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SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2016 • 23 DHUL HIJJA 1437 • Volume 21 • Number 6930 2 Riyals thepeninsulaqatar @peninsulaqatar @peninsula_qatar Private schools can Emir tells Qatari students to improve skills conduct evening classes for adults

A senior official of the Pakistan Education Centre, in an interview with The Peninsula The Ministry will assess recently said PEC has already been granted performance of private KGs, permission by the Ministry to start evening classes for people of all ages. The move will make national accreditation especially benefit expatriate communities, must for private schools with large populations but with few schools. and grade private schools Officials of the Egyptian and Sudanese schools in Qatar were quick to welcome the based on fees linked with decision, saying there are several expatri- quality of education. ates from their communities here who could not avail themselves of formal education. The number of Egyptian and Sudanese schools in Qatar is too small compared to the relatively large size of both communities, they noted. By Mohammed Osman Al Ghali said several private KGs have been The Peninsula selected for the proposed assessment. Private schools have also been asked to conduct a sur- vey to measure satisfaction of parents and students about the performance of the school. DOHA: In a new initiative that would bene- Private schools and KGs are not allowed fit several expatriate communities in Qatar, to collect fees before their due time. They are the Ministry of Education and Higher Educa- also not permitted to introduce new or addi- tion has allowed private schools to conduct tional fees before getting approval from the evening classes for adults, parallel to their reg- Ministry, said the official. ular curriculum. Al Ghali said during the current academic The Ministry has also announced plans to year, the Private School Office will clas- evaluate the performance of all private kin- sify private schools into three categories in dergartens in the country. accordance with the applied academic and Addressing a meeting of the owners and administrative standards. It will also issue Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani with Qatari students in California. → More pictures on page 2 heads of private schools and kindergartens guidelines for assessment of student conduct recently, Hamad Al Ghali, Director of the Pri- at private schools. QNA welcomed the students and wished them The students expressed delight at meet- vate Schools Office at the Ministry, said the He said the aim of the annual meeting was success in their academic future and in serv- ing the Emir and stressed their keenness to schools can charge a fee for adult education, to update the participants on the priorities in ing their society in the future. pursue a better education to serve their but it should be lower than their regular fees. the new academic year and discuss adminis- The Emir also called on them to use their country. Later, the Emir left Los Ange- Adult education can be offered at the trative and academic issues. LOS ANGELES: Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin time in improving their skills and stressed les, concluding a four-day working visit. school in the evening or on a home-based Hamad Al Thani met Qatari students in the that he is keen to enable them to take part The Emir was accompanied by an official system, he explained. → Continued on page 2 US State of California on Friday. The Emir in Qatar’s future development. delegation. Katara Hospitality opens second Murwab-managed hotel in Switzerland

The Peninsula and Katara Hospitality Switzerland beautifully restored historical build- AG; state counsellors and officials ing and luxury hotel, which adds to from Switzerland. the cosmopolitan allure of the city On the occasion, Sheikh Nawaf of Lausanne, while appealing to the DOHA: Murwab Hotel Group, Katara said: “We are honoured to wit- tastes of our esteemed guests.” Hospitality’s operating arm, has ness the official reopening of Hotel In line with Katara Hospitali- unveiled the legendary Hotel Royal Royal Savoy Lausanne, as it revives ty’s mission to preserve the heritage Savoy Lausanne in Switzerland, in a the property’s prestigious past while of iconic hotels around the world, grand opening ceremony signifying marking a new step forward in the Hotel Royal Savoy Lausanne, located the hotel’s official opening after an region’s long tradition of hospitality. in the heart of the city of Lausanne ambitious remodelling exercise that “Katara Hospitality is globally and overlooking Lac Lèman, recently restored the hotel to its historic aes- renowned for creating landmark hos- underwent a multi-million-dollar thetic charm. pitality gems that enhance the tourism extensive yet masterful redesign. Under the patronage of Sheikh landscape in the markets we oper- The iconic hotel is the second Nawaf bin Jassim bin Jabor Al Thani, ate, and such a momentous occasion hotel to open under The Bürgenstock Chairman of Katara Hospitality, further illustrates our continued suc- Selection, a collection of luxurious Hotel Royal Savoy Lausanne hosted cess within the global luxury tourism hotels which fall under Murwab Hotel over 500 highly esteemed guests, in sector.” Group, the standalone operating arm the presence of Qatar’s Ambassador Al Mulla commented: “The leg- of Katara Hospitality which manages Dr. Mubarak Kleefiefh K. Alhajri; endary Hotel Royal Savoy Lausanne an international collection of boutique Pierre Antoine Hildbrand, Represent- epitomises the opulence and impec- upscale hotels and brands offering ative of the city of Lausanne; Hamad cable service standards characteristic contemporary hospitality steeped in Abdullah Al Mulla, CEO of Katara Hos- of Swiss hospitality. cultural heritage. Sheikh Nawaf bin Jassim bin Jabor Al Thani (third left), Chairman of Katara Hospitality, and other officials pitality; Bruno Schpfer, Managing “It is Katara Hospitality’s dis- opening the legendary Hotel Royal Savoy Lausanne in Switzerland. Director of The Bürgenstock Selection tinguished pleasure to unveil a → Continued on page 4 New real estate brokerage law soon iPhone 7 and Plus launch draws huge crowd The Peninsula the sector, QNA reports. The Minister was speaking during an inspection visit to a the Ministry’s offices and The Peninsula technology. DOHA: Minister of Justice H E Dr. Has- branches to assess their services and The iPhone 7 and iPhone 7 Plus feature an san Lahdan Saqr Al Mohannadi said a ensure they are provided properly. all-new advanced camera system, dust- and package of laws will come out soon, He said the opening of the new DOHA: The much-awaited iPhone 7 and iPhone water-resistant design, stereo speaker system including a new real estate brokerage branch of the Ministry at Al Arabi Club 7 Plus were launched in Qatar on Thursday and the A10 Fusion chip which is the most pow- law. A draft of the law prepared by the and the expansion of the centres and midnight with customers seen lining up to grab erful chip on any smartphone while delivering ministry and approved by the Cabinet branches have been done under the the latest models. the best battery life in an iPhone. had been forwarded to the Advisory directives of Emir H H Sheikh Tamim At the Ooredoo launch in Al Majlis Hall Customers can purchase iPhone 7 and Council. The Minister said the draft bin Hamad Al Thani to ensure that the at the Sheraton Hotel from midnight to 4am, iPhone 7 Plus in retail shops and online at was prepared after the formation of services are accessible to all citizens Ooredoo delivered the cutting-edge iPhones www.ooredoo.qa now. a committee to study the real estate and residents in the right place in the for every customer who had pre-ordered, living market to address the problems facing right time. up to its reputation for reliability and advanced → Continued on page 16 A proud customer displaying his latest iPhone. 02 SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2016 HOME

Emir meets Qatari students in California

Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani met on Friday Qatari students in California. Emir welcomed the students and wished them success in their studies and future and in serving their country and society. The students expressed their delight at meeting the Emir and stressed their desire to pursue better education to serve their country.

QU-QFC initiative to provide tax education to students

QU-CBE and QFC signed a Mem- goals of Qatar National Vision 2030,” The two-year orandum of Understanding (MoU) on said Al Abdulqader. Thursday with ‘Big Four’ audit firms “Strengthening and enlarging programme will Deloitte, Ernst & Young (EY), KPMG the talent pool available to the com- highlight key areas and PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) mercial and financial sector in Qatar to develop and deliver tax awareness through education is imperative for of international tax training for QU students. QFC, and it is with a great sense of joy principles and Qatari The training sessions will be pro- and pride that I announce the sign- vided at QU during the 2016/2017 and ing of the MoU as the beginning of a tax law. 2017/2018 academic years. It will closer and stronger relationship with cover basic and intermediate levels QU and the Big Four audit firms,” said of tax and will be delivered in English Al Saadi. and Arabic in each of the two aca- Experts also highlighted that the By Fazeena Saleem demic semesters, making a total of 16 new training initiative is essential as The Peninsula training sessions. It aims at attract- tax is an important subject regionally ing around 400 students. and internationally. Dr Khalid Shams Al Abdulqader, “Tax is a hot topic of discussion Dean, QU-CBE, Hamed Al Saadi, among a wide range of stakeholders DOHA: An initiative to promote tax chief financial and tax officer at in the Middle East and internation- awareness amongst young Qatari QFC Authority, Rami Qudah, Partner, ally, particularly following the global students has been launched by Qatar Deloitte Middle East, Paul Kara- financial crisis and the resulting University College of Business and manoukian, Managing Partner, EY pressures on exchequer returns faced Economics (QU-CBE) and Qatar Qatar, Ahmed Abu Sharkh, Coun- Hamed Al Saadi (centre), Chief Financial and Tax Officer at QFC Authority and Dr Khalid Shams Al Abdulqader, by many countries around the world. Financial Centre (QFC) Authority. try Senior Partner, KPMG Qatar and Dean, QU-CBE, with representatives of accounting firms during the MoU signing ceremony. It is therefore critical that our next The two-year programme will high- Neil O’Brien, Head of Tax, PwC Qatar, Pic: Baher Amin / The Peninsula generation of business leaders and light key areas of international tax were present during the MoU signing entrepreneurs have an appreciation principles and Qatari tax law as the event held at the QU-CBE building. best practices that will be of invalu- the future generation of experts and by equipping them with the skills, and awareness about the importance region is considering implementing “The agreement will serve as a able benefit to our students. It also professionals by offering them high- competencies and mindset needed of tax management and the neces- different forms of tax, said officials. platform to exchange knowledge and shows QU’s commitment to shape quality academic programmes and for a successful career in line with the sity for tax compliance,” said Qudah.

Texas A&M and Maersk Oil Teaching of three subjects mandatory in private schools launch Arabic podcast series Continued from page 1 “Fee comes on the top of these issues. Schools must clearly intro- The Peninsula Station, Texas, USA. Both classic and duce to parents the policy of tuition new episodes on a range of topics fees and additional fees that are of interest to audiences in Qatar approved by the ministry and it must have been written and recorded in be well-documented,” said Al Ghali. DOHA: Texas A&M University Arabic. Any student who does not have a at Qatar and Maersk Oil Qatar Forty episodes of Engineer- personal number will not be allowed recently launched a new Ara- ing Works will be distributed on a to register and private schools must bic podcast series for students to weekly basis when schools are in comply with the education level, encourage their engagement and session. grade, certificate attestation and participation in science, technol- The first episode, which focused equivalence system stated in the ogy, engineering and mathematics on natural gas and natural-gas– guidelines, especially when a student (STEM) subjects. powered vehicles, aired during the moves from one education system Launched at Omar bin Al Khattab launch. to another. Education Complex, the ‘Engineer- The effort is part of the Dhia: Al Ghali asked the schools to Hamad Al Ghali, Director of Private Schools Office at the Ministry of Education and Higher Education, ing Works’ podcasts take a look at Engineering Leaders initiative, a update their database in order to addressing the meeting. RIGHT: Owners and directors of private schools and kindergarten at the meeting. the little-known or whimsical side partnership between Texas A&M include admission, examination of engineering, and the creative ways at Qatar and Maersk Oil Qatar that results, beneficiaries of the educa- them make the right decision. studies with two lessons for Mus- ministry, explained that the depart- engineering is used to make a differ- aims to attract Qatar’s best and tion voucher system, and data related He highlighted the importance lim students and Qatar history for ment is going to hold a meeting on ence in the world. brightest young minds to choose to the teachers. The ministry will of teaching three mandatory sub- all students. September 29 to discuss the national The original podcast was devel- career paths in STEM and sup- launch a special website to provide jects in all private schools - Arabic Omar Abdelaziz Al- school accreditation system, as part oped by the College of Engineering port the goals set out in the Qatar parents with necessary information language for Arab students with at Naama, Director of Schools of plans to make it mandatory for all at Texas A&M University in College National Vision 2030. about private schools and KGs to help least four lessons per week, Islamic Evaluation Department at the private schools. HOME SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2016 03 QC spends QR14.7m on Al Muraikhi meets UN officials several social causes QNA NEW YORK: Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, H E Sultan bin families as they were the only in Ramadan and performing other Saad Al Muraikhi, met in New York More than 740 people breadwinners. social projects. with Assistant UN Secretary-Gen- The Department also paid for QC implemented several social eral and Executive Director of the have benefited from medical bills of poor patients, pro- projects for the development of the UN Counter-Terrorism Committee the local projects vided basic needs to needy families, Qatari society to keep pace with the Executive Directorate (CTED), Jean- monthly expenses for low-income Qatar National Vision 2030, said Ali Paul Laborde, and Director of the UN launched by the families, and financial support to Atiq Al Abdullah, CEO of QC Depart- Counter-Terrorism Implementation Department of Social widows, divorcees, elderly, people ment of Local Development. Task Force (CTITF) and the UN Coun- with special needs, among others. There are two main aspects here: ter-Terrorism Centre (UNCCT), Dr. Welfare and Local Loan defaulters, especially the first one is the social welfare, Jehangir Khan on the sidelines of the Development at QC in prisoners, have received the lion’s which includes providing assistance 71st Session of the General Assem- share from these aids valued at to debtors, low-income persons, bly of the United Nations. Qatar. QR5.5m. A total of 56 individuals widows, patients and others. The Talks during the meeting dealt and families have benefited from second aspect includes funding with the work of the United Nations the aid in this category and the ini- projects, activities, and events for bodies and the State of Qatar’s efforts The Peninsula tiative helped set free 20 prisoners families and individuals in Qatar to implement the United Nations Glo- from jail. to develop their abilities in various bal Counter-Terrorism Strategy and Minister of State for Foreign Affairs H E Sultan bin Saad Al Muraikhi Around QR3.9m was used for fields, said Al Abdullah. address violent extremism. with the UN High Commissioner for Refugees, Filippo Grandi. DOHA: Qatar Charity (QC) has spent helping patients and 72 people Al Aqrabun Initiative is one of Al Muraikhi also met with the QR14.7m on various social causes benefited. In addition, QR2.1m was the Qatari charitable initiatives Executive Secretary of the UN Eco- Talks during the meeting dealt Foreign Affairs, Charles Fernandez. inside Qatar during the first half of allocated for helping 113 needy and in humanitarian work that was nomic and Social Commission for with bilateral relations between the Talks during the meeting dealt this year and managed to secure the low-income families to provide them launched by the QC in the holy Western Asia (ESCWA), Rima Khalaf. two countries and means of enhanc- with bilateral relations between the release of 20 loan defaulters from jail with monthly expenses, while QR1m month of Ramadan. The meeting reviewed coopera- ing them, in addition to a number of two countries and means of promot- after paying their debts. was given to support divorcees and A group of prominent and influ- tion between the State of Qatar and issues of common concern. ing cooperation in the economic, More than 740 people have their families. ential people in the Qatari society the UN Commission as well as the The Minister also met with the trade and cultural fields. benefited from the local projects About 120 individuals and fam- as well as some social activists coordination for the next ESCWA United Nations High Commissioner In addition, the Minister met launched by the Department of ilies benefited from the aid worth provided support to low-income Ministerial Meeting scheduled to for Refugees, Filippo Grandi.The meet- with Foreign Minister of the Repub- Social Welfare and Local Develop- QR2.5m. The largest share of the families and supported them psy- be held in Doha. ing shed light on the right to education lic of the Comoros, Dr. Abdulkarim ment at QC in the country this year. aid was distributed in the month chologically and financially. Around The Minister of State for Foreign in emergencies along with the refugee Mohammad. The meeting reviewed The money was spent on repay- of Ramadan for several causes, 200 individuals and families have Affairs also met with the Minister crisis, particularly in Syria. bilateral relations between the two ing loans of defaulters serving jail including the launch of Al Aqrabun benefited and about QR1.7m was of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Al Muraikhi has also met with countries and means of enhancing sentence upon the requests of their Initiative, meeting the people’s needs given to them. Ecuador, Ricardo Patino Aroca. Antigua and Barbuda’s Minister for them. Customs officials seize 29kg ofmarijuana

The Peninsula Authority of Customs Ahmed bin bags belonging to Asian passengers and Ali Al Mohannadi said that GAC had then transferred them for more inspec- made several achievements through tion. Marijuana measuring 6kg, 9kg, DOHA: The General Authority of the seizure of different contrabands 7kg, and 3.4kg were recovered from Customs (GAC) yesterday announced including narcotics. their bags wrapped in carbon paper, the seizure of 29kg of marijuana, in He stressed that all customs offic- which smugglers thought would five different cases, from a number ers were closely watching traffickers deceive scanning devices. of Asian passengers coming to and had the competence and ability The fifth case was detected by a Doha and from a parcel sent from to protect the society from the entry postal employee at the air cargo dur- an Asian country. After honouring of prohibited harmful materials. ing the inspection of a parcel from the employees who had seized the The four seizures came when cus- an Asian country that included some narcotics, Chairman of the General toms inspectors became suspicious of school books and 4kg of marijuana. Customs officials with employees who were honoured for seizing the narcotics. 04 SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2016 HOME A week on, back-to-school sales in full swing

By Irfan Bukhari and good quality but I see a significant bags, pencil cases, lunch bags, back- shoulders and backbones of children. Another customer, Saeed Rehman Amna Pervaiz Rao Customers are increase in their prices this year as packs, lunch boxes and sport bottles The prices of the products at had complained not about the prices The Peninsula well,” said Kamal Bhandari, an expat bear made-in-china label while some high-end shops were relatively but about quality. “I have found that expressing mixed from Nepal. products from India and Indonesia high as compared to other outlets. For the school bags are cheap here but views about the “Those who bought the school are also in the market. instance, a back pack sells at QR139, the quality is not reliable unfortu- items a month before opening of Rashmi Dant, marketing manager lunch bag at QR64, lunch box and nately,” he added. At the hypermarket DOHA: Health-friendly school bags prices with some schools enjoyed lesser prices,” he at Center Point, Barwa Village in Al sport bottle carried a price tag of , a school trolley bag sells at QR109, are among the attractions of the dubbing them ‘high’ added while talking to The Penin- Wakrah said: “The sale was quite fair QR29 each, while a pencil case was school back pack at QR99 while lunch back-to-school sales this year that is sula at Jarir Bookstore. this year. It was at its peak before Eid being sold at QR39. Different varie- bag is being sold for QR36 and pen- still in full swing, a week after open- while others see no An employee of the bookstore, on and after Eid it witnessed a down- ties are available at varying prices. cil case for QR20. ing of the schools. increase as compared the other hand, claimed that the prices ward trend.” Haidee, a Filipina said that the Muhammad Hassan, a visitor The customers have expressed of school supplies had not soared a lot. He added that some new brands prices were less in some hypermar- from Saudi Arabia, who was shop- mixed views about the prices with to last year. “There is a slight increase in prices as and products had been launched this kets. “Here prices are low and quality ping at Ansar Gallery in City Center some dubbing them ‘high’ and oth- compared to last year. We are also fac- year terming them ‘first-class’. is good. I buy school supplies from said: “I have come from Saudi Arabia ers seeing no hike as compared ing troubles as imports are delayed and Dant said that the company had here to send the items to my kids back with my family. I have found the pro- to last year. The Peninsula yester- sections of hypermarkets. the demand is high,” he said request- also introduced health-friendly in Philippines,” Haidee said, as The motional offers on school items very day observed a reasonable rush at “The stuff like bags and other sta- ing not to be named. school bags which were designed Peninsula met her in a leading hyper- attractive and useful. Therefore I am book shops as well as school supply tionery items available here are of Most school-related items like the to avoid any harmful effects on the market in the Airport area. buying these products.”

Safari Win 6kg Gold promotion draw Hotel Royal Savoy Lausanne has 196 rooms & suites

Sheikh Nawaf bin Jassim bin Jabor Al Thani, Chairman of Katara Hospitality, speaking at the function. RIGHT: Hotel Royal Savoy Lausanne.

Continued from page 1 196 rooms and suites, the unique Sky Terrace tastes. Instantly recognisable in the heart of which offers a unique panoramic view of the the city of Lausanne, Hotel Royal Savoy is a A supreme splendour reminiscent of the city of Lausanne, Lake Geneva and the Alps, haven for tranquility, opulence and juxta- reigning spirit and elegance of Swiss hospital- as well as a host of facilities and services to position of Art Noveau style of décor and ity, the luxurious five-star property features enchant the most discerning of contemporary contemporary design.

Dana Hypermarket opens Fresh aid from The final draw in the Safari Win 6kg Gold promotion was held at the Safari Mall in Abu Hamour, which was attended by the Ministry of Commerce RAF to displaced officials and Safari management staff. The first prize of 500gm of gold was won by Bhaskaran (Coupon No.2011979), the second prize of 300gm people in Iraq by Ramesh Bhandari (Coupon No.1961767) and the third prize of 200gm by Marsook K A (Coupon No.1207555). The Peninsula Ambulances DOHA: Sheikh Thani bin Abdullah Foundation for in Syria: QC Humanitarian Services (RAF) has provided fresh humanitarian aid of QR1m to more than 30,000 DOHA: Qatar Charity internally displaced people fighting for survival due announced that it has to unrest in Iraq. extended the operation of The aid includes foodstuffs and clean drinking 47 equipped ambulances water. The project was financed by people from Qatar in Syria for six months through donations. with their crew at a total More than 4,750 displaced families sheltering at cost of QR2m. the refugee camps of Amiriyat Al Falluja, Dibika and The ambulances are in Kelo-18 in Al Ramadi benefited from the project over Aleppo, Idlib and in East several months. Ghouta. Masskar Hypermarket Managing Director Moosa Kurungott, jointly with The initiative aims to reduce the suffering of ref- other officials, inaugurating the Dana Hypermarket on Salwa Road, opposite ugee families. Some 76,000 litres of drinking water Mercedes Benz showroom. The hypermarket, working round-the-clock offers was distributed on a daily basis. grocery, fresh food, vegetables, fish, meat, bakery, garments, footwear, In addition, 5,000 baskets of basic foodstuffs were electronics, mobile phones, stationery, among others, at attractive prices. also distributed. A basket was enough for a family comprising six to eight members for two months. Water coolers were also given to the beneficiaries. The baskets include food items like rice, pasta, milk powder, beans, tomato sauce, and edible oil, among others. A water tank with the capacity of 16,000 litres was mobilised to distribute drinking water to the benefi- ciary families at refugee camps. Ice cubes were also provided to protect children and senior citizens from the scorching heat that caused outbreak of diseases due to lack of proper food and clean drinking water. The initiative was launched under the ongoing project of food security being implemented by RAF worldwide in collaboration with international organ- ization under UN programmes. The project also aimed at improving the health conditions of displaced people suffering from stom- ach problems and diarrhoea. RAF sent a delegation to the camps of displaced people in Irbil, capital of Kurdistan-Iraq, to get first hand information about their situation and need of food and medicines. The delegation visited refugee camps in Al Ramadi, Al Falluja and Al Musal and provided financial support to thousands of displaced people. The delegation also met with 300 orphan children and provided aid to displaced people in Kurdistan in collaboration with local partners. RAF has been waging campaign to collect dona- tions for the past three years to provide humanitarian aid to displaced people in Iraq. They have been pro- vided medical supplies and foods Educational projects were also launched for the school drop outs living at refugee camps. RAF urged people in Qatar, both citizens and expa- triates, to extend their helping hand to their brothers in Iraq in their tough time. The donors can approach the headquarters of the RAF or its donations collection centres scat- tered across the country. Philanthropists can also use hotline of RAF 55341818 or SMS or website to make donations. MIDDLE EAST SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2016 05

2 million civilians Syria oppn slams without water in world silence on devastated city AFP

Aleppo atrocities ALEPPO: Residents in Syria’s bat- tleground city of Aleppo cowered indoors yesterday as fierce air strikes toppled buildings and killed at least was happening in Aleppo was “a 52 civilians, after diplomatic efforts crime”. to revive a ceasefire failed. Muwaffaq Nirabiya, Jawad Abu Hatab, who leads Nearly two million civilians were Vice-President of the opposition-in-exile, urged the without water in the devastated massacres to stop as he criticised northern city after regime bombard- the Syrian National worldwide inaction. “We cannot ment damaged a pumping station and Coalition, dismissed stand the silence of the international rebels shut down another in retalia- community,” he said. tion, the United Nations said. the ceasefire which He said Damascus and its Rus- Rebel-held districts in east fell apart earlier this sian allies “targeted humanitarian Aleppo came under intense air and month, adding that convoys, killed civilians, used chem- artillery fire for a fifth night as the ical weapons — weapons that are Civilians watch as a tractor clears the rubble following air strikes by Syrian government forces in the rebel- army prepared a ground offensive to “not a single day banned by international conven- held neighbourhood of Tariq a-Bab in Aleppo, yesterday. recapture the whole of the divided has been without tions, dropped barrel bombs against city. Yesterday’s death toll of 52 was the population, razed entire buildings expected to rise because people bombing and air (and) committed massacres”. remained trapped, said the Syrian strikes on our He was referring to the attack Apocalyptic scenes in Aleppo streets Observatory for Human Rights, a on an aid convoy in Aleppo on Mon- Britain-based monitoring group. “We people”. day which left 20 dead and 18 trucks were home when a missile crashed destroyed. The United States has laid AFP have the means to treat them,” he trapped in the rebel-held areas. into our road,” said one resident of the blame squarely on Russia for the said. “Many of the wounded are Yesterday’s initial death toll the Bab Al Nayrab district who gave incident. dying before our eyes—we’re help- stood at 32 but was expected to rise his name as Nizar. AFP Intense raids continued for a sec- less,” added the doctor, circled by because people remained trapped “Half of the building just caved in ond night on Friday after the regime ALEPPO: With pools of blood and men and children stretched out in under rubble, according to the Syr- and our baby was hit on the head. He announced the operation to retake shredded bodies on the streets, the pain on the floor. ian Observatory for Human Rights, died on the spot,” Nizar said, the body Aleppo on Thursday, following the rebel-held east of Syrian city Aleppo With supplies of blood and intra- a Britain-based monitoring group. of his son on the ground wrapped in ISTANBUL: Syria’s main opposition collapse of a truce deal negotiated has been reduced to an apocalyptic venous drips exhausted, Ahmed said The wounded small boy on the a blanket. coalition hit out yesterday over the between Moscow and Washington. battlefront under relentless regime the challenge of saving lives was hospital bed lost a baby brother when Seven people were killed in a “silence of the international com- Nirabya dismissed the ceasefire and Russian bombardment. growing hopeless, especially where an air strike devastated their fami- strike as they queued to buy yoghurt munity”, saying Damascus and its which fell apart earlier this month, Doctors at one of the last func- head injuries are involved. ly’s apartment in the Bab Al Nayrab at a market in the Bustan Al Qasr dis- Russian allies were committing “a adding that “not a single day has been tioning hospitals said they were being On one bed, a little boy glanced district. trict. The attack left a pool of blood crime” in the northern city of Aleppo. without bombing and air strikes on forced to carry out swift amputations in silence at his blood-soaked hands. “We were home when a missile and body parts strewn across the site. Heavy Syrian and Russian air our people”. just to keep survivors alive. It was a scene reminiscent of four- crashed into our road,” said their Medics said they were carrying strikes on rebel-held eastern areas He said Russia and Damas- “This morning alone we had 60 year-old Omran whose haunting father, Nizar, standing red-eyed out many amputations to try to save of Aleppo killed at least 32 civilians cus closed the road to any political wounded come in,” said Ahmed, picture sitting dazed and confused and holding back tears outside what the wounded, while supplies of blood yesterday, the Britain-based Syrian resolution, “preferring to opt for a a doctor who asked not to be fully in the back of an Aleppo ambulance remained of their house. and IV drips were running out. On Observatory for Human Rights said, military strategy until the very end”. identified out of fear for his life last month made front pages around “Half of the building just caved in Friday, at least 47 people were killed as Damascus seeks to recapture all Aleppo and its surrounding coun- and for the hospital under persist- the world. and our baby was hit on the head. He in heavy bombing, among them seven of the city. tryside have come under heavy ent bombing and air strikes since Only three or four hospitals are died on the spot,” said the father, his children, the Observatory said. “The Syrian regime and its Rus- bombardment and suffered some a new offensive was unleashed on still operational in government- youngest child lying on the ground There was massive destruction in sian allies commit atrocities in Syria,” of the bloodiest violence during the Thursday. besieged east Aleppo, far short of wrapped in a blanket to conceal the several neighbourhoods, including Al Muwaffaq Nirabiya, Vice-President of more than five-year conflict which “We’re carrying out a large what is needed to cope with the head injury from his mother. “I’m Kalasseh and Bustan Al Qasr, where the Syrian National Coalition, said- has left 300,000 dead and millions number of amputations just so they flood of hundreds of casualties from waiting for relatives to finish digging some streets were almost erased by reporters in Istanbul, adding what forced to flee their homes. survive because otherwise we don’t among the estimated 250,000 people his grave so I can bury him,” he said. the bombardment. Islamists and liberals prepare to face off in Morocco polls

AFP of scandals including the sacking of make a return to electoral politics two PJD vice presidents found in a after years in the wilderness. “compromising position” on a beach, A fundamentalist preacher, a drugs bust involving three tonnes Hamed Kabbaj, was a surprise can- RABAT: Campaigning began in of cannabis and a dodgy land-grab didate for the PJD, but authorities Morocco yesterday for parliamen- deal. barred him from the vote over his tary polls that pits a modernist Its main rival, the modernist alleged ties to “extremism”. opposition against Islamists rocked opposition Authenticity and Modernity Almost 7,000 candidates from by scandals after five years in gov- Party (PAM), has vowed to “liberate” around 30 parties will contest par- ernment. Morocco from the PJD and warned liament’s 395 seats in a poll that King The Islamist Justice and Develop- that another term for the ruling party Mohammed VI has promised will be ment Party (PJD) swept to victory in would spell “catastrophe”. Despite “honest and transparent”. 2011 polls, prompting comparisons limited success in tackling graft, the Polls in 2002 marked a new era with Egypt’s Muslim Brotherhood. PJD retains considerable support of relative democracy in Morocco. Heading up a coalition including and remains the only Islamist party Although the king retains ultimate liberals, communists and conserva- in power in the region. power, constitutional reforms follow- tives, it found itself guiding Morocco If re-elected, it says it will press ing the Arab Spring-inspired protests through the turbulence of the Arab ahead with its economic reforms removed some of his prerogatives. PJD Spring, economic woes and a con- which are credited with lowering candidates have accused a “parallel stitutional overhaul. Five years later, the budget deficit. The polls are also state” of using “authoritarian meth- it is on the back foot after a series expected to see Salafist candidates ods” to control political life.

