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Tuesday 11 November 2014 • 18 Muharram 1436 • Volume 19 Number 6246 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 4455 7741 | Advertising: 4455 7837 / 4455 7780 Emir gets message from Iran Aide to IS Commercial leader killed near Falluja registration BAGHDAD: An aide to Islamic State leader Abu Bakr Al Baghdadi has been killed in an air strike near the city of Falluja, Iraqi state television rules changed reported yesterday. State television identified the man as Abu Huthaifa Al Yamani. It did not say when the Minister gets more powers strike took place or give further details. It was not immediately DOHA: A law passed yester- a year under the new law. It must possible to confirm the death or day empowers the Minister of be renewed within 30 days after The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani received a written message from President of Iran Hassan whether Yamani was an aide to Economy and Commerce to expiry and the renewal will also Rowhani pertaining to bilateral relations and issues of common interest. Iranian Oil Minister Bijan Namdar Baghdadi. accept or reject a request for be only for a year. Zanganeh handed over the message at the Emiri Diwan yesterday. Iraqi security officials have not commercial registration (CR) Under the previous law a CR confirmed the death. of a business and his decision is could be issued or renewed for one The Pentagon said yesterday it to be final and cannot be chal- year or five years. could not corroborate reports that lenged in a court of law. A company must inform the Baghdadi had been either killed or The previous law that has department if a head or heads wounded in Iraq, acknowledging been amended gave the appli- roll in its board of directors or if Common toll-free number, conflicting media reports from the cant the right to move the court it is dissolved. region. “We do not have any infor- if the economy minister rejected The present law which has mation to corroborate reports out his request for Commercial come into force right after being of Iraq that Baghdadi has been Registration (licensing) of a issued and is to be published in the call centre for taxis soon either killed or wounded,” Colonel business. official gazette has done away with Steve Warren, a Pentagon spokes- The department responsible a month’s jail term for not using DOHA: All taxis in Qatar will He said even after the new customers,” said the official. man, told reporters. for commercial registration of the registered name of a business soon have a unified call cen- number is launched, the private The new call centre will also The contradictory accounts a business (now named admin- on sign boards and letter heads tre facility and a single toll taxi companies will be allowed to enable more effective monitoring from Iraq followed US air strikes istrative unit, which was earlier and other official documents. free number to be operated by retain their independent numbers of the movement of taxis as well on Friday night. known as commercial affairs It has rather increased the the public transport company for a while. “They may be allowed as the performance of drivers. Islamic State, which swept department) of the ministry has maximum fine that was QR10,000 Mowasalat. to use their own numbers for a Apparently all operators would through northern Iraq in June to reply to an application for CR earlier, to QR50,000. The new toll free number limited period but eventually they be linked to the unified call centre virtually unopposed by the Iraqi the same day. The previous law specified a 800TAXI (8008294) will be will be required to adopt the com- and allowed to track and monitor army, has declared a caliphate in The department must also cite month’s prison term or a fine of launched shortly, a Mowasalat mon number,” said the official. their own vehicles independently. the parts of Iraq and Syria it con- the reason if an application for QR10,000 or both for the above official has disclosed. Once the unified call centre The official said that new trols. Falluja is an Islamic State CR is being rejected. The econ- violation. Besides Karwa, four private becomes fully operational, all advanced meters are also being stronghold to the west of Baghdad omy minister can be approached And a CR holder misusing it companies are now operating requests for taxis will be handled installed in taxis to prevent tam- in the Sunni Muslim heartland within 30 days with a plea to or allowing its misuse by others taxis based on a franchise agree- by this centre through the com- pering by drivers. we Anbar Province. review the decision. will be liable to a jail term of up ment with Mowasalat. The newly mon toll free number. The new Currently, about 3,500 taxis The United States and its allies However, if he rejects the plea to six months or a fine of up to launched taxis are using the sophisticated call centre will also are on the roads operated by launched a barrage of attacks no appeal can be filed either QR200,000. Mowasalat call centre number change the current system of Karwa and the four private com- against Islamic State over the before him or in a court, says the The previous law specified a jail while the other companies have booking taxis. panies — Al Million, Al Ijarah, weekend, conducting 23 air strikes new law. term of a maximum of six months independent toll free numbers. Once a request for a taxi is Ibin Ajayan Trading Group and in Syria and 18 in Iraq against the The law, Number 20 of 2014, and a fine of up to only QR50,000 “The idea is to integrate all made, the call centre, using the Profit Group. All the taxis operate militant group since Friday, US was issued by the Emir, H H for the above breach. these numbers, under our uni- GPS system, will track the near- under the Karwa brand and fol- Central Command said. Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al The court will have the right to fied call centre. We are currently est taxi available and ask the low the standards and tariffs set In Iraq, seven strikes hit near Thani, amending some provisions suspend a CR for up to a year if doing a trial run and the unified driver to go to that customer. by Mowasalat. Taxis belonging Baiji and others in or near Falluja, of Law No 25 of 2005 regulating forged documents are furnished call centre facility is expected to “It does not matter which com- to different companies are identi- Mosul, Al Qaim, Haditha, Ramadi commercial registration (CR), to obtain it, or for tampering with become fully operational by year- pany the taxi belongs to. The pur- fied mainly through their distinct and Rutba. QNA reported. a CR, says the law. end,” the official told this daily pose of the centre is to provide roof-colour. REUTERS The validity of a CR will be for THE PENINSULA yesterday. faster and better service to the THE PENINSULA See also page 10

UAE pulls out of Israeli woman, soldier World Handball Championships killed in knife attacks

BASEL, Switzerland: The JERUSALEM: An Israeli identified the suspected assailant, United Arab Emirates has woman and a soldier were killed who was arrested, as a resident joined Bahrain in pulling out of in Palestinian knife attacks in of the occupied West Bank who the 2015 men’s World Handball the West Bank and Tel Aviv was in Israel illegally and had not Championships in Qatar in an yesterday, extending a surge in previously been arrested. apparent political boycott. violence fuelled by strife over Hours later, a Palestinian The International Handball access to Jerusalem’s holiest stormed out of a car to stab three Federation announced the latest site. people outside the Jewish settle- withdrawal yesterday without Prime Minister Benjamin ment of Alon Shvut in the West giving a reason. Bahrain’s boycott Netanyahu pledged to crush “ter- Bank, killing the woman and was announced last Friday. The ror being directed at all parts of wounding two other people, police 24-nation tournament is sched- the country” - remarks appear- said. The attacker was shot and uled to start in Doha on January ing to clash with Israeli security wounded by a guard. 15. chiefs’ assertions that the tumult The Islamic Jihad claimed him The UAE and Bahrain qualified did not yet spell a new Intifada, as its member and an Israeli secu- nine months ago. The IHF said or Palestinian revolt. rity official said he had been jailed in a statement its ruling council The first incident, the soldier’s in Israel between 2000 and 2005 will deal with the withdrawals at stabbing at a Tel Aviv train sta- for a petrol bomb attack. a November 21 meeting. AP Palestinian girls light candles near the tomb of Yasser Arafat during a rally on the eve of the 10th anniversary of tion, brought bloodshed to the REUTERS his death in the West Bank city of Ramallah yesterday. Suicide blast kills 47 Israeli commercial capital. Police See also page 7 students in Nigeria

KANO: A suspected Boko Haram suicide bomber dis- guised in school uniform What’s in a name? It can break up your marriage killed 47 students in northeast Nigeria yesterday, in one of the DOHA: Some Qatari marriages The idea is to check the alarm- husband opposes it. This can lead Abdullah Foundation for couple,” said the official. “Our pre- worst attacks against schools are so fragile that they can break ingly rising rate of divorce in the to a fight and eventually divorce,” Humanitarian Services) says it marital counselling programme is teaching a so-called Western due to as trivial a reason as a Qatari community. said the official, citing an example. has helped solemnise 1,598 mar- so effective that some people say it curriculum. fight over naming the first child, A charity official involved Charities, however, insist that riages and very few of them have must be made mandatory.” The explosion ripped through says a charity organisation. actively in pre-marital orien- divorce is not common among broken up. “Our experience sug- Lawyers, on the other hand, say an all-boys school in Potiskum Local charities are now get- tation programme said some- marriages solemnised by them. gests that pre-marriage counsel- the Qatari law provides so much just as students gathered for ting increasingly involved in mar- times divorce takes place due to Qatar Charity maintains none ling helps in preventing divorce,” privilege to a divorced woman that morning assembly before classes riages and providing pre-marital trivial reasons. Naming the first of the 100-odd marriages it has a senior RAF official told Al Arab some women can be encouraged to began, causing panic and chaos. counselling to prospective cou- child can, for instance, lead to helped solemnise has ended in in remarks published yesterday. seek breakup. AFP ples, aside from helping them a breakup. “The wife wants the divorce. “We provide pre-marriage coun- THE PENINSULA See also page 11 financially. child to have some name while the RAF (Sheikh Thani bin selling and QR50,000 in cash to a Continued on page 6 TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2014 02 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

Cabinet decision Diabetes registry to be expanded on retirement, pensions endorsed DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani National online tool to gather data to roll out at all primary healthcare centres by year-end yesterday endorsed Cabinet Decision No. 59 of 2014, enforc- BY FAZEENA SALEEM to 10th rank in prevalence of dia- ing the rules of Law No. 24 of betics, said Dr Al Hamaq. 2002 on retirement and pen- DOHA: Qatar National The press conference was held sions of Qatari employees with Diabetes Registry, a compre- ahead of World Diabetes Day CH2M Hill International B V hensive online tool to gather which falls on November 14, to Company, The Investors Group data on diabetes patients, will announce about six of a partner- Company, Event ICOM Capital roll out at all primary health- ship of Qatar’s largest public and Management Bank Qatar, Al care centres by the year-end. private organisations that have Rayan Brokerage Company and Launched last year as a pilot resulted in creating awareness, Al Rayan Investment Company. project, the registry is imple- research, screening and educa- mented at Qatar Diabetic tion about diabetes over the past Emir issues decrees Association (QDA), and will be three years. expanded to 21 primary health- The Supreme Council DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh care centres. for Health, Hamad Medical Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani There is no unified data on Corporation, QDA, the Primary yesterday issued Emiri decree diabetes patients in the country, Health Care Corporation, Maersk No. 48 of 2014, endorsing a although at least one-fourth of the Oil Qatar and Novo Nordisk were memorandum of understand- population has lifestyle illnesses. represented to share details about ing for cooperation in mete- “The registry at a pilot stage their work done together with orology between Qatar and now will be introduced at primary Action on Diabetics. Saudi Arabia, signed in Riyadh healthcare centres across the Action on Diabetes has on March 1, 2011. The Emir country,” Dr Abdullah Al Hamaq, screened 22,000 people with the also issued decree No. 49 of Managing Director, QDA told a help of partners, engaged with FROM LEFT: Dr Abdullah Al Hamaq, Managing Director, Qatar Diabetes Association, Ahmed Al Kuwari, Technical 2014, endorsing an agreement press conference yesterday. thousands through awareness Liaison Manager Maersk Oil Qatar, Herluf Thomes, Aod Senior Project Manager, Novo Nordisk, Dr Mohamed Al between Qatar and Sweden on Diabetes is estimated to affect campaigns and supported five Thani, Director, Public Health, Supreme Council of Health, and Dr Mohsen Mismar, Manager, Adult Health Division, the exchange of information 16.7 percent of Qataris, accord- courses to educate doctors, nurses Primary Health Care Corporation, display awareness cards after the press conference yesterday. ABDUL BASIT pertaining to custom issues ing to the 2012 Qatar STEPwise and diabetes educators on lat- and the attached protocol, report. The International est techniques in treatment and signed in Paris on September Diabetes Federation has pre- support. potential diabetes. Many were Friday and Saturday. The Action and Qatar Petroleum Challenge 6, 2013. dicted that 25 percent of Qataris The year 2014 has been the smokers, overweight or obsessed on Diabetes Screening Bus will be at Fuwerit this weekend. will have diabetes by 2030 if the most successful to date, with and not following a proper diet,” staffed with professional educa- Thirty corporate teams will Deals ratified challenge is not addressed and 14,000 people screened for dia- said Dr Al Hamaq. tors and separate tents will edu- compete. Registration fees will lifestyles are not modified. betes, mostly through workplace To mark World Diabetes Day, cate visitors on the importance of again go towards funding Al DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh However, according to the screening campaigns. Action on Diabetes will host its a healthy diet and exercise. Bawasil Children’s Camp for those Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani recent report by the federation, “A large number of peo- fourth annual Diabetes Screening Maersk Oil Qatar is also host- with diabetes. yesterday issued an instru- Qatar has advanced from seventh ple screened were found with Awareness Village at Katara on ing the annual Maersk Oil Qatar THE PENINSULA ment of ratification, approving a draft agreement between the United Nations and Qatar on hosting the 3rd UN Congress on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice, signed in SCH steps up vigil over MERS as winter arrives; no new cases Vienna on September 22. The Emir also issued an DOHA: With the onset of winter, the The Public Health Department at the package” of the Health Protection The SCH said the seasonal flu vaccine instrument of ratification, Supreme Council of Health (SCH) SCH has advised people at a greater risk and Communicable Diseases Control is readily available at primary healthcare approving the ratification of has enhanced surveillance to control of severe respiratory illnesses and other Department at the SCH includes surveil- centres for all people, especially those at an agreement on economic an expected rise in respiratory dis- chronic conditions to get vaccinated against lance, coupled with monitoring of suspected greater risk of severe respiratory illnesses, and trade cooperation between eases, especially MERS (Middle East seasonal influenza. cases and contacts; laboratory confirma- people with chronic morbidities like diabe- Qatar and Brazil, signed in Respiratory Syndrome). One of the two Qataris tested positive tion; case management and isolation of tes mellitus, heart diseases, renal diseases, Brasilia on January 20, 2010. The The SCH, however, said it didn’t register for MERS has recovered and discharged infected cases. or low immunity, in addition to the elderly. Emir also issued an instrument any new case of MERS after the two Qatari from hospital, while the other is still under Supportive medications and seasonal flu Training programmes are underway to of ratification, approving the cases reported last month. intensified medical care due to his criti- vaccine have been made available under the increase capacities of leaders and health- ratification of the statute of the No Ebola cases have also been detected in cal condition, the SCH said in a statement initiative, which also includes infection pre- care staff of the institutions involved in GCC Emergency Management Qatar so far, as monitoring of people arriv- yesterday. vention and control measures and health early preparedness and response, said the Centre. QNA ing from Ebola-affected regions continues. The “early preparedness and response education for vulnerable groups. statement. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 03 Expo showcases historical Airport plans new e-system to avoid depiction of Al Zubarah immigration queues

BY MOHAMMAD SHOEB Qatari artist Yousef Ahmad’s painting on display for the first time a little longer for immigration, but the airport is always prepared BY RAYNALD C RIVERA DOHA: Hamad International to cope with the expected rush. Airport will introduce a cut- In September, some respond- DOHA: An enormous paint- ting-edge technology to avoid ents to a survey, launched by ing of old Al Zubarah Fort wel- long passenger queues at Airport Security and Passports comes visitors at the ‘Yousef immigration at arrival and Department to improve services, Ahmad: Story of ingenuity’ departure terminals, Bader had suggested an electronic token exhibition which opens to the Mohammed Al Meer, Chief system to guide passengers to public today at Qatar Museums Operating Officer of the air- immigration to avoid delays. Gallery at Katara. port, said yesterday. Some had recommended indi- Kept at the Weapon’s Museum “We are looking forward to cators on top of immigration for over two decades, the 6m x 2m introducing an advanced elec- desks which should turn green historical depiction of Al Zubarah tronic system to facilitate pas- once officials are ready to serve by the pioneering Qatari artist is sengers towards immigration passengers. This would also help being shown to the public for the which is much better than the assess the officials’ efficiency. first time. traditional electronic token sys- The survey was launched on “It took me two years to finish tem or e-gates. the website of the Ministry of the huge painting I have done in a “We expect to test it soon,” Al Interior in Arabic to collect pub- very small studio. I started doing Meer said on the sidelines of an lic feedback. In the absence of it around late 1990 and early event to announce the opening any automatic system, security 1991,” Ahmad told this daily at a of the Airport Hotel and Vitality personnel remain present 24x7 press preview yesterday. Spa at the airport. to guide every passenger to immi- The exhibition, he said, is a Asked about details, he only gration desks. chance for people to get a glimpse said: “We are reviewing a few Asked about the Airport City of the past of Qatar’s first and things about the system, once project, Al Meer said: “The mas- only Unesco World Heritage Site. tests are successful and the man- ter plan is in design stage for With more than 50 pieces on agement decides that it is ready all districts and the New Doha display, the expo traces the jour- for operation, we will announce International Airport Steering ney of the artist spanning over it.” Committee is reviewing it, so I three decades. On long queues at immigration, am not able to comment.” It highlights the painting he said: “There is no long waiting The project on a 10sqkm area through a selection of his most time as we have enough immigra- is to be completed over 30 years. striking works from his early tion counters for departure and It will have four circular zones career in the 1970s until today. arrival passengers. We have set a — Business District, Aviation The expo is divided into three timeframe for every passenger to Campus, Logistics District and parts, representing the three go through the counters.” Residential District — connected phases in Ahmad’s artistic devel- Qatari artist Yousef Ahmad with his 6mx2m oil painting of Al Zubarah at the press preview at Qatar Museums However, he admitted that by a Green Spine parallel to the opment, from the early oil paint- Gallery at Katara yesterday. during occasions such as Eid, second runway. ings to mixed media calligraphic Christmas and vacations it takes THE PENINSULA pieces to his new conceptual art- new and present Qatar in a mod- works exhibited around the world, to share my works with the peo- works, showcasing his ability to ern artistic approach yet not including the US, Europe, and the ple of Qatar is inspiring and hum- develop an innovative style. departing from traditional and Middle East. bling, and I hope that my journey Ahmad showcases his ver- local elements,” he explains his The works celebrate the gen- encourages future generations of QRC launches warm winter campaign satility in medium and evolu- innovative medium and technique. tle quietness of Qatar’s sea, the local artists to follow their crea- DOHA: Qatar Red Crescent (QRC) announced yesterday the tion in style. His traditional Manufacturing paper using flat expanses of its desert and the tive dreams. I’m proud to play launch of the Warm Winter 2014-2015 campaign. It is a seasonal 1970s paintings were impressive locally grown palm leaf and mas- serene openness of the sky. an important part in the devel- programme organised annually to distribute winter assistance to while his three-dimensional art tering an artistic style in present- “As a local artist who has had opment of our country’s artistic the poorest families in needy countries. using homemade palm leaf are ing it took him years to develop, the privilege to train abroad, I community and look forward to The campaign will target needy families in Syria and Palestine and breathtaking. he says. find so much in our environment seeing it evolve and develop at the refugee camps in Lebanon, Jordan, and Turkey and north Iraq, “I believe my mission as a local Thousands of visitors to Katara that excites and inspires me. this incredibly important time,” in addition to Afghanistan and Kashmir, hit by floods and landslides. artist is to introduce something have the opportunity to see his “What’s more, the opportunity he added. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2014 04 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME Vodafone unveils Emir to patronise Mowasalat to host public opening of 43rd two smartphones session of Shura DOHA: Vodafone Qatar has launched two DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh smartphones — Vodafone Smart 4 Power and transport security forum Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani Vodafone Smart 4 Fun. will patronise the opening of Available at all Vodafone retail stores and its the 43rd ordinary session of eShop via www.vodafone.qa/vodafonedevices, the DOHA: Safety and security aspects of the Advisory Council today. 4G-enabled Vodafone Smart 4 Power and the public transport in large events, with Focus on World Cup 2022 in Qatar 3G-enabled Vodafone Smart 4 Fun are priced at a focus on FIFA World Cup 2022 in Presidents of Brazil, QR699 and QR199, respectively. Qatar, will be discussed at the UITP Director, Support Services, Mowasalat, Brussels, will address the opening Customers choosing Vodafone Smart 4 Fun will Large Events Summit and Showcase and Chairman, Summit Organising session. Benin arriving today enjoy 1GB of free data on prepaid and 6GB of free and the UITP Taxi Conference and Committee, said, “The event is an oppor- Franco Tufo, Director-General, data on postpaid, for one month. Showcase on November 25-27 at Qatar tunity to discuss future transportation Ingénieur Transports EPFL and DOHA: The President of Those looking to purchase Vodafone Smart 4 National Convention Centre. systems in the country for sustained eco- President CITEC, Geneva, will deliver Brazil, Dilma Rousseff, and the Power will receive 6GB of free data for 90 days The event hosted by Mowasalat will nomic growth and enhancing the quality the keynote address on organising a President of Benin, Thomas on prepaid and 15GB per month of free data on bring together more than 400 delegates of life.” The summit will cover topics, large event in Qatar, transport chal- Boni Yayi, will arrive in Doha postpaid, for three months. from 30 countries, 60 speakers, 50 exhib- including operations, safety and security lenges and opportunities. today evening. The Emir H H With Vodafone Smart 4 Power, customers will itors and top government officials. for mass transport in large events, the Fifteen students from Qatar Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al enjoy an unmatched content experience over The summit aims to highlight the legacy of large events and challenges of University and as many from various Thani will discuss with them Qatar’s newest 4G network, Vodafone 4G. importance of public transport and its mass transport for large movements in parts of the globe including Kuwait, cooperation in various fields. “Vodafone Smart 4 Power is the first smart role as a key constituent for sustainable megacities. Oman, Brazil and Europe, will take part handset with access to our 4G network at a economic development and delivery of International experience in prepara- in the event. Minister reviews highly affordable price. Both products are best large events. tion for large events on mass transport The Supreme Committee for Delivery value smart handsets, with apps customers can It also aims to increase investments in the context of 2022 FIFA World Cup and Legacy and Qatar Rail are event US cooperation download and enjoy through Google Play Store,” to create efficient and effective trans- in Qatar will also be discussed. partners from Qatar while Higer, China, the company said. port works, which are considered the The UITP Taxi Conference and is partner as overseas strategic sponsor. DOHA: The Minister of Vodafone Smart 4 Fun runs the Android oper- most important factor for the success Showcase will cover regulation and The Ministry of Interior, the Traffic State for Defence Affairs ating system and features a 3.5-inch screen and 2 of large events. organisation of taxi transport in cit- Department, International Sports H E Major General Hamad megapixel camera through which customers can The Minister of Transport H E Jassim ies, operation and maintenance of taxi Security, Lusail smart city, Qatar bin Ali Al Attiyah yesterday capture and share exciting moments with friends bin Seif Ahmed Al Sulaiti, International transport and technical specifications Foundation, Qatar Petroleum, the met the Commander, Special and family. The 1 GHz dual core processor will Association of Public Transport (UITP) of taxis, among other topics. Ministry of Transport and Qatar Operations Command, US have the grunt customers need to get the best out Vice-President and UITP Mena Hassan Al Thawadi, Secretary- Airways are also supporting the event. Central Command, General of their smartphone and run great apps. Chairman, will inaugurate the event. General, Qatar Supreme Committee, and THE PENINSULA Michael Nagata, and dis- Vodafone Smart 4 Power is a larger modern Nasser Al Khanji, Executive Alain Flausch, UITP Secretary- General, cussed military cooperation. smartphone and boasts a 5-inch QHD display on US Ambassador Dana Shell a par with premium smartphones, a 5MP camera, Smith was also present. HD voice, a 3,000mAh battery and a 1.3 GHz quad- core processor powering Android 4.4.2 KitKat. Qatari flag raised at The front is glossy, black, and minimalistic, with a dark grey soft-touch back cover. It’s an under- University to host talk with artist Yousef Ahmad Myanmar embassy stated design which holds its own. Customers will get a micro USB data cable with wall charger, a DOHA: As part of the Crossing atrium at VCUQ, in Arabic with English has been exhibiting globally since the YANGON: The Qatari flag hands-free headset, and two Vodafone NFC tags, Boundaries Lecture Series, Virginia translation. The lecture is open to the 1970s and is one of the most celebrated was hoisted yesterday on its combined with a pre-loaded app, The NFC tags will Commonwealth University in Qatar public. The conversation coincides with Qatari artists, having received awards, embassy in Myanmar, mark- let customers tap their phone to change settings (VCUQ), in association with Qatar the exhibition, ‘Yousef Ahmad: Story of including the Honorary Order of Merit ing the beginning of diplomatic in an instant. There’s an FM radio as an option to Museums, will present ‘Art in Qatar: Ingenuity’ (November 11 to February at the GCC level for his art. relationship. The Acting Charge schedule power on/off times. THE PENINSULA An Artist’s Perspective,’ tomorrow. 14) at and will focus on his experience Dr Mongy is an artist, author and d’Affaires, Abdul Aziz bin It will be a conversation between in creating and exhibiting artwork in academic researcher. He teaches in the Abdullah Al Haj, hosted a recep- Qatari artist Yousef Ahmad and artist/ Qatar. Graphic Department, Faculty of Fine tion attended by top officials. academic Dr Yasser Mongy. Ahmad is an art consultant for Mathaf Arts, Cairo, and has been a consultant QNA Qatargas reaches The event will take place at 6pm at the and other galleries in the Arab world. He for Mathaf. THE PENINSULA out to QU students

DOHA: As part of ‘Hayyakum’, a recruitment- oriented outreach programme for nationals launched earlier this year, Qatargas met students Airport Hotel and Vitality Spa officially open at Qatar University’s College of Business and Economics. The aim of the programme is to meet DOHA: Hamad International Airport (HIA) has students at their place of study and respond to officially unveiled two latest facilities — 100-room their queries concerning specific disciplines and Airport Hotel and Vitality Spa, while another 100- provide information to enable them to make right room hotel in the north node will open by early decisions on their careers. THE PENINSULA next year. The hotel and spa in the south node offers passen- gers superb services and flexibility depending on their travel needs and schedules. Whether travelling on business or for leisure, with family or without, the hotel will the needs of global and regional travellers who can book a room package for as long or short a stay as they require. They can also drop in to the spa for a swim in the 25-metre pool or a massage. Badr Al Meer, Chief Operating Officer of the air- port, Philippe Anric, General Manager, The Airport Hotel, guests and the media were present at a press conference convened to announce the opening. FROM LEFT: Salam Al Shawa, Qatar Airway’s Senior Vice-President, Marketing and Corporate Communications, Al Meer said: “The opening of the hotel and spa is Badr Al Meer, Chief Operating Officer, Hamad International Airport, and Philippe Anric, General Manager, The another important milestone for the airport. We are Airport Hotel, at the press briefing at Oryx Rotana Hotel yesterday. KAMMUTTY VP delighted that we can now offer our passengers this

sophisticated facility designed with consideration of their requirements while they are our guests in Doha.” Anric said: “We are delighted that the hotel is officially open for business. Our focus is to offer the best hospital- ity experience to our guests staying with us for one hour or one day. We look forward to welcoming passengers to the hotel where excellent customer service will always remain our top priority.” Guests can choose from superior, deluxe and executive rooms or executive suites, which can be booked for 0-3, 3-6, 6-12 or 12-24 hours, giving them the opportunity to rest in between flights or use the room as a base while they explore boutiques and restaurants over a 40,000sqm area at the airport. Hotel guests can also enjoy over 70 retail outlets offer- ing designer labels, high street fashion, electronics and gourmet foods, and over 30 cafés and restaurants offering global cuisine to suit everyone’s palate. Guests and non-staying guests can benefit from serv- ices at the spa, which includes a full-service gym equipped with cardiovascular machines, and a personal instructor, as well as two squash courts. Passengers can also choose from treatments at the spa, to relieve the fatigue of travelling. There are three treatment rooms for men and two for women, and hydro- therapy baths in the male and female areas. The hotel has set up a website www.hiahotel.com for online reservations. THE PENINSULA Sidra submits first patent application to US office DOHA: Sidra Medical and Research Center yesterday announced its first patent application to the US Patent and Trademark Office. The application is for the first non-invasive technique for monitoring cancer progression, which could positively impact treatment methodologies. The technique, invented by Sidra researchers Dr Francesco Marincola and Dr Mohamed Haris, is for the use of non-invasive magnetic resonance imaging to detect levels of the Creatine Kinase enzyme inside a patient’s cancerous tissue. CK is found in the heart, brain, skeletal muscle and other tissues. Measuring the presence of CK helps determine existence or progression of cancer. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2014 HOME www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 05 Pakistan ship hosts reception Govt begins to hand over Al Furjan shops

