost is huge,” offset the depletion Johan Sverdrup field off Norway’s said Thomas Buberl, deputy chief coast or Eni’s giant Zohr gas field executive of the French giant. of existing fields. off Egypt. The group took the decision “as BP last week announced the a responsible health insurer and surprise departure of its explora- investor,” AXA said in a statement, tion boss, and a shift in its oil search A worker checks the dyed threads at the Zolnavari carpet factory in the city of Shiraz, south western urging other insurers to follow its Reuters strategy that is focusing mainly on Iran. The Iranian carpet industry is seeking revival after the lifting of sanctions and is anticipating a lead. “Smoking poses the biggest expanding existing fields rather boost in exports. threat to public health in the world than venturing expensively into the today,” AXA said. LONDON: Oil discoveries in 2015 fell unknown. “Its cost, estimated at 2.1 tril- to their lowest since 1952 as energy A big increase in new oil fields lion euros per year, equals the companies slashed exploration in recent years and the ramp up of combined expenses of war and budgets in the wake of the oil price Iran’s production following the lift- terrorism,” said the company, fall, creating a gap for meeting future ing of international sanctions mean Eurozone business growth slows which a year ago also said it was demand, analysts at Morgan Stanley that in the short term, the impact of pulling out of the coal sector. said yesterday. the low exploration record will be The company said it would The oil and gas industry dis- limited. But even under the most begin by selling its equity holdings covered 2.8 billion barrels of oil modest demand forecasts, driven AFP quarterly GDP growth of 0.3 percent, the data as they were still digesting in tobacco companies, which are outside the United States last year, by a drive to limit global warming in line with forecasts in a Reuters sur- last week’s surge in expectations for currently valued at about 200 mil- the equivalent of one month of glo- to 2 degrees Celsius, where con- vey published earlier this month, but a rate hike in the United States fol- lion euros. AXA will also run down bal consumption, the US bank said, sumption will decline to around 86 short of 0.5 percent in the first quar- lowing a more hawkish tone from the its existing bond holdings in the quoting data from consultancy Rys- million barrels per day in 2030, only LONDON: Business growth across ter, which was initially reported as Federal Reserve. tobacco industry, valued at about tad Energy. around two thirds of the demand the eurozone dipped to a 16-month 0.6 percent. Individually, surveys While the headline composite €1.6bn, it said. Buberl said that, by Including the United States, can be met by currently producing low in May but stronger showings showed growth in Germany’s private PMI was above the 50 mark that sep- dropping the tobacco industry, the where the rapid expansion of the fields or resources under develop- from Germany and France suggest sector accelerated to hit the fastest arates growth from contraction, the company was doing its “share to onshore shale industry unlocked ment, Morgan Stanley said. it is the smaller member countries rate so far this year. index measuring prices businesses support the efforts of governments major resources over the past dec- “Building this capacity over the that may be struggling. French business activity also charge remained below it at 49.0, around the world.” ade, global discoveries rose to 12.1 next 25 years will require ongoing Offering the latest evidence that grew faster than expected, return- although that was an increase from AXA, whose revenues from billion figure - but still the lowest investment. Our strong suspicion a strong acceleration in growth in the ing to a rate not recorded since before last month’s 48.3. This may concern its health care business reached since 1952, when the oil industry is that this will be higher than what first three months of the year was the November 13 attacks in Paris. policymakers at the European Cen- almost €12bn last year, is the first was one-seventh of its current size. companies are currently spending, only temporary, Markit’s flash Com- “That suggests that the PMIs for tral Bank who have been battling to global insurer to take this step, Oil discoveries are vital to even relative to the 2 Degrees sce- posite Purchasing Managers’ Index the other major euro zone econo- get inflation up to their 2 percent tar- a spokesman for the group said. replace resources, meet still-grow- nario under which demand is falling.” edged down to 52.9 from April’s 53.0. mies such as Italy and Spain will be get ceiling. Consumer prices fell 0.2 The company said that as a major ing demand and offset the depletion The outlook for exploration While essentially stable - and still soft when released next week,” said percent in April, despite the Bank’s investor it wanted to be “part of the of existing fields. remains challenged, the bank said. indicating growth - the reading was Stephen Brown at Capital Economics. ultra-loose monetary policy. solution, and our hope is that others The sharp drop in oil prices “The return on exploration dol- the lowest since the start of 2015. It Germany and France are the only Even with price discounting, in our industry will do the same”. over the past two years has led lars spent has clearly deteriorated in ran against expectations in a Reuters individual euro zone countries for new order growth slowed and there AXA warned that without companies including Exxon Mobil recent years. On top of this, oil com- poll, which had predicted a tick up to which Markit publishes flash PMIs. was no acceleration in activity in urgent action to curb the rise in and Royal Dutch Shell to sharply panies increasingly need to consider 53.2 in one of the earliest reported May surveys for other euro zone the bloc’s dominant service indus- smoking-related deaths, tobacco reduce budgets, particularly for scenarios for oil demand in which broad indicators of growth during members will be published early try. A Reuters poll had predicted an was expected to kill one billion exploration, where spending fell there may not be much need for fur- the month. next month. increase to 53.3 but the PMI held people worldwide during the 21st in 2015 to around $95bn from ther exploration.” Markit said the PMI pointed to Markets were unmoved after steady at April’s 53.1. century.

Ryanair predicts German group calls for slower profit growth this year new probe of VW scandal

AFP Reuters But Kurz said there was no guar- antee small shareholders would receive access to all of Jones Day’s DUBLIN: Irish no-frills airline Rya- FRANKFURT: German investors’ findings. VW has created a Special nair yesterday forecast rising annual association DSW called yesterday Committee on Diesel Engines headed profits on higher traffic and lower fuel for an independent audit of Volkswa- by Wolfgang Porsche, head of the prices but at a slower rate than its last gen’s emissions test-rigging scandal family clan which controls VW, to financial year. in addition to the carmaker’s inter- investigate the scandal. The company said net profit was nal probe. The company has declined to set to rise by around 13 percent in the DSW asked that a shareholder comment in detail about initial find- 12 months to the end of March 2017, vote on an independent investiga- ings of the probe, as part of which as it predicted that passenger traf- tion be included on the agenda for Jones Day is interviewing manag- fic would grow by 9.0 percent. Profit Volkswagen’s (VW) annual general ers and employees close to the diesel after tax had surged 43 percent to meeting on June 22. issue, because it is not yet completed. ¤1.242bn ($1.395bn) in 2015/16, Rya- In September, Europe’s largest It said so far there were no signs nair added in an earnings statement. carmaker admitted it had cheated that current management was Ryanair repeated its support for diesel emissions tests in the US. involved in the scandal but that Britain remaining part of the Euro- “When you have an independent there were process deficiencies on pean Union, noting that a vote to investigation you can be sure that the technical side as well as mis- leave the EU in the June 23 referen- the findings will be publicised. With conduct on the part of unidentified dum “will damage economic growth internal investigations you do not individuals. A Ryanair plane prepares to land at Manchester airport in Manchester, northern England. and consumer confidence in the UK know whether everything has been It has said it was reorganis- for the next two to three years”. made transparent,” DSW spokesman ing the processes and structures It added: “As the UK’s largest air- of Europe’s flag carrier airlines, and of $90 for a barrel of oil -- far higher than 500 flights. It added that such Juergen Kurz said yesterday. used for approving the software line, Ryanair strongly believes that has enabled us to transform air travel, than the market value -- as a result strikes would impact its latest first- VW has retained law firm Jones for engine control units with the UK economy and its future growth tourism, economic growth and jobs of the hedging policy it had adopted quarter performance. Day and has some 450 internal and more clearly defined and binding prospects are stronger if it remains a all over Europe.” in 2014. But the airline still managed to external experts looking at proc- responsibilities. member of the European Union. Ryanair chief executive Michael The final quarter of its last finan- carry more than 100 million passen- esses, reporting and control systems DSW acknowledged the chances “One of Europe’s great success O’Leary meanwhile said that growth cial year was hit also by the terrorist gers internationally during its last to find those responsible for the of forcing an independent investi- stories was airline deregulation in in traffic and profit at the airline in attacks in Brussels and strikes by air financial year that ended in March, scandal which has already forced gation at VW were slim, given the the late 1980s which allowed Rya- 2015/16 had risen strongly despite the traffic controllers across Europe that a first for an airline according to VW to set aside €16.2bn ($18.2bn) to company’s large shareholders may nair to break up the high fare cartel company having to pay an average resulted in the cancellation of more Ryanair. pay for the scandal. not back the proposal. Brazil organises investor meetings for sale of state assets

Reuters advertise the assets and the legal and wants to sell majority stakes in the “It’s time to end with the govern- investment activity. government could fetch from asset regulatory framework behind the pro- fuel distribution unit of oil producer ment monologue and start building It could become Brazil’s most sales, although two of the sources said gram. He did not give a timetable nor Petróleo Brasileiro SA and in power solutions with our partners,” Moreira ambitious privatization drive in two proceeds could range between $10bn say which assets will be sold. utility Furnas Centrais Elétricas SA, Franco said late on Friday, adding that decades. and $20bn over the next two years. BRASILIA: The Brazilian government Still, five sources with knowledge and some of the facilities that airport the legal and investment framework Qatar Investment Authority, Some of the largest investment plans to host a round of investor meet- of the plan told Reuters over the past authority Infraero runs, the sources will be designed in a way that bidders Abu Dhabi Investment Co PJSC, and banks operating in Brazil will also ings to market a broad plan of asset week that Moreira Franco and For- said. “feel safe and confident.” Mubadala Development Co PJSC are attend the meetings, many of them sales, a key initiative to help raise cash eign Affairs Minister José Serra will Moreira Franco said the program’s The state asset sale program offers among the sovereign wealth funds representing potential buyers, the and reduce a record budget deficit, lead the roadshows, which may take goal is to help create jobs as Brazil more evidence of Brazil’s policy shift invited to attend the roadshows, sources added. a senior official and people familiar place in New York, London and other wrestles with a two-year long reces- since the Senate’s decision earlier this three of the sources said. Canadian In a statement to Reuters, Tem- with the matter said. financial hubs. Two of the sources said sion and slumping commodity prices. month to try the impeachment of left- investment firms and European infra- er’s office said the government “plans According to Wellington Moreira the presentations are scheduled for Still, the plan could help Brazil raise ist President Dilma Rousseff. Temer, structure companies have already to transfer to private investors sev- Franco, the head of a government mid-July. extra funds to narrow a deficit that her replacement during the trial and been contacted too, the same sources eral assets, stakes and companies, agency to draw foreign investment The list of ready-for-sale assets is most economists forecast to top 10 afterwards if she is found guilty, has added. although it is still analyzing which to Brazil, a round of so-called road- still in the making. Yet, interim Pres- percent of gross domestic product vowed to streamline Brazil’s bloated Moreira Franco declined to and which others will remain in the shows is seen as a necessary step to ident Michel Temer’s government this year. state and open room for more private give an estimate of how much the hands of the state.” BUSINESS TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 25 Bayer defies critics with $62bn Monsanto offer

and was condemned by a major Monsanto, while Dow and DuPont shareholder as “arrogant empire- are forging a $130bn business. The unsolicited building” when news of the proposal With German rival BASF also proposal, which emerged last week. looking into a possible tie-up with Giving details for the first time, Monsanto, Bayer has moved to avoid includes debt, would Bayer said on Monday it would offer being left behind. be the largest foreign $122 per share, a 37 percent premium Baumann rejected suggestions takeover by a German to Monsanto’s stock price before from some investors that Bayer rumours of a bid surfaced. should instead try to forge a joint company if accepted. “We fully expect a positive venture with Monsanto, saying this answer of the Monsanto board of would have tax disadvantages. directors,” Baumann told report- Sources close to the matter have ers on a conference call, describing said BASF is unlikely to start a bid- Reuters criticism from some investors as “an ding war with Bayer. BASF declined uneducated reaction in the media” to comment yesterday. But analysts when deal terms were not yet known, say Bayer might still have to pay more FRANKFURT: German drugs and and driven by an element of surprise. to persuade Monsanto and its share- crop chemicals group Bayer has Monsanto, which said last week holders to sell up. offered to buy US seeds company it had a received an approach from That could be a problem, with The Bayer headquarters in Leverkusen, western Germany. Monsanto for $62bn in cash, defy- Bayer but gave no details, has yet to some saying Bayer’s proposal, at ing criticism from some of its own comment on the offer. The US com- 15.8 times its earnings before interest, shareholders in a bid to grab the top pany’s shares jumped 9.5 percent to tax, depreciation and amortisation already fallen 14 percent since stock, said the extra debt appeared starving Paul here,” he said, adding spot in a fast-consolidating farm sup- $111.17 in pre-market trading. for the year ended Feb. 29, is already rumours of a bid emerged last week, manageable but could limit Bay- no asset sales were planned to help plies industry. Global agrochemicals compa- a stretch for the German company. dropped as much as 3.6 percent on er’s ability to invest in its healthcare pay for the deal. The unsolicited proposal, which nies are racing to consolidate, partly “The price that has now been dis- Monday to a new 2-1/2 year low of business, which some analysts think Bayer also forecast synergies includes debt, would be the largest in response to a drop in commod- closed is at the upper limit and it is 86.3 euros. needs a boost to its drugs pipeline. from a deal with Monsanto would foreign takeover by a German com- ity prices that has hit farm incomes just about economical. Should it rise Bayer said it would finance the Baumann said Bayer would boost annual earnings by around $1.5 pany if accepted. and also due to the growing conver- further, which is to be assumed, the bid with a combination of debt and continue to develop its healthcare billion after three years, plus addi- The move, which would eclipse a gence between seeds and pesticides takeover will become increasingly equity, primarily a share sale to exist- arm, which includes stroke preven- tional future benefits from integrated planned combination of Dow Chem- markets. unattractive,” said Markus Manns, a ing investors. Equity would account tion pill Xarelto and aspirin, the product offerings - a reference to its ical and DuPont’s agriculture units, ChemChina is buying Swit- fund manager at Union Investment, for about a quarter of the deal value. painkiller it invented more than a push to combine the development comes just three weeks after Werner zerland’s Syngenta for $43bn Bayer’s 14th biggest investor. Equinet analyst Marietta Miemi- century ago. and sale of seeds and crop protec- Baumann took over as Bayer CEO, after Syngenta rejected a bid from Shares in Bayer, which had etz, who has a ‘buy’ rating on Bayer “We are not feeding Peter by tion chemicals. Gulf bond issuance Too low rates for too long ‘risky’: Bullard

