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Prime Minister meets US Chargé d'Affaires Amir sends Responsible greetings to driving reduces US President QNA/DOHA violations Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani sent yesterday SACHIN KUMAR According to the a cable of congratulations to the THE PENINSULA 65th issue of monthly President of the United States bulletin of PSA, 155,853 of America, Donald Trump, on The number of traffic violations traffic violations were the anniversary of his country’s has declined in May this year Independence Day. compared previous month, registered in May this Deputy Amir H H Sheikh showing a responsible driving year against 170,301 Abdullah bin Hamad Al Thani behaviour from residents. The violations in April, also sent a cable of congratula- cases of traffic violations fell by reflecting month-on- tions to the US President on the around 9 percent in May this year month decline. anniversary of his country’s compared to a month before. Independence Day. According to the 65th issue Prime Minister and Interior of monthly bulletin of Planning Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah and Statistics Authority (PSA), May this year compared to 5714 bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani 155,853 traffic violations were cases in May last year, reflecting Prime Minister and Interior Minister H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani met yesterday sent a cable of congratulations registered in May this year a rise of around 24 percent. A total with the Chargé d'Affaires of the US to Qatar, William Grant. The meeting reviewed bilateral cooperation to the US President on the against 170,301 violations in April, of 541 traffic cases were recorded and means to enhance them, in addition to discussing a number of issues of joint interest. anniversary of his country’s reflecting month-on-month during May 2019, showing a Independence Day. decline. Number of cases caught monthly increase of 7.3 percent. by radars topped in the overall Light injuries accounted for the violations during the month. vast majority of traffic accidents Cases caught by radars accounted during month, having a share of for around 97 percent of total vio- 87 percent in total injuries, fol- lations as 113,126 cases were lowed by severe injuries having Qatar’s GDP grows at annual rate caught by radars in May. a share of 10 percent. Violations detected by In a bid to make roads safer, radars witnessed around 62 the Traffic Department has percent year-on-year growth as launched ‘Accident-free Summer’ of 1.5% in first quarter of 2019 69,975 cases were detected in campaign which focuses on field May last year compared to awareness through inspection QNA to QR168.78bn compared to by 10.2 percent compared to the Value added in fixed prices 113,126 cases in May this year. campaigns in cooperation with DOHA QR166.36bn in the same period fourth quarter of the same year. for this sector amounted to Violations of traffic instruc- the of Traffic Patrols Department last year, down from the value The contribution of this QR105.96bn during the first tions was the another category and the Public Relations Qatar’s nominal GDP (at current in the fourth quarter of last year sector to fixed prices was quarter of 2019, a growth of 1.6 which registered significant Department. prices) grew by 1.5 percent in estimated at QR180.74bn. QR96.37bn, up 0.1 percent from percent compared to the corre- decline during the month. A total The main goal of the campaign the first quarter of 2019 At constant prices, GDP the first quarter of last year, but sponding quarter last year, and of 11,817 cases of violations of is to educate the public on the rules compared to the same quarter grew by 0.9 percent, compared fell by 0.8 percent compared to a drop of 4.2 percent from the traffic instructions were regis- of traffic safety and safe driving, of 2018, but fell by 6.6 percent with the same period last year, the fourth quarter of the same last quarter of 2018. tered in May this year compared with a focus on drivers, especially from the fourth quarter of last 2018, recording QR202.33bn, year. The Planning and Statistics to 16,618 such cases in the same from the youth, he added. During year. but fell by 2.6 percent compared Non-mining activities, at Authority noted that these esti- month last year, showing a fall the campaign there will be distri- According to a statement to the estimate of QR207.75bn current prices, stood at mates were based on data of around 30 percent. However, bution of awareness publications, issued by the Planning and Sta- in the fourth quarter of 2018. QR108.15bn, up 0.3 percent available through the quarterly cases of violations of traffic signs guidance to drivers in the roads, tistics Authority (PSA) estimates Mining and quarrying sector from the first quarter of last survey of economic indicators, increased during the month. A commercial markets and streets, of gross domestic product at reached QR60.64bn (current year, but fell by 4.5 percent as well as data from adminis- total of 7,074 cases of violations the internal areas of Doha, and the current prices during the first prices), up 3.6 percent from the compared to the fourth quarter trative records of different of traffic signs were recorded in external areas including Dukhan. quarter of this year amounted same period in 2018, while it fell of the year. quarters. Qatar’s application Katara to launch permanent for ICAO Council Kahraman centre for amber membership submitted RAYNALD C RIVERA of amber collection, its uses and sources THE PENINSULA of production. The centre will also THE PENINSULA/DOHA organize lectures and seminars on Katara Cultural Village announced acquisition of amber artefacts, Dr. Al Minister of Transport and Communications, H E yesterday it is launching a permanent Sulaiti added. Jassim Saif Ahmed Al Sulaiti, held talks with the Kahraman centre for amber coinciding Dr. Al Sulaiti also announced Katara Secretary-General of the International Civil Aviation with the second edition of The Katara will launch two books on amber during Organization (ICAO), Dr. Fang Liu, at the organization International Exhibition for Kahraman the exhibition following the success of offices in Montreal, Canada, yesterday. to be held from January 8 to 11 next another book released at the inaugural At the meeting, the Minister submitted Qatar’s first year. exhibition last year, which details amber application for membership of the ICAO Council for Dr. Khalid bin Ibrahim Al Sulaiti, as part of cultural heritage as mentioned the upcoming session within Category 3 for the election Katara General Manager, said the centre in Arabic literature and research studies to be held during the ICAO Assembly in September. will include a laboratory which will done on amber as well as ts types, forms, The meeting reviewed Qatar-ICAO relations in civil provide various services to amber colours, benefits and prices. aviation industry and means of further enhancing them. traders and collectors such as identi- The exhibition, he said, aims to It also discussed aviation security and safety in the fying genuine amber, its type and source enhance Qatar’s position as foremost region, stressing its importance for maintaining highest as well as issuing certification. destination for amber trading and efficiency levels. Qatar’s Ambassador to Canada Saud Minister of Transport and Communications, H E Jassim Saif Ahmed Artworks made from amber will also acquisition in the Middle East for man- bin Abdullah Al Mahmoud and Chairman of Qatar’s Al Sulaiti, submitting Qatar’s membership in International Civil be showcased at the centre which will ufacturers, traders and collectors as well Civil Aviation Authority (CAA) Abdulla bin Nasser Turki Aviation Organization (ICAO) to its Secretary-General, Dr. Fang organize children’s activities aimed at as researchers and experts in amber. Al Subaey attended the meeting. Liu, in Montreal, Canada, yesterday. teaching them the origins of the hobby `P3 Qatar Poison Center saves residents from unnecessary visits to hospitals

FAZEENA SALEEM quick response in time of urgent to the emergency department. commonly related to children take calls from colleagues and recommendations based on THE PENINSULA need. This is one of the biggest ways either because they have peers in health centers, ERs or treatment guidelines. Consultations are available we can help people as we can ingested medications or a the ICU units if they have “The service is available daily The Qatar Poison Center is for calls involving children or advise them if their poison household cleaning product. We patients who have been admitted from 9am-1am in English and playing crucial role in adults, anywhere in Qatar. The exposure requires them to see a also field calls regarding errors for poisoning,” he added. Arabic. In the near future we reducing unnecessary visits of center’s services are free and doctor, or if it is something that in giving the wrong dosage or the The Qatar Poison Center is hope to operate 24 hours a day,” residents to emergency confidential. In addition to pro- is safe to monitor at home. This wrong type of medicine to either staffed by pharmacists and phy- said Dr Hoffman. “Another part departments (ER). viding advice to the public, it also saves patients and families time children or adults. We have even sicians with training and of our mission is to manage poi- Qatar Poison Center helpline, supports doctors and nurses who and effort in visiting an ER,” Dr received calls because a con- expertise in clinical toxicology. soning in homes and in healthcare opened in 2018, at Sidra call from hospitals and medical RJ Hoffman, Medical Director, struction worker mistakenly Specialists in poison information settings and to help prevent poi- Medicine, provides poisoning facilities. Qatar Poison Center, Sidra Med- ingested something like bleach receive calls from the public and soning through public awareness management advice to the public “The Qatar Poison Center icine told The Peninsula. because it was stored in a non- healthcare institutions in Qatar. and education programs,” said Dr and is helping them by giving helps reducing unnecessary visits “The majority of our calls is descript water bottle. We also They provide management Hoffman. `P3 02 HOME FRIDAY 5 JULY 2019

PRAYER TIMINGS Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister Kyrgyz Foreign Affairs Minister FAJR 03. 19 AM meets Qatari Ambassador SHOROOK 04. 48 AM meets Ambassador of Qatar

ZUHR 11. 38 AM MAGHRIB 06. 30 PM ASR 03.02 PM ISHA 08. 00 PM

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Romanian Foreign Affairs Minister, Teodor Melescanu, met with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Kyrgyz Republic, Chingiz Aidarbekov, met with o o Ambassador of the State of Qatar to Romania, H E Abdullah bin Nasser Ambassador of the State of Qatar to Kyrgyzstan, H E Abdullah bin Ahmed Al Sulaiti. 32 C 44 C Al Humaidi. Discussions during the meeting dealt with bilateral relations During the meeting, they reviewed bilateral cooperation and relations between the and issues of common interest. two countries, in addition to issues of common interest. Minimum Maximum

Hot daytime with slight dust to blowing dust at some places. NMoQ to hold traditional Qatari crafts workshops

HIGH TIDE 04:59–18:45 LOW TIDE 01:47 – 12:38 RAYNALD C RIVERA formation, instinctively and The workshops will participants will get the Girls Creativity Centre for the Courtesy: Qatar Meteorology Department THE PENINSULA professionally transmitted centre on crafts chance to design and make workshop scheduled from over generations,” said NMoQ their own jewellery. August 4 to 8 called “Gypsum The National Museum of Qatar on its website. Qataris used to make Ubiquitous on streets, Carving and Decoration” in Ministry of Sports (NMoQ) puts a spotlight on the In particular, the work- during summer, and parks and gardens all over the which participants will be significant role traditional shops will centre on crafts take inspiration from country; date palms hold a taught to make their own dec- handicrafts play in the Qataris used to make during objects displayed in very important place in Qatari orated gypsum panels. and Culture hosts country, curating a series of summer, and take inspiration society. Apart from their fruits, The objects created by the workshops which will kick off from objects displayed in the the NMoQ galleries. date palms are useful in participants at the workshops panel discussion this Sunday. NMoQ galleries. making objects utilized in will be exhibited at the con- At the core of this month- Slated from July 7 to 10, through the workshop as par- daily life, some of which will clusion of the programme. on children’s book long summer programme are the first workshop will focus ticipants create earth friendly be made by participants in the The workshops are open popular handicrafts which on “Creating Net Sculptures” products including rope bags, “Organic Creations: Crafting to those aged 14 and above QNA have been vital to Qatari life inspired by traditional coastal photo frames and decoration with Palm Leaves (Al Khous)” and can be availed with a fee DOHA especially during the pre-oil marine crafts related to fishing for pottery. The programme workshop running from July of QR250. Sessions are con- era. which was a chief source of will also highlight one of the 28 to 31. ducted in Arabic and English The Ministry of Culture and Sports “The various crafts consist income in the past. oldest industries in Qatar With its distinct floral and from 5pm to 7pm at the NMoQ hosted yesterday a panel discussion of design and decorative pat- The second workshop, through “The World of the geometric designs, gypsum Galleries and Learning Studio. organised by Qatari Authors Forum to terns which are integral to scheduled from July 14 to 17, Goldsmith” workshop in col- handicraft is famous in Qatar Since slots are limited, inter- discuss the children’s book ‘The Light Qatari identity. These patterns will feature “The Craft of Rope laboration with Aldiwan used to decorate and cool ested participants are required of Hope’ written by celebrated children’s are the product of intellectual, Making” – an ancient dying Jewelry. In this workshop, facades of buildings. to book at programsnmoq@ author Basma El Khatib and published cultural and scientific craft which will be revived which runs from July 21 to 24, NMoQ has partnered with qm.org.qa by Hamad bin Khalifa University (HBKU) press. The book was named winner in the 2019 International Book Awards (IBA) QU’s outreach initiative in the category of Children’s Mind/Body/ Spirit. The book was originally published in Arabic by HBKU Press under the title preps students for university Kandil Alma in late 2018. The Light of Hope follows the story of Alma, a young girl on her way home THE PENINSULA arranged visits to QU Colleges English, inform them about in a dark forest. Alma faces many DOHA of Medicine, Pharmacy, Engi- university life and show them obstacles on the way, symbolising life’s neering, and Education. Stu- the services available to difficulties, but overcomes them through The Foundation Program (FP) dents were also introduced to students.” strength, perseverance, and the help of under the Deanship of the different student support He also, thanked the Min- friends. General Studies at Qatar services offered at QU, such istry of Education and Higher Children’s author, Basma El Khatib University (QU) welcomed 43 as the library, sports activ- Education, the participating while speaking at the session yesterday, high school female Qatari ities, and Career Development schools and parents for their stressed the importance of the message students from seven Qatari Centre. efforts in making the program delivered by the book to children in schools to the Al Qabas On the final day of Al a success. general and to young girls in particular, Program to prepare them for Qabas Program, a showcase Student survey indicated explaining that they will face many dif- university life through of student posters was held high satisfaction rate among ficulties in their lives, but they have to different sessions and activ- where students practiced the attendees. Students overcome these difficulties, and to know ities. The Al Qabas Program their presentation skills by advised that Al Qabas was that they are able to do so. is a first of its kind student presenting their posters and fun, interesting and bene- The author appreciated the role of outreach initiative in QU. sharing their experiences in ficial. Raghad Adel Al Sultan HBKU Press in translating the book into The Al Qabas Program Al Qabas with FP faculty and from Rawda bint Mohammed English, which enabled the book to aims to develop not only stu- special needs students. Secondary School for Girls Students take part in one of the training sessions during the reach more readers and to a wider dents’ math and English skills, Director of the FP at QU, said that she benefited from week-long Al Qabas Foundation Program at Qatar University. audience. In addition to the book’s 2019 but also different study skills Dr Hezam Al Awah, said, attending a lecture in the IBA win, The Light of Hope received an such as, test taking, and lan- “Qatar University’s FP helps Department of Biology with Honorable Mention in the 2019 Purple guage acquisition skills. to develop students’ learning university students and and pharmacist professions applying to the university.” Dragonfly Book Awards in the category Around 25 faculty members skills in order to succeed in learned a lot about the vital when she visited the College Future plans for Al Qabas of Spiritual/Religious as well. and staff members from the the various academic pro- processes and realised how of Medicine and College of include extending the The Light of Hope is perfect for Departments of English and grams offered by the uni- important the English lan- Pharmacy. program to more than one children aged 4-9 and can be found on Math participated in organ- versity. With this in mind, we guage is to accommodate lec- She added, “There is a dif- week, targeting more schools, Amazon Kindle and in bookstores across ising, preparing and deliv- launched Al Qabas Program tures in this speciality. ference between studying at and offering an opportunity Qatar in both English and Arabic. ering sessions, mainly tar- to attract high school students Fatima Mohammed the secondary level and to male students. By encour- HBKU Press is committed to facili- geting students with interest who want to enrol in QU’s sci- Saddiki from Al Wakra Inde- studying at the university aging students to apply to tating quality translations of meaningful in STEM or health-related entific and medical programs, pendent Secondary School for level, which I now have to STEM and health-related edu- works from Arabic into many other lan- majors. to help them with academic Girls said that she learned the prepare for and conduct a cation and preparing them for guages and vice versa. The program also skills in mathematics and difference between the doctor placement test before success in university life. QFC Regulatory Authority censures Chairman and Independent Director of GWMQ THE PENINSULA savings plans in Qatar. Governance and Controlled Func- and cooperative manner and dis- for contraventions relating to the body established in 2005 by DOHA The Regulatory Authority tions Rules 2012, particularly: closing appropriately to the Reg- Anti-Money Laundering and Article 8 of the QFC Law. It reg- censures Jones under Article 58 GWMQs failure to establish an ulatory Authority any information Combating Terrorist Financing ulates firms that conduct financial The Qatar Financial Centre of the Financial Services Regula- appropriate corporate gov- that the Regulatory Authority Rules 2010 and general regu- services in or from the QFC. It has (“QFC”) Regulatory Authority (the tions because Joness conduct fell ernance framework; failure to would reasonably expect notice. latory contraventions. a broad range of regulatory “Regulatory Authority”) has below the Principles of Conduct review the GWMQ risk man- The action taken by the Reg- Jones provided evidence of powers to authorise, supervise decided to issue a public censure for an Approved Individual per- agement and internal controls ulatory Authority emphasises the significant mitigating circum- and, when necessary, discipline against Vincent Jones, the forming the Non-Executive Gov- framework appropriately and standards required of directors stances, in the absence of which firms and individuals. Chairman and independent ernance Function. Joness contra- with sufficient frequency; and of authorised firms to ensure the Regulatory Authority would The QFC Regulatory Authority director of Guardian Wealth ventions included: failure to ensure that GWMQs effective governance standards, have imposed a financial penalty regulates firms using principle- Management Qatar LLC (in liqui- Failing to exercise the req- business was financially sound systems and controls. of $75,000 and a two-year based legislation of international dation) (“GWMQ”). GWMQ was uisite due skill, care and diligence and maintained transparency and On April 22, 2018, the QFC prohibition. standard, modelled closely on an insurance intermediary firm in relation to his oversight of disclosure; failing to deal with the Regulatory Authority issued a The QFC Regulatory Authority that used in major financial that sold mainly long-term GWMQs compliance with the Regulatory Authority in an open financial penalty against GWMQ is an independent regulatory centres. 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President of Bolivia receives credentials Deputy PM receives Prime Minister sends message written message from of Ambassador of Qatar Kazakhstan Minister to French counterpart

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Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of State for Defence Affairs, H E Dr Khalid bin Mohamed Al Attiyah, received on Wednesday a written message from Kazakhstan’s Defence Minister Nurlan Yermekbayev regarding the bilateral relations between the two sides. The message was delivered at the meeting of H E Deputy Prime Min- ister and Minister of State for Defence Affairs with Ambassador of Kaza- khstan to the State of Qatar, Askar Shokybayev.

Vice-President-elect of Indonesia meets Qatari Ambassador

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The Vice-President-elect of the The President of the State of Bolivia, Evo Morales Ayma (right), received the credentials of Republic of Indonesia, Ma’ruf Amin, Ambassador of the State of Qatar (non-resident) to the State of Bolivia, H E Ali bin Hamad Al met with the Ambassador of the State Prime Minister and Minister of Interior H E Sheikh Abdullah bin Sulaiti. H E the Ambassador conveyed Amir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani’s greetings of Qatar to Indonesia, H E Ahmed bin Nasser bin Khalifa Al Thani sent a written message to Prime Minister and wishes of good health and happiness to the President of Bolivia and his wishes of more Jassim Al Hamar. progress and prosperity to the government and people of Bolivia. For his part, the President of During the meeting, H E the of the French Republic Edouard Philippe, pertaining to bilateral Bolivia entrusted H E the Ambassador to convey his greetings to H H the Amir, and his wishes of Ambassador congratulated the Vice- relations between the two countries and means of boosting them. more prosperity and progress to the people of Qatar. He also wished H E the Ambassador success President-elect on his win in the The Ambassador of the State of Qatar to the French Republic, in his new duties and in promoting and strengthening relations of friendship and cooperation Indonesian elections and wished the H E Sheikh Ali bin Jassim Al Thani, handed the message when between the State of Qatar and the State of Bolivia. relations between the two countries the Diplomatic Adviser to the French Prime Minister Emmanuel progress and prosperity. Lenain met him. Qatar Poison Center saves DIFI attends 73rd session of CEDAW in Geneva residents THE PENINSULA many studies and important activities DOHA aimed at strengthening the family, and from combating discrimination against The Doha International Family Institute women. unnecessary (DIFI), a member of Qatar Foundation, “For example, this year we pub- has attended the 73rd session of the lished a study titled ‘Work-Family hospital visits Committee on the Elimination of Balance’ based on quantitative and Discrimination against Women qualitative data that sought to inves- FROM PAGE 1 (CEDAW), which is currently taking tigate the challenges confronting The Qatar Poison Center place in Geneva, Switzerland. It will working women and the family as a has outreach activities to the conclude on July 19. whole. One of the challenges we iden- general public to make them DIFI participated in a closed NGO tified was the lack of achieving a work- aware of poisoning. An example meeting and attended a discussion of family balance, and the negative effects is a recent poison prevention the second periodic report of Qatar on this can have on family members, such art contest for students. Dr the implementation of the Convention as health. “We are honoured to attend Hoffman is also keen to further on the Elimination of All Forms of Dis- this conference, reaffirming our com- the educational aspect and crimination against Women. mitment to support women. Indeed, in develop the practice of clinical Dr Sharifa Noaman Al Emadi, Exec- March 2019, DIFI organized an event toxicology in Qatar, by training utive Director, DIFI, said, “Women are titled ‘Gender-Responsive Social Pro- doctors and healthcare profes- considered to be at the center of the tection for Adolescent Girls to Enable sionals in toxicology. “We also evolved family that serves as the basis Aspirations and Reach the SDGs in the provide highly specialized for society, and we consider women’s Arab Region’ at the 63rd Session of the The participants seen during the 73rd session of the Committee on the Elimination of training and advice to be pre- rights and empowerment at the top of UN Commission on the Status of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) currently taking place in Geneva, Switzerland. pared for dangerous poisonings our priorities. DIFI recently conducted Women in New York.” such as a nuclear powerplant or radiation release, chemical and biological warfare agents, and specific chemicals used in Katara to launch permanent Kahraman centre for amber industries,” said Dr Hoffman. FROM PAGE 1 “We have successfully is called Kahraman and beads hosted a series of toxicology The exhibition also aims to made of natural and authentic workshops earlier this year, cement a position as an ideal Kahraman amber has been which were very well attended global platform for promoting famous among the Arabs since by healthcare professionals and and sharing on the future of the ancient times. plan to host more in the near amber industry, he added. The first edition of the exhi- future on an annual basis. We The exhibition follows the bition, which ran for three days, are also seeing interest in tox- success of its first edition which showcased not only Islamic icology and related topics from witnessed the participation of prayer beads but also bracelets, other hospitals in the region around 80 stalls representing ornaments, artworks, antiques and look forward to welcoming some of the most important and rare objects all made of more international attendees amber manufacturers and authentic natural amber with to our workshops.” he con- traders in Qatar, Turkey, Kuwait, prices ranging from few hun- tinued. Dr Hoffman’s advice Lebanon, Russia, Poland and dreds to millions of riyals. regarding poison management Lithuania. The exhibition provided a in the house is to store medica- Amber is fossilised resin forum for communication, tions and poisons out of reach originating from trees and the exchange of experiences and of children and to keep medi- seas and the process of their for- knowledge in the industry in cations and poisons in their mation takes thousands of years. the local and international People visiting some of the stalls at the first Katara Exhibition for Kahraman last year. original container. Amber found in the Arab world markets. Past president of Toastmasters International wins hearts, kindles mind