Third drone strike South Sudan alarmed by in a week hits US arms embargo threat Qaeda in Yemen

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ADEN: An apparent US drone UNITED NATIONS: South Sudan’s new Vice-President urged the United strike has killed five suspected States not to push for an arms embargo while objecting to details of a Al Qaeda members in Yemen in planned UN-backed protection force in his war-scarred capital. the third such attack this week, “We are very much concerned because South Sudan does not need an a security official said yesterday. arms embargo,” First Vice President Taban Deng Gai said in an interview on Washington is the only gov- the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. “We don’t need more sufferings.” ernment to operate drones over Washington has threatened to push for a UN arms embargo on the Yemen but only sporadically world’s youngest nation if Juba blocks the deployment of a new regional releases statements on its long- protection force of 4,000 troops and impedes the work of UN peacekeepers. running bombing campaign UN peacekeeping chief Herve Ladsous said Friday that there had been against the country’s powerful Al no progress on the force’s deployment. Qaeda branch. The Friday evening “There have been contacts with the government but they have not been strike in Marib province, east of translated into progress,” he told reporters. the capital, killed local com- Under the current schedule, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon expects mander Abu Khaled Al Sanaani to update the Security Council next month on whether South Sudan is and four guards, the official said. cooperating. On Thursday, a drone strike in “This is a beautiful country that they have helped us liberate,” Deng neighbouring Al Bayda province said. “Why destroy it? Why destroy it imposing external solutions?” killed three suspected Al Qaeda “The Americans should support us in strengthening the capacity of members, one of them a com- our police, insulating our army, helping us train this army so that it is mander. A Tuesday strike in Marib professional.” province, killed two suspected Deng said the primary objective of his visit was to tell the Americans, Al Qaeda members and caused a South Sudan’s biggest humanitarian donors, that the country was back large explosion when munitions on track. they were transporting blew up. 06 SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2016 ASIA

Singapore to Niger Delta Avengers break truce with blast monitor babies born to women AFP film industry, accusing authorities of Targeting oil giants including to unilaterally declare independence with Zika virus The NDA expressed intimidation and blackmail. Shell, Exxon and Chevron, it had from Nigeria. “There has been no progress and hammered the Nigerian economy In August, the army launched frustration with no breakthrough,” he said. with months of attacks on vital oil “Operation Crocodile Smile” in the WARRI: The Niger Delta Avengers the negotiations The Shell Petroleum Devel- and gas infrastructure, reducing out- oil hub of Warri in a bid to re-take Reuters claimed yesterday responsibility for opment Company (SPDC), which put by a third at a time when global control of the region from a prolif- the destruction of a major oil pipe- the militants have operates the pipeline, said the dam- prices are already punishingly low. eration of militant groups. line in southern Nigeria, breaking been holding with age was being investigated. The Niger Delta Avengers is seek- As well as large-scale sabo- a ceasefire the militant group had “I can’t categorically tell you if it ing a fairer distribution of the oil tage, the army is also battling illegal SINGAPORE: Singapore is explor- declared a month ago. authorities. was an attack,” a company source revenues that make up 70 percent refinery operations and frequent ing plans to establish a national In a statement, NDA spokesman said, adding that a statement would of state’s income and has vowed to kidnappings. surveillance programme to mon- Mudoch Agbinibo said the group be issued following an investigation. fight for development in the Delta Nigerian army spokesman itor the development of babies attacked the Bonny pipeline in Riv- Agbinibo said the NDA was “still The NDA, active in the restive where many people remain desper- Sani Usman said recently that sus- born to pregnant women infected ers State on Friday as “a wake up in favour of the dialogue” but accused Niger Delta since the start of the year, ately poor despite the huge wealth of pected militants on speed boats had with the Zika virus, the state- call”, expressing frustration with the the government of creating “shame- announced on August 19 that it was local natural resources. launched a deadly attack against owned Channel News Asia (CNA) negotiations the militants have been ful scenes obtainable in Nollywood laying down its weapons and resum- A week before the ceasefire troops at Efut Esighi in Cross River said on Friday. holding with authorities. acts”, a reference to Nigeria’s huge ing talks with the government. announcement, the NDA threatened State. Sixteen pregnant women have been confirmed to have the virus in Singapore, CNA said, quoting the Ministry of Health - a dou- bling of the eight cases reported Outdoor lighting Jakarta arrests alleged on September 11. CNA said the ministry was keeping close tabs on the women. major people smuggler While most people experience mild symptoms, Zika infections in pregnant women have been Reuters police custody in Jakarta, but will shown to cause microcephaly, a be transferred to East Nusa Teng- severe birth defect in which the gara of Indonesia to face trial. head and brain are undersized. Australian Immigration Minis- In adults, it can cause a rare JAKARTA: Indonesian police have ter Peter Dutton said: “We know that neurological syndrome called arrested an alleged people smuggler Captain Bram is a key player in the Guillain-Barre. who has targeted Australia since people smuggling networks across Island city-state Singapore 1999, Indonesian and Australian Indonesia.” reported its first locally infected authorities said yesterday. Minister for Justice Michael Zika patient on August 27, and Abraham Louhenapessy, also Keenan said he could face up to 10 since then the number of reported known as Captain Bram, was years in prison. infections has risen to 387 as of arrested in Jakarta before dawn on “We are extremely pleased this Friday. Friday, Indonesia’s national police notorious people smuggler has been The virus is currently affect- spokesman Boy Rafli Amar said. stopped ... but we know there are ing large parts of Latin America “He allegedly helped to smug- more criminal people smugglers out and the Caribbean, with Brazil the gle people into Indonesia and out of there and we will continue to work hardest hit. Indonesia by providing a ship and with our regional partners to bring It has also spread in other he was also the captain of that ship.” them to justice,” Keenan said in a parts of Southeast Asia. The Australian Federal Police statement. Zika is spread by daytime- suspected Louhenapessy was “the Louhenapessy was arrested over active Aedes mosquitoes, such as boss” of traffickers who have smug- a failed attempt to send 65 mostly Sri A aegypti and A albopictus. Stars are seen above buildings near the Kanas National Geological Park in Altay, China’s Xinjiang gled people into Australia and New Lankan asylum seekers to Australia It is related to the dengue, yel- Uygur Autonomous Region, yesterday. Zealand, Amar said. from Indonesia in May 2015, the Syd- low fever, Japanese encephalitis, Louhenapessy is currently in ney Morning Herald reported. and West Nile viruses.

Nigeria administers polio EU drops Myanmar rights resolution vaccines at checkpoints Reuters “The government has taken Myanmar has walked, the meas- would persevere in its efforts to bold measures to improve human ure of how much your country has achieve peace in Rakhine and AP last year, but two new cases were dis- rights and re-invigorate the peace changed.” stand firm “against the forces of covered last month among refugees process. Political prisoners have Mogherini said the European prejudice and intolerance.” in areas recently reclaimed from the UNITED NATIONS: The Euro- been released,” she said. Union understood the “complex- The US ambassador to the YOLA: Health officials in east- extremist group Boko Haram. A third pean Union praised Myanmar’s Mogherini said steps had also ity” of the situation in Rakhine United Nations, Samantha Power, ern Nigeria say they have started to case was confirmed this month. progress on human rights under “been taken against those who and told Suu Kyi: “I know that told the same session that Suu administer polio vaccines to children Officials have noted scattered the leadership of Aung San Suu Kyi incite hatred” and a commission you area working hard to find Kyi’s commitment to stand firm at military checkpoints in an attempt to resistance to the vaccinations by some on Friday and said that it would established under former UN a sustainable solution for both against intolerance and her pledge stop the spread of the crippling disease. parents, but Hammandikko says those not be introducing a resolution at Secretary General Kofi Annan communities.” in Washington last week that all Abdullahi Hammandikko, a vacci- stopped at checkpoints are cooperating. the United Nations condemning to address violence between Suu Kyi has been criticized those entitled to citizenship would nation team leader in Taraba state, says Dr. Innocent Vakai, Taraba›s health the country’s record for the first majority Buddhists and Muslim for doing too little to address the be granted it were “powerful and up to 80 children are being vaccinated commissioner, says anyone refusing the time in 15 years. Rohingyas in Myanmar’s Rakhine. plight of the Rohingya Muslims. important.” per day at one of the checkpoints. vaccination could be asked to leave the Addressing the Partnership In recognition of the progress, In her first address to the Gen- However, she and UN Secre- Nigeria was declared polio-free state. Group on Myanmar at the UN Gen- for the first time in fifteen years, eral Assembly as national leader tary-General Ban Ki-moon said eral Assembly, EU Foreign Policy the EU would not table a human on Wednesday, she defended her significant problems remained chief Federica Mogherini called rights resolution on Myanmar at government’s efforts to resolve the and both reiterated calls for the Suu Kyi’s progress from political the UN assembly, she said. crisis there and asked for “under- government to allow the estab- prisoner to government “powerful Addressing Suu Kyi, Mogherini standing” and “the constructive lishment of an office of the UN testimony to the incredible change said: “Fifteen years is the meas- contribution” of other countries. High Commission for Human Myanmar is going through.” ure of the incredible distance She said the government Rights with a full mandate. Chinese agencies mount coordinated crackdown on telecoms fraud

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BEIJING: Six Chinese agencies announced a coor- dinated effort to tackle internet and telecoms fraud on Friday, the government’s latest bid to get to grips with an explosion of such crimes it says have led to huge financial losses. Police registered 590,000 telecoms fraud cases in 2015, up from about 100,000 in 2011, leading to losses of $3.3bn state media said. Callers often imper- sonate officials or authority figures and prey on the elderly, students or the unemployed. The fraud has spread overseas, with Chinese speakers recruited in neighbouring self-ruled Tai- wan increasingly setting up operations in East Africa or Southeast Asia. China’s supreme court, its top prosecutor, the Ministry of Public Security, the central bank, the Ministry of Industry of Information Technology and the China Banking Regulatory Commission issued a joint statement vowing to crack down on the scams. “Telecom and internet fraud crimes seriously impact the people’s legal interests, destroy social har- mony and stability, and must be resolutely punished under law,” the agencies said in a joint statement on the public security ministry’s website. By the end of October, the agencies must enforce real-name registration for all phone accounts, the agencies said. Renting, lending or selling bank or payment accounts would be a crime, the statement said. ASIA / AFRICA SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2016 07

Wildlife meet Gabon court upholds Bongo poll victory in S Africa aims to save species The announcement of Bon- deployed at key junctions in order to go’s victory after the bitterly fought head off any more unrest. The court said Bongo election had sparked days of deadly Along Libreville’s seafront, trucks AFP had taken 50.66 violence. carrying paratroopers and soldiers, percent of the vote In his first comments after the their weapons at the ready, rum- ruling, Bongo, 57, appealed for “polit- bled alongside cars, shared taxis against 47.24 percent ical dialogue” with the opposition and armoured vehicles on a road that JOHANNESBURG: Thousands of for Ping. to steer the country out of the cri- passes both the court and the presi- conservationists and top govern- sis triggered by the announcement dential palace. ment officials went into talks in of his victory. Officers in riot gear had begun Johannesburg yesterday to thrash “I call all political leaders, includ- fanning out through the city on out international trade regulations AFP ing the defeated candidates in the Thursday, and by Friday morning, on elephant ivory, rhino horn and August 27 election, for a political dia- long queues could be seen outside hundreds of endangered wild ani- logue,” Bongo said in a speech. banks and cash machines. mals and plants. In his legal challenge, Ping had “Everyone is panicking, everyone The booming illegal trade of LIBREVILLE: Gabon’s constitutional asked for a recount in the Bongo is afraid,” explained Jean Rodrigue wildlife has put huge pressure court has upheld President’s Ali Bon- family stronghold of Haut-Ogooue Boukoumou, a teacher who like many on a treaty signed by more than go’s re-election victory, rejecting an province, where the president won others was waiting to withdraw his 180 countries -- the Convention appeal by rival Jean Ping, who had more than 95 percent of the votes and money to stock up on food. on International Trade in Endan- called for a recount over widespread turnout was declared to be more than Military personnel patrol outside of a Western Union office yesterday “We want to withdraw our money gered Species (CITES). allegations of fraud. 99 percent. in Libreville, following the Constitutional Court’s decision to uphold to be able to buy provisions. We The plight of Africa’s rhino and The court, while partially chang- EU observers have said there was President Ali Bongo’s re-election, after contested presidential election have families to feed if the country elephants, targeted for their horns ing the results of the close August 27 a “clear anomaly” in those results. results. descends into chaos,” he said. and tusks, is expected to dominate vote, said Bongo maintained a lead “No one can dispute the fact that “Judgement day” blared the head- much of the 12-day meeting. over his former ally-turned-oppo- Jean Ping has roundly won this elec- Union, had been hoping to end the With the country in political line in one newspaper, while another “We are now embarking on nent Ping. tion,” his spokesman Jean Gaspard Bongo family’s 50-year grip on power limbo for nearly a month, concern front page led with: “The hour of the the largest meeting ever in the At a televised public hearing Ntoutoume Ayi said after the court in the oil-rich country of 1.8 million had been growing that a ruling in last judgement is upon us.” 43-year history of CITES,” the con- overnight in Libreville, in an almost announcement, adding that Ping people. favour of Bongo could spark a fresh Ping had warned the coun- vention’s secretary general John empty room, the court said Bongo would make a statement yesterday . The streets of Libreville were wave of opposition protests. try could face serious instability if Scanlon said. had taken 50.66 percent of the vote Ping, 73, a career diplomat and empty ahead of the ruling, with resi- Across Libreville, the atmosphere the court rejected his appeal for a “We are going to review trade against 47.24 percent for Ping. a former top official at the African dents fearing a new bout of bloodshed. was on a knife-edge with riot police recount. controls of close to 500 species of wild animals and plants. High on the agenda we have the African elephants, the rhino, the pango- lin... the silky shark,” he said Thousands attend ‘Muslim UN, AU and EU appeal for calm in Congo Illegal trade in wildlife is valued at around $20bn a year, Women’ summit in Malaysia according to CITES. AFP were “gravely concerned by the “credible elections at the earliest The meeting will consider recent violent events in Kinshasa possible date.” whether to tighten, ease or not Anatolia as Iron” summit and exhibition on and elsewhere in the Democratic The DRC has seen violent clashes impose trade controls on the myr- September 23 to 25. Republic of the Congo, where pro- this week between security forces iad of species, including special Mehmet Ersoy, deputy minis- UNITED NATION: The United testers and security forces clashed, and demonstrators demanding the types of wood. ter of Turkey’s Family and Social Nations, African Union, European resulting in loss of life.” resignation of President Joseph Scanlon lauded the high level KUALA LUMPUR: A Turkish Policies Ministry, gave a speech Union and a fourth international They called on “all political Kabila. of political support being shown deputy minister has lauded an at the opening day of the summit organisation made a joint appeal actors in the DRC, including the Authorities said 32 people died in for tackling the illicit wildlife international conference for Mus- -- organised by the International yesterday to the government and presidential majority and the politi- the violence but the opposition said trade, which is ranked among the lim women as an opportunity to Islamic University of Malaysia, the opposition in the Democratic Repub- cal opposition, to exercise maximum the death toll is three times higher. world’s largest illegal businesses express and share ideas at a time Turkish Asian Center for Strategic lic of Congo to exercise restraint restraint in their actions and state- Kabila, who has ruled the DRC alongside arms, counterfeit goods, when the world needs unity and Studies (TASAM) and other non- amid violent political unrest. ments and to urge their supporters since 2001, has yet to call elections drugs and human trafficking. solidarity. governmental organisations. The three main international to refrain from violence.” that were expected to be held this year. South Africa’s President Jacob Thousands of participants The summit aims to cham- bodies were joined by the 57 The four bodies stressed the need The leader is constitutionally Zuma opened the Johannes- from across the world gathered pion efforts to empower women International Organization of La to respect human rights and warned barred from running again, but the burg talks. The UN Environment in Kuala Lumpur for the “Mus- and provide a platform for shar- Francophonie, which held a high- that those who fail to uphold them crackdown on opposition protest- Programme (UNEP) chief Erik lim Women: Soft as Silk, Strong ing their ideas and experiences. profile summit in Kinshasa in 2012. “will have to face the consequences.” ers was widely seen as a sign that Solheim called for more action The four organisations said they They called for talks on holding he intends to cling to power. to protect wildlife. 08 SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2016 VIEWS

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EDITORIAL Corbyn’s victory You can’t tell US history

ocialist Jeremy Corbyn was re-elected leader of Britain’s opposition Labour yesterday, setting aside doubts about his popularity and leadership skills. without black history Corbyn sealed a decisive win over his challenger Owen Smith, bagging a larger share of the vote than his first and 1850s in Northern cities, and together. It shows us that the for protesting exactly this kind Sleadership victory last year. then with ubiquity in Southern folks who organised the Niagara, of violence — to recognize that The re-election is a huge victory for the 67-year-old leader cities in the decades around the anti-lynching and women’s club the African-American struggle is whose leadership was deeply divisive with most lawmakers turn of the 20th century, revealed movements were just as “woke” to ongoing. That we live in a country that protest was the norm — and the oppression of white suprem- governed by a black man that still wanting him gone. The centrist MPs bitterly opposed him on the showed a broader truth about acy as the civil rights generation. treats black people as second- ground that his anti-establishment, extreme left-wing policies – the constancy of black strug- As you progress through the space class citizens. But today’s battles which include scrapping nuclear weapons and opposing austerity gle in America. Black travelers you also understand that, as Ella demand that we remember our measures – will work against garnering enough votes to win a on trains sued when they were Baker said, black Americans past. The museum does not offer general election. The criticism against his leadership reached its excluded from first-class cars. have long been, and should be, a whitewash, putting a feel-good By Blair L M Kelley peak and morphed into an open rebellion with the June Brexit African-American streetcar rid- demanding “more than a ham- gloss on our collective story. It’s a The Washington Post ers launched boycotts in more burger.” Today’s debate over necessary affirmation that black vote. Critics said Corbyn didn’t do enough to prevent a Brexit. than 25 Southern cities between economic inequality comes to lives, indeed, matter. The rebellion led to a little-known MP Smith launching a 1900 and 1907. mind when you see the art wall When you see Ida B. Wells, the leadership challenge against him in In the same spirit, the preserved from Resurrection City, turn-of-the-20th-century social July. His victory shows that he enjoys hen I walked museum works because its arti- a shantytown protest mounted by justice warrior — a journalist who Labour leader enormous support among the party into the new facts aren’t merely displayed the Poor People’s Campaign, the traveled the country writing will have to workers who view him as a man National to narrate a tidy through-line last protest initiative organized about the brutality of lynching — principle standing up for ordinary Museum of of black history’s greatest hits, by Martin Luther King Jr before honored with a beautiful portrait, work closely African Amer- from Crispus Attucks to Harriet his assassination. The striking part of her china collection and a people. At the same time, his opponents Wican History and Culture for a Tubman to Frederick Doug- images from the wall include the first edition of her anti-lynching with his see his win as further diminishing their preview last week, my excitement lass to Michelle Obama. Rather, command to “tell it like it is”; situ- work alongside a display of some opponents party’s prospects with a further shift was tempered. I’d heard about the its spaces remind us that from ating the protest, in other words, of her most poignant words, you in the party to the left, thus keeping the Labour feats of engineering: rooms built before the nation’s beginnings, in the wider context of the long feel that her cause, the cause, is out of power and allowing the ruling around a massive a guard tower African-Americans have expe- fight for equality. being honored righteously. When and make Conservatives absolute control over from Louisiana’s Angola Prison, a rienced victories and defeats in The museum’s curators did you see Nat Turner’s pocket Bible Southern Railroad train car and many times and places, and our important work in centering in a massive case, you imagine concessions Britain’s split from the European Union. a Tuskegee Airman-flown plane. traumas have often taken place the ordinary and extraordinary the man, turning these pages, and realign The onus is on Corbyn to prove his I’d heard about the big donations alongside our triumphs. There’s people highlighting the stories looking for guidance from his God his policies critics wrong and lead the 116-year- from Oprah Winfrey and Michael the exhibit highlighting the peo- we know, such as Douglass and as he sought freedom and jus- old party up the path of unity and Jordan. I’d followed the decades- ple Thomas Jefferson enslaved, King, but placing them alongside tice. When you see a first edition for the sake cohesion. He has already extended a long campaign for real estate with bricks inscribed with their artifacts from people we prob- of “David Walker’s Appeal,” you of unity. hand of cooperation and reconciliation and funding that were required names standing like a wall behind ably have never heard of whose can almost see this black man at to his rivals. “Let’s wipe that slate clean to make this new institution a his statue. Around the nation’s experiences are just as telling. In a print shop, publishing his trea- reality. But that was the story of third president, author of our contrast to the CliffsNotes ver- tise on the evil of chattel slavery. and get on with the work we have got to the museum itself. I was worried Declaration of Independence, sion of black history that usually You wonder if this was one of the do as a party together,” he said at the party’s annual conference that the exhibits might fall short stand some of the African-Amer- focuses on the Great Men, they copies he sewed into a coat sold in the northwestern city of Liverpool, urging party members to of illustrating — panel by panel, ican luminaries he dismissed as emphasize women’s experi- secondhand with the hope that it unite to fight the Conservative Party and bring “real change” to artifact by artifact — the story inferior in his “Notes on the State ences with regularity and clarity. would reach the enslaved. These Britain. But it’s his duty to bring the party together again; he will of black America, which is not of Virginia,” including scientist A casual observer might miss the simple artifacts are interven- have to work closely with his opponents in the party and make merely about the biggest names Benjamin Banneker and poet panels focused on black female tions that complicate the present and the best-remembered move- Phillis Wheatley. In the same ministers Florence Spearing as well as the past. In a country concessions and realign his policies for the sake of unity. The ments. I was worried about what exhibit you can see shackles Randolph, Mary J Small, Jarena where some museums once sys- alternative could be a split in the party, further jeopardizing its might have been intentionally left designed for a small child; they’re Lee and Julia A J Foote. On a first tematically refused to preserve chances of coming to power. He also needs to reach out to the out or inadvertently forgotten. the sort used when people were pass, one might not notice that artifacts recording black expe- non-Labour segments and start listening to them to craft the But my worries were sold away, just as hundreds of Sojourner Truth is highlighted riences, where archives refused policies that would help him win the election. unfounded. The museum suc- people enslaved by Jefferson were on a panel with the label “black to become repositories for the Corbyn must choose between sticking to his ‘unacceptable’ ceeds by grappling, in an elegant sold on the lawn of Monticello to feminist,” or sense the full import letters and diaries of black cit- views and diluting or changing them to make them acceptable for fashion, with the many strands settle his estate after his death. of a panel featuring Maggie Lena izens, it was so tremendous to — sometimes uncomfortable, This one exhibit takes you Walker and the Independent see materials documenting black the general electorate to grab the power. But he is a leader who sometimes uplifting — of Afri- from achievement to seemingly Order of St. Luke. But in these humanity and black endeavor knows the pulse of his people, having been elected as the party’s can-American history, and how insurmountable barriers and back. works, I hope museumgoers displayed with such reverence. leader after spending decades on the backbenches of parliament, closely they’re interwoven with This isn’t a clean or easy story absorb the scholarly contribu- It was extraordinary. where his left-wing views have long been out of fashion. the American experiment from to tell, but to tell it another way tions of female black historians. As a historian, I live with these its inception. It tells the stories of would be wrong, a perpetuation In reflecting this work, the exhib- ideas and stories. But as a black black America the way they should of the too-frequent oversimplifi- its consistently tell us more about citizen, the experience was per- be told, the way I, as a historian, cation of black history. what we already know and offer sonally edifying. As I toured the strive to tell them: Not an account This museum’s triumph is that nuance about things most Amer- museum, I’d catch a glance, out of black people fitting into Ameri- it gives teachers and learners a icans have never heard of. of a window, of the Washington can history, but American history fresh start at thinking about black Despite all this, the Guardian’s Monument, and I was reminded Quote of the day told through the black experience. life and culture in this country on Steven W. Thrasher describes the that this massive, beautiful build- History, after all, isn’t just the same intellectual track as the museum as a “project of respect- ing full of small, extraordinary We will provide a humane, curating facts but marshaling the rest of our nation’s history, rather ability politics” that is “quite moments of learning, joy and dignified welcome to people facts of our collective past to help than as a version that spotlights at odds with the current polit- sorrow was deep in the heart who will file for the right of us better understand our present. African-Americans as a people ical moment,” asking, “What of the Mall, occupying territory That’s one of the reasons I wrote apart, feted every February, then good to African Americans ... is where so often African-Ameri- asylum. Those whose request “Right to Ride: Streetcar Boycotts relegated to the background. a museum dedicated to us, when can stories have been absent. It has been rejected will be and African American Citizenship Yes, some artifacts in some we are getting shot in the street felt like my ancestors, who were escorted out of the country. in the Era of Plessy v Ferguson,” museums are there purely to daily?” But that question strikes brought to this land decades Those are the rules and they to address the misperception that remind tour groups and sum- me as too narrow and too broad before the nation’s founding, are fully aware of them. generations of black Americans mer class trips about milestones all at once. We know museums had come home. No longer just a passively accepted segregation in American history. But the Afri- can’t stop bullets. It’s certainly few things in a room on the side, Francois Hollande prior to the civil rights movement can American Museum adds an fair — in a world where Ter- no longer just mentioned outside French President of the 1960s. My examination of extra dimension by showcasing ence Crutcher is gunned down the plantation house, no longer the period when segregation laws lesser-known pieces of black by Tulsa police, even as Ameri- the whispered-about laborers or were first introduced in the 1840s history that tie the narrative cans castigate Colin Kaepernick servants, they had a place.