fails to satisfy Reuters of the Fed’s policy-setting committee, European Union in a vote next month told reporters. will not affect the Fed’s upcoming Market assessment for a Fed rate decision on rates, Bullard said. rise had been close to zero, and the “Even if it’s a vote to exit the arranging banks BEIJING: US interest rates being idea it has come off zero is “probably EU, the next day nothing happens, kept too low for too long could cause good”, he said. “It does depend on the because you have two years of financial instability in future and data and it’s certainly not 100 percent, negotiation during which new trade stronger market expectations for a but it’s not zero either. Some proba- arrangements have to be set up,” he Reuters standard deal, according to a banker rate rise are “probably good”, St Louis bility in between is the right thing to said. “I also see the probability of an present. “The issuer didn’t really Federal Reserve President James Bull- think at this point.” exit vote has fallen somewhat lately.” have an answer,” the banker said. ard (pictured) said yesterday. Bullard said the US labour mar- Some policymakers at the April Abu Dhabi showed in April that A relatively tight labour market ket was performing well and global meeting had said they were con- LONDON: A flurry of new issuance an issuer can use far fewer arrang- in the United States may also exert headwinds that had partly prevented cerned financial markets could has swept the Gulf but arranger ers and still get a good outcome, after upward pressure on inflation, rais- the Federal Reserve from raising rates be roiled by Brexit or by China’s slots on trades are becoming raising $5bn with three banks run- ing the case for higher interest rates, again may have waned. exchange rate policies. increasingly bloated as there is ning the trade. Bullard added. The Federal Open Market Com- In deciding whether to raise rates, still not enough volume to support For investors, having so many His comments come as financial mittee has laid out a data-dependent the Fed looks for improvement in the number of banks vying for the banks makes deals more cumber- markets have increased expectations “slow normalisation” of rates, he said, the economy and jobs, and evidence business. some and potentially cuts into the for a US interest rate hike in June or July thereby the nominal policy rate would path of the policy rate.” inflation is moving toward its 2 per- The number of banks hired to allocation if each bank brings its and a range of policymakers are now gradually rise over the next several Expectations for a June rate hike cent target. run deals in the Middle East is shoot- own buyers. stating that a rise is firmly on the table years provided the economy evolves rose last week following minutes from The Fed last month kept its target ing up from the typical five or six For bankers, having so many for the next policy meeting in June. as expected. the central bank’s April policy meet- overnight interest rate in a range of arrangers. houses involved in a deal eats into “I do worry that keeping rates “Labour markets are relatively ing released on May 18 that showed 0.25 percent to 0.50 percent. It raised Qatar has hired 10 banks for an league table rankings and fees, even too low for too long could feed into tight. This may put upward pressure Fed officials felt the US economy interest rates in December after upcoming trade, DP World and Emir- though some do more work than future financial instability even if it on inflation going forward,” he said. could be ready for another interest keeping them near zero for nearly a ates Islamic Bank nine each while others. doesn’t look like we’re in that situa- “This is an important factor support- rate increase. decade to help the economy recover Noor Bank has a more modest seven. “There will only be three or tion today,” Bullard, a voting member ing the FOMC view on the expected A possible British exit from the from a steep recession. “We’re not happy at all with the so banks that run the trade,” said practice,” said a debt capital markets another DCM banker. “On DP World, banker based in the region. only a few banks are arranging the Issuers are engaging in the age- tender, which gives a good signal Dubai’s EIB old trade-off of rewarding banks about who will run the trade.” Bourbon seeks partnerships with bond mandates for providing Of the nine banks on the books, launches cheap loans. four are involved in a tender on the All 10 firms on Qatar’s bond, for company’s 2017 sukuk. $750m sukuk example, were part of a 14-bank syn- Those four also arranged the dicate that lent the sovereign $5.5bn roadshow for the new potential Reuters in January. transaction. Gulf borrowers have signed $21.6 Bankers worry that future deals billion in syndicated loans this year, will continue to have big syndicates. DUBAI: Dubai-based Emirates according to Thomson Reuters LPC. The market is likely to stay busy Islamic Bank has launched the Only $13.5bn of bonds have been throughout the year. sale of $750m in sukuk with issued. Abu Dhabi state fund IPIC has five years duration, which will Compare this with 2013 and mandated for a euro offering. be completed later yesterday, a 2014, when $34bn and $37bn of That deal is likely to include all document from lead managers bonds were placed by Gulf issuers, nine banks that lent 3.6bn euros to showed. against syndicated loan volumes of IPIC subsidiary Aabar Investments Pricing for the instrument has $17bn and $21bn respectively. in March. been set at 220 basis points over “In busier times, issuers can And then there’s Saudi Arabia’s midswaps after attracting orders rotate mandates between lenders,” mooted debut in the international from investors worth more than said a second debt capital markets bond market. $2.2bn, the document showed. banker. “Now we don’t have that.” The kingdom took its first steps The pricing is tighter than the Large arranger groups are towards the transaction last week 225 bps over the same benchmark becoming an issue for some fund after sending out RFPs. indicated earlier in the day, and managers too, with one interna- The fall in oil prices has affected well inside initial guidance of the tional investor at a recent roadshow the economies of oil producing coun- Chairman of the Board of Directors of French marine, subsea and offshore oil industry services group 240 bps area. directly questioning a Gulf issuer tries and governments are struggling Bourbon, Jacques de Chateauvieux, presenting the group’s future perspectives in Paris. Bourbon is The sharia-compliant bank, about why it needed so many banks to find alternative resources to sup- open to mergers or partnerships to complement its services in this period difficult for the oil industry. owned by lender Emirates NBD, for what was likely to be a fairly port their economies. hired itself and its owner to arrange the issue, as well as Stand- ard Chartered, Al Hilal Bank, Bank ABC, Dubai Islamic Bank, HSBC, Maybank and Noor Bank. Chinese investors to build industrial park at Oman’s Duqm port Meanwhile, Dubai-based Noor Bank is expected to price a capital-boosting sukuk issue of benchmark size today, a document Reuters pany officials said yesterday. cabinet, could provide a big boost to on infrastructure. “The Chinese com- at the industrial park, said it would from lead managers said. The Omani government is work- that project and reduce pressure on panies will be responsible for building include light and heavy industry as Pricing guidance for the trans- ing to develop the area around Duqm, Omani state finances, which have the infrastructure, and then will be well as a $150m, five-star hotel, a action, which has an order book on a stretch of barren coast 550km been hurt by low oil prices. allowed to lease the land to Chinese $100m hospital and a school. Planned currently worth more than $1bn, MUSCAT: A group of Chinese inves- south of the capital Muscat, into a Yahya al-Jabri, chairman of the investors. Almost all the projects will investments include an oil refinery, has been revised to the area of 6.5 tors have signed an agreement to major business zone as part of efforts Omani state authority developing be financed by Chinese banks,” Jabri a cement plant, a factory making percent the document said. build an industrial park at Oman’s to diversify the economy beyond oil. Duqm, predicted the 1,172-hectare told reporters. pipes for the petroleum industry, An earlier update from lead southern port of Duqm in a project The industrial park deal, signed industrial park would attract $10bn of Ali Shah, chairman of Oman an automobile assembly plant, and arrangers yesterday had said ini- that could attract billions of dollars during a visit to Oman by Wang Yong, investment by 2022, including $370m Wanfang, the Chinese-owned com- a 1-gigawatt solar power generation tial guidance was set in the mid- to of investment, government and com- a member of China’s State Council or which the Chinese side would spend pany that will manage investments facility, officials said. high 6 percent area. 26 TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 BUSINESS

QE INDICES SUMMARY QATAR STOCK EXCHANGE QE Index 9,681.54 0.45 % QE Total Return Index 15,664.09 0.45 % QE Al Rayan Islamic Index 3,809.28 0.38 % QE All Share Index 2,711.04 0.40 % QE All Share Banks & Financial Services 2,608.94 0.52 % QE All Share Industrials 3,023.01 0.26 % QE All Share Transportation 2,482.36 0.49 % QE All Share Real Estate 2,392.48 0.92 % QE All Share Insurance 4,177.52 0.55 % QE All Share Telecoms 1,061.79 0.57 % QE All Share Consumer Goods & Services 6,503.86 1.09 %

QE MARKET SUMMARY COMPARISON 23-05-2016 Today 22-05-2016 Previous day Index 9,681.54 9,638.26 Change 43.28 175.70 % 0.45 1.79 YTD% 7.17 7.59 Volume 4,870,942 4,198,523 Value (QAR) 178,440,502.61 136,289,425.42 Trades 3,742 2,833 Up 24 | Down 13 | Unchanged 04

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Egypt fell as foreign funds exited the market. Dai-Tichi Kar-/D 386.1 0.9 1135 Jamnaauto-B/D 148.4 4.4 180092 Reliance Indus/D 397.45 -1.25 44009 Severn Trent/D 2213 3 117264 Saudi shares were dumped across the board in Dcm Financia-T/D 0.7 -0.02 10050 Jbf Indu-B/D 202.5 -1.55 8174 Ruchi Soya-B/D 21.95 -0.45 159732 Smith&Nephew/D 1161 10 524477 the largest single-day decline since the government Dcm Shram Ind-/D 125 -3.5 2811 Jct Ltd-B/D 4.66 0.35 1071197 S Bk Bikaner-B/D 468.9 -7.75 3508 Smiths Group/D 1097 2 282177 announced sweeping economic reforms in late April. Dhampur Sugar-/D86.45 -0.05 62480 Jenson&Nich.-B/D 7.88 -0.04 21180 Saur.Cem-B/D 67.35 0.6 136036 Standrd Chart /D 524.4 -1.8 2148257 “Investors are cashing out and keeping cash avail- Dr. Reddy-A/D 3030.7 -4.3 18319 Jindal Drill-B/D 165 -1 5961 Sterling Tool-/D 461.6 -45.4 2011 Tate & Lyle/D 611 2.5 152353 able on hand before the extended low-volume season E I H-B/D 109.6 0.45 6334 Jktyre&Ind-A/D 80.1 -1.7 87487 Tanfac Indust-/D 32.1 -0.7 6746 Tesco/D 161.75 -2.55 4398531 of Ramadan and summer vacations,” said Sebastien E.I.D Parry-A/D 231.95 -6.15 40677 Jmc Projects-T/D 274 3.8 2409 Tanfac Indust-/D 32.1 -0.7 6746 Unilever/D 3067 -14 624922 Henin, head of asset management at Abu Dhabi’s The National Investor. Eicher Motor-A/D 18285.65 -1.3 3186 Kakatiya Cem-B/D 529.1 -27.8 10260 Thirumalai-B/D 251.55 -0.75 10671 United Util Gr/D 955 0 506616 Henin said there was now “no positive news” sup- Electrosteel-B/D 18.2 -0.1 27639 Kalpat Power-B/D 222 -2.95 7437 Til Ltd.-T/D 289.5 -1.8 1375 Vodafone Group/D 226.9 -2.2 14051761 porting Gulf equity markets since oil prices had stopped Emco-B/D 25 0.05 1130 Kalyani Stel-T/D 160.1 2.6 17551 Timexgroup-T/D 34 0.35 14572 Whitbread/D 4280 1 372497 climbing in recent days and equity valuations in the Gulf had adjusted higher, in line with other emerging stock markets, during a strong rebound from their January lows. Saudi Basic Industries, the biggest petrochemical producer, dropped 3.0 percent. Retail industry shares, European stocks retreat on lacklustre trading in Asia which have been advancing since late last week, also succumbed to the sell-off and Fawaz Alhokair slumped 4.1 percent, ending a three-day winning streak. Cairo’s main index lost 1.0 percent as international AFP expectations of new supportive percent to $106.52 in trading on closed down 0.5 percent also after fund managers sold Egyptian shares for a second straight measures from the ECB follow- Wall Street. Japan published fresh data show- session, bourse data showed. European stocks have ing increased deflationary risks London’s benchmark FTSE ing exports had faltered in April. In the United Arab Emirates, investors bought shares pitched back and forth in the eurozone”. 100 index eased 0.1 percent after A stronger yen hurts Japa- that had dipped over the past week but trading volumes LONDON: European stock mar- Moreover, “the drop in oil the government warned Monday nese exporters, a key driver of the remained lethargic. kets retreated yesterday following over the past week as prices puts under pressure Euro- in a report that Britain could be world’s third largest economy, by Dubai’s index added 0.2 percent with most trade con- a largely downbeat performance investors have begun pean stock exchanges which do plunged into a year-long recession making their products relatively centrated in small and mid-cap shares. Builder Drake & by Asia, as Wall Street trod water. not gain from a weak euro,” he and lose hundreds of thousands more expensive overseas. Scull and amusement park developer Dubai Parks and “It was a directionless start to to take more seriously added. Yesterday’s big corporate of jobs if it voted to leave the EU Japan had hoped its G7 coun- Resorts rose 0.9 and 0.8 percent respectively. the new week for European mar- the probability the US news came from German drugs next month. terparts—the United States, Investment bank Shuaa Capital climbed 2.8 percent kets as investors digested more and chemicals giant Bayer, which Meanwhile the Paris CAC Britain, Germany, Italy, France after sources told Reuters it had cut about 15 percent of hawkish Fed speak, a drop in Federal Reserve could said it had offered $62bn (€55bn) 40 shed 0.7 percent, with AXA and Canada—would at a week- its workforce, ahead of a possible sale of a stake in the the price of oil, improved French raise interest rates in for US agriculture group Mon- also dropping 0.7 percent after it end meeting give it some wiggle company by Dubai Group. and German economic data and June. santo as it seeks to create the became the first global insurer to room to tame the unit as it threat- Abu Dhabi’s largest listed stock, Etisalat, rebounded another mega-merger facing reg- world’s biggest supplier of seeds, cut ties with the tobacco industry, ens Japan Inc’s profits. 0.3 percent from Sunday’s losses and Dana Gas added ulatory headwinds,” said Jasper pesticides and genetically-mod- saying it would sell about 1.8 bil- Japan last intervened in cur- 1.9 percent. This helped the main Abu Dhabi index edge Lawler at CMC Markets UK. interest rates in June. ified crops. lion euros worth of investments rency markets around November up 0.3 percent. European stocks have pitched Yoav Nizard at FXCM cur- Bayer shares fell 5.7 percent to in the sector 2011, when it tried to stem the In Qatar, the index rebounded from early losses and back and forth over the past week rency brokerage said the 84.42 euros on Frankfurt’s DAX In the foreign exchange, the yen’s rise against the dollar to added 0.5 percent. Qatar Gas Transport, a constituent of as investors have begun to take “market is indecisive, torn 30 index, which closed down 0.7 euro fell against the dollar, which keep an economic recovery on the MSCI emerging market index, jumped 2.4 percent. more seriously the probability the between a possible increase in percent. in turn was down versus the yen. track after the quake-tsunami US Federal Reserve could raise rates by the Federal Reserve and Monsanto shares climbed 4.9 Tokyo’s main stocks index disaster earlier that year. BUSINESS VIEWS TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 27

Oil supply cuts from The power cutters shaking Nigeria to Canada renew bets on price rally up Britain’s energy market

By Mark Shenk people around Fort McMur- Bloomberg ray in northern Alberta fled the inferno earlier in the month, and the industry shut down more than 1 million barrels a day of output. nvestors have some sad rea- Cooler weather is now helping to sons to be optimistic about control the blaze. oil prices. Outbreaks of vio- The oil market has moved into lence in Nigeria, export a production deficit earlier than Itroubles in a divided Libya and expected following supply disrup- wildfires ripping across the Cana- tions and an increase in demand, dian oil sands are reviving wagers according to Goldman Sachs that crude markets will tighten. Group Inc. Other banks such as Speculators’ net-long position in Morgan Stanley, Barclays Plc and benchmark US crude, a measure Bank of America Corp. have also of how bets on a price increase noted that supply losses are lead- outnumber bearish ones, climbed ing markets to rebalance. by the most contracts since “The disruptions are get- March, according to data from ting people thinking that supply the Commodity Futures Trading may soon trail demand,” Again Commission. Capital’s Kilduff said. “This is “The main bullish factor has especially true given the the- been the outages,” said Michael sis that the market was going to Wittner, the New York-based head come into balance later this year of oil-market research at Societe anyway.” Generale SA. “There are many The net-long position in WTI outages, led by Nigeria and Can- rose by 30,475 futures and options ada. We’re missing a lot of crude.” combined to 246,996, the biggest West Texas Intermediate gain since March, CFTC data show. futures are heading for a fourth- Short positions tumbled 24 per- straight monthly gain, which cent, while longs rose 3.6 percent. would be the longest rally in five US crude output fell to 8.79 years, as evidence mounts that million barrels a day in the week demand may soon outpace sup- ended May 13, the least since By Karolin Schaps and Susanna ($1.5bn) electricity balancing market. of Kiwi Power. plies. Investors’ net-long position September 2014, an Energy Infor- Twidale The challenge could grow rapidly in Businesses signed by such firms earn in WTI futures climbed 14 percent mation Administration report Reuters coming years; National Grid, which seeks revenue from National Grid contracts, in the week ended May 17, accord- showed. Gasoline use averaged to match supply and demand on a second- passed on by their aggregators who take ing to the CFTC. Short positions, 9.56 million barrels a day in the by-second basis, wants to see 30-50 percent a cut, while also saving money by cutting or bets crude prices will drop, four weeks ended May 13, the of capacity in the electricity-balancing mar- consumption at the most expensive times. shrank while longs advanced. highest seasonal level in at least ritain is turning to a new way of ket coming from DSR by 2020, compared Open Energi has signed up large WTI futures surged 8.2 per- a decade, according to EIA data. making sure it doesn’t run out of with just 4 percent now. customers like supermarket chain Sains- cent on the New York Mercantile In other markets, net bullish power, one that could turn the How the rise of aggregators plays out in bury’s and water supplier United Utilities. Exchange during the CFTC report bets on Nymex gasoline surged 53 energy market on its head: rather Britain could offer a guide for other Euro- “National Grid doesn’t want to deal with week, while the June contract on percent to 23,756 contracts. Gaso- than paying utilities to produce pean countries, and will be closely watched thousands of small DSR providers, that’s Friday dropped 0.9 percent to line futures increased 10 percent Bmore electricity, it is paying firms that guar- by power companies and regulators across where we come in,” said its business devel- close and expire at $47.75 a bar- in the period. Net bullish wagers antee to cut industrial demand. the continent. Britain and France are the opment director David Hill. rel. WTI for July delivery slid 0.9 on U.S. ultra low sulfur diesel So-called aggregator firms secure com- most advanced countries in using DSR, and The aggregators that Reuters spoke percent to $47.98 at 10:34am Lon- more than doubled to 5,862 con- mitments from businesses across the country have a regulatory framework in place. Other to declined to disclose the size of the cut don time yesterday. tracts, the highest since July 2014, to reduce power usage; supermarkets can countries like Germany are still shaping they took because the figures are commer- Nigerian crude output has as futures climbed 9.7 percent. turn down refrigerators by a few degrees rules on how to deal with reducing power cially sensitive. Open Energi, a six-year old tumbled as militants resumed Managed money bets will shift for a short period without any impact, for demand, which can cut the use of fossil fuel company, said its clients receive most of blowing up the pipelines that if the disruptions are reduced, example, while water treatment plants can power stations and help cut carbon diox- the revenue generated from National Grid crisscross the mangrove swamps SocGen’s Wittner said. Cana- turn off pumps at certain times. ide emissions. contracts. It promises them returns of 5-10 of the Niger River delta, ending dian output would rebound The aggregators then sell the megawatt “DSR is a really exciting area,” National Grid percent of their annual energy bill through years of relative peace. A wave in weeks if the weather coop- reduction they secure to power network Chief Executive John Pettigrew told Reuters. “It the National Grid revenue. of attacks this month is pushing erates, said Michael Lynch, operator National Grid, which is increas- allows us to balance the system much more Its client United Utilities said it expects production to a 27-year low of 1.4 president of Strategic Energy & ingly favouring this “demand-side response” economically, which benefits customers.” to make £5m in revenue from DSR by million barrels a day. Economic Research in Winches- (DSR) method to paying big utilities to ramp Utilities, already under pressure from 2020 by reducing power usage, includ- “The new wrinkle is Nigeria,” ter, Massachusetts. up power generation. Aggregators pass on weak electricity prices, are being forced to ing by turning off pumps at its treatment said John Kilduff, a partner at Alberta officials are count- the revenue to the busi- respond by pushing into the DSR business works. Utilities, which own most of Brit- Again Capital LLC in New York. ing on cool, humid weather in the nesses, taking a cut. themselves. ain’s power plants, acknowledge the power “It’s been a long time since we’ve coming days to help them better Aggregators, like Ronan O’Regan, director in the energy market is changing and are responding to worried about the supply of West contain the wildfire. More success Flexitricity, Kiwi Power strategy team at advisory PwC, said growing the new reality. African crude.” in keeping the flames at bay and or Open Energi, have renewable energy output and tighter supply RWE’s npower, one of Britain’s “big six” In Libya, competing adminis- improved air quality are needed gained traction in the past margins due to closing coal and gas plants electricity providers, said it was develop- trations of the state-run National before workers will be allowed to year after National Grid would increase the need for balancing serv- ing its own in-house capability to offer Oil Corp have brought exports to return to facilities, including some launched a promotional ices. “The potential growth in demand-side automated DSR products and services a halt, the latest setback to sup- of Suncor Energy Inc. and Syn- campaign to raise aware- response in the balancing services market to customers. “DSR is a key growth mar- plies from a nation devastated by crude Canada Ltd’s mines north ness among businesses is likely to be significant over the coming ket within the UK energy market,” said conflict. In the five years since the of Fort McMurray, officials said in Utilities, already under about the commer- years,” he said. Michael Byrne, head of marketing for ouster of Muammar al-Qaddafi, a media briefing on Friday. cial benefits of DSR and Large factories and offices consume npower’s business solutions unit. Libya’s oil installations have been “There’s a high probability pressure from weak reducing energy usage. around two-thirds of Britain’s electricity. Britain’s biggest energy supplier, attacked and ports shut down as that Canadian production will electricity prices, They present a threat Demand aggregators sign contracts with Centrica, has brought demand-reducing groups vie for influence. recover rather quickly,” Lynch to the revenue of big National Grid to reduce electricity demand products to the household energy mar- The Canadian wildfire dou- said. “Nigeria and Libya will prob- are being forced to power generation firms from clusters of business and industrial ket and said it wants to expand further bled to an area more than five ably take a lot longer. There’s no respond by pushing like Centrica, SSE and customers. in this area. times bigger than New York City telling whether it will take weeks, EDF Energy , who are “We can link up gigawatts and gigawatts SSE, another one of the big six, has in about a week, threatening oil- months or years for their produc- into the DSR business being undercut by these of capacity from air conditioners, heaters, struck a deal with Kiwi Power to offers sands mines. More than 80,000 tion to rebound.” themselves. newcomers and losing refrigerators across tens of thousands of some of its commercial customers DSR business in Britain’s £1bn sites,” said Yoav Zingher, CEO and founder services through the aggregator. BP’s oil search strategy shrinks with budget cuts