DOHA: The government has begun handing over shops in Al Furjan Markets in remote areas to those who had won allotment through lottery in June. Al Furjan (plural of Arabic word ‘fereej’ meaning area or locality) Markets are the brain- child of the Ministry of Economy and Commerce. They aim to provide shopping facilities to people living in remote areas of the country so they don’t have to rush to Doha to buy daily provisions. Brigadier General Ibrahim Saad Al Kubaisi, (centre) Deputy Commander, Emiri Navy, cutting a cake with The ministry is building 44 Al Muhammad Shehzad Ahmed, Pakistan Ambassador, (second left), Captain Jamal Alam, (third left), Masud Furjan Markets across the coun- Akram, (fourth right) Defence Attache at Pakistan embassy, and other officials and guests during the reception try and they will in all have 645 on board PNS Aslat at Doha port yesterday. ABDUL BASIT shops. Some 2,600 people had applied for allotment in the name of pro- prietorship companies registered Shops in an Al Furjan Market ready for occupancy. in their names. The allottees had Intel science contest ends today been chosen through lottery. shortage of shops. The ministry has entrusted the The ministry said in a state- One of the allottees, Ahlam Al markets with Ezdan Real Estate DOHA: The fifth Intel Science Science, Technology, Engineering educational programme encour- ment yesterday that handing over Obaidly, said she was all set to Company and Al Waseef, a sub- Competition Arab World 2014 and Maths (STEM) and raise aging continued learning and the of the shops had begun in Raudat open a grocery store in her shop sidiary of state-owned Barwa ends today at Qatar National confidence and experience in the pursuit of scientific knowledge. Al Hammam and Al Qatifah. in Al Qatifah. Real Estate Company, for shop Convention Centre. subjects in Arabic. Longer-term, “We welcome some of the It quoted many allottees as Another allottee, Mubarak Al allotment and management. Intel Corporation, the Research the competition hopes to inspire brightest young scientific minds saying that the monthly rent of Qahtani, said the 44 Al Furjan The allottees must sign rent and Development Division of students to pursue a career in sci- to the competition and hope the the shops (QR6,000) was low and Markets were not enough and the contracts with either of the two Qatar Foundation for Education, ence and contribute to support- competition inspires many stu- affordable and the markets will government should build more in companies. Science and Community ing knowledge-based economies dents towards promising careers go a long way in helping meet the other areas. THE PENINSULA Development (QF R&D), and in their countries. in science. QF plays a crucial role the Supreme Education Council, Fifty-eight science projects are in contributing to human develop- (SEC) have organised the three- being presented to Qatari and ment locally, regionally, and inter- day competition for grades 9-12 international judges. They are nationally, and the competition is students. also on public display today from in line with this role,” he added. Qatar International Boat Show opens today Over 100 students from nine 9am to noon. Taha Khalifa, Intel General countries in the Middle East and The projects are in six catego- Manager, Mena region, said: DOHA: A Qatari luxury dhow is one of the Al Mannai Marine has six dhows in production. Its North Africa are participating. ries — Energy and Transportation; “Young people in the Arab region highlights of the second edition of the Qatar exterior is made of solid teak wood, and the interiors They qualified for the pan-Arab Engineering; Mathematical and have high potential to compete International Boat Show which opens today at have been designed and made in Italy. Science, Technology, Engineering Computer Sciences; Chemistry on a global level, as we have wit- Mourjan Marinas in Lusail City. It contains five bedrooms with en-suite bathrooms and Maths (STEM) competition and Biochemistry; Health nessed over the past few years. The show will be inaugurated by the Minister of of Onyx and marble, and the interior fit-out cost by winning their countries’ sci- Sciences; and Social Sciences. With sufficient training, stu- Economy and Commerce H E Sheikh Ahmed bin over QR2m. ence competitive heats. Prizes will be awarded at the dents will have the opportunity Jassim bin Mohamed Al Thani. Essa Al Mannai, Chairman, SnowComms which This week’s event, hosted in closing ceremony, with a grand to contribute to the develop- The dhow, awaiting a name following its sale to an is organising the show, and Founder of Al Mannai Qatar for the first time, provides award for the overall winning ment of society and the growth unspecified buyer, was made by Al Mannai Marine Marine, said: “The show is an event of national students with the opportunity project. of the economy. We look forward at Al Khor Shipyard. The 150-tonne, 30-metre-long importance. It showcases modern Qatar and its to compete on an international Dr Ayman Bassil, Head, to a successful competition with dhow incorporates latest technology while maintain- ambitions, and has been supported by the govern- stage. Research Training, QF R&D, results that can enable our stu- ing the traditional look. ment as well as establishing blue-chip Qatari corpo- The aim of the competition said: “QF is proud to co-host the dents to be the next generation It is the first of its kind in the luxury dhow cat- rate brands to stage a world-class event. The dhow is to empower students with competition, as it is more than of innovators.” egory with yacht specifications. The entire build of showcases the best of Qatar’s maritime capabilities.” skills and greater proficiency in a competition; it is a valuable THE PENINSULA the design takes from 18 months to two years, and THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2014 06 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com HOME

Emir receives phone call from College of Medicine offers 6-year course Kuwaiti Ruler DOHA: The College of Medicine sciences course work will extend facilities. The college will provide and international academics. The attract more Qataris to pursue to be set up at Qatar University throughout the course of the a guidance programme to advise classes will be limited in number careers in medicine, and support DOHA: The Emir H H Sheikh (QU) next year will offer a six- study in an integrated way. and unlock students’ potential and focus on delivering a high long-term expatriates interested Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani year programme leading to Clinical teaching will be to succeed in a stimulating and quality education leveraging the in pursuing the profession to con- yesterday received a telephone a Doctor of Medicine degree arranged in cooperation with supportive environment,” said the most advanced learning systems. tribute to the rising demand for call from the Emir of Kuwait (MD). Hamad Medical Corporation statement. “Students need to achieve a locally-rooted family physicians. H H Sheikh Sabah Al Ahmad The college will enrol up to (HMC), Primary Health Care Dr Egon Toft from Aalborg high standard that allows them to This will not happen overnight Al Jaber Al Sabah and both 50 students — Qataris and non- Corporation (PHCC) and other University in Denmark has been meet the requirements for mov- but an important first step has leaders discussed relations and Qataris — in the first academic leaders in the healthcare sector in appointed as Vice-President for ing smoothly in their undergradu- been taken and I am confident ways to enhance them. year, QU said yesterday. Qatar. The programme will ben- Medicine and Health at the uni- ate studies and on to residency or that QU has what it takes to They also reviewed GCC joint Admission will be open for the efit from collaboration opportuni- versity and Dean of the College. fellowship programmes at HMC make this promising project a action and preparations for the academic year 2015-2016, with ties with partner programmes at “The establishment of the col- and other healthcare systems in great success.” 35 GCC Summit in Doha next courses beginning in Fall 2015. QU such as pharmacy, biomedi- lege addresses the need for Qatar- Qatar and abroad to prepare for The second phase of the imple- December. The programme will be available cal sciences, nutrition and public trained physicians and medical their professional lives as highly mentation plan for the college to male and female students. health. professionals and contribute to competent and independent begins immediately and new Some ‘women “Efforts will be made to attract Students will attend general strengthening the healthcare and physicians.” members will join the Steering Qatari students to pursue careers courses in other colleges such as education sectors in Qatar,” Dr Dr Asmaa Al Thani, Member, Committee, including leaders in medicine with support for biomedical sciences, chemistry Toft said. Steering Committee, and Head and experts from QU, HMC seek divorce to enrolling long-term expatriates,” and others in a gender-segregated Dr Abdulatif Al Khal, Member, of the Department of Health and PHCC. A new member said a QU statement. environment, while specialised Steering Committee at the col- Sciences at College of Arts and from Accreditation Council for get privileges’ The programme will combine courses and clinical teaching will lege, and Deputy Chief of Staff Sciences, QU, said, “Our aim is Graduate Medical Education in course work and clinical learn- be offered jointly. for Graduate Medical Education to create a sustainable source the US is being appointed to the ing, and students will work with “The design of the college will at HMC, said, “The college aims of highly qualified physicians to college’s international advisory Continued from page 1 patients in a clinical setting emphasise societal values by pro- to attract highly competitive serve the needs of the Qatari board, said the statement. “There are some women who from the first year while medical viding gender-segregated leisure students, and outstanding local healthcare system. We need to THE PENINSULA seek divorce immediately after marriage due to the privileges they stand to get such as a house and maintenance allowance,” said lawyer Yusuf Al Zaman. But such women are very few. Some divorced women addition- DFI festival to screen 20 locally produced films ally get state dole provided they fulfil some conditions, Al Zaman added. DOHA: The second annual quality of projects in ‘Made in The court doesn’t allow a Ajyal Youth Film Festival pre- Qatar’ section is a testament to divorce so easily. A committee sented by Doha Film Institute the growth and vibrancy within is set up to try rapprochement (DFI) will shine the spotlight our creative community. I look between couples and gives a on 20 locally produced films in forward to welcoming festival- report to the court. the ‘Made in Qatar’ section. goers to witness this growth and Lawyer Osama Abdullah The films were made by Qataris celebrate local talent with us at Abdul Ghani said Qatari laws and residents, including inde- Ajyal,” said Al Remaihi. give more privileges to women pendent Qatari productions as ‘Made in Qatar 1’ will show- so they should be reviewed to be well as winners of DFI’s filmmak- case short films made as part of balanced. ing challenges. a collaboration between DFI and “But I would not favour Fatma Al Remaihi, Acting the National Health Insurance a review because too much CEO, DFI, and Director of the Scheme (Seha) through which the involvement of law in family festival, said “the ‘Made in Qatar’ directors have made films about affairs is not good for family programme is a highlight of the Qatar’s tradition of care. and social stability,” said the festival, as it underlines our man- Those films will be screened lawyer. date of supporting a home-grown alongside independent projects Prominent Islamic cleric, film culture in Qatar.” including 10% directed by Yousef A scene from the film Qarar. Sheikh Ahmed Al Buanain said “This year, we were over- Almodhadi, Amreeka Laa by one of the reasons of the high whelmed by the number of Hind Al Ansari, The Big Dream Kings and Queens of Qatar by Earth Day 2014 to raise aware- Marzouki, and Takrir by Ghassan rate of divorce in the Qatari submissions by professionals by Nadia Tabib, He Will Steal It Shamir Allibhai, Lumiere by ness about water and electricity Kairouz. community is that marriages and aspiring filmmakers. We by Abdulaziz Al Saadi, New Day Aisha Abduljawad, Public Phone conservation. ‘Made in Qatar 1’ will screen are fixed and solemnised quickly. are also delighted that we have by Ali Ali, Qarar by Ali Al Ansari by Ethar Ahmed Hassaan and They are 7amood Kahraba by films on December 4 at 7pm at Most divorces take place been able to support their ambi- and T Boy by Maryam Al Sahli. Leena Al Musalmani, and Temsah Mohammed Abdulla Shaheen, Katara Drama Theatre while within three years of a marriage tions through our filmmaking The ‘Made in Qatar 2’ includes by Latifa Al Darwish. dRain by Papanapattu Ganesh, ‘Made in Qatar 2’ will screen on because couples don’t spend challenges and look forward to seven independent productions ‘Made in Qatar 2’ also includes Monsters by Nesma Sherif and December 5 at 5.45pm at Katara enough time with each other, sharing the results of these ini- — After My Death directed by six winners from the Tarsheed Islam Sherif, Reasons Why You Opera House. Both screenings are he said. tiatives through ‘Made in Qatar’ Mohamed Al Hamadi, Coucou Short Filmmaking Competition Need to Conserve Water and free but ticket reservations are THE PENINSULA/QNA programmes.” by Meriem Mesraoua, Hind’s organised in collaboration with Electricity by Tala Abu Samaan, required to secure a place. “The thematic diversity and Dream by Suzannah Mirghani, Kahramaa in celebration of Secure the Future by Hadi Al THE PENINSULA

Safari holds draw for five Mercedes Benz Renovated Ramada-Al Kinana Children enjoy German fairy tales road opens to traffic DOHA: Over 150 German- DOHA: The newly renovated road from Jabor Bin Ahmed speaking children and adults Intersection (Ramada Intersection) to Al Kinana Intersection is gathered at Katara to listen to now fully open to traffic. German fairy tales narrated by The major stretch of C-Ring Road has been expanded from three story-teller Katharina Ritter. lanes to four in each direction as part of phase four of the C-Ring The event was one of the high- Road development project, the Public Works Authority (Ashghal) said lights of a project by German yesterday. Ashghal is working on phase four of the project, expected Language Centre Doha, German to be completed by the year-end. International School of Doha and Works are taking place on both directions of Salwa Road from Tariq Bin Ziyad Independent School Al Asiri Intersection to Ramada Intersection and The Centre for Boys, supported by the German Roundabout, which will be converted to a signal-controlled intersec- embassy. tion. The phase also includes works on C-Ring Road from Ramada For two months, participating Intersection until mid-way before Rawdat Al Khail Intersection. schools and institutions will work Work is expected to be completed by December-end, while all four with the theme of fairy tales to fos- phases of the project are scheduled to be over in the second quarter ter German language and cultural of next year. exchange. The project runs until Ashghal will close the road connecting Al Shamal Road with Al December 14, ending with a ver- Torfa Road from Friday. The closure will last eight months. nissage presenting accomplishments The mega draw for the five Mercedes Benz 250 GLK four-wheel drive was held yesterday at Safari Mall, Abu Motorists heading to Al Duhail can use Al Duhail Road or Al Ebb during the event on December 15 at Hamour, in the presence of the management and government officials. The winners were Pritha Prashanth Street. The diversion is part of construction of new service roads and Sharq Village and Spa Hotel. Al Duhail Interchange. THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA (coupon No. 286677), Ana Foralan (coupon No. 1956112), Asaraf Madathil (coupon No. 1597054), Kurumbalath Ashraf (coupon No. 2836573) and Sah Mahumad (coupon No. 1214456). Over 250 Qapco staff take the road to a healthy heart

DOHA: Qatar Petrochemical and the world, the team discussed “Benefits of Kulluna are evident Company (Qapco) Q.S.C. risk factors for coronary artery and benefit the Qatari society marked World Heart Day by diseases, such as high blood pres- as a whole. We encouraged our raising awareness about cardio- sure, obesity, the impact of cho- staff to make more heart-healthy vascular risks and how to pre- lesterol and tobacco and diabetes. choices,” he added. vent heart diseases among its The importance of healthy life- Qapco has developed corporate employees. styles and physical activities were social responsibility programmes The initiative was organised stressed to prevent risks of heart and is investing in projects that with Kulluna, the national health diseases. The employees were also support three key areas: Employee and safety campaign spearheaded given booklets on how to maintain and family welfare, education and by Hamad Medical Corporation a healthy heart. sports. (HMC) and coordinated by Over 250 employees visited the As the health of Qapco employ- Hamad International Training team and participated in health ees and their knowledge of health Centre. sessions. issues is a priority, throughout the The ‘Kulluna for a healthy Dr Mohammed Youssef Al year, the medical section has been heart’ team and its mobile Mulla said: “At Qapco, as a promoting fitness and healthy unit visited the Qapco plant in responsible citizen, and in align- lifestyles within the company. Mesaieed. Employees were invited ment with Qatar National Vision Qapco encourages initiatives for check-ups, including BMI and 2030, we believe in raising aware- such as Kulluna to raise aware- blood pressure tests. ness about healthy lifestyles and ness about ways to identify, pre- As heart disease remains the fitness among our employees and vent and fight heart diseases. Qapco officials and staff at the event. leading cause of death in Qatar community. THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2014 MIDDLE EAST www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 07 Little progress in Iran talks Egypt tightening Diplomats from Iran and world powers to resume talks today curbs on media MUSCAT: Iran, the United States and the European Union ended two days of high-level coverage of military talks on Tehran’s nuclear pro- gramme yesterday with no immediate sign they had bridged CAIRO: Egypt is drafting a law Egyptian pounds ($1,400 to gaps ahead of a November 24 tightening restrictions on media $7,000), rising to prison with- deadline for an agreement. coverage of the armed forces, out parole and a fine of 100,000- A senior Iranian official said government and judicial sources 200,000 pounds during war or that minimal progress was made said, alarming journalists who emergency rule. in the talks in Oman. believe this would end three That wording would hamstring “After hours of talks, we could years of relative press freedom. reporters in a country where the make little progress,” the official One source played down any military has provided most presi- said. “Still differences remain and threat to freedoms won after dents since Gamal Abdel Nasser still we have gaps over issues.” the 2011 overthrow of autocrat and his Free Officers overthrew In Washington, State Hosni Mubarak, saying legislation the monarchy in 1952. The army Department spokeswoman Jen under discussion would restrict also controls businesses from bot- Psaki said the talks among Iranian only reporting that endangers tled water to washing machine Foreign Minister Mohammad national security while Egypt makers, and supervises infrastruc- Javad Zarif, US Secretary of fights Islamist militants. ture projects including an expan- State John Kerry and EU envoy But journalists fear that if sion of the Suez Canal. Catherine Ashton had been implemented, it would end general The government has not pub- “tough, direct and serious.” coverage of the military, which as licly commented on the leaked She gave no further details, but the main pillar of the Egyptian draft but three sources said the said that they were “continuing state wields major political and law was being discussed by Egypt’s to chip away at a very challeng- economic influence. Council of State, a judicial body ing issue.” A law in effect for decades that advises the government and Kerry was leaving Oman late already bans reporting on the drafts legislation. yesterday for an Asia-Pacific military without permission, but “I see the law as very bad and meeting in Beijing. Diplomats a text of the new draft leaked to an assault on press freedom,” said from Iran and the “P5+1” coun- US Secretary of State John Kerry leaves a shop as he visits Mattrah souk in Muscat yesterday. local media would increase curbs Amer Tammam, a journalist at the tries — the five UN Security and penalties. state-owned Al Akhbar newspaper. Council members, plus Germany Said Zarif: “We will eventually.” Before Mubarak’s fall, Egyptian “The defence ministry carries out — were due to resume talks in US President Barack Obama Iran claims test flight of replica drone media ran only official statements economic projects ... If I publish Muscat today ahead of a last-ditch said in a CBS television interview on the army, but after the uprising a report on corruption in any of push in Vienna next week to meet there was still a big gap between TEHRAN: Iran yesterday said that a copy of an American drone the ban was not fully enforced and these projects do I get jailed for the November 24 deadline. Iran and Western powers and said downed over its territory in 2011 had successfully completed its criticism of the military became five years? If I publish a report The discussions aim to yield an a deal could be out of reach. first test flight, promising to release footage of the experiment. widespread. about a fight at a petrol station accord that would put verifiable Economic sanctions led by the Tehran captured the US RQ-170 Sentinel in December 2011 while The draft has not been officially that belongs to the army do I also limits on Iran’s uranium enrich- United States have pushed Iran to it was in its airspace, apparently on a mission to spy on the country’s released, but a text that appeared go to jail?” ment work — and any other poten- the table for a deal on its nuclear nuclear sites, media in the United States reported. in the pro-government El Watan The source with knowledge of tial path to a nuclear weapon program, Obama said. Iran said it had taken control of the drone and forced it down in newspaper last week suggests it the matter said the changes had — in return for a gradual lifting A final step would involve the desert where it was recovered nearly intact. Washington says will ban publication of “any news, been prompted by violence in the of sanctions. Iran providing “verifiable, lock- the drone crashed after experiencing a technical glitch. information, statistics, statements Sinai Peninsula, where the army As they had begun an evening tight assurances that they can’t In May, a military official said Iranian engineers had successfully or documents related to the armed is battling militants. session of the closed-door talks at develop a nuclear weapon”, he said. built a replica of the American drone and that it would soon take forces, their formations, move- “First, it is a draft. It is still a luxury hotel, Kerry and Zarif “There’s still a big gap. We may a test flight. ments... operations or plans” with- being discussed by the Council of were cautious. Asked whether not be able to get there.” “As promised, we have conducted the flight and a film of it will out written permission from army State so no one knows what it will the negotiating teams were mak- Western countries suspect Iran be broadcast shortly,” General Amir Ali Hadjizadeh, commander general command. say,” said the source, declining to ing progress, Kerry merely replied: has secretly attempted to acquire of the Revolutionary Guards air wing, was quoted as saying by the Anyone who breaks the law be named as he was not authorised “We are working hard. We are the means to build nuclear weapons. corps’ own website. AFP would face up to five years in to speak. working hard.” REUTERS jail and a fine of 10,000 to 50,000 REUTERS

Netanyahu challenges Israeli-Arab Retired Dutch Fresh fighting in S Sudan general to head JUBA: Fresh fighting has erupted coordinated attacks” in Unity and in civil war-torn South Sudan, Upper Nile States, and said a rebel protesters to leave Israel Gaza war probe the government and rebels said base in Jonglei State was also “under Monday, with both sides blam- heavy shelling”. JERUSALEM: Prime walking away from the officers. attempts to bring the Islamist UNITED NATIONS: UN ing each other for violating a new “The government is entirely Minister Benjamin “To all those who are dem- group Hamas, which officially Secretary-General Ban ceasefire deal. responsible for these unnecessary Netanyahu yesterday pub- onstrating and shouting their denies Israel’s right to exist, into Ki-moon yesterday named Reports of clashes in the oil-rich attacks motivated by its desires and licly challenged Israeli Arabs denunciation of Israel and sup- the Palestinian government. a retired Dutch general to north and on several other fronts attempts to recapture oil fields under protesting against a deadly port of a Palestinian state, I Tibi accused Netanyahu, who head an inquiry into attacks came just 48 hours after the country’s our control,” he said in a statement. police shooting in one of their can say one simple thing: you has publicly pledged to explore on United Nations facilities arch-foes, President Salva Kiir and Army spokesman Philip Aguer villages to go and live under are invited to move there — to the possibility of revoking the during Israel’s recent war rebel leader Rief Machar, wrapped up confirmed there was fighting in Palestinian rule in the West the Palestinian Authority or to citizenship of Israelis who “call against Hamas militants in peace talks in Ethiopia and promised Upper Nile State, but blamed the Bank and Gaza. Gaza,” Netanyahu said. for Israel’s destruction”, of the Gaza Strip and the use of regional mediators they would imme- rebels for starting it. Ahmed Tibi, a prominent “I can promise you the State pandering to far-right poten- UN sites to store weapons. diately stop the war. “The battle continued for a Arab legislator, said the com- of Israel will not put any obsta- tial challengers in Likud. UN spokesman Farhan Haq Rebel military spokesman Lul few minutes... and the attack was ments — some of the most bit- cles in your way,” he told a The party is to hold a lead- said the investigation would be Ruai Koang, however, accused gov- repelled,” he told local radio. ing Netanyahu has directed at meeting with Likud legislators. ership vote in January amid “an internal and independent ernment troops of having “launched AFP the country’s Arab minority — Arabs make up about 20 per- mounting speculation of a United Nations Headquarters showed the right-wing Likud cent of the Jewish state’s eight national election, due only in Board of Inquiry into certain party leader had “gone off the million population. 2017, within months. incidents that occurred in the rails”. Talks between Israel and the “These kinds of things have Gaza Strip between July 8 and Rock-throwing protests have Palestinians, who seek their never been said by any prime August 26, 2014.” erupted in several Arab com- own state in the West Bank minister — not by (Menachem) The world body has said that munities in Israel since police and Gaza, broke down in April, Begin, nor by (Yitzhak) tens of thousands of dwellings on Saturday shot dead an Arab with th3 Palestinians angry Shamir,” Tibi said, referring to were damaged or destroyed man who attacked their vehi- at the continued building of the late nationalist leaders and in 50 days of fighting between cle. Police are investigating Jewish settlements in occupied pre-state underground chiefs. Israel and Palestinian militants, allegations he was killed after territory and Israel furious at REUTERS and 108,000 people were left homeless in an impoverished, isolated territory. In one incident, more than a dozen people were killed at a UN school during Israeli shell- ing. Israel has cited militants’ use of UN facilities to store rockets as a reason for target- ing them. Haq said Patrick Cammaert, a retired Dutch general and former force commander of the UN peacekeeping mission in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, will head the investigation. Other inquiry members will be Maria Vicien-Milburn of Argentina, Lee O’Brien of the United States, Pierre Lemelin of Canada and K C Reddy of India. On the mandate of the inves- tigation, Haq said “it will review and investigate a number of specific incidents in which death or injuries occurred at, and/or damage was done to United Nations premises. “The Board will also review and investigate incidents in which weapons were found to be present on United Nations premises,” he added. “The Secretary-General expects that the Board will enjoy the Members of the Israeli Zaka emergency response team work at the scene where a Palestinian fatally stabbed full cooperation of all parties an Israeli soldier, near a Tel Aviv train station, yesterday. concerned.” REUTERS TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2014 08 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com

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T’S gut-wrenchingly weird that some people never get tired of fighting. War has a capacity to refuel itself. With each fighting is sown the seed of the next round, and it Igoes on, as we see in the Middle East, especially Syria. The battle in Syria has been going on since the anti-Assad revolution started more than two years ago, showing no signs Germany must talk of an end, of any side conceding defeat. But at the same time, breaks are likely in fighting. And when it comes, it needs to be welcomed with an open heart. When everybody thought that the skies in Syria will never be free from the war clouds in the immediate future, there is straight with Israel an offer of temporary ceasefire in one area that is giving hope. BY DANIEL BARENBOIM President Bashar Al Assad said yesterday that a proposal attacks of 11 September and the subse- Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a diminu- by an international peace mediator to implement a ceasefire quent war on terror, which plunged an tive one. It does not want to inflame sen- starting in the northern city of Aleppo was ‘worth studying’. HE 25th anniversary of the fall entire region into an interminable crisis, sibilities over its relations with Israel. Coming from Assad, it’s an idea that must be grabbed. The of the Berlin Wall is a fitting demonstrated that the west’s position of However, if there is to be a solution to moment to reflect on the state power had changed drastically. the conflict, Germany must play some proposal came from the United Nations Syria mediator of the world today and on the Today the world appears rudderless. role and exert some form of influence on Staffan de Mistura who said that the northern city of Aleppo T responsibility borne by Europe as a whole Even small, ostensibly local, conflicts Israeli policy. Germany can and should as an obvious candidate for ‘incremental freeze zones’ to stop and specifically by Germany, which has quickly grow and spread out of con- put political pressure on Israel. After all, localised fighting and allow free flow of aid. De Mistura said now been a reunified country for a quar- trol. September 11 and its repercus- we are talking here about the intellectual he intends “to proceed now expeditiously on working out the ter of a century. sions, the wars in the Middle East, the and political future of the state of Israel. modalities of a freeze in Aleppo city, through The collapse of the Soviet Union and Ukraine conflict; all this would have been The logic is simple: Germany is commit- the resulting prospect of a new world unthinkable if the west had found a new ted to the ongoing security of the state further discussions with the Syrian authorities, and order marked the end of a precarious balance and lived up to its responsibili- of Israel, but this is only possible in the intensified consultations with all parties concerned.” equilibrium and the beginning of an ties after the cold war. Instead, there long term if the future of the Palestinian Local ceasefires have become the sole hope in Syria where apparent unipolarity dominated by the is now an international power vacuum. people, too, is secured in its own sover- two rounds of peace talks between west – first and foremost the US, followed I am convinced that Europe in general eign state. If this does not happen, the the government and the political by the countries of Europe. As west- and Germany in particular should shoul- wars and history of that region will be Assad has opposition this year to halt the war ern democratic der more of the burden in these difficult constantly repeated and the unbearable and capitalistic times. stalemate will continue. responded have failed. systems had pre- For a long time – and doubtless for One man was under no illusion of this Even international experts are vailed, this might good reasons – Germany has declined a – the Israeli prime minister, Yitzhak positively to a suggesting them as a way forward Germany’s history have produced a leadership role, preferring a policy based Rabin: “I was a soldier and I know that until a final solution is found. For clear and undis- on consensus and cooperation, especially Israel can win wars with Syria, Lebanon UN offer for example, the London School of makes it reluctant puted hegemony, where the European Union is concerned. and Egypt and maybe even beat them which could have In the future, too, Germany should not all at the same time. But Israel cannot Economics said in a report released truce in Aleppo. to put pressure moulded the go it alone, yet it can still take a more win a war against the Palestinian people. recently that small-scale ceasefires international pol- active part in foreign affairs than it has My first duty is to protect the security In the absence may be the best way to ease the on Israel. But if it itics of the new up to now. of the Israeli people and I can only meet of other suffering of Syrian civilians, citing has the country’s era. Instead, the The successful reconstruction of this obligation if we make peace with 35 local negotiations. west was unable Germany after the second world war the Palestinians.” It was this publicly options, the Syria has been pushed to the best interests at to make good was only possible with international expressed opinion that sadly cost Rabin its claim to be help. This begets responsibility – and his life. background as the entire region proposal must heart, it should a global leader. no country is more aware of this than Germany’s task, as a leading country is busy grappling with a much Through lack of the Federal Republic. She is now in a of the world, is to make precisely this be vigorously bigger threat – the Islamic State, exert its influence unity, unhealthy position to provide long-term and cred- fact plain to the government of Israel while other Arab Spring countries, to bring about ideological trium- ible assistance to the many suffering – that Israel’s lasting future depends pursued. like Libya and Egypt, are reeling phalism and moral and fleeing people of the world, and she on its government’s willingness to enter under their own crises. The Arab peace. failure in interna- should do so. Recent German history is a into a genuine peace agreement with tional crises such tale of the success of democracy and it is the Palestinians. That this also goes for and international community have as the Rwandan incumbent on this country to give other the Palestinians grouped around Hamas given up efforts for a solution while fighting continues to rage genocide and the invasion of Iraq with states and peoples a chance to rebuild hardly needs to be stressed. Both sides in Syria with both Assad and the opposition stubbornly failing the ensuing scandals of Abu Ghraib and their nations and lives. have to understand that they must live to make concessions. Guantanamo Bay, the US in particular I have lived as a Jew in Berlin for the together for better or worse and that While the proposal for a local truce is a wonderful idea, gradually forfeited the moral and politi- past 23 years, something that would not hatred, terror and territorial, ethnic and cal authority that it had built up so suc- have been possible if I did not believe religious exclusion have never produced past experiences should also make the UN cautious. The cessfully in Europe with the Marshall that the Germans had thought long and peace, but rather have led to killing Syrian regime has a poor track record of sticking to truces plan after the second world war. hard about their past. No one else has and more killing. That, too, is a lesson and the US has already expressed doubts about the sincerity of The capitalist system, too, has its managed to do this to the extent the that Germany, more than many other Assad. But the UN needs to proceed without any inhibitions. faults and the opportunity to create a Germans have, and I admire them for it. countries, has learned by bitter experi- Whatever the intentions of Assad, the proposal must be new and viable one incorporating the But this chapter of self-reflection should ence. It is a lesson that can and should vigorously pursued in the absence of other options. positive aspects of socialism, capital- also have an impact on foreign policy. inform the foreign policy of the Federal ism and democracy was not seized. The Germany’s approach to the Republic. THE GUARDIAN The other side Quote of Not unclear on nuclear the day