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By Louisa Loveluck and position — accused both countries of Thomas Gibbons-Neff deliberately targeting the aid and its The Washington Post guardians. Eyewitness accounts, along with social media postings and video, includ- ing footage of the wreckage, added to n a clear afternoon last Mon- assessments by US defense officials, day a line of humanitarian show that the convoy was obliterated aid trucks eased to a stop in by airstrikes, first by helicopters drop- front of a cluster of ware- ping barrels loaded with explosives and houses packed with aid shrapnel — a long-standing tactic of the Osupplies 15 miles outside the Syrian city Syrian government — and then by Rus- of Aleppo. sian bombers. Omar Barakat, director of the local The convoy had been at the ware- Red Crescent branch, supervised the houses for hours before the attack loading of the 31-vehicle convoy, which and O’Brien said its coordinates were was scheduled to drive into the shell-rid- “marked and known” to the Syrian gov- den city that evening. ernment. Aid workers said the authorities Hours later, Barakat would be dead, in the capital city of Damascus had also his body one of 20 strewn through the granted the necessary permissions and convoy’s burning wreckage after air- had been supplied with full details of the strikes hit the idling trucks. convoy’s personnel and route. The September 19 attack along- In addition, a Russian drone side Aleppo’s Highway 60 was the most observed the trucks as they arrived at shocking act of violence in the general the warehouses. collapse of a days-old cease-fire agree- “Around 13:40 . . . the aid convoy suc- ment, one of whose key provisions was cessfully reached the destination,” Maj. the unimpeded transit of humanitarian Gen. Igor Konashenkov, a spokesman for A damaged vehicle in Aleppo. aid into besieged areas of Syria. the Russian Defense Ministry said in a “Let me clear: If this callous attack statement Tuesday. “The Russian side did US radar and satellites equipped another - provided by an eyewitness — medication. The circular eight-stanchion is found to be a deliberate targeting of not monitor the convoy after this and its with thermal sensors detected two dis- has the hornlike sound of a jet-mounted fin assembly closely resembles that of an humanitarians, it would amount to a war movements were only known by the mil- tinct heat signatures leaving Russia’s chain gun, probably affixed to one of the OFAB-type bomb. crime,” UN humanitarian chief Stephen itants who were in control of the area.” Khmeimim air base that evening, a sen- Russian Su-24s. Open source analysis by research O’Brien said this week. Grainy surveillance footage from ior defense official said, speaking on the Eyewitnesses said the threat of teams at CIT and Bellingcat, two groups But what transpired alongside High- the drone, which was broadcast by condition of anonymity to discuss intel- more airstrikes prevented ambulances dedicated to analyzing photos and infor- way 60 would quickly become obscured Russian media, shows a long line of ligence matters. from reaching the scene for as long as mation from conflict zones, suggest that in a contest of international finger flatbeds and semis angling for parking The two Su-24 swing-wing bombers three hours. the bomb could be an OFAB 250-270, a pointing. Both the Russian and Syrian spots by the Syrian Arab Red Crescent took off and banked northwest, heading The scale of the destruction would high-fragmentation weapon designed governments denied striking the convoy warehouses. for Aleppo. They were the only jets in the not become clear until midnight when to destroy exposed equipment and per- and suggested, at different times, that it That Monday was a warm fall area of the convoy, the official said. the aircraft finally departed, leaving sonnel. OFABs are of Russian design and could have been destroyed in a fire or a evening. Ammar Al Selmo, a local res- He said the US military is confident the small contingent of aid workers are in use by both the Russian and Syr- ground offensive by terrorists or a strike cue worker, was making tea in a building Syrian helicopters also participated. to assess what was left of their friends ian air forces. by a US Predator drone. across the street. Stepping onto a balcony The arrival of the bombers was and supplies. Eighteen of the trucks Other munitions recovered at The United States — just days after just after 7 pm, when it already past dusk, marked by explosions. Videos shot at the were destroyed or damaged, several the scene include what appear to mistakenly bombing a Syrian Army he said he listened to a helicopter swoop scene capture the sound of cannon fire reduced to twisted metal carcasses, be S-5 aerial rockets. The roughly 4 in and drop two barrel bombs on the con- and the low rumble of jets; on the ground, amid a carpet of debris and shredded 1/2-foot pencil-looking weapons are voy. “It felt like a moment of madness,” the video shows flame and smoke and aid containers. often fired from pods mounted on Selmo said in an interview. captures the sounds of chaos. From his “We insist on an investigation of ground-attack aircraft and helicop- Both the Russian and Syrian Other testimony suggests a second makeshift shelter under an abandoned what happened on the humanitarian ter gunships. governments denied striking the craft followed in as the first flew off, food truck, Selmo saw the brother of convoy,” Russian Foreign Minister According to a handwritten convoy and suggested, at different dropping two more barrel bombs. one of the drivers rooted to the spot and Sergei Lavrov said Friday at a news ledger kept by the Red Crescent, the Outside the warehouse it seemed sobbing. From about 8 pm until shortly conference in New York. “It’s not very youngest victim of Monday’s attack times, that it could have been everything was burning. Red Crescent before midnight, the convoy was repeat- difficult to find out what was used was 16-year-old Taqi Hashim. Five of destroyed in a fire or a ground staff and volunteers staggered through edly attacked, according to interviews to hit it. Artillery shell, rocket, aer- the most grievously injured, includ- the wreckage, some of them writhing in with three rescue workers, including ial bomb . . . there must be debris left ing a 14-year-old, are from one offensive by terrorists or a strike by a flames, Selmo said. And in the lead truck, Selmo, who responded to the scene. over. We asked the Americans . . . to family, the Najeebs. US Predator drone. The United States he said, Barakat was trapped in the cab “We didn’t know where to run or hide start an honest investigation. I hope “Tell me what was going through and screaming for help. because the attacks just kept coming,” the they will do this.” the minds of those pilots?” Selmo — just days after mistakenly bombing Another rescue worker, who spoke second rescue worker said. Vehicles and boxes of aid at the site asked. “When they bombed an aid a Syrian Army position — accused on the condition of anonymity out of fear Video clips depict a number of dis- are peppered with shrapnel holes, and convoy, they must have known an of retribution, said his team spent just 30 tinct strikes while at least one piece pictures, provided by the rescue work- ambulance would follow. Why did they both countries of deliberately minutes in the wreckage before it heard of footage posted online includes the ers, show at least one distinct crater wait to kill us? Why did they play this targeting the aid and its guardians. the roar of approaching jets. “We just distinct rhythmic tapping of a heavy with the tail fin of an aerially dropped like a video game where you shoot eve- picked up the bodies and ran,” he said. machine gun or aerial cannon, while bomb protruding from a box of anti-lice rything that moves.” Obama kept military out of the loop on Iran payments

But Obama and Secretary of State Christopher Sherwood, a press of the Senate Foreign Relations Obama’s first term, are coming out John Kerry did not consult Secretary officer at the Pentagon, later told me Committee, including its chairman in the open in his presidency’s final of Defense Ash Carter or the Chair- pretty much the same thing. “It was Senator Bob Corker, were not told months. Since leaving office, all three man of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, worked out through the administra- about wire payments to Iran, even of Obama’s prior defense secretar- General Joseph Dunford. tion. The Department of Defense had after Obama last month said the US ies have talked publicly about their This news came out of a hearing nothing to do with that.” had to send cash because such wire frustrations with the White House. Thursday before the Senate Armed All of this is important for a few payments were not possible. Politico Robert Gates, who was Obama’s Services Committee. In response reasons. For starters, in response to reported this week that the US had first secretary of defence, wrote a to a question from Sen. Ted Cruz, repeated questions about the cash been wiring cash to Iranian banks scathing memoir where he com- R-Texas, about the cash payment to payment, which coincided with an long before the cash payments were plained about being ordered around Iran, Carter made it clear that he had intricate deal to release Americans flown to Iran. by senior White House staff. Leon been out of the loop. detained in Iran, the State Depart- The disclosure is also the lat- Panetta, who headed the Pentagon By Eli Lake “We weren’t involved in this,” ment defended the decision by saying est example of how US military between 2011 and 2013, told the The disclosure that Bloomberg Carter said, adding that it was part it went through an inter-agency leaders have been distancing New York Times Magazine earlier of the settlement of a decades-long process. themselves from Kerry’s Middle this year that he never saw the let- the Pentagon did legal dispute between Iran and the At an August 4 briefing, State East diplomacy. Senior military ters Obama sent to Iran’s Supreme not participate US over arms sales. “I don’t know all Department Deputy Spokesman leaders could barely disguise their Leader, when he served as CIA ne might think President the details of it, and the chairman Mark Toner was asked about whether opposition to Kerry’s latest cease- director or secretary of defense. in the decision- Barack Obama would have and I were not involved in that. It is the payment was a form of ransom. fire plan for Syria, which would Panetta’s successor, Chuck Hagel, making process Oasked his top military officials a decision that was taken by the law Toner began by saying, “There’s have resulted in the US cooperat- told Foreign Policy last December also comes after to weigh in on his administration’s enforcement and diplomatic and I always an interagency discussion ing with Russia to select bombing that he believed the White House decision in January to send $400 mil- would refer you there.” around any decision like this, and targets had a cessation of hostili- had set out to destroy him. reports that lion in cash to Iran. After all, Iran is When Dunford was asked about every relevant agency weighs in.” ties held for a week. It didn’t. At the We’ll have to wait, but if recent at least some the world’s leading state sponsor the cash payments, he responded: “I The disclosure that the Pentagon hearing Thursday, Dunford said public testimony is any indication of terrorism, and terrorists prefer am not trying to be evasive but I don’t did not participate in the decision- the Pentagon had no plans to share Ash Carter will write a lively mem- lawmakers were cash to wire payments because it’s know the details of that arrangement making process also comes after any intelligence with Russia. oir once he leaves office. not consulted so difficult to track. And its armed and it really was a political decision reports that at least some lawmakers Most important in all of this, forces have both directly and indi- that was made to provide that money were not consulted about other pay- though, is that the fissures between The writer is a Bloomberg view col- about other rectly threatened the US military in and I don’t think it’s appropriate that ments to Iran. This week, the Weekly the military and the White House, umnist writing about politics and payments to Iran. the Middle East. I comment on that.” Standard reported that key members which have been growing since foreign affairs.

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Discussions are under way on a possible new UN sanctions res- Washington is olution on North Korea after it confident tougher conducted its fifth and largest steps will be agreed nuclear test on September 9. Russel later told a news brief- before long: Envoy ing discussions were still at an early stage, but he was confident that a new UN resolution would be agreed before long, imposing further sanc- REUTERS tions and tightening existing ones. Among the aims, he said, would be to prevent North Korea’s abuse of international infrastructure, includ- NEW YORK: The planned US ing banking and shipping, to further deployment of the THAAD anti- its nuclear program. missile system in South Korea is China is North Korea’s main ally, not negotiable as part of efforts to but has been angered by its repeated agree new UN sanctions on North missile and nuclear tests and backed Korea after its fifth nuclear test, but tough UN sanctions on Pyongyang Washington is confident tougher in March. steps will be agreed before long, Beijing has said it will work Hughes MD-500 helicopters perform a fly-by during the first Wonsan Friendship Air Festival in Wonsan, yesterday. RIGHT: Spectators watch the senior US diplomat for Asia said. within the United Nations to for- China, whose full backing is mulate a necessary response to as helicopters perform. Just weeks after carrying out its fifth nuclear test, North Korea put on an unprecedented civilian and military air force widely seen as crucial for sanc- the latest nuclear test, but questions display at the country’s first ever public aviation show tions on North Korea to be effective, remain as to whether it is willing to is strongly opposed to the deploy- agree tough enough steps to force ment of the Terminal High Altitude North Korea to abandon nuclear Area Defence system and some weapons. Pyongyang to UN: ‘Going nuclear’ is only option experts have argued it should be Two experts from the Massa- part of talks on new UN measures. chusetts Institute of Technology’s Asked whether THAAD was Center for International Studies last AFP He spoke just two weeks after North Korea has conducted two South Korea used their addresses at negotiable, Daniel Russel, the US week argued that if China were to North Korea’s fifth and most power- nuclear tests and test-fired more than the General Assembly this week to assistant secretary of state for East agree to serious graduated sanctions ful nuclear test provoked worldwide 20 missiles this year alone. raise alarm bells over the threat from Asia, referred to a US-South Korean on North Korea, the United States condemnation, prompting the UN In his address, Ri acknowledged North Korea. agreement on the deployment. could agree to freeze the number of UNITED NATIONS: North Korea’s Security Council to begin work on a that the nuclear tests “may not be Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo “No. The two countries have ground-based missile interceptors foreign minister told the United new sanctions resolution. easily understood by European coun- Abe demanded that the world find made a decision,” he said. on the Korean Peninsula. Nations that “going nuclear” is his “Going nuclear armed is the pol- tries,” which he said were now “less a new way to confront Pyongyang US Secretary of State John Kerry, Eric Heginbotham and Richard country’s only way to defend itself icy of our state,” Ri, who has been sensitive” to security concerns dec- after a decade of UN sanctions failed meeting Southeast Asian leaders in Samuels said that as part of a set and vowed to further bolster its foreign minister since May said. ades after the end of the Cold War. to change its behavior. New York on the sidelines of the UN of incentives to China, Washington nuclear military forces. “As long as there exists a nuclear But the foreign minister North Korea›s membership General Assembly, said the United “might also agree, after consulting Speaking to the General Assem- weapon state in hostile relations with described the nuclear explosions as in the United Nations -- the only States would “do whatever is nec- South Korea, to withdraw THAAD bly, Ri Yong-ho said his country the DPRK (North Korea), our national “practical countermeasures” against major international forum where essary to defend our own citizens from the peninsula when North will “continue to take measures to security and the peace on the Korean the US and a demonstration of the Pyongyang has a voice -- dates back and to honor our security commit- Korean nuclear weapons no longer strengthen its national nuclear armed peninsula can be defended only with “strongest-ever will” of North Korea’s 35 years to when the two Koreas ments to our allies.” pose a threat.” forces in both quantity and quality.” reliable nuclear deterrence.” ruling party and people.Japan and were admitted simultaneously.

Dragon boat race Strong 6.3 magnitude

Thai charged for quake hits Davao pursuing conscript AFP In its preliminary impact assessment, the US Geological uncle’s case Survey also said there was a low likelihood of casualties and dam- MANILA: A powerful 6.3-mag- age from the tremor, which had a BANGKOK: A Thai nitude earthquake struck off the depth of 62km. woman whose uncle southern Philippines early yesterday The Hawaii-based Pacific Tsu- was beaten to death at but there was no threat of a tsunami nami Warning Center said there was a military camp in the or any casualties reported, seismol- no tsunami threat from the strong insurgency-plague Mus- ogists and disaster officials said. quake. lim south has been The offshore quake hit at 6:53am In Davao, the quake awakened charged with defama- (2253 GMT Friday) and woke peo- locals but there were no immedi- tion and violation of ple from their sleep in Davao, a ate reports of casualties or damage, the computer crime law major city of about 1.5 million local civil defence spokesman over online posts about located 100km to the northwest, McAdrian Covero said. the case, local media said officials. A milder aftershock was reported on Friday. “There was no report of dam- detected shortly after the first Naritsarawan age yet but since the quake was tremor, the Philippine seismology Kaewnopparat, 25, was offshore... we expect no significant institute reported. informed of the indict- damage,” Philippine Institute of The Philippines is regularly hit ment by a court official A dragon boat entering the water during the race in Thailand’s southern province of Narathiwat. The Volcanology and Seismology chief by quakes due to its location along on Thursday after Major Renato Solidum said. the Pacific “Ring of Fire” where annual five-day rowing festival includes teams from Thailand, Malaysia and Indonesia. Phuri Perksophon, the “(There is) no tsunami threat tectonic plates collide, and magni- officer who reportedly related to the quake,” he added. tude-6 temblors are not uncommon. oversaw the fatal abuse of her conscript uncle, filed a case against her earlier this year, according Indonesia declares to news portal Khaosod. The cops said she has ‘Passport forgers’ charged with hiding body defamed the military. candidacy for

AFP possession of firearms and ammuni- UN Council seat tion, forging official documents and Singapore opens concealing a corpse,” said Chanin AP Vachirapraneekul, commander of nationwide BANGKOK: Three foreign men the police station in Bangkok’s Phra anti-terror plan belonging to a suspected passport Khanong district where the men forgery ring were charged yester- were taken. JAKARTA: Indonesia announced day after police found them with The men, two of whom have grey on Friday its candidacy for mem- SINGAPORE: Singapore’s drugs, guns and a dismembered body hair according to photos published in bership on the UN Security Council, Prime Minister launched stashed in the freezer of a Bangkok local media, have denied all charges, saying its commitment and contri- a national movement to building. police said. bution to the world’s body make it a urge every citizen to play Police said they are working to A Burmese couple detained with true partner for world peace. their part in protecting the confirm the nationalities of the Eng- the group told police they were hired In his speech before the UN country and society in the lish speakers, who were found with to clean the building three times a General Assembly, the country’s fight against terrorism. multiple passports, but suspect they week and ordered not to open or Vice President Muhammad Jusuf The movement, known are American or British. move the freezer where the dead Kalla said the UN needs reforms as SGSecure, is designed A US Embassy spokesman said body was found. to make it stronger and more rel- to be a community recently he was following the case The couple have not been been evant to 21st century challenges response to terrorism, but could not comment due to pri- charged with any crime and are and realities. supplementing the coun- vacy concerns. being treated as witnesses, said Among issues it was facing, he ter-terrorism efforts of One of the men grabbed a gun Bangkok’s deputy police commander cited irregular migration resulting national security and law and opened fire during Friday’s raid Suwat Jangyodsuk. from conflict in Syria, Yemen, Iraq enforcement agencies. on the alleged crime den, injuring Forensic officers are working to and other places, along with cli- Singapore has not one officer who has been hospital- identify the deceased and expect to mate change, unregulated fishing yet been hit by a terrorist ised, according to police. have autopsy results today. A foreign member of a suspected passport forgery gang is escorted and cybercrime. attack, authorities say they Police then rounded up a cache “As of now we suspect that they by police officers after a raid in Bangkok. Kalla noted Indonesia’s steady have been quietly acting of drugs and guns and discovered are a passport forgery gang,” Suwat commitment to increase its peace- against real threats. Last the bagged body parts of a man, said of the three men in custody. visa requirements and notoriously an Iranian man known as “The Doc- keeping force to 4,000 personnel month, Indonesian author- described as a blond foreigner, inside “We seized more than ten fake bribable police force. tor” who crafted pristine passports by 2019 and its efforts to fight ter- ities uncovered an attempt a padlocked freezer on the ground documents, including passports,” A thriving forged documents from his home in a Bangkok suburb rorism both regional and globally. by a small group of mil- floor. he added. trade has also helped shield count- and sold the documents to thousands Selections of the new non- itants planning a rocket “They are charged on five counts Thailand has long served as a less crime syndicates that populate around the globe -- including gang- permanent Security Council attack on Singapore. including attempting to kill an offi- base for foreign criminals and fugi- the kingdom›s vast underworld. sters, rebels, refugees and migrant members in 2019-2020 will be cial on duty, resisting arrest, illegal tives lured by its porous borders, lax In February Thai police arrested workers. made in mid-2019. PAKISTAN SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2016 11

China assures Solidarity PPL discovers support for new gas deposits in Sindh province

KARACHI: Pakistan Petro- any aggression leum Limited (PPL) has discovered new gas deposits from Lower Goru Sharif to felicitate the latter on his Formation in district Mat- 65th birthday, discussed with the iari, Sindh, according to a Beijing conveyed chief minister the situation devel- bourse filing yesterday. the message during oping in held Kashmir and the The company has dis- progress being made on various covered hydrocarbon a meeting of its projects under the China-Pakistan from its exploratory well top diplomat with Economic Corridor (CPEC). Bashar X-I ST. Referring to the support Beijing “During testing, gas Punjab Chief Minister has been extending to Islamabad at flowed at a rate of 8.7 Shahbaz Sharif. all international forums, the dip- million standard cubic lomat reportedly said his country feet per day,” PPL Com- would continue supporting Paki- pany Secretary Shahana stan through thick and thin. Ahmed Ali said in a noti- Internews Meanwhile, Pakistan’s leader Protesters shout anti-India slogans during a demonstration to show solidarity with those living in fication to the Pakistan of the Opposition in the National Indian Kashmir, in Quetta, yesterday. Stock Exchange. Assembly Khursheed Shah has warned India against interference LAHORE: In the wake of rising ten- in Pakistan’s internal matters, CDA cancels five sions at borders with India, China insisting that in the event of a war has assured in unequivocal terms New Delhi is likely to sustain more plots allotted to its support in case of any foreign losses. Acquiring Indian voting machines challenged aggression and also supported “War is unlikely to favour either Russian Embassy Pakistan’s stance on the Kashmir of the two countries and in case it dispute, according to a press release does break out India will sustain Internews He pleaded it would be dan- of politics. The lawyer in the same ISLAMABAD: The Capi- issued by the Punjab Chief Minis- more losses. Besides it will be the gerous for Pakistan’s security if order observed that the courts were tal Development Authority ter Office. starting point of the Third World electronic voting and thumb impres- obliged to adjudicate upon a ques- (CDA) of Pakistani capital “In case of any [foreign] aggres- War.” sion machines were purchased from tion that required interpretation or Islamabad has cancelled sion our country will extend its full Shah said in reference to the LAHORE: The Election Commission Indian companies. application of any provision of the lease of five plots allotted support to Pakistan,” Consul Gen- growing war hysteria in India of Pakistan’s act of acquiring elec- The lawyer argued that the elec- Constitution. to the Russian Embassy eral of China in Lahore Yu Boren following last week’s attack on tronic voting/biometric machines tronic voting system should not be He stated that the single bench in after the diplomatic mis- was quoted as saying by the CM an Indian military base in held allegedly from an Indian company acquired from any Indian company its dismissal order did not notice that sion said it did not wish to Office yesterday. Kashmir. has been challenged before the for security concerns. the appellant was seeking enforce- use the land. Beijing conveyed the message Shah, who was talking to media Lahore High Court. ICA: JamaatudDawa chief Hafiz ment of fundamental right to live The decision came during a meeting of its top diplomat at his residence in Sukkur, urged In a writ petition filed on behalf Saeed has filed an intra-court appeal with peace and security and with- after the embassy wrote in the provincial capital with Chief the world community to stop of a citizen, Advocate Azhar Sid- challenging dismissal of his writ out fear of another war with India. a letter to the authority Minister Shahbaz Sharif. India from interfering in Paki- dique said the commission opened petition by a Lahore High Court He contended that it was the five months ago stating “We’re and will be siding with stan’s internal affairs, pleading bidding to acquire the electronic single bench that sought direction duty of superior courts to practically that they had not used Pakistan on Kashmir issue There that his country’s forces are ade- voting machines since it intended for the federal government to take enforce the provisions of a funda- the land nor were they is no justification for atrocities on quately combating the challenge to hold the next general election on up the Kashmir issue at the inter- mental right and issue directions to intending to use it in the unarmed Kashmiris in Kashmir of terrorism. biometric system. national level. this effect. future. and the Kashmir dispute should be He said Prime Minister Nawaz He said three Indian companies, The appeal filed through Advo- He prayed in the appeal that the solved in accordance with aspira- Sharif should have taken all the including IndraKamra, Reliance and cate AK Dogar states that the single decision of the single bench be set tions of the Kashmiris,” the press political forces into confidence Morpho, had also submitted their bench dismissing the petition ruled aside and a direction be issued to the Import of 74MW release quoted the emissary as before leaving for the United bids. He alleged the commission was that the matter raised by the peti- government to enhance pressure on assuring the chief minister. Nations General Assembly’s (UNGA) likely to approve bids of the Indian tioner was not justifiable before the the UN to get its resolutions imple- electricity from Yu, who called on Shahbaz ongoing session. companies. court and fell within the domain mented to resolve the Kashmir issue. Iran approved