By Ron Bousso and Dmitry Several BP sources said Chief Executive exploration that it abandoned last year — The RRR reflects not only a failure to Zhdannikov Bob Dudley and his team were hammering something BP simply cannot afford. While unlock new deposits — a problem for all Reuters out a new long-term strategy, with investors BP’s existing resources are not small com- the multinationals — but also a reluctance expecting an update on its post-2020 plans pared to its peers, analysts say the lack of a to commit investment as oil prices languish later this year or early next. The plan is likely long-term project pipeline is a worry. about 60 percent below mid-2014 levels. to chime with a phrase that Dudley is fond BP’s reserves-to-production ratio, the Among BP’s rivals, Shell’s RRR was neg- he surprise departure of BP’s explo- of using: “Big is not necessarily beautiful.” number of years reserves can sustain cur- ative last year, while that of Eni, fresh from ration boss has turned the spotlight After asset sales forced on it by the Gulf rent production, is the third highest among discovering the giant Zohr field off Egypt, was Ton an oil search strategy that, after disaster shrank the company by a third, BP is oil majors at nearly 13 years, excluding out- 148 percent. Some of the seemingly promising years of spending cuts, is focusing mainly today focusing its operations on five regions put from Russia’s Rosneft, in which BP has a projects that Herbert inherited from his pred- on expanding existing fields rather than ven- — Angola, Azerbaijan, Egypt, the Gulf of Mex- near-20 percent stake. It trails only Exxon- ecessor, Mike Daly, have proved disappointing. turing expensively into the unknown. ico and the North Sea. Mobil’s 17 years and Total’s 13.5, but is more In Brazil, a corruption investigation has That caution reflects a firm chastened by It was in Angola, Egypt and the North Sea, than Shell, Eni or Chevron. slowed projects for other majors as well as BP. While BP’s existing the $55bn cost of its 2010 Gulf of Mexico spill, already BP core regions, that Richard Her- By 2020, the startup of projects such as Turmoil in Libya has forced it to write off some and needing to squeeze every last drop out bert notched up his main successes during the West Nile Delta in Egypt and the Clair investments there, while low oil prices have resources are not small of a sharply reduced exploration budget at a his two years as head of exploration. BP said Ridge field in the North Sea will have added hurt development of the Canadian oil sands. compared to its peers, time of low oil prices. his departure followed its decision to bring 800,000 b/d of oil equivalent to its oil and gas Australian authorities have also refused “Exploration doesn’t necessarily have to exploration and field development under one output capacity, Dudley told Reuters last year. so far to allow BP to explore the Great Aus- analysts say the lack of a look like (nature broadcaster) David Atten- upstream team, headed since February by In the short term, that appears to be com- tralian Bight, an untapped basin off the long-term project pipeline borough standing on a brand new frontier,” Bernard Looney. But Herbert, who worked fortably enough to offset shrinking output southern coast, amid environment protests. is a worry. a BP source told Reuters. with Dudley in Russia in the 2000s, had also from mature fields and maintain or increase BP has said it plans to make further While BP’s total reserves and fields com- seen his annual budget shrink from $3.5bn in a current output level of around 2m b/d. acquisitions to build its resource base, such ing onstream in the next four years look 2013 to $1bn this year — not enough to drill But another indicator, the reserves as the doubling of its stake in the North Sea healthy compared to the other majors, its even a dozen complex deep-water wells, replacement ratio (RRR) new proven but unex- Culzean field announced this week. long-term project pipeline is the slimmest and certainly not enough to throw at a fron- ploited discoveries as a proportion of annual But Macquarie analyst Iain Reid said BP’s among its peers and its break-even costs tier exploration with potential high gain, but production - reveals a less rosy picture. BP’s pipeline of new projects, totalling 1.8bn bar- are the highest, according to some analysts, also a high risk of coming out empty-handed. RRR fell last year to 61 percent, its lowest in rels of oil equivalent, was the lowest among among them Macquarie. Royal Dutch/Shell sank $7bn into an Alaskan many years, from 129 percent in 2013. the world’s top five oil companies. 28 TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 BUSINESS

BACK TO BUSINESS sight Samsung rewrites playbook Luxury brands’ Chinese binge is showing signs to halt smartphone slide of slowing By Andrea Felsted And last week, Richemont, Bloomberg maker of Cartier jewelry and By Se Young Lee president of the handset unit in the Jaeger-LeCoultre watches, said it Reuters biggest leadership change to date was also reviewing its retail net- under the conglomerate’s heir-appar- work in Hong Kong and Macau. ent Jay Y Lee. Samsung’s operating t’s already happened to This could include closures, profit is expected to be flat this year middle-of-the-road stores moving to cheaper premises or rom the way it chooses and grow just 3 percent next year, across high streets and lease renegotiations. Indeed, smartphone components according to 43 analysts polled by main streets. Now the seeking rent reductions is an to the models it brings to Thomson Reuters I/B/E/S. Iworld’s biggest luxury stores alternative to outright closure. market, Samsung Electron- Slimming down its product port- are starting to shutter outlets. Bloomberg Intelligence’s ics has undergone a painful folio was another departure from the The culprit is the Chinese con- Patrick Wong says rent reduc- Fprocess of breaking from its past to past, when Samsung launched varia- sumer, who is starting to rein in tions of as much as 50 percent reverse a slide in its handset business. tions to soak up as much demand as spending at home and abroad. are possible in some locations For example, the world’s largest possible. As market growth stalled, The effect will be no less severe: in Hong Kong. But demand smartphone maker agonised over that approach was no longer cost expect more closures to come. remains strong for space in pre- camera specs for its flagship Galaxy effective. It phased out unpopular Over the past decade, Chi- mium malls, limiting the scope S7 until the last moment - ultimately models and created common plat- nese consumer demand and new for discounts. defying industry convention by opt- forms, with more phones using the store openings together turbo- In mainland China, tenants ing for fewer pixels in exchange for Samsung Electronics’ new smartphone Galaxy S7 Edge during its launch same parts. Researcher Counter- charged luxury sales. New store have most bargaining power in improved autofocus features and ceremony in Seoul. point says Samsung has shed close space accounted for 55 percent new malls, particularly in sec- low-light performance, a move that Huawei Technologies and Xiaomi just a high pixel count. to a third of its product portfolio. That of global luxury revenue growth ond-tier cities, hit by a slump in contributed to early success. gained market share at its expense. “In the past, based on our past move also had to overcome internal over the past eight years, accord- demand and plentiful new sup- It also pared back its product line- There was no sweeping, across- decision-making process, we never resistance. The product cull paid off; ing to analysts at Mainfirst. ply, Wong notes. up, overcoming internal resistance, the-board fix. Rather, Samsung would have gone back,” Kim said in the revamped models helped Sam- As for Chinese nationals, While the most attention enabling it to streamline produc- embarked two years ago on an an interview at Samsung’s headquar- sung recover in big markets such as they powered about two-thirds might be on China, globally, tion, an executive said. The handset overhaul that included a shift from ters campus in Suwon, south of Seoul. India. “There was a feeling the sheer of luxury market’s growth over brands are focusing on mak- business has now stabilised, and had a phone-for-all-needs approach The move worked. More than half of number of phones in the market was the past decade, according to ing their existing stores work its best profit in nearly two years in towards a line-up that emphasized US S7 buyers surveyed cited camera confusing for customers,” said a Sam- Exane BNP Paribas. harder. Rather than planning January-March, though historically economies of scale. quality as a key selling point, com- sung India executive. Now both of these forces are large scale openings, existing low smartphone industry growth It revamped design, using metal pared with a third of all smartphone Despite a solid first quarter, ana- running out of steam. Given the outlets are being refurbished. still leaves Samsung looking for the frames and curved screens, and gave buyers in the first quarter, according lysts remain cautious about Samsung’s slump in Hong Kong and the The luxury groups are right “next big thing”. “We’ve now gotten high-end features such as organic to Kantar US Insights. outlook, with researcher Gartner slowdown in China, stores there to halt their dizzying expansion, to a point where we can secure a light-emitting diode (OLED) screens The same mindset shift gave Sam- predicting global smartphone sales are the main focus of atten- and start to cut back. As they do, baseline profit even if the market to its low- and mid-tier products. sung confidence to release a Galaxy 7 growth will slow to 7 percent this year. tion. Hugo Boss has already there could be opportunities for stagnates, so long as we don’t make As Samsung prepared to launch series that looks similar to its pred- Samsung has also yet to recover announced plans to close 20 of more niche upmarket brands a bad mistake,” said Kim Gae-youn, its Galaxy S7 phones this year, exec- ecessor. This incremental upgrade in China, the world’s top smartphone the 131 stores it directly owns on to expand. Kering’s Saint Lau- vice president in charge of Samsung’s utives went back and forth over drew initial scepticism, but the S7 market, where it ranks sixth with 7 the mainland. It’s reviewing as rent, LVMH’s Givenchy Fendi smartphone product planning. “I’m whether to use a 12-megapixel rear phones have beaten expectations and percent market share, according to many as 20 of its least-profita- and Celine, and Swatch’s Harry confident we can hold our ground.” camera that shoots better in the dark could set a new first-year sales record Strategy Analytics, well behind local ble 430 stores globally. Winston could all open stores at After peaking in 2013, a sharp and has improved auto focus, or stay for the South Korean firm. rivals such as Huawei, Xiaomi and The company is in talks more attractive rents. drop in mobile profits exposed Sam- with a 16-megapixel count. At the last Samsung must still convince OPPO. with its landlords, so not all of Pandora, the affordable lux- sung as slow to adjust to the changing moment, they opted for 12-megapix- investors its recent improvement is Samsung’s Kim says his focus now these outlets will close—but it ury chain, is one retailer that market: its budget devices were els - a rare step down in an industry sustainable, and that innovative prod- is on premium-end smartphones - expects to announce a sizeable is still growing its store base, overpriced and unappealing versus fixated on higher numbers. ucts are in the works to grow revenue. those costing $600 and above - where number of exits later this year. including in China. And here’s Chinese offerings, and the 2014 ver- This meant a change in approach Some attribute its rebound partly to not all industry players have the mus- Prada won’t say where its selec- another trend that mirrors what sion of its Galaxy S flopped. for a company known to tout the Apple’s weaker performance, and cle to compete. “There’s still room for tive store cuts might fall, but as it is happening on high streets and That prompted a cull among exec- highest specs for its flagship products, cost-cutting. growth in the market,” he said. “This expanded aggressively in Asia, main streets. As mid-market utives and stoked investor worries and executives required convincing, Long-time mobile chief J K Shin segment wants innovation, which has it’s a good bet that some will be brands retrench, discount play- Samsung might not be able to recover Kim said. They were swayed by data ceded day-to-day management in turned it into an area that requires there. ers move in. as rivals including Apple and China’s showing consumers want more than December when Dongjin Koh became huge capital equipment investments.”

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Al Rayyan players throw coach Jorge Fossati in the air during the celebrations after winning the Qatar Stars League in this file photo.

Khaz, the official mascot of the UCI Road World Championship, Doha 2016. 2016 Road World Championship, Official Mascot ‘Khaz’ unveiled