THE PENINSULA gratitude for a great year of Director was a blessing in my life. DOHA growth. “Our District’s first-year My abundant gratitude to all,” success story is unique; It is Rajeswar said. Balraj Arunasalam, DTM, an unprecedented. We, the toast- With more than 1,800 eminent Sri Lankan entrepreneur masters of Qatar, have indeed, members in 74 clubs, besides more and only the third man of Asian created history.” In the very first than 500 youngsters in 15 gavel origin to have been the Interna- year of inception, Qatar was the clubs, Qatar is now a force to tional President (2017-18) of the first ever and only Smedley Dis- reckon with. Taking the oppor- 95-years old Toastmasters Inter- tinguished District in the world, tunity of Balraj’s visit, District 116 national, was recently in Qatar, to and as of today, amongst the top. organized a leadership training for deliver a series of training sessions Rajeswar attributed the entire the newly elected district leaders. and keynote speeches. success to members, who were his Balraj also visited several Toast- Members with district officers of the organisation. The highlight of his visit was source of goodness, resilience, and masters club in Qatar, including a his keynote speech “Position is not hope. The leadership team couple of surprise visits. He the Pinnacle” delivered to an opportunity to make a difference point of emphasis was on humility. area of leadership was spotting imbibed with boundless optimism, touched the hearts of the toast- audience of more than 200 in the lives of people, especially in Humility is the key to humanity. and nurturing the potential of the and positivity was determined to master’s fraternity with his people, comprising both Toast- a service-oriented organisation He narrated an instance of an next generation of leaders. “Iden- succeed. “Throughout the term, humility, down-to-earth masters and non-toastmasters. like Toastmasters. officer who had to perform his tifying potentials of people is a many suggestions influenced me, approach, and patient response to Drawing from his life experiences, Arunasalam said a leader duty that demanded his presence priceless treasure,” he said. guided me, and I remained as a all the queries posed to him. He within and outside of Toast- should be mindful of Purpose. despite serious circumstances District Director Rajeswar student. This leadership role made gave individual feedback and masters, he exhorted the listeners “Don’t lose sight of the purpose; back home. Balraj said, “The first relinquished his term as District me a better leader and more inspirational advice to all those not to consider a position as a the purpose is the starting point of responsibility for a leader is to Director on June 30, 2019. In his importantly, a better human being. who had a personal interaction source of power, but as an your position,” he stated. Another know duty over position” Another farewell address, he expressed I realize that becoming the District with him. 04 MIDDLE EAST / AFRICA FRIDAY 5 JULY 2019 Britain seizes Iranian oil tanker over Syria sanctions AGENCIES Iran summoned the against Syria,” Gibraltar Chief LONDON/TEHRAN British ambassador Minister Fabian Picardo said. “With my consent, our port and British Royal Marines seized an in protest at Britain’s law enforcement agencies sought oil tanker in Gibraltar yesterday “illegal interception” the assistance of the Royal accused of bringing oil to Syria of an Iranian oil Marines in carrying out this in violation of EU sanctions, a tanker in Gibraltar, the operation.” dramatic step that could escalate A spokesman for British confrontation between the West foreign ministry said. Prime Minister Theresa May wel- and Iran. comed Gibraltar’s move, though The Grace 1 tanker was the incident could also signal impounded in the British ter- Iran just minutes before impact some tensions within Europe. ritory at the mouth of the Medi- last month, and Tehran amass Spain, which challenges terranean Sea after sailing stocks of enriched uranium British ownership of Gibraltar, around Africa from Middle East. banned under a 2015 nuclear said the action was prompted by Shipping data reviewed by deal. a US request to Britain and Reuters suggests it had been Iran summoned the British appeared to have taken place in loaded with Iranian oil off the ambassador in protest at Britain’s Spanish waters. Britain’s Foreign coast of Iran, although its docu- “illegal interception” of an Office did not respond to a Oil supertanker Grace 1 on suspicion of being carrying Iranian crude oil to Syria is seen near Gibraltar, ments say the oil is from neigh- Iranian oil tanker in Gibraltar, request for comment. Spain, yesterday. bouring Iraq. the foreign ministry said. While Europe has banned oil The authorities in Gibraltar “After the illegal interception shipments to Syria since 2011, it enforcement seriously and that mainstream crude markets, Trump’s decision to exit the made no reference to the source of an Iranian oil tanker in the had never seized a tanker at sea. the EU can also respond to making it desperate for alter- nuclear deal last year, and they of the oil when they seized it strait of Gibraltar by the English “This is the first time that the Iranian brinkmanship related to native ways to sell oil and more have promised to help Iran find under the authority of European naval force, that country’s EU has done something so public ongoing nuclear negotiations.” reliant on its tanker fleet to store alternative ways to export. But sanctions against Syria that have ambassador to Tehran was sum- and so aggressive. I imagine it Iran has long been supplying supplies it cannot sell. they have so far failed to offer been in place for years. moned to the foreign ministry,” was also coordinated in some its allies in Syria with oil despite The US-Iranian confron- ways to ease the impact of U.S. But the likelihood that the said the ministry’s spokesman manner with the US given that such sanctions. What is new now tation has escalated in recent sanctions in practice. cargo was Iranian drew a link Abbas Moussavi Nato member forces have been is US sanctions on Iran itself. weeks, taking on a military Iran has said it wants to keep between the incident and a new In a statement, the Gibraltar involved,” said Matthew They were imposed last year dimension after Washington the nuclear deal alive but cannot US effort to halt all global sales government said it had rea- Oresman, a partner with law firm when President Donald Trump accused Tehran of attacking do so indefinitely unless it of Iranian crude, which Tehran sonable grounds to believe that Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw pulled out of an agreement that tankers in the Gulf and Iran receives promised economic has described as an illegal “eco- the Grace 1 was carrying its Pittman who advises firms on guaranteed Tehran access to shot down a US drone. Trump benefits. This week it announced nomic war” against it. shipment of crude oil to the sanctions. world trade in return for curbs ordered air strikes but called it had accumulated more low- European countries have Baniyas refinery in Syria. “This is likely to have been on its nuclear programme. them off at the last minute, later enriched uranium than the deal tried stay neutral in that confron- “That refinery is the property meant as a signal to Syria and Those sanctions have been saying too many people would allows, and it says it will refine tation, which saw the United of an entity that is subject to Iran— as well as the US—that tightened sharply since May, have died. uranium to a greater purity than States call off air strikes against European Union sanctions Europe takes sanctions effectively forcing Iran off of European countries opposed permitted from July 7.

Migrant boat Haftar forces admit to migrant camp airstrike with 86 on board

ANATOLIA/AFP base for Government of National militia groups. hospital “a group of injured proposed statement. sinks off Tunisia, TRIPOLI Accord (GNA) forces. Around 300 migrants are migrants who left Tajoura after Libya’s internationally rec- 4 rescued “We’ve repeatedly targeted still being held in the detention the attack in the surrounding ognised government and its East Libya-based forces it with airstrikes and artillery,” centre in Libya where more than neighbourhood”. arch-foe strongman Khalifa AFP yesterday admitted to carrying the spokesman said, adding: “In 44 people were killed in an air “Innocent lives were lost in Haftar traded blame for the TUNIS out an airstrike on a migrant this case, the main responsible strike, the International Organ- the attack on Tuesday night, and deadly assault. According to the camp that left dozens dead. ones are those who brought ization for Migration said. immediate action is needed from IOM, of the more than 600 More than 80 migrants have At least 44 people were killed illegal immigrants here.” Of the 600 migrants that all sides,” the IOM’s Libya chief migrants detained in Tajoura, 187 gone missing and only four and 130 others injured on Tuesday The Tripoli-based GNA were in the centre, “300 were still of mission, Othman Belbeisi, said were registered with its “Human- were rescued after their boat in an airstrike on a migrant blamed the airstrike on com- there” Thursday and receiving in the statement. “The suffering itarian Voluntary Return” pro- capsized off Tunisia on its way detention center in the Tajoura mander Khalifa Haftar’s forces. humanitarian assistance from the of migrants in Libya has become gramme which helps migrants from Libya to Italy, Tunisia’s suburb of the country’s capital, Libya has remained beset by IOM, Safa Msehli, the communi- intolerable. It must be clear to all go back to their home coast guard said yesterday. Tripoli. The location “is actually a turmoil since 2011 when a bloody cations director for the organi- that Libya is not a safe port and countries. The Red Crescent and the base of a military brigade and Nato-backed uprising led to the sation in Libya, said. that thousands of lives remain at The IOM “continues to call navy said that three Malians arms depot,” spokesman Ahmed ouster and death of long-serving Msehli was unable to confirm imminent risk,” he added. for an end to the arbitrary and an Ivorian were rescued Al Mismari said at a press con- leader Muammar Gaddafi after reports that dozens of migrants The tragedy provoked an detention and reminds all parties off Zarzis in southern Tunisia ference in Benghazi. more than four decades in had fled on Tuesday night after international outcry, but the that civilians are not a target,” on Wednesday by the coast Al Mismari added that this power. Since then, Libya’s stark the raid in the Tripoli suburb of divided UN Security Council the IOM statement added, reit- guard who had been alerted by was not the first of such attack political divisions have yielded Tajoura which also left 130 failed to unanimously condemn erating that some 3,300 migrants local fishermen. on what he described a “legit- two rival seats of power — one wounded. But the IOM said in a the attack in an emergency are still detained in and around The Ivorian, however, died imate target”, claiming the in Tobruk and another in Tripoli statement that its teams had meeting on Wednesday after the the Libyan capital in centres in hospital and one of the camps had previously been a — and a host of heavily armed “located” and transferred to United States did not endorse a “considered at-risk”. Malians has also been hospi- talised in intensive care. Those rescued had told Tunisian officials that 86 people Syrian regime strikes were on board their inflatable boat when it left from the Libyan town of Zuwara, west hit three hospitals of Tripoli, on its way to cross the Mediterranean to Italy. AFP In May, Amnesty Interna- “About 80 migrants are BEIRUT tional accused the Syrian regime feared dead. More updates are and Russia of launching “delib- needed in order to confirm Regime air strikes yesterday on erate and systematic” assaults what happened and the actual an anti-government bastion in on hospitals in the northwest. number of missing,” Flavio Di northwest Syria killed four At least 25 hospitals and Giacomo, a spokesman for the civilians, two of them children, clinics have been destroyed or International Organisation for and hit three hospitals already damaged by air strikes and Migration, tweeted. damaged in previous raids, a shelling since the end of April, Libya, which has been monitor said. according to the United Nations. wracked by chaos since the 2011 A fifth person, another child, Five rescuers were also uprising that killed veteran dic- was killed in a separate air raid killed in the last two weeks of tator Moamer Kadhafi, has long by regime ally Russia also in the June in air strike on the Idlib been a major transit route for Idlib region, the Britain-based region. Yesterday’s strikes killed migrants, especially from sub- Syrian Observatory for Human four civilians, two of them Saharan Africa, desperate to Rights war monitor said. children, in Kafr Nabl, Hass and reach Europe. On Tuesday night, The Idlib region is supposed the town of Khan Sheikhun in 44 migrants were killed in an air A Sudanese man flashes the victory sign as people gather outside Al Huda prison in the capital to be protected from a massive Idlib region, the Observatory said. strike on their detention centre Khartoum’s twin city of Omdurman, marking the release of 235 members of a faction of the Sudan regime assault by a September A Russian air strike near Al Bara in a Tripoli suburb. buffer zone deal, but the area village killed a little girl and Liberation Army, which has fought government forces in war-torn Darfur. housing three million people has wounded several people, it added. come under increased regime Syria’s war, which started Somalia cuts and Russian fire since April. in 2011 with the brutal Sudan students march for civilian rule diplomatic ties The region is administered repression of anti-government by Syria’s former Al-Qaeda demonstrations, has killed more AFP “Students from the high students in Gadaref, marching with Guinea affiliate Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, than 370,000 people and dis- KHARTOUM school stepped out of their on the main street of the town, but other jihadist and opposition placed millions. campus and marched towards a resident from the town, said. QNA factions are also present. Russian President Vladimir Hundreds of students from downtown, chanting ‘civilian Protest leaders and the MOGADISHU “Regime warplanes again Putin said yesterday he was several schools in three rule, civilian rule,’” a teacher ruling generals are expected targeted three hospitals in the worried that militants were Sudanese towns took to the from the school in the central later Thursday to continue talks Somalia announced yesterday south of Idlib,” which had been flowing into Libya from Syria’s streets yesterday, chanting town of Madani told AFP by for a second straight day, the first that it has cut diplomatic rela- hit and damaged in raids in pre- Idlib province and warned that “civilian rule, civilian rule,” telephone. such round of negotiation since tions with the Republic of vious weeks, the Observatory the Libyan situation was witnesses said, the main demand The students were also a deadly crackdown on demon- Guinea. This came at a press said. There were no casualties deteriorating. of demonstrators protesting chanting “blood for blood, we strators last month. conference held by the Minister in these raids on the village of Putin, who was speaking at against the ruling generals. don’t want compensation,” a The talks revolve around the of Foreign Affairs and Interna- Hass and the town of Kafr Nabl, a news conference in Rome after The spontaneous protests by catchcry of the protest issue of who should lead a new tional Cooperation of Somalia it added. holding talks with Italian Prime school students in the agricul- movement calling for those governing body -- a civilian or Ahmed Issa Oud, in Mogadishu. Obeida Dandouch, who Minister Giuseppe Conte, said tural towns of Madani, Gadaref guilty of killing demonstrators soldier. The Somali news agency heads a rescue group in the area, Moscow wanted Libya’s warring and Sinnar came as talks to face justice. Similar marches Talks had collapsed in May reported that this decision said the strike in Kafr Nabl sides to agree a ceasefire, to hold between the protest leaders and were also staged in Sinnar and over the issue and tension comes “as a result of violations damaged a large part of what talks, and to enter into a proper generals entered a second day Gadaref towns yesterday, wit- between the two sides further by the Republic of Guinea was still standing at the local political process to sort out the Thursday over the forming of an nesses said. “No education in soared after the raid on a protest against the sovereignty of the hospital. country’s problems. overall governing body. this horrible situation,” chanted camp on June 3 killed dozens. territorial integrity of Somalia.” FRIDAY 5 JULY 2019 ISLAM 05 The remembrance of Allah SADULLAH KHAN everything in this universe: In the rank with their Lord, as well as creation of the heavens and the forgiveness and an honourable he Quran undoubtedly earth, and the alternation of provision.” (Quran 8:2) emphasizes the need night and day, there are indeed The above verses from Surah for dhikr: O Believers! Signs for people of under- Anfal make reference to the signs Remember Allah with standing - people who remember of true Believers (mu’minuna much remembrance Allah, standing, sitting and lying haqqa) and this includes... Tand glorify Him early and late down. They realise that Allah did Remembering Allah (dhikr) (Quran 23:41) Remember your not create all this without and its effect on them Reading Lord in your heart with humility purpose. Glory to Allah! (Quran the Quran (tilawah) and its effect and due respect (7:205) 3:190-191). on them Their dependence on The Quran itself is referred In this verse Allah, the Most Allah (tawakkul) Their pursuance to as al-dhikr (The Remem- High, speaks highly of the ulul of spiritual and moral welfare brance) in (15:9). Allah fur- albab or literally the “possessors through prayer (salah) Their pur- thermore states: We have made of mind” or those who suance of social and economic the Quran easy to remember “reflect”/”contemplate”. This welfare through charity (infaq) (and an easy mode of remem- quality of thinking (reflection/ brance), are there any who care? contemplation) is mentioned in Dhikr & itminan (54:17) the Quran precisely because The word mutma’innah Tafakkur means thinking on Muslims are expected to imbibe occurs in related forms in a matter, constructively, pur- them. thirteen places in the Quran. The posefully and in earnestness. This kind of “quality noun from this word is Tafakkur (reflection) is the lamp thinking” formed an integral part The Prophet (peace be upon him) reported that Allah tuma’ninah. Tuma’ninah means of the heart, the food of the spirit, of the texture and culture of informs: “I am with the thought of My servant and am with calmness, serenity, peacefulness the spirit of knowledge and the Muslims since the time of the and tranquility. soul and light of the Islamic way Prophet (peace be upon him). A him when he remembers Me. If he remembers Me in his It signifies a state of com- of life. Without reflection, the saying attributed to Abdullah ibn heart, I too remember him in My heart. If he remembers Me posure and equanimity. It implies heart is darkened, the spirit Abbas documented by Imam in an assembly, I too recollect him in an assembly, and this a feeling of total security, of becomes exasperated and Islam Qurtubi in his tafsir states having complete peace of mind, is lived at a superficial level “tafakkur for an hour is better assembly is better than human assembly. (Bukhari) being at ease with oneself; a devoid of meaning and than a whole night’s prayer.” This state so sought after yet rarely profundity. ability and capacity to think experienced in this age. That Reflection is such a light in deeply about things is the light references. in the Quran to words All forms of dhikr help us (remembrance) (Quran 20:14). pleasant and noble state the heart that good and evil, of a Muslim. from the root dh-k-r (to develop and reinforce our rela- Going through rituals of prayer (itminan) of the heart is attained harm and benefit and beauty and Makes reference to the remember, to mention, to tionship with the Divine. Keep in without the essential element of through (dhikr)remembrance ugliness can be discerned and second important attribute of this invoke). remembrance the Name of the remembering Allah reflects of Allah, Those who believe and distinguished from each other level or quality of Muslim is Our focus here is specifically Lord and sincerely devote strands of heedlessness and whose hearts find satisfaction through it. remembrance (dhikr). on dhikr (whether qalbi, ‘aqli, yourself wholeheartedly to Him. hypocrisy. in dhikr-Allah (the remem- Again, it is through reflection Tadabbur implies pondering lisani, ‘amali, whether singularly (Quran 73:8). Behold, the hypocrites seek brance of Allah), such find con- that the universe becomes a book over something while giving or in congregation) as it pertains The Prophet (PBUH) reported to deceive God - the while it is tentment.(Quran 13:28) to study and the verses of the careful consideration to its con- to ways in which Allah is remem- that Allah informs: I am with the He who causes them to be The great spiritual luminary, Quran disclose their meaning sequences. In fact, one of the bered (by name or in essence) as thought of My servant and am with deceived (by themselves) and Hasan Al Basri, commenting on and secrets more deeply. The primary purposes of revelation the Supreme Being. him when he remembers Me. If he when they rise to pray, they the above verse said: “You should quality of our thought is a very is for humankind to engage in To pronounce words remembers Me in his heart, I too stand reluctantly, only to be seen seek joy in three things: per- serious and important subject for tadabbur, to ponder and be reflecting the attributes or glory remember him in My heart. If he and praised by people, hardly formance of prayer, reciting the any Muslim to consider. mindful, (This is) a Book that We of Allah is dhikr by tongue. To remembers Me in an assembly, I too remembering Allah God but Quran and the remembrance of The more we reflect on the have revealed unto you (O understand and reflect on Allah’s recollect him in an assembly, and seldom. (Quran 4:142). Allah.” grand design of the universe, the Prophet), full of lasting Blessing Majesty is dhikr by heart. Both this assembly is better than human True believers are only those Furthermore, forgiveness more we are reminded of the that people may ponder upon its these desirable modes of remem- assembly. (Bukhari) whose hearts tremble when the and reward from Allah are Designer. How many forces must messages and that those who brance reinforce each other; so name of Allah is mentioned, and promised to those men and come together with perfect coor- have understood may take them conscious oral repetition Genuine dhikr by believers who, when His Signs are recited women who remember Allah... dination before a seed can sprout? to heart and be mindful (Quran engraves the words in the heart Dhikr is the companion and to them, have their faith and men who remember Allah What keeps this immensely 38:29). We note a distinctive ref- while understanding and spirit of actions. See how Allah increased thereby, and who put much and women who complex universe working so erence to tadabbur and tazakkur reflection gives meaning and life has paired it with salah which is their trust in their Lord. Who remember Allah much — for flawlessly, from the simplest to the in this verse. to the spoken word. Together the best of all acts of worship, observe Prayer and spend out of such has Allah prepared for- most complex things? they assist us in focusing on our and made dhikr the very reason that which We have provided for giveness and immense reward. There are indeed pointers to Need for dhikr destination while journeying for it, when He says, Establish them. These it is who are true (Quran 33:36). the Creator in every atom of There are over 150 through life in this world. salah (prayer) for My dhikr believers. They have grades of www.islamcity.com

