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Deputy Amir receives new Korean envoy Qatar Airways In brief fi nalises order

QATAR | Health Ministry recalls seven pharmaceutical products for fi ve Boeing The Ministry of Public Health has recalled seven pharmaceutical products that contain the ingredient Valsartan, manufactured by Chinese company Zhejiang Huahai 777 freighters Pharmaceutical LT, on the suspicion of them having carcinogenic O Deal worth $1.7bn at Airways chairman HE Ali Sherif al- properties. The Pharmacy and current list prices Emadi, Yousef bin Ali al-Khater, am- Drug Control department at the bassador of Qatar to the UK and Hamad ministry said it received memos O Qatar Airways steals the International Airport chief operating from international organisations on limelight on opening day of offi cer Badr Mohamed al-Meer. the possibility of a “carcinogenic His Highness the Deputy Amir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al-Thani received at the Amiri Diwan off ice yesterday the credentials Farnborough International Day one of the airshow kicked off flaw” called n-nitrosodimethylamine of new ambassador of Republic of Korea to Qatar, Kim Chang-Mo. The Deputy Amir welcomed the ambassador and wished with the award-winning airline com- (NDMA) in the active substance him success in his mission and the relations between Qatar and Korea further progress and prosperity. Page 2 Airshow 2018 mitting to purchase fi ve new CAE Valsartan manufactured by the O Airline signs contract 7000XR Series full-fl ight simulators company. Page 2 and two CAE 500XR Series fl ight train- with CAE to acquire new ing devices for the Boeing 777X and QATAR | Football PM meets German ambassador flight simulators the 737 MAX from the global leader in training CAE. 120,000 fans enjoyed atar Airways was the centre of The contract signing ceremony be- Russia World Cup attention on the fi rst day of the tween al-Baker and Nick Leontidis, Nearly 120,000 football fans enjoyed QFarnborough International Air- CAE Group President, Civil Aviation Russia 2018 World Cup at the fan show 2018, displaying six of its most Training Solutions, is a testament to the zones in Al Sadd Club and Hamad advanced aircraft, including the Airbus airline’s commitment to innovation and International Airport. The fan zone A350-1000 and the Boeing 777-300ER, safety, a statement from the airline said. in Ali Bin Hamad Al Attiyah Arena both of which feature the airline’s award- Also a purchase agreement signing welcomed about 70,000 fans winning Business Class seat, Qsuite. ceremony between Boeing and Qatar throughout the month, while the The airline also displayed for the fi rst Airways, fi nalising the airline’s order fan zone in Hamad International time its Boeing 747-8 Cargo Freighter, for fi ve 777 Freighters, also took place. Airport received 50,000 passengers as well as Air Italy’s second Boeing 737 The deal, valued at $1.7bn at current who enjoyed the exciting matches MAX 8 in striking new livery, Qatar Ex- list prices, was announced as a com- in three beautifully-themed areas. ecutive’s Gulfstream G500 jet and the mitment in April. Al-Baker and Boe- Page 20 JetSuiteX Embraer 135 jet. ing Commercial Airplanes president Qatar Airways Group chief executive and CEO Kevin McAllister signed the ARAB WORLD | Confl ict Akbar al-Baker welcomed many VIP agreement at the Boeing chalet where delegates and senior offi cials at its cha- a crowd of media and VIP guests gath- Israel hits Hamas HE the Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani yesterday met Germany’s let and on board the aircraft, including ered to watch this milestone moment in posts in Gaza Strip ambassador to Qatar Hans-Udo Muzel. During the meeting, they discussed aspects of co-operation between Qatar and Qatar’s Minister of Finance and Qatar the history of Qatar Airways. To Page 3 An Israeli aircraft hit two Hamas Germnay and issues of mutual interest. Page 2 posts in the Gaza Strip yesterday in response to balloons carrying firebombs over the border fence to burn Israeli farmland, the army said. Gazan security sources and residents said the strikes occurred Trump backs Putin on election meddling in Beit Hanoun in the northern Gaza Strip and caused no injuries. Israel’s Reuters Instead, he denounced the “stupid- Asked if he believed US intelligence army said the strikes targeted an Helsinki ity” of his own country’s policy, espe- agencies, which concluded that Russia area near where arson balloons cially the decision to investigate elec- interfered in the 2016 election to help were launched. Page 9 tion interference following the fi ndings him defeat Democratic candidate Hil- tanding side-by-side with of US intelligence agencies. A pros- lary Clinton, he said he was not con- AFRICA | Diplomacy Vladimir Putin, US President ecutor announced an indictment three vinced. SDonald Trump yesterday refused days ago of Russian spies for hacking “I don’t see any reason why it would Eritrea reopens its to blame the Russian leader for med- into Democratic Party networks. be Russia”, Trump said. “President Pu- embassy in Ethiopia dling in the 2016 elections, casting Trump’s performance at a joint news tin was extremely strong and powerful Eritrea’s President Isaias Afwerki doubt on the fi ndings of his own intel- conference in Helsinki stirred a wave in his denial today.” reopened his country’s embassy ligence agencies and sparking a storm of condemnation in the United States, Before the summit even began, in Ethiopia yesterday, the latest in of criticism at home. where the White House has struggled Trump blamed his own country for the a series of dizzying peace moves On a day when he faced pressure for months to dispel a suggestion that deterioration in relations. after two decades of war between from critics, allied countries and even Trump was unwilling to stand up to “Our relationship with Russia has the neighbours. The embassy his own staff to take a tough line, Putin. NEVER been worse thanks to many inauguration caps Isaias’s historic Trump said not a single critical word His performance was denounced as years of US foolishness and stupidity visit to the Ethiopian capital aimed about Moscow on any of the issues that “treasonous” by a former CIA chief and now, the Rigged Witch Hunt!” he Qatar Airways Group chief executive Akbar al-Baker and Boeing Commercial at cementing peace less than a week have brought relations between the and condemned as “shameful” by a said on Twitter. Airplanes president and CEO Kevin McAllister signing the agreement in the presence after the former enemies declared two powers to the lowest ebb since the Republican senator, although some The Russian foreign ministry tweet- of HE the Minister of Finance and Qatar Airways chairman Ali Sherif al-Emadi and an end to the conflict. Page 10 Cold War. other Republicans were more cautious. ed back: “We agree”. Page 14 other dignitaries. Questions raised over funding of UK sporting meet

By Jim Waterson Other guests included Damian Col- by those in positions of authority, be feud between Qatar and regional rivals, campaigns for FIFA reform. money — it was clear there was a lot of London lins MP and the former US women’s they individuals, offi cials, corporations including Saudi Arabia and the United Fuller has repeatedly declined to money behind it,” he said. goalkeeper Hope Solo. or nation states,” the foundation an- Arab Emirates, in an attempt to turn the identify the main source of funding to McGeehan also told the organisers But as well as the guest list and the nounced in its mission statement. media against the 2022 hosts. the Guardian and there is no detail on he would critique other Gulf nations, fter Russia’s wildly success- glamorous surroundings, there was an- There is no suggestion that it is illegal the trustees of his organisation. not just Qatar. “Those assurances were ful World Cup, the eyes of the other striking feature of the event: ques- O Was a recent ‘sports to refuse to disclose funding sources. Despite the lack of transparency, the given and then two days later I was un- Asporting world have turned to tions over the funding of the previously But even Steve Rabinowitz, a Wash- coverage of the event was substantial. invited. They couldn’t give a reason as the next host, Qatar — and a recent unknown organisation, which was un- integrity’ event that ington, DC publicist who helped book News outlets and social media sup- to why I wasn’t appearing. event in London gave an indication of veiling itself at short notice with a lavish questioned 2022 World guests and promote the event, admitted: porters from Saudi Arabia and the “It just yells Saudi and UAE money.” the scrutiny that lies ahead for the con- conference and a public commitment to “It is ironic that they’re all about trans- Emirates gave substantial coverage. Paperwork obtained by journalists at troversial organisers, and of the Mid- stamping out corruption in world sport. Cup decision funded by parency in sport and yet they’ve not Other coverage appeared on the BBC, the Play the Game Foundation and the dle Eastern diplomatic battle that will Several guests received fees in the Qatar rivals? been so transparent in their fi nances.” CNN and dozens of sites including the Danish newspaper Ekstra Bladet, and shadow the tournament. thousands of pounds and stayed in ex- “A couple of speakers spoke pro bono Guardian, which published an agency shared with the Guardian, shows cer- Journalists who attended the launch pensive hotels. It pledged to fund “research into but most got paid,” he told the Guard- report. tain conference bookings were made in of the Foundation For Sports Integrity at Substantial sums appeared to have sports corruption and related matters” ian. “If they got fl own in, they got fl own Although the foundation has a remit the name of a British company called the plush Four Seasons hotel were ush- been spent staging the event and pro- and to support whistleblowers. business class. across all sport, discussion at the con- Akta Group. ered through security to watch a series ducing professional videos of the dis- That was in May. “Fancy hotels. First-rate production. ference focused on Doha’s activities. The business is run by the wife of Kha- of panels featuring high-profi le guests. cussions, which regularly questioned Today, questions remain over who Not a bazillion pounds, but you know, Nicholas McGeehan, a researcher on lid al-Hail, a London-based Qatari who The former Manchester United foot- the decision to award the 2022 World funded the Sports, Politics and Integ- they did it right, they did it nice. It cost labour rights in the Gulf, said he was of- previously organised the Qatar Global baller Louis Saha appeared in a discus- Cup to Qatar. rity conference given its own commit- money.” fered a fee by Fuller to appear on a panel. Security and Stability conference, but sion alongside the former FA chairman “We believe that sport belongs to ment to transparency — and whether The event was hosted by Jaimie “I was approached to speak at it, but has denied receiving funding from either Greg Dyke. the people and should not be exploited it was actually linked to the ongoing Fuller, an Australian businessman who I asked for assurances it wasn’t Gulf Saudi Arabia or the UAE. To Page 5 Gulf Times 2 Tuesday, July 17, 2018 QATAR

Deputy Amir receives credentials of new ambassadors

His Highness the Deputy Amir Sheikh Abdullah bin Hamad al-Thani received at the Amiri Diwan off ice yesterday morning the credentials of five new ambassadors to Qatar. The Deputy Amir received the credentials of the ambassador of South Africa, Republic of Korea, Argentina, Mongolia and Uzbekistan to Qatar - Faizal Moosa, Kim Chang-Mo, Carlos Hernandez, Zorigt Chintushig and Bakhromjon Aloev, respectively. The ambassadors conveyed the greetings of leaders of their countries to His Highness the Deputy Amir and their best wishes for the Qatari people of further progress and prosperity. The Deputy Amir welcomed the new ambassadors and wished them success in their missions and the relations between Qatar and their countries further progress and prosperity. Earlier upon arrival at the Amiri Diwan, the ambassadors received an off icial reception ceremony.

Ministry recalls PM meets ambassadors ‘2022 World Cup seven drugs refl ects Qatar’s on cancer fears

QNA as well as Diostar and Diostar Doha plus manufactured by Jordan’s Pharma International Co, An- ginet and Co-Anginet pro- global standing’ he Ministry of Pub- duced by the Jordanian United lic Health has recalled Pharmaceuticals Manufactur- QNA on behalf of the members of the Tseven pharmaceuti- ing Co and Valzaar manufac- Doha Council, thanking His Highness cal products that contain the tured by the Indian Torrent the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Ha- ingredient Valsartan, manu- Pharmaceuticals. mad al-Thani for his support to factured by Chinese company The ministry revealed that he Advisory Council yes- the Council in order to achieve Zhejiang Huahai Pharma- other products that contain terday held its regular its mission and to play its role in ceutical LT, on the suspicion the active substance Valsar- Tweekly meeting under the serving the citizens and defend- of them having carcinogenic tan manufactured by other chairmanship of HE the Speaker ing the causes of Qatar. properties. companies are safe and are Ahmed bin Abdullah bin Zaid al- He also praised the eff orts of The Pharmacy and Drug not included in the withdrawal Mahmoud. the government and its co-oper- Control department at the process. At the outset of the ses- ation with the Advisory Council, ministry said it received The Pharmacy and Drug sion, the Advisory Council ex- which had a positive impact on memos from international Control department reaf- pressed pride and congratulated the Council’s achievements in organisations on the possibil- fi rmed its keenness ensure the His Highness the Amir Sheikh the area of legislation in all fi elds ity of a “carcinogenic fl aw” health and safety of all citizens Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani and and in issuing many recommen- called n-nitrosodimethyl- and residents. Qatari nationals and the coun- dations of interest to Qatar and amine (NDMA) in the active The department added that try’s residents on the occasion of its people. substance Valsartan manufac- it is taking all preventative His Highness receiving the man- HE Ahmed bin Abdullah bin tured by the company. procedures to stop the circu- tle to host 2022 FIFA World Cup Zaid al-Mahmoud voiced his The ministry said it with- lation of any pharmaceutical HE the Prime Minister and Interior Minister Sheikh Abdullah from Russia. HE the Speaker Ahmed bin satisfaction with the positive re- drew all the pharmaceutical product that does not meet bin Nasser bin Khalifa al-Thani hodling talks with the The Council stressed that Abdullah bin Zaid al-Mahmoud sults achieved by the Council in products that contain the ac- the international standards. ambassadors of the United Kingdom, and Iran to Qatar - Ajay this international event is the the fi eld of parliamentary diplo- tive substance, once it re- The department added that Sharma and Mohamed Ali Subhani, respectively - yesterday result of Qatar’s wise policies, report of the Legal and Legisla- macy, at the regional and inter- ceived the memo. it is in continuous contact in Doha. During the meetings, the ambassadors discussed prominent role on both regional tive Aff airs Committee on a draft national levels, which had a clear The list of recalled prod- with World Health Organisa- aspects of co-operation between Qatar and their countries and international levels, and big law establishing the Workers’ impact on informing parlia- ucts include Cinfaval and tion, institutions and other and issues of mutual interest. The Prime Minister also met the successes in the fi eld of hosting Support and Insurance Fund. ments of fraternal and friendly Co-cinfaval manufactured by health organisations for medi- German ambassador to Qatar Hans-Udo Muzel yesterday. major sports events as well as The Council also discussed countries as well as the Europe- Spanish Cinfa Laboratories, cines and pharmaceuticals. the confi dence of the countries the complementary report of an Parliament about the position of the world. the Services and Public Utilities of Qatar on the siege. The Council expressed its Committee on the request for He pointed out that all the confi dence that the 2022 FIFA a general discussion submitted draft laws and decrees submitted World Cup Qatar will be an im- by a number of members on the to the Council had been com- portant milestone in the history phenomenon of increase in rents pleted and submitted to the gov- QFCRA guidelines to tackle money laundering, terror fi nancing of the World Cup and in the his- of shops. ernment. tory of international sport, and After extensive discussions Concluding his speech, the not only for the State of Qatar on the three reports, the Council Advisory Council Speaker E the Governor of the CFT) rules and requirements. cial institutions will have a clear lished guidelines deliver detailed but also for all Arabs. decided to approve them and to thanked the members of the Qatar Central Bank Sheikh Abdulla bin Saoud al- and consistent roadmap to best in direction for all fi nancial institu- The Council then continued submit its recommendations to Council for their eff orts, wheth- H(QCB) Sheikh Abdulla Thani said: “Qatar’s AML/CFT class compliance.” tions on AML/CFT matters re- its consideration of its agenda, the Cabinet. er in the plenary sessions of the bin Saoud al-Thani announced framework meets international The guidelines were prepared lated to customer due diligence, discussing the complementary Then, HE the Advisory Coun- Council or through its special- that QCB, Qatar Financial Mar- standards and best practice and collaboratively by the QCB, correspondent banking, reliance report of the Internal and Ex- cil Secretary-General Fahad bin ised committees, and for their kets Authority (QFMA) and its eff ectiveness is essential to QFMA and QFCRA and their on third parties, high risk juris- ternal Aff airs Committee on the Mubarak al-Khayareen read out keenness in their discussions, Qatar Financial Centre Regu- protecting the integrity of its fi - publication delivers clear and dictions, benefi cial ownership request for general discussion the Amiri Decree No 39 for 2018 during which they enriched latory Authority (QFCRA) have nancial system and the interna- consistent guidance to all fi nan- issues, legal entity transparency, submitted by several members adjourning the 46th ordinary the Council’s sessions with each issued guidelines to their tional fi nancial system. The new cial institutions in Qatar regard- and the regulators’ expectations on the harm to the children of session of the Advisory Council. thoughts, ideas and constructive fi nancial institutions address- guidelines will ensure that Qatar’s ing the steps required to comply for the risk-based systems and divorced Qatari mothers and The Speaker delivered a proposals. ing critical areas of compliance fi nancial institutions understand with certain critical aspects of controls that fi nancial institu- widows of fathers from the siege speech on the occasion of the He also thanked the General with the regulators’ anti-mon- our expectations and, thanks to the QCB’s, QFMA’s and QFCRA’s tions are required to implement countries. adjournment of the current ses- Secretariat and all the staff of the ey laundering and combat- the collaboration between the existing AML/CFT rules. to combat money laundering and The Council also discussed the sion, extending, in his name and of the Advisory Council. ing terrorism fi nancing (AML/ QCB, QFMA and QFCRA, fi nan- Specifi cally, the newly-pub- terrorism fi nancing. - QNA Qatar embassy in Spain hosts 2022 World Cup celebration

QNA Madrid

atar’s embassy in Spain organised a ceremony to Qwelcome Qatar’s hosting of the 2022 World Cup in con- junction with His Highness the Amir Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani receiving the mantle of the tournament from Rus- sian President Vladimir Putin in Moscow. The celebration, which was held at the residence of Qatar’s ambassador to Spain, Mohamed Jaham al-Kuwari in Madrid, was attended by more than 500 per- sonalities including Spanish MPs Ambassador Mohamed Jaham al-Kuwari presenting the Estrella del Deporte sports prize to Diego Rodriguez Ferrero, and the Ojal award to Guests at the event held at the ambassador’s residence in Madrid. and politicians, diplomats, sports Spanish singer Maria Beatriz Veiga Piriz. stars and celebrities, as well as Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad and a number of countries. a large group of journalists from such as Aspire Academy and AS presented Qatar’s key achieve- diff erent peoples and cultures. Foundation Pedro Martinez un- al-Thani attended the closing of The Qatari ambassador’s leading Spanish newspapers. Arabia, noting that Qatar will ments and projects in the fi eld of For his part, the Mayor of Lyon derlined the great role of Qatar Moscow 2018 World Cup with a speech on foreign workers dur- In his opening speech, the continue to organise important sports, such as the Aspire Acad- Antonio Silban said that the Qa- through what he described as busy international agenda and ing the celebration received a Qatari ambassador highlighted sports events, the most impor- emy and the World Cup stadi- tari model in the management “sports diplomacy”, noting that has devoted a lot of money to positive reaction in the Spanish the special importance of Qatar tant of them being the 2022 FIFA ums. and marketing of football as key his institution hosted several marketing Qatar World Cup. media. The Diplomat in Spain 2022 World Cup because it is World Cup, preparations for In line with Qatar’s policy of to inter-people relations as it meetings and seminars in co- The newspaper also noted the newspaper published an arti- the fi rst of its kind in the Middle which are in full swing. supporting young people and plays a prominent role in sup- ordination with Qatar on the im- emergence of the role of Paris as cle entitled “Qatar Guarantees East and will serve the interests The ambassador stressed enhancing the role of sport and porting Qatar’s bid for the 2022 portance of sports as a common an intermediary in the current Workers’ Rights in the 2022 of all countries in the region for Qatar’s keenness to protect the culture, the ambassador hon- World Cup. factor among peoples. Gulf crisis and the comments World Cup”, in which it referred its prominent role as a bridge rights of workers, which was oured two of the most promising Meanwhile, former president He expressed the hope that of French President Emmanuel to international reports that between Arab and Western civi- commended by competent in- Spanish talents. of Spanish sports club Real Ma- Qatar would organise a World Macaron when he said: “Qatar is document the measures adopt- lizations and cultures, as well as ternational bodies such as the He presented the Estrella del drid Ramon Calderon said that Cup worthy of the size of the a key partner to help us achieve ed by the Qatari institutions to its economic, political, cultural International Labour Organisa- Deporte sports prize to Diego during his frequent visits to Doha, sacrifi ces made by Qataris in or- peace in the Middle East,” as well improve the conditions of the and humanitarian dimensions. tion, and called on everyone to Rodriguez Ferrero, and the Ojal he noticed the great work that has der to host a major event like the as his praise for the Qatari eff orts workers and ensure their rights. The ambassador underlined visit Qatar and discover the open award to Spanish singer Maria been achieved in Qatar. He is cer- 2022 World Cup. in the fi ght against extremism and The newspaper highlighted that sports is an essential part and hospitable country. Beatriz Veiga Piriz. tain that Qatar 2022 will be the The Qatari celebrations reso- terrorism. the statements of ambassador of the policy of Qatar, which will The celebration included a A Spanish band presented a best in terms of organisation in the nated widely in the Spanish media. El Mundo also highlighted the Jaham al-Kuwari on Qatar’s continue to support young ath- Spanish-language video pro- song about the role of Qatar 2022 history of the tournament. Spanish daily El Mundo said Amir’s extensive diplomatic tour commitment to continue its ef- letes through serious projects duced by the embassy which World Cup as a bridge between Director of the Arab House that His Highness the Amir of which included the United States forts in this regard. Gulf Times Tuesday, July 17, 2018 3 QATAR

Qatar and Italy seek to enhance ties in ports sector Minister holds talks with Belgian envoy