ISLAMABAD: The Eco- nomic Coordination Govt to contact Interpol Committee (ECC) of the Cabinet yesterday approved the import of 74MW electricity from to get back Baloch leader Iran by reducing its tariff during the current fiscal year. Internews “We have not placed any restric- The ECC, which met tions or censorship on the media under the chairmanship here. It is them who have placed of Finance Minister Ishaq censorship, because when their lies Dar, also scaled down the ISLAMABAD: Pakistan’s Federal were exposed, they had to enforce tariff for import of elec- Interior Minister Chaudhry Nisar censorship,” he said. tricity from Iran. Earlier, Ali Khan yesterday said Pakistan The minister said that a multi- the tariff was proposed will contact Interpol to bring Baloch pronged mechanism has been at 7.5 to 10 cents per Republican Party chief Brahamd- introduced in the National Data- kwh but now the ECC has aghBugti back to the country. base and Registration Authority scaled down the tariff to Addressing a press conference (Nadra) as national security drive. 6.1 to 9.5 cents per kwh. here, he said India’s offer of citizen- He said e-passport system will be ship to BrahamdaghBugti made it introduced in the country during clear to everyone who is support- the next three months. British Army Chief ing terrorism in Balochistan. He said He said Nadracentres will be set Rescuers use ropes attached to a crane to try to recover a bus that fell into a river in Nausehri, some 45km hails Gen. Raheel as the measure had substantiated the up in big cities, including Karachi, north of Muzaffarabad, the capital of Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, yesterday. Indian prime minister’s statement Lahore, Gujranwala, Peshawar and best commander of interference in Pakistan. Quetta during the next five months. Nisar said the issue of torture of He said these centres will be later ISLAMABAD: The chief of Motorway Police personnel by some extended to the whole country. British Armed Forces, Sir military officers on Motorway was He said a monitoring helpline Nicholas Carter, has lav- Bus veers off road; 23 dead a serious matter and a test case for of Nadra will be set up, which will ished praise on Chief of the army. He said the Chief of Army be directly supervised by the Min- the Army Staff (COAS) Staff General Raheel Sharif has set istry of Interior. General Raheel Sharif, AFP Pakistan-controlled Kashmir, when passengers and the wreckage of the very good traditions and it is hoped The minister said work on the saying that he is the best the minibus driver lost control. The bus have been swept away by the that he will follow the same tradi- re-verification of CNICs and pass- military commander in the vehicle veered off a road, falling 100 river,” he added. “We have presumed tions in this case. ports was underway. He said fake world. metres (110 yards) into the gushing them dead as there is no chance of The minister said Pakistan can- CNICs and passports had been Talking to a private TV MUZAFFARABAD: At least 23 peo- river, local government and rescue their survival,” Gilani said. Rescu- not initiate any investigation of the blocked. He said action was also channel, he lauded Gen- ple were killed when a minibus officials said. ers said the terrain was difficult and Uri attack because India itself does being taken against those Nadra eral Raheel, saying he is plunged from a mountain road into “More than 23 people were killed that they would resume the search. not have any evidence for it. Nisar officials who were involved in ille- one of his good friends. a river in a remote area of Kashmir and three others wounded in the bus Pakistan has one of the world’s said when Indians themselves have gal activities. He said Pakistan’s sac- late on Friday, officials said. accident,” local government offi- worst records for fatal traffic acci- no proof, then what kind of action Chaudhry Nisar said that during rifices in the continuing The accident took place at cial Ashfaq Gilani said. “We have dents, blamed on poor roads, badly could Pakistan take. He said India the last four months, 82.5 million war against terrorism are Nausehri, some 45km north of only found three bodies and three maintained vehicles and reckless has only levelled an accusation and CNICs out of 105 million had been commendable. Muzaffarabad, the capital of wounded people. More than 20 other driving. that too only to defame Pakistan. verified. Consumers to bear security cost of power projects

Internews Committee (ECC) of the cabinet pre- National Electric Power Regulatory account of security to be distributed The documents suggest that Development Programme. According sided over by Finance Minister Ishaq Authority (Nepra) to allow one per annually starting from the construc- the prime minister had originally to sources, security concerns have Dar. The meeting also decided to cent increase in capital cost of all tion period till the term of the Power allowed the Planning Commission to been raised by relevant quarters fol- float the Islamic Sukuk bond in the upcoming power projects, mostly Purchase Agreement,” said an offi- allow one per cent additional cost of lowing recent incidents of terrorist ISLAMABAD: The government international market. Depending under the China-Pakistan Economic cial statement. all CPEC projects to meet the expend- attacks, growing threats to power of Pakistan yesterday decided to on market response and pricing, the Corridor (CPEC), for recovery from The government is already charg- iture of a Special Security Division projects and the general security recover the cost of security required size of the bond will range between consumers. ing at least four special surcharges of of the army being raised to protect situation. for upcoming power projects from $500m and $1bn, although the gov- “The ECC approved a summary of about Rs3.50 per unit in consumer CPEC. The government had allocated At a recent meeting, the prime consumers through monthly bills for ernment has set a target of $750m in the Ministry of Water and Power for tariff to cover low recoveries, high about Rs30bn in the budget to meet minister is reported to have high- entire 25-30 years life of the projects. the budget for Sukuk. issuance of a policy directive to Nepra losses, special debt servicing, and initial expenditure and then allow lighted the importance of CPEC and The decision was taken at a meet- Documents available suggest to allow 1pc of the capital cost net of tariff equalisation across various one per cent increase in capital cost termed it vital for future sustainabil- ing of the Economic Coordination that the government will direct the aforementioned $150,000 amount on distribution companies and so on. of all projects under the Public Sector ity of the national economy. 12 SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2016 INDIA

Feel pride when Garba rehearsal Modi asserts Kerala diaspora nation will not is praised: PM forget Uri attack

ask their rulers... PoK (Pakistan Occupied Kashmir) is with you, you Pakistani leaders can’t even manage that. Earlier, East had been talking of Pakistan, now Bangladesh, was with you, you could not manage that. You IANS a “thousand years’ are unable to manage PoK, Sindh, war” with India. Let Gilgit- Baltistan and Balochistan, and you are talking of Kashmir... Kozhikode: Prime Minister me tell you that there They are misleading you on Kash- Narendra Modi yester- is a government in mir,” he said. day said that he feels a Delhi that accepts Modi said he wanted to remind sense of pride when he the people of Pakistan that before hears praise for the Kerala your challenge: Modi Partition in 1947, their forefathers diaspora during his visits also considered this land as their to the Gulf nations. own. “Whenever I got an “I want to speak to the people opportunity to visit Gulf Performers dressed in traditional attire rehearse for Garba, a folk dance, ahead of Navratri, in IANS of Pakistan. I want to remind them countries, apart from my that before 1947 your forefathers official talks with their Ahmedabad, yesterday. too used to consider this country as leaders, I asked them to your motherland, worship it. Keep- arrange a meeting with KOZHIKODE: Prime Minister ing that in mind I want to ask a few the people of India resid- Narendra Modi yesterday squarely things.” ing there, and especially targetted Pakistan, saying India will He said both countries became the people of Kerala.” “I not forget the sacrifices of 18 sol- independent at the same time. “So felt a sense of pride when Truckers mistaken for terrorists diers killed in the Uri terror attack how is it that India exports software, I heard the praise of peo- and will work to isolate Pakistan but you (Pakistan) export terrorists.” ple of Kerala for their hard globally for exporting terror. He also said the “Sacrifice of work and dedication,” IANS passing in a bus, accosted them. suspicious sightings by some school Addressing the BJP National 18 soldiers” killed in the Uri attack said Modi. Modi also said The three were taken to the Pan- students in Uran in the district on Council meet here, Modi said that “will not go in vain”. that Kerala is God’s Own vel police station and thoroughly Thursday. Yesterday’s incident, the Pakistan government was “mis- “We will make efforts to isolate Country, and is the “land questioned, said Senior Police barely 30 km away in Panvel, rang leading” its people on Kashmir. Pakistan” and force it to remain of great saints”. The place RAIGAD: A trio of Kashmiris sport- Inspector Sunil Bajare, and the truth alarm bells among the security He said Pakistani leaders had alone in the global stage”. has an impression of ing army-style fatigues sparked finally emerged. agencies, but top police officials been talking of a “thousand years’ Earlier in his speech, Modi purity and holiness. “The panic among security agencies who Explaining the military uniforms assured that there was no cause war” with India. “Let me tell you said there is one nation in Asia devotion, spirituality is not detained them in Panvel town here with them, the trio said they were to worry. Scotching off rumours, that there is a government in Delhi which does not want peace or because of the land but yesterday afternoon, an official said. former soldiers but were now work- Navi Mumbai Police Commissioner that accepts your challenge.” development. because of people, saints They were later allowed to go after ing for a truck company and were on Hemant Nagrale said that the per- However, he mellowed down “There is one country which is and culture here,” Modi the antecedents were checked. way to deliver a consignment. sons were only truck labourers and the rhetoric, saying both countries exporting terrorism in the world said, adding, “The people The incident happened near Later, an official from the com- all other speculation was fake. should “fight the war”, but against from Asia.” of Kerala are seen with Gavhanphata when the trio was pany arrived and vouched for their Meanwhile, the local police con- poverty, unemployment and illit- He said that terrorism is affect- respect in the country and found near a container truck wear- credentials after which they were tinued their operation to trace out eracy -- and “let’s see who wins.” ing India’s neighbours, including the world.” ing army type uniforms and Central permitted to leave. the unknown persons for the third “The people of Pakistan should Afghanistan and Bangladesh. Industrial Security Force troopers, Coming in the wake of the day, but with no success, he said. Countdown for PSLV rocket’s longest mission begins

IANS Satellite Launch Vehicle (PSLV) began synchronous orbit around 17 min- 103kg, Alsat-2B 117kg, Alsat-1N 7kg); putting into orbit SCATSAT-1, the Kashmir remains at 8.42am. This will be ISRO’s longest utes into the flight. and one each from Canada (NLS-19, rocket›s fourth stage or the engine PSLV satellite launch mission spread According to ISRO, SCATSAT-1 is 8kg) and the US (Pathfinder-44kg). will be shut down. shut for 78th over two hours and fifteen minutes. a continuity mission for Oceansat-2 The two other Indian satellites Two hours and 11 minutes into CHENNAI: The countdown for the The 320 tonne PSLV rocket car- scatterometer to provide wind vector are: Pratham (10kg) built by Indian the flight the fourth stage will be consecutive day launch of an Indian rocket with a rying eight satellites - three Indian data products for weather forecast- Institute of Technology - Bombay and restarted. Four minutes later all the weather and seven other satellites and five foreign - will blast off from ing, cyclone detection and tracking Pisat (5.25 kg) from PES University, seven satellites would be put into SRINAGAR: Kashmir began yesterday at rocket port in the first launch pad at Sriharikota on services to the users.The satellite car- Bengaluru and its consortium. their intended orbit. The switching remained shut for the Sriharikota in Andhra Pradesh, the September 26 at 9.12am. ries Ku-band scatterometer similar to The seven satellites will be placed off and switching on of the rocket’s 78th consecutive day Indian space agency said. The rocket’s main cargo will be the one flown onboard Oceansat-2. in a 689km polar orbit.This is the first fourth stage is called multiple burn yesterday as authorities According to the Indian Space the 371kg SCATSAT-1 for ocean and The mission life of the satellite mission of PSLV in which it will be technology which was first tested by deployed security forces Research Organisation (ISRO), the weather related studies which will is five years. The five foreign satel- launching its payloads into two dif- ISRO while flying its PSLV rocket on in Srinagar city and some countdown for the launch of the Polar be placed into a 730km polar sun lites are: three from Algeria (Alsat-1B ferent orbits. According to ISRO after December 16, 2015 other places to maintain law and order. However, there will be no curfew anywhere in the Valley, a senior police King making Congress attacks BJP for official said. Eighty-seven people have died since the present unrest began on July 9. A 22-year buying only 36 Rafale jets old youth identified as Waseem Lone of Baram- ulla district died during IANS multi-role combat aircraft and a firing on Friday. While enhance its strategic reach, espe- police said Waseem died cially in Pakistan›s context. when youths resorted NEW DELHI: The Congress yes- “Today we read inspired pieces to stone pelting at army terday attacked the BJP-led central in some media, which claim the vehicles passing through government for buying only 36 present government has saved the area, locals have Rafale fighter jets from France money by hard negotiations. That’s alleged he was shot with- instead of the 126 finalised during not true,” Antony said. “The UPA out any provocation while the UPA era, saying the situation government was not able to enter working in the fields. for the Indian Air Force (IAF) was into a final contract. Price negotia- becoming “critical and volatile”. tions were going on,” he added. “During the UPA (United Pro- Citing the complaints of several IAF fires MICA gressive Alliance), we had planned leaders regarding the high price of to buy 126 aircraft to strengthen the Rafale jets, the Congress leader air-to-air missile IAF. Now that has been reduced to said, “That time I received series of 36 aircraft,” Congress leader AK complaints from many responsible NEW DELHI: The Tiger Antony told reporters here. quarters including former Finance Squadron of the Indian “As per IAF, 126 was the mini- Minister Yashwant Sinha about the Air Force (IAF) has suc- Mohammed Gayasuddin, an artisan from Merut in Uttar Pradesh state, works on an effigy of Ravana, mum requirement for their urgent price.” “They said, the price is highly cessfully fired the recently the demon king from Hindu mythology, in Jammu, yesterday. operational requirements,” Antony escalated and inflated, even cost is acquired BVR (Beyond said. very high, exorbitantly high and so Visual Range) air-to-air “Sanctioned strength of fighter on. When I got these complaints I MICA missile on a tar- jets in the IAF is 42 squadrons, and asked the ministry that they will get from an upgraded of late, the situation was becoming finalise the contract only after all Mirage-2000 aircraft, an critical and volatile. The IAF needs complaints are thoroughly exam- official statement said Army begins rain relief works in Hyderabad more squadrons, current availabil- ined,” Antony added. yesterday. ity of fighter jets is 32 squadrons and “I said this complaint about “The missile achieved by 2022 this will reduce to 25,” the ‹life cycle cost› from very senior a direct hit on a target IANS works in Alwal, one of the worst hit water. The children belonged to former Defence Minister said. politicians should be thoroughly which was much smaller suburbs here. There was no respite a private school, which was open “What is the government’s plan? examined by Finance Ministry than an actual aircraft for flooded residential colonies in despite the government declaring How will they bridge the gap with before we sign contract,” the Con- and flying at low altitude. HYDERABAD: Army and National Alwal, Kukatpally, Miyapur, Nizam- two-day holiday for all educational respect to China and Pakistan, who gress leader argued. “When there The target was destroyed Disaster Response Force (NDRF) pet and Begumpet as more rains institutions in the city. Telangana are building up their air strength?” was a complaint about high prices on impact, validating the teams were pressed into service for lashed the city since Friday night. Deputy Chief Minister Kadiam Sri- Antony asked. we decided to inquire and wait for missile’s launch enve- relief works in rain affected parts of The locals saved 40 children hari said action would be taken The Congress leader’s remarks the final decision of Finance Min- lope,” the statement said. Hyderabad yesterday as some resi- when a school bus was stuck in flood against the schools which were open come a day after India signed a istry,” he said, adding, “So you can’t The IAF has become one dential areas remained under water water in Dharaninagar in Kukatpally despite the government orders. Some ¤7.87bn (about `59,000 crore) deal compare the Rafale deal price dur- of the few air forces in the for the fourth day. yesterday morning. non-governmental organisations with France to buy 36 Rafale fighter ing UPA government›s time and world with the capability Personnel from the Army and The driver ignored the warn- were distributing food, milk and jets that will meet the IAF’s criti- now. This spreading of inspired of such missile. the NDRF swung into action to relief ing and tried to pass through flood water packets. cal operational requirement for a news is not correct.” EUROPE SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2016 13 Corbyn re-elected leader of Labour Party

between 1997 and 2010 but has lost Britain into the US-led Iraq War. two successive general elections to Tens of thousands more new Jeremy Corbyn won the Conservatives. He has strong sup- members have flocked to Labour almost 62 percent port among local party activists, but since Corbyn was elected, many of of the more than many Labour legislators believe his them young and enthusiastic. Cor- left-wing views are out of step with byn draws big crowds to rallies and 500,000 votes cast public opinion, and have tried to meetings, and his supporters are a in UK polls. unseat him. formidable force on social media. Accepting victory to a standing His followers — dubbed Cor- ovation from delegates, Corbyn said bynistas — see Labour as a mass he would work to unite the party. movement for social justice. “We have much more in common “Politics is changing,” said Emma AP than that which divides us,” he said. Hamblett, a conference delegate from “As far as I’m concerned let’s wipe that Romford, near London. “It’s becom- slate clean from today and get on with ing more people-powered (rather) the work we’ve got to do as a party.” than just elite at the top. We’re having LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND: Veteran The 67-year-old socialist spent a voice. It’s generating a lot of excite- socialist Jeremy Corbyn was re- more than 30 years as a backbench ment, especially among the young.” elected head of Britain’s Labour Party Labour lawmaker, never holding a Other Labour members, and most yesterday, to the delight of his grass- senior role and best known for his of the party’s lawmakers, want power roots supporters and the despair of frequent rebellions against the cen- — and think Labour can’t win it while party centrists, who fear he will lead tre-left party leadership. When Corbyn is in charge. They argue that Labour into the political wilderness. he ran for leader a year ago, few his policies — including re-national- Corbyn won almost 62 percent of expected him to win. isation of the railways and unilateral the more than 500,000 votes cast by But he was propelled to victory nuclear disarmament — don’t speak Jeremy Corbyn (right), is embraced by Shadow Chancellor John McDonnell after the announcement of Labour members and supporters. His by thousands of new members who to ordinary voters. challenger, Welsh lawmaker Owen joined Labour to back him. He’s a lacklustre performer in Corbyn’s victory in the party’s leadership election, in Liverpool, yesterday. Smith, got 38 percent in a result For Corbyn supporters, it was Parliament, and gave muted support announced at the party’s conference a chance to repudiate the centrist to the EU during this year’s referen- no-confidence in Corbyn, but he Corbyn called yesterday for an a nastier and more bitter campaign in Liverpool, northwest England. “new Labour” vision of former Prime dum campaign, a factor some think refused to resign, sparking Smith’s end to “intimidation and abuse.” than last time.” “I hope that now the Corbyn, a long-time back-bench Minister Tony Blair, who won three contributed to the “leave” victory. leadership challenge. Lawmaker Diane Abbott, a Cor- Parliamentary Labour Party will set- lawmaker, was elected last year elections but became too cozy with After the referendum more than But the little-known Smith failed byn ally, said the leader had won “a tle down and unite behind the leader,” to lead Labour, which governed big business for some tastes, and took 170 of Labour’s 230 MPs declared to generate much enthusiasm. resounding victory ... in the face of she said. Merkel wants migrant deals with other countries

AFP agreements with third countries, In March, under pressure from remains under severe strain, with concerns destination countries.” especially in Africa but also Pakistan Austria, Balkan countries closed more than 60,000 people stranded. Bulgaria, the EU’s poorest coun- Cameron aide and Afghanistan... so that it becomes their borders, and the flow has since An EU scheme to relocate them— try, is home to around 10,000 clear that those with no right to stay slowed dramatically, although 100- and others in Italy has failed to live stranded migrants although Brus- named France VIENNA: German Chancellor Angela in Europe can go back to their home 150 still make it to Austria every day, up to expectations, while extra sels has promised Sofia extra support Merkel, under fire at home over her countries,” she told reporters. Vienna says. administrative assistance prom- including help from a new EU border ambassador refugees policy, called yesterday for Last year hundreds of thousands The same month the EU struck ised by the EU has been insufficient. force from October 6. Europe to secure deals with third of people trekked up from Greece a deal with Turkey—home to more Merkel yesterday said EU coun- EU President Donald Tusk, also in countries to send back migrants who through the western Balkans to than three million refugees—under tries’ participation in the relocation Vienna, said it was necessary “to con- LONDON: Former prime do not qualify for asylum. northern Europe, in the continent’s which Ankara promised to halt the scheme has been “too slow”, saying firm, politically and in practice, that minister David Cam- Speaking after talks in Vienna biggest migration crisis since 1945. inflow in return for billions in aid and this could “increase the pressure” on the western Balkan route of irregular eron’s chief of staff has with leaders along the Balkan Populist parties across Europe other sweeteners. The pact may yet Greece’s border with Bulgaria. migration is closed for good”. been appointed Britain’s migrants trail into Europe, Merkel have stoked concerns about the collapse, however, in the wake of the “It is unacceptable that the coun- The difficulties of making it ambassador to France, the said the continent must “stop illegal influx, not least Alternative for Ger- July 15 coup attempt in Turkey. tries that first receive (the migrants) through to the Balkans is thought to Foreign Office announced. immigration while living up to our many (AfD), which has stolen support As illustrated by a large fire at a bear the burden,” Greek Prime Min- be prompting increasing numbers to His closest adviser humanitarian responsibilities”. from Merkel’s centre-right party in refugee camp on the island of Les- ister Alexis Tsipras said in Vienna. attempt treacherous sea crossings Ed Llewellyn will play a To this end “it is necessary to get recent state elections. bos on Monday, Greece meanwhile “This is also a question that from Libya or Egypt to Italy instead. diplomatic role in the negotiations for Britain’s departure from the bloc as London’s representa- tive in Paris. Llewellyn will Bathing time Protesters march in take up his post in Paris in December. Llewellyn will succeed Julian King, who was recently appointed as Dublin and abroad for European commissioner for security on the Euro- pean Union’s executive Irish abortion rights body. Thousands march Reuters in Dublin, told reporters that the earliest possible date for a referen- in anti-govt dum would be towards the end of next year. protest in Poland DUBLIN: Thousands of protest- “It’s my hope that what we’re ers marched in Dublin, and Irish doing today will ensure we get a WARSAW: Thousands of expatriates joined in demonstra- referendum and the government marchers gathered in War- tions around the world yesterday, moves as quickly as possible,” said saw for the latest protest to put pressure on the Irish govern- Zappone, one of many wearing against the policies of the ment to hold a referendum to repeal black sweatshirts with the word conservative government restrictive abortion laws. “Repeal” printed on the front, a ref- that critics say are dividing Regulations in the once stri- erence to the eighth amendment the nation. dently Catholic Ireland are among of the constitution activists want Protesters came from strictest in the world and next repealed. many corners of Poland month Prime Minister Enda Kenny Opponents demand that the for the protest organised will call a citizens’ assembly to amendment, which enshrines the by the Committee for the advise the government on whether equal right to life of the mother and Defence of Democracy, or KOD. A Labrador jumps into the water during the dogs’ bathing day in the public swimming pool in Korb a vote should be held to boost access her unborn child, should remain in near Stuttgart, southwestern Germany, yesterday. After the seasonal closing for the public, the pool to abortion. place to safeguard all life, and a Demonstrators marched in truck carrying the slogan “Abortion is opened for one day for dogs and their owners. the rain on government buildings is violence against babies and moth- France to buy from Dublin’s main thoroughfare ers” drove through Dublin. of O’Connell Street, bringing traffic Demonstrations were also assault rifles from to a standstill by the River Liffey as organised by Ireland’s large they chanted, beat drums and held diaspora in over 20 cities around Germany placards. the world, from Wellington to Anti-Brexit group challenges UK “It’s a woman’s right to choose Montreal, and pictures were PARIS: The French military and it is ridiculous to say that any- posted on social media ahead is to buy German assault body else, the state or the church, of the march from protestors in rifles to replace its vener- has to right to tell that woman Melbourne, London, Berlin and able French-made service govt over Article 50 disclosure what happens to her body,” said Sal Kathmandu. weapon, the FAMAS, the Roche, a 42-year-old dance teacher In Dublin, many had travelled government’s military pro- at the march with her 2-year-old from around Ireland, including curement agency said. Reuters of its position on triggering Article possible,” John Halford, solicitor for son, Tommy. Paula Dennan, 32, who made the Heckler und Koch will 50 alongside its own lawyers’ sub- The People’s Challenge, said. Abortion has been a divisive eight-hour round trip from the provide French troops missions to court so that the country A government spokesman said issue for decades in Ireland where, southern county of Kerry. with its HK 416 F model could see and engage with the com- the non-disclosure was not a deci- after large street protests from both “We’re marching in solidarity from 2017 under a 10-year LONDON: A group opposed to Brit- peting arguments. sion taken by the government but by sides of the debate, a complete ban with the 56 women who we know supply contract, the DGA ain’s exit from the European Union But it said the government was the court. “The court has considered was only lifted in 2013 when termi- for a fact travelled in 2015 to Eng- said. has accused the government of insisting that every word of its it appropriate to put in place a confi- nations were allowed if a mother’s land for abortions and gave Kerry Press reports put refusing to allow it to make public defence must be kept confidential. dentiality order for reasons including life was in danger. addresses,” said Dennan, who set the value of the deal at the official justification for triggering The People’s Challenge lodged the threats received by some claim- However governments have up the “Kerry for Choice” group this around €300m ($337m). Article 50 to start the Brexit process an urgent application to the court to ants. It is important that this court been reluctant to tackle an issue year. She was referring to some of “The contract con- without a parliamentary vote. allow it to publish the government’s order is adhered to,” he said. they fear may alienate conservative the 3,500 women who travelled tributes to further The British government’s position argument. The People’s Challenge has also voters despite a dramatic waning of across the Irish Sea for a termina- strengthening of solid ties is that it has no legal obligation to con- “The Prime Minister’s reasons for filed evidence and detailed legal the influence of the Roman Catho- tion last year. between Germany and sult parliament on invoking Article 50 believing that she alone is empowered submissions as to why it would be lic Church, shown last year. “They left Kerry to receive what France in defence and in of the EU’s Lisbon Treaty. to take Britain out of the EU cannot unlawful for the government to Ireland’s Minister for Children is essentially basic healthcare and the armaments industry in The People’s Challenge, said be treated as a state secret and the invoke Article 50 without parlia- Katherine Zappone, an independ- we came to show them that people particular,” the DGA said. it had planned to make public the extraordinary stakes in this case ment’s authority and full involvement ent member of Kenny’s coalition are with them. We just need the government’s written legal defence mean that justice must be as open as through the legislative process. government who joined the march government to catch up.” 14 SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2016 AMERICAS Obama opens African American Museum