The Peninsula values of peace, hope and community. He is proud of his country, loves his extended Fossati extends stay with family and respects all other creatures who share his land. He captures the spirit DOHA: The Organising Committee of the of the Event in his optimism, determination, UCI Road World Championship, Doha 2016, generosity and exuberance. His passion for unveiled the official mascot for the event, cycling and playful nature make him an Khaz, who is a young Arabian hare. ideal symbol for Qatar’s historic role in Al Rayyan for 3 more years Khaz has been chosen because he hosting the UCI Road World Champion- represents many of the values that the ships, Doha 2016”, a press release issued organizers expect to portray at the world by the organizing committee read. terday confirmed that their head set a target at the beginning of emotions are same. It was very class event which is expected to feature The event which has a history of more coach has signed a new three-year the season to be 18 points ahead difficult because of the quality of the best in the world competing for top than 95 years, will be held from October The Uruguayan deal to stay with the club till the at the top of the standings after 20 our sides and other coaches,” Fos- honours. 9 to 16, 2016 and more than 1000 cyclists tactician to remain 2017/2018 season. rounds,” he added. sati said after receiving the Coach “Khaz is a brave, independent, gen- from 75 countries are expected to com- Fossati, who is no stranger to “Initially the target was to of the Year award. tle young Hare who represents the Qatari pete in Doha. with the Qatar Stars football in Qatar after stints with bring back the smiles to the fans “This is something I must not League champions Al Sadd and the Qatar national and to improve our standards receive alone. My full team should until 2018 team, lead Al Rayyan to their game by game. Then we revised be here, my players, the staff, the first QSL title in twenty one years it to a top four finish. It was managers,” he added. this term after being hired last only three rounds ago that we Al Rayyan’s star striker Rod- Wawrinka escapes historic summer. upgraded to winning the league.” rigo Tabata won the ‘QFA Player “It is easy to say that I changed The former Uruguay coach of the Year’ award for the second The Peninsula the style of football at Al Rayyan was declared ‘Coach of the Year’ time as Qatar’s football giants when I took over at the beginning at the prestigious Qatar Football accounted for two major awards blow, Italian veterans crash of this season. But that would be Awards which was held few days at the glittering ceremony. unfair to the previous coach and back, and the charismatic coach After helping the Lions to bag DOHA: Qatar Stars League (QSL) the team, who had a good run in compared the award to winning the QSL title with five games to AFP But the 22-year-old Wimbledon run- champions Al Rayyan will con- the second division in the second the QSL title. spare, the Uruguayan tactician ner-up was far from impressive. tinue to receive the services of half of last season,” Fossati said “I am with the same feeling will now begin preparation in After dropping the first set, Muguruza their award-winning Uruguayan in an interview with www.sc.qa. that I got when we won the QSL earnest for Al Rayyan’s presea- had to save nine break points just in the coach, Jorge Fossati. The club yes- “It would have been crazy to title. This is my third time and my son training. PARIS: Stan Wawrinka avoided becoming opening game of the second. the first defending champion to lose first She then allowed her 37th-ranked round at the French Open yesterday when opponent, who has won just one match all he battled past combative Lukas Rosol in year, to claw her way back from 0-4 down five tough sets. to 3-4 in the decider before the Spaniard Third seed Wawrinka fired 56 win- settled herself to see out the win. ners but committed 46 unforced errors Muguruza fired 44 winners but hit 53 Van Gaal sacked: Reports and needed to save eight break points to unforced errors and had to save 17 of 21 book a second round clash against Japan’s break points. Taro Daniel. Seeds falling by the wayside included AFP Woodward had already informed Van Wawrinka, 31, had defeated 59th- seventh seed Roberta Vinci, the Italian who Gaal of his dismissal. ranked Rosol in the semi-finals of the stunned Serena Williams at the US Open “Sounds like Woodward actually told Geneva clay-court tournament just last semi-finals last year. LONDON: Louis Van Gaal’s time as man- LVG in person last (Sunday) night that he Friday. The 33-year-old suffered a third suc- ager of Manchester United appeared to be was sacked,” Hirst tweeted. But Rosol went into the match on a cessive first-round exit in Paris going down nearing its end yesterday, amid reports The BBC said United would make a chilly Court Philippe Chatrier with the ped- 6-1, 6-3 to Kateryna Bondarenko who that agreement on a severance package statement about Van Gaal at 1:00pm local igree of having famously stunned Rafael hadn’t won a match at the French Open was all that stood in the way of his exit time (1200 GMT) but several hours later Nadal at Wimbledon in 2012. since 2010. from Old Trafford. there was still no word from the club. That free-swinging masterclass almost Vinci’s Italian 16th seeded compatriot Both Van Gaal and leading employ- British media have been awash with paid dividends again yesterday but once he Sara Errani, the 2012 runner-up, lost to ment lawyer Paul Gilroy were seen reports of Van Gaal’s demise, after a had let slip two break points at 2-2 in the 2010 Wimbledon semi-finalist Tsvetana entering United’s Carrington training leak from an unknown source spread as fourth set, his hopes slowly slipped away. Pironkova 6-3, 6-2. ground on Monday following reports that Manchester United lifted the FA Cup on Japan’s fifth seed Kei Nishikori reached Also heading out was Czech 17th seed former Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho Saturday. the second round with a 6-1, 7-5, 6-3 win Karolina Pliskova who lost 3-6, 6-4, 6-3 to was poised to replace the Dutchman. The Dutchman cryptically com- over Simone Bolelli of Italy. 108th-ranked Shelby Rogers of the United Gilroy’s clients have included David mented, “It’s over” as he left the squad’s Nishikori goes on to face Russia’s States. Moyes, whose sacking as United manager Cup final hotel on Sunday, but it was not Andrey Kuznetsov after finishing off a Second seed Agnieszka Radwanska of paved the way for Van Gaal’s appointment. clear whether he was referring to his ten- first-round tie which had been suspended Poland, however, brushed aside Serbia’s There has been no official confirma- ure or United’s season. overnight with him leading 2-1 in the third Bojana Jovanovski 6-0, 6-2. tion as yet from United, 20-times English The BBC said Van Gaal had not been set. Radwanska, a quarter-finalist in 2013 champions, about the position of Van Gaal, informed whether he was staying for next Manchester It was a 50th career Grand Slam match but who lost in the first round to Germa- who still has a season remaining on his season, although it said Saturday’s 2-1 win United manager win for Nishikori who made the quarter- ny’s Annika Beck last year, goes on to face three-year contract. over Palace at Wembley was believed Louis van Gaal finals in Paris in 2015. Caroline Garcia of France. But James Ducker, the northern foot- to have been his last game in charge of looks dejected Spanish fourth seed Garbine Mugu- Yesterday’s result left Jovanovski, the ball correspondent of Britain’s Daily United. during their ruza struggled on Court Suzanne Lenglen, world number 120, without a win in 2016. Telegraph newspaper, tweeted Monday: Despite winning the club’s first trophy UEFA Champions coming back from a set down to defeat Slo- Romanian sixth seed Simona Halep, “Paul Gilroy QC finalising Van Gaal’s sev- since the great Alex Ferguson’s retirement League Group vakia’s Anna Karolina Schmiedlova 3-6, the 2014 runner-up, also progressed, tak- erance package now...£5m pay off.” in 2013, Van Gaal’s United didn’t challenge Stage match 6-3, 6-3. ing just 43 minutes to defeat Japan’s Nao Meanwhile The Times’ Paul Hirst for the Premier League title and failed to against VfL Muguruza, who has made the quarter- Hibino 6-2, 6-0. Play started two and a half said United executive vice-chairman Ed qualify for the Champions League. Wolfsburg in this finals for the last two years, will next take hours late yesterday because of more rain file photo. on French wildcard Myrtille Georges, the with 12 of the 66 scheduled matches pushed world number 203. back to Tuesday. 30 TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 SPORT

Athletics: Ayana Qatar squad hits the training pitch close to Dibaba record at Rabat Diamond debut

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RABAT: Ethiopia’s Almaz Ayana came close to beating Tirunesh Dibaba’s 5000m world record and world best times of the year were set as Morocco hosted its first Dia- mond League meeting on Sunday at a windy Rabat. Also at the meeting on Sun- day, seven-time world champion American LaShawn Merritt never looked in any danger as he tore round the track for an impressive time of 44.66sec in the 400m. But in the very last race of the inaugural night, world 5000m champion Ayana blamed the wind Qatar national team player Hassan Al Haydos (left) is seen with a team-mate during a training session at Aspire Academy in Doha. Qatar coach Daniel Carreno talks to players at after she came over five seconds same training session. Qatar national squad has resumed training ahead of their international friendly against Albania in Austria later this month. Qatar will also play friendlies short of Dibaba’s 2008 record of in August before turning their attention to 2018 FIFA Wolrd Cup qualifying game against Iran on September 1. 14min 11.15sec set in in Oslo with a pace setter. Despite blazing to victory in 14min 16.31sec ahead of Kenya’s Viola Kibiwot, who was some 13 seconds adrift with another Ethio- pian Senbere Teferi in third, Ayana was clearly disappointed with the performance on Sunday. Reedie says meldonium “The wind was too much, I’m sure that I’ll beat the record in one of my upcoming outings though,” said Ayana, who aims to race both the 5000m and 10000m at the Rio Olympics. Other highlights of the night found in 47 of 49 failed tests came as Kenyan Conseslus Kipruto, his face twisted in a grim- ace over the home straight, won the 3000m steeplechase ahead of three compatriots. of this year. Since then, Russians An athlete trains in He also set a season’s world This drug is not from several sports, including rugby Iten, near the town best time of 8min 02.77sec, beat- sevens, biathlon, speed skating, vol- of Eldoret, western ing the previous one he himself licensed for Europe, leyball and athletics, have returned Kenya. In Kenya’s had established at Doha. not licensed for the positive tests for the drug. western town The 21-year-old double world “This drug is not licensed for US. It doesn’t fit of Iten, known silver medallist from 2013 and Europe, not licensed for the United as the “Home of 2015 was under pressure from States. It doesn’t fit within our sys- within our systems. Champions” for Jairus Kipchoge Birech, but even- tems. Clearly it is an issue,” Reedie drawing runners to tually ran over a second faster for Clearly it is an issue, said in a wide-ranging interview with his seventh Diamond League win says Craig Reedie insidethegames website. train from around after taking the lead on the last WADA said last month that doubts the world, athletes turn. over how long meldonium stayed in rise to pound the Frenchman Mahiedine the body meant athletes who had track and dirt Mekhissi returned to competition AFP tested positive for it before March 1 roads at dawn. after two bouts of surgery on his could have their bans overturned. foot and then heel and 18 months Reedie said the WADA task force out of racing, but the evening LONDON: World Anti-Doping Agency investigating Russian drug use was turned sour for the two-time (WADA) President Craig Reedie has arranging to meet the former Sochi Olympic silver medallist when he disclosed that most of the Rus- Olympic laboratory director Grigory pulled up injured again. sian sportsmen and women who Rodchenkov, who alleged in a recent Another Kenyan victory have failed drug tests in the last six interview that Russian authorities came in the 1500m with Timo- months did so because meldonium were involved in a cover-up in which thy Cheruiyot winning in 3min was detected in their system. samples were switched to avoid doz- 33.61sec ahead of compatriot Reedie said the drug, which Rus- ens of their athletes being exposed as Silas Kiplagat and Australian Ryan sian tennis player Maria Sharapova drug cheats at the 2014 Winter Games. early date want to look at the sam- He said the Brazilian government IOC soon to match the money he had Gregson. told a news conference she had used “We are arranging to meet Mr. ples he claims he has altered which had invested heavily in the anti-dop- raised from governments to fund anti- Ukrainian Bogdan Bondar- for health reasons after she failed Rodchenkov because we need all are held in the Lausanne laboratory. ing services for August’s Rio Games doping work. enko boosted his Diamond Race a drugs test earlier this year, was his information,” the WADA Presi- The IOC (International Olympic Com- and a WADA-IOC task force had “My guess is that by roughly the hopes in the high jump on Sunday, responsible for 47 of the 49 adverse dent said. mittee) have agreed to assist us in that found the laboratory was perform- end of June I will have raised about beating leader Erik Kynard with a analytical findings in Russia between “Part of that investigation will task.” ing satisfactorily. $600,000 from governments and I jump of 2.31m to cut the gap to just November 2015 and May 2016. have to be a forensic examination of Reedie said the seven percent “The athletes should be satisfied will then formally write to the IOC six points. Meldonium, a Latvian drug the containers that have been used,” failure rate of athletes at the Beijing that the sample they give at the Games and ask them to match it. Caster Semenya was on fly- which helps to adjust the body’s use he added. Olympics in 2008 was disappointing, will be properly analysed by accred- “If that comes about, I then have ing form, also setting a world best of energy and can boost stamina and “We will want to speak to the adding that he would be very inter- ited experts ... much effort is going into obviously up to $1.2 million as an time for 2016 of 1min 56.84sec in aid endurance, was added to WADA’s manufacturers and we will inevita- ested to see the figures for London delivering exactly that.” investigations fund,” Reedie told the 800m as she eased ahead of list of banned substances at the start bly at some future and probably fairly 2012 which will be announced shortly. Reedie said he planned to ask the reporters. Burundi’s Francine Niyonsaba and the up-and-coming Frenchwoman Renelle Lamote. In the men’s 800m France’s 24-year-old Pierre-Ambroise Bosse booked himself a date at A look at the retests of Olympic drug samples the Rio Games when he clinched victory in 1min 44.51sec, narrowly edging reigning 1500m Olym- pic champion, Algerian Taoufik AP above his chin that gives him the look of a jazz despite a request from WADA to keep them. temperatures — minus 20 or minus 80 Celsius, Makhloufi (1:44.91). Bosnia’s Amel musician. Saugy and his lab have often been An investigation by the Lausanne hospital, depending on the type of freezers the lab buys. Tuka was third. caught up in major doping cases. opened within days of the Pound report, cleared “Chain of custody” is a critical part of the Another South African, GENEVA: Inside a non-descript concrete build- Lawyers for Lance Armstrong tried to under- the lab of wrongdoing. Rodchenkov is now at anti-doping process, and every time the bottles Rushwai Samaai, won the men’s ing in a Swiss parking lot lies evidence that could mine Saugy’s evidence about the cyclist’s suspect the center of a scandal over Russian doping at change hands, or locations, forms must be filled long jump on Sunday with a per- take down dozens of Olympic athletes. samples from the 2001 Tour de Suisse. Saugy the 2014 Winter Olympics in Sochi. He says he out to acknowledge who has been in contact sonal best effort of 8.38 metres, The anti-doping laboratory in Lausanne also met with Armstrong’s entourage ahead of helped Russian athletes dope before Sochi and with the bottles. A missing link in that process albeit with a favourable wind, holds the stored urine and blood samples from the 2002 Tour de France when he was a witness switched their tainted samples for clean ones can invalidate a positive test. beating world indoor champion the 2008 and 2012 Olympics that are being for anti-doping authorities in their case against during the games. Sochi samples are also stored Under new rules, the IOC can hold the bot- Australian Fabrice Lapierre into retested with improved techniques to catch the American rider. at the Lausanne lab and the International Olym- tles for up to 10 years, and can thaw the urine second by 2cm. drug cheats who escaped detection at the time THE RUSSIAN CONNECTION pic Committee says it plans to retest those as for a retest any time during that window. Poland were all smiles in the and to keep them out of this summer’s games Links between Russia and the Lausanne well. MEDAL REALLOCATION discus after world champion Piotr in Rio de Janeiro. lab were questioned by the World Anti-Doping SAMPLE PROCESS The IOC is notifying the 12 national Olympic Malachowski won the event with So far, 31 unidentified athletes in six sports Agency inquiry team that detailed state-spon- By the end of any Olympics, IOC testers are committees whose athletes have been caught an effort of 67.45m to fend off com- from 12 countries have been caught during sored cheating in a report last November. in control of as many as 5,000 urine samples. in the Beijing retests. Names and details have patriot Robert Urbanek, who was retests of samples from the 2008 Beijing Games. Panel chairman Dick Pound said the lab did Samples are divided into “A’’ and “B’’ bottles, been kept confidential for legal reasons. If ath- second with 65.04. Results on tests of 250 samples from the 2012 not have a convincing explanation for destroying and the “B’’ samples are available in case they’re letes are found guilty of doping and stripped of Jamaican sprinter Elaine London Olympics will be known soon. 67 samples that were sent from Moscow in 2013. needed to corroborate a positive result in the medals, any reallocation won’t take place imme- Thompson ran into a 1.3sec head- Some things to know about the retesting An inquiry witness in Russia implicated Mos- “A’’ bottle. diately. The IOC will retest the samples of those wind to register a 100m victory in program: cow lab director Grigory Rodchenkov in a plot The initial tests take place in the lab located athletes who stand to move up in the medals to 11.02sec. THE LAUSANNE LAB to retain clean samples for 67 athletes ahead in the Olympic city. Because of the huge number make sure they were clean. There was some home cheer as It’s officially called the Swiss Laboratory for of the London Olympics. If any of the athletes of samples and tests that need to be conducted in BY THE NUMBERS world and Olympic 1500m bronze Doping Analyses, or by its French acronym LAD. later produced a positive sample, it would be a short period of time, not every sample is tested The 31 new cases from Beijing represent by medallist Abdelaati Iguider won It’s one of 34 labs around the globe accredited replaced by their clean sample and the athlete for every drug. Experts take educated guesses far the highest number of positive tests from a the 3000m with a world best time by the World Anti-Doping Agency and is affili- would pay Rodchenkov. on which set of athletes are more likely to use single Olympics. Beijing had already produced for the year of 7:38.85 over the ated with the University Hospital of Lausanne. In late 2012, WADA asked for all 67 samples certain drugs and run the according tests. 14 doping cases during the games, plus six cases non-Olympic distance. The lab is located in a drab building near a to be retested in Lausanne. One tested positive After those tests, the leftover urine is placed involving doping of horses. Retests of Beijing Elsewhere at the meeting on small Coop supermarket, beside a main road and for low levels of a banned substance, 54 were into a cargo container that’s refrigerated, then samples in 2009 produced five more cases for Sunday, Panama’s Alonso Edward at the end of the M2 metro line. Visitors have to clean and 12 had too little volume for proper loaded on an airplane that goes to Geneva. From the blood-boosting drug CERA. The new retests won the men’s 200m in 20.07sec be buzzed in to take the elevator up the three- testing. there, the samples are transported to the lab in bring the overall total to 56. The previous high ahead of Ivory Coast sprinter Wil- story building. The lab director is Martial Saugy, The Lausanne lab destroyed the samples Lausanne and stored in a large vault, where they was held by the 2004 Athens Olympics, with fried Koffi. a Swiss scientist with long hair and a soul patch after a standard three-month storage period can be stored in a locked freezer at one of two 26 cases. SPORT TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 31

