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Emir holds talks with Argentina President Emir receives Crowds throng message from Swiss President

Local Dates DOHA: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani received a written message from President of Swiss Confederation Johann Schneider-Ammann on relations Festival 2016 between the two countries and ways of enhancing them. The mes- sage was received by Minister of directly to visitors and for the pub- State for Foreign Affairs H E Sul- lic to support local products,” said tan bin Saad Al Muraikhi during a For the first time, Al Khulaifi. meeting with Swiss Ambassador to local varieties are for There are more than 20 local Qatar Etienne Thevoze yesterday. varieties of dates, some of which sale at the 18-day are on sale at lower prices — Kha- festival opened las, Khanizi, Arziz, Barhi, Guar, Ministry denies at Souq Waqif Khasab and Shishi, among others. About 3kg of Khalas, the best tweet reports yesterday. and most popular variety, is offered at QR20. “The dates are being sold here at reasonable prices, cheaper DOHA: The Directorate of Pro- than those in the market,” he said. tocol, Public Relations and Moral By Raynald C Rivera The total number of registered Guidance at the Ministry of The Peninsula farms in Qatar has reached 1,340, Defence has denied reports by of which 839 are active. Most of some media about the fabricated these farms grow date palms which Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and President of Argentina Mauricio Macri holding official tweet against the Kingdom of are cultivated in a total area of talks at the Quinta de Olivos Presidential Palace in capital Buenos Aires last night. Saudi Arabia and the UAE, which DOHA: A large number of visitors 25,985 hectares, with 469,616 trees. was attributed to Minister of State thronged the opening of the Local Qatar produces an average for Defence Affairs H E Dr. Khalid Dates Festival 2016 yesterday at of 31,181 tonnes of dates annu- bin Mohamed Al Attiyah, regard- Souq Waqif which features a pro- ally and is self-sufficient, meeting ing recent events in the Republic fusion of fresh dates grown in Qatar 88.4 percent of demand. Qatar Qatar and Argentina sign key of Turkey. The directorate stressed and are available for sale. imports about 4,396 tonnes, mostly the need to elicit information from Compared to its previous edi- from Saudi Arabia and Oman and their official sources, reports QNA. tion, this year’s festival, which is exports 181 tonnes. memorandums of understanding organised by the Ministry of Munic- The ministry has launched ipality and Environment, is longer, research studies to boost the quan- Rules for jet skis & giving visitors until August 14 to see tity and quality of date production and buy varieties of dates from 18 in the country. “The Agricultural QNA friendly countries. The session also the Argentine Ministry of Foreign water scooters local farms. “The festival has been Research Department at the min- touched on developments in the Mid- Affairs and Worship; and an MoU enhanced from the previous edi- istry is working to finding ways to dle East and the international arena on holding political consultations The Peninsula tion which lasted just three days improve the quality and quantity of as the two sides exchanged views. between Qatar’s Foreign Ministry to 18 days. date production,” Al Khulaifi said. BUENOS AIRES: Emir H H Sheikh After the session, the Emir and and the Argentine Republic’s Min- Also, the previous festival was Apart from fresh dates, high Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and the Argentinian President witnessed istry of Foreign Affairs and Worship. DOHA: The Ministry of Interior held mainly to showcase the vari- quality saplings are also being sold President of Argentina Mauricio the signing of a memorandum of Several members of the official has issued fresh rules for riding eties of local dates, while this year at the festival. A staple food in the Macri held official talks at the Quinta understanding (MoU) on coopera- delegation accompanying the Emir jet skis and water scooters. Many the dates are for sale,” Yusuf Al Middle East and the Indus valley for de Olivos Presidential Palace in cap- tion in the legal field between Qatar’s attended the session and the signing people like to use water scooters Khulaifi, Director, Agricultural thousands of years, dates have been ital Buenos Aires last night. Ministry of Justice and the Argen- ceremony, along with ministers were and jet skis, especially in the sum- Affairs Department at the ministry, valued for nutritional and health The session reviewed bilateral tine Ministry of Justice and Human present from the Argentinian side. mer and during vacation. As per told The Peninsula at the launch. benefits. The festival aims at high- relations and means of boosting Rights; an MoU on cooperation in the An official welcome ceremony the new requirements, the riders “Through this festival, we lighting the advantages of including and developing them on all fronts, field of diplomatic training between was held for the Emir on his arrival should take all safety precautions promote locally produced dates dates in people’s daily diet. particularly in the fields of econ- Diplomatic Institute at Qatari For- at the Presidential Palace. while using them. by providing local farms with omy and investment to enhance the eign Ministry and the National the chance to sell their produce → Picture on page 2 level of cooperation between the two Foreign Service Institute (ISEN) at → Continued on page 2 → Continued on page 2

Mehmas wins Qatar Richmond Stakes Turkey reshuffles military Ministry alert over ‘Aab’e after failed coup attempt Dubai’ drinking water

AFP together Prime Minister Binali The Peninsula confirmed that the prod- Yildirim with top military figures uct did not enter Qatar. It untarnished by the coup. was also agreed to survey Two top ranking generals DOHA: The Ministry of the local market as a pre- ANKARA: Turkey yesterday reshuf- — Land Forces Chief of Staff Gen- Municipality and Environ- cautionary measure,” said fled key military commanders eral Ihsan Uyar and Training and ment has warned citizens Al Kuwari. sacking almost half of its generals in Doctrine Command Head Gen- and expatriates against He called on people the wake of the July 15 failed coup. eral Kamil Basoglu — resigned just using ‘Aab’e Dubai’ drink- to avoid using the prod- A Supreme Military Council before the meeting, the Dogan news ing water for allegedly uct until the issuance of an (YAS) meeting was held after the agency said. containing a kind of bac- official statement. government ordered the discharge Presidential spokesman Ibra- teria. of 149 generals, nearly half of the him Kalin said Deputy Chief of “The product ‘Aab’e armed forces’ contingent of 358, for Staff General Yasar Guler would Dubai’ packed and pro- alleged complicity in the putsch bid. become head of the gendarmerie duced in the United Arab Separately, 131 newspapers, TV and First Army Commander Gen- Emirates (UAE) in 2016-17 channels and other media outlets eral Umit Dundar would replace failed in laboratory tests were being shut down under the Guler. Chief of Staff General Hulusi conducted by Oman Munic- H E Sheikh Joaan bin Hamad Al Thani with Frankie Dettori after the jockey three-month state of emergency. Akar, who was held hostage in the ipality,” Al Sharq reports, guided Al Shaqab Racing’s Mehmas to a win in the Qatar Richmond Stakes So far almost 16,000 people coup attempt, would continue as quoting Dr Mohammed bin at the Goodwood Racecourse, West Sussex, England. → See also page 24 have been detained in a crackdown. well as the heads of the navy, land Saif Al Kuwari, Assistant The YAS meeting brought and air forces. Undersecretary for Stand- ards and Specifications at the ministry. The laboratory report suggested that the prod- Over 90% ‘Made in Qatar’ expo space booked in Riyadh uct was infected with a bacteria and the author- ity concerned in Oman The Peninsula It is scheduled in Riyadh from Novem- companies have applied to participate. and changes from its appearance to recalled and destroyed the ber 6 to 9. Al Kaabi urged Qatari companies to content, Al Kaabi said. The number of products, said Al Kuwari. “The exhibition has been held four participate as it is a good opportunity for participants, including leading compa- “The committee for times in Qatar,” said Rashid bin Nasser them to showcase their products out- nies and factories, is expected to double monitoring foods has DOHA: More than 90 percent of space Al Kaabi, Head of the organising com- side the country. The Saudi market is compared to the previous edition that been contacted on urgent for ‘Made In Qatar Exhibition 2016’ has mittee and head of the Committee of very big and open for all investments attracted over 220 companies and fac- basis. The records at Abu been booked. For the first time, the Industry at Qatar Chamber. Prepara- and industries. The exhibition will wit- tories, he added. Samra boarder check post exhibition will be held outside Qatar. tions are in full swing. Many Qatari ness several important developments → Continued on page 2 02 FRIDAY 29 JULY 2016 HOME / MIDDLE EAST

Emir in Argentina

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Earlier, the Emir arrived in Buenos Aires on an official visit. The Emir was welcomed upon arrival at Ministro Pistarini Airport (Ezeiza) by Argentina’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Susana Malcorra, Qatari Ambassador to Argentina Fahad Ibrahim Al Mana, Argentina’s Ambassador to Qatar Rossana Cecilia Surballe, several Arab ambassadors accredited to Argentina and members of the Qatari Embassy in the country. Foreign Minister H E Sheikh Mohamed bin Abdulrahman Al Thani yesterday met the Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Argentina Susana Malcorra. During the meeting, they discussed relations of cooperation between the two friendly and ways to further develop them, as well as latest regional and international developments.

Tips for safe sea ride Traffic diversion on part of Mesaieed Road from tomorrow

The Peninsula Continued from page 1 re-joining Mesaieed Road as shown in the map. The diversion is required to The General Administration of Coasts and Boarders Security has facilitate the construction of the urged all sea-goers to abide by the new safety rules and the following DOHA: The Public Works Author- new ten lane (five lanes in each instructions. ity (Ashghal) has announced that it direction) Al Wakrah Bypass and The scooters should be registered with the Ministry of Transport, and will implement a traffic diversion eight-lane highway (four lanes registration number plate shall be placed on both of the front and rear on part of the northbound lanes of in each direction) for The New view of the Scooter. Mesaieed Road. Orbital Highway Project. Life jackets should be worn at all times while riding, and the ignition The diversion will start Ashghal will install road key should be attached to the driver’s wrist. tomorrow and lasts six months, signs advising motorists of the Scooters must not access to restricted swimming, diving, or beach in coordination with the Traffic diversion. areas, marine events areas, and restricted zones. Police Department. The authority requests all Riders must stay away from private property and hotels in sea sides, During this period, traffic on road users to abide by the speed proper navigation lights should be installed properly (green colour on the the closed section of Mesaieed limits which will be 80kmph for right, red on the left, white on the back). Road travelling towards Al Wak- the first 4.5km stretch, followed The riders should avoid making acrobatic manoeuvres which endan- rah, will be diverted to a parallel by 50kmph along the remaining gers the safety of others in the water. Scooters must not be operated by two lane, 6.1 kilometre long tem- 1.6km, and follow the road signs minors or inexperienced users. porary carriageway, before to ensure their safety. GCC to unveil new customs Expo to boost Qatar-Saudi partnership

Continued from page 1 mechanism to boost trade The exhibition is also a big chance for Qatari com- panies and institutions to exchange experiences with The expo will be held at Riyadh International their Saudi counterparts. Convention and Exhibition Centre, over an area of The exhibition seeks to encourage business men and The Peninsula Khalifa Bin Salman Port (Bahrain); Shuwaikh Port 10,000sqm. women to make deals with their Saudi counterparts, (Kuwait); Khalifa Port (UAE); and Sahara Port (Oman). The exhibition aims at promoting the Qatari indus- and strengthen Qatar-Saudi economic partnership. The GCC made significant achievements regarding try, encouraging use of Qatari products and updating It also seeks to open up new markets outside the unified customs law and system for customs proce- the Saudi business community on the latest develop- country for Qatari companies and promote local com- DOHA: The Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC) countries dures to implement a unified customs law and remove ments in participating sectors. panies, especially small industries. will start implementing the first phase of a new custom obstacles in enhancing inter-trade. It also aims at providing opportunity for exhibitors The exhibition shows Qatar’s efforts to encour- mechanism to boost inter-GCC trade from November 1. The mechanism will help boost business and and manufacturers to meet and introduce Qatari prod- age investors to enter the industry sector, which is key The mechanism — ‘Activating the first role of GCC commercial activities and attract investment among ucts to the Saudi community directly and encouraging to sustainable development and forge effective part- customs check posts’ — will make radical changes member countries. Saudi businessmen and women to invest in industrial nerships between Qatari and Saudi business men and in GCC customs, inter-trade and common economic The decision will also help remove hindrances in projects in Qatar. women. processes, QNA reports, quoting a statement from the business activities related to inspection of goods and Federation of GCC Chambers. delay in clearance of truckloads of goods. The mechanism will be implemented at six ports — It will also help ease the procedures of commer- Doha Port (Qatar); Jeddah Islamic Port (Saudi Arabia); cial dealership law. Local Dates Festival 2016 begins Arab League Street between Jerian Njaima & Lebaib Junctions opens to traffic

QNA roads through three directions; for future developments, in addition (north, east, and south). In addition to provide Water Services and New to construction and improvement of Foul sewer House Connections. five junctions, service roads, park- Currently works on pavement DOHA: The Public Works Author- ing areas, Storm Water Drainage is running including the tie-in with ity (Ashghal) has announced the System, Micro-tunnelling works, Al Khafji Street in Arab League St. opening of dual carriageway in Arab pavement construction, provision (between Jerian Njaima round- League Street, eastern and western, of infrastructure for electricity and about and Jelaya’a Junction), in between Jerian Njaima and Lebaib telecommunication facilities, and addition to drilling and pipe jack- Junctions for the public; the two implementation of intelligent trans- ing ongoing in Duhail North, while intersections that have been turned portation Systems (ITS). the excavation for the shafts is tak- from roundabouts to junctions with Improvement of the roads sur- ing place in Duhail South. The cost of traffic signals. rounding Duhail camp project aims the project value exceeded QR187m, The opened section is the to widen road to accommodate traf- and it is expected to be completed main part of the Roads Surround- fic volume, develop the surface water in the roads surrounding ISF camp Yusuf Khalid Al Khulaifi, Director of Agriculture Affairs at Ministry of Municipality and Environment, ing Duhail ISF Camp improvement drainage system to the maximum within Q1 of 2017. The Arab League during the opening of the ‘Local Dates Festival 2016’ organised by the ministry in Souq Waqif yesterday. project in Zone 30, which comprises water flow, establishing foul Sewage Street surrounding the camp after Pic by: Baher Amin / The Peninsula improvement of the surrounding System with Micro tunnelling Work opening to the public. ISLAM FRIDAY 29 JULY 2016 03 The ideal personality of the Muslim

he ideal Muslim character is dis- It is no surprise that the Muslim is con- tinct and balanced. The Muslim is the cerned with his clothing and appearance. The embodiment of the teachings of the Muslim does all of this in accordance with Holy Quran and the ‘Sunnah’ (say- the Islamic ideal of moderation, avoiding the Tings, actions and the approvals of the Prophet extremes of exaggeration and negligence. Muhammad — Peace Be Upon Him). He follows the teachings of the Book of Allah Says (what means): “Say: Who has Allah (i.e. the Holy Quran) and the example forbidden the adornment of Allah which of the Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon He has brought forth for His bondmen, and Him) in all affairs, relations and situations – the good things of His providing? Say: Such, starting with his relationship with his Lord, on the Day of Resurrection, will be only for his own self, his family and the people around those who believed during the life of the him. In what follows is a brief overview of world. Thus do We detail Our revelations for some qualities of the ideal Muslim personality. people who have knowledge.” (Quran 7: 32)

His attitude towards Allah As for his intellectual care, the Muslim takes care of his mind by perusing beneficial One of the most distinguishing features knowledge. He is responsible to seek knowl- of the (ideal) Muslim is his deep faith in Allah, edge whether it is religious or secular, so he The Exalted, and his conviction that whatever may understand the nature and the essence happens in the universe and whatever befalls of things. him, only happens through the will and the decree of Allah. Allah Says (what means): “…and say: My The Muslim is closely connected to Allah, Lord! Increase me in knowledge.” (Quran constantly remembers Him, puts his trust in 20: 114) Him and is obedient towards Him. His faith is pure and clear, uncontami- The Muslim does not forget that man is not nated by any strain of ignorance, superstition only composed of a body and a mind, but that or illusion. His belief and worship are based he also possesses a soul and a spirit, and feels on the Holy Quran and the authentic ‘Sunnah’. a longing for higher things that make him The Muslim is alert and open-minded rise above this materialistic life and scale the to the magnificence of Allah. He knows that heights of goodness, virtue and light. it is Allah who is in control of the affairs of Therefore, the Muslim pays as much the universe and of mankind, and He (Allah) attention to his spiritual development as to Knows all and Witnesses every secret. his physical and intellectual development, A Muslim feels in the depths of his soul in a precisely balanced fashion which does that he is in constant need of help and sup- not concentrate on one aspect to the detri- port of Allah, no matter how much he may ment of others. think he can do for himself. He has no choice in his life but to sub- His attitude towards people mit to the will of Allah, worship Him, strive towards the Right Path and do good deeds. With his parents, the Muslim is an exam- This will guide him to be righteous and ple of sincere filial piety. He treats them with upright in all his deeds, both in public and in kindness and respect, infinite compassion, private. A Muslim recognises the signs of the utter politeness and deep gratitude. He rec- unlimited power of Allah in the universe, and ognises their status and knows his duties so his faith in Allah increases: towards them.

Allah, The Exalted, Says (what means): Allah Says (what means): “And serve “Verily! In the creation of the heavens and Allah. Ascribe nothing as partner unto Him. the earth and (in) the difference of night and (Show) kindness unto parents…” (Quran 4: day are tokens (of His sovereignty) for men 36) of understanding. Such as remember Allah, standing, sitting and reclining and consider With his wife, the Muslim exemplifies the creation of the heavens and the earth, good and kind treatment, intelligent han- (and say): Our Lord! You created not this in dling, deep understanding of the nature and vain. Glory be to You! Preserve us from the psychology of women, and proper fulfilment doom of Fire.” (Quran 3: 190-191) of his responsibilities and duties. With his children, the Muslim is a par- His attitude towards his body, ent who understands his great responsibility mind and soul towards them which is, as well as flooding them with love and compassion, to pay atten- The Muslim pays due attention to his tion to anything that may influence their body’s physical, intellectual and spiritual Islamic development and give them proper needs. He takes good care of his body, pro- education, so that they become active and moting its good health and strength. He is constructive elements in society, and a source active, doesn’t eat in excess; but he eats of goodness for their parents, community and The four-storey mosque in Umm Ghuwailina, which can accommodate about 1,240 worshippers. enough to maintain his health and energy. society as a whole. He understands that a strong believer is With his relatives, the Muslim main- more loved by Allah than a weak believer. tains the ties of kinship and knows his duties them; he is loyal and does not betray them; interfere in that which does not concern him. The Muslim is fair in his judgements. He is towards them. He understands the high sta- he is sincere and does not cheat them; he is He refrains from gossiping, spreading slan- not a hypocrite, a sycophant or a show-off. He Allah, The Exalted, Says (what means): “… tus given to relatives in Islam, which makes gentle and never harsh; he is tolerant and for- der and stirring up trouble. He avoids false does not boast about his deeds and achieve- Eat and drink; but waste not by excess, for him keep in touch with them, no matter what giving; he is generous and he supplicates for speech and suspicion. ments. He is straightforward and is never Allah loves not the wasters.” (Quran 7: 31) the circumstances. them (his brothers and friends). When he is entrusted with a secret, he devious or twisted, no matter what the cir- With his neighbours, the Muslim illus- In his social relationships with all people, keeps it. He is modest and never arrogant. cumstances. He loves noble things and hates The Muslim keeps away from drugs and trates good treatment and consideration of the Muslim is well-mannered, civil and noble, He does not make fun of anyone. He respects foolishness. stimulants. He also does not forget to exer- others’ feelings and sensitivities. He puts up characterised by the attitudes which Islam his elders. He mixes with the best of people. He is generous and does not remind oth- cise regularly to maintain his physical fitness. with mistreatment and turns a blind eye to encourages. The Muslim does not envy oth- He strives to reconcile between the Mus- ers of his gifts or favours. He is hospitable The Muslim also keeps his body and his neighbour’s faults while taking care not ers. He fulfils his promises. He has the attitude lims. He calls others to Islam with wisdom and does not complain when a guest comes to clothes very clean. He bathes frequently. The to commit any such errors himself. of shyness. He is cheerful. He is not pushy. and beautiful preaching. He visits the sick him. He prefers others to himself as much as Prophet placed a great emphasis on clean- The Muslim’s relationship with his broth- He is patient. He avoids slandering or utter- and attends funerals. He returns favours and possible. He relieves the burden of the debtor. liness and bathing. Cleanliness makes the ers and friends is the best and purest of ing obscenities. He does not unjustly accuse is grateful for them. He is proud and does not think of begging. Muslim more likeable to people. He also takes relationships, for it is based on love for the others. He guides people to do good. He always care of his mouth and teeth. sake of Allah. He is loving, not cold towards He is shy and modest. He does not likes to make things easy and not difficult. (www.islamweb.net) The Principles of Islamic Jurisprudence

his is the third and most revised edition of principles of Fiqh or someone who has a good back- This excellent book, nevertheless, can still bene- one of the best textbooks on the subject of ground in Islamic knowledge. Yet, I found Kamali’s style fit some of the essential enhancement that are typical Usool Al Fiqh Al Islami (The Principles of to be distinguished by clarity and readability. But this in the production process of academic books like an Islamic Jurisprudence). is a book that is best used as textbook for a university expanded index, extensive and more comprehensive TUsool Al Fiqh is one of the main realms of level course or as a desk reference for varying spe- glossary, authentication of references, especially the Islamic knowledge and is so essential that not only cialists and scholars of Islamic law who cannot access Hadith and certain quotations, more footnotes and Fiqh — which is the practical aspect of Islam and the principles of Fiqh or Islamic knowledge in Arabic. cross-referencing, among others. the way of living and applying its laws — but also Some of my colleagues mentioned that Kamali tried Kamali was honestly seeking objectivity in adding all other realms use it and rely upon it. his best to follow the style of earlier scholars in writ- the two sections about the Usool of Al Khawaarij and In fact, the main function of these usool or ing about the subject, and they wished that he would Shia sects. But while this may have worked in the case principles is to help the scholars understand change that to a style that is more befitting to the learn- of Al Khawaarij, I do not think the inclusion of the Shia Islam and facilitate its application by provid- ing abilities of today’s student and in accordance with Usool served objectivity. ing the people with tools they need to refer all today’s methods of instruction. Not only that there are serious differences between matters facing Muslim individuals and commu- I am of the opinion that both approaches have mer- the Sunnah and Shia Usool, but the extent of discussion nities to the original and only two textual sources its in teaching this kind of subject matter and both may in this limited-scope book of Usool does not permit a of Islam — the Noble Quran and the Sunnah of be effective in teaching the principles of Fiqh pro- real discussion of comparative Usool Al Fiqh. Prophet Muhammad (Peace Be Upon Him) so that vided one has a good teacher and the right learning I wished that Kamali had left the topic of Tajdeed all needed rulings and guidelines may be derived environment — both of which are hard to find consid- Usool Al Fiqh (the renewal of the Principles of Islamic from them, thus preserving their authenticity and ering today’s situation of many of the so-called Islamic Jurisprudence) out of this book. insuring their maximum credibility of correct- universities. This was another place where he failed to provide ness and validity. The fact remains that when the Principles of Islamic appropriate discussion to issues that are essential but It is no wonder that many students of knowl- Jurisprudence was first published, it offered an excel- highly controversial. edge complain of the dryness of Usool Al-Fiqh lent addition to the few English Usool Al Fiqh textbooks Dr. Mohammad Hashim Kamali is Professor of Law books and difficulty of its subject matter — this available then. at International Islamic University, Malaysia, where book is no exception. This edition, however, represents a far better he has been teaching Islamic law and jurisprudence I know that it is a dense read, and that it can be detailed and substantially expanded discussion of the since 1985. Aspiring students should find this book very boring if you are not a student of the subject of the same topics of the earlier editions as well as newer ones. informative. (www.islamweb.net) 04 FRIDAY 29 JULY 2016 MIDDLE EAST