HE the Minister of Transport and Communications Jassim Seif Ahmed al-Sulaiti met Italian Ports Association (ASSOPORTI) secretary-gen- eral Francesco Mariani in Doha yesterday. The meeting discussed co-operation relations between Qatar and Italy in the ports sector. The meeting also discussed establishing eff ective alliances in the maritime business between both sides, co-operation in managing ports and HE the Minister of Transport and Communications Jassim Seif Ahmed al-Sulaiti held talks with the operations, training and developing employees’ skills, exchanging ideas and the best procedures to improve ports’ operation. The Italian Belgian ambassador to Qatar Bart De Groof. They discussed relations between Qatar and Belgium ambassador to Qatar, Pasquale Salzano, attended the meeting. in the fields of transport and communications and means of further enhancing them. Qatar Executive unveils Gulfstream G500 Jet at air show atar Executive, the pri- showcase their fi rst G500 at Gulfstream’s Cabin Management craft. Qatar Executive’s service vate jet charter division of Farnborough. The G500 ushers System, which allows passengers portfolio also includes aircraft QQatar Airways Group, has in a new standard of business-jet to use their own personal elec- management, airliner charter, unveiled its brand-new execu- travel for passengers and pilots, tronic devices to control audio, maintenance and fi xed-based tive jet, the Gulfstream G500, on and we look forward to continu- video, lighting, temperature, operation services. the opening day of Farnborough ing our partnership with Qatar window shades and other cabin In May 2018, the private char- HE the Minister of Finance and Qatar Airways chairman Ali Sherif al-Emadi and Qatar’s ambassador to the UK International Air Show. Executive as their G500 aircraft functions. ter provider took delivery of its Yousef bin Ali al-Khater look on as Qatar Airways Group chief executive Akbar al-Baker and Nick Leontidis, The G500 jet will be one of enters service later this year.” Qatar Executive expects to re- fi fth Gulfstream G650ER aircraft, CAE Group president, Civil Aviation Training Solutions, shake hands after signing an agreement. the fastest and most techno- The G500 is powered by the ceive eight of the 25 additional the fastest, ultra-long range busi- logically advanced aircraft in next-generation Pratt & Whit- new aircraft it has on order be- ness jet in the industry, making the Qatar Executive fl eet when ney Canada PW800 engines, tween now and the end of 2019. Qatar Executive the world’s larg- it enters service later this year, optimised for high-altitude, fast The division continues to in- est owner-operator of this jet the company has said in a state- and long-range jets. In addi- crease its global reach to new type. The G650ER is renowned Qatar Airways fi nalises agreement ment. “The G500 cabin will also tion to being one of the “quietest destinations. This year alone, for its “incredible 7,500-nauti- set new industry benchmarks and most effi cient jets in the in- Qatar Executive has continued cal mile range, industry-leading as one of the quietest in the in- dustry, the aircraft’s remarkable to serve its loyal customers and cabin technology and unparalleled to buy fi ve Boeing 777 freighters dustry, as well as having the best range makes it capable of travel- operated to many destinations passenger comfort”. cabin altitude pressure, allow- ling non-stop from Istanbul to around the world, including Ar- The division also recently an- From page 1 CAE to sign an agreement for six look forward to supporting our ing for unparalleled passenger Cape Town, Los Angeles to Lon- gentina, Brazil, Patagonia, Suri- nounced that it will be opening new fl ight simulators, which will partner with the entry into serv- comfort.” don, and San Francisco to Tokyo”, nam and Uruguay, to name a few. a new dedicated offi ce in Shang- Present at the Boeing sign- give Qatar Airways pilots world- ice of the new 777X aircraft.” The all-new G500 aircraft will the statement notes. Qatar Executive now operates hai in the coming months to help ing ceremony and the purchase class training with state-of-the- On the opening day of the air- offi cially join Qatar Executive’s The cabin contains the “most a fl eet of 13 ultra-modern Gulf- meet passenger demand in the agreement signing between art equipment.” show, the award-winning airline fl eet by the end of this year and advanced technology”, includ- stream and Bombardier private market and provide enhanced the airline and CAE were HE McAllister said: “We are proud unveiled its fi rst state-of-the- mark the beginning of an agree- ing satellite communications, jets, including fi ve Gulfstream service to its clients in Asia. Also, al-Emadi and al-Khater. that Qatar Airways recognises art Gulfstream G500 jet, which ment that was initiated in Octo- high-speed Internet, the Oryx G650ERs, three Bombardier Qatar Executive had recently “We are tremendously excited the value of the 777 Freighter and will offi cially join Qatar Execu- ber 2014 between Qatar Airways One entertainment system, Challenger 605s, four Global announced plans to open a new to be back at Farnborough this continues to invest in this aircraft tive’s fl eet by the end of this year. and Gulfstream Aerospace Corp. wireless local area network and 5000s and one Global XRS air- offi ce in Moscow later this year. year, showcasing six of the most to serve its expanding freight Qatar Executive continues to Qatar Airways Group chief technologically advanced air- operations. We continue to see a grow its global reach, with an executive Akbar al-Baker said, craft in the sky. The aircraft on resurgence in the air cargo market aim of serving worldwide desti- “We are tremendously excited display here have set new stand- and we are confi dent that Boe- nations. As such, Qatar Execu- to be unveiling our fi rst Gulf- ards of excellence in the indus- ing’s industry-leading freighter tive is set to receive up to 25 new stream G500 jet at this year’s try, and affi rm our commitment family is well positioned to meet aircraft between now and 2022, a Farnborough International Air- to providing our passengers with our customers’ requirements.” combination of the G500, G600 show. With its many advanced the fi nest experience possible,” Leontidis said: “We are and G650ER jets, to be able to features, this ultra-modern air- al-Baker said. pleased to be Qatar Airways’ off er passengers across the world craft will enable us to off er our “We are delighted to use the training partner of choice and its exclusive and unmatched pri- global clientele unprecedented platform of the airshow to meet to support our airline partner’s vate jet experience. levels of service. The G500 also with our friends from Boeing to growth and training needs for its The airline’s cargo division demonstrates our commitment fi nalise the commitment we made new Boeing 777X and 737 MAX also publicly displayed one of to continuing to expand the Qa- to purchasing fi ve 777 Freighters fl eet. The future of aviation and its freighter aircraft for the fi rst tar Executive fl eet, in line with earlier this year. Qatar Airways demand for pilot training in time at Farnborough Interna- our accelerated growth strategy, Cargo is growing exponentially the Middle East is on the rise. tional Airshow. The Boeing 747- enabling us to exceed our cli- year on year and the addition of This new training equipment 8 Freighter gives cargo opera- ents’ expectations time and time these aircraft will only serve to agreement is a testament to our tors the lowest operating costs again.” further strengthen its already commitment to provide Qatar and best economics of any large Gulfstream president Mark robust performance in the cargo Airways with the most compre- freighter aircraft while providing Burns added, “We are excited Akbar al-Baker along with other dignitaries and off icials at the unveiling of the Gulfstream G500 at Farnborough category. The airshow has also hensive training solutions for enhanced environmental per- to join Qatar Executive as they International Airshow. been an opportunity to meet with many years to come. We also formance. Qatar Airways congratulates World Cup winner

atar Airways, an offi cial fi nal by fl ying a hand-painted the world at each and every “upbeat and infectiously fun- number of Russian routes oper- FIFA partner and the of- Boeing 777 aircraft in FIFA livery match.” fi lled” ‘musical’-style TV com- ated by the carrier. The addition Qfi cial airline of FIFA, has to Moscow. Qatar Airways senior vice- mercial. The song expresses the of St Petersburg to Qatar Air- congratulated France for win- The bespoke aircraft has been president (Marketing and Cor- airline’s fi rm belief that sports is ways’ route map demonstrates ning the 2018 FIFA World Cup hand-painted in Ireland and porate Communications) Salam a universal language, which has the importance of the Russian following a month of football “showcases just one example al-Shawa added, “The 2018 the power to inspire and encour- market to the carrier, which has excitement in Russia. of how the World’s Best Airline FIFA World Cup Russia has been age people to follow their dreams been fl ying to Moscow since The tournament was watched has committed itself to this im- both exciting and inspirational, and has a reach of more than 2004. The airline currently op- by more than 2bn spectators portant partnership, one of the as it has brought people togeth- 238mn people through social erates three daily fl ights between around the world, with more biggest sporting sponsorships in er from all around the world to media and an anticipated broad- Moscow and Doha, in addition to than 250mn views on Qatar Air- the world, alongside dedicated cheer for their teams and cel- cast reach on television stations a daily fl ight between St Peters- ways’ social media channels, fan zones showcasing Qatari ebrate their love of football. We around the world of 3.3bn view- burg and Doha. the Doha-based carrier said in a hospitality”. now look forward with tremen- ers. In May 2017, Qatar Airways statement yesterday. Qatar Airways Group chief dous anticipation to 2022, when The fi nal match marked the announced a sponsorship deal “Qatar Airways proudly sup- executive Akbar al-Baker said, the tournament will be hosted beginning of preparations for with FIFA, which saw the airline ported the matches as they un- “I would like to congratu- in our home country, Qatar. As the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qa- become an offi cial FIFA partner folded and now prepares to look late France on the win against the national carrier of Qatar, we tar that will be held at stadiums and the offi cial airline of FIFA ahead to the thrilling prospect of Croatia. As a global airline, we could not be more proud as we across the country, including the through 2022. The partner- the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar,” could not be more proud to be prepare to welcome fans to our location of the recent Amir Cup ship, one of the biggest sporting the airline stressed. part of this huge sporting event home and host city, Doha.” in May 2018, the Khalifa Inter- sponsorships in the world, gives The 2018 FIFA World Cup was that has brought the world to- Qatar Airways kicked off its national Stadium, one of eight Qatar Airways extensive mar- “a thrilling competition, bring- gether though a shared love of celebration of the 2018 FIFA venues in Qatar that will host the keting and branding rights at the ing people together through football and sport. We are tru- World Cup in June by teaming up 2022 FIFA World Cup. 2018 and 2022 FIFA World Cups, the shared love of football and ly inspired by the excitement with singer and TV star Nicole In December 2017, Qatar Air- respectively hosted in Russia sports”. Qatar Airways took its this tournament has created, Scherzinger for a re-recording ways launched daily services and Qatar, with an expected au- Qatar Airways is an off icial FIFA partner and the off icial airline of FIFA. celebration to the skies prior to and by the tremendous enthu- of the classic song, ‘Dancing in to the cultural capital of Rus- dience reach of more than 2bn Pictured are moments from the trophy and medal presentation on July the tournament’s semi-fi nal and siasm shown by fans around the Streets’, which resulted in an sia, St Petersburg, doubling the people per tournament. 15 after France won the World Cup in a thrilling final in Moscow, Russia. Gulf Times 4 Tuesday, July 17, 2018 QATAR Qatar condemns Bayt Aman hosted 20 Kabul explosion

atar has strongly con- tion rejecting violence and demned and denounced terrorism regardless of mo- Qthe explosion which tives and reasons. took place near a ministry in the The statement expressed expats since opening Afghan capital Kabul and left the condolences of Qatar to several dead and injured. the families of the victims and wo years after opening, discharged expatriate labourers are waiting to return home, Dr In a statement yesterday, the government and people of Hamad Medical Cor- to fully recuperate and re-adjust al-Nabit says staff at the facility the Ministry of Foreign Aff airs Afghanistan, wishing a speedy Tporation’s (HMC) Bayt to their daily routine,” explained are focused on helping residents reiterated Qatar’s fi rm posi- recovery for the injured. Aman is continuing to support Mahmoud Saleh al-Raisi, chief, who have completed their medi- expatriate labourers who have Continuing Care Group. cal treatment to fully recuperate been released from hospital Dr Nasser al-Nabit, execu- and adjust to what may be a new and are awaiting return to their tive director (business develop- normal routine. home country. ment), Continuing Care Group, “While waiting to be cleared Since opening in June 2016, who oversees operations at Bayt for travel back to their home Farewell ceremony Bayt Aman has hosted 20 resi- Aman, said that guests of the fa- country, residents at Bayt Aman dents, with nine successfully cility are outpatients, with many are kept busy by engaging in discharged and safely returned receiving follow-up rehabilita- activities such as exercising, for ambassador to their home countries, HMC tion services at QRI on an outpa- painting, cooking, taking care said in a statement. Dr Wafa al-Yazeedi Mahmoud al-Raisi tient basis. “While the facility is of plants, or socialising with “The expatriate workers who staff ed by a charge nurse and pa- visitors. Staff regularly organise E the Secretary-Gen- The ceremony was attended are cared for at Bayt Aman no require support. At Bayt Aman, vides safe and accessible ac- tient care attendants, residents events for our residents, such as eral of the Ministry by the Director-General of Pro- longer need the high-level of we are able to provide them with commodation for workers with are encouraged to be independ- painting classes recently held in Hof Foreign Aff airs of tocol and the Director-General clinical supervision that is pro- this extra support and assist- disabilities who are awaiting re- ent,” he said. collaboration with artists from Algeria Noureddine Ayadi for the Arab Countries at the vided at HMC’s rehabilitation ance,” said Dr Wafa al-Yazeedi, patriation to their home country, “Our residents are considered the International Artists Doha,” hosted a farewell ceremony Algerian Ministry of Foreign Af- and long-term care units; but chairperson, Qatar Rehabilita- the statement notes. outpatients with our facility act- added Dr al-Nabit. in honour of Qatar’s outgoing fairs, the Dean of the Diplomatic they do require some support. tion Institute (QRI). “Some patients discharged ing as assisted-living accommo- Dr al-Nabit expressed grati- ambassador Ibrahim bin Ab- Corps and a number of ambas- The majority of these individu- Located in the Al Thumama from HMC hospitals no longer dations. Patients are encouraged tude to the National Human dulaziz al-Sahlawi in Algiers. sadors accredited to Algeria. als have sustained a traumatic area, Bayt Aman can accom- need hospital-based care but to be as independent as possible, Rights Committee, Ministry of brain injury, spinal cord injury modate up to 12 guests at any they are not yet ready to return particularly in terms of their Interior and Jassim and Hamad or injuries to multiple body given time, with most residents home due to the severity of their daily self-care activities,” said Bin Jassim Charitable Founda- parts and organ systems. While spending several months at the injury or the unsuitability of their Dr al-Nabit. tion for their support in facili- they have recovered from a seri- facility before returning to their accommodation. Bayt Aman is Calling Bayt Aman a safe and tating the safe repatriation of ous injury and are clinically well home country. Established in staff ed 24 hours a day, seven days restorative environment for ex- the nine former residents who Qatar-Italy ties reviewed enough to leave the hospital or a collaboration with Qatar Build- a week and was created with the patriate workers who have com- have returned to their home long-term care facility, they still ing Company, Bayt Aman pro- vision of providing a space for pleted medical treatment and countries. he Under Secre- Ahmad al-Malki in Rome tary of the Italian yesterday. TMinistry of For- The meeting discussed the eign Aff airs, Manlio Di bilateral relations and ways to Stefano, met Qatar’s am- develop them, in addition to MEC fi nes Salwa Road tyre shops for violations bassador Abdulaziz bin topics of common interest. surprise inspection cam- The ministry said it conducted on violations, counterfeit goods authorities, who will, in turn, paign carried out by the the surprise inspection campaign, and substandard products. take appropriate action against AMinistry of Economy and targeting a number of outlets on Violations of Law No 8 of 2008 the perpetrators in order to Commerce (MEC) targeting tyre Salwa Road specialising in the dis- on consumer protection can re- protect consumer rights. Envoy presents papers repair and sale shops on Salwa play, sale and repair of car tyres, in sult in administrative closure The MEC has urged all con- Road resulted in the imposition order to monitor the compliance of and fi nancial penalties ranging sumers to report violations or ambia’s Minister of ister wished ambassador of fi nes for three violations, it suppliers with Law No 8 of 2008 from QR3,000 to QR1mn, the submit complaints and sugges- Foreign Aff airs, Inter- success in his mission, and was announced yesterday. on consumer protection. statement adds. tions through the call centre: Gnational Co-operation relations between Qatar and The violations included the The intensive and regular in- The ministry has stressed that 16001, e-mail: [email protected]. and Gambians Abroad Ma- Gambia further development. display and sale of expired tyres spection campaigns come with- it will not tolerate any violations qa, Twitter: MEC_QATAR, Insta- madou Tangara yesterday For his part, the ambassa- in violation of Article 6 of Law No in the framework of the MEC’s of Consumer Protection Law gram: MEC_QATAR and the min- received a copy of the cre- dor expressed his willingness 8 of 2008 on consumer protec- eff orts to regulate markets and and its regulations, and will refer istry’s applications on smart- dentials of Faisal bin Fahad al- to work on the development tion and anti-commercial fraud, commercial activities across Qa- those who violate laws and min- phones available on iPhone and The violations included the display Mana as ambassador of Qatar. of bilateral relations between the MEC said in a statement. tar and uncover and crack down isterial decrees to the competent Android devices: MEC_QATAR and sale of expired tyres. The Gambian foreign min- Qatar and Gambia. Gulf Times Tuesday, July 17, 2018 5 QATAR Dual Inspirations on full display at third ‘Artist in Residence’ By Joey Aguilar identity of contemporary art pro- Left and right: Some Staff Reporter duction and the essence of a truly of the highlights of the contemporary artwork,” he said. exhibition, which will be According to Abudaya, this open to the public from atar Museums (QM) opened year’s edition is presented as a con- today until October 1. the third edition of its versation between two artists shar- PICTURES: Ram Chand Q“Artist in Residence” pro- ing their perspectives on the same gramme yesterday, featuring the topic. Below: This picture works of 18 artists at the Fire Sta- The exhibition’s main narrative supplied by Qatar tion’s Garage gallery in Doha. falls on “refl ection and inspiration” Museums (QM) shows The exhibition, titled Dual Inspi- where two artists are matched in QM off icials and other rations and held under the patron- one section under a specifi c theme, dignitaries discussing age of QM Chairperson HE Sheikha which describes their work: self, one of the works at the Al Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa memory, constructivism, material, exhibition following its al-Thani, will be open to the public contemplation, abstractionism, lationship between contemporary gramme provides participants with opening. from today until October 1. city, result, perception, and view- and modern art. an opportunity to delve into the The participating artists are Mu- point. Organisers said that the par- world of aestheticism and be ex- barak Nasser al-Thani, May Saleh The exhibition marks the end of ticipants have been tasked with posed to infl uential mentors that al-Mannai, Fatima Mohamed, Al- a successful season of the Artist in visiting Mathaf and choosing an can help them challenge and de- exandra Jawe Oddie, Yasser Ab- Residence programme – an annual artwork that inspires and informs velop their artistic skills. dulla al-Mulla, Islam Shehab, Ryan initiative that nurtures creative tal- their own practice. The programme is a highlight of Browning, Fatma al-Naimi, Wajiha ent from across the country. The selected artwork is present- the QM’s initiatives, all which aim Pervez, Yousef Fawzi Bahzad, Dio- “This exhibition is not only a ed alongside their own to empha- to create a new generation of talents go Esteves, Aisha al-Fadhala, Paul testament to the world-class ar- sise a dialogue that has taken place that can inspire audiences and drive Valentine, Aisha al-Malki, Yassmin tistic talent that exists among Qa- between two epochs and genera- forward Qatar’s cultural sector. al-Khasawneh, Rachel Leah Cohn, tar’s creative community, but is tions of artists. According to the QM, artists who Shouq al-Mana, and Ahmad Nooh also a proof of the impact that the Some of the artists’ ideas were an are resident in Qatar move into one Ahmad. programme has had in terms of extension and an answer to works of the studios, collaborate with “The exhibition explores the nurturing our artists’ skills,” Fire by those pioneers, while others fellow creatives and develop their ideas that revolve around inspira- Station director Khalifa al-Obaidly were chosen to question or provide artistic technique during the nine- tion as a platform, through which said in a statement. “I am proud to a contrast to the works presented at month programme. 18 artists experiment in relation to announce the conclusion of anoth- Mathaf. Artists meet curators, access all the creative process,” said curator er exciting edition and look forward The participating artists are Mu- QM exhibitions and are encouraged Dr Bahaa Abudaya, who is also the to being amazed by our artists’ fu- barak Nasser al-Thani, May Saleh to join lectures. curator of Contemporary Art at the ture endeavours.” al-Mannai, Fatima Mohamed, They also benefi t from weekly Fire Station. Dual Inspirations also features a Yousef Fawzi Bahzad, Paul Valen- mentoring sessions and meet arts “Active discussion and interac- special section dubbed “Contem- tine, Ryan Browning, and Diogo professionals from all over the tion between artists and curator porary Artists Reading Modernism Esteves. world, representing Qatar in the helped raise issues pertinent to the Loudly”, tackling the inspiring re- The Artist in Residency pro- international cultural community.

Qatar World Cup a chance to highlight Arab talent, say Sudan sports offi cials

QNA held for the fi rst time in an Arab coun- in Qatar is a great honour for all Arabs. Khartoum try. He added that the experience gained Higher Committee for the National from the recently-concluded 2018 Teams chairman Hassan Bargo said FIFA World Cup in Russia will help Qa- enior offi cials from the sports that not only Qatar but all of the Arab tar ensure a successful event. sector in Sudan have described people are fi lled with joy. Head of sports sector at Sudan’s SHis Highness the Amir Sheikh He added that it has been the best Al Hilal Club, Dr Haydar Hassan Haj Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani offi cially response to those who have doubted al-Sidig, said that as an Arab, he feels receiving the mantle of hosting the Qatar’s capabilities, and by receiving pride and joy as Qatar hosts the World 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar from Rus- international recognition, it reaffi rms Cup. sian President Vladimir Putin, in the Qatar’s global standing and transpar- He added that Qatar’s success indi- presence of International Federation of ency in all matters. cators have been proven through the Football Associations (FIFA) president Bargo said that under the directive nation’s organisation of major sports Gianni Infantino, as a historic event of Sudanese President Omar al-Ba- events. and an opportunity for Arab countries shir, Sudan launched the Sudan dream Former Sudanese youth and sports to highlight their talents. project for the country to project a minister Dr Abdul Karim Musa said Speaking exclusively to Qatar News strong presence in the World Cup in that the upcoming four years will wit- Agency (QNA), the Sudanese sports Qatar. ness intense global movement towards offi cials expressed pride and admira- Bargo highlighted that Qatar’s ef- Qatar because it has achieved the Arab tion with the Qatari achievements, forts in supporting sports in Sudan. dream. which gives Arab countries the oppor- Sudanese football association ex- He lauded His Highness the Amir’s tunity to prepare for an appearance in ecutive secretary Hasan Abu Jabal said words that 2022 FIFA World Cup in an international forum that would be that hosting the 2022 FIFA World Cup Qatar will be for all Arabs.

Questions over funding of UK meet

From Page 1 whose Bluelight Strategies fi rm lists for his “good friend” and said “he’s al-Hail as a client on its website. straight”. Last year, Akta paid the former Tory Rabinowitz, who said he no longer “I was asked if I’d go and put the leader Iain Duncan Smith and the BBC represents the Qatari, admitted that boot into the Qataris,” said Jennings. journalist John Simpson to attend an- the sports conference funding re- “I have no concern that the UAE or other conference in a London hotel on mained unclear: “I don’t know what Saudi Arabia governments infl uenced the future of Qatar, which was highly the full source of the money is, I just the conference, as I set the programme critical of the government. don’t know, besides Jaimie putting and the speakers.” That event was supported by the seed money in.” The Gulf crisis has increasingly been pro-Saudi Conservative MP Daniel “For me it was important that it fought through attempts to infl uence Kawczynski, who received £15,000 was not Saudi or Emirati government the media. from Akta for helping to prepare the money,” he said. “I would have to reg- Saudi Arabia has repeatedly called conference, and the British Monar- ister with my justice ministry as a for- for Qatar to shut down its Al Jazeera chist Society’s Thomas J Mace-Arch- eign agent, even if that government news network, while Qatar has ac- er-Mills — a regular royal pundit who paid Jaimie Fuller and he paid me ... I cused Saudi Arabia of pirating its was recently exposed as an American looked at it pretty hard and I’m per- multi-billion-dollar live sports TV from upstate New York. suaded there was no Saudi or Emirati network. Fuller did not directly comment on money.” Last year, the Intercept obtained whether al-Hail or Akta helped or- When contacted for comment, al- documents which suggested the UAE ganise his conference but said a major Hail suggested that the Guardian was planned a fi nancial war on Qatar and share of the money came “from an in- taking part in an “orchestrated at- campaign to force it to share the 2022 dividual funder who has made it a con- tempt to fabricate a story against me”. World Cup with its neighbours. dition of funding support that their When a detailed set of points were A spokesperson for Collins said the identity not be disclosed”. put to his lawyer, including sugges- MP appeared on the panel as a favour: “They have signifi cant private tions that al-Hail was involved in or- “Damian received no payment for wealth derived personally and there is ganising the conference and questions speaking at the event, was not involved no funding from any state or govern- about whether he had ever received in its organisation and was invited by ment, and I have not been presented fi nancial assistance from either the Jamie Fuller who Damian has worked with any evidence to the contrary,” Saudi or UAE governments, he de- with for many years on the New FIFA Fuller added. clined to comment. Now campaign.” He said that he had been invited to Some individuals involved in the The Qatari authorities have raised help with the conference late in the day event speculated that Fuller was concerns about the event’s funding as a “means of launching” his founda- “duped” into hosting it. with some of the speakers. tion, by which time “many logistical Rabinowitz described him as “a to- Rabinowitz, however, said it was arrangements were already in place”. tally righteous guy in everything he’s part of the inevitable geopolitical bat- Both the conference and last year’s done in sport” while the investiga- tle that followed Qatar’s successful bid Global Security and Stability event tive journalist Andrew Jennings, who to host the biggest event in football. – received PR support from Rabinowitz, appeared at the conference, vouched Guardian News & Media Gulf Times 6 Tuesday, July 17, 2018 QATAR Alfardan wins double at marketing awards night lfardan Premier Motors Co, Discovery and Discovery Sport, the offi cial retailer of Jag- while Jaguar’s range was repre- Auar Land Rover in Qatar, has sented by an award-winning line- been recognised with two awards up, featuring the Jaguar F-PACE, at Jaguar Land Rover Mena’s An- F-TYPE Coupé, Jaguar’s premium nual Retailer Marketing Confer- saloon range with the Jaguar XF ence. and XE models and the latest com- Alfardan Premier Motors re- pact SUV, Jaguar E-PACE. ceived two marketing awards in An extensive range of clothing front of their peers from across the and merchandise complemented Middle East and North Africa re- the display and gave visitors a full gion for the Best Jaguar Land Rover immersion into the Jaguar and Event in 2017/2018 and the Best Land Rover lifestyle experience. Jaguar Land Rover Social Media This award was judged on its Content produced during the past creative approach to the activity, 12 months in the Mena region, the its seamless delivery, the number company said in a statement. of leads it generated, its brand ex- Hussein Adra, Marketing and posure and the relevance to the Customer Relationship manager brand, the statement noted. for Alfardan Premier Motors, ac- The award for Best Social Media cepted the awards and said: “These Content 2017/2018 was also pre- awards are recognition for the en- sented to Alfardan Premier Motors. tire team at Alfardan Premier Mo- Criteria for this award included tors and the hard work put in to quality of content in relation to ensure that Jaguar and Land Rover story and message delivered, im- remain the leading prestige brands ages, text and supporting captions in Qatar. Marketing through events and how they relate to Jaguar Land and the informed use of social me- Rover’s brand ethos, the relevance dia are incredibly powerful tools in Alfardan Premier Motors received two marketing awards for the Best Jaguar Land Rover Event in 2017/2018 to the local market and the per- the fi ercely competitive luxury au- and the Best Jaguar Land Rover Social Media Content produced during the past 12 months in the Mena region. formance of those results. tomotive market and we are proud Alfardan Premier Motors has to have been recognised for our in- in this region and these awards are ognise those that exceed the rigor- March 2018, which gave motoring been a key member of Jaguar Land novative work.” testament to our strong partner- ous standards we set for our retail fans a close-up look at their fa- Rover Mena’s retailer network, not Dr Benjamin Trespe, brand di- ship with them in Qatar. While partners.” vourite models from the Jaguar and only playing a major role in the rector, Jaguar Land Rover Mena we are immensely proud of all our The award for Best Event for Land Rover family. growth of the brands in Qatar but Region, added: “Alfardan Premier dealers throughout the Middle 2017/2018 was in recognition of Models on display included the also contributing to the overall Motors has shown its ongoing East and North Africa region, it is Alfardan Premier Motors’ dis- award-winning Range Rover Velar, success of Jaguar Land Rover with- commitment to Jaguar Land Rover always incredibly satisfying to rec- play of vehicles at Mall of Qatar in Range Rover Evoque, Land Rover in the region, the statement adds.