A word that is often negatively associated with certain acts of violence is the Arabic word jihad. Its significance plays an extremely crucial role in the image of Islam. But What is jihad? what does this so widely known word mean? Jihad indeed has a great significance in Islam. In order to understand pproximately fourteen hundred means that the effort concentrated in gious and moral principles. the word we have to start with the lexical meaning. years ago, Prophet Muhammad jihad is a step in the true and ultimate Jihad may also reflect the position Like any language, Arabic has unique words that have a A(peace be upon him), the last in the path of Islam: the effort addressed to of Islam regarding crisis management particular meaning that cannot be accurately translated. line of the prophets of Islam, received rev- the benefit of one’s self. Thus, jihad on and enforcement of humanitarian inter- The best translation known for jihad is “a sincere and elation from God known as the Quran, this level is individual and self-centered. national laws. Fighting a war in the which is the Final Testament. He came It aims at purification of the soul. This name of justice or Islam — to deter an noticeable effort (for good); an all-true and unselfish with a message of peace and reconcili- effort is simply doing good and seeking aggressor, for self-defense, or to establish striving for spiritual goodness.” ation, mercy and compassion. Yet, ever divine mercy and the pardon of Allah. justice and freedom to practice religion since the beginning of the call of Islam, The Quran points this out by saying: — would also be considered jihad. root of the Arabic word salam, meaning commemorated frequently would have its image and that of Muslims has been The day will come when every soul will The Quran says: You shall strive for “peace”. According to Islam, war is been destroyed. Absolutely, God sup- subject to distortion, misconceptions, and serve as its own advocate, and every the cause of God as you should strive unholy; jihad must mean anything but ports those who support Him. God is misinterpretations. soul will be paid fully for whatever it for His cause. (22:78) The previous “holy” war. Powerful, Almighty. ( 22:39-40) God In our age, the media plays a crucial had done, without the least injustice. Quranic verse incites man to strive in However, there are times, in certain does not encourage war, but rather role in that distortion. Islam is given a (16:11) Also: The day will come when the cause of God. The cause of God is circumstances, when Islam tolerates, encourages peace whenever possible. sinister image. A word that is often neg- each soul will find all the good works it justice and freedom for all, maintaining permits and sometimes even requires Fighting an oppressor or an aggressor atively associated with certain acts of had done brought forth. As for the evil the Quranic principle No compulsion the practice of war. Islam strongly is fighting against oppression or violence is the Arabic word jihad. Its works, it will wish that they were far, in religion ( 2:256). emphasizes the ideas of justice, aggression, thus it is fighting for justice significance plays an extremely crucial far removed. God alerts you that you The Quran also says: As for those freedom, and opposition to oppression. and therefore in the name (cause) of role in the image of Islam. But what does shall reverence Him alone. God is Com- who lead a righteous life, male or There is also another condition, which God. (see Quran 2:244 and 22:78). this so widely known word mean? Jihad passionate towards the people. ( 3:30) female, while believing, they enter Par- is fighting for the sake of self-defense. Those who readily fight in the cause indeed has a great significance in Islam. God tells the believers that all acts will adise; without the slightest injustice. War is tolerated in these conditions, but of God are those who forsake this world In order to understand the word we reflect the soul of their authors. (4:124) Never indeed, by your Lord; they if there is a possibility to avoid war, then in favor of the Hereafter. Whoever fights have to start with the lexical meaning. Examples of this jihad would be to are not believers unless they come to this opportunity, as long as it is for the in the cause of God, then gets killed, or Like any language, Arabic has unique exceed in doing sincerely good deeds, you to judge in their disputes, then find just cause, must be seized. attains victory, we will surely grant him words that have a particular meaning frequenting the mosques, studying the no hesitation in their hearts whatsoever The Quran says: You shall prepare a great recompense. Why should you not that cannot be accurately translated. scripture in details, helping the poor and in accepting your judgment. They must for them all the power you can muster, fight in the cause of God when weak men, The best translation known for jihad is the orphans, standing for people’s right submit a total submission.(4:65) and all the equipment you can mobilize, women, and children are imploring: “Our “a sincere and noticeable effort (for for freedom, being equitable, never O you who believe, you shall be that you may frighten the enemies of Lord, deliver us from this community good); an all-true and unselfish striving bearing false witness, staying in good absolutely equitable, and observe God, GOD, your enemies, as well as others whose people are oppressive, and be You for spiritual goodness.” terms with friends and neighbors: etc.) when you serve as witnesses, even who are not known to you; God knows our Lord and Master.” (4:74:75) Even in and to restrain from committing sins against yourselves, or your parents, or them. Whatever you spend in the cause times of war, Muslims must respect their Striving for goodness (adultery, stealing, lying, cheating, your relatives. Whether the accused is of GOD will be repaid to you generously, adversaries’ humanity. Jihad, as presented in the Quran insulting people, gossiping, etc.);This is rich or poor, God takes care of both. without the least injustice. If they resort Brutal and barbaric atrocities are implies the striving towards the ideal. clarified in the Quran: As for those who Therefore, do not be biased by your per- to peace, so shall you, and put your trust prohibited in Islam. Islam condemns This jihad, particularly involves lead a righteous life, male or female, sonal wishes. If you deviate or disregard in God. He is the Hearer, the Omnis- barbaric killing of any human being. change in one’s self and mentality. It while believing, they enter Paradise; [this commandment], then God is Fully cient. (8:60-61) Self-defense involves During military actions, civilians must may concern the sacrifice of material without the slightest injustice. (4:124) Cognizant of everything you do. ( 4:135) struggle against oppression, aggression, not be targeted, as long as they do not property, social class constraints, and The previous Quranic verse highlights Since this verse shows that God accepts and tyranny; Islam tolerates the use of attack, provoke or share directly in the even emotional comfort, solely for, sal- the meaning of jihad and its role. It has only justice, fighting in the name of God force in these cases. The Quran says: war. Enemies, even at time of war, must vation and the worship of God alone. also mentioned the importance of the is fighting in the name of justice. *ermission [to fight] is granted to those be treated justly. Prisoners of war have As a result, one who practices jihad will sincerity when it is practiced. Jihad puts But, contrary to many people’s who are being persecuted, since basic human rights, stated in shariah. gain inward peace in this world and emphasis on the individual accounta- interpretation, jihad is anything but a injustice has befallen them, and GOD is If victory is achieved in any war for reward in the hereafter. The Quran says: bility and the weight of the individual “holy” war. In the light and essence of certainly able to support them with justice, then there is to be no oppression, The Hereafter is far better for you than striving in man’s relation with Allah Islam and the Quran, there is no war victory. They were evicted from their revenge or injustice to the people of the this first life. (4:93) Say: “O my people, that is holy; under any circumstances homes unjustly, for no reason other than enemy. Nor must there be control over do your best, and so will I. You will Jihad and justice whatsoever. In fact, the whole text of saying, “Our Lord is God.” If it were not the sources of the wealth of the nation surely find out who the ultimate victors Jihad also includes striving for and the Quran and the religion of Islam for God’s supporting of some people or people, or even establishment of are.” Certainly, the wicked will never establishing justice. Before someone can revolve around the concept of peace, against others, monasteries, churches, colonial regimes. Justice and freedom succeed. (6:135) Jihad involves strive for justice in their community, not war. To many people’s ignorance, synagogues, and masjids [mosques] must be established. Tolerance towards noticeable effort for righteousness. This justice must be one of their main reli- Islam is also a word that share the same where the name of God is cultures and peoples is basic, too. 06 ASIA FRIDAY 5 JULY 2019 India’s log-jammed courts hitting economy hard REUTERS Around 87 percent clearance rate and resolve all NEW DELHI existing backlog in five years, the of the total pending report calculated. India’s grid-locked courts are a cases are stuck at There was also a need to major hurdle to doing business the district level or improve productivity, Subra- and faster growth in Asia’s third- below. The Economic manian said, which could be largest economy, a government achieved through improved report said yesterday, calling for Survey has proposed technology and administration the hiring of thousands of new appointing 2,200 and reworking court judges to clear a huge backlog new judges to help vacations. of cases in just five years. clear the backlog in “The main point of this India’s judicial system was analysis is that a major hurdle to not only saddled with over 35 five years. economic growth and social million pending cases, of which well-being can be stabilised around 87% were stuck at the less efficient. Case clearance through a relatively small district level or below, but also rates in those states range from investment in the legal system,” The breached Tiware dam near Chiplun in Ratnagiri district, in Maharashtra. suffered from delays with 55% to 78%. the report said. clearing new cases, the govern- “A 100% clearance rate in the Prashant Reddy, a senior ment’s economic survey, pre- district and subordinate courts resident fellow focusing on sented to parliament yesterday, can be achieved by recruiting judicial reforms at think-tank Maharashtra dam breach toll rises to 15 said. about 2,200 odd judges, which Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy, AP and swept away nearly a dozen Dozens of others have been This was partly due to a lack is well within sanctioned said much more needed to be MUMBAI homes, said Datta Bhadakawad, injured. The worst-hit city was of judges, leaving the country’s capacity,” the Finance Ministry’s done. “There are also a lot of sys- a civil administrator in Mahar- India’s financial and enter- Case Clearance Rate (CCR), the Chief Economic Adviser, temic issues on the adminis- Rescuers in western India ashtra state’s Ratnagiri district. tainment capital, Mumbai, where ratio of number of cases com- Krishnamurthy Subramanian, trative side... Right now, there recovered three more bodies Datta said authorities have at least 24 people died and over pleted to those filed in a year, at the report’s main author, told are only about 18,000 court yesterday morning, raising the ordered an investigation into the 60 others were injured. Five 88.7% in 2018. reporters. rooms available in India,” he death toll to 15 after a small dam dam breach. The dam had days of rain in Mumbai disrupted But there are nationwide Many court systems in the said. breached and flooded half a developed cracks and over- flights, flooded roads and variations, with states like United States and Europe had “If you recruit 8,000 judges, dozen villages following heavy flowed after heavy rainfall in the covered train tracks, though Madhya Pradesh, Assam and clearance rates of around 100%, where are you going to seat monsoon rains, officials said. coastal region. Heavy monsoon services resumed as the rain Tamil Nadu with nearly 100 the report said. them?” Courts have also Rescue teams were still rains in Maharashtra have led to cleared on Wednesday. percent CCR, while some in the Overall, Indian courts would struggled to find good candidates searching for eight people after at least 34 deaths since Monday The monsoon season in India east, including Bihar, Odisha and need a little over 8,500 judges for the bench, especially in the Tiware dam breached late night from collapsed walls, brings heavy rains from June to West Bengal, are significantly across all levels to reach a 100% lower judiciary, he said. Tuesday during incessant rains drownings and other causes. September. Congress MLA arrested for pouring mud over govt official Election for Vellore LS seat IANS The police have charged Kankavli Municipal Council of slime on Shedekar, abused him around in the wet mud to SINDHUDURG Rane and others with sections President and activists of the him, roughed him up and pushed show him the ground reality. on August 5 pertaining to obstructing a gov- NDA-affiliated MSP, went to him around. At one point, Rane and other Irked by the poor condition of ernment servant, abuse, assault. inspect road repairing work Some wet mud even fell on activists were seen attempting IANS the Mumbai-Goa highway, Further investigations are on. being carried out on a stretch of Nitesh Rane, who sought an to tie Shedekar to a pole on the CHENNAI Congress legislator Nitesh Rane PWD staff all over the state a bridge on the Gad River near explanation from the sub- under-construction bridge, and his supporters vented their have launched an agitation to Kankavli. engineer on the bad condition of ostensibly to teach him a lesson. The Election Commission (EC) ire on a road sub-engineer by protest against the treatment They accosted sub-engineer roads and why a service road Videos of the incident went yesterday announced that the bathing him with wet mud and meted out to Shedekar. Shedekar, questioning him on was not yet constructed as viral on social media, evoking election for the Vellore Lok slime, and even attempted to tie MSP President and former the bad condition of the roads assured by the authorities. He mixed reactions with many con- Sabha seat in Tamil Nadu will him to a bridge here yesterday. Chief Minister Narayan Rane, the besides lecturing him on how also gave Shedekar a “15-day demning the incident. be held on August 5. Following a complaint father of Nitesh Rane, admitted people had to battle slime and ultimatum” to build the service Though Narayan Rane did The poll body announced lodged by the victim, Prakash that what happened was wrong mud on the potholed roads road for the benefit of not defend his son, he pointed the kicking in of the Model Code Shedekar, a sub-engineer with and said that he would apologise routinely. pedestrians. out that people have been suf- of Conduct with immediate the PWD, the police have to the engineer on behalf of his “People are bearing it daily... The activists demanded to fering since long with the mis- effect in the district(s) in which arrested Rane and five other son. Now, you also experience it,” know “who has given you the erable road conditions but the the whole or any part of the activists of the Maharashtra Swa- Earlier yesterday afternoon, some of the activists said as they right to sink Kankavli under local authorities were ignoring parliamentary constituency bhiman Party (MSP). Nitesh Rane, accompanied by emptied a couple of buckets full slime” and some activists took their plight. going for election lies. “The Model Code of Conduct shall be applicable to all candidates, political parties INX case: Court allows and state government con- cerned. It shall also be appli- Indrani to turn approver cable to the Union government for the district of the state con- IANS statement, moved the CBI court cerned,” EC said. NEW DELHI to turn approver in the case. The election for Vellore She is currently lodged in constituency which was to be A special CBI Court yesterday Mumbai’s Byculla Jail in con- held on April 18 was rescinded allowed former INX Media nection with the murder of her following the seizure of large Director Indrani Mukerjea to daughter Sheena Bohra. amount of cash by the Income turn approver in the INX media CBI had contended in its Tax department from a cement case involving former Finance submissions that it had come warehouse belonging to a DMK Minister P Chidambaram and his across crucial evidence functionary. son and MP Karti Chidambaram. regarding some conversations The EC while rescinding the CBI Judge Arun Bhardwaj to which only Indrani is privy poll then said it was “fully sat- allowed the application filed by and hence she would help in isfied” that the current electoral Mukerjea to turn approver. The consolidation of the case. process in Vellore has been court also allowed the pardon While CBI is investigating seriously vitiated on account of application filed by Mukerjea. alleged irregularities in the unlawful activities on behalf of While posting the matter for Foreign Investment Promotion DMK candidate Kathir Anand hearing on July 11, the court Board (FIPB) clearance granted and some members/workers of directed Mukerjea to appear to INX Media for receiving the political party in question. before it in person. overseas funds to the tune of The poll panel had said P Chidambaram and his son Rs305 crore in 2007, when P conducting the poll in the con- High tide in Mumbai Karti Chidambaram are facing Chidambaram was the Finance stituency as scheduled would trial in the same case. Minister, the Enforcement have severely jeopardised the A woman gets drenched by huge waves outside her house along a seafront during high tide in Last year, Mukerjea, after Directorate is probing the conduct of free and fair Mumbai yesterday. making a confessional money laundering angle. elections. I am with the poor and my SC seeks Centre’s response on illegal mining leases fight will continue: Rahul IANS lease for minerals other than auction could be a better option petitioner has also sought NEW DELHI coal, lignite and atomic minerals, where the aim was maximisation direction to the investigating IANS against him by a Rashtriya was “illegal, arbitrary and of revenue, but then “every agency to register an FIR and MUMBAI Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) The Supreme Court yesterday unconstitutional”. method other than auction of probe the allocation of iron ore activist Dhrutiman Joshi. asked the Centre to file a reply Section 8A, inserted by the natural resources cannot be shut mines without following the due A day after he quit as Congress At the hearing, the Congress on a plea seeking the cancel- MMDR amendment Act, “is a down”. procedure, thereby causing huge President, Rahul Gandhi MP from Wayanad pleaded “not lation of 358 iron ore mining clear violation of Article 14 and Besides seeking a court- loss to the exchequer. yesterday vowed to continue guilty” to the charges and was leases which were allocated, or 21 of the Constitution... (and) has monitored probe by the Central Seeking recovery of the fighting “10 times more” than granted bail on surety of their duration extended, without created serious financial and Bureau of Investigation (CBI) into losses caused to the public what he did in the past years. Rs15,000. The court has posted any fresh evaluation or by other injuries to the general the allocation or extension of exchequer by the mining com- Speaking to media persons the matter for hearing on Sep- adopting the due auction public at large...”, the PIL said. mining leases, the petitioner also panies, the petitioner said that briefly, unmindful of standing tember 21. A large number of process. Sharma has contended that sought directions for the 358 mines leases, whose in the rain, he said: “I am with Congress activists led by A bench of Justices SA Bobde the extension of iron ore mining recovery of the market value of quashing he has sought, be put the poor and the farmers.” “My Mumbai Congress chief Milind and BR Gavai asked the gov- leases was in breach of the top the mined iron ore. to auction. fight will continue. I will fight 10 Deora, former city chief Sanjay ernment to file its response court’s 2012 verdict, according The petitioner has sought Sharma has contended that time more than I did in the past Nirupam and other leaders wel- within four weeks. to which mines could be leased direction “to quash the the mining leases extended in five years,” Rahul asserted, indi- comed Rahul at the Mumbai Advocate Mahohar Lal only after valuation and auction, allotment/extension/continu- 2014-2015 in return for alleged cating an aggressive stance in Airport on his first visit to the Sharma, the petitioner, has also and not for free. The court had ation of more than 358 mines of large donations has created the future. city, a day after he quit as party sought quashing of Section 8A said this while answering the iron ore and other minerals all serious financial losses to the On his resignation as Con- President. Thousands more lined of the Mines and Minerals Presidential reference on the over India, stating that the leases state exchequer to the tune of gress President, he said he had up enroute and outside the court (Development and Regulation) allocation of natural resources. have been either granted or Rs4 lakh crore. stated in his letter released yes- in Mazagaon waving party flags Act, 1957. The five-judge constitution extended to the firms without In all, 288 of these mining terday whatever he wanted to and raising slogans, asking him The PIL said that Section 8A bench of the apex court by its any fresh evaluation or adopting leases have been extended till say. Rahul was in Mumbai to to take back his resignation as of the MMDR Act, 1957, which September 27, 2012 majority the auction process”. 2020 and the remaining 70 till attend a defamation case filed Congress chief. provides for grant of a mining judgment had said that the Alleging conspiracy, the 2030. FRIDAY 5 JULY 2019 ASIA 07

Imran Khan Pakistan PM to meet Trump in US on July 22 has $0.684m AFP Ostensibly allies, ISLAMABAD that the shadowy Pakistani mil- Washington has long seen worth hundreds of millions of the US and Pakistan itary establishment has long Pakistan as key to that outcome. dollars because Islamabad does in assets, and relationship has helped fund and arm the Taliban, The US has been holding not do “a damn thing” for the US. four goats Pakistan Prime Minister Imran always been bumpy, to counter rising Indian influence talks with the Taliban since Sep- At the time, Imran hit back Khan will travel to Washington in Afghanistan. tember last year in hopes of at the criticism on Twitter, calling BLOOMBERG to meet US President Donald and Trump has Pakistan denies the claims striking a deal. on the US President to name an KARACHI Trump on July 22, the Foreign angered Pakistani and says it has paid the price for Imran, for his part, has ally that has sacrificed more Ministry said yesterday. officials in the past its alliance with the US in the so- repeatedly blamed Pakistan’s against militancy. Pakistan Prime Minister Imran The visit — Imran’s first to with his aggressive called “war on terror”, with participation in the “war on During last year’s election Khan has assets worth 108 the US since coming to power thousands of its citizens killed in terror” for the surge in militant campaign Imran was often million rupees ($684,000), last year — came at Trump’s invi- language. its long struggle with militancy. violence at home over the last likened to Trump for his populist operates four foreign currency tation, a Pakistani Foreign Office Pakistan has given Wash- decade, and has vowed to flair and Twitter tirades. accounts and owns four goats. spokesman said at a weekly American forces are now in their ington “nothing but lies & deceit, rebalance Islamabad’s rela- “It is one of the most ridic- The cricketer turned poli- briefing, adding: “The focus will 18th year of war. thinking of our leaders as fools,” tionship with Washington. ulous comparisons,” he told AFP tician, who takes a chopper to be to refresh the bilateral Ostensibly allies, the US and Trump wrote on Twitter at the The pair — both celebrities- during an interview. work, doesn’t own a car and the relationship”. Pakistan relationship has always start of 2018. turned-politicians — have But he also said he would be first lady doesn’t possess any He gave no further details. been bumpy, and Trump has “They give safe haven to the already clashed, with Imran once prepared to work with Trump to jewellery, The Express Tribune The announcement comes as angered Pakistani officials in the terrorists we hunt in Afghanistan, describing a potential meeting stop the “insanity” in reported, citing assets disclosed the US is seeking Pakistan’s help past with his aggressive with little help. No more!” But with the US president as a “bitter Afghanistan. by the Election Commission of in finding a way out of neigh- language. Trump is also eager to end the pill”. Trump declared last year “This war will only end Pakistan. bouring Afghanistan, where The White House believes war in Afghanistan, and that he had cancelled assistance through talks,” he said. The South Asian nation leader’s wealth dwarfs many of the 340 politicians that are part of the lower house of par- NAB says no reason to liament. Pakistan People’s Party Chairman Bilawal Bhutto Zardari owns assets worth take political revenge Rs1.5bn rupees, more than INTERNEWS necessary step to rid the country double his father and former ISLAMABAD of corruption.” He said that the president Asif Ali Zardari, who bureau had tried to reassure the owns arms worth Rs16.6m and National Accountability Bureau people of Pakistan that NAB was horses worth Rs10m. (NAB) of Pakistan Chairman neither seeking political revenge “These number may give an retired Justice Javed Iqbal nor was the accountability idea but are not the actual yesterday, in an apparent watchdog’s attention focused on worth,” said Samiullah Tariq, rebuttal to the criticism being a particular group, but he director research at Karachi- mounted by the opposition believed that they had been based Arif Habib Ltd. parties against the bureau, asked unsuccessful in doing so. “They can sometimes be why the watchdog would seek “If one group has been in misleading since assets are political revenge against any power for 35 to 40 years and valued at the time they were particular individual. another has been in power for bought, not at current value.” “I respectfully ask them, why a few months, it is necessary to Imran has been leading a cost- would we need to take revenge first conduct accountability of cutting drive from the front. He from you? You have not done the former and then the latter has moved out of the official anything against us,” said the will also be held accountable,” residence and sold unnecessary chairman, while addressing a said the chairman, without government assets including ceremony in Islamabad. naming any political party. luxury cars. “If you have done something “Currently, they [those in against the country, there is no power for months] are also Onlookers gather at the edge of the Indus River after a passenger boat capsized, in Haripur, Pakistan. question of NAB overlooking it being held accountable,” he said, Prosecutor no matter who it is, where they while noting that all segments are from or what they have of the country, whether in power Six dead after boat capsizes in Tarbela Lake seeks Rohingya done.” The NAB chairman or not, were equal for the emphasised that this was the bureau. INTERNEWS Airbase and Tarbela Dam project the accident took place in a probe of crimes bureau’s fundamental policy on The NAB chairman reit- ISLAMABAD for help in rescue activities. remote location with little com- the basis of which it was doing erated that the bureau had never The boat was carrying pas- munication, meaning officials against its work. In his address, retired kept political revenge in mind. At least six people were killed sengers along the Indus River did not learn of it until well after Justice Iqbal said that the “Who would NAB take including four children and two from Shangla to Haripur district it happened. “People only came humanity accountability watchdog does political revenge from? Why women after a boat capsized in in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa when to know about the incident when not believe in political revenge. would NAB take political Tarbela Lake in Pakistan’s it overturned. a second boat carrying pas- AP “One thing I am saying revenge?” Justice Iqbal asked. Khyber Pakhtunkhawa province. Officials said at least 13 sengers passed through the THE HAGUE repeatedly is that NAB does not “Our first and last allegiance is According to the district people are still missing “There area,” he said. “The rescue oper- believe in any political revenge, only to Pakistan and the state.” administration, Rescue 1122 were 38 people on the boat ation is still going on but there The International Criminal nor is it NAB’s role to involve “NAB has no relation to politics,” teams from Haripur, Peshawar, when the incident occurred and are little chances of survival,” he Court prosecutor has filed a itself in politics.” “We only need he reiterated, saying that if even Nowshera and Peshawar are 13 people saved their lives by said. request with judges to open a to enter politics [ ] to rid the once it was proven that a NAB taking part in the rescue oper- swimming to the shore,” local Babakhel said the locals use formal investigation of crimes country of corruption,” he said, official including himself had ation to search for the missing police official Zahid Ullah said. boats for travelling because the against humanity allegedly adding: “NAB, as an institution, met any MNA, MPA or Senator, survivors. The district adminis- Senior police official roads in the area are unpaved committed against Rohingya has always tried to take every he would resign from his post. tration has also requested Ghazi Muhamamd Ali Babakhel said and it saves them time. Muslims from Myanmar. Prosecutor Fatou Bensouda said yesterday that she wants OIC warns of to investigate crimes of depor- Pakistan to reform laws to curb fake news tation, inhumane acts and per- hate speech secution allegedly committed INTERNEWS taking off air of the interview of the Pemra rules as an under-trial interview of an accused. Dr Awan as Rohingya were driven from against Muslims ISLAMABAD former president and PPP Co- suspect, who is in the custody of acknowledged the fact that the Myanmar, which is not a in Sri Lanka Chairman Asif Ali Zardari, saying the National Accountability concerns regarding fake news member of the global court, into Special Assistant to Pakistani this was done under the rules of Bureau (NAB) could not appear were coming from many sectors Bangladesh, which is an ICC ANATOLIA Prime Minister on Information the Pakistan Electronic Media in an interview before cameras. and emphasised that there was a member. Bensouda said a pre- JEDDAH and Broadcasting, Dr Firdous Regulatory Authority (Pemra). “The permission of the collective understanding to bring liminary probe established “a Ashiq Awan, said that there is no She explained to the Senate National Assembly speaker is a forth a responsible role of media reasonable basis to believe The Organisation of Islamic guideline in Pemra rules to Standing Committee on Infor- prerequisite for bringing in without putting any bars on that at least 700,000 Cooperation (OIC) has warned monitor social media. mation and Broadcasting here the cameras into the parliament and freedom of expression. She was Rohingya people were of an increase in anti-Muslim She said that false reports are grounds on which the interview that there was a designated spot expressing her views during the deported from Myanmar to incidents in Sri Lanka. not good for the government, was not allowed to be on air. The outside the parliament for media committee meeting, presided Bangladesh through a range “OIC has been monitoring state and any political party. She issue was raised by PML-N talks,” she said. over by Senator Faisal Javed of of coercive acts, and that great closely the situation of Muslims said that private lives of people Senator Dr Ghous Bakhsh Niazi She emphasised that the PTI. Dr Awan agreed that some suffering or serious injury has in Sri Lanka,” the group of 57 are being targeted through these during the meeting, though not interview was conducted in vio- structural reforms and empow- been inflicted on the Rohingya member-states said in a unguided missiles on social being part of the agenda. lation of the rules of the par- erment was needed in Pemra but through violating their right statement released late on media. Dr Awan pointed out that the liament and Pemra rules too did added it had to be under a set of to return to their state of Wednesday. Dr Awan also defended the interview was pulled off air under not allow the broadcasting of an guidelines. origin.” The Jeddah-based group voiced its concerns over the “rise in incidents of intimi- dation, anti-Muslim rhetoric Visits to Sri Lanka down and hate speech promulgated by certain groups in the sharply after Easter attacks country.” It also renewed its call on AP months of the year were the Sri Lanka authorities “to COLOMBO 1,008,449, a decline of 13.4 % counter firmly the spread of compared with 2018, when rhetoric of hatred and intol- Tourist arrivals to Sri Lanka 1,164,647 visitors arrived. erance, while ensuring the rapidly declined in June, Seven suicide bombers security and safety of the showing the severe economic struck two Catholic and one Muslim community in that impact of the Easter bombings Protestant church and three country,” on the Indian Ocean island luxury hotels on April 21. The The OIC also reiterated its nation. Islamic State group claimed “firm stance against terrorism The Sri Lanka Tourism responsibility for the attacks, and extremism in all its forms Development Authority said on which were carried out by a and manifestations,” stressing Wednesday that there were local radicalised Muslim group that “terrorism has no religion 63,072 tourist visits to Sri Lanka known as National Thowheed and that no community should last month, a drop of 57% com- Jammath. The blasts killed more be held responsible for the pared with June 2018, when the than 250 people, including 45 actions of extremists.” Muslims number was 146,828. foreigners mainly from China, in Sri Lanka, who constitutes The highest numbers were India, the US and the UK. 9.2% of population, have faced Diplomacy from India, followed by Aus- Tourism was Sri Lanka’s severe hate attacks after nine tralia, the United Kingdom and third largest foreign currency Bangladeshi Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina (right) and Chinese Premier Li Keqiang attend a welcome suicide bombers carried out a China. Almost 97% of tourists earner last year, after remit- ceremony outside the Great Hall of the People in Beijing, China, yesterday. series of blasts against some arrived by air. tances and textile and garment churches and hotels on April 21. Arrivals for the first six exports. 08 VIEWS FRIDAY 5 JULY 2019 Syrians search for normal 1996 ESTABLISHED IN life in war-torn country CHAIRMAN SHEIKH THANI BIN ABDULLAH AL THANI