Nusra Front Happy journey Egypt former anti-graft head breaks ties gets jail term CAIRO: Egypt’s former anti-corruption chief was sentenced yesterday to with Al Qaeda one year in prison on charges of having exag- gerated the impact of graft on the country. Hisham Geneina, head Al-Golani said of the Central Audit- his group will be ing Authority until his dismissal in March by renamed the Levant President Abdel Fattah Conquest Front and Al Sisi, was also ordered to pay a fine of 20,000 will have no relation Egyptian pounds (around to outside groups. $2,000). The retired judge’s troubles began after he quoted a study by AP the authority based on Families of Kuwaiti sailors bid them farewell as they prepare to sail away in dhows on a pearl diving would target Nusra and the Islamic 2012-2015 reports that State group in Syria. trip, yesterday, in Kuwait City. calculated the cost of cor- Even if the group does announce ruption at about 600bn BEIRUT: The leader of Syria’s Nusra a formal split, however, its militant pounds ($66bn). Front says his group is changing ideology is unlikely to change. The name, and claims it will have no US has said it considers Nusra to more ties with Al Qaeda. be Al Qaeda in its “fundamental Two people In a video aired on the Syrian nature.” opposition station Orient TV and Al In the recording that emerged Turkey warns Kyrgyzstan die in Baghdad Jazeera yesterday, Mohammed Al Thursday, Ahmed Hassan Abu el- Golani (pictured) said the delink- Kheir — the deputy of Al Qaeda bombing ing from the terror network aimed chief Ayman al-Zawahri’s deputy— to remove “pretexts” by the US and said the organization instructs “the over ‘Gulen coup’ risk BAGHADAD: Two people Russia to strike rebel groups while leadership of the Nusra Front to go were killed and 11 oth- saying they are targeting Nusra. ahead with what protects the inter- ers were wounded in a Nusra has been Al Qaeda branch ests of Islam and Muslims and what AFP “In Kyrgyzstan, for example, a report that a Gulen-linked founda- bomb explosion yesterday in Syria and one of the most pow- protects jihad” in Syria. there could be an attempt to launch tion ran nine primary and secondary near commercial shops in erful armed groups fighting the He also urged the Nusra Front a coup,” Foreign Minister Mevlut schools, 16 lycees, two interna- the village of Hamamiyat government. Al-Golani said his to unite with other factions against Cavusoglu told CNN-Turk television. tional schools and one university in in Taji district in northern group will be renamed the Levant “Crusaders” and form a good ANKARA: Turkey yesterday warned “If there is a coup in Kyrgyzstan Kyrgyzstan. Baghdad. Conquest Front and will “have no “Islamic government.” the ex-Soviet state of Kyrgyzstan then it will be carried out by FETO,” Turkish officials accuse Gulen Meanwhile, one per- relation to outside groups.” The “We will be the first to support over the risk of a coup by followers he said, referring to what Ankara of building influence through a vast son was killed and eight video was the Syrian militant’s first it,” Abu el-Kheir said in his six- of the US-based preacher Fethullah calls the Fethullah Terror Organi- network of private education not others were injured in a appearance showing his face. minute recording. Gulen, saying they had infiltrated sation. Gulen denies any such group only in Turkey but also Africa and bomb explosion near a Al Qaeda’s deputy leader gave The message also included a every state institution in the country. exists. Central Asia. popular market in Al Amel an apparent endorsement for its brief comment from Al Zawahri, Ankara blames Gulen for the “They (Gulenists) have infiltrated Such were the strength of ear- neighborhood southwest Syria branch to split from the terror saying, “The brotherhood of Islam unsuccessful July 15 coup in Turkey into all institutions. Kyrgyzstan is lier ties between Ankara and Bishkek of the Iraqi capital. network, saying in a newly released is stronger than any organizational that tried to unseat President Recep our brotherly nation. We need to that Kyrgyz President Almazbek Furthermore, a group message that the Nusra Front should links that change and go away.” It Tayyip Erdogan -- charges the reclu- immediately share our intelligence Atambayev even went to Turkey of unidentified gunmen do whatever it takes to preserve the was not clear when he made those sive cleric vehemently denies. with them,” he added. in August 2014 to join celebrations kidnapped a lieutenant in jihadi movement in the war-torn recorded comments. By leaving Al Turkey has sought to cultivate The most volatile nation in ex- for Erdogan’s victory in presiden- the Iraqi army at Al Said- country. Qaeda, Nusra would be able to ally close ties with Turkic-speaking Kyr- Soviet Central Asia, Kyrgyzstan has tial elections. In a cold statement, iya district in northern Nusra Front leaders have been even more closely with other rebels, gyzstan but Bishkek has found itself seen two revolutions and several Kyrgyzstan’s foreign ministry said Baghdad. debating whether to leave Al Qaeda, proponents of the move within the targeted by angry accusations from bouts of bloodletting in recent years. it would take note of Turkey’s warn- hoping the step would undermine group say — in turn putting pres- Turkish officials that it has not done With tensions rising between ings on education but reminded talks between the United States and sure on the US not to support strikes enough to crack down on Gulen’s Ankara and Bishkek, Turkey’s state- Ankara it was an “independent, sov- Tunisian army Russia over a military accord that on its ranks. influence. run Anadolu news agency published ereign state”. kills 2 suspected jihadists TUNIS: The Tunisian army UN veto powers killed two suspected jihadists on Wednesday in the northwest of the country, the Ministry of mull arms embargo Defence said yesterday. “Military units, rein- forced by elements of the National Guard... killed two terrorists during on South Sudan search operations” near the town of Jendouba, the ministry said in a Reuters country, have signaled they are will- statement. ing to consider such a move. A soldier was “We need to look at the situa- wounded during the tion and what the best way is to be fighting, it said. Two rifles UNITED NATIONS: The United helpful,” China’s UN Ambassador were also seized, along States proposed yesterday that the Liu Jieyi told reporters on Thursday. with ammunition, back- UN Security Council renew a peace- US Ambassador to the United packs, clothes, mobile keeping mission in South Sudan for Nations, Samantha Power, said the phones and cash. 10 days while the body considers council needs a single approach to clamping an arms embargo on the end the violence in South Sudan. world’s newest state and sending “In the immediate term this Rebels form more troops there, diplomats said. means working with and press- Iraqi security forces ride vehicles during patrolling tour for the media at the oilfields in Basra, southeast After violence in South Sudan’s ing South Sudan’s leadership to supreme council of Baghdad, yesterday. capital Juba earlier this month, UN provide for security in Juba, to safe- Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon guard freedom of movement and to run Yemen called on the Security Council to to provide for unfettered humani- fortify the peacekeeping mission. tarian access,” she told the council ADEN: Shia rebels and He also urged an arms embargo meeting. their allies yesterday Islamic State’s oil revenue dives and sanctions for leaders and com- She said it also meant answering formed a 10-member manders blocking implementation calls to strengthen UNMISS. “supreme council” to run of an August peace deal. African leaders have called for Yemen, in the latest sign Reuters neighbouring Syria and Iran, or to closer and stepping up air strikes, “South Sudan remains precar- the Security Council to authorize of the failure of UN-bro- makeshift local refineries. Daesh can hardly sell five small iously poised on the brink of an the deployment of a regional protec- kered peace talks with the However, advances by Iraqi gov- tankers,” he said. abyss,” Ban told a council meeting tion force to separate South Sudan’s government. ernment and Kurdish forces plus Precise figures on how much on peacebuilding in Africa. warring parties. The Shia Houthi rebels BAGHDAD: Islamic State, pushed Shi’ite Muslim militias have left Islamic State raises from oil are The mandate for the United UN peacekeepers have been and the General People’s off more than half the Iraqi terri- the militants with partial access hard to come by. Luay Al-Khatteeb, Nations mission, known as UNMISS, deployed in the country since it Congress of former pres- tory it seized in 2014, has suffered to just two of the five Iraqi oilfields executive director of the Iraq Energy expires on Sunday, so the United gained independence from Sudan ident Ali Abdullah Saleh a near collapse in revenue from oil they once controlled. This has cut Institute who has done extensive States circulated a brief draft reso- in 2011. There are currently some have agreed to “form a smuggling, officials say, forcing it smuggling by at least 90 percent, research into Islamic State’s oil lution on Thursday, seen by Reuters, 13,500 troops and police on the supreme political council to cut fighters’ pay, levy new taxes according to security and munici- smuggling, said revenues fluctuated to the 15-member council to extend ground. of 10 members”, accord- and raise fines for breaking its reli- pal officials. even during their peak in the second the authorization of the force until Heavy fighting involving tanks ing to a statement carried gious code. Islamic State - known in Arabic half of 2014 when “on its best days” Aug. 8. It could be adopted on Fri- and helicopters raged in Juba for by a rebel-run news The jihadist group has lost con- by its opponents as Daesh - used to the group made nearly $700,000 day, diplomats said. several days between troops loyal agency. It did not name trol of a series of oil fields, and is sell at least 50 tanker truckloads a a day from Iraqi fields. In May, the The council’s veto-wielding to President Salva Kiir and those the council’s members. having to sell what production that day from Qayara and Najma oilfields, United States estimated its revenue powers - the United States, Rus- backing Vice President Riek Machar The job of the council remains at steep discounts to per- south of the group’s Mosul strong- had been roughly halved to $250 sia, China, France and Britain - are earlier this month. At least 272 peo- will be to “manage state suade truck drivers to collect it and hold. This crude was mostly shipped million a year from the territory it already discussing a second, more ple were killed before the leaders affairs politically, militarily, run the gauntlet of US-led air strikes. to Syria to barter for automobile controls in Iraq and Syria. While the substantial US draft resolution that ordered a ceasefire. economically, adminis- Alongside taxes, ransoms and fuel, said Mosul provincial council- militants have suffered further losses would impose an arms embargo Machar left Juba after the fight- tratively, socially and in antiquities trading, oil has been a man Abdul Rahman al-Wagga, who since then in Iraq, they still control and authorize more troops, diplo- ing and said he would only return security”. The rebels over- major fund raiser for Islamic State moved to the Kurdish capital Erbil several oil fields in eastern Syria, mats said. Russia and China, who after international troops are ran Sanaa in September operations. At one point it made mil- after the fall of Mosul. where US-backed rebels have had were previously opposed to an deployed as a buffer force to sep- 2014. lions of dollars a month in sales to “Now with Iraqi forces getting less success in ejecting them. arm embargo on the oil producing arate his forces from Kiir’s. ASIA / AFRICA / PHILIPPINES FRIDAY 29 JULY 2016 05

Duterte warns to call Torch festival off truce after attack

militiaman was killed in a guerrilla and wounded four in an ambush on ambush. Wednesday, the army said. The Philippine leader Duterte said he wanted an expla- “If you do not honour and you demands explanation nation and expected rebel leaders kill a single soldier ... let’s just forget to discipline guerrillas involved in about this, let’s just fight,” Duterte and expects rebel the killing on the southern island of said, in a message to the rebels. leaders to discipline Mindanao, two days after the gov- Silvestre Bello, the labour min- guerrillas involved in ernment declared a unilateral truce ister and a peace negotiator, told to aid peace talks. Reuters he had talked to a spokes- the killing. “Are we in into this truce or are man for the National Democratic we not?,” Duterte asked while speak- Front, the political arm of the com- ing to soldiers in an army base south munists, who assured him they of Manila. wanted talks. Reuters Duterte, who won a May election, “They will look into the incident declared the truce with the commu- and they wish to pursue the peace nist rebels who have been fighting talks,” Bello said. MANILA: Philippine President Rod- the government for nearly 50 years Duterte offered government roles A shaman, dressed in the traditional Yi costume, performs at the Torch Festival, in Xichang, China's rigo Duterte warned yesterday that in his first state of the nation address to senior members of the Communist he might call off a unilateral cease- on Monday. Party of the Philippines, including its Sichuan province. fire with communist rebels after a The rebels killed a militiaman exiled founder. China harbouring drug Ghana jails three for hate speech

AFP Ghana’s political opposition The head of the National Dem- lords: Philippine leader had complained that many names ocratic Congress (NDC), President were fraudulent, as holders of health John Dramani Mahama, is seeking a Philippines sets ACCRA: Ghana’s Supreme Court insurance cards do not necessarily second, five-year term against Nana AFP go there and just declare war,” he has jailed a radio presenter and have to be Ghanaian citizens. Akufo-Addo, of the main opposition the ball rolling added. his two panelists for threatening to The owners and directors of New Patriotic Party (NPP). He did not identify the alleged kill judges who ordered names to Montie FM were also fined 30,000 In the law of some countries, for federal system MANILA: China is harbouring drug lords and a Chinese embassy be removed from the voters’ regis- cedis by the court. hate speech is any speech, gesture major drug lords who smuggle spokesman could not be contacted ter ahead of the December general “Mugabe” is known in Ghana for or conduct, writing, or display which narcotics into the Philippines, for comment. elections. provocative comments on his show, is forbidden because it incites vio- MANILA: The Philip- the president said yesterday as he Duterte had previously asserted Judge Sophia Akuffo on Wednes- which is invariably supportive of the lence or prejudicial action against or pines is paving the way pressed on with his ruthless war that most of the illegal drugs in the day sentenced Salifu Maase alias ruling party. by a protected individual or group, or to shift to a federal form on crime. Philippines originated from China “Mugabe” of Accra-based station Attorneys for the accused, who because it disparages or intimidates of government by 2022, Rodrigo Duterte made the and that many Chinese had been Montie FM and two pro-government have pleaded freedom of speech, a protected individual or group. after President Rodrigo remarks even as the two coun- arrested for smuggling drugs into panelists, Allistair Nelson and God- appealed for mercy and vowed to The law may identify a protected Duterte agreed with the tries continue to bicker over an the country. win Ako-Gunn, to four months’ jail seek a presidential pardon. group by certain characteristics. leaders of Congress to international tribunal invalidating But it was the first time he and a fine of 10,000 cedis ($2,500). “We do admit some of the state- In the law of other countries, set up a body to amend Beijing’s extensive claims to the explicitly named China as the lair of The judge said they had attacked ments uttered by some of our clients hate speech is not a legal term. the constitution, the South ChinaSea. those responsible for the trafficking. the court’s integrity by threatening are unacceptable,” lawyers Nana Ato In some countries, a victim of speaker of the house said “Where is the big fish (in ille- President Duterte has openly on air not to accept its ruling on Dadzie and George Loh said. hate speech may seek redress under yesterday. gal drugs)? If you want them, go to called for the killing of drug deal- the electoral register and to kill the “We nevertheless consider cus- civil law, criminal law, or both. Duterte, who swept to China. Look for them there,” Duterte ers and police figures show at least judges. todial sentence of four months A website that uses hate speech power in May on a wave told soldiers and police during a visit 316 such suspects have been slain Some 56,000 names were imposed by the Supreme Court as is called a hate site. of public anti-establish- to a military camp. since he took office on June 30 this deleted from the electoral regis- being excessive and harsh.” Most of these sites contain ment frustration over “I wanted to talk to the ambas- year. ter after individuals used national Ghana is to stage presidential Internet forums and news briefs crime and poverty, wants sador. That is how serious it is. Now, Police say the killings were in health insurance cards as proof of and parliamentary polls on Decem- that emphasize a particular to switch from a cen- how do I fight this? We cannot just self-defence. identity. ber 7. viewpoint. tralized government to devolve power to long- neglected poor provinces and spread wealth more evenly. Zimbabwe arrests top war veteran Indonesia refuses Dhaka upholds AFP death sentence international pleas HARARE: Police have arrested a for six militants leader of Zimbabwe’s war veterans’ association after it accused Presi- to halt executions DHAKA: A Bangladesh dent Robert Mugabe of “dictatorial” court yesterday upheld behaviour in a shock rupture with the AFP which oversees executions, could the death sentence for six veteran leader, lawyers said yesterday. not be reached for comment. Islamist militants convicted Veterans of Zimbabwe’s 1970s Indonesia last carried out exe- over a suicide bombing in independence war, who had previ- CILACAP: Indonesia yesterday cutions in April 2015 when it put to 2005 of a lawyer’s office ously been loyal Mugabe supporters, rejected appeals from the UN and death eight drug convicts, including that killed eight people, a issued a statement bitterly denounc- EU to halt the execution of 14 drug two Australians, sparking interna- top prosecutor said. ing the president, 92, who faces convicts including foreigners, as tional outrage. Bangladesh’s judiciary growing signs of opposition. speculation mounted they could But President Joko Widodo has is under pressure to fast Douglas Mahiya, spokesman for face the firing squad in a matter of defended the use of the death pen- track cases involving mil- the War Veterans’ Association, was hours. alty to combat rising narcotics use. itants as the government arrested late Wednesday in Harare, Zimbabwe's President Robert Mugabe speaks at a rally in Harare as The group, including foreigners UN High Commissioner for faces mounting criticism according to the Zimbabwe Lawyers he launched a blistering attack on anti-government activists, foreign from Nigeria, Pakistan, India and Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hus- to crackdown on Islam- for Human Rights (ZLHR) group. embassies and disaffected war veterans and sought to assert his grip Zimbabwe as well asIndonesians, sein called on Indonesia to end the ists over a series of recent “Information presently at hand is on power following recent protests. have been placed in isolation on a “unjust” use of the death penalty, deadly killings. that the police are charging him with prison island where Jakarta carries while the European Union urged A bench of two high subverting a constitutional govern- taken from his rural home in Gokwe, have been triggered by an eco- out executions. Jakarta to stop the “cruel and inhu- court judges rejected ment and insulting the office of the north west Zimbabwe, after being nomic crisis that has left banks short Authorities stepped up prep- mane punishment, which fails to act appeals from the six con- president,” the lawyers said. summoned for police questioning. of cash and the government strug- arations with ambulances as a deterrent”. victed over the 2005 A Mahiya family lawyer con- “His whereabouts are currently gling to pay its workers. carrying coffins seen crossing over Indonesian foreign minis- bombing, claimed by local firmed the arrest, but declined to undetermined, as are the charges or More than 90 percent of the to Nusakambangan island. Family try spokesman Arrmanatha Nasir extremist group Jamayetul comment further. allegations against him,” ZLHR said. population is not in formal employ- members say they have been told defended the looming executions Mujahideen Bangladesh. The association’s secretary-gen- Recent demonstrations, the larg- ment after years of economic decline the convicts will be executed yes- as “pure law enforcement”. eral, Victor Matemadanda, was also est in several years in Zimbabwe, under Mugabe’s rule. terday night, according to a lawyer “I need to emphasise that all the and diplomat -- who were angry as legal processes of the convicts have it was earlier than they thought was been completed, all their rights have allowed. been fulfilled -- we target the drug Strike threatens petrol shortages in S Africa: Union The attorney general’s office, traffickers and not users,” he said.

AFP spokesman for the Chemical, Energy, statement that it had “put contin- dry,” it said in a statement released. Paper, Printing, Wood and Allied gency plans in place to ensure the South Africa, which has strong Workers Union (CEPPWAWU) said. minimum disruption (and) will trade unions, is often affected by JOHANNESBURG: At least 20,000 “The petrol stations may run dry continue to proactively monitor the major strikes and large, occasion- South African petroleum industry in three days or so, but it is not our situation.” ally violent, street protests during workers went on strike yesterday, intention. The employers must to “Operations continue as planned pay negotiations. a union official said, warning that come us with better offers.” with no impact on production,” it But it has seen few labour stop- pumps at filling stations could run “With our members and other added. pages this year as unions, employers dry in about three days. unions, more than 20,000 workers The National Petroleum Employ- and government struggle with record Employees picketed outside are on strike.” ers Association, of which Sasol is a unemployment, a declining mining refineries and fuel depots, vowing Chitja warned employers against member, was not immediately avail- sector and flat-lining GDP growth. to push for a nine percent pay rise using non-union substitute workers able to comment. The country, which produces 70 against a seven percent offer from oil to produce and transport petrol. The Automobile Association (AA) percent of the world’s platinum, was companies including Sasol, Chevron “Employers might bring in inde- advised drivers fill up with fuel and badly hit by a five-month strike by and Total SA. pendent truckers and our members limit journeys. 70,000 platinum miners in 2014. “These workers transport pet- would block their way, but we plead “This strike does not include South African trade unions A protester holds a candle during a demonstration against Indonesia's rol and work in the refineries, so to employers not to provoke workers petrol pump attendants, but will accuse employers of trying to dodge the impact will be huge if the strike into violence by doing this,” he said. start to impact motorists once the demands for better conditions by hir- decision to execute 14 drug convicts in front of the Presidential Palace is prolonged,” Clement Chitja, Sasol said in an emailed pumps at petrol stations start to run ing foreign workers at lower wages. in Jakarta, Indonesia, yesterday. 06 FRIDAY 29 JULY 2016 PAKISTAN Five US army members injured in Afghanistan

Reuters briefing with reporters yesterday. province to parts of three or four dis- those fighters are from the TTP and Nicholson compared the bombing Their injuries were sustained from tricts, Nicholson said. many of them are Pakistani Pashtun to recent attacks claimed by Islamic Top military officer small arms fire and shrapnel, he Also since that time, the number from the Orakzai Agency.” State in Europe and the United States, WASHINGTON: Five US special vows to stay in added. of Islamic State fighters has shrunk Other Islamic State members in and emphasized that their footprint operation forces were wounded “We will continue to stay after from 3,000 in January to 1,000 to Afghanistan were originally part of in Afghanistan was shrinking. while partnering with Afghan spe- Afghanistan until they Daesh until they are defeated here 1,500 now, he said. the Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, “The fact that they could con- cial forces in an operation to clear defeat militant group. in Afghanistan,” Nicholson said, using Most of Islamic State’s fighters in another militant group, he said. duct a high profile attack should not areas controlled by Islamic State in an Arabic acronym for the militant Afghanistan previously fought for the Last week more than 80 peo- be perceived as a sign of growing eastern Afghanistan, the top US mili- group. Pakistani Taliban, or TTP, Nicholson ple were killed in a suicide attack strength,” he said. tary commander in Afghanistan said service members have returned to President Barack Obama in Jan- said, and hail from Orakzai Agency in Kabul targeting Afghanistan’s US policy called for boosting the yesterday. duty, while three others were evac- uary gave US commanders broader in Pakistan near the Afghan border. Hazara minority. The attack on Sat- Afghan National Army to 134,000 Army General John Nicholson uated but are “in good spirits” and authority to target Islamic State fight- “They were former members of urday, against a demonstration by the soldiers by October 2010. said the incident took place in the are expected to make a full recov- ers in Afghanistan. Since that time the TTP, complete with their leader- mainly Shia Hazara, was among the By May 2010, the Afghan Army last few days in Nangarhar prov- ery, he said. the territory controlled by the group ship, who wholesale joined Islamic worst in Afghanistan since the fall of had accomplished this interim goal ince, but did not specify exactly “None of these are life-threat- has shrunk from about 10 districts State ... earlier this year,” Nicholson the former Taliban regime in 2001, and was on track to reach its ultimate when it happened. Two of the injured ening injuries,” Nicholson said in a in the southern part of Nangarhar said. “Seventy percent, roughly, of and was claimed by Islamic State. number of 171,000 by 2011.

Violence-related casualties Going back home Islamabad police communication in Pakistan drop by 40% system launched

Internews major terrorist groups as we have been frequently hearing that the Internews groups and members belonging ISLAMABAD: A report launched by to different terrorist organisations the Centre for Research and Secu- have been arrested,” he said. ISLAMABAD: Police have opera- rity Studies (CRSS) claims that “Army has done the job of tionalised police communication violence-related casualties have fire-fighting and now civil law system having the complete data declined by 40 percent in the second enforcement agencies should come of daily registered crime cases, quarter of this year, as compared to forward to play their role. So all the record of criminals from the day the first quarter in Pakistan. responsibility lies on the shoulders of their arrest and release, and As many as 788 casualties 545 of civil law enforcement agencies,” departmental history of all police fatalities and 243 injuries were he added. officials and employees. recorded between April 1 and In response to a question, Gul The system Islamabad Capital June 30. No incidents of violence- explained that what he meant Territory Police Communication related fatalities were reported by civilian law enforcement was System (ICTPOLCOM) have been from Islamabad, Azad Kashmir or the implementation of existing completed in only 47 days as the Gilgit-Baltistan. legislation. Inspector General of Police Tariq The head of the CRSS, Imtiaz “Hate speech need to be stopped, Masood Yasin assigned task to Gul, said the improvement shows there is need to take action against develop this integrated system that due to pre-emptive intelligence the illegal use of loud speakers, and soon after the assuming charge Afghan refugee families sit beside a loaded truck at the United Nations High Commissioner for gathering, groups involved in ter- materials which have been creating of IGP office. rorism are not able to reorganise. differences between different seg- Refugees repatriation centre on the outskirts of Peshawar, yesterday, as they prepare to return to The IGP formally reviewed “Intelligence has been able to ments of society should be removed their country after fleeing civil war and Taliban rule. this system on Tuesday in a meet- break the chain of command of from the curriculum,” he said. ing which was also attended among others by AIG (General) Nisar Ahmed Khan Tanoli, SP Aamir Khan Niazi, Director IT Saleem Raza Sheikh and Staff Officer to IGP for IT Syed Imtiaz Mother says Qandeel killed by brother over taunts Ahmed Shah. The complete data of police stations with effect from Janu- AFP videos in the conservative Muslim would infuriate him and tell him she have no words that do her justice, and tackling “honour killings” and boost- ary 1, 2016 has been inserted in country, shone a spotlight on such is bringing you dishonour,” she said, she took care of us much more than ing rape convictions would soon be this system while further record killings and re-ignited calls for legis- surrounded by her husband as well our sons including financially,” she voted on by parliament, after mount- is being updated. SHAH SADAR DIN: The mother of lative action to curb the crime. as an adult son and daughter. said, adding the family were being ing pressure to tackle a pattern of IGP Islamabad has said this a Pakistani celebrity murdered in a Speaking to AFP from her home The desperately poor family, who put up in a house that Baloch (real crime that claims around 1,000 lives is modern system in policing his- so-called ‘honour’ killing said her in the village of Shah Sadar Din, live in a three-room house with mud name Fauzia Azeem) had in Multan. a year. tory of Pakistan and it would have son strangled his sister after being Baloch’s mother Anwar Wai wept for flooring, said they depended on “She would phone us four or five The perpetrators of so-called complete data of daily registered taunted by his friends over her as she recalled the shocking death Baloch financially and did not know times a day. If she wasn’t able to call honour killings -- in which the vic- crime cases, record of criminals behaviour. at the hands of brother Muhammad how they would cope without her. one day, she would tell us ‘I’m sorry, tim, normally a woman, is killed by from the day of their arrest and The death earlier this month of Wasim. Baloch supported around a dozen I was working.’” a relative -- often walk free because release and departmental his- starlet Qandeel Baloch, who shot to “He killed my daughter after relatives. Pakistan’s law minister last they can seek forgiveness for the tory of all police officials and fame for her provocative selfies and being taunted by his friends. They “She was an amazing daughter. I week announced that bills aimed at crime from another family member. employees.