dedicated to the many threads of “It is central to the American black history and achievement. story.” The President cut the The first black president of The Smithsonian’s 19th and lat- ribbon to inaugurate the United States cut the rib- est addition to its sprawling museum bon to inaugurate the striking and research complex is the first the striking 400,000-square-feet bronze-clad national museum tasked with doc- 400,000-square-feet edifice before thousands of spec- umenting the uncomfortable truths bronze-clad edifice tators who had gathered in the of the country’s systematic oppres- nation’s capital to witness the his- sion of black people, while also before thousands of toric opening. honouring the integral role of Afri- spectators. “Beyond the majesty of the can-American culture. building, what makes this occa- “A clear-eyed view of his- sion so special is the larger story it tory can make us uncomfortable,” contains,” said Obama—just a few Obama said. “It will shake us out US President Barack Obama speaks during the opening ceremony for the Smithsonian National Museum of AFP months before he leaves office—at of familiar narratives, the US Pres- African American History and Culture in Washington, DC, yesterday. the star-studded public ceremony ident added.” that included the likes of Stevie Won- “But it is precisely of that dis- prime location near the White House The museum—which was first how protests and love of coun- der and Oprah Winfrey. comfort that we learn and grow and the Washington Monument— conceived of a century ago—opens try don’t merely coexist, but inform WASHINGTON: US President “African-American history is and harness our collective power features three inverted-pyramid amid ever-heightening racial ten- each other,” Obama said. “Even in Barack Obama heralded yester- not somehow separate from our to make this nation more perfect. tiers sheathed in bronze-painted fil- sions, as national outrage grows the face of unimaginable difficulty, day the opening of the National larger American story. It’s not the That’s the American story that this igree panels that house more than over the spate of deaths of black America has moved forward. And so Museum of African American His- underside of the American story,” museum tells.” 34,000 objects, nearly half of them men at the hands of police. this museum provides context for the tory and Culture, an institution he said. The dramatic building—set in a donated. “This is the place to understand debates of our times.” Cruz finally endorses Trump in presidential race Most Hillary emails to be AP years of his returns, while Trump released after polls:WSJ has refused to release any. Her running mate, Virginia Sen- ator Tim Kaine took his own dig at Agencies Watch any emails sent or received WASHINGTON: Donald Trump says Cruz, saying as he campaigned in by Secretary Clinton in her official he’s “greatly honoured” to receive the Texas, “If somebody said that about capacity during her tenure as Sec- endorsement of defeated rival Ted my dad, they would never have me retary of State which are contained Cruz, not that Cruz is using that word as a supporter for anything.” WASHINGTON/NEW YORK: Most within the material turned over by when acknowledging he will vote for In his Facebook statement, Cruz of the emails the FBI recovered the FBI,” agency spokesman John the Republican presidential nominee. cited two reasons for his shift: his during its investigation of Hillary Kirby said in a statement. Cruz and Trump had traded pledge to support the party nomi- Clinton’s use of a private email sys- Meanwhile, Clinton announced harsh words during the primary nee and his disdain for Clinton. But tem while secretary of state will not and then abruptly postponed plans race and the tones of their statements he also faced intensifying political be made available until after the to make a pre-debate visit to the yesterday reflected their differences. pressure from all quarters. Since the November 8 presidential election embattled North Carolina city. Cruz sounded resigned at the prospect convention speech, polls have sug- under a timetable set by a judge, the The Democratic presidential of voting for the man he had called a gested that Cruz’s popularity was Wall Street Journal reported. nominee’s campaign initially said “pathological liar” and “utterly amoral” slipping nationally and in Texas The judge ordered the US State she would travel to Charlotte today, while Trump appeared to relish gain- — where he could face a primary Department to finish processing where protests have broken out ing public support of opponent he challenger for re-election in 2018. 1,050 pages of material for release after the police shooting. But Clinton derided as “Lyin’ Ted.” His base supported his refusal by November 4, just days before decided to postpone the trip hours Nonetheless, Cruz’s statement to back Trump at first, but the mood Americans go to the polls, the Wall later after Charlotte Mayor Jennifer signaled an effort to help unite a shifted recently. The vast majority Street Journal said. The paper said Roberts — also a Democrat — told divided GOP less than seven weeks of calls coming into Cruz’s office that material was out of what could CNN her city’s security resources before election day. He also might be had turned increasingly negative be as much as 10,000 pages. were stretched thin and urged Clin- seeking to placate those he angered in recent weeks with many voters Under the schedule set by the ton to delay her visit. when he encouraged Republicans A file photo of Donald Trump and Ted Cruz shaking hands at the start urging him to support Trump to pre- judge, there will be also be pre- Jennifer Palmieri, Clinton’s to “vote your conscience” instead of the Republican candidates debate at the University of Miami in vent a Clinton victory, according to election releases on October 7 and campaign communications direc- of endorsing Trump at the national Miami, Florida. Republicans familiar with the situa- October 21, and the State Depart- tor, said in a statement that after convention. tion. They spoke on the condition of ment will process 500 pages per “further discussion with commu- “After many months of care- with him for many years to come in between truth and lies. He lies prac- anonymity because these were inter- month after that, the Wall Street nity leaders” Clinton had decided to ful consideration, of prayer and order to make America great again.” tically every word that comes out nal discussions. Journal reported. postpone the trip “as to not impact searching my own conscience, I The Cruz statement comes as of his mouth,” Cruz said of Trump At the same time, the large staff The State Department is the city’s resources.” have decided that on Election Day, Trump and Democrat Hillary Clin- in May, hours before ending his that worked on Cruz’s presiden- responding to dozens of lawsuits Palmieri said Clinton planned I will vote for the Republican nomi- ton remain locked in a tight race, campaign. tial bid pushed him not to endorse. brought over Clinton’s use of a pri- to visit Charlotte on October 2. “In nee, Donald Trump,” Cruz wrote on both struggling to unite their par- “Donald will betray his sup- Most refused to accept jobs with the vate, home-based email system the meantime her prayers are with Facebook. ties as their first debate looms porters on every issue,” the Texas Trump campaign when offered fol- while she was the agency’s top dip- the people of Charlotte during these Trump described the statement Monday and early voting is under- senator added, while calling Trump lowing Cruz’s departure from the lomat from 2009 to 2013. difficult days,” she said. as an “endorsement,” although he way in some states. “utterly amoral,” “a narcissist,” “a primary campaign this spring. And as The timetable announced was in Republican rival Donald had claimed immediately after the Trump has been branded as a bully” and “a serial philanderer,” recently as this week, some warned a lawsuit brought by Judicial Watch, Trump crowed about the turn of convention that he didn’t want it. phony by hard-line conservatives, among other things. they would not work for Cruz again a conservative group that has filed events on Twitter. “Crooked Hil- “I am greatly honoured by the Cruz among them, who see him more Clinton addressed the shift on if he officially endorsed Trump. multiple lawsuits to obtain govern- lary’s bad judgement forced her endorsement of Senator Cruz,” as a political opportunist than a true social media by posting a tweet Cruz’s decision also comes as he ment records related to Clinton’s to announce that she would go Trump said. “We have fought the bat- Republican. from Cruz himself calling on weighs the prospect of a 2020 pres- tenure as secretary of state. to Charlotte to grandstand,” he tle and he was a tough and brilliant “This man is a pathological liar. Trump to release his tax returns. idential bid, where Trump’s donors “The State Department volun- tweeted. “Dem pols said no way, opponent. I look forward to working He doesn’t know the difference The Texas senator released nine could play an important role. tarily agreed to produce to Judicial dumb!”

Actor found dead at LA home of Colombia to sign historic peace deal tomorrow

Canada TV host AFP The ceremony is the second-to- to a burst of applause and cheers last step in ratifying the peace deal. from rebel delegates dressed in civil- Reuters Colombians will vote on it in a ian clothes. referendum on October 2. Recent If all goes according to plan, it BOGOTA: Colombia will turn the polls show the “Yes” camp in the lead. will be the FARC’s last meeting as a LOS ANGELES: An actor has page on a half-century conflict that The FARC, a Marxist guer- guerrilla army. Under the deal, the been found dead and apparently has stained its modern history with rilla group, launched its war on the group is now to relaunch as a polit- murdered at the rented home of blood when FARC rebels and the gov- Colombian government in 1964, in ical party. Canadian talk-show host George ernment sign a peace deal tomorrow. the aftermath of a peasant upris- The rebels came to the negotiat- Stroumboulopoulos in the Holly- President Juan Manuel Santos ing that was brutally put down by ing table after being weakened by a wood Hills neighbourhood of Los and the leader of the Revolutionary the army. major army offensive led by then- Angeles, police said. Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC), Over the decades, the conflict has defense minister Santos, who served The body of Richard Hong, 41, Rodrigo Londono—better known by drawn in several leftist rebel groups, in the post from 2006 to 2009 before was found at the house by officers his nom de guerre, Timoleon “Timo- right-wing paramilitaries and drug becoming president. responding to reports of a bur- chenko” Jimenez—are set to sign the gangs, leaving a legacy of death and After an army raid killed the pre- glary there, said Officer Norma accord at 5 pm (2200 GMT) in a cere- destruction: more than 260,000 peo- vious FARC leader, Alfonso Cano, Eisenman, a Los Angeles Police mony in the colorful colonial city of ple killed, 45,000 missing and 6.9 in 2011, Timochenko, his succes- Department spokeswoman. Cartagena on the Caribbean coast. million forced to flee their homes. sor, wrote to Santos proposing fresh “Officers were directed to It will be preceded by a trib- “We are turning the page on the peace talks—the fourth such effort, a male, an apparent victim of a ute to the Colombian military and war to begin writing a new chapter of following failed attempts in 1984, homicide,” Eisenman said, add- police, presided over by Santos, and peace,” Santos said on Wednesday in 1991 and 1999. FARC rebel leader Rodrigo Londono (second left), Pastor Alape, Ivan ing witnesses reported seeing a a prayer for peace and reconciliation an address to the United Nations after The talks opened in Cuba in Marquez and other leaders sing the anthem during the closing ceremony suspect fleeing the area on foot. at an 18th century Catholic church in submitting the 297-page accord to November 2012. of a rebel congress near El Diamante in Yari Plains, Colombia, yesterday. That suspect remained at large. Cartagena’s old town. the Security Council wrapped in the Working through a six-point The Los Angeles Times, citing a The guests will include UN Sec- yellow, blue and red of the Colom- agenda one item at a time, dele- coroner’s spokesman, said the vic- retary-General Ban Ki-moon, US bian flag. gates concluded the final accord on well as implementing and monitor- with lighter sentences if they confess. tim sustained head trauma. Secretary of State John Kerry and a FARC delegates unanimously August 24. ing the accord. FARC fighters have vowed to now “Many of you have seen cortege of Latin American leaders ratified the deal Friday at a national The deal covers justice and rep- It also grants an amnesty for leave their mountain and jungle hide- reports of a homicide which — notably Cuban President Raul Cas- conference in El Diamante, a remote arations for victims of the conflict, “political crimes” committed dur- outs and hand in their weapons in a occurred in the home I rent in Los tro, whose country hosted the nearly and sweltering site deep in the rebels’ land reform, the FARC’s relaunch ing the conflict, although not for the UN-supervised process. Angeles,” Stroumboulopoulos said four-year-long peace talks that pro- traditional stronghold in southeast- as a political party, disarmament, worst atrocities, such as massacres, The government has not yet in a post on Twitter. “I only have a duced a final deal on August 24. ern Colombia. fighting the drug trafficking that has torture and abuse. opened peace talks with a smaller few details but it seems like it was The 2,500 expected attendees “The war is over,” declared their fueled violence in the world’s larg- Those responsible for such crimes guerrilla group, the National Liber- the result of a break in,” he said. have been invited to wear white. chief peace negotiator, Ivan Marquez, est cocaine-producing country, as will face up to 20 years in prison, ation Army, or ELN. AMERICAS SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2016 1517 Cops hunt man who fatally shot 5 at Washinton mall

Authorities said four females dressing room because it just didn’t died after the gunman opened fire feel right. And it got very quiet. And Authorities said four in the makeup department of a then I heard a lady yelling for help, females died after Macy’s store. An adult male who was and a man came and got me and wounded in the shooting died yester- another lady, and we ran out of the the gunman opened day, officials said. store,” Caswell said. fire in the makeup Police said they were looking Stephanie Bose, an assistant for a man wearing black and armed general manager at Johnny Car- department of a with a “hunting-type” rifle and last ino’s Italian restaurant near the Macy’s store. seen walking toward Interstate 5. Macy’s store at the mall, said she The description, including that he immediately locked the doors to the appeared to be Hispanic, was based restaurant after hearing about the on statements from witnesses, said shooting from an employee’s boy- AP Given Kutz, a spokesman for Skagit friend. “He was trying to go to the mall County Emergency Operations and people were screaming,” she told Center. Authorities said the motive reporters. “It was frantic.” was unknown for the shooting about She said he could see police at the BURLINGTON: Police yesterday 97 km north of Seattle. doors with assault rifles and said they were searching for a gunman who The FBI was assisting local were no longer guarding the doors. fatally shot five people in a mall north authorities as dozens of police offic- Francis said at about 8:30 pm of Seattle before fleeing toward an ers searched for the suspect. The FBI’s local time the mall was evacuated interstate highway on foot. Seattle office said it “has no infor- and emergency medical personnel People fled, customers hid in mation to suggest additional attacks were cleared to enter. Francis said dressing rooms and employees planned” in Washington state. authorities were doing a “final clear” locked the doors of nearby stores Though the four female victims of the 434,000-square-feet mall yes- after gunshots rang out just at the were in the makeup area, it is unclear terday. He said 11 search teams and Cascade Mall. A helicopter, search where the male victim was when he two K9 units were involved. teams and K-9 units scoured the area was shot. Governor Jay Inslee said tragedy for a rifle-carrying man. Tari Caswell said she was in the had struck the state. “We urge resi- “We are still actively looking for Macy’s women’s dressing room when dents to heed all safety and detour the shooter,” Washington State Patrol she heard “what sounded like four warnings. Stay close to your friends spokesman Sgt. Mark Francis said at a balloons popping.” as we await more information and, news conference. “Stay indoors, stay “Then I heard seven or eight hopefully, news of the suspect’s cap- Authorities stand at the Cascade Mall following shooting by a man that left five people dead, in Burlington, secure.” more, and I just stayed quiet in the ture,” Inslee said in a statement. Washington. US gives Chile papers showing Pinochet ordered killings Loaded gun in NC had

AFP anniversary of the brazen attack. tortured before being exiled to the had turned over an earlier set to Bachelet herself is a former United States, where he became a Bachelet when he visited Santiago fingerprints matching opposition leader who was tor- fiercely outspoken opponent of the last October. tured under the military regime of general’s rule. It had long been known that Pin- WASHINGTON: The United States General Pinochet, who ruled Chile On September 21, 1976, as Lete- ochet’s secret police were behind the gave Chilean President Michelle with a dictatorial hand from 1974 lier was driving along Washington’s killing, but the new documents con- Charlotte victim: CNN Bachelet declassified CIA doc- to 1990. Embassy Row, a bomb ripped firm the personal responsibility of uments confirming that former The files include a 1987 CIA through his car, instantly killing him the former Chilean leader, who died Chilean dictator Augusto Pinoc- report in which the intelligence and his American assistant, Ronni in 2006. Reuters Charlotte-Mecklenberg Police het personally ordered the 1976 agency attests that Pinochet person- Moffitt, and injuring her husband. In 1995, the Chilean Supreme Chief Kerr Putney has said that assassination of opposition leader ally ordered his intelligence chief to The bold assassination carried Court sentenced two generals impli- video taken by police body cam- Orlando Letelier. plan the fatal attack. out by the secret police of a foreign cated in the assassination to terms of eras supported the police version of The US Deputy Secretary of Letelier had been a Chilean power in the heart of Washington six and seven years in prison. CHARLOTTE, NORTH CAROLINA: events, but he has refused to release State Heather Higginbottom pre- ambassador and foreign minister sparked a furious reaction. The Pinochet regime killed an A gun recovered at the scene of fatal the video publicly. He told report- sented the documents to Bachelet under the Socialist regime of Salva- The documents handed over Fri- estimated 3,200 people and tortured shooting of a black man by police ers that releasing it now could harm during a ceremony on the site of dor Allende. day are the last of those linked to the 38,000 from the time the army com- in Charlotte, North Carolina, was the investigation into the shooting, the killing in the American cap- After Pinochet seized power, assassination, the State Department mander seized power in 1973 to the loaded and had fingerprints match- being led by the state. ital, two days after the 40th Letelier was imprisoned and said. Secretary of State John Kerry return to democracy in 1990. ing those of victim, CNN reported as “I know the expectation is that the man’s family released its own video footage can be the panacea video of the encounter. and I can tell you that is not the The family of shooting vic- case,” Putney said, adding that he October election tim Keith Scott, whose death has would eventually agree with the Musical Fountain sparked three days of protests, con- release of the video. “It’s a matter tinued to urge officials to release of when and a matter of sequence.” may help ease their own recordings of the slaying. Scott’s family initially contended The video was filmed from a that he was carrying a book, but migration crisis: nearby curb as the drama in the after viewing the police video the parking lot unfolded in front of family said it was “impossible to dis- Haiti tells UN Rakeyia Scott. cern” what, if anything, Scott was CNN cited a source close to the carrying. investigation as saying the gun “There’s nothing in that video Reuters had fingerprints, DNA and blood that shows him acting aggressively, matching Scott’s. The Charlotte- threatening or maybe dangerous,” Mecklenburg Police Department Justin Bamberg, one of the lawyers UNITED NATIONS: Haiti’s Octo- did not immediately respond to a representing the family, said in an ber presidential election will be request for comment. interview. No gun can be seen in important to easing poverty, act- Scott’s death was the latest in Mrs. Scott’s video. ing President Jocelerme Privert a succession of police killings of Governor Pat McCrory, a Repub- told the United Nations General black people, mostly men, which lican locked in a tight re-election Assembly, as the United States have unleashed protests and riots race, signed a law last week that toughens its stance toward a wave across the country and intense crit- would require authorities to obtain of Haitian immigrants. icism of the use of excessive force a court order before releasing police More than 5,000 Haitians have by police. video. Critics have said it would pre- entered the US without visas this A United Nations working group vent the sort of transparency that is year through October 1, according compared the killings to the lynch- needed to defuse public anger after to Department of Homeland Secu- ing of black people by white mobs in police shootings. rity officials, up from 339 in fiscal the 19th and 20th centuries. Democratic presidential candi- year 2015. Scott’s death sparked two days date Hillary Clinton said “Charlotte “The credibility of the upcom- of rioting in Charlotte, North Caro- should release police video of the ing election is vital to break with lina’s largest city, with protesters Keith Lamont Scott shooting with- Children play in the Musical Fountain in the “22 de Agosto” Plaza in Managua, Nicaragua, yesterday the cycle of instability and uncer- dismissing police officers’ claim out delay. We must ensure justice and shortly after it was inaugurated. tainty which has beset my country that Scott holding a gun. work to bridge divides,” she said. for too long,” Privert said. He said the government was aware of the many Haitians leav- ing to seek a better life elsewhere and that the nation would need War crimes tribunal for IS detainees lacks support more international support after the October 9 polls. “The new leaders will urgently AP genocide was blocked by the Defence that “preventing mass atrocities and minority group. They have built a Without a legal documentation of need to address structural prob- Department, setting back efforts to genocide is a core national security case implicating the entire IS com- their identities from the top down, lems which persistently undermine prosecute IS members suspected of interest and a core moral responsibil- mand structure in a plot to kidnap many could “slide into refugee Haiti’s effort to move out of under- committing war crimes. ity of the United States of America.” Yazidi women and girls and estab- streams” and disappear, he said. development,” Privert said. WASHINGTON: War crimes investi- “The West looks to the US for Stephen Rapp, who stepped down lish a slave market. Though there are at least doz- The US, responding to a surge gators collecting evidence of Islamic leadership in the Middle East, and as administration’s ambassador at The plan was executed by an ens of Islamic State extremists in in Haitian immigrants, will end spe- State group’s elaborate operation to the focus of this administration has large for war crimes last year, says organised bureaucracy, from tem- custody in Iraq, there have been no cial protections for them dating kidnap thousands of women as slaves been elsewhere — in every respect,” the administration should have moved porary sorting facilities — including a prosecutions for the crimes against back to a devastating earthquake say they have a case to try IS lead- Bill Wiley, head of the independent early to help secure evidence of IS prison, schools and a curtained ball- humanity that the US — among many there in 2010, the Department of ers with crimes against humanity but investigative group, the Commission atrocities and push for the creation of room where the Yazidis were divided others — insist have taken place. Homeland Security said. If con- cannot get the global backing to bring for International Justice and Account- special Iraqi courts to try war crimes. by age and waiting for buses that On Tuesday, the Obama adminis- ditions improve at home, fewer current detainees before an interna- ability, said. “The priority for the US govern- would haul them by dozens across tration’s envoy for the coalition to Haitians would risk the hazardous tional tribunal. Officials in Washington say that ment is to win the war against the IS the border to Raqqa. The Islamic counter Islamic State militants, Brett journey to the US and Canada. Two years after the IS group’s the Defensc Department and ulti- and destroy them,” Rapp said. “It’s State group’s Shariah courts soon McGurk, tweeted that he “pledged In February, Michel Martelly onslaught in northern Iraq, the mately the administration were been profoundly disappointing, stepped in, to settle contract disputes full accountability” for Islamic State stepped down as president of Haiti investigators, as well as US diplo- concerned that court trials would because the idea of accountability and ensure that its finance hierar- crimes against the Yazidis, whom IS without a successor, but only after mats, say the Obama administration distract from the military campaign. has been such a low priority.” chy got its cut of the slave proceeds. considers infidels because of their a deal was reached for a provisional has done little to pursue prosecu- But the diplomats say that justice is Rapp is now the chairman of “You have members of IS who religion. government. In the running next tion of the crimes that Secretary of essential in a region whose religious advisory board of the commission, were engaged in ensuring that this In 2012, Obama announced what month is Maryse Narcisse, a med- State John Kerry has called genocide. minorities have been terrorised. whose investigators in Iraq work with system continued and that it func- he called a comprehensive strategy ical doctor and longtime activist Current and former State Depart- The US has no legal obligation to the Kurdish regional government to tioned well,” said Chris Engels, the to prevent and respond to war crimes who could become the first woman ment officials say that an attempt in take on the genocide of the Yazidis, formally document the IS crimes, American lawyer who is leading the with the establishment of an atroci- to be elected Haiti’s president. late 2014 to have a legal finding of but President Barack Obama has said including those against the Yazidi commission’s legal investigation. ties prevention board.