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

ACTING MANAGING EDITOR SOFIA BARBARANI AL JAZEERA MOHAMMED SALIM MOHAMED [email protected] he road that cuts through Raqqa’s northern flank is lined DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR with signs of war. On either MOHAMMED OSMAN ALI Tside, what once were small [email protected] pastel-hued tower blocks lay flattened like concrete pancakes, others lean precariously to one side. June marked the second anni- versary of the start of the four-month operation to retake ISIL’s self-pro- claimed capital. The offensive saw the EDITORIAL displacement of 120,000 civilians, according to UN estimates. Today, about 200,000 Raqqawis are thought An image taken from drone video shows damaged buildings in Raqqa, Syria. to have returned, according to Amnesty International. Protecting environment Still, it is easy to mistake Raqqa for the 26-year-old recalls. members in the operations room in a ghost town were it not for a handful “We sent a description [to the northern Syria. n Wednesday, millions across the world marked of residents walking the street and operations room] with the [GPS] coor- They, in turn, sent out overhead International Plastic Bag Free Day by not using fresh laundry hung out to dry on haz- dinates. [We told them] if there is a surveillance to verify the information. Oplastic bags, one of the biggest threats to our envi- ardous balconies. sniper, a shooting [between ISIL and “If there are children and women, ronment, especially marine life. For more than three years, the SDF], or a place for weapons.” if you’re not sure the building is empty According to the Worldwide Fund for Nature around US-led coalition targeted ISIL posi- During that time, an estimated 80 of civilians, you can’t go on,” said one 300 million tonnes of plastic are produced every year, tions with more than 4,450 air raids, percent of the city’s buildings were SDF member who worked hand in with much of it ending up in landfills or polluting the coupled with four months of urban destroyed, according to a UN Intera- hand with the coalition forces inside seas, in what has become a growing international crisis. fighting in what then-Secretary of gency Mission Report. the operations room. The plastic pollution of our seas have reached a very Defense James Mattis described as a Those that were not flattened by But overhead surveillance doesn’t critical level that researchers have warned that plastic “war of annihilation”. coalition air power or ISIL’s indiscrim- show who is in the basement of a in the sea is being found in the stomachs of fish, birds, This is the bleak aftermath of one inate use of IEDs, were severely building, explains Justin Bronk, a turtles and whales and that tiny pieces of plastic - micro- of the most vicious urban battles of damaged. Including the city’s silo — its research fellow in airpower and tech- plastics - had also been found in oysters and mussels. recent years, most of which were won massive stature a cruel reminder of nology at the London-based think Like Chairperson of Qatar Museums, H E Sheikha Al through airpower. the area’s heyday as Syria’s tank RUSI. “The bomb will probably Mayassa bint Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani said in an From breadbasket. bring down the building on the Instagram post “if we continue consuming plastic bags behind the Aram points towards the imposing basement.” at the same rate it will be more plastic in our oceans than tinted window building: “Daesh [ISIL] snipers were According to Amnesty Interna- fish in 2050.” She urged everyone to “use reusable bags of his white waiting for us on top of that silo,” he tional, four families — at least 32 everyday and start the change”. pick-up truck, says. “But we didn’t call for air strikes civilians, including 20 children — were A lot had been done on Wednesday, July 3 by gov- commander if they were not really needed. Espe- killed in this way on September 25, ernment and private stake- June marked Aram Hanna of cially with snipers, we can’t hit a 2017, after taking shelter in the holders. But, to fight some- the second the US-backed building for one sniper.” basement of a building that was later thing which is so ingrained in anniversary of the Syrian fighters “We didn’t use our air strikes for targeted by the coalition. everyday life, everyone needs start of the four- known as the nothing ... maybe others did that,” he The SDF member, who spoke to to step in and take ownership. Syrian Demo- says, alluding to the different factions Al Jazeera on the condition of ano- The Ministry of Every household must month operation cratic Forces that form the SDF. “I think the feeling nymity because of the sensitivity of Municipality and assume responsibility and to retake ISIL’s (SDF), looks at of hating ISIL was controlling some the topic, spent four months in the Environment should start to refuse or at the self-proclaimed the devastated groups there. operations room receiving GPS coor- marked very least reduce plastic capital. The city. “The If someone killed my brother, I dinates and calling in air raids with consumption. destruction in would never think twice about US forces. International The Ministry of Munici- offensive saw the Raqqa is not whether I’m killing ISIL or not.” It was a 24-hour job, he recalled: Plastic Bag pality and Environment displacement of acceptable,” he At just 20 years old, Nisha Gawrie “You eat sporadically, under the sun. If Free Day 2019 marked International Plastic 120,000 civilians, says. of the Bethnahrain Women’s Pro- you’re lucky, you get three or four by organizing Bag Free Day 2019 by organ- Aram spent tection Forces — the MFS’s female hours of sleep in a row, if you’re not, izing many awareness activ- according to UN four months counterpart — was tasked with the you’re up for 48 hours ... I knew it was many awareness ities to educate the public on estimates. Today, battling ISIL same role. To do this, Nisha gave up a huge responsibility, but I was able to activities to the need to limit the use of about 200,000 inside the city her law studies for two years. handle it well, physically and educate the plastic bags to preserve and Raqqawis are and was among “It was a big responsibility for me psychologically.” sustain the environment. the men and - any wrong coordinates could hit the Years of military experience and public on the Many large supermarkets thought to women respon- positions of our SDF forces or an already existing relationship with need to limit the also chipped in by distrib- have returned, sible for calling innocent civilians,” Nisha, now 22, the coalition made him a prime can- use of plastic uting reusable bags to according in the US-coa- said. “Raqqa was so difficult ... I hope didate for the role. bags to preserve customers. to Amnesty lition air raids. that the world doesn’t forget what “You need to have a sense of civil These initiatives are a Tasked with we’ve done.” responsibility and a lot of humanity. and sustain the good starting point for the International. sending out the While paving the way for Raqqa’s You have to have respect for human environment. fight against plastic pollution GPS coordinates liberation, Nisha’s role would also life, as well as the vegetation and and need to be sustained with of ISIL targets to garner widespread criticism of herself animals,” he says. people adapting simple life- the coalition’s and her fellow fighters. An investi- His men and women operated style changes like carrying a reusable bag while going Field Operations Room in northern gation by Amnesty International and under the rules of the Geneva Conven- for shopping, refusing plastic straw (one of the biggest Syria, Aram was the first and crucial Airwars, released in April, put the tions, he explains. “I’m sure there have polluters of oceans) at restaurants and using reusable link in what the US army described as civilian death toll at 1,600 during the been civilian casualties, but accidental glass bottles instead of plastic ones for water. a meticulous chain of events. Raqqa offensive. The coalition has ones. We blocked air strikes many There are many positive news coming from around Sometimes armed with just a admitted responsibility for killing 159 times when we knew there were 10 the world as more and more people are becoming aware tablet, the young commander would civilians. [ISIL fighters] inside a building and of the situation. Many countries, including more than scurry behind enemy lines to retrieve Once Aram had identified a target then one woman showed up”. two dozen in Africa, have banned plastic bags, and the ISIL’s exact position. and mapped its coordinates on a tablet His demeanour is stoic, but he EU has voted to outlaw 10 single-use plastic items, “You’re so close to the area, provided by the coalition, he would speaks passionately about the role including straws, forks and knives, by 2021. The G20 has [sometimes] I was surrounded by radio in the position and describe the played by fighters in bringing the so- set a goal to reduce plastic trash leaking into the ocean them, they didn’t know I was there,” threat to his fellow SDF and coalition called caliphate to an end. to zero by 2050. This year’s World Environment Day slogan was #Beat- plasticPollution. By making small changes to our daily habits we can make huge difference. Let’s all join hands Coal to dominate India power to 2030 despite renewables boost to make this world a better place for all. BLOOMBERG The CEA’s analysis shows expected future demand, footing to compete with con- that India may be able to identifies the intermittent ventional sources of elec- oal may account for exceed one of its 2015 Paris nature of renewables as a tricity generation,” according half of India’s power Agreement commitments — limiting factor for its use and to the report. QUOTE OF THE DAY generation in 2030 reaching 40% of installed advocates adopting grid- India is projected to despite a boom in capacity from non-fossil fuel scale battery storage. overtake the US as the We should all be C world’s second-biggest solar and wind energy sources. Non-fossil fuel power able to agree that all projects, according to But the report also sees sources, led by solar and emitter of carbon dioxide Venezuelans deserve analysis by the country’s annual carbon emissions wind, are seen generating from the power sector before a better life, free from power-planning body. from the power sector rising 48% of gross generation, 2030, as the nation’s elec- The assessment, released about 12% from levels more than double what it tricity demand skyrockets, fear and with access Monday by the nation’s expected in 2022 to 1.154bn was at the end of last year, the International Energy to adequate food, Central Electricity Authority, tons. while accounting for 65% of Agency said in its World water, healthcare, highlights that the nation has The report didn’t include installed capacity, according Energy Outlook last year. a large existing fleet of coal an assessment of what that to the report. While coal’s share in housing and all other plants and that there’s a mis- means for another key India India had 80 gigawatts of capacity is likely to drop to basic human needs. match between peak periods goal — cutting emissions renewable capacity at the one-third, it will account for of demand and output from intensity of gross domestic end of May and has set a goal 50% of electricity generated, Michelle Bachelet renewables. product by as much as 35% to install 175 gigawatts by according to Monday’s UN High Commissioner That will leave a big role from 2005 levels. 2022. report. It was about 72% of for the most-polluting fuel in The report, which is an “The recent cost trends of generation at the end of for Human Rights the nation’s future electricity attempt to model the lowest- renewable energy generation March, according to separate mix. cost capacity mix to meet sources have given them the CEA data. FRIDAY 5 JULY 2019 OPINION 09 North Korea may settle for nothing less than sanctions relief