Rolling tyre Over 70 Pakistani students selected for EU scholarship

Internews political science across the Euro- of the world,” he said recently. pean Union. The EU ambassador said the To honour them, EU Ambassador Erasmus programme provided a ISLAMABAD: More than 70 young to Pakistan Jean-François Cautain unique opportunity for Pakistan’s students from across Pakistan have hosted a pre-departure brief here future leaders to experience such a been selected for the European for the successful candidates from transfer of knowledge and contrib- Union’s Erasmus Plus programme, Islamabad and adjoining areas. ute to the sustainable development the world’s most successful student He said the mobility that the of Pakistan. exchange programme. European Union had encouraged He said such exchange pro- Young students from around the since its inception provided young grammes further strengthened the world will have an opportunity to people with greater opportunities social, cultural, academic and com- pursue a master’s degree from dif- and equal access to resources and mercial partnerships between the ferent universities across Europe. knowledge. European Union and Pakistan. The Erasmus Plus is a €14.7 bil- “This has greatly contributed Also in attendance were ambas- lion programme, which combines to raising the quality of academia, sadors and student counsellors from all of the EU’s current schemes research and innovation through- the various EU member states, who for education, training, youth and out Europe. briefed students about different sport. Welcoming non-EU Students study programmes at various uni- The successful students from is an additional aspect of Erasmus versities in Europe. Pakistan will study agriculture, programme that we value very The students also met with other energy, biotechnology, business much especially at a time where Erasmus Plus Alumni members and Afghan children play with a tyre along a dusty road on the outskirts of Jalalabad, on Wednesday. studies, engineering, telecommuni- globalisation is manipulated to learned about their experiences of cations, economic cooperation and oppose peoples from different parts studying in Europe.

Pakistan’s ‘cybercrime law still far from perfect’ Pakistan & Iran call for joint commission

Internews Lt Gen Nasser Janjua and Iran’s Internews Prevention of Electronic Crimes Bill The fresh draft has incorporated on Tuesday, have been addressed in Secretary of the Supreme National (PECB) 2015 does take into account these offences, as well as a separate the draft. Security Council Ali Shamkhani as a number of suggestions relating to section on ‘hate speech’, as subsec- Haroon Baloch of the digital ISLAMABAD: Pakistan and the former concluded his three- ISLAMABAD: The version of the toughening up certain areas of the law. tions of Section 10, which deals with rights group Bytes for All said, “There Iran yesterday cited the need to day trip to Tehran. cybercrime bill tabled before the Sen- For example, the version that ‘Cyber-terrorism’. is still no definition of ‘hate speech’; establish institutional mecha- “They noted the need for estab- ate yesterday still includes most of the was passed by the National Assem- But civil society groups are not the amendewd section is very broad nisms to oversee border security lishing institutional mechanism provisions that have been criticised as bly in April contained no mention of satisfied with what changes have and open to interpretation. in addition to fighting against the to oversee the border security, ‘draconian’ attempts to crack down on clamping down on recruitment and been made. Only one of the concerns There is no mention of ‘mali- common threat posed by Daesh. including Joint Commission, and citizens’ freedom of expression and financing of terrorist - two major - regarding hate speech - highlighted cious intent’ or ‘dishonest intention’, This was stated in a joint state- agreed to continue further discus- their ability to access information. areas of concern in the post-National by the Human Rights Commission of it simply says ‘whoever prepares or ment by National Security Advisor sions,” the joint statement stated. However, the new draft of the Action Plan (NAP) scenario. Pakistan (HRCP) in a letter released disseminates information’. INDIA FRIDAY 29 JULY 2016 07

Coast walk Mahashweta 12 found guilty Devi dies in Aurangabad arms haul case

of Abu Jundal, had concluded in March this year before the Mahar- Special Judge Anekar ashtra Control of Organised Crime will start hearing Act Special Court here. The 12 found guilty are: Abu Jundal, Aslam Kash- the arguments miri, Faisal Ataur-Rehman Shaikh, on quantum of Afroz Khan Shahid Pathan, Sayyed Akif S. Jafruddin, Bilal Ahmed Abdul punishment for the Razaq, medico M. Sharif Shabbir convicts from today. Ahmed, Afzal K. Nabi Khan, Mush- taq Ahmed M. Isaf Shaikh, Javed A. AP Abdul Majid, M. Muzafar Moham- med Tanveer and Mohammed Amir IANS Shakil Ahmed. The eight acquitted on var- NEW DELHI: Mahashweta Devi, ious grounds, including lack of Men take a morning walk as it drizzles along the coast of the Arabian Sea in Mumbai, yesterday a well-known Indian writer and evidence, are: Mohammed Juber social activist, who used her writ- MUMBAI: A Special MCOCA Court Sayyed Anwar, Abdul Azim Abdul ing to give voice to the oppressed yesterday found 12 accused, includ- Jalil, Riyaz Ahmed M. Ramzan, poor tribal and forest dwellers, ing LeT operative and 26/11 plotter Khatib Imran Akil Ahmed, Vikar has died. She was 90. Sayed Zabiuddin Ansari alias Abu Ahmed Nisar Shaikh, Abdul Samad Devi had been in a hospital in Jundal, guilty and acquitted eight Shamsher Khan, Mohammed Akil the eastern Indian city of Kolkata others in the sensational 2006 Ismail Momin and Firoz Tajuddin where she was being treated for Aurangabad arms haul case. Deshmukh. Hunt on for ‘life-saving’ plant a kidney ailment for the past two Special MCOCA Judge SL Anekar The trial of two other accused - months, Press Trust of India said. also upheld the prosecution’s plea an absconder Shaikh Abdul Naim, Writing mostly in the Bengali that the case was part of a larger and an approver-turned hostile AFP failing for centuries to find it. “We life-restoring properties, grows in language, Devi’s major works post-2002 Gujarat communal riots witness Mehmud Sayyed - shall be have to try and it will never go to the high mountains of the Himala- dealt with the suffering of poor conspiracy to eliminate then Chief conducted separately in the case. waste. If we are determined we will yas and glows in the dark. laborers and forest dwellers who Minister (now Prime Minister) Following a tip-off, the Mahar- NEW DELHI: A northern Indian certainly find it,” Surendra Singh According to Ramayana, the had lost their lands due to indus- Narendra Modi and Vishwa Hindu ashtra Anti Terrorist Squad (ATS) state will soon begin a multi-mil- Negi, the state’s minister for alter- monkey god Hanuman was tasked trial and urban growth. She Parishad leader Praveen Togadia. teams chased a speeding Tata Indica lion dollar search in the Himalayas native medicine, said. by the god Rama with fetching the founded several social organiza- Special Judge Anekar will start and a Tata Sumo on the Chandwad- for a mythical plant believed to The minister said the search herb after a healer said it would tions to help fight for the rights of hearing the arguments on the quan- Manmad highway near Aurangabad hold life-saving properties, a local will focus on the Dronagiri range cure his dying brother Laxman. indigenous people. tum of punishment for the convicts on May 8, 2006. They apprehended minister said yesterday. Uttara- of Himalayas near the Chinese But Hanuman failed to iden- Devi was the recipient of sev- from today between the lawyers of three suspects from the Tata Sumo khand will spend 250 million border, one mountain of which is tity the plant, instead uprooting eral awards including several of the convicts and the Special Pub- -- Mohammed Aamir Shakil Ahmed, rupees ($37 million) of state money mentioned in the epic Ramayana the entire mountain and carrying India’s highest civilian and literary lic Prosecutor Vaibhav Bagade and Juber Sayed Anwar and Abdulazeem hunting the herb Sanjeevani Booti, as being the site where the magical it thousands of miles to treat the awards. In 1997 she was awarded lawyer Abhijee Mantri. Abduljameel Shaikh -- while the which is credited in the ancient herb grows. “We have set an initial mortally injured prince during a the Ramon Magsaysay award, a There were a total of 22 accused Tata Indica, allegedly driven by Abu Hindu text Ramayana with restor- budget of 250 million rupees ($37 war with demons in what is now Philippine honor considered the who were charged with procuring Jundal, managed to give the slip. ing life to the brother of a god. million) for the project,” Negi said. Sri Lanka. Asian Nobel Prize. a huge amount of explosives, arms In all, a total of 16 AK47 army While many wild plants with Scientists will start work in India’s 5,000-year-old medi- Her citation for the Magsaysay and ammunition, and allegedly assault rifles, 3,200 live cartridges, medicinal properties grow in the August, the minister said, add- cine system Ayurveda uses herbs award recognized her “compas- planned to target various political 43 kg of RDX and 50 hand grenades Himalayas, there is scant evi- ing that the central government to cure ailments and has seen sionate crusade through art and leaders for their role in the 2002 were sized from Khultabad, Yeola dence that the plant ever existed, has refused to fund the project. a revival under Prime Minister activism to claim for tribal peo- Gujarat riots. The trial, which had and Malegaon areas on two sepa- with sages and modern researchers Ancient texts say the plant has Narendra Modi’s government. ples a just and honorable place in resumed in 2013 after the arrest rate occasions by the ATS. India’s national life.” Parliament HC refuses to put on hold passes Lokpal Daya Shankar’s arrest IANS A bench of Justice Ajay Lamba and Justice Ravindra Nath Mishra (IInd) fixed amendment bill August 8 as the next date of hearing of LUCKNOW: The Lucknow bench of the the case. IANS Allahabad High Court yesterday refused Daya Shankar Singh had approached to quash the FIR lodged against former the high court seeking to quash the FIR BJP state Vice-President Daya Shankar against him and also to put on hold his Singh and asked the state government impending arrest, which seems imminent NEW DELHI: A bill to amend the to respond to a petition moved by the as a lower court has issued a non-baila- Lokpal and Lokayukta Act, 2013, leader now in the eye of a controversy. ble warrant against him. was passed by parliament yesterday doing away with the time limit for pub- lic servants to furnish details of their assets and liabilities, which as per the original act was July 31 every year. The Lokpal and Lokayukta (Amendment) Bill, 2016, which was passed by the Lok Sabha on Wednes- day, was passed by the upper house yesterday. It allows extension of the time Kashmiri protesters clash with security forces in downtown Srinagar, yesterday. given to public servants and trustees and board members of NGOs, receiv- ing government funds of more than Rs 1 crore or foreign funding of more than Rs 10 lakh, to declare their assets Rajnath to visit Pakistan and those of their spouses. Speaking on the bill, Minister for Personnel, Public Grievances and Agencies Pensions Jitendra Singh said the gov- Curfew continues in 3 ernment had no intention to dilute the Lokpal bill. NEW DELHI: India’s home minister will travel to “The message should also not go Pakistan next week for a one-day regional meet- south Kashmir districts out that members have joined together ing, New Delhi said yesterday, as tensions flare to get away from provision of stating between the nuclear-armed rivals over unrest in KASHMIR: Authorities yesterday con- their assets. It is also a fact under the disputed Kashmir. tinued curfew only in three south Representation of People Act what Rajnath Singh will attend a meeting of home Kashmir districts of Anantnag, Kulgam we are declaring is much more than ministers from countries belonging to the South and Pulwama. “Curfew will continue in any other class or section of society,” Asian Association for Regional Cooperation Anantnag, Kulgam and Pulwama dis- the minister said. He added that the (SAARC) in Islamabad but will not hold a one-on- tricts. Restrictions have been imposed in amendment is needed as the deadline one with his Pakistani counterpart, the Indian Shopian, Kupwara and Sopore towns,” a for declaration was just two days away. foreign ministry said. senior police official said. Congress leader Anand Sharma, It comes days after India lashed out at Paki- “Prohibitory orders under section 144 participating in the short-duration stan, accusing its neighbour of fanning violent continue to remain in force in Srinagar debate on the bill, urged the govern- protests in Kashmir that have claimed more than city,” he added. ment to fulfill the task of appointing 50 lives this month. Lokpal. “There is no such proposal (for a bilateral “This bill is being passed to have meeting),” foreign ministry spokesman Vikas December, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi time to reach clarity and there is no Swarup said in New Delhi. paid a visit to his Pakistani counterpart Nawaz intent to dilute the bill. It is important “We want a peaceful, cooperative relation with Sharif with a view to restarting a stalled dialogue. for the entire house to bear in mind Pakistan. We are prepared to discuss all outstand- But planned peace talks were postponed after this country has seen enough turbu- ing issues with Pakistan but in an atmosphere free seven Indian soldiers died when an air base came lence. There was agitation, there was of terror and violence,” he said, without specifying under attack in January, which New Delhi blamed demand and then this bill was brought. which issues would be raised in the August 4 meet- on a banned Pakistan-based group. It is incumbent on the present gov- ing. The SAARC group includes India, Pakistan, Kashmir has seen massive protests since the ernment to complete the process and Nepal, the Maldives, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Afghan- killing on July 8 of popular young rebel leader Bur- appoint Lokpal, so the purpose of law istan and Bangladesh. In a surprise move last han Wani in a gunfight with soldiers. is achieved,” Sharma said. 08 FRIDAY 29 JULY 2016 VIEWS

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EDITORIAL In terror crosshairs South Sudan: Flimsy compromises

he fear that Europe would become the playground of Islamist extremists has largely come true. First it was France that was shaken by attacks. Now it’s Germany. are to be blamed for the crisis Not that the continent’s name grabbed international headlines suddenly. TThe tension had started building earlier — when masses of refugees and asylum seekers in 2015 headed for the industrial with those seen as “Arabs” given services to South Sudan. The powerhouse in the hope of a better life, away from the shelling preferential treatment over those financial mismanagement of perceived to be “Africans”. The latest political the state resources and oil reve- and bombardment in Syria, Iraq and Afghanistan. Many The cessation of South Sudan developments are nues has crippled any possibility Europeans, mostly those in Germany, had been worrying about from Sudan received an over- going to escalate of economic resurrection. the uncontrolled flow of migrants from the Middle East, but whelming majority support from This is further exacerbated would not voice their concerns for the fear of sounding politically the Southerners, 99% voted in tensions in the by the lack of appropriate skills incorrect. Then came the 2016 New Year’s Eve attacks. A number favor. It has been argued that region which is still to manage government and the of German women revelers were groped and assaulted by the separation legitimised reli- economy. According to Al Jazeera gious and racial intolerance and recovering from English the public debt in South ‘Middle Eastern looking’ men. This created a media storm across tribalism in Sudan, a serious decades of war and Sudan have climbed from zero at the continent. indictment on the leaderships its independence in 2011 to $4.2bn Since the assaults didn’t have By Thembisa Fakude of Sudan and indeed that of the political instability. as of June 2016. anything to do with terror, concern was Al Jazeera African Union (AU). Both lead- This is the second The continued involvement Spike in mostly confined to fear of weakening erships allowed a detrimental resumption of of Sudan particularly in the oil attacks shows law and order. Before that, France political precedence in a conti- profit sharing could never be had already passed through the nent riddled by tribalism. hostilities between discounted as a contributing fac- Europe has In December 2013 the rift the two parties tor to the political woes of South shock of Bataclan massacre. Three outh Sudan recently between President Salva Kiir and Sudan. to live with extremists shot dead close to 90 people replaced the First Vice Riek Machar led to a political con- since the birth of The Agreement on Wealth terror in the in the Bataclan concert hall in Paris President of the coun- flict between forces loyal to SPLM the new nation. Sharing (AWS) was an impor- near future. on November 13, 2015. The attack try Dr Riek Machar after and SPLM – I O. In an attempt to tant component of the She failed to report to duty as stabilize and avoid state collapse Comprehensive Peace Agree- shocked the nation and revived fears of terrorism in a nation still coming to “demanded” by President Salva an agreement sponsored by the ment signed between the Kiir. Machar has been missing since neighboring states, AU and the UN national political dialogue. governments of Sudan and terms with the Charlie Hebdo attack. the start of the renewed conflict was reached in Addis Ababa on 17 The political agreement in South Sudan in 2005. Earlier this month, a carnage in Nice jolted the nation yet in the capital Juba on 07 July 2016. August 2015. South Sudan allowed the exist- The ongoing sociopolitical again. A Tunisian truck driver ploughed his refrigerator truck The renewed conflict erupted Included in the agreement ence of two military forces each interruptions in South Sudan into crowds celebrating the Bastille Day on the French Rivera between the forces of the was a “political compromise” loyal to SPLM and SPLM – I 0 benefit Sudan, the creator of this in the southern town. Horrific scenes of people being run over Sudanese People’s Liberation which allowed for the reap- respectively. This reality has political chaos. by the giant vehicle greeted the world on a day the French feted Movement (SPLM) and Sudanese pointment of Dr Riek Machar contributed to the ongoing con- What is clear is that Liberty, equality and fraternity. People’s Liberation Movement as the First Deputy President of flict in that country and has entrenched tribalism and adverse In Opposition (SPLM - I O) liv- South Sudan. slowed down the democratiza- political compromises are the Terror had swaddled Europe, and France was at the ing scores of people dead and Unfortunately political com- tion process. main obstacles towards a pros- receiving end. A spate of attacks in Germany has renewed fears injured. President Salvo Kiir promises in Africa through Sadly the political and eco- perous South Sudan. of terrorism crossing the borders from France. A gruesome “demanded” on 21 July 2016 governments of national unity nomic stalemate has negatively These obstacles were taken axe attack on a Bavaria subway train by an Afghan lad made that Machar return to Juba to have failed to yield political sta- affected millions of South Suda- for granted by all stakeholders it hard for Germans to look at the future without fear. Then, a work with him towards rebuild- bility. It was only in South Africa nese who are languishing in who were part of the formation gun assault on shoppers in Munich that claimed nine lives was ing peace, he gave Machar 48 and to an extent Kenya where this refugee camps in neighboring of the state of South Sudan. hours to respond to the initiative. political experiment succeeded. Uganda. thought to be another Islamist gun assault. It was, however, The failure by Machar to meet Key to its failure is tribalism and In conclusion, the United The writer is a Researcher at found that it was the handiwork of a deranged man and had no the 23 July 2016 deadline led to the unwillingness by parties Nations (UN) agencies currently Directorate Studies Centre, Islamist connection. But when a Syrian man blew himself up the appointment of Taban Deng involved to embrace genuine provide 80 percent of basic Aljazeera Network. in Germany and IS-inspired terrorists slaughtered a priest in Gai, a former chief negotiator of a church in France, it was clear Europe had come to deal with the SPLM - I O as the Acting First militancy on a sustained basis. Vice-President. Mr Taban Deng German Chancellor Angela Merkel has admitted Germany is Gai was recently fired by Riek Machar as the chief negotiator of in the throes of Islamist militancy, but she doesn’t want to change SPLM I O after reports emerged her refugee policy. European leaders will have to close ranks and that he had defected to the SPLM. crack down hard on such terror. These latest political devel- opments are going to escalate tensions in the region which is still recovering from decades of war and political instability. This is the second resumption of hos- tilities between the two parties since the birth of the new nation. Quote of the day The first conflict resulted in thou- sands of people killed and over 1.6 Wherever there are gaps, million displaced. we will have to act so The creation of the state that it is clear that we are of South Sudan was based on doing everything humanly flimsy political compromises. South Sudan seceded from possible to ensure security Sudan on 09 July 2011 follow- in our free, democratic ing years of war and political state of law. discontent. At the heart of the war were accusations of religious intoler- Angela Merkel ance, racism and lack of service German Chancellor delivery. According to the BBC South Sudan’s President Salva Kiir (right) embraces Taban Deng Gai after his swearing-in ceremony the cessation was more closely linked to ethnic discrimination, as First Vice President at the Presidential Palace in the capital of Juba, South Sudan.