New India boss says ‘not Frustrated French Open chief running away’ from reforms

AFP confident of roof by 2020 MUMBAI: The new chief of India’s embattled cricket board said the body was not “running away” from reforms following corruption scan- dals, but he remained opposed to a key recommendation from the We wait and wait An illustration country’s top court. photo shows a Lawmaker Anurag Thakur, 41, and wait and wait. tennis ball which was elected as the youngest-ever While Wimbledon, drops into water president of the Board of Control during rainfall. for Cricket in India (BCCI) follow- Melbourne and New ing a special meeting in Mumbai. York have the roof, Thakur, a member of par- liament for the ruling Bharatiya we will have to wait Janata Party and a close ally of until 2020, says Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Guy Forget is charged with reforming one of the most powerful organisations in world sport. He told a packed press con- AFP ference after the meeting that the reforms were a continuous proc- ess, and the cash-rich BCCI was PARIS: French Open chief Guy Forget ready to take them to “the next insisted yesterday that the showpiece level”. Court Philippe Chatrier will have a “Whatever is possible and roof by 2020 as a wet and chilly practical and is required, we are Roland Garros endured another frus- implementing that from time to trating day of rain delays. time. After just 10 of 32 matches were “I see an opportunity here, it’s completed in a little over four hours time to deliver,” he added. of play on Sunday, the second day of However, he followed his the tournament was hit by another predecessor Shashank Mano- two and a half hour delay. har in remaining intransigent on That in turn pushed 12 of the a Supreme Court recommenda- scheduled 66 matches back to today. tion calling for a ban on television It once again brought into sharp in the lounges, in the locker rooms,” the grounds set in the leafy and plush “I think this is the perfect exam- scheduled 1100 (0900GMT) start time adverts between overs during live focus that the French Open is the only said former Davis Cup winner Forget. western district of Paris has, how- ple of why we need to get bigger, so delayed by 90 minutes leaving organ- broadcasts. one of the four Slams not to have a “We wait and wait and wait and ever, hit trouble. A new 5,000-seat the stadium is not as congested as it isers’ hopes of playing 66 matches Thakur, who was previously covered court. Both the Australian wait. While Wimbledon, Melbourne, stadium is planned for the neigh- is today. We need to modernize our looking decidedly optimistic. secretary of the BCCI, was the sole Open and Wimbledon have stadi- and New York now have the roof, you bouring Serres d’Auteuil but work has facility for these reasons. It’s a neces- Temperatures also plummeted to nomination on Sunday for the top ums with roofs while the US Open’s know, we’ll have to wait until 2020.” come to a halt due to ongoing pro- sity,” added Forget. a chilly 12 degrees although forecast- post, seen by many as the most cavernous Arthur Ashe stadium will The historic Roland Garros site tests over the impact the work will “It’s an ongoing process which will ers expect highs of around 24 degrees powerful in global cricket. be covered for the first time this year. is the smallest of the four Slams and have on the botanical gardens his- take us in 2020 where hopefully eve- by the weekend. If the rain relents, He will have his hands full “I think it’s a question of respect when it rains, it becomes terribly con- toric greenhouses which date back rything will be done. And the roof is Andy Murray and defending cham- as the BCCI is under enormous to the crowd, to the people, to you gested with thousands of fans jostling to the 19th century. actually the last piece of that puzzle.” pion Stan Wawrinka are due to start pressure to introduce reforms guys from the media and the play- for the few areas of cover. That stadium will only be com- Heavy rain brought more havoc to their campaigns against a pair of fiery after being tarnished by scandals ers that are waiting hours and hours The planned €350m expansion of pleted at 2018 at the earliest. the French Open yesterday with the Czechs. including accusations of corrup- tion and match-fixing in the glitzy Indian Premier League. In the wake of those scan- dals, the Supreme Court ordered a retired judge to draw up a report Czech Stepanek on the BCCI’s governance to try to avoid future conflicts of interest. Justice Rajendra Mal Lodha’s report recommended the BCCI introduce age limits for its office- thrives as the bearers and bring in the advert ban. Manohar quit the BCCI pres- idency earlier this month, saying the reforms were not in the BCCI’s A picture taken character actor best interests and he felt he could yesterday no longer carry on in his role. shows the On Saturday Manohar, who court covered then became the first independ- with a tarp AFP still able to beat them, which is giv- ent chairman of the International after play was ing me confidence,” the former world Cricket Council (ICC), told report- interrupted number eight told rolandgarros.com. ers that the recommendations on due to rain PARIS: He’s been described as the “I’m feeling 25 again and enjoy- no adverts between overs “would during the Don Juan of tennis as well as the ing every second of my tennis.” destroy the financial structure” of Roland Garros sport’s least likeable man, but at 37 However, not everyone would the BCCI. years old, Radek Stepanek (pictured) be pleased to see Stepanek, who last Thakur, a three-time MP in 2016 French is just happy to still be playing. year became the oldest man to win Himachal Pradesh state, pointed Open in Paris. The colourful and controversial a match in Paris since 38-year-old out to journalists that newspapers Czech is one of the few devil-may- Jimmy Connors in 1991, still playing. run adverts beside stories about care characters left in tennis even if In a 2012 Davis Cup tie against the Indian Premier League. his antics often leave opponents feel- Serbia, he was accused by Janko Tip- “The BCCI gets its revenue ing cold. From leaping over the net, sarevic of giving him the finger and from advertisements and that is 30 the new 20 as veterans performing his ‘worm’ dance, exag- calling him names at the end of a how we pay our employees and our gerating celebrations or even facing five-set, five-hour duel. state association,” he said. down potential physical altercations “After five hours and 10 min- But he insisted the BCCI was with rivals, the Czech is utes instead of shaking “not running away from the hard to ignore -- on or off my hand, he gave me he recommendations”. flood the French Open the court. the middle finger and “We understand our respon- Stepanek was told me I am stinking sibility towards the most popular engaged to Martina -- something bad, it’s a sport in India and we will give our Hingis, married and swear word,” said Tip- 100 percent,” Thakur said. AFP reign. However, just four teens are from the past generation. I always say then divorced fellow tour sarevic, who had to be Thakur has been involved present in the first round of Roland that history proves everything and professional and top 10 restrained by his team with the BCCI since he was elected Garros this year with promising Ger- now it’s only repeating in a differ- player Nicole Vaidisova captain from taking the president of his state association PARIS: Once littered with a gen- man youngster Alexander Zverev the ent way.” and more recently dated matter further. aged just 25. Last year he pipped eration of teenage Grand Slam highest-rated of the quartet at 41 in Even the average age of the top 10 two-time Wimbledon Even a teenage Mur- the incumbent to the secretary’s champions, the balance atop the the world. seeds without the 34-year-old Fed- champion Petra Kvitova. ray took a dislike to the Czech when post by a single vote. tennis pyramid has since shifted Zverev is joined in the draw by erer is 28 years and six months, with But he insists his personal life they met at Wimbledon in 2005 and The BCCI benefits from huge markedly in favour of the sport’s Borna Coric, Quentin Halys and 2015 defending champion Stan Wawrinka is taking a different direction these where his opponent theatrically bent TV deals that allow it effectively more experienced pros with a record boys’ singles finalist Taylor Fritz, with aiming to become just the fifth man days. over and kissed the net and played to run the world governing body 51 men aged 30 or over in the 2016 Croatia’s Coric, who reached the third in the Open era to win two or more “It’s two people living different up to the crowd. -- the ICC -- along with its allies, French Open main draw. round in Paris last year, the only one Grand Slams after turning 30. lives together...you can be sure that I “I was annoyed at him because Australia and England. That figure, just a shade under 40 to have registered multiple wins at a As for Nadal, bidding to become am done dating tennis players,” said he tried to put me off,” said Murray. However under reforms that percent of the 128-man field, easily Grand Slam event. just the second player since Marga- Stepanek who is due to face second “He knew I was young and that’s Manohar had himself supported, it eclipses the previous high of 41 from At the other end of the spectrum ret Court to win 10 titles at any Grand seed Andy Murray at the French why he was trying to put me off -- is no longer possible to be both ICC this year’s Australian Open and could is 37-year-old Radek Stepanek, the Slam event, age is just a number for Open. Having turned pro in 1996, he but I got the better of him. I don’t chairman and to head the national have been higher if not for the with- oldest player in the field, who came the world number five. prefers to spend time on extending a know if he said anything to me -- board of a member country. drawal of 17-time Grand Slam winner through three rounds of qualifying “No, I’m not feeling old. On court career which is enjoying something I wasn’t listening. I don’t like him.” Manohar had been serving as Roger Federer. to set up a first-round match against is true that I had a lot of years here of an Indian summer. The relationship between the head of the ICC in his role as pres- But while the likes of Mats Wilan- second seed Andy Murray. on the tour, but in terms of mental- In 2013, he teamed with India’s two men seems to have thawed ident of the BCCI in line with the der, Stefan Edberg, Boris Becker and “These young guys, that’s a chal- ity and in terms of life I feel myself Leander Paes -- who he described since then. organisation’s previous system of Pete Sampras all claimed their first lenge for me. It’s three generations young,” said Nadal, who would also as a ‘brother’ -- to win the US Open In 2008, Stepanek played as rotating chairmanships. major titles before turning 20, Rafael of players I’m meeting on the courts, break Guillermo Vilas’ record for men’s doubles. Since then, he has an alternate at the Shanghai ATP But under the reforms, the Nadal remains the only teenaged and I’m still able to beat them, which most clay-court titles with another suffered a crippling back injury season-ending championships but ICC has amended its constitution champion in the past 25 years. is giving me confidence,” Stepanek, victory in the French capital. which sent his ranking down to its arrived in China without his playing to bring in direct elections for the The Spaniard, who himself turns the former world number eight, told “I don’t think about going to current 128 and forced him into the gear which hadn’t cleared customs. position. It will now be officially an 30 on June 3, downed Federer in four rolandgarros.com. be 30. You know, time never stops. qualifying tournament at Roland He was without his contact independent post, a move designed sets to win the 2005 French Open on “To be compared with guys Nobody stops the time. That’s not a Garros for the first time since 2002. lenses and had to borrow tennis to ensure the incumbent no longer his tournament debut -- the begin- like Jimmy Connors is very special good thing, but at the same time, I “It’s three generations of players racquets from Novak Djokovic and feels obliged to promote his own ning of Nadal’s remarkable clay-court because I was always keen to learn am happy with my life.” I’m meeting on the courts, and I’m socks -- from Murray. country’s interests. 32 TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 SPORT

Barca’s double hailed in Spanish media

Agencies the King’s Cup, had a Spanish team managed to defend the domestic double, with Athletic Bilbao being the only other club alongside Barca BARCELONA: Spain’s sports press to do so in the 1930s. hailed Barcelona yesterday after the Sport, another Barcelona-based La Liga champions beat Sevilla to lift daily, lauded Barca’s achievement. the King’s Cup for the 28th time and “Heroes!” screamed its headline. clinch a second successive domes- “Barcelona achieves a historic dou- tic double. ble after an epic exhibition.” Goals from Jordi Alba and Ney- Barcelona did miss out on a mar in extra-time gave their team second consecutive treble-winning a 2-0 triumph in Madrid’s Vicente campaign after losing to Atletico Calderon S0tadium on Sunday, eight Madrid in the Champions League days after they won La Liga for the quarter-finals but Alba insisted that sixth time in eight years. Barca had had a great season. Barcelona-based El Mundo “You cannot always win three Deportivo highlighted 10-man Bar- titles. Two is very good and we are ca’s impressive resilience after Javier thrilled,” he said. Mascherano was sent off in the 36th Spain’s biggest-selling paper minute, Marca’s front page included a pho- They kept the score at 0-0 before tograph of Barca captain Andres Sevilla had Ever Banega dismissed in Iniesta lifting the King’s Cup with Barcelona celebrate after winning the Copa del Rey Final against Sevilla FC at Vicente Calderon Stadium in Madrid, Spain, on Sunday. added time at the end of 90 minutes. King Felipe VI behind him. “Heroics!” the paper’s headline “King Iniesta!,” screamed the said. “A warrior Barca resist ....to win headline. the 28th Cup title.” Meanwhile Barcelona striker The Blaugrana were made to Luis Suarez will join up with his Uru- work hard to clinch their seventh guay team for the Copa America on Ten-man Barcelona claim domestic double. June 1 despite doctors diagnosing “Barca proved they know how that he had suffered a hamstring to suffer,” AS newspaper wrote on injury, the Catalan club announced their front page. yesterday. Barca have amassed 28 titles Suarez hobbled off in tears mid- since winning the Spanish Super- way through the Copa del Rey final double with King’s Cup win cup in the 2005-06 campaign. That win over Sevilla Sunday after sus- includes four European Cups, seven taining the injury to a muscle in the La Liga titles, four King’s Cup tro- back of his thigh. phies, three FIFA Club World Cups, “Tests on Monday morning have Barca dominated the extra 30 needed to make their numerical Uruguay at the Copa America next three European Super Cups and six confirmed that FC Barcelona striker Extra-time goals from minutes, but needed just six to finally advantage count. month now in jeopardy. Spanish Supercups. Luis Suarez has suffered an injury to make the breakthrough when Lionel “We lacked freshness. If we had Sevilla were camped in the Barca EL Mundo Deportivo editor Santi the semimembranosus muscle in his Alba and Neymar Messi’s sumptuous pass picked out have been fresher we would have half for much of the second half, but Nolla applauded Barca in his column right leg,” Barca said in a statement. help Catalan club Alba to volley into the far corner. been able to create more chances,” struggled to create clear-cut chances. on Monday. “Following the recommenda- Neymar then slotted home a said Emery. Grzegorz Krychowiak saw a “This Barca, that accumulates 28 tions of the Club’s medical services register 2-0 victory second in the dying seconds from “Barca didn’t have many opportu- deflected effort flash just wide, whilst titles in the 21st century, never gave team, the 2015/16 Golden Shoe win- over Sevilla in the another brilliant Messi assist after nities, but they were efficient.” Vicente Iborra’s appeals for a penalty up. “Luis Enrique and this team have ner will begin his rehabilitation in Daniel Carrico had also been dis- The political fallout over an ini- after he clashed with Dani Alves were achieved seven titles out of nine in Barcelona. Copa del Rey missed for two bookable offences. tial ban on Catalan separatist flags waived away. two years, which indicates that they “On 1 June, Suarez will join the “It was a great intense and excit- by the Madrid authorities that was Parity was restored in numbers continue to be the reference and the Uruguay national team in the United ing final,” said Barcelona captain eventually overturned on appeal in on each side in stoppage time when best in the world.” States, where he’ll continue with the AFP Andres Iniesta. the courts continued before kick- Banega saw red for tripping Neymar Not since the 1952-53 campaign second phase of his recovery.” “It was a last push for the club to off as Barca fans jeered the Spanish on the edge of the area, but Sergio when Barca clinched the league and complete a magnificent season.” national anthem. Rico tipped over Messi’s resulting Sevilla were looking for a dou- The game appeared to swing free-kick to take the game into extra MADRID: Jordi Alba and Neymar ble of their own after winning a third Sevilla’s way nine minutes before time. struck in extra-time as Barcelona consecutive Europa League by beat- half-time when Mascherano hauled However, the Spanish interna- completed a league and Cup double ing Liverpool 3-1 on Wednesday. down Gameiro just outside the box as tional was left flat-footed when Alba by lifting the Copa del Rey for a 28th However, just as in a thrilling 5-4 he bore down on goal. latched onto Messi’s ball over the top time after a 2-0 win over Sevilla in a defeat to Barca to open the season in Banega nearly doubled Barca’s six minutes into extra-time and vol- fiery game that saw three red cards the European Super Cup in August, punishment as his sweet strike from leyed across goal into the far corner. on Sunday. they fell just short as Luis Enrique’s the resulting free-kick was brilliantly Rico kept Sevilla in the game with Javier Mascherano’s dismissal men claimed their fourth trophy of tipped over the bar by Marc-Andre brilliant saves from Pique and Ser- just before half-time for pulling down the season, having also won the Club ter Stegen. gio Busquets, whilst Dani Alves also Kevin Gameiro put Barca on the back World Cup in December. Sevilla roared back from a goal hit the post from distance as Barca foot and they were further depleted “It has been a spectacular end to down at the break to outclass Liv- threatened a second. when 59-goal top scorer Luis Suarez the season,” added Barca boss Luis erpool in midweek and started the Sevilla’s hopes of an equaliser limped off early in the second period. Enrique. second-half with intent once more as were ended when Daniel Carrico However, they resisted Sevilla’s “The team has known how to Banega’s low drive came back off the was also sent-off for a second book- pressure after the break and Barca’s compete marvellously despite the dif- post. Barca were then dealt another able offence. numerical disadvantage was can- ficulties we have faced this season.” huge blow just before the hour mark And Messi promptly teed up Ney- Barcelona’s Uruguayan forward Luis Suarez leaves the field after celled out in stoppage time when And Sevilla coach Unai Emery when Suarez pulled up with a mus- mar to round off Barca’s fourth Cup Ever Banega saw red for chopping believes his side’s exertions in mid- cle injury before leaving the field in triumph in eight years in stoppage being injured during the Copa del Rey final match against Sevilla FC down Neymar. week robbed them of the energy tears with his chances of representing time. at the Vicente Calderon Stadium in Madrid on Sunday. Vardy misses Australia MLS: San Jose and Galaxy game to get married draw in ‘California Clasico’