HE Narendra Modi government and planned to increase its contribu- As Mr Goyal indicated, several investment. Then there is the thorny has surprised many by tion to India’s power generation basket countries are conflicted about the problem about land acquisition. articulating its position on from 2.8 percent to 9 percent over the use of nuclear power. Australia, for Thanks to sustained antic-nuclear Tnuclear power. Speaking at next 25 years. instance, exports uranium but has no campaigns over the decades that point the World Economic Forum, Piyush Mr Goyal’s statement does not sug- nuclear power facilities. Germany shut to the dangers of nuclear waste and Goyal, minister for power, coal and gest that India is walking away from down seven nuclear plants after the radiation, it is very easy to rally popu- Net neutrality has new and renewable energy, said the nuclear power just yet; he himself said Fukushima disaster and will phase out lar opinion against nuclear power. been built into the government “would like to be cautious the sector had potential, but main- nuclear power completely by 2022. Agitations against plants at Jaitapur that we are not saddled with something tained the government was consider- The minister did not spell out other and Kudankulam bear that out clearly. fabric of the Internet only under the garb of clean energy or ing all options. The minister’s candid areas of concern but they will have A progressive expansion of nuclear since its creation—but alternative energy—something which statement must be welcomed on featured in government deliberations. power is likely to generate unrest. the West has discarded and is sought several counts. It can first be read as Nuclear power is expensive and there The Modi government is likely to take it is also a principle to be brought to India”. a gesture that concedes the difficulty are many who contend that the money unpopular decisions on land acquisi- This is a striking departure from in unlocking the issue of the nuclear can be more productively deployed in tion. Mr Goyal’s remarks point to a that we cannot take the UPA government’s position which liability legislation which has stalled other sectors including for solar and more calibrated approach. for granted. unequivocally embraced nuclear power progress in the sector for years. wind power which sorely need more Hindustan Times Barack Obama US President TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2014 VIEWS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 09 Putin’s defence of Hitler pact is worrying

between the Nazis and Soviets, Relations between Moscow and directly affecting at least 50 mil- lion people. Hitler invaded Poland the West have all but broken 10 days after the deal was signed and Stalin followed suit a little more than two weeks later. Poland down and there is no mileage for was divided and enslaved by the two most hideous and murderous Russia in accommodating Western totalitarian regimes the world has seen. The pact gave Stalin the green sensibilities. The Kremlin playbook light to launch an unprovoked attack on Finland six weeks later. that guided Stalin in 1939-40 It also left the Baltic States at his mercy, consigned by the stroke of Ribbentrop’s pen to a dark fate of would appear to have found a occupation and annexation by the Soviet Union; their brief 20-years new reader. of independence snuffed out. The Romanian province of Bessarabia BY ROGER MOORHOUSE to the era of the Nazi-Soviet pact was similarly affected: annexed, that seem to have accompanied occupied and sovietized. ussian President Russian actions in the last year: Stalin’s march westwards in Vladimir Putin made the sabre-rattling, the talk of 1939-40 had profound human headlines around the rescuing Russian minorities, the effects. Over 2 million people Rworld last week when border provocations, the mysteri- were deported from Poland, the he defended the 1939 Nazi-Soviet ously downed aircraft, the inva- Baltic States and Bessarabia to non-aggression pact, by which sion of neighboring Ukraine and the wilder shores of the Soviet Stalin and Hitler agreed secretly the annexation of its territory. Union. Countless thousands to divide Eastern Europe between The Kremlin playbook that guided more endured persecution, hard- them. It was, Putin said, in line Stalin in 1939-40 would appear to ship and privation. For many with the normal “methods of for- have found a new reader. of them, it was a life sentence. eign policy” of the time. Look a little closer, though, and Comparing this litany of hor- “What is so bad about it, if the substance of Putin’s argument rors to the honourable if futile Russian President Vladimir Putin took a victory lap in his first visit to Crimea since its annexation by Russia, on the Soviet Union did not want to on the Nazi-Soviet pact hasn’t appeasement of the Munich May 9. fight?” he asked. changed. Last week, as five years Agreement is not only disin- Putin’s language was harsher ago, he echoed a familiar Soviet- genuous, it is ridiculous. than when last he spoke publicly era justification of the agree- At that point, he surmised, he make the best bilateral arrange- with the Nazis” is a deliberate and The Nazi-Soviet pact was on the subject, at a 2009 com- ment, according to which, Stalin would be able to march westward ments it could. But the British and cynical obfuscation. an archetype of cynical, memoration of the outbreak of was forced into the deal by the unopposed and turn the entire French effort to placate Hitler in So, what about Putin’s conten- Machiavellian, totalitarian poli- World War II, when he dismissed perfidy of the West and his deci- continent of Europe communist. 1938 cannot seriously be viewed in tion that the Nazi-Soviet pact tics, a natural product of the two “all treaties” with the Nazis sion to sign it was “defensive” in We know this was the thrust the same category as Stalin’s pact (better known by the names of hateful regimes that spawned it. as “morally unacceptable” and motivation. of Kremlin thinking, because with him of the following year. the two foreign ministers involved, It may well have been “typical” “politically senseless.” Both propositions are thor- numerous senior Soviet politi- One was a failed attempt to pre- Vyacheslav Molotov and Joachim by the perverted standards of The reason for the shift in tone oughly disingenuous. Nothing cians said so at the time. They serve the peace (at the expense von Ribbentrop) was “not so bad.” Stalin’s Soviet Union or Hitler’s seems clear: Over the last year prior to Hitler’s attack on Russia made little mention of not want- of Czechoslovakia); the other was Well, it depends on where you Third Reich, but that does not or so, relations between Moscow in 1941 suggested Stalin’s motiva- ing to fight. We know it, too, a successful attempt to launch a were standing. mean that modern politicians and the West have all but bro- tion in signing the pact was defen- because the Soviet Union was war. One was a political arrange- From the safety of the Kremlin, can glibly play it down, make light ken down and there is no mile- sive. On the contrary, the available not shy of fighting when the war ment to head off a crisis, the other perhaps it might have seemed of it or rehabilitate it. The fact age for Russia in accommodating evidence suggests strongly that began — just not against Hitler. opened a two-year economic and so, but few people further west that — in 2014 — Putin is openly Western sensibilities. his goal was to encourage Hitler It is certainly true that collec- strategic relationship that was an would have agreed. The Nazi- prepared to do so should concern More worrying, though, are to attack and undermine his old tive security had failed by 1938, alliance in all but name. Including Soviet pact launched World War us all. the uncanny historical parallels enemy, the Western Imperialists. and each state was seeking to both under the rubric of “treaties II and divided Eastern Europe WP-BLOOMBERG Cameron takes pandering too far Thatcher-Reagan Cameron and his affair had its kinks uch the most enter- rhetoric would become a con- ministers need to taining item on Today sistent and well-choreographed Mprogramme was a feature of Reagan and Thatcher’s make clear that 31-year-old tape recording. shared public performances.” President Ronald Reagan had Difficult the relationship cer- rung the British prime minis- tainly was, as in truth had been they see freedom of ter in an attempt to mollify her, the earlier wartime relation- saying breezily: “If I were there, ship. For all Evans’s rhetoric, it movement as a core Margaret, I’d throw my hat in the was precisely during the 1980s door before I came in.” This was that historians began to exam- not a success. ine the correspondence and principle of the EU In October 1983 Reagan had meetings between Churchill and ordered an American invasion of Franklin Roosevelt and unravel (which it is) and that Grenada, to overthrow its leftist the truth. As the American his- regime after the prime minister, torian Walter Russell Mead has Maurice Bishop, had been killed written, Roosevelt was the most they value it highly in a coup. Grenada was part of the Anglophobic president of the 20th Commonwealth, and Margaret century. (as they should). Thatcher was incensed that she He had disliked Churchill British Prime Minister David Cameron leaves a European Union summit at EU headquarters in Brussels. had not been consulted or even since they first met at a dinner given prior warning. in London in 1918, when FDR was BY CLIVE CROOK to set quotas on migrants would require both Germany’s Bundestag, for instance, voted Behind this lies the larger story under secretary of the navy and treaty change, which nobody wants, and una- last week to tighten benefit rules for EU of Thatcher and Reagan. When Churchill minister of munitions, avid Cameron’s gamble in promising nimity, which is inconceivable — even with the migrants (Merkel’s comments on Cameron Reagan died, Sir Harold Evans, and he didn’t change his mind Britain a stay-or-go referendum on threat of a British exit concentrating minds. notwithstanding). the former Sunday Times editor, thereafter. When they next met Dmembership of the European Union If Mr Cameron makes quotas his pri- In fact, that’s the right answer: Don’t block claimed that “the relationship at Placentia Bay in August 1941 is growing more hazardous. Britain’s prime ority and then fails to achieve them, how migration, change benefit rules to better suit between Thatcher and President it didn’t help that Churchill had minister wants the country to stay in the EU, can he campaign to keep his country in an open EU labour market that spans econo- Reagan was closer even than quite forgotten the earlier meet- but not on the existing terms. He’d like to the EU?” mies at very different levels of development. Churchill and Roosevelt”. Dear ing, but Roosevelt decidedly had renegotiate the contract and then recommend Grant is right. Cameron is at risk of defeat- Essentially, link social entitlements to national old Harry is a national treasure, not. The whole story of that war the new deal to voters — but he needs the ing his own strategy. He ought to drop the citizenship. This can likely be done by amend- but he doesn’t always get things was the steady eclipse of British other EU countries to go along. quota idea — and concentrate instead on ing existing EU law, with no need for a new quite right, as with his apparent power and the rise of the new Repatriation of some policy-making power reforming migrants’ benefits. treaty. belief that Peter Hain is one of American imperium — much to the member states makes sense, as I’ve pre- The two issues are often conflated because Cameron and his ministers need to make the most important figures in helped by the way that, as Keynes viously argued: more union where necessary, of confusion over the meaning of “EU citizen- clear that they see freedom of movement as a the Labour party. In the words put it, the Americans used the less where possible. Cameron could find allies ship.” As a British citizen, I have an uncondi- core principle of the EU (which it is) and that quoted, he managed to be entirely opportunity of British weakness in arguing for certain kinds of reform, but tional right to reside in the United Kingdom; they value it highly (as they should). And they wrong, twice over. to “pick out the eyes of the British not if he challenges core EU principles. One as an EU citizen, I have only a qualified right ought to renounce the term “benefit tourism” Thatcher and Reagan first met empire” economically. of these is the free movement of EU citizens, to live in other EU countries. EU citizens can — because the vast majority of migrants move in 1975. She had just deposed On the face of it, Thatcher’s which Cameron appears to be adding to his move to another member country and live to get work, not to be idle, and because EU Edward Heath as Tory leader and relations with Reagan were list of targets. there for three months; after that, they’re rules already include a “sufficient resources” Reagan was visiting Europe in more cordial, but she had no illu- German Chancellor Angela Merkel has entitled to stay only if they have “sufficient condition for jobless benefits. advance of his first run for presi- sions about him. Her first foreign already said that measures to limit the rights financial resources” to support themselves. Instead, they should start emphasising the dent. Reagan was re-elected, and secretary was Lord Carrington, of EU citizens to live and work anywhere The idea, according to the relevant EU net economic gains that migration within the so for all his eight years at the with whom she was talking over within the union would breach a fundamental Directive, is to prevent migrants becoming “an EU has delivered to Britain. White House Thatcher was at No a drink one evening. As the con- principle. The implication is that Britain can’t unreasonable burden on the social assistance And they should do all this while reforming 10, having won the 1979 election versation turned to the American insist on that and expect to remain a member. system of the host member state.” In other in-work benefit rules at the national and EU and then two more. president, Thatcher looked at Charles Grant of the Center for European words, an EU citizen’s right of free movement levels so that the system is fairer, and seen to In 1975, when Reagan first Carrington, tapped the side of Reform explains: does not imply a right to move to Britain (or be fairer, to non-migrants. came to London, Harold Wilson her skull, and said: “Peter, there’s “Until recently, the ideas he has floated to any other member state), stay unemployed I’d characterise this as a smart pro-migrant was prime minister, and he nothing there.” — more powers for national parliaments, and live on social assistance. policy. Unfortunately for Cameron, that’s not declined to see the former gov- By 1989 Reagan had left the restrictions on benefits for EU migrants and A further complication arises over in-work what many British euro-sceptics, or conserva- ernor of California, but Thatcher White House, and the following safeguards for the single market — have been benefits, such as income support and hous- tive defectors to the UK Independence Party, greeted him, with Winston year Mrs T was defenestrated seen by other EU governments as negotiable. ing subsidies. In some countries, entitlement actually want. In most cases, these anti-EU Churchill at her side: that is, “lit- from Downing Street. Not long But now he is looking for new ways to cut builds up over time (as taxes or other “contri- voters are simply, ardently and avowedly anti- tle Winston”, as his grandfather after that, “Nico” Henderson was migration from the EU including caps on butions” are paid); in others, if you’ve got a job, immigrant. If Cameron panders too much to called him. Sir Winston’s grand- talking to Tony Benn, and said: numbers. you qualify. Countries with relatively generous this benighted nativism, he’ll find himself son was burdened with a great “If I reported to you what Mrs Action is necessary, he believes, because the in-work benefits and rapid entitlement — like rejecting one of the best things the EU stands name, but his career never came Thatcher really thought about combination of a prosperous Britain and a Britain — will be attractive destinations for for; the cause of intelligent reform of the EU to much. On that occasion he was President Reagan, it would dam- stagnant euro zone will attract crowds to the low-income migrants. will be lost; and Britain and the EU will be a kind of mascot, and as Richard age Anglo-American relations.” UK for years to come. However, his partners The taxpayers financing those benefit sys- headed for the divorce Cameron wishes to Aldous notes in his book Reagan Maybe it’s as well that Nico took regard free movement of labour as an essential tems have grounds for complaint. avoid. and Thatcher: the Difficult that secret to the grave. pillar of the single market. Allowing the UK This isn’t just a British preoccupation. WP-BLOOMBERG Relationship: “Churchillian THE GUARDIAN TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2014 MIDDLE EAST 10 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com Assad ready to US blacklists Saleh, Houthi commanders WASHINGTON: The United States hit Yemen’s former presi- dent Ali Abdullah Saleh and two Houthi rebel commanders with study UN plan sanctions yesterday, two days after Saleh walked out on the new government. The US Treasury said it was blacklisting Saleh, Abdullah Yahya for Aleppo Al Hakim and Abd Al Khaliq Al Houthi “for engaging in acts that directly or indirectly threaten Freeze in fighting suggested the peace, security, or stability of Yemen.” DAMASCUS: Syrian President meanwhile, quoted De Mistura The US action followed Bashar Al Assad said yesterday as saying he was determined to Saturday’s UN Security Council he was ready to study a UN plan ensure that his mission succeeds. sanctions on the three men, for to “freeze” fighting in the north- The envoy had previously said threatening peace in the impov- ern city of Aleppo, a statement Aleppo would be a “good candi- erished Arab country. from his office said. date” to become a “freeze” zone. The UN sanctions prompted “President Assad has been The city has been split into Saleh to pull his General People’s informed by (UN envoy Staffan) rebel- and army-held areas since Congress party out of the just- de Mistura of the main points of a major insurgent offensive began formed unity cabinet, plunging the his initiative,” said the statement there. Since December 2013, country back into political crisis issued after the two men held regime warplanes have carried after months of attempts to foster talks in Damascus. out near daily air raids targeting a peace deal between Saleh, the “(Assad) said it was worthy rebel-held districts of what was Houthi insurgents believed allied of study and that work on it is once Syria’s economic capital, to him, and their political rivals. needed... in order to re-establish reportedly killing mostly civilians, The Treasury said the three security in Aleppo,” it added. defying a UN Security Council ban men “have, using violence and It is De Mistura’s second visit on such strikes. other means, undermined the Debris of demolished huts is removed at Taghyeer (Change) Square, where pro-democracy protesters had camped to Syria since he was appointed Waddah Abd Rabbo, editor of political process in Yemen and to demand a regime change in 2011, in Sana’a yesterday. peace envoy in July. pro-regime Al-Watan newspaper, obstructed the implementation of On October 30, De Mistura put said Damascus supports any “plan its political transition, outlined by country’s president from 1990 Hakim, the Treasury said, was as to be able to topple the Yemeni forward an “action plan” for Syria that can save lives, but such a plan the agreement of November 23, to 2012 before he was forced to implicated in plotting a coup government” if peace efforts failed. that proposed to “freeze” fighting should not be accepted by one side 2011... which provides for a peace- step down following nationwide attempt against Yemen President Rebel commander Al Houthi in local areas to allow for aid deliv- and rejected by the other”. ful transition of power in Yemen.” protests. Abdrabuh Mansur Hadi as the was behind several attacks and eries and to lay the groundwork Abd Rabbo told AFP: “The ball The sanctions freeze any assets The US Treasury said that since Houthi forces sought to take over attempted attacks on the Yemen for peace talks. is in De Mistura’s court. He must the three might have in US juris- then he has “reportedly become Sanaa, Yemen’s capital. government and foreign diplo- According to the Syrian presi- convince the rebels, and above all dictions and forbids Americans one of the primary supporters of The Treasury added that Hakim matic facilities over the past year, dency Facebook page, Assad the countries that support them.” from doing business with them. violence perpetrated by individuals remained in Sanaa in September the Treasury said. emphasised “the importance of He singled out Turkey, “which Saleh was the turbulent affiliated with the Houthi group.” “to organize military operations so AFP Aleppo”, which rebels and the allows weapons and terrorists into army have been fighting over since Aleppo” across its border with July 2012. Syria. State news agency SANA, AFP Rival Libyan govt captures key oilfield Five nuclear engineers killed TUNIS/BENGHAZI: Libya’s administration has also appointed Abdulhamid Kraeer, who belongs Ali Karti flew to Tripoli to meet BEIRUT/VIENNA: Gunmen killed five nuclear engineers, four political strife intensified yes- its own oil minister in a move seen to a brigade from Zintan allied Omar Al Hassi, prime minister of of them Syrian and one Iranian, on the outskirts of Damascus on terday as a rival government by analysts as designed to assert to the internationally recognised the rival government. A Turkish Sunday, a monitoring group said yesterday. that has seized the capital more pressure on Libya’s National government, which has fled to the envoy had already met Hassi, No one claimed responsibility and Syrian and Iranian state media stepped up its battle for power Oil Corp, which had previously country’s east. who has so-far been shunned by did not mention the attack, which occurred in an area controlled and legitimacy, taking control remained largely above the politi- “But it is difficult to reopen the Western powers. by forces loyal to President Bashar Al Assad. of a key oilfield, according to a cal forces tearing at the seams of (El Sharara) field as there will The internationally recognised It was not clear in what capacity the Iranian nuclear engineer security commander, and meet- the country. be, I guess, an escalation,” he said, government, based in the east- was in Syria, if his presence were to be confirmed. ing its first foreign minister. While the National Oil Corp adding that the attackers belong ern city of Tobruk since August, The Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said the engineers An armed brigade from said El Sharara would reopen by to Operation Dawn, the brigade has not appointed an oil minister, were shot dead while travelling in a small convoy to a research Operation Dawn, one of the fac- tomorrow, the growing turmoil controlling Tripoli. leading to questions about who will centre near the northeastern district of Barzeh. tions backing the rival govern- has cast doubt on Libya’s ability Libya’s oil production rose represent Libya when the OPEC Both Iran and Syria are under investigation by the UN nuclear ment, took control of Libya’s to maintain its recent rebound above 900,000 barrels a day in producer group meets in Vienna watchdog, the IAEA. Both countries have repeatedly denied ever largest oilfield, El Sharara, a com- in output, which contributed to a September, sharply above lows of later this month. having any nuclear weapons ambitions. mander in charge of security at near 30 percent drop in interna- 100,000 barrels a day in June. But Separately, a sit-in protest by Former IAEA chief inspector Olli Heinonen said there are two the site said. If confirmed, it would tional oil prices since June. it now looks increasingly under security guards over unpaid wages nuclear centres on the outskirts of Damascus and they do not appear be the first attempt to take physi- “The manager of the field insists threat, and has already fallen to halted exports from the eastern to have had extensive nuclear fuel cycle activities. cal control of oil production by the reopening the field just because he around 500,000 bpd at most. Hariga port on Saturday, and the REUTERS rival government. wants to make good relations with In another sign of shifting port remained closed yesterday. The Tripoli-based rival the invaders,” said commander power, Sudanese foreign minister REUTERS

Egypt jihadists vow loyalty to IS Iran ready to help Iraq fight IS TEHRAN: Iran said yester- Iraqi Kurds with weapons support for the Iraqi and Syrian BAGHDAD: The leader of the day that it was at Iraq’s dis- and sent military advisers to governments, and says that air Islamic State organisation won posal to help its neighbour Baghdad, while also denying strikes are insufficient. the allegiance of Egypt’s deadli- battle the Islamic State jihad- it had deployed ground troops. Jahangiri yesterday dis- est militant group yesterday. ist group, media reported. However, early last month missed the coalition strikes Egypt’s Ansar Beit Al Maqdis, Vice President Eshaq Iranian television published a as a “show” and criticised the which has carried out a string of Jahangiri made the pledge rare picture of its elite Quds US-led campaign for not tak- deadly attacks from its strong- during talks in Tehran with Force chief, Major General ing “concrete measures to dry hold in the Sinai Peninsula, said his Iraqi counterpart, former Qassem Suleimani, on an Iraqi up financial supplies” to the it was pledging its loyalty to the premier Nouri Al Maliki. battlefield alongside Kurdish jihadists. self-declared IS “caliph”, Abu “In the face of terrorism, peshmerga forces. Maliki, meanwhile, said Bakr Al Baghdadi. we must use all means... Iran And in September, a senior “wider cooperation and coor- In a recording posted on its is ready to place all of its Iranian military official threat- dination are needed to prevent Twitter account, Ansar Beit Al abilities at Iraq’s disposal,” ened to attack deep inside Iraq greater dangers” that lie ahead. Maqdis promised its loyalty to IS Jahangiri said, the website of if the jihadists approached Iraq’s ex-prime minister, and urged other Muslims to do Iranian state broadcaster IRIB Iraq’s border with the Islamic who stepped down in August the same. reported. republic. in favour of Haidar Al Abadi “We announce our pledge of To help counter a light- Tehran, which has refused to following a protracted political allegiance to the caliph Ibrahim ning IS offensive launched join the international coalition crisis, also met Iran’s supreme Ibn Awad... to listen and obey,” on June 9, Iran has supplied against IS, advocates regional leader. AFP the audio recording said, using another name for Baghdadi. “We call on all Muslims every- where to pledge allegiance to the caliph and support him.” Ansar Beit Al Maqdis, which means “Partisans of Jerusalem”, has killed scores of police and soldiers since the Egyptian army ousted Islamist president Mohamed Mursi in July last year. Jordan jails four over IS links AMMAN: A Jordanian court yesterday sentenced four men to jail on charges of member- ship of the Islamic State group and for promoting the jihadist organisation on the Internet. The four Jordanians were arrested in August and put on trial last week. Two were given five years each in prison for IS membership and the other two were jailed for three years for “spreading the ideology of a ter- rorist group on the Internet”, a Iraqi security forces are deployed against Islamic State militants in Amriyat Al Falluja town in Anbar province. reporter said. AFP TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2014 INTERNATIONAL www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 11 Fears of all-out war in Ukraine grows 1,600 gather in Netherlands to mourn MH17 victims

SHAKHTARSK, Ukraine: offensive after weeks of localised some 24 hours after heavy bom- New unidentified unarmoured skirmishes. bardments rocked the rebel bas- columns rumbled toward the A journalist saw a total of 28 tion in some of the fiercest fighting pro-Moscow rebel stronghold trucks, six tanks and 14 how- there since the September 5 truce of Donetsk in eastern Ukraine itzer cannons driving through deal. yesterday as fears grew of a rebel territory around Donetsk Two Ukrainian soldiers were return to all-out fighting in the yesterday. killed and five wounded as govern- war-torn region. The White House followed ment positions came under artil- The Netherlands, meanwhile, Europe by expressing grave con- lery fire around the region, the held an emotional ceremony for cern at reports of Russian military military said. Some 4,000 people the 298 victims of flight MH17 reinforcements, warning that any have died in the war since April, shot down over the separatist- separatist efforts to seize more according to UN figures. held eastern Ukraine in July, in a territory would be a “blatant vio- At the MH17 ceremony in tragedy that brought the conflict lation” of a September ceasefire Amsterdam, large candles burned in the ex-Soviet state to the inter- agreement that had halted full- in memory of the victims, 193 of national fore. scale fighting but failed to stop whom were Dutch citizens. Some 1,600 relatives and shelling at key flashpoints. “They will not be forgotten, friends of the dead from 18 coun- Ukraine’s military yesterday the beautiful warm and touching tries gathered alongside members repeated allegations that Moscow memories are forever,” Dutch Children place flowers during a commemoration ceremony for relatives and friends of the victims of the Malaysia of the Dutch royal family for the is sending columns of heavy Prime Minister Mark Rutte said. Airlines Flight MHI7 at RAI Congress Centre in Amsterdam, Netherlands, yesterday. sombre event in Amsterdam armour and men across the fron- Anton Kotte, who lost three where the names and ages of tier, saying there was “no doubt” relatives in the crash, said for Russian President Vladimir be able to recover the wreckage from Western leaders. those who perished were read out. that the deployments were being the bereaved the time since the Putin said Monday that shell- of the plane. Russia’s economy is suffering Ukraine and the West blame commanded by the Russian army. disaster had been like being stuck ing at the location by Ukrainian The conflict in Ukraine has from European Union and US Russia for supplying the pro- Russia has repeatedly denied together on a train that never forces was preventing an inter- sent relations between Western sanctions imposed in response to Kremlin separatists with the that it is involved in the fighting stopped. “We didn’t know each national probe at a meeting with backers of Ukraine and Russia to Moscow’s support for the separa- missile that shot down the plane, in the east. other but we are partners in mis- Malaysian Prime Minister Najib their lowest levels since the end tists, with the ruble losing some while Moscow and the rebels have However, it openly gives the fortune,” said Kotte. Razak on the sidelines of the Asia- of the Cold War. 25 percent of its value this year. pointed the finger at Kiev’s forces. rebels political and humanitarian The remains of 289 of the vic- Pacific Economic Cooperation Russian President Vladimir But Putin sounded a confident On the ground in Ukraine, backing and it is not clear how the tims have so far been identified summit in Beijing. Putin embarked on a fraught note as he shrugged off concerns intense weekend shelling around insurgents could otherwise have but the Dutch foreign minister Dutch investigators have week of diplomacy at the Apec over the ruble’s collapse, putting Donetsk and more armoured access to so much sophisticated has admitted that the remaining made four visits to the site since summit in Beijing and Group it down to short-term speculation columns seen heading to the and well-maintained weaponry. dead may never be recovered as the signing of the ceasefire in of 20 meeting in Brisbane, as the national currency rallied city ratcheted up concerns the A journalists reported sporadic the security situation around the September, but The Hague says Australia, where he looks likely yesterday. rebels could be gearing up for an shelling in Donetsk overnight, crash site remains volatile. it does not know when they will to face a hostile reception AFP