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justice and violence. He even fell back on the phrase that he took from his contro- versial preacher back during his Chicago days, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright, and said he still believed in “the audacity of hope.” Twelve years. Four conventions. A political lifetime. It was at the Democratic convention only a dozen years ago that Obama rocketed onto the national polit- ical scene with that keynote address for John Kerry. Then, he was nothing more than a state legislator from Illinois who had polished the speech that would By David Maraniss make him famous while hiding out in The Washington Post the men’s room at the rear of the Senate chambers at the state capitol in Spring- field — scratching out phrases on a yellow s the final act of the night, at a pad, sneaking a smoke, taking advice on few minutes before 11, Presi- the phone, and rehearsing his delivery as dent Barack Obama made his he gazed into a bathroom mirror. way to the podium in his cool “I was so young that first time in and easy basketball-player Boston,” Obama said Wednesday night. Agait, waving and smiling and washing in “Maybe a little nervous addressing such the glow of an adoring crowd that was a big crowd.” shouting the chant that brought him into From hello in Boston to goodbye in office: “Yes, we can.” Philadelphia. From the fresh face with Then he launched into a speech that a peculiar name to the gray-haired vet- demonstrated that he could — give one eran with perhaps the most famous name more memorable speech. It was, at once, in the world. From the optimism of no- a thorough defense of his administra- red-states-no-blue-states rhetoric to tion, an ode to the idea that democracy the hardened realism shaped by a long is hard but works and that diversity is partisan struggle. From introducing him- the essence of the American ideal, an self as a symbol of American diversity attack on what he called the dark and to becoming a target of bogus birther- pessimistic vision of Donald Trump and ism propagated by, among others, this the Republicans, a gesture to the Bernie year’s Republican nominee for president. Sanders contingent by saying he felt Over the first 10 minutes, Obama the Bern, and a rousing endorsement presented the case for the progress his of Hillary Clinton that reached his most administration had made since he took US President Barack Obama addresses the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia. preacherly cadences as he said he was office in January 2009. He portrayed a “ready to pass the baton.” vision of an America that was “full of “one of the finest presidents we have ever hotels all through the week. when Obama was crafting his Boston It was part valedictory, part sermon, optimism and courage” and contrasted had” — words that echoed through the Helen Norwood and Eddie Mae Hend- speech in the men’s room. part campaign stem-winder, and in total it with what he called the “darkly pessi- arena at about the same time that Air erson rode 12 hours on a packed bus from The characteristics that Obama later it added up to the full Obama, a deeper mistic vision” the Republicans presented Force One touched down at Philadel- Chicago with an entourage of Illinois del- showed the world as president, his cool- and more experienced bookend to the in Cleveland last week. phia International Airport. egates and friends to be here to witness ness under pressure and lack of drama, speech he delivered in Boston 12 years “We don’t look to be ruled,” Obama Biden’s speech was so fiery and quin- Obama’s farewell. They live on the South were apparent in Springfield, Clayborne ago that introduced him to the national said. Then he turned the page, and made tessentially Bidenesque in its regular-guy Side, in the neighborhoods of Hyde Park said, and would be missed. “But it is time scene. He at once presented the clear- the case for Hillary Clinton, saying that bluntness — with its riffs on “Not a Clue” and North Kenwood, where the regular to look forward and not look backwards. est statement of his political philosophy no one who has come before, not himself Donald Trump and evocation of selfless city bus they ride rolls right past Obama’s Our best days are ahead.” and attached it to the woman he wants or Bill Clinton, had ever been more qual- teachers and the middle class and peo- old house. It was an open secret for much of to succeed him. ified to be president. ple who like him have endured profound Norwood is 92; Henderson the young- 2016 that Obama — while staying neutral There were elements or echoes of In his full-throated endorsement of personal loss - that it almost seemed to ster at 83. Both said they have been until it was almost over — leaned heav- almost every notable speech Obama had Clinton, who has become the embod- render Obama’s words, however elo- surprised by history in their lives. Nei- ily toward Clinton in her match against ever delivered somewhere in this conven- iment of his legacy, Obama was in a quent, subordinate, if not redundant. ther expected to live long enough to see Sanders, and that he saw her as the tion address. He evoked his parents and sense returning a major favor, marking Before the traditional hagiographic a black president, and now that Obama potential successor who could reaffirm grandparents again, as he had during that a new phase in the uneven relationship video that introduced him, replete with is almost gone, their feelings about him and strengthen his presidential legacy. early keynote in Boston, adding the jok- between the two first families of the his decision to go after Osama bin Laden have intensified. And though his relationship with both Bill ing jibe at Trump and the birthers that he Democratic Party. and his powerful singing of “Amazing “I’m proud of him as a president and Hillary had been decidedly uneven, did not know whether his ancestors on Four years ago it was Bill Clinton bail- Grace” at the funeral of shooting victims and as a black man who has attained time and circumstances tempered most his mother’s side who arrived in Amer- ing out Obama, delivering a speech in in South Carolina, Obama was praised by that position,” Norwood said, resting in if not all the hard feelings going back to ica 200 years ago had birth certificates. Charlotte that explained the Obama pres- a woman few had heard of before. Sha- the lobby of the delegation hotel across the bruising primary campaign of 2008. He drew on the speeches he delivered idency and framed the issues against the ron Belkofer, a mother, grandmother and from Philadelphia’s city hall on the eve The onetime foes became adminis- in Philadelphia and Selma and Charles- Republicans in a way that the president great-grandmother from Ohio who talked of Obama’s speech. tration allies when Obama persuaded her ton to evoke his feelings about race and himself could not do. His voice hoarse, his of losing her son in Afghanistan and of “I’m proud of him for what he’s done to serve as his secretary of state, and they message clear and aimed directly at the the two warm hugs the president gave and how he did it. And I’m very proud of came to realize that they shared many middle class, Bill Clinton dominated the her and how he had inspired her to run his wife. They are representative of what common characteristics. While Bill Clin- stage and energized a convention crowd for local office at age 73. America stands for.” ton was protean and natural, Hillary and Obama’s role at the convention this that had seemed frustrated and confused, Nominating conventions are sup- “Boy, we are going to miss him,” Barack were more studious, cautious, set week draws a direct line back to the searching for the winning case. posed to be about the future, not the Henderson said. “He could talk to peo- in their ways, preferring the rational over Now it was the turn of the Obamas. past, even when the vision of the future ple on the street or world leaders. He was the emotional. first time he helped the Clintons, in Michelle came to Hillary’s defense on revolves around such a familiar figure as just down to earth.” All three of them were once law pro- 1992, before they even knew who he Monday night with an impassioned Hillary Clinton. In that sense this is not Even in the Illinois delegation, which fessors, but while Bill Clinton was prone speech that quieted an unruly crowd and Obama’s convention. He is not yet past, along with Hawaii could claim Obama as to losing final exams on a plane and was. The baton now passed, Obama changed the mood inside the arena, and though on his way. a hometown kid, there were some who giving all his students A’s, because they offered one last phrase of gratitude. two nights later here came the president. But for many delegates here, it is the said that although they would miss him might be voting for him some day, Hillary His way was paved by Vice President very realisation that his time is almost they were ready to move on. One was and Barack took the job more earnestly “Thank you,” he said, “for this Joe Biden, his loyal right-hand man, who up that imbued his appearance with an James Clayborne, Democratic major- and were more likely to be hired as full incredible journey.” earlier in the night had called him “the extra measure of wistfulness, a sensibil- ity leader in the Illinois Senate, who had professors if they had continued in their embodiment of character and honor” and ity that was also evident in the delegate served in that chamber back in the days academic careers. Hinckley shot my father but I am not surprised by his release

but I’m not at all comfortable with his then 85-year-old mother, or a of his actions.” He also wanted me I will forever be haunted by that the decision. To me, it doesn’t rep- sibling, whenever he went out, and to meet with Hinckley and offer him cold afternoon, when my father resent justice as much as it does his was required to carry a GPS-enabled forgiveness. I didn’t put this exchange almost died, when Jim Brady (my efforts to methodically wait out and mobile phone. in my article, but Levine said to me, father’s press secretary at the time, wear down the system. But now what he’s been working “The pope forgave the man who shot who died in 2014) lay in a pool of In 2000, I wrote a piece for Time toward all these years has happened: him.” I replied, “That’s why he’s the blood and two other men — Thomas magazine about Hinckley’s first A man who shot four people, includ- pope and I’m not.” Delahanty and Timothy McCarthy — attempt to get approval for unsu- ing the President of the United States, To review, while at Saint were gravely wounded. If Hinckley pervised visits to his parents’ home will be granted his freedom. He’ll Elizabeth’s, Hinckley attempted cor- is haunted by anything, I believe, it’s in Williamsburg, Virginia. He was have to check in with his doctors, respondence with mass murderers that he didn’t succeed in his mission A man who shot four already allowed supervised day trips and he’ll have to live with his now Ted Bundy and Charles Manson. He’s to assassinate the president. people, including away from the grounds of Washing- 90-year-old mother — who’ll hardly had girlfriends, most notably Leslie Now, though, he’s getting what By Patti Davis ton’s St Elizabeth’s Hospital. It was be able to confine him or cramp his deVeau, who killed her 10-year-old he’s patiently waited for: freedom. In the President of The Washington Post a lengthy article for which I inter- style, given her advanced age. His daughter in 1982 with a 12-gauge 1982, when the verdict came down the United States, viewed Hinckley’s attorney, Barry doctors have said that his psychosis shotgun while the girl slept, then — not guilty by reason of insanity - will be granted Levine, as well as a federal prose- and depression have been in remis- tried to kill herself but only man- the nation was shocked. CBS News hen President Ronald Rea- cutor and a Secret Service agent who sion for decades, and his narcissistic aged to shoot off her left arm. Mostly, anchor Dan Rather said on his nightly his freedom. gan — my father — was would only speak on background. personality disorder has lessened Hinckley’s been patient. broadcast, “If John Hinckley has the Over the years, Wlying in a hospital bed The piece got a lot of media atten- — but that’s quite a feat, since the He was also patient on March 30, 1981. will and the way, he will probably Hinckley’s freedom recovering from the gunshots that tion, prompting Levine to withdraw disorder has no known cure. Around 1:45 pm, he waved as my father down the road ask to be released nearly killed him, he said, “I know my his request for the unsupervised vis- When I interviewed Levine, stepped out of his limousine and walked from St Elizabeth’s on the grounds was increased ability to heal depends on my will- its. But I knew he was only biding his I found him to be loquacious to a into the Washington Hilton to deliver a that he is no longer dangerous. And incrementally so ingness to forgive John Hinckley.” I, time. He would wait until people for- fault. He expounded upon Hinckley’s speech. Then he waited. He had a girl in sooner or later, a panel of experts that by 2011, 30 too, believe in forgiveness. But for- got and then try again. remorse, the hard work he’d done at mind he wanted to impress. Surely, Jody may nod and say yes.” I remember giving someone in your heart doesn’t That’s exactly what he did, and he St Elizabeth’s and his miraculous Foster would notice him if he assassi- getting chilled when I heard Rath- years after the mean that you let them loose in Vir- succeeded. Over the years, Hinckley’s recovery. He said Hinckley “regrets nated the president. About 40 minutes er’s commentary all those years ago. shooting, Hinckley ginia to pursue whatever dark agenda freedom was increased incremen- this event more than anything. He later, when my father walked back out- Something in me knew he was right was regularly they may still hold dear. tally so that by 2011, 30 years after is haunted by what he did — more side, Hinckley yelled, “President Reagan! even though everything in me hoped I have no choice but to resign the shooting, Hinckley was regularly so than when he was sick and didn’t President Reagan!” Then he crouched like he was wrong. I’m not surprised by visiting his mother myself to the fact of Hinckley’s visiting his mother in Williamsburg. fully understand what he had done. a marksman and fired six shots, changing this latest development, but my heart in Williamsburg. release, announced earlier today, He had to be accompanied by either Now he understands the stark horror four lives in a matter of minutes. is sickened.

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Ireland plans May wants bespoke model of Brexit ‘soft-border’ with UK after getting the best possible deal on trade in goods and services,” May said. The British Prime In searching to solve the riddle Brexit Minister met her of how to restrict EU migrants’ free- dom to live and work in Britain but Slovak counterpart retain access to the EU’s single mar- Reuters Robert Fico in ket for goods and services, politicians have picked over how other outsid- Bratislava. ers interact with the bloc. DUBLIN: Ireland is planning a Britain could try to join Euro- system of electronic border sur- pean Economic Area or European veillance that it hopes will prevent Reuters Free Trade Association, forging a having to erect physical barriers close partnership similar to those with Northern Ireland when Brit- that Norway, Switzerland or Iceland ain leaves the European Union, its have with the EU. customs service said yesterday. BRATISLAVA: Britain wants a While that might please the EU, The unexpected result of bespoke model for its future ties with May would have to persuade Brexit the June 23 referendum created the European Union, Prime Minister voters to agree to EU budget con- a delicate problem for Ireland, Theresa May said yesterday, adding tributions and migrants that are which will remain in free-trade, that its exit deal must address British accepted by some of those countries. free-movement bloc and has the voters’ concerns over immigration. Crucially it would also lack kind only land border with the United Speaking after a meeting with of EU market access for services Kingdom. Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico which is so important to Britain’s The governments of Brit- in Bratislava —the latest in a flurry big financial sector. ain and Ireland, countries with of diplomatic visits following Brit- Slovakia holds presidency of EU a close but troubled history, have ain’s June 23 decision to leave the EU Council until the end of the year. That both said they do not want to put - May stressed the need to have an gives the country an enlarged role border posts back on roads into open mind about what deal could be in responding to the initial shock of Northern Ireland, a partly self- British Prime Minister Theresa May (left) and Slovak Prime Minister Robert Fico pose for the media prior to struck on the key issues of free move- Britain’s vote to leave that has thrown governing UK province. ment and trade. up questions about the bloc’s future. their meeting in Bratislava, yesterday. While Britain is keen to secure “We should be driven by what is Fico said the European Union some kind of free-trade deal with in best interests of the UK and what seemed to be falling in love with itself new project of mutual relations, a not trigger the formal Article 50 exit “I have always said ... the EU the EU, exactly how that would is going to work for the European and needed to use the time before project that will be equally attrac- process before the end of the year. seems to be falling in love with work, and what would be the new Union, not by the models that already Britain formally starts divorce pro- tive both to the citizens of the United Fico said the intervening period itself,” he said. “We wanted to be the rules for people moving in and out exist,” she told a news conference. ceedings to create a new vision of Kingdom and the European Union,” should be used to reflect not only best in the world. But it seems many of the country, Ireland is prepar- “We need to find a solution that Europe. Fico said. upon Britain’s future ties, but for the regions in th world are far ahead of ing for at least some changes. addresses the concerns of the British “This is an opportunity for both Seeking time to prepare its nego- rest of the bloc to reassess its global us. Let’s use Brexit as a good occa- “Even if there is a free-trade people about free movement while sides to reimagine and redesign a tiating stance, May said Britain would position. sion to reevaluate this.” agreement, we will still need to know what is being traded, what is crossing the border,” Irish Cus- toms Deputy Director General Anthony Buckley said in Dublin. UK court rules in Customs staff are evaluat- France to form National Guard to fight terror ing technologies such as traffic favour of Labour surveillance and computerised pre-authorisation of importers leader Corbyn Agencies among the three groups. Meanwhile, Hollande fired back and exporters. “In autumn, we In this framework, some 15,000 at comments by US Republican pres- begin serious work ... we reckon operational reservists should be idential nominee Donald Trump it will take us two or three years AP available by the end of the month “to that “France was no longer France” to build,” Buckley said. PARIS: President Francois Hollande ensure security for various events of after a slew of militant attacks, say- So-called “soft-border” (pictured) yesterday confirmed plans the summer,” Hollande said while on ing France would always stay true infrastructure is already used in LONDON: Britain’s High Court to set up a National Guard drawn from a visit to southwestern France. to its values. Norway, Sweden and Switzerland, yesterday struck down an attempt existing reserves to help security forces Earlier this month he said the “France is no longer France. and Ireland is looking at similar to remove the head of the coun- combat terror attacks on French soil. defence ministry would call up 28,000 They won’t like me for saying that,” technologies, he said. try’s divided Labour opposition A “defence council” to be held reservists for the coming weeks, while Trump told reporters in Miami on “A truck should be able to party from a contest for the par- early next month will hammer out the paramilitary police will tap an Wednesday. “And this world bet- drive from Cork to Belfast without ty’s leadership. the force’s hierarchy and command extra 10,000 men and women who ter be very careful and the better stopping,” Buckley said, adding he Labour lawmakers are trying structure, Hollande’s office said in retired less than two years ago. get very tough and they’ll never do was confident permanent border to unseat leader Jeremy Corbyn, a a statement. In January he called for the it with (Democratic nominee) Hil- posts would not be required for 67-year-old left-winger consid- Parliamentary consultations will number of army reserves to be lary Clinton.” customs purposes. ered unelectable by the party’s follow in September in the hope that Calls arose for the National boosted from the current 28,000 to Brushing off Trump’s words, Hol- Britain’s ambassador to Ire- more centrist members. “this force can be created as fast as Guard following the November 40,000 by 2019. lande told reporters France would land, Dominick Chilcott, said he The party’s simmering crisis possible to protect the French”. 13 jihadist massacre in Paris that France has not had a national always remain true to its values and was hopeful there would be no was brought to the boil by Britain’s The announcement came after claimed 130 lives. guard since 1872. ideals. need to limit free movement of June 23 vote to leave the European France suffered two attacks in less Hollande said he hopes the guard, Members of the very first one, “When you stoop low you’re people between Britain and Ire- Union. Many Labour legisla- than a fortnight this month—in a made up of volunteers from police, formed in 1789 at the outset of the not true to yourself anymore, that’s land, neither of which are part of tors accuse Corbyn of running a bloody series that began with the Jan- paramilitary police and military, will French Revolution over fears of a something that can happen to oth- the EU’s Schengen passport-free lackluster campaign in favor of uary 2015 Charlie Hebdo killings—and be operational by early autumn. royalist coup, wore a blue, white and ers on the other side of the Atlantic,” travel area. But, he said , avoid- EU membership, and passed a the government has come under fierce Hollande had previously con- red rosette on their hats—the origin Hollande said, without directly men- ing some controls on the trade of no-confidence vote in him after criticism for alleged security lapses. sidered boosting existing reserves of the French national colours. tioning Trump. goods would be “more difficult”. the “leave” campaign won last month’s referendum. Corbyn, who was elected leader less than a year ago by a large majority of party members, Masterpieces on display Migrants recall has refused to resign. Labour legislator Owen Smith is running against Corbyn in an election that will be decided by horrors of voyage half a million party members and supporters. One party donor, Michael Fos- Reuters they arrive pregnant. Children are ter, went to court, arguing Corbyn’s beaten and often traumatised when name should not be on the ballot they arrive. We want them to be because he did not get backing from aware of the risks.” 51 Labour members of Parliament ROME: Italy launched an internet, Italy’s Interior Ministry funded — a threshold Smith had to meet. TV and radio campaign yesterday and developed, with help from the But the judge, David to discourage Africans from set- IOM, the “Aware Migrants” cam- Foskett, sided with Labour’s exec- ting out on the often deadly voyage paign to convince migrants to stay utive, saying the nomination rule to Europe, including real migrants home as both the number of arriv- applied only to challengers, and telling their often harrowing stories. als and deaths climb. as the incumbent, “Corbyn was In one of the video clips posted “It’s time to open your eyes,” is entitled to be on the ballot paper on YouTube, Facebook and the the theme of the campaign, which without need to obtain any level of awaremigrants.org website, Cesar cost €1.5m ($1.7m) and was con- nominations.” Foster did not seek says he almost died of exposure at ducted in three languages - Arabic, permission to appeal the judgment. sea after his boat drifted for three English and French. Corbyn welcomed the rul- days, while in another Jessica tells Each video testimony of about ing, saying the lawsuit had been how she escaped an abuse attack. one minute ends with the migrant “a waste of time and resources “It’s a road that leads to hell,” looking into the camera and warn- when our party should be focused Tschamba says in another of the 80 ing a possible future traveller, “Be on holding the government to videos. When he refused to board aware, brother” or “Be aware, account.” The result of leader- A person looks at sepultures during the press visit of the exhibition “Masterpieces of Japanese Buddhist a boat with his wife and child, a sister”. ship election will be announced sculpture” at the Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome, yesterday. Libyan smuggler said he would Migrant deaths in the Mediter- September 24. kill him and dump his body in the ranean have already reached 3,000 desert if he did not. Unable to pro- this year, the IOM has said, and Italy tect his family from danger, “I held has taken in about 90,000 newcom- my baby and I cried and I cried and ers so far in 2016. Almost 140,000 I cried,” he says. asylum seekers are being housed in Oxford museum exhibits roast under cleaned glass roof Italy remains on front line of a shelters around the country. migrant crisis now in its third year, “The campaign says, ‘You, with more than 400,000 migrants migrant, you are chasing your Reuters The Oxford University Museum of with removal of dirt and grime has whale skeletons were among the arriving by boat since the beginning dream but you run the risk of liv- Natural History now plans to apply a resulted in a significant increase in exhibits at risk. of 2014. The majority of migrants ing a nightmare,’” Interior Minister solar reflective film to the glass roof UV levels,” the museum said in a The solution proposed is only a arriving in Italy come from Africa, Angelino Alfano told reporters. to reduce temperatures which have planning application to Oxford City first step. The new anti-UV film will and many— 60 percent last year - Often migrants who have made LONDON: Exhibits including dino- peaked at 44 degrees Celsius. Council, which has to approve the reduce UV radiation by 99.9 percent, do not qualify for refugee status. the trip do not tell their friends and saur skeletons and rare taxidermy The museum cleaned and repaired plan to solve the problem. Oxford University said, but will do “Women and children suffer the relatives at home the truth about specimens are being destroyed its Victorian glass roof in 2012-2013 “The extreme light and UV levels little to lower the temperature, which most,” Federico Soda, Mediterra- their hardships, both because they because of scorching temperatures in spending £2m, a process that included are also causing rapid and irrevers- is also a factor in the damage to nean director of the International have spent a lot of money on the an Oxford museum after it restored removal of an old anti-ultra violet (UV) ible damage to specimens, in short exhibits. To bring the mercury down, Organisation for Migration (IOM), journey and because telling the its 19th century glass roof, letting in film that had become degraded. they are being destroyed,” it said, the university is working on plans told reporters. truth of their suffering can be psy- more sunlight. “The removal of film together adding scientifically important for a new air-conditioning system. “Women are abused, and often chologically difficult, Soda said. EUROPE FRIDAY 29 JULY 2016 11 Germany will manage challenge after attacks: Merkel

that Germany will “stick to our prin- further measures are necessary,” other feelings,” she said. ciples” and give shelter to those who Merkel said. She added that Germany Merkel repeated unbidden her The recent attacks deserve it. “We will manage this,” she owes that to the victims, their rela- insistence that Germany “will man- brought fresh said, repeating a mantra she coined tives, its own security and also “to all age” the challenges of the day — a criticism for the last August. the many innocent refugees.” phrase she first used at last summer’s Merkel called for a better “early “That two men who came to us as annual news conference. Chancellor’s decision warning system” against signs of refugees are responsible for the acts “I didn’t say 11 months ago that last year to welcome radicalisation, faster progress on in Wuerzburg and Ansbach mocks it would be an easy thing we could plans to create a centre to help crack the country that took them in,” Mer- manage in passing, otherwise I refugees. encrypted messages and better inter- kel said. “It mocks the helpers who took wouldn’t have had to say that sen- national intelligence cooperation, so much care of refugees and it mocks tence,” she said. “But I am, today as among other measures. But she said many other refugees who really seek I was then, convinced we will man- AP it’s too early to say what more may be help against violence and war.” age to do justice to our historic task ... required beyond tightening of asylum The chancellor cut short her we will also deal with the new chal- and security laws already undertaken vacation to schedule her annual lenge we now face, Islamist terror.” in recent months. summer news conference — only her “I think refusing humanitar- BERLIN: Chancellor Angela Merkel “Wherever there are gaps, we second public appearance in the past ian responsibility would have had pledged yesterday to do “everything will have to act — just as we have week. She had faced criticism from just as many, or perhaps completely humanly possible” to keep Germany so far—so that it is clear that we are opponents for her muted response to different but in any case very bad, safe following a string of attacks doing everything humanly possible the four attacks. consequences for us that I would — including two carried out by asylum- to ensure security in our free, demo- Merkel dismissed criticism of not risk and could not recommend seekers and claimed by the Islamic cratic state of law,” Merkel said. that, noting that she will attend a to Germany,” Merkel said. German Chancellor Angela Merkel speaks at a press conference in State group that she said mocked the Germany was hit by four attacks memorial service in Munich on Sun- Earlier yesterday, officials in Berlin, yesterday. country that took in the assailants. in the recent past. day, and rejected the notion that she Bavaria — the scene of three of the four The attacks brought Merkel fresh “We will do everything to clear might personally feel any guilt about attacks, pledged to hire hundreds of following the four attacks. police officers by 2020, improve criticism for her decision last year to up the barbaric acts, find the people the attacks. extra police officers and urged tougher Bavarian Interior Minister police officers’ equipment and create welcome refugees. behind them and punish them, and “I have the feeling that I am act- background checks on asylum-seekers Joachim Herrmann said his state new offices to fight Muslim extrem- Merkel said at a news conference then we will have to decide where ing responsibly and correctly, and no as they presented an anti-terror plan would hire some 2,000 additional ism and cybercrime. Snowplough driver admits guilt in fatal Total boss jet crash France names second