2005-2007 Jeep Winners of 2018 WISE Awards announced models recalled he Ministry of Economy and Commerce (MEC), in col- he World Innovation Sum- novative solutions. We are very Tlaboration with United Cars mit for Education (WISE), grateful to our WISE Awards jury Almana (aftersales), dealer of Jeep Tan initiative of Qatar members, who did a thorough job vehicles in Qatar, has announced the Foundation (QF), has announced in evaluating the projects.” recall of Jeep Cherokee models of the six winners of the 2018 WISE To be selected as WISE Awards 2005-2007 over the rear suspension Awards, recognising and pro- winners, educational projects are lower control arms. moting innovative projects from required to show that they are In a statement yesterday, the min- across the world that address established and innovative, and istry said the recall campaign came global challenges in education. to have already demonstrated a within the framework of its ongoing The 2018 WISE Awards win- transformative impact on indi- eff orts to protect consumers and en- ners are Safe Spaces Clubs for viduals, communities, and so- sure that car dealers followed up on Girls, One Village One Pre- ciety within their context. They vehicle defects and repairs. School, Generation, Technology- must also be fi nancially stable, The MEC has said it will co-ordi- Based Deaf Education Pakistan, have a clear development plan, nate with the dealer to follow up on Partners for Possibility: 1001 and be scalable and replicable. the maintenance and repair works Nights Life Skills, and Citizen- The winning projects will be and communicate with customers to ship Education Programme. celebrated on September 22 at ensure that the necessary repairs are Projects selected through WISE@NY in New York, US. carried out. the annual WISE Awards tackle In addition to publicity and The ministry has urged all cus- pressing education issues such as networking opportunities, each tomers to report violations to its girls’ education, early childhood Generation, one of the 2018 WISE Awards winners. project will receive $20,000. Consumer Protection and Anti- education, the refugee crisis, The World Innovation Summit Commercial Fraud Department, cultural exchange, citizenship Stavros N Yiannouka, CEO of mix of education challenges from for Education was established by which processes complaints, in- values, youth employment, en- WISE, said: “This year, we re- around the world. QF in 2009. quiries and suggestions through the trepreneurship in disadvantaged ceived 413 applications for the “These projects demonstrate It is an international, multi- call centre: 16001, e-mail: info@ communities, deaf education, WISE Awards, and our rigorous that there are existing global or- sectoral platform for creative, mec.gov.qa, Twitter: @MEC_Qa- enhancing teacher motivation selection process has succeeded ganisations and individuals who evidence-based thinking, de- tar, Instagram: MEC_Qatar and the and stimulating critical and crea- in fi nding six excellent and inno- share our passion for tackling bate, and purposeful action in its mobile app for Android and iOS: tive thinking. vative projects tackling a diverse education challenges through in- education. MEC_Qatar

Salem al-Fouhaid, Public and Government Relation manager at Ibn Ajayan Projects, handed over the key to the winner. Asian Town shopping festival winners announced

bn Ajayan Projects has announced the The Asian Town Shopping Festival is a winners of the second draw for Asian three-month-long festival in which a to- ITown Shopping Festival 2018. tal of three cars and six Smart LED TVs, six The company said in a press statement mobile phones, six blenders and six home that Siraj Ahamad won a Suzuki Jimny 2018 theatre systems are being given away. in the raffl e draw held yesterday. A Mahindra XUV500 is the prize for car Salem al-Fouhaid, Public and Govern- winners in the third and last raffl e draw. ment Relations manager at Ibn Ajayan Ibn Ajayan Project is organising the shop- Projects, handed over the key to the winner. ping festival in Asian Town for the third Other winners have received prizes such time. as TV, mobile phone, home theatre and This year, for all those who make pur- blenders. chases for a minimum of QR50 from the of- All of them are Asian expatriates and fi cial participating shops in Plaza Mall and many of them are workers in the Industrial Cricket Stadium Complex can avail of cou- Area, the statement notes. pons for the raffl e draw.

Gulf Times 8 Tuesday, July 17, 2018 AFRICA

UNREST About 20 Nigerian soldiers ‘missing’ Eritrea reopens embassy in Addis Ababa after militant clash About 20 Nigerian soldiers are Reuters The leaders jointly raised the Eritrea formally seceded missing after a clash with Boko Addis Ababa Eritrean fl ag inside a newly re- from Ethiopia in 1993 after a Haram militants in the northeast furbished embassy as a military long battle for independence, of the country, security sources band played Eritrea’s anthem. but the two fought a border war said yesterday, though the military ritrea reopened its em- They then toured the build- in 1998 that claimed lives of at denied reports that some troops bassy in Ethiopia yes- ing and looked at its furniture least 80,000. could not be found. The con- Eterday in further evi- and two rusting cars that be- A peace deal was signed two frontation between militants and dence of a rapid thaw between longed to Eritrea’s last ambas- years later but Ethiopia re- troops took place on Saturday two countries that a week ago sador. fused to implement it, saying it in the Bama area of Borno, the ended two decades of military In a tweet Eritrea’s informa- wanted more talks. state worst hit by the militant stalemate over a border war in tion minister, Yemane Meskel The armies of both nations group which has killed more than which tens of thousands died. described the reopening of the have both been facing off across 30,000 people since 2009 when Ethiopia’s Prime Minister embassy as “yet another mile- their border since the war end- it launched an insurgency to cre- Abiy Ahmed and Eritrea’s Pres- stone in the robust and special ed and security dominates both ate a caliphate. Three soldiers told ident Isaias Afwerki re-opened ties of peace and friendship countries concerns. Reuters more than 20 were miss- the embassy in the capital Ad- both countries are cultivat- The rapprochement was set ing. “We lost some of our soldiers dis Ababa in a brief ceremony, a ing with earnestness in these in motion after Abiy in April in the attack. It is possible those Reuters witness said. momentous times.” Isaias later became Ethiopia’s prime min- missing are dead. We haven’t seen One week ago the leaders de- fl ew home, he said. ister. about 23 of them now,” said an clared their “state of war” over When Isaias came to Addis Abiy said he would ac- off icer who did not want to be and Isaias spent the weekend in Ababa on Saturday thousands cept and implement a bound- named. Another soldier involved Ethiopia. lined the main thoroughfare, ary commission’s ruling on the in the clash said the troops were The rapprochement could Bole Road, sporting T-shirts Eritrea border and implement ambushed while conducting a help Ethiopia, a landlocked emblazoned with the pictures sweeping political and eco- “clearance operation”, adding country of 100mn people with of both countries’ leaders. nomic reforms. that “over 20 soldiers have not the largest economy in East Af- The visit comes just days Abiy’s chief of staff , Fitsum been seen up till now”.He said five rica, by making access to Erit- after Abiy visited Eritrea and Arega, said in a tweet better military vehicles were taken. The rea’s ports possible. signed a pact with Isaias on re- ties “will create the ideal con- militant group carries out suicide At the same time, better ties suming ties, a move that ended ditions to address remaining bomb attacks in crowded places, could help Eritrea overcome a near 20-year military stand- strategic issues in the shared Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and President Isaias Afwerki of Eritrea (right) celebrate the opening such as markets, as well as gun decades of relative isolation. off after a border war. interest of the two nations.” of the Embassy of Eritrea in Ethiopia. raids and attacks on military bases. Gulf Times Tuesday, July 17, 2018 9 REGION/ARAB WORLD Israel hits Hamas posts in Gaza Strip

AFP rying fi rebombs that have been due to the fi rebombs. fi ghters in Gaza since a 2014 war Jerusalem launched from the blockaded That was signifi cantly less on Saturday. Gaza Strip since April. than the average of around 24 per Those Israeli air strikes were Gazan security sources and day that had been occurring re- partially in response to the n Israeli aircraft hit two residents said the strikes oc- cently, said fi re service spokes- months of fi res started by the Hamas posts in the Gaza curred in Beit Hanoun in the man Eli Cohen. kite fi rebombs, but also over AStrip yesterday in re- northern Gaza Strip and caused Later in the day, Israel said a continuing protests and clashes sponse to balloons carrying fi re- no injuries. projectile – possibly a rocket – along the Gaza border. bombs over the border fence to Israel’s army said the strikes was fi red from the Gaza Strip but Israel hit dozens of sites it burn Israeli farmland, the army targeted an area near where ar- appeared to have fallen within said belonged to fi ghters in the said. son balloons were launched. the Palestinian enclave. Gaza Strip on Saturday, killing The strikes signalled a tough- A spokesman for Israel’s fi re The strikes came after the two Palestinian teenagers, while er Israeli response to the hun- service said four fi res had been heaviest exchange of fi re be- around 200 rockets and mortars dreds of balloons and kites car- started inside Israel yesterday tween Israel and Palestinian were fi red at Israel from the Ha- mas-run enclave. Hamas announced a ceasefi re Palestinian children queue up before the early start of classes at a school in the Bedouin village of late Saturday, but Israeli Prime Khan al-Ahmar in the occupied West Bank, yesterday. Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said the kite fi res must stop. “I have directed the (military) to defeat and stop the terror of incendiary kites and balloons, Palestinian students scrap and we are in the midst of the process,” Netanyahu said yes- terday while visiting the city of Sderot, where four people were school holidays to save village wounded when a rocket hit a house on Saturday. AFP rarily suspending demolition here. My children were married “There is an exchange of Khan al-Ahmar plans, and the court plans to here.” blows here. It is not over in one hold another hearing by August The villagers say Khan al- go.” 15 at the latest, activists say. Ahmar has been located there Palestinians in Gaza see the nder the sun’s harsh European countries have ral- since 1952. kites and balloons as legitimate glare, dozens of stu- lied to support the villagers, It was established after resistance against Israel. Hamas Udents sing the Palestin- calling for demolition plans to Bedouins from the Jahalin tribe spokesman Sami Abu Zuhri said ian national anthem — begin- be cancelled. were, according to rights activ- “the Israeli occupation has ex- ning a new school year early “The fact that the students ists, expelled from the Negev aggerated the damage caused by as part of eff orts to keep their are at the school can prevent desert in the south after the the kites and balloons in order to village from being demolished. the decision from being carried creation of Israel in 1948. justify its aggression on Gaza”. The students of Khan al-Ah- out because they are going to Israeli authorities now want “The Israeli occupation would mar went back to their village see that there are classes, life, to relocate them to an area near be playing with fi re if its war- school in the occupied West people,” said Ghadir Darsya, Abu Dis in the West Bank, but Palestinian artists display artwork in the yard of the damaged Arts and Crafts Village, which was hit by planes targeted kite fl yers,” he Bank yesterday, while Israeli who has taught in Khan al-Ah- the villagers are refusing, say- Israeli air strikes two days before, in Gaza City, yesterday. said. authorities seek to evict them. mar for three years. ing that the site is near a dump “We are starting the school “No one knows what’s going and in an urban environment year earlier because the Israe- to happen,” she added, while where their animals cannot CRITICISM lis want to destroy the school,” sorting books with her col- graze. said Amani Ali, 11. leagues amid the sound of chil- For Eid Abu Khamis, a village Khamenei slams “So when they come to de- dren’s voices from an adjacent spokesman, forced eviction of Saudi over Top photographer ‘dies in Syria jail’ molish it, we will be here.” playground. Bedouins throughout the area Israel says the Bedouin vil- The school was constructed would put in peril the possibil- management lage, located in a strategic spot in 2009 with the support of ity of a future Palestinian state. of pilgrimage AFP years old. “There’s noth- That same year, Saied won a east of Jerusalem near Israeli NGOs and the European Union. If they are replaced with Is- Beirut ing harder than writing these photography competition run settlements and on the road to Largely built with tyres, sand raeli settlers, Khamis and rights Iran’s top authority Supreme words, but Niraz doesn’t die in by the United Nations’ Pales- the Dead Sea, was constructed and mud, it serves 170 students groups say the West Bank could Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei silence,” wrote Alkhateeb, who tinian agency (UNRWA) with illegally and is seeking to move from various Bedouin villages, be cut in two, dividing the half has criticised Saudi Arabia over n award-winning Pales- lives in Germany. a snapshot titled “The Three its 191 residents elsewhere. according to the principal. north of Jerusalem from the its management of the Haj tinian-Syrian photogra- “They killed my darling, Kings.” The residents of the vil- “There are about 50 families southern one. pilgrimage and called for a fresh Apher who documented my husband, my Niraz — they It depicted the downtrod- lage point out that it is nearly with many children. Where are Israeli rights group B’Tselem investigation into a 2015 crush life in the Yarmuk refugee camp killed you, my soul. Niraz died den faces of three brothers impossible for Palestinians to they going to go?” said Darsya. says around 180 communities that killed hundreds, Iranian state in southern Damascus has died in the Syrian regime’s prisons,” waiting to be evacuated from obtain building permits from The rest of the village is are threatened with eviction in TV reported yesterday. after nearly three years in re- she wrote. the camp for medical treat- Israeli authorities in around 60 made up of homes of metal the West Bank. The criticism comes ahead of this gime detention, his partner It was not clear how Alkha- ment. % of the West Bank where they sheets, cardboard and wood, B’Tselem spokesman Amit year’s Haj and amid tension. said yesterday. teeb had learned of Saied’s “You can’t find a complete maintain full control. as is common in such Bedouin Gilutz says Israel has for dec- Riyadh says nearly 800 pilgrims died Niraz Saied, who himself death, and she did not immedi- family in the refugee camp,” On May 24, Israel’s supreme communities. ades pursued a policy of trying when two big groups of pilgrims hailed from the Palestinian ately respond to AFP’s request Saied said after winning the court allowed authorities to go “We are always afraid. I can- to evict Palestinians from the collided at a crossroads in Mina, a few camp, was arrested by security for additional comment. award. ahead with demolition of the not sleep at night,” said Raya part of the West Bank where it kilometre east of Makkah, on their forces in October 2015. Their relationship had “I used to feel that in every small hillside village that sits Jahalin, as her grandchildren exerts full control. way to performing the “Stoning of the His longtime partner, Lamis formed part of the 2014 film portrait of a Palestinian fam- between a highway, the desert played on a large carpet behind It has sought to avoid forced Devil” ritual at Jamarat. Alkhateeb, wrote on Facebook Letters from Yarmuk, which ily you could see the shadow and two Israeli settlements. her that serves as a living room transfers, he said, but applies Counts by countries of repatriated yesterday that Saied had died featured clips filmed by Saied of a person missing, and that Since then, two new court devoid of furniture. enough pressure on the villag- bodies showed over 2,000 people while in detention. of daily life in the battered, is why my photos are dimly challenges have been fi led on “It is our land. I have lived ers in hopes that they fi nally may have died, including more He was believed to be 27 besieged camp. lit.But there is always hope.” behalf of the village, tempo- here for 50 years. I was born decide to leave on their own. than 400 Iranians. “A fact-finding committee, with Iran’s presence, should be formed to investigate these cruelties. Relevant Iranian authorities should mobilise all legal resources to Army captures strategic follow up the tragedy,” Khame- Protesters at gas fi eld nei said in a speech to Iran’s Haj organisers. “The holy lands belong hill overlooking border to all Muslims...it does not belong to rulers of Saudi Arabia,” said Khamenei. Iran boycotted the Haj want jobs, better services Reuters to force them to surrender in a in 2016 amid tensions with Saudi Amman strategy that offers rebels the Arabia over the incident. choice of either evacuating to About 90,000 Iranians attended Reuters opposition-held areas or being the pilgrimage last year. Iran also Basra he Syrian army and its al- recruited into state-run mili- boycotted the Haj for three years lies have taken control of tias.The army said the rebel- after 402 pilgrims, including 275 Ta strategic hill overlook- held towns of Qusaiba, Sweisa Iranians, died in clashes with Saudi bout 200 protesters ing the Israeli-occupied Golan and Ain Teineh had raised the security forces at an anti-US and gathered at the main Heights as it pushes forward national flag, but rebel sources anti-Israel rally in Makkah in 1987. Aentrance to Iraq’s Siba with an off ensive to seize the re- said these towns were being natural gas fi eld yesterday, maining parts of the southwest bombarded into submission. police sources said, following from rebels, state tv and rebels The violence is taking place DISCLOSURE more than a week of unrest said yesterday. a few kilometres away from the World’s oldest over poor services sweeping It said the army had taken line marking the start of the southern cities amid political control of Al-Haara hill on the United Nations Disengagement bread found at uncertainty. second day of an off ensive to Observer Force zone, an area Jordan site Growing anger has put a take back the last parts of south- monitored by a UN force since spotlight on the performance west Syria in Quneitra province 1974 in the wake of the Arab- Charred remains of a flatbread of Prime Minister Haider al- that are in rebel hands and are Israeli War. baked about 14,500 years ago Abadi, who is seeking a second close to the border with Israel. Israel has threatened a in a stone fireplace at a site in term after a May 12 parliamen- The hilltop, which had a major “harsh response” to any at- northeastern Jordan have given tary election, which refl ected anti-aircraft radar base that was tempt by Syrian forces to de- researchers a delectable surprise: widespread discontent over part of elaborate Syrian army ploy in that zone. people began making bread, a hardships and corruption. defences against Israel, and is Israel does not want Iran and vital staple food, millennia before The crumbling oil hub of the highest ground in Deraa Hezbollah, both allies of Syr- they developed agriculture. No Basra and others parts of the province, fell into rebel hands in ian President Bashar al-Assad, matter how you slice it, the discov- south have long been neglect- October 2014. who are well entrenched in that ery detailed yesterday shows that ed, fi rst by dictator Saddam Iraqi protesters block the road during a protest in the south of Basra, yesterday. It has been heavily bombed by area, to move forces near its hunter-gatherers in the Eastern Hussein and then other gov- Russian and Syrian army raids border. Mediterranean achieved the cul- ernments after him. Similar porarily halting air traffi c. ers here sitting jobless and can limping economy and push up in the past two days as the army US President Donald Trump tural milestone of bread-making protests have occurred in the Abadi has announced that hardly give food to our chil- global oil prices. has moved closer to the Israeli said at a news conference with far earlier than previously known, past. his caretaker government dren,” said Salim Khasbawi, Anger is mounting at a time border after gaining control of Russian President Vladimir more than 4,000 years before This time the unrest is more would release funds for water, who is unemployed. Residents when politicians are strug- most of Deraa province to the Putin yesterday in Helsinki plant cultivation took root. The widespread and demonstra- electricity and health serv- of the southern oil-exporting gling to form a government east in a push that began last that both had agreed to work flatbread, likely unleavened and tors have for the fi rst time at- ices in Basra, once dubbed the city of Basra have gathered at after the election, which was June, according to rebels and a together to help ensure Israel’s somewhat resembling pita bread, tacked provincial government “Venice of the Middle East” the main gate to three major marred by allegations of fraud war monitor. security. Putin cited the need to was fashioned from wild cereals headquarters and even build- for its network of canals. oil fi elds — West Qurna 1, West that prompted a recount. A Syrian army source quoted restore the situation along the such as barley, einkorn or oats, ings belonging to powerful Yesterday’s demonstration Qurna 2 and Rumaila. The political bloc led by by state media said the army Golan borders to the state that as well as tubers from an aquatic paramilitary groups. has not aff ected operations at Local offi cials said dem- populist cleric Moqtada al- had made territorial gains in prevailed before the outbreak papyrus relative, that had been Three demonstrators have Siba, which is run by Kuwait onstrations have not aff ected Sadr came fi rst in the elec- Quneitra province where it of the Syrian crisis in 2011. ground into flour. It was made by been killed in clashes with se- Energy PLC, Siba offi cials said. crude production in Basra, tion after promising to ease seized the town of Mashara, Ahead of the summit, Israeli a culture called the Natufians, who curity forces and dozens were “We have demonstrated whose shipments account for poverty, create jobs and fi ght about 11km (7 miles) from the Prime Minister Benjamin Netan- had begun to embrace a seden- wounded. near the fi eld to press the com- more than 95% of Opec pro- corruption. There have been Golan frontier. Rebels said yahu met Putin in Moscow and tary rather than nomadic lifestyle, In a rare move, protesters pany to give us jobs. We are ducer Iraq’s state revenues. no reports of attacks directed Russian and Syrian jets in- on Sunday spoke to Trump about and was found at a Black Desert stormed the international air- living nearby and watching Any disruption could have a against Sadr’s political bloc or tensively bombed a string of Iran and Syria and thanked him archaeological site. port in Najaf, a holy city, tem- every day hundreds of work- severe impact on the country’s followers. rebel-held towns in Quneitra for his tough stance on Iran. Gulf Times 10 Tuesday, July 17, 2018 AMERICAS

PIGEON WORKS! CIVIL STRIFE POLITICS ON THE RUN NABBED 10 more die in violent Ex-Farc leader Marquez Former Pinochet colonel DNA leads to suspect in Nicaragua protests declines to take Senate seat captured in Argentina 30-year-old murder case

Nicaraguan police and paramilitary groups Colombian former Farc guerrilla commander Argentina says it has captured a former Chilean An Indiana man was charged yesterday with loyal to President Daniel Ortega killed at Ivan Marquez said yesterday he will not take his army colonel convicted of crimes against sexually assaulting and murdering an 8-year- least 10 people on Sunday, a human rights seat in the Senate this week to protest the arrest humanity during the dictatorship of Augusto old girl in 1988, police said, a day after they said association said, as the death toll from violent of fellow rebel Jesus Santrich and changes to the Pinochet. Sergio Francisco Jara Arancibia he had confessed to the crime. John Miller, 59, clashes in the Central American country peace accord he said betrayed and disfigured was “one of Chile’s most wanted fugitives of Grabill, Indiana, appeared briefly in court in continues to rise. The people were killed when it. Marquez and another nine former leaders of over murders committed in 1973” Argentina’s Fort Wayne to face charges of murdering April government forces attacked the community the Farc were due to be sworn in to congress ministry of security and the nation said, Tinsley, off icials said. DNA evidence and records of Monimbo and nearby city of Masaya, about on Friday as part of a peace agreement signed announcing the retired military leader’s arrest on publicly accessible genealogical websites 25km southeast of the capital, Managua, said in 2016 that put an end their part in a five- in Mar del Plata, some 400km to the south of helped investigators track down the suspect, Alvaro Leiva of the Nicaraguan Association decade conflict. Benkos Bioho, another former the capital Buenos Aires on the Atlantic coast. the Fort Wayne, Indiana, police department said for Human Rights. “We are talking about more Farc fighter, will take his seat instead. Marquez “The detainee will be extradited to Chile,” said in a court filing on Sunday. Tinsley’s mother Tina Trachtenberg, also known as ‘Mother than 10 deaths at this time,” Leiva told a local blamed changes to the original peace agreement the ministry. Jara Arancibia had been “on the reported her missing from her family home Pigeon’ works on stuff ed pigeon sculpture she television station. The government could not and failure to allow the group to transform to run for more than a year” and was the subject on April 1, 1988. Investigators found her body sells at Union Square in Manhattan, New York. immediately be reached for comment. legal politics as the reasons for his decision. of an international arrest warrant. three days later, about 32km away. Lawmakers ‘Walk for water’ slam ‘weak’ Trump on Putin meet