new public broadside by by the Seoul-based Korea Devel- sanctions would remain, they might deal may be hard to seal, analysts North Korean officials opment Institute said sanctions had be willing to take interim steps such said. against US-backed sanc- put the country on a path for eco- as boosting humanitarian aid or “A freeze on fissile material, A tions highlights the tough nomic crisis. opening liaison offices. nuclear weapons, and missile road ahead as negotiators prepare “North Korea wants actions, not US officials, however, rejected production at Yongbyon and for talks in the wake of Sunday’s words,” said Christopher Green, a North Korea’s offer to dismantle its beyond - when North Korea does JOSH SMITH meeting between US President Korea expert at the International reactor complex at Yongbyon in not even acknowledge REUTERS Donald Trump and North Korean Crisis Group. “I’m not sure the US is exchange for wide-ranging sanc- enrichment facilities outside leader Kim Jong- Un. mentally ready for it, even now.” tions relief. Yongbyon — without some sanc- Media reports out of Washington After Trump met with Kim at the Since then, North Korea has only tions relief, seems unlikely,” said have suggested the Trump adminis- Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) between doubled down on its calls for sanc- Vipin Narang, an associate pro- tration may be willing to seek a partial the two Koreas, US Secretary of tions to be withdrawn, signalling fessor of political science at Mas- deal to dismantle at least part of North State Mike Pompeo told reporters a that while lesser steps might be sachusetts Institute of Media reports out Korea’s nuclear programme. fresh round of negotiations with welcome, they would not be enough Technology. of Washington have But ahead of what would be the North Korean foreign ministry dip- to persuade Pyongyang to give up If Washington sticks to its first significant talks since Trump lomats will likely happen “sometime nuclear assets. stance of no sanctions relief until suggested the Trump and Kim failed to reach a deal at a in July”. “Our state is not a country that North Korea gives up the pro- administration may summit in February in Hanoi, ana- Pompeo later made clear the will surrender to the US sanctions,” verbial keys to its nuclear be willing to seek lysts say progress is unlikely unless United States believed sanctions put a North Korean foreign ministry kingdom, than Trump’s latest a partial deal to Washington is prepared to ease in place under UN Security Council official said in a statement last week. meeting with Kim “may be some sanctions. resolutions needed to remain in A New York Times report that remembered as the last gasp of a dismantle at least North Korea’s exports to China, place as talks moved forward. suggested American officials would strategy that was predictably part of North Korea’s its main market, dropped nearly 90 Ahead of February’s failed settle for a nuclear freeze by North doomed,” Narang said. nuclear programme. percent last year, according data summit in Hanoi, American officials Korea was criticised by national “The idea of a more flexible from Beijing, and a report this week had raised the possibility that while security adviser John Bolton who negotiating position that’s com- said the idea had not been dis- prehensive in scope but step by cussed at the National Security step in implementation is Council. welcome, but the scope and The disagreements between offi- sequence of each reciprocal cials at the NSC and US State step still has to be realistic,” he Department over whether to said. maintain a hard line or take a step- On the other side, US intelli- by-step approach are “creating a gence officials have said it is discordant policy line,” Green said. unlikely Kim intends to ever give North Korea’s mission to the up his entire nuclear arsenal. United Nations on Wednesday criti- To find a compromise, each cised the United States as “obsessed side may have to drop the with sanctions and pressure cam- ongoing “good cop, bad cop” cycle paign” and accused it of being “more of engagement and threats, and more hell-bent on hostile acts” Narang said. against Pyongyang. “If we are hoping for a deal, A report this week by the North the good cops on both sides will Korea Risk Group concluded there is have to sideline their internal bad “significant motivation for both cops.” sides to seek to reach an agreement,” and that Trump and The author is Reuters Senior cor- Kim may be more compelled than respondent covering North & ever to seek an interim deal. South Korea. Previously, he “This is because a third failure - covered Kabul, Washington & which cannot be ruled out - would some Baghdad. prove deeply problematic for both leaders at this stage,” the report said. A file picture of US President Donald Trump shaking hands with North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un as they meet at But unless the US decides sanc- the Demilitarized Zone separating the two Koreas, in Panmunjom, South Korea. tions are on the table, even a smaller D-RING ROAD oe Mysak, Bloomberg News’ Illinois Constitution says the state may whatever extra yield investors would POST BOX: 3488 foremost expert on the $3.8 issue long-term debt only to finance require to buy the state’s bonds in DOHA - QATAR trillion municipal-bond market, “specific purposes” if approved by future offerings. [email protected] has a saying about Puerto Rico: It three-fifths of the legislature or by It’s in Illinois’ best interest to make J sure bondholders are repaid, even if was technically “in” the market popular referendum. ... for state and local government debt, Using bond money to cover this challenge isn’t struck down. It’s EDITOR-IN-CHIEF OFFICE BRIAN CHAPPATTA but not “of” it. That is to say, for a general expenses, speculate in the not nearly at the point yet at which it TEL: 4455 7741 / 767 BLOOMBERG number of reasons, it has always been market, or pay past-due bills isn’t a cares to risk the ire of the municipal FAX: +974 4455 7758 considered an outlier. “specific purpose,” for incurring state market. Investors seem to get that, Indeed, munis are off to a blis- debt, but rather another name for judging by bond trading. MANAGING EDITOR tering pace in 2019, with mutual and deficit financing, the complaint said. Puerto Rico, on the other hand, TEL: 4462 7505 exchange-traded funds focused on It’s still very early days, especially saw the writing on the wall years ago the debt on track to pull in a record for this type of fundamental challenge that its $70bn debt load was DEPUTY MANAGING EDITOR TEL: 4455 7769 amount of cash this year. Investors to a state’s ability to finance itself. unpayable. It was reeling from mass Illinois general obligations have long population exodus and high levels of been considered to have some of the poverty and joblessness, even before LOCAL NEWS SECTION TEL: 4455 7743 strongest legal protections among it was devastated by Hurricane Maria. states. It also had virtually no money left to BUSINESS NEWS SECTION Ripples from Puerto And most crucially, it’s not Illinois pay pensioners. TEL: 4462 7535 looking to invalidate its own debt but There was no way out other than rather a hedge fund and Tillman, who to have the oversight board created by SPORT NEWS SECTION Rico’s debt crisis has been at the forefront of legal chal- Congress take drastic steps. In TEL: 4455 7745 lenges to public employee unions and addition to attempting to nullify progressive taxation. Even if they earlier bond sales, the board also sued ONLINE SECTION reach the mainland prevail, the state could very well dozens of banks and bondholders in TEL: 4462 7501 repay investors entirely. May to claw back more than $1bn in [email protected] Illinois Comptroller Susana fees and interest payments. Two Mendoza, for her part, dismissed the months earlier, an appeals court are buying even though a closely PUBLIC RELATIONS lawsuit as “nothing more than affirmed that Puerto Rico’s highway watched gauge of relative value TEL: 4455 7613 garbage” and expects it to be “laughed agency can tap tolls and other fees would suggest the bonds are a [email protected] screaming sell. Never mind that at the out of court.” dedicated to bondholders until the bankruptcy is settled. That casts a pall start of the year, a federal oversight Still, it looks to be the first signif- ADVERTISING DEPARTMENT over the rest of the market for board argued that more than $6bn of icant ripple on the mainland from TEL: 4455 7837 / 780 revenue bonds sold for highways, air- Puerto Rico’s general-obligation Puerto Rico’s unprecedented restruc- FAX: 4455 7870 bonds should be declared null and turing. As always, it raises the ports and transit systems. [email protected] void because issuing them in the first question of whether this is the final Braun noted in May that this isn’t place breached the island’s constitu- straw that will shake investors’ confi- the first time investors have fretted CLASSIFIED DEPARTMENT tional debt limit. It’s just an outlier, dence in the market’s underpinnings. about precedent-setting events in the TEL: 4455 7857 after all. Illinois is the natural starting place muni market, only to see their worst [email protected] Or is it? John Tillman, the CEO of for this sort of reverberation. It’s the fears fail to materialise. Detroit’s conservative think tank Illinois Policy worst-rated US state, clinging to the bankruptcy, for one, has had no SUBSCRIPTION & Puerto Rico, on the Institute, and Warlander Asset Man- lowest investment grades from S&P obvious long-term implications - in DISTRIBUTION other hand, saw agement’s Eric Cole, a protege of Global Ratings and Moody’s Investors fact, the city easily issued $135m of TEL: 4455 7809 / 839 Appaloosa Management’s David Service. The state’s unfunded pension bonds in December, all with yields of the writing on the FAX: 44557819 Tepper, are teaming up in an effort to liability is huge, about $168bn, less than 5%. Jefferson County, [email protected] wall years ago that invalidate a whopping $14.3bn of according to the complaint, and it Alabama, which filed a then-record its $70bn debt load Illinois debt on the grounds that the struggled for years to pass a budget bankruptcy in 2011, had its credit was unpayable. It state’s pension bond sale in 2003 and when the Republican governor at the rating raised to investment grade just securities issued in 2017 to pay a time, Bruce Rauner, and the Demo- four years later. All thoughts and views was reeling from backlog of unpaid bills were in fact cratic legislature couldn’t reach These examples suggest the muni mass population deficit-financing transactions pro- agreement. market can withstand outliers. But expressed in these columns exodus and high hibited by the constitution. An effort in 2014 to increase compare the language in Illinois with are those of the writers, levels of poverty Some pertinent details from revenue by replacing the state’s flat that used in Puerto Rico. “The burden not of the newspaper. Bloomberg News’ Martin Braun: The income tax with a progressive one of servicing this unconstitutional debt and joblessness, group said the goal of the debt limits was defeated, thanks in part to the falls on the taxpayers of Illinois, even before it was in the state constitution is to ensure Illinois Policy Institute. including Plaintiff John Tillman,” the All correspondence devastated by the state acts in a financially respon- So, yes, Illinois definitely has complaint argued. Matthias Rieker, a regarding Views and Hurricane Maria. It sible manner. But they claim “the problems. But are they bad enough to spokesman for Puerto Rico’s oversight Opinion pages should be state’s elected officials have done just wipe out a large chunk of bond- board, said in May with regards to sent to editor-in-chief also had virtually no the opposite. They have mortgaged holders? In theory, the move would invalidating bonds that “it is neither money left to pay the state’s future to pay for the free up billions of dollars in the fair nor legal to burden Puerto Rico’s office or mailed to the pensioners. present.” ... coming years to fund pensions, but residents with that against which their [email protected] Article nine, section nine of the those savings could be wiped out by Constitution protects them.” 10 ASIA FRIDAY 5 JULY 2019 Australian student Residents of Jakarta sue detained in North govt over Korea freed, safe air pollution AFP AFP Alek Sigley — one of a JAKARTA TOKYO handful of Westerners living and studying Residents of Indonesia’s capital A 29-year-old Australian in North Korea — yesterday filed a lawsuit against student detained in North Korea the government over the toxic arrived in Tokyo yesterday, disappeared without levels of air pollution that reg- hours after surfacing in Beijing a trace around June ularly blanket the city. where he said he felt “great” 23, prompting a week Jakarta has been shrouded after being released. of deep concern and in hazardous smog for much of Alek Sigley (pictured) — one the past month, with air quality of a handful of Westerners living frantic speculation readings recording high concen- and studying in North Korea — about his fate. trations of harmful microscopic disappeared without a trace particles known as PM2.5. around June 23, prompting a Fed up with what they say week of deep concern and is worsening air pollution, a frantic speculation about his group of 31 concerned residents A hijab-clad Muslim girl shows the order of religious rituals in a booklet after performing an educational fate. has sued President Joko simulation of the Haj pilgrimage, in Kuala Lumpur yesterday. For days Sigley’s family Widodo, as well as the ministry received no word about his of environment and forestry, whereabouts or wellbeing, ministry of health, and Jakarta’s stoking fears he may have been governor. The plaintiffs — Thousands of Malaysian children the latest in a long line of for- which include activists, office eigners to become entangled in workers and motorcycle taxi North Korea’s police state. drivers — want to raise learn how to perform Haj But yesterday afternoon, he awareness about the issue and emerged suddenly in Beijing. because he had been busy force the government to act. AFP Muslims must perform the Haj the event. “I’m ok, I’m ok, yeah, yeah, I’m “shopping”, but hoped to give “(The government) has KUALA LUMPUR at least once in their lives, if able, “When they go through it, good. I’m very good,” he said him a “big hug and kiss” soon. neglected people’s rights to and it marks the spiritual peak they can comprehend many upon arriving at Beijing’s inter- Sigley detention came just breathe healthy air,” lawyer Thousands of Malaysian of their lives. Millions around the things that can’t be taught in a national airport. Asked how he days before a G20 summit and Nelson Nikodemus Simamora children took part in a practice world travel to Saudi Arabia classroom, read in books or felt, he responded: “Great.” a landmark meeting between said after filing the lawsuit. run yesterday of the Haj pil- annually for the pilgrimage. learnt from their parents.” He went to the Australian President Donald Trump and “They have not maintained air grimage, marching around a For yesterday’s event, called Roslan said that other embassy and was later seen again North Korean leader Kim Jong quality at a level that is healthy model of the Holy Kaaba, the “Little Haj”, buses dropped Islamic kindergartens around at the airport, where he smiled Un. Sigley was much more enough for the 10 million people Islam’s most sacred site. off the children at the compound the country have also been again and waved at reporters. familiar with the country and living here.” Toxic smog saw Dressed in white robes, the as loudspeakers played Muslim- teaching children how to Hours later he flew to Japan, spoke fluent Korean. Jakarta ranked as the most pol- youngsters circled the black themed songs and prayer chants perform the Haj. “These children where his wife lives. He landed He ran tours to North Korea luted city in the world for several cuboid in the compound of a in Arabic. are the future leaders,” said shortly after 10pm (1300 GMT), and a number of social media mornings running last month, convention centre just outside Guided by female teachers, Sumarti Samsuddin, from an smiling broadly, but declined to sites, which usually had a stream forcing residents to wear pol- Kuala Lumpur. the children also took part in a Islamic kindergarten group that answer media questions as he of apolitical content about life lution masks and sparking a The Kaaba sits inside the practice of a ritual known as “The took part in yesterday’s event. arrived at Haneda airport. in one of the world’s most storm of social media criticism. Grand Mosque in Makkah, Saudi Stoning of the Devil”, picking up “We hope that with this pro- Earlier, Australian Prime secretive nations. Air Visual, an independent Arabia, and Muslims around the mock stones before throwing gramme, what they learn will Minister Scott Morrison told His blog posts focused on online air quality index (AQI) world turn towards it to pray. them at makeshift pillars. stay with them,” she said. lawmakers that Sigley had “been everyday Pyongyang — every- monitor, pegged Jakarta at the Part of the Haj involves walking Organisers said the gathering More than 60 percent of released from detention in the thing from the city’s dining scene “very unhealthy” level of 231 on around the Kaaba. was aimed at helping Islamic Malaysia’s population of 32 Democratic People’s Republic to North Korean app reviews. June 25, higher than notoriously “We are learning how to do kindergarten students get a million people is Muslim, of Korea” and was “safe and “He is always trying to polluted cities like India’s the hajj,” six-year-old Aqra Izz better understanding of per- although the country also has well”. Sigley’s father Gary, a pro- demystify North Korea, unlike capital New Delhi and Beijing said, as nearly 6,000 boys and forming the Haj. sizeable Buddhist and Christian fessor of Chinese and Asian the typical Western media. He in China. Environment groups girls took a break after marching “We do this so the children minorities. studies, told media in Australia tries to understand the people blame the air pollution on a under the tropical sun. can understand and easily mem- The country sends some that the family was “extremely there,” his 26-year-old Japanese cocktail of vehicle fumes, “I want to do this when I get orise the various aspects of the 30,000 pilgrims to perform the pleased he is safe and sound”. wife, Yuka Morinaga, had said. smoke and emissions from older... like my mother and pilgrimage,” said Roslan Nordin, Haj every year, and Malaysia’s The father admitted he had The pair married in a cer- coal-fired power plants that father.” The Haj pilgrimage is Chief Executive of Little Caliphs government is seeking to missed a call from his son emony in Pyongyang last year. ring greater Jakarta. one of the five pillars of Islam. International, which organised increase this number. Man detained for pouring water over Baidu chief’s head Japan on AFP landslide alert calmly resuming his presen- BEIJING tation to applause despite his as heavy rains drenched white shirt. A man has been detained for five Police carried out an inves- lash south days by Beijing police after he tigation after Baidu employees poured water over the head of reported that “a man had dis- AFP Baidu CEO Robin Li as he turbed the order at a company TOKYO delivered a speech at a con- activity”. ference, authorities said. A suspect surnamed Cheng Fears of landslides and flooding Li was speaking about was given five days of adminis- put southern Japan on high alert Baidu’s autonomous car devel- trative detention for “picking yesterday as heavy rains con- opment at an event on Artificial quarrels and provoking trouble”, tinued to lash the region, Intelligence on Wednesday Chaoyang district police said on prompting authorities to order when the man stormed onto the Twitter-like Weibo. more than one million people stage and emptied a water bottle Baidu has had a rough year to evacuate. over his head. posting its first quarterly loss Despite the orders, just The tech billionaire, who co- since going public in 2005 3,000 people were in shelters founded the internet giant, stood during the first quarter, with the in the Kagoshima region, an stunned for a moment as the head of its core search engine official tally showed. The rains water poured down his face. business also resigning. come a year after torrential “What’s your problem?” he The company has faced downpours in western Japan said in English as his assailant heavy criticism in China in that killed over 200 people in walked off the stage. recent years after a medical flooding and landslides. “Everyone can see that the advertising scandal and dis- One woman has so far been path of advancing AI will still content with changes to its killed in the rains that began at This framegrab taken from AFPTV shows a man (right) pouring water on Baidu co-founder and CEO encounter all types of things we search result listings that favour the weekend, after her house Robin Li during Baidu Create 2019 in Beijing on July 3, 2019. don’t expect,” Li then added, its own content. was buried in a landslide. Several injuries have been reported along with small land- Philippine senator draws flak over slides that have buried cars. Britain denies supporting HK protests as More than one million toddler’s drug-raid death comments people in Kagoshima remained Chinese media slam ‘Western ideologues’ under evacuation order, with AFP undercover police officer were additional orders being issued REUTERS of words with Britain over Hong trying the same trick in China,” MANILA also shot dead. along with lower-level evacu- LONDON/BEIJING Kong, especially after Hunt the newspaper said. “Of course you need to ation advisories. Television warned of consequences if China Hunt, speaking to BBC radio, A Philippine senator who ini- secure everything — no col- footage showed cars swept away British Foreign Secretary Jeremy neglects commitments made reiterated his condemnation of the tially led President Rodrigo lateral damage. But if you infil- by floods and rivers breaking Hunt said yesterday that he had when it took back Hong Kong to violence. “Let me be clear what I Duterte’s deadly drug war trate, it’s not really possible,” their banks in Kagoshima. not backed violent protests in allow its way of life for at least said. I said that I condemned, and sparked outrage yesterday when Dela Rosa told a news con- The Japan Meteorological Hong Kong, after Chinese state 50 years. State media in par- we as the United Kingdom he dismissed the killing of a ference, dismissing allegations Agency has warned that life- media blamed “Western ideo- ticular has blamed London, condemn, all violence and that toddler in a police anti-narcotics by the dead girl’s family that the threatening landslides are pos- logues” for fomenting unrest in Washington and other Western people who supported the pro- operation with an expletive and father had been unarmed. sible. Heavy rain was moving the former British colony. capitals for offering succour to democracy demonstrators would as collateral damage. Dela Rosa was police chief northwest yesterday and Hundreds of protesters the demonstrators. have been very dismayed by the Ex-Philippine police chief in the first 21 months of Duterte’s forecast to bring downpours to broke into the Hong Kong legis- “Ideologues in Western gov- scenes they saw,” said Hunt, who Ronald Dela Rosa, who won a presidency. The crackdown has central and eastern Japan in lature on Monday after a dem- ernments never cease in their is vying to become Britain’s next senate seat in May, made the officially killed over 5,300 coming days. onstration marking the anni- efforts to engineer unrest against prime minister. comments as police burned 1.4 alleged users and dealers — a Kagoshima Governor versary of the return to Chinese governments that are not to their China has said Britain has no tonnes of seized narcotics while number rights groups say could Satoshi Mitazono said to resi- rule in 1997 under a “one liking, even though their actions more responsibility for Hong warning the nation still faced a be three times higher. Although dents that the situation was country, two systems” formula have caused misery and chaos in Kong. Britain says it still con- flood of illegal drugs. Authorities the Philippines has pulled out of “extremely dangerous”. “A that includes freedoms not country after country in Latin siders the Joint Declaration in said a three-year-old girl was the International Criminal Court, major disaster could happen enjoyed in mainland China, America, Africa, the Middle East 1984 on the terms of the return killed on Sunday in a sting oper- the war crimes body is pushing anywhere, any time,” he said, including the right to protest. and Asia,” the official China Daily of Hong Kong, which guarantees ation outside Manila. Her father, ahead with a preliminary exam- adding that he had requested China has stepped up a war said in an editorial. “Now they are its freedoms, to be valid. a drug suspect, as well as an ination of the crackdown. help from the military. FRIDAY 5 JULY 2019 EUROPE 11 New EU chief seeks ‘smart advice’ AFP The Parliament vote Juncker’s spokesman Mar- BRUSSELS on von der Leyen garitis Schinas described it as a is scheduled for “friendly meeting between two EU President-elect Ursula von mid-July, and she true Europeans who have known der Leyen yesterday made her each other for years”. first trip to Brussels since being would take over on The parliament vote on von nominated as senior officials November 1 — the der Leyen is scheduled for mid- sought to shore up support for day after Britain is July, and she would take over her appointment in the European currently due to leave on November 1 — the day after Parliament. Britain is currently due to leave After talks with Jean-Claude the bloc, meaning the bloc, meaning she could be Juncker, the man she is to replace she could be facing facing a chaotic “no deal” Brexit as European Commission pres- a chaotic “no deal” on her first day in office. ident, current German defence Other key challenges will minister von der Leyen tweeted Brexit on her first include a simmering trade row she had come to seek “smart day in office. with US President Donald advice” as she prepares her plan Trump, the Iranian nuclear crisis, for the next five years. The multilingual von der the challenge of an increasingly She must win the approval Leyen — the first woman to be assertive Russia and China — not of the highly fragmented named to lead the EU’s executive to mention trying to pep up European Parliament, where arm — sent out the same Europe’s sluggish economy. there have been grumblings message in English, French and But first von der Leyen needs about the deal to appoint her -- German after a warm welcome approval from the parliament -- which was cooked up by EU from Juncker at commission by no means a given. national leaders over three days headquarters in Brussels. Her nomination has drawn of tortuous summit wrangling. Juncker, whose five-year the ire of fellow German poli- “My priorities will be to term has been marked by Brexit tician Manfred Weber who failed German Defence Minister Ursula von der Leyen (left), who has been nominated as European Commission seek smart advice, listen to all and the migrant crisis — two of to win the backing of EU national President, poses with outgoing EU Council President Donald Tusk during a meeting in Brussels, yesterday. parliamentary groups and the biggest upheavals ever to hit leaders for the commission job. together work out the best plan the EU — tweeted that he was The Bavarian MEP yesterday for the future of Europe,” von “delighted” to receive von der said von der Leyen’s selection Council of member states, urged and cooperate with each other, Tusk — who led the summit der Leyen tweeted, a day after Leyen. “A true European, we are was the result of a “backroom MEPs to back von der Leyen and because only then can we build talks that eventually installed talks with MEPs at the par- on the same page when it comes deal” done by France and avoid a messy tussle between EU trust and change Europe for the von der Leyen — later met the liament in Strasbourg, eastern to speaking up for EU interests,” Hungary But Donald Tusk, the institutions. better,” Tusk told the parliament 60-year-old for separate talks France. he wrote. president of the European “We must respect each other in Strasbourg yesterday morning. in Brussels. Putin says fire-hit Dutch gangster ‘the Nose’ gets life for 5 murders AFP as they passed sentence. partner in crime in the Heineken as telling De Telegraaf news- THE HAGUE Holleeder became a minor abduction. Van Hout was also the paper. “We have been portrayed submersible was celebrity following the abduction father of the children of Hol- as liars and fantasists by my The Netherlands’ most notorious of beer heir Freddy Heineken in leeder’s sister Sonja but was nev- brother and his lawyers but the gangster was jailed for life yes- 1983. The ganglord appeared on ertheless gunned down outside judges have destroyed that nuclear-powered terday for ordering the murders television and was even known an Amsterdam restaurant in defence.” Sonja Holleeder added: of five people, including his best as the “huggable criminal” for 2003, after two earlier attempts “My brother had Cor killed. We REUTERS Kremlin meeting about the reac- friend who was an accomplice posing for selfies with fans on on his life. all did this for Cor.” In total Hol- MOSCOW tor’s condition after the fire. in the famed 1980s kidnapping Amsterdam’s beer terraces. His other sister Astrid wrote leeer — who has been detained “The nuclear reactor on the of a Heineken tycoon. But the public image masked a best-selling book called “Judas” since 2014 — was found guilty in Russian President Vladimir vessel is completely isolated,” Willem Holleeder, 61, nick- the brutal reality of a gangland about her brother, describing total of ordering five murders Putin disclosed yesterday for the Shoigu told Putin, according to named “The Nose” because of his enforcer who ruthlessly wiped what she said were his rages and and one manslaughter. first time that a secret military a Kremlin transcript. “All the most prominent facial feature, was out anyone who threatened his increasingly brutal and con- As well as van Hout, he was submersible hit by a fatal fire necessary measures were taken convicted after his own sisters position as king of the trolling behaviour. convicted of ordering the murders three days ago was nuclear- by the crew to protect the gave testimony against him Amsterdam underworld — Holleeder is accused of of so-called “banker for the mob” powered, prompting the defence reactor, which is in complete despite threats to their own safety. including members of his own ordering “hits” on both sisters Willem Endstra in Amsterdam in minister to assure him its reactor working order.” The fire erupted “His life went from bad to worse, family. In scenes reminiscent of after they testified against him. 2004, gangster John Mieremet in had been safely contained. in the submarine’s battery com- determined by greed, lust for Hollywood mob movies the God- They were foiled after a fellow Thailand in 2005, building con- Russian officials have faced partment, Shoigu added, and power and violence”, said judges father and Goodfellas, he prisoner told police. tractor Kees Houtman, also in accusations of trying to cover up later spread. at a high-security court in ordered the murder of Cor van “The road was hellish, but we 2005, and associate Thomas van the full details of the accident Although the Kremlin pub- Amsterdam dubbed “De Bunker” Hout, his former friend and did it for this”, Astrid was quoted der Bijl in 2006. that killed 14 sailors as they were licised the meeting yesterday carrying out what the defence morning, it was not immediately ministry called a survey of the clear when the men had met. Italian village sea floor near the Arctic. “There has not been any formal Czech coalition risks collapse Moscow’s slow release of communication from Russia to us clears up ash information about the incident about this,” Per Strand, a director AFP recent firing of the National in mind and that he would meet has drawn comparisons with the at the Norwegian Radiation and PRAGUE Gallery head. While Stanek with Zeman again on July 12. after volcano opaque way the Soviet Union Nuclear Safety Authority, said agreed to step down, pro- Babis said he hoped “that handled the 1986 Chernobyl when asked if it had been The Czech Republic’s minority Russian, pro-Chinese President meeting will lead us to a solution eruption nuclear power station disaster, informed that the submarine was government risked collapse yes- Milos Zeman has so far not that will preserve the current and another deadly submarine nuclear-powered. terday as a junior partner endorsed it, creating deadlock. government.” Babis himself is AFP accident — the 2000 sinking of Servicemen attended a threatened to quit, ramping up the “I’m not very optimistic” facing charges of graft, EU con- STROMBOLI the nuclear-powered Kursk, memorial service on Thursday pressure on billionaire Prime Min- about staying in the government, cerns over possible conflicts of which claimed 118 lives. in the port city of Kronstadt near ister Andrej Babis, who recently CSSD chairman Jan Hamacek interest and mass rallies The village of Ginostra on Russia, which says the St Petersburg in honour of the faced mass protests demanding told reporters after Thursday’s demanding his resignation. Stromboli began sweeping details of the submarine 14 dead submariners. Held in the he step down over alleged graft. talks with Babis and Zeman. Having made his fortune as away layers of ash yesterday, involved in the latest accident hulking Russian Orthodox Naval The threat by the leftwing Although under the Czech the founder and owner of the the day after a dramatic vol- are classified, said the fire took Cathedral of St Nicholas, sailors Social Democrats (CSSD) was constitution the president is sprawling Agrofert food, chem- canic eruption on the tiny place on Monday, though it was cradled lit candles and looked triggered by a row over a cabinet obliged to dismiss or appoint icals and media holding, Babis Italian island killed a hiker. only officially disclosed late on on as priests read out prayers. post. They are paired in a ministers at the prime minister’s staunchly denies any wrong- Emergency workers Tuesday. Until yesterday there Shoigu, a close Putin ally, minority coalition with Babis’s request, Zeman insists there is doing. More than 250,000 brushed and scooped volcanic was also no official word on told the president that the sub- populist ANO movement that “no deadline” and has made it people rallied in Prague on June cinders from streets and the whether the vessel had a nuclear marine, which authorities said relies on the informal backing of clear he wants Stanek to stay. 23 demanding that Babis resign tiny harbour in the village at the reactor, despite strong interest had been operating in the the Communist Party to survive Constitutional court in the biggest Czech protest since foot of the still smoking from neighbouring Norway. Barents Sea area, would be fully in parliament. chairman Pavel Rychetsky yes- the fall of Communism in 1989. volcano. A veil of ash lay atop Putin revealed that the sub- repaired. “Right now, we are The CSSD is demanding the terday criticised Zeman’s inac- Despite the uproar, ANO tops restaurant terrace tables and marine had been nuclear- assessing how long it will take, dismissal of its own Culture Min- tivity as “contradicting the con- opinion polls with 30-percent parts of the coastline. powered by asking Defence how much work there is, and ister Antonin Stanek, criticised, stitutional order.” Hamacek said support and won May’s European Canadair water-bombing Minister Sergei Shoigu during a how we can carry it out,” he said. among other things, over the he had a replacement for Stanek Parliament elections. planes battled to put out fires started by two massive explo- sions which on Wednesday sent plumes of smoke 2km into the Cock-a-doodle-don’t: French rooster at centre of legal battle sky. “We’ve dropped 320 water loads and we’re continuing,” AFP The case has attracted are only two who are bothered said forestry official Giovanni ROCHEFORT attention not only because the by it!” her lawyer Julien Pap- Giacoppo. Some people started rooster is one of France’s ineau told the court. Fesseau bathing in the sea again yes- A rooster named Maurice, whose national emblems, but because defended the cockerel’s right to terday, the day after warnings early-morning crowing has got the complaint is seen by some as make himself heard. of the risk of mini-tsunamis under the skin of neighbours on an attack on the countryside’s tra- “He crows and I think it’s similar to those that previous the French island of Oleron, was ditional sounds and way-of-life. great. Long live nature!” she said. eruptions have caused. at the centre of a court battle The couple’s lawyer however Tensions between locals and Vulcanologists and locals yesterday that has raised howls rejected the characterisation of holiday-home owners are said the volcano was unlikely to of protest in the countryside. the case as a battle between nothing new in rural France, but erupt again in the near future. Maurice himself was not “bobos” — bourgeois bohemians Maurice’s case has become Around 1,000 tourists on present for the proceedings in — and countryfolk. “My clients something of a cause celebre. Wednesday fled the island the western town of Rochefort, live in a housing estate. It’s not Maurice, who has his own aboard ferries to the nearby and nor were his accusers, a the countryside,” Vincent Facebook page, appeared in a Calabrian coast. Seventy people retired couple with a holiday Huberdeau argued. luminous yellow vest in one post were evacuated from Ginostra home on the picturesque island Maurice’s owner, Corinne in November expressing soli- on the volcano’s southwest flank. who claim his dawn chorus Fesseau, who has been living on darity with the protesters. Many left without their rouses them from their slumber. Oleron island for 35 years, told The trial has raised tempers, identity papers and luggage. But feathered fans of the French radio she had taken to with the mayor of Gajac village Sicilian hiker Massimo Imbesi, celebrity cockerel were on locking up her bird at night and penning a furious open letter in 35, was killed when he was parade outside the courthouse, lined his shed with egg boxes to May in defence of the rights of caught in the eruption’s flow of A woman holds a rooster inside the high court where the justice is set among them a chicken called try to block the light and so stop church bells to ring, cows to hot rocks and fumes, while his to rule on whether a lively cockerel should be considered a neighbourly Pompadour and giant Brahma him crowing -- but all to no avail. moo, and donkeys to bray Brazilian walking companion nuisance in a case that has led to shreiks of protest in the countryside. rooster called Jean-Rene. “Out of 40 neighbours there throughout rural France. suffered from shock. 12 EUROPE / AMERICAS FRIDAY 5 JULY 2019