Nine killed in Suicide bomber kills 47 students in Nigeria massacre Bahamas KANO: A suspected Boko and peace talks. was disguised as a student at the flung in all directions and others The dead and injured were Haram suicide bomber dis- Students at the Government school, which has more than 1,000 were knocked off their feet. taken to the Potiskum General plane crash guised in school uniform Comprehensive Senior Science pupils aged 15 to 20. “I found myself under the Hospital just 100 metres away. killed 47 students in northeast Secondary School were waiting to Yobe state governor Ibrahim weight of another student, who Boko Haram, which wants to MIAMI: A small plane carry- Nigeria yesterday, in one of the hear the principal’s daily address Gaidam ordered the immediate fell over me. I’m certain he was create a hardline Islamic state ing nine people crashed while worst attacks against schools when the explosion happened at closure of all public schools in the dead. I was dazed and disorien- in northern Nigeria, has previ- trying to land in the Bahamas teaching a so-called Western 7.50am (0650 GMT). Potiskum area and slammed the tated for a moment,” he said. ously carried out deadly attacks yesterday, killing all nine occu- curriculum. Several witnesses described government in Abuja for failing “When I realised what had hap- on schools teaching a curriculum pants, including a prominent The explosion ripped through the blast as “thunderous” and to tackle the insurgency. pened, I managed to push the body it deems to be Western. Protestant minister and his an all-boys school in Potiskum the bloody aftermath as a scene “Urgent action must be taken on top of me and started running In February, gunmen killed at wife, officials there said. just as students gathered for of abandoned footwear, charred right now to restore a fast-waning like everyone else. It was confusion least 40 students after throwing A statement released yesterday morning assembly before classes school books, bags and body parts. public confidence by doing what- all over. Everybody was hysterical. explosives into the dormitory of by the office of Prime Minister Perry began, causing panic and chaos. “There was an explosion deto- ever it takes to stop the escalating “I saw many people on the ground. a government boarding school in Christie confirmed the fatal accident, The massacre, described by nated by a suicide bomber. We violence,” he said in a statement. Human flesh and blood were splat- Buni Yadi, also in Yobe state. and the death of Myles Munroe, 60, President Goodluck Jonathan as have 47 dead and 79 injured,” Jonathan promised those tered all over the place... I ran out In July last year, 42 students founder and president of Bahamas a “dastardly attack”, came just national police spokesman affected that his government of the school and went home. were killed when Boko Haram Faith Ministries International. a day after the release of a new Emmanuel Ojukwu said, adding would find the culprits, “no mat- “When my father saw me he stormed dormitories in a gun Munroe was killed with his Boko Haram video in which the that Boko Haram was believed to ter how long it takes.” was terrified. I didn’t realise my and bomb attack on a government wife Ruth and other members Islamist group’s leader, Abubakar be responsible. Student Adamu Abdullahi said white school uniform was stained boarding school in the village of of their congregation during the Shekau, again rejected Nigerian Ojukwu also confirmed local those at the centre of the blast with human blood and bits of Mamudo, near Potiskum. flight from Nassau to Freeport, government claims of a ceasefire media reports that the bomber near the principal’s office were flesh.” AFP Grand Bahama, where they were to attend a religious leadership conference yesterday. Some media reports said their daughter was A view from above also aboard the flight. News reports said the Lear 36 UK should not stay in EU executive jet crashed at around 5.10pm local time (2210 GMT) after it clipped a construction crane and exploded upon impact. Reports said ‘come what may’: PM heavy rain at the time may also have played a role. Christie said in LONDON: Prime Minister that a Conservative election win his statement that his nation was David Cameron said yester- could cost them unfettered access to grieving over the loss. day that Britain should not be the EU’s single market of 500 mil- willing to stay in the European lion people, said Britain’s national Kosovo clash mars Union “come what may”, as interest was being damaged. his main political rival said “Every nod and wink to those Albanian PM’s the promise of a referendum who want to leave sends a mes- on membership of the bloc sage to potential investors that we visit to Serbia was creating uncertainty for are not open for business, that our businesses. country is a dangerous bet,” he said. BELGRADE: A historic fence- In a bid to quell dissent among “Trying to use exit as a threat building visit to Belgrade by his own lawmakers and win back has actually weakened our influ- Albanian Prime Minister Edi voters who have defected to the ence in Europe, not strengthened Rama took a disastrous turn anti-EU UK Independence Party, it ... I will not be part of it. If I yesterday when the leaders of Cameron has pledged to renegoti- am prime minister I will never the two countries clashed pub- ate Britain’s EU ties before offer- risk British businesses, British licly over Kosovo. A woman walks across a glass viewing platform on the high-level Walkways to launch the new viewing ing a membership referendum in jobs, British prosperity by playing All was going well as Rama and experience at the Tower Bridge Exhibition centre in London yesterday. The new glass flooring at the Tower 2017 if he is re-elected next year. political games with our member- Serbian Prime Minister Aleksandar Bridge Exhibition 42 metres above the river Thames will allow visitors to gaze down on the bridge and river Opposition Labour leader Ed ship of the European Union.” Vucic spoke to reporters about and allow them to experience the bridge opening from above. Miliband told business leaders Cameron has in recent months turning the page on stormy rela- that those who “flirt” with pull- battled other EU countries over the tions between the two Balkan ing Britain out of the EU were leadership of the EU executive, the neighbours until the Albanian men- putting millions of jobs at risk by Commission, and the EU budget, and tioned Kosovo, calling on Serbia to generating uncertainty. has provoked warnings from other recognise the “irreversible reality” Obama for ‘free, open Internet rules’ But, speaking at the same EU leaders with talk of trying to limit of its independence. event, Cameron said ignoring that immigration from within the EU. Vucic became visibly angry, there was a debate over Europe Some of Cameron’s Eurosceptic declaring: “I will not allow anybody WASHINGTON: US President seeks to draft new rules to replace FCC is an independent agency, would be the “worst thing to do”. lawmakers were set to rebel on to humiliate Serbia in Belgrade.” Barack Obama voiced support those struck down this year by a he wants the regulatory body to “Britain’s future in Europe Monday in a vote on whether Belgrade refuses to recognise the yesterday for “free and open US appeals court, which said the maintain key principles of net matters to our country and it isn’t to continue honouring EU laws breakaway former Serbian prov- Internet” rules that would agency lacked authority to regu- neutrality. working properly for us at the allowing the arrest of criminal ince populated mostly by eth- ensure that no service is stuck late Internet service firms as it He said the rules should ensure moment, and that is why we need suspects in other member states. nic Albanians, which unilaterally in a “slow lane” without paying does telephone carriers. “no block” of any legal content, to make changes,” Cameron said. The government plans to declared its independence in 2008. “I a fee. “’Net neutrality’ has been built to ensure that an Internet firm “Simply standing here and just include the European Arrest had not expected a provocation from In a statement, Obama said he into the fabric of the Internet does not block one service such saying: ‘I will stay in Europe, I Warrant (EAW) in a package of Mr Rama, that he would talk about wants the independent Federal since its creation — but it is also as Netflix to promote a rival one. will stick with whatever we have, EU justice and policing measures Kosovo, because I don’t know what Communications Commission to a principle that we cannot take Another key principle endorsed come what may’ ... that is not a it wants to keep after Dec. 1, when he has to do with Kosovo,” Vucic said. “implement the strongest possible for granted,” Obama said in a by Obama would prohibit “paid plan and that won’t work.” it will drop other EU justice rules. It was the first visit by an rules to protect net neutrality,” statement. prioritisation” that would allow He said the level of invest- A number of Cameron’s Albanian prime minister to a principle that bars broadband “We cannot allow Internet one service to get into a faster ment into Britain under his Conservatives believe the EAW Serbia in 68 years — a trip which providers from blocking or throt- service providers to restrict the lane by paying extra. Conservative-led government to be an unnecessary level of inte- had to be delayed for three weeks tling certain services. best access or to pick winners and “No service should be stuck in showed that the issue was not a gration. The vote is still set to pass after a heated diplomatic row in Obama’s comment comes amid losers in the online marketplace a ‘slow lane’ because it does not deterrent. easily, with the backing of Labour the wake of violence at a football heated debate among online for services and ideas.” pay a fee,” Obama said. Miliband, hoping to cash in on and the Liberal Democrats. match between the two countries. industry sectors as the FCC Obama said that while the AFP fears among some business groups REUTERS AGENCIES TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2014 12 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com ASIA / PHILIPPINES

Beijing lights Abe, Xi hold ice-breaking meeting the way to Apec fashion show First step towards reconciliation: Abe BEIJING: Beijing rolled out a gleaming red carpet for Asia- BEIJING: An uneasy hand- other countries have long hoped Pacific leaders garbed in sleek, shake yesterday between that Japan and China hold talks,” high-collared Chinese tunics as Chinese President Xi Jinping and Abe said. “We finally lived up to it kicked off a regional summit in Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo their expectations and made a spectacular fashion yesterday. Abe marked the first meeting first step to improve our ties.” Despite their diplomatic differ- between the two men since either China also has been angry over ences Xi Jinping, US President took power, and an awkward first what it sees as Japan’s efforts to Barack Obama and his Russian gesture toward easing two years play down its brutal 20th cen- counterpart Vladimir Putin were of high tensions. tury invasion of China, a lingering united in imperial purple for a As the two men approached sore point for its 1.3 billion people. group photo, with the visitor from each other, stern-faced, to shake China’s leader must balance the Moscow given pride of place next hands in front of cameras, Abe need not to appear too solicitous to the host. Obama was also in briefly tried to say something to of Japan, for his domestic audience, the front row, but Japanese Prime Xi, who gave no response and while still being statesman enough Minister Shinzo Abe was relegated turned away, appearing distinctly to host Abe ahead of today’s sum- to the back, next to New Zealand’s uncomfortable, to fix his gaze mit, when the two men will join John Key. toward the cameras for the rest 19 other world leaders including Australia’s Tony Abbott, of the handshake. US President Barack Obama and who has threatened to “shirt- The tense moment seemed to Russian President Vladimir Putin. front” Putin over the downing show how far apart the two sides China hopes to use the con- of Malaysian Airlines MH17 in remain. Although staged for sensus-oriented Asia-Pacific Ukraine in July, was positioned cameras, their handshake lacked Economic Cooperation summit to directly behind the Russian, but customary trappings such as the assert its ambitions for a larger smiled and waved. national flags displayed in the leadership role in US-dominated The leaders at the Asia-Pacific background when other leaders trade structures. Economic Cooperation (Apec) met. In a break from protocol, Abe gathering were driven to the Their meeting afterward in a was made to wait for Xi to arrive dinner venue — the glowing blue closed room at Beijing’s Great at the meeting, rather than being Water Cube — along a road glow- Hall of the People lasted just 30 greeted by him on arrival. China’s China’s President Xi Jinping (right) shakes hands with Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe at the Great Hall of the ing a rich nationalist Chinese red. minutes, but that they met at Foreign Ministry also described the People on the sidelines of the Apec Summit in Beijing yesterday. Hundreds of wildly cheering all gave some hope that the two meeting as being at Abe’s “request,” dancers dressed in the costumes countries could smooth the fric- a phrase not used in its reports on of China’s dozens of ethnic minor- tion in talks arranged on the side- Xi’s meetings with South Korean ities lined the route bathed in rip- lines of the Asia-Pacific Economic President Park Geun-hye and US, China to extend visa validity pling greens, yellows and blues. Cooperation summit. other foreign leaders yesterday. Most leaders arrived in blocky The spat between China and China’s official Xinhua News BEIJING: China and the United one year, the White House said. allowed for citizens of nations China-made “Red Flag” limou- Japan over uninhabited East Agency said Xi urged Japan to “do States have agreed to signifi- Student visas would be extended with close relations with the sines, but Obama stuck with his China Sea islands and other con- more things that help enhance the cantly extend the terms of short- to five years from one year. United States, such as European official ride, a hyper-secure vehi- tentious issues has raised con- mutual trust between Japan and its term visas, US President Barack “As a result of this arrangement, countries and Brazil. cle known as “The Beast”. cerns of a military confrontation neighbouring countries, and play Obama said here yesterday, a the United States hopes to welcome A senior US official said the visa This year’s fashion choice was between Asia’s two largest econo- a constructive role in safeguard- deal he said would improve trade a growing share of eligible Chinese agreement would allow the US to based on the “Mao suit” tunics mies, which could draw the US ing the region’s peace and stabil- and business ties between the travellers, inject billions (of dollars) tap into the fast-growing market of once beloved by China’s leaders, into the fray alongside ally Japan. ity.” The two sides issued a joint world’s two largest economies. in the US economy and create Chinese tourists travelling abroad. but given an elegant, silky look in Although core divisions won’t statement on Friday agreeing to Under the deal, which the enough demand to support hun- Chinese travellers have long com- lustrous purple, green or brown. be resolved soon, Abe told report- gradually resume political, diplo- United States will put into effect dreds of thousands of additional US plained about extensive waiting Female leaders wore long embroi- ers afterward that the countries matic and security dialogues and tomorrow, both countries would jobs,” the White House said. times for pending US visa appli- dered buttoned jackets, while the made a “first step” toward recon- reaffirming the central pillars of extend the terms of multiple The extension of some visas cations, although the US says it has wives were clad in high-necked ciliation. “I believe that not only their post-World War II relations. entry short-term tourist and for Chinese nationals to 10 made significant improvements. tunics draped with a loose jacket. our Asian neighbours but many AP business visas to 10 years from years matches what is currently REUTERS REUTERS

Child, three others hacked to death Manila to isolate

DAVAO: Four relatives, including a 13-year-old boy, were brutally hacked peacekeepers to death in the troubled southern Philippines, police said yesterday. Local residents discovered the bodies of the four farm caretakers in Compostela for Ebola checks Valley about 970km south of Manila, said Superintendent Antonio Rivera, police spokesman for the southern island of Mindanao where the killings MANILA: Over 100 Philippine happened on Sunday. peacekeepers returning from The four bodies were covered with stab wounds and had their faces almost a year in Liberia will be covered with cloth, the police said. Authorities suspect the killings may be put in quarantine on an isolated related to a land conflict in the largely feudal region where violence is often island on arrival this week to used to settle disputes between families over property and politics. In one of check for Ebola, the military the worst cases, 58 people were murdered in Mindanao in November 2009. said yesterday, adding there were AFP fears how the public might react. The 21-day quarantine, on a navy-run island at the mouth of Manila Bay, was in line with World Health Organisation protocols and with government’s drive to remain Ebola free, military chief General Gregorio Catapang said. “Our peacekeepers belong to no-risk category of the Ebola infection,” Catapang said, two days British banker Rurik Jutting, charged with the grisly murders of two women, smiles as he sits in a prison before the arrival of 108 soldiers, van leaving the eastern court in Hong Kong yesterday. 24 police and jail wardens from Monrovia. “Our troops have no direct contact with any Ebola vic- Kin of HK murder victim describes shock tim. Their work is concentrated inside the force headquarters of the KENDARI: The father of a young Indonesian deserve to live”. “Words cannot describe how we United Nations mission in Liberia.” woman murdered in Hong Kong spoke yester- feel now, we are all shocked,” the 57-year-old said The UN peacekeeping force day of his shock at the death of his “lovely” from the family home in Sidomakmur village on in Liberia was set up in 2003 daughter as the British banker accused of Muna island in central Indonesia. to support a civil war ceasefire. killing her flashed a smile as he left court. “We never imagined this could happen to my Catapang said the peacekeepers Seneng Mujiasih’s mutilated body was found daughter. She is a lovely person, has many friends had undergone thorough medical in Rurik Jutting’s upmarket flat in the southern and was always making jokes. “My wife is in deep screening by the UN. The quar- Chinese city, along with that of a second Indonesian shock and cannot eat anything. She keeps crying antine was a further precaution woman whom he is also accused of killing. remembering our beloved daughter.” imposed by the Philippines, the As authorities prepared to fly the women’s bod- “The killer must be given the death sentence. largest group to be isolated in the ies home today, the 29-year-old securities trader He doesn’t deserve to live,” he added. current Ebola crisis, he said. grinned from the back of a prison van as he left a The parents of the second victim, 23-year-old The peacekeepers will arrive at Hong Kong court after his case was adjourned so Sumarti Ningsih — whose body was found in a an air base in Manila tomorrow he can undergo psychiatric evaluation. suitcase — have also called for the death penalty, and travel by bus to a naval base Seneng’s father, Mujiharjo, said that the fam- although Hong Kong does not impose capital south of Manila and be trans- ily had been stunned by news of the death of his punishment. Mujiharjo said the family found out ported by ship to Caballo island. daughter, who was found with knife wounds to her about Seneng’s death when they tried to call her AFP neck and buttocks, adding that her killer “doesn’t in Hong Kong and a friend answered. AFP Thailand to push back 259 boat people BANGKOK: More than 200 boat people Project, a Rohingya advocacy group, adding into Myanmar then that’s considered push- held in southern Thailand will be pushed that increasing desperation was one reason ing them back. What they do next is their back out to sea, police said yesterday, for the departures. problem.” Tens of thousands of Rohingya despite calls by rights group to stop a policy Authorities in Thailand’s Kapoe district Muslims have fled Myanmar’s Rakhine state that puts would-be asylum seekers at risk. said it was unclear whether any of the group since 2012, when violent clashes with eth- Around 259 people were found at sea were Rohingya but interviews with some nic Rakhine Buddhists killed hundreds and on Saturday and were arrested for illegal of the group showed they were heading for made about 140,000 homeless. entry. Their discovery around 3km from Malaysia to find work or, in the women’s’ Many were Rohingya, who now often live the coast follows what one NGO said was a cases, join their husbands. in apartheid-like conditions and have little “major maritime exodus” from Myanmar of The 259 will be put back on boats and sent or no access to jobs, schools or healthcare. Rohingya, a mostly stateless Muslim minor- back to Myanmar, said Police Colonel Sanya The boats often sail from Myanmar and ity group from the country’s west. Prakobphol, head of Kapoe district police. Bangladesh to Thailand where, as Reuters “On average around 900 people left by “They are Muslims from Myanmar ... They reported last year, human trafficking-gangs boat from the middle of last month. We saw are illegal migrants,” Sanya said. hold thousands of boat people in brutal jun- a major maritime exodus of nearly 10,000 “If they come in then we must push them gle camps until relatives pay ransoms to people,” said Chris Lewa of the Arakan back ... once they have crossed the sea border secure their release. REUTERS TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2014 PAKISTAN / AFGHANISTAN www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 13 Hair transplants: Pakistan’s new weapon of mass seduction PESHAWAR: Mohammad with virility to the point that even Since 2006, Mohmand has con- return more hirsute. Shahid’s eyes lit up when he saw some Taliban fighters buy oint- ducted 8,000 operations compared Maihan, a cook from Denmark, his once bald cousin come home ments to give their long locks and with 1,000 during the previous five finds himself in one such clinic one day with a head full of hair beards a lustrous finish. Woe to years. In Pakistan’s conservative in Peshawar. The young Afghan and a strutting gait to match. those without: They are labelled society where arranged marriages knows that the shaven-headed A handsome but follically-chal- ganjas, a deeply derogatory term. remain the norm, surgeons recall Bruce Willis look isn’t displeasing lenged young man, he decided the “Here, calling someone a ganja is the anguish of patients whose to the fairer sex in the West. “In time was ripe to restore his hon- a stigma but over there (in the engagements have been scuppered Europe, in Canada, in Australia our, battered by years of taunts West), saying ‘bald’ is not that by baldness. and in the United States, the girls that follow the barren-headed and bad,” explained Dr Humayun “One of my clients had lost a lot don’t care, but here guys must the beardless in Pakistan. Mohmand, one of the first doc- of hair and two or three marriage have long hair,” he said. In Peshawar, men go about tors to offer the treatment in proposals did not mature,” said Hairless heads aren’t the only their business in the crowded Pakistan. the doctor of a female patient. worry. Doctor Asif Shah says he dusty streets, their faces covered Mohmand opened his practice “After that, she came to give me has also performed a number of by bushy black beards that would in the early 2000s, but transplants, the invitation to her wedding. beard transplants on patients make Captain Haddock proud. done under local anaesthetic, did That day, she had tears in her keen to show their piety with a The city’s roads are filled with not take off immediately. The eyes. She said, ‘You are the person healthy growth. giant billboards of celebrities once breakthrough moment came at who has made my life’.” Fawad Aamir recalls with bald but now all smiles. They extol the end of 2007, when Nawaz Today, there are nearly 120 hair pleasure the visit of a Taliban the virtues of manhood restored Sharif returned from exile with transplant clinics in Pakistan, commander’s son who had grown surgically with a few well-placed a full head of hair. according to official figures, with a frustrated with his patchy beard tufts of hair. “After the hair transplant... by Doctors treating a patient for hair transplants at a clinic in Islamabad. dozen in Peshawar. The operation while fellow Islamist rebels “When I saw my cousin return Nawaz Sharif and Shahbaz Sharif generally costs from $400-$1,000, proudly sported bushy specimens. from his procedure, I was in (his brother, the chief minister of happen, that cancer will develop, he had some gaps in his hair,” he with some top clinics charging up “A doctor tried to convince the shock. I said to myself: I have to Punjab province) this has become that infection will lead to the said. to $6,000 — a fraction of what it man that ‘you don’t grow beard have it too,” said the thirtysome- very popular,” said doctor Fawad brain.” “One of my friends told me costs in the West, but still well because this is the beard given to thing excitedly as he prepared to Aamir at his Peshawar clinic, Among them was the son of that instead of a hair transplant out of reach for most Pakistanis. you by God’,” he said. “And he said have the procedure at a local hair among a group of patients seek- Farid Khan Khattak, a big man I should buy a motorbike for my Many clients come from abroad, ‘No, I want to have this’. “So we transplant clinic. “Hair is like our ing new manes. who fills the room with hearty son. But my son insisted: ‘Instead in particular the Pakistani- went ahead and six months later weapon against society.” “(Before) they were very afraid laughter. “My son had some kind of a motorbike I want a trans- Afghan diaspora who come to he had a very big beard and he In Pakistan, hair is synonymous of this, that something is going to of inferiority complex because plant’, so it’s for his happiness.” see their friends and family — and was very happy.” AFP

Court remands Pakistan plans four suspects in lynching special courts of Christians LAHORE: A Pakistani court yesterday remanded in custody for terror cases four people accused of burning to death a Christian couple for alleged blasphemy — killings which have sparked nationwide Names of judges shortlisted anger. Bonded labourer Shehzad ISLAMABAD: The federal and Principles of Policy laid down Masih and his pregnant wife government of Pakistan has in Part-II (Chapter-I) of the Shama Bibi were beaten by a decided to set up five special Constitution. The petition con- mob of 1,500 people then thrown courts to hear cases related tended that the state is respon- on top of a lit furnace last week to terrorism, registered under sible for providing security and in a crazed reaction to rumours the controversial Protection of no citizen shall be deprived of life they had thrown pages of the Holy Pakistan Act (PPA) 2014. or liberty in accordance with law. Quran into the garbage. A senior law ministry offi- Raising objections over the gov- The horrific incident on cial said that special courts will ernment’s plan to set up special November 4 has sparked outrage Minority Pakistani Christians protest against the murder of a Christian couple, in Lahore, yesterday. be established in each province courts, the petition said, “The and protests across Pakistan. including one in the capital to establishment of Special Courts is Police have arrested more than 40 interrogation till November 19,” murders. “We want justice!” and Pakistan’s largest religious party deal with terrorism-related cases in violation of Article 10 and 10-A suspects. Politicians, ordinary cit- a prosecution official said. “Stop killing minorities!” pro- Jamaat-i-Islami, visited Kot that surface during the ongoing of the Constitution.” The JI chief izens, religious scholars and rights He said 39 more suspects were testers shouted. “Death penalty Radha Kishan yesterday and met military operation in the country. further stated that the definition activists from different schools of already in jail, out of a total of for the killers of Shehzad and the family of the victims. “Names for the special court of enemy, alien and combatant thought have voiced anger at the some 60 suspects named in the Shama,” read one banner. Haq “strongly condemned” the judges have been shortlisted, now enemy in the PPA Act is not in brutal crime. lynching of the Christian couple. The couple were lynched in the killings, demanded a high-level we will forward these names to consonance with the Constitution. “The police produced four sus- Some 900 students from tiny hamlet of Chak 59 (Village inquiry into them and urged the the respective high courts chief Former additional attor- pects in anti-terrorism court Lahore’s missionary schools 59) near the town of Kot Radha government to ensure severe pun- justices for consultation,” the offi- ney general for Pakistan, Tariq and the judge remanded them staged a demonstration outside Kishan, 60km southwest of Lahore. ishment for the perpetrators, a cial added. Mahmood Khokhar, who headed into police custody for further Lahore Press Club against the Sirajul Haq, the leader of party official said. AFP Similarly, law secretary the missing persons’ cell in the Barrister Zafarullah Khan also Supreme Court, said that geo- confirmed that the government graphical distinction for special has given the green light for the courts does not make sense as it establishment of special courts excludes Azad Jammu Kashmir Bombs kill 10 Afghan cops across the country. (AJK), Gilgit-Baltistan and most Lawyer Chaudhry Faisal crucially Fata and Pata. KABUL: Two Taliban bombs killed at least 10 policemen Hussain urged the government Interestingly, it was learnt that in Afghanistan yesterday, officials said, the latest attacks to appoint competent, honest and the defence ministry had recom- against the security forces who are suffering huge casualties brave judges. He cautioned that mended at least eight special as US-led Nato troops pull out. the move will provide a legal cover courts. However, the law ministry Seven police, including their commander, died when a suicide to enforced disappearances in the officials claimed that five courts bomber detonated his explosives next to a group of officers in country. would be sufficient to deal with Logar province, south of Kabul. Marred by controversy, the the current number of cases in “A suicide attacker on foot this morning targeted an Afghan local PPA Act, which allows security the country. police commander in Puli Alam, killing him and six others,” Abdul forces to detain suspects for up According to the section 8 of Hakim Eshaqzai, Logar’s provincial police chief, said. The attacker, to 60 days without disclosing their PPA Act, the government in con- who was wearing a military uniform, struck as the commander location or allegations against sultation with the chief justice was arriving at his office for a meeting. Logar’s media spokesman them, was challenged by Jamat-e- of the concerned high court may Din Mohammad Darwish confirmed the attack. Islami (JI) chief Sirajul Haq ear- appoint any individual as a judge of Also yesterday, a remote-controlled bomb hit a police car in lier this year. However the case the special court, who has served as Jalalabad city in the east of Afghanistan, killing three police, has not been fixed for hearing. a sessions judge in any province of Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, the provincial spokesman said. Another In his petition, the JI chief the country or has been an advo- roadside bomb blast left two civilians wounded in the capital requested the Apex Court to cate of the high court for a period Kabul. The Taliban claimed responsiblity for the Logar and strike down the entire law as it of not less than 10 years. Jalalabad attacks. Nato will end combat missions in Afghanistan violates the fundamental rights INTERNEWS at the end of this year. AFP Schools observe anti-Malala day

ISLAMABAD: An association of Lamb, was too sympathetic to British novelist Hindu family is persecuted by Muslims. Pakistani schools held an “I am not Rushdie. Rushdie in 1989 became the target of Blasphemy is a sensitive issue in Pakistan Malala” day yesterday, condemning young an Iranian fatwa, or religious edict, calling for also, where it can carry the death penalty. Nobel peace laureate Malala Yousafzai his murder for allegedly blaspheming Islam Malala’s book describes her life under for what it called her support for contro- and Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) in his book the Taliban’s brutal rule in northwest versial novelist Salman Rushdie. The Satanic Verses. Pakistan’s Swat valley in the mid-2000s, Education campaigner Malala was shot Mirza Kashif Ali, the president of the hints at her ambition to enter Pakistani in the head by the Taliban in October 2012 schools’ federation, said in a statement that politics and even describes her father’s but recovered and went on to win this year’s it was “clear that Malala has nexus with brief flirtation with Islamic fundamental- Nobel peace prize. Salman Rushdie and Taslima Nasrin, and ism as a youngster. The 17-year-old has been hailed around also has alignment with Salman Rushdie’s The book describes public floggings by the the world for standing up for girls’ rights ideological club”. “We severely condemned Taliban, their ban on television, dancing and to education, but the response to her in the chapter of the book in which Salman music, and the family’s decision to flee Swat Pakistan has not been universally positive, Rushdie’s book has been mentioned as free- along with nearly one million others in 2009 with some seeing her as a “Western agent” dom of expression by Malala while referring amid heavy fighting between the militants on a mission to shame her country. to father’s views,” Ali said. and Pakistani troops. The All Pakistan Private Schools He said walks, seminars and press confer- Malala, who lives in Britain where she Federation last year barred its members ences were held to highlight the “I am not went for treatment after being shot, was from buying Malala’s memoir “I am Malala” Malala” day. Bangladeshi author Nasrin was jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in because of what the group said was its “anti- forced to flee her homeland in 1994 after October alongside India’s 60-year-old Pakistan and anti-Islam content.” It said the radical Muslims accused her of blasphemy Kailash Satyarthi for their championing of book, written with British journalist Christina over her novel Lajja (Shame), in which a children’s rights. AFP TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2014 14 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com INDIA

Almost a third Congress questions cabinet expansion of ministers Prabhu is railway minister, Parrikar gets defence face criminal NEW DELHI: The Congress Ministry, took charge as the new New yoga minister charges party yesterday questioned science and technology minister. Prime Minister Narendra Modi D V Sadanand Gowda, who was NEW DELHI: Prime colleagues who have NEW DELHI: Attempted mur- on the rationale behind the replaced by Prabhu as railway Minister Narendra taken oath today. der, waging war on the state, Cabinet expansion and asked minister, took charge as the law Modi has appointed a Looking forward to criminal intimidation and fraud for the resignation of “corrupt” and justice minister. yoga minister as part working with them to are some of the charges on the ministers. Some prominent names who of a major revamp of accelerate India’s devel- rap sheets of ministers Indian “There is no thinking or ration- will take over today are Ministers his government. opment journey,” Modi Prime Minister Narendra Modi ale behind Modi-ji’s Cabinet of State for Parliamentary Affairs Hindu nationalist said in a tweet late appointed to the cabinet on expansion. Modi-ji, have you Rajiv Pratap Rudy and Mukhtar Modi is a vegetarian Sunday. Sunday, jarring with his pledge removed the health and railway Abbas Naqvi and Federal who practises yoga AAYUSH was previ- to clean up politics. minister because they were cor- Rural Development Minister daily. ously part of the health min- Seven of 21 new ministers face rupt, or they were incompetent Birendra Singh. Among the portfolios desig- ister’s responsibility, but has prosecution, taking the total in the and performed poorly? Railway Minister Suresh Prabhu Jaitley, interacting with the nated late Sunday was that of become a separate portfolio 66-member cabinet to almost one “If you have removed the min- media after taking charge, said: AAYUSH, whose minister will under former tourism minister third, a higher proportion than isters because their assets have from Health and family welfare “Earlier too, I have been the infor- be charged with promoting Shripad Yesso Naik (pictured) before the weekend expansion. increased then in your cabinet and made it a separate ministry, mation and broadcasting minis- the traditional medicines and after Sunday’s reshuffle. At least five people in the there are two more ministers then are you not going back on ter, but then there was limited practices of Ayurveda, yoga, In recent days Modi has cabinet have been charged with whose asset have increased in your minimum government and presence of electronic media. naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and unleashed a series of reforms, serious offences such as rape the past three months, so what maximum governance mantra,” Now, radio and digital media have homeopathy. scrapping fuel subsidies, simpli- and rioting. about them,” Congress spokesper- asked Maken. grown tremendously.” Modi asked the United fying labour rules and pledging Finance Minister Arun Jaitley son Ajay Maken said at a press Modi expanded his cabinet Parrikar, who is a former chief Nations in September to con- to open coal mining to private said any suggestions there were conference here. Sunday and brought in new min- minister of Goa, said indigenisa- sider an international yoga day players. criminals in the cabinet were “You have not answered many isters and reshuffled portfolios of tion of defence manufacturing and also discussed the ancient But the government has so “completely baseless. of the questions. We hope that some others. Bulk of new min- and higher transparency were Indian discipline with President far steered clear of “big bang” “These are cases arising out of your corrupt and tainted minis- isters took charge yesterday of his top priorities. Barack Obama during his visit initiatives that economists say criminal accusations, not cases out ters will submit their resignations their ministries and departments. J P Nadda took over as the to the United States. are needed to boost investment of a crime,” he told reporters yes- soon and you will apologise to the Among the prominent faces who Federal Health Minister replac- “Congratulations to all and manufacturing. AFP terday, adding that Modi had per- nation,” added Maken. took charge were Defence Minister ing Harsh Vardhan. sonally vetted the new ministers. However, the party refused to Manohar Parrikar, Health Minister Nadda’s appointment as health had written to the then health as MoS, programme implementa- Ram Shankar Katheria, a law- name the “corrupt and tainted” J P Nadda and Railway Minister minister comes amid a contro- minister, Harsh Vardhan, for tion; Vijay Sampla and Krishan maker from Agra, was appointed ministers who have been inducted Suresh Prabhu. Finance Minister versy over AIIMS whistleblower Chaturvedi’s removal as CVO. Pal as MoS, social justice and junior education minister yet into the Modi cabinet. Arun Jaitley also took additional Sanjiv Chaturvedi demanding a Others who took office were empowerment; Y S Chowdary as has been accused of more than Maken also questioned Modi’s charge of the Information and Central Bureau of Investigation Sanwarlal Jat as minister of state MoS science and technology and 20 criminal offences including “minimum government and maxi- Broadcasting Ministry. probe into his removal as the (MoS), water resources; Babul P Radhakrishnan as MoS road attempted murder and promoting mum governance mantra.” Harsh Vardhan, who was institute’s chief vigilance officer. Supriyo, as MoS, urban develop- transport, highways and shipping. religious or racial hostility. “You have removed AYUSH removed from the Health It was reported that Nadda ment; Gen V K Singh (retired) IANS Katheria was not immedi- ately available for comment and a mobile phone number given by Modi to meet over 40 his office was switched off. The inclusion of such politicians does not sit easily with Modi’s election promise to root out cor- leaders during trip ruption, and has led to criticism that he is failing to change the NEW DELHI: Prime Minister Thailand, Philippines and political culture in India where Narendra Modi has an extremely Vietnam as its members while wealthy, tainted politicians some- busy 10-day tour ahead that will the EAS includes ASEAN nations times find it easier to win votes. see him meeting more than 40 and Australia, China, Japan, New “It shows scant respect for the leaders, including around 20 Zealand, South Korea, Russia and rule of law or public sentiment,” bilateral meetings with the lead- the US. said Jagdeep Chhokar, co-founder ers of China, Germany, Britain Modi will travel to Australia of the Association for Democratic and South Korea and oth- for the G20 in Brisbane Nov 15 Reforms (ADR) which campaigns ers as he travels to Myanmar, and 16. The G20 comprises for better governance. “Including Australia and Fiji from today. Argentina, Australia, Brazil, these people in the cabinet is a Modi, who travels to the Canada, China, France, Germany, bad omen for our democracy.” Myanmar capital Nay Pyi Taw on Indonesia, Italy, Japan, South Modi won the biggest par- the first leg, will meet the leaders Korea, Mexico, Russia, Saudi liamentary majority in three of the 10 Association of Southeast Arabia, South Africa, Turkey, decades in May with a promise Asian Nations (ASEAN) nations Britain, the US and the European of graft-free governance after during the ASEAN-India sum- Union. the previous government led by mit. He will also meet the leaders He will also travel to Fiji on Congress party was mired in a of the East Asia Summit, which November 19. series of damaging corruption include the ASEAN and seven Around 20 bilateral meetings scandals. Soon after coming to others besides India, during the are lined up, including first- power, Modi called for courts to November 12-13 summits. time interactions with Chinese fast track cases against politi- The ASEAN has Brunei, Premier Li Keqiang and German cians in an effort to curb political Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Chancellor Angela Merkel, during criminality in the world’s largest Defence Minister Manohar Parikkar after taking office in New Delhi yesterday. Malaysia, Myanmar, Singapore, the three-nation tour. IANS democracy. REUTERS Bhopal gas victims begin fresh agitation