Reuters works as part of the interference in the elec- Washington tion campaign. Senate Democratic Leader Charles Schum- er said Trump’s approach in Helsinki was un- ome prominent Republican and Demo- precedented for a leader of the United States. cratic members of the US Congress “For the president of the United States to Syesterday strongly criticised President side with President Putin against American Donald Trump for failing to deliver a strong law enforcement, American defence offi - warning to Russian President Vladimir Putin cials, and American intelligence agencies is about meddling in American elections, say- thoughtless, dangerous, and weak,” Schumer ing Trump has sent a message of weakness to said. Moscow. Another Republican senator, Jeff Flake, on Senator Lindsey Graham, a senior Republi- Twitter called Trump’s words “shameful.” can and member of the Senate Armed Serv- “I never thought I would see the day when ices Committee, said of Trump’s performance our American President would stand on the at a press conference with Putin following stage with the Russian President and place their summit in Helsinki: “Missed opportu- blame on the United States for Russian ag- nity by President Trump to fi rmly hold Russia gression. This is shameful,” Flake wrote. A group of women representing WaterAid’s NYC ‘Walk for Water’, make their way through midtown New York to show the daily lives of their accountable for 2016 meddling and deliver a Trump also said that he holds both the peers in developing countries, by “walking for water” through the busy streets of New York. Each woman, is representing a country where strong warning regarding future elections. United States and Russia responsible for years many people do not have clean water close to home, and will carry a yellow bucket that holds 20 litres which is a typical amount of water This answer by President Trump will be seen of strained relations, which he said he is now carried by women in countries where access to water is an issue. by Russia as a sign of weakness and create far trying to improve. more problems than it solves.” Washington imposed sanctions on Mos- Republican Trump, standing alongside Pu- cow after Russia’s 2014 annexation of Crimea tin in front of reporters, said he saw no rea- from Ukraine as well as for cyber attacks on son to believe Russia had hacked the 2016 US the American electoral process. election to help him win and that Putin “was Republican Representative Justin Amash, extremely strong and powerful in his denial an outspoken conservative, said on Twitter: today.” “A person can be in favor of improving rela- ACLU wants to bar govt from mass On Friday, a US special counsel announced tions with Russia, in favor of meeting with indictments of 12 Russian spies on charges Putin, and still think something is not right of hacking Democratic Party computer net- here.” deportations of reunited families ‘Trump baby’ blimp could soon fly in New Jersey

The blimp portraying Donald Trump as a said he sought to bring the blimp to the United By Tom Hals, Reuters not turn even worse because par- ing on “persistent and increasing submitted a fuller plan for reunit- snarling baby that flew over London last week States because “he mention(ed) he does not feel San Diego ents made an uninformed decision rumours” of rapid deportations, ing families by the deadline. during the US president’s European tour could welcome with the Baby Trump in display and we about the fate of their child,” the which it said the US government The government has said it has soon be in New Jersey’s skies after activists need to get under his skin as much as we can.” ACLU wrote in a fi ling with a San has not denied. reunited all of the roughly 60 eli- said they had raised enough money to bring it During his first off icial visit to the United he US government should be Diego federal court. The US Department of Home- gible children under 5 with their to the United States. Kingdom, Trump said he avoided London barred from quickly deport- The ACLU has used the case land Security did not immediately parents, although it failed to do so Anti-Trump activists by mid-day yesterday due to the blimp and the tens of thousands of Ting immigrant parents who to challenge a policy of President respond to a request for comment. by the court-imposed deadline of had raised more than $8,000 on GoFundMe. protesters that took to the streets to decry his are reunited with their children Donald Trump’s administration Many of the immigrants separat- July 6. com, more than the $4,500 they said they policies. “I guess when they put out blimps to because doing so could violate the to separate families as part of a ed from their children were seeking Attention has now turned to had needed to get the diaper-wearing helium make me feel unwelcome, no reason for me children’s rights to seek asylum, a broader crackdown on illegal im- asylum after fl eeing violence and reuniting the much larger group of balloon to Bedminster, New Jersey, home of to go to London,” the Sun newspaper quoted rights group said yesterday. migration. crime in Guatemala, El Salvador children, those aged 5 to 17. the Trump National Golf Club that the president Trump as saying. The government is working to The president ordered the prac- and Honduras. A government plan fi led with regularly visits. Trump yesterday met Russian President meet a court order to reunite by tice stopped on June 20 after wide- Children were sent to multiple the court on Sunday calls for the Organizer Didier Jiminez-Castro said he hoped Vladimir Putin, capping a European visit in July 26 around 2,500 immigrant spread public outcry. care facilities across the country, Health Department to move the the balloon would spur enthusiasm for Demo- which he criticised Nato allies’ military spending children who were separated by Judge Dana Sabraw of the US and their parents were incarcer- children to eight locations operated cratic candidates in November’s congressional and embarrassed British Prime Minister Theresa US immigration offi cials from their District Court for the Southern ated in immigration detention cen- by US Immigration and Customs elections. “Baby Trump will give that punch, that May by saying she refused to take his advice parents at the US-Mexican border. District of California in San Diego tres or federal prisons — in keeping Enforcement (ICE) in coming days, energy that we need for the midterms — it’s going about Britain’s exit from the European Union. The American Civil Liberties ordered on June 26 that children with the government’s “zero toler- possibly requiring working round- to get people out of the house,” Jiminez-Castro It’s unclear whether Trump will actually see Union, which brought the case that should be returned to their parents ance” policy under which all adults the-clock, according to an opera- said in a phone interview. the blimp since the Federal Aviation Admin- led to the reunifi cation order, said within specifi ed deadlines, and has crossing the border illegally would tion plan submitted to the judge. He told New Jersey media he expects the istration places flight restrictions on airspace in court papers yesterday that im- been overseeing the process. face prosecution. ICE and the Offi ce of Refugee blimp to be in Bedminster, a suburb about over Bedminster whenever the president visits. migrant parents should be given a In its fi ling, the ACLU said par- Sabraw chastised the govern- Resettlement will verify parentage 56km west of New York City, by mid-August. An FAA spokesman referred questions to the week after being reunited to decide ents must determine if their child ment on Friday for asserting that and screen adults to weed out those He urged donors to share extra funds with @ US Secret Service. Secret Service off icials did if they want to be deported alone or should remain in the United States pressure from the court to expedite with serious criminal backgrounds babytrumptour, which got requests for a blimp not respond to a request seeking comment. as a family. to pursue their own asylum claim, reunifi cations could put children at or other issues that could endanger visit from more than 300 US cities, including St Bedminster Township Administrator Judy “A one-week stay is a reason- but that decision requires time to risk. children. Louis and Austin, Texas. Sullivan said there are no local permits re- able and appropriate remedy to en- discuss with a lawyer or advocate The US Department of Health Once verifi cation is complete, On the GoFundMe page, Jiminez-Castro quired to fly a blimp. sure that the unimaginable trauma for the child. and Human Services, which has parents and children will be reu- these families have suff ered does The rights group said it was act- custody of the children, has since nited.

Comments by former clerks may backfi re on Trump’s Supreme Court nominee

Reuters derail his nomination in the US porters, often trying to shore up Many secured prestigious and enforcing restrictions on Walker talked up Kavanaugh’s some of the comments by Ka- Washington Senate. support among conservatives. Supreme Court clerkships af- abortion.” conservative credentials on Fox vanaugh’s clerks. Trump named Kavanaugh, 53, Their comments may have ter working for Kavanaugh and Democrats have raised the News ahead of the nomination. “I think that is really striking. on July 9 to replace retiring Jus- helped Kavanaugh’s cause before subsequently landed jobs at law possibility that the Supreme “He is a warrior with a back- We would not have used clerks hen it became clear tice Anthony Kennedy. Trump nominated him by push- fi rms, law schools and in govern- Court, with Trump’s appoint- bone of iron,” Walker told Fox, to talk about a judge’s judicial that President Donald Before he can assume the life- ing back on complaints by some ment. ment of a second justice in Ka- also calling Kavanaugh “a fi ghter philosophy,” said Kang, who WTrump was seriously time job on the nine-member conservatives that the judge One clerk, Sarah Pitlyk, vanaugh, could overturn the for conservative legal principles” now works for Demand Justice, considering nominating Brett court, the Senate must vote to would not lean far enough to the wrote a piece for the conserva- landmark 1973 ruling legalizing who would not “go wobbly” if a liberal group that opposes Ka- Kavanaugh to the US Supreme confi rm him. right on social issues like abor- tive National Review a week abortion nationwide. appointed to the Supreme Court. vanaugh’s nomination. Court, the conservative judge’s No date has yet been set for the tion as well as on a conservative before the nomination was an- Conservatives had advocated “I felt like his record was being Supreme Court nominees rou- former law clerks swung into ac- customary Judiciary Committee legal challenge to the Obamacare nounced in which she touted a broad view of religious liberty misrepresented,” Walker said in tinely try to avoid being pinned tion as among his most energetic confi rmation hearings. healthcare law. Kavanaugh’s “clear, consistent and free speech. an interview, adding that he was down during confi rmation hear- public cheerleaders. Kavanaugh has served for 12 But the chief threat to Trump’s and rock solid record on the is- Another clerk, Justin Walker, speaking only about Kavanaugh’s ings on how they would rule on But in making the case for him years on an infl uential federal ap- nominee now is the Democratic sues that matter most to social wrote an article in another con- approach to the law, not his poli- given issues, especially contro- in the media on issues includ- peals court in Washington. campaign to block Kavanaugh’s conservatives.” servative publication, The Fed- tics. versial ones like abortion. ing his stance toward abortion, Several of the 48 lawyers who confi rmation in a Senate in which Pitlyk, who could not be eralist, defending Kavanaugh Christopher Kang, who worked But some of the comments healthcare and an expansive view served as his clerks — a year-long the president’s fellow Republi- reached for comment, said that against criticism from the right in the Obama White House and made by clerks, Kang said, will of religious liberty, they may have job working for a judge, usually cans hold a slim 51-49 majority. “no court of appeals judge in the about a 2011 opinion he wrote helped with the nominations of “make it harder” for Kavanaugh opened up lines of attack on Ka- straight out of law school — ap- Of the 48 clerks, 34 signed a nation has a stronger more con- concerning Democratic former liberal Supreme Court Justices to fend off questions about vanaugh by Democrats and lib- peared on cable TV shows, wrote letter calling for the Senate to sistent record” than Kavanaugh President Barack Obama’s 2010 Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Ka- whether he will rule conserva- eral advocacy groups seeking to opinion articles and spoke to re- confi rm his appointment. on “protecting religious liberty healthcare law. gan, said he was surprised by tively on social issues. Gulf Times Tuesday, July 17, 2018 11 ASIA

Last body Australians in cave rescue in boat disaster given diplomatic immunity retrieved AFP Reuters there was an understanding Phuket Bangkok reached between the Thai gov- ernment and the Australian government,” Don added. hailand has recovered the hailand gave diplomatic “The Thai government would last body after a boating immunity to three Aus- like to thank Dr Harris.” Taccident killed dozens of Ttralians who helped a A spokeswoman for Aus- Chinese tourists this month off the boys’ soccer team escape from tralia’s department of foreign southern resort island of Phuket. a fl ooded cave, in case “some- aff airs and trade declined to The Phoenix was carrying 105 thing went wrong”, its foreign comment. people - mostly Chinese - when minister said yesterday. The success was tinged with it sank on the way back from a The 12 boys of the “Wild bitterness, however, as Har- popular snorkelling spot on July 5. Boars” soccer team and their ris learnt his father, Jim, died Divers and the navy spent more coach are recovering from their in Australia shortly after the than a week retrieving bodies, ordeal and are to be discharged three-day rescue was complet- some from inside the boat, as out- on Thursday from a hospital in ed last week. raged relatives waited for news. the northern town of Chiang Rai. Harris, an anaesthetist, went Phuket’s public relations de- Dozens of foreign divers and into the Tham Luang cave to as- partment said in a statement late rescue personnel joined the sess the boys’ health and was Sunday that the “last body of the 17-day rescue that captivated one of the last rescuers out of dead from the Phoenix boat ac- people around the world. the cave after the boys, aged cident” was recovered that night. But immunity was granted 11 to 16, and their 25-year-old “All missing found,” the state- only to Australian doctor Rich- coach were brought to safety. ment added, putting the fi nal ard Harris and two medical as- There have been reports the death toll at 47. sistants, said Foreign Minister boys were sedated for their trip A minute’s silence was held for Don Pramudwinai. out through narrow, fl ooded pas- the victims at a ceremony attend- “Doctor Richard Harris did sageways, though offi cials said ed by the Chinese ambassador. his utmost on the medical mis- only that some had been given The Phoenix was among three sion he was responsible for, medicine to calm their nerves. vessels which ignored a bad but if something went wrong The soccer team was explor- weather warning against day trips he needed protection,” he told ing the cave on June 23 when to the islands around Phuket. Reuters. monsoon rains trapped them Mourners attend the funeral of former Thai navy diver, Samarn Kunan, who died during the rescue mission for the 12 boys of the “Wild The disaster was one of the “We provided this only to Dr deep inside the 10km (6-mile Boars” soccer team and their coach, near the Tham Luang cave complex, in the northern province of Chiang Rai, yesterday. worst boating accidents in recent Richard Harris and two medical mile) cave complex. history in Thailand, which has a assistants. Only to the Austral- Thai navy SEALs and an in- Thais have fl ooded social me- Samarn Kunan, 38, a former ering oxygen tanks in the cave, The boys wiped away tears poor safety record despite being ian medical team,” he said. ternational team of cave-div- dia with grateful messages for member of Thailand’s elite was cremated on Saturday in a as they signed a portrait of Sa- heavily reliant on tourism. “We knew there were risks ing experts played a key role in mission participants, including SEALs unit. ceremony broadcast live on Thai marn, in photographs released But it received little interna- involved in this mission...so bringing them to safety. Harris and the only casualty, Samarn, who died after deliv- television. by the hospital on Sunday. tional attention compared to the dramatic rescue of 12 children and their football coach from a cave in northern Thailand. The country last year re- ceived 35mn tourists of whom EU warns Sri Lanka nearly 10mn were from China, Cave rescuer considering government statistics show. over death penalty

AFP carry out the fi rst execution in legal action against Musk Colombo 42 years after refurbishing the gallows. Truck kills Diplomats said they ex- AFP “absolutely no chance of episode with Musk “ain’t featuring technology from U ambassadors warned pected Sirisena to roll back the Bangkok working”. finished”. his space exploration firm Sri Lanka yesterday decision, but should the island 4 refugees Musk responded on Sunday Unsworth, who lives part of to evacuate the boys, and Eagainst ending its 42- go ahead it would lose prefer- in a bizarre series of tweets the year in Thailand, took travelled to Thailand with a year moratorium on capi- ential access for its exports to Reuters A British caver who helped referring to Unsworth, without part in the gargantuan 18-day prototype last Tuesday. tal punishment and said the the 28-member EU bloc. Dhaka rescue 12 boys from a Thai using his name, as “pedo guy”. eff ort to retrieve the 12 boys Musk’s tweets attacking island risked losing trade “If Sri Lanka resumes capi- cave said yesterday he may “Pedo” is short for paedophile. and their coach, a mission that Unsworth prompted concessions if it went ahead. tal punishment, Colombo will take legal action against Elon The entrepreneur doubled ended on July 10 when the last condemnation from those Last week President immediately lose the GSP- truck overturned in a Musk after the entrepreneur down on his claim, tweeting five members were extracted. who took part in the mission Maithripala Sirisena said re- Plus status,” an EU diplomatic Bangladeshi refugee camp called him a “pedo”. from his off icial account to The boys are all in good health to save the boys. peat drug off enders would source said. Afor Rohingya Muslims Tesla CEO Musk launched the more than 22mn followers: and expected to be released Claus Rasmussen, a Danish be hanged as part of a new EU diplomats have estimat- from Myanmar yesterday, killing extraordinary tirade against “Bet ya a signed dollar it’s from the hospital Thursday. national and instructor at Blue crackdown on narcotics. ed that Sri Lanka gains an es- at least four refugees, three from Vernon Unsworth without true”. The boys got stuck in the cave Label diving in Phuket, called “The diplomatic missions timated 300mn euro ($350mn) the same family, police said. providing any justification or Musk later deleted the tweets after wandering in on June 23 the allegations “inappropriate” have requested the president advantage annually thanks to The accident happened in explanation, after the cave and did not immediately after football practice only to and praised Unsworth’s role in to maintain the moratorium the GSP-Plus system. Cox’s Bazar, next to Myan- expert slammed his off er of respond to a request for find themselves trapped by the rescue. on the implementation of the Prison spokesman Thush- mar, and one of the dead was a a miniature submarine to comment through Tesla. rising floodwaters. “He was one of the driving death penalty and to uphold ara Upuldeniya said there were month-old baby, police said. extract the footballers from Unsworth said yesterday he They were found nine forces in getting everything Sri Lanka’s tradition of oppo- 373 convicts on death row in A truck carrying bamboo over- the Tham Luang cave as a “PR had not reviewed the tweets in days later on a muddy done and clarifying for us divers sition to capital punishment,” Sri Lanka, including 18 for turned near the Balukhali camp, stunt”. full and had only heard about embankment several what was going on,” he said. the EU ambassadors said in a serious drug crimes. home to thousands of Rohingya. The “Wild Boar” team were them. kilometres inside. Musk had earlier triggered joint statement. Death sentences are still Most Rohingya refugees live rescued last week by an But asked if he would take The unprecedented operation controversy after tweeting Police believe the Indian handed down for crimes in- in shacks made of bamboo and international team of divers legal action against Musk over to haul them out involved that the Thai rescue chief, who Ocean island is being used as a cluding murder, rape and plastic sheets that cling to steep, through a narrow network of the allegation, Unsworth said: sedating the footballers and had declined the submarine transit point by drug traffi ck- drug-related crimes, but the denuded hills in Cox’s Bazar. twisting, flooded tunnels. “If it’s what I think it is yes.” swimming and carrying them prototype off er, was not really ers. More than a tonne of co- last execution was in 1976. Their numbers have swelled Unsworth, who provided The caver said he would through tight, waterlogged in charge of the operation. caine seized in recent years was Nearly 900 people are current- since last August when an army mapping knowledge of the make a decision when he passages. “He’s just a PR stunt merchant destroyed by police in January. ly in prison after been sentenced operation in Myanmar, follow- cave to rescuers, said Musk’s flies back to the UK this Musk had proposed using – that’s all he is,” Unsworth The main Welikada prison to death, although many have ing Rohingya insurgents’ attacks prototype would have had week, but added that the “a tiny, kid-size submarine” said. said it was advertising this had their sentences commuted on security forces, prompted an week for two hangmen to to life or are appealing. exodus to Bangladesh.

Nepal to host 4th BIMSTEC summit EU warns of curbs Trial delayed for Australian from August 30 The 4th BIMSTEC Summit will be held in the Nepal capital on fi lmmaker jailed in Cambodia August 30 and 31, Nepal’s Ministry of Foreign Aff airs said yesterday. against Maldives “We have started preparations DPA to ensure the success of the Phnom Penh summit,” Nepal’s Foreign Minister Pradeep Gyawali told reporters. Nepal is the current chair of the rights violators he trial of an Australian BIMSTEC. journalist and fi lmmaker “It is an important regional Reuters ent and inclusive presidential presidential election set for Sep- Tjailed in Cambodia on gathering in Kathmandu after Colombo elections, the European Union tember 23 at which Yameen will espionage charges for more the promulgation of the new said. seek a second fi ve-year term. than a year has been postponed Nepalese Constitution and “This decision makes it pos- The opposition has accused for a month so that his new at- formation of the new government he European Union could sible, if the situation does not Yameen’s government of jailing torney can prepare his defence, in the Himalayan nation. The adopt sanctions ranging improve, to impose a travel ban its leaders who could challenge his son said yesterday. government attaches high Tfrom travel bans to as- and an asset freeze on relevant his re-election bid. Australian James Ricketson, 69, importance to the summit, for set freezes against those in the individuals and entities,” it said The government denies this. was detained in June 2017 while which we have formed several Maldives responsible for hu- in a statement, without identi- Already Nasheed has with- fl ying a drone over an opposition committees,” he said. man rights violations and un- fying any targets. drawn his candidacy in the Cambodia National Rescue Party India is actively rooting for dermining the rule of law in the The situation did not accord presidential election after the (CNRP) rally and charged with BIMSTEC as New Delhi has Indian Ocean island chain, the with principles of democratic national election commission collecting information that may already hosted its leaders at the bloc warned yesterday. rule and separation of powers, ruled him ineligible to run. undermine national defence. BRICS Outreach Summit in 2016 There has been political up- it added, warning that targeted The Maldives, home to He faces up to 10 years in in Goa. heaval in the Maldives since measures could be considered 400,000 people and best prison if convicted. The Bay of Bengal Initiative February, when President Ab- if the situation did not improve. known as a tropical paradise The CNRP was dissolved by for Multi-Sectoral Technical dulla Yameen imposed a 45-day Maldives government of- for tourists, has experienced court order last year and has James Ricketson arrives in Phnom Penh court for his continuing and Economic Co-operation state of emergency to annul a fi cials did not immediately re- political unrest since Nasheed been banned from participat- trial yesterday. (BIMSTEC) has as members Supreme Court ruling quashing spond to telephone calls from was forced to quit amid a police ing in the country’s upcoming seven nations of South Asia and the convictions of nine opposi- Reuters to seek comment. mutiny in 2012. elections on July 29. etson’s son, Jesse Ricketson, Ricketson apologised to long- Southeast Asia - Bangladesh, tion leaders, including the fi rst In Colombo, the British high Nasheed was convicted of The political party’s presi- said yesterday. time Prime Minister Hun Sen India, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, democratically elected leader, commission said the United terrorism charges in 2015 and dent was detained in Septem- His father remained in the for previous critical remarks, Thailand, Bhutan, and Nepal. Mohamed Nasheed. Kingdom was concerned over sentenced to 13 years in prison ber on widely criticised treason medical ward of Prey Sar prison writing that he realised his past As per a decision of the 6th Yesterday’s decision was a lack of judicial independence after a controversial and widely charges. in the capital Phnom Penh with “disrespectful comments” BIMSTEC Ministerial Meeting in direct follow-up to the Coun- in Maldives and the govern- criticised trial. Ricketson’s newly hired at- an undiagnosed chest com- about the government were Thailand in 2004, the summit cil’s conclusions of February 26 ment’s intention to reintroduce Allowed to leave the Maldives torney, Kong Sam Onn, needed plaint and other health condi- “disruptive and ill-informed.” should be held every two years, as that urged Yameen’s govern- the death penalty after a ban of on medical grounds in 2016, he additional time to study some tions, Jesse Ricketson said. The trial is scheduled to far as possible. However, till date, ment to engage with opposition more than 60 years. secured asylum in Britain and has 1,400 pages of case fi les and In a letter published by the resume on August 16, attorney summit meetings have been held leaders for credible, transpar- The move comes ahead of a lived in Sri Lanka since last year. build a defence strategy, Rick- Khmer Times last week, James Peung Yok Hiep said. only in 2004, 2008 and 2014. Gulf Times 12 Tuesday, July 17, 2018 AUSTRALASIA/EAST ASIA

Mob butchers hundreds of crocs in revenge attack

AFP a residential area, marched to Sorong the police station where they were told the breeder would pay compensation, he added. club-and-machete But the mob was not satis- wielding mob in Indo- fi ed and headed to the croco- A nesia butchered nearly dile farm armed with clubs, 300 crocodiles in an act of knives, machetes and shovels revenge after a local man was which they used to slaughter killed by one of the reptiles, some 292 crocs, ranging from authorities said yesterday. palm-sized babies to two- Images from the scene metre adults, authorities said. showed dozens of dead croco- Outnumbered police and diles lying on top of each other conservation offi cials said and covered in blood after the they were unable to stop the attack at a breeding farm in grisly attack. Papua province. Criminal charges may be The incident happened on laid, they said. Saturday following the funeral “For now we are still ques- of the 48-year-old man who tioning the witnesses,” said was killed after he entered an district police chief Dewa enclosure while looking for Made Sidan Sutrahna. grass to feed his livestock, police The bloody incident high- and conservation offi cials said. lighted the dangers of tres- “One of the crocodile farm passing into a breeding farm employees...heard someone and also raised concerns about screaming for help and ran its safety. to the scene where they saw “They have to make sure a person being mauled by a that the farm has good barri- crocodile,” said Basar Manul- ers and they need to step up Submerged and destroyed houses are seen near the site where river banks were broken along Suemasa river in Mabi town in Kurashiki, Okayama Prefecture. lang, head of Indonesia’s Nat- security with CCTV and se- ural Resources Conservation curity signs to warn people” of Agency in West Papua. the dangers, said Dwi Nugroho The man’s family and “hun- Adhiasto, programme manag- dreds” of other locals, angry er at the World Conservation over the farm’s location near Society’s Indonesia offi ce.