AFP Three air traffic controllers lawyer Leonid Kurakin told journal- director-general due to give testi- who worked that night at the air- ists at the court. mony, lawyers said. church attacker port pleaded not guilty on the same Investigators said the air traffic De Margerie, who was 63, led charges, which carry up to seven controllers failed to warn the pilots Europe’s third-largest oil company— MOSCOW: A Russian snowplough years in jail. that the snowplough had moved on and France’s biggest in terms of sales AFP government, determined to act”. driver yesterday pleaded guilty to Investigators said the Falcon- to the runway even though they had and profits—for seven years. The French government has causing the fatal 2014 Moscow air- 50EX plane crashed after slamming time to do so. The charismatic business leader assured the country that every- port jet crash that killed the head of into snowplough which had driven The defendants sat with bowed nicknamed “the moustache” had thing possible is being done to French oil giant Total. onto the runway in breach of rules. heads as the judge read out the close ties to Russia. PARIS: The second jihadist involved protect citizens, while warning that Total chairman and CEO Chris- The snowplough driver—who charges, watched by some 20 rela- De Margerie had met then prime in a French church attack had more terror attacks are inevitable, tophe de Margerie, two pilots and a was 60 at the time—had told inves- tives, lawyers and journalists. minister Dmitry Medvedev at his coun- tried to travel to Syria, prosecutors after three major strikes and sev- flight attendant died when their Fal- tigators he did drive onto the runway The husband of the French flight try residence to discuss investment said yesterday as calls mounted for eral smaller attacks in the past 18 con jet was hit by the snowplough without waiting for permission from attendant submitted a civil claim for hours before the crash, which came prime minister and interior minister months. during take-off at Moscow’s Vnuk- an air traffic controller and lost his €300,000 in damages for mental as the oil chief was heading to Paris. to resign after the latest terror attack. President Francois Hollande ovo airport on the night of October sense of orientation after his vehicle anguish, TASS news agency reported. Putin called de Margerie a “true The prosecutor’s office said that confirmed yesterday the creation 20, 2014. lagged behind. The airport and the French com- friend of our country” and posthu- the second killer was 19-year-old of a National Guard to be made up Snowplough driver Vladimir Investigators also said the driver pany that operated the plane, Unijet, mously awarded him a medal for Abdel Malik Petitjean, who was of reserve forces, after the govern- Martynenko and the engineer in was drunk, while his lawyers said jointly filed claims for damages to developing economic and cultural ties. listed on France’s “Fiche S” of people ment earlier urged “patriots” to sign charge of snow clearing, Vladimir he drank coffee laced with brandy compensate for their destroyed France is also probing the acci- posing a potential threat to national up to become reservists. Ledenev, admitted in a Moscow court after the crash. property totalling 15.2m rubles dent, with Paris prosecutor’s office security in June after trying to reach The government faced tough to causing the deaths through safety Ledenev, the engineer who led ($229,000), Kurakin told TASS. opening a judicial investigation into Syria from Turkey. questions as it emerged both breaches and negligence, at the first the team, “recognises that he did not The next hearing was set involuntary homicide caused by Petitjean, whose face was disfig- church attackers were on radar of full hearing. supervise the work of his colleagues,” for today, with Vnukovo airport deliberate safety violations. ured after gunned down by police, intelligence services, and tried to had been harder to identify than his go to Syria. One of the criticisms is accomplice Adel Kermiche, 19, and that Kermiche was released from investigators confirmed his identity prison while awaiting trial on terror after a DNA match with his mother. charges after his second attempt to Polish leader Diabetes Robot The two young jihadists were travel to Syria. He was fitted with an shown pledging allegiance to the electronic tag—allowing him out of rejects EU Islamic State (IS) group in a video the house on weekday mornings— sometime before they stormed a despite calls from the prosecutor for church in town of Saint-Etienne- him not to be released. critique du-Rouvray on Tuesday and slit the Annie Geslin, who worked with 86-year-old priest’s throat. Kermiche’s mother for many years, The attack came as the govern- said “he was the youngest child and Reuters ment was already facing a firestorm had psychological problems.” of criticism over alleged security Meanwhile sources close failings after the Bastille Day truck to investigation said Petitjean BERLIN: The leader of Poland’s massacre that left 84 dead two “strongly resembles” a man hunted ruling eurosceptic Law and Jus- weeks ago. by anti-terrorism police in days tice (PiS) party yesterday rejected A brief show of political unity at before the attack over fears he was a European Union (EU) discipli- a mass attended by different faiths about to carry out an act of terror. nary procedure that is pressuring in Paris on Wednesday quickly dis- Sources said France’s anti-ter- the government, and said the solved as Prime Minister Manuel rorism police unit sent out a note European Commission was over- Valls and Interior Minister Ber- four days before the attack—saying stepping its bounds. nard Cazeneuve faced fresh calls it had received “reliable” informa- The commission on Wednes- to resign. tion about a person “about to carry day gave Poland three months to “If the government is not out an attack on national territory”. boost powers of its constitutional responsible for the wave of terror- Three members of Petijean’s tribunal, next step in a procedure ism, it is guilty of not having done family were taken into custody for that could lead to the suspension everything to stop it,” said Laurent questioning, said a source. of Warsaw’s EU voting rights and Wauqiez, deputy leader of Repub- In a video posted on IS news the freezing of its EU funds. licans party. agency Amaq, the two men calling “This process is wholly out- Dutch researchers Olivier Blanson Henkemans (left) and Mark Neerincx sit with their creation, Charlie “Manuel Valls and Bernard themselves by noms de guerre Abu side the EU treaty,” PiS leader Robot, designed to help kids with childhood diabetes learn about managing their illness, at the Cazeneuve must go because Omar and Abu Jalil al-Hanafi, hold Jaroslaw Kaczynski told Germany’s Gelderse Vallei hospital in Ede, The Netherlands, yesterday. they refuse to take vital meas- hands as they swear “obedience” Bild newspaper. “It is nothing but a ures to fight IS. We need a new to IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi. happy endeavour for amusement of EU commission and its bureaucrats.” Since winning elections last October, the party has imposed changes on the tribunal and Spain deadlock remains after king oversees coalition talks Poland’s public broadcaster that Brussels fears are undermining EU’s democratic standards. AP in less than a year. Rajoy also failed of parliamentary votes or, if unable Poland’s 1997 constitution to garner sufficient voter support in to reach that threshold, more votes gives the tribunal power to block the initial December election, leaving cast in favour than against in a sec- laws approved by parliament his conservative party dependent on ond vote. and the president, but the PiS- MADRID: Acting Prime Minister forming some kind of alliance with As the situation stands, Rajoy controlled parliament approved Mariano Rajoy’s chances of forming mostly left-wing opponents. would lose in both scenarios, laws in December that require a a new government following seven Felipe was scheduled to meet because opposition parties are two-thirds majority, not a simple months of deadlock were looking Rajoy, Spain’s leader since 2011, the committed to vote against him, majority, to pass verdicts. slim yesterday after other party lead- sources said. not merely abstain. A minority gov- Last week, after EU pres- ers confirmed yesterday they would The monarch typically invites the ernment could be formed if other sure, the Polish parliament voted reject him in any parliamentary vote leader of the largest party to form a parties agree to abstain, rather than to remove that requirement but to elect a premier. government in the country, but he vote actively against the proposed introduced a clause allowing King Felipe VI met separately can opt for another leader if one has prime minister. judges to postpone a ruling by six with leaders of three other leading a better chance of prevailing in a par- Alberto Rivera, leader of the cen- months if four judges agreed. parties in hopes of encouraging a liamentary vote. trist Ciudadanos party that finished Kaczynski said Poland deal, but the trio told reporters after- Spain could face months more in fourth place, suggests Rajoy should remained in discussions with ward that they could not support of caretaker government under step aside for a new Popular Party European Commission, but Rajoy, leader of the largest Popu- Rajoy pending negotiations and leader to try to form a coalition. noted other countries such as the lar Party. a possible third election this fall. The third-place Unidos Podemos Netherlands did not even have a The king has overseen talks since The Popular Party won 137 parlia- seeks a left-wing government led constitutional court. “Poland is a Tuesday — his first since inconclusive mentary seats in June, 39 short of by the second-place Socialists. But Left-wing political party Podemos leader Pablo Iglesias (right) poses sovereign state. We want the same June elections — in hopes of promot- a majority. Socialist chief Pedro Sanchez says rights as all other EU countries. ing a breakthrough that would allow The leader of Spain’s next gov- Rajoy must exhaust all his negotiat- with Felipe VI, King of Spain before a meeting at La Zarzuela Palace Not more, but also not less.,” Spain to avoid a third national vote ernment requires either a majority ing options first. in Madrid, yesterday. 12 FRIDAY 29 JULY 2016 AMERICAS Obama all praise Mexico moves for Hillary, jailed drug lord to house arrest offers support MEXICO CITY: Mexican authorities yesterday transferred aging drug watched to see if she can make a lord Ernesto Fonseca Car- convincing argument for bringing rillo to house arrest after The US President about change while still repre- serving 31 years in prison appeals voters to senting the legacy of Obama, who for the killing of a US is ending his second term with high undercover agent. carry the former approval ratings. Eduardo Guerrero, secretary of state “Tonight, I ask you to do for Hil- head of Mexico’s peniten- to White House. lary Clinton what you did for me. I tiary system, said Fonseca ask you to carry her the same way Carrillo was moved to a you carried me,” Obama said. When house near Mexico City to he finished, she joined him on stage finish the last nine years where they hugged, clasped hands of his 40-year sentence Reuters and waved to the crowd. following a judge’s order. The two were rivals in the hard-fought 2008 campaign for the Democratic nomination. After Anti-mining PHILADELPHIA: US President winning that election to become Barack Obama painted an opti- America’s first black president, US President Barack Obama is joined by Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton after his address politician freed mistic picture of America’s future Obama appointed Clinton his sec- to the Democratic National Convention at the Wells Fargo Center in Philadelphia. and offered full-throated support retary of state, a position she held from jail in Peru for Hillary Clinton’s bid to defeat until 2013. Republican Donald Trump in a Republicans have painted Clin- LIMA: A fiery anti-mining speech that electrified the Demo- ton as a Washington insider who Trump says was ‘sarcastic’ in hack comments activist and former gover- cratic National Convention. would represent a “third term” for nor of a gold-rich region He urged Democrats to enable what they view as failed policies in Peru who was freed Clinton to finish the job he started under Obama. Reuters “Of course I’m being sarcastic,” supposed to be neutral. from jail accused the gov- with his election in a rousing speech Speaking to delegates, Obama Trump said in an interview broad- Trump’s explanation echoed those ernment of locking him that capped a night when party offered an alternative to Trump’s cast yesterday on Fox News. of his campaign advisers and other up for two years in order luminaries took to the stage to con- vision of the United States as being “But you have 33,000 emails (by supporters, who immediately tried to keep him from power. trast party’s new standard-bearer under siege from illegal immigrants, WASHINGTON: Republican pres- Clinon) deleted, and the real problem to pass his comments off as tongue- Gregorio Santos wel- with Trump, whom they portrayed crime and terrorism and losing idential candidate Donald Trump is what was said on those emails from in-cheek and not serious. comed the Supreme as a threat to US values. influence in the world. yesterday tried to quell the furor over the Democratic National Committee,” But the exhortation for a US Court’s decision to annul “There has never been a man or “I am more optimistic about his call to Russia to find Hillary Clin- he said, referring to hacked emails adversary to use cyber intrusions an extension of his stay in woman, not me, not Bill—nobody future of America than ever before,” ton’s deleted emails by saying he was released last weekend by WikiLeaks. against an American political candi- ‘preventive’ prison, which more qualified than Hillary Clinton Obama said. He took aim at Trump’s being sarcastic. “You take a look at what was said date drew criticism from intelligence prosecutors probing him to serve as president of the United campaign slogan and promise to The New York businessman on on those emails, it’s disgraceful. It’s experts and other public figures, for corruption said was States,” Obama said to cheers at the “Make America Great Again.” Wednesday invited Russia to dig up disgraceful,” Trump said. including some Republicans. needed to keep him from Philadelphia convention. “America is already great. tens of thousands of “missing” emails The DNC emails showed party He later said if anyone had Clin- fleeing Peru. Hillary will accept the par- America is already strong. And from Clinton’s time at the US State leaders favouring Clinton over her ton’s emails, “they should share them ty’s White House nomination in I promise you, our strength, our Department, prompting Democrats rival in the campaign for the nomi- with the FBI!” He was referring to a a speech to end the convention. greatness, does not depend on Don- to accuse him of urging foreigners to nation, US Senator Bernie Sanders private email system Clinton kept in Missing former Her address will be closely ald Trump,” he said. spy on Americans. of Vermont. The committee is her home in Chappaqua, New York. detainee turns up in Venezuela Toronto cop jailed in teen’s fatal shooting Kuczynski sworn in as MONTEVIDEO: An ex- Guantanamo Bay inmate who was freed and sent Reuters on video and led to widespread The deaths echo similar events Peruvian President to Uruguay only to disap- protests in Toronto. in the United States, where allega- pear several weeks ago James Forcillo was found guilty tions of police brutality and racial has turned up in Vene- of attempted murder in January for bias have sparked protests. Some AFP Peruvians who lack them. zuela, officials said. TORONTO: A Toronto policeman firing additional shots at the teen- confrontations in the United States But his party, Peruvians for Jihad Diyab—a was sentenced to six years in prison ager, whom he had already shot were also caught on video. Change, has just 18 seats in the 44-year-old Syrian who yesterday in the shooting death of a three times. He was acquitted of Last year, a Toronto police officer 130-member Congress. was resettled in Uruguay in teenager three years ago that led to second-degree murder on a determi- shot and killed Andrew Loku, a LIMA: Former Wall Street banker The new legislature is domi- 2014 along with five other a rare conviction in Canada, where nation that the initial shots he fired 45-year-old Sudanese immigrant Pedro Pablo Kuczynski was sworn nated by allies of Fujimori, daughter ex-detainees—went off activists say police too often get off were justified, but the second vol- with a history of mental illness. No in as Peru’s new President yesterday, of disgraced and jailed ex-president the radar after apparently easy in brutality cases. ley was not. charges were filed. vowing to kick-start the economy Alberto Fujimori. Her right-wing evading border control The 2013 shooting, which Forcillo’s sentencing in the case Crown prosecutors had sought and unite a country torn by a photo- party, Popular Force, has 73 seats. and crossing into Brazil occurred after an altercation on comes days after the death of a men- an eight to 10 year sentence for For- finish election. That could make it hard for Kuczyn- and then Venezuela. a streetcar with the teen, who was tally ill black man after his arrest by cillo, while defense lawyers argued The 77-year-old centre-right ski to advance his reform agenda. When asked about brandishing a knife, was caught police in Ottawa. for two years of house arrest. economist extended an olive branch Fujimori took five days to con- reports Diyab turned up to defeated rival Keiko Fujimori’s cede defeat as results trickled in at Uruguay’s consulate party, which controls Congress, from the remote reaches of the in Caracas, the country’s saying he would need their help to Peruvian Amazon. In the end she Foreign Minister Rodolfo pass reforms. And he promised to had little choice but to recognise Nin Novoa said “yes, that Security lessons work for all Peruvians, outlining his defeat , by less than a quarter of a is the case.” vision for a “social revolution” in his percentage point. inaugural address before Congress. The race opened old wounds “I will seek equity, equality and dating back to the 1990s, when Fuji- Two more Zika fraternity among all Peruvians,” he mori’s father was president. said, vowing “not just economic, but Now serving a 25-year prison cases in Florida human growth.” sentence for massacres by an army The normally staid Kuczynski, death squad, Alberto Fujimori CHICAGO: The Florida who is known as a technocrat with (1990-2000) is fondly remembered health department said a polished resume, choked up as he by some Peruvians for his populist it is investigating another took the oath of office, then donned streak, his ruthless crack-down on two cases of Zika not his new red-and-white presidential leftist rebel group Shining Path and related to travel to a place sash over his pinstriped suit. his management of economy. where the virus is being Peru is one of Latin America’s Her father’s supporters are pres- transmitted, raising the fastest-growing economies, but suring Kuczynski to pardon him. possibility of local Zika growth slowed under outgoing left- Kuczynski has said he is will- transmission in the conti- ist president Ollanta Humala, from 6.5 ing to sign a law granting house nental United States. percent in 2011 to 3.3 percent last year. arrest to elderly and ailing prison- The health depart- Kuczynski vows to stimulate the ers such as Fujimori, but will not ment said it has identified economy, revive key mining sector, issue a pardon. an additional case of Zika fight poverty that affects 22 percent Kuczynski, the son of a Jewish in Miami-Dade County, of Peruvians, and strengthen police doctor from Germany, has had a where it was already and prisons to reduce crime. long career in business and finance. investigating a possible Soldiers take part in an army exercise against possible chemical attack at the Mane Garrincha National Known simply as PPK, Kuczyn- Educated at Oxford University case of Zika not related to Stadium, one of the venues for Olympic football ahead of the 2016 Rio Olympics in Brasilia, Brazil, ski wants to extend basic services and Princeton, he has an impressive travel, and another case yesterday. such as schools, hospitals and resume including stints as economy in Broward County. drinking water to the one-third of minister and World Bank economist. Venezuela police block opposition march for recall vote

AFP to march on headquarters of National avoid a recall, said speaker of oppo- to ban the opposition coalition, the “no practical substance.” successful recall vote would simply Electoral Council (CNE) in Caracas. sition-majority legislature, Henry Democratic Unity Roundtable (MUD). “But they could be useful (to transfer power to Maduro’s hand- There were no clashes, but the Ramos Allup. A top Maduro aide accused the Maduro’s camp) as a political strat- picked vice president. muscular police response lay bare The opposition has been hoping opposition of committing “gigan- egy to delay the recall referendum It was the final day for electoral CARACAS: Venezuelan police the tension gripping the country as pressure from Venezuelans fed up tic fraud” by allegedly including the process. The deadlines are starting to authorities to rule whether the oppo- blocked a march by opposition pro- it lurches through an economic crisis with recession, shortages and mount- names of thousands of dead people, get dangerously close,” he said. sition successfully collected at least testers demanding a referendum on that is causing severe food shortages ing chaos will force the government convicts and minors in a petition Maduro’s opponents are racing 200,000 valid signatures, the first removing President Nicolas Maduro. and hyperinflation. to allow a referendum on Maduro. submitted in May with 1.8 million to force a recall vote by January 10, stage of the process. Some 200 police blocked hun- “The government is desperate. But the leftist leader’s camp made signatures requesting a recall vote. the cutoff to trigger new elections. But the CNE said it would only dreds of opposition demonstrators They’re afraid of the people’s vote. clear it was not going without a fight, Electoral law expert Eugenio After that date—four years into meet Monday to examine its audi- shouting “Recall now” as they tried They’ll use every trick they can” to when it asked the electoral authority Martinez said the allegations had the president’s six-year term—a tors’ report on the petition. CLASSIFIEDS FRIDAY 29 JULY 2016 13

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Alexandre Lacazette: Why Arsenal 1 should break the bank for the striker NEW YORK: Radiohead became rock anti-heroes with their first Coup or no coup, Turkey remains ‘a top single “Creep” in 1992 and, after 2 attraction for Qatar visitors’ a tortured three-decade history with the song, the band is embrac- Use of mobile while driving causes 80% of accidents ing it again. 3 in Qatar; MoI intensifies traffic safety campaign The English experimental rockers closed out the second of two nights at Madison Square Gar- den with “Creep” to the delight and TWEET OF THE DAY disbelief of the sold-out crowd. “Apparently this is what show- biz is. Could have fooled me,” frontman Thom Yorke mumbled. The band then headed into the dour opening scales of ‘Creep,’ with stage lights flashing in uni- The president of the Prision Art foundation, Jorge Cueto, shows a bag during an interview at a store son as Jonny Greenwood delivered the song’s three thundering bursts of the brand in the upscale neighbourhood of Polanco, Mexico City. of guitar. Netflix to give ‘Gilmore Girls’ Thanksgiving release

AFP The revival picks up nine years Schumer was quick to respond to Spall, Rupert Everett and Michael after the original show ended and the teaser, tweeting: “I’ve only done Smiley. treats fans to more of stars Lau- two water sports and they took pic- The third season will feature LOS ANGELES: Netflix said on ren Graham, Alexis Bledel, Melissa tures of it both times. I promise I “Jurassic World” star Bryce Dallas INSTAGRAM OF THE DAY Wednesday its keenly-awaited four- McCarthy, Scott Patterson and Milo usually just lay there (sex too).” Howard, “House of Cards” henchman part “Gilmore Girls” revival, “A Day Ventimiglia. The Netflix announcement was Michael Kelly and “Trainspotting” A man takes a in the Life,” will be available for An 88-second trailer posted on light on plot detail but revealed that and “Boardwalk Empire” star Kelly picture before streaming on Thanksgiving weekend. Netflix’s YouTube channel sees Lore- creator Amy Sherman-Palladino MacDonald. Pope Fran- The announcement came as the lai, played by Graham, asking if Rory wrote and directed all four episodes Also on the menu for September cis’ arrival at a world’s leading internet television (Bledel) thinks actress and comedian with partner Daniel Palladino. 2 is hit series “Chef’s Table: France,” welcoming cere- network unveiled the timetable for Amy Schumer would like her. The network also announced which showcases the creme de la mony at Wawel its slate of eight new documentary, No, concludes Rory, explaining: the return of dystopian sci-fi series creme of French cooks in their own Royal Castle in drama and comedy series. “Watersports. Every time I see her in “Black Mirror,” with six new episodes kitchens. Krakow, Poland Netflix said the four 90-minute a magazine she’s on vacation, doing on October 21. The third installment follows Alain July 27, 2016. “Gilmore” episodes -- taking place watersports.” The first seven episodes of the Passard of L’Arpege, Michel Troisgros REUTERS/Ste- in winter, spring, summer and fall “Uh, no -- that would not work show -- spread over two seasons of Maison Troisgros and Alexandre fano Rellandini -- would be available in all 190 of its at all,” the exercise-averse Lorelai and a special -- have showcased big Couillon of La Marine as they discuss territories simultaneously from mid- agrees, before asking: “Do you think British and Irish names including what inspires them and how it trans- night Pacific time on November 25. John Oliver would find me hot?” Domhnall Gleeson, Jon Hamm, Rafe lates into their individual styles. Heart hazard for Apollo astronauts: Study Elephant sedative: A new threat in fight AFP -- a group of ailments that includes heart attacks, brain aneurysms and strokes. PARIS: Nasa’s Apollo astronauts, This was “four to five times against overdoses the only humans to have travelled higher” than for trained astronauts beyond Earth’s protective magnet- who never left Earth (nine percent), osphere, die disproportionately of and those like the International AP carfentanil online, but it hasn’t heart and blood vessel diseases, Space Station crews who stayed shown up much in the US drug researchers said yesterday, blam- closer to home in low-Earth orbit supply, according to the US Drug ing radiation. (11 percent). COLUMBUS: A drug used to sedate Enforcement Administration. There This raises health concerns for all The findings were published in elephants and other large animals, hasn’t been much evidence of car- humans with dreams of travelling to the journal Scientific Reports. 100 times as potent as the fentanyl fentanil on the streets or in testing the Moon, Mars or beyond, as space “These data suggest that human already escalating the country’s related to criminal cases, said agent agencies and private companies vie travel into deep space may be more heroin troubles, is suspected in Rich Isaacson, a spokesman for the to expand humankind’s extraterres- hazardous to cardiovascular health spates of overdoses in several states, DEA’s Detroit Division, which cov- trial footprint. than previously estimated,” the where authorities say they’ve found ers Ohio. “We know very little about the researchers wrote. This artist’s concept released by Nasa shows a celestial object called it mixed with or passed off as her- The drug has been suspected in effects of deep space radiation on Nasa’s Apollo programme sent 11 CX330, first detected as a source of X-ray light in 2009 by Nasa’s oin. overdoses or found in seized drugs human health, particularly on the manned flights into space between Chandra X-Ray Observatory while it was surveying the bulge in the The appearance of carfen- in central Kentucky and in Flori- cardiovascular system,” said Michael 1968 and 1972. central region of the Milky Way. tanil, one of the most potent da’s Tampa Bay and Sarasota areas, Delp of the Florida State University. Of the 24 men who flew beyond opioids known to investigators, adds as well as other Ohio cities. Akron “This gives us the first glimpse Earth orbit into deep space, eight another twist to the fight against authorities have seen over 230 over- into its adverse effects on humans.” have died to date. The eighth, Edgar Beyond the magnetosphere, a better educated and fitter, and have opioid painkillers in a country doses in July, 20 of them fatal, and Of seven Apollo astronauts to Mitchell, passed away this year, after magnetic “bubble” which shields lifelong access to medical care -- all already awash in heroin and fen- police said evidence of carfentanil have died to date, three (43 percent) the data had been analysed, and was Earth and its occupants, the Apollo ingredients for better health. tanyl cases. was found in some of those. succumbed to cardiovascular disease not included in the study. astronauts were exposed to unprec- In comparing different types “It certainly is a very disturbing Carfentanil is thought to be edented levels of particle radiation, of astronaut, the researchers were trend,” Ohio Attorney General Mike similar in strength to a painkiller said the study. able to exclude any possible impact DeWine said. known as W-18, which has shown The ISS, by comparison, orbits of zero-gravity on cardiovascular A man suspected of selling car- up in heroin in Philadelphia, New Earth within the magnetosphere. disease, as all three groups (Earth- fentanil as heroin was indicted this England and Canada. Energetic particles from galac- bound, low-orbit and deep space) week in central Ohio on 20 counts, Carfentanil is so powerful that tic radiation can be dangerous to were exposed to it. including murder, in connection zoo veterinarians typically wear a humans as they pass right through The researchers also found no with a July 10 death and nine other face shield, gloves and other protec- the skin and can damage cells or difference between the three groups overdoses that happened within tive gear — “just a little bit short of a DNA, according to Nasa. in terms of cancer or accidents as the hours of one another. Some of the hazmat suit” — when preparing the The agency has plans for a cause of death. surviving users told investigators medicine to sedate animals because manned trip to Mars in the 2030s, To test a possible cause for lunar they thought they were buying her- even one drop splattered into a per- and has stated that radiation shield- astronauts’ higher incidence of cardi- oin, but testing found none, Franklin son’s eye or nose could be fatal, said ing “will be a crucial technology” for ovascular disease, the team exposed County Prosecutor Ron O’Brien said. Dr. Rob Hilsenroth, executive direc- the voyage as well as for exploring mice to comparable radiation levels The suspect, 36-year-old Rayshon tor of the American Association of the surface. in the lab. Alexander, pleaded not guilty. Zoo Veterinarians. The study was the first to include “After six months -- the equiva- Investigators are still trying to A loaded syringe of a reversal non-flight astronauts as a com- lent of 20 human years -- the mice track down the source of the carfen- drug is kept on hand just in case, parison group in examining the demonstrated an impairment of tanil. DeWine said he wasn’t aware and the extremely limited carfen- FILE PHOTO: Astronaut Edwin E Aldrin Jr, lunar module pilot, deploys a long-term health of space travellers. arteries that is known to lead to the of any thefts of the drug, which, tanil supply regulators allow for Comparing astronauts to the gen- development of atherosclerotic car- he noted, could be shipped from such facilities is kept locked away scientific research package on the surface of the moon near the Lunar eral population can yield confusing diovascular disease in humans,” said abroad or produced here. and subject to auditing, Hilsenroth Module (LM) "Eagle" during the Apollo 11 extravehicular activity (EVA). outcomes, as they are generally a Florida State University statement. 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QE index gains Total hits costs target early 117.91 points during past week as oil rebound lifts profit The Peninsula