NEW DELHI: Victims of the Bhopal government, which won power in May on a gas disaster, suffering deformities and pledge to revive the economy, against over- illnesses, staged a hunger strike in the looking any environmental crimes commit- capital yesterday for increased compen- ted by companies in its quest to lure foreign sation ahead of the 30th anniversary of investment. Thousands of people were killed the tragedy. when 40 tonnes of lethal methyl isocyanate Holding signs that read “Justice for gas spewed from the Union Carbide chemi- Bhopal”, about 100 mainly women and chil- cal plant in the central city of Bhopal on dren gathered at a protest site in New Delhi, December 2, 1984. The disaster killed 8,000- including first and second generation vic- 10,000 people within the first three days, tims of the world’s worst industrial accident. according to data from the state-run Indian Bhopal activist Satinath Sarangi said a A child of a victim of the Bhopal gas tragedy Council of Medical Research, but hundreds handful of the protesters would fast indef- holds a placard during a protest in New Delhi of thousands more suffer the consequences. initely in the hope of attracting Prime yesterday. “I remember people running from their Minister Narendra Modi’s attention to the homes to try and get away from the gas, plight of the victims of the 1984 disaster. government and ensure gas victims are children dead in the streets,” said Premlata “We have come here with the hope that given extra compensation,” he told the Chaudhary, 67, who lives in her ancestral the present government led by Mr Modi will crowd. village less than a kilometre from the plant. correct the wrongs done by the previous Sarangi also urged Modi’s right-wing AFP Explosion near anti-terror agency office in Kolkata 39 held for stripping and parading woman KOLKATA: An explosion was because he was not authorised to heard near an office of the federal speak to the media, said the min- counter-terrorism agency in the istry planned to send a team from JAIPUR: A woman was partially stripped naked and city of Kolkata yesterday, police Delhi to investigate. paraded on a donkey through her village in northern and home office officials said. The NIA is investigating an India after being accused of killing her nephew, police A senior police official investi- earlier explosion in Burdwan, said yesterday. gating the incident said no trace near Kolkata, in October that the Members of the village also blackened her face with of explosive had been found in the agency believes was a botched plot coal dust and cut her hair following orders from a local area near the National Investigation by Bangladeshi Islamist militants council of elders in Rajasthan, the police officer said. Agency (NIA) office in the to kill Bangladesh’s Prime Minister Thirty nine people, mostly members of the village in eastern city. Sheikh Hasina. Rajsamand district, have been arrested over the incident “There was a loud explosion- A Kolkata court on Sunday that took place on Saturday night, additional superin- like sound heard around 7pm in gave the NIA custody of Jamaat- tendent of police Sudhir Joshi said. the area. We reached the spot but ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh (JMB) The woman was accused by the village council of killing there was no trace of any explo- commander Sajid, a Bangladeshi her nephew who had died some time earlier, the officer sive,” Rajeev Kumar, commissioner national who West Bengal police said. “The woman aged around 40 years was in her house of Bidhannagar City Police, under arrested on Saturday in connec- when some villagers stormed into the house and pulled which the area falls, told Reuters. tion with the blast. Sajid’s arrest her out on Saturday evening,” Joshi told AFP. A home ministry official said followed the detention of another “They cut her hair, blackened her face and stripped nobody had been injured. The offi- suspect on Thursday. her half naked. Then they mounted her on a donkey and cial, who asked not to be named REUTERS paraded her in the village for ten minutes,” he said. AFP

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Bomb-sniffing dog saves handler in Philippines

ZAMBOANGA: A dog handler in the southern Philippines nar- rowly avoided death after his Chocolate tablets of the Belgian brand ISIS displayed in Brussels yester- dog alerted him to a bomb just day. Late last year, the Belgian chocolate-maker changed its name from before it exploded, police said Italo Suisse, because the company no longer had any real association yesterday. with either country. Now it’s changing the name again — because the Officer Manuel Ynid was only new name it picked was ISIS. injured when the bomb hidden in a cardboard box exploded in the strife-torn southern port city of Zamboanga late on Sunday, said Singing nun releases the city police spokesman Chief Inspector Ariel Huesca. Ynid and his bomb-sniffing Belgian Malinois called Diego first album today were part of a team that was investigating an earlier explosion A customer picks up a block of butter at a food store in Tokyo yesterday. Japanese shoppers are up in arms ROME: Cristina Scuccia (pic- at a massage parlour, Huesca said. over a serious butter shortage that has forced Tokyo to resort to emergency imports, as some grocers limit tured), the singing nun who The first bomb had caused sales to one block per customer. won Italy’s version of The Voice, no casualties but as Ynid was today releases a first album approaching a cardboard box, containing an unlikely cover the dog reacted, indicating it had of Madonna’s 1984 hit Like a detected a bomb. Just as they moved Japan’s ‘Butter refugees’ Virgin. away from the box, the bomb inside On her way to victory in the exploded, wounding Ynid although television singing contest, the the dog was unharmed. 26-year-old from Sicily became Security officials said the cry over spilt milk a global Internet sensation with bomb was made from ammonium tens of millions clicking on nitrate and was possibly set off YouTube recordings of her cov- with a mobile phone. TOKYO: Japanese shoppers cows exhausted and unable — or “Judging from inventory levels ers of Alicia Keys’s “No One” and Ynid is in stable condition while are up in arms over a seri- unwilling — to generate their at the end of September, stock- Bon Jovi’s “Living on a Prayer.” Diego, a three-year veteran who ous butter shortage that has usual milk supply. piles are down 30 percent from a Now, despite the misgivings found a bomb in a public square forced Tokyo to resort to The bovine strike has sapped year earlier so we’re in a short- of some Church traditionalists, last month, was given a week to emergency imports, as some supply just as dairy farmers trim age trend,” said an agriculture she is planning to build on that recover from the stress, police grocers limit sales to one block their herds to cope with Japan’s ministry official. success with the release of a col- officials said. Authorities are still per customer. dwindling population and falling But not many farmers are lection of songs entitled “Sister trying to determine who might Some shop shelves are bare demand. willing to raise milk production, Cristina.” had said the song struck a chord have been behind the bomb blast. and stores are trumpeting the And with farmers prioritising the official added. In an interview with Italian tel- with her because she felt its Zamboanga has been the scene arrival of new supplies with supply for liquid milk to keep the “They are concerned about evision ahead of the release she account of being “touched for the of rebel activity in the past. posters in the windows announc- supermarket shelves stocked, where the dairy farming indus- insisted her showbiz career would very first time” was akin to her Last year, die-hard guerrillas ing “We have butter!” Japan now faces a shortage in try will go in the future as they not radically change her life based experience of finding God. occupied parts of the city, result- With Christmas cake-baking the raw material used to produce see feed prices soaring,” he said. in a Milan convent, and defended Madonna signalled her ing in three weeks of urban bat- season fast approaching, social butter — popular among home A sharply weaker yen has sent the choice of Madonna’s raunchy apparent approval by tweet- tles that left more than 240 dead. media has been abuzz over the bakers. the price of imported feed grain single as one of the tracks on the ing: “Sisters for Life! The military is also carry- shortage, with Twitter user @ In a bid to try and keep the skyward. Japan’s raw milk pro- album. #touchedfortheveryfirsttime.” ing out operations in the islands justastarter1 claiming to be a nation’s kitchens operating, the duction was 7.45 million tonnes “I looked at the words without The post was accompanied by south of Zamboanga, against the “butter refugee” after trailing government in May imported in the year ended in March, thinking of the past: the defin- a photo-montage of herself in a Abu Sayyaf, an Al Qaeda-linked between shops without success. 7,000 tonnes of butter, and a fur- down 14 percent from the peak ing characteristic of Christians is suggestive pose next to a demure extremist group blamed for the The agriculture ministry said ther 3,000 tonnes in September, year 19 years ago, according to being able to see everything with Scuccia, who appears pensive and country’s worst terror attacks the problem is linked to a broil- the first time in years Tokyo has government data. a new eye,” she said. is looking away from the scantily- including bombings and kidnap- ing summer that left the nation’s raided foreign dairy markets. AFP In earlier interviews, Scuccia clad veteran pop star. AFP pings. AFP Tuesday 11 November 2014 18 Muharram 1436 Volume 19 Number 6246 Price: QR2

www.thepeninsulaqatar.com [email protected] | [email protected] Editorial: 44557741 | Advertising: 44557837 / 44557780 Gold falls 2.2pc Libya’s chaos hits Don’t panic, situation oilfields, output threatened will fix itself: Opec TUNIS/BENGHAZI: Libya’s escalating political struggles threatened to derail the recov- Brent crude falls to a low of $82.27 per barrel ery in the country’s oil sector, as a commander in charge of ABU DHABI: Markets should security at its biggest field said not panic over the recent plunge Kuwait doesn’t think Opec will cut forces loyal to a rival govern- of oil prices because the situa- ment in Tripoli had forced out tion will resolve itself, Opec ABU DHABI: Opec is unlikely to decide to cut its oil output ceil- his men. Secretary-General Abdullah Al ing at its next meeting on November 27, Kuwait’s Oil Minister The National Oil Corp, based Badri said yesterday. Ali Al Omair told reporters yesterday. in Tripoli, said the El Sharara “Please do not panic, things “It’s too early to decide, but I don’t think so,” he said in response field would reopen tomorrow, but will fix itself,” Badri said dur- to a question on the sidelines of a major energy industry conference the growing chaos in the country ing a panel discussion at a major in Abu Dhabi. “It will be a hard decision but I don’t think there has cast doubt on Libya’s ability energy industry conference in will be any cut.” to maintain its recent output Abu Dhabi. Omair also said he believed surplus production in the oil market rebound, as rival groups grapple United Arab Emirates Energy would be absorbed soon, but that the extent of the surplus was not for control. Minister Suhail bin Mohammed clear. Asked about the size of the overhang in the market, he replied: Tripoli’s involvement, if con- Al Mazroui, also on the panel, “We do not know how big it is.” firmed, could threaten an oil delivered a similar opinion: “We Oil is unlikely to drop to a level that would hurt the Kuwaiti sector that so far had largely are not seeing the price issue as a economy, Omair said without elaborating on where that level was. weathered Libya’s most recent major issue that we need to panic Later, he said that the oil price might fall “a little bit” below cur- political turmoil, in which an about.” rent levels but “will stabilise”. armed group took control of the Badri indicated that both pro- He said Kuwait was worried about the price decline but not capital, installing its own govern- ducers and consumers would be panicking. On the outlook for the 12-member Organisation for the ment and parliament and forc- happy with oil prices in a broad Petroleum Exporting Countries meeting, “the most important thing ing the internationally-recognised range around $100 per barrel. is that we agree,” he said without elaborating. Opec supplies around government to the east. “In the last five to six years we 40 percent of global crude output. AGENCIES “The manager of the field don’t see any nagging by consum- insists reopening the field just ers or producers...$100, $110, $95, because he wants to make good they are happy with these prices.” would reduce investment in dollar and persistent concerns relations with the invaders,” said He also said, “A high price is oil supply. about strong global supply and commander Abdulhamid Kraeer, not preferable by Opec, a low Brent crude extended losses to weak economic growth. Brent who belongs to a brigade from price is not preferable by Opec” be down more than $1 per barrel crude fell to a low of $82.27 per Zintan allied to the government because high prices would mean in late trade yesterday, pushed barrel and was last trading down Gold bars and a Swiss Franc coin are seen in an illustration picture. Spot in the east and opposed to the less demand while low prices lower by a strengthening US $1.01 at $82.38. REUTERS gold was down 2.2 percent to $1,152.77 an ounce by 1935 GMT yes- Tripoli rulers. REUTERS terday as the dollar rose, nearly wiping out its previous session’s rally.

QE index moves closer to 14,000 levels MSCI increases weights of 4 stocks DOHA: International equity index compiler MSCI announced DOHA: Qatari bourse bench- The Banking sector gained 0.78 International and the property to QR257m from QR218m. The Gulf International Services will be added to the emerging mar- mark index inched closer to percent with QNB gaining the developer UDC were the top gain- value of Industrials stocks rose ket index. In its semiannual review announced last week, MSCI the psychological 14,000 mark most. The banking major, which ers. Ooredoo gained 1.67 percent, to QR220m from QR176m. Total also increased the weights and removed the adjustment factor yesterday, after the market secured a weighting increase in while Vodafone edged 1.25 percent value of real estate stocks fell to for three stocks in the UAE and four stocks in Qatar, citing advanced for a third straight MSCI’s emerging market index up. Gulf International added 2.20 QR164m from QR313m. relaxed foreign ownership restrictions, a press note issued by day. Supported by Telecoms last week, jumped 1.35 percent. percent as UDC appreciated by 2.94 Elsewhere, most stock markets Qatar Exchange (QE) said. and Transportation sectors, the Bellwether Industries Qatar, percent. Total traded value rose to in the Middle East gained, led by In the review that will take effect at the end of November, MSCI main index rose 0.70 percent to another stock which secured an QR902m from QR875m. Traded Dubai. Dubai’s index jumped 2.8 has removed the adjustment factor for Qatar National Bank, end the day at 13,788. Market increased weighting in the rebal- volume, however, fell to 12 million percent as Abu Dhabi’s benchmark Industries Qatar, Commercial Bank of Qatar and Doha Bank. cap jumped to QR744bn from the ancing, ended flat. shares from 16 million shares. The rose 1.1 percent. THE PENINSULA previous session’s QR739bn. Ooredoo, Vodafone , Gulf value of banking stocks increased THE PENINSULA

Safra buys ‘The Gherkin’ Kuwait looking Porsche to sell most expensive at reforming petrol subsidies model ever by this December BERLIN: Germany’s Porsche ABU DHABI: Kuwait’s gov- expects to sell out of its most ernment is looking at adjusting expensive model ever by early its petrol subsidies in order to December, bolstering earnings reduce waste, a senior Kuwaiti as the sports car maker grap- official said yesterday in a fresh ples with rising capacity and sign that authorities are using technology costs. this year’s oil price plunge to Profits from Porsche are a key push economic reforms. part of owner Volkswagen’s drive For years, the government to fund its global expansion plans refrained from cutting lavish and and overtake sales at Japanese growing energy subsidies because rival Toyota. of sensitivities. But last month, it Operating profit at Porsche said it planned to raise domestic fell 12 percent in the third quar- prices of diesel fuel and kerosene. ter to €529m due to the cost of Ali Sabt bin Sabt, acting under- expanding its German plants in secretary at Kuwait’s oil ministry, Leipzig and Zuffenhausen, as said that the government was now well as spending on fuel-efficient also looking at petrol subsidies. technology. A petrol price hike would prob- “We are close to the finish line” ably have a much bigger impact in selling all 918 of the 918 Spyder Porsche CEO Matthias Mueller sits inside the Porsche 918 Spyder hybrid car. on consumers than the diesel and Hybrid model which starts at kerosene changes. €768,026, Porsche sales chief Porsche has forecast it will lift auto show, may over time account “You need to do something Bernhard Maier said yesterday, overall sales to more than 200,000 for about 10 percent of the mod- about subsidies. Maybe a produc- citing strong demand from North next year from 162,000 in 2013, el’s overall sales, the same as the ing country can turn into a con- America. benefiting from the new Macan Panamera plug-in hybrid coupe, sumer country,” Sabt said on the Only a small double-digit compact sport utility vehicle Maier said. sidelines of an energy conference number of the plug-in hybrid (SUV) released last April. “Interest (in hybridisation) is in Abu Dhabi. “We need to put model, the price of which can With its growing push into growing steadily,” the executive policy on it. We need to put an rise up to €947,716 in Germany SUVs, Porsche is hard pressed to said, indicating that the next order to it so we can do something on optional equipment, was lower carbon dioxide emissions generation of Porsche’s iconic 911 regarding consumption.” still available, Maier said in an across its fleet and is raising sports car may also be offered as Sabt added, “Yes, we are looking interview. spending on hybrid models which a plug-in hybrid. A picture of “The Gherkin” in London’s main financial district. ‘The at petrol specifically. It is subsi- Production of the 918 Spyder, combine a combustion engine and Separately, Porsche said that Gherkin’, has been bought by Safra Group, controlled by the family dised and...that is increasing. As unveiled at the 2013 Frankfurt electric motor. October deliveries jumped 18 of Brazilian banker Joseph Safra, the company said yesterday. The population is more and more, auto show, has been limited to 918 The new plug-in hybrid version percent to 15,820 vehicles, lifting deal is reportedly worth £726m. we have to do something in this cars to underscore the exclusivity of the top-selling Cayenne SUV, 10-month sales by 14 percent to regard.” REUTERS of the vehicle and the brand. rolled out last month at the Paris 151,462 cars. REUTERS TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2014 18 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Renault unveils EO to support govt’s economic goals Duster Oroch Entrepreneurs network announces new plans for diversification and growth through SMEs show car in

DOHA: The Qatar Chapter role in Qatar and draw on its of the world’s most influen- members and their experiences Sao Paulo tial network of entrepreneurs, to support small businesses and Entrepreneurs Organisation entrepreneurs. DOHA: Renault unveiled the (EO), has announced new plans “EO is the catalyst that ena- Duster Oroch show car in a to support the government’s bles entrepreneurs to learn and world premiere at the 28th Sao economic goals for diversifica- grow from each other, leading to Paulo Motor Show in Brazil held tion and growth through SMEs greater business success and an from October 30 to November 9. and new business ventures. enriched personal life. We are Designed by the Renault design The 2014-15 plan was approved focused on peer-to-peer learning centre for Latin America (RDAL) at a board meeting this week and support, which is something in Sao Paulo, the Duster Oroch at the Qatar Businessmen no other organisation can provide. show car is a styling exercise for Association offices in West Bay. The government has set objec- a recreational pick-up truck with The process began two months tives for SME growth, and our enough room for five people and ago with a strategy summit and members are fully committed to the robust stance of a true SUV. focuses the chapter on three key playing a positive role and helping The Duster Oroch show car priorities for the year. other entrepreneurs to succeed,” is a styling exercise for a five- These priorities will be imple- he said. seat recreational pick-up truck mented in a new yearly plan to Efforts to engage a greater featuring the robust looks of a engage a greater number of Qatari number of Qatari and expat true SUV. Pick-ups account for entrepreneurs, provide them with entrepreneurs have resulted in nearly 75 percent of the light more learning opportunities, and strong membership growth, with commercial vehicle market in increase collaboration with and an increase of 65 percent since The officials of the Entrepreneurs Organisation. South America, representing just support to government organisa- June. EO Qatar Vice-President, over 920,000 units. Renault has tions such as Qatar Development Abdulsalam Abu Isa, said that the to two events per month in addi- chapter of EO Global, a network global minimum revenue require- already announced plans to enter Bank, Qatar Business Incubation high calibre of members has been tion to social meetings. EO mem- of more than 10,000 business ments. The organisation’s mem- the pick-up market with at least Centre, Social Development a key reason for new applications. bers will be taking part in various owners in 46 countries with an bership is a diverse mix of Qataris two models. Center and Enterprise Qatar. The chapter has created a busy activities organised by the Global average annual sales of $27m. and expatriates from Europe, the The Duster Oroch is a creation Patrick Forbes, President of calendar of learning events, led Entrepreneurship Week, which Members of EO Qatar are all Middle East, North America and of the Renault design centre for EO Qatar, commented that EO by Learning Chair Khalifa Al will be held in mid November. self-made entrepreneurs and own Asia. Latin America (RDAL) in Sao will do this by playing a unique Haroon, giving members access EO Qatar is the country successful businesses that meet THE PENINSULA Paulo, one of Renault’s five design centres worldwide. The show car’s body colour is an exclusive combination of satin-finish white and touches of orange which highlight its sporty BP committed to Rosneft Chestertons’ QR8.7bn London project personality and the world of kite- surfing, which inspired the vehi- cle’s design. investment, says CEO The vehicle’s front end fea- targets Qatar-based investors tures the new brand identity and carries over some of the styling ABU DHABI: BP Chief include doing business in Russia,” DOHA: Chestertons, the investors in terms future the strong value proposition that cues explored previously on the Executive Officer Robert Dudley Dudley told a news conference the international prop- growth…. Favourable conditions we are offering, and we expect to D-Cross concept car, which was said yesterday that the oil major on the sidelines of an energy event erty agency, will be unveil- and an upbeat market antici- see a significant level of interest a reinterpretation of the Renault was committed to investments in in Abu Dhabi. ing QR8.7bn ‘Royal Wharf’ pates growth in the property for phase two as well.” Duster presented at the Sao Paulo Russia and had no plans to sell its He also said the company had project, a series of luxury sales sector in London and With nearly 3,500 new Motor Show in 2012. stake in Rosneft despite Western “absolutely no intention” of selling mixed-use developments by this certainly is an ideal time homes, Royal Wharf is the larg- The large front and rear bump- sanctions against the country. its 18.5 percent stake in Rosneft, Oxley and Ballymore for to invest in London properties,” est development in London to ers convey an impression of Sanctions imposed by the and he would continue to serve Qatari investors. said Samuel Warren, Director come forward since the launch strength and power. United States and Europe over on the board of the Russian Royal Wharf will create a of International Residential of Battersea Power Station and “The Renault Duster Oroch Russian support for separatists in energy firm. new town centre complete with Developments, Chesterton unlike some developments in show car boasts the energetic, Ukraine have hit the economy and “There’s even a possibility BP will 3,385 riverside properties, pro- Humberts. the capital, provides achievable robust stance that appeals to cus- the rouble currency has lost a quar- have two seats on the Rosneft board viding homes for approximately The ‘Royal Wharf’ project housing options for Londoners. tomers. It’s the work of our Sao ter of its value since the middle of next year,” Dudley said. 10,000 residents in London. will include two new parks The first residents will begin to Paulo design centre and packs this year. The falling oil price, which has The exhibition in Doha will and three pocket parks, a high move into Royal Wharf in mid- an emotional punch which is The Russian central bank yester- slipped by almost 30 percent since be held at Studio One confer- street with nearly 5,000 sqm 2016, just two years after work characteristic of design in Latin day forecast three years of near- June as strong supply met weak ence room, W Doha Hotel & of shops, bars and restaurants commenced and in an unprece- America,” comments Laurens van stagnant growth. global demand growth, would not Residences, West Bay from and significant new commu- dented pace of development for den Acker, Senior Vice President, The pressure from the West over change BP’s plans for projects, November 13 to November 15. nity infrastructure including London, the whole development Corporate Design for the Renault President Vladimir Putin’s Ukraine Dudley said, adding there was no Prices for these properties will a school. This residential cen- will be completed by 2020. group. policies has forced some interna- need to overreact to the drop. start from QR1.5m. The project trepiece of the transformation John Mulryan, UK Managing “While it takes its inspiration tional firms to re-evaluate their As for selling assets as a conse- is located close to the Emirates of the Royal Docks in East Director of Ballymore, added from the Duster, itself a robust dealings with Russia, although the quence of the price fall, Dudley said: Air Line, London’s only cross- London launched its second “Phase two offers a unique vehicle with an assertive person- BP head indicated yesterday his “For us, divestments is a bit of fine river cable car. phase on October 24. opportunity to buy into an area ality, our local design team has firm wouldn’t be one of them. tuning compared to what we had to “London is a key hub for Oxley Chief Executive Ching of the capital that is set to dras- delivered a fresh interpretation “We remain long-term partners. do before. I don’t see the price in oil Qatar based property investors. Chiat Kwong said, “The sell-out tically change and evolve in the of the model in the form of this We will not do anything to vio- changing our view on divestments.” It is a versatile global capital as response to the units launched coming years.” show car,” he said. late sanctions but sanctions don’t REUTERS it offers the best prospects for in the first phase is testament to THE PENINSULA THE PENINSULA Putin confident of stable rouble

BEIJING: Russian President Vladimir Putin expressed Russia cuts growth forecasts VTB may delist confidence that the rouble, which has lost nearly a quar- MOSCOW: Russia faces the prospect of three years of eco- from London in ter of its value so far this nomic stagnation, the central bank predicted yesterday, year, would soon stabilise as underscoring the heavy costs of President Vladimir Putin’s Russia’s central bank said it Ukraine policies and of Russia’s dependence on fragile oil favour of China would intervene only if “finan- prices. In an annual monetary policy strategy document, cial stability” was threatened. the bank slashed its economic growth forecasts in 2014-16 BEIJING: VTB, Russia’s No. The Russian strongman to almost zero, anticipating that Western sanctions imposed 2 bank, may delist from the blamed speculation for the cur- over Russia’s actions in Ukraine would last at least until the London Stock Exchange (LSE) rency’s volatility, insisting that end of 2017. in favour of Chinese bourses it was “absolutely” no reflec- It also raised its forecasts for net capital outflows to $128bn as sanctions imposed in the tion of the country’s economic in 2014 and $99bn in 2015. Separately, it said it was scrapping Ukraine crisis hit its ability to situation. the rouble’s corridor against a dollar-euro basket, a decision raise capital in Western mar- “We can see speculative presaged by the bank’s announcement last Wednesday that it kets, its chief executive said. moves in the exchange rate, would limit intervention. VTB shares have traded in but I think that will end very The bank’s view on sanctions, the first official assessment of London and Moscow since 2007, soon, given the actions taken how long they may last, tallied with that expressed by influ- when the bank raised about by the central bank in response ential former finance minister Alexei Kudrin in September. $8bn in an initial pubic offering. to the speculators,” said Putin It base scenario expected just 0.3 percent economic growth in In total, it has raised over $14bn in Beijing, where he is attend- 2014, zero growth in 2015, and 0.1 percent growth in 2016. The in public share issues and has ing the Asia-Pacific Economic economy was only expected to revive modestly in 2017, when received state support to boost Cooperation (APEC) summit. the bank expected growth to reach 1.6 percent. Its forecast its capital. The Bank of Russia said assumed a modest recovery in the oil price to $95 per barrel The Western sanctions imposed Friday it was ready to step in next year, followed by a further decline. REUTERS on VTB over Russia’s role in the to protect the crashing rouble, conflict in Ukraine limit its ability after the currency lost 10 per- to raise funds — including capi- cent in value last week alone for the rouble to float over past Russian currency near midday tal — in the United States and amid plunging oil prices and the years, thereby limiting its pos- climbed to 56.99 roubles to the Europe. “We are not satisfied fallout from the Ukraine crisis. sible interventions. But the euro and 45.70 rouble to the with the LSE’s position,” Andrei Then yesterday the central rouble has fallen as Western dollar — far from the record Kostin, President and Chairman bank in Moscow announced sanctions on Russia over its lows it touched last week of 60 of the management board of VTB, that it was removing the range role in the Ukraine crisis have rouble against the euro and 48 and an ally of President Vladimir it had fixed for the rouble up to led to a surge in capital flight against the dollar. Putin, told reporters on the side- now, allowing it to float freely from the country. Analysts, however, cautioned lines of an Asia-Pacific summit on the market. The Bank of Russia said in a that the increasing tensions in in Beijing. “We will seriously But that “did not amount statement Friday that it spent eastern Ukraine could again consider our participation in the to a total renunciation of any $30bn in October to keep the impact the rouble, or that the London Stock Exchange. We are interventions in the currency rouble afloat, vowing to spend market might test the central looking at Chinese bourses.” market, which would be possi- more if needed “as well as use bank’s resolve. He added any Chinese listing ble in case a threat to financial other financial instruments at “We remain worried that the was unlikely this year. stability appears,” it said. its disposal.” market might want to test the He gave no time frame and did The Bank of Russia, which “The financial authorities will of the regulator to act and not say how much VTB might has been planning to shift to have taken all the necessary might wait for strong inter- raise. VTB shares were trading inflation-targeting like central measures,” said Putin yesterday, ventions to halt the negative at 4.08 kopecks, close to the price banks in the West, had pro- adding that they do not intend spiral,” said analysts at VTB of its latest share offering in 2013. gressively enlarged the range to impose capital controls. The Capital. AFP REUTERS TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2014 BUSINESS www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 19 New rules to discipline ‘too big to fail’ banks Plans envisage that global banks should have buffer of bonds or equity equivalent to 16 to 20pc of risky assets