Fierce heatwave hits Najib to refi le lawsuits against top investigators

Reuters by his former mentor-turned- Japan fl ood recovery Kuala Lumpur foe, Mahathir Mohamed, who reopened an investigation into AFP with temperatures in Okayama 1Malaysia Development Ber- Tokyo hitting a high of 36.8C yesterday, ormer Malaysian pre- had (1MDB) after becoming compared to an average high of mier Najib Razak will fi le prime minister. 31C in the city. Ffresh civil suits against Najib’s initial suits came blistering heatwave On Sunday, local media re- three investigators of a multi- days before he was arrested smothered swathes of ported that three people had billion dollar scandal at state and charged over suspicious Afl ood-hit western Japan died and more than 2,000 were fund 1MDB, after he withdrew transactions at SRC Interna- yesterday, hampering clean-up sent to hospital across the nation his earlier applications against tional, a former unit of 1MDB. eff orts as survivors and relief due to heatstroke. them yesterday. Najib, who has consist- workers toil in stifl ing tempera- Television footage of the relief Najib and his family have ently denied any wrongdo- tures a week after devastating eff orts in western Japan showed faced intense scrutiny since a ing regarding 1MDB and SRC, inundations that killed more survivors and volunteers strug- shock defeat in a May election pleaded not guilty. than 200 people. gling to clear debris under the Tens of thousands of rescue intense sun. workers are still digging through The body of one victim cov- the debris for bodies after Ja- ered in a blue tarpaulin was car- pan’s worst weather-related ried from a destroyed house in disaster in over three decades, Aki, Hiroshima yesterday. Support for Turnbull which saw record downpours The scale of the toll from the spark fl ash fl ooding and land- fl oods has prompted questions slides across the region. about whether authorities were hits two-year high The toll of 219 is expected to properly prepared and acted ef- continue to rise, with at least 21 fectively. still missing, while the punish- Prime Minister Shinzo Abe Reuters ity at 48%, its highest since ing heatwave has pushed the has pledged support for survi- Sydney the 2016 general election, and thermometer above 35C and vors’ businesses, including to above opposition Labor leader raised fears for vulnerable peo- provide interest-free loans to Bill Shorten at 29%. ple. Some 4,700 survivors were farmers in the region. upport for Australia’s Turnbull’s popularity could forced to evacuate the disaster “I want to take concrete meas- Prime Minister Malcolm help the government’s chances area, where homes were reduced The damaged house of 51-year-old Kairyu Takahashi, an Okayama prefectural assemblyman, is seen in a ures to help people in the disas- STurnbull is at a two-year in the fi ve by-elections, one an- to rubble by the fl oods and land- flood aff ected area in Mabi town in Kurashiki, Japan. ter areas revive their livelihoods high, an opinion poll showed alyst said, despite Labor’s 51-49 slides. as quickly as possible,” Abe told yesterday, a boost for the cen- lead over the governing centre- Many remain in shelters, while rescue workers in the disaster tomi, a spokesman at the disas- cent days, sending temperatures his ministers and government tre-right government ahead of right Liberal-National coali- others have been left without zone of the dangers of heat- ter management department in surging just days after the record offi cials in Tokyo. a series of by-elections at the tion. “There will be some voters water supply. stroke. fl ood-hit Okayama prefecture, rainfall. The government has assessed end of July. that vote on preferred leader. Chief Cabinet Secretary “We are operating in tough told AFP. The country’s meteorological agricultural losses of at least The last Newspoll before the Turnbull will be pleased,” said Yoshihide Suga warned survi- conditions, with a severe heat- Sweltering summer weather agency has warned that the heat 48bn yen ($429mn), according July 28 by-elections showed Peter Chen, a political scientist vors, volunteers and the 64,000 wave in this region,” Koji Kuni- has swept across Japan in re- is “more severe” than normal, to Suga. Turnbull’s personal popular- at Sydney University. Artist highlights water contamination in China

Reuters ministration for Industry and Beijing Commerce. Drawing attention to social issues has been a staple of Chi- hinese artist Brother Nut na’s art scene since the 1980s, can point to some success propelling activist-artists like Cfrom his Beijing exhibit Ai Weiwei to global stardom, al- that used 10,000 bottles of yel- though it has become less preva- lowish water to raise awareness lent in recent years as the Com- of contaminated rural ground munist Party under President water, although it did not go Xi Jinping has been increasingly down so well with Beijing au- intolerant of any form of dissent. thorities. Residents of Xiaohaotu, where The central government ac- the average annual income is knowledges that years of unbri- about 10,000 yuan ($1,497), dled economic development has have complained for years about resulted in areas of the country local water pollution. with contaminated ground wa- A pedestrian Yang Ziyi drinks a bottle of polluted groundwater from They say the ground water, ter. Xiaohaotu county, Yulin of Shaanxi province, at a roaming exhibition used to farm and drink, was pol- While it has stepped up clean- by Chinese performance artist “Brother Nut,” in Beijing 798 art area. luted by the Sinopec gas project up projects in recent years, envi- launched in 2005. ronmental activists say aware- broken trademark regulations by To avoid breaking laws pro- Huabei oil-and-gas company, ness of the issue lags far behind using bottles labelled with the hibiting public gatherings, he the Sinopec subsidiary in charge that of air pollution, while en- popular Nongfu Spring brand. planned for an audience of 200 of the project, declined to com- forcement of quality standards When Brother Nut took the sheep. ment and referred Reuters to an is patchy. Chinese performance artist “Brother Nut” is seen with bottled polluted groundwater from Xiaohaotu remaining bottles and his ex- But he couldn’t fi nd a single online statement announcing “People have focused more county, Yulin of Shaanxi province, next to a mini van, which is used for a roaming exhibition. hibit on the road, local offi cials sheep and suspects local offi cials that drilling had been partly sus- on air pollution, because smog pounced to confi scate them, had moved them elsewhere. pended pending the outcome of is easy to spot. But not much at- he does not want to use his real exhibition in a narrow lane in tigation and oil giant Sinopec to saying he had parked illegally The legal department of Non- the environmental investigation. tention has been put on water,” name to “protect” himself. Beijing with shelves of the bot- partly stop drilling in a gas fi eld and was driving without a li- gfu, China’s largest bottled wa- The Xiaohaotu environmental said Brother Nut, who previous- So in June, he set out to change tles to mimic a supermarket. residents say is the source of the cence. ter company, declined to com- bureau found that the local water ly drew attention to air pollution things. Xiaohaotu residents say the contamination, Beijing authori- He even tried to organise a ment on the case. contained levels of heavy metals, by making a brick from smog He fi lled 10,000 bottles with water is contaminated with pol- ties took a dim view of the art heavy metal concert in Xiaoha- There were no immediate an- such as iron and manganese, that particles that he had collected water from the small county lutants. While that prompted the and confi scated most of the bot- otu on land he says was “deeply swers to calls to Nongfu public exceeded national standards by with a vacuum cleaner. of Xiaohaotu in northwestern environmental bureau covering tles. contaminated by heavy metals”, relations offi ce, the Xiaohaotu as much as 4.2 times. He uses a pseudonym and says Shaanxi province and set up an Xiaohaotu to launch an inves- They said Brother Nut had to raise awareness. government and the Beijing Ad- Its investigation continues. Gulf Times Tuesday, July 17, 2018 13 BRITAIN

OFFICIAL DECISION PLAN PEOPLE HEALTHCARE Man arrested over Trump Spaceport to be developed Johnson returns as TV presenter pays tribute paraglider protest freed in remote area of Scotland Telegraph columnist to NHS after health ordeal

A protester accused of flying a paraglider into a The government yesterday announced plans for its After resigning as foreign minister last week Richard Bacon has said he thought his life was no-fly zone set up to protect Donald Trump while first spaceport on a remote peninsula in north-west- over Prime Minister Theresa May’s compromise about to end and paid tribute to the NHS after he visited his Scottish golf course has been released ern Scotland as part of a major redevelopment of plan for Brexit, Boris Johnson is back at his old waking from a medically induced coma. The from custody. The man was arrested and charged its space industry. The government said it will invest job as a columnist at the eurosceptic Daily Tel- television and radio presenter was taken to on Sunday after allegedly piloting the paraglider in £2.5mn in a vertical launch spaceport for rockets egraph newspaper. “He’s Back,” the paper said hospital 11 days ago after falling ill on a flight to front of the Trump Turnberry hotel on Friday, trailing and satellites in Scotland’s sparsely populated Suth- on its front page yesterday. Johnson was named Britain from the US. He said yesterday the con- a banner reading: “Trump: well below par.” Police erland county. It will invest another £2mn in three foreign minister in July 2016 after playing a dition, initially diagnosed as pneumonia in both Scotland said the incident was being treated as a horizontal launch sites, saying it saw a potential leading role in the Brexit referendum campaign. lungs, was now being treated as an unidentified breach of the air exclusion zone in place for the US benefit to the economy of some £3.8bn over the He was forced to give up his regular columns, double chest infection. Describing his ordeal, president’s two-night stay. The 55-year-old man had next decade from the new space sites. “As a nation of which a spokesman said were “inappropriate” Bacon said on Twitter that he had nearly died Queen Elizabeth stands with The King and been due to appear at Ayr sheriff court yesterday. innovators and entrepreneurs, we want Britain to be for his new role. When he gave up the newspa- and added: “At one point I thought, this is it.” He Queen of the Belgians, Philippe of Belgium and But the Crown Off ice, which runs Scotland’s prosecu- the first place in mainland Europe to launch satellites per job he also had to renounce the salary of said that thanks to the NHS’s work he would be Queen Mathilde, in the grand corridor during tion service, said he had instead been released as part of our modern industrial strategy,” Business £275,000 that went with it for a more modest present for the health service’s 100th birthday their visit to Windsor Castle yesterday. pending further investigation. Secretary Greg Clark said. ministerial income of £143,789. in 30 years’ time. Migration to Tube station renamed Britain from EU falls to a four-year low

Guardian News and Media cember 2017 compared with London 249,000 in year to the end of December 2016, the figures showed. he number of people The number of non-EU citi- moving to the UK from zens coming to the UK for work- TEU countries has fallen to related reasons was 87,000, up the lowest level for four years, by 21,000 on the previous year, according to official figures. according to the data. Data from the Office for Na- The target of reducing net tional Statistics released yes- migration to the tens of thou- terday showed net long-term sands was set by David Cam- migration to the UK from the eron at the beginning of the EU was 101,000 in 2017 – the Conservative-Liberal Demo- lowest level since the year end- crat coalition government in ing March 2013. 2010, but the figure has never The figures showed the gov- been met. ernment remains a long way Sajid Javid, the home secre- from meeting its “objective” to tary, is thought to be reluctant Passengers wait at Southgate Underground Station, temporarily renamed as ‘Gareth Southgate’ in honour of England soccer team manager Gareth Southgate, in cut overall net migration to the to maintain a target that was London yesterday. tens of thousands. set when Theresa May was in But the continuing down- charge of the Home Office. ward trend will also concern In January, the home affairs business leaders and employ- select committee urged the ers, who have claimed the drop government to drop the target in immigration is costing the on the grounds that failing to economy billions of pounds a meet it “undermines” public year. trust. MPs on the committee Overall, the data showed also said fears about the scale of about 280,000 more people illegal immigration have grown came to the UK than left in 2017. because of a lack of official May bows to Brexit While net migration contin- data. ues to add to the UK popula- Appearing before the com- tion, the figure is down from mittee last week, Javid did not record highs recorded in 2015 endorse the figures. Asked and early 2016. whether the immigration target There has been a gradual in- was a “massive chain around crease in emigration since 2015 your neck” and whether he pressure in parliament to approximately 350,000. Im- wanted to ditch it, the home migration has stayed stable secretary smiled and replied: Reuters targeted her government’s taxes by Britain and the EU is on struggle is explaining its accept- border Trade) Bill, or customs at about 630,000, the report “Next question”. London customs legislation to try to a reciprocal basis, Brexit sup- ance of the demand that the EU bill, is unlikely to be the last that showed. The thinktank Global Britain toughen up her plans to leave the porters may have made May’s must collect tariff s on Britain’s May and her team will have to Net migration from countries claimed last week that the fall EU, but instead of facing them plan less sellable to the bloc. behalf, if London is to do the face. May had to fi ght hard to get outside the EU rose to 227,000, in immigration is already cost- rime Minister Theresa down and fuelling tensions, her May denied a suggestion in same. the agreement of Cabinet min- the highest level since Septem- ing the UK more than £1bn a May bowed to pressure spokesman said the government parliament that her Brexit plan The spokesman said that was isters at her Chequers country ber 2010. year. Pfrom Brexit supporters in would accept their four amend- was dead, and her spokesman met by the government’s pursuit residence earlier this month for The figures also appeared Diane Abbott, the shadow her Conservative Party yester- ments. said the decision to accept those of “a mechanism for the remit- her vision for Britain’s future to confirm reports from the home secretary, said: “As this day, accepting their changes to It was not clear the move would amendments were “consistent” tance of relevant tariff revenues”. ties with the EU. fruit-picking industry and so- data shows, the government’s a customs bill that underpins fundamentally change her plans with the white paper policy doc- But one expert, Anand Menon, It was then undermined by cial care employers that there net migration target is utterly Britain’s departure from the Eu- — the changes do little more than ument ministers agreed earlier professor of European politics the resignations of her Brexit has been a drop in the number misconceived. It has never been ropean Union. to put government policy into law, this month. and foreign aff airs at King’s Col- minister David Davis and foreign of people applying to come to met and the government’s most May, vulnerable in parliament her spokesman said — but it was “We’ve accepted the amend- lege London, said the relation- secretary Boris Johnson. the UK from within the EU. The recent efforts to meet it led to after losing her party’s major- a victory of sorts for those law- ments because we believe they ship could never be reciprocal. The plan, only a starting point number of EU citizens moving the Windrush scandal, and de- ity at an ill-judged election last makers who say May has betrayed are consistent with the approach “There is no way a govern- for the second phase of talks to look for work was 37,000, a porting our own citizens. year, has come under fi re from them on Brexit, the biggest shift in that we set out, and in a number ment white paper can stipulate with the EU, has come under fall of 18,000 on the previous “Like the ‘hostile environ- both wings of her party over a British trade and foreign policy for of cases it reinforces some of the that 27 other countries are go- fi re from other eurosceptic law- year and a continuing down- ment’, it’s clear to almost eve- hard-won Brexit plan, with one decades. messages that came in the white ing to collect our tariff s for us. It makers, who say the proposal to ward trend since June 2016. ryone except Theresa May that ex-minister calling it the “worst However, by hardening the paper,” the spokesman told re- makes no sense,” he said. keep close customs ties to the The net migration figure the net migration target should of all worlds”. language to emphasise that the porters. The battle over the amend- EU betrays her commitment for of 282,000 in the year to De- go.” Eurosceptic lawmakers had future collection of duties and Where the government might ments to the Taxation (Cross- a clean break with the bloc. Wimbledon cleaning ‘Swan Upping’ Two tarantulas ‘on the staff ‘take food from bins’ loose’ in Derbyshire Guardian News and Media Kristy Ludlam, an RSPCA in- London spector, said an “understandably Guardian News and Media ian revealed how Wimbledon AELTC. They are given no din- shaken” woman had found the baby London catering workers are paid the day ner, and no break until they fi nish spiders in Bateman’s Yard livery rate for working night shifts, and at about 10pm. wo tarantulas may be on stable’s car park in Somercotes last earn well below the London liv- “Many of us have been re- the loose in a village after Thursday and contacted the RSPCA leaning staff at Wim- ing wage. luctant to complain as we know Tthree of their babies were as she is terrifi ed of them. bledon claim they were A housekeeper who has worked the blame will be passed on to found abandoned in a car park. “It appears someone ran over Cforced to take food from at Wimbledon for three years a contractor in order to fi nd a The RSPCA said it had rescued two of the pots and the driver bins because they were given in- said: “In the last article about scapegoat, but the problem is in- the baby Brazilian bird-eating told the woman who called us he suffi cient money by the All Eng- FMC, a subsidiary of Compass, grained within the AELTC,” add- spiders after they were found thought he saw two larger spi- land Lawn Tennis Club (AELTC) the AELTC statement suggested ed a group of three housekeepers discarded in pots in Derbyshire. ders. No bodies were found, so to buy lunch and dinner while that they meet with companies who have worked at Wimbledon Inspectors said the contain- it is assumed they may have es- working. to discuss pay. The indication for the past two years. ers were run over by a vehicle in caped,” she said. The staff said they also had to we’ve got seems to be the oppo- “The club demands that the village of Somercotes but the “We collected all the pots and crouch in corridors during their site. The AELTC themselves de- housekeeping staff be seen and driver believes he saw two “larg- took them to a specialist who breaks, due to a lack of offi cial cide certain aspects such as who not heard. All other companies er spiders” possibly the parents found three baby arachnids in break areas and insuffi cient time gets how much money on their seem to have offi cial break areas – scuttling away. them, which he believes are bird- for breaks during the tourna- accreditation to buy food. while cleaning staff , who are all The tarantula is thought to be eating spiders – when he opened ment, which fi nished on Sunday. “Cleaning staff who regu- just students, are left crouching the Brazilian salmon pink bird- one pot a spider ran up his arm. Some housekeepers, who are larly work 15 hours a day receive in corridors behind bins. When eater, one of the world’s largest “He is keeping all the pots employed by LSS, a subsidiary of £11.50 (for food) and get a one- staff do fi nd somewhere to have a of the species with a leg span of warm and secure as there is a Compass, claim that AELTC pro- hour break a day. This is utterly break, facilities management from up to 25cm. possibility more eggs may hatch.” vides insuffi cient money on their insuffi cient and insulting espe- the club are swiftly on the scene to The spiders are partially pink and It is an off ence under the 1981 accreditation for food during cially while many staff working move them on like a pack of rats.” usually live on the forest fl oor in Wildlife and Countryside Act to their daily shifts, which regularly shorter hours and much less tax- Another housekeeper com- Brazil and eat insects, lizards, mice release or allow any non-native last 15 hours. ing jobs are receiving up to £30.” mented: “It’s not uncommon for and the occasional small bird. species to escape into the wild. Compass employs about 1,800 Housekeepers usually start the us to rely on chefs who are about Experts said the missing ta- The rescued spiders have been people at Wimbledon. It oper- day at 8am. They will be given to throw away food to give us Off icials record and examine cygnets and swans during rantulas may not survive long in taken to Arnold and Carlton vet- ates in 50 countries and also sup- an hour-long lunch break some something in the evening. I’ve the annual census of the Queen’s swans, known as ‘Swan English weather. Yet the unsea- erinary centre in Nottingham plies catering services to venues time between midday and 3pm, seen people pick packets of sushi Upping’, along the River Thames near Chertsey, Britain, sonably warm climate has led where they will be cared for until as diverse as oil rigs and school during which they can spend out of bins when it gets really late yesterday. to concerns they may roam for they are ready to be rehomed, the canteens. Last week the Guard- the money accredited to them by into a shift.” longer than expected. RSPCA said. Gulf Times 14 Tuesday, July 17, 2018 EUROPE Turkey’s ruling Trump backs Putin party proposes anti-terror law