AFP Agencies period of Galaxy pressure in the sec- Diego Valeri fired Portland ahead ond half. from the spot in the fourth minute Ireland record international and Jack McInerney made it 2-0 just goalscorer Keane and Mexican inter- before the half-hour mark. LONDON: Jamie Vardy is to skip LOS ANGELES: Fatai Alashe headed national Giovani dos Santos had both Kekuta Manneh pulled a goal England’s final friendly before man- a late equalizer as the San Jose Earth- gone close to opening the scoring in back for the Whitecaps just after half- ager Roy Hodgson puts the finishing quakes snatched a 1-1 draw against the minutes before San Jose’s own time but two goals in four minutes touches to his Euro 2016 squad in the Los Angeles Galaxy in Major goal. from Dairon Asprilla (78) and Dar- order to get married. League Soccer’s “California Clasico” However, with Galaxy’s boister- lington Nagbe (82) gave the Timbers The 29-year-old striker, who on Sunday. ous home fans preparing to celebrate a 4-1 lead. enjoyed a remarkable campaign Alashe glanced in a Chad Barrett a victory, San Jose conjured a goal in Pedro Morales scored a late con- for Leicester, inspiring their run to cross on 87 minutes to give San Jose a rare foray into Los Angeles territory. solation for Vancouver with a penalty the Premier League title, was on the a share of the points at the StubHub Barrett’s persistence saw him on 84 minutes. mark for his country for the third Center in Carson just four minutes win the ball on the left flank, and he Meanwhile, Bobby Wood, Tim straight time in Sunday’s 2-1 friendly after the Galaxy had taken the lead curled an inviting cross into the area Ream and Paul Arriola scored to win over Turkey. through a Marvell Wynne own goal. which Alashe met to direct into the give the United States a 3-1 victory Harry Kane’s opener was quickly It was a disappointing result Galaxy goal. at Puerto Rico in an international cancelled out by Hakan Calhanoglu for the Galaxy, who had been hop- The draw leaves Galaxy in fifth friendly on Sunday. at the Etihad Stadium, where Fatih ing to continue their march up the place in the Western Conference In their opening tune-up for next Terim’s men threatened to secure a Turkey’s midfielder Selcuk Inan (right) vies with England’s striker Jamie Western Conference standings with standings with 20 points from 11 month’s Copa America Centenario, first win against England. Vardy during the friendly match at the Etihad Stadium in Manchester, a victory. games. the Americans dominated their first- However, a second-half change in northwest England, on Sunday. The Galaxy fielded all of the Real Salt Lake and Vancouver ever match against a team trying to system saw Vardy move from a wider biggest names of their overseas Whitecaps are third and fourth on make inroads against the more pop- position to form a two-pronged strike “Vardy won’t be involved on for the international matches and contingent -- including Steven Ger- 20 points ahead of Los Angeles on ular baseball and basketball on the force with Kane - a move that quickly Friday because he is getting mar- he cancelled his wedding.“I think rard, Robbie Keane and Ashley Cole goal difference. Caribbean island. paid dividends as his pace and direct- ried on Wednesday,” Hodgson said, he deserves that possibility to get -- and looked to be on their way to The Colorado Rapids head the Ream opened the scoring in ness earned a penalty. referring to the friendly against Aus- married here.” The England boss a win after Wynne’s own goal on 83 table with 27 points from 13 matches. the 20th minute, reacting first after Hodgson later said that the Tur- tralia at the Stadium of Light. “That, also highlighted the fact that Vardy minutes. In Sunday’s other game, MLS Cup Alfredo Morales’ shot, before blasting key game would be Vardy’s last you could say, is unfortunate but is not desperately needed for the Aus- The San Jose defender steered champions Portland downed Van- a left-footed effort past Puerto Rico England display before the 23-man you must bear in mind last year his tralia match, considering his recent a Sebastian Lletget cross into his couver 4-2 in the Pacific Northwest goalkeeper Matt Sanchez. It was the squad for the European Champion- wedding was planned during the displays and the fact his squad is own net as the Earthquakes defense derby, which saw three penalties first goal in 21 US appearances for ship is named. month of June and I called him up boosted by a clutch of players. finally cracked after a sustained awarded. the Fulham defender. SPORT TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 33

Champions Spain kick off Euro 2016 Vardy strikes late against Turkey preparations

“It showed the next three weeks will be vital for us.” In a patchy Eng- AFP Leicester City striker land display, Hodgson saw Jack nets winner in the Wilshere play for 66 minutes in his first international game since last June MADRID: Two-time defend- 83rd minute against after missing almost the entire season ing champions Spain kicked Turkey in Euro 2016 with a fractured shin, while Jordan off preparations for Euro 2016 warm-up match Henderson continued his recovery yesterday with a first gather- from a knee problem as the Arsenal ing which included just eight man’s replacement. of the 25 players called up by Hodgson, who was missing his coach Vicente del Bosque for Manchester United contingent and next month’s tournament, with AFP all of Liverpool’s players bar Hend- the others still tied by club com- erson due to club commitments, mitments. confirmed that Vardy will miss Among those attending the Friday’s game against Australia in session at the Spanish federa- MANCHESTER, United Kingdom: Sunderland as he is getting married tion’s Las Rozas sports complex Jamie Vardy spared Harry Kane’s on Wednesday. near Madrid were Chelsea play- blushes with a late winner as Eng- Hodgson names his final 23-man ers Cesc Fabregas, Pedro and land edged Turkey 2-1 in their first squad for the Euro after the game. Cesar Azpilicueta, Athletic Bilbao’s Euro 2016 warm-up match at Man- Sunday’s match had been billed Aritz Aduriz and Mikel San Jose, chester’s Etihad Stadium on Sunday. as an audition for the strike partner- Manchester City’s David Silva, Vil- Kane opened the scoring in the ship of Kane and Vardy, the Premier larreal’s Bruno Soriano and Celta third minute, but then clipped the post League’s top two English scorers, but Vigo’s Nolito. with a 72nd-minute penalty, won by the Leicester star started on the left Ten other players involved in Vardy, after Hakan Calhanoglu had in a narrow 4-3-3, with Raheem Ster- last weekend’s Cup finals, includ- equalised to score Turkey’s first goal ling on the opposite flank. ing Copa del Rey champions against England in the teams’ 11th A sparse crowd at the home of Barcelona, have been given sev- meeting. Manchester City saw England take eral extra days before rejoining the Vardy rode to the rescue in the an early lead. group on May 28 directly in Aus- 83rd minute, the Leicester City hit- Sterling found Dele Alli and he tria where the team will train from man slamming home his third smuggled a pass between Mehmet May 26 to June 1, just before the England’s Jamie Vardy scores the match winning goal against Turkey goalkeeper Volkan Babacan (bottom) England goal in three games to end Topal’s legs to Tottenham Hotspur announcement of the final 23-man Turkey’s unbeaten run at 13 matches colleague Kane, whose assured fin- during the international friendly match in Manchester, Britain, on Sunday. squad for the tournament on May and enhance his claim to a spot in ish into the bottom-right corner was 31. manager Roy Hodgson’s starting XI allowed to stand despite an apparent the inside-right channel set Volkan up front and Sterling taking up the back-post header. Turkey substitute Players from Atletico and Real in France. offside. Television pictures appeared Sen scampering in behind left-back number 10 role. Vardy showed what Olcay Sahan almost equalised at the Madrid, who play the Champions “Wins are always pleasing and to show Turkey coach Fatih Terim Danny Rose. he could do in a central position by death, but his volley drew a superb League final in Milan on Saturday, there were some positive aspects,” using his mobile phone to show fourth The Fenerbahce midfielder beat surging clear and inviting a challenge one-handed save from Hart. will join their teammates on June said Hodgson, whose side face Rus- official Daniel Siebert the evidence, the sliding Joe Hart to the ball and from Topal that encouraged referee “England are hard to play any- 4, nine days before Spain’s first sia, Slovakia and neighbours Wales in but to no avail. crossed for Bayer Leverkusen’s Cal- Deniz Aytekin to point to the spot. where, but it’s especially hard in match on June 13 against the Czech the group phase at the Euro. It was a goal that highlighted hanoglu to sweep home from close Kane’s spot-kick grazed the left- England,” Terim told Turkish media. Republic in Toulouse, and will only “Some large swathes of the game England’s speed of thought and foot range. hand post and went wide, but Vardy “I am happy with the team. be available for one pre-tourna- we played reasonably well, but there in attack, but Turkey’s equaliser 10 After Cenk Tosun had given Eng- netted the winner from close range Players from the Turkish league ment friendly against Georgia on was also a positive because we’re not minutes later exposed Hodgson’s land a couple of scares, the hosts after goalkeeper Volkan Baba- fought neck-and-neck with players June 7. the finished article and there’s still problems in defence. switched to a diamond midfield on can collided with Ismail Koybasi as from the world’s most expensive “The preparation from today work to be done. Oguzhan Ozyakup’s pass down the hour, with Vardy joining Kane he attempted to field Gary Cahill’s league.” solely involves thinking about that day,” said midfielder Fabregas. “A lot of our teammates have not yet arrived. We hope they all come in form, healthy and ready for the big competition.” Wales boss Coleman signs new two-year deal Midfielder Silva insisted he was raring to go after recovering from a thigh injury. “I come with a lot of desire, AFP By overseeing qualifying for Euro and enjoy the moment. “This is the FAW chief executive Jonathan well recovered from my injury. 2016, Coleman took Wales to their time we push on and do something Ford said: “We are delighted Chris This week will be the time limit first major tournament finals since special.” will be our manager not only at Euro (for recovery) and I’ll be in full the 1958 World Cup. In March, Coleman said there had 2016, but also for the 2018 World Cup form.” LONDON: Wales manager Chris “I am delighted to get this to be changes in the FAW set-up if he qualifying campaign. Del Bosque also named 11 Coleman (pictured) has signed a opportunity to build on what we’ve was to sign a new deal. “We wanted to acknowledge the uncapped promising younger two-year contract extension, the achieved so far,” Coleman said. “It was very important that eve- fantastic work Chris has done with his players to bulk up his squad for the Football Association of Wales (FAW) “It’s a big challenge but it’s one rything came to a conclusion before staff in ensuring qualification to the friendlies against Bosnia and Her- announced yesterday. that I feel we can conquer,” the we embark on this journey in front Euros in France this summer.” cegovina and South Korea on May Coleman, who has guided Wales 45-year-old added. of us, and we can concentrate on Ford added: “There is no one bet- 29 and June 1 respectively. to next month’s European Champion- “Once you’ve had a taste of what’s made us strong,” Coleman ter qualified than Chris to lead Wales Spain, bidding to become the ship in France, had been linked with club management you do miss that said yesterday. into its first World Cup in 60 years. first country to win the tourna- jobs at Aston Villa and Swansea City day-to-day involvement because “It wasn’t a case of looking at “We wish him the best for Euro ment four times, also face Turkey in recent weeks. international management can be a what we’ve done. We need to keep 2016 and he carries all our hopes and and Croatia in Group D. But he has now signed a new deal bit lonely. on improving things and pushing expectations for the World Cup cam- that will include the qualifying cam- “But the over-riding factor is that each other before we even get to the paign as well.” paign for the 2018 World Cup. I’m only going to manage Wales one players. Wales begin their Euro 2016 cam- FOOTBALL: EURO 2016 Coleman succeeded the late Gary time -- it’s not a job you’re going to “The FAW showed that they really paign against Slovakia in Bordeaux on PREPERATIONS Speed, a fellow former Wales inter- go back to. wanted me and I showed them that I June 11 before playing Group B games national, in January 2012. “This is not the time to sit back wanted to stay.” against England and Russia. Conte fine tunes Italy’s Euro 2016 squad Atletico Madrid buy French second division side Lens AFP Chelsea after the summer, will name his final 23-man squad for Euro 2016 on May 31. Italy host Scotland in a pre-tour- AFP Championship finals -- England will MILAN: Italy coach Antonio Conte nament friendly in Malta on Sunday, play their key group game against cut several Euro 2016 hopefuls from then host Finland on June 6 in Verona. Wales there -- but Lens will be the a preliminary squad yesterday as Italy squad for second Euro 2016 only second division host of Euro he unveiled a 30-man squad for the training camp: LENS, FRANCE: Champions League 2016. Azzurri’s second pre-competition Goalkeepers: Gianluigi Buf- finalists Atletico Madrid yesterday Promotion is “a clear objective,” training camp. fon (Juventus), Federico Marchetti completed the takeover of bankrupt Aguillo said. Italy will head to the June 10-July (Lazio), Salvatore Sirigu (Paris French second division side Lens “We will respect the identity 10 tournament in France looking to Saint-Germain/FRA) through a Luxembourg company. of the club,” added the Spanish reach a second successive final, but Defenders: Davide Astori (Fioren- “We hope to bring in Atletico’s businessman, who said the new are facing a formidable challenge tina), Andrea Barzagli (Juventus), expertise,” said Ignacio Aguillo, owners had a “long term ambi- after failing to get past the first round Leonardo Bonucci (Juventus), Gior- a member of the Spanish side’s tion” for Lens. at the past two editions of the World gio Chiellini (Juventus), Angelo board, told a press conference after Aguillo is a partner in the Cup. Ogbonna (West Ham United/ENG), a French commercial court approved Solferino company with French New York City FC midfielder Daniele Rugani (Juventus), Matteo the takeover. businessman, Gilles Fretigne, chief Andrea Pirlo and AC Milan’s on-loan Darmian (Manchester United/ENG), Atletico will have a direct 35% financial officer for the European Liverpool striker Mario Balotelli were Davide Zappacosta (Torino), Mattia stake in Lens, while Aguillo is a operations of Amber Capital, a US among the big names missing when De Sciglio (AC Milan) major shareholder in Solferino, a hedge fund. Conte named his preliminary squad Midfielders: Marco Benassi Luxembourg company that will have The Spanish businessman said Italian team head coach Antonio Conte leads his team’s training session last week for a first training camp fol- (Torino), Federico Bernardeschi the remaining 65%. the takeover still needs the approval at Coverciano sports center in Florence, Italy, in this May 20 file picture. lowing the conclusion of Serie A and (Fiorentina), Giacomo Bonaven- Lens, known as the “blood and of the Atletico shareholders and many other leagues around Europe. tura (Milan), Antonio Candreva gold” because of their shirt colours, there would be a general assembly It now looks certain that nei- Andrea Barzagli, Giorgio Chiellini Meanwhile, Manchester United (Lazio), Daniele De Rossi (Roma), won the French championship in in June. ther player will feature at Euro 2016, and Daniele Rugani -- notably return, defender Matteo Darmian, following Stephan El Shaarawy (Roma), Ales- 1998 but have become embroiled in Facing debts of 12m euros where Italy will also be without key alongside AC Milan midfielders FA Cup victory over Crystal Palace sandro Florenzi (Roma), Emanuele financial controversy in recent years. ($13.5m), Lens president Gervais midfielders Marco Verratti (Paris Giacomo Bonaventura and Riccardo at the weekend, returns to the fray Giaccherini (Bologna), Jorge Luiz Relegated in 2011, Lens won Martel, who will remain in charge, Saint-Germain) and Claudio Mar- Montolivo. alongside PSG midfielder Thiago Jorginho (Napoli), Riccardo Monto- a promotion place back to Ligue 1 put the club under the control of a chisio (Juventus) through injury. It meant defenders Armando Izzo Motta. livo (AC Milan), Thiago Motta (Paris in 2014 but this was blocked by the bankruptcy court to force an accel- Conte’s squad last week also did (Genoa) and Lorenzo Tonelli (Empoli) A statement from the Italian foot- Saint-Germain/FRA), Marco Parolo French league because of budget erated sale. not include players from Juventus, were cut, the second piece of bad new ball federation (FIGC) said Montolivo (Lazio), Stefano Sturaro (Juventus) irregularities. Lens had previously been con- AC Milan and other teams who were for Izzo on Monday after he was ques- and Motta would be “put through fit- Forwards: Citadin Martins Eder The sanction was overturned in trolled by Azerbaijani businessman involved in cup finals last weekend tioned by police in relation to his ness tests” to see if they could remain (Inter Milan), Ciro Immobile (Torino), one appeal but the promotion was Hafiz Mammadov who rescued Lens and they have all returned to the fray. alleged role in a match-fixing affair at the camp. Lorenzo Insigne (Napoli), Graziano later ruled definitively invalid. in 2013 with 20m euros of his own Juventus players -- goal- dating from his spell at Serie B side The FIGC said Conte, who will Pelle (Southampton/ENG), Simone Lens stadium has been money but failed to provide prom- keeper Gianluigi Buffon, defenders Avellino in 2014. take over at Premier League giants Zaza (Juventus) refurbished for the European ised new investment. 34 TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 SPORT