BASEL/LONDON: Banks may down) without recourse to public bonds or equity equivalent to at back the proposal later this week the new rules, the FSB said. Some risk. Globally, the leverage ratio have to scrap dividends and rein subsidy and without disruption least 16 to 20 percent of their risk- in Australia. It is being put out to bonds, known as “senior debt” that has been set provisionally at 3 in bonuses if they breach new to the wider financial system,” weighted assets, such as loans, public consultation until February banks have already sold to inves- percent but it could be higher rules designed to ensure that Carney said in a statement. from January 2019. 2, 2015. David Ereira, a partner at tors, would need restructuring. when finalised in 2015. Some of creditors rather than taxpayers After the financial crisis in These bonds would be con- law firm Linklaters, said that on Senior debt was largely pro- the buffer must be held at major pick up the bill when big lenders 2007-2009, governments had to verted to equity to help shore up its own the new rule as proposed tected during the financial crisis, overseas subsidiaries to reassure collapse. spend billions of dollars of tax- a stricken bank. The banks’ total would not end “too big to fail” which meant investors did not lose regulators outside a bank’s home Mark Carney, chairman of the payer money to rescue banks that buffer would include the minimum banks and that politically tricky their money. But Carney said it country. Banks may have to hold Financial Stability Board and ran into trouble and could have mandatory core capital require- details still had to be settled. in future these bonds might have more than the minimum because Bank of England governor, said threatened the global financial ments banks must already hold Carney was confident the new to bear losses if allowed under of “add-ons” due to specific busi- the rules, proposed yesterday, system if allowed to go under. to bolster their defences against rule would be applied as central national rules and if investors ness models, Carney said. marked a watershed in putting an Since then, regulators from the future crises. The new rule will banks and governments had a were warned in advance. Elke Koenig, president of end to taxpayer bailouts of banks Group of 20 economies have been apply to 30 banks the regulators hand in drafting them. “This isn’t The new buffer, formally known German regulator Bafin, said considered too big to fail. trying to find ways to prevent this have deemed to be globally “sys- something that we cooked up in as total loss absorbing capacity supervisors should orient them- “Once implemented, these happening again. temically important,” though ini- Basel tower and are just present- or TLAC, must be at least twice selves more toward the upper end agreements will play important The plans envisage that global tially three from China on that list ing to everybody,” he said. a bank’s leverage ratio, a sepa- of the 16-20 percent range, though roles in enabling globally sys- banks like Goldman Sachs and of 30 would be exempt. Most of the banks would need rate measure of capital to total banks may be given more time temic banks to be resolved (wound HSBC should have a buffer of G2O leaders are expected to to sell more bonds to comply with assets regardless of the level of to comply. REUTERS

China’s aviation exhibition StanChart to update turnaround plans as problems pile up

LONDON: Standard Chartered The bank’s bad debt outlook managing director of SVM Asset boss Peter Sands has his work will be a key topic for investors Management, which holds the cut out to convince investors attending the meetings. Bad debts bank’s shares. he can turn around the Asia- more than doubled in the third Standard Chartered shares, focused bank after three profit quarter from a year ago as falling which traditionally trade at a warnings, new troubles in the commodity prices hurt corporate premium to rivals, were last at United States and a 30 percent borrowers in Asia. If the bad debt 0.8 times book value, compared share price drop. spike signals a new trend, share- to 1 times for rival HSBC and 1.2 Sands, who begins a three-day holders will want reassurance the times for Lloyds , after the stock road show for investors in Hong bank is adequately protected. crashed to a five-year low last Kong starting today, is under Indonesian businessman Samin month. pressure to show a restructuring Tan, who owes the bank $750m, Other problems include losses plan he unveiled a year ago is still is in talks to sell assets to help in Korea, falling investment bank- relevant and goes far enough. repay the debt. ing income, a shareholder back- The former McKinsey consult- But losses on that loan would lash over pay and US authorities ant, 52, was widely praised for show how the bank has made looking anew at potential sanc- Standard Chartered’s 10 years of some bad bets. Investors typically tions violations. record earnings. He is the longest hold Standard Chartered shares Some investors have called for serving CEO of a major British to get emerging market exposure Sands or Chairman John Peace bank and next week will celebrate without many accidents. to step aside or set out clear suc- eight years in charge. “It’s not priced for perfection, cession plans. But the good times came to a but there’s little tolerance ... and Sands has said he will step up Workers install a propeller onto a helicopter ahead of the 10th China International Aviation and halt in summer 2012 when the it wasn’t convincing on the last his restructuring effort and cut Aerospace Exhibition in Zhuhai, Guangdong province, yesterday. More than 130 planes will attend the bank paid $667m for violating US call why they are missing (expec- $400m more from costs next year. six-day air show starting today, Xinhua News Agency reported. sanctions on Iran. tations),” said Colin McLean, REUTERS Embraer strike Dubai’s financial free ends as union moves to court zone to double in size DUBAI: Dubai International “We’ve been growing very fast, in SAO PAULO: Workers at Financial Centre (DIFC) is on terms of the number of companies Brazilian aerospace firm track to double in size over the and people that are working in the Embraer suspended a strike next decade with companies from DIFC, and if you extrapolate that, over a pay claim yesterday, as China and South-east Asia set we’ll manage to double everything their union said it would ask the to fuel its next phase of growth, in the next 10 years,” DIFC gover- courts to rule on their demand the governor of the financial free nor Essa Kazim told reporters at a for a 10 percent wage rise. zone said yesterday. media event. The decision was backed by The zone’s expansion illustrates “Chinese and South-east Asian almost 8,000 workers of the 10,000 the shift away from traditional companies are showing a strong who downed tools last Wednesday financial centres such as London interest in the region so we are at the firm’s Sao Jose dos Campos and New York due to the increasing working with them to capitalise on headquarters outside Sao Paulo, wealth of emerging market econo- Dubai and the DIFC as a hub for the metalworkers’ union said. mies, and the increasing impor- their businesses to expand. “The union is going to under- tance of the Middle East as a hub. That is where I feel the growth take a legal class action against DIFC has its own labour laws will happen.” The doubling in size Embraer to obtain a ten percent and court system separate from the would be in terms of floor space, wage rise, a reduction in the work- wider United Arab Emirates. Since the number of people working in ing week to 40 hours, job stability opening a decade ago, it has risen the centre and the number of com- and for strike pay,” the union said. to become the most prominent panies there, Kazim added. The spokesman said the stop- financial hub in the Middle East, In total, around 17,000 people page by around three quarters with many international banks, law worked in 1,147 companies based of the 13,000 total workforce had and advisory firms and insurance in the area at the end of August, halted all production at the com- companies using it as their regional according to figures provided by pany’s plant. AFP base of operations. the centre. REUTERS

Greek consumer prices fall

A woman looks at a shop window as employees arrange clothing products in Athens yesterday. Greek consumer prices fell 1.7 percent in October, with the annual pace of deflation accelerating from a 0.8 percent drop in September, data from the country’s statistics service showed yesterday. TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2014 20 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com BUSINESS

Aldi reveals plans UK businesses to create 35,000 jobs in Britain LONDON: German-owned overwhelmingly discount retailer Aldi said yes- terday it will create 35,000 jobs in Britain by 2022, more than doubling its workforce and pro-EU: Leader store network to meet booming demand. The company will invest £600m ($953m, ¤765m) over the next Cameron’s attitude criticised eight years, it said in a statement, as discounters like Aldi and its LONDON: The majority of markets at home.” “British busi- German rival Lidl continue to British businesses would vote to ness will always choose openness,” win customers in Britain from stay in the EU in a referendum, he added, saying that four out of traditional supermarkets Tesco, a senior business leader said five CBI members would vote to Sainsbury and Morrisons. yesterday as he warned that stay in the EU in a referendum. Aldi announced the news in increasing eurosceptic rhetoric Rake agreed that reform was the presence of Prime Minister risked “shutting ourselves off needed to make the EU more David Cameron and finance from the world”. open, competitive and outward- minister George Osborne at the Mike Rake, the president of looking — changes that Cameron, group’s British headquarters in business lobby group CBI and in his speech to the conference, Atherstone, Warwickshire, in chairman of telecoms giant BT, insisted that he could deliver. central England. told the CBI’s annual conference The Conservative leader “The Prime Minister and the that membership of the European rejected suggestions that his Chancellor of the Exchequer Union was “overwhelmingly in promise of a referendum — which today welcomed plans from Aldi our national interest”. would only take place if he wins to create 35,000 new jobs over the He is the latest business leader re-election next year — was creat- next eight years as it strives to to make the case for Europe amid ing uncertainty that was harm- grow store numbers to 1,000 by concerns that Prime Minister ing British business. “The worst A British branch of German food retailer Aldi. The retailer said yesterday it will create 35,000 jobs in Britain by 2022,” it said in the statement. David Cameron’s increas- thing for us to do as a country is 2022, more than doubling its workforce and store network to meet booming demand. AFP ingly hawkish attitude towards to pretend this European debate Brussels is making it more likely isn’t happening,” he said. that Britain could leave the bloc. “The best thing to do is to get Opposition Labour party leader out there, make the arguments, Ed Miliband also warned yester- make the changes and then put Cairn Energy finds day that Cameron’s promise of an that to the British people.” Adco to invest $7bn to raise output in-or-out referendum in 2017 had In his speech to the conference more oil off Senegal weakened Britain’s influence in later, Miliband — who has refused the EU. to match Cameron’s referendum ABU DHABI: Abu Dhabi day and all the projects will go cooperation, signed on Sunday LONDON: Cairn Energy has Opening the Confederation of promise — was set to warn that Company for Onshore Oil ahead,” he said. between Japan and Abu Dhabi’s unearthed another oil find off British Industry conference in leaving the EU would be a “dis- Operations (Adco) plans to In another development, Supreme Petroleum Council, the coast of Senegal, the British London, Rake told the 1,000 del- aster” and condemn those who invest between $5bn and $7bn Tokyo has agreed in principle to extended the arrangement by energy explorer announced yes- egates that Britain faced a choice “flirt” with the idea. in the next three years to raise allow the United Arab Emirates three to five years, a trade min- terday. It comes after Cairn had between two futures. “A country making ever-more output by 12.5 percent, its chief (UAE) to store crude in Japan istry official said. last month said it made its first “One, in which we risk look- incoherent demands, ever-more executive said yesterday. for at least three more years, the The deal allows UAE to get free oil find in a field off the coast ing inward, shutting ourselves isolated from its partners, means The state-owned crude oil pro- trade ministry said yesterday, crude storage space of 6.29 million of Senegal, prompting the west off from the world in the face we are on the conveyor belt ducer currently produces 1.6 mil- giving the No.2 crude supplier barrels (1 million kilolitres) at African country to say that it of inevitable global change and towards exit with no idea how to lion barrels per day. to Japan continued access to a Kiire oil terminal in Kagoshima, aimed to begin pumping its own where we reject the power of free get off,” he will say, according to “The cost is $5 to 7bn to supply depot. southern Japan. Currently Japan oil in about five years’ time. and competitive markets to drive extracts of his speech. reach 1.8 million barrels per The agreement allows UAE lends storage of 4.4 million bar- The market meanwhile wel- progress,” he said. The Labour leader is hoping his day by end-2017,” Abdul Munim easy access to Asian markets rels (700,000 kl) to the UAE, the comed the latest discovery, push- “The other, in which we support for the EU will help win Al Kindy told reporters at an while giving Japan priority access official added. ing shares in Cairn up more than embrace the openness which has back business leaders dismayed industry event. to reserves if Japan is in short Japan has a similar arrange- 9.0 percent in early London trad- always been the foundation of by his calls for intervention in the He said currently low oil prices supply of crude. ment with Saudi Arabia under ing. Cairn Energy chief executive Britain’s success — to trade, to energy market and to break up will have no impact on the expan- Japan has been giving UAE free which Saudi can store 6.29 mil- Simon Thomson described the people, to investment and to ideas Britain’s big banks. sion plans. “We are committed to crude storage for five years since lion barrels in Japan. latest find as “significant” for the from abroad, and of competitive AFP achieving 1.8 million barrels per 2009, and the memorandum of REUTERS company and Senegal. Turkish Airlines Q3 Senior EU aide defends net profit doubles ISTANBUL: Turkish Airlines Luxembourg tax deals posted a third quarter net profit of 1.37bn lira ($607m) yester- day, almost double a year ago PARIS/BRUSSELS: A sen- 15-16 global economic summit. and above a Reuters poll fore- ior aide defended European After chairing his inaugural cast of 1.16bn lira. Its net profit Commission President Jean- meeting last Wednesday, Juncker was 705.1 million lira in the Claude Juncker yesterday against said he felt no conflict of interest same period a year earlier. The charges of having provided a and would not interfere with an carrier said in a statement with haven for corporate tax avoidance investigation by the Commission’s the Istanbul stock exchange in Luxembourg, saying the entire competition department into that sales rose to 7.17 billion lira new EU executive was committed Luxembourg’s so-called tax rulings, in the third quarter from 5.69bn to stamping out tax evasion. which enabled companies to pay lira a year ago, beating a Reuters Juncker, 59, who was the tiny minimal tax on profits channeled poll forecast of 6.89 billion lira. Grand Duchy’s finance minister via the country. EU authorities are from 1989 and prime minister in also investigating corporate tax 1995-2013, has avoided the media avoidance schemes in Ireland and NCB trading to start since a network of investigative the Netherlands on suspicion that journalists reported last week they may constitute illicit state aid after $6bn share sale that Luxembourg had granted to business. Global brands such as DUBAI: Saudi Arabia’s sweetheart deals to some 340 PepsiCo, Amazon, insurer AIG and National Commercial Bank multinationals allowing them to Deutsche Bank AG are reported (NCB) will make its Riyadh avoid billions of euros in tax. to have benefited from such deals bourse debut tomorrow, a state- Asked when the Commission with Luxembourg, a flourishing ment from the exchange said, chief would answer questions offshore financial centre with a having completed a $6bn initial on the affair, his spokesman, population of just 560,000. share sale last week. Magaritis Schinas, told a Brussels The affair has overshadowed The stock will be able to move news briefing: “Juncker will the start of what Juncker has a maximum of 10 percent up or choose the moment himself to say billed as “Europe’s last chance”. down on its first day of trading, what he has to say, either at the His team has promised swift the statement said. NCB’s share G20 or at some other time.” action to revive a stagnant econ- sale, the largest ever initial public An EU official said Juncker was omy and combat mass unem- offering in the Arab world, rew expected to take part in a news ployment by boosting public and massive local interest, with the conference in Brisbane, Australia, private investment and economic retail portion of the offer 23 times next Saturday, during the Nov. reforms. REUTERS subscribed. AGENCIES

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Canary Wharf group eyes China’s Silk Road fund houses alongside offices BY CLARE HUTCHISON challenges US dominance ANARY Wharf Group’s plans for high-rise living in London’s transformed financial centre mark a new departure for it BY JOHN KEMP and workers in Britain’s capital who have till now preferred projects and other desperately banks. Under intense pressure area where the post-war eco- Cto live at a distance from their offices. Having successfully needed infrastructure across the from the US, the World Bank nomic and financial leadership revamped what were derelict docks into a gleaming collection of The Silk Road, no longer region. and Asian Development Bank of the United States and its net- skyscrapers, the group is confident it can persuade bankers and just a concept in history The Silk Road fund and Asia will no longer finance coal-fired work of allies is being challenged. lawyers to call the area on London’s eastern flank their home as well books, has evolved into a Infrastructure Investment power stations due to concerns The US pivot to Asia is being as their place of work. “story of modern logistics Bank pose a direct challenge about climate change. But many matched by a similar move on Songbird Estates, which owns 69 percent of the Canary Wharf and Sino-European coopera- to the traditional primacy of countries, including India, have the part of Russia, which has Group, is one of the front runners in the race to capitalise on an tion,” Yang Jiechi, China’s top US-dominated financial and indicated they intend to con- sought to reduce its depend- expected explosion in London’s population with a plan for luxury diplomat, told a conference this trade institutions in the region, tinue building coal-fired plants ence on the United States and high-rise apartments that could double the size of the original wharf month. including the International to bring electricity to millions of Europe by upgrading its eco- development estate. “People are working differently now. They might The New Silk Road Economic Monetary Fund, World Bank homes that are currently with- nomic ties with China. In the come in and work until small hours in the morning and want to be Belt — from China across and Asian Development Bank, out secure and affordable access past six months, Russia has able to get home,” said Nick Parr, a partner at London estate agent Central Asia and Russia to all of which were set up following to modern energy. signed two major deals to supply Knight Frank. He added that modern living now had a “south east Europe — and the 21st Century the US victory in World War US officials fear the new natural gas to China, which has Asian influence - where everything goes on 24 hours a day and is all Maritime Silk Road — through Two. Chinese-led institutions will become Russia’s most important on your door step when you need it.” the Malacca Strait to India, the US diplomats have been lend to projects that are unable trading partner. In July 2014, Canary Wharf Group’s first foray into residential development Middle East and East Africa — manoeuvring furiously to limit to secure financing from other China, Russia, India and Brazil has already attracted would-be buyers to it: Last week the company have become the centrepiece of the impact of China’s economic multilateral institutions, render- reached agreement on a $100bn rejected a £2.2bn takeover approach from the Qatar Investment China’s economic diplomacy. diplomacy. In the past month, ing the conditionality ineffective. New Development Bank to be Authority and Brookfield Property Partners, saying it significantly The belt and the road, as Australia and South Korea But there is a deeper, unspo- headquartered in Shanghai. undervalued the group. The plans for Canary Wharf living include a China’s diplomats refer to them, both declined to join the new ken fear that the new institu- China and Russia have also 60-storey residential skyscraper and Wood Wharf, a 20-acre riverside are the focus of the Asia-Pacific Infrastructure Investment tions will be used to enhance been busy promoting economic development complete with a school, apartments and a medical clinic Economic Cooperation (APEC) Bank following intense lobbying China’s leadership at the expense and military ties across Central on the banks of the Thames. summit in Beijing this week. from officials in Washington, of the US and its traditional Asia through the Shanghai Canary Wharf Group is betting that workers are increasingly They aim to cement China’s which went all the way up to allies in Asia including Japan, Cooperation Organisation. willing to jettison the traditional British commute via train and bus emerging role at the heart of the Secretary of State John Kerry South Korea and Australia. The major financial and from suburban areas encircling the capital in favour of high-rise 21st century economy. China’s and President Barack Obama In the run-up to the APEC economic institutions, which living in the metropolis. President Xi Jinping has pledged himself. summit, US diplomats have experts sometimes call the Its build coincides with a rapid growth in London’s population, $40bn to a new Silk Road fund Officially, US diplomats are sought to keep the focus on the “international financial archi- which will shortly hit 8.6 million people — its pre-World War Two for investing in infrastructure, concerned about governance Trans-Pacific Partnership, a tecture”, no longer correspond peak — and grow by a further 2.7 million by 2050, according to esti- resources and industrial and standards at the new institu- proposed US-led regional trade to the balance of power and the mates from the Greater London Authority. financial cooperation across tions. There are fears about the deal, rather than the broader shifting centre of gravity in the After a hiatus following the financial crisis, the number of new Asia. large share of the voting rights Free Trade Area of the Asia world economy. As the world’s residential developments in London has started to grow again in Chinese diplomats have also that will go to China and the will- Pacific, promoted by China. It greatest export powerhouse, recent years. Some 6,600 developments were launched in the first been busy promoting a new ingness of the new institutions is part of a mounting economic, China has accumulated vast half of 2014, more than double the 3,000 units started in the same Asian Infrastructure Investment to lend for projects that do not political and military competi- foreign exchange reserves and period two to three years ago, according to investment management Bank, promising to provide half meet the social and environmen- tion between the United States is now becoming a major sup- firm Jones Lang LaSalle which specialises in real estate. of its $50bn start-up capital, to tal criteria currently employed and China across the region. plier of capital. Canary Wharf’s development stands out for two reasons. First, its help build ports, roads, power by multilateral development Asia-Pacific is not the only REUTERS office space is much cheaper than the rest of London with rents of £38.50 per square foot, compared to 107.50 in the West End, 58.50 in the City and 52.20 on the Southbank, according to real estate consultancy CBRE. Secondly, a new high speed transport link — Cross Rail — connecting east and west London could rid the estate of its image as a peripheral destination. The £15bn railway will transport people from London’s major international airport Heathrow to the estate in under 40 minutes and to commuter hub Maidenhead, roughly 30 miles from the capital, in just 55 minutes, with no change of train required. The estate is already connected to the city’s transport network through the Dockland’s Light Railway and Jubilee underground rail line, churning out 100,000 commuters on weekdays and around 50,000 people on Saturdays. While some Londoners baulk at the prospect of living in the city’s East End, once more famous for slums than skyscrapers, Canary Wharf’s development is likely to appeal to over- seas professionals unperturbed about living outside the city centre. Songbird is also counting on its cheap rents to lure the creative industries — media, technology and telecommunications firms — away from their traditional base around London’s Old Street, and the developing hub around King’s Cross, soon to be home to Google. The so-called TMT sector is famously footloose in its search for premises at good value and has already driven up demand for office space in London. Some firms, mainly financial technology ones, have already migrated to Canary Wharf’s “Level39”, a space for start-up and high growth companies in the estate’s flagship Canada Square building. “What we’ve noticed in the last 12 to 18 months is the amount of tenants who are actively looking in Canary Wharf for office space as an alternative location to their traditional search areas,” said Sarah Shell, a director at Jones Lang LaSalle. “It’s a viable and more acceptable location partly because of cost, the quality of buildings down there, and also the different types of tenants.” Tower Hamlets, the London borough in which Canary Wharf resides, is already the fastest growing borough in London. Its popu- lation rose 29 percent in the ten years to 2011, boosted by an influx of people from overseas, in particular south Asia. Average house prices in Tower Hamlets have risen to almost £600,000, making it the twelfth most expensive borough in London, but the area hosts large disparities in wealth: bankers and lawyers drive luxury cars past council estates where unemployment and child poverty are high. Local politicians are hoping Canary Wharf’s Wood Wharf development will create more local jobs. It may also spur more takeover offers for its owner. REUTERS Cartoon Arts International / The New York Times Syndicate Big oil cutbacks create supply-chain pain BY LIONEL LAURENT and managers warn, as the recent fall are in a deteriorating market (for according to Reuters data, more Seeing blood in the water, already made a lot of adjust- BLAISE ROBINSON in oil prices — triggered by a sup- suppliers),” said KBC analyst Dirk diversified oil majors like BP hedge fund short sellers have ments and cost cuts to cope ply glut as well as worries over Verbiesen. and Royal Dutch Shell are at been circling shares of oil serv- with order cancellations and ELT-TIGHTENING by cooling demand — and the delayed Brent crude prices have tum- between 0.5 and 0.8. ices companies, with CGG, Fugro an oil price around $80. big energy majors faced effect of capital-expenditure cuts bled nearly 30 percent in the “The fall in oil prices is unlikely and Seadrill featuring among the Montaigne Capital’s Scarpaci with plunging oil prices keeps up the pressure on compa- past five months, to $82 a barrel to incite oil companies to invest in most shorted stocks in Europe, warned that sharp rebounds Bis battering the finances nies to plug balance-sheet gaps. — a level not seen in four years, the short term...This has dragged with between 8 and 10 percent of in prices like the ones seen on and share prices of their suppliers, “Oil services firms are like euro with some expecting the supply- down the oil-services sector but their shares out on loan, accord- Thursday in a number of stocks as investors reassess the sector’s zone banks a few years ago. There’s demand mismatch to get worse. A it has also been made worse in ing to Markit data. could happen in the coming ability to keep gushing cash. a lot of damage in the sector and it recent Reuters poll of economists certain cases, including Fugro, Hedge funds AQR Capital weeks, given the bearish consen- A growing list of delayed or could get worse before it gets bet- and analysts shows that Brent is by stretched balance sheets,” said Management, Marshall Wace sus and the high level of short cancelled projects, seen by some ter,” said Arnaud Scarpaci, fund seen averaging $93.70 in 2015 and Alain Parent, an analyst at Natixis LLP, BlackRock Investment selling. investors as a healthy move by manager at Montaigne Capital. $96.00 in 2016. in Paris. Management, Citadel Advisors “The level of pessimism is majors to rein in capital spend And that in turn may tarnish This has caught oil majors, not Reached for comment, Fugro and Oxford Asset Management reaching a high point on both after a poor history of returns the long-term appeal of an energy just suppliers, off-guard - French said its business had “compelling feature among the funds with the crude oil prices and the sector’s is working its way through cor- sector that has consistently been group Total for example still uses long-term potential” but that biggest short positions on oil serv- shares, so there’s a risk of short- porate earnings; it has already among the top dividend-paying $100 per barrel in its projections it faced challenging mid-term ices shares, according to regula- lived rebounds and short-covering pummelled the share price of industries since the financial cri- — and is starting to seriously market conditions as a result of tory filings with European market rallies.” some European suppliers seen as sis, representing around $41.6bn dampen their plans to ramp up spending cutbacks. It did how- regulators. Also, some investors feel that financially fragile. in total payouts for the second investment. ever say that it might benefit Marshall Wace, Citadel and the sector is in a state of overca- Fugro, once seen as a blue-chip quarter of 2014 alone, according But oil majors by and large are from a new era of no-frills serv- Oxford AM declined to com- pacity and that fragile firms that on Amsterdam’s benchmark index, to data from Henderson Global bigger and more diversified than ices by offering more standard- ment, while officials for AQR and eventually merge or drop out will has had more than 30 percent Investors. their suppliers, allowing them lee- ised products. BlackRock were not immediately allow stronger players to mop up of its stock-market value wiped According to analysts at way to protect payouts. BP even This week, France’s CGG available. market share. out in a week since scrapping its Nomura, Norwegian oil-drilling announced a dividend increase posted a brutal 24 percent drop Officials from Petroleum But given the long road ahead dividend. It is seeing trade swings contractor Seadrill is one example last month. in quarterly revenue as the group Geo-Services could not be for the sector’s clean-up, the likeli- more suited to a small-sized firm: of a firm that could fill an expected So while Fugro and peers like scrambles to reduce the size of reached immediately. A spokes- hood is that these stocks face big on Thursday its one-day gain was funding gap in 2015 by cutting Petroleum Geo Services and its seismic survey fleet, while man for CGG referred to com- short-term price moves rather 28 percent. dividends. Seadrill declined to CGG are facing these pressures Norway’s Aker Solutions warned ments made on Thursday by the than a quick shift in long-term The worst of this volatility may comment. with a net-debt-to-EBITDA that oil companies could further company’s CEO Jean-Georges investor sentiment. yet be to come, analysts and fund “Everybody’s concern is that we ratio of between 1.9 and 2.8, delay major projects. Malcor, who said the group has REUTERS TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2014 22 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com MARKET

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Lightning clip Cowboys storm to Wings, Oilers rout Rangers