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Children enjoy- The Peninsula ing during the Sports for All Sum- mer Sports festival organized by QSFA DOHA: Mathaf: Arab Museum of held at Katara Modern Art in Doha has dedicated Beach. a part of its museum for the display Photo by: Kam- of the permanent collection titled mutty VP ‘Fair Skies’ by Iraqi- Canadian con- temporary artist Mahmoud Obaidi. On show from September 22 2016 – January 8 2017 Fair Skies curated by Mathaf’s Curator Leonore-Namkha Beschi is on view in Mathaf’s Project Space. It was said Marital break-up may lead to be dedicated to emerging artists and curators’ experimentations with new ideas and forms of presentation. to eczema & muscle pain Presented by Qatar Museum under the leadership of its Chair- person HE Sheikha Al Mayassa bint IANS The study showed that psy- Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Fair chological stress increases the Skies is inspired by the artist’s own damage caused by free radicals - experience over airport security and unstable molecules which attack can be read as a social, political, and LONDON: Marital break-up and healthy cells and are believed to cultural critique of stereotypical divorce can cause physical ail- play a part in heart disease, can- assumptions. ments -- including eczema and cer and other serious diseases. The installation is the contin- muscle pain -- apart from emo- Under duress, the body pro- uation of a prior project by Obaidi tional problems, suggests a new duces more of the fight-or-flight titled How Not To Look Like a study. hormone cortisol, which destabi- Terrorist (2010). Configured as a Around 60 per cent of peo- lises the body’s immune system commercial booth, Fair Skies is ple suffer physical symptoms, and makes it less able to fight off made up of vending machines, which might include migraine, illness. Numerous studies have plastic figurines regrouped in mini- FREE ENTRY Mahmoud Obaidi with his collections. eczema or back trouble, usually identified a link between stress ature scenes and a video. A branded Opening hours: the result of muscular tension levels and cancer. make-up kit contains hair dye, skin apart from stress, low mood, Health experts attribute whitener and coloured contact individuality within the masses. piece by piece. In his work Obaidi Sunday 11 am – 6 pm depression and insomnia,” said these effects to stress and grief. lenses, all designed to create a phys- The installation comes ahead recreates what has been stolen or Monday Closed Charlotte Friedman, Therapist “High-conflict divorces are ical transformation for its user. The of a major exhibition by Obaidi destroyed to try to piece the city Tuesday 11 am – 6 pm based in Britain as quoted by also seen as so stressful that they four miniature scenes play out in the opening on 18th October at the QM back together again. Daily Mail. have been reclassified as one of video, recreating Obaidi’s encounter Gallery in Katara Cultural Village. In The exhibition shows how Wednesday 11 am – 6 pm While Men tend to suffer the causes of Post-Traumatic with a security officer at the time he the exhibition, entitled Fragments, Obaidi is grappling with the Thursday 11 am – 6 pm more long-term health issues Stress Disorder (PTSD), a con- was approached waiting to board a the artist retraces the ‘organised destruction of an 8,000-year-old after divorce, women are more dition usually associated with plane. The plastic figurines, which chaos’ that led to the destruction civilisation, which has been laid Friday 3 pm – 8 pm seriously affected in the short- accident victims or soldiers in are modelled on the artist’s own of Iraq and presents a response to waste in less than a fraction of that Saturday 11 am – 6 pm term, the study suggested. war zones,” Friedman added. appearance, raise the question of witnessing the city of Baghdad fall time. Nasa to reveal ‘surprising’ activity on Jupiter’s moon

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The Peninsula trade flows that drove global growth. to 2015. In response, import growth But now nearly eight years since the in advanced economies dropped by Growth of trade start of the global financial crisis, nearly half from 6.2 percent to 3.6 per- volumes has averaged much has changed. Trade has slowed cent over the same respective periods. DOHA: Global trade has slowed in in value and volume terms. The second factor has been the both value and volume terms, includ- 3.9 percent per year According to QNB analysts, there influence of structural reforms in ing falling below global growth in since 2011, down have been three major factors under- China. Chinese authorities have three of the past four years. Growth lying the slowdown of global trade. enacted policies aimed at increas- of the trade volumes has averaged from an average of 7.3 The first factor has been the cyclical ing the on-shoring of production and 3.9 percent per year since 2011, down percent from 2000 to downturn in aggregate demand ema- rebalancing away from the import- from an average of 7.3 percent from 2007. nating from advanced economies. In intensive investment and export 2000 to 2007. the aftermath of the financial crisis, sectors to foster consumption-led Through the first six months of the process of gradually rebuilding growth. 2016, global goods trade volumes balance sheets and deleveraging had Considering that China accounts have averaged just 0.1 percent year- global trade and deepening economic a protracted negative impact on con- for 10 percent of global goods over-year growth, the slowest rate integration. sumption and investment. imports, the impact of these policies since the financial crisis, QNB noted Governments pushed through Advanced economies’ real GDP will directly slow trade by lowering in its weekly ‘economic commentary’ trade liberalisation policies, firms growth fell from an average of 2.6 Chinese imports of capital and inter- demand for exports from other Asian (GVCs) and commodity exports. yesterday. Not long ago, it was diffi- cooperated to develop global supply percent per year from 2000 to 2007 mediate goods. There will also be countries who depend on linkages to cult to imagine a future without rising chains and the result was increasing to an average of 1.6 percent from 2011 indirect effects by weakening China’s China through global value chains → Continued on page 19 18 SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2016 BUSINESS Yusuff Ali in Forbes’ Indian billionaire club

India’s 100 richest tycoons. Reliance Indus- by Ravi Pillai, also a Gulf based business- Group, with businesses ranging from trucks tries Ltd (RIL) Chairman Mukesh Ambani man who is placed 38th in the list with a and lubricants to banking and cable tel- LuLu Group, the retail has topped Forbes’s annual list with a net fortune of $3.1bn. George Muthoot is placed evision. The group commissioned its chain, has featured on worth of $22.7bn. The combined net worth 59th ($1.92bn), Sunny Varky, Chairman of much-delayed 1,040 megawatt thermal of India’s 100 wealthiest is $381bn, a rise of GEMS Schools ($1.9bn) 60th in the list, PNC power unit in South India in July. Forbes’ annual list of 10 percent from $345bn in 2015. Menon with 78th ($1.64bn) also found a Tech magnate Azim Premji, who has led India’s 100 richest tycoons. Yusuff Ali presides over $6.3bn (revenue) place in the list. Others in the list are Kris Wipro for five decades, slips one spot to No 4 Reliance Industries Ltd LuLu Group, with 129 stores in the Gulf region, Gopalakrishnan, ($1.92bn), Azad Moopen on the list with a net worth of $15bn. Wipro, India, Egypt, Indonesia and Malaysia, Turkey ($1.28bn) and Shamsheer Vayalil ($1.27bn), India’s third largest outsourcer, reported a (RIL) chairman Mukesh and Brazil. New projects include a $300m who is the youngest Keralite in the list and 6 percent fall in net earnings to $304m in a Ambani has topped Forbes’ investment in Trivandrum in Southern Indian son-in-law of Yusuff Ali MA. recent quarter amid sluggish sales. State of Kerala that will include a mall, hotel Other prominent NRIs in the list include To boost growth, the company has annual list with a net and convention center. Micky Jagtiani of Landmar group and BR been on a buying spree and its most recent worth of $22.7bn. The group’s hospitality arm owns Dubai’s Shetty of NMC Group.India’s richest phar- acquisition was HealthPlan Services, an first Steigenberger hotel, a German luxury maceutical magnate, Dilip Shanghvi, remains insurance-technology firm based in Florida. hotel brand and a 50 percent stake in the at No 2 with a net worth of $16.9bn. Naazneen Karmali, India Editor of Forbes Sheraton hotel in Muscat, which will reopen Earlier this year, Sun Pharma acquired Asia, said: “In a post-Brexit world, India The Peninsula October this year after renovations and the 14 drugs from Novartis in Japan for $293m, appears a steady ship with an economy grow- legendary Old Scotland Yard building in Lon- which will be distributed by Mitsubishi Tan- ing at 7 percent-plus. don, slated to be open as a Luxury Hotel by abe Pharma. The majority of India’s 100 richest have early next year. Taking the third spot are the Hinduja notched up handsome gains as their com- DOHA: Yusuff Ali MA (pictured), Chair- With a net worth of $4bn, Yusuff Ali is made into billionaire club. But Yusuff Ali is brothers with a net worth of $15.2bn, up panies have outperformed the stock market man of Abu Dhabi based Middle East retail placed 25th in the Rich List. The latest edition the only Keralite who made among TOP 25 from $14.8bn last year. The four siblings – in the past year. As the domestic investment chain Lulu Group, has found his top place of Forbes Rich list saw a few business tycoons of Indian Billionaires. Srichand, Gopichand, Prakash, and Ashok cycle starts kicking in, we can expect more in the prestigious Forbes’ annual list of from the Southern Indian state of Kerala who Among the Keralites, Yusuff Ali is followed – control multinational empire Hinduja gains and new names in the future.”

Viacom to consider US investors laud Turkey’s post-coup progress three internal candidates for Anatolia second visit to the US in the last six Moscow is underway, after a Rus- months, after he visited Washington sian fighter jet was brought down the post of CEO DC at the beginning of April for the last November, the Turkish econ- 2016 Nuclear Security Summit. omy will undergo a swift recovery, NEW YORK: American investors Ermut said American inves- since trade relations between the Bloomberg and businessmen are “impressed” tors who met Erdogan in the US two countries will be improved. with Turkey’s rapid recovery despite capital earlier this year were also He noted that the hardest thing recent setbacks in its political and impressed with how fast the Turkish for Turkey is to attract new foreign LOS ANGELES: Viacom Inc is security spheres, a Turkish official government has since improved its investment known as “green field” considering three internal can- told Anadolu Agency yesterday. investment climate for foreign busi- -- a type of foreign direct investment didates as part of its search to Arda Ermut, president of the nessmen and entrepreneurs. where a company builds its opera- replace interim Chief Executive Investment Support and Promotion “Investors had told us in Wash- tions in a Turkey from the ground up. Officer (CEO) Tom Dooley follow- Agency of Turkey (ISPAT), pointed ington that they want to lower their Thinking long-term, five,10, or 30 ing a management shakeup at the to reconciliation with Russia, terror investment costs in Turkey. Our gov- years, such investors focus on criteria struggling TV and movie com- attacks and the July 15 coup attempt, ernment has taken steps accordingly, such as a country’s potential, young pany, according to a person with and said the Turkish government and they were surprised to see how population, political stability, Ermut knowledge of the matter. did everything on its agenda to fast the investment environment in said, and added: “When foreign inves- The three executives are Wade improve the investment climate in Turkey improved,” he said. tors look into those criteria they see Davis, chief financial officer; Rob- the country. Regarding the terrorist bomb- that Turkey is in strong hands.” There ert Bakish, the head of Viacom’s “American investors told us ing in Istanbul’s Ataturk airport in is a problem, however, for first-time international TV networks; and they are very impressed how fast late June, Ermut said Turkish Airlines investors coming to Turkey, accord- Scott Mills, who oversees human the Turkish economy has picked up continued operating just six hours ing to Ermut, the issue of perception. Arda Ermut, President of the Investment Support and Promotion Agency resources and is chief administra- after the coup attempt, financial sec- after the attack, and foreign investors “Those investors, who never of Turkey, addressing at a Turkish-American joint investment forum. tive officer, said the person, who tors not being negatively affected, the were also pleased with that develop- been to Turkey, or last visited it a asked not to be identified because strong resilience of the Turkish peo- ment. “All this shows that Turkey is decade ago, tend to see Turkey as Turkey to their host countries and let he told. Ermut noted that President the deliberations are private. ple against this insidious attack and not much affected from shocks. This just another Middle Eastern coun- them speak about their experiences. Erdogan on Thursday met with the The company is also weigh- how fast they gathered around their presents itself as a strong case for the try. We want to do our best to change “They become our business CEOs of approximately 30 Ameri- ing the sale of all or part of its 50 elected leader,” he said. well-being of the investment envi- this perception and introduce our- ambassadors, talking about Turkey can companies in New York. Those percent stake in the Epix premium The UN General Assembly gath- ronment in Turkey,” he said. selves accurately,” he said. wherever they visit. This is a much firms control a total of $2bn of port- movie channel, according to two ering in New York was Turkish Ermut added that now a reconcil- Ermut said one way to fix that is more effective way to publicize our folio and have a combined revenue people. President Recep Tayyip Erdogan’s iation process between Ankara and to bring foreign companies’ CEOs in country and its economy climate,” of about $800m. The New York-based com- pany, which has seen its profit and stock price tumble in the past two years, abandoned plans this week to sell a minority stake in its Par- Airline emissions plan amount Pictures unit. That sale, championed by former Chief Executive Officer Philippe Dauman, was designed backed by 60 nations to bring in money the company could use to invest in new mov- ies and TV shows and reduce debt. Dooley was named interim Bloomberg agreement, providing a practical CEO last month and will leave in and symbolic boost in Africa and mid-November. Southeast Asia, developing regions Viacom declined to com- that will be important to the suc- ment. The company, the owner NEW YORK: At least 60 nations cess of the program. of Comedy Central and MTV, is have agreed to join the volun- Under the proposed 15-year looking both internally and out- tary phase of a United Nations deal, airlines would be penalised side for a new CEO, the person programme that would require beginning in 2021 for emissions on said, although no specific exter- international airlines to buy credits international routes that exceed nal names have been floated. The offsetting their pollution, includ- 2020 levels. But the agreement Redstone family, which controls ing new commitments from major relies on voluntary participation 80 percent of the voting shares emitters like Japan, South Korea, during the first six years, drawing in Viacom, ousted Dauman and and the United Arab Emirates. the ire of environmental groups added five new directors in a bid The White House believes the and raising concerns that coun- to boost the company’s perform- new commitments provide critical tries might kick their obligations ance this year. John Paul Alukkas, Executive Director, Joyalukkas Group and Sonia Alukkas, Director, Joyalukkas Group momentum for the proposed deal down the road. A sale of Viacom’s Epix interest receiving the award in Dubai. heading into a conference begin- Some major emitters, including could raise as much as $1 billion, ning on Tuesday in Montreal, where Brazil and India, have indicated they according to a Bloomberg Intel- supporters hope to forge the first will not participate until the offsets ligence valuation. John Janedis, a Joyalukkas bags coveted award global climate pact governing a sin- become mandatory. Russia, whose Jefferies analyst, valued Viacom’s gle industry. flag carrier Aeroflot saw 19.7 mil- stake at $911m in a Sept. 19 report. Brian Deese, a senior adviser to lion passengers in the first half of Epix, a pay-TV channel, is The Peninsula for Joyalukkas Jewellery Show- jewellery from the best sources US President Barack Obama, said this year, has signaled resistance to a joint venture with Lions Gate room in Lulu, Al Qusais from Sami around the world, to thinking up a diverse group of countries rep- emissions markets in the past and Entertainment Corp. and Metro- Al Qamzi, Director General, Depart- meaningful promotions and offers, resenting 80 percent of global air may cause tension as negotiators Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. Lions Gate ment of Economic Development and to the locations we choose for our traffic had now signed on to be early next week look to build consensus Chief Executive Officer Jon Felthe- DOHA: Joyalukkas Group, an Indian Dr Aisha bin Bishr, Director General showrooms, and most importantly in participants in the agreement. The on the aviation deal. imer has said that he also may be multi-billion dollar global conglom- of Smart Dubai Office in Dubai. our day to day interaction with them new commitments in the days lead- Administration officials say interested in selling his Epix stake. erate with varied business interests, Joyalukkas is indeed earning to be recognised for our efforts in ing up to the conference “bodes well securing a wave of new countries as “The fact of the matter is that has bagged a coveted award for its its moniker as the world’s favour- achieving this goal is a great hon- for this smart, pragmatic approach early participants ahead of the Mon- at 31 percent, Epix is not truly a outstanding performance. ite jeweller, and has broken records, our indeed, and one that would not moving forward next week,” he said. treal conference should encourage strategic platform for us, and I The Dubai Department of Eco- set new standards, and changed the have been possible without the sup- The Obama administration holdout countries to get on board. think our partners over there have nomic Development, under the jewellery retail landscape for good. port of our loyal customers.” is particularly heartened by the The commitments this week come known about the possibility of this auspices of the Dubai Service Excel- It is the first retail chain to be “I also share this award with nations’ decision to participate in after China, home to the world’s transaction for some time,” he said lence Scheme (DSES), has honoured awarded both ISO 9001 and ISO 14001 the over 7,000 men and women of the voluntary phase of the program, fastest-growing aviation industry, on a June conference call. the Joyalukkas jewellery showroom certification and to receive Super- our on-ground staff who endeavor believing it will make it easier for agreed to sign on during the G-20 “I look forward to having in Lulu, Al Qusais with the Best Per- brand status seven years in a row. to give our patrons the most satis- other nations to join. conference earlier this month in conversations with them about formance Outlet Award. Today its name stands worldwide for fying shopping experience with us The UAE, home to rapidly grow- Hanghzou, China, following meet- maximizing our mutual invest- The same award-giving author- quality, best value offerings and the every day”, he added. ing carriers Emirates Airline and ings with top US officials. ment.” Viacom is grappling with ity had already recognised the award-winning customer service. In May 2016, the Group received Etihad Airways, is the third largest The US has leveraged Chinese plunging box-office results at its global jewellery retail chain earlier John Paul, said: “All of us at the the DSES award for outstanding cus- producer of international airline participation to rally international Paramount film division, as well in May for outstanding customer Joyalukkas Group come to work with tomer service on a ground-breaking emissions. Japan Airlines Co. and climate agreements in the past, most as losing ad sales and viewers at service.John Paul Alukkas, Exec- the determination and commitment day that also saw Joyalukkas Group ANA Holdings Inc. carried more famously last November’s Paris its much-larger TV networks divi- utive Director, Joyalukkas Group to do one thing: make our customers Chairman and MD Joy Alukkas rec- than 16 million passengers on over- climate accord, where countries sion. Paramount Vice Chairman and Sonia Alukkas, Director, Joy- happy and enhance their lifestyles. ognised as one of the top Indian seas routes last year. Thailand and agreed to limit overall emissions Rob Moore is leaving the movie alukkas Group received the Best This shapes everything we do, from Leaders in the Arab World by Forbes Kenya have also signed on to par- and provide assistance to develop- unit, according to a person with Service Performance Outlet award the way we select only the finest Magazine. ticipate in the early stages of the ing nations. knowledge of the matter. BUSINESS SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2016 19

Doha to host QIB unveils flexible Visa credit card workshop to discuss reforms else customers might need while Customers can pay travelling for business or pleasure. in OECD nations Both primary and supplementary anywhere between cardholders will have unlimited 5 to 100 percent complimentary access to more than The Peninsula 500 airport lounges worldwide of their monthly through the LoungeKey service, plus balance and monthly discounts at hotels around the world. “We are pleased to introduce this DOHA: Qatar Institute for Pub- settlements will new credit card with flexible pay- lic Finance (QIPF), a joint venture be automatically ment option as part of our overall among the Qatar Finance and deducted from their product suite. Our clients have been Business Academy (QFBA), the asking for a product that offers them Organisation for Economic Co- accounts. the flexibility to carry their balances operation and Development forward and we listened,” said D. (OECD) and the Ministry of Anand, General Manager of QIB’s Finance, is organising a work- Personal Banking Group. shop entitled ‘Using Performance “QIB is always looking for new Information for Public Sector The Peninsula ways to serve its customers. The new Budgeting and Management: card gives our customers yet another Challenges, Lessons and Oppor- Shariah-compliant option for man- tunities’, in Doha, on September aging their personal finances. QIB is 27-28, 2016. DOHA: Qatar Islamic Bank (QIB), committed to providing new offers The two-day workshop aims Qatar’s leading Islamic Bank, has and features on this card, which will at sharing experiences of OECD announced the launch of a new benefit our valued customers and countries that have engaged credit card to be offered in Infinite, further enhance their well-being.” in public sector modernisation Platinum and Gold variants. The Rahul Joshi, Country Manager reforms. new credit card will provide QIB Top executives of QIB and Visa at the launch event. for Qatar - Visa, added: “Flexible Dr Abdulaziz Al Horr, CEO customers with the convenience of payment terms are consistently of QFBA, said: “Qatar has, over managing their cash flow by pay- customers have the flexibility to pay salary. As is the case with all QIB the card and discounts at various highlighted as a key attraction for the years, engaged in a series of ing as low as 5 percent per month anywhere between 5% and 100% of cards, customers will benefit from retail outlets. Customers who hold the customers when choosing one card reforms that aim to modernise on their card outstanding balance. their monthly balance, with monthly the one-time password security fea- QIB Visa Infinite card will experience product over another. Visa fully sup- its public sector with a focus on To celebrate the new product’s settlements automatically deducted ture that the bank has added when even more premium card features. ports QIB’s strategy of putting the increasing the efficiency of pub- introduction, the bank is providing from their accounts and the ability to using the card for online purchases In addition to the above, QIB customer at the heart of its business lic services and optimising the a special launch offer to customers perform early payments at the cus- to protect customers’ credit card and Visa Infinite cardholders will have and delivering a suite of products sector’s value creation, as part who apply for the new card between tomer’s discretion at all times. personal information. complimentary access to Visa’s giving cardholders the ability to of the country’s National Devel- now and the end of 2016. As part of The new Credit Card offers Customers who hold QIB Visa worldwide concierge service – make payments according to their opment Strategy 2011-2016. the limited-time offer, QIB will waive attractive reward points based on Platinum credit cards will enjoy extra essentially a 24/7 personal assistant individual requirements. Visa antic- QIPF’s upcoming workshop is card issuance fees, cash withdrawal customers’ spend; customers will benefits such as purchase protec- who can help arrange dinner res- ipates QIB customers will welcome set to bring into light important fees and supplementary card fees. also benefit from higher credit lim- tion, extended warranty of up to 12 ervations, chauffeurs and taxis, this flexibility, and we wish the bank insights regarding Qatar and other Under the new cards’ terms, its, up to two times their monthly months for items purchased through theatre tickets, gifts and anything every success with the launch.” OECD countries’ experiences in the process, while discussing the invaluable role that the system- atic collection and analysis of Global trade information plays in making judg- UDC awards piling works contract for Al Mutahidah ments about the performance of public policies and programmes growth at its as well as the relevance of their The Peninsula outcomes.” slowest since During the workshop, speak- ers will discuss the prerequisites of such reforms, such as complete, crisis:QNB DOHA: United Development Com- reliable, and timely financial and pany (UDC), a leading Qatari operational information, clear shareholding company and master guidance and guidelines for Continued from page 17 developer of The Pearl-Qatar, has implementing departments, as Indeed, the gradual influ- announced the awarding of Navay- well as the challenges associated ence of this shift has already uga Engineering Company to carry with defining performance objec- materialised. According to the out piling works at Al Mutahidah tives and indicators. International Monetary Fund, Towers in Viva Bahriya at The Pearl. The speakers will also explain Chinese import growth declined The contract will see the execu- how their countries have led the from an annual average of 13.1 tion of approximately 917 piles into change, and managed to incor- percent over 2006 to 2011, to the construction territory as well as porate performance information 6.1 percent from 2012 to 2015, of the excavation and backfilling works in the budgeting, planning, and which approximately half was in preparation for the next construc- accountability processes. attributable to China’s economic tion phase. On the first day, the work- rebalancing. Piling works are expected to be shop will be introduced by a The remaining portion of the completed in 150 days, ending in representative from the Ministry decline reflects the weakness January 2017, after which the con- of Finance and Jon R. Blondal, in aggregate demand. The third struction of the main building will OECD’s Head of Budgeting and factor has been the rise of protec- begin. Public Expenditures. tionism and slower rate of trade Comprising approximately of 450 Another session will be held liberalisation. Despite numerous apartments in the relaxed beach- on the main concepts associated pledges to support trade from the front precinct of Viva Bahriya at The with performance evaluation G20, including their most recent Pearl-Qatar, the project is expected in the public sector and it will meeting in June, member states to be completed in the fourth quar- Workers seen at a United Development Company construction site. discuss Austria’s far-reaching, have increasingly been enacting ter of 2019 and is set to become one comprehensive budget reform protectionist measures. of the most attractive residential des- dimensions including studios, lux- The towers also boast pano- pools, multipurpose halls, ample packages in 2007 and 2009, as As per Global Trade Alert tinations in Doha. ury apartments as well as high-level ramic seaviews and direct access parking spaces and a range of other well as how, in Austria, perform- data, discriminatory trade meas- Al Mutahidah Towers offer penthouses and retail stores designed to the beach, in addition to a fully upscale services and recreational ance objectives and indicators are ures increased by 50 percent in accommodation units of various to meet the needs of residents. equipped gymnasium, swimming amenities. defined. 2015, of which more than three- fourths were from G20 member states. Additionally, the pace of trade liberalisation has slowed as evidenced by fewer major trade Takata failed to report agreements and the difficulty Bond market signals it may be of finalising some of the major deals that have been agreed to in principle. air bag rupture in 2003 This fact has been accompa- ready to take Fed at its word nied by politics that is increasingly hostile to globalisation. On the potential implications of the Reuters report released on Friday examined slower global trade, QNB said Bloomberg case for an increase in the federal average. Two-year notes may also be the company’s handling of the prob- deepening economic integra- funds rate has strengthened,” futures underperforming as the Treasury is lems since the inflators were first tion between countries and the markets imply less than a 60 per- scheduled to auction $26 billion of produced in 2000 as well as out- reliance on trade as a source cent chance of a quarter-point hike the maturity next week. WASHINGTON: Japanese air bag side experts’ analysis of the defect. of growth will be increasingly NEW YORK: Treasuries traders by year-end. Helping fuel bets on a rate boost, supplier Takata Corp said it failed to In one event detailed in the challenged. In particular, emerg- are signalling a growing conviction “The market is finally taking the three policy makers dissented from inform the US auto safety agency of report, Takata said it did not ing market countries will have to that the Federal Reserve will follow Fed at their word and setting up for the majority decision to hold rates a 2003 rupture of one of its air bag inform the NHTSA when it learned look inwards and consider struc- through on its projections and raise the possibility of a rate hike later this steady even amid progress in the inflators in Switzerland, according in 2003 of the rupture of an infla- tural reforms to unlock alternative interest rates in 2016. year,” said Gennadiy Goldberg, an labor market, expectations for higher to an internal Takata report released tor in Switzerland. A US engineer sources of growth. Addition- One measure of the yield curve interest-rate strategist in New York inflation and calm in global finan- by US regulators on Friday. at Takata asked if that incident ally, the slowing expansion of - the extra yield investors demand at TD Securities (USA) LLC, one of cial markets. Takata also said in the report should have been disclosed to the GVCs that is likely to be accom- on 30-year bonds over two-year the Fed’s 23 primary dealers. “The Officials’ median projection for that its US arm, not the parent NHTSA in 2010, but it was not. Reu- panied with weaker trade could notes - shrank nine basis points market is finally thinking the Fed the path of rates, known as the “dot company, was largely responsible ters reported on the 2003 incident lower productivity growth. GVCs this week, to about 1.6 percentage might go.” plot,” is for one quarter-point hike for designing, testing and produc- in December 2014. have been effective purveyors points. That’s the sharpest drop this Yields on two-year Treasuries, this year and two in 2017. In June, ing tens of millions of defective air Takata said in its report it opted of productivity enhancement by year during the week of a Fed pol- the coupon maturity most sensitive they forecast raising rates three bag inflators. not to disclose the incident because encouraging specialisation and icy announcement. A flatter curve to Fed expectations, fell about one times next year. The National Highway Traf- the inflator was not made during technological diffusion. can indicate traders are favoring basis point, or 0.01 percentage point, “The dots are catching up with fic Safety Administration (NHTSA) the production period addressed Looking to the future, coun- longer maturities because a poten- this week to 0.75 percent, accord- the market, not the market with the released a series of reports into in its 2010 response to the NHTSA. tries will have to find alternative tial Fed hike is seen as restraining ing to Bloomberg Bond Trader data. dots,” said Andres Jaime, a foreign- Takata’s defective air bag infla- The report said the 2003 incident sources of growth. For example, inflation, preserving the securities’ That’s the worst perform- exchange and rates strategist in New tors, which have been linked to was the result of the Takata infla- the world is becoming increas- fixed payments. ance this year in the week of a rate York at Barclays Plc, another pri- at least 14 deaths and more than tor being overloaded. Takata made ingly digitalised and the flow of Policy makers still have work to decision, suggesting traders were mary dealer. “Markets believe the 100 injuries and sparked the larg- production changes to address the information is growing while do to get investors on board with a reluctant to brush off the message central bank wants to hike once this est-ever auto recall. About 100m problem in 2003. Takata spokes- trade flows decline, a phenom- hike in 2016, following liftoff from that a hike may be ahead. In the year.” The market-implied probabil- Takata air bag inflators have been man Jared Levy said Friday the enon that is being called digital near zero in December. Even after previous five policy-announce- ity of a hike this year is 55 percent, declared defective worldwide. In report was required by NHTSA as globalisation. This could present the Federal Open Market Commit- ment weeks this year, the two-year according to futures data compiled the US, nearly 70m inflators have part of the company’s settlement opportunities in the future. tee’s statement Wednesday that “the yield dropped seven basis points on by Bloomberg. been declared defective. The Takata announced in November. 20 SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2016 BUSINESS