Australia’s Lyon looks to Murali Thakur, Fazal get India tickets for spin advice

to have someone like Dhoni, who has AFP INDIA SQUADS ample experience,” Sandeep Patil, the Faiz Fazal in Star batsman Virat action during West Indies tour squad: Virat chairman of selectors, said. “Dhoni an IPL game Kohli gets new Test Kohli (captain), Murali Vijay, Shikar himself was very keen to tour with the SYDNEY: Australia’s premier deputy in Ajinkya Dhawan, KL Rahul, Cheteshwar youngsters so I think it is a very good in the 2011 off-spinner Nathan Lyon said Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit sign and a good help for the young- season. yesterday he plans to call on all- Rahane while MS Sharma, Wriddhiman Saha, Ravi- sters, who are going to be part of the time leading wicket-taker Muttiah Dhoni will continue to chandran Ashwin, Ravindra Jadeja, Zimbabwe tour Muralitharan for more bowling Ishant Sharma, Mohammed Shami, “No one has been rested. No one advice during his team’s tour to lead the Indian teams Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Umesh Yadav, wrote to BCCI or called us (to say) Sri Lanka in July. in ODIs and T20s Shardul Thakur, Stuart Binny. they were not available or they should Lyon is just five wickets away be rested. It was the decision of the from becoming the first Austral- Zimbabwe tour squad: Mahen- selection committee to pick a young ian off-spinner to claim 200 Test dra Singh Dhoni (captain), KL Rahul, Faiz Fazal, Manish Pan- side for Zimbabwe and another side victims. dey, Karun Nair, Ambati Rayudu, for West Indies.” He said is keen to gather fur- Agencies Rishi Dhawan, Axar Patel, Jayant Patil, however, said Nehra and ther insights from the Sri Lankan Yadav, Dhawal Kulkarni, Jasprit Vijay had fitness concerns, while great, who worked briefly with Bumrah, Barinder Sran, Mandeep Kohli required “complete rest” after him as a consultant bowling coach MUMBAI: Fast bowler Shardul Singh, Kedar Jadhav, Jaydev Unad- the IPL. in 2014. Thakur was the surprise selection kat, Yuzvendra Chahal. “Ashish Nehra is ruled out because He said a renewal of that rela- in India’s 17-man squad for their Test he is undergoing surgery for his ham- tionship would deliver benefits series against West Indies, the Board string injury, M Vijay was not fit for when bowling in the Sri Lanka of Cricket Control (BCCI) in India internationals and three Twenty20 the Zimbabwe tour with a niggle. The series. announced yesterday. games beginning in June. report which we have got from Patrick “(Mentor) John Davison and The 24-year old earned his first Vidarbha batsman Fazal along Farhat says that he (Kohli) needs rest myself were recently talking about call-up to the national side after play- with Yuzvendra Chahal, Jayant Yadav, after IPL for his (hand) injury.” a few comments that he (Murali) ing a key role in Mumbai’s 41st Ranji Karun Nair and Mandeep Singh are Fazal, 30, is the only player in the he was the second-highest run-get- Mandeep’s IPL team-mate Cha- said about how you should be Trophy victory in February, picking up uncapped. squad without a current IPL contract - ter for Delhi Daredevils with 357 runs hal was also picked. The legspinner is bowling over on the sub-con- 41 wickets in his 11 matches. The selectors met on Sunday in he was part of Rajasthan Royals until at 35.70, including an unbeaten 83 currently the leading wicket-taker in tinent,” Lyon told the Cricket Virat Kohli has been named cap- Mumbai and chose the same 16-man 2011 - and is presently playing league in a last-ball win against Sunrisers IPL 2016, with 19 wickets in 11 games Australia website in Brisbane. tain of the side for the July-August squad for both ODIs and T20Is. cricket in England. Hyderabad. Earlier, Nair had made at an average and economy rate of “So I’m looking forward to series with Ajinkya Rahane will be As many as 17 players who were His selection came as a result 500 runs in seven matches in the 17.05 and 7.87. Chahal was the side’s putting those into play and hope- his deputy. in the squads for India’s previous lim- of performances in Indian domes- Ranji season. top wicket-taker in 2015 as well with fully it will be good to catch up The four-match series will mark ited-overs assignments - the tour of tic cricket. Fazal made 127 in Rest of Kedar Jadhav, the back-up wick- 23 wickets in 15 games. with Murali again over there. If we the resumption of bilateral ties Australia and the World T20 - were India’s chase of 480 to win the 2015- etkeeper in the squad, had helped “This year we wanted variation in can get him down to a training ses- between the sides after the Caribbean not picked. They were: R Ashwin, 16 Irani Cup against Mumbai, and a India A win the Deodhar Trophy our bowling department, that is why sion that would be fantastic.” team pulled out midway through a Shikhar Dhawan, Gurkeerat Singh, century and a fifty in India A’s vic- with an unbeaten 39-ball 48 in Jan- Yuzvendra Chahal found a place,” Lyon said he still had much to 2014 tour of India over a protracted Ravindra Jadeja, Virat Kohli, Bhu- tory in the Deodhar Trophy. uary. He had also been part of India’s Patil said. “IPL as a tournament is learn and while he differs from pay dispute with the West Indies vneshwar Kumar, Ajinkya Rahane, In the 50-over Vijay Hazare Tro- depleted squad to Zimbabwe in 2015. important, it is a BCCI tournament Muralitharan in finger-spinning Cricket Board. Ishant Sharma, Rohit Sharma, Umesh phy in 2015-16, Fazal made 312 runs Jadhav set up India’s 3-0 sweep with and we know that all international he was keen to take any advice The BCCI also announced a weak- Yadav, Mohammed Shami, Harbhajan at an average of 52 in seven innings, his maiden century, but hasn’t played players participate in the IPL, which from the 44-year-old ahead of ened 16-man squad for the one-day Singh, Pawan Negi, Ashish Nehra, and in the 20-over Syed Mushtaq Ali an ODI since. makes it very competitive cricket. So Tests against spin specialists Sri and Twenty20 internationals to tour Hardik Pandya, Suresh Raina, Yuvraj Trophy he scored 205 runs at a strike Mandeep was the leading run- it is important for the selectors to look Lanka and India (away) as well as Zimbabwe. Singh. rate of 102 in nine innings. getter in the 50-over Vijay Hazare into the performances of the IPL.” Pakistan (home) over the next 12 The uncapped Faiz Fazal, Yuzven- The captain Dhoni, with 275 ODIs Rahul had a breakthrough IPL Trophy, with 394 runs in seven Jayant, the third specialist spin- months. dra Chahal, Jayant Yadav, Karun Nair, and 68 T20Is, has more experience season in Royal Challengers Ban- matches at an average and strike rate ner in the squad after Axar Patel and “It’s not so much technical, I’ve Mandeep Singh were included while than the other 15 players combined - galore’s run to the playoffs with 386 of 65.66 and 88.73. Mandeep had sus- Chahal, took eight wickets in Rest of got a little bit different action to experienced players such as Rohit 83 ODIs and 28 T20Is. runs, including four half-centuries, tained an injury minutes before Royal India’s historic win in the Irani Cup Murali,” Lyon said. Sharma, Ravichandran Ashwin and “Dhoni has retired from the longer in 12 matches at an average of 55.14. Challengers’ match against Gujarat in March. The offspinner then made “It’s more mindset, and Suresh Raina were rested. format and we selectors felt that this Rahul’s Karnataka team-mate Nair Lions in April, but he had recovered sporadic appearances for Daredev- attacking and defending in sub- India will play three one-day is the best opportunity for youngsters also had a productive IPL, in which since. ils in IPL. continental conditions. “Just understanding the game, and somebody of his quality and what he was able to do in sub- continent conditions was pretty England all-rounder Stokes out of second Test spectacular so if I can learn off him by just listening to him and talking to him then I’m heading in the right direction.” AFP The 24-year-old, who is due to Test victory at Headingley. “Follow- the England squad in Durham after who has returned home with a shoul- Muralitharan is the only see a specialist today, could be out of ing a scan (on Sunday) and review by leaving their ongoing matches in the der injury. bowler to claim 800 Test wickets. action for as long as six weeks. the medical team, it was advised that County Championship on Monday. “Kusal will join the team as soon He also claimed more than 500 LEEDS: England all-rounder Ben That would see him miss both the Stokes would be unavailable for the Meanwhile, Sri Lanka have con- as possible and acclimatise, so he can one-day scalps. Stokes is facing several weeks on the final two Tests against Sri Lanka and match in Durham. firmed that big-hitting Kusal Perera do some serious work with the bat,” sidelines after being ruled out of the the subsequent five-match one-day “The 24-year-old will be reviewed will be joining their squad. Sri Lanka chief selector Sanath Jayas- second Test against Sri Lanka with a international series with the island- by a consultant (on Tuesday), to decide Perera was cleared to play again uriya told Cricinfo. knee injury. ers starting on June 21. on a management plan.” two weeks ago after the International England squad for 2nd Test: Gayle defends Stokes has been replaced in Eng- And with England also facing Woakes is now in the hunt for a Cricket Council lifted a provisional Alastair Cook (Essex) (capt), land’s 12-man squad by Warwickshire Pakistan in a four-Test series that seventh Test cap. doping ban and all associated charges Moeen Ali (Worcestershire), James comments a all-rounder Chris Woakes. gets underway at Lord’s in July, team His last appearance came against against him following concerns over Anderson (Lancashire), Jonathan Durham star Stokes jarred his management will be wary of rushing South Africa at Centurion in January, the reliability of the drug test carried Bairstow (Yorkshire, wkt), Jake Ball ‘little fun’ left knee during England’s crushing key player Stokes back into the side. a match where England lost but won out by a World Anti-Doping Agency (Nottinghamshire), Stuart Broad innings and 88-run win in the first An England and Wales Cricket the series. accredited laboratory in Qatar. (Nottinghamshire), Nick Compton Test at Headingley. Board statement issued yesterday He will compete for a place in The wicket-keeper/batsman’s (Middlesex), Steven Finn (Middle- AFP He will now miss the second of said: “England all-rounder Ben Stokes England’s X1 against uncapped Not- arrival, possibly in time for the sec- sex), Alex Hales (Nottinghamshire), the three-match series, which starts will miss the second Investec Test at tinghamshire quick Jake Ball, in the ond Test, will change the balance of Joe Root (Yorkshire), James Vince at his Chester-le-Street home ground Emirates Riverside after sustaining a squad at Headingley. Sri Lanka’s squad as he is replacing (Hampshire), Chris Woakes LONDON: West Indies star Chris on Friday. left knee injury during England’s first Both players will join up with injured paceman Dhammika Prasad, (Warwickshire) Gayle has insisted controversial comments he made to a female tel- evision reporter earlier this year were “just a little fun” as he turned on critics including Andrew Flint- Smith banks on fit-again fast bowler Starc off and Ian Chappell. Gayle, 36, came under fire for asking Australian broadcaster Mel McLaughlin out on a date in a live AFP “I think they’re both going to be television interview during a Big right to go,” Smith said. “Maxy’s had Australia captain wary of Bash Twenty20 game in January. a chance to recover and I think he’ll “I wanted to see your eyes for BRISBANE: Mitchell Starc’s (pic- be fine for the first game. We’ll wait pink ball Test at Gabba the first time, hopefully we can tured) return will strike fear into until we get over there and the med- win this game and then we can the West Indies and South African ical staff can assess him then but I have a drink after as well,” said batsmen in next month’s one-day tri- think he’s tracking really well. Mitch Reuters star batsman Gayle, before add- series in the Caribbean, skipper Steve Marsh has been getting through his ing: “Don’t blush, baby.” Smith said yesterday. loads up here this week, he’s been Chappell and Flintoff, former Left-arm paceman Starc, 26, has bowling well and batting well.” MELBOURNE: Australia captain Steven Smith has no qualms about playing captains of Australia and England been out of action since fracturing Smith dispelled concerns about another day-night test at Adelaide Oval but is wary of how the pink ball will respectively, were among those to his foot in last November’s historic his fitness, saying he had fully recov- perform in the humid conditions expected at Brisbane later this year. criticise Gayle’s conduct. day-night Test in Adelaide against ered from the wrist injury that cut Australia play Pakistan in the first Test under lights at the Gabba on Decem- But Gayle, in an extract from New Zealand and undergoing ankle short his IPL season earlier this ber 15, despite warnings from former players and pundits that muggy conditions his autobiography published in surgery. month. could make the ball unplayable for batsmen. The Times on Monday, said of his Starc’s fitness boosts the Austral- “It’s coming along good, it was In the inaugural day-night match against New Zealand in drier Adelaide remarks during the Melbourne ian pace attack which also features nice to rest it for a couple of weeks conditions last year, the ball hooped around menacingly during the floodlit Renegades’ match against Hobart Josh Hazlewood, Nathan Coulter-Nile off.” Starc has been charging in off his and not pick up a bat or catch any late sessions and Australia won in three days. Hurricanes: “I meant it as a joke. and Scott Boland for the ODI tri-series full run-up and bowling with impres- balls. It’s done it the world of good,” Cricket Australia (CA) hope to schedule another Test against South Africa I meant it as a little fun. I didn’t where each team play three matches sive pace at the National Cricket he said. at Adelaide Oval in November but the Proteas have balked at the prospect, cit- mean to be disrespectful and I against each other, with the top two Centre in Brisbane over the past Justin Langer, the former Test ing a lack of experience with the pink ball. didn’t mean it to be taken serious.” advancing to the final on June 26 in few days in preparation for the West opener and current coach of Western “I think it worked well, the one Test at the Adelaide Oval,” Smith told report- Flintoff responded on Twitter Barbados. Indies trip. Wicketkeeper-batsman Australia, will stand in as head coach ers in Brisbane yesterday. by saying Gayle had made himself “It’s nice to have Mitchell Starc Matthew Wade was struck a painful in place of Darren Lehmann, who has “I personally believe that’s the best place to play a day-night Test match look a “bit of a chop”. But Gayle, in back bowling the way he is,” Smith blow in the stomach from Starc in the been given an extended break from but we’ve got the one at the Gabba this year so it will be interesting to see how his autobiography, said: “The only told reporters before the team’s nets yesterday. touring after suffering from deep-vein that goes. chop Freddie (Flintoff) knows is departure. Smith, who came home from the thrombosis earlier this year. “It’s just a little bit different with the ball and humidity that quite often is when he used to bowl short to me “He’s looking fresh and bowling Indian Premier League early with Australia squad: Steve Smith around in Brisbane, so it could be very difficult for the batters, particularly if and I would chop him past back- at good pace. injury, said he was fit to take his place (capt), David Warner, George Bailey, there’s grass left on the wicket.” ward point for four.” “Hopefully, some of the South on the tour. Scott Boland, Nathan Coulter-Nile, Fears that the pink ball might not last the required 80 overs in Test cricket As for Chappell, Gayle said: African and West Indies batsmen Mitchell Marsh and Glenn Max- James Faulkner, Aaron Finch, Josh saw a grassy pitch prepared for the Adelaide match, making the task much “Ian Chappell, calling for me to are a little bit scared at the moment. well, who both suffered from side Hazlewood, Travis Head, Usman Kha- harder for batsmen. banned worldwide, a man who “It’s exciting to have him back and strains in India, are also expected to waja, Nathan Lyon, Mitchell Marsh, “I think we still need plenty of development with the ball to make sure was once convicted of unlaw- hopefully he can have some success be OK for the tri-series opener against Glenn Maxwell, Mitchell Starc, Mat- that we don’t prepare a wicket that suits the ball with plenty of grass on it,” ful assault in the West Indies for straight away, or pick up where he left the West Indies in Guyana on June 5. thew Wade, Adam Zampa. Smith added. punching a cricket official. SPORT TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016 35

Bumgarner Thunder humble Warriors stars as Giants to seize play-off lead keep winning AP