NEW YORK: Right winger Ryan Callahan scored in the London victory shoot-out to give the Tampa Bay Lightning a 4-3 victory over the Detroit Red Wings at Joe Louis Resilient Romo dazzles at Wembley Stadium Arena. Centre Steven Stamkos scored twice and centre Tyler Johnson LONDON: Tony Romo made this week, was hurt when he was got the goals for Tampa Bay in sure that “America’s Team” NFL Results sacked by Rams safety Mark regulation. left an impression in London Kansas City 17 Buffalo 13 Barron. Palmer eventually limped Callahan also had two assists yesterday, shrugging off a back Detroit 20 Miami 16 off the field, but was taken by and goalie Ben Bishop stopped 17 injury to lead Dallas to a 31-17 Dallas 31 Jacksonville 17 stretcher to the locker room. shots in regulation and overtime. NFL victory over Jacksonville The team said further tests were Right winger Johan Franzen San Francisco 27 New Orleans 24 at Wembley Stadium. needed to determine the severity and left winger Gustav Nyquist “It’s just a little sore,” Romo Baltimore 21 Tennessee 7 of the injury. had a goal and an assist each said of the effects of two small NY Jets 20 Pittsburgh 13 The Saints suffered a rare and centre Darren Helm scored fractures in his back, which saw Atlanta 27 Tampa Bay 17 defeat in New Orleans, where for Detroit. Defenceman Niklas him miss one game before return- Denver 41 Oakland 17 Phil Dawson’s 35-yard field goal Kronwall had two assists and ing to train and travel with the Arizona 31 St Louis 14 with 5:14 left in overtime com- goaltender Jimmy Howard made team this week. Seattle 38 NY Giants 17 pleted a stirring San Francisco 27 saves in the first 65 minutes. He completed 20 of 27 passes rally that saw the 49ers notch a In another match, Left winger Green Bay 55 Chicago 14 for 246 yards and three touch- 27-14 triumph. Benoit Pouliot scored a goal and downs -- two of them caught by Jets quarterback Michael Vick Dawson also booted a 45-yard made an assist as Edmonton Dez Bryant. Jason Witten also threw two touchdown passes in field goal with 44 seconds left in defeated the New York Rangers. made a touchdown catch and the first quarter and displayed regulation to force overtime. Centre Ryan Nugent-Hopkins DeMarco Murray ran for 100 vintage form on the ground as Detroit quarterback Matthew scored his fifth of the season for yards as the Cowboys headed the Jets beat a Steelers team Stafford threw an 11-yard touch- Edmonton, while right winger back Stateside pleased with their coming off back-to-back victo- down pass to Theo Riddick with Teddy Purcell scored his second trans-Atlantic adventure. ries in which quarterback Ben 29 seconds remaining to lift the of the season into an empty net “I had no idea what to expect Roethlisberger had thrown a total Lions to a 20-16 triumph over with 1:27 remaining to seal the but I genuinely couldn’t have of 12 touchdowns. Miami. win. Goaltender Viktor Fasth enjoyed this week more,” Romo Arizona’s prospects of boosting Jamaal Charles and Alex Smith made 20 saves for the victory. said after the victory in one of their league-leading record looked both ran for touchdowns in the Carl Hagelin scored the lone three regular-season games being dim when quarterback Carson fourth quarter as Kansas City ral- goal for the Rangers (6-6-2), who played at Wembley this year. Palmer exited with a left knee lied for a 17-13 victory over the have lost four of five. Goaltender “The people, the fans, the envi- injury with the Cardinals trail- Bills in Buffalo and in Tampa, Henrik Lundqvist stopped 30 ronment... it’s one of my favorite ing St Louis in the fourth quarter. Matt Ryan’s TD pass to Roddy shots and took the loss. cities in the world.” But Arizona rallied around White in the fourth quarter Meanwhile, Toronto goalie Despite concerns over Romo’s backup Drew Stanton and scored helped Atlanta to a 27-17 victory James Reimer made 38 saves injury, the Cowboys’ victory over two defensive touchdowns for over the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. to top Ottawa at Canadian Tire the struggling Jags -- who fell to a 31-14 victory that took the In Green Bay, Aaron Rodgers Centre. Toronto winger David 1-9 -- was no shock. Cardinals’ record to 8-1 for the matched the NFL record as he Clarkson scored the lone goal of The upset of the day belonged to first time since 1948, when the threw six touchdown passes in the Jacksonville Jaguars Allen Hurns (left) gets tackled by Dallas Cowboys the third period after centre Peter the New York Jets, who snapped club was based in Chicago. first half to lead the Packers to a JJ Wilcox during the NFL American Football game at Wembley Stadium Holland had a goal and an assist, an eight-game losing streak with Palmer, who inked a three- 55-14 rout of NFC North rivals in London, yesterday. and wingers James van Riemsdyk a 20-13 victory over Pittsburgh. year, $50m contract extension Chicago. AFP and Josh Leivo and centre Mike Santorelli scored goals. Ottawa goalie Robin Lehner stopped just 25 shots while centre Kyle Turris and wingers Mike Hoffman and Mark Stone scored goals. Elsewhere, Chicago scored Suns hand Warriors first defeat of season three goals in a span of 2 minutes, 34 seconds in the second period to PHOENIX: The Phoenix Suns 28 points and 10 assists for the before the Suns exploded in the their first win of the NBA season, beat San Jose. Defencemen Trevor handed Golden State their first Warriors -- who were the last NBA Results final period. Gerald Green scored a 107-92 decision over Charlotte. Van Riemsdyk, Brent Seabrook defeat of the NBA season yes- unbeaten team left in the league Brooklyn 104 Orlando 96 eight straight points for the Suns The Lakers, whose 0-5 start and Niklas Hjalmarsson, left terday, taking full advantage of two weeks into the season. Utah 97 Detroit 96 to give them an 83-82 lead. He was the worst since the club winger Bryan Bickell and center the Warriors’ miscues in a 107- Golden State had squeaked out Oklahoma City 101 Sacramento 93 made a pair of three-pointers moved to Los Angeles, hadn’t lost Jonathan Toews scored goals for 95 victory. a win over Houston on Saturday later in the fourth, the second one six straight to open a season since Chicago. REUTERS Toronto 120 Philadelphia 88 Isaiah Thomas scored 22 points despite 26 turnovers, and coach giving Phoenix a 95-88 lead with the 1957-58 Lakers -- then based and handed out seven assists Steve Kerr had already predicted Miami 105 Dallas 96 4:46 to play. in Minneapolis -- lost their first NHL Results Phoenix 107 Golden State 95 for the Suns. Gerald Green and that the mistakes would catch Thomas scored seven points seven. While the current Lakers Toronto 5 Ottawa 3 Portland 116 Denver 100 Goran Dragic had 19 points apiece up with his team. Yesterday they down the stretch to seal the have avoided a repeat of that dis- Tampa Bay 4 Detroit 3 for Phoenix, who out-scored were also hurt by the absence of LA Lakers 107 Charlotte 92 come-from-behind victory. mal start -- or worse -- Bryant Edmonton 3 NY Rangers 1 the Warriors 36-16 in the final guard Klay Thompson, who was Meanwhile, Kobe Bryant and and Lin both said they have a lot quarter. sidelined with a sprained right Even so, the Warriors led by Jeremy Lin scored 21 points apiece of work to do if they want to win Chicago 5 San Jose 2 Stephen Curry ended with hand. eight through three quarters, as the Los Angeles Lakers nabbed consistently. AFP Vancouver 2 Anaheim 1

2014 Formula Kite Course Racing Asian Championship kicks off

A sailor takes part in a practice session ahead of the 2014 Formula Kite Course Racing Asian Championship races at the Qanat Quartier beach area of Pearl-Qatar in Doha yesterday. The six-day championship organised by Qatar Sailing and Rowing Federation (QSRF) began yesterday. Sixty-three sailors from 26 countries are taking part in the championship. RIGHT: QSRF President Khalifa Al Sewaidi declaring open the championship. BOTTOM: Sailors pose for a picture during the opening ceremony. PICTURES BY: SYED BASHEERUDDIN TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2014 24 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT

Pacquiao pace, skills will be too much for Algieri: Roach

NEW YORK: American chal- lenger Chris Algieri represents a younger, hungrier generation of boxers hoping to take down Manny Pacquiao (pictured) but the world champion’s coach Freddie Roach is confident the Filipino has both the speed and skills to retain his WBO title. Algieri earned his shot at A view of the newly installed glass court at Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha yesterday. Qatar Squash Federation is preparing to host the 2014 Qatar PSA World Pacquiao, a winner of world titles Championship which will begin with the qualifying rounds on November 13. The main draw matches will take place a day later. Most of the top-ranked players will be in Doha for the eight- in eight different divisions, by day championship. Defending champion Nick Matthew of England and World No.1 Mohamed Elshorbagy lead the field. PICTURE BY: KAMMUTTY VP climbing off the canvas twice to earn a split decision victory over Russian Ruslan Provodnikov in June, a win that improved his record to 20-0. Roach recognised the hard- hitting New Yorker’s toughness Mohamed aims more success but said Pacquiao had the tools to defend his welterweight crown in Macau on November 22. I love being in Qatar and I feel at ease, says Egyptian ahead of Worlds “He’s a tough kid and he’s strong,” Roach told The Philippine Star. DOHA: World No.1 Mohamed After moving to England aged am doing now. “Of course there “He doesn’t have the speed and Elshorbagy says he is relish- 15 to train under the guidance is added pressure on me now the skills Manny has. But he has ing the prospect of beginning of legendary squash icon Jonah because I am the No.1 and the guy the power.” his 2014 Qatar PSA World Barrington, Mohamed has soared the other players are aiming for, Pacquiao’s (56-5-2) storied Championship campaign and through the World Rankings but I didn’t get there for no rea- 20-year professional career is has sent a warning to all his and claimed the coveted World son. I love playing under pressure littered with wins over some of championship competitors - No.1 spot for the first time in his and I think I perform my best in boxing’s biggest names, including ‘You haven’t seen the best of me career this November, knocking that situation.” Erik Morales, Marco Antonio yet’. Frenchman Gregory Gaultier off Having won in Doha in 2013 Barrera, Juan Manuel Marquez, The 23-year-old Bristol- top spot in the process. and having reached the final of Shane Mosley and Oscar De La based Egyptian, originally from The physical powerhouse has the last World Championship to Hoya. Alexandria, has stormed the recorded back-to-back victories be staged in the Middle Eastern He suffered successive defeats PSA World Tour so far this over the 31-year-old four-time state, in 2012, Mohamed also says in 2012 but has got back on season winning four consecu- World Championship runner- Qatar feels like a second home to track with two impressive wins tive tournaments, including the up and having toppled defend- him. over Brandon Rios and Timothy prestigious Hong Kong Squash ing World Champion Nick And despite the tournament Bradley. Open and US Open PSA World Matthew during the final of the installing a brand new court for A win over Algieri could bring Series events, but he says there 2013 Qatar Classic in Doha, he’s the 2014 World Championship, he the long-awaited super fight with is more to come. confident about his chances is determined to make the most Floyd Mayweather Jr one step “I am really looking forward against the other tournament of ‘home’ advantage. closer. to the World Championship and favourites. “I love being in Qatar and I feel “A lot of the guys we fought in especially so as I’m going into the “Nick has recently said that at ease here,” he said. “The court the past are retired now,” Roach competition as the World No.1,” there is no pressure on him here feels like home to me and I’m said. “We’re fighting the new gen- Mohamed said. going into the competition but not going to let anyone take that eration. Rios was the first step. “I have been training all sum- when he steps on court, he always away from me. And then Bradley. These guys are mer for this tournament and I wants to win,” said Mohamed “I know Nick said recently younger and hungrier.” am confident that my perform- who’s younger brother Marwan that the new court could change Pacquiao has not scored a ances there will be higher than will also be competing in the how I play here but I have been knockout since stopping Miguel they have been so far this season. championship. training on this court for the past Cotto in Nov. 2009, and was him- Even though I have won my last “That’s the type of personality two weeks so I’m going into the self knocked out by Marquez in four tournaments, I know I can he is - he always wants to win - competition ready and better pre- 2012 in his first outing after losing still perform better. but I know that even if he plays pared than anyone else.” to Bradley the same year. “I am in great form at the his best he will not play as well The 2014 Qatar PSA World While some have questioned moment but that’s not fooling me. as he used to play when he was Championship takes place at how much gas the 35-year-old has The World Championship for me at his peak. the Khalifa Tennis and Squash Mohamed Elshorbagy (left) and Qatar Squash Federation (QSF) President left after 63 professional fights, is more important than all the “I beat him in the final here in Complex, from November 14. Nabeel Ali bin Ali pose for a picture at the prize ceremony presentation in Pacquiao will be a strong favourite other events I have won and I am 2013 and I know that I haven’t The qualifying rounds will be this file picture of November 16, 2013 after the Qatar Classic 2013 final to beat the 30-year-old American going there with my eye on one reached my peak yet and that I held on November 13. at Khalifa International Tennis and Squash Complex in Doha. at The Venetian Macao in two thing - winning the title.” can perform even better than I THE PENINSULA weeks’ time. REUTERS Youth Athletics Coaching Congress concludes

DOHA: The 1st Aspire Athletics Coaching Congress” Academy Youth Athletics continued yesterday, the speak- Coaching Congress ended here ers and participants were full of yesterday at the academy audi- praise about the event hosted by torium after a two-day discus- Aspire Academy in cooperation sion, experiences exchange and with QAF. workshops. “It’s been a great experience and I The Congress saw the mass really enjoyed it,” said John Godina, participation of the Qatar four-times World Champion in shot Athletics Federation (QAF) put and CEO of the World Athletics coaches and clubs coaches. Centre and one of the popular Certificates of participation were speakers of the event. distributed to local attendees and “It’s also great to meet old participants from clubs and QAF. friends at this congress and to In a common discussion panel, spread knowledge in another part the guest speakers expressed of the world.” their gratitude and thanks to The American also stressed the Aspire Academy and QAF for importance of such events and the being behind this interesting ini- strive of coaches to further edu- tiative, and said to be very excited cate themselves. by what they have witnessed here “The whole sport is constantly in Qatar as perfect organisation pushed forward by coaches and professional atmosphere sur- who develop athletes, train and rounded the participants during improve them. The better the the two days Congress in the state coaches, the better the athletes, of the art academy. the better the sport!” Christopher Earle, Aspire Qatar middle distance coach Academy Director of Sports, Jama Aden, who has coached mul- thanked the participants and the tiple world record holders as well speakers for making this initiative as World and Olympic champions a big success and set an appoint- was also delighted about the out- ment for all to the 2nd edition on put of the congress. The participants at the 1st Aspire Academy Youth Athletics Coaching Congress pose for a group picture at Aspire Auditorium in Doha yesterday. The the same date next year. “It’s a great thing for Aspire two-day Congress ended yesterday. He also mentioned that all the Academy to bring these people lectures and workshops are to be from all over the world together available for all to learn from it and opportunities like here are because it’s the perfect chance high-level speakers and great a lot of ideas with fellow coaches home,” said Efthymios Kyprianou and get back to it. very important for the devel- to get useful inputs,” said Aden. topics that were discussed during and there is a lot of useful infor- from Cyprus. As the program of the “Youth opment of our Qatari coaches, “I was really impressed by the these two days. I could exchange mation and inputs I can take THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 25 Wawrinka off to a flier in London Swiss takes less than an hour to crush Berdych 6-1, 6-1 in World Tour Finals opener

LONDON: Switzerland’s Stan Wawrinka opened his ATP Tour Federer Finals campaign in scintillating style with a 6-1, 6-1 demolition of Tomas Berdych yesterday. Wawrinka, the reigning made to Australian Open champion, had been in poor form heading into the prestigious event at London’s work by O2 Arena, but the world number four was back in the groove against the Czech as he took only Raonic 58 minutes to wrap up his Group A opener. LONDON: Roger Federer The 29-year-old hit 16 win- eased his way into the ATP ners to only four from Berdych, World Tour Finals with a 6-1, while the Czech’s 20 unforced 7-6 (0) defeat of Canadian new- errors were also a large part of comer Milos Raonic in his open- his undoing. ing round-robin match late on Wawrinka made it to the semi- Sunday night. finals on his Tour Finals debut The 33-year-old Swiss, com- last year and, on this evidence, peting for a record 13th time at will fancy his chances of pro- the season-ender, took advan- gressing from a group that also tage of some early Raonic nerves includes world number one Novak to pocket the opening set in 25 Djokovic and US Open cham- minutes but things got tougher. pion Marin Cilic, who meet later Raonic, the first Canadian to yesterday. qualify for the tournament, began “For me, when I play against to do damage with his booming him it’s usually tough,” Wawrinka serve and even carved out sev- said. “But I can always find a eral break point opportunities as solution. I’m really happy with world number two Federer’s level the way I handled the situation dipped slightly. today.” Six-times champion Federer It was another dispiriting Tour saved a set point at 5-6 and that Finals start for Berdych, who had proved to be Raonic’s last chance. lost all four of his previous open- Stanislas Wawrinka of Switzerland reacts after winning a point during his Federer quickly asserted him- ing matches at the eight-man ATP World Tour Finals Group A singles match against Tomas Berdych of self in the tiebreak and reeled off Roger Federer of Switzerland celebrates after winning against Milos tournament. the Czech Republic at the O2 Arena in London yesterday. seven successive points to move Raonic of Canada in an ATP World Tour Finals Group B singles match at “Unfortunately it was my worst top of Group B alongside Japan’s the O2 Arena in London on Sunday night. match of the whole season, and I including in the group stage of the sorts, it was no surprise to see Kei Nishikori who had earlier kept it for the start here in the Tour Finals last year, and he was Wawrinka break twice more as beaten Andy Murray. more than I did.” Federer now Paris Masters quarter-finals last World Tour Finals,” Berdych said. quick to reestablish his suprem- he sprinted to victory. AFP “I think I played really well moves on to play Nishikori while month. “I’m in the worst possible situ- acy against the Czech. for probably one and a half sets,” Raonic will probably need to beat Raonic, 23, is making his Tour ation that I can ever be. Wawrinka broke in the second Federer, who has progressed to Murray to keep his hopes of sur- Finals debut as the first player “I’m going to face Marin and game and refused to release his ATP Tour Finals the semi-finals in 11 of his past viving the group stage alive. born in the 1990s to compete in Novak and the only chance to grip as he landed another break 12 appearances at the year-ender, “I get pretty angry when I lose, the event after a breakthrough qualify is to beat them. It’s almost to race into a 5-0 lead before most Results told reporters. so...I’m going to have to learn year that included a run to the a mission impossible, but let’s try.” fans had even got settled in their Singles Group A He admitted things got a little how to slap myself out of it,” said Wimbledon semi-finals. After winning his maiden seats. Stan Wawrinka (SUI x3) bt Tomas Berdych (CZE tricky after he failed to establish Raonic, who had beaten Federer But at 33, Federer has been in Grand Slam title at the Australian Berdych got on the scoreboard x6) 6-1, 6-1 an early break of serve in the sec- for the first time in the recent age-defying form this year and Open in January, Wawrinka has at last but it was too late to stop Playing later ond set. Paris Masters. he arrived as the oldest player to suffered a gradual slump that the Swiss wrapping up the first Novak Djokovic (SRB x1) vs Marin Cilic (CRO x8) “I think when I had breakpoint Federer last won the pres- qualify for the tournament. reached its lowest point over the set in 25 minutes. in the second set, he was able to tigious season-ending event Federer is set to become the Doubles Group A last month as he lost four of his There was no let-up from save that and after that it became at London’s O2 Arena in 2011 oldest player to finish a season in last five matches, including first Wawrinka in the second as he Alexander Peya/Bruno Soares (AUT/BRA x3) bt complicated. I don’t know why. and the world number two the world’s top two and still has a round exits in Tokyo, Shanghai out-played the Czech with his Jean-Julien Rojer/Horia Tecau (NED/ROM x5) “I started to play a bit more looks in the mood to add another slim chance of becoming the old- and Basel. mix of power and poise from the 6-3, 3-6, 12/10 passive. He started to become a title to his collection on the evi- est player to end the season as Despite that woeful run, baseline. Playing later bit more offensive. I actually think dence of a powerful perform- world number one if he overhauls Wawrinka had won his last He broke for a 2-1 lead and, Bob Bryan/Mike Bryan (USA/USA x1) vs Lukasz he was the better player from that ance, featuring 24 winners, which Novak Djokovic in the race for top four matches against Berdych, with Berdych completely out of Kubot/Robert Lindstedt (POL/SWE x8) moment on and deserved the set avenged his loss to Raonic in the spot. AGENCIES

Formula One Title Big boys want independents out: Sauber boss Permutations SAO PAULO: Formula One’s names to stay in here, and when McLaren and Mercedes, rejected their Formula One involvement Britain’s Lewis Hamilton leads major manufacturing teams ideas are offered to us of a year- talk of any kind of agenda. as sport, but purely as business. Mercedes team-mate Nico are working to an agenda to old chassis or engines which are Agreements between commer- “The big teams out there use Rosberg by 17 points after Sunday’s Brazilian Grand Prix, streamline the sport and elimi- maybe a different spec or series, cial rights holders and the teams this as a simple sporting market- penultimate race of the season. nate smaller independent out- there must be an agenda. say that if the number of cars on ing platform,” she said. Double points will be awarded fits, Sauber team chief Monisha “As there’s no-one reacting to the grid falls below 20, the major “It’s nothing more for them. for the first time at the season- Kaltenborn said yesterday. it in front, we don’t know whose teams have an obligation to field They talk of it as being a sport, ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix After two races, in the United agenda it is. That’s why it’s impor- a third car, but Horner said Red about Benetton, all this stuff on November 23 and the follow- States and Brazil, where the grid tant we said what we had to on Bull were not thinking of doing where is that now? We are not ing are the permutations that was reduced to 18 cars after the this point because these things that. out here with, as they are saying, could hand the title to either of withdrawal of the Marussia and are changing every day, but the “The numbers haven’t dropped begging bowls. the two contenders. Caterham teams, and a week- fact is it cannot remain like this. significantly low enough and we “We also work quite well in The points are normally end of tense behind-the-scenes “It’s no way we want to work haven’t been requested by the times, if you look back, when you awarded 25-18-15-12-10-8-6-4- talks aimed at saving three more and can work and the more these promoter to run a third car,” he had a Toyota with a horrendously 2-1. In Abu Dhabi this will be cash-starved teams, Kaltenborn ideas are coming up the more said. high budget, and we had our little 50-36-30-24-20-16-12-8-4-2. expressed a view widely-held by we get the feeling that maybe “Our preference is to have at budget, but we used to be on the Hamilton currently has 334 many paddock observers. some people don’t want us to be least 10 healthy competing two- podium often. points, Rosberg 317. “Looking at the proposals around — and maybe the sport is car teams. Red Bull’s position is “We don’t need to be a threat Hamilton will be champion if he finishes which have been made you have supposed to be changed in a very we want to see a full grid of two- to them, but we are part of the 1. First or second. to believe there is some agenda, different way.” car teams.” show and it’s very disrespectful to 2. Third, fourth or fifth and don’t you?” she said. Red Bull boss Christian Horner, Kaltenborn added that she behave like this to teams within Sauber team chief Monisha Rosberg fails to win. “The agenda seems to be that whose team are seen as one of the believed some of the manufac- the sport and even more disre- Kaltenborn people are looking at four or five big hitters along with Ferrari, turer-backed big teams do not see spectful towards the fans.” 3. Sixth with Rosberg out of the top two. 4. Seventh or eighth with Rosberg not in the top three. Motor sport bosses laud Al Attiyah’s efforts 5. Ninth and Rosberg is not in the top four. DOHA: The next International approach in order to reach our with motor sport. Al Attiyah is 6. Tenth (or lower) and Rosberg Automobile Federation (FIA) target, which is the development playing a very positive role for is no higher than sixth. Annual General Assembly and of motor sport.” motor sport and we will support Rosberg will be champion if Prize-giving Ceremony will be The Oman Automobile this achievement with our maxi- 1. He wins and Hamilton is not held this year in Doha from Association’s Chairman of the mum efforts.” second. December 1-5. Board of Directors, Salim Ali The ASN Coordinator of the 2. He finishes second and A number of FIA heads of Khalifa Al Maskiry, said: “It’s Automobile and Touring Club Hamilton is not in the top five. unions and motor-sport clubs our right to be proud of this of Lebanon, Imad Lahoud, said: have expressed their pride that great achievement; it’s not only “The dream has come true and 3. He is third and Hamilton is the prestigious event is being for Qatar it is for all of us. Since Qatar — an Arabian Country — is out of the top six. held in the Middle East and Al Attiyah took office (at the hosting this international event, 4. He is fourth and Hamilton is North Africa (MENA) region FIA) in December 2013, we have through which we will express no higher than ninth and lauded the efforts of QMMF seen the progress of the sport in strongly our love for this sport. 5. He is fifth and Hamilton is no President and FIA Vice-president the MENA region. A lot of rallies We wouldn’t have seen such great higher than 10th. Nasser bin Khalifa Al Attiyah. have been internationally organ- event if we didn’t have such a 6. Rosberg cannot win if he fin- The CEO of the Kuwait ised. Today, Qatar is hosting the leading character like Al Attiyah.” ishes sixth or lower. International Automotive largest assembly for motor sport The Executive Officer of the Club, Essa Hamza, said all over the world and we, the Jordan Motor Sport Club, Osman “Congratulations to us first as Omani, will be the first to be part Nassif, said: “Hosting this inter- Arab and Gulf people for this of this international event.” national event is considered an great event, also congratulations The General Secretary of the Arabian achievement. The world to Nasser bin Khalifa Al Attiyah Saudi Arabian Motor Sports recognises that the Middle East is for this great achievement. We all Federation, Nayef Al Hegelan, as important as any other region know the volume of his efforts. stated: “No doubt that we are all of the world. Qatar has become All of us in Kuwait are proud of proud of this meeting, which is one of the advanced and pioneer- Qatar Motor and Motorcycle Federation President and FIA Vice-president this achievement which is regis- very important for the decision ing countries in motor sports and Nasser bin Khalifa Al Attiyah (left) with FIA President Jean Todt. tered in the name of Qatar; we makers in motor sport. And we, we in Jordan strongly support its Rosberg (left) and Hamilton promise that we will support this as a Saudi union, are concerned approach.” THE PENINSULA TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2014 26 www.thepeninsulaqatar.com SPORT ICC approves revised Shehzad fractures skull anti-corruption code

DUBAI: The International ICC chairman Naryanaswami Cricket Council approved its Srinivasan, himself suspended as Pakistan take charge revised anti-corruption code in India over a fixing scandal in yesterday but left it up to home a Twenty20 league, said: “The boards to allow banned play- process for the revision of the ers to return early to domestic ICC Anti-Corruption Code was Younus, Misbah also register tons against New Zealand competition. exhaustive and has been based on For a player to return to our learning and experiences over ABU DHABI: Ahmed Shehzad domestic competition before the the past few years. hit a career-best 176 before expiry of his ban would need the “This code is now even more being rushed to hospital with agreement of the chairman of the robust and comprehensive and a fractured skull as Pakistan’s anti-corruption board, Sir Ronnie it provides clarity on jurisdic- batsmen smashed New Zealand Flannagan, and the relevant tional issues, gives options to around the ground in the first National Cricket Federation, with the charged Participant and Test yesterday. the approval of the ICC Board, an offers more choices to the Anti- Younus Khan and Misbah-ul ICC release explained. Corruption Tribunal.” Haq also hit dominant tons to The revised code will spe- ICC Chief Executive David put Pakistan in control on 566 cifically help Pakistan seamer Richardson admitted the fight for three declared. But Shehzad’s Mohammad Aamer’s early return against corruption was still a injury briefly set alarm bells to domestic cricket, likely in priority. ringing. February next year. “The battle against corruption In the final over before lunch, Last year, the Pakistan remains one of cricket’s biggest Shehzad was hit on the side of the Cricket Board had demanded challenges and we remain com- head trying to hook a short ball the ICC relax certain conditions mitted to eliminating this menace by New Zealand seamer Corey of Aamer’s ban after he pleaded from our sport,” he said. Anderson on the hard Abu Dhabi guilty to a spot-fixing crime and Aamer last week said he was wicket. then completed the rehabilitation anxiously awaiting the revision of Shehzad’s bat struck the process. the code and would apply to the stumps for a hit-wicket dismissal Aamer, now 22, was banned Pakistan Board to be allowed to and the dazed batsman fell to the along with Salman Butt and play in domestic matches. ground before walking off. Mohammad Asif in a spot-fixing “I am waiting for the ICC Shehzad was later rushed to a scandal on Pakistan’s tour of decision and once it comes I will hospital where scans showed he England in 2010. apply with the PCB to resume my had a minor skull fracture and Aamer was banned for five domestic career and then inter- will be kept under observation for years, Butt for ten (with five sus- national matches,” said Aamer. the next 48 hours. pended) and Asif for seven (two The ICC Board also accepted Before the drama, he had hit suspended). the PCB’s nomination of its 17 fours and a six in his 371-ball Pakistani batsman Ahmed Shehzad (left) leaves the ground with a physio after being hit on cheek and falling on The trio, also jailed in Britain, former chairman, Najam Sethi, innings. the wickets for 176 runs on the second day of the first Test match against New Zealand at the Zayed International were charged with orchestrating for the ICC Presidency. While team managers worried Cricket Stadium in Abu Dhabi yesterday. deliberate no-balls during the The presidency is now merely about the opener, Younus went on Lord’s Test against England in an honorific position with all the to smash an unbeaten 100 — his said Younus. “Its all about moti- his eighth Test hundred. Pakistan played in Dubai (Nov. 17-21) and return for money. power in the hands of the chair- 28th Test hundred and fourth in vation and I am happy that I am lost Shehzad and Ali in the two Sharjah (Nov. 26-30). AFP The ICC said the revised code man, following a reorganisation five innings. keeping that and with that scor- sessions after resuming at 269 would close certain loopholes and in June. Misbah knocked an unbeaten ing big.” for one. Scoreboard address the issue of who has juris- The Board also reiterated its 102, his third ton in three Misbah, who smashed twin Ali missed a sharp turner from diction in a particular case. support for the no-tolerance innings. Azhar Ali missed his hundreds in the second Test Sodhi and was bowled. He hit four Pakistan (I innings): The code would also allow a approach in dealing with sus- hundred after he was dismissed against Australia, knocked nine boundaries off 215 balls. Mohd Hafeez c&b Anderson ...... 96 player charged with an offence pected illegal bowling actions. for 87. fours and a six off 162 balls. Anderson was the best bowler Ahmed Shehzad (hit wkt) b Anderson .....176 but who has not been provision- Pakistan’s Saeed Ajmal was one At the close on the second day The two veteran batsmen with 2-68 while Sodhi finished Azhar Ali b Sodhi ...... 87 ally suspended, to agree to vol- of five bowlers suspended over an New Zealand were 15-0 with added 193 for the unbroken fourth with 2-162. Younis Khan (not out)...... 100 untarily suspend him/herself, the illegal action following an ICC Brendon McCullum on nine and wicket stand to build on another The New Zealanders paid Misbah ul-Haq (not out) ...... 102 ICC said. crackdown in June. AFP Tom Latham on five. They need second wicket stand of 169 runs dearly for giving Shehzad a life on Extras (LB-4, NB-1) ...... 5 another 352 to avoid the follow-on. between Ali and Shehzad. Sunday. He had been on 16 when Total (for 3 wkts decl) ...... 566 Younus, who scored 468 runs Misbah survived two chances, wicketkeeper B.J. Watling failed Fall of wickets: 1-178, 2-347, 3-373. against Australia in a series which one on 17 and the other on to stump him off the bowling of Bowling: Boult 26-7-62-0; Southee 23-5- Injured Dhoni to ended last week, hit ten fours in 20 as fielders failed to reach spinner Mark Craig. 62-0 (1nb); Craig 33-1-126-0; Sodhi 43-6- his 141-ball knock. uppish shots with Ish Sodhi Craig went wicket-less in his 162-1; Anderson 19-3-68-2; Neesham 16- He hit a century in each innings the luckless bowler on both 33 overs. 0-50-0; McCullum 10.5-1-32-0. in the first Test against Australia occasions. Shehzad, 126 overnight, took New Zealand (I innings): miss Brisbane Test in Dubai and followed that with It was Younus who reached his some time to open up on Monday. T Latham (batting) ...... 5 NEW DELHI: 213 in the Abu Dhabi Test last hundred first, hitting an uppish But he then hit a straight six off B McCullum (batting) ...... 9 Virat Kohli to keep wicket in Brisbane, week. shot off McCullum which Tim Craig before running a three to Extras (NB-1) ...... 1 will lead India in the first Test although Naman Ojha will Younus said he wanted to keep Southee failed to catch at short surpass his previous best of 147 Total (for no loss) ...... 15 against Australia in Brisbane also fancy his chances of being his good run intact. mid-on. against Sri Lanka in Sharjah ear- Bowling: Rahat 3-2-1-0 (nb1); Khan 1-0-4- next month in the absence handed the role. “Everyday I wake up I promise Misbah drove McCullum in the lier this year. 0; Babar 2-0-6-0; Hafeez 1-0-4-0. of injured regular skipper Karnataka opener K.L. Rahul myself to keep scoring like this,” same over for three to complete The remaining two Tests will be Mahendra Singh Dhoni, the was rewarded for his rich vein of Indian cricket board said form in domestic cricket by forc- yesterday. ing his way into “M.S. Dhoni the squad but Cricket World Cup prize money raised has been rested India’s Test Squad Shikhar Dhawan for the first test Mahendra Singh Dhoni (capt), Virat Kohli, is likely to part- DUBAI: The International match, it will receive total prize Dubai while playing conditions The ICC Board approved cut- as a prophy- Shikhar Dhawan, Murali Vijay, Lokesh Rahul, ner Murali Vijay Cricket Council (ICC) yester- money of $4,020,000, while a team were also finalised for the 10th off dates for qualification to the lactic measure Cheteshwar Pujara, Ajinkya Rahane, Rohit at the top of the day announced a 20 percent that loses one match on the way edition of the World Cup, from 2017 Champions Trophy and the to ensure opti- Sharma, Suresh Raina, Wriddhiman Saha, batting order. increase in prize money for next to winning the tournament will February 14 to March 29. 2019 World Cup. mum recovery,” Naman Ojha, Ravichandran Ashwin, Karn Off-spinner year’s World Cup in Australia receive USD $3,975,000.” The ICC also announced that The top eight sides on the board secretary Sharma, Ravindra Jadeja, Bhuvneshwar Kumar, Ravichandran and New Zealand. The team which loses the the Decision Review System ICC one-day rankings on 30 Sanjay Patel said Mohammed Shami, Ishant Sharma, Umesh Ashwin will The winners will take home March 29 final at Melbourne will (DRS) will be used in all 49 September 2015 will qualify for in a statement, Yadav, Varun Aaron. lead India’s slow $3.975m, but if a team remains pocket $1.75m while the two los- matches and that there would the 2017 Champions Trophy in without elabo- bowling depart- unbeaten that would rise to more ing semi-finalists will each get only be reserve days in the knock- England. rating on what the local media ment, while leg-spinner Karn than $4m. $600,000 each. out phase. The cut-off date for the described as a right-hand injury. Sharma was also included. “A total of $10m, an increase of The four losing quarter-final- It also added that there will be 10-team 2019 World Cup, also in “He will join the team from Umesh Yadav, who played approximately 20 per cent over ists will receive $300,000 each no super over in tied matches in England, was set for 30 September the second test onwards, and the last of his nine tests against the ICC Cricket World Cup 2011, while the winners of each group the knock-out phase. 2017. will lead the team for the rest England in late 2012, returns will be available,” said the ICC. matches will get $45,000 per In case of a tied quarter-final The top eight ranked sides of the test series,” added Patel, to join Ishant Sharma in the The 2011 edition jointly hosted match, the ICC said. and semi-final, the side finishing on that date will automatically announcing a 19-member squad pace attack, which also includes by India, Bangladesh and Sri All six teams elimitaed from in the higher position in the group qualify for the World Cup, while for the four-match series start- Varun Aaron and Mohammed Lanka had prize money of $8.01m. the first stage will get $35,000 stage would progress. the ninth and 10th ranked teams ing in Brisbane on Dec 4. Shami. Suresh Raina was also “Should a team at the ICC each. If the final is tied or if the match will play in the World Cup quali- In Dhoni’s absence, recalled in the side after a two- Cricket World Cup 2015 win the The decision was taken at a is a no-result, then the teams will fying competition in Bangladesh Wriddhiman Saha is expected year absence. REUTERS tournament without losing a two-day ICC Board meeting in be declared joint winners. in 2018. AFP Forgotten ex-East German athletes ruined by unwitting doping