price rebound produced a better- rose to $2.2bn in the second quar- DOHA: Qatar Exchange (QE) main Adjusted net income than-expected rise in second quarter ter of 2016 (versus the first quarter), index gained 117.91 points, or 1.12 net profit. an increase of 33 percent compared percent, during the past trading rose to $2.2bn in the Total had made $900m in sav- to the first quarter,” Pouyanne said week when the bourse closed yes- second quarter of ings so far this year, which on top of in statement. terday at 10,652.31 points. $1.5bn last year brings it to its target of Even though oil production in Trading value during the 2016, an increase of $2.4bn for the end of 2016 and it now the quarter rose by more than 5 per- week decreased by 22.21 per- 33% compared to the hopes to save more by the year-end. cent, the fourth-biggest western oil cent to touch QR1.10bn compared Chief Executive Officer Patrick company’s revenue fell 17 percent to to QR1.42bn. Trading volume first quarter. Pouyanne (pictured) said oil prices $37.2bn compared with a year before. decreased by 28.75 percent to remained volatile, but Total had A Reuters poll of analysts had reach 26,033,565 shares, as gained from a recovery in Brent forecast second quarter net adjusted against 36.53 million shares, crude from the start of the year profit of $1.9bn and lower produc- sector index. target in 2016. while the number of transac- when it went below $28 per barrel tion levels. Total said the increase in oil out- Capital expenditure in 2016 tions fell by 23.76 percent, to reach Reuters to average $46 per barrel in the sec- Although its refining margin was put due to new projects coming on would fall to $18-19bn, Total said, 15,467 transactions as compared ond quarter. stable at $35 per ton compared with stream was dampened by deterio- while also confirmed its objective to to 20,286 transactions. Brent was down 10 cents at $35.1 the previous quarter, it fell 35 rating security in Nigeria and Yemen, generate $2bn from net asset sales Market cap rose by 1.05 per- $43.37 per barrel by 0845 GMT percent year-on-year. and forest fires in Canada. in the year. Total kept its dividend cent to reach QR571.38bn as PARIS: French oil and gas major yesterday, steadying just above three- Total’s shares were up 1.5 percent It said projects in Bolivia and unchanged for the second quarter, at compared to QR565.47bn at the Total said yesterday it had met its month lows on oversupply concerns. by 0909 GMT, among the top gainers Kazakhstan were expected to start 0.61 euros per share to be paid in Jan- end of previous week. cost saving target ahead of sched- “Total captured the benefit of this in the French blue chip CAC 40 index, in the second half of the year, helping uary in cash or new company shares Banking and Financial Serv- ule as increased output and an oil rebound, and adjusted net income outperforming a falling oil and gas it meet a 4 percent production growth with a 10 percent discount. ices sector led traded value with 51.89 percent of the total. Industries sector accounted for 16.22 percent. Real Estate sector accounted for 9.06 percent and Shell net profit tumbles 71% in Q2 Telecoms sector accounted for 7.67 percent. Banking and Financial Serv- ices sector led traded volume AFP $1.045bn in the reporting period. distribution, while upstream com- with 41.83 percent of the total. That was almost half of mar- prises exploration and production. Real Estate sector accounted for ket expectations for CCS profit of Second-quarter production stood 17.77 percent. Industries sector $2.16bn. A 25-percent rebound in at 3.51 million barrels of oil equiv- accounted for 14.25 percent and LONDON: Royal Dutch Shell’s net Brent oil prices last quarter provided alent a day, which missed forecasts Telecoms sector accounted 10.47 profit collapsed in the second quar- some relief, but the market hit three- of 3.63 million as output was hit by percent. Banking and Financial ter on low oil prices, weak refining month lows as rising US inventories shutdowns in Canada and Nigeria. Services sector led traded number margins and production outages, the sparked resurgent supply glut fears. The recent slump in oil prices has of transactions during the week British energy giant said. “Downstream and integrated gas pushed energy groups worldwide to with 35.49 percent of the total. Net profits sank 71 percent to businesses contributed strongly to slash spending and jobs, and sell off Qatar Islamic Bank led trad- $1.175bn in the three months to June, the results, alongside Shell’s self-help assets. ing value during the week which compared with $3.986bn in the same programme,” said Chief Executive “We are managing the company accounted for 22.61 percent of the part of 2015, Shell announced in a Ben van Beurden. “However, lower through the down-cycle by reduc- total. QNB accounted for 10.97 results statement. oil prices continue to be a significant ing costs, by delivering on lower and percent and Masraf Al Rayan Profit on a current cost-of-sup- challenge across the business, par- more predictable investment levels, accounted for 8.15 percent, reports A vintage Shell sign is seen illuminated at a Shell gas station in plies (CCS) basis — which strips out ticularly in the upstream.” executing our asset sales plans and QNA. The index yesterday gained Cambridge, Massachusetts. changes to the value of its oil and The downstream business starting up profitable new projects,” 47.54points, or 0.45 percent, com- gas inventories — slid 72 percent to includes refining, marketing and added van Beurden. pared to Wednesday’s closing. Despite dieselgate, VW becomes top-seller Meeting with Moody’s positive: Turkey Minister Reuters consecutive years through 2015, mass-market VW brand have Toyota has suffered this year from suffered, this has been more than a hit to Japanese production after offset by strong demand for lux- an earthquake in April damaged a ury Audi and Porsche models as Reuters TOKYO/BERLIN: Toyota Motor plant operated by a key supplier, well as Czech brand Skoda. Corp reported a drop in first-half halting production at many of Europe’s largest automaker vehicle sales yesterday following its lines across the country for said it expected full-year sales to a series of production stoppages, weeks. come in slightly above last year’s ANKARA: Turkey had a posi- falling behind Volkswagen which Before that, production at 9.93 million deliveries, as demand tive meeting with Moody’s and the became the world’s top-selling domestic assembly plants ground in China and Western Europe out- ratings agency “appreciates” the gov- carmaker in the first six months to a halt for a week in February weighs declines in the Americas ernment’s fiscal discipline, Finance of 2016 despite its emissions scan- after an explosion at one of the and Russia. Minister Naci Agbal (pictured) said dal. automaker’s steel suppliers led to Although the emissions scan- in an interview yesterday. The Japanese company, which a shortage of parts. For the month dal has tarnished its reputation Turkey is on the backfoot after manufactures the Toyota, Lexus of June, sales of Toyota vehicles, and triggered a multitude of law- rival ratings agency Standard & “Today I had a positive meet- and Daihatsu brands, said its which include the Camry and suits, VW has maintained sales in Poor’s cut its sovereign debt rating ing with Moody’s officials, they global sales slid 0.6 percent in Corolla sedans and the gasoline part by offering incentives to buy- further into junk territory last week welcome and appreciate our fiscal January-June to 4.992 million hybrid Prius, fell 1.1 percent on the ers in the United States and other and changed its outlook to negative, discipline, I told them we would vehicles worldwide, down from year to 881,000. markets while it repositions its citing political concerns following maintain that discipline,” Agbal 5.021 million in the same period VW’s sales have so far not business by investing in electric a failed military coup this month. said. “I think the step S&P took was last year. taken a beating from its “diesel- cars and on-demand transport While the impact of S&P’s hasty, and I believe that the final Volkswagen said on Wednes- gate” scandal, sparked by its services. downgrade was limited because it evaluations by Moody’s and Fitch day it delivered 5.116 million admission in September that it General Motors, the largest US already had a junk rating on Turkish will be positive. There is a great Welding robots assemble bodyworks of vehicles in the same period, a 1.5 installed illegal software to mask automaker, is third in global sales debt, investors are concerned that deal of harmony between the sug- percent rise. toxic emissions on about 11 mil- rankings, with six-month sales of Volkswagen’s Golf VI cars in a production Moody’s and Fitch could cut their gestions of Moody’s and Fitch for the Having been the world’s lion diesel vehicles worldwide. 4.76 million vehicles, down 1.2 line at the Volkswagen headquarters in ratings to below investment grade Turkish economy and our govern- best-selling automaker for four While sales of its percent from a year earlier. Wolfsburg, Germany. as soon as next month. ment’s targets.” 18 FRIDAY 29 JULY 2016 BUSINESS

Fed leaves rates Facebook quarterly profit unchanged, says risks to outlook surges 186% to $2bn reduced Reuters

With its global base With its global base of monthly estimates Facebook is taking in two- of monthly active active users growing to 1.7 billion, thirds of social media ad revenues, WASHINGTON: The Fed- Facebook saw a 59 percent jump in dominating rivals such as Twitter, eral Reserve left interest rates users growing to 1.7 total revenues to $6.4bn, mostly from which this week reported disap- unchanged on Wednesday but said billion, Facebook saw online advertising. pointing results. near-term risks to the US eco- Meanwhile, Facebook’s shares The number of monthly active nomic outlook had diminished, a 59% jump in total rose as much as 4 percent to $128.33, users, a key metric for social net- opening the door to a resump- revenues to $6.4bn, boosting its market value by $14bn to works, grew 15 percent from a year tion of monetary policy tightening $367bn — enough to eclipse Berk- ago, Facebook said. this year. mostly from online shire’s market cap of about $355bn. Almost all of Facebook’s reve- The US central bank said advertising. “Our community and busi- nue, $6.2bn, came from advertising, the economy had expanded at ness had another good quarter,” and 84 percent of ad revenues came a moderate rate and job gains Facebook Founder and Chief Exec- from messages delivered to mobile were strong in June. It added that utive Mark Zuckerberg (pictured) devices. including its Instagram photo-shar- “Mobile has been the main driver household spending also had been AFP said.“We’re particularly pleased with Facebook said it had more than ing service, messaging applications of growth to date, video and Insta- “growing strongly,” and pointed to our progress in video as we move one billion daily active users on and its Oculus virtual reality gear. gram should start moving the needle an increase in labour utilisation. towards a world where video is at mobile at the end of the quarter June “Facebook remains a top pick for more meaningfully in the second half While Fed policymakers said the heart of all our services.” 30, up 22 percent from a year ago. us, given its position as the largest/ of 2016.” they continued to closely mon- SAN FRANCISCO: Facebook said Facebook has been dominat- It ended the quarter with most engaging mass-reach Internet RBC Capital Markets analysts said itor inflation data and global its profit leapt 186 percent from a ing the social media space as well more than $23bn in cash and cash platform for advertisers, unmatched in a research note they see room for economic and financial develop- year ago to $2 billion, as the world’s as related online advertising as it equivalents. targeting potential, and very potent Facebook to grow further. “Face- ments, they indicated less worry biggest social network blasted past seeks to diversify into areas such as Facebook has been winning monetization formats,” said a note book still has many growth levers about possible shocks that could most analyst forecasts for the sec- messaging, virtual reality and other plaudits from analysts as it grows its this week from Cantor Fitzgerald left to pull, not least of which is video push the economy off course. ond quarter. fields. The research firm eMarketer base and extends into new services, analysts. advertising,” the analysts wrote. “Near-term risks to the eco- nomic outlook have diminished,” the Fed’s policy-setting commit- tee said in its statement following a two-day meeting in which it left its benchmark overnight interest Lloyds to cut 3,000 jobs, close more branches rate in a range of 0.25 percent to 0.50 percent. The Fed noted, however, that Reuters than previously guided,” the bank inflation expectations were on said in a statement yesterday. balance little changed in recent So far this year, Lloyds has months, and gave no firm indi- already said it would cut about 4,000 cation of whether it would raise LONDON: Lloyds Banking Group is to positions from its 75,000-strong rates at its next policy meeting in step up its cost cutting plans to help to workforce and has closed nearly 100 September. Most Fed policymak- offset a more testing economic envi- branches this year. The bank said it ers had urged caution in raising ronment caused by Britain’s vote to would look to sell off unwanted prop- rates until there was concrete quit the European Union. erties to increase income. “Lloyds progress in moving inflation Britain’s largest retail bank aims remains a no growth bank,” Ian Gor- towards the central bank’s 2 per- to save €400m by end-2017 by axing don, an analyst at Investec, said. “Its cent target “It’s a little bit more a further 3,000 jobs and closing an revenue outlook is flattish, hence its hawkish, but not much,” said Wal- additional 200 branches to protect its costs need to fall faster.” ter Todd, chief investment officer earnings and dividends against the The bank also said Britain’s at Greenwood Capital Associates effects of lower-for-longer interest financial watchdog had opened an in South Carolina. rates. Lloyds, rescued in a €20.5bn investigation into how it treated cus- The Fed’s preferred inflation taxpayer bail-out during the finan- tomers who had difficulty repaying rate currently stands at 1.6 per- cial crisis, is the first major British their mortgages and said it had set cent and has been below target for bank to report results since the ref- aside €350m for compensation. more than four years. US Treas- erendum and is the most exposed to Chief Financial Officer George Cul- ury prices pared gains after the any downturn in the British economy. mer said he could not provide more Fed’s decision, while the US dollar Chief Executive Officer Anto- details because the investigation was briefly strengthened against the nio Horta-Osório is searching for confidential. euro and yen. US stocks extended ways to prop up Lloyds’ dividend, Lloyds reported a forecast-beat- declines before later reversing one of its key attractions, and sus- ing first-half statutory pretax profit course to trade largely flat in the tain profit growth in its main UK of £2.45bn in the six months to June session. Federal funds futures consumer and commercial lending 30. This was more than double prof- implied traders still see roughly market, still reeling from the Brexit its achieved in the same period last even odds of a rate increase at result on June 24. year, partly because the bank did the Fed’s December meeting and “While the business will remain not have to set aside money for loan about a 20 percent chance of such highly capital generative, it is possi- insurance mis-selling. Income for the a move in September, a bit lower ble that this capital generation may first half of the year came in at £8.9n, than before the decision, accord- be somewhat lower in future years just below the 2015 figure. A man uses a mobile phone in front of a branch of a Lloyds bank in the City of London, yesterday. ing to CME’s FedWatch Group.

Smartphone sales push Samsung Q2 profit Boeing’s iconic 747 era AFP could come to an end

SEOUL: Solid sales of its flagship Reuters on the filing or the comments smartphone and an aggressive yesterday. cost-cutting drive saw Samsung The production rate of the 747, Electronics yesterday post a better- which was 1.5 per month in June than-expected gain in net profit for NEW YORK: Boeing Co could 2015, dropped to one per month the second quarter. end production of its iconic 747 in this month. The giant South Korean con- aircraft, as the world’s biggest The latest version of the 747 is glomerate said its key mobile plane maker faces falling orders used by Cathay Pacific, Lufthansa division enjoyed “substantial earn- and pricing pressure, according and Air China, among others. ings improvement” in the April-June to a regulatory filing. Boeing is not alone in facing period led by expanded sales of its “If we are unable to obtain problems with sales of the big- high-end Galaxy S7 and S7 Edge sufficient orders and/or mar- gest passenger jets — Europe’s phones. Industry trackers estimate ket, production and other risks Airbus has also been hit by weak that the world’s largest smartphone cannot be mitigated, we could demand. maker has sold about 26 million units record additional losses that may Airbus confirmed this week of the S7 since it hit stores in March be material, and it is reasonably that it plans to roughly halve pro- ahead of launches by competitors, possible that we could decide to duction of its A380 superjumbo including arch-rival Apple. end production of the 747,” Boe- as airlines shun large four- The mobile division accounts for ing said on Wednesday. engined jets in favour of smaller the lion’s share of Samsung’s busi- Boeing said it had cancelled two-engined models. ness, but it has been increasingly plans to increase production of The planemaker said earlier squeezed by competition both from the 747 to one plane per month this month that it would cut the Apple’s iPhone and by lower-end from 2019, and stuck to its plan A380 delivery target to 12 a year devices from Chinese rivals such as of halving the production rate in from 2018, from 27 in 2015, to Huawei. September. prevent a glut of unsold planes. Samsung’s overall net profit for “On the 747 programme, we The move raises the possi- the second quarter stood at 5.85 A man walks past advertisements promoting Samsung Electronics’ smartphones in Seoul, yesterday. decided to reduce future produc- bility that Airbus could revert to trillion won ($5.2bn), up 1.7 percent tion expectations and revenue losses on the double-decker jet from the previous year and slightly assumptions to account for cur- after breaking even for the first above analyst estimates. Operating period, Samsung said, with increased Note series has never had as much of Sustained profit gains from the rent and anticipated weakness in time last year, but averts the need profit was up nearly 18 percent at profits among premium product a sales impact as the S-series smart- company’s cheaper smartphones, the air cargo market,” Chief Exec- to start ordering parts for unsold 8.1 trillion won, Samsung said in an ranges. “Looking ahead to the second phone, and there will be increased such as the J series, also helped to utive Dennis Muilenburg said on planes - something it has pledged earnings statement, reflecting a size- half of 2016, the company expects competition with a new iPhone set boost Samsung’s mobile earnings in a post-earnings call with analysts. not to do. Parts for A380s must able cut in mobile marketing costs its solid performance to continue... for release later in the year. the second quarter. Operating profit “Despite the ongoing chal- be ordered up to two years in — partly due to the underwhelming mainly driven by earnings increase Greg Roh, an analyst at HMC at the mobile unit rose to 4.32 tril- lenges of the air cargo market, advance. performance of the iPhone. The Sam- in the component business due to Investment, said a steady strength- lion won from 2.76 trillion won a we continue to see the 747 as a Boeing reported a smaller- sung earnings came two days after sales growth in high value-added ening of the South Korean currency year ago. unique and significant value cre- than-expected second-quarter Apple announced a 27 percent sec- products,” the statement said. could also eat into profit margins. Operating income at the semi- ator for our customers over the loss on Wednesday, helped by ond quarter profit slump on a sharp It also flagged a likely rise in “It will be harder for Samsung in the conductor unit was 2.64 trillion won, long term,” Muilenburg said. strong performances in its pas- drop in sales of its iconic handset. mobile division marketing costs with third quarter because of the stronger compared with 3.40 trillion won a Boeing declined to elaborate senger jet and defense businesses. Television and component sales the launch of its latest outsized Gal- won and an increase in marketing year earlier, as weaker demand pres- were also strong in the April-June axy Note smartphone next week. The costs,” Roh said. sured component prices. BUSINESS FRIDAY 29 JULY 2016 19

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Electrosteel-B/D 23.05 1.4 619429 Kanoria Chem-B/D 70.35 -0.1 5971 Savita Oil-B/D 629.25 21.25 3249 Vodafone Group/D 231.1 -1.75 17192472 Emco-B/D 31.7 0.9 89635 Kg Denim-B/D 92.35 -1.75 75514 Sterling Tool-/D 574 3.45 1162 Whitbread/D 3827 13 188334 “We will remain active in Britain, but a little less Escorts Fin-B/D 5.25 -0.06 68529 Kilburnengg-Xd/D 56 -1.3 14170 Tanfac Indust-/D 35.35 2.35 9203 than if the vote had not been for Brexit,” he added. JCDecaux is number one in outdoor advertising in the UK and the UK market is its third largest in terms of revenue. It is currently working on a project to place 1,000 84-inch digital screens across London bus shelters in major shopping areas, which has been delayed by contractual issues, but said that would not Renault drives in record profitability be impacted by the Brexit vote. JCDecaux also said it expected third-quarter organic revenues — excluding acquisitions, dispos- als and currency moves — to rise by a low-single digit “Success of our new mod- previous estimate. The Brazilian Carlos Ghosn’s pay after a spat percentage, reflecting lower global growth forecasts Renault cuts CEO els, our regional diversification car market is expected to decline with shareholders that saw the and the uncertainty over Brexit. Its shares were down and the efforts of all our employ- by 15 to 20 percent and Russia by government threaten to change 4 percent in afternoon trade, after earlier falling more Ghosn’s pay after ees have allowed the group to 12 percent, but China and India the law. than 7 percent on the subdued outlook. shareholder revolt. set a new record for its first half are both expected to rise. The company will cut the var- The Brexit vote is pushing companies across Europe operating margin and to have Renault’s home market iable part of Ghosn’s salary by 20 to review investment plans for the country or expand confidence in the outlook for the France is likely to expand by five percent, change how it is calcu- elsewhere. full year”, the company’s Chair- percent, as is the rest of Europe. lated and cap it at 180 percent of France’s Schneider Electric also said it would AFP man Carlos Ghosn (pictured) said Car exports to Algeria will his fixed salary. review pricing and investments in Britain. in a statement. be negatively affected by that The council said the CEO’s The world’s largest advertising company WPP has Renault’s operating mar- country’s recent trade barriers, pay packet was “consistent” said it will focus growth more on western continental gin was 6.1 percent of sales, an finance relations director Thierry with his peers in the industry Europe or emerging markets as a result. PARIS: Renault posted a 7.5 per- increase of 1.2 points over the Huon said in a conference call. and pointed to Renault’s strong JCDecaux co-CEO Jean-Francois Decaux said it cent increase in net profit in the same period last year. The British car market saw a results last year, when earnings was clear the Brexit vote would have an effect on the first half, a result the French For the full year, Renault is peak early in 2016 and is likely rose almost 50 percent. British advertising market, but it was hard to quantify. automaker said was a record in targeting higher sales, a better automobile market to provide a to soften over the remainder of The automobile giant’s share- According to an industry survey this month by IPA terms of profitability. operating margin than in 2015 less favourable environment than the year, finance director Clotilde holders rejected Ghosn’s 2015 pay Bellwether, spending on advertising by companies in Net profit came in at €1.5bn and a positive free cash flow from previously thought, with global Delbos said, adding that this had packet of $8m at a meeting in Britain will fall 0.2 percent and 1.3 percent in 2016 and ($1.66bn) on sales of €25.2bn, up the automobile division, it said. car market growth now esti- little to do with Britain’s decision April, but the board ignored the 2017 respectively, the first time Bellwether has pre- 13.5 percent, as strong sales of The French group does, how- mated at 1.7 percent this year, to leave the EU. vote and rubber-stamped his sal- dicted a fall in ad spend since 2013. new car models kicked in. ever, now expect the world’s down 0.3 points from Renault’s Renault said it would cut ary anyway. BUSINESS VIEWS 20 FRIDAY 29 JULY 2016

Bytes and barrels: Dublin moves fast to lure Origin of oil traders’ love of Yahoo financial jobs from UK