People gather on the National Mall ahead of the “Salute to America” Fourth of July event with US President Donald Trump at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC, yesterday. RIGHT: Independence Day revellers pose in front of a Humvee parked on a street in Washington, DC. Trump takes centre stage on Independence Day BLOOMBERG and wide to join us today and The White House said most Americans.” He went on to companies valued at $750,000. The event also is renewing a WASHINGTON tonight for what is turning out Trump’s message won’t criticize Democrats on health Because of the flyovers, the long-simmering feud with local to be one of the biggest cele- care and taxes. Federal Aviation Administration officials in Washington. The city US President Donald Trump is brations in the history of our be political — Trump Trump conceived the event will suspend commercial air has said it’s still owed about $7m getting what he wants for the country,” Trump tweeted yes- is calling the speech after his plans for a military traffic at Reagan National Airport from costs associated with nation’s birthday: A celebration terday morning, which he was a “Salute to America” parade on Veterans Day were near Washington for the first Trump’s inauguration but the featuring fireworks, fighter jets spending at a golf course just — but it comes as the stymied by complaints from local time during a July 4th cele- administration official said the and tanks that makes him the outside Washington. officials about the cost. The Pres- bration. The FAA said flights District hasn’t asked for funds center of attention. “I will speak on behalf of our 2020 campaign is ident has been enamored of the would be affected again during from upcoming federal budgets. Trump will speak from the great Country!” Trump has heating up. idea of a Washington celebration the fireworks display. Trump said on Twitter that steps of the Lincoln Memorial, promised the “show of a with a military component since The Defence Department the cost of the event “will be very remaking the capital’s July 4th lifetime,” but it may not go that’s likely to draw counter- attending the 2017 Bastille Day said on Tuesday that it would little compared to what it is festivities into a display of mil- entirely the President’s way. A protests. Delegate Eleanor parade in Paris, which included provide a pair of M1A2 Abrams worth,” while the administration itary might mixed with presi- flash-flood watch alert was Holmes Norton, a Democrat an aerial display, thousands of tanks and two M2 Bradley official earlier declined to say dential politics. The White House issued and some aides privately who represents the District of marching soldiers and hundreds Fighting Vehicles for the event. how bill would be covered. said Trump’s message won’t be fear crowds won’t meet the pres- Columbia in Congress, said of military vehicles. They were delivered on flatbed While some of Trump’s pred- political — Trump is calling the ident’s expectations — evoking Trump’s plans “look like a Trump’s remarks are trucks ahead of the event, to ecessors have spoken on or speech a “Salute to America” — his 2017 inauguration. political event” and predicted expected to last roughly half an avoid damaging streets. around July 4th, they haven’t but it comes as the 2020 cam- Trump is effectively a light turnout for his speech. hour, an administration official There will be several fly- done it in quite the same way. paign is heating up. rebranding a celebration that Trump told reporters on said. His speech will celebrate overs, including by the Navy’s Barack Obama delivered annual The city will host a parade attracts thousands of families Monday that the event will be America’s independence, the flag Blue Angels flight team. The air Independence Day remarks from before the evening program on to watch the fireworks but “about this country and it’s a and the military, the official show will also include Air Force the White House. Ronald Reagan the National Mall, which will almost never includes presi- salute to America”. He said he added. One, a Marine One presidential gave a “Star Spangled Salute to include flyovers by fighter jets, dential speeches on the Mall. hoped for a large turnout. Asked The fireworks generally last helicopter, two F-35 fighter jets, America” speech at the Jefferson bombers and even Air Force One, Critics say his revisions risk if he could give a speech to all about 15 minutes but this year two F-22 Raptors, two F/A-18 Memorial, near the Lincoln and the Trump speech. turning Washington’s July 4th Americans, Trump replied: “I will span 35 minutes after a Hornets, a B2 bomber and four Memorial, in 1987, but did so on “People are coming from far into a de-facto Trump rally think so, I think I’ve reached donation by two pyrotechnic Apache helicopters. the morning of July 3. Hint of a vote Putin meets Pope, Italian leaders on Rome visit on resuming AP Francis. fox-hunting ROME “It was a very substantive, interesting discussion,” he told revives sharp Russian President Vladimir Putin journalists present at the met with Pope Francis for “sub- exchange of gifts in the private UK debate stantive talks” at the Vatican yes- papal study. terday, and thanked the pontiff Putin later met with Italian REUTERS for discussions on a range of President Sergio Mattarella and LONDON topics including Ukraine and the Prime Minister Giuseppe Fonte. Catholic Church in Russia. The bilateral meetings were fol- The deeply divisive debate over Francis received Putin in an lowed by a Russia-Italy forum fox-hunting in Britain was hour-long audience at the with Conte and Italian Foreign briefly revived yesterday when Vatican Apostolic Palace. The Minister Enzo Moavero. leadership candidate Jeremy two addressed “various ques- Putin has acknowledged that Hunt said he would allow par- tions of relevance to the life of US and European Union sanctions liament a vote on scrapping the the Catholic Church in Russia,” have cost Russia an estimated existing ban. the Vatican said, adding that they $50bn since 2014, but he claims The ancient British field sport also discussed “the ecological that the bloc’s nations have suf- was outlawed in 2004 after a question and various themes fered even greater damage long and sometimes violent cam- relating to current international because of the restrictions. paign that took up a large affairs, with particular reference Putin said that economic amount of parliamentary time to Syria, Ukraine and relations with Italy, Russia’s and often led to clashes in the Venezuela.” fifth-largest trading partner, are countryside between hunters and The pair also expressed their expanding despite the sanctions. saboteurs. Thousands joined satisfaction at the development Italian investments in Russia so marches for and against then of bilateral relations during the far this year have reached Prime Minister Tony Blair’s plan Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte (right) greets Russian President Vladimir Putin upon his arrival “cordial discussions,” the Vatican $4.7bn, while Russian invest- to introduce a ban. for their meeting at Palazzo Chigi in Rome yesterday, as part of Putin’s one-day visit to Rome and said. “Thank you for the time you ments in Italy in the same period Opponents said hunting have dedicated to me,” Putin told were $2.7bn. the Vatican. animals with dogs was cruel while supporters maintained the centuries-old tradition kept down pests and was an 6.4 magnitude earthquake sets off fires, US Representative Amash important part of rural life. Foreign Secretary Hunt told damages desert city east of Los Angeles quits Republican Party the Daily Telegraph he would allow a vote to repeal the ban. REUTERS significance,” she said. The city as Las Vegas, Nevada. It was REUTERS “Instead of acting as an inde- “As soon as there was a LOS ANGELES has asked residents to look after even felt south of the border in WASHINGTON pendent branch of government majority of parliament that others, especially the elderly, Mexico, where buildings were and serving as a check on the would be likely to repeal the A powerful earthquake of mag- which forms a large part of her evacuated in the towns of US Representative Justin Amash, executive branch, congressional fox-hunting ban, then I would nitude 6.4 struck Southern Cali- city’s population. Tijuana and Mexicali, according a frequent critic of President leaders of both parties expect the support a vote in parliament,” fornia near the city of Ridgecrest, She said she had felt many to Baja State officials. Donald Trump, quit the Repub- House and Senate to act in obe- he added. His comments about 175km northeast of Los quakes before but “not one like According to European lican Party yesterday, saying dience or opposition to the pres- whipped up a lively debate on Angeles, the US Geological Survey this long rolling” temblor, she quake agency EMSC, the quake politicians have become more ident and their colleagues on a social media and Hunt later said yesterday. told CNN, adding she was driving was felt in an area inhabited by loyal to their parties than to the partisan basis,” Amash wrote. back-tracked, telling the BBC The Kern County Fire in her car when it happened and some 20 million people. American people. A member of Congress since there was no parliamentary Department said on Twitter it was immediately pulled up her emer- The epicenter was very close The congressman from 2011, Amash, 39, made some majority and he did not foresee working “nearly 2 dozens inci- gency brake. to Ridgecrest, a town with a pop- Michigan, the first Republican high-profile decisions in recent there ever being one. dents ranging from medical The USGS said the quake, ulation of more than 27,600 in in Congress to say openly that months that chronicled his “It wouldn’t be my priority assistance to structure fires in and initially reported as a magnitude the high desert. The area is asso- the president has engaged in growing disdain for Trump and as prime minister,” he added. around the city of Ridgecrest, CA.” 6.6, was very shallow — only 5.4 ciated with the Eastern Cali- impeachable behaviour, said he subsequent drift from the party. The opposition Labour Party, Ridgecrest Mayor Peggy Breedon miles (8.7km) — which would fornia Shear Zone and has suf- has become disenchanted with But it was his decision to which introduced the 2004 told CNN that things were falling have amplified its effect. fered earthquake swarms in the party politics and frightened by speak out on Special Counsel Hunting Act ban, was quick to off buildings and hitting people The temblor, which struck past, including a series of some its consequences. Robert Mueller’s report on weigh in. Party Chairman Ian and the city had felt several after- at around 1:30 pm EDT in an area 2,500 tremors over the course “The two-party system has Russian activities during the Lavery said: “This... leadership shocks. She added there were on the edge of Death Valley of five weeks in the summer of evolved into an existential threat 2016 presidential election that race is going from bad to worse fires and broken gas lines. National Park, was felt 1995. The quake was quickly fol- to American principles and insti- drew the president’s fury - and (with) a pledge to bring back “We are used to earthquakes throughout Los Angeles, as far lowed by many smaller after- tutions,” he wrote in a Wash- a prompt Republican primary this barbaric practice that but we’re not used to this north as Fresno and as far east shocks in the area. ington Post opinion piece. challenge. Labour had proudly banned.” FRIDAY 5 JULY 2019 AMERICAS / CLASSIFIEDS 13 UN rights chief decries Venezuela ‘executions’ AFP using FAES, and possibly other security than 50 other countries. The country GENEVA forces, as part of a policy of social is also suffering from hyperinflation control. These killings warrant imme- and shortages of basic goods from food The UN rights chief warned yesterday diate investigation to ensure accounta- to medicine, a crisis that has forced that many of the thousands killed in bility of perpetrators and guarantees of millions to flee. Venezuela security operations since non-recurrence,” the report said. The report concluded that “there are 2018 likely constituted “executions”, and In the report, which Bachelet is set reasonable grounds to believe that grave urged Caracas to dissolve its special to present to the UN Human Rights violations of economic and social rights, police force. Council in Geneva, she urged the gov- including the rights to food and health, UN High Commissioner for Human ernment in Caracas to “dissolve FAES”. have been committed in Venezuela”. Rights Michelle Bachelet, who visited She also urged it to “establish an It also said that “as the economic Venezuela last month, pointed out in a impartial and independent national crisis deepened, the authorities began fresh report that thousands of people, mechanism, with the support of the using social programmes in a discrim- mostly young men, had been killed in international community, to investigate inatory manner, based on political alleged confrontations with state forces extrajudicial executions during security grounds, and as an instrument of social in the country in recent years. operations, ensure accountability of per- control”. “The incidence of alleged extraju- petrators and redress for victims.” The report also voiced criticism of dicial killings by security forces... has Bachelet’s report also decried a sanctions imposed on Venezuela, saying been shockingly high,” Bachelet’s office wide range of other grave rights vio- they were “exacerbating further the said in a statement. In 2018, the gov- lations in Venezuela, which is caught effects of the economic crisis, and thus ernment registered 5,287 killings, pur- People holding placards in reference to Rafael Acosta, a navy captain who died is an economic crisis and a political the humanitarian situation.” portedly for “resistance to authority” while in detention according to his wife, and Rufo Chacon, who was left blind standoff between President Nicolas Yesterday’s report charged that Ven- during such operations, between after police fired rubber bullets at his face, according to his mother, taking part Maduro’s government and National ezuela’s government over the past January 1 and May 19 this year, another in a news conference in Caracas, Venezuela, yesterday. Assembly leader Juan Guaido. decade, and especially since 2016, had 1,569 similar killings were registered. The opposition leader, Guaido, implemented a strategy “aimed at neu- “There are reasonable grounds to committed by the security forces,” the (FAES). The Office of the High Commis- declared himself interim President tralising, repressing and criminalising believe that many of these killings con- report said, especially pointing a finger sioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) “is earlier this year, and has been recog- political opponents and people critical stitute extrajudicial executions at Venezuela’s police special forces concerned that the authorities may be nised by the United States and more of the government.” White House looking at ‘every option’ for SERVICES adding citizenship question to census USED CONTAINERS (Sales & Rentals) REUTERS looking at all options to get the are working very hard on this, ARMSTRONG WASHINGTON question onto the form. even on the 4th of July!” Trump New & Used Containers - Sales/Rental (Certified & Uncertified) “The Supreme Court ruled tweeted on Thursday, hours Mobile: 557 80 396 (Steve) With a court deadline looming, that it is legal to have a citizenship before he planned to preside E-mail: [email protected] www.iescoqatar.com. the Trump administration is question in the census if there’s over Independence Day celebra- looking at “every option” as it an appropriate explanation - and tions in Washington. 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Mexican police protest CHANGE OF NAME The members of the Federal Police block one of the main roads, known as the Mexico-Pachuca highway, as they protest against the government’s decision to force them to become members of a newly formed National Guard, on the outskirts of Mexico City, Mexico, yesterday. I, Julie Ann Velo Garcia, I, Safoorah Hussain, holder of Philippines Passport holder of India Passport No. EB9751439 No. L3432173 (Qatar ID No. 28860806574) (Qatar ID No. 30435601699) Over 40 held for extorting Petrobras hereby change my name to hereby change my name to contractors, murdering opponents JULIE ANN GARCIA SAFOORAH HUSSAIN RAVELO SHAIK REUTERS of Brazil’s oil and gas sector. where there could be a clan- RIO DE JANEIRO Investigators said the militia destine graveyard.” Police said monopolized the distribution of the organization frequently Any objection, please contact the Any objection, please contact the Police in Rio de Janeiro arrested cooking gas in the hardscrabble maimed and tortured victims, 43 people yesterday for allegedly city of Itaboraí and even extorted and was likely involved in a mass days from the publication of this notice. days from the publication of this notice. taking part in a murderous gang companies transporting workers shooting in a bar in Itaboraí in that extorted companies pro- to Petrobras’ uncompleted January that killed 10 people. viding services to state-run oil Comperj refinery. Brazilian President Jair Bol- I, Hafsah Hussain, company Petrobras and estab- “We’ve managed to identify, sonaro, who took power in I, Jaffer Hussain, holder of India Passport lished a secret cemetery where up to now, at least 77 people in January, has occasionally hailed holder of India Passport No. R2439057 it disposed of rivals. this organization, lawyers and the militias as a preferable alter- No. N2953373 (Qatar ID No. 30735600769) The arrests underline the police among them,” Romulo native to other organized crime (Qatar ID No. 27035612596) growing power of militias in and Santos, a Rio police organized groups that operate in Brazil’s hereby change my name to around South America’s third crime investigator, said. cities. Critics say their methods hereby change my name to HAFSAH HUSSAIN largest city, comprised in part of “Initially, they acted to are little different than the JAFFAR HUSSAIN SHAIK retired and off-duty police intimidate the population, exe- groups they displace. SHAIK officers, who control the distri- cuting rivals, criminal rivals, Itaboraí, a city of 240,000 bution of utilities and basic often during the day. Starting in located northeast of Rio proper, Any objection, please contact the goods for millions of residents. the second half of last year... we is home to the Comperj refinery, Any objection, please contact the It also illustrates the growing started to identify a large amount construction of which has stalled days from the publication of this notice. threat of militias and other of disappearances. During the in recent years after it was caught days from the publication of this notice. organized crime groups to parts investigation, we even identified up in a corruption probe. 14 CLASSIFIEDS FRIDAY 5 JULY 2019