DPA and more than 110,000 people Istanbul have been purged from the civil against US fi ndings service and military, according to state media. Reuters/AFP calling Europe a US foe. urkey’s ruling Justice While the AKP did not se- Helsinki “America and the EU are best and Development Party cure a parliamentary major- friends. Whoever says we are foes T(AKP) has proposed an ity on its own following the is spreading fake news,” Tusk anti-terrorism bill in parlia- June elections, it has done so tanding side-by-side with tweeted late on Sunday during ment as the state of emergency, through its alliance with the Vladimir Putin yester- an EU-China summit in Beijing, in place for two years after a far-right Nationalist Move- Sday, US President Donald without naming Trump directly. failed coup, ends on July 18. ment Party (MHP). Trump refused to blame the Rus- Trump often uses the term Ahead of the June 24 presi- Turan said: “With the sup- sian leader for meddling in the “fake news” when he disagrees dential and parliamentary port of the opposition, we want 2016 elections, casting doubt with news reports. elections, President Recep this bill to be legalised as soon on the fi ndings of his own intel- “Europe and China, America Tayyip Erdogan had said that as possible and to continue our ligence agencies and sparking a and Russia, today in Beijing and his fi rst task if he won re-elec- fi ght against terrorism, in the storm of criticism at home. in Helsinki, are jointly responsi- tion would be to lift emergency absence of a state of emergen- On a day when he faced pres- ble for improving the world or- rule. cy, without any problems.” sure from critics, allied countries der, not for destroying it,” Tusk It was imposed days after the Before the elections, Erdog- and even his own staff to take said in a separate tweet. July 15, 2016, coup attempt by a an had warned that emergency a tough line, Trump said not a “I hope this message reaches faction of the military. rule could be reintroduced at single critical word about Mos- Helsinki,” the former Polish pre- It has been extended seven any time if the threat of terror- cow on any of the issues that Trump and Putin at the Helsinki summit. mier added. times, each for periods of three ism re-emerges. have brought relations between Tusk echoed broader fears that months. Erdogan is now both the the two powers to the lowest ebb ed that Russia interfered in the The Russian foreign ministry word competitor is a compli- Trump is tearing down the post- The current extension ex- head of state and government since the Cold War. 2016 election to help him defeat tweeted back: “We agree”. ment.” World War II order in which the pires at 1am on July 19 (2200 after Turkey’s radical switch to Instead, he denounced the Democratic candidate Hillary At the news conference, Putin spoke of the importance United States built a system of GMT on July 18). an executive presidency from a “stupidity” of his own country’s Clinton, he said he was not con- Trump was invited by reporters of the two countries working to- alliances and rules to advance “The state of emergency is parliamentary model. policy, especially the decision to vinced. to off er any criticism of Russia gether and praised Trump, at one peace and prosperity. being lifted. I repeat: The state He has vastly expanded investigate election interference “I don’t see any reason why it but he repeatedly declined. point interrupting the news con- In the run-up to last week’s of emergency will be removed powers, including over the ju- following the fi ndings of US in- would be” Russia, Trump said. Asked if Russia was at all to ference to give the US president a Nato summit in Brussels, Tusk from the agenda of Turkey on diciary and the ability to rule telligence agencies. “President Putin was extremely blame for the poor ties, the US soccer ball. delivered a blunt message to July 18,” said Bulent Turan, an by decree. A prosecutor announced an strong and powerful in his denial president said: “I hold both Asked whether he had wanted Trump to stop criticising Euro- AKP deputy leader. Ankara blames US-based indictment three days ago of today.” countries responsible.” Trump to win the 2016 election pean allies. The 28-article draft bill is Islamic cleric and one-time Russian spies for hacking into In one response, the Director of “I think the US has been fool- and had instructed offi cials to “The US doesn’t have and based on international and Eu- Erdogan ally Fethullah Gulen Democratic Party networks. National Intelligence Dan Coats, ish. We’ve all been foolish,” he help him, Putin said “Yes I did”, won’t have a better ally than the ropean laws, he said, adding for orchestrating the coup at- Trump’s performance at a a Trump nominee approved by said, before veering into discus- although he denied any interfer- EU. We spend on defence much that it was given to opposition tempt. joint news conference in Helsinki Congress, said in a statement: sion about his election victory. ence, saying the allegations were more than Russia and as much as parties before being submitted Gulen denies involvement. stirred a wave of condemna- “We have been clear in our as- “I beat Hillary Clinton easily and “complete nonsense”. China,” Tusk said. “Dear Ameri- to parliament. Earlier yesterday, Justice tion in the United States, where sessments of Russian meddling frankly we beat her ... we won The summit caps a trip abroad ca, appreciate your allies, after all Turan said there were two Minister Abdulhamit Gul said the White House has struggled in the 2016 election and their on- that race and it’s a shame that during which Trump accused you don’t have that many.” options: either parliament that Turkey would keep up for months to dispel a sugges- going, pervasive eff orts to under- there can be even a little bit of a Nato allies of failing to spend And in some of the strongest passes the bill this week, or the pressure on Gulen’s move- tion that Trump was unwilling to mine our democracy, and we will cloud over it.” enough on their militaries and words yet refl ecting the unease of within 15 days. ment. stand up to Putin. continue to provide unvarnished Trump’s warm words for Rus- embarrassed British Prime Min- Washington’s traditional allies, “May we never again be Last week, Erdogan spokes- His performance was de- and objective intelligence in sup- sia were a marked contrast from ister Theresa May by saying that Germany’s foreign minister said forced once more into such a man Ibrahim Kalin said after nounced as “treasonous” by a port of our national security.” the past week when he repeatedly she refused to take his advice yesterday that Europe could no constitutional system as the the fi rst meeting of the new former US Central Intelligence Before the summit even began, rebuked traditional US allies at about how to negotiate Britain’s longer rely on the United States. state of emergency,” Turan cabinet that “nobody should Agency (CIA) chief and con- Trump blamed his own country a summit of the North Atlantic exit from the EU. “To maintain our partnership said. be concerned that it [the fi ght demned as “shameful” by a Re- for the deterioration in relations. Treaty Organisation (Nato) and He referred to the European with the USA we must readjust The state of emergency led against terrorism] will be publican senator, although some “Our relationship with Russia during a visit to Britain. Union itself as a “foe” in trade it,” Heiko Maas told the Funke to a crackdown on government weakened,” stopped or slowed other Republicans were more has NEVER been worse thanks to Asked if Putin was an adver- and repeatedly criticised it. newspaper group. “The fi rst clear critics and opposition media. down, adding that after emer- cautious. many years of US foolishness and sary, he said: “Actually I called EU President Donald Tusk consequence can only be that we More than 70,000 people gency rule is lifted, the battle Asked if he believed US intel- stupidity and now, the Rigged him a competitor and a good suggested that the US president need to align ourselves even more have been arrested in connec- would continue using anti- ligence agencies, which conclud- Witch Hunt!” he said on Twitter. competitor he is and I think the was “spreading fake news” by closely in Europe.” tion with the coup attempt, terrorism laws.

EU must return all migrants Journalist acquitted to Libya, says Italy minister in ‘espionage’ case AFP for Cumhuriyet but Dundar left DPA ous for migrants’ well-being. Istanbul Turkey for Germany shortly Rome According to the United Na- after the initial verdict, saying tions, migrants in Libya face ar- that he refused to put his head bitrary detention in substandard n Istanbul court has ac- “under the guillotine”. he European Union should conditions in offi cial detention quitted one of Turkey’s Cumhuriyet’s report on a send back to Libya all centres, and torture, extortion, Amost prominent politi- shipment of arms intercepted Tmigrants rescued in the forced labour and unlawful kill- cal journalists in a long-run- at the Syrian border in January central Mediterranean, Italy’s ing in unoffi cial facilities run by ning case on espionage charges 2014 sparked a furore when it hardline Interior Minister Mat- traffi ckers. dating back to an arms inter- was published, fuelling specu- teo Salvini said yesterday, after a In Brussels, European Com- ception on the Syrian border lation about Turkey’s role in new batch of arrivals in Pozzallo, mission spokeswoman Natasha in 2014. the Syrian confl ict and its al- Sicily. Bertaud rowed back against Sal- Erdem Gul, the Ankara bu- leged ties to Islamist groups. A total of 447 people were dis- vini’s idea. reau chief of the opposition President Recep Tayyip Er- embarked, Flavio Di Giacomo, “No European operation and Cumhuriyet daily, was acquit- dogan had reacted furiously a spokesman for the Interna- no European vessel carries out ted by the Istanbul criminal to the allegations, personally tional Organisation for Migration disembarkation in Libya. This is Salvini: The solution is not court, the state-run Anadolu warning Dundar that he would (IOM), told DPA. because we do not consider it to sharing (of migrants) among news agency said. “pay a heavy price”. This was after Italy’s govern- be a safe country,” she said. European countries, but Gul had in May 2016 been He has accused Fethullah ment got other European Union The migrants who arrived in blocking (migrant) departures. sentenced to fi ve years in jail Gulen, the US-based preacher nations to agree to take in some Pozzallo spent time in an unof- and his then editor-in-chief blamed by Turkey for the 2016 of them. fi cial Libyan detention camp and On Sunday, Italian Prime Can Dundar to fi ve years and 10 failed coup, of instigating the Sharing the burden of the ar- many suff er from malnutrition Minister Giuseppe Conte wrote months for revealing state se- scandal to discredit his gov- rivals “is a fi rst signifi cant step and scabies, Di Giacomo said. on Twitter and Facebook that crets over their front page story ernment. forward, but the solution is not They set off from the Libyan France, Malta, Germany, Spain which alleged Turkish secret It was the fi rst in a number sharing among European coun- port of Zuwarah on July 11, he and Portugal had each agreed to services sought to deliver arms of high profi le criminal cas- tries, but blocking [migrant] de- added. host 50 of the migrants. to Syria rebels. es against journalists which partures,” Salvini said in a press They were picked up on Sat- Ireland should take an addi- Despite spending time in multiplied after the failed July conference during a visit to Mos- urday, after they ran out of food tional 20, an Italian government pre-trial detention, neither 2016 coup against Erdogan and cow. and water, by a British vessel de- source added yesterday. was sent to jail and both walked amplifi ed concerns over press “[We should] save, rescue, ployed in a mission by EU border The sharing agreement is a free pending appeal. freedoms in the country. treat, feed and return [migrants] agency Frontex and by a boat of positive development but “ad A board reading ‘A gift to the nation: Salvini on an inflatable boat’ is But in a hugely complex In a separate case, 13 journal- to where they came from, one the Guardia di Finanza, Italy’s hoc solutions such as this cannot seen during a pro-migrant demonstration on Saturday in Ventimiglia, process, Turkey’s top ap- ists and staff from Cumhuriyet by one [...] the European Union customs police. be sustainable in the long term”, northern Italy, close to the French border. peals court in March quashed were given jail sentences of must convince itself that it is the A day before the rescue, some European Commission spokes- both convictions, saying that up to seven-and-a-half years only solution to get out of this 30 migrants jumped off their man Margaritis Schinas said in cantly from peak fi gures reached cued at sea to Italian ports. Gul should be acquitted but in late April on terror-linked tunnel,” he added. overcrowded ship in the hope of Brussels, urging EU states to in 2015-2016. Non-governmental organisa- Dundar given a stiff er sentence charges, which critics said was “The objective is to change the reaching a boat spotted in the reach more solid agreements. Italy has a new populist ad- tions say that this strategy is re- of up to 20 years. punishment for the paper’s rules and make Libyan ports safe distance, and four drowned, ac- Migration has become one of ministration which is leading a sponsible for a reported increase A retrial then commenced. anti-Erdogan stance. ports,” Salvini said, calling for an cording to survivors interviewed the most intractable issues for crusade against migrant arrivals. in deaths at sea, as the fate of mi- The cases of Gul and Dundar They are all however still end to a long-standing policy of by IOM staff . EU governments, even if fi gures One of its fi rst decisions has grants is increasingly left in the have now been separated and free pending appeal. considering the confl ict-ridden One victim was a minor, di Gi- show that asylum requests and been to prevent charity-run hands of a poorly-equipped, EU- Dundar remains on trial. Gul remains on trial in an- north African nation too danger- acomo said. sea arrivals have fallen signifi - ships from taking migrants res- funded, Libyan coastguard. Gul is still working in his job other separate case.

Probe call made against ex-king Spain’s former king Juan Carlos Strikes in Europe on Amazon’s Prime Day is in the spotlight after his former mistress claimed he was involved in money laundering, sparking AFP/DPA/Reuters near Madrid, kicked off yester- union Verdi said that employees tail giant has refused to engage Prime Day, a 36-hour sale in Germany to join the strike, calls for an investigation. Madrid day and was scheduled to last in German and Poland would with the union on the issue. which began yesterday, is a ma- and that there would be no im- The scandal broke after two through tomorrow. also be striking to protest against An Amazon spokeswoman jor money-spinner for the com- pact on Prime Day deliveries. Spanish websites published The strike is part of a move- their working conditions, which said it was possible to be a fair pany. It also said Amazon fulfi lment recordings attributed to Corinna orkers in Spain, Ger- ment launched in March to ob- includes long periods of stand- and responsible employer with- In Germany, warehouse work- centre jobs off ered competitive zu Sayn-Wittgenstein in which many and Poland tain an increase in wages, which ing, walking long distances and out off ering a collective wage ers are planning walkouts to- pay and comprehensive benefi ts she alleges Juan Carlos tried to Wplan to walk off the have not risen since 2016 at the repetitive tasks. agreement. day in the cities of Leipzig and from the fi rst day of employ- hide money transfers and used job today as online retailing gi- largest Amazon logistics centre Verdi did not specify how The strikes are focused on Koblenz, as well as the towns of ment. her name to buy property in ant Amazon carries out its major in Spain. many people it expected to par- health policy. Bad Hersfeld in Hesse, Graben Permanent staff earn €12.22 Monaco and Morocco. summer sales event called Prime Ana Berceruelo of the CCOO ticipate in the strikes. “The message is clear: The in Bavaria, and Rheinberg and ($14.31) an hour or more after In the recordings, she claims he Day. union said that about 80% of Verdi has been demanding a online giant is getting rich at Werne in North Rhine West- two years. also pocketed money from a The walkout at the Amazon workers at the site joined the collective wage agreement for the expense of the health of its phalia. Germany is Amazon’s second high-speed train contract with packing and distribution cen- walkout yesterday. Amazon’s 16,000 workers across staff ,” said Verdi spokeswoman Amazon said it expected only largest national market after the Saudi Arabia. tre in San Fernando de Henares, Meanwhile, the German trade Germany since 2013, but the re- Stefanie Nutzenberger. a fraction of its 12,000 workers United States. Gulf Times Tuesday, July 17, 2018 15 INDIA

INVESTIGATION CRIME POLITICS DECISION CLAIM Air hostess’ husband held Migrant worker beaten Azharuddin’s plans queer Steps to fight Taj pollution Modi govt anti-women, a day after her death to death in Kerala the pitch for Congress soon, pledges government says Congress leader

A day after an air hostess fell to her death A Bengali migrant worker died in a hospital in Former cricket captain Mohamed Azharuddin’s After being rapped by the Supreme Court over On a day Congress chief Rahul Gandhi wrote in south Delhi, police arrested her husband Thiruvananthapuram from injuries he sustained plans to contest from Secunderabad Lok Sabha the condition of the Taj Mahal, the government to the prime minister to seek support for yesterday after questioning him. Anissa Batra’s after being beaten up by a group of people who seat threw the Congress party into turmoil yesterday said that it will take action on a “war the Women’s Reservation Bill in Parliament, family maintained that it was a case of murder claimed he had stolen a hen. The assault took yesterday with the former MP Anjan Kumar footing” to deal with air and water pollution in and a woman leader of the opposition party even as police registered a suicide case on place at Anchal. According to police, Manik Yadav declaring that he will not give up his around the world-famous 17th-century Mughal yesterday said the “anti-women” government Sunday. The 39-year-old fell from the terrace of Roy, 34, who had been working and living in claim to the constituency. Yadav’s supporters monument. The assurance came after a high-level had betrayed women on all counts. “We are her home in Hauz Khas area. A police off icial said Anchal for the past few years, was walking home disrupted a meeting of the party’s Greater inter-ministerial meeting in New Delhi, chaired approaching the last monsoon session (of her husband Mayank Singhvi was questioned for carrying a hen when a group of locals claimed it Hyderabad unit yesterday shouting slogans by Union Transport Minister Nitin Gadkari and parliament) of this National Democratic Alliance an hour at the Hauz Khas police station before he was stolen and started beating him. On hearing against Azharuddin. They opposed any move to attended by Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi government and the picture for Indian women was arrested. His family was also questioned in the his cries for help, a crowd gathered, including a field the former cricketer from Secunderabad. Adityanath, Union Environment Minister Harsh is bleak and gloomy. Like all other aspects case. The charge-sheet stated that the woman was person who said it was he who had given Roy the Yadav’s group resorted to the protest in Vardhan and Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma of governance, it is finally established that assaulted since her marriage. Last month Batra’s hen. The assailants then fled. Roy was taken to a presence of All India Congress Committee (AICC) and state Minister Satyapal Singh, where steps to empowerment of women and assurance of father had told police, “if my daughter is harmed in nearby hospital but he died. The medical report secretary N S Bose Raju and president of party’s tackle yellowing of the Taj Mahal and controlling their personal security was only a farce,” said any way, Singhvi should be held responsible for it.” showed Roy died due to being hit on the head. Telangana unit Uttam Kumar Reddy. Yamuna pollution were discussed. Mahila Congress president Sushmita Dev. Congress protests as BJP vandalises Tharoor’s offi ce

By Ashraf Padanna all the elements they need to Thiruvananthapuram tear apart the Constitution of India and write a new one,” Tharoor had said while deliv- ctivists of Prime Min- ering a lecture on “challenges ister Narendra Modi’s before democracy and secu- ABharatiya Janata Party larism.” (BJP) vandalised the offi ce of “The new constitution will Congress MP Dr Shashi Tha- be one which will enshrine roor here yesterday. They principles of Hindu Rash- poured burnt motor oil all over tra, that will remove equality the premises and erected a for minorities, that’ll create a BJP supporters stand next to a damaged tent, which collapsed during a public meeting addressed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi at a college ground in Midnapore yesterday. ‘Pakistan Offi ce’ banner in re- ‘Hindu Pakistan’, and that action to Tharooor’s remarks isn’t what Mahatma Gandhi, that the BJP was trying to turn Nehru, Sardar Patel, Maulana the country into a ‘Hindu Pa- Azad and great heroes of the kistan’. freedom struggle had fought Though the police were for,” Tharoor said. present at the location they Congress leaders, including did not try to stop the vandals M M Hassan, state unit presi- or take them into custody. dent, and opposition leader Modi attacks Mamata Dr Tharoor disclosed that Ramesh Chennithala, rushed the “BJP vandals” had poured to Tharoor’s offi ce on hearing oil all over the sign boards, of BJP’s vandalism. doors, walls and gate of the “Tharoor was only doing property. They also drove away his duty in cautioning people citizens waiting to meet Tha- as their representative on the roor with their petitions and dangers of returning Modi to govt at W Bengal rally shouted slogans asking him to power,” Chennithala said while go to Pakistan. protesting against the police IANS But every time it was stalled. agrarian constituency, which won the assembly polls earlier that ended in 2011 when the Tri- Tharoor was not at his offi ce inaction. “The Congress party Midnapore (West Bengal) Files kept on piling,” the prime so long seemed upset with his this year by ending 25 years of namool was came to power, he at the time of the attack. is united in supporting Tharoor minister told a farmers’ rally in government, the latter half of Left Front rule. said while it took time to vote out “We have all been warned. in this matter. This is what’s in Midnapore town. his address contained an all-out Referring to the 34 years of the communists, it won’t take The BJP’s answer to the simple store for freedom of movement rime Minister Narendra “The farmers went on de- attack on Mamata’s Trinamool Left Front rule in West Bengal long this time around. question ‘have you given up and free speech if the BJP re- Modi yesterday hailed his manding and agitating... but Congress dispensation, accusing the dream of a Hindu Rashtra’ turns to power with a majority,” Pgovernment for raising neither the state governments it of having no faith in democ- 90 injured as canopy collapses is apparently vandalism and Chennithala warned. the Minimum Support Prices nor those in power in Delhi heard racy, the Indian constitution or violence,” Tharoor said. “That Currently, the BJP lacks a (MSPs) of crops, while lam- them..” the electoral process. Ninety people sustained 14 of them were discharged is the face they have shown in majority in the Rajya Sabha, basting West Bengal’s Mamata The centre recently approved “Those who don’t believe in injuries and were taken to after primary treatment and Thiruvananthapuram today. the upper house of parliament, Banerjee regime for “forming an MSP, providing farmers a democracy or the process of hospital yesterday when a the rest admitted to diff erent Most Hindus will say these to amend the constitution. a nexus with syndicates” and profi t of 50% or more over “cost election, or the Constitution part of the canopy collapsed departments in the hospital. Sanghi (the BJP and its affi li- However, it controls a vast murdering Dalit political activ- of production” for kharif crops and the government that has to during Prime Minister The rally was organised ates) thugs do not represent us.” majority of states that elects ists, even as 90 people sustained for 2018-19. be reprimanded by High Court Narendra Modi address by the state unit of the The former UN undersec- its members on the retirement injuries following a canopy col- Reiterating his commitment and Supreme Court, should be in a rally in West Bengal’s Bharatiya Janata Party. State retary general and author of of MPs on rotation. lapse at a BJP rally here. to farmers, Modi said the gov- careful. This is Bengal, none of Midnapore town, hospital BJP president Dilip Ghosh 17 books had last week warned Suhaib Moulavi, the imam Indicating that the govern- ernment was working to dou- them will be spared,” warned authorities said. The injured later said: “If it is found that that the BJP would rewrite the of the city’s Palayam Mosque, ment’s recent measures to woo ble farmers’ income by 2022, the prime minister, who start- were rushed to the Midnapore the crash happened due to constitution if it returned to also condemned the attack the farmers would be a major and highlighted the decision ed his speech in Bengali amid Medical College and Hospital any intentional mistake on power in next year’s national on the people’s representa- campaign issue in coming state to consider bamboo as a grass tumultuous applause and in ambulances in the prime anybody’s part, then proper elections. tive and asked the state gov- assembly and Lok Sabha polls, that paved the way for peas- high-decibel chants of “Modi, minister’s convoy and even action will be taken.” After the He later clarifi ed there was ernment to take stern action he blamed previous govern- ants to produce, cut and sell Modi”. on motorcycles, after the rally, Modi visited the injured in nothing new in his statement against the attackers. ments for failing to hike the bamboo. Asking Mamata to take note incident yesterday afternoon. the hospital and talked to the and he had been holding this “Secular India needs to MSP of crops despite farmers’ Listing his government’s of “the strength and discipline” According to a list released by doctors treating them. “Modi view for a long time now. Tha- fear as long as the Sangh does demands and expert panels’ rec- policy initiatives for farm- of the people at the rally, Modi the Medical Superintendent was at the hospital for five-six roor also tweeted similar com- not withdraw its agenda for ommendations. ers, he said: “”My government urged the people and the work- of the hospital, a total of 90 minutes. He talked to some ments he made fi ve years ago. a Hindu nation,” he said in a “The demand for raising the is your government and it is a ers of BJP to “think together and persons were taken to the of the injured and the doctors “Our democratic constitu- statement. “Tharoor was only MSP was placed before every pro-farmer government.” While bravely” to shake the “founda- hospital, including 66 males and then left for Delhi by a tion as we understand it will sharing this anxiety on the fu- government. Many commissions Modi utilised the fi rst part of his tion of the syndicate” as was and 24 females. However helicopter,” a BJP leader said. not survive as the BJP will have ture of India.” and committees were formed. speech to endear himself to the done in Tripura – where the BJP

Rains cause chaos Maharashtra faces milk Checks on charity’s shortage as farmers strike care homes ordered Reuters run by Missionaries of Charity New Delhi all over the country inspected IANS services tax (GST) on butter and milk co-operatives are facing a immediately,” the ministry Mumbai milk powder among others. tough time,” Shetti told the media. said in the statement. Tankers laden with lakhs of Nawale said the government’s he government has in- Missionaries of Charity litres of milk were waylaid and announcement of Rs50 per kg structed all state gov- spokeswoman Sunita Kumar housands of milk farm- emptied on the roads in Pune, subsidy for milk powder may Ternments to conduct could not provide an immedi- ers across Maharashtra Nashik, Kolhapur, Sangli, Beed, not benefi t the farmers since the an immediate inspection of ate comment. Tlaunched an agitation for Palghar, Buldana, Washim, Au- prices of milk powder have come all childcare homes run by the There has been a number of their various demands early yes- rangabad and Solapur, while at down in the international mar- Missionaries of Charity, a Ro- reports of babies and children terday, hitting supply of fresh least one tanker was torched near ket, but would be a boon to pri- man Catholic order founded by being traffi cked through char- milk across big and small cities Amravati en route to the cities, vate companies which convert the late Mother Teresa, amid ity-run homes and hospitals in in the state. which are totally dependent on milk into powder. concerns over baby traffi cking. India, which campaigners say Scores of milk tankers bound supplies from the rural areas. As the issue was taken up in Earlier this month authori- is driven by a long waiting list for major cities including Mum- The state government has the Maharashtra legislature in ties shut down a home run by for adoption. bai, Pune, Nagpur, Nashik and warned the protesters of strict Nagpur, Animal Husbandry and the order in eastern Jharkhand The Missionaries of Charity others were blocked in diff er- action. Dairy Development Minister that provides shelter for preg- stopped organising adoptions ent parts of the state, raising the At some places, top leaders Mahadev Jankar assured that the nant, unmarried women after in India in 2015 saying they spectre of milk shortage. like SSS president and MP Raju cities would not suff er any milk a nun and a worker there were disagreed with government As the agitation continued, Shetti and MKS president Ajit shortages. arrested for baby traffi cking. rules that made it easier for around a dozen milk tankers Nawale took to the streets to He said that Mumbai, which Women and Child Develop- single, divorced, and separated each from Nashik and Kolhapur block the milk tankers while sev- requires over 7mn litres of fresh ment Minister Maneka Gandhi people to adopt children. were dispatched for Mumbai un- eral big and small milk co-oper- milk daily, has adequate stocks said in a statement yesterday The ministry said under der armed police escorts, while atives announced support to the for 15 days. Most urban centres she had also instructed states to the Juvenile Justice Act which the opposition Congress and farmers’ agitation. together account for over 10mn ensure that all childcare insti- came into eff ect more than two Nationalist Congress Party and “The state government has litres, with Pune and surround- tutions be registered and linked years ago it was mandatory others threw their weight behind fi xed the procurement price of ings needing 1.3mn daily. to the federal adoption author- for every shelter home dealing the agitators. Rs27 per litre but the farmers get “We are trying to resolve the ity within the next one month. with children and their adop- The farmers’ groups, led by barely Rs17 per litre. We are de- issue. If anybody attempts to “Taking cognizance of the tion to register and also link Swabhimani Shetkari Sang- manding a direct subsidy of Rs5 break the law, they will be dealt recent cases of illegal adop- the organisation to the Central hatana (SSS) and Maharashtra per litre to the farmers, as provid- with sternly,” Jankar warned the People push their vehicle along a water-logged road under tions carried out by Mission- Adoption Resource Author- Kisan Sabha (MKS), are de- ed in Goa, Karnataka and Kerala. farmers, and later said the gov- Minto bridge during heavy monsoon rain in New Delhi aries of Charity in Jharkhand, ity (CARA). However, about manding a subsidy of Rs5 per li- “With a drop in the rates of ernment was prepared to give yesterday. Maneka has instructed the 4,000 institutions are yet to be tre of milk, waiver of goods and skimmed milk powder, even the Rs3 per litre subsidy. states to get childcare homes linked, the ministry said. Gulf Times 16 Tuesday, July 17, 2018 PAKISTAN