By Catherine Ngai monitoring it at the time. I was Reuters aware of it, but I wasn’t really doing it until it came up and I had the potential to use it in the work context,” said Grabin- or the oil industry, Yahoo ski, who traded crude for more Inc’s decision this week than a decade at BP starting in Fto sell its core business to the early 1990s. Verizon Communications Inc It is not clear how Yahoo took for $4.8bn does not matter all the industry by storm, but Grab- that much. Their world already inski was part of the first wave of changed a few months ago, when oil traders to use Yahoo instant the company said it would jetti- messaging, having opened his son its messaging system that account just a year after it was has been the norm for oil trad- launched. BP was an early adop- ers since the late 1990s. ter of the technology, and several Back then, Yahoo’s technol- traders said their use of Yahoo ogy revolutionised the industry, helped spur the industry forward, helping usher in a new era of even though Yahoo never actively high-speed communication encouraged the trading commu- that changed the way millions nity to use its service. A man walks past the Central Bank of Ireland in Dublin. of barrels of oil traded daily. For Grabinski — now a senior Gene Grabinski, who was trad- crude trader at Italian oil com- ing crude in Chicago for BP Plc, pany Eni Trading & Shipping By Padraic Halpin and Esha Vaish particular projects relocating from the people in the country within a year. one of the largest energy com- — decided on Yahoo because it Reuters UK and then maybe another three that The pick up in Ireland has coincided panies in the world, it was just was newer than AOL’s AIM chat, were considering two to three locations with flagging recruitment in Britain even the solution needed to stem the already used by his counter- across Europe ... and those have all gone before the referendum, due to uncertainty endless flood of phone calls as parts in power and natural gas in Ireland’s favour,” said Robert Mac Giolla over its outcome. British recruiter Hays said he bought and sold crude in the trading. He set up a computer rish recruiters are already filling jobs Phadraig, Sigmar’s Chief Commercial net fees in the UK and Ireland fell 4 per- Midwest and US Gulf. screen between himself and the for financial services firms which are Officer. “The headcounts for some of the cent on a like-for-like basis in the quarter And it came about only only other domestic, physical- shifting some operations from the projects are anywhere between 50 and 200.” to end-June, but taken alone, fees in Ire- because he saw his young daugh- focused trader at the shop. Using United Kingdom, with Dublin mov- He said that Sigma now has to find land grew 22 percent. ters using messaging services his account, they communicated ing fast to steal a march on rivals just candidates for a total of 1,500 to 2,500 Randstad, the world’s second largest back in the late 1990s. with the rest of the market. Ia month after Britons voted to leave the positions, mainly from US and European employment services company, has seen Come August 5, Yahoo is Slowly, its use became more European Union. While France has begun firms. The jobs are in many areas including a low level of hiring in the British finan- scuttling its legacy instant mes- widespread. Today, everyone courting bankers with new tax breaks for internal departments that ensure firms are cial sector, its CFO said. The state agency in saging service as it seeks to move from oil traders to hedge fund expatriates and Frankfurt, Amsterdam complying with regulatory rules on manag- charge of attracting foreign direct invest- users to its new Messenger plat- managers, pipeline schedulers, and Luxembourg are also making pitches, ing their financial risk, as well as financial ment (FDI) to Ireland reports similar trends form, which traders will not use brokers, refinery buyers and even Ireland is presenting itself as the only Eng- technology and IT support. to the recruiters. “From our end, Brexit is because it fails to meet the indus- ship brokers uses the chat sys- lish-speaking country that offers a base in A major opportunity for Ireland is the coming up in all our discussions with cli- try’s compliance standards. The tem globally. the euro zone and a future in the EU. risk to London-based operations if Brit- ents and potential clients,” said Martin announcement was made in “There’s a lot of back and Before the June 23 referendum, the ain loses access to the EU’s “passporting” Shanahan, the chief executive of IDA Ire- June, prior to the Verizon deal. forth, asking other people ‘What government warned that a departure of arrangement, which allows businesses reg- land which reported a pick up in jobs in A company spokeswoman said are you seeing? What are you Ireland’s nearest and biggest trade partner ulated in member states to sell financial the first half of the year following record that Yahoo will focus efforts on hearing?’” said Tariq Zahir, an from the EU would pose “a major strategic services across Europe. growth in 2015. its new system, which will deliver investment manager at Tyche risk”, with exporters to Britain particularly Beazley Plc, which manages six Lloyd’s “The most significant increase is in better personal communication Capital Advisors. worried. But Brexit also presents oppor- of London syndicates, said last week it was financial services. We’ve seen a major experiences to its users. Oil companies are finding tunities for Ireland, which has decades working to get European insurance licences increase in traffic into Ireland over the For almost two decades, tens various solutions for communi- of experience in attracting multinational for its Irish reinsurance business. British past number of weeks across all areas — of thousands in the oil industry cation going forward. Some large investment, and it is determined to seize asset manager M&G Investments, the fund banking, insurance, funds and payments relied on the old Yahoo Messen- players, including Glencore Plc, them. Ireland is already one of the world’s arm of insurer Prudential, is also looking at — wanting to talk to us about possibilities.” ger system, which launched in have adopted Intercontinental largest centres for “back office” banking expanding its operations in Dublin. Shanahan, who oversees a strategy 1998. At that time, Grabinski was Exchange Inc’s chat. functions such as settling transactions, Brightwater, another specialist Irish responsible for around 190,000 jobs or one of just two traders responsi- ICE said last month that it has many of them farmed out from London financial recruiter, has got go-aheads from almost one in every 10 Irish workers, also ble for trading physical, domestic more than 10,000 active users — Europe’s financial bigger companies, mostly banks, for jobs sees opportunities in the technology and crude for BP, which owns some for its messaging system, hav- capital but whose in the “low hundreds” moving from Brit- pharmaceutical sectors and expects it will of the nation’s biggest refineries ing grown by 15 percent since future outside the EU ain, according to head of marketing Eileen be well into next year before the full impact including its facility in Whiting, January. is beset by uncertainty. Moloney. Other firms are at an earlier stage becomes apparent. Indiana, and previously Texas Other chat systems include On top of that, Ire- of planning, such as DueDil, a financial Companies hunting for the right talent City, Texas. Symphony, CME Group Inc’s Pivot land hosts a growing technology startup employing just under in Ireland, where unemployment has halved But Grabinski had a problem. chat, Bloomberg chat, and Thom- financial technology 100 people in London that was looking at to 7.8 percent since 2012 amid a sharp eco- Every day, his phone “looked like son Reuters Messenger. industry. expanding into Europe regardless of the nomic recovery, will still have abundant a Christmas tree,” he said, with Some have also discussed Brexit also presents Some headhunters referendum result. “What Brexit does is it choice, if initial inquiries are anything to red and green lights blinking as a more widely used mobile options say it’s too early to spot makes us re-evaluate the distribution and go by. Recruiters say they’ve seen big jumps flood of brokers called and were like WhatsApp, Skype or WeChat, opportunities for any definite trend. Nev- types of teams we would be hiring,” co- in British-based candidates seeking Irish put on hold while Grabinski tried which is popular in Asia. Ireland, which has ertheless, Dublin-based founder and chief executive officer Damian positions since the referendum. Some are to gather market prices. Grabinski said the transition Sigmar Recruitment is Kimmelman said. Irish looking to return home, but others are After seeing his younger to a new system should not be a decades of experience more than doubling its Kimmelman gave inside sales — those Europeans and Britons who now consider daughters, 11 and 7, use online problem. in attracting own workforce, hiring made over the phone or online rather than Ireland a more stable place to work. instant messaging to chat with “Change is part of it, and you 150 extra staff over the face-to-face with clients — as an example. Job website Indeed.com says searches friends, he figured he could use kind of just move on,” he said. “I multinational next two years to han- “Should we hire our inside sales (team) in for Irish positions made from Britain were the same system at work at the don’t think it’s going to be that investment, and is dle foreign demand that the UK or should we hire them in Ireland? 2.5 times higher in the days after the vote British major. “The 11-year-old hard. You just type into a little was already increasing Ireland’s always been attractive as a hub than the average before, and have remained was on it and we were actively box.” determined to seize before the referendum for inside sales, but it becomes even more at a high level. Ireland also appeals to com- them. and has accelerated attractive now than it was before,” he said, panies due to its easy access to the United since. “We have two adding that his firm could be employing 20 States. In July, investors dump shares, flee for safety of cash

By Sujata Rao includes the looming US presidential elec- have lost some 10 percent and US equities are potential speed bump — US elections and the Reuters tion which could bring victory for Republican just 2 percent in the black — a consequence possibility of a Trump win. Donald Trump — an outcome that two-thirds also of stubbornly weak economic growth, Many say his proposals for reshaping the of those who responded to a special ques- US rate rise expectations and fears of a sharp trade and diplomatic ties of the world’s larg- tion said would have negative consequences. slowdown in China. However, many inves- est economy, his anti-immigration rhetoric lobal investors bought real estate, Allocations to cash stood at 6.8 percent tors noted that equity markets worldwide and questions about Treasury obligations added to cash holdings and cut on average, having risen every month since were already starting to claw back Brexit- create as much market uncertainty as the equity allocations to the lowest in February and the highest since last June, fuelled losses. “Unquestionably, we have Brexit issue. at least five years as this month’s the survey showed. In almost every region, seen an extraordinary amount of money Asked how a Trump presidency could Gshock Brexit vote added to an already toxic investors dumped shares, with the aver- withdrawn from the global equity markets impact US and global equities, two-thirds of mix of sluggish world growth and volatile age global holding at 45 percent, the lowest on Brexit worries,” Peter Lowman, CIO at those who replied saw it as negative. Some markets. The monthly Reuters survey of 44 since before May 2011 at least and down from Investment Quorum, a UK wealth manager. also cited fears that a Trump win on the heels fund managers and chief investment offic- nearly 50 at the end of last year. European But it was not “a Lehman moment”, he said. of Brexit could encourage populist parties ers in the United States, Europe, Japan and funds’ equity allocations hit the lowest in Portfolios at HFM Columbus Asset Man- across Europe. A Trump win would “increase Britain was conducted between June 15-29, over four years. “We expect a risk-off attitude agement were positioned cautiously, its the geopolitical risk at a worldwide level”, straddling the June 23 referendum in which in financial markets to continue as investors investment director Rob Pemberton said, said Nadege Dufosse, head of asset alloca- In almost every Britons voted to leave the European Union. digest the potential impact of Brexit and as citing “more global concerns - global growth, tion at Candriam. region, investors The verdict, which drove sterling to geopolitical risks remain high,” said Matteo Fed monetary policy, China.” One consequence of the Brexit jitters is 31-year lows and wiped $2 trillion off world Germano, global head of multi-asset invest- Property as an asset class was also in the fresh slump in bond yields, with over $11 dumped shares, stocks, heralds intense political and eco- ments at Pioneer Investment. demand, its weight rising to 2.9 percent, also trillion in government bonds now yielding with the average nomic uncertainty for the UK, with likely Germano predicted a knock-on hit to the highest in at least five years. Bond allo- less than zero, and German 10-year yields repercussions for the eurozone as well as commodity prices, while gold and US Treas- cations rose slightly to 38.1 percent. falling into negative territory earlier in global holding at 45 the rest of the world. uries benefited. On equities, European and The full impact of Brexit is likely still the month. German yield falls below the percent, the lowest Close to two-thirds of poll responses UK-focused stocks warranted caution, he ahead, as there is little certainty over when European Central Bank’s deposit rate will were received after the vote, but many of said, adding: “With increased geopolitical proceedings will formally begin to divorce exacerbate the acute scarcity of bonds eligi- since before May those who responded beforehand said they risk in Europe, the US dollar should behave the country from the EU, and how long ble for the ECB’s asset purchase programme. 2011 at least. had positioned defensively, given the uncer- as a safe haven.” they could take. But even in the run-up to That could pressure it to cut interest rates tainties already roiling world markets. This Year-to-date, eurozone and UK stocks Brexit, investors were fretting about another further to accommodate these bonds. FRIDAY 29 JULY 2016 21

Wagner rocks Magnificent Mendis steers SL Zimbabwe with six-wicket haul

Reuters turnaround with unbeaten 169 BULAWAYO: Fiery seamer Neil Wagner claimed career-best Test figures of six for 41 as New Zea- land took complete control of against the world’s number one Test the opening day of the first Test Hosts fight back to team. Mendis’ knock was the high- against Zimbabwe at the Queen’s est score by any Sri Lankan against Sports Club yesterday. revive hopes of a Australia at home and came after no The tourists bowled their hosts win against Australia player from either side had managed out for 164, with more than half to even score a half century in the the runs coming in an 85-run on day 3 after first innings. ninth wicket stand, before clos- securing 196-run lead Mendis, who came to the crease ing the day on 32 without loss. with four wickets in the first over of the day after the Openers Martin Guptill (14 not early dismissal of Dimuth Karu- out) and Tom Latham (16 not out) remaining naratne, hardly put a foot wrong in will resume in the morning with his 243-ball innings which has so far New Zealand just 132 behind, but featured 20 boundaries. day one belonged to Wagner, who He played Australia’s seam- produced fiery spells of fast bowl- AFP ers with confidence before cutting ing that targeted the bodies of the loose against the spin bowlers with timid home batsmen. an array of boundaries. He reached South African-born Wag- his century in spectacular fashion ner did the damage, taking three PALLEKELE: A brilliant maiden when he slog-swept Nathan Lyon for wickets in an over as the Zimba- century by Kusal Mendis helped six and then reached his 150 by cut- bwe middle order struggled to Sri Lanka claw their way back into ting the same bowler for four. find an Left-arm spinner Mitch- contention in the first Test against The 21-year-old, playing in his ell Santner (2-16 in 14 overs) did Australia yesterday and open up a seventh Test, is closing in on the some early damage before Wag- 196-run lead before play was sus- record score by a Sri Lankan against ner accounted for debutant opener pended early due to bad light. Australia and now only needs to Chamu Chibhabha (15). At the close of play on the third overhaul Kumar Sangakkara’s 192 Sean Williams (one) lobbed a day in Pallekele, Sri Lanka had at Hobart in 2007. catch to the same area, though he reached 282 for six, with Mendis The visitors’ bowlers struggled in was convinced the ball had come unbeaten on 169, as the hosts gained the absence of spinner Steve O’Keefe off his helmet. With no review the upper hand in a gripping contest who pulled a hamstring, as first system for this series he had to accept the decision of Australian Sri Lanka’s Kusal Mendis (centre) is congratulated by a team-mate after scoring a century (100 runs) during umpire Paul Reiffel. Then came SCOREBOARD the third day of their opening Test at the Pallekele International Cricket Stadium in Pallekele, yesterday. that explosive 33rd over as Wag- ner struck three times in five balls. Sri Lanka (I innings) 117 Extras (LB-10) 10 Sikandar Raza (22) was Dinesh Chandimal and then Dhanan- early end to proceedings for the third act. A total of 75 overs so far have another victim for mid-wicket and Australia (I innings) 203 Total (for 6 wkts) 282 Sri Lanka (II innings): jaya de Silva gave Mendis some solid afternoon in a row but they now have been lost due to rain and bad light Regis Chakabva (0) nicked behind Fall of wickets: 1-6 K Perera,2-6 D Karu- support. an unlikely sniff of victory. but the steady succession of wick- before home captain Graeme Cre- K Perera lbw b Starc 4

naratne,3-45 K Silva,4-86 A Mathews,5-203 D Mendis and Chandimal put on 117 Starting the day on 6 for 1, still ets on the first two days means that mer edged a rising delivery to

K Silva lbw b O’Keefe 7 runs in their fifth wicket partnership. 80 runs behind the Australians, the the match is still expected to yield a short leg for a first-ball duck. Chandimal,6-274 D de Silva D Karunaratne lbw b Starc 0 To bat: R Herath, L Sandakan, N Pradeep After Chandimal was out lbw for hosts were soon in even deeper trou- result. Wagner ended the innings K Mendis (batting) 169 42 off Marsh’s bowling, the debutant ble when Karunaratne was judged Adam Voges top-scored in Aus- when he bowled Michael Chi- Bowling: M Starc 12 - 4 - 44 - 2; J Hazlewood A Mathews c Burns b Lyon 9 de Silva then scored 36 in a partner- lbw against Mitchell Starc without tralia’s first innings total of 203 all nouya for one to take his sixth 13 - 3 - 41 - 0; S O’Keefe 16.2 - 3 - 42 - 1; N Lyon ship worth 71 before becoming Lyon’s adding to the overnight score. out in reply to Sri Lanka’s score of 117. wicket and earn Test-best figures. D Chandimal lbw b M Marsh 42 26 - 2 - 98 - 2; D Warner 1 - 0 - 10 - 0; A Voges 200th Test victim, caught at long-on The hosts also lost their skip- The match is the first in a three- D de Silva c Khawaja b Lyon 36 1.4 - 0 - 3 - 0; M Marsh 9 - 1 - 33 - 1; S Smith 1 - by Usman Khawaja. Sri Lanka only per Angelo Mathews and the opener Test series which will also see the SCOREBOARD D Perera (batting) 5 0 - 1 - 0 managed another eight runs before Kaushal Silva in the morning session Australians travel to Galle and then bad light and then rain brought an before Mendis launched the revival Colombo. Zimbabwe (I innings): B Chari c Guptill b Southee 4 C Chibhabha c Latham b Wagner 15 H Masakadza c and b Santner 15 Pakistan’s Saqlain set for second C Ervine st Watling b Santner 13 S Williams c Sodhi b Wagner 1 Sikandar Raza c Latham b Wagner 22 stint as England spinners’ guru P Masvaure lbw b Southee 42 R Chakabva c Watling b Wagner 0 G Cremer c Nicholls b Wagner 0 D Tiripano (not out) 49 AFP more of a permanent capacity. Prior a South African. Added to all that, M Chinouya b Wagner 1 to taking up his Pakistan role, former Pakistan fielding coach Steve Rixon, Extras (LB2) 2 leg-spinner Mushtaq was England’s the former Australia wicket-keeper,

spin-bowling coach. and Bayliss – who made his name Total (all out, 77.5 overs) 164 LONDON: Pakistan off-spin great Off-spin legend Muttiah Mura- internationally as Sri Lanka coach – Fall of wickets: 1-4, 2-35, 3-35, 4-36, Saqlain Mushtaq is set for another litharan, Test cricket’s all-time were once team-mates in the same 5-72, 6-72, 7-72, 8-72, 9-157, 10-164 spell as an England coaching con- leading wicket-taker, has come New South Wales side. Bowling: Southee 17-8-28-2, Boult 11-5- sultant, highlighting how fluid under fire for working with Aus- Meanwhile, Bayliss was in no 23-0, Santner 14-5-16-2, Wagner 20.5-8- national allegiances can become tralia in their ongoing series in his doubt about the impact someone 41-6, Sodhi 15-3-54-0 when a cricketer’s playing days are native Sri Lanka. like the 39-year-old Saqlain, who New Zealand (I innings): over. By contrast the atmosphere took 208 Test wickets at under 30 Saqlain was brought in by Eng- between English and Pakistani offi- apiece in 49 matches, could make, M Guptill (batting) 14 This file photo taken on November 09, 2012 shows Bangladesh’s Pakistani land ahead of the recent second Test cials has been far more cordial. even in a part-time role. T Latham (batting) 16 spin bowling coach Saqlain Mushtaq (left) talking to Elias Sunny during against Pakistan at Old Trafford. That’s partly because, as this “He was here for this Test match. Extras (NB2) 2 a team training session at the Sher-e-Bangla National Cricket Stadium In the build-up he found him- is Pakistan’s first tour of England We’ll probably look at something Total (for 0 wkts, 10 overs) 32 self working with both off-spinner since their infamous 2010 spot-fix- else further down the line as well. in Dhaka. Still to bat: Kane Williamson, Ross Taylor, Moeen Ali and leg-break bowler Adil ing debacle at Lord’s, both sides are “Both Mo (Ali) and Rash (Rashid), Henry Nicholls, Mitchell Santner, BJ Rashid, although only Ali of the pair desperate to let their cricket do the who was here in the lead-up to the tactical. That’s where we think both come in, people that have been top of Watling, Ish Sodhi, Tim Southee, Neil made it into the XI that won by 330 talking. Test, enjoyed working with him very Rash and Mo need to make improve- their field in the past and are able to runs with more than a day to spare It is also a reflection of their much. By the sound of it, it was very ments, to go ahead in the international pass on their knowledge. (But) those Wagner, Trent Boult to level the four-match series at 1-1. multi-national backroom staffs, positive and we’ll look to use him game...More field-settings and how to greats of the game very rarely get Bowling: Chinouya 4-0-10-0, Tiripano Saqlain’s former Pakistan team- with England head coach Trevor again.” bowl to different players. involved full-time, so you do have 3-0-13-0, Masvaure 1-0-2-0, Cremer 1-0- mate Mushtaq Ahmed, is carrying Bayliss an Australian and his Paki- Bayliss added: “It wasn’t neces- “It’s good to have someone like to bring them in series by series,” he 1-0, Sikandar Raza 1-0-6-0 out a similar role with the tourists in stan counterpart, Mickey Arthur, sarily a lot technically, it was more Saqlain come in, Mahela Jayawardene added. German GP: Rosberg hoping to get back on top at home

Reuters of the season after the Briton took race for Mercedes as well as sensational win in front of his Ferrari driver, an event sure to his fifth win in six races. Rosberg, which was last on the home fans two races ago in Silver- evoke memories of fan favourite “I wanted to win Hungary, calendar in 2014 and has alter- stone, will want to deny Rosberg and seven times champion Michael that’s where my disappoint- nated in the recent past with the that same satisfaction. Schumacher, who won at Hocken- HOCKENHEIM, Germany: Nico ment comes from, not because Nuerburgring. There was no Ger- He also needs to extend the gap heim four times. Rosberg can banish the disap- some points are this way or that man Grand Prix last year, with the as much as he can because he is Vettel, a four-times world pointment of losing to Mercedes way,” said Rosberg, who won the Nuerburgring baulking at paying running short of power unit com- champion with Red Bull, who first team-mate and title rival Lewis first four races of the year, last the hosting fees and Hockenheim ponents due to reliability problems visited the circuit as a six year old Hamilton in Hungary last week- weekend. unwilling to shoulder the cost after earlier in the campaign, and will to watch his boyhood hero, has end by winning in Germany on “Soon I will be very excited only 52,000 people turned up on almost certainly collect a hefty never won there however and Fer- Sunday and taking back the over- again because it’s the home race race day in 2014. grid penalty at some point. rari’s form has faded over recent all points lead. and thankfully it comes in five Rosberg won from pole that “It’s important that we con- races. The German, who had a days’ time which is good after a time and a repeat would put him tinue down the path that we’re on Vettel pushed Daniel Ricciardo 43-point lead after the Span- result like today.” back in front and give him a psy- and continue to try and go from hard for the final podium spot in ish Grand Prix in May, is now six Rosberg and Hamilton have chological edge as the sport heads strength to strength,” he said. Hungary but the Australian’s Red points behind triple world cham- both won once before at the 4.5- into the long August break. Sebastian Vettel will be mak- Bull team have caught up and lie Nico Rosberg pion Hamilton at the halfway point km Hockenheim track, a home But Hamilton, who took a ing a first home appearance as a just one point behind Ferrari 22 FRIDAY 29 JULY 2016 SPORT

Nadal’s injury situation Olympics: Seven-up Leander ‘delicate’, says Ferrer

Reuters has Games in his blood MADRID: Rafa Nadal’s injury sit- uation is “delicate” ahead of the Rio Olympics, according to Span- ish team mate David Ferrer. for India, it has not always been an 1996 was India’s first in an individ- Nadal, a 14-time Grand Slam easy ride for Paes. ual event in more than 40 years. champion, has not played a com- I love playing for the This file photo taken on July 30, 2012 The veteran has been paired with But it is doubles where Paes has petitive match since May 27 when shows Leander Paes of India hitting country. I love playing Rohan Bopanna in the men’s dou- carved out his timeless career. a left wrist injury forced him to for our people, says bles in Rio despite his higher-ranked He has 55 career titles, includ- a volley during the 2012 London pull out of the French Open partner wanting to play originally ing eight Grand Slam men’s doubles Olympic Games in Wimbledon, after the second round and miss India’s tennis star with Saketh Myneni. trophies -- three alongside Bhupathi southwest London. Wimbledon. ahead of the Rio Paes was slotted in at the with whom his relationship has World number four Nadal won insistence of the All India Tennis veered between cordial and ice cold gold in Beijing eight years ago and Games next month Association (AITA) in a row which -- and 10 in mixed. will be Spain’s flag bearer in Rio. had echos of a farce before the 2012 His French Open triumph with “I will travel with Rafa on Sun- London Olympics 2012. Martina Hingis in June allowed him day to Rio,” Ferrer told Spanish Back then, Mahesh Bhupathi was to add the mixed career Slam to his radio Cadena Ser. teamed with Bopanna in the men’s perfect collection of men’s doubles. “His situation is more deli- AFP doubles despite Paes being in the He has played with more than cate. It’s never easy to come back top 10. 100 partners in men’s doubles in his after an injury. We will see how As part of a compromise, Paes, 25-year career -- partnerships which he feels.” RIO DE JANEIRO: For India’s Lean- who had threatened to pull out of include, however fleeting, the likes of Roger Federer has pulled out der Paes, the Olympics run in the the Games, reluctantly played with Rafael Nadal, Andy Murray and Stan of the Games due to a knee injury family and his record seventh Vishnu Vardhan in the men’s doubles Wawrinka. and Wimbledon finalist Milos appearance at the Games represents while being controversially teamed “I’m fearless about anything. I Raonic and others are skipping another landmark in a career which with Sania Mirza in the mixed. believe in myself. the event due to concerns about has straddled three bruising decades. It was an unhappy experience “I believe in my partner,” Paes the Zika virus. The 43-year-old jokes that he was all round. said. “At the Olympics, you want to even conceived during the Olympics Paes and Vardhan, who was Paes has also survived a worry- see all the players compete so it’s a -- in 1972 in Munich where his father ranked just below 300 in the world at ing health scare to keep his career shame,” Ferrer said. “But our cal- Vece played in India’s bronze-medal the time, exited in the second round on track. endar is very tight and then there winning hockey team and mother as did Bhupathi and Bopanna. In 2003, the Indian star was hos- is the Zika issue.” Jennifer played basketball. Paes and Mirza made it to the pitalised in Florida for a suspected Ferrer, 34, is looking to put a Paes himself went on to win a quarter-finals in the mixed, losing brain tumour. disappointing season behind him bronze medal in singles at the 1996 to eventual champions Max Mirnyi His illness was eventually diag- and is relishing the opportunity to Atlanta Olympics. and Victoria Azarenka. nosed as a brain abscess but it was play a third Olympics. Four years later, he carried his Despite the controversies, nobody deemed serious enough to keep him His form has dropped in 2016 country’s flag at the opening cere- can doubt Paes’s longevity. off the tour for six months. and he fell out of the world’s top 10 mony of the Sydney Olympics. He was a Wimbledon and US Away from tennis, Paes has also in May for the first time in almost “I love playing for the country. Open junior singles champion and notched up a movie appearance, as six years, before suffering a sec- I love playing for our people,” said world number one in the boys divi- a gangster on the run in the widely- ond-round exit at Wimbledon. Paes. sion in 1990. panned 2013 Bollywood offering, “After Wimbledon, I needed Despite his fondness for playing His bronze medal at Atlanta in Rajdhani Express. a break to regain my enthusi- asm,” Ferrer said. “It hasn’t been my best year, very irregular and I just haven’t shown my best. Australia gives “You can’t always be at your maximum level and every year is Rio mayor ‘boxing Olympic torch riot deepens woes more difficult, but I believe I can give more. I know I can play and kangaroo,’ ends compete better.” Village spat ahead of the opening ceremony More positive