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Indian Finance Minister, Nirmala Sitharaman (right) poses for a group photograph with Minister of benchmark for oil prices, were The bill aims to stop mul- down 31 cents or 0.49 percent at tinationals from avoiding State for Finance, Anurag Thakur (left) and her staff before finalising the 2019-20 union budget at $63.51 per barrel by 1320 GMT. taxes by setting up head- her office in New Delhi, yesteray. The government is set to release its annual budget today. Brent closed up 2.3 percent on petrol demand season. quarters in low-tax EU coun- Wednesday. That suggests oil demand in tries. Currently, the companies US West Texas Intermediate the United States, the world’s pay nearly no tax in countries India projects GDP growth at 7% (WTI) crude futures were down biggest crude consumer, could where they have large sales 51 cents or 0.89 percent at $56.83 be slowing amid signs of a weak- like France. per barrel. WTI closed up 1.9 ening economy. New orders for The bill foresees a 3 for 2019-2020 fiscal year percent on Wednesday. US factory goods fell for a second percent tax on the French rev- Markets appeared largely straight month in May, gov- enues of digital companies ANATOLIA India needs to grow at 8 percent lower global oil prices to boost unmoved by the detention in ernment data showed on with global revenue of more NEW DELHI per annum to become a $5 consumption. Gibraltar by British Royal Wednesday, adding to the eco- than €750m ($847m), and trillion economy by the financial The real challenge for Indian Marines of a supertanker pos- nomic concerns. French revenue over €25m. The Indian government yesterday year 2025. industries is to bring in needed sibly carrying Iranian crude oil The weak US data followed The bill adopted by the projected economy to grow at 7 Chief Economic Adviser private investment in collabo- bound for Syria, as tensions a report of slow business growth National Assembly goes to the percent during the current Krishnamurthy Subramanian, ration with the public Sector, it between Iran and the United in Europe last month as well. Senate next week, where it is financial year 2019-20 from 6.8 who prepared the Economic added. States have flared over myste- “Tossing aside the short- expected to win final percent in previous fiscal year. Survey, said the theme of report Meanwhile, Economist rious attacks on tankers in the term nature of fluctuations approval. “Real Gross Domestic is to enable shifting gears to Aditya Jain of Kalptaru Multi- Gulf of Oman in recent months. around the inventory data, it’s The tech industry warns it Product (GDP) growth for the accelerate and sustain a real pliers said, “The GDP growth of “Gains were capped by the impossible to escape the eco- could lead to higher costs for year 2019-20 is projected at 7 GDP growth rate of 8 percent 7 percent projected by the Eco- Energy Information Adminis- nomic reality that we are in the consumers. percent reflecting a recovery in and thereby achieve the vision nomic Survey is very much real- tration (EIA) reporting a weekly midst of a global manufacturing It could affect US com- the economy after a deceleration of making India a $5 trillion istic. However, we need a boost decline of 1.1 million barrels in downturn,” said Stephen Innes panies including Airbnb and in the growth momentum economy, according to local to revive the economy. Sufficient crude stocks, versus the 3 (pictured), managing partner, Uber as well as those from throughout 2018-19,” Finance financial daily Livemint. actions are needed on monetary million barrels forecast by ana- Vanguard Markets. China and Europe. It primarily Minister Nirmala Sitharaman According to Livemint, the front to improve the economy.” lysts and 5 million barrels Some analysts, however, targets those that use con- said, while presenting the Eco- Economic Survey said India con- Rajiv Kumar, vice-chairman of reported by the API a day believe the global economy sumers’ data to sell online nomic Survey in the upper house tinues to be the fastest growing NITI Aayog, a policy think tank earlier,” Cantor Fitzgerald remains robust and that demand advertising. of the parliament. major economy in the world, of the India government, has Europe said. is likely to be strong. The French Finance Min- The Finance Ministry even though the world output hailed the Economic Survey “Also providing headwinds “The Shanghai Composite istry has estimated the tax will presents the Economic Survey growth falling to 3.6 percent in 2019 as government’s resolve to were signs of a recovery in oil Index is around the same level raise about €500m ($566m) in the parliament every year a 2018 from 3.8 percent in 2017. maintain fiscal stability while exports from Venezuela in June as when Donald Trump occupied a year this year but that day before the national budget, “Growth rate of world output pushing up the GDP growth rate. and growth in Argentinian the White House. It is also worth should increase ‘quickly.’ to be presented today. The is projected to fall further to 3.3 “The Economic Survey 2019 output in May,” it added. remembering that global GDP France failed to persuade survey projects the state of percent in 2019 as growth of reflects the government’s resolve US inventories fell less than growth, albeit revised down EU partners to impose a health of the Indian economy both advanced and emerging to maintain fiscal stability while expected as US refineries last lately by the IMF, is still expected Europe-wide tax on online and outlines the challenges. and developing economies are pushing up GDP growth rates by week consumed less crude than to be a healthy 3.3 percent this giants, but is now pushing for According to the Economic expected to decline,” it said. measures to accelerate private the week before and processed year and 3.6 percent in 2020. an international deal with the Survey, India will have to face a According to the Economic investment. It provides a com- 2 percent less oil than a year ago, Fears of recession? What 34 countries of the Organi- challenge on the fiscal front Survey, lower global growth and prehensive and clear picture of the EIA data showed, despite recession?” wrote PVM’s Tamas zation for Economic Cooper- because of economic slowdown. increased uncertainty over trade economic trends and challenges being in the midst of the summer Varga. ation and Development. The survey projected that tension may hit exports, while ahead,” Kumar said. India plans QSE index gained 122.04 points last week Ex-Deutsche bank trader $330bn THE PENINSULA percent. Consumer goods and value. QNB accounted for 9.38 acquitted of fixing rate renewables DOHA services sector accounted for percent and Industries Qatar 14.22 percent and Telecom accounted 7.24 percent. BLOOMBERG Euribor is the euro interbank push by 2030 Qatar Stock Exchange’s (QSE) sector accounted 12.92 percent. When compared on daily LONDON offered rate, a benchmark made main index gained 122.04 points, Industries sector led traded basis the QSE index dropped up by submissions for dozens of or 1.17 percent, last week when volume this week with 25.88 24.08 points, or 0.23 percent, A former Deutsche Bank AG lenders, who measure the cost REUTERS the bourse closed yesterday at percent of the total traded yesterday compared to Wednes- executive was acquitted of of borrowing between each NEW DELHI 10,566.52 points. volume. Banking and financial day’s closing. helping to manipulate a other. Trading value during last services sector accounted 25.18 The volume of shares traded benchmark interest rate by a “I have always maintained India said yesterday it needs week decreased by 30.19 percent percent. Consumer Goods and increased to 70.64 million yes- London jury, as UK prosecutors my innocence of the charge $330bn in investments over the to reach QR875.89m compared Services sector accounted 22.93 terday from 53.62 million on failed to win the conviction of a against me and I am very pleased next decade to power its to QR1.25bn. percent and Real Estate sector Wednesday and the value of high-level manager in its years- that today’s decision has vindi- renewable energy dream, but Trading volume increased by accounted 19.22 percent. shares decreased to QR153.70m long rate-rigging probe. cated my position,” the 54-year- coal would remain central to its 6.86 percent to reach 272.72 Industries sector led traded from QR169.42m on Wednesday. Andreas Hauschild, a former old Hauschild said in a electricity generation. million shares, as against 255.21 number of transactions this From the 48 companies senior banker in Frankfurt, was statement. “The last several The energy guzzling country million shares, while the number week with 36.08 percent of the listed on QSE, shares of 46 saw found not guilty yesterday. He years have been very difficult for wants to raise its renewable of transactions rose by 3.74 total number of transactions. trading today. From these, 18 was charged with conspiring me.” energy capacity to 500 Gigawatts percent to reach 26,680 trans- Banking and financial services companies gained, 21 closed with fellow Deutsche Bank Hauschild is a German res- (GW), or 40 percent of total actions as compared to 25,718 sector accounted 24.19 percent. lower, while seven remaining trader Christian Bittar, ‘the big ident who was able to avoid trial capacity, by 2030. Renewables transactions. Consumer goods and services company unchanged. fish in London,’ to fix the Euribor in the UK for years before he was currently account for 22 percent Market cap rose by 1 percent sector accounted 13.75 percent Indices of one sectors ended rate, which is tied to trillions of arrested last year in Italy. of India’s total installed capacity to reach QR581.98bn last week and Real Estate sector accounted in green zone and six sectors dollars worth of loans and deriv- He ‘ruled the roost’ from his of about 357 GW. Additional as compared to QR576.20bn at 9.95 percent. ended red zone today. QSE Total atives. The acquittal of the desk in Frankfurt where he investments in renewable plants the end of previous week, From the 46 listed com- Return Index dropped 0.23 manager is a blow for the Serious managed the cash position for up to year 2022 would be about reports QNA. panies 13 ended this week percent to 19,443.28 points and Fraud Office, even as it steadily the bank, prosecutors at the SFO $80bn at today’s prices and an Banking and financial higher, while 28 fell and five QSE Al Rayan Islamic Index up notched up convictions of said. While he never directly set investment of around $250bn services sector led traded value unchanged. decreased 0.24 percent to multiple bankers in the probe. the rates, prosecutors alleged the would be required for the period last week with 290.02 percent Ooredoo led trading value 4,088.90 points. QSE All Share Hauschild, a 16-year veteran at managing director used the sub- 2023-2030, official data show. of the total traded value. Indus- during this week accounted for Index lost 0.11 percent to 3,125.36 Deutsche Bank, was among the missions to help his desk and his tries sector accounted for 22.28 10.49 percent of the total trading points. most senior officials to be tried. own trading positions. 16 BUSINESS FRIDAY 5 JULY 2019 Global turmoil sends Canadian stock sales to lowest in 16 years BLOOMBERG “Most Canadian companies are Lightspeed POS Inc. raised C$276m TORONTO exporters, so to the extent that in May. That stood behind a there’s risk of those economies C$538.9m offering from Mercer Canada had its slowest start for slowing or tariffs being introduced, Park Brand Acquisition Corp, a firm stock sales in 16 years, as trade that’s certainly going to hurt the targeting the cannabis industry. woes and global uncertainty kept Canadian economy,” Braunsteiner “We are a bit out of step with companies on the sidelines. said Wednesday in a phone the US,” Braunsteiner said. “What’s Companies raised about interview. “And if there are con- really carried the market there is C$12bn ($9.2bn) in Canadian equity cerns over that, there is a pull-back the number of unicorn tech IPOs and equity-linked financings in the of investment in trying to shore up that have happened in the first half first six months, 39 percent less rainy day reserves.” of 2019. We just don’t have the size than a year ago and the slowest The slow start contrasts with of those companies that are able Bank of Canada led investment first half since 2003, according to that of the US, which had $117bn to bring new issues to market.” banks for arranging stock sales, data compiled by Bloomberg. It in stock sales in the first half, the Canadian tech companies are with almost 18 percent of the was also the slowest of any six- data show. While down 15 percent still able to get funding through market, followed by Canadian month period since 2003, except from $137.9bn a year earlier, it still private equity, which is keeping Imperial Bank of Commerce with the C$10.4bn raised in the back half marked one of the better six- them off public markets, he said. 15 percent and Bank of Montreal of last year. month periods in the past four Corporate Canada’s money- at 13 percent. Global trade tensions, years. raising efforts in the bond market The second half might provide including the fact that the free Technology drove some of the were also down from last year. a brighter outlook for equity trade agreement between Canada, biggest US deals this year, including Issuance in Canadian dollars fell raising. Canada unexpectedly the US and Mexico remains unrat- the $8.1bn IPO for Uber Technol- 21 percent to C$52.3bn from a year swung to a trade surplus for the ified, are creating uncertainties for ogies Inc. and a $2.34bn sale for its ago. Toronto-based Northland first time in 10 months in May businesses, according to Dean ride-sharing rival Lyft Inc. The tech Power Inc, was Canada’s biggest while business and consumer con- Braunsteiner (pictured), national sector also produced the second- equity financing, at C$862.5m, fol- fidence indicators have been IPO leader for consulting firm PwC biggest IPO of the year in Canada, lowed by Corus Entertainment Inc. picking up against a backdrop of Canada. Montreal-based software firm with C$548m, the data show. Royal firmer growth. Qualcomm, BMW triumph in EU fight over car rules

BLOOMBERG saying WiFi offers poorer per- up with a new proposal. BRUSSELS formance than cellular-based tech- In a statement, EU Transport nology compatible with future 5G Commissioner Violeta Bulc said she Qualcomm Inc, BMW AG, and networks. takes ‘good note’ of the decision, Deutsche Telekom AG clinched a “Member states sent today a stressing the need for an EU-wide victory yesterday after European strong signal to the commission cooperative intelligent transport Union member states scrapped that technology neutrality should system. new rules mandating WiFi tech- prevail,’ said Maxime Flament, ‘We cannot miss this oppor- nology as the basis for how future (pictured) chief technology officer tunity and lose valuable time to connected cars talk to each other. at the 5G Automotive Association, make our roads safer,’ Bulc said. The ruling is victory for 5G which includes Qualcomm and ‘We will therefore continue to work technology as countries around the Daimler AG as members. ‘Only a together with member states to world prepare for the roll-out of level-playing field between existing address their concerns and find a ultra-fast 5G wireless networks, technologies will allow safer, more suitable way forward.’ which will power everything from infrastructure, in order to commu- efficient mobility on European Volkswagen AG, General self-driving cars to smart factories. nicate about dangerous situations, roads.’ Motors Co, and Volvo Group have The legislation, first proposed in road works, traffic lights and more. The decision by representatives been proponents of the draft rules March by the European Com- The companies had been of the EU’s member states, which favoring WiFi systems, arguing mission, the bloc’s executive, aimed urging EU legislators to veto it out still needs to be formally rubber- that the industry needs clarity on to govern how future connected of concern it would force them to stamped by its ministers on what systems to use as soon as and automated cars in Europe send make additional investments to fit Monday, forces the commission possible, and that it currently is information between vehicles and a soon-to-be outdated technology, back to the drawing board to come the only proven technology.

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DOHA Football League Handball Cham- THE PENINSULA pionships to be held in South Korea from November 9 to 21. The Qatar Handball Federation Al Wakra will participate in (QHF) yesterday confirmed the the tournament as the Qatari participation of Al Gharafa and handball champion while Al Qatar SC at the 35th Arab League Arabi will participate as H H the Handball Championships, which Amir’s Cup champions in the will be held in the Jordanian 2018/2019 sports season. capital Amman from September Al Duhail will also participate 23 to October 3 . in the Super Bowl 2019 World Al Gharafa will also feature Handball Championships, which the Arab Super Cup on Sep- will be held in Dammam from tember 22 in Jordan. August 28 to 31. Esperance Tunisia won the Al Arabi will feature in this year’s Asian Football League Handball Al Duhail’s participation Arab League Handball Champi- Championships as reigning Amir Cup champions. comes as a representative of Asia Pakistan’s Asjad Iqbal and Muhammad Bilal pose with their World onships last year in Tunisia in Salmiya Kuwaiti 37-31 in the they were crowned champions after winning the 21st Asian Snooker Team Cup trophy upon their arrival at Karachi airport, December after winning the final match to determine the third and in the 2000 edition. Championship for the handball yesterday. The Pakistani duo defeated an Indian pair 3-1 in the against fellow citizen Sakia Oil fourth positions. The QHF also announced the championships held in Kuwait final to win the title earlier this week in Doha. 36-29 while the Qatari club fin- Al Rayyan is the only Qatari participation of Al Wakra and Al in March, after winning the final ished in third place after beating team to have won the title, when Arabi teams in the 22nd Asian against Al Wakra 22-21.

Injury puts Colombian Bernal takes Tour Van Niekerk’s IAAF Worlds spotlight in Froome’s absence in jeopardy

REUTERS best-equipped teams for the REUTERS PARIS DOHA Bernal, looking to become the race with Ineos and Movistar, who will rely on the formidable In the absence of injured four- first Colombian to win cycling’s triumvirate of Mikel Landa and South African world record times winner Chris Froome, all most prestigious race, has been former podium finishers Nairo holder Wayde van Niekerk’s eyes will be on his 22-year-old promoted to Ineos co-leader after Quintana and Alejandro defence of his 400 metres world Ineos team-mate Egan Bernal defending champion Geraint Valverde. title could be in jeopardy after a to fill the void at the Tour de Thomas’s preparations were Italian Vincenzo Nibali, knee injury. France starting tomorrow. hampered by a crash at the Tour de second in the Giro this year, will The two-time world Bernal, looking to become wait until the first hilltop finish champion had picked up a bone the first Colombian to win Suisse won by Bernal. at La Planche des Belles Filles bruise in his right knee that had cycling’s most prestigious race, to assess whether he has the set back his training by five to has been promoted to Ineos co- Froome, winner in 2013, 2015, legs to fight for a second title six weeks, his agent said in a leader after defending 2016 and 2017, was ruled out after after 2014. statement. champion Geraint Thomas’s suffering serious injuries in a crash There will be further “Sadly guys, I’ve had a minor preparations were hampered at the Criterium du Dauphine excitement for the French setback on my road to recovery,” by a crash at the Tour de Suisse crowds as world number one Van Niekerk added on Twitter. won by Bernal. Julian Alaphilippe and newly “I’ve been pushing myself a “It’s no secret my build-up crowned French champion bit too hard in training so that I has been affected by the crash Warren Barguil look set to battle can make a memorable at Tour de Suisse, but I’ve had it out for the mountain classifi- comeback but I have picked up a good block of training since Colombian rider Egan Bernal cation’s polka dot jersey. a bone bruise on my knee so and I feel ready,” said Thomas. of Team Ineos looks on before Barguil won it in 2017 and won’t be participating in the “Discussing with the team, a training session in Overijse Alaphilippe prevailed last year. upcoming @Diamond_League we believe it makes sense to go yesterday, two days prior to the Peter Sagan of Slovakia will events.” into the race with joint leaders start of the 106th edition of the be bidding for a record- While the Doha World as it gives us more options. Egan Tour de France. breaking sixth green jersey for Championships are not until late and I will work hard for each the points classification after September and Van Niekerk has other and the team over the flying under the radar this already qualified as the reigning three weeks of the race.” season. world champion, the injury Froome, winner in 2013, the British team, deprived of top 10 in the last five editions “On the other hand, this is The race sets off from raises questions about whether 2015, 2016 and 2017, was ruled Froome’s authoritative figure, and two podium finishes in a year in which I’m hitting peak Brussels, 50 years after local he will try to make a comeback out after suffering serious might not take their usual grip 2016 and 2017, seems to have form. I’m ambitious, I’m calm legend Merckx won his first at all in 2019 and instead injuries in a crash at the Cri- on the race. reached his peak, Thibaut Pinot, because I’ve done everything I Tour, with a stage likely to end prepare to defend his Olympic terium du Dauphine and the In France, excitement has third in 2014, has added a new can to be ready.” in a bunch sprint -- without title in 2020. race now has the feel of 1976 or been mounting as the absences dimension. Pinot noted that several 30-times stage winner Mark Van Niekerk, 26, did not 1983 -- when Eddy Merck and of last year’s runner-up Tom The Groupama-FDJ climber climbers would be at ‘the same Cavendish who was omitted by compete in 2018 after tearing his Bernard Hinault respectively Dumoulin and Froome increase won the Tour of Lombardy high level’ and he is right. Team Dimension Data. anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) did not start. the chances of the French cel- Monument classic last season Jakob Fuglsang won the There will be only one indi- in a celebrity rugby match in Bernal, who looks a cut ebrating a first local champion and has shown impressive Dauphine in impressive fashion vidual time trial shortly after the 2017. above the other top climbers since Bernard Hinault won the strength in the mountains this and is the bookmakers’ third midway point but 30 catego- He has run only one 400 and also won Paris-Nice in last of his five titles in 1985. year, also rediscovering his favourite, but the Astana rider rised climbs with a gruelling metres this year, clocking 47.28 March, is the bookmakers’ “This year or never,” sports time-trialing form. has yet to shine on the Tour, 19th stage going through the Col seconds in February. His world favourites ahead of Thomas. daily L’Equipe wrote on their “I’m 29 years old so I’ve still where his best finish was de l’Iseran, 2,770 metres above record from the 2016 Rio But Ineos’s rivals are sharp- front page last month. got quite a few years ahead of seventh in 2013. sea level, after 89 kilometres of Olympics is 43.03. ening their knives, sensing that While Romain Bardet, in the me,” he said. Astana is one of the uphill riding. Mercedes target cooling after feeling the heat in Austria

REUTERS with the cooling, how we can fundamental design of the car, “We were on limit. When you LONDON improve that,” he said. where in the push for very, very get to that point you are really “And that work started well tight packaging, we have ended limited in your options. You can Formula One champions before the race weekend in up being undercooled overall,” start to use lift and coast, which Mercedes say they are working Austria and there’s a lot of people said Shovlin. is where the drivers get towards hard to improve their cars’ here busy with that. And we will “Fundamentally the car the end of the straight and they cooling systems for future races get on top of that and make doesn’t have big enough back off the throttle,” he said. after struggling with overheating progress.” radiators. “They then brake a bit later at the Austrian Grand Prix at the Sunday’s race at Spielberg “It’s meant that we are car- and you have a period where the weekend. ended dominant Mercedes’s run rying this issue where in the very car is just coasting into the Trackside engineering of 10 wins in a row, and eight out hot races we will be struggling... corner, the engine is not doing director Andrew Shovlin of eight this season. to keep the power unit cool work and you can lose a fair bit explained in a team post-race Finland’s Valtteri Bottas fin- enough that we don’t do any of temperature like that.” debrief that the 2019 car is so ished a distant third on a hot damage to it.” Shovlin explained The combination of having tightly packaged that the radi- afternoon, with championship that opening up the bodywork to lift and coast for some 400 ators are too small to provide leader Lewis Hamilton fifth in a improved matters but the tem- metres of a 4.3-km lap, one of sufficient cooling in extreme race won by Red Bull’s Max Ver- perature in Austria was 35 the shortest on the calendar, and conditions. stappen ahead of Ferrari’s degrees Celsius, at the upper end turning down the engine meant Mercedes’ Valtteri Bottas in the pits during the Austrian Grand “We’ve got a lot of projects Charles Leclerc. of what could be achieved by performance was seriously Prix on Sunday. looking at this particular issue “It all really goes down to the that simple expedient. compromised. 18 SPORT FRIDAY 5 JULY 2019 West Indies sign off with Jos Buttler victory over Afghanistan

REUTERS West Indies’ Chris Gayle poses for a photo LEEDS with fans as he celebrates after his team beat Afghanistan at Headingley in West Indies won the battle of the cricket Leeds, Britain, yesterday. World Cup’s basement dwellers, beating Afghanistan by 23 runs in their final group match at Headingley yesterday . Chris Gayle managed only seven runs Buttler relieved as in his final World Cup appearance but Shai Hope capitalised on an early reprieve to score 77 and help the eliminated Car- England prepare ibbean side to 311-6 after electing to bat. While Gayle disappointed, 18-year- for semi-finals old Ikram Alikhil top-scored for Afghan- istan with a career-best 86 before falling AFP to the 39-year-old part-time spinner from CHESTER-LE-STREET Jamaica. Afghanistan were all out for 288 in England’s Jos Buttler said he felt a sense of relief as well exactly 50 overs -- their highest score in as excitement after the tournament hosts booked their the World Cup -- to finish their campaign place in the semi-finals of the World Cup. with nine defeats in as many matches, Back-to-back defeats by Sri Lanka and reigning denying their West Indian coach Phil champions Australia, which followed an earlier group- Simmons a winning send-off. stage loss to Pakistan, threatened to scupper England’s The match against the tournament’s bid to win a first World Cup title. weakest side was an opportunity for Gayle But they responded in style with a 31-run win over to produce a special performance but the India followed by Wednesday’s 119-run thrashing of New prolific left-handed opener failed to take it. Zealand in Chester-le-Street that saw them into the last Gayle slashed at a wide Dawlat four from the 10-team group phase. Zadran delivery to be caught behind, fin- run-out opportunity and misfields marred SCOREBOARD “It feels great. We’re excited and have a bit of relief ishing his last World Cup with only one Afghanistan’s fielding, best illustrated in WEST INDIES AFGHANISTAN as well,” said Buttler after England reached their first half-century. the final over of the West Indies innings. Chris Gayle c Ali Khil b Dawlat Zadran ...... 7 Gulbadin Naib c Lewis b Roach ...... 5 World Cup semi-final since 1992. Rahmat Shah c Gayle b Brathwaite ...... 62 West Indies could have been in bigger Afghan captain Gulbadin Naib got Evin Lewis c M Nabi b Rashid Khan ...... 58 “It’s obviously been two tough games to finish to Shai Hope c Rashid Khan b M Nabi ...... 77 Ikram Ali Khil lbw b Gayle ...... 86 trouble but Rashid Khan dropped a sitter himself under a skier at long-off but qualify, and we showed great character to come through Shimron Hetmyer c sub (Dawlat Zadran ...... 39 Najibullah Zadran run out (Hetmyer/Brathwaite) ..31 at mid-wicket off Zadran when Hope was flinched at the last moment, possibly Nicholas Pooran run out (Khil/Shirzad) ...... 58 Asghar Afghan c Holder b Brathwaite ...... 40 with two very good performances.” on five. losing the ball in sunlight, allowing what Jason Holder c D Zadran b S Shirzad ...... 45 Mohammad Nabi c Allen b Roach ...... 2 England have spent much of the past two years as By the time Rashid caught him, at would have been a regulation catch to go Carlos Brathwaite not out ...... 14 Samiullah Shinwari c Hetmyer b Roach ...... 6 the world’s top-ranked side in one-day internationals Rashid Khan c Holder b Brathwaite ...... 9 mid-wicket in the 38th over, Hope had for a boundary. Fabian Allen not out ...... 0 and Buttler said: “We are just very excited to be in a semi- Dawlat Zadran c Cottrell b Brathwaite ...... 1 laid a strong foundation for a 300-plus Naib could not impress with the bat Extras: (4lb, 9w) ...... 13 final. From the start I think it was the minimum Sayed Shirzad c Allen b Thomas ...... 25 TOTAL: (for 6 wickets in 50 overs) ...... 311 total. either and fell for eight. Mujeeb Ur Rahman not out ...... 7 requirement, the first stage we had to get to.” Opener Evin Lewis celebrated his Shah and Alikhil refused to throw in Fall of wickets: 1-21, 2-109, 3-174, 4-192, 5-297, Extras: (2lb, 10w, 2nb) ...... 14 The 28-year-old England vice-captain added: “We return to the team with 58 and Nicholas the towel, though, frustrating the West 6-297 TOTAL: (all out in 50 overs) ...... 288 stood up and played our brand of cricket under that Pooran also made 58, his third 50-plus Indies attack with a 133-run Did not bat: Kemar Roach, Sheldon Cottrell, Oshane Fall of wickets: 1-5, 2-138, 3-189, 4-194, 5-201, pressure. score of the tournament. partnership. Thomas 6-227, 7-244, 8-255, 9-260, 10-288 “That breeds a lot of confidence for the group, that Bowling: Mujeeb Ur Rahman 10-0-52-0 (2w), Daw- Skipper Jason Holder clobbered four Carlos Brathwaite (4-63) dismissed Bowling: Sheldon Cottrell 7-0-43-0 (3w), Kemar our way is the best way and gives us a lot of chance lat Zadran 9-1-73-2 (1w), Sayed Shirzad 8-0-56-1, sixes in his 45 off 34 balls to help the team Shah as he and Kemar Roach (3-37) Roach 10-2-37-3 (1w), Thomas 7-0-43-1, Holder 8-0- of performing. That’s what we have resorted to in the Gulbadin Naib 3-0-18-0, Mohammad Nabi 10-0-56-1, 46-0 (2w, 1nb), Allen 3-0-26-0, Carlos Brathwaite past the 300-mark. snuffed out Afghan hopes of an unlikely Rashid Khan 10-0-52-1 (2w) 9-0-63-4 (3w, 1nb), Gayle 6-0-28-1 (1w) two must-win games and shows that we must con- Dropped catched, squandered victory. tinue that.that.” NZ need Ferguson boost to lift bowling: Vettori