Khan questions media ‘portrayal’ of Sharif as Cases opened against an ‘innocent’ person

Internews Lahore

17,000 party workers akistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) chairman Imran Reuters Rights group warns of ‘blatant’ bid to manipulate the vote colluding with the military. PKhan has asked journalists Lahore National polls indicate a close why they have been portraying Pakistan’s human rights commission has slammed long battle with violent extremism, surpassed only by race between the PML-N and the former prime minister Nawaz “blatant, aggressive and unabashed” attempts to an assault on a school in 2014, which left more than PTI, with the Pakistan Peoples Sharif as an innocent person. he police have opened manipulate the upcoming election, as politicians 150 people dead. Party (PPP) in third place. He asked why such journalists criminal cases against expressed security fears following one of the country’s The attack and others have spurred a surge in criticism The independent Human are not thinking about the future Tnearly 17,000 members deadliest attacks. of the army. Rights Commission of Pakistan of their children rather than try- of the former ruling party for A string of attacks has killed 175 people across the The military has overseen a dramatic improvement in meanwhile said that it is con- ing to save a criminal. breach of election rules, a state- country in the past week, and there have been security but in recent months has been widely accused cerned about the legitimacy of Khan said that it took him 22 ment said yesterday. widespread allegations that the powerful military is of what one think-tank termed a “silent coup”. the election, saying that “the years to make the masses realise The 16,868 cases, which the meddling in the run-up to the July 25 vote. “The attacks are taking place because the security public perception is that all par- that corruption is dangerous and police statement said were reg- The Election Commission of Pakistan (ECP) has vowed agencies are involved in politics and not doing their ties have not been given equal it had destroyed the economy istered in the eastern province of to go ahead with the vote “at all costs”. job,” Mushahidullah Khan, a senior leader with the freedom to run their election of the country, leading to price Punjab over the past four days, However, the independent Human Rights Commission Pakistan Muslim League – Nawaz (PML-N), told AFP. campaigns” (see accompanying hikes and manifold increase in come after the party said that of Pakistan has warned that it is “gravely concerned “The elections are being contested in an environment report). the foreign debt. police had detained hundreds of over what it sees as blatant, aggressive and unabashed of fear,” the chairman of the Pakistan Peoples Party Police detained the PML-N “Foreign debt of the country Pakistan Muslim League – Na- attempts to manipulate the outcome of the upcoming (PPP), Bilawal Bhutto Zardari, said during a visit to the members in Lahore last week was Rs6,000bn a decade ago, waz (PML-N) members in the elections”. Baluchistan provincial capital Quetta yesterday. ahead of a rally by thousands of which is now Rs27,000bn, and central city of Lahore. “While it is critical that the polls are held as scheduled, “Security should be the top priority for the govern- supporters welcoming Sharif. the masses have to pay the price The statement gave no details there are now ample grounds to doubt their legitimacy ment,” he said, adding: “I hope that the election will be Three local PML-N leaders for the debt as the Pakistan Mus- Khan: asked why journalists are of which election rules were sus- – with alarming implications for Pakistan’s transition to held on July 25.” said the crackdown involved in- lim League – Nawaz (PML-N) not thinking about the future of pected of having been broken. an eff ective democracy,” it said in a statement. Other politicians from parties across the political spec- timidation and threats by the government had imposed taxes their children. Cases were also registered A suicide blast at a political rally in the southwestern trum have echoed his concerns. police, intelligence agencies, and to pay the instalments of the against 39 members from Imran province of Baluchistan last Friday killed 149 people. The military has insisted that it is taking “no direct role” a paramilitary force to keep them debt,” he said while addressing rupt governing system. Khan’s Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf It was the second deadliest militant attack in Pakistan’s in the election. from attending the rally to wel- a gathering at the Dhobi Ghat He pledged that if the PTI won (PTI) party, the statement said. come Sharif. ground. the July 25 election and formed It said that 270 people had They spoke to Reuters on con- Khan raised questions over government, the party would been detained, but it did not say absentia on corruption charges, by accusations that Pakistan’s the nuclear-armed country for dition of anonymity, fearing utilisation of the debt, asking introduce a comprehensive pub- which political party they be- was jailed last week when he re- powerful military is working be- almost half its history and ended backlash from authorities. whether any dam was built with lic-friendly local government longed to. turned to the country seeking to hind the scenes to skew the con- Sharif’s second stint in power in On Sunday, Pakistani authori- it. system, saying that a better local The PML-N’s founder, ousted revitalise the PML-N ahead of test in favour of former cricket 1999 in a bloodless coup, has re- ties opened a criminal investiga- He said that the average government system is the key to former prime minister Nawaz the July 25 vote. hero Khan and his PTI. peatedly denied any interference. tion into leaders of the PML-N monthly salary of a person is change the lives of people. Sharif, facing a conviction in The campaign has been riven The military, which has ruled The PTI chief has also denied under an anti-terrorism law. Rs200,000 ($1,600, £1,200) in “The maximum resources the US and Britain, but in Paki- were spent on corruption-based stan, this fi gure is Rs15,000. development projects, ignoring Khan said that the per-unit the needs of the people living in price of electricity was Rs2.13 a small cities of Punjab,” he said. Sharif challenges 10-year jail term decade ago and Rs9.86 (an in- “The Multan Metro Bus project is crease of 400%) now, while the a proved example of corruption.” per-unit gas price has increased Claiming that former Punjab DPA the appeal from today, said Saad tenced to one year in prison. from Rs150 to Rs573, which has chief minister Shehbaz Sharif Islamabad Hashmi, a member of Sharif’s le- Since their return to Paki- badly aff ected the textile sector. made the police corrupt, Khan gal team. stan from London on Friday, the He referred to other essential said that the PTI had a plan to The National Accountability three-time prime minister and commodities like fl our, pulses, make the police department awaz Sharif has chal- Bureau court ruled on July 6 that his daughter have been impris- and milk, the prices of which apolitical. lenged the decision of an Sharif’s family bought properties oned in a high-security jail in have increased manifold. He added that after com- Nanti-graft court to hand in London with funds from Paki- Rawalpindi. Before his address, some PTI ing into power, his party would him a 10-year jail term on cor- stan in the 1990s during one of The court ruling, which came workers in front of the stage introduce real democracy, em- ruption charges. Sharif’s three terms in power. just weeks ahead of national clashed. power public institutions, and “The conviction and sentence Sharif was handed 10 years of elections scheduled for July 25, The reason for the fi ghting is involving the masses in the deci- are based on no evidence,” Shar- jail and a fi ne of £8mn ($10.5mn), has reinforced suspicions held by unclear. sion-making process for devel- if’s lawyer Khawaja Haris Ahmad his daughter Maryam Nawaz was many that the country’s power- Addressing a public rally at opment projects. said in an appeal fi led at the Is- handed an eight-year jail term ful military colluded with the ju- Mai Heer Stadium at Jhang, Khan “State resources will be dis- lamabad High Court (IHC). and £2mn fi ne, and his son-in- diciary to prevent Sharif’s party alleged that the PML-N intro- tributed equally to small towns Sharif and Maryam: convicted earlier this month. The court is likely start hearing law Muhammad Safdar was sen- from seeking another term. duced and strengthened a cor- and cities,” the PTI chief said. Survey Chief justice launches fundraising campaign for dams identifi es DPA/Internews Rs110mn have been raised so far. Despite the pressing need for a a statement on Twitter that two Presiding over the meeting of right i.e. right to life”. Islamabad One of the dams, called Diam- solution, Nisar’s donation drive days’ salary of military offi cers the Law and Justice Commission The Planning Commission disruptive er-Basha, is in its preliminary has come under criticism from and one day’s salary of the sol- of Pakistan (LJCP), attended by told the meeting that the na- stage and is being built on the experts and the public alike. diers would be donated to the senior representatives of the tional water policy approved he Chief Justice of Paki- Indus river in northern Pakistan, According to Khurram Hus- fund. ministries, Indus River System by the Pakistan Muslim League ‘elements’ stan, Saqib Nisar, is on an some 300km west of K2 – the sain, a business editor at Pa- Nisar has also asked the gov- Authority, National Engineer- – Nawaz government had iden- Tunlikely mission to build second highest mountain in the kistan’s Dawn newspaper, the ernment to generate funds for ing Services Pakistan, Water and tifi ed 30-40 areas for urgent two multi-billion dollar dams to world. estimated cost for the construc- the construction of future dams Power Development Authority works that would take four to Internews help alleviate the country’s wa- The dam, if completed, is tion is Rs1.450tn (around $12bn). through water pricing. (Wapda), Indus Water Commis- fi ve years to achieve. Rawalpindi ter shortage. touted to become the highest Calling the fundraising drive “Water pricing mechanism sion, and private experts, the Nisar asserted that the judici- On July 4 he ordered the gov- roller-compacted concrete dam “embarassing”, he wrote in his should be improved to get rev- chief justice said that the issue ary would fi nd a solution to the ernment to immediately start in the world. weekly opinion column: “If we enue for construction of dams,” of water scarcity had reached an water shortage in the country. he Punjab government has the construction of the long- The second one is Mohmand assume that on average, the ac- Nisar said, according to minutes alarming level. He said it is crucial because he directed divisional police planned dams, and then donated dam, set to be constructed on count sees an infl ow of Rs20mn of a recent meeting, to the min- Nisar said that the resolution had been told by experts during Tchiefs across the prov- Rs10mn ($8,200) from his own the Swat river, some 40km north per day (which is highly opti- istries of planning, water re- of the water issue is “respon- the course of hearing a related ince to monitor more than 780 pocket to launch a public fund- of Peshawar. mistic), then it will take 72,500 sources, energy, law and justice, sibility of the executives, and case that Pakistan could not “troublemakers” from various raising campaign. The UN Development Pro- days to reach the target, or 199 climate change and the cabinet failure to discharge this respon- survive in this situation of wa- political parties, who have been According to the fi gures up- gramme says that Pakistan could years”. division, besides professional sibility has resulted in taking up ter scarcity and that all research identifi ed in a survey, to prevent dated yesterday on the Su- run dry by 2025 unless action is Following the chief justice’s and technical agencies and pro- of this issue by the superior ju- reports showed that Pakistan untoward incidents during the preme Court’s website, around taken. lead, the Pakistan army said in vincial governments. diciary as breach of fundamental could run out of water by 2024. campaigning period and polling. The provincial government is Transgender poll wary of taking action against the “troublemakers” because of the candidate vows to political implications. tackle challenges According to sources, the pro- 16 die in road collision vincial authorities have asked Maria Khan, a transgender and divisional and district police independent candidate for PK-31 chiefs and divisional commis- AFP dent as the driver sought help to Mansehra in northwest Pakistan, sioners to hold divisional intel- Karachi change the tyre, while others were has sought action against ligence committee meetings waiting inside the vehicle. those tearing up her posters immediately and take the nec- “The women and children still and banners from streets and essary measures to prevent any t least 16 people were killed in the bus suff ered the brunt of the bazaars. disruptive activity during the when a truck crashed into a collision,” local police offi cer Za- “The supporters of rival campaigning period. Aparked bus in southern Pa- hid Ali Shah told AFP. contenders are tearing up The police have been directed kistan yesterday, in the latest fatal Eight were hurt in the collision. my posters and banners. The to constitute Quick Response collision on the country’s notori- “It seems to be an incident of Election Commission of Pakistan Force squads to manage aff airs ously dangerous roads. reckless driving,” Shah said, add- (ECP) should take notice of before, during, and after the The long haul truck slammed ing the truck driver fl ed the scene this and those involved should elections to deal with any even- into the back of the bus, which was of the crash. be taken to justice,” Khan told tuality and law and order situa- on stopped on the side of the high- Pakistan has one of the world’s reporters yesterday. tion. way with a fl at tyre near the south- worst records for fatal traffi c ac- Khan made it clear that she Sources said that provincial ern city of Hyderabad. cidents, many of them blamed on would not withdraw from election authorities had already reported Several passengers were on the poor roads, badly-maintained ve- race, but her rivals are afraid of that between June 1 and June 21, Residents gather around the wreckage of a bus and truck following a collision near Hyderabad. side of the road during the inci- hicles, and reckless driving. her and spreading rumours that nine election-related clashes she is no more in the race. had been reported in Punjab, in which two people were killed. During the 2013 elections, 101 Civil society organisation to incidents of election-related monitor process at poll stations violence took place in Punjab, Death toll in election rally bombing rises to 149 leaving 23 dead and 63 injured. The Free and Fair Election Network (Fafen) – a coalition Firearms were used in 89 of of over 50 leading civil society organisations – will these incidents. Reuters eral elections on July 25, bombings A video clip showed Raisani be- nage is now 149,” senior police offi - deploy 19,000 observers across 272 National Assembly The home department has Islamabad across Pakistan have stoked fears ginning his speech just before the cial Qaim Lashari told Reuters, add- constituencies to monitor voting and counting processes said that in view of the threat of more violence in the country of attack, greeting crowds seated on ing that more than 180 people were at 85% of the total polling stations to be set up by the perception, the intelligence re- 208mn, where political rallies can the ground under a large tent before wounded and the dead included nine Election Commission of Pakistan for the July 25 elections. port and past events, the Pro- he death toll from a suicide draw tens of thousands of people. the blast hit and the image cut off . children. According to a press release issued yesterday, Fafen will vincial Intelligence Committee attack on an election rally Friday’s attack at a rally for the Provincial government offi cials Violence in Pakistan has ebbed deploy 9,884 observers in Punjab, 4,225 in Sindh, 3,549 (PIC)’s fi eld staff conducted a Tin Baluchistan on Friday has Baluchistan Awami Party (BAP) said they were not told about the ral- since the military began major op- in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa (including tribal districts), 1,117 in survey that identifi ed 786 “anti- risen to 149, offi cials said, putting it outside the town of Mastung was ly and so had not provided security erations against Taliban militants Baluchistan, and 225 in Islamabad Capital Territory. social elements and miscreants” among the deadliest attacks in the claimed by the Islamic State. to Raisani, beyond the bodyguards in along the border with Afghanistan Fafen observers will be trained to gather required data and who are likely to indulge in dis- south Asian nation’s history. Among the dead was the party’s his security detail. following a shocking 2014 attack on documents from assigned polling stations to enable the ruptive activities. As campaigning steps up for gen- provincial candidate, Siraj Raisani. “The death toll of Mastung car- a Peshawar school that killed 153 . network to conduct parallel vote tabulations (PVTs). Gulf Times Tuesday, July 17, 2018 17 PHILIPPINES Majority of Filipinos oppose shift to federal system: survey

DPA entity. But Filipinos are generally wary of any Manila moves to amend the constitution, which late dic- tator Ferdinand Marcos had used in the 1970s to prolong his stay in office. majority of Filipinos oppose eff orts to amend Critics have warned that the current push for the Philippines’ 1987 constitution and to charter change could also be a way for Duterte Ashift to a federal form of government from and other politicians to stay in power beyond the the presidential system, a survey showed yesterday. end of their term in 2022. The poll, conducted nationwide on June 15-21, But the 73-year-old leader has repeatedly de- found that 67% of Filipinos believe that the consti- nied wanting to be president longer, and even tution should not be amended at this time, Manila- noted that once the new form of government was based pollster Pulse Asia Research Inc said. in place, he would step down even if his term was Of the 67%, 37% said the constitution should not yet over. not be amended “now or any other time,” while Presidential spokesman Harry Roque said the 30% said the constitution may be amended public’s reaction highlighted the need for the gov- Children living on houses erected on the sea wall of Manila Bay play with waves caused by the tropical depression Henry that brought “sometime in the future.” ernment to raise awareness about the proposals, heavy rains in Metro Manila and the northern part of Luzon, yesterday. Only 18% expressed support for amending the noting that the survey also found that only 55% of constitution, while 14% were undecided, Pulse Filipinos were familiar with the issues. Asia added. The survey also found that 62% of “We cannot expect our people to support an the 1,800 respondents do not favour the proposed initiative, which they know only little about,” he shift to a federal form of government, while only said in a statement. 28% agree with the switch and 10% undecided. “We will therefore exert even more effort to Rain forces suspension President Rodrigo Duterte has been pushing for inform and educate our citizens about federalism the shift to a federal system to decentralise power since the approval of the proposed changes in our and wealth from Manila, empower regional gov- current charter ultimately lies in the hands of the ernments, and avoid neglect of remote areas. Filipino people,” he added. The change would also support the implemen- Last week, a committee formed by Duterte to of classes in Luzon region tation of a 2014 peace agreement with the largest review the constitution submitted their recom- rebel group in the southern region of Mindanao, mendations, which included removing a single- which calls for the creation of a new autonomous term limit for president and vice president. By Francis Earl Cueto Manila Times

Army arrests wife lasses were suspended of militant in south yesterday in diff erent ar- Heart disease, diabetes Ceas in Luzon, due to the Philippine soldiers arrested the heavy rains brought about by wife of a top leader of a pro-Islamic tropical depression Henry. State group, and killed a suspected are ‘top killers in nation’ In Barangay Dampalit, Mal- bomber in separate raids in a abon City, classes in Dampalit southern city, the army said yester- Integrated School, Dampalit day. Nafisa Pundog, who had been By Ed Velasco aneurysm. Domingo said 68% were suspended, after majority in hiding for two years since her Manila Times of deaths in the country from of the streets had been fl ooded escape from prison, was arrested 2012 to 2017 are related to these since the weekend. in General Santos City, said army diseases. He said that based on Floodwaters started to sub- spokesman Major Ezra Balagtey. on-communicable Noncommunicable Diseases side late yesterday afternoon. Her husband Human Abdul diseases (NCDs) such Progress Monitor 2017, 29% of Even the barangay hall had Najib, alias Abu Dar, is the new Nas heart ailments and the country’s 105mn popula- gutter-deep fl oodwaters while leader of the pro-Islamic State diabetes accounted for 68% of tion will not reach the age of 70 it was knee-deep in other areas. Maute group, which seized the deaths in the Philippines since because of unhealthy lifestyle. Barangay offi cials said the lakeside town of Marawi for five 2012 due to poor lifestyle, “The rising cases is also fl ooding this weekend was months last year, he added. “She heavy smoking and alcohol attributed to too much con- caused by water that over- did not resist arrest,” Balagtey consumption, according to the sumption of salt, rice and sug- fl owed from the dike built with told reporters, adding that materi- Department of Health (DoH). ar,” Domingo said. Unhealthy more than 6,000 sandbags. als to make improvised bombs Speaking at the opening lifestyle, which is characterised “Heavy rains since Thursday were seized from her hideout. day of the Asian Develop- by lack of exercise, smoking and had started the overfl ow and Before the arrest, soldiers killed ment Bank (ADB)-sponsored alcohol consumption, are trig- eventual breaking of the dike,” Najib Pundog, a suspected bomb Innovations and Actions gers of these diseases, he added. Carlo Dumalaog, Brgy. Damp- maker, not far from the hideout. against NCDs forum, Health In the entire Southeast Asia, alit chairman said. ”He chose to shoot it out with Undersecretary Eric Domin- NCD-related deaths reached Among the aff ected areas soldiers who tracked him down in go described the dilemma as 7.9mn in 2015, Domingo said. were Sitio Dona Juana, Sitio his safe house,” Balagtey said. Both “disturbing” because many The offi cial said the DoH is Rodriguez One and Two, and individuals, who are not related, NCD-related deaths are sud- trying its best to help Filipinos Merville Subdivision. despite a shared surname, were den, thus causing severe pain combat NCDs through health Classes in all levels in Abra de on a list of those President Rodrigo to family members. fi nancing, health service deliv- Ilog, Mamrubao and Sablayan Duterte ordered to be arrested. The top killers are heart ery, health regulation and good in Occidental Mindoro were A man collects recyclable materials among waste and water lilies washed up on Manila Bay caused by diseases, diabetes, cancer and governance. suspended. the tropical depression Henry that brought heavy rains in Metro Manila and the northern part of Luzon. Duterte, Mahathir agree to boost Graft charges sought against defence, security co-operation Aquino over vaccination project By Llanesca T Panti Manila Times Manila Times Manila he National Bureau of Investigation (NBI) has resident Rodrigo Duterte Tasked Ombudsman Con- and Malaysian Prime chita Carpio-Morales to fi le PMinister Mahathir Mo- technical malversation and hamed agreed yesterday to graft-related charges against strengthen their defence and former president Benigno Aqui- security co-operation at the bi- no and 18 other government offi - lateral and regional level. cials over the nationwide imple- “President Duterte expressed mentation of the P3.5bn dengue appreciation for Malaysia’s sus- immunisation project that was tained support for the quest for later deemed unsafe. just and lasting peace and de- Aside from Aquino, former velopment in Mindanao,” Mala- health secretaries Janette Garin canang said in a statement after and Paulyn Ubial, former budg- the two leaders met privately at et secretary Florencio “Butch” Aquino: facing charges the Prime Minister’s Offi ce in Abad and 15 others were also in- Putrajaya, Selangor, Malaysia. cluded in the complaint that was “There is technical malver- mitted when a public offi cer “Both leaders stressed the fi led on July 13 but released to re- sation because government applies public funds under his importance of working closely porters only yesterday. funds amounting to P3bn in- administration not for his or together bilaterally and at the The NBI said that Aquino ap- tended for the 2015 Miscella- another’s personal use, but to Asean to achieve shared aspira- proved the realignment and neous Personnel Benefit Fund a public use other than that for tions of greater peace, progress eventual release of P3.5bn budg- (MPBF) of the Executive De- which the fund was appropriated and prosperity for the Philip- et for Dengvaxia, the anti-den- partment was utilised for the by law or ordinance. pines and Malaysia, and greater gue vaccine, on December 29, procurement of Dengvaxia “MPBF may only be obligated stability and security in the re- 2015 from the Miscellaneous and under the health department’s and disbursed before the end of gion,” the statement read. Personnel Benefi ts Fund based school-based immunisation the validity of appropriations The statement added that on Garin and Abad’s recommen- programme. Although the on December 31, 2015. Hence, its Duterte pointed out the need to President Rodrigo Duterte meets with Malaysia’s Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamed in Putrajaya, yesterday. dations. source of fund was declared release in 2016 is unlawful,” the strengthen and address terror- The NBI said that realign- as savings by the chief ex- NBI said. ism and violent extremism in and reaffi rmed the long-stand- ment at 92-years-old last May ter the two leaders watched the ing the MPBF fund was illegal ecutive, its intended purpose The NBI also accused Aquino, the Southeast Asian region. ing brotherhood and friendship when he came out of retirement fi ght of Sen. Manny Pacquiao since the immunisation project failed as there is no existing Garin and Abad of allegedly con- These include transnational between the Philippines and to run and defeat re-electionist and Argentine Lucas Matthysse was not provided under the 2015 programme, activity or project spiring with government offi - crimes, such as piracy, armed Malaysia. Najib Razak. in Kuala Lumpur. Pacquiao beat national budget and the vaccine for dengue procurement and cials and Sanofi executives since robbery at sea and the illegal Duterte said he wanted to Mahathir previously ruled Matthysse via technical knock- procured even if its manufac- immunisation,” the NBI said in the budget for Dengvaxia has drug trade. visit Malaysia to congratu- Malaysia for 22 years from 1981 out in the seventh round for turer, French fi rm Sanofi Pasteur, its 55-page complaint. been released before it was listed The statement also said that late Mahathir, who became the to 2003. The bilateral meeting the World Boxing Association had not secured a certifi cate of Under the law, the crime of by the Food and Drug Adminis- Duterte and Mahathir renewed world’s oldest head of govern- yesterday happened a day af- (WBA) welterweight title. product registration. technical malversation is com- tration. Gulf Times 18 Tuesday, July 17, 2018 COMMENT