AFP tests for Olympic AFP A runner is dressed in a costume depicting the weightlifters RIO DE JANEIRO: Australia’s Rio 2016 Olympic torch, decorated with a figure Olympic delegation presented RIO DE JANEIRO: A riot during the of Usain Bolt and a pill, in Sao Paulo. Rio de Janeiro’s mayor, Eduardo Olympic torch relay cast a shadow AFP Paes, with a toy boxing kangaroo over the Rio Games starting in just yesterday as they laid to rest a over a week yesterday, marking a spat over conditions in the Olym- new low in a ritual that had been RIO DE JANEIRO: Six weight- pic Village that has marred the meant to unite Brazil. lifting medallists from the 2012 buildup to next month’s Games. The torch is nearing the end of London Olympics, including three Paes angered many in Brazil a 300-city relay that will end with Russians, have tested positive for and abroad when he appeared to the lighting of the Olympic flame in doping after their samples were downplay Australia’s complaints the Maracana stadium at the open- re-examined, the sport’s ruling over conditions in the Olympic ing ceremony on August 5. body said. Village on Sunday by saying he But while organizers portray the A total of 11 lifters were provi- might install a kangaroo on the epic journey as a chance to ignite sionally suspended for returning premises to make them feel more public enthusiasm, repeated security positive tests, including another at home. incidents have turned the torch into a five who did not win medals in The gift of the small, stuffed symbol of the organizational glitches London, the International Weight- toy by Australian delegation and social discontent overshadow- lifting Federation (IWF) added in leader Kitty Chiller showed ing South America’s first Olympics. a statement posted on its website there were no hard feelings In Angra dos Reis, a coastal resort yesterday. about what she dubbed “banter” south of Rio, crowds angry over They were among 45 athletes with the outspoken mayor. Paes lack of public transport and nearly the International Olympic Com- presented the Australian team bankrupt Rio state’s late payment mittee said last week had been with the key to the city of Rio. of salaries fought with police at the caught in a second wave of test- Chiller’s warning on Sunday torch parade late on Wednesday. ing on samples stored from the that housing in the Olympic Video broadcast on Globo tele- 2008 and 2012 Games. Village was “not safe or ready” vision and social media showed riot mishaps have gone viral online, There was better news for Rio without legal contracts. Over 100 Russian athletes due to leaky plumbing, blocked police responding with rubber bul- including runners falling over, a organizers in the arrival overnight Most security concerns have cen- have so far been banned from toilets and exposed wires ignited lets and tear gas, while the crowd police motorbike crashing into the of Jamaica’s Olympic sprint super- tered on Rio’s rampant street crime, the Games after the World Anti- concern over Rio’s readiness to chanted “put out the torch, put out parade, a man attempting to seize the star Usain Bolt, who hopes to defend but authorities last week arrested 12 Doping Agency uncovered an host the first Olympics in South the torch!” torch, and political protests. his multiple gold medals. men accused of forming a would-be elaborate doping system directed America. This came after repeated In June, a rare, captive jaguar -- Wearing a black tracksuit with jihadist terrorism cell. by Russia’s sports ministry across She had moved the attempts in other cities to douse the the same animal chosen for Brazil’s white stripes, sunglasses and head- Brazilian media reports said more than 30 sports. Australian team out of the torch with fire extinguishers or buck- Olympic mascot -- was shot dead phones, Bolt was in a hurry to leave yesterday that another man in an The banned London weight- Village until the problems were ets of water. after escaping handlers at a torch the airport. apparently separate case has been lifting silver medallists, named solved. Highlight reels of other torch ceremony. “I didn’t sleep on the flight,” he detained on suspicion of terrorism for the first time by the IWF, \Argentina also boycotted the told a welcoming committee of jour- links. were Russians Alexandr Ivanov, site while Italy and New Zealand nalists and officials. His lawyer, Edson Ferreira, said Nataliya Zabolotnaya and Svet- said they had been forced to call A more controversial set of arriv- the allegations lacked substance. lana Tzarukaeva. in workers to fix problems after als were expected later in the day, “There is no basic accusation, or The bronze medallists were organizers admitted the blocks with some 70 Russian athletes from a complete accusation,” he told Globo Iryna Kulesha of Bulgaria, Arme- had been handed over without team slashed by bans in a state-spon- television. nia’s Hripsime Khurshudyan and proper testing of water and sored doping scandal due to fly in at “There’s nothing more than Cristina Iovu of Moldova. power systems. IOC President around 6:00 pm (2100 GMT). suspicions that he put posts on Face- In total, 13 weightlifting med- At a ceremony in the Village Thomas Bach Rio organizers were also still rac- book, that he posted links related to als won in London have now been on Wednesday, a smiling speaks at the site ing to complete emergency repairs Islamic State, but which have noth- tainted by doping, comprising four Paes apologized and thanked where the Olympic to the athletes’ Village, where some ing concretely to do with him. He has gold, four silver and five bronze. the Australian team for their cauldron is being 19,000 team members will live. no link with Islamic State,” the law- The doping tally from weight- understanding - and said they built in Rio de Half of the buildings had prob- yer said. lifting at the 2008 Beijing Games would be his second choice team lems ranging from blocked toilets Brazilian officials have down- stands at five -- one gold, two Janeiro, Brazil. for the Games, after Brazil. to faulty wiring when teams began played the seriousness of the group silver and two bronze. More pos- “I think we’ve managed to moving in over the weekend. arrested last week, calling them itives are possible from both continue laughing throughout Although these glitches were “amateur” and “disorganized.” events. ... to maintain our sense of expected to be ironed out by the end Members of the group are “The IWF imposed manda- humour,” Chiller told a news today, new controversy was brew- accused of discussing potential tory provisional suspensions upon conference after the ceremony, ing over allegations by government attacks, attempting to buy a rifle the athletes, who remain provi- noting that some 50 Australian labour inspectors that the approxi- online, and declaring allegiance sionally suspended in view of athletes had already moved back mately 600 workers are being made to the Islamic State group via the potential anti-doping rule viola- into the official accommodation. to work nearly around the clock Internet. tions,” it said. SPORT FRIDAY 29 JULY 2016 23

Cavendish on Hopes rest on a high as he Bolt to lead targets omnium athletics out of gold in Rio doping darkness AFP Reuters

RIO DE JANEIRO: What you need to know about athletics at the Rio LONDON: Mark Cavend- Olympics: ish’s (pictured) past Olympic ** World athletics is counting appearances have not exactly on Jamaican superstar and six- gone to plan but the Briton says time Olympic gold medallist Usain he will arrive in Rio on a high Bolt told lead the sport out of its as he bids to justify his return darkest hour amid doping and to the velodrome boards with a corruption scandals. “I accept the long-awaited first medal. man is a genius. He’s probably the The 31-year-old world road most recognisable sportsman or champion will ride the multi- woman on the planet. It’s a high- discipline omnium event in class problem. Many sports would Brazil, having convinced the really like to be discussing a Usain British Cycling selectors he has Bolt in their ranks: they don’t and a genuine medal chance. they can’t,” said IAAF president His place on the team was Sebastian Coe who still believes in doubt when he finished sixth that other track stars deserve the in the omnium at the track Rio spotlight. world championships in Lon- ** Organised athletics can be don in March, having been set traced back to the Ancient Olym- a minimum target of a podium pic Games from 776 BC. The rules place. and format of modern athletics Russia’s synchronised swimming Olympic team members attend a farewell ceremony before the national team’s departure to Rio 2016 Olympics Since then Cavendish has events were defined in Western juggled track training with his at Sheremetyevo International Airport outside Moscow, Russia, yesterday. Europe and North America in the ‘day job’ for Team Dimension 19th and 20th century, and then Data with whom he won four spread to other parts of the world. stages at this month’s Tour de Athletics forms the backbone of France, taking his overall tally the Summer Olympics after being to 30, four behind the record first included in the first modern of Belgian great Eddy Merckx. Basketball: Team USA look Olympic Games in 1896, with “On a mental point of view women allowed to compete from I’m on a bit of a high from the 1928. Tour,” Cavendish said in an ** Athletics is overseen by the interview on Cycling News. International Association of Ath- “Not away in the clouds high letics Federations (IAAF), founded and it’s not like I’m going on to sweep golds in Rio in 1912, which has been plunged a piss up for a week after the into its worst crisis by doping and Tour de France but I know that corruption scandals affecting sev- the work I’ve put in is working. eral countries and former leaders. “I know the work I’ve put “I feel the pain that we all feel at in has been beneficial. What The Americans the moment because we love we’ve set out to do this year is our sport. It’s been painful to see played out. It gives you posi- expected to dominate where our sport is at the moment tive feelings for the next goals proceedings despite in public perception,” IAAF presi- you have.” dent Sebastian Coe told reporters Cavendish rode the Madi- many players opting recently. son event with Bradley Wiggins out of the Games ** “Citius, altius, fortius” - at the 2008 Olympics in Bei- because of Zika virus “faster, higher, stronger”, the jing but the duo flopped despite Olympic ethos perfectly summing being favourites and briefly fell Takeshi Matsuda up athletics, which will feature 47 out. of Japan during events (24 for men, 23 for women At the London 2012 Olym- - they skip the 50km race walk) a training session pics Cavendish took part in from the blue riband 100m to the in Rio de Janeiro the road race and was again a Reuters marathon. Running from August ahead of next favourite, only to languish in 12-21, track and field will fea- 29th place. week’s Olympic ture 2,000 athletes (1,100 men The six-discipline omnium TORONTO: Team USA will be with- Games. and 900 women), each country poses tough challenges for out many star players in Rio due limited to three athletes for indi- Cavendish, particularly the mainly to concerns over Zika and vidual events and a maximum of 4,000m individual pursuit and injuries, but such is the depth of the six for the relays. The venue is the 1km time trial which proved country’s basketball talent that they revamped 47,000-capacity Olym- costly to his medal chances are expected to cruise to a third con- pic Stadium, while the marathon in London. However, after a secutive gold medal. will finish at the Sambodrome and pulling out of the Tour early The lengthy list of American tournament has been set and the Group B play and perhaps repre- a sixth consecutive Olympic gold the race walks take place along- to concentrate on Rio, Caven- players opting to skip the Aug. 5-21 United States, powered by Olympic sent the toughest challenger for medal. Since settling for bronze side the Pontal beach. dish is expected to challenge Rio Summer Games for one reason or gold medallists Kevin Durant and the United States, a team they have at the 1992 Barcelona Games, the ** Aside from Bolt, much the likes of Colombia’s double another is a who’s who of the basket- Carmelo Anthony, are in Group A pushed on several occasions. But Americans have gone on a 41-game attention will be on any Rus- world champion Fernando ball world and includes such titans along with France, Venezuela, Ser- the current squad does not appear winning streak and own the longest sian athletes who manage to get Gaviria and Germany’s Roger like LeBron James, Stephen Curry bia, China and Australia. as dominant given a decline in form gold medal streak in any women’s to Rio. Doping cheat 800m run- Kluge for gold. and Russell Westbrook. While that may present a tougher of 36-year-old power forward Pau Olympic team sport. ner turned-whistleblower Yuliya He said the demands of the But while the Rio-bound men’s set of group games for Team USA Gasol and the absence of his younger The United States have won seven Stepanova had hoped to compete Tour will not have any detri- roster may not match up with the US compared to most years, they still brother Marc, 31, who was unable to of the 10 gold medals in women’s as a neutral after being accepted mental effect on his Rio hopes. “Dream Team” from the 1992 Games appear too deep to be upset by per- recover from a broken foot in time. basketball at the Olympics -- the by the IAAF. But the IOC has said “If I’d have been over the that included 11 future Hall of Fame ennial contender France, led by Tony That could open the door in other three were won by the Soviet the Olympic Charter does not limit on the third day I’d have players, they possess everything Parker, or pesky Australia, powered Group B for Croatia and Lithuania. Union/Unified Team -- and will be allow such a gesture even if they stopped on the third day,” he needed to reach the top of podium by Andrew Bogut. In the women’s competition, the powered in Rio by four-times Olym- have invited Stepanova and her explained. “It’s not easy (jug- again without much of a challenge. Spain, runners-up at the last two US team will look to cap a two-dec- pic gold medallists Diana Taurasi, husband to Rio. Stepanova said the gling road and track) but I’ve The field of 12 for the men’s Olympics, are expected to dominate ade run of domination by seeking Sue Bird and Tamika Catchings. IOC decision was “unfair”. been managing that all year. This is about making every sin- gle pedal rev count,” he added. Bolt arrives in Rio for shot at Russian contingent heads to Rio immortality

AFP AP according to pole vaulter Yelena event. World champions competed board on Sunday, the IOC imposed Isinbayeva. against regional-level athletes in new restrictions on Russia. Isinbayeva, a two-time Olympic front of around 150 spectators in International sports federations KINGSTON: Jamaica’s Usain Bolt MOSCOW: A depleted Russian team gold medallist, has become a de facto an event hastily organized after the must now remove any athlete previ- has landed in Rio de Janeiro more departed for the Olympics in Rio de spokeswoman for Russian athletes track team’s ban was upheld by the ously banned for doping or who was than a week before the Olympics Janeiro yesterday, missing dozens of excluded from the Olympics and gave Court of Arbitration for Sport (CAS) implicated in a report commissioned opening ceremony to fine tune his athletes who were excluded amid the a tearful address to the team in the last week. by the World Anti-Doping Agency preparations for his attempt at an country’s doping scandal. Kremlin on Wednesday. Isinbayeva watched from the that accused Russia of a mass cover- unprecedented triple-triple of gold Team members left on a charter “Today, as never before, we need sidelines, vowing defiance and legal up of failed drug tests. medals in the men’s sprints. flight from Moscow’s Sheremetevo to stay united and become a family,” action. Some federations have taken a The wold record holder, who airport to Brazil, a day after an the 40-year-old Tetyukhin said, “You can’t break Russians,” she tough line, excluding many Russian required a medical exemption emotional farewell ceremony with ignoring what he called “provoca- said. team members from events such as after he pulled out of the Jamai- Russian President Vladimir Putin in tions addressed at our team and our “People have tried to break us rowing, canoeing and swimming. can trials with a hamstring strain, the Kremlin. mighty country.” down, but it’s never worked ... What Other sports, such as judo and ten- proved his fitness last Friday by More than 100 athletes from No track and field athletes were doesn’t kill us makes us stronger,” nis, have allowed the entire Russian running 19.89 seconds to win the what was originally a 387-strong among the contingent heading for she said. team to compete in their sport. These 200 metres at the London Dia- team have been barred from com- Rio, since the entire track team is She added that she plans to file rulings must still be ratified by CAS. mond League meeting. He will peting in Rio by international sports banned from competing, except for a another appeal to CAS and also the Some Russian athletes had flown join the Jamaican pre-Olympic federations under sanctions which single US-based long jumper, follow- European Court of Human Rights. to Rio in advance of the main del- camp as he seeks to become the most Russian athletes consider ing revelations of widespread doping. “My conscience is clean,” said egation, including gymnasts and first man to win gold medals in unfair. The track team did, however, long jumper Vasily Kopeikin, another swimmers. the 100, 200 and 4x100 relay at “We’re after medals, that’s it,” attend the ceremonial farewell with athlete barred from Rio. “Time will Russia’s head swim coach Ser- three successive Games. Bolt had handball player Anna Sen said as Putin on Wednesday, when the Rus- show those people who suspended gei Kolmogorov told Russian agency been training and receiving med- she prepared to board the flight. “We sian president branded restrictions us.” R-Sport that swimmers barred from ical treatment in Munich after he need to fight for those athletes who on Russia as “pure discrimination.” Kopeikin added that he would the games, including world 100- pulled out of the Jamaican trials were disqualified.” Hours after the plane carrying not watch any Olympic events in meter breaststroke champion Yulia with the hamstring injury. Volleyball player Sergei Tety- the Russian team took off, the track which Russia was not taking part. Efimova, were at a pre-Olympic The lanky sprinter is among 59 ukhin, a four-time Olympic and field team gathered across town While Russia avoided a blanket training camp in Brazil in the hope track and field athletes in Jamai- medallist, will be Russia’s flagbearer in a small stadium for what was ban from the games at a meeting of of a late reprieve to allow them to ca’s 63-member delegation. for the opening ceremony in Rio, billed as an Olympic consolation the International Olympic Committee race in Rio. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 22 PAGE | 23 Torch riot deepens Cavendish on a woes ahead of the high as he targets opening ceremony omnium gold in Rio

FRIDAY 29 JULY 2016 • 24 SHAWWAL 1437 thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Al Shaqab’s Mehmas seals the deal

QATAR GOODWOOD Racing legend FESTIVAL: DAY 3 Frankie Dettori rides Al Shaqab’s Club (Gr2) three weeks earlier, entry to triumph which he also took home in 2015. at Qatar Richmond Jamie Spencer, Big Orange’s jockey, said: “He wears his heart Stakes on his sleeve. He’s a big strong galloper and he’s got stronger since last year and can sustain top speed for longer.” In other event, The 4yo filly The Peninsula California imposed herself in the Markel Insurance Fillies’ Stakes (Gr3). The Denford Stud-owned filly travelled on the outside LONDON: Al Shaqab’s entry behind Pamona, who led the Frankie Dettori Mehmas produced a slick run race at a fast pace. When the and stormed to victory at the rides Al Shaqab’s leader let go down the home Qatar Richmond Stakes (Gr2) Mehmas to win at straight, California accelerated on the third day of the Qatar Qatar Richmond on the outside, in the middle of Goodwood Festival at Sussex Stakes. the track and won easily in front countryside, yesterday. of Tioga Pass and Twitch. The Mehmas’ triumph Respectively second and ensured Al Shaqab retained Mehmas. The 2yo colt stayed Pallasator. The latter fought he was challenged on all sides, third, they both finished very their Qatar Richmond Stakes on a success in the Arqana July against Sheikhzayedroad for the but managed to sustain his speed fast, outpacing the leader, who title which they won last year. Stakes (Gr2) three weeks ago. second place, but finally took the in order to resist the attacks and takes the fourth place. Mehmas, ridden by sea- He won his fourth race in six advantage at the very end. impose himself. Big Orange California had recently won soned Frankie Dettori, travelled runs this Thursday and pro- Big Orange led the race as he stayed on a success in the Prin- a handicap at Ascot on the 8th on the outside and showed a lot vided trainer Richard Hannon is used to. In the final furlongs, cess of Wales’s Arqana Racing July. of tenacity to resist Blue Point’s with a first Goodwood winner attack in the final furlongs. Blue this week. Point, who was undefeated in Hannon explained: “I just two runs, finished close second love the horse. He’s very tough in front of Intelligence Cross, and he’s done nothing wrong whe came third. all year, and ultimately he’s “He really sticks his head extremely talented. He’s a horse out. He’s not overly big, but he that we like, the Sheikh likes has a big heart to compensate him.” for that,” said a delighted Det- The 2015 edition of the Qatar tori after the win. Richmond Stakes was also won “He took it to the favourite by Al Shaqab Racing, thanks to and he showed what a tenacious Shalaa, who was also ridden by horse he is. He’s straightforward. Dettori. He doesn’t really bother. He likes Meanwhile, o ne of the high- a scrap and I took him to a scrap lights yesterday at the Qatar and he came up trumps. He Goodwood Festival was the doesn’t how to run a bad race. He Qatar Goodwood Cup (Gr2). Frankie Dettori jumps in jubilation after riding Al wears his heart on his sleeve and After winning the 2015 edi- Shaqab’s Mehmas to Qatar Richmond Stakes victory I’m pleased for Sheikh Joaan, tion of the race, Big Orange who is here today,” he added. converted the try again this at Qatar Goodwood Festival at Sussex countryside, The winner of the Charity Ladies Race poses with the trophy along with her team members Experience seemed to have year in front of the Qatar Rac- yesterday. played an important role for ing Limited-owned horse, and officials on the third day of Qatar Goodwood Festival at Sussex countryside, yesterday. Tabata confident of Al Rayyan’s title defence Al Gharafa hold Portuguese club The Peninsula “Goumou is a very good player. He CD Fatima 1-1 will be a big addition for the club this season, he is a positive person and even though he has been away The Peninsula DOHA: Al Rayyan’s talismanic cap- from the squad he will bring plenty tain Rodrigo Tabata was in good of quality to the squad.” spirits ahead of his side’s departure Head coach Jorge Fossati also DOHA: Al Gharafa continued their to Murcia in Spain for their presea- signed a three-season contract preseason preparations ahead of son training camp. extension with the Lions after lift- the new Qatar Stars league (QSL) Tabata was crowned the Player- ing the Falcon Shield last term, a season with a 1-1 draw against of-the-Season at the QFA awards in move that Tabata believes can only Portuguese third division side May as he enjoyed arguably his best strengthen Al Rayyan. CD Fatima. season in professional football last “Everyone trusts the coach, and Pedro Caixinia’s side took term, noting a joint highest tally of for what he did last season it was a an early lead in the tie through 21 goals in 24 games. major achievement. It is good to see youngster Abdulghani Muneer, The striker, who retuned from the management showing belief in before being pegged back by the vacation in Brazil, while talking to him with the deal they gave him. hosts. QSL online said his team is confi- Keeping Fossati and his staff was a This was the second friendly dent to defend their title ahead of the major boost for the players.” for the Cheetahs as part of their new Qatar Stars League (QSL) season “Last year was very good for me preseason training camp. which will kick off on September 15. and Al Rayyan, winning the league Last week, Al Gharafa stum- “It’s been a good vacation, I after 21 years. Thank God I helped bled to a 3-1 defeat at the hands of rested in Brazil and this time away the side, and I won two individual Liga Nos side Estoril Praia. from the team will be good for eve- awards. This has given me plenty of Gharafa will now move onto ryone. The whole team is back now, motivation to work harder. Myself I their final game of their presea- and we are focusing on our fitness don’t look for these individual awards son training camp, when they face so we can start the season strongly. Al Rayyan’s players take part in a training session as they prepare for the new Qatar Stars League season. I just work for Al Rayyan. I believe a Benfica B side tomorrow. I believe if we prepare with intensity we will be ready to fight for our title Al Gharafa will head back this can be the start of another good after a strong preseason.” to Doha on August 7, where the season for Al Rayyan.” to stick with their professional play- the coach wants, and they know the strengthen like Al Sadd and Al Arabi.” Al Rayyan will stay in Spain till Cheetahs will ramp up their prep- Al Rayyan have had a relatively ers of Koh Myong-jin, Gonzalo Viera, mentality of the coach and the play- Tabata also talked up the return the August 20 before starting their arations further ahead of the new quiet summer transfer window with Víctor Caceres and Sergio Garcia. ers. We did very well last season, but of Daniel Goumo, who was recently title-defense. The football giants season which will kick off on Sep- the return of Daniel Goumo and the “It’s good that we have retained of course we need to improve again free to play for Al Rayyan after won the previous edition, dethron- tember 15. Al Rayyan will defend signing of Musab Mahmood, electing the same players. They know what as other teams in the league have serving a two year domestic ban. ing rivals Lekhwiya. their title.