BERLIN: Twenty-five years “There is no support from the GDR-manufactured anabolic He won 15 Olympic or world after the fall of the Berlin Wall, politicians and absolutely nothing steroid Oral Turinabol for years, championship medals for the GDR Germany’s leaders have failed on the side of the sport.” which in many cases coaches said in the 1970s, but had to retire hundreds of ex-athletes whose The 54-year-old has first-hand were simply vitamins or stone- from his job as a car mechanic health was ruined by former experience of the effects of sys- walled athletes’ inquiries. aged just 37 due to poor health. East Germany’s doping pro- tematic doping. The drug boosted performance “I once had a world record for gramme, says an ex-sprinter She was part of the SC Motor and slashed recovery times, but weightlifting, perhaps I’ll now trying to help them. Jena team which set a club world its side-effects were disastrous. set a world record for dialysis,” Ines Geipel is President of the record for the women’s 4x100m “For those who took male- he once joked. Berlin-based Help for Victims relay in an incredible time of hormone drugs, typical problems “His death is a reality with a of Doping (DOH), which offers 42.20 seconds in 1984. are massive organ damage to the symbolic significance,” said Geipel support to former athletes now She later defected to West heart, kidneys and liver,” said after Bonk once summed up his suffering from failing health due Germany and in 2005 asked her Geipel. situation as “Burned by the GDR, to the steroids they unknowingly name be removed from the record “There are also many gynaeco- forgotten by unified Germany.” took while competing for the East books, as she knew she was a logical issues, disfunctional ova- Then there is the startling German state. product of regime which system- ries, miscarriages, children born example of former European Sunday marked the 25th anni- atically doped its athletes. Ines Geipel, former German Democratic Republic (GDR) athlete speaks with disabilities, things like club champion shot-putter Andreas versary of the fall of the Berlin Geipel says 700 ex-sportsmen in Berlin. feet or crippled hands,” she added. Krieger, who needed a sex change Wall. and women athletes, many of The drugs hastened the end for operation after retiring in 1990 But a quarter of a century whom won Olympic or world titles German state as having been DOH for financial help installing many. because of the levels of male hor- after the collapse of the German for the GDR state, have contacted victims of doping, each received a home stairlift. A recent example is former mones in his body. Democratic Republic (GDR), the the DOH in the last year alone. a one-off payment of 9,600 euros. “They are still young, middle Olympic weightlifting medal- Due to the steroids he took, athletes hurt by the former state’s According to various estimates, For many others there’s been 40s or in their early 50s — that’s ist and world recordholder Gerd Krieger started showing male doping programme have largely up to a total of 10,000 former East little relief. not when a life is normally at its Bonk, who died at 63 last month characteristics by the age of 18 been abandoned, says Geipel. German athletes may be affected. Geipel gave the example of a end,” she said. after suffering from diabetes, and eventually had a sex-change “The situation isn’t just bad, it’s In 2002, nearly 200 ex-ath- ex-gymnast in her early 50s with The majority are dam- liver failure and extensive organ operation and changed his name a catastrophe,” she told. letes, who are recognised by the poor mobility who asked the aged after having taken the damage. to Andreas. AFP TUESDAY 11 NOVEMBER 2014 SPORT www.thepeninsulaqatar.com 27

World Rankings 1. (1) Rory McIlroy (Britain) 11.54 2. (2) Adam Scott (Australia) 8.26 Rookie Taylor storms to win 3. (7) Bubba Watson (US) 7.94 4. (3) Sergio Garcia (Spain) 7.24 5. (4) Jim Furyk (US) 7.22 6. (5) Henrik Stenson (Sweden) 7.09 Canadian-born clinches maiden US PGA Tour victory in Jackson 7. (6) Justin Rose (Britain) 6.76 8. (8) Jason Day (Australia) 6.36 9. (10) Rickie Fowler (US) 5.85 JACKSON, United States: Rookie Nick Taylor, helped US PGA Tour scores 10. (9) Matt Kuchar (US) 5.78 by three consecutive bird- JACKSON, United States: Leading scores 11. (11) Phil Mickelson (US) 5.28 ies on the back nine, displayed after yesterday’s final round of the US PGA 12. (13) Martin Kaymer (Germany) 4.95 ice-cool composure to win his Tour’s Sanderson Farms Championship 13. (12) Billy Horschel (US) 4.77 (USA unless noted, par-72): maiden PGA Tour title by two 14. (14) Jordan Spieth (US) 4.63 272 Nick Taylor (CAN) 67-69-70-66 shots at the Sanderson Farms 15. (17) Graeme McDowell (Britain) 4.51 Championship in Jackson, 274 Boo Weekley 70-68-70-66, Jason 16. (15) Dustin Johnson (US) 4.33 Mississippi yesterday. Bohn 68-71-66-69 17. (16) Zach Johnson (US) 4.26 On a glorious afternoon 275 Peter Uihlein 70-71-69-65, Justin 18. (18) Jimmy Walker (US) 4.09 of unbroken sunshine at the Thomas 71-68-69-67, John Rollins Country Club of Jackson where 68-66-68-73 19. (21) Chris Kirk (US) 4.08 20. (22) Hunter Mahan (US) 4.01 the greens ran firm and fast, the 276 William McGirt 68-70-66-72 26-year-old Canadian surged 277 Robert Streb 67-70-70-70 past overnight leader John Rollins with a sizzling six-under- 278 Blayne Barber 71-71-70-66, Garrett China eyes par 66. Osborn 70-69-71-68, Carlos Sainz Taylor broke clear of a tightly 70-70-69-69, Mark Wilson 71-69- emergence as bunched leaderboard with his 68-70, David Toms 68-66-72-72 three-birdie blitz from the 13th, 279 David Hearn (CAN) 69-72-71-67, Cory golf power calmly sank a par-saving putt Whitsett 72-69-70-68, Charles Howell from nine feet at the 16th and 71-69-70-69, Will Wilcox 69-71-68- could afford a three-putt bogey 71, Fabian Gomez (ARG) 71-68-69-71, SHANGHAI: Wu Ashun came at the last to post a 16-under total Kyle Reifers 71-70-67-71 within a whisker of the best of 272. result by a Chinese player at Rollins, seeking his first PGA of got hot and the putter started the WGC event when he fin- Tour victory in five years, closed cooperating. Today I putted unbe- ished equal 14th at the WGC- with a 73 to finish in a three- lievable ... it’s pretty surreal and HSBC Champions tournament way tie for fourth at 13 under, a a shock but I am certainly happy on Sunday. stroke behind fellow Americans with it.” Wu finished seven strokes Boo Weekley (66) and Jason Bohn Taylor, the world’s top-ranked behind winner Bubba Watson, (69). amateur for 21 successive weeks Nick Taylor of Canada is presented with the trophy after winning the Final Round of the Sanderson Farms though the fact he was only mildly “It’s been a whirlwind of a sum- in 2009 before turning profes- Championship at the Country Club of Jackson in Jackson, Mississippi, yesterday. pleased with his performance mer,” a smiling Taylor told Golf sional the following year, secured against the best players in the Channel after becoming the first his PGA Tour card after clos- world was a sign the new breed of Canadian-born player to win on ing with a 63 at the 2014 Web. Rollins at the top with five birdies run, sinking an 11-footer at the I was coming off 17,” said Taylor, Chinese players are not prepared the PGA Tour since left-hander com Tour’s season’s finale in and a bogey on his outward nine. 15th to forge two ahead. who was born in Winnipeg. just to make up the numbers. Mike Weir at the 2007 Fry’s September. Though Rollins briefly regained Rollins ran up a three-putt “Obviously the last few holes I After finishing equal 64th at the Electronics Open. He began the final round in the outright lead with a birdie at bogey at the 14th to hand Taylor had some nerves but I was able to European Tour’s BMW Masters “Six months ago, I was strug- Jackson four strokes off the pace the par-five 11th, Taylor tightened a three-shot cushion. make some putts.” last week, Wu found his putting gling but I kind of kept at it, kind but got hot early and caught his grip with a timely three-birdie “I kind of had a feeling where AFP stroke and also reaped the benefit of a minor swing adjustment. “I improved a lot this week,” Race to Dubai he said outside the Sheshan club- house. “More importantly, my Rankings McIlroy wins Race to Dubai mindset was more relaxed, so I 1. (1) Rory McIlroy (Britain) 5400700 felt more comfortable.” 2. (2) Jamie Donaldson (Britain) 2457164 SHANGHAI: Adam Scott “I believe the organisers should Wu, 29, did not flinch when 3. (3) Sergio Garcia (Spain) 2363342 has called on Australian Open take advantage and put Rory asked whether he could eventu- organisers to let him go head-to- and myself together because it ally beat the world’s very best 4. (4) Marcel Siem (Germany) 2231423 head against Rory McIlroy, who does happen occasionally at US players. 5. (7) Alexander Levy (France) 2047817 secured the European Tour’s Opens where they pair the players Rory “I think if I’m consistent and McIlroy 6. (6) Henrik Stenson (Sweden) 2045086 Race to Dubai title on Sunday according to their rankings. work hard, eventually I will reach without swinging a club. “It’s not often we have the celebrates those heights, but it’s not simple. 7. (5) Justin Rose (Britain) 2007861 Second-ranked Scott fin- world number one and number his vic- There are still a lot of things to 8. (8) Thomas Bjorn (Denmark) 1943682 ished tied 12th in the WGC- two ranked players in the same tory in this improve. 9. (16) Graeme McDowell (Britain) 1911844 HSBC Champions in Shanghai tournament in Australia and it file pic- “I will come back next year and 10. (12) Martin Kaymer (Germany) 1872383 on Sunday, and said after that would be fun to do, and I would ture. The hope to get a better result.” 11. (9) Victor Dubuisson (France) 1800166 he would love to be paired with certainly enjoy that.” Irishman As much as the large galler- McIlroy in Sydney for at least the The Northern Irishman is ies that descended on Sheshan 12. (11) Joost Luiten (Netherlands) 1740941 won the first two days of the event, which assured of finishing top golfer in European on Sunday enjoyed watching 13. (10) Mikko Ilonen (Finland) 1718122 begins on November 27. Europe for the second time in Tour’s Watson’s powerful display of long 14. (13) Stephen Gallacher (Britain) 1640897 Masters champion Scott had three years, despite skipping both Race to hitting, nothing would give Asia’s 15. (14) Shane Lowry (Ireland) 1532799 led McIlroy by a shot going down lucrative “Final Series” events in Dubai title biggest tournament a seismic jolt the final fairway in the 2013 Shanghai over the past two weeks. like a home-grown winner. 16. (17) Louis Oosthuizen (S Africa) 1476804 on Sunday Australian Open, but stunned McIlroy’s next appearance, fol- Experienced Chinese player without 17. (15) Ross Fisher (Britain) 1418896 his fervent home fans at Royal lowing pulling out of Shanghai to Liang Wen-chong believes the 18. (18) Thongchai J (Thailand) 1390168 Sydney by missing the green prepare for his upcoming court swinging a country is on the verge of hav- club. 19. (19) Tommy Fleetwood (Britain) 1344622 with his second shot and making case against his former man- ing a regular presence on the 20. (20) Charl Schwartzel (S Africa) 1255348 a bogey, while McIlroy stroked agement company, will be at the leaderboard at big international home a 15-foot putt for a birdie season-ending DP World Tour tournaments. 21. (22) George Coetzee (S Africa) 1220070 and victory. Championship in Dubai, which Chong cited Guan Tianlang -- 22. (21) Miguel A Jimenez (Spain) 1116670 “It annoyed me for a little begins on November 20. who at the age of 14 finished 58th 23. (23) Marc Warren (Britain) 1108832 while,” Scott told reporters at The world number one will earlier at the BMW Masters at has amassed 5,400,700 points at at the 2013 Masters -- as being 24. (26) Jonas Blixt (Sweden) 1060674 Sheshan International Golf Club. then fly to Sydney, Australia to Lake Malaren, means McIlroy the top of the 2014 European the first of a wave of Chinese golf- “To mess up on the very last hole defend his Australian Open title cannot now be caught with two rankings. ers about to surprise the golfing 25. (27) Pablo Larrazabal (Spain) 1049425 of the last of the four tourna- that he snatched so dramatically events left. His nearest rival in the Race world. 26. (24) Romain Wattel (France) 1008882 ments I played back home last from Scott a year ago. PGA Tour golfer of the year to Dubai standings is Ryder Cup “There is not only one Guan 27. (43) Thorbjorn Ole. (Denmark) 1002497 year was very, very frustrating.” American Bubba Watson’s McIlroy, with the British Open, teammate Jamie Donaldson. But Tianlang in China,” said Chong, 28. (25) Ernie Els (South Africa) 997093 Scott is desperate to atone and victory in the WGC-HSBC US PGA Championship, the he is 2,950,000 points behind who in 2007 became the second would relish the chance to stare Champions at Sheshan Sunday, WGC-Bridgestone title and the McIlroy having finished tied 24th Chinese player to win on the 29. (33) Lee Westwood (Britain) 964991 down his great rival in a straight following German Marcel Siem’s European PGA Championship at Sheshan, and cannot now catch European Tour when he captured 30. (28) Fabrizio Zanotti (Paraguay) 885341 duel. victory across the city a week tucked under his belt in 2014, him. AFP the Singapore Masters. AFP Juve strike form, rampant Roma reduce arrears

MILAN: Coach Massimiliano 4-3-1-2 formation that, coupled area to slam a drive past Jean- Benitez, meanwhile, is hop- Allegri earned plaudits as a with Parma’s total lack of threat, Francois Gillet just before the half ing the international break gives rejigged Juventus claimed their underlined Juve’s potency even hour for his maiden goal for the his resurgent squad a chance to biggest league win in 31 years when forced to play out of their club. recover. with a 7-0 rout of Parma which comfort zone. When Adem Ljajic latched on High-flying Sampdoria dropped left visiting coach Roberto Parma beat Inter 2-0 last week to Miralem Pjanic’s inch-perfect to fourth, one point behind Napoli, Donadoni feeling “impotent and to claim only their second win but through ball just before the hour, after being held 2-2 by Milan in embarrassed” on Sunday night. by the end of a totally one-sided he completed the victory with a Genoa on Saturday, with Lazio a Fernando Llorente, Carlos contest in rainy Turin, they were sumptuous drive from outside the further point adrift in fifth after Juventus’ Tevez and Alvaro Morata scored back in bottom spot as Donadoni area that had Gillet clutching at a 2-1 slip-up away to promoted Argentinian a brace apiece with Stephan contemplated the gulf that lies thin air. Empoli. forward Lichsteiner firing a superb goal as between the top and bottom sides Roma captain Francesco Ten-man Inter, meanwhile, the defending champions crushed in Serie A. Totti reacted badly when he was escaped with a 2-2 draw at home Alberto Carlos Donadoni’s men to record their “The game is easy to explain: replaced by Mattia Destro on 70 to Verona, who saw Luca Toni Tevez cel- biggest win since a 7-0 success we faced a great Juve side and we minutes, but coach Rudi Garcia miss a second-half penalty after ebrates after over Ascoli in December 1983. simply didn’t show up,” Donadoni said: “I don’t know why he took Chilean midfielder Gary Medel scoring dur- The win initially stretched told Radio Rai. it like that, but he’s my best saw red for a second bookable ing the Italian Juve’s lead over title challeng- “All you’re left with is a feeling player and I don’t want him to offence on 51 minutes. Serie A match ers Roma to six points, although of impotence and embarrassment get injured.” Toni’s close-range volley gave against Parma the gap was halved when the after a game like that.” He added: “We won thanks to Verona a 10th-minute lead only at Juventus Giallorossi trounced Torino 3-0 Dutch midfielder Kevin our usual game, based on ball pos- for Mauro Icardi to hit a brace Stadium at the Olympic Stadium. Strootman made his return from session and a strong attack. I have of goals on 18 minutes and three in Turin on Injuries to Patrice Evra, injury for Roma following an faith in my side.” minutes after the restart to give Sunday. Kwadwo Asamoah and Angelo eight-month layoff due to a cru- Earlier, Napoli moved up to Walter Mazzarri’s stuttering side Ogbonna in recent weeks had ciate ligament injury but by the third with a stirring perform- the lead under the watchful eye of forced Allegri to ditch his tried time he came on with seven min- ance at Fiorentina where Gonzalo president Erick Thohir. and trusted 3-5-2 formation for utes remaining the damage had Higuain’s 61st minute strike from A late leveller from Nico Lopez, last week’s Champions League been done. inside the area secured the points however, handed Verona a share clash with Olympiakos in Turin. Roma were given an eighth- for Rafael Benitez’s men. of the points to leave Inter in After the Bianconeri ran out minute lead by Vasilis Torosidis La Viola have now taken only ninth, 12 points behind Juve and 3-2 winners against the Greeks, and doubled their lead when four points from their last five one behind city rivals AC Milan. Allegri on Sunday adopted a Seydou Keita powered into the games and dropped to 11th spot. AFP Tuesday 11 November 2014 18 Muharram 1436 Volume 19 Number 6246 Sport Price: QR2

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Paris Saint African Nations Germain’s players Cup in jeopardy celebrate at the end of the French L1 as Morocco match against Olympique stands firm de Marseille at the Parc JOHANNESBURG: A late des Princes replacement must be found to Stadium host the 2015 African Nations in Paris on Cup or the continent’s show- Sunday night. piece soccer tournament faces being called off after Morocco rejected an ultimatum to go ahead with the event in January. Fears over the spread of the Ebola virus saw Morocco reiterate its stance that the 16-team tour- nament, due to be played from Lucas, Cavani on target as January 17-Feburary 8, should be postponed. The Confederation of African Football (CAF) refused to enter- tain a change of dates and must now find an alternate host as quickly as possible or face annul- PSG beat leaders Marseille ling the event at great financial cost. CAF have approached other African countries to step in as an emergency replacement but have Striker Ibrahimovic returns at the Parc des Princes in ‘Le Classique’ so far received no public expres- sions of support. PARIS: Goals from Lucas and substitute Ibrahimovic. “We’re A meeting of African football’s PSG’s Edinson Cavani and the return Ligue 1 Results disappointed. We lost because we governing body in Cairo today Edinson of talisman Zlatan Ibrahimovic lacked realism,” Marseille captain now faces the prospect of having Lyon 3 (Lacazette 7, Fekir 20, 87) Guingamp Cavani helped Paris St Germain beat Steve Mandanda said. “We hit to cancel their gala event, unless 1 (Lopes 45+1-og) (left) is league leaders Olympique the post, had some chances, but they have a solution in their back congratulated Marseille 2-0 on Sunday night, Reims 2 (Moukandjo Bile 26-pen, Mandi 33) couldn’t convert them.” pocket. by his team- a victory that closed the gap in Lille 0 In the earlier games Olympique “We will not be making any mates after the table. Saint-Etienne 1 (van Wolfswinkel 58) Monaco Lyon moved into third, one point statements until after the meet- scoring a PSG, who were boosted by 1 (Traoré 16) behind PSG after a 3-1 win ing makes a final decision,” CAF goal against the return of Sweden forward Paris SG 2 (Lucas 38, Cavani 85) Marseille 0 over Guingamp with two goals media director Junior Binyam Marseille Ibrahimovic from a heel injury Saturday’s Matches from Nabil Fekir and Alexandre said. at the Parc he sustained in late September, Lens 1 (Touzghar 74-pen) Bordeaux 2 (Khazri Lacazette scoring his 11th of the A risky gamble to call Morocco’s des Princes remain second in the standings 24, Diabaté 41) campaign making him the league’s bluff looked to have backfired on Stadium with 27 points from 13 games. Caen 1 (Duhamel 23) Nantes 2 (Vizcarrondo top scorer. Saturday as the country’s sport in Paris on Marseille have 28 points from 13. 40, Veretout 60) Monaco continued their patchy minister repeated a fear the tour- The Parisians struggled early start to the season drawing 1-1 nament could spread Ebola. Sunday. Evian 1 (Wass 76) Nice 0 on with Marseille pressing high- with sixth-place Saint Etienne “This decision is motivated up and forcing their arch rivals Toulouse 3 (Sirieix 3, Ben Yedder 61, Pesic despite taking the lead. mainly by the medical risks that into a string of poor passes and 71) Metz 0 Reims extended their unbeaten would put this virus on the health late tackles. Bastia 2 (Tallo 21, 45+1) Montpellier 0 run to five matches with a 2-0 vic- of our fellow Africans,” Mohamed Andre-Pierre Gignac hit the Friday’s Match tory over Lille, who now haven’t Ouzzine said in a statement. upright with a bullet header Rennes 1 (Pedro Henrique 89) Lorient 0 won in the league in five outings. In addition to health concerns, from a corner in the fifth minute Alexandre Lacazette went top the statement said, Morocco’s and two minutes later Romain Cavani who set free Ezequiel of the Ligue 1 scoring charts with decision was also “motivated by Alessandrini whisked a half- Lavezzi who then crossed for 11 goals as he opened the scor- humanitarian reasons since it volley passed the post after good Lucas to tap home after 37 ing for Lyon in the eighth minute is our responsibility to welcome work from Benjamin Mendy on minutes. with a back post header from all guests and supporters in the the right. Gignac should have levelled Nabil Fekir’s cross. best conditions in accordance “I want to complement just after half-time after steal- Fekir doubled the lead on 20 with the culture and hospitality Marseille because they were well ing the ball off Silva, but with just minutes after converting on the of Moroccan traditions”. organised and defended well,” the keeper to beat he opted for a slide a low cross from Christophe Morocco is concerned that Brazil international Maxwell said complicated chip. Jallet. supporters from west Africa in a pitchside interview. “It counts From then on, PSG were mostly At that point Lyon seemed in converging on the country for for us because we were four points in control and once Giannelli cruise control but they needed the tournament could bring with behind so it was important to Imbula was sent off with just over Fekir’s second goal, three minutes them the deadly virus and put win.” 10 minutes remaining, Marseille’s from time, to finally steady their at risk their important tourist As the first half wore on PSG, hopes of turning the game round nerves. industry. Global health authori- who are now unbeaten in their were over. The cup holders pulled a goal ties are struggling to contain last 18 matches, began to get a Cavani sealed the win heading back on the stroke of half-time the world’s worst Ebola epidemic hold of the game with Marseille home his fifth goal in five games as Sylvain Marveaux’s free-kick since the disease was identified in losing some intensity and they after a pinpoint cross from right came back off the bar and hit 1976 and cases have reached as far broke the deadlock when captain back Serge Aurier, who had Lyon goalkeeper Anthony Lopes as the United States and Spain. Thiago Silva surged forward, fed been released by 65th-minute before going in. AGENCIES REUTERS Atletico Madrid defeat raises questions about title defence

MADRID: Atletico Madrid fullback Filipe rivals Sevilla and very intense, very volatile. We coach Diego Simeone (pic- Luis and new Valencia drew started strongly and then Real tured) may have played down arrivals are tak- at home against (Sociedad) reacted very well. the significance of Sunday’s 2-1 ing time to settle. Levante and “They got the equaliser... and La Liga defeat at Real Sociedad The likes Athletic Bilbao then after the sending off they but it has raised further ques- of Croatia respectively. started to play with a lot more tions about the champions’ abil- striker Mario Leaders Real intensity in our half until they got ity to defend their title. Mandzukic, have 27 points, the winning goal.” Under the inspirational France for- Barca are second Many of Atletico’s players left Simeone, the Spanish capital’s ward Antoine on 25, Valencia after the match for the interna- second club claimed their first Griezmann and third on 24 and tional break and their next La domestic league crown in 18 years Italy winger Atletico and Liga outing is at home to Malaga in 2013-14 when they were only Alessio Cerci all Sevilla level on on November 22. beaten four times all season. have potential but 23, with the After a wobbly start, when they Sunday’s reverse at the Anoeta, have yet to shift Madrid club nar- only won one of their opening six when Atletico had Guilherme into top gear. rowly ahead on games, Qatar-owned Malaga have Siqueira sent off for a second Meanwhile in Atletico Madrid’s coach Diego goal difference. won five in a row and are sixth on yellow card five minutes after defence, Atletico Pablo Simeone receives an award “I am com- 21 points. REUTERS halftime, was their second of the have committed for being the best La Liga coach ing away feeling campaign and left them on 23 the kind of wor- during the 2013-2014 season, at pleased because points, four behind leaders Real rying lapses that an awards ceremony in Madrid it is a good day,” La Liga Results Madrid after 11 games. were almost com- yesterday. Simeone told a Sevilla 1 (Vitolo 31) Levante 1 (Casadesus 80) Like many of their Spanish pletely absent last post-match news Espanyol 1 (Colotto 90) Villarreal 1 (Gaspar rivals have done previously — season when they also reached the conference. 25) wealthy Real and Barcelona final of the Champions League. “Valencia drew, Sevilla drew Valencia 0 Athletic Bilbao 0 Atletico Madrid’s forward Mario Mandzukic (right) vies for the ball with excluded — Atletico cashed in Simeone said he was not and the truth is that the defeat Real Sociedad’s defender Carlos Martinez prior to scoring a goal during a Real Sociedad 2 (Vela 15, Agirretxe 82) on last term’s success by offload- too concerned about Sunday’s was not so bad,” he added. La Liga match at the Anoeta Stadium in San Sebastian on Sunday night. ing top scorer Diego Costa and defeat in San Sebastian as close “It was an entertaining game, Atletico Madrid 1 (Mandzukic 10)