CHAIRMAN Abdullah bin Khalifa al-Attiyah EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Faisal Abdulhameed al-Mudahka Deputy Managing Editor K T Chacko P.O.Box 2888, Doha, Qatar [email protected] 44350478 (News), 44466404 (Sport), 44466636 (Home delivery) 44350474 facebook.com/gulftimes twitter.com/gulftimes_Qatar GULF TIMES France have the quality to rule football for years There is nothing swashbuckling yet about this France side, no “carre magique” — or magic square — of the team of the 1980s, when Michel Platini, Alain Giresse, Luis Fernandez and Jean Tigana were performing football conjuring tricks in midfi eld. Neither have they yet reached the stature of players such as Zinedine Zidane, Laurent Blanc, Robert Pires or Marcel Desailly from among the many big names of the 1998 World Cup winners. Yet the joint-second- Is Donald Trump an youngest squad of the World Cup in Russia has left the tournament as world champions after defeating Croatia 4-2 in the fi nal in Moscow’s Luzhniki Stadium. Les Bleus have a second star to sew on their national team jersey. Players in their early 20s — or younger in the case of 19-year-old Kylian Mbappe — now ‘eff ective leader’? already have a World Cup medal. That is a feat three- time Ballon d’Or winner Platini never achieved in By Scott Cowen Needless to say, they emphasised that failure when they are driven primarily Or consider George W Bush, who an era when France were considered one of the most New Orleans Trump comes up short on all counts. by a leader’s self-interest and pursuit famously stood in front of a “Mission attractive teams of all time, but were twice beaten in In the end, the debate boiled down of power. Accomplished” banner early in the Iraq to the question of whether eff ective Many US presidents have become War, and praised the inexperienced semi-fi nals by West Germany — once on penalties in o matter how much chaos leadership is about action and embroiled in scandals of their own and incompetent director of the the fi rst-ever World Cup penalty shoot-out — either and disruption US President intention, character, or both. making. Federal Emergency Management side of a Euro 1984 title. Donald Trump causes – For example, at one point, a debater Andrew Jackson had his genocidal Agency for doing a “heck of a job” just Players in the current France squad under Didier Nto trade, business, and arguing for the motion was asked “Trail of Tears,” which entailed the after Hurricane Katrina ravaged New even America’s core alliances – his whether morality, trust, and integrity ethnic cleansing of the Cherokee Orleans. Deschamps, the 1998 supporters regularly insist that Trump are relevant to eff ective leadership. and other Indian tribes from the In both instances, the long run Mbappe became captain, have emerged is a leader who gets things done. “No,” he answered. Eff ectiveness is southeastern US. arrived rather quickly to render even stronger from While Arkansas Senator and almost- morally neutral: if you announce your Warren G Harding had the Teapot judgement on sheer folly. the second- their Euro fi nal defeat CIA director Tom Cotton regards goals and then achieve them, you are Dome scandal. As for Trump, it remains to be seen if Trump as an “active, engaged, and eff ective, whatever the goals happen And, of course, Richard Nixon had his tax cuts and trade wars will save the youngest two years ago against eff ective leader,” former speaker of the to be. Watergate. middle class. Portugal. US House of Representatives Newt It’s a short hop from here, of All of these presidents’ legacies were His dealmaking with North Korea and goalscorer in a The future appears to Gingrich has gone so far as to describe course, to Machiavelli, and then to tarnished not by any single act – which his “no deal” with Iran may or may not be theirs. “I had a very Trump as “stunningly eff ective.” contemporary strongmen like Vladimir might very well have looked “eff ective” end badly. World Cup fi nal, Given these accolades, I was curious Putin and Kim Jong-un. at the time – but by habits of corruption But both history and leadership young group, 14 of them about what the undergraduates in One source of confl ict in the debate and a disregard for ethical guidelines. theory suggest that his lack of aft er Pele (not at Euro 2016) were my course on leadership theory and was over the timeframe for determining Trump bears some resemblance to emotional intelligence, preoccupation on a discovery journey in practice think of Trump’s eff ectiveness, leadership eff ectiveness. these ignoble examples. with showmanship, and indiff erence to the World Cup. But the quality was there,” Deschamps so I organised a student debate. The word “eff ectiveness” often In his rush to enrich himself and facts will lead to unambiguous failures. One side was tasked with defending implies immediate actions and results. consolidate power, while abandoning Interestingly, when my students said. the motion that Trump is an “eff ective Yet “leadership” suggests a capacity all civility and decorum, he has shown were asked which team had delivered The 49-year-old former captain has a wealth of leader.” They portrayed him as a to deliver principled decisions and contempt for the separation of powers, the more convincing arguments, individual talent at his disposal. Some quality players decisive go-getter, and marvelled at his durable outcomes over the long term, the freedom of the press, the norms of they overwhelmingly voted for the from leading European clubs did not even make the “chutzpah” in moving the US embassy usually through a robust process governance, and the rule of law. affi rmative team, even though 90% in Israel to Jerusalem. grounded in facts and informed by And, as with his predecessors, expressed personal scepticism about squad. But the coach has constantly emphasised the Among Trump’s accomplishments, ethics. his administration will probably be Trump’s ultimate eff ectiveness. collective. Organisation and playing as a disciplined they pointed to the tax-reform Another area of disagreement, remembered more for its scandals and Therein lies an important lesson: The unit are the key for the pragmatic Deschamps, with the legislation that he signed in December expressed vividly in the aforementioned mistakes than for its achievements, glare of the daily news cycle can make likes of Manchester United midfi elder Paul Pogba — 2017, the airstrikes against Syrian debater’s one-word answer, is that especially over the long run. us lose sight of the essential role of chemical-weapons facilities in April morality and decisive action run on “Over the long run” is a necessary moral leadership in sustaining the US in the 2014 young player award winner — sacrifi cing their 2018, the recent engagement with separate tracks. proviso, because only time can deliver the years to come. usual attacking instincts to the team ethos. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un, and In other words, a leader’s morals can the fi nal judgement. Without it, the “successes” of today Their progress through the tournament has often the evolution of trade policy towards be regarded as “private,” with no real- Jimmy Carter is often remembered as can easily become the disasters of been workmanlike, with the occasional fl ourishes of China. world relevance. a mediocre president. tomorrow. – Project Syndicate The team arguing against the Missing from the discussion was the But a new book by Stuart E Eizenstat, attacking fl air, notably through Mbappe and Atletico motion focused on the personal fact that corrupt motives – such as self- President Carter: The White House zScott Cowen is President Emeritus of Madrid forward Antoine Griezmann, who both scored attributes usually associated with aggrandisement, contempt for others, Years, shows that the establishment of Tulane University, where he teaches an four times in Russia. eff ective leaders: a moral compass, and indiff erence to the public good – formal diplomatic ties between China undergraduate course on leadership, Mbappe became the second-youngest goalscorer balanced reasoning, and a disciplined produce corrupt results. and the United States probably owes as and the author of Winnebagos on and principled approach to decision- Policies that seem eff ective in the much to Carter as to Nixon, despite the Wednesdays: How Visionary Leadership in a World Cup fi nal, after Pele, arguably the greatest making. short term can end in spectacular latter’s historic visit there in 1972. Can Transform Higher Education. player of all time, who was 17 when he scored for Brazil against Sweden in the 1958 World Cup fi nal. Most commentators believe he and Les Bleus are destined for even greater things, as the team and its individual players can only get better. Former Germany striker and coach Juergen Klinsmann, commentating for the BBC on the maturity of the teenage Mbappe, said he looked like he had been playing in France’s team “for 10 years.” Praise can get to a young star’s head but Mbappe played it down saying he still has a long way to go before he could be considered a great. But there’s no doubt that he would be the most followed star in the years to come.

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By Bob Geldof Moreover, human-driven climate US or in the ineff ectual European London change threatens to intensify existing Parliament and Commission. pressures aff ecting food supply and The time to step up was yesterday; migration. the time to adopt a new approach is n 1984, I gathered the most In a report published last now. successful musicians of the time December, the European We can discuss the United Nations to form a “supergroup” called Commission’s European Political Sustainable Development Goals – IBand Aid to raise money for Strategy Centre predicted that which include targets like “halving per famine relief in Ethiopia. ever-more frequent droughts and capita global food waste at the retail The next year, an even larger floods will “dwarf all other drivers and consumer level, and reducing food grouping was formed for Live Aid, a of migration,” with as many as 1bn losses along production and supply major benefi t concert and music-based people displaced globally by 2050. chains by 2030” – until we are blue in fundraising initiative that continues to Even the lowest estimate of 25mn the face. this day. climate-change migrants, the report What matters are well-designed, At last month’s International Forum warns, “would dwarf the current effective, and comprehensive on Food and Nutrition, held by the levels of new refugees and internally policies, implemented in a sustained Barilla Foundation, the enduring – and displaced persons.” manner. increasingly urgent – need for eff orts To be sure, some steps are being And those are nowhere to be found. to strengthen food security could not taken to address food waste and The Earth is 45mn centuries old, but be more obvious. scarcity. our century is unique, because it is the The fate of the Easter Islanders For example, this year, the European fi rst in which a species could destroy illustrates the world’s current problem. Commission proposed cuts in farm the entire basis of its own existence. Sometime in the 12th century, a subsidies, which contribute to Yet we latter-day Easter Islanders group of Polynesians found their way overproduction. seem unaware of this existential threat, to a remote volcanic island where But this approach – framed in preferring to build statues rather than dense forests provided food, animals, terms of “evolution,” rather than the sustainable systems for survival. and the tools and materials to build “revolution” that is needed – is not Will we acknowledge our hundreds of complex and mysterious even remotely adequate. predicament only when our land stone sculptures. The European Union’s common becomes a desert, when our health But, little by little, the people agricultural policy has long been highly systems collapse under the strain, destroyed those forests, ultimately problematic. when even the wealthy are facing committing social, cultural, and The CAP authorised tax money to food shortages, when freshwater physical suicide. be spent on growing surplus food, becomes scarce, and when our national Today, in relative terms, we which was then warehoused (at further shorelines are breached? By then, it collectively have only a small swath cost) and ultimately destroyed (at still will be too late, and our fate will be of forest left – and we are rapidly further cost). The system has improved sealed. destroying it. somewhat over the years, but not The greatest threat to our planet is We are running out of land to farm, nearly enough. the belief that someone else will save and the desert is spreading. From right: Bob Geldof, Mark Knopfler and Freddie Mercury performing at the Live Aid concert. The farm bill in the United States it. The food we produce is often – the federal government’s primary Each of us must recognise the wasted, while almost a billion people migration is stronger than it might In fact, many armed confl icts, and Agriculture Organisation of the United agricultural and food policy tool – is seriousness of our situation and do not have enough to eat – a reality seem to those who are not among the the mass displacement they cause, can Nations, just one-quarter of the similarly wasteful. demand real action to change it. that leaves many with little choice hungry. be traced back to food insecurity. food we throw out or squander each What is needed is not just a That means you. – Project Syndicate except to migrate. For example, the Arab Spring While the poor South starves, the year would be enough to feed 870mn politically tolerable adjustment to Most media coverage focuses on uprisings of 2010-2011, which rich North gorges. hungry people. existing policies, but rather root-and- zBob Geldof is an Irish singer- refugees fl eeing armed confl ict (think produced a massive wave of refugees, More than 2bn of us are overweight, Worldwide, one-third of all crops branch reform that emphasises real songwriter, author, and political Syria) or migrants seeking better were triggered by a rise in wheat prices, puff ed up by low-energy sugars and are wasted. results. activist. He is the founder and economic opportunities than they have which led to widespread bread riots mass-produced processed foods rich Like the Easter Islanders of the past, Unfortunately, it is not clear whether chairman of the Band Aid Trust for at home (think Nigeria or Pakistan). that morphed into broader political in fat. we are setting ourselves up for self- there are any politicians up to the task, famine relief in Africa, and a member of But the link between food scarcity and revolutions. According to the Food and annihilation. whether in the erratic and polarised the Africa Progress Panel.

European Union’s Dublin conundrum Three-day forecast TODAY continue to exploit the migration example, if an asylum seeker already Given this, Seehofer wants Maximum Temperature : 450c By Daniel Gros Minimum Temperature : 360c Brussels issue, with some highly visible arrivals has family in a diff erent country (in to prevent asylum seekers who – in particular, the large number of this case, Germany), that country have been registered elsewhere WEDNESDAY migrants who have been rescued off may be responsible for processing the on EURODAC from ever entering Maximum Temperature : 430c ensions over immigration the coast of Libya – keeping the issue application. Or if an asylum seeker Germany. But he is far from alone Minimum Temperature : 320c continue to dominate in the news. manages to leave the country of in his frustration: the upshot of the THURSDAY European politics. In Italy, The real issue that needs to be arrival for three months, the initial gulf between legal principles and Maximum Temperature : 440c TInterior Minister Matteo resolved, however, is which country application can be withdrawn and a reality is that no member state is Minimum Temperature : 330c should be responsible for those who new one submitted in a diff erent EU satisfied with the current system. Salvini, a populist fi rebrand, is Fisherman's forecast monopolising the public’s attention have already entered EU territory. member state. While border countries continue to with almost daily outbursts against The EU’s failure to answer this These exceptions give asylum insist that the Dublin Regulation is seekers ample room to contest Dublin unfair to them, northern countries WARNING immigrants. Likewise, Salvini’s question in a way that satisfies all Inshore : Expected strong wind German counterpart, Horst Seehofer, sides is now threatening the survival transfers in court. Moreover, national complain that it is not being at places by afternoon created a crisis in the governing of the Schengen Area of border-free authorities have a strong incentive to implemented properly. Offshore : Expected strong wind coalition in order to secure new travel. object to incoming transfer requests An asylum system in which more and high sea measures against asylum seekers On paper, the EU has clear rules on on formal or substantive grounds, than a dozen national bureaucracies WEATHER trying to enter Germany from Austria. the matter: under the so-called Dublin while trying to send abroad as many try to pass applicants around like hot Inshore : Hot daytime with slight With their countries having been left Regulation, the fi rst EU country that as possible. About 160,000 “take potatoes cannot work. The European dust to blowing dust at places to fi ght illegal immigration on their asylum seekers enter is responsible charge” requests were lodged in Asylum Support Offi ce (EASO) should Offshore : Slight dust own, Salvini and Seehofer claim, they for examining their applications. But 2017, though only about 20,000 were be made responsible for interpreting must focus on national, not European, countries with external borders, such actually implemented. These factors, the rules for assigning refugees – WIND Inshore : Northwesterly-Norther- solutions. They are wrong. as Greece and Italy, naturally complain together with discrepancies among deciding, for example, which country ly 08-17/21 KT The truth is that the European that this puts an unfair burden on EU member states’ legal systems is responsible when member states Offshrore : Northwesterly 08-18/24 Union has been instrumental in them. and administrative procedures, have disagree in individual cases. Providing KT reducing the fl ows of irregular arrivals, Asylum seekers themselves also largely nullifi ed the Dublin Regulation. fi nancial incentives for accepting Visibility : 4-8 KM which have declined considerably resist this rule. Given unfavourable It was this reality that lay at the root refugees – say, a lump sum for each since the massive infl ux of Syrian labour-market conditions in southern of recent tensions within Germany’s one – would also help. Offshore : 3-5/8 FT at times refugees, via Greece and Hungary, in border countries, many make a coalition government. Of more than These two measures will not satisfy 60,000 take-charge requests lodged the populists. Opposition to refugees 2015. Thanks to the agreement that beeline for northern Europe to apply Around the region the EU reached with Turkey in March for asylum. 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Professionals predict very Countdown to 2022 starts as curtains ‘exceptional’ 2022 FIFA ring down on 2018 Qatar Fan Zone World Cup

More than 70,000 fans Qatar will host an exceptional welcomed at Ali Bin FIFA World Cup in 2022, surpris- ing the world with its state-of- Hamad Al Attiyah Arena the-art and exquisite stadiums, throughout month-long a number of Qatari senior tournament professionals have stressed. They point out that the country has allocated huge ore than 70,000 fans thronged resources for the event to make Qatar Fan Zone (QFZ) at the Ali it an inspiration for all countries MBin Hamad Al Attiyah Arena keen to host the World Cup in from June 14, when it opened its doors the future, by off ering sophisti- to the public for free, until July 15, to cated infrastructure and high- enjoy a taste of what is to come in 2022 quality services to visitors and when Qatar hosts the FIFA World Cup, spectators, according to local the organisers have said. Arabic daily Arrayah. QFZ wrapped up the carnival-like After the conclusion of the activities following a month of intense 2018 World Cup in Russia on football fever. Sunday, the focus will now Thanks to its giant screens, visitors be on Qatar with the persons were able to enjoy live screenings of all concerned closely following the 64 matches, including simultaneous developments in Doha in this matches in the group stage in a stadi- respect, the report states. um-like atmosphere. QFZ has wrapped up the carnival-like activities following a month of intense Lawyer Sheikh Mohamed bin In addition, QFZ’s visitors were treat- football fever. Khalifa al-Thani said Qatar is one ed to entertainment shows and live mu- of the most secure countries sic performances by stars from across journey along the road to 2022”. “I would like to thank all of those in- in the world and the relevant the Arab world. Qatar Fan Zone has been a highlight volved in putting on such a magnifi - security departments in the A special feature of QFZ was the of this year’s Qatar Summer Festival, cent event, and especially the teams country are taking all necessary Qatar-Russia Portal, which used in- which kicked off on the fi rst day of Eid at the SC and QTA. Qatar Fan Zone’s measures to ensure a safe and novative live streaming technology to al-Fitr. Organised by QTA, the 11-week success is an example of what can be secure event at the highest level. connect QFZ’s visitors to portals placed festival is a nationwide celebration of achieved with the collaborative eff orts Besides, he expects the event across football fan hotspots in Moscow the country’s diverse retail and hospi- of the country’s diff erent organisations. to further promote the country and St Petersburg. tality off erings, complemented by a host Events like these really bring to life the around the world by contribut- Qatar Fan Zone was organised by the of entertainment and sports activities. country’s passion for culture and sport ing significantly to the growth in Supreme Committee for Delivery & Rashed al-Qurese, chief Marketing and I’m looking forward to working the country’s tourism sector. Legacy (SC), Ministry of Culture and & Promotion offi cer at QTA, said: “We with both bodies as we get ready to wel- Sheikh Ahmed bin Mo- Sports and Qatar Tourism Authority are very grateful for the unique input come the world in Qatar in 2022.” hamed al-Thani, another lawyer, (QTA). Nasser al-Khater, assistant sec- our partners at the Supreme Commit- QFZ, presented by Qatari stand-up stressed that the country enjoys retary-general for Tournament Aff airs tee and Ministry of Culture and Sports comedian Hamad al-Amari, off ered an an atmosphere of stability and at the SC, said: “We’ve been delighted have brought to this highly successful array of international cultural perform- prosperity and all relevant to give people here in Qatar a real taste fan zone. We look forward to continue ances throughout the tournament, in- reports aff irm that 90% of the of what’s to come when we host the working with our partners across mul- cluding a Moroccan band performance, necessary infrastructure will be 2022 FIFA World Cup. The atmosphere tiple sectors to implement the Next Russian folk dances, Pixel Poi and Di- ready by next year. These are all at the Fan Zone has been incredible and Chapter of Qatar National Tourism abolo shows, roaming parades and LED positive indicators of the suc- provided just a glimpse of what it will be Strategy 2018-2023, which identifi es drummers. cess of the mega event in 2022. like in just over four years’ time. sports tourism as a priority sub-sector Qatar Fan Zone was powered by Vo- Engineer Khalid al-Nasr “The biggest sporting event in the for strengthen Qatar’s position as an at- dafone Qatar as the offi cial telecom- said the entire infrastructure world will soon be upon us and we tractive tourism destination.” munications partner and supported by required for the 2022 World Cup can’t wait to bring Qatar’s communi- Saud Aldolaimi, director of PR and W Doha Hotel & Residences, the offi cial will be ready in 2020, and will ties, and the world, on our incredible Communication at the ministry, noted: hospitality partner. be tested over two years ahead of the event. He noted that Qatar is keen to ensure a highly successful event and will spare no eff ort to make this happen. Further, he said the limited size of the country is an advan- tage as visitors will not have to travel a lot to go from one match venue to another, thereby saving their time and eff ort. Saeed Rashid al-Hajiri, mem- ber of the Central Municipal Council (CMC), said Qatar’s hosting of the coming World Cup will be a historic event for the country and the region. Jassim al-Malki, another CMC member, expressed confidence that the country will organise a highly distinguished and successful event as all relevant indicators point towards this. Businessman Adel al-Hail said the 2022 World Cup has encour- aged growth across all economic sectors in the country, including infrastructure, healthcare, edu- cation, tourism and sports, as well as other development and services sectors, creating abun- dant investment opportunities. SC, HIA successfully wrap up airport Fan Zone

he Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC) Tand Hamad International Airport (HIA) have wrapped up a month of activities held at the airport’s football Fan Zone throughout the 2018 FIFA World Cup in Russia. The fan zone was a “huge suc- cess with 50,000 active par- ticipants enjoying the exciting matches in three beautifully themed areas, which were set up as a living room, a stadium and a majlis – a traditional Ara- bic seating area where guests are received”, according to a press statement. As part of the festivities, the SC and HIA also launched a ‘digital portal’, providing foot- ball fans travelling through the airport with an interactive ex- perience by allowing them to view live streams of the diff erent landmarks in Russia during the 2018 FIFA World Cup, including Kamergersky Lane, Revolution- Fans pose for a group photo at the Fan Zone at HIA. Passengers watch a World Cup game at the Qatar Fan Zone at HIA. ary Square, Tsvetnoy Boulevard in Moscow, and Bolshaya Mor- held in the Middle East, and the is truly a gateway to the world ble culture and love for football,” out the month and fans had the the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia the warmest welcome to thou- skaya Street and Dvortsovaya fi rst in the Arab world. It’s been and the World Cup excitement said Abdulaziz al-Mass, vice- chance to have their faces paint- mascot, as well as take personal sands of football fans travelling Square in St Petersburg. fantastic to be able to give fans at this past month as we brought president Commercial and Mar- ed with their favourite country’s selfi es by the Lamp Bear area, from across the globe to Doha. Football fans in Russia also HIA a real taste of things to come. the action of 2018 FIFA World keting, HIA. fl ag. The airport Fan Zone wel- which was transformed into a Qatar’s airport is aiming to had the opportunity to view the We look forward to welcoming Cup Russia to our airport, ensur- The entire terminal displayed comed as many as 2,600 active large football pitch. provide seamless connectiv- iconic yellow Lamp Bear at HIA them all back for what we hope ing that travellers never missed a a World Cup spirit with roaming participants on a single day, the The airport Fan Zone is the lat- ity for fans of the 2022 FIFA through the portal. will be the best World Cup yet. moment of the worldwide foot- entertainment, including football statement noted. est step in HIA’s preparation for World Cup and working towards The SC’s director of Com- Finally, I’d like to thank every- ball phenomenon. As the next freestylers and jugglers, as well as In the spirit of the 2018 FIFA the 2022 FIFA World Cup. HIA, smoothly handling more than munications, Fatma al-Nuaimi, one involved in the Fan Zone and FIFA World Cup destination, impromptu football matches. World Cup, offi cial memorabilia awarded ‘Best Airport in the 50mn passengers per year and said: “It’s now just over four I look forward to working closely we wanted to bring the World Pop-up activations with foos- were also on sale at Qatar Duty Middle East by the Skytrax World as many as 96,000 arriving pas- years until Qatar welcomes the with HIA in the coming years.” Cup spirit to life by merging our ball games and virtual football Free stores. Shoppers had the Airport Awards for three years in sengers per day during the World world to the fi rst World Cup to be “Hamad International Airport world-class facilities, hospita- were also available through- opportunity to take selfi es with a row, is instrumental in giving Cup period.