Myanmar economic revival Cargo owners Goldman to axe 30% of Asia withholding up to $80m in investment banking jobs payments: Hanjin

to the sources, who said the process deliver sustained growth after the Reuters was under way. 2008 financial crisis. The banks’ Most of the jobs cuts A Goldman Sachs spokesman business has also been eroded by are likely to take declined to comment. The com- local competitors. WILMINGTON: Failed South pany, whose investment banking In 2015 Goldman reduced the Korean container carrier Hanjin place in Hong Kong, revenue fell 11 percent to $1.79bn in number of its investment bankers Shipping Co Ltd told a US judge Singapore and China, the second quarter, has been hit by in Singapore - a hub for Southeast yesterday that cargo owners were a lacklustre environment for deals Asia - to about 35 from 50, several withholding up to $80m in pay- where Goldman’s across Asia. sources said. ments for completed shipments, main Asian offices are The total value of M&A deals There have been further complicating the company’s abil- across the Asia-Pacific region has departures this year, including its ity to move stranded freight. located, sources said. dropped to $572.9bn so far this year, Southeast Asia chairman Tim Leiss- “Hanjin is not the only bad guy from $745.7bn in the same period of ner. Many of Goldman’s European here,” Ilana Volkov, an attorney 2015, according to Thomson Reu- rivals have announced plans to scale for the shipping company, said ters data. Goldman said in July it down their operations in Asia. at a status hearing at a US Bank- Reuters had embarked on a cost-cutting Barclays said in January that ruptcy Court in Newark, New plan that would save $700m a year it would cut about 1,000 staff in Jersey. Hanjin lawyers said that in response to a “challenging back- its investment bank operations many cargo owners had received drop” for revenue. worldwide, with the bulk happen- their goods on credit but have yet LONDON: Goldman Sachs is cutting It still tops the Asia-Pacific M&A ing in Asia, while Societe Generale to pay the shipping company. almost 30 percent of its 300 invest- league tables but in the first half of decided to close its equities research Hanjin, the world’s seventh- ment banking jobs in Asia outside the year it came third after JPMor- desk in India. largest container carrier, filed for Japan in response to a slowdown in gan and Citi as the biggest bank by Other European banks includ- bankruptcy in August, stranding activity in the region, two sources revenue in Asia, according to data ing BNP Paribas and Deutsche Bank $14bn worth of cargo at sea as the familiar with the matter said. published on Friday by industry ana- are expected to scale back opera- company lacked cash to pay cargo The Wall Street bank is reduc- lytics firm Coalition. tions in non-core Asian markets handlers, tug operators or ports. ing the number of bankers working One of the sources said no man- while last year Asia-focused Stand- South Korea’s government said on mergers and acquisitions (M&A), aging directors in Asia were in the ard Chartered shut down its equities on Friday that enough money had and equity and debt capital markets running to be made partners this franchise. been pledged to unload Hanjin ships A banker with a stack of Myanmar kyat notes at a bank in Yangon. deals, the sources said. It will be left year while three existing partners Goldman employs just over 100 by the end of October. An attorney with slightly more than 200 bank- in the region had been stripped of bankers in China, where it was one Myanmar is spinning through a thrilling economic revival since for Ashley Furniture Industries, a ers across Asia. their titles. of the first foreign investment banks shedding junta rule in 2011. But with an embryonic banking Wisconsin-based furniture maker, Most of the jobs cuts are likely to Goldman and other big invest- to start operations. But like other system — an estimated 90 percent of the population still do not told Friday’s hearing the company take place in Hong Kong, Singapore ment banks are grappling with a banks it has been hit by a drop in have an account — the country’s new civilian leaders are banking anticipated that costs related to and China, where Goldman’s main harsh environment after the region’s Chinese trading volumes and com- on mobile money as a shortcut. Hanjin’s failure would eventually Asian offices are located, according economies and markets failed to petition from local banks. exceed what it owed for past ship- ments. “To hold onto this money is important,” said Jeremy Ryan, the attorney for Ashley. Like many retailers and other Hyundai to debut Genesis premium brand in China within 2-3 years cargo owners, Ashley has been stuck paying to get its cargo from the dockside, even though Hanjin had been paid to deliver it to an Reuters in part by weakness in China. carry a duty of more than 20 per- “From a product standpoint, the inland destination. Rolling out Genesis in key markets cent, putting pressure on carmakers prospects of the (Genesis) brand are In addition, many retailers and like China marks a shift for a company to produce locally. Genesis will open encouraging,” said Noble. “But from a other cargo owners have com- better known for making value-for- more standalone outlets, said Fit- distribution standpoint, at least here plained they have been stuck with HANAM: South Korea’s Hyundai money cars and lacking the brand zgerald, and is exploring unspecified in North America, it is much more empty Hanjin containers that ports Motor will launch its standalone pre- cachet and tradition of Germany’s locations for its first U.S. store. The problematic.” have been unwilling to take back. mium auto brand Genesis in China BMW , Mercedes-Benz and Audi. That Genesis line-up currently features Hyundai Motor Group Chairman Ryan said Ashley was paying within two to three years, betting on trio dominates the luxury market glo- two models, a range that the com- Chung Mong-koo, now 78, took the up to $7,000 daily related to stor- a luxury lane to profit as competition bally - and in China. pany plans to expand to six by 2020, helm in 2000 and turned Hyundai age and other fees for the empty bites at the lower end of the world’s “The luxury customer in China including two sport utility vehicles. and its Kia Motors affiliate into the containers and the only way to biggest auto market. is very brand-conscious,” said US Consultants like Eric Noble, pres- world’s fifth-largest automotive recoup those costs was to refuse Genesis brand chief Manfred national Fitzgerald, 53. The former ident of California-based consultancy group by making inexpensive but to pay Hanjin what was owed for Fitzgerald (pictured) said in a executive with Lamborghini brand CarLab, say getting the sales channel reliable small cars. completed deliveries. recent interview the company is was speaking at the first, and so far right for premium cars is as impor- But the veteran’s 45-year-old Judge John Sherwood said he considering building Genesis mod- only, standalone Genesis store, in tant as the product itself. son and vice-chairman Chung Eui- understood the need to “minimize els in China “For sure. But there are a glitzy mall in Hanam on the out- For now, over 300 of Hyundai’s sun has sought to move Hyundai up the pain” of Hanjin’s collapse. The also other examples of (automakers) skirts of Seoul featuring cars like G80 more than 800 US dealerships will the value chain. He spearheaded judge told Hanjin’s attorneys the who live pretty well off of importing sedans that can fetch up to $67,100. entering China,” he said, declining also be selling the Genesis brand, the move last November to hive off company was right in trying to cars,” he said, citing Toyota Motor “If you don’t get your brand right, to give sales targets for a global roll- posing an added challenge for dif- the Genesis sedan into a standalone get cargo moving “but there has Corp’s Lexus. The plans come as you can have the best product in the out that will follow launches in Korea ferentiating it from Hyundai. By brand, tapping a segment growing to be some recognition you might Hyundai tries to reverse out of 10 world, it won’t work,” said Fitzgerald. late last year and in the United States comparison, Toyota’s Lexus is sold faster than the mass market to gen- be able to deliver on the terms you straight quarters of falling profit, hit “In two, three years’ time we will be last month. In China, imported cars through separate dealerships. erate higher margins. promised to deliver on.” Avtovaz takes softer line on job cuts Global economy and taxes to dominate G20 meet Reuters agenda in Washington TOGLIATTI: Russian carmaker Avtovaz has a civic responsibility to preserve jobs, the company’s new Reuters chief executive said, rowing back on a politically sensitive policy of redun- dancies in the face of plummeting sales and record losses. MOSCOW: International tax coop- In his first extended interview eration will be in focus alongside with foreign media since majority the global economy in a meeting of owners Renault and Nissan put him finance ministers from the Group in charge in April, Nicolas Maure of 20 developed and developing said he was working with local and nations in Washington next month, regional authorities on a new strat- Russia’s top financial diplomat said A particular focus of the OECD egy to balance social commitments on Friday. efforts is BEPS, in which multina- and performance goals. The G20 ministers meet in tional companies move profits out Surplus workers will now be Washington on October 6, on the of the countries where money is A customer looks at the price of an Avtovas car on display at a showroom. offered transfers to third-party com- eve of the World Bank/IMF annual earned and into jurisdictions that panies, Maure said, as management meetings, weeks after a G20 summit do not tax them. look to return Avtovaz to operating defence conglomerate Rostec, Avtovaz posted a record loss of The success of Lada’s new Vesta pledged to increase macroeconomic Storchak also said that he profit by 2018 even as Russian car increased its influence over Avtovaz 74bn roubles ($1.16bn) in 2015 on model meant the company’s Izhevsk policy coordination without issuing expected Germany to announce in sales plumb 10-year lows. in April, when one of its executives sales down 31 percent, prompting plant was now safe, Maure said, any concrete proposals other than Washington that it would prioritise “We have some duties and was named the carmaker’s new Renault to slash the value of its stake adding full production had been agreeing to oppose protectionism. the G20’s sustainable development responsibilities vis a vis the peo- chairman, replacing Renault-Nis- in the firm by €225m ($253m). restarted on one production line in “(The agenda) will be very sim- goals during its presidency of the ple and vis a vis the region and san boss Carlos Ghosn. But Maure, who previously Togliatti. “This wasn’t the case when ple this time: global economy, which group next year. the city. We want to respect those Avtovaz’s previous CEO Bo headed Renault’s Romanian venture I arrived in April,” he said. is traditional,” Deputy Finance Min- “It’s their choice,” Storchak duties,” Maure said at his office in Andersson left in March after cut- Dacia, said the Russian market was Avtovaz announced an 85bn rou- ister Sergei Storchak (pictured) said. said. “In principle, for the Group of Togliatti, a city on the Volga river ting the workforce to around 43,000, seen remaining at its current level in ble recapitalisation plan earlier this “The ministers also need to 20 finance ministers and central 800km southeast of Moscow where down from 110,000 in 2008, and 2017 with sales recovering to around month as part of Maure’s bid to revive talk, develop the theme of taxes, banks, this is never considered a Avtovaz employs around one in every slashing shifts at plants in Togliatti 2 million a year in four to five years, its fortunes. tax cooperation at the international priority as, in many G20 countries, 20 people. and the Urals city of Izhevsk. supporting efforts to retain workers. While some foreign carmakers level, at the multilateral level, Base the ministry of finance does not play “We contribute a lot to the local Job cuts are a sensitive issue for PricewaterhouseCoopers esti- such as US car giant General Motors Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS), a big role in promoting sustainable economy so it’s important of course the Kremlin, which is worried about mates around 1.1 million cars will have closed plants in Russia, Maure information sharing and so on.” development.” to keep as many jobs as possible.” social unrest stemming from Rus- be sold in Russia this year. said Renault had never considered At their summit in Hangzhou, He added that there would be Maure struck a noticeably differ- sia’s economic crisis. As Russia’s Avtovaz has about 20 percent walking away from Avtovaz. China, the G20 leaders pledged tax no meeting of the finance ministers ent tone from his predecessor, whose biggest carmaker and producer of of the Russian light passenger vehi- “Renault still believes that the cooperation to “achieve a globally from the BRICS developing coun- efforts to reduce staff costs and weed its top-selling Lada brand, Avtovaz cles market. As well as Ladas, it market will be back at a very high fair and modern international tax tries - Brazil, Russia, India, China out shoddy local suppliers to pro- has been hit hard by the collapse of manufactures Renault and Nissan level one day,” he said. “We are not system” and asked the Organisa- and South Africa - on the sidelines tect profit margins came under fire the country’s once-booming autos badged vehicles under contract. It an American company.” “We know tion for Economic Co-Operation and of the International Monetary Fund from the carmaker’s minority Rus- market, which plunged 36 percent sold 269,096 vehicles in 2015, and we are in a kind of storm but there Development (OECD) to report by meeting. A BRICS summit will be sian shareholder. last year on the back of a deepening forecasts sales of around 260,000 will be an end ... We will get through June 2017 on the progress made by held in Panaji in the Indian state of That shareholder, state-owned economic downturn. this year. this storm.” jurisdictions on tax transparency. Goa on October 15-16. SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2016 21

‘Medically unfit’ Johnson leads Tour Fury out of Marquez shrugs off crash Klitschko rematch Championship

Reuters as injured Day to claim pole in Aragon withdraws BERLIN: Next month’s world heav- yweight title rematch between time in both morning practice champion Tyson Fury and Ukrain- sessions before posting a lap ARAGON MOTOGP - QUALIFICATION RESULTS ian Vladimir Klitschko was called MotoGP world of 1min 47.117sec that was too AFP off on Friday for a second time with championship leader good for the field in qualifying. 1. Marc Marquez (Spain) Honda 1:47.117 the Briton ruled “medically unfit”. fastest despite “I’m very happy, above all 2. Maverick Vinales (Spain) Suzuki 1:47.748 The fight was due to be held on with the fourth free practice 3. Jorge Lorenzo (Spain) Yamaha 1:47.778 WASHINGTON: Dustin Johnson edged closer to Oct. 29 in Manchester, having been dislocating his where our pace was very good,” 4. Andrea Dovizioso (Italy) Ducati 1:47.819 the USPGA Tour’s $10m FedEx Cup play-off prize originally postponed in July when shoulder during the Marquez told Spanish TV sta- 5. Cal Crutchlow (Britain) Honda 1:47.843 on Friday, firing a three-under par 67 to seize a Fury suffered an ankle injury. tion Movistar. 6. Valentino Rossi (Italy) Yamaha 1:47.951 one-stroke lead in the season-ending Tour Cham- “Tyson has this week been third free practice “It seems like it could be a 7. Dani Pedrosa (Spain) Honda 1:48.017 pionship in Atlanta, Georgia. declared medically unfit to fight,” bit colder tomorrow so we will US Open champion Johnson, who arrived at 8. Aleix Espargaro (Spain) Suzuki 1:48.230 his promoters Hennessy Sports have to look at the tyres again, East Lake Golf Club atop the playoff standings 9. Danilo Petrucci (Italy) Ducati 1:48.236 said in a statement without but I’m happy with everything after his win at the BMW Championship two weeks elaborating. AFP else.” 10. Scott Redding (Britain) Ducati 1:48.242 ago, fired five birdies with two bogeys for a seven- “Medical specialists have Lorenzo, who has won in under total of 133. advised that the condition is too Aragon for the past two sea- He was one shot in front of fellow American severe to allow him to participate sons was well off the pace in Kevin Chappell, who started the day in a three-way in the rematch and that he will ALCAÑIZ, Spain: MotoGP practice, but did enough with tie for the lead with Johnson and Hideki Mat- require treatment before going world championship leader his flying qualifying lap just suyama and signed for a second-round 68 for 134. back into the ring. Marc Marquez claimed pole before the session ended to It was three shots back to Matsuyama, who “We and Tyson wish to express position for the Aragon Grand climb into third. shot a one-over par 71, and Kevin Kisner (70) on our sincerest apologies to all those Prix for the fourth consecu- “I knew I had to have a 137. concerned with the event and all tive season after overcoming different strategy to other qual- World number one Jason Day’s season ended in the boxing fans who had been a crash in practice yesterday. ifying sessions,” said Lorenzo, disappointing fashion as the Australian walked off looking forward to the rematch. The Spaniard dislocated his who sits third in the champion- before completing the eighth hole with back pain. Tyson is understandably devas- shoulder as one of seven riders ship standings, 61 points adrift It’s the same injury that forced Day out of the tated by the development,” read to crash in the third free prac- of Marquez. final round of the BMW Championship, although the statement. tice session. “If you go too fast in the he had voiced cautious optimism that his back “We will be making a further Maverick Vinales and first lap you destroy the tyres would allow him to challenge for the win this statement in due course. Until then defending champion Jorge for the second one, so I had to week. we ask that Tyson and his family Lorenzo completed an all- go slowly to go much faster in A statement from Day’s management team be given the privacy and the space Spanish front row. the second lap.” described the injury as a “strained ligament in he needs to recover during this dif- Marquez’s closest cham- However, Lorenzo’s Yamaha his lower right back with a muscle spasm” and his ficult time.” pionship rival Valentino Rossi teammate Rossi has plenty of Repsol Honda’s withdrawal as a “precautionary measure”. Previous champion Klitschko, will start from sixth with just work to do on Sunday to avoid The top five players in the playoff standings Spanish rider who had ruled the heavyweight five races remaining to cut into a potentially fatal blow to his coming into the $8.5 million season finale can each Marc Marquez division for a decade, raised doubts the two-time world champion’s chances of a 10th world title. claim the bonus with a victory. celebrates his about the fight going ahead dur- 43-point lead. Britain’s Cal Crutchlow will Anyone lower in the standings must win and ing a news conference earlier this The Honda rider has been start just ahead of Rossi in fifth pole position count on those top players finishing down the lea- month. dogged by shoulder problems despite crashing towards the after the Moto GP derboard -- something that was looking less and Fury, who has been charged already this season as he also end of qualifying. qualifying session less likely in Johnson’s case. over anti-doping violations but dislocated his left shoulder in Dani Pedrosa, winner in on the eve of the Johnson, already the front-runner for player of denies any wrongdoing, caused practice for the Austrian Grand San Marino two weeks ago, also Aragon Grand Prix the year honors, is seeking his fourth title of 2016. a huge shock when he registered Prix last month. came off his bike to hinder his at the Motorland Johnson had back-to-back birdies at the a unanimous points victory over However, he appeared chances of another victory as racetrack in fifth and sixth and again at 10 and 11 before is first the Ukrainian in Duesseldorf in unbothered by the problem as Marquez’s teammate will start Alcaniz yesterday. bogey of the day at the 12th. He nabbed the first November. he recovered to set the fastest from seventh. birdie of the day at the par-four 16th, hitting his approach from 147 yards to 12 feet and draining the putt.After giving a shot back at 17, Johnson saved par from six feet at the last, where Chappell missed a chance to pull level. Wozniacki to meet Osaka in Tokyo final FFT lifts ban Chappell, seeking his first PGA Tour title, had three birdies in a row from the sixth through eighth. He bogeyed the 11th, but stayed steady on top tennis coming in to keep himself in contention. Reuters England’s Paul Casey, Northern Ireland’s Rory Caroline Wozniacki of Denmark McIlroy and American Ryan Moore were tied for returns a shot against Agnieszka players fifth on 138. Radwanska of Poland during their TOKYO: Caroline Wozniacki women’s singles semi-final match AFP outlasted Agnieszka Radwan- at the WTA Pan Pacific Open tennis ska 4-6 7-5 6-4 in a dog fight of tournament in Tokyo yesterday. a semi-final at the Pan Pacific PARIS: A ban on France’s top two Open yesterday to end the Pole’s women tennis players Kristina reign at the Ariake Coliseum. Mladenovic and Caroline Gar- The former world number cia for their behaviour at the Rio one prevailed in two hours and Olympics was lifted by the French 50 minutes of hard-fought ten- Tennis Federation (FFT) yesterday, nis and will meet Naomi Osaka but the suspension of male team- in Sunday’s final after the local mate Benoit Paire was extended. wildcard rallied to secure a 1-6 The three players had been 6-3 6-2 over Ukraine’s Elina Svi- provisionally suspended by the tolina in the second semi-final. FFT following their “unaccepta- World number four Rad- ble” behaviour at the Rio Games wanska served for the match in last month. Dustin Johnson watches his tee shot on the the second set but then lost five Garcia, the French number straight games as Wozniacki one, and Mladenovic, the number 16th hole during the second round of the Tour levelled up the contest and took two, are now free to compete in Championship at East Lake Golf Club in Atlanta, an early break in the decider. the Fed Cup final against the Georgia on Friday. There were 13 breaks of Czech Republic on November serve in the topsy-turvy encoun- 12-13 in Strasbourg. ter, however, and it was not until Mladenovic was accused of a fourth match point, which really hard, both of us, in the one hour and 47 minute con- power to send the contest into publicly criticising the federation Radwanska slapped into the third.” test against Svitolina, with the a deciding set. following her and Garcia’s defeat Levy on fire at net for her 43rd unforced error, Languishing at 28th in the promising youngster lack- Osaka continued to build in the Olympic doubles tourna- that the Dane was certain of her world rankings after a string of ing patience and committing on her momentum in the third, ment. The pair are the reigning place in the final. injuries, Wozniacki reached the a string of unforced errors in a breaking the Ukrainian twice French Open doubles champions. “I think every time I play her semi-final of the US Open ear- disastrous first set showing. on her way to knocking out The federation said in a state- European Open we play really tough matches,” lier this month and should be However, the home favour- the world number 20 as she ment they had taken into account Wozniacki said in a courtside confident of clinching her sec- ite regained her composure reached her first Pan Pacific the “regret expressed” by Mlad- interview. ond title in her third Pan Pacific in the second set as her much Open final. enovic and Garcia for their AFP “She played really well today Open final today. improved service game, which Today’s contest will be the “comments pronounced in the and I was lucky to win that sec- The 18-year-old Osaka got included four aces, roused the first meeting between Wozni- wake of a terrible disappoint- ond set and then we just fought off to a sluggish start in her crowd and she utilised her acki and Osaka. ment and frustration”. BAD GRIESBACH, Germany: Alexander Levy pro- duced a stunning series of birdies to go 17 under when the European Open second round was suspended with the Frenchman left with one hole to play. Matthew Southgate was one of the players to com- Asia council sets up sub offices as Kuwait row rumbles plete his round and the Englishman held the clubhouse lead on nine under par. With almost seven hours of play lost due to early morning fog over the first two days at Bad Griesbach Reuters Kuwait was suspended by the government. The OCA Execu- Al Musallam said in a statement. “This decision has been Levy completed his first round on Friday, making five International Olympic Commit- tive Board met on Saturday and “We hope for the (Kuwait) made to reduce the participants birdies in nine holes to lead at nine under. tee (IOC) in October 2015 after decided to set up regional offices government to finalise what is at the Asian Games, which now A further eight birdies followed in 17 holes before the government was accused in Bangkok, Almaty, Delhi and the direction. But now, with these involve 15,000 athletes and offi- the horn sounded for darkness. DANANG: The Olympic Council of interference in its national Nansha, China as well as in five offices, plus Lausanne, the cials from the 45 countries and Robert Karlsson and playing partner Ross Fisher of Asia (OCA) has decided to set Olympic Committee, which has Lausanne, Switzerland, the home OCA and the Asian Games is well regions, 4,000 technical staff, were then at 11 under with three holes to complete, up five new sub offices to enable subsequently been dissolved. of the IOC. protected.” The board meeting in 8,000 media and 30,000 vol- with the Swede on the charge at nine under for his it to function effectively while the A month later, the long-term “We are committed to not Danang, Vietnam also agreed to unteers and workforce, meaning first 15 holes. row with the Kuwait government agreement for the OCA to have only continuing with our services limit the number of athletes at the some 60,000 people are involved Local favourite Martin Kaymer was also at 11 under continues over its headquarters its headquarters in Kuwait City but to improve them further,” Asian Games to two per country every day of the Games,” read an with one to play as he finalises his preparations for in the Gulf State. was unilaterally torn up by the OCA Director General Husain per sport. OCA statement. next week’s Ryder Cup. 22 SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2016 SPORT

Five-star Jadeja and Ashwin heroics Wasim sinks West Indies in first T20 put India on top in Kanpur AFP

DUBAI: Left-arm spinner Imad SCOREBOARD Wasim took a career best five for The duo shares nine 14 to help Pakistan defeat world India (I innings): 318 Twenty20 champions West Indies wickets to bowl NZ New Zealand (I innings): by nine wickets in the first match out for 262 as the M Guptill lbw Yadav 21 in Dubai on Friday. T Latham lbw b Ashwin 58 Wasim’s spin assault routed hosts look set to give the West Indies for a low score of huge target to visitors K Williamson b Ashwin 75 115 in 19.5 overs which Pakistan in opening Test R Taylor lbw Jadeja 0 surpassed in 14.2 overs to take a L Ronchi lbw Jadeja 38 1-0 lead in the three-match series. M Santner c Saha b Ashwin 32 Dwayne Bravo hit a gritty B J Watling c&b Ashwin 21 half-century to avoid a total dis- aster, adding a new world record AFP M Craig lbw Jadeja 2 Twenty20 stand of 66 runs for the I Sodhi lbw Jadeja 0 ninth wicket with Jerome Taylor T Boult c Sharma b Jadeja 0 who made 21. N Wagner (not out) 0 Pakistan had lost opener