REUTERS skipper Kane Williamson the luxury of third successive loss, are set to make someone in the middle overs to attack, DURHAM using their leading wicket-taker in the semi-finals ahead of Pakistan he turns to Boult. small bursts to dent their opposition. because of their vastly superior net run “He’s also got that ability to reverse New Zealand sorely missed Lockie “New Zealand missed Lockie Fer- rate. the ball in the death overs, when he is Ferguson in Wednesday’s compre- guson in Durham, particularly because Vettori paid tribute to Trent Boult, an attacking and defensive option.” hensive defeat by England and need the of the way he fits into the structure of who dismissed Joe Root and Jos Buttler Losing three matches in a row was right-arm quick back to lift their the game,” Vettori wrote in his column on Wednesday to become New Zea- not ideal but Vettori had no doubt that bowling in the semi-finals of the Cricket for the International Cricket Council. land’s leading wicket-taker in World the 2015 finalists could start afresh. World Cup, former captain Daniel “Kane likes to use his as a first- Cups with 37 wickets from two “I don’t think it will affect the Vettori has said. change bowler in short 2-3 over spells. editions. team too much, particularly England got off to a flying start and With him out, that meant they had to “He was fantastic again and the knowing some of the guys well. were 194 for one in 30 overs before a shuffle things around a little. knuckle ball to dismiss Jos Buttler was “They have six or seven New Zealand attack minus Ferguson, “If he is back for the semi-final, that a highly-skilled piece of bowling,” individuals who can who sat out with a tightness in ham- will give New Zealand a lot more cer- Vettori said. win a game for them, string, somewhat arrested the run flow tainty around how they go about their “At the top of the order he is a left- and that is a pretty Former New to restrict the hosts to 305-8. 50 overs.” arm fast swing bowler who can take exciting way to think Zealand captain Ferguson’s absence denied New Zealand, despite their wickets, and then when Kane needs about it.” Daniel Vettori Mitchell Starc Left is right for World Cup pacers

AFP Mitchell Johnson and Boult leading the LONDON pack. Pakistan, still buoyed by Akram’s bowling performance 27 years later, have They live in a right-handed world, histor- benefited more than most from the ically stigmatised and challenged by tasks power of lefties. as simple as using scissors -- but when it Only about 10 percent of the global comes to taking wickets at the World Cup, population are estimated to be left- being a southpaw seamer is a distinct MOST SUCCESSFUL LEFT ARM handed but Pakistan produce more than advantage. FAST BOWLERS IN WORLD CUP their fair share of top-class left-armers. Mitchell Starc leads the way at the TOURNAMENTS Many of them have been inspired by top of the World Cup bowling charts, with Wasim Akram (PAK) 38 55 Akram, a fact that delights the former 24 wickets in eight matches so far and Chaminda Vaas (SL) 31 49 Pakistan captain, who told said: “Of has Pakistan’s Mohammad Amir and New Mitchel Starc (AUS) 16 46 course it’s pleasing when you hear that Zealand paceman Trent Boult for Zaheer Khan (INDIA) 23 44 the left-armers follow me.” company in the top six. Trent Boult (NZ) 17 37 Pakistan’s 2019 World Cup squad Beginning with Australian Gary Gil- boasts Wahab Riaz, highly promising mour’s famous rout of England teenager Shaheen Shah Afridi and Amir, in the semi-final at the inaugural whose career was interrupted by a five- World Cup in 1975, lefties such year ban for spot-fixing. ICC WORLD CUP 2019 as Wasim Akram, Starc and Amir, who was selected in the squad MOST WICKETS Boult have confounded their Pakistan’s Wasim despite a poor run of form, has been a 24 - Mitchell Starc, Australia (8) opponents again and again at the Akram is the revelation at the tournament in England 17 - Lockie Ferguson, New Zealand (7) World Cup. most successful and Wales, with 16 wickets so far. 17 - Jofra Archer, England (9) The secret is in the different left arm fast But if left-arm bowlers are so 16 - Mohammad Amir, Pakistan (7) angles that left-armers create, bowler in World common, why do they still catch batsmen 16 - Mark Wood, England (8) giving batsmen an extra headache Cup history. off guard? and forcing them to re-calcuate. Pakistan batting great Javed Miandad BEST BOWLING FIGURES “I think lefties challenge the batsmen believes the more a batsman faces left- 5-26 - Mitchell Starc, Australia in their side-on stance and even with a wicket to create beguiling angles that wicket-taker, with 18 dismissals. Since armers, the easier it becomes but he says 5-29 - Shakib Al Hasan, Bangladesh straight ball, because the angle creates bewildered first Allan Lamb and then then, left-arm bowlers from New they get more practice against 5-30 - Mohammad Amir, Pakistan problems, especially for right-handers,” Chris Lewis. Zealand to Sri Lanka have repeatedly right-armers. 5-31 - Jimmy Neesham, New Zealand said Akram, whose three wickets helped Remembered as “magical deliv- proved their value, becoming the leading “Most batsmen develop their tech- win the 1992 final for Pakistan against eries”, they helped Pakistan beat wicket-takers in four of the six World nique against right-arm bowlers, throw 5-44 - Jason Behrendorff, Australia England. England to win the World Cup for the Cups since. down and bowling machines from the 5-46 - Mitchell Starc, Australia Egged on by a packed crowd in Mel- first time. Akram was man-of-the-match The 2015 World Cup had a glut of same angle, and they neglect the left- 5-59 - Mustafizur Rahman, Bangladesh bourne, Akram came from around the and ended as the tournament’s leading left-armed fast bowlers, with Starc, arm angles,” he said. 5-69 - Mohammed Shami, India FRIDAY 5 JULY 2019 SPORT 19

Peru promise Peru stun Chile, face Brazil in final improved AP become the first team to win failed to qualify for the 2018 into the open net after Chile in the rout against Brazil, but show against PORTO ALEGRE three straight Copa America World Cup in Russia.The vet- goalkeeper Gabriel Arias left had already saved penalty kicks titles since Argentina in the erans of Chile’s recent tri- the area to try to stop a by Uruguay’s Luis Suárez and Brazil in final After being counted out by 1940s, but now will play the umphs, including Eduardo counterattack. Brazil’s Gabriel Jesus. most, Peru pulled off a stunning third-place match against the Vargas, Arturo Vidal and Alexis Guerrero sealed the victory Peru, which last year made REUTERS Copa America comeback. Argentines on Saturday in a Sánchez, had subpar perform- in stoppage time to become the its first World Cup appearance PORTO ALEGRE Two weeks after a demor- repeat of the last two finals. ances at the Arena Grêmio in Copa América’s all-time leading in 36 years for the team, was alising 5-0 loss to Brazil that “We entered the match Porto Alegre. scorer among active players playing in the semifinals for the Peru will produce a far better left the team on the verge of a already thinking about the final Despite a team without the with 13 goals. third time in the last four Copa performance in the Copa first-round elimination, Peru and that’s how we allowed same quality as Chile, it was Chile’s Eduardo Vargas Américas. America final against Brazil got past two-time defending Peru to surprise us,” Chile Peru that got off to a good start could have matched Guerrero It had lost seven of its last than their 5-0 defeat by the champion Chile 3-0 on coach Reinaldo Rueda said. and dominated the match early when his team was awarded eight competitive matches hosts earlier in the tournament, Wednesday to make it to the “We didn’t show the on. a penalty kick in the final against Chile, including in the midfielder Yoshimar Yotun said continental final for the first attitude and aggressiveness “When this team wants seconds, but he had his weak semifinals of the Copa América after his side stunned holders time since 1975. from the previous matches.” something, it works hard and shot from the spot saved by in 2015. Chile 3-0 in the semi-finals. Peru had already stunned Chile’s loss to longtime rival gets it,” Peru striker Paolo Peru goalkeeper Pedro The rivalry between Chile Ricardo Gareca’s side had title-favorite Uruguay in the Peru will add pressure on Guerrero said. “We deserved Gallese. and Peru dates to the 19th sneaked into the quarter-finals quarter-finals after advancing Rueda, a Colombian who had to make it to the final. We were Gallese had a great per- Century. The nations fought in as one of the best third-placed as one of the two best third- been criticised since he took fully focused from the start.” formance to stop Chile’s attack, the War of the Pacific from teams from the group stage but place finishers from the three over the squad at the beginning Edinson Flores opened the which faltered during most of 1879-84, with Chile coming out they have come into their own groups, and now it will get a of last year. scoring with a shot from inside the match despite creating victorious against a Peru- in the knockout stages. rematch against host Brazil in The result will also raise the area in the 21st minute and most of the scoring chances. Bolivia alliance and taking over “The defeat to Brazil was Sunday’s final at the Maracana further questions about its so- Yoshimar Yotún added to the The Peruvian goalkeeper some key land with access to very tough but this game will Stadium. Chile was trying to called golden generation, which lead in the 38th with a strike made an embarrassing mistake the Pacific Ocean. be different,” Yotun told reporters. “It’s a final, you have Peru’s players celebrate after defeating Chile 3-0 in their Copa America to win a final and we are going semi-final match in Porto Alegre on Wednesday night. to try and work hard and lift this Copa.” Yotun, who scored his side’s second goal of the game, said Peru’s humble attitude was key to them progressing to the final. “We always kept a low profile, we tried to work hard in games which we were never favourites, and that makes us stronger,” he added. “We got some very difficult results and now we are in the final we’re very happy.” Peru had lost 12 of their previous 14 fixtures against Chile but have made real progress under Gareca, who helped the team return to the World Cup finals in 2018 after a 36-year absence. Captain Guerrero said the performance against the 2015 and 2016 Copa America cham- pions showed what his side were capable of. Lampard returns to Chelsea as manager

AFP Premier League’s top four. “We during his sole season in charge. LONDON want to be playing Champions However, the Italian endured Chelsea’s newly League football year in, year out a frosty relationship with the appointed English head coach Frank Frank Lampard promised to We want to be for sure. I think that is something club’s fans due to his rigid style keep Chelsea competitive at the that should drive us all on. We of play and reluctance to field Lampard poses top of the Premier League after playing Champions want to develop players and be some of Chelsea’s promising for the press at his return to the club as manager League football competitive,” said Lampard. young players. Stamford Bridge on a three-year deal was year in, year out for “Of course there are vari- Lampard’s appointment is in London, confirmed yesterday. ables, we know at the moment designed to rectify that with the yesterday. Lampard won 13 trophies in sure. I think that there is the transfer ban, we club keen to stress his “fantastic 13 years and became Chelsea’s is something that know about the situation. We relationship” with the all-time leading marksmen with should drive us all on. know Man City and Liverpool supporters. 211 goals from midfield during a We want to develop pulled away last year and we “Frank possesses fantastic decorated playing career at should be realistic about that, but knowledge and understanding Stamford Bridge. players and be we should never stop trying as of the club and last season, he However, the former competitive: Lampard Chelsea to be up there and I think demonstrated he is one of the England midfielder has just one we should be.” most talented young coaches in season of managerial experience having lost their best player of Lampard succeeds Maurizio the game,” said Chelsea director having led Derby County to the recent times in Eden Hazard to Sarri, who left England to take Marina Granovskaia. Championship play-off final in Real Madrid last month and over at Juventus last month. “After 13 years with us as a so.” Lampard took two Chelsea also has extensive knowledge May, when they were beaten by serving a two-window transfer Sarri led Chelsea back into player, where he became a club loanees, Fikayo Tomori and of the Chelsea youth system Aston Villa. ban that prevents him from the Champions League next legend and our record goals- Mason Mount, with him to having been a key figure at the Lampard faces what he making new signings. season thanks to a third-place corer, we believe this is the Derby last season, where they club’s academy prior to joining described as the biggest chal- However, he believes finish in the Premier League and perfect time for him to return excelled. Lampard at the Derby last lenge of his career with Chelsea Chelsea can remain in the also won the Europa League and are delighted he has done His assistant Jody Morris summer. Dutch bid to shock US in World Cup final

REUTERS The Netherlands have in this tournament with “We never knew this when they lost to Japan in LYON utilised technically-gifted Ellis saying it has been would be possible. It is a penalty shootout. players, like former world their hardest ever route to one more match and we The result was a The Netherlands will bid player of the year Lieke a final. could be world cham- major upset for the four- to begin a new era in Martens, to reach the final The Americans were pions. It will be difficult times Olympic gold med- women’s soccer in against the most dom- indebted to goalkeeper but it will be incredible to allists and Ellis is well Sunday’s World Cup final inant team in women’s Alyssa Naeher for saving win.” aware of the threat posed when they try to stop the football history. a late penalty in their 2-1 Wiegman, a former by the European all-conquering United Both sides are semi-final win over midfielder for the national champions. States team from claiming managed by women, England on Tuesday. The side when they were “The Netherlands a record fourth crown. Sarina Wiegman coaching Netherlands needed extra- outside the elite, took over have had a great tour- It is almost a classic the Dutch and Jill Ellis time to see off Sweden as in January 2017 and has nament, obviously David vs Goliath clash, leading the US Of the 24 a long-range strike from led the team to 12 straight coming off the Euros, although the Dutch did teams competing at the midfielder Jackie Groenen wins in tournament (we’ve seen) tremendous produce a major shock World Cup, only nine sent them through. football, many coming performances by them,” two years ago when, were coached by women. “We watched the USA through late goals. she said. ranked 12th in the world, The US, seeking to game against England and The US have their Should the US they won the European retain the trophy they of course they are a really own record going with 11 triumph it would mean Netherlands’ players celebrate at the Championship on home won comfortably in strong team. I hope we consecutive World Cup they have won four out of end of the Women’s World Cup semi- soil to lift their first Canada four years ago, will be able to play our wins. Their last defeat was eight editions of the final against Sweden on Wednesday. trophy. have been severely tested own game,” Groenen said. the 2011 final in Germany women’s World Cup. FRIDAY 5 JULY 2019 20

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Jassim bin Rashid Al Buainain, Secretary-General of the Qatar Olympic Committee (centre), speaking during the meeting held at the QOC Headquarters. QOC, officials of sports bodies

Qatar’s Cherif Younousse and Ahmed Tijan in action against Philip meet ahead of busy season Dalhausser and Nicholas Lucena THE PENINSULA Matters relating to Qatari players and athletes during their Round of 32 clash in DOHA set to feature in top international events including the FIVB Beach Volleyball World the 2022 Tokyo Games were also discussed. Championships in Hamburg, Germany Jassim bin Rashid Al Buainain, Secretary-General The hosting of the first edition of the ANOC Inter- yesterday. The top Qatari pair’s of the Qatar Olympic Committee (QOC), chaired an national Beach Games from October 12 to 16 was unbeaten run in the $1m tournament important meeting with key officials of sports bodies. also discussed. came to an end yesterday when they During the meeting, the minutes of the previous Officials from the tennis, handball, volleyball, lost to their American counterparts meeting were reviewed while Qatar’s participation basketball, taekwondo, judo, karate, squash, bad- 2-1 (21-18, 21-15). in previous and upcoming sessions was also minton, wrestling, swimming and cycling federa- reviewed, it was announced. tions were present during the meeting. Federer moves on as Nadal survives AGENCIES WIMBLEDON Davis knocks Eight-time men’s champion Roger Federer, third seed champion Rafael Nadal and seven-time women’s champion Serena Kerber out Williams moved into the third round at Wimbledon while the defending women’s champion REUTERS Angelique Kerber went out in LONDON the second. Federer advanced as Defending champion Angelique expected yesterday, beating Kerber was dumped out of wild-card entry Jay Clarke 6-1, Wimbledon yesterday as she 7-6 (3), 6-2 on No. 1 Court. Wil- suffered a stunning 2-6, 6-2, 6-1 liams had a bit of a tougher time second-round defeat by American at the same stadium, needing to Switzerland’s Roger Federer returns against Britain’s Jay Clarke during their men’s Lauren Davis, who began the year come back to beat Slovenian ranked outside the world’s top singles second round match of the 2019 Wimbledon Championships, yesterday. qualifier Kaja Juvan 2-6, 6-2, 250. 6-4. Davis, who at 5 ft 2 in (1.57 But unseeded American however, converting her first WIMBLEDON: RESULTS metres) is a diminutive figure on the Lauren Davis pulled off the match point with an ace. women’s tour, stood tall to secure a MEN’S SINGLES: SECOND ROUND (SELECTED) unexpected, defeating Kerber If the pressure is getting to Spain’s Rafael remarkable victory over the three 2-6, 6-2, 6-1 on No. 2 Court. Ash Barty at Wimbledon, she’s Joao Sousa, Portugal, def. Marin Cilic (13), Croatia, 6-4, 6-4, 6-4. times Grand Slam champion who Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, France, def. Ricardas Berankis, Lithuania, 7-6 (4), 6-3, 6-3. Nadal hits a return Kerber beat Williams in last doing a great job of hiding it. against Australia’s beat Serena Williams to win last year’s final. Federer won his The top-ranked Australian Kei Nishikori (8), Japan, def. Cameron Norrie, Britain, 6-4, 6-4, 6-0. year’s final. Roger Federer (2), Switzerland, def. Jay Clarke, Britain, 6-1, 7-6 (3), 6-2. Nick Kyrgios during eighth title at the All England came into the grass-court Grand their men’s singles German Kerber raced through Club in 2017 and was eliminated Slam tournament after winning Rafael Nadal (3), Spain, def. Nick Kyrgios, Australia, 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (5), 7-6 (3). the first set before the match turned WOMEN’S SINGLES: SECOND ROUND (SELECTED) second round in the quarter-finals last year. the French Open and a Wim- wildly on its head and Davis, who match on the Despite his pedigree at bledon warm-up event in Bir- Ashleigh Barty (1), Australia, def. Alison van Uytvanck, Belgium, 6-1, 6-3. needed a lucky-loser spot to play in fourth day of the Wimbledon, Federer played his mingham. And she’s now won Serena Williams (11), United States, def. Kaja Juvan, Slovenia, 2-6, 6-2, 6-4. the tournament, lost only three more 2019 Wimbledon British opponent on the second two in a row at the All England Julia Goerges (18), Germany, def. Varvara Flink, Russia, 6-1, 6-4. games. Championships biggest court on the grounds Club to reach the third round Carla Suarez-Navarro (30), Spain, def. Pauline Parmentier, France, 7-6 (2), 7-6 (4). After taking the second set, the yesterday. instead of his usual spot on and stretch her winning streak Lauren Davis, United States, def. Angelique Kerber (5), Germany, 2-6, 6-2, 6-1. 25-year-old Davis turned the screw Centre Court. to 14 straight. Kiki Bertens (4), Netherlands, def. Taylor Townsend, United States, 3-6, 7-6 (5), 6-2. on Court Two and wrapped up Sloane Stephens (9), United States, def. Yafan Wang, China, 6-0, 6-2. “I really enjoyed myself on Barty beat Alison Van victory in an hour and 55 minutes Johanna Konta (19), Britain, def. Katerina Siniakova, Czech Republic, 6-3, 6-4. Court 1 today with the roof,” Uytvanck 6-1, 6-3, needing only when fifth seed Kerber netted. Petra Kvitova (6), Czech Republic, def. Kristina Mladenovic, France, 7-5, 6-2. Federer said. “I couldn’t really 55 minutes on No. 2 Court to A rapid rise back up the rankings tell if it was Centre Court or advance. And it could have been had taken her up to number 95 Court 1, actually.” even quicker but she failed to heading into Wimbledon, where she Nadal defeated Nick Kyrgios serve out the match at 5-2 in the Roger Federer crushes Clarke to Serena Williams, Sloane Stephens lost in the qualifiers before being 6-3, 3-6, 7-6 (7/5), 7-6 (7/3) in a second set - the only time she reach third round win on American Independence Day handed a reprieve with a lucky loser stormy and bad-tempered was broken. spot after a wildcard entry went Wimbledon second round “Pretty sharp right from the unused. encounter on Centre Court on start,” the top-seeded Barty said. Rafael Nadal overcomes Nick Kyrgios Last year's semi-finalist John Isner Davis was the more aggressive, Thursday. Barty is playing her first in a stormy and bad-tempered loses to Kazakhstan's Mikhail outhitting Kerber with 45 winners It was Nadal’s 50th win at tournament as No. 1 but has Wimbledon second round encounter Kukushkin in marathon five-setter to 13, and broke the German’s serve the tournament as he continues never been past the third round eight times in the match to set up a his push for a third Wimbledon at Wimbledon. She will next Serena Williams third-round meeting with number title and 19th major. face Harriet Dart, a British wild- of the US in 30 seed Carla Suarez Navarro. Kyrgios twice served card entry making her second action during her The contest had started well for underarm on game point, was appearance at Wimbledon. Wimbledon second Kerber as she broke for a 4-2 lead handed a code violation for Two-time Wimbledon round match in the first set and then again to love unsportsmanlike behaviour and champion Petra Kvitova, No. 9 against Slovenia’s in the eighth game to clinch the waged a bitter war of words Sloane Stephens and No. 15 Kaja Juvan at the opener. with umpire Damien Dumusois. Wang Qiang also advanced to All England Lawn Yet after a visit from the trainer, Nadal will face France's Jo- third round. Kvitova beat Tennis and Croquet Davis turned the encounter on its Wilfried Tsonga for a place in Kristina Mladenovic 7-5, 6-2, Club in London, head. the last 16. Stephens defeated Wang Yafan Britain, yesterday. After the second set began with Williams played her match 6-0, 6-2, and Wang ousted Seven-time three breaks of serve, Davis held to with good friend Meghan, the Tamara Zidansek 6-1, 6-2. women’s champion, get her nose ahead 3-1 and broke Duchess of Sussex, watching Sam Querrey, a Wimbledon again for a 4-1 lead. Williams moved into from the stands. She had a semifinalist in 2017, reached the After failing to convert her first the third round with chance to serve out the match third round in the men’s draw. two matchpoints at 5-1, Davis a 2-6, 6-2, 6-4 win at 5-2 in the third but was The unseeded American made no mistake with the third over the Slovenian broken. She made no mistakes defeated Andrey Rublev 6-3, when a strong return forced Kerber qualifier. on her second attempt, 6-2, 6-3. to net.