In addition to sparking the SAN FRANCISCO: Madison Bumgarner pitched 7 2/3 highest-scoring performance dominant innings and doubled in a run in the fifth to lift Defending champs by any team in any NBA play- the San Francisco Giants over the Chicago Cubs 1-0 on suffer 133-105 off game this year, Westbrook Sunday night. and Durant each added eight The Giants won for the 11th time in 12 games and defeat as Thunder rebounds and blocked two shots took two of three from a Cubs team with the best record grab 2-1 lead in while Westbrook also contrib- in baseball. the best-of-seven uted 12 assists. Bumgarner (6-2) struck out six and allowed three Stephen Curry led Golden hits and two walks while winning his fifth straight deci- series State with 24 points and Klay sion. The Giants have won each of the left-hander’s last Thompson added 18, but Curry six starts. hit only 7-of-17 shots from the The Giants won despite a persistent problem hitting floor, Thompson shot 8-of- with runners in scoring position. AFP 19 and Draymond Green was Dodgers 9, Padres 5, 17 Innings 1-of-9. The Warriors were also Yasiel Puig hit a tiebreaking, two-run single with outrebounded 52-38. the bases loaded and one out in the 17th inning and Los Durant scored 23 in the first Angeles beat San Diego to snap a four-game losing streak. WASHINGTON: Behind 33 half while Westbrook added 16 Red Sox 5, Indians 2 points from Kevin Durant and as the Thunder leaped ahead in David Ortiz went 4 for 4 with a solo home run and a 30 by Russell Westbrook, the the second quarter and piled on double that sent a fan flying, Jackie Bradley Jr. extended Oklahoma City Thunder hum- more punishment in the second his hitting streak to 27 games and Boston beat Cleveland bled defending NBA champion half, stretching the lead to 117- for its 10th win in 14 games. Golden State 133-105 on Sunday 80 after three quarters and went Tigers 9, Rays 4 to seize the lead in their play- on to match a club playoff scor- Jordan Zimmermann (7-2) left with a strained right off series. ing record. groin after allowing two runs and five hits in 5 2/3 innings. The Thunder grabbed a The Thunder closed the sec- Miguel Cabrera and Victor Martinez homered for 2-1 lead in the best-of-seven ond quarter on a 32-7 run to Detroit, which has won six of seven. Cabrera also left Western Conference finals and seize a 72-47 half-time edge, early. with a left knee bruise after being hit by a pitch captured momentum with the aided by the Warriors missing in the seventh. lopsided blowout, making Tues- 21 of their last 23 first-half shots Chris Archer (3-5) gave up six runs and eight hits in day’s fourth game at Oklahoma from the floor. three innings. City crucial for both clubs. Golden State lost their three Blue Jays 3, Twins 1 “We have got to keep the prior play-off defeats in the past Jose Bautista and Josh Donaldson started the game same intensity, same attack month by a total of 19 points, with back-to-back home runs in a three-run first inning mode,” Westbrook said. “They nine fewer than they lost by in against Phil Hughes (1-7), who leads in the major leagues didn’t have the best record in game three. in losses. Marcus Stroman (5-1) allowed one run and three the NBA for nothing. We’ve got Green kicked Thunder big hits in 7 2/3 innings, one start after giving up career-highs to come back with the same man Steven Adams of New of seven runs and 13 hits in a loss to Tampa Bay. Roberto mindset and play with the same Zealand in the groin late in the Osuna got four straight outs for his ninth save. intensity.” second quarter and could face a A day after Donaldson was ejected by umpire Toby Golden State, which set an suspension for game four. Basner in the first inning, John Gibbons got the early exit NBA record with 73 regular-sea- Oklahoma City outscored from crew chief Joe West in the fifth — the fourth ejec- son wins, has not lost two games Golden State 29-13 on fast tion of the year for the Toronto manager. in a row all season but will have break points, humbling the team Mets 3, Brewers 1 to quickly bounce back from an that led the NBA in that cate- Noah Syndergaard (5-2) struck out 11 in seven over- embarassment. gory. Time and again Durant powering innings, allowing an unearned run and six hits. Either the Thunder, who and Westbrook penetrated the Michael Conforto homered in the third off Chase have won 10 best-of-seven Warriors defense to slam down Anderson (2-6) as New York completed a three-game series in a row when going up a dunk or simply toss in a layup. sweep. 2-1, or the Warriors will face the The Warriors, who hit only Russell Westbrook (top) of the Oklahoma City Thunder goes up Nationals 8, Marlins 2 Eastern Conference winners, 19-of-55 shots from the floor in against Harrison Barnes of the Golden State Warriors during their Max Scherzer (5-3) struck out eight while giving up the Toronto Raptors or Cleve- the first half (34 percent), faced game three of the Western Conference Finals of the 2016 NBA two runs and six hits in eight innings with no walks. land Cavaliers, in next month’s their largest half-time deficit of Play-offs at Chesapeake Energy Arena in Oklahoma Cityon Sunday. He has 38 strikeouts in his past three starts, including NBA Finals. the season. a record-tying 20 against Detroit. Justin Bour ended Scherzer’s shutout bid with a two-run homer in the sev- enth. Washington won the three-game series and took a 7-6 edge in the season series. Mariners 5, Reds 4 Leonys Martin got four hits, Robinson Cano drove in Lightning take control with Game 5 win two runs and Seattle completed a three-game sweep that extended Cincinnati’s losing streak to seven. Phillies 5, Braves 0 Jerad Eickhoff (2-6) pitched five-hit ball over seven Agencies innings for his first win since April 13, and Philadelphia avoided a three-game sweep. He had lost his previous five decisions. Cameron Rupp homered for the Phillies, and Maikel Franco had two RBIs. PITTSBURGH: Tyler Johnson White Sox 3, Royals 2 deflected Jason Garrison’s wrist Todd Frazier tied for the AL lead with his 13th home shot from the left circle into the run, Melky Cabrera drove in two runs and Chicago net 53 seconds into overtime and avoided what would have been the first sweep against the Tampa Bay Lightning seized the White Sox this season. control by beating the Pittsburgh Rangers 9, Astros 2 Penguins 4-3 in Game five of the Cole Hamels (5-0) won his career-best 12th straight Eastern Conference finals on Sun- decision. He fanned a season-high 11 in eight innings, day. allowing two runs — one earned — and five hits as the Nikita Kucherov led a come- Rangers completed a three-game sweep. back from a two-goal deficit with Texas has won six straight from Houston and 14 of two goals as the Lightning won 16. The Astros have lost four straight overall. for the second time in the three Diamondbacks 7, Cardinals 2 games in Pittsburgh. They will not Zack Greinke (5-3) won for the fifth time in six starts, have to return there if they can allowing one run and five hits in eight innings. win Game 6 on Tuesday in Tampa, Angels 10, Orioles 2 where teams split Games 3-4. Jered Weaver (4-3) took a shutout into the seventh The Lighting are one win inning to win for the first time since April 26, and Carlos away from the Stanley Cup finals Perez homered, had three hits and drove in a career- for the second straight season. high five runs. The Penguins gambled by Yankees 5, Athletics 4 returning goaltender Marc-Andre Michael Pineda (2-5) allowed three runs and six hits Fleury to the net for the first time in six innings to win for the first time since his opening in 51 days, benching rookie Matt Tampa Bay Lightning goalie Andrei Vasilevskiy (right) makes a save against start this season, Starlin Castro hit a tiebreaking, two- Murray, but Fleury was outplayed Pittsburgh Penguins left wing Chris Kunitz (centre) during their game five of out single in the sixth off Jesse Hahn (1-2) and New York by rookie Andrei Vasilevisky, who extended a winning streak to five for the first time since the Eastern Conference Final of the 2016 Stanley Cup Play-offs at the CONSOL made 31 saves to Fleury’s 23. winning seven straight from last June 1-9. Energy Center in Pittsburgh on Sunday. Fleury now is 1-8 in his last nine play-off starts. BASEBALL RESULTS One constant on every Tampa in a Game 5 that, based on prior puck beyond the goal line, then Dumoulin, who put it inside the Bay goal: Penguins defenseman NHL results of series tied at 2, TAMPA BAY LEAD EASTERN fed it to the high slot to Malkin, far post. Detroit 9 Tampa Bay 4 Kris Letang, playing without sends the winner on to the next CONFERENCE FINALS 4-3 who put it on net. Just as Vasi- Pittsburgh made it 2-0 only NY Mets 3 Milwaukee 1 usual partner Trevor Daley, was round about 75 percent of the levskiy seemed ready to grab it, 1:30 into the second. Carl Hagelin Seattle 5 Cincinnati 4 on the ice. Daley will miss the rest time. Kunitz nudged it into the net for shifted to the right of Vasilevskiy of the playoffs with a broken left The Penguins led 3-2 late in first period -- with left winger his fourth of the playoffs and third to deflect Maatta’s pass to Patric Washington 8 Miami 2 ankle that occurred in Game 4. the third, but Kucherov scored Chris Kunitz involved in both of the series. Hornqvist for his seventh of the Philadelphia 5 Atlanta 0 Olli Maatta, back after being his second of the game -- and goals. Previously, after holding the playoffs. Boston 5 Cleveland 2 benched for three games for 11th of the play-offs -- at 16:44. After the Lightning rallied Lightning to four shots in the first But after Phil Kessel missed uneven play, figured on two of Johnson’s shot from the left point from a two-goal deficit to tie it at period, the Penguins scored the a chance to put the Penguins up Chicago White Sox 3 Kansas City 2 the Penguins’ first three goals deflected to Kucherov behind the 2-2 on goals 1:10 apart in the sec- game’s first goal with only seven- 3-0, Killorn’s wrist shot from the Texas 9 Houston 2 -- exactly what coach Mike Sul- net, and he easily beat Fleury on ond by Alex Killorn and Kucherov, tenths of a second left. left circle eluded Fleury at 13:15 Toronto 3 Minnesota 1 livan wanted upon returning him a wraparound. the Penguins regained the lead Kunitz, while falling down, for his fifth goal. Kucherov fol- to the lineup. The Penguins took their 3-2 when Kunitz punched the puck shoved the puck up-ice to Bryan lowed 1:10 later with his 10th of Arizona 7 St Louis 2 But, again, the Penguins’ big lead by scoring in the final minute past Vasilevskiy with 50 seconds Rust, who beat defenseman the playoffs, a one-timer from LA Angels 10 Baltimore 2 names, Sidney Crosby and Evgeni of each of the first two periods left in the period. Victor Hedman for a shot that the left circle created by Vladimir NY Yankees 5 Oakland 4 Malkin, could not produce a goal -- literally the final second of the Maatta swiftly carried the rebounded to defenseman Brian Namestnikov’s pass. 36 TUESDAY 24 MAY 2016

Qatar Olympic Committee awarded IMS certificate

The Peninsula requirements and is intended to be 2017-2022: “Planning and coordina- used as a framework for implement- tion services to national federations ing two or more management system to improve sports performance, sports standards in an integrated way facilities utilization and community DOHA: Qatar Olympic Committee Yesterday, Kseib handed over the participation in various sports in the (QOC) has been accorded the Inte- Integrated Management System (IMS) Qatar.” grated Management Systems (IMS) certificate to QOC General Secretary The QOC in their pursuit of sus- certificate. Abdulrahman bin Thani Al Kuwari in tainable sport development have An IMS certification is a quality the presence of other QOC officials. also expressed the commitment to: system that improves the process and Speaking on the occasion Dr Al “Consistently adopt a planning and service quality in a company and thus Kuwari complimented the entire QOC coordination approach aimed at meet- leads to increased efficiency within the team for achieving the set targets and ing client satisfaction, complying with system. for been awarded the IMS certification. the legal IMS requirements in order to The much-vaunted International “Credit goes to all of you for the improve sports facilities utilization, Organization for Standardization (ISO) success the QOC have achieved for sports performance and communi- certificate was handed over yesterday the certificate we received,” the QOC ty’s participation, thus strengthening at a special gathering. official said while speaking at the cer- Qatar position in the international “In pursuit of our vision of certify- tificate awarding ceremony. sport arena. “ ing Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC) The certificate handed over by the The other areas the QOC has laid with best industry standards, Plan- Bureau Veritas official states: “Bureau emphasis to “Enhance overall sat- ning and Development Department Veritas certify that the management isfaction of QOC clients. Ensure that achieved this objective by certifying all system of the above organization has appropriate measures are deployed in departments in QOC with Integrated been tested and found to be in accord- planning and coordination activities Management System, which includes ance with the requirements of the to prevent injury and ill health of peo- QOC General Secretary Abdulrahman bin Thani Al Kuwari (third left) receives the Integrated Management following standards: ISO 9001.2008 management system standards.” ple working under the control of our Quality Management System, ISO Bureau Veritas was appointed organization. Ensure that appropri- Systems certificate from Selim Kseib, Country Chief executive of Bureau Veritas (second left) at the Qatar 14001.2004 Environment Management as the certification body while QOC ate measures are deployed in planning Olympic Committee headquarters. System and BS OHSAS 18001.2007 – had engaged the services of Excell- and coordination activities to prevent Health & Safety Management System,” edia Consultancy to guide and assist pollution, reduce natural resources “Ensure all processes are on a employees are encouraged to cap- Ensure that all people working under Selim Kseib, Country Chief executive in completing the relevant Integrated consumption and waste to minimum continual improvement path, by set- italize on continual processional control of an organization are made of Bureau Veritas said. Management Systems requirements. extent wherever appropriate.” ting realistic and challenging targets and personal development and are aware of policy, IMS requirements and IMS certification aims to have The scope of the certification is QOC is also ensuring that all the and through regular review of its per- empowered to demonstrate leader- their related responsibilities towards as common management system in line with the QOC Strategy Map ‘system policy’ is duly followed by all. formance indicators. Ensure that our ship in their respective areas of work. complying with IMS.” Al Sadd set for training Rio’s youth set to harness camp in Austria

The Peninsula their talent in Qatar DOHA: Qatar Stars League side Al Sadd has confirmed their pre-season training plans ahead of the start of the next QSL season. Al Sadd’s head of football Mohammed Ghanem Al Ali has confirmed that ‘Shine’ tournament the squad will be meeting in Doha on July 10, ahead of their tour to Austria, where they will take part in a training camp on July 15. selects 10 athletes Ghanem also confirmed that another training camp for the side will be for training camp at held in Al Ain, UAE a few weeks before the start of the QSL season. In a wide ranging interview with the Al Sadd website, Ghanem also con- world’s renowned firmed that they will be sticking with a youth policy despite missing out on Aspire Academy for a trophy this term. “Despite being in a bad situation in terms of the results, we brought out Sporting Excellence players who we will depend on in the future, starting from next season - players like Salem Al Hajri, Meshaal Al Shammari, Nasser Al Nasr, Musab Khodr and Hamza Al Sanhaji. We will continue with this policy, which Al Sadd has been leading with.” The Peninsula Al Sadd finished the domestic season without any honours, after being edged out of the Emir Cup on penalties by Lekhwiya.

RIO DE JANEIRO: The success- ful conclusion of Qatar Olympic Committee’s (QOC) ‘Shine’ athletics QSL rewards Qatar Cup tournament which was conducted in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil on Sunday, saw Winners of the ‘Shine’ Athletics Tournament, pose for a photograph with QOC officials and ambassadors. a total of 10 talented young athletes social media ambassadors winning places on a training camp at Doha’s world-renowned Aspire Acad- to ensure that we grasp the opportu- time of 10.47s in the men’s 100m it has been so inspiring to see ath- emy for Sporting Excellence. nity of the Rio 2016 Games to leave was just 31 hundredths of a second letes from Futuro Olimpico qualify The Peninsula The Aspire Academy, whose a positive impact on young athletes short of the Olympic qualification for the once-in-a-lifetime trip to alumni include Qatar’s sporting hero, in Rio de Janeiro. This will provide time. Despite not qualifying on this Doha.” Mutaz Barshim offered this golden a true legacy for both Brazil and occasion, there will be further oppor- “This will be the first time that DOHA: The Qatar Stars League hosted a special lunch at the Fraiser Suites opportunity to promising athletes of Qatar. It is our sincere hope that our tunities and Gabriel’s performance many of them have left Brazil and in Doha for the Snapchat ambassadors who played a valuable role in mak- the meet which saw over 200 young Shine project will provide invalu- won him a trip to Qatar and a place the opportunity to train at the world- ing the recent Qatar Cup Snapchat Live story a grand success. athletes competing. able support for these athletes on on the training camp with four other class facilities and experience a new Each guest was also awarded with certificate of appreciation and a gift The QOC established the Shine their journeys to become Brazil’s boys and five girls. culture will be essential to their for their efforts over the 2016 Qatar Cup competition. project to provide support and next Olympic heroes. We look for- Speaking from the competition, development.” Speaking at the event, QSL’s Executive Director and Communication assistance to young athletes from dis- ward to following their progress as Mohammed Al Kuwari said: Also in attendance at the Shine Khalifa Al Haroon said; “It was a fantastic opportunity to have Qatari media advantaged backgrounds from across their careers develop.” “It has been a pleasure to witness tournament was Brazil’s multiple ambassadors, who contributed to the success of the Snapchat story and Rio de Janeiro and leaving a compel- The Shine tournament was the huge amount of talent on display World and Paralympic Champion, aided the promotion of the 2016 Qatar Cup competition. I would like to ling legacy from the Rio 2016 Games. attended by several officials from at the Shine Tournament today, and Terezinha Guilhermina, who will be take the opportunity to personally thank the ambassadors for their efforts The QOC, Qatar Athletics Federation Qatar including Sheikha Asma Al we pass our congratulations to all the competing in the Rio 2016 Paralym- over the competition and look forward to building on this work going into and Aspire Academy for Sporting Thani, Marketing Director at the athletes that have qualified to train pic Games this summer. The Shine the new QSL season.” Excellence partnered with Futuro QOC, Mohammed Al Kuwari, Sec- in Qatar.” Ambassador inspired the young ath- Whilst social media ambassador Dr Mohammed Saadi was quick to Olimpico, an NGO founded by Bra- retary General at the Qatar Athletics “The Qatar Athletics Federation letes by sharing her own story of praise the efforts of the QSL and the Snapchat Live story; “ As a ambassa- zil’s Olympic bronze medallist from Federation and Dr Hazem Anabtawi, and Aspire Academy for Sporting how sport transformed her life from dor, I am very proud of the effort and work that we put in with collaboration Atlanta ‘96, Arnaldo de Oliveira, and Deputy Director at the Aspire Acad- Excellence are committed to the a childhood of poverty to a sporting with the QSL. I believe this is the start of a strong relationship with the aim the Rio de Janeiro Athletics Federa- emy. The officials were able to meet global development of athletics and hero. She said: of rasing the profile of the QSL and football in Qatar in general.” tion to organise the project. the athletes and learn more about how we hope that these young athletes’ “Sport had an amazing impact on The QSL media team will now be looking to build on the impressive fig- Speaking about the vision behind the project will benefit them and their development and performance will be my life. I went from being Terezinha ures achieved across social media over the Qatar Cup competition. Over 1.5 the Shine project, Dr Thani Al Kuwari, future careers. enhanced by our world-class coach- Guilhermina, the one who dreamed, Million users watched the live story of the Qatar Cup final, which was the Secretary General of the QOC, said: Athletes were competing across ing, sports science expertise and to Terezinha Guilhermina, the one first ever football event covered as a Snapchat Live Story in Qatar. “The Qatar Olympic Commit- 24 events and the most notable result state-of the-art facilities. We cannot who achieves her dreams. I experi- wait to welcome them to Doha and we enced first-hand last year the impact hope their stay will be one to remem- that hosting the Doha 2015 IPC Ath- ber forever.” letics World Championships had on In addition to Sunday’s Shine changing perceptions and breaking tournament, the QOC are pro- down barriers in Qatar and the Mid- viding further support to Futuro dle East”. Olimpico, which aims to take The athletes will travel to Qatar athletics to students at Rio de with Arnaldo de Oliveira later in 2016 Janeiro’s public schools. Proceeds for the week-long training camp. from public entry fees to Bayt The Aspire Academy regularly Qatar, the QOC’s hospitality house hosts training camps for Asia’s most for the Rio 2016 Olympic Games, talented young athletes enabling them will be donated to the NGO ena- to enhance their development and bling them to buy uniforms and performance through tailored and equipment for the athletes and for optimised training programmes. further athletes to benefit from the The Shine athletes will benefit partnership. from the same experience, helping to The social media ambassadors who played a valuable role in making Speaking about Shine, Arnaldo provide new knowledge and expertise Gabriel Oliveira Constantino (left) wins 100m event during the ‘Shine’ tee believes in the power of sport to of the day came from 21 year old de Oliveira said: “Today’s Shine tour- that will support their future training the recent Qatar Cup Snapchat Live story a grand success, pose for changeAthletics lives Tournament. and we were determined Gabriel Oliveira Constantino whose nament has been a huge success and programmes. a photograph with Qatar Stars League Officials.