KANPUR: Spinners Ravindra Jadeja Extras (B-8, LB-5, NB-2) 15 Sharjeel Khan for 22 in the fourth and Ravichandran Ashwin helped over but Babar Zaman (55 not Total (all out) 262 India gain control of the first Test out) and Khalid Latif (34 not out) against New Zealand before the hosts Fall of wickets: 1-35, 2-159, 3-160, ensured the target was chased stretched the second innings lead to 4-170, 5-219, 6-255, 7-258, 8-258, 9-258. down comfortably. 215 on the third day in Kanpur yes- Bowling: Shami 11-1-35-0; Yadav 15-5- Babar hit two consecutive terday. 33-1; Jadeja 34-7-73-5; Ashwin 30.5-7-93- fours to bring up the victory, India, who are playing their 4; Vijay 4-0-10-0; Sharma 1-0-5-0. overall hitting two sixes and six 500th Test match, were 159 for one India (II innings): boundaries in his 37-ball knock. at stumps with opener Murali Vijay Earlier, Bravo scored a 54-ball L Rahul c Taylor b Sodhi 38 on 64 and Cheteshwar Pujara on 50 55 for his fourth half-century M Vijay (batting) 64 going strong. India’s Ravindra Jadeja (centre) celebrates the wicket of New Zealand’s Ross Taylor with his team-mates and lifted the world champi- The batting duo put together an during the third day of their first Test at Green Park Stadium in Kanpur, yesterday. C Pujara (batting) 50 ons from a precarious 48-8 in unbeaten 107-run stand for the sec- Extras (LB-7) 7 11.3 overs before being bowled ond wicket to take the attack to the Total (for 1 wkt) 159 off the penultimate ball. Wasim opposition bowlers. boundaries to record his eight Test for 58 and break the 124-run part- the 49-run fifth-wicket partnership made his career milestone in Fall of wicket: 1-52. But it was Jadeja and Aswhin, fifty in his 36th match. nership for the second wicket. before lunch. his four destructive overs -- the sharing nine wickets between them, Earlier, Ashwin got overnight The left-handed Latham, who The spin twins continued to Bowling: Trent Boult 5-0-1-0; Mitchell third best figures for Pakistan who spun it around for India after batsmen Tom Latham and Kane added just two runs to his overnight wreak havoc after the first session Santner 13-5-33-0; M Craig 11-1-48-0; in all Twenty20 cricket -- after bowling out New Zealand for 262 in Williamson in the morning session score, was done in by a drifter bowled as Jadeja, who was denied a hat- Wagner 8-3-17-1; Sodhi 7-2-29-1; Guptill Sarfraz Ahmed won the toss and their first innings and securing a vital to hurt the Black Caps, who started by Ashwin from around the wicket. trick, wiped off the opposition tail 3-0-14-0. opted to bowl on a slow turner at 56-run lead. the day on 152 for one in response to But it was the wicket of William- after taking three wickets in the 95th Dubai stadium. West Indies had The Indian batsmen seized the India’s 318. son, who scored 75, that turned the over of the innings. lost opener Evin Lewis to Wasim advantage with Vijay putting on a “We knew that it was Kane who tables for the hosts as Ashwin got the New Zealand lost five wickets two quality spin bowlers and we off the fifth ball of the innings for 52-run opening stand with Lokesh can really bat for long in their line dangerman bowled off a beautiful for just seven runs as they nose- lost wickets in clumps,” said Watling. one, holing out at deep mid-wicket Rahul, who finally fell to New Zea- up. The plan was to get him out. We delivery that spun a lot from outside dived from 255 for five to pack up Six New Zealand batsmen were off a lofted sweep. land spinner Ish Sodhi for 38. know others can’t bat long hours,” the off stump. “It was a good ball that in 95.5 overs. trapped lbw on the pitch which Wasim then chipped in with Vijay, who registered his 13th Jadeja told reporters. came through the bat and the pad,” Santner contributed with 32 started to turn a lot more than the wickets of Andre Fletcher (two) half-century, struck seven fours “We got four wickets in the Jadeja, who recorded his fifth five- while wicketkeeper-batsman BJ first two days. and Marlon Samuels (four) in and a six to entertain the raucous morning session and that was game wicket haul in Tests, said of Ashwin’s Watling also scored 21 to put up some “We talked about that, we know the third over to leave the world home crowd at Kanpur’s Green Park changing.” delivery. fight but the lower-order batsmen it’s tough to start in these conditions champions tottering at 15 for Stadium. Off-spinner Ashwin, who took Luke Ronchi steadied the innings failed to handle the Indian spinners. and we’ve definitely got to do that three. West Indies lost Johnson Pujara also took on the spin- four wickets, struck in the fifth over for a while with his composed 38 but “There was definitely a bit more better in our second innings,” said Charles (seven) and debutant ners with aplomb as he hit eight of the day to get Latham trapped lbw Jadeja got the batsman lbw to break turn (on day three), but they have Watling. Nicholas Pooran (five) in the next two overs make it 22 for five. Bravo and Kieron Pollard (nine) took the score to 47 before Wasim struck twice to improve Qatar U-19 team leaves for ICC tourney Rusty Bangladesh eye his previous best of four for 11 he took against Zimbabwe at Harare last year. Bravo found Taylor as an win in Afghan series able ally -- the only two to cross the double figures -- bettering the previous record of 63 for the ninth wicket between Saeed Ajmal and AFP Sohail Tanvir against Sri Lanka at SQUADS the same venue three years ago. Bangladesh: Mashrafe Mortaza (c), Taylor and Bravo fell in the DHAKA: Bangladesh will be hoping Shakib Al Hasan, Tamim Iqbal, Imrul final over by paceman Tanvir who their long absence from interna- Kayes, Soumya Sarkar, Mushfiqur Rahim, finished with 2-26. tional cricket does not hurt their Sabbir Rahman, Mahmudullah Riyad, The victory gave Pakistan’s form when they play a three-match Mosaddek Hossain, Nasir Hossain, Tai- new T20 captain Sarfraz Ahmed one-day international series against jul Islam, Shafiul Islam, Rubel Hossain two in two after taking over in the touring Afghanistan in Dhaka and Taskin Ahmed. his team’s nine wicket win over today. Afghanistan: Asghar Stanikzai (c), Amir England at Manchester earlier this The home side last played an Hamza, Dawlat Zadran, Fareed Ahmad, month. international match during the ICC Hashmatullah Shahidi, Ihsanullah Karim Janat, Mirwais Ashraf, Mohammad World Twenty20 in India in April SCOREBOARD this year and has played no one- Nabi, Mohammad Shahzad, Najibullah Qatar U-19 team’s players pose for a group photo ahead of their departure for Malaysia to compete Zadran, Naveen-ul-Haq, Nawroz Mangal, dayers since hosting Zimbabwe in WEST INDIES in the ICC Division Two cricket tournament. Led by Hamad Mirza Baig, Qatar U-19 will be up against Rahmat Shah, Rashid Khan, Samiullah November last year. J Charles b Nawaz 7 Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Singapore, UAE, Kuwait, Hong Kong, Thailand and Oman besides the hosts from The Afghanistan series was Shenwari, and Shabir Noori. E Lewis c Nawaz b Wasim 1 September 26 to October 6. Aruna De Silva is the coach while Amjad Bai will serve as manager and hastily arranged to give Bangladesh physiotherapist of the team. some cricket ahead of a more seri- A Fletcher b Wasim 2 ous engagement against England, in India. While Sunny was made to M Samuels lbw Wasim 4 who will be visiting the country wait, Bangladesh drafted Taskin D Bravo c Umar b Tanvir 55 in October for three ODIs and two immediately for their squad against N Pooran c Ahmed b Ali 5 Tests. Afghanistan. K Pollard b Wasim 9 Coach Chandika Hathurus- “The quality of Taskin’s skill will Stallions end successful UK tour inghe said the team’s main focus benefit any team in world cricket,” C Brathwaite c Latif b Wasim 0 was to get back to rhythm as soon said Hathurusinghe. S Narine (run out) 1 as possible. “He is one of our best bowlers. J Taylor b Tanvir 21 “Not playing for a long time is So he is coming and we are very S Badree (not out) 1 The Peninsula a bit of an Achilles’ Heel for us,” relieved to have this ban off,” said Extras (LB-2, NB-2, W-5) 9 Hathurusing he said yesterday the coach.

ahead of the opening match. Skipper Mashrafe Mortaza said Total (all out in 19.5 overs) 115 “That is what we are trying to pacer Taskin’s return will help the Fall of wickets: 1-3, 2-11, 3-15, 4-17, DOHA: Stallions Cricket Academy, get over, that uncertainty. The first team overcome the absence of Mus- 5-22, 6-47, 7-47, 8-48, 9-114. the coaching division of Stallions match is vital for us. We have no tafizur Rahman, who has been Bowling: Wasim 4-0-14-5; Tanvir 3.5-0- Sports Services WLL concluded a concern over any skill part - bat- sidelined for months after the shoul- 26-2 (2w); Nawaz 4-0-16-1; Hasan 3-0- successful tour of England. ting, bowling or fielding. der surgery. 32-1 (1nb, 1w); Malik 1-0-5-0,(1w) Riaz The 60 strong tour group, “It is all about the mental side “Frankly speaking, we will miss 4-1-20-0 (1nb, 1w). comprising players, coaches, and of the game - getting into the game, Fizz,” said Mortaza, referring to PAKISTAN parents, featured in over 15 matches playing in front of a crowd for your Mustafizur’s nickname. in Leeds and London. country.” “But our current attack is similar Sharjeel Khan b Badree 22 A group of Stallions’ players pose for a group photo. Stallions took two teams to UK The home side was buoyed by to what we had in the World Cup last Khalid Latif (not out) 34 – Under 14 and Under 11. the return of pace bowler Taskin year. This is another chance for us to Babar Zaman (not out) 55 Competing strongly against the Stallions Cricket Academy incor- “Hawk Eye” technology, to develop Ahmed, who was cleared to bowl prove ourselves,” added the Bang- Extras (LB-1, NB-1, W-3) 5 teams from the UK, Qatar’s young- porated a visit to the home of cricket, their personal style and talent. in international cricket on Friday ladesh captain. Total (for 1 wkt in 14.2 overs) 116 sters displayed an outstanding Lords, in order to build enthusiasm Commenting on the tour Head after he successfully remodelled All three matches are taking performance. and awareness towards the history, Coach of Stallions, Sidath Tennak- his action. place at the Sher-e-Bangla Stadium. Fall of wicket: 1-28. The Doha Stallions U-14 also traditions, and culture associated oon said “The touring team has been Taskin and left-arm spinner The second game of the series Bowling: Badree 4-0-27-1 (1w); Taylor won 6 side tournament played in with the game. practicing for the past few months Arafat Sunny were reported for will be played on September 28 1-0-8-0; Narine 3-0-21-0; Bravo 2-0-16- London competing against 4 other The Lords visit included a well- and we are extremely happy with suspect actions after Bangladesh’s while the final match between the 0 (1w); Brathwaite 2.2-0-29-0 (1nb); Pol- localteams. planned, individual indoor coaching the individual and team perform- opening match in the ICC World two teams is scheduled on October lard 2-0-14-0 (1w). As part of the tour the officials of session where players used the latest ances of the children.” Twenty20 against the Netherlands 1 (Saturday). SPORT SUNDAY 25 SEPTEMBER 2016 23 United thrash Leicester 4-1 without Rooney

United scored four goals, three not concentrating,” said Foxes man- his arm. James Milner scored from from set-pieces, as Chris Smalling, ager Claudio Ranieri. Sergio Aguero the resulting penalty and Sadio Mane England skipper’s Juan Mata, Marcus Rashford and fired Manchester City into a ninth- then made it 3-0. role limited to just a Paul Pogba with his first goal since minute lead at the Liberty Stadium David Meyler pulled a goal back few minutes, Arsenal his return from Juventus, all found but Swansea were level minutes later for Hull early in the second half the back of the net between the 22nd when Fernando Llorente lashed in a before Coutinho restored Liver- outclass Chelsea and 42nd minutes at Old Trafford. half-volley. pool’s three-goal lead with a brilliant England skipper Rooney was City, however, regained the lead 25-yard strike. limited to just a few minutes off the with an Aguero penalty in the 65th Milner scored his second penalty bench at the end of the match but minute after Mike van der Hoorn of the match after Daniel Sturridge AFP Mourinho told Sky Sports: “Wayne fouled Kevin de Bruyne in the box. was tripped by Andrew Robertson Rooney is a big player for me, United Raheem Sterling, using Aguero South Korea’s Son Heung-Min and this country.” as a decoy, made it 3-1 in the 77th scored twice as Tottenham Hot- Leicester managed a brilliant minute. Liverpool overpowered spur, without injured England LONDON: Manchester United consolation goal from half-time Hull City 5-1 after the Tigers spent star Harry Kane, won 2-1 away to thrashed defending Premier League substitute Demarai Gray but that much of the match a man down at Middlesbrough. champions Leicester City 4-1 as they could not stop the Foxes shipping Anfield, with the Reds 3-0 up inside Son opened the scoring in the vindicated manager Jose Mourin- four goals for the second time in as 36 minutes. seventh minute and double the Lon- ho’s decision to drop Wayne Rooney many league away games after doing Adam Lallana put Liverpool don club’s advantage in the 23rd while Manchester City maintained so at Liverpool a fortnight ago. ahead in the 17th minute after good minute with a right-foot shot . their perfect start with a 3-1 win “It’s not possible to concede three work by Philippe Coutinho and Boro replied through Ben Gib- away to Swansea on Saturday. goals off corners, that means you are Hull then found themselves down son’s 65th-minute goal. a man when Ahmed Elmohamady Bournemouth ended Everton’s was sent off after blocking Philippe unbeaten start to the season with a Coutinho’s goal-bound shot with 1-0 home win secured by Junior Sta- nislas’s shot into the top corner. ENGLISH PREMIER At the Stadium of Light, Crystal Palace came from 2-0 down to beat LEAGUE RESULTS Sunderland 3-2 and so deny the hosts a first league win of the campaign. Bournemouth 1 (Stanislas 23) Everton 0 Jermain Defoe seized on a Liverpool 5 (Lallana 17, Milner 30-pen, mistake by Joe Ledley as he fired 71-pen, Mane 36, Coutinho 52) Hull 1 Sunderland into a 39th-minute lead (Meyler 51) before doubling their lead on the Manchester United 4 (Smalling 22, Mata hour mark only for Ledley to atone 37, Rashford 40, Pogba 42) Leicester 1 for his earlier error a minute ear- (Gray 59) lier. James McArthur headed in an Middlesbrough 1 (Gibson 65) Tottenham equaliser before Christian Benteke’s 2 (Son 7, 23) stoppage-time goal completed a fine Stoke 1 (Allen 73) West Brom 1 (Ron- comeback for the south London club. don 90+1) Tony Pulis was unable to mark his 1,000th game as a manager with Sunderland 2 (Defoe 39, 60) Crystal Palace 3 (Ledley 61, McArthur 76, Ben- a win as his West Bromwich Albion teke 90+4) drew 1-1 away to former club Stoke City, still to win in the league this Swansea 1 (Llorente 13) Manchester City season. Joe Allen put Stoke head in 3 (Aguero 9, 65-pen, Sterling 77) the 73rd minute before Albion’s Salo- Arsenal 3 (Sánchez 11, Walcott 14, Özil 40) mon Rondon equalised deep into Chelsea 0 stoppage time. Playing today Arsenal gave manager Arsene West Ham vs Southampton (1500 GMT) Wenger a 20th anniversary to Leicester City defender Danny Simpson (left) tackles Manchester United remember as Alexis Sanchez, Theo Playing on Monday Manchester United’s Wayne Rooney comes on as a substitute to replace striker Marcus Rashford during the English Premier League match at Walcott and Mesut Ozil scored in a Burnley vs Watford (1900 GMT) the Old Trafford in Manchester, northwest England, yesterday. slick 3-0 victory over Chelsea Marcus Rashford.

Scottish Premiership Hummels limps off Ten-man PSG stunned at Toulouse Results as Bayern leave it Celtic 6 (Dembele 35, 38, Forrest 52, Griffiths 66, Sinclair 72-pen, Rogic 85) Kilmarnock 1 (Coulibaly late in Hamburg AFP Toulouse’s 17-year-old goalkeeper 32) Alban Lafont in the first half before Hearts 0 Ross County 0 the game turned on an incident at the Inverness CT 3 (Doumbouya 8, Tan- AFP start of the second period. sey 17-pen, Polworth 51) Dundee 1 PARIS: Ivory Coast defender Serge Aurier, who had already been (Low 84) Aurier was sent off against his old booked, was cautioned a second time Partick 1 (Erskine 31) Motherwell 1 club as Paris Saint-Germain slumped for a foul on Ola Toivonen in the area (McDonald 83) BERLIN: Joshua Kimmich’s late to a 2-0 defeat away at Toulouse in and Bodiger sent Alphonse Areola the Playing today winner saw Bayern Munich pre- Ligue 1 on Friday. wrong way from the spot to open the serve their 100 percent Bundesliga Aberdeen vs Rangers (1200 GMT), Aurier was shown a second yel- scoring. A young Toulouse side fea- record in yesterday’s 1-0 win at Hamilton vs St Johnstone (1400 low card for conceding a penalty that tured 19-year-old Clement Michelin Hamburg, but the league leaders GMT Yann Bodiger converted early in the starting a Ligue 1 game for the first saw Mats Hummels limp off with second half to put Toulouse in front time and 18-year-old loan striker German Bundesliga a knee injury. at Le Stadium. Odsonne Edouard lining up against With Bayern facing Atletico Jimmy Durmaz then secured the his parent club. Results Madrid away in the Champions win for the home side late on as PSG But they secured the points Borussia Moenchengladbach 2 League on Wednesday, Germany suffered a second defeat in just seven against the 10 men after a disastrous (Stindl 42, Wendt 76) Ingolstadt 0 international Kimmich converted league games this season to leave mistake by substitute Thiago Motta Mainz 2 (Malli 31, Bell 36) Bayer a superb Franck Ribery cross in new coach Unai Emery facing more on 79 minutes as he gifted possession Leverkusen 3 (Hernandez 32, 67, the 88th minute. Kimmich’s goal questions about his management. Toulouse’s Guinean defender Issiaga Sylla (left) and PSG defender to Swedish international Durmaz, 90+2) leaves Carlo Ancelotti’s Munich as The reigning champions took Marquinhos go for a header during the French L1 match at the Municipal and he ran through to make it 2-0. Hamburg 0 Bayern Munich 1 (Kim- the only team in Germany’s top until the end of March to lose twice Stadium in Toulouse on Friday. It was Toulouse’s first win over mich 88) flight with five league wins from in the league last season but this loss PSG since 2009 and they celebrated Augsburg 1 (Finnbogason 46) five. followed a 3-1 reverse in Monaco last Emery, who arrived from Sevilla to south-western France fresh from with a lap of honour on the pitch at Darmstadt 0 They also have eight wins month and left Paris in third spot, a replace Laurent Blanc in the summer. two wins in a week in which they full-time. Eintracht Frankfurt 3 (Fabian 39, from eight matches in all com- point behind Nice and Toulouse. “We lost the ball more than we had scored nine goals and con- “These are young players and Meier 45, Hector 90+2) Hertha petitions. However, their joy was Leaders Nice go to Nancy on Sun- wanted, and that is something we ceded none to seemingly kickstart they have above average technical Berlin 3 (Ibisevic 19-pen, 58, Ess- tempered by seeing key defender day while Monaco, who host Angers need to improve, but we played well their campaign. ability, but they find it difficult to let wein 65) Hummels suffer a right knee on Saturday, and Bordeaux, who are in the first half and had chances to French international winger themselves go,” said Toulouse coach Playing today injury in the second half which at home to Caen, could both climb score. Hatem Ben Arfa was again left out of Pascal Dupraz, who led his team to makes him a doubt for Wednes- Hoffenheim vs Schalke (1330 GMT), above PSG in the table over the “I am working to improve things the squad for a fourth straight game a miraculous escape from relegation Cologne vs Leipzig (1530 GMT) day’s European clash. course of the weekend. but it is a long, difficult road. The and there was no Marco Verratti, but at the end of last season. The win leaves Bayern three Played on Friday “The match changed with the team is not used to losing,” added Aurier returned after injury. “I hope this win helps the play- points clear of Borussia Dort- (first) goal and the sending-off. That Emery, although he also said he was Edinson Cavani, who had scored ers perform for the whole game Borussia Dortmund 3 (Aubam- mund, who beat Freiburg 3-1 was the key and after that it was “optimistic”. five times in the last two matches, from now on. We need to continue eyang 45, Piszczek 53, Guerreiro on Friday when Pierre-Emerick more difficult for us,” said Spaniard Emery’s side travelled to was twice brilliantly denied by like this.” 90+1) Freiburg 1 (Philipp 60) Aubameyang scored his fifth goal in five games. Yesterday’s defeat to Bayern is another blow to Hamburg coach Bruno Labbadia, who is battling for his job after four straight Suarez, Neymar fire Messi-less Barca top of La Liga defeats. Germany forward Nico- lai Mueller went closest for the hosts while Bayern’s star strik- AFP second. Sporting were reduced to Rakitic, Javier Mascherano and Jordi into an empty net. A fine team goal side a man light. Alcacer was denied ers Thomas Mueller and Robert 10 men 16 minutes from time when Alba joined the injured Messi in drop- put the game beyond Sporting his first Barca goal when he smashed Lewandowski endured a frus- Alberto Lora saw a second yellow ping out. moments later as Neymar freed Sergi the ball off the underside of the bar, trating afternoon until Kimmich’s card and Barca made their man The champions looked unsettled Roberto down the right and Rafinha but Neymar mopped up the rebound winner. MADRID: Barcelona shrugged off advantage count as a Neymar dou- in the early stages and goalkeeper met his cross with a powerful near- to make it 3-0. Ribery, a second-half replace- the absence of Lionel Messi to move ble and Arda Turan rounded off the Marc-Andre ter Stegen was lucky to post header. Roberto was the provider once ment for Kingsley Coman, lived to the top of La Liga as Luis Suarez scoring in the final 10 minutes. escape further punishment when he Barca appeared to have eased more for the fourth as Turan pow- dangerously with a patronising and Neymar were on target in a 5-0 Real Madrid can regain a three- gave away a free-kick for handling up in the second half ahead of ered home his cross at the back post pinch of Mueller’s cheek follow- thrashing of Sporting Gijon. point lead over Barca with victory outside his area with the score still Wednesday’s visit to Borussia four minutes later. ing a tussle midway through the The hosts enjoyed the better of when they travel to Las Palmas later level at 0-0. Moenchengladbach in the Champi- Denis Suarez then teed up Ney- second-half which escaped the the opening half-hour, but were hit on Saturday. However, one moment of Sua- ons League as Sergio Busquets and mar to sweep home his second of the referee’s attention. It’s the latest by a two-goal Barca burst in three Barca coach Luis Enrique made rez magic turned the game in Barca’s Suarez were replaced by Denis Sua- game two minutes from time. And the in a string of off-the-ball incidents minutes as Suarez rounded Ivan five changes to the side that started favour as he raced onto Turan’s rez and Paco Alcacer. Brazilian could even have had a hat- involving the Frenchman which Cuellar to slot home the opener Wednesday’s 1-1 draw with Atletico through ball and flicked the ball past However, the goals flowed after trick when he curled another effort had earned him a ticking off from before Rafinha headed home a Madrid as Andres Iniesta, Ivan the onrushing Cuellar before slotting Lora dived in on Roberto to leave his off the post in stoppage time. Ancelotti at the start of the season. www.thepeninsulaqatar.com PAGE | 21 PAGE | 22 Marquez shrugs off Jadeja and Ashwin crash to claim heroics put India pole in Aragon on top in Kanpur

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Van der Breggen in Fossati replaces Carreno search of final elusive as national team coach title at Doha 2016 The Peninsula

Uruguayan tactician DOHA: The reigning Rio Olympic champion who back in the fray as also accounted for the Qatar aim high in European title in Plume- lec, France, Anna van der Group A in Asian Breggen (pictured) is in Qualifiers of Russia search of a major inter- national road race title 2018 World Cup which she does not yet have. The Dutch star will be eying for the same at the UCI World Champi- The Peninsula onships Doha 2016. time trial and bronze in Van der Breggen the team time trial at last defeated Polish Kasia year’s UCI World Cham- Niewiadoma and Italy’s pionships in Richmond, DOHA: The Qatar Football Asso- Elisa Longo Borghini at may not be her country’s ciation (QFA) yesterday named the European Champi- main trump at the Doha Al Wakrah’s Waheed Mohamed Tahiri (right) vies Jorge Fossati as the new coach of onships. The three had 2016 road race, however. for the ball against Al Kharaitiyat’s Abdul Rahim Al the national side. jumped clear from the “The course in Qatar Meamari during their Qatar Stars League football QFA confirmed that it had peloton inside the final does not suit me very well match at Al Wakrah Stadium yesterday. parted ways with Daniel Carreno kilometre and Van der because it’s very flat,” Picture by: Abdul Basit/The Peninsula after the Uruguayan had guided the Breggen proved to be Van der Breggen said. national side to the third stage of the strongest in an uphill The Women’s Elite the 2018 FIFA World Cup. sprint. Road Race will be held on Al Marri, Bokilla seal However, Qatar lost to Iran The Dutchwoman, October 15, with the 134.5 and Uzbekistan, prompting QFA who took silver in the km course finishing at the to name a replacement. road race and in the iconic Pearl-Qatar. win for Al Kharaitiyat Fossati, who coached Al Rayyan, has previously managed The Peninsula the Qatari side for a short stint from 2008 to 09. Boonen survives QFA said Fossati brings rich DOHA: Al Kharaitiyat pulled off a 2-1 win over Al experience in football coaching, Wakrah in their Qatar Stars League match played at having spent a number of years in injury scare ahead of Al Wakrah Stadium yesterday. the region. The visitors were given the lead they were looking The charismatic Uruguayan for, in the 48th minute when Jaralla Ali Al Marri made tactician was hired by Al Rayyan Doha UCI Worlds no mistake in netting the ball, perfectly placing him- last summer as the Lions went on self just five metres away from the goal. to win the Falcon Shield after get- Their Congolese forward Loteteka Bokilla added ting promoted from the Qatar Gas The Peninsula trying to get food from one more to their goal tally when he picked up the ball League. his pocket. from Abdelmoula Berrabah just outside the box and Fossati immediately had an Right after the inci- fired it past the Al Wakrah goalkeeper Hassan Idriss impact on the Al Rayyan side and DOHA: With less than dent, which is reminiscent The new Qatar coach, Jorge Fossati. INSET: Coach Daniel Carreno Dicko just eight minutes later, to give their team the led them to a record breaking three weeks to go to the of the 2015 Abu Dhabi Tour 2-0 lead. winning streak of eleven games, UCI Road World Champi- where Tom crashed and Al Wakrah tried to add some life into the game including a 9-0 mauling of Qatar maximum points from these three through the AFC’s second round onships Doha 2016, Tom hit his head, suffering a towards the dying minutes of the game, their Para- SC. matches to retain a chance of qual- of qualifying, where they topped Boonen has survived an left temporal bone frac- guayan striker Pablo Daniel Zeballos picked up the ball The former Uruguayan coach ifying for Russia. their group and won seven of their injury scare relatively ture, he was attended by through a header from Ali Mujbel Deyab and kicked it was declared ‘Coach of the Year’ He has had a long and varied eight games. unscathed. Etixx – Quick-Step’s doc- into the net to make it 2-1. at the prestigious Qatar Football career as a player and manager Qatar are currently placed sixth The Belgian 2005 UCI tor. The doctor advised On Friday, Al Sadd defeated Al Ahli 2-1 after a slow Awards earlier this year, and also coached the Uruguayan in Group A, and have to finish in the World Champion crashed Boonen to quit the race start at the Jassim Bin Hamad Stadium. The ambitious World Cup 2022 national team for two years from top two places to be assured of get- out of the Eneco Tour in as a precautionary meas- hosts Qatar face their crucial 2018 2004. ting to Russia. the fourth stage, but ure. After a cervical X-ray qualifier in South Korea on October Qatar are desperate to reach its According to agencies, the escaped with only a few revealed no injury, Boonen QATAR STARS LEAGUE RESULTS 6 after successive defeats. first finals in 2018. 53-year-old, Carreno is expected abrasions on his body. was cleared to go home. As well as South Korea, Qatar The Uruguayan, Fossati said: to become the new manager of Al Boonen went down The Belgian has Al Kharaitiyat 2 - Al Wakrah 1 also face Syria next month and “Qatar is a special country for me Hilal in Saudi Arabia, after they in the second hour of the eighteen seasons under Lekhwiya 5 - Al Gharafa 4 China in November. and I will help if I can”. fired their Uruguayan coach Gus- 202 kilometre stage after his belt as a professional They will need almost Qatar showed serene progress tavo Matosas on Thursday. hitting a pothole while cyclist.

Sponsorship signing ceremony Tsurenko stuns champion Jankovic for Guangzhou title

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GUANGZHOU: Ukraine’s Lesia Tsurenko (pictured) shrugged off her lowly world ranking of 80 to stun defending champion Jelena Jankovic 6-4, 3-6, 6-4 on Saturday to claim the Guangzhou WTA title. It was a second career title for the 27-year-old after her maiden trophy in Istanbul last year. “I think today I played really good tennis, except maybe in the second set when I felt a little bit tired,” said Tsurenko who made the fourth round of the US Open last month for her best Nasser Sherida Al Kaabi, Qatar Racing and Equestrian Club (QREC) General Manager (centre) and Mohammed A K Al performance at the Slams. Emadi CEO of AL Emadi Enterprises (right) addressing the gathering during a sponsorship signing ceremony of The “But I said to myself that I have Prix Jean-Luc Lagardère at QREC yesterday. Picture by Kammutty VP / The Peninsula to give it all in the final set, and I was fighting for each point. I had to give 100 percent to